Chapter 34: Excitement
Kong Sheng inadvertently recommended it by his son, who loves to read online novels, and found this novel that suits his appetite and is very suitable for changing into film and television works. couldn't wait to buy the film and television adaptation rights of this novel through his company, One Meter Sunshine, Kong Sheng spent three full years preparing. The service close to historical facts, the actors with superb acting skills, and the behind-the-scenes team with excellent production skills, in order to make a masterpiece that can be called a classic, Kong Sheng has spent too much effort in the past three years.
The most important thing in a film and television work is how to transform cold words into actors with vivid characters. Therefore, Kong Sheng spent the most effort in finding the right actor. Gu Yue, the actor of this TV series, after winning the honorary award of Emperor Shi, has already planned to turn behind the scenes to develop as a director, and even planned to go to the United States for further study when Tang Cheng talked to him about his intention to act. Tang Cheng didn't know how many times he had boarded the door, how many times he had been persuaded painstakingly, and even proposed that he could explain some of his directing experience as a director to Gu Yue during the filming, and Gu Yue was moved by his sincerity and was willing to play the male lead. Female No. 1 Liu Tao declined Kong Sheng's invitation at first because the script of Langya Bang did not meet the requirements of her transformation. Kong Sheng also made a lot of efforts to finally convince Liu Tao.
In addition to starring, in order to improve the quality of the work as much as possible, Kong Sheng also showed his face and invited many old actors who are no longer filming to play important roles in this drama. It can be said that in order to be able to shoot this script that he has been preparing for a long time, Kong Sheng has done all the efforts he can. Kong Sheng really hoped that he could use this TV series to create a new ratings frenzy, but just a month before the start of filming of this TV series, all preparations were ready, and Kong Sheng was gearing up and preparing to do a big job, an accident happened.
Kong Sheng is a big director whose ratings have always been guaranteed, and his one-meter sunshine is the production company with the strongest distribution and production capabilities in the industry. The combination of the two, there are naturally countless people who want to take Kong Sheng, a big ship destined to be a celebrity, through Langya Bang, a work that is about to start filming.
Li Quan is such a person, his father is a well-known veteran actor Li Shuanghe, and his mother is also a well-known musician. My uncle is the most famous brokerage company in China, Hua Qiang's spokesperson. With such a heavenly background, he expressed his willingness to appear to Kong Sheng through Huaqiang's official channels.
Although Li Quan is unruly because of his background, he still has the ability, and he can't be regarded as the kind of airborne party that relies on his background to eat. And he is still self-aware, he didn't make any unreasonable demands, and only saw a role that said that it was too much and that it was not too little. has strength, enough background, and is still knowledgeable, generally speaking, Kong Sheng will not offend Hua Qiang and Li Shuanghe for an ordinary role. However, the role he wants, Kong Sheng, has found a very suitable candidate and has signed a contract. In this case, although he was a little embarrassed, Kong Sheng politely explained the reason and politely declined Li Quan's appearance.
received Kong Sheng's explanation that he was still saving face, Hua Qiang didn't say anything, Kong Sheng is also a well-known director in the industry, although Hua Qiang is mainly a movie, but he has a lot of actors, and there will always be a time when he has to rely on Kong Sheng. What's more, with multiple friends and multiple roads, it is really unwise to offend Kong Sheng for such a trivial matter. So with the tacit cooperation of both parties, the matter was over.
But Kong Sheng and Hua Qiang are satisfied, it doesn't mean that Li Quan can also be satisfied, although he is a little stronger than the average second generation, but in his bones, Li Quan is still a very proud person. He has never been frustrated, and he immediately exploded after receiving the news that the role he was full of ambition to play was cut off like this. He didn't care who came first, the humiliation of being rejected and the frustration he never felt made him lose his mind, and he found a group of gangsters to play the role he wanted, Cheng Hao, the emperor's sister in the play, Xiao Jingrui, the son of the eldest princess of Liyang, blocked the alley and beat him violently.
Li Quan originally just wanted to be rejected, but he was inexplicably dragged into the alley and beaten severely, and Cheng Hao, who was in his early twenties, was basically the one who had just stepped into society, and naturally he would not be caught like an old fritter who had been in the society for many years. Under the fierce resistance, Cheng Hao was broken a leg and received a heavy blow on his head.
With a fracture and a slight concussion, the role of Xiao Jingrui is completely far away from Cheng Hao. This accident naturally made Kong Sheng furious, although there is no evidence that Cheng Hao's injury is related to Li Quan, but Kong Sheng is not a judge, he does not need evidence, through the contacts accumulated over the years, Kong Sheng determined who the culprit was.
Sabotaging his carefully formulated plan is equivalent to a naked slap in the face. Of course, Kong Sheng couldn't bear this kind of humiliation. But before he could get angry, Li Quan, who knew that he had created a catastrophe, had already found the right person to talk to. 10 million sponsorship without any requirements, plus the conditions for choosing any actor under Huaqiang at will in the future, and the promise that Cheng Hao can occupy a second male lead in the movies produced by Huaqiang when he recovers his health. Let Kong Sheng only suppress the dissatisfaction in his heart.
But this matter did not end here, Kong Sheng's concession rekindled hope in the heart of Li Quan, who had already extinguished the idea of acting, since even this kind of humiliation of losing face can be smoothed out by superior conditions, so as long as the exchange conditions can offset Kong Sheng's dissatisfaction with his role as Xiao Jingrui, his wish can still be achieved.
After Li Quan grinded his most beloved uncle for a week, Zhang Fan, Huaqiang's spokesman, finally couldn't bear the bitter pleading of his nephew, and once again expressed Li Quan's willingness to play to Kong Sheng. 10 million additional sponsorships without any conditions, and its artists took the initiative to promote Langya Bang, which was an exchange condition given by Zhang Fan.
No one has too much money for nothing, and if you can have more funds to make the quality of Langya Bang better, Kong Sheng is certainly willing. The effect of Huaqiang's many artists with a large number of fans at the same time promoting a work also made Kong Sheng excited. But he thought about it all day, and he still planned to reject this tempting quid pro quo.
There are two reasons for Kong Sheng's refusal, one is that Xiao Jingrui's original actor Cheng Hao was also beaten by Li Quan no matter what he said, if the beater Li Quan is allowed to play in place of Cheng Hao, it is not good to listen to it, and it also breaks the rules. If he compromises this time, does it mean that in the future, if anyone wants to play the role in his drama and fails, they can use the same method to force him to compromise? If everyone follows Li Quan's example, will he still be able to film well? It is gratifying to have more filming funds and more publicity, but if these things are based on the premise that the rules have broken and he has lost face. Kong Sheng absolutely can't agree, he is not a rookie director, and he can't play it at all without this investment for nothing. Windfalls can be obtained as long as they can be obtained, and there is nothing to be sorry for not being able to get.
The second is that through this incident, Kong Sheng has already seen Li Quan's character clearly, such an unruly person who also ignores the rules is really difficult to say what will happen if he really joins the crew. For the sake of a little extra benefit, it is really unnecessary to put such a time bomb like Li Quan on his crew.
To sum up, Li Quan's name has been on Kong Sheng's blacklist, if nothing else, Li Quan will never want to play a role in Kong Sheng's drama even if it is just a soy sauce face. Kong Sheng is such a director with character.
Kong Sheng's character, as an old friend for many years, Tang Cheng naturally couldn't be clearer, and after persuading two sentences to see if he couldn't persuade his old friend, Tang Cheng simply stopped the useless persuasion. After drinking all the coffee in the cup, Tang Cheng leaned back in his chair in resignation, "Okay, okay! Since you don't want to use him, forget it! Our company is not short of that money, without Hua Qiang's help, this drama can still be smashed in his hands!"
Tang Cheng is the producer of Langya Bang and an important shareholder of One Meter Sunshine, and he gave up Huaqiang's conditions, which means that this matter is over. Leaned over and filmed Tang Cheng, Kong Sheng didn't say anything, he has been friends for many years, Kong Sheng understands that he has filmed the TV series at hand well, which is the best thank you to Tang Cheng.
beckoned to the waiter to refill the cup, Tang Cheng's angry Kong Sheng glanced at him, "Don't be too happy, it's okay not to look for Li Quan to act, but Cheng Hao has to cultivate for at least two months before he can barely participate in the shooting." Not to mention that we were almost finished filming at that time, how difficult it was to shoot his role alone, let's just say that Xiao Jingrui is a person, his role is not too much, but there are really a lot of scenes, it is absolutely impossible to use a stand-in all the time, Cheng Hao's most serious injury is his leg, if you don't want Xiao Jingrui to use a stand-in in all his scenes, you have to hurry up when you find a new actor!"