Those large investment institutions don't look down on the small project of "Journey to the West", which has a total investment of only 500 million, but there are still many film speculators, who don't think that this project is small, and they don't think that there are many rules of "Zhenghao Studio", and soon, 40% of the investment quota of "Journey to the West" will be claimed!

Zhuyu of "A Chinese Ghost Story", which has an investment of 200 million yuan and a profit of 2 billion, is in front of many people who have deep confidence in the second theatrical movie written, directed and acted by Zhao Zhenghao.

Not to mention anything else, with the name Zhao Zhenghao alone, at least one billion box office can be guaranteed, and if the box office exceeds one billion, they can ensure that they can recover their costs, and the rest will be earned, so in their opinion, they are naturally willing to step in the business without losing money.

When "Nine Star Entertainment" finally made up its mind to fight again on "Journey to the West" after repeated discussions, it was already a step too late, and there was no part for them!

In the end, it was Zhao Zhenghao who saw their sincerity, and divided 5% of the investment share from "Zhenghao Studio" and gave it to "Nine Star Entertainment", so that they could catch the last train of the "Journey to the West" project.

At this point, the crew of "Journey to the West" is officially established, including "Zhenghao Studio" and "Nine Star Entertainment", a total of six companies have become shareholders of this project, with a total of 500 million yuan of advance investment, and soon to the account of the newly established leather bag company, in fact, it is Wang Yulan who is in charge of these funds.

"Journey to the West" involves much more characters than "A Chinese Ghost Story", especially the important supporting roles that have a role in promoting the storyline.

What Zhao Zhenghao has been doing all these years is to choose the actor he thinks is the most suitable actor by watching the previously released film and television dramas.

This can be regarded as an inconvenient place to travel to another world, that is, the cast of the original movie cannot be completely reproduced.

After Zhao Zhenghao crossed into this world, he only cared about developing his music career at first, and did not pay much attention to the film and television industry, and had no clue who could be qualified for the distinctive supporting roles in "Journey to the West" in the current Dragon Kingdom film and television circle.

The core of the story of "Journey to the West" is about love, which can be regarded as a love tragedy, so although its form of expression is comedy, it cannot be performed as an ordinary comedy.

Of course, in the matter of choosing actors, there is no need, it is necessary to choose actors who have been labeled as "comedians".

Zhao Zhenghao remembers that in his previous life, a movie celebrity said a sentence, I can't remember what the original words were, which probably means: actors don't perform according to comedy standards when performing, but the effect presented can amuse people, which is the best comedy performance!

Therefore, in the original version of "Journey to the West", although there are many funny episodes for the sake of being funny, Zhao Zhenghao does not have such a high skill to modify and adjust it now, and he can only follow the original method for the time being, but this does not cause too many restrictions on his selection of actors.

Zhao Zhenghao's selection of actors for "Journey to the West" is very wide, which is not only reflected in the region - Tiannan and Haibei, the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and even overseas are all within the scope of his selection, but also in the original performance scope of the actors, many actors who have never acted in comedy, when they receive an invitation, they will first ask, "How did you think of letting me act in a comedy?"

Few actors can switch freely between various performance genres, most of the actors only have one or two specialties that they are good at performing, and some are even named "XX professional households", and only walk to the actors in an alley.

So, when they are suddenly told that they can perform other types of performances, their first reaction is often an instinctive lack of confidence.

However, although Zhao Zhenghao is still a newcomer in the film industry, after all, he already has a hit movie with a box office of more than 5 billion, and he is still written, directed and acted by himself.

Moreover, "Journey to the West" has been making a lot of noise these days, and it can be said that everyone knows it, no matter whether they are optimistic about it or not, at least they know that there is such a movie with a total investment of 500 million yuan in preparation.

The investment of 500 million yuan is not much in the current Dragon Kingdom film industry, which is producing more and more big productions, but it is definitely not less.

In particular, this is still a serious theatrical movie, and in terms of hierarchy, it is at the highest level in the entire entertainment industry.

Although most of the actors invited by Zhao Zhenghao have been in the entertainment industry for more than ten years, or even more than 20 years, there are not many real movie coffees, and some have never acted in movies, and have been spinning in TV series and stage plays.

However, their acting skills, and professionalism, are quite guaranteed.

Zhao Zhenghao's principle for selecting actors this time is only these two, one is that the acting skills must be passed, and the other is that the professionalism must be possessed.

It's easy to understand that the acting skills have to pass, after all, this is a theatrical movie, and the roles they want to play are all important supporting roles with considerable weight, and passing the acting skills is only the most basic requirement.

To have professionalism is Zhao Zhenghao's special consideration, because the form of this "Journey to the West" is comedy, and it is also the most unreasonable nonsensical comedy in comedy, so when performing, those actors who participate in the performance will be required to break their habitual thinking, abandon their old image, let go of themselves, devote themselves wholeheartedly, and everything will follow the director's instructions!

Although none of the actors selected by Zhao Zhenghao are idols, as people who have been in the circle for more than ten or twenty years, even if they have not been popular, they all have their own status.

Zhao Zhenghao was afraid that when they were performing, they would take care of their original status in the rivers and lakes and would not be able to let go, so that they would not be able to achieve the effect that Zhao Zhenghao wanted.

At this time, professionalism can come into play - you have signed the contract and got paid, you have to perform according to the director's intentions, otherwise it is a breach of contract, if the filming process is delayed and serious consequences are caused, you can be held legally responsible!

Of course, Zhao Zhenghao believes that these actors he carefully selected are exemplary in terms of professional ethics, and there will be no disobedience to the director's arrangement!

After a series of tedious preparations, it was the end of June 2015 when the crew of "Journey to the West" was officially established and was ready to go to the filming location.