Chapter 773: The Directors' Thoughts

Those who are familiar with Zhao Yongqi know that every time they eat, in the first hour, no matter what you say to him, his answer is mmmmmmmmmm The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info explained according to the big boy's own words: "When I eat, the emperor is big! When I eat, you chirp crookedly on the side, which belongs to the Tao, to the obstacle, and to the ...... Anyway, I just don't care about you!"

The people who are sitting with Zhao Yongqi today are all his friends, so they naturally know his habits. Therefore, since he started eating, no one paid attention to him, but talked and laughed with other people very lively.

Niangniang and the others were very surprised to look at the plate that was quickly stacked in front of Zhao Yongqi, and then the waiter with a bitter face reluctantly took it away, which can be regarded as a witness to a legend.

It wasn't until an hour later that the last round of food was brought to the table, and the life of a waiter who was tired and half dead as a porter came to an end. And Zhao Yongqi, who touched his stomach and began to slow down his eating, also had the heart to listen to other people's chatter and laughter.

Since the recording of the Band of Brothers, everyone has had a different life. Xiao Wulu took a big vacation and was recalled to the capital by his father, and by the way, he took Bao'er to concentrate on education. baby has received a lot of commercial activities, she was originally a model, with the fire of the brothers, and now the tide is rising, and there are more and more commercial activities. Deng Chao, like Zheng Kai, each took over a movie, and now they are adjusting the schedule. Li Chen went back to continue to be his crown prince, training his muscles by the way, and according to his own wishes, before the start of the second season of the brotherhood, he wanted to take a good rest for a while. Wang Julan is also worth a lot of money now, and it seems that she is in contact with ZJ TV to integrate into the host's team. Only Cheng He, according to baby, doesn't live in Zhao Yongqi's villa now, and he doesn't seem to be going home, so he doesn't know what he is getting. Li Ji-eun is still the same as before, movies and TV are constant, but now he seems to be ready to rest until the Spring Festival, so he didn't take any film and television dramas, which can be regarded as satisfying her lazy little wish. And Ji Ji and Lee Kwang-so are still circling around RM, and it is said that Lee Kwang-so also took over a movie and was about to start filming.

Hearing that these friends are all living the life they want, Zhao Yongqi's face also showed a reassuring smile. His life is the simplest now, and he circles around the crew every day. Just like Xu Weiwen and Qian Qiming's thoughts, after discovering his acting talent, the two big directors did not hesitate to revise a lot of scripts, which greatly increased Zhao Zilong's role.

In fact, the character of Zhao Yun was originally a character loved by many Three Kingdoms fans. Handsome, loyal, intelligent, and undefeated in his life, he is almost a perfect character. Moreover, there are many places where it can be written in the Three Kingdoms, and even many legends are related to him. Therefore, as long as the script is slightly revised and Zhao Zilong appears more, not only will it not attract opposition, but it will be more popular with the audience. Of course, this kind of modification is only within the scope of bearing, after all, the filming is the Three Kingdoms, not Zhao Yunchuan.

However, Xu Wenwei and Qian Qiming talked to Zhao Yongqi very seriously, hoping that if they can start filming movies and TV similar to Zhao Yunchuan next time, they hope he can come as the starring role. And what the two big directors mean is that the salary they can get at that time may not be high, and now it can be regarded as a foreshadowing in advance.

In fact, in China, the vast majority of the tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of investments made by producers in movies and television are still from sponsors. Sponsors are rich, but not stupid. They have made investments, in addition to the income from advertising effects, more of which is to take a cut of the money from the sale of movies and television to theaters or TV stations after filming. If they think that a film or television has no future, they will not give a penny at all.

Relatively speaking, the movies and TV where popular movie and television stars appear will be called big productions. This is not only because of the high investment in props, costumes, etc., but also because the salaries of stars are astronomical. Among the many works with an investment of hundreds of millions, more than half of the money has become the remuneration of the stars.

Speaking of which, this is a strange circle. Without stars, the appeal will be small, and it will not be able to attract sponsorship, and then naturally it will not be called a big production. And there are celebrities, with great appeal, a lot of sponsors waiting, and then the salaries of the stars have also risen, and the cost of production has naturally soared.

Although everyone knows that if you give such a high salary to a star, the funds used in the final production of the program will be compressed. However, many crews are still flocking to the stars. After all, all of them are the works of grassroots actors, and there are too few that can become popular.

Xu Wenwei and Qian Qiming belong to more conservative directors, although they don't care about the sponsorship of the producer, but they control one thing very strictly, that is, the actual production costs. If this aspect does not meet their requirements, then they will hardly participate in such a crew.

Such conditions lead to the fact that unless the producer provides more funds, the stars used can only be between the second and third rate. Of course, dramas invested by gods like CCTV have a strong attraction to actors, which is another matter.

Xu Wenwei and Qian Qiming are not stupid, they are very aware of Zhao Yongqi's salary income. Even if he joins the current Three Kingdoms crew, as a popular little fresh meat, his salary is also in the top five in the crew!

When they first found Zhao Yongqi, the two directors were worried that Zhao Yongqi would not be satisfied with the salary, so they also said it in advance. But then they learned that when the producer heard that he was responsible for the brother group, Xiao Qige, who has nearly 40 million fans, was willing to come to this kind of historical drama to play a non-protagonist, and they were immediately happy. As soon as it was finalized, the news was immediately disseminated, and sure enough, it achieved good results. not only created a popular online scolding war, but also got the attention of tens of millions of girl fans. You must know that originally this part of the people may not go to watch the so-called historical drama at all. However, to the surprise of the two big directors, the remuneration given by the producer - 300,000 episodes!

It doesn't seem to be high, but the problem is that even if I appear for a second in an episode, it's still an episode!

It has also been said before that the crew often uses stand-ins instead of actual actors, just to be able to save costs. But when the leaders of the producer watched Zhao Yongqi's film, they not only boldly agreed to the two directors to increase Zhao Zilong's role, from the original 33 episodes to the current 50 episodes. Moreover, it is insisted that stuntmen not be used.

In the upper and lower two Three Kingdoms with more than 90 episodes, it is unimaginable to be able to account for more than half. can think about it from another angle, 50 episodes is 15 million salary. And according to the contract signed by Ziye with the producer at that time, this is still net income. In other words, the tax is borne by the producer.

Because of this, the two big directors realized that Xiao Xianrou, who they thought had just debuted and was not too famous in the film and television industry, was actually a gold-absorbing machine. At the same time, I also learned that he was in the brotherhood, and his salary for twelve episodes was as high as 60 million. When South Korea's SKCD even offered him a maximum of $2.5 million per episode, the two big directors realized that it would not be so easy to invite this little guy next time.

You must know that many producers will also consider the cost, even if there are suitable stars, but considering the appearance fee or salary, they can only endure the pain in the end. This situation is nothing new in the entertainment industry.

There is naturally no problem with a deep-pocketed group like ZJ TV, not to mention that most of their funds come from sponsors' advertising investment. It's like, just to put a trademark on Zhao Yongqi in the last episode, those sponsors will have to come up with another million.

However, the production of TV movies is funded in the early stage and then begins. There are many variables, and the use of funds also needs to be very careful, which leads to the principle of prudence in the selection of actors by the crew.

It is precisely because of these worries that after thinking about it, the two great directors decided to talk to Zhao Yongqi first, just because, in their hands, there is indeed a very favorite script, and there is a shortage of a real protagonist!

ps: This chapter is basically the background content, and it is related to the plot after that, so it will be released in advance to foreshadow. Originally, I wanted to spread it to other chapters, but after thinking about it, this part of the content is not easy to disassemble, and it would be too procrastinating if it was mentioned repeatedly, so it was simply integrated. Of course, the number of words in this chapter is also controlled to the maximum, try to finish the chapter as much as possible ^.^ Finally, thank you readers for your support, thank you.