Chapter 83: Casting (I)
The play "Happy Events in the Family" is about the love and family affection of three brothers in a family, and the story revolves around Chang Man, Chang Huan, and Chang Shu, three brothers with very different personalities. Wang Zheng remembers the whole story quite clearly, modified some places, compiled it very completely, reasonably, and funny, warm and touching, and individual details are inevitably vulgar, but they are harmless.
In his previous life, the film only took 13 days to shoot, but the box office was close to 50 million, and it held the highest box office record of Yonggao Cinema for many years to come, and was one of the most successful comedies in Hong Kong, and it was the second of the top ten grossing films of the year.
In addition to Huang Baiming, Zhou Xingchi, Zhang Guorong, Wu Junru, Mao Shunjun, and Zhang Manyu have just emerged in wireless, how to choose the leading actors depends on Zeng Zhiwei's understanding of the script, Wang Zheng was initially set as the chief producer of this play, and the producer was still Fang Yihua.
During the preparation of the crew of "Happy Events in the Family", the continuous broadcast of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is about to come to an end, with the end of the last episode of the third Huashan Sword, "The 83 version of the Legend of the Condor Heroes" has drawn a perfect end, and the ratings have reached a record high of 99%, such a record is believed to be difficult to break for a long time, and such high ratings are destined to be the classic position of this show.
In the play, Guo Jing traveled thousands of miles with Huang Rong's homeland, bordering mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, being close to the Central Plains, being influenced by culture, and then knowing all the martial arts masters in the world, worshipping the northern beggars as teachers, forming a righteous alliance with the old naughty boy, listening to the sound of the Eastern Evil Soul and destroying the bones, seeing the Southern Emperor's kung fu of saving the dead and helping the wounded, and fighting to the death with the Western poison countless times, making Guo Jing's martial arts, mind, and character continue to keep pace with the times. Furthermore, he avenged the deep revenge of his father, eliminated the grudges of his master, seized the "Wu Mu Testament", led the army to the west, inherited the teachings of his dead mother, went to Huashan to discuss the sword, saved Xiangyang from national disaster, and questioned Genghis Khan what a hero was. This simple, honest, and dull condor hero has finally become a heroic man who is compassionate to the country and the people! This drama has also left an eternal classic brand on the audience!
After the end of the Condor shooting, the long-prepared "The Condor Heroes" was then staged, this drama co-starred by Liu Dehao and Chen Yulian, which can be described as a strong combination of male talent and female appearance, although Liu Dehao's acting skills are still a little immature, but they can't stop the audience's love for it, and the ratings continue to be popular after the Condor is connected to the broadcast of the Condor shooting.
With 99% ratings against the sky, wireless can be said to be pouring the whole power of Taiwan to urgently produce a new series, by the popular TVB student Zhou Yunfa and wireless ready to support Liang Chaowei, the co-starring drama "Beidou Heroes" is ready to start filming, the supporting cast of this drama has Ren Dahao, Chen Xiuzhu, Yao Wei and others, this drama takes the career of a social worker as the story background of the whole play, and the theme is very fresh and inspirational. Zhou Yunfa can be regarded as freed from the pain of falling out of love, and now he puts all his energy on work.
In the early days of the filming of the Condor Shooting, Weng Meiling starred under a lot of pressure, and the soy sauce five-person groups such as Wang Zheng, Liang Chaowei, and Da Fei who relieved her pressure were around her, especially Da Fei's oily tone made her extremely happy, and the crew also had many restrictions on visiting the class for the sake of the secrecy of the shooting.
After the Condor Shooting crew was completed, Weng Meiling and Huang Rihao joined the Shaw Brothers' new drama "Crazy 83", which will be directed by the veteran director Chu Yuan of the Shaw Brothers, and Weng Meiling will play a cameo role as a female criminal policeman in the play.
In July, the crew of "Happy Family" had completed preparations, and in order to find a more suitable role-player, Zeng Zhiwei decided to cast within TVB after consulting with Wang Zheng.
Although the screenwriters of Xiangjiang are not valued by various film companies, for the scripts created by the cutting-edge director Wang Zheng, the wireless artists still very much hope to participate in it, who does not know that the box office of his two films before and after is hot, especially "Crazy Stone", which still maintains the annual box office champion in 83.
A total of six roles need to be cast, namely Chang Man, the boss of the Chang family who has a successful career, Chang Man's wife Cheng Sister-in-law, Chang Shu, the second eldest of the Chang family who is a bit of a sissy, Liang Wushuang, the macho cousin and grandmother Liang Wushuang, the fraternity playboy Chang Jia's third elder Chang Huan, and Hollywood movie fan He Liyu.
Wang Zheng did not directly let Zhou Xingchi play Chang Huan, hoping that he could win this role with his acting skills, and he has been polishing his acting skills for so long in Condor shooting, and this casting can be regarded as a test for him.
In an audition room in the wireless building, Fang Yihua, Wang Zheng, and Zeng Zhiwei are today's audition officers, and the casting of "Happy Events in the Family" is open to all wireless artists.
Fang Yihua looked at the watch in his hand, picked up the list of artists and said, "It's almost time, let's start with the role of Chang Shu." ”
With Wang Zheng and Zeng Zhiwei nodding in agreement, Chang Shu's first interviewer pushed the door and walked in.
"Hello Manager Fang, Director Wang, Director Zeng, I am Tang Zhenye, I hope to have the opportunity to join the crew of "Happy Events in the Family"!"
Tang Zhenye, who was wearing a pair of skinny denim bell bottoms, walked in with a confident smile on his handsome face.
Fang Yihua and Wang Zheng nodded slightly in response, and Zeng Zhiwei spoke: "Hello Ah Tang, Chang Shu is a man who is a very sissy and an eighth woman, you can rely on your own imagination to try to perform a scene." ”
Tang Zhenye sorted out his emotions a little before starting to perform, only to see him inhale and tuck his abdomen and hips, flick the flared cuffs of his skinny jeans and walk with a catwalk, and he didn't forget to throw a not very skilled wink at the three of them, the picture is too beautiful Wang Zheng is a little afraid to look at it.
Tang Zhenye's performance was slightly exaggerated, and it was very disobedient to pretend to be a sissy, Fang Yihua couldn't help coughing lightly, and Tang Zhenye, who was selfless performing, stopped.
Zeng Zhiwei said with a black line: "Ah Tang, your performance is not bad, you go back first and wait for the notice, and the company will release today's casting results in three days!"
Tang Zhenye could see the final result from the expressions of several people, and he knew in his heart that he was not suitable to play a sissy, and he only came today with the mentality of giving it a try, but he couldn't help but leave the audition room in frustration.
The few people interviewed later were either the same as Tang Zhenye, or they were too masculine, and they failed to show the character of Chang Shu, which made Zeng Zhiwei secretly anxious, and if he wanted to gain a foothold in Shaw Brothers with this play, it was very important to find a suitable actor.
The interview continued, but this time it was a woman about thirty years old who pushed the door in, Wang Zheng was a little familiar with her, but he couldn't remember who she was for a while.
"Shufen, why are you here?" Fang Yihua couldn't help but ask after seeing someone coming.
The woman named Shufen smiled at Fang Yihua and replied, "Manager Fang, I'll bring one of my artists to try the role of Chang Shu." ”
After listening to Fang Yihua's name for it, Wang Zheng remembered who this woman was, Chen Shufen was a well-known manager with the title of Xiangjiang ace, and a manager of many heavenly kings and queens, the first Xiangjiang Rookie Singing Contest was held by her in cooperation with wireless, no wonder Fang Yihua was very familiar with her.
At this time, the male artist under Chen Shu's breakup, the contract is in wireless, I am afraid that only Zhang Guorong, who switched to wireless last year.
As Chen Shufen walked into the audition room, Zhang Guorong with a warm smile also walked in, Wang Zheng, who saw Zhang Guorong, was very surprised, it seems that the role of Chang Shu is destined to be played by Zhang Guorong!