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"Knock knock knock. Ouyang Yaqing pushed the door in: "Boss, Mr. Li Lianjie is here." ”

"Let him in. ”

Soon after Ouyang Yaqing went out, Li Lianjie, who had a relationship at the performance of the mainland martial arts exchange group, walked in.

"Hello Mr. Wei. ”

"Hehe, Applejack doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat, by the way, I call you that, you don't mind. ”

"Of course I don't mind, people who know me well call me that. Li Lianjie seems to be a little reserved, but in fact it is.

Because he didn't know what Wei Xiong was looking for him for.

In other words, just two hours ago, he suddenly received a call from his agent, saying that Wei Xiong had something to talk to him, and his head was a little cloudy at that time.

He doesn't seem to have anything in common with Wei Xiong.

He hasn't done anything related to Wei Xiong or Wei recently.

Then why did Wei Xiong look for him? He thought about it for a long time, but he still couldn't think of a clue, so it was inevitable that Wei Xiong would be a little nervous in front of him at this time.

"Your wounds should be healed, right?"

After sitting down on the sofa, Wei Xiong asked seemingly casually.

"I've healed, but this injury has taught me a big lesson. ”

"For a martial arts star, the body is the most important, otherwise your career will definitely be greatly affected, so you have to know how to take care of yourself. ”

During the filming of the self-directed and self-starred film "Chinese Heroes", the crew had accidents one after another, Li Lianjie first broke the bridge of his nose, and his eyes were bleeding nonstop, and not long after, he fell to the ground from a height and broke all seven ribs, so that his body was full of rivets.

The performance of the mainland martial arts exchange group was not long after he was discharged from the hospital.

However, as the so-called 100 days of injured muscles and bones, not to mention that all seven ribs are broken, if you want to heal, you must go through a long period of recuperation.

"I understand that now. ”

At this time, Ouyang Yaqing walked in with two cups of coffee.

After the coffee was put down and the door was closed again, Wei Xiong didn't talk nonsense anymore and got to the point: "You should be curious why I'm looking for you, right?"

Li Lianjie said honestly: "It's a little curious. ”

"I wonder if you're interested in starting your own film company?"

"Start your own film company?"

Li Lianjie looked shocked, Wei Xiong's question was completely beyond his expectations, and he originally thought that the most reliable guess was that Wei Xiong asked him to talk about a new film.

"That's right, I can support you if you want. ”

Wei Xiong smiled and said his true purpose, in fact, what he really wanted was to sign Li Lianjie.

But Li Lianjie is an ambitious and ambitious person, which can be seen from the fact that he has not signed any film company or agency so far.

And in his memory.

Li Lianjie has established a number of companies, including the International Martial Arts Development Company originally established in Shenzhen, and later the Zhengdong Film Company.

In addition, Li Lianjie uses independent brokers.

Among the more famous are Luo Wei's sons David Luo and Cai Ziming, who were later shot and killed, and Li Lianjie's brother-in-law served as an agent.

It can be seen that it is almost impossible to sign Li Lianjie.

Therefore, he did not bother to do this, but directly made a more attractive proposal. Of course, the main thing is that he has a good sense of Li Lianjie.

Interested in supporting.

"Is Mr. Wei really willing to support me?"

After being surprised, Li Lianjie's face showed a little joy, it was obvious that he had the idea of opening a film company before.

"Of course, as long as you nod your head. ”

"The company is managed by you, and the shares are half of each person, if you don't have enough funds, I can borrow you first, and then deduct it from the company's profits. ”

With such good conditions, Li Lianjie really has no reason to refuse.

Although he wondered why Wei Xiong was so generous to him, he didn't know that Wei Xiong was just squeezing his labor in another way.

However, in the process, he can also get considerable financial benefits.

"Okay, since it's no problem, then you can build the company framework first in the next few days. ”

"I'll send someone to assist you, and when the company is ready, start filming, I just have a few scripts here that are very suitable for you. ”

The two chatted again, and Wei Xiong raised his wrist and looked at his watch.

Seeing this, Li Lianjie immediately got up and said goodbye with interest: "If there is nothing else, I will leave first." ”

"Okay, work hard, with your ability, as long as you are willing to work hard, your future achievements will not be worse than Cheng Long, or even surpass. ”

There is a foreshadowing of the previous things.

Although he was compared with the biggest action superstar in Hong Kong today, Li Lianjie also smiled slightly, and then said modestly: "I still need Mr. Wei to carry it." ”

"Hehe, then you go slowly. ”

After sending Li Lianjie away, more than ten minutes passed.

Ouyang Yaqing walked into the office again: "Boss, Mr. Xu Hark is here." ”

"Well, let him in. Wei Xiong put down the papers in his hand, got up and walked around the desk, and Tsui Hark happened to follow Ouyang Yaqing in.

"Director Xu, I'm glad to meet you. ”

"I should have said this sentence, Mr. Wei is really grateful for taking some time out of his busy schedule to give me. ”

Compared with Li Lianjie, Tsui Hark is obviously much more sophisticated.

"Hehe, where, please be seated. ”

After the two sat down, Tsui Hark didn't talk nonsense, and directly said the purpose of coming today:

"The current situation of the new art city, Mr. Wei, you also know that it has existed in name only, and it will not be long before it will be closed, so the operation of my studio has also become a problem, my idea is to attach the studio to the name of Wei's Films, Mr. Wei, what do you think?"

In the early 80s, Tsui Hark was one of the Seven Monsters of New Arts City, and made many acclaimed and acclaimed movies with Mai Jia and others.

Later, because of the uneven distribution of spoils, there were disagreements with each other.

Tsui Hark and his wife Shi Nansheng established Tsui Hark's studio with the support of Lei Juekun.

The studio is both independent of and dependent on the new art city to survive, such as last year's studio's "Sword and Horse".

The producer, director, and producer are all Tsui Hark.

But in addition to the crew, the other staff members are from Xinyi City. In other words, Tsui Hark's studio is only responsible for script writing and directing.

The specific shooting still needs to be completed by Xinyicheng.

Now that the new art city has closed down, the survival of Tsui Hark Studio has naturally become a problem, and in this case, the only way to choose another film company to rely on is to rely on.

Speaking of this film company.

Huang Baiming's Oriental Film Company seems to be the first choice.

But it was clearly not the best choice, because Tsui Hark wanted to have a bigger development.

So he chose a Webster movie.

It stands to reason that Zeng Zhiwei is now in charge of Wei's films, and he and Zeng Zhiwei are both one of the Seven Monsters of New Art City, so they should go directly to Zeng Zhiwei.

But after thinking about it again, he didn't.

There are two reasons: first, although Zeng Zhiwei is the head of Weishi Films, because Weishi Films is the core of the entire Weishi Entertainment Group.

What is really important, Zeng Zhiwei still has to ask Wei Xiong.

Secondly, during his time in Xinyicheng, he also had some conflicts with Zeng Zhiwei.

Although it's not big, I don't want to come to the door at this time to ask for help and let the other party see the joke. Of course, he also believes that Zeng Zhiwei will not really be so unsympathetic.

"Director Xu is willing to join Weishi, of course I welcome it. ”

"But I hope that instead of being affiliated, I hope to merge Tsui Hark Studios into Westster Films and become an independent production arm of Westster. ”

"This ......" Tsui Hark's face changed slightly.

"Don't worry, it's just in the form, Tsui Hark's studio is completely hosted by you. ”

"It will still have independent administrative powers, but the finances will be under the company's responsibility. If the studio is going to shoot a film. ”

"If you personally want to participate in investment, you can pay dividends according to the proportion of investment. ”

"If you don't want to invest, in addition to the director's remuneration, you can also get a certain amount of dividends according to the box office. This should be fair. ”

Wei Xiong attaches great importance to Tsui Hark, but he will never indulge.

While giving it maximum creative autonomy, it is essential to control its economic lifeline.

And as long as you control the finances, you control the studio, because whatever Tsui Hark wants to do needs the approval of the company.

Unless he's willing to pay for it out of his own pocket.

After pondering for a moment, Tsui Hark finally nodded, although it was a little uncomfortable to be stuck in the lifeline. But he can see that this is Wei Xiong's bottom line.

Of course, he can also refuse. just rejected Wei's, and he could only go to other financiers who were willing to support him.

But at that time, the conditions may not be better than those proposed by Wei Xiong.

It's better to take a look at Weiss first. If the future is really unsatisfactory, it is not too late to consider changing jobs.

"Okay, just take care of Mr. Wei's hello. However, I hope that one of the four major schedules of Easter, summer, Christmas and Spring Festival can be reserved for me every year. ”

Wei Xiong shook his head.

"I can't promise you this, what I can guarantee is that if you are equally good, your film will be given priority in the selection of schedules. ”

Tsui Hark thought for a moment and said, "That's okay." ”

Successfully incorporated a general, Wei Xiong was also in a good mood, and after chatting casually with Tsui Hark, he got up and took out a script from the drawer.

"This is a martial arts movie, you see. ”

Tsui Hark took the script and opened it to read - "Once Upon a Time: Top Gun".

"This is an adaptation of the Once Upon a Time series?"

Wei Xiong smiled faintly: "Although the name is still "Huang Feihong", the story is original, and the shooting techniques are also different, you will know after watching it." ”

When creating the script, Wei Xiong always insisted on the storyboard script.

In fact, not only him, but now all the scripts of the entire Webster film are in the format of storyboard scripts.

Even the entire Hong Kong film industry has been influenced by Webster, and many big film companies, such as Golden Harvest, now also stipulate the use of storyboard scripts, for example.

And the storyboard script can truthfully express some of the ideas of the script creator.

It's like this script now.

When Tsui Hark roughly flipped through the script and saw Huang Feihong using Foshan Shadowless Feet, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and said with a little question:

"Mr. Wei, although I have only read part of the script, I can see that it is a good script. ”

"But some of the martial arts actions in the script, especially this Foshan shadowless foot, are too exaggerated and completely out of reality. ”

"Hehe, that's what I'm talking about when I shoot differently. ”

"What is detached from reality? Martial arts is a world made up of people, in Jin Yong's martial arts world, what martial arts moves are not fictional?"

"But there are still countless fans. ”

"So, it doesn't matter if it's out of reality or not, as long as the audience likes it. ”

"In the past few decades, almost all martial arts films in Hong Kong have been one trick and one style, and the fixed routines you come and go have long been unattractive. ”

"This is also the main reason for the decline of martial arts films in recent years. ”

"The martial arts action in this play is much more exaggerated than previous martial arts films, and from a scientific point of view, many actions are simply not human beings can complete. ”

"But that's not a problem at all. ”

"The success or failure of a martial arts film is certainly the key, but whether the martial arts scene is watchable and attractive enough is also the key. ”

"Few people who walk into the cinema will discuss with you what is reasonable and what is not. ”

"They only care if the movie is good or not. ”

"So the more flashy and eye-catching the move is, the more popular it is. Of course, what I said may be a bit one-sided, but it is true. ”

Tsui Hark is known as the founder of the new school of martial arts films.

In the past few years, I have been thinking about how to revive martial arts films.

At this time, after listening to Wei Xiong's words, he had a feeling of being sudden. He was thinking about being right before, but he has always stuck to the old martial arts film form.

In fact, the old martial arts films are long dead.

Only innovation can bring martial arts films back to their former glory.

And if you want to innovate, you must abandon some decadent things and add some new things that are in line with the trend of the times, such as what Wei Xionggang said.

"Listening to your words is better than reading for ten years, Mr. Wei is worthy of being a rare genius in the Hong Kong film industry in a century. ”

"Hehe, don't talk about that. ”

Wei Xiong smiled and shook his hand: "You take this script back and study it well, the protagonist Huang Feihong, I plan to let Li Lianjie play it." ”

"Li Lianjie?"

Tsui Hark groaned, and then nodded: "Li Lianjie's skills are good, and the form is also suitable for playing costume films, especially a righteous knight like Huang Feihong." ”

"You can do it as you like. ”

"After a while, Li Lianjie will set up a film company. ”

"This drama is produced by your studio and Li Lianjie's film company, not only this play, but you can also continue to work together in the future. ”

……

Tsui Hark, who left Wei Xiong's office, walked into a café opposite the Kester Building.

"How?"

As soon as he approached, without waiting for Tsui Hark to sit down, Shi Nansheng, who had been waiting for a long time, couldn't wait to ask, and at the same time glanced at the brown paper bag in Tsui Hark's hand.

"It's ok. ”

"What do you mean by okay, be clear. Seeing Tsui Hark with a faint smile on his face, Shi Nansheng's nervousness was much lighter.

Wei Xiong asked the studio to be merged into Wei's films as a whole. ”

"We continue to have independent management, but financially at Merriam-Webster. ”

"In addition, if I want to participate in the investment of films, I can share dividends proportionally, and if I don't want to, in addition to the director's remuneration, I can also share dividends according to the box office. ”

"That's it?"

"That's all. ”

Shi Nansheng nodded heavily: "It seems that Mr. Wei values you a lot, and the conditions mentioned are not too much, by the way, what's in the bag?"

"See for yourself. ”

Tsui Hark put the brown paper bag in front of Shi Nansheng.

"Script?"

opened the kraft paper bag and saw a script, Shi Nansheng left and opened it to look at it, and then wondered: "This is the script that Mr. Wei gave you?"

"Hmm. ”

Tsui Hark nodded and said with emotion: "Mr. Wei is worthy of being a movie wizard who is rare in a century, and today I, Tsui Hark, can be regarded as taught." ”

"What's wrong?"

After so many years of husband and wife, it was the first time Shi Nansheng had heard Tsui Hark say such a thing. It seems that Wei Xiong said something that made Tsui Hark useful.

"Huh. Tsui Hark smiled slightly, and then roughly said what Wei Xiong said, and then sighed lightly at the end, and said:

"It's no wonder that his films are all applauded and acclaimed. ”

"Not to mention the rest, few people can compare to this ability to grasp the audience's preferences. ”

"Okay, don't be emotional. Shi Nansheng took the script back into the brown paper bag: "Now your task is to shoot this drama well, and don't think about anything else." ”

"You are the first director of Webster Films to open a studio, and only when this scene is filmed well, those who are jealous can't talk nonsense. ”

"As for the studio, I'll take care of it. ”

"That's hard work for you. ”

Tsui Hark's ability to achieve so much in film now and in the future is inseparable from the virtuous help of Shi Nansheng.

……

After Tsui Hark left, Wei Xiong saw that there was nothing to do and wanted to leave work early, so Ouyang Yaqing went in and out of the office.

"Boss, just now Shu Qi, the editor-in-chief of "Film Fortnightly", called and wanted to ask you for dinner and asked when you had time?"

Shu Qi?

Wei Xiong was stunned when he heard this, he and this Shu Qi had met at an event, but they only said a few words, why did they suddenly ask themselves?

Speaking of this, Shu Qi is not simple.

In addition to being the editor-in-chief of Hong Kong's only professional film review magazine, Film Fortnightly, he is also the chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards Organizing Committee.

It has been committed to improving the professional level and influence of Hong Kong films.

is a person he admires more.

"He said that he wanted to discuss some things about the Academy Awards with you, the boss. ”

What about the Academy Awards?

Wei Xiong didn't know that Shu Qi had anything to talk about the Academy Awards to him, but since the other party said so, it was naturally impossible for him to refuse.

"It's tomorrow afternoon, you can see the specific time. ”

"yes, I see. ”

After explaining Ouyang Yaqing, Wei Xiong left work early.

After entering the elevator, he originally wanted to press the first floor, but he hesitated and pressed the fifteenth floor, planning to tell Zeng Zhiwei about Li Lianjie and Tsui Hark by the way.

"Hello Mr. Wei. ”

"Hello Mr. Wei. ”

“……”

The employees he met along the way all nodded with a smile, and it didn't take long for him to come to Zeng Zhiwei's office, and when he saw that there was no secretary, he pushed the door directly and went in......