Chapter 107: Let the Bullets Fly
"So what type of film should we make, although Mingshu has also played many different types of roles, but the box office hits in recent years are mainly comedy, urban love and historical themes, with the image of Uncle Ming, so I suggest that we open a movie with historical themes!" Wang Jinghua thought for a moment and proposed.
Everyone nodded, obviously agreeing with this suggestion, after all, there are "Red Cliff", "Cast a Name", "The City is Full of Golden Armor", "Night Banquet", "Ink Attack", "Mythology" and other historical movies have entered the top ten of the annual box office, regardless of word of mouth, the box office is the last word!
And Chen Daoming himself agrees, his previous "Kangxi Dynasty", "Lying on Salary and Tasting Courage", and "Hero" are all relatively successful historical films, if he is really asked to make comedies and romance films, he is really a little embarrassed.
Just when everyone thought that Zhao Fang would agree to Wang Jinghua's proposal, he did not hesitate to veto.
"I have already prepared the film of Mingshu, the first one is "Thorn Tomb" by Zhu Yanping, director of Baodao, which was invested by China Film Group."
Zhu Yanping? Except for Liu Jialing, Liang Jiahui, and a few people in Xiangjiang who know more about this name, others are not very familiar with it, after all, it is too old, and he is still from Baodao, not as famous as the director of Xiangjiang.
"I know one thing about Zhu Yanping, he is a very powerful comedy director, and he alone contributed almost half of the box office of Baodao in the eighties and nineties, and made hundreds of movies in more than ten years. At that time, there were two types of directors in Baodao, one was the literary film directors headed by Hou Xiaoxian and Yang Decang, there were about forty or fifty, and the other was Zhu Yanping, half of the movies in the entire Baodao were shot by him at that time, and he also filmed "Slam Dunk" with a box office of over 100 million last year. "Chen Daoming has been filming since the 80s, and he also worked in China Central TV and CCTV in the early 80s, so he still knows a little about him.
"He's that good? has made more than 100 movies in more than ten years, isn't that six or seven films a year, and it can still have such a high box office if it is filmed so fast? "Tong Dawei was just born in the 80s, so he naturally didn't know the situation of that era.
"Brother Ming is right, you may not be able to imagine what kind of scene it is like to have five or six films on the box office list every year for more than ten consecutive years, and in which era he monopolized half of the Baodao film industry by himself for more than ten years. However, his film style is no longer suitable for today's market, is Mr. Zhao sure about this cooperation? Although Chen Daoming admires Zhu Yanping very much, he is indeed outdated.
"At this point, Uncle Ming, don't worry, the movie "Thorn Tomb" will also have Jay Chou, Lin Zhiling, Zeng Zhiwei starring, last year's basketball-themed movie could break 100 million at the box office, and this time it will not be bad!" Zhao Fang explained.
He still attaches great importance to the company's first film, and for this reason, he also convened professionals to carefully analyze it, and they agreed that the prospects of this film will not be worse than "Slam Dunk".
Everyone was relieved to hear the name Jay Chou, they still believe in Jay Chou's box office appeal, from "Initial D", "The Secret That Can't Be Said" to "Slam Dunk", these three movies were shot in the sixth, eleventh, and eighth places of the annual box office, and now they have added Chen Daoming, and the box office will be good.
"Mr. Zhao, you just said that "Thorn Tomb" is the first movie, is there a second one?" Wang Jinghua asked.
Everyone also reacted to what Zhao Fang seemed to say before, and they all turned their eyes to him.
"That's right, the protagonist of "Thorn Tomb" is still Jay Chou after all, so there is a second movie, and you will be tired Uncle Ming this year." Zhao Fang said with a smile.
Chen Daoming was also a little curious about what another movie was, and waved his hand: "What's not tired, I think we had to make three or four films a year back then, although we are old now, it's no problem to make two movies, Mr. Zhao, just say it, which director's movie is it!"
"Then I won't sell it, the director is among us, Director Jiang, let's talk about it!" Zhao Fang pointed to Jiang Wen.
"Director Jiang, are you going to make a new film?" If Wang Jinghua only had a lot of complaints about Zhao Fang at the beginning, then now she is deeply dissatisfied in her heart, and he has no knowledge of the company's two projects as vice president, which makes her have a deep sense of crisis.
Facing Wang Jinghua's slightly questioning tone, Jiang Wen was unimpressed and said: "The new film has just been decided, and the script has not been written yet!" ”
"Why didn't anyone tell me!" Wang Jinghua had a feeling of being betrayed at this time, and his tone became more and more harsh.
Jiang Wen glanced at her and said lightly, "Didn't I tell you now!" ”
"You..." Wang Jinghua was so angry by his non-salty tone that he was speechless at once.
Seeing that the atmosphere between the two was not right, Zhou Yun hurriedly said, "Sister Wang, don't be angry, Jiang Wen has that temper!" ”
Zhao Fang didn't want to get too stiff with Wang Jinghua for the time being, after all, in the early days of the company's establishment, he was a layman, and her help was indispensable, so he also persuaded him:
"Mr. Wang, you dissipate your anger first, I only found out about this matter two days ago, I forgot to tell you when I was busy with the press conference, Director Jiang, let's introduce the situation of the movie, and see if there are any roles suitable for us."
Jiang Wen didn't say anything anymore, although with his qualifications, he couldn't care about Wang Jinghua at all, but after all, he was in the same company, and it was not good if it was too stiff, so he turned his head and began to introduce the movie.
"This movie is tentatively named "Let the Bullets Fly", it is about Zhang Muzhi, a green forest bandit who commands the mountains and forests, encountering the old soup who walks the rivers and lakes, the two have changed from life and death enemies to irreversible friends, Zhang Muzhi pretended to be the county magistrate and went to Goose City to take office, and finally merged with Huang Shilang, a tyrant in Goose City, in general, this is a western film of the Republic of China..."
Jiang Wen briefly introduced the content.
"Westerns? There seem to be very few films of this type in our country, wouldn't it be a little too risky! Chen Daoming was a little puzzled, as far as he knew, Jiang Wen was good at adding his own unique humor style to movies, and using this to reflect the reality of certain times, "The Devil is Coming", "The Sun Also Rises", and "Sunny Day" are all like this, but a western film has nothing to do with it.
"It doesn't matter what the subject matter is, what matters is the content, martial arts can be made into a comedy, love can be made into a tragedy, I am starring in this drama Zhang Muzhi by myself, Brother Ming, how about you play Huang Shilang, originally I wanted to invite Zhou Yanfa for this role, but it is quite suitable for you to play, but the style is a little different, and I want to invite Ge Wei to play, and I will ask Brother Ming to go with me when the time comes!" Jiang Wen said.