Chapter 627: Role Arrangement
Hong Kong movies have always been known for shooting quickly, and it is normal for popular actors to have three or four works a year, in fact, Zhou Yunfa has three works released and will be released this year.
"Bloody Heroes" at the beginning of the year, "Mystery Puzzle" in March, and "God of Gamblers", which is currently about to be released.
"Bloody Heroes" and "Mysterious Puzzle" have both performed well, both on the box office of 20 million, especially the latter, although the first protagonist is Hu Huina, but the media praised him as a person who can act with his expression and one finger.
In the end, Hu Huiyan was a little jealous and asked Li Xu if she didn't know how to act.
"It's not that you won't, but because you're a woman." Li Xu smiled and comforted.
The type of role that women can play a leading role is really good, and there are still women in East Asia, and Hollywood is almost a love film. Therefore, although Hu Huiyu performed well in "Mysterious Puzzle", film critics will instinctively lower it a notch.
What's more, once the actor plays well, it is indeed very eye-catching, and in another time and space, Denzel Washington is also quite praised when he plays this male lead.
It's also interesting to say, under Li Xu's manipulation, Zhou Yunfa and Washington each grabbed one role from each other, and the box office seems to be about the same.
Well, "True Colors of Heroes" has a much higher status in Hong Kong film history than "Mystery Puzzle" has in Hollywood.
But it doesn't matter, this kind of thing is inevitable, anyway, he still has the status of a god.
Back to the topic, Li Xu's movie must not be so rough, not to mention that the scene of "Ace vs. Ace" is very large, and it requires enough cooperation and scheduling, basically it can only be started in August, even if it does not have to abide by the strict overtime system like Hollywood, it is initially estimated that it will not be completed until mid-September.
Then, Zhou Yunfa always has to take a break, right? It's not to rush the scene, and "Autumn Fairy Tale" is a literary romance film, and there is still a need for the state of the actors.
This movie still needs to go to the United States to film, even if it is not much, but it is enough, even if it starts in early October and is completed in early November, and then rests for half a month, "Prison Storm" will not be able to start at the end of November.
Well, just in March, the Film Foundation received the script of "Prison Storm", which is normal in the Hong Kong film industry that is currently stirred up and stirred by Li Xu.
After all, in recent years, the foundation has also provided some help to many unambitious filmmakers, not to mention that Li Xu also has a good understanding of Lin Lingdong, not to mention the original "Yin and Yang Wrong", and the next few movies are also invested in the head, and they don't care about profits or losses, it is normal for his old brother Lin Lingnan to invest in the foundation after writing the story.
Li Xu still likes this movie a little in another time and space, not because he thinks the story is brilliant, but he is very impressed by the performances of Zhou Yanfa, Liang Jiahui, Huang Guangliang, Zhang Yaoyang and others.
So after getting it, I naturally hope that the original team will come to the same time, but Huang Guangliang, Zhang Yaoyang and even Liang Jiahui are easy to say, but Zhou Yanfa is really out of schedule this year because of him.
The above calculations are still expected in the best case, and if something goes wrong halfway, I'm afraid it will only be more troublesome, so Zhou Yanfa's complaint is not completely pretended.
Of course, Li Xu also knows this, so it's just a beating.
"When the film was launched, "Ace vs. Ace" should almost be released, and it can be regarded as promoting "Prison Storm", don't thank me, it's because you still have value to squeeze." After returning to the office, Li Xu muttered.
He actually likes to do this kind of thing, which seems quite inexplicable to outsiders, and it is just a matter of naming Zhang Guorong to play Li Ying in "Bloody Heroes", after all, he and Zhou Yunfa are both actors he fancies, and it is okay to use one to lift the other, but why did he name Dillon to play the fourth brother in it?
In addition, this time in "Ace vs. Ace", he was named to play the captain of the Flying Tigers, why?
If it weren't for Li Xu's harem to open wide, many well-known actresses would have either been included in the room by him, or he would have picked them up, otherwise he would really think that he had any special hobbies.
"There's no way, I can only be secretly cool." Li Xu looked at the proposed list of actors, and pointed his finger at his temple and muttered to himself.
This feeling of disrupting everything and rearranging it was the joy of his life, as if it were ...... How do you say that? Oh, the live-action Bishoujo Factory, the live-action star volunteer.
It feels really good to let the course of a circle in the next few decades be woven at your fingertips. It is impossible for him to provoke the world to move according to his own will in this life, but it is still no problem to provoke a small circle to play at will.
Therefore, in addition to the male protagonists of Liang Jiahui and Zhou Runfa, the selection of other characters is also very interesting, Zeng Zhiwei and Zhang Yanyu's man and woman trapped in the incorruptible government building, Dillon's captain of the Flying Tigers, not to mention these, as well as a sniper who can't pull the trigger by a bald man who draws well in the future, Guan Haishan's police chief, and Guan Shan, the villain.
Well, this role was originally intended for Zeng Jiang, Li Xu felt that this guy was good, very in line with a certain image, and he would definitely be of great use in the future, so he pulled it to practice his hands and feet.
However, although Guan Zhilin is now with Zhang Bingqian, the mother and daughter are Li Xu's pets, but they still have some incense with their father, and it is useless to subsidize the family, so she deliberately asked Li Xu for a role, wanting to help her father in this.
Thinking about it left and right, Li Xu also gave Guan Shan the villain in "Ace vs. Ace", anyway, he should have played the villain in "The True Colors of Heroes 2".
Now "The True Colors of Heroes 2" is definitely not, although there is a high chance of "Bloody Heroes 2", but it is difficult to say whether there is a position for Guan Shan, so Li Xu gave such a role.
In addition, the most interesting thing is that Nie Daan played the deputy commissioner of the ICAC, which sounds like a Chinese name, but this guy is a real Swede, and his English name is Anders Nelson.
This guy was born in San Francisco in 46, and he has a lot of fate with China, and he also likes Hong Kong very much, so much so that when his parents are going to return to China, he wants to stay in Hong Kong to find his own opportunities.
Nelson is very talented in music, has formed bands, and has earned a lot of fame, not to mention the soundtrack of "Mr. Zombie", which won Best Spouse Month at last year's Academy Awards, was made by him.
Although this Academy Award is a thing for Hong Kong movies to entertain themselves, he is a foreign devil, and he can get some best soundtracks for an oriental-style movie, which can be regarded as very capable.
In addition, this guy often makes cameo appearances as a foreigner in Hong Kong movies, deliberately stammering, half-baked Cantonese, arrogantly giving orders to the hero and heroine, and then being slammed out.
Li Xu, who didn't want to find actors from Hollywood and other countries, finally settled on him after turning over several foreign actors in Hong Kong.
"I can't help but want to see what happens when this movie comes out now." After reading all kinds of information about "Ace vs. Ace" again, Li Xu said with a smile.