It is still unknown whether Lao Jia's script can pass the review, but Zhang Yuan's "Coming Home for the New Year" has been reviewed for seven months and has been revised countless times, and it has finally passed the review.

Zhang Yuan was a good talker, and before preparing the crew, he notified Wang Dalun to let Liu Ling audition.

"Are you missing breakfast, or are you going to have lunch?"

Wang Dalun received a call from Zhang Yuan, and hurriedly drove to the gate of his community, originally thinking that he was coming to pick him up, but Zhang Yuan asked him to stop the car and took him into a dumpling restaurant diagonally opposite the entrance of the community, and ordered dumplings with six taels and three fresh fillings, and two bottles of beer.

"I didn't eat breakfast, no one made lunch, so we solved it together. Zhang Yuan said with a very bad smile.

"Teacher Ning is far away?"

"The two of them went to Ning Ying's house. By the way, did you inform Liu Ling?"

"The phone called, but I thought you called me to pick you up at the door of your community, and she was waiting at home to hear the letter. ”

"Let her come here. ”

"Auditioning here?" Wang Dalun said in surprise.

"That's right, that's it. ”

Zhang Yuan's selection of actors has always been very weird, just like when he took a fancy to himself on the street, Wang Dalun didn't bother to break with him, and directly called Liu Ling to inform Liu Ling to go to the gate of the community where she used to live.

It is said that Liu Ling used to rent a house in the same community as Zhang Yuan's home, but now people have long lived with the famous photographer.

After the call, the waiter brought the beer and dumplings.

"If you want to drink it yourself, I don't drink it, and I drive. ”

As long as he drives, Wang Dalun has always adhered to the principle of not drinking.

"With your amount of alcohol, drinking some beer is not the same as drinking cold white water, not much, just a bottle. ”

"Don't drink it, let alone a bottle, just don't drink a drop. You don't make it clear, or I won't drive. Wang Dalun didn't say anything.

In fact, Zhang Yuan's home community is at the back door of the film academy, and it only takes about ten minutes to walk from his residence.

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "It's really a good law-abiding citizen, just don't drink it, eat some dumplings, the three fresh stuffed dumplings here are a must." ”

Wang Dalun looked at the menu on the table, asked for a bowl of beef offal vermicelli soup, took the vinegar dish, added enough minced garlic to it, added some chili oil, mixed it, sandwiched a dumpling and dipped it, a bite, the taste is really good.

Although it was only ten o'clock in the morning, but smelling the fragrance in the dumpling restaurant, his stomach was really a little hungry, he ate seven or eight dumplings in a row before he stopped chopsticks, and looked at Zhang Yuan, who was drinking beautiful dumplings on the opposite side, and said: "The milk powder I brought back from Germany last time, have you eaten it far away?"

Zhang Yuan's mouth was full of oil, and he wiped his mouth directly with his hand, and said, "It's almost there, there are less than two barrels left." ”

"Yo, it's time to add. Don't you have friends abroad, ask them to buy a box for you and send it over. Let me tell you, don't buy the kind of domestic milk powder in the supermarket, the quality is not reliable. ”

"Well, I heard that Swiss milk powder is better than Germany's, so I called Marco's secretary in the evening and asked him to help me send me two boxes. ”

If it were something else, Zhang Yuan would definitely say that Wang Dalun was a typical admirer of foreign flattery, but when it came to what the child ate, he didn't dare to be careless, since his daughter was born, he has been working hard to be a good daddy, and treating his daughter as a pain in the eyeballs.

When Wang Dalun heard this, he smiled and said: "Director Zhang, your pomp is really not small, and you even asked the secretary of the chairman of the Locarno International Film Festival to buy you milk powder!"

"Isn't it convenient for him to be there, and besides, I still have something to contact him. ”

Speaking of this Marco, Marco's full name is Marco Muller, and he is a famous Italian filmmaker and film critic. is still a China expert, as early as the early 70s, he came to China to study alone, and married a Chinese wife. After returning to China, he served as the chairman of the Boshalu, Rotterdam and Locarno International Film Festivals, and was also the Asian selection director of the Venice Film Festival.

Out of his love for Chinese films, many of the works of the fifth-generation directors were recommended by him before they appeared at various international film festivals and won awards, including the respective famous works of Zhang Dadao and Chen Dadao, which can be called the Bole of the Chinese film industry.

But he admires Zhang Yuan very much, when Zhang Yuan filmed "East Palace and West Palace", the sponsorship of the Rotterdam Film Fund was matched by him, and this time Zhang Yuan was going to shoot "Coming Home for the New Year", and he directly acted as the producer. When Wang Dalun and Zhang Yuan participated in the Cannes Film Festival last year, they also met with this legendary figure who is regarded as the Bole of Chinese films, and they also had a meal together. This old man can not only speak fluent Chinese, but also sing model plays, which really surprised Wang Dalun.

"Then will Marco come over this time?" Speaking of which, Wang Dalun still misses this old man.

"I guess I can't come, even if I can come, I will accompany his wife back to visit relatives or something. Zhang Yuandao.

"Isn't he a producer, then?"

"He's just a name, do you think he's really like a producer, going around the crew? Who is he? Can do this? At most, he sends someone over to supervise the use of funds. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Yuan's eyes wandered around Wang Dalun's body with some ill intentions, and he said shyly: "Are you free in December?"

"No time!" Wang Dalun knew what Zhang Yuan was thinking as soon as he heard it, and immediately refused: "This time, you want to fool me into hanging an assistant director, but in fact, what you are doing is all the work of life producers." ”

Zhang Yuan hurriedly said: "I didn't let you do life production, I just asked you to help coordinate and coordinate." You don't know, my film has a total of five investors, two Switzerland, two Italy, and one Hong Kong. In the past, there was an old man who could speak Chinese, but now none of the representatives sent by these foreign companies can speak. You're not good at English, so it's time to help communicate with each other. ”

"No, no. Wang Dalun's head shook like a rattle, and said: "Your film will start in December, I still have a film appointment, I have to make a movie." ”

"You're talking about Xiao Jia's "Platform", right? I'll tell you it's no fun! I dare to assure you, he won't be able to turn on the machine at all. Zhang Yuan glanced at him and said.

"How?"

This is not the first time to tell him that Lao Jia can't shoot this scene.

"I remember the last time you mentioned Xiao Jia's play to me, the script has already been submitted for review, right?"

"That's right, it was already submitted for trial at that time. ”

"And how much time have you calculated so far?"

"Well, it's been almost two months. ”

"Is there an echo?"

"Oh, this, I haven't heard Lao Jia mention it. However, the script of his film is very clean, there is nothing out of the ordinary, and after the discussion of experts from Shanghai Film Studio, there should be no problems......"

Zhang Yuan stretched out two fingers and sneered: "There has been no response for two months, this is a problem." Saying that, he said very strangely: "It stands to reason that the film studio should be able to see that something is wrong in this situation, why didn't you remind Xiao Jia?"

Wang Dalun shook his head, Lao Jia had never mentioned this kind of thing, how did he know.

Zhang Yuan thought about it, nodded again, and said: "That's right, the relationship between Shanghai Film Studio and relevant departments is average, just want to do work, and the ability is limited." I think Xiao Jia must have been kept in the dark. ”

First Zhao Baogang, then Zhang Yuan. One is an old mage in the system, and the other is a former underground director who has rich experience in fighting with relevant departments, and they are all not optimistic that Lao Jia's "Platform" can pass the trial. This made Wang Dalun have to worry about the fate of Lao Jia's movie, which he had prepared for several years.

"Why don't we make a bet?" Zhang Yuan smiled again: "If Xiao Jia's script can't pass the review and can't be started, you can come over and help me be the coordinator and assistant director, what do you think?" ”

If Lao Jia's movie really can't be turned on, since Zhang Yuan opened his mouth, even if he was a life producer, he couldn't refuse, so he could only nod and say, "Okay." ”

"Haha, okay, then we'll make a decision. Zhang Yuan laughed, looking very determined, and picked up the cup and asked Wang Dalun to replace the wine with tea, and everyone had a drink.