In the previous life, there were only five episodes of "Gently Hold Your Hand", the story was arranged very tightly, and the progress was relatively much faster, and many stories between the male and female protagonists could be spread out to tell, but this time it was going to be directly adapted into a two-year or three-year season series.

First, it is to cooperate with the development of the plot and add more warm ingredients; The second is because Honami will act in other films in the future, and she needs time to buffer her influence in this drama.

Another point is about the consideration of the company's long-term layout, the first part will definitely be broadcast on ATV, and the second part will be broadcast in three years, so ATV should not be chosen at that time, but the influence of the series cannot be small.

took the time to write the script of the first episode of the original version, and after adding some outlines, he handed over the next task of increasing flesh and blood to Wei Jiahui to complete, and he had to hurry up to get the Chinese New Year film "Love Actually", and there was not much time left.

"Bringing everyone together today, I want to talk about the company's Chinese New Year film this year, the script was just set more than half a month ago, and it is a film composed of ten stories about love. Like last year's Chinese New Year film, whoever plays the role will come to the set to start work, and then return to their own crew, which should not delay everyone's normal work. If there is any delay, you can come to me and ensure that the director does not dare to make irresponsible remarks. ”

In the large conference room of Phoenix Culture, there were forty or fifty people seated, almost all of whom were contracted actors and directors of the company, and the main lineup of the entire Phoenix Culture was almost complete. They all listened quietly.

After saying a few words, he stopped, and gave one to a few directors and actors who smoked around him, and after lighting it, a few people spit out clouds and fog for a while. took this opportunity to ask Yi Nan to send the copied script to everyone, and then continued: "The script has been sent to everyone, and I will only briefly tell a few stories here." The chairman of a listed group falls in love with his secretary, the outdated old singer discovers that his agent is the most important, a photographer falls in love with his friend's wife, a writer betrayed by his girlfriend finds his love in Myanmar, and the love of a jewelry designer ends at the beginning for special reasons. A restaurant helper sells his house and goes to Japan to find love. A middle-aged widower finds his love by helping his stepson pursue the girl he loves, the sister of a wealthy businessman also tries to win back her husband who has changed her heart, and a pair of naked substitute actors also confess to each other on Chinese New Year's Eve. The little boy finally plucked up the courage to tell his female classmates his admiration. ”

Ten stories sound almost completely incompatible, that is, how can there be a connection between the chairman of a listed company and his sister, such a large number of stories. And how about composing a whole big story? If not for the script in hand. No one can figure this out.

But after reading the script, everyone had to admire this story in their hearts. The secretary of the chairman of the listed company has a nephew who goes to a certain school, and the rich businessman's sister and the middle-aged widower's children are also in the same school, the widower's son likes the girl is the child of the rich businessman's sister, the designer's boss is the brother-in-law of the rich businessman, the writer is a friend of the rich businessman, the restaurant where the chef is located is the most frequented by the rich businessman, and the photographer's crew shoots a film invested by a wealthy businessman. The pair of naked substitutes were serving the crew, and the reason why the photographer confessed to his friend's wife was because he saw the singing of the popular singer. The photographer's friend is the assistant of a wealthy businessman, and the widower's fall in love with the woman is also the parent of the school's students, but they are all connected.

And at the end of the script, the list that is about to be filled with two pieces of paper, Jiahe, Golden Princess, and some other actors who have signed contracts with Siyuan, Yongsheng and other film companies, as long as they are famous enough, are all listed, and this lineup adds more and more excitement to this film.

With such a luxurious cast, "Love Actually" is likely to be listed as the most powerful film in the history of Hong Kong films, which is not only represented by the year-end dividends and participation in the company's collective tasks, but also those who can participate in this film will be remembered by future history.

"Love Actually" will become the most luxurious film in the history of Hong Kong films, and it is likely to become an unprecedented one, which is a monument in the history of Hong Kong films; And for the actors involved, this is everyone's credential book.

This is also the only difference between this "True Love First" and last year's "Party A and Party B", which is the same star-studded New Year's film, maybe as Mo Fei's status becomes higher and higher, next year's New Year's film will also be very lively, but without the involvement of Mo Fei's directorial debut, it is not easy to reach such heights this year.

After giving everyone a little time to read the introduction of the script, Mo Fei continued: "I have discussed with several directors in the past two days, and the roles in the film have been decided, so let's talk about the arrangement of the roles. The actor for the role of a wealthy businessman is Zhou Yanfa, the actor of the secretary of a wealthy businessman is Ye Qianwen, the actor of the out-of-fashion singer Yongjiang, the actor of the agent is Xu Anhua, the photographer Lin Wei, the assistant of the wealthy businessman Chen Baixiang, and Ah Lak's wife will be handed over to Xiugu, so as to save him from taking advantage of others. The actor of the frustrated writer is Zhang Guorong, the actor of the Burmese maid is Li Meifeng, the designer Liang Chaowei, his female colleague is handed over to Guan Zhilin, the mentally ill brother Zhou Xingchi, the assistant chef of the restaurant Huang Qiusheng, the friend who persuaded him not to go to Japan is Zhang Xueyou, the three girls he met in Japan are Honami Suzuki, Shang Yao, Liu Mujun, Fu Yiwei who brought back to Hong Kong, the actor of the middle-aged widower is Liu Songren, the sister of the wealthy businessman Xiao Fangfang, the brother-in-law Wu Mengda, their daughter is Li Zi, and a pair of naked substitute actors are Wu Zhenyu and Xia Wenxi.

We have tried our best to use big stars in other supporting actors, and there are really too many candidates available this time, and they may not be able to do so at other times. First of all, the family of the rich business secretary, Lao Dou Dongbiao, sister Qiu Shuzhen, brother Xu Guanjie, sister-in-law Feng Baobao, nephew Lin Feng; Next is the set, there are more people, director Wu Yusen. Other staff members include Xu Ke, Guan Jinpeng, Du Qifeng, Yan Hao, Zhang Wanyao, Luo Qirui, Xu Guanwen, and Zeng Zhiwei; The young teachers in the school use Wang Zuxian, Jiang Shuna, Liu Dehua, and Guo Fucheng; The number of shots in the last few scenes is also relatively large, the security personnel are Du Dewei, Li Keqin, Xu Zhi'an, and the captains and stewardesses passing by are Ren Jinghua, Fu Li, Zhong Chuhong, Lin Qingxia, Zhang Yanyu, and Zhou Huimin. The three people of Grass Mongzai play the role of passing passengers, and there are many other passengers, almost all of whom are stars in Hong Kong.

The actor for the role of the writer's ex-girlfriend is Li Lingyu, the widower's last choice of school female classmate's mother wants to use ATV's actor Wei Qiuhua, his daughter is Xu Qing of our company, and there is also a small alumnus is Zhong Hanliang, and the boy who likes female classmates to work hard to learn the violin is temporarily set Feng Zhifeng (Hong Kong child star in the 80s). There is also director Kathryn Bigelow and actor Halle Berry who are coming from Phoenix Culture in the United States to participate in the performance this time. It will also appear among passers-by at the airport; The rich businessman's trading partner, the American businessman who is suspected of molesting the secretary of the rich businessman, is also played by Pierce Brosnan, an actor from the Phoenix culture in the United States. Bruce Willis, the male lead of "Die Hard", plays his assistant. The other roles have also been chosen, and in the end, there is only one role that cannot be decided, that is, the secretary of the brother-in-law of the rich businessman, and everyone helps to think about it. What kind of actor should I use? ”

The rest of the characters are really not a good choice. Judging from Mo Fei's previous role arrangement, the meaning is already obvious, the male actors in this year's Chinese New Year film are still selected by strength, while the actresses are to push some new actors and actors whose influence needs to be tapped to relatively major roles, such as Honggu, Wang Zuxian, Lin Qingxia, these blockbuster actors, have a lot fewer roles, and some just show a few faces.

If you choose it in this way, you really can't find a suitable actor to play a secretary among the actors signed by the company. However, if you want to find it from the outside, there are more conditions than the restrictions within the company. At least Debao and the wireless actors must not touch. Especially Wu Yusen and several other people who are relatively familiar with Mo Fei's mind, even the actors of ATV, they have to be much more cautious when thinking about it, it is obvious that Mo Fei is deliberately controlling the use of ATV actors, of course they have to work hard to cooperate.

With the restrictions of various conditions, it is really difficult to find this actor, otherwise it would have been decided a long time ago, and there is still a need for so many people to come up with ideas. In fact, Du Qifeng would like to suggest a person, Mo Fei's secretary Yinan, playing the role of a secretary does not require too much acting skills, and Yi Nan is a full-time secretary, so he should be competent, but in view of Mo Fei's romantic reputation, Du Qifeng does not dare to guarantee that Mo Fei and Yi Nan have any special relationship, and whether he will agree to Yi Nan to play such a role, but after thinking about it for a while, he still did not bring it up.

As a result, everyone discussed for more than half an hour, and did not come up with a suitable candidate, so they had to pick out Fu Yiwei, who played one of the Japanese girls, first, Su Daji's role has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people through "Fengshen Bang", and it is reasonable to let her play the secretary who seduces the boss, if there is a suitable candidate, she will be transferred back to her original role.

"Okay, then let's do it first, if anyone has a better suggestion, they can come forward at any time, as long as the role of the character hasn't started yet, it's still too late." Mo Fei first revealed this matter, and said: "Several actors from the United States are very likely to cooperate in the future, and we can get to know and familiarize ourselves with each other first when we make a film together this time." If you don't have anything else, let's do it first, the movie will officially start three days later, and everyone will go back to familiarize themselves with the script, and strive to finish the film as quickly as possible. ”

Arrange the roles of the main actors and company insiders, and other guest actors such as Wang Jing, Huang Baiming, Mecca, Hong Jinbao, Yuan Biao, Yuan Heping, etc. don't have to worry. are all characters who have been in the studio for at least ten years, either directors, screenwriters, photographers or the like or big stars, playing soy sauce roles when there are no hard and fast requirements, they can basically play directly after watching their own scenes, as long as the time is arranged, it is not a problem to shoot a scene with twenty or thirty people a day.

And the employees within the company participated in the shooting, basically all of them were the roles of some passers-by, not to mention the test of acting skills, even the expression did not need to do much, and even the back that appeared in the movie was just a back. To put it bluntly, it is to be an extra, and there is no need to arrange it deliberately, whoever comes is the best choice.

After the roles are arranged, after coming out of the conference room. Liang Chaowei never left, waiting outside for most people to leave the company before running to find Mo Fei.

Yi Nan brought Liang Chaowei into Mo Fei's office. After greeting Mo Fei, Liang Chaowei stood in front of the Taipan desk and said very awkwardly: "Mr. Mo, about the candidate for the role you just mentioned, I don't know if I can make some suggestions?" ”

"Didn't I just say that as long as the role of the role has not yet started filming, anyone can recommend the right candidate. Wei Zai, what's wrong with you today? When I was in the conference room just now, I saw that you were a little absent-minded, is there anything going on at home? "It's very strange for Liang Chaowei's performance today, this guy has always been steady in his words and deeds. What could make him so out of shape? And he rarely asks for help, and today is the first time to take the initiative to recommend an actor, who will this actor be.

Liang Chaowei had already spoken, but then he didn't know whether to say it or not. After counting the ants for more than two minutes, he looked down. I made up my mind to raise my head and said, "Mr. Mo, the actor I want to recommend is Zeng Huaqian, who is also my girlfriend, if she is asked to play the secretary, it may not be appropriate, but if she is asked to play that Japanese girl, I think she will be competent." ”

Zeng Huaqian, Liang Chaowei's girlfriend. The two of them were divided and combined for six years, but in the end, their best friend Liu Jialing took advantage of the chaos to dig a corner. Since then, she has been unlucky, and she is also a small tragic figure.

Although in the 21st century in the previous life, there were countless people who said that Liu Jialing was a big beauty, but in Mo Fei's personal opinion, she was far less than one-third of Zeng Huaqian's, and sometimes people were easy to add fame to the rating system that was not beautiful. Zeng Huaqian is indeed beautiful enough, tall enough, and her temperament is also very suitable for playing a Japanese girl, she is really a good candidate.

But she is a wireless artist, Liang Chaowei won't even understand this, Phoenix Culture can't use wireless artists, so she was even more confused and asked: "Wei Zai, are you sure you don't mess up your brain because of something at home?" Hua Nu is indeed more suitable for this role, but she is a wireless artist, unless she can jump to Phoenix Culture, this is impossible. ”

"Mr. Mo, I understand what you said, so I waited until now to recommend her." As soon as Mo Fei's words were finished, Liang Chaowei hurriedly said: "In fact, since the beginning of this year, the Chinese girl has been very sad in wireless, and in the summer, the senior management of wireless also talked to her and asked her to break up with me, otherwise she didn't even have to host a children's program, and then she was hidden by wireless." But fortunately, the Chinese girl was directly transferred from the training class to the children's program as a host, and the last contract did not involve her, so her contract expired at the end of this year, so I came to you to talk to you to see if Phoenix Culture could sign her. ”

Listening to Liang Chaowei's words, Mo Fei also scolded himself in his heart for being confused, Liang Chaowei and Zeng Huaqian are a couple, and Zeng Huaqian, an actor, also has the strength to be tapped, why didn't he think about digging the two of them together.

But fortunately, the situation is not too bad, the relationship between the two seems to be very good, and they have been under pressure until now, Zeng Huaqian and Wireless's film appointment is about to end, and a good actress can be signed without any trouble.

It's just that these words can't be said, not only can't they be said, but they have to "blame" Tony Leung for a few words, which is the proper way of the emperor. Mo Fei knocked on the table and said, "Then why didn't you say it earlier, if you mentioned it at that time, Hua Nu might join Phoenix Culture with you." And it's not a big deal, you can just say it in the conference room just now, why do you have to wait until now? ”

I thought that this matter would not go very smoothly, after all, Zeng Huaqian has no acting experience, and now Phoenix Culture can be said to be in full swing in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and if you want the company to sign an actor with little experience, it is not something that can be solved by someone with a word, Liang Chaowei even thought about asking Zhong Chuhong to help intercede.

But what I didn't expect was that Mo Fei actually had such an attitude and thoughts, and even blamed himself for not saying it at the beginning, it seems that he still has some weight in the eyes of the boss.

The matter can be solved, Liang Chaowei scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and said: "At that time, I was still a small actor, and I didn't expect it to become what I am now. When I was in the conference room just now, I wasn't sure about this matter at all, and I was afraid that others would have a bad opinion of Hua Girlfriend because of my recommendation, and she didn't have any acting experience anyway......"

"Okay, okay, Wei Zai, you think too much, it's right for you to think about the psychology of the character in your performance, but if it's like this in life, it's not good, sometimes it's bad to think too much." Mo Fei stopped Liang Chaowei's words and said: "But your character can't be changed overnight, let's take it slowly in the future, let's solve the problem of the Chinese girl first." After the contract on the Chinese girl's side ends, let her report to the company, and leave the role of the Japanese girl to her. ”

Liang Chaowei left happily, and he was also happy to stay in the office. Zeng Huaqian didn't say anything else, just said her face, which was enough to maintain her attraction to the audience for twenty or thirty years, and wireless didn't sign her long-term contract at the first time, the world has really changed, but this is not bad, and it makes Phoenix Culture get a bargain. (To be continued......)