Hong Kong New Arts City Film Company, Tsui Hark, who had just returned to Hong Kong from the United States to study film production, brought in a handsome young man. The front desk lady saw someone coming in and was about to ask, she looked up and saw that it was Xu Hark, and immediately smiled: "Director Xu, please come in, the chairman is in the office, and if you come, go directly to the chairman's office to find him." ”

Tsui Hark nodded, and walked with the young man to the elevator.

The young man who followed Tsui Hark was none other than the later kung fu emperor Li Lianjie. He has been really miserable in the past few years, the movies he made are not very popular, and he was seriously ill and almost died the year before last, so he listened to the words of his elders and married his childhood sweetheart sister Chongxi. After he recovered from his illness, he didn't have any movies to pick up, so he went to the United States with his wife to make a living by teaching boxing and acting.

Last year, people from Golden Harvest found Li Lianjie and filmed a "Dragon in the World" with Zhou Xingxing and Ye Yuqing. This drama was pinned on by Golden Harvest, but the director and script were so bad that they didn't know their mother, which disappointed Golden Harvest and Li Lianjie himself.

It happened that Tsui Hark was in the United States at the time, and after watching Li Lianjie's martial arts performance, he immediately came to visit. The two became confidants after chatting, so this year Tsui Hark came back with Li Lianjie as soon as he finished his studies.

At this time, Li Lianjie is a poor egg, and he almost borrowed money from Jiahe Company last year, but fortunately he didn't borrow it after listening to the persuasion of his friends, otherwise he would have to be in Jiahe for the rest of his life.

The elevator is rising, and there are two people inside, Tsui Hark and Li Lianjie.

Li Lianjie asked with some concern: "Director Xu, do you think Mr. Wang will really help?" ”

"Don't worry, Mr. Wang is very talkative." Tsui Hark comforted.

Li Lianjie didn't say anything, Wang Zijun was very righteous and enthusiastic about helping people, he had heard it a long time ago, but this time it was different. He signed a ten-year contract with Golden Harvest last year, and now it has only been more than a year.

Golden Harvest is no longer the very tolerant and humane Golden Harvest of ten years ago. In recent years, there is New Arts City in Hong Kong and Wang's Pictures in Taiwan, both of which are excellent works, but Golden Harvest's films are becoming more and more unable to sell at the box office, and even the later Debao Film Company has gradually surpassed Golden Harvest.

In this case, the cooperative relationship between Golden Harvest and Wang's Pictures has long been broken, and Golden Harvest's management of its artists is more demanding, just for fear of being poached.

Li Lianjie's current agent is called David Luo, who is the son of Luo Wei, the famous director of Shaw Brothers back then. David Luo is now a person from Golden Harvest, because Li Lianjie has great box office attraction in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Nanyang, David Luo fell in love with him in the United States, became good friends with Li Lianjie, and became his agent, the purpose is to tie Li Lianjie to death in Golden Harvest.

Li Lianjie has regarded David Luo as a good friend, and when the other party proposed to sign a ten-year contract, Li Lianjie, who was in trouble, immediately agreed. But now because the movie made is not a hit, Golden Harvest immediately turned his face, and he didn't even give the promised film contract, and Li Lianjie was not allowed to take over other companies' films, saying that Golden Harvest was preparing a sophisticated production for him.

Li Lianjie was already so poor in the United States that he couldn't pay the electricity bill, so he discussed it with Tsui Hark before he planned to ask Wang Zijun to help him redeem himself. No, when I heard that Wang Zijun came to Hong Kong, Tsui Hark immediately brought someone here.

The secretary led the two of them over and knocked on the door: "Chairman, Director Xu and Mr. Li are here." ”

"Please come in." Wang Zijun put down the script of "Once Upon a Time" in his hand, which was sent by Tsui Hark yesterday, and there are some differences with the movie "Once Upon a Time: Top Gun" in some details.

When the two came in, Wang Zijun stood up and walked towards Tsui Hark with a smile, shook hands and said, "Old Xu, I thought you were going to stay in Hollywood and make movies." ”

Tsui Hark laughed: "Hollywood is not as mixed up as Hong Kong. This is Mr. Li Lianjie and Mr. Li, I think this "Huang Feihong" belongs to him, and no one else can play that kind of taste. ”

Wang Zijun turned to shake hands with Li Lianjie and said, "Of course I know Mr. Li, a martial arts genius, who created his own Manjiang Red Boxing." ”

"Martial arts geniuses don't dare to be." Li Lianjie said modestly.

The three of them sat down, and Wang Zijun said: "I read the script, it is very well written, and some places can be improved." What, is this drama for New Arts City, or is it being filmed in the name of your studio? ”

"It's a new art city." Tsui Hark said. His studio has long since died in name, and after so many years, his grievances with Mecca and others have long faded. Although several people in Mecca are still shareholders and executives of New Art City, it is Wang Zijun and Zhuge Mao who can really make decisions, and it will not be too embarrassing to go back to New Art City to film.

Li Lianjie wanted to talk about "redeeming himself", but because he was not familiar with Wang Zijun, he didn't know how to speak, so he stopped talking there.

Tsui Hark looked embarrassed and said: "Mr. Wang, Ajie signed a ten-year contract with Golden Harvest last year, and he can only take Golden Harvest's drama before the contract expires. ”

"Ten years? How would you sign such a contract? Wang Zijun was surprised. His surprise was not pretended, he remembered that Li Lianjie and Jiahe signed a contract with the head of the department, and although they had a stiff quarrel later, they finally got out.

Li Lianjie said frustratedly: "My current economist is David Luo of Jiahe, I regarded him as a good friend at that time, and I happened to be short of money, so I agreed without much thought." But where did you think that the Jiahe family has a big business, and because the movie is not a hit, even the salary will be in arrears. ”

Wang Zijun thought for a while and said: "If you let Golden Harvest know that it is Xinyicheng who wants to find you to make a film, I am afraid it will be even more difficult to get out." In this way, I will call Boss Zou directly and discuss it with him. I estimate that it is impossible to release people directly, so I can only change the ten-year contract to the head contract, for example, you will make two movies for Golden Harvest within two years. How's that going? ”

Li Lianjie was overjoyed, and hurriedly nodded and said, "This is very good, this is already very good." ”

Seeing Li Lianjie's expectant look, Wang Zijun said, "Wait a minute." ”

Wang Zijun dialed the phone twice in front of the two of them to connect Zou Wenhuai's phone, and waited for a few minutes before Zou Wenhuai's voice came.

The two talked a lot of nonsense, Li Lianjie sat next to him and listened for several minutes, seeing that Wang Zijun was only with Zou Wenhuai, and never talked about business, he couldn't help but be a little anxious.

Somehow expected it to be on the movie, Wang Zijun said: "Boss Zou, I just received a script here, and I think it's pretty good after reading it." ”

"Oh, if Mr. Wang says it's good, then it must be good," Zou Wenhuai's laughter came from the phone, "Then I'll wish Mr. Wang a box office hit." ”

"Where, where, I want to cooperate with Boss Zou in this script." Wang Zijun said with a smile.

"I said how I heard the magpie cry this morning, it turned out that Mr. Wang sent the money." Zou Wenhuai joked.

Wang Zijun hid the smile on his face, and said: "I promise to sell this film, and I will pay 3% for the filming investment of Golden Harvest, and I don't want a penny at the box office in Hong Kong and Nanyang." What does Boss Zou think? ”

As soon as these words came out, Zou Wenhuai's side immediately fell silent. The main box office sources of today's Chinese-language films are Hong Kong, Taiwan and Nanyang, after all, not every movie can be sold for money. And these three film markets, of which the Nanyang box office accounts for the majority, Wang Zijun directly ceded the Nanyang and Hong Kong box offices, which surprised Zou Wenhuai.

After more than ten seconds of silence, Zou Wenhuai asked, "What is the budget for this movie?" ”

Wang Zijun said with a smile: "The budget is not too high, and it has not been made yet, but I estimate that it will not exceed 20 million Hong Kong dollars." ”

Wang Zijun personally called the movies he asked, and the box office in Hong Kong and Nanyang definitely exceeded 20 million, and Golden Harvest only paid 30% of the investment to reap all the box office in the two places, which is simply a gift of money.

However, there is no good thing in this world that falls from the sky, and Zou Wenhuai didn't believe that Wang Zijun would respect the old and love the young to send him money, so he immediately asked: "What are Mr. Wang's conditions?" ”

Wang Zijun said: "I want to be alone." ”

"Who?" Zou Wenhuai asked.

"Li Lianjie." Wang Zijun said.

"Hehe, Mr. Wang is really generous." Zou Wenhuai suddenly laughed. Because of Li Lianjie's personal ability and box office appeal in Asia, Golden Harvest is ready to package him as a Bruce Lee, how can he be easily released.

Wang Zijun said: "How about it, do you want to think about it?" If it really doesn't work, then I'll have to find someone else to play it. ”

"Then I'll think about it first." Zou Wenhuai hung up after speaking.

Wang Zijun put down the phone and said to Li Lianjie with a smile: "Boss Zou will agree, he is a smart person." ”

Of course, Zou Wenhuai would agree, at this time, Jiahe did not flourish in parallel space. Although it still maintains the output of nearly 20 films every year, except for last year's big production "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", the box office of Golden Harvest's other films in the past two or three years has not been satisfactory.

Although Li Lianjie has cultivation value, the actual situation is that Li Lianjie seems to be suspected of box office poison in Asia in recent years, and he almost pounces on one film. After Jiahe signed him, he filmed a big production for Li Lianjie, which was really not ideal, so that Jiahe didn't know how to use Li Lianjie.

Now Wang Zijun takes the initiative to take over, and with Zou Wenhuai's surname, he will definitely bargain and use Li Lianjie in exchange for more benefits, instead of pinching it in his hands and becoming moldy.

"Knock knock...... knock on the door.

Wang Zijun said: "Please come in!" ”

It was Li Zhi who pushed the door in, stepped on high heels, smiled at Tsui Hark and Li Lianjie halfway, and then walked straight to Wang Zijun.

Li Lianjie was obviously shocked by Li Zhi's beauty, and looked at it for a few seconds before he suddenly felt that something was wrong and withdrew his gaze.

Wang Zijun took Lizhi's hand and said, "Don't worry, there will be news within a week, I will leave first." ”

Tsui Hark said, "Let's go down together." ”

Li Lianjie followed behind a few people, glancing at Li Zhi's back from time to time, and only after going downstairs did he leave with Tsui Hark.

Li Zhi was already an international superstar, so last year's love movie did not appear at all, but was replaced by Ye Yuqing as the heroine, and this is the first time the two have met.

Wang Zijun thinks that he has done another good deed to avoid the notoriety of a promising young man who abandoned his bad wife, and he is really noble.

(To be continued)