"Why did Mr. Lin suddenly become interested in my novel?" Li Bihuan asked curiously.

"You know that I am a media person, and I have always paid more attention to the news on the mainland. In the past two years, the tomb of Qin Shi Huang has carried out several large-scale archaeological excavations, unearthed a lot of cultural relics, and the international community is also paying more attention to this matter, so I want to make this theme into a movie. ”

Lin Youlun's explanation seemed very casual, and Li Bihuan did not doubt him, she agreed to authorize Lin Youlun to adapt the novel, but she made a request.

"It won't be the actor who wants to find Zhang Yurong to play, right?" Lin Youlun knew that Li Bihuan was a senior "elder brother control", she once said that Zhang Yurong's eyebrows and eyes were picturesque, that he was gentle and lovely, that he was chattering, and that the warmth and affection were unimaginable, these were all from the mouth of Li Bihuan, who was known for his sharp and ruthless writing and was best at quietly depicting the darkness of human nature.

"Make Rong Shao a living figurine, I'm not so cruel." Li Bihuan laughed on the phone.

"Qin Warriors" tells the story of three lives and three lives, of which the story of the first life takes place in the Qin Dynasty more than 200 BC, after Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, he overhauled the mausoleum, and at the same time ordered the monks to refine the elixir of longevity. Fang Shi Xu Fu deceived the trust of the first emperor and recruited many boys and girls to go east to Penglai to find the elixir of immortality. Meng Tianfang, who was given a sword by the official for rescuing Qin Shi Huang, fell in love with Han Dong'er, a girl who was drafted, and secretly tasted the forbidden fruit, and was given death for the crime of bullying the king. Before the execution, Dong'er secretly sent the immortal golden pill refined by Xu Fu into Mengtian's mouth, threw himself into the kiln, and died of martyrdom. Meng Tianfang was sealed as a figurine by mud. Placed in the Imperial Mausoleum.

The movie of the same name adapted from this novel in later generations, "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors", left a very deep impression on Lin Youlun, and one of the places where Meng Tianfang was made into living figurines. So much so that for a long time after watching this movie. Lin Youlun mistakenly thought that the terracotta warriors and horses were made of living people.

Lin Youlun changed the microphone to the other side and asked curiously, "Then what does Miss Li mean?" ”

"Listening to Mr. Lin's tone, it seems that you have already read my novel, I am curious who you are going to find to play the heroine?" The novel "Qin Warriors", although it has a "time-traveling" background such as traveling through time and space and three lives and three lives, is essentially a romance-based novel, and it is reasonable for Li Bihuan to care more about the choice of the heroine.

In the memory of "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors", the heroine is Gong Li. The actor is Zhang Yimou, and the reason why Director Zhang Da, who looked down on commercial movies at that time, took this drama was simply because he wanted to find a space to get along with Gong Li.

But the current situation is that Gong Li and Zhang Yimou have just finished working together on "Red Sorghum", and they are about to start filming Hu Jin's full version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and there is a conflict in the schedule. As for Zhang Yimou, because he has never had that relationship with Gong Li, not to mention that he will not agree to act in this movie, with the commercial value of Hong Kong films, he is not likely to be selected as the leading actor at all.

"Mr. Lin?" Li Bihuan saw that there was no response on the other end of the phone for a long time. I tried to ask.

"I'm sorry, I was distracted just now." Lin Youlun apologized repeatedly. "Regarding the heroine of the film, I haven't thought of a very suitable candidate for the time being."

"I have a good candidate to recommend to Mr. Lin, and I guarantee that you will be satisfied." Li Bihuan said.

"Oh?" Lin Youlun suddenly became interested.

Li Bihuan then said a person's name, and Lin Youlun was stunned: Why is her?

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"Let me play the heroine?" Wang pointed at himself in surprise.

Lin Youlun's eyes slipped over, playing with her perfect forehead and jade-like nose, her bright eyelashes protecting her wide eyes, and her thin lips tightly pursed the corners of her mouth, as if they were not curled, revealing an indescribable look of coldness or arrogance.

"Li Bihuan is a very contradictory and interesting person, the outside world's evaluation of her is a little mean, look at the novels and essays she wrote, so it is not wrong to say her, but if she likes a person very much, it will be like a changed person, and become very humane, of course, there are not many people who can make her make an exception, in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, as far as I know, there are only two people, one is Zhang Yurong, and the other is you."

The male protagonist in Li Bihuan's works has always liked to find Zhang Yurong to play, but the heroine plays the most is Wang Guxian, and the later "Green Snake" and "Pan Jinlian's Past and Present Life" are all named by Li Bihuan to find Wang Guxian to play, so Lin Youlun will say that Li Bihuan likes Wang Guxian very much.

Wang Guxian himself also likes the poignant love story of "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors", but she has just finished acting in "Smiling Proud Jianghu: The East is Undefeated", and she was originally going to Japan and Canada to play well for a while before receiving a new film.

Wang Guxian hesitated, and then asked Lin Youlun: "I play Han Dong'er, so who will play Meng Tianfang?" ”

Lin Youlun is also having a headache about this, Zhang Yimou must have ruled it out, but who to find to play is a big problem.

Wang Guxian sat cross-legged on the sofa, with some pictures of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang brought by Lin Youlun on her knees.

"I heard my grandfather say that my family's ancestral home is in Anhui Province, but I haven't been to the mainland until now, so it's better to play the actor of this movie, so that we can go to the mainland together, and then travel while filming, and visit relatives and friends by the way."

Lin Youlun didn't expect Wang Guxian to make such a request, and he was speechless for a long time.

"What, aren't you happy?" Wang Guxian pouted, "Who used to take that vixen to Thailand for a vacation in the name of filming?" Am I not as important as her in your heart? ”

Lin Youlun and Li Zhi co-starred in "Lin Sheng and Mrs. Lin", and it is of course self-evident who the vixen in Wang Guxian's mouth is.

Lin Youlun just wanted to say that the male protagonist in the play "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors" needs to know a little kung fu, and he may not be able to act well, but when he said it, he felt that it was too far-fetched to refuse for this reason, "Lin Sheng and Mrs. Lin" was also rated as the most exciting action movie that year, and there is really no necessary connection between martial arts masters in the play and kung fu outside the play, not to mention that the director of the film "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors" is Cheng Xiaodong, what he is best at is to make people who have no kung fu foundation into martial arts masters through various treatments.

Lin Youlun thought that he would also go to the mainland during this time, and the only thing that "Ancient and Modern War Qin Warriors" really needed to be filmed in the mainland was the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.

Lin Youlun personally played the leading role, this decision surprised and delighted Cheng Xiaodong, which means that the investment scale and attention of the whole drama will be raised by several grades, after all, the example of "Lin Sheng and Mrs. Lin" is there, Cheng Xiaodong believes that this movie will be a very rare opportunity for him to show his strength.

As for whether Lin Youlun can play this play well, Cheng Xiaodong is not very worried, because in this play, the role of Meng Tianfang does not need too much acting skills, and the martial arts can be solved with a stand-in, what Lin Youlun wants to do is essentially no different from posing and playing cool in "Lin Sheng and Mrs. Lin", anyway, this role does not need any acting skills.

At this time, Cheng Xiaodong had already begun to plan ambitiously to create a "kung fu stunts + visual effects" oriental adventure blockbuster, and as soon as he got the script, he immediately went to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang to conduct a field investigation.

Li Bihuan originally didn't plan to write the script of "Ancient and Modern Wars of the Qin Warriors" by herself, but Lin Youlun persuaded her on the grounds that Li Bihuan was the most familiar with the original story and could earn an extra screenwriter's salary at the same time.

After the script was written, Lin Youlun paid Li Bihuan the remuneration for buying film and television copyrights and writing the script to Li Bihuan's bank account, but when Li Bihuan went to check the account, she found that the amount was wrong, originally it was a good film and television copyright fee of 1.5 million and the screenwriter's remuneration was 200,000, but Lin Youlun called 3.2 million to her account in one breath.

Li Bihuan thought that Lin Youlun had made a mistake, and hurriedly called Lin Youlun to explain the situation.

"No, it's 3.2 million, that's right, the copyright of two movies and a script add up to so much."

Lin Youlun's answer made Li Bihuan more and more confused, what she sold to Lin Youlun was only the film and television adaptation rights of "Qin Warriors", when did it become the two films in Lin Youlun's mouth?

Li Bihuan stuffed private goods into "Huanzhu Gege" last time, and this time it can make her depressed once, and Lin Youlun suddenly found her balance in her heart.

"From the very beginning, I planned to adapt "Qin Warriors" into two films, one is "Ancient and Modern Wars of Qin Warriors", which was written by Miss Li herself, and the other is called "Myth", the story is not the same as "Qin Warriors", but the creativity and inspiration are born from "Qin Warriors".

In "Ancient and Modern Wars of the Qin Warriors", the heroine has gone through reincarnation, while the male protagonist is immortal; "Mythology" is the opposite, the male protagonist experiences the past and present life, and the female protagonist is immortal, both of which are love that will cross the cycle of reincarnation, but the focus is different.

The content of the two films is very similar, but in fact there is still a big difference, "Ancient and Modern Wars of the Qin Warriors" Qin Warriors is mainly from a female perspective, mainly describing the love-hate entanglement between the heroine and two men, which is more suitable for female audiences. And "Myth" is based on the male protagonist and runs through the whole story, with love, family, and friendship, which is convenient for male audiences.

Later generations have always had controversy about which of these two movies is better or worse, so Lin Youlun wanted to shoot these two movies together, and then PK each other once to see who can win.

(New week, begging for recommendation votes!) (To be continued.) )