On the issue of the special effects of the movie, Xu Ke and Lin Youlun had some disagreements.

Lin Youlun hopes to control the cost of special effects production within 60 million Hong Kong dollars, while Xu Ke believes that this film should spend at least 100 million Hong Kong dollars to produce special effects in order to achieve the ideal effect in his mind.

Xu Ke obviously didn't learn enough lessons from the failure of "New Shushan Swordsman" 5 years ago, and the success of new martial arts movies in recent years made him complacent, so he was ambitious and wanted to create an oriental special effects blockbuster with an investment of hundreds of millions.

Lin Youlun knew that in this case, he had to directly persuade Xu Ke to give up this idea, because Xu Ke's character might not be able to accept it, and it would be counterproductive if he didn't get it right.

"I think once the cost of this film exceeds 100 million, it will be difficult to recover the cost......"

Xu Ke was about to refute, but Lin Youlun stopped him, "You listen to me first, now I have two plans for you to choose, one is that this movie will be invested by me, but counting the actor's salary, the shooting budget cannot exceed 80 million; If you can't accept it, you can choose the second option, I will license the film adaptation of the novel to you, and then you will contact the investment yourself. ”

After Xu Ke weighed it, he finally chose the second option, he felt that with the influence of the novel "Zhu Xian", coupled with the film studio's production strength in the industry, many people should be willing to invest in this movie.

After Xu Ke left, Lin Youlun thought about it, and then picked up the phone and dialed a number.

Liu Zhenwei was confused when he received Lin Youlun's call, and after helping Zhou Xingchi finish filming "Realization Monster", many film companies asked Liu Zhenwei to make films. Liu Zhenwei didn't agree. The reason is that he feels too tired from work during this time. I want to take a break for a while.

Of course, everyone else can refuse, but Lin Youlun recruited him, Liu Zhenwei couldn't refuse, last time because of Wang Jiawei's matter, he owed Lin Youlun a great favor, so he had to come over hard.

After arriving, the bodyguards on the side of the mansion led Liu Zhenwei to the private beach, and Liu Zhenwei didn't see that it was a formal occasion. My heart was relaxed, thinking that Lin Youlun came over to me, and it should just be a casual chat, and there would not be anything too important.

Under the sun umbrella on the beach, Liu Zhenwei met Lin Youlun, who had just returned from swimming in the sea.

Lin Youlun took the towel handed by the bodyguard, wiped his body, and pointed to the chair under the umbrella, signaling Liu Zhenwei to sit first, he wanted to go back to the villa to take a shower first, and then come back to talk to Liu Zhenwei about things.

Liu Zhenwei walked around along the beach. When he saw Lin Youlun change his clothes and come out of the villa, he returned to the round table under the umbrella and sat down.

After Lin Youlun sat down. didn't go around the bend with Liu Zhenwei, and went straight to the point and said: "I have a movie in my hand, the actors and everything have been decided, but the script has not yet been settled, I want you to help me do this." ”

Liu Zhenwei couldn't understand in his heart, Lin Youlun himself is a master screenwriter, and he is also the president of the Hong Kong Screenwriters Association, what kind of screenwriter can't be found, why do you want to find yourself?

Of course, Liu Zhenwei did not show this kind of doubt on his face, and hurriedly promised: "Thanks to Mr. Lin, I will do my best." ”

"Don't be too busy agreeing yet, it's a little difficult to do this, otherwise I won't come to you."

Although Lin Youlun's words were a reminder, but in Liu Zhenwei's ears, it was more like a kind of recognition, and he was only looking for him for things that others couldn't do, which showed that he had enough weight in Lin Youlun's mind.

"Mr. Lin just orders."

"You know, I recently wrote a new novel...... Lin Youlun led the topic to "Zhu Xian", and Liu Zhenwei vaguely guessed that the movie script might be related to this novel.

Sure enough, Lin Youlun then said: "Xu Ke just came to me, he was going to adapt the novel to make a movie, I agreed, and even the list of actors was almost set, but I didn't reach a consensus with him on film investment, and the result of the final discussion was that I provided the film adaptation copyright, and he found a way to solve the film investment by himself." ”

"Mr. Lin doesn't want me to help Xu Ke write the script, right?" Liu Zhenwei asked tentatively.

Xu Ke is difficult to cooperate, this is well-known in the circle, Liu Zhenwei is worried that his style is incompatible with Xu Ke, and his face can't help but show a touch of embarrassment.

"Regarding that movie, I and Xu Ke's ideas are a little out of tune, but the roles in the film are almost all decided by me, if Xu Ke's movie fails to achieve the expected results, I hope to make some compensation to the actors who participated in this movie in other aspects, I want to ask you to write another script based on the story of "Zhu Xian", preferably the kind of spoof comedy, and then use the original cast in Xu Ke's movie to shoot."

Although Lin Youlun didn't say it explicitly, Liu Zhenwei still heard something.

Lin Youlun was not very optimistic about Xu Ke making this movie, so he asked him to start filming the drama version of "Zhu Xian", and of course, he also had the intention of pushing him out of the game to fight Xu Ke.

Liu Zhenwei is not afraid of Xu Ke, but Xu Ke is making a special effects blockbuster with an investment of more than 100 million, but he was asked to make a comedy, and the subject matter is a head shorter.

Don't watch comedy movies have always occupied the mainstream in Hong Kong, but since the rise of big-budget special effects movies, the top box office every year is basically those big-budget movies, which has both ticket prices and market factors.

Big-budget movies are generally aimed at overseas markets, and the Hong Kong film craze set off in North America in recent years is also dominated by this kind of film, that is, Liu Zhenwei has just finished filming and has been released in North America with a very dazzling performance of "Strange Heroes in Disguise", in fact, it has also taken the road of special effects movies.

To compete with simple comedy films and special effects blockbusters, Liu Zhenwei really has no bottom in his heart.

It was Lin Youlun's next words that dispelled Liu Zhenwei's concerns.

"Because it's a comedy, you can write whatever you want in the script adaptation, as long as you don't play off-line, and you can add some necessary stunts, but I hope that like "Strange Guy in Disguise", special effects serve the comedy theme of the whole movie, rather than special effects for the sake of special effects. I won't put any pressure on you at the box office, and I won't compare it with Xu Ke's movie, as long as it doesn't lose money, it's a success, and it's certainly better to be a big hit. ”

Lin Youlun believes so much that Liu Zhenwei can make a comedy movie according to his expectations, in fact, it is because of Wang Jiawei.

Wang Jiawei's debut film "Carmen Mong Kok" received a good box office response after its release, and the film critics unanimously agreed that this film would be a big hit at next year's Academy Awards.

Others don't know, but Lin Youlun knows that "The True Story of A Fei" is a super big pit, and it doesn't matter if it is dug or buried. Who would have thought that Wang Dacaizi, who made up "Jianghu Dragon and Tiger Fight" and directed "Carmen Mong Kok", could shoot a story of a footless bird from a story of police and bandits falling in love.

According to Wang Jiawei's idea, this movie is going to be made into two parts, telling the story of two generations of Hong Kong people, but Lin Youlun knew that this movie ended without a problem after only the first film, because a movie collapsed the entire company, and even the boss Deng Guangrong was so angry that he was admitted to the hospital.

Wang Jiawei's film is easy to be appreciated by professionals, but it is a dull word in the eyes of the general audience, which is the case with "The True Story of A Fei" that is being filmed now, and "East Evil and West Poison", which will be filmed in a few years.

At that time, Wang Jiawei, a big "pit goods", could also pull huge investments from film investors, firstly, it was related to the general environment at that time, the new martial arts movie trend brought by Xu Ke was hot, and for a time countless works followed the trend, the audience wanted martial arts films, and film companies wanted martial arts films, it seems that the whole world is making martial arts films, as long as there are martial arts, Jin Yong, Lin Qingxia, there are people who are willing to pay you to make movies; Second, because the investment is actually the money for making two movies, the filmmakers who invested never expected Wang Jiawei's movies to make money, what they really value is Liu Zhenwei, who works with Wang Jiawei.

And Liu Zhenwei did not live up to their expectations, originally said that the two good movies were Wang Jiawei's "East Evil and West Poison" to start filming first, and the plan was completed within half a year, but Wang Jiawei "dragged on" filming for more than a year, the movie has not been completed, the investor has quit, and released the news that if you can't see the movie again, you will find the black. Dao cut Wang Jiawei.

Wang Jiawei was anxious this time, and found Liu Zhenwei to ask him for help.

There is only one month left for Liu Zhenwei, and there is no script - Liu Zhenwei is not Wang Jiawei, he never prepares a script, and when he thinks of where to shoot, he is used to making a storyboard script, and then shooting it in one go.

This seemingly impossible task, but in the end, it was really done by Liu Zhenwei, he only took 27 days to shoot the spoof comedy movie "East Becomes West", and five days of this he deserted and helped others write another script, which is the classic martial arts movie "Fang Shiyu" starring Li Lianjie and Xiao Fangfang.

Liu Zhenwei, who was born as a financial director, is definitely the most efficient screenwriter and director talent in Hong Kong in this era, so Lin Youlun dared to leave this matter to him with confidence.

Of course, this is a very painful task for Liu Zhenwei, Lin Youlun said that he would use the same cast as Xu Ke's movie, so he could only wait for Xu Ke to finalize the script before he could start to conceive.

"It is estimated that the official start of filming of this film will have to wait until next year, of course, you should start making some preparations now, so as not to be in a hurry, and when Xu Ke sends the script over, I will notify you as soon as possible."

(I said that I want three more, but there is a little delay today, and tomorrow 9000 words will be updated, please forgive me!) (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )