The two looked at Li Xiaole suspiciously at the same time, but found that his eyes were full of a kind of excitement that was ready to go, as if a person who had been hungry and thirsty for three days in the desert suddenly saw an oasis, exuding a dense sense of eagerness......

Now Li Xiaole's primary goal is to take down Ge You, which is also the most difficult step, first of all, he must get the permission of Huayi Company and Feng Xiaogang.

Li Xiaole looked at the crystal red wine in the shaking wine glass, and seemed to see Ge You's iconic smiling face inside......

Chaoyang District Harvest Union Plaza, 9th floor of Huayi Brothers Company.

In the simple office, a Picasso-style impression painting hangs on the wall of the American-style pale yellow background, Wang Zonglei is tapping his fingers on the desktop, thinking about something in a complicated mood, on the desktop is a stack of promotional plans about the movie "Mobile Phone", and the beckoning cat bought white ceramics from Tokyo is waving back and forth, which seems to show the vigorous vitality of the high-spirited Huayi company.

Wang Zonglei has a bookish face, looking far younger than his age, people who don't know him may think that he is a business manager of a small company when they see him for the first time, but in the circle, everyone knows that this retired soldier who started as an advertising media is one of the three major publishers in the circle.

In a sense, it can also be said that China Film Han Sanpin, Huayi, Wang Zongjun, Wang Zonglei, New Picture Zhang Weiping, and the three major film distributors contributed to it.

Many people are talking behind their backs, without Wang Zongjun, Wang Zonglei's brothers, and there would be no Feng Xiaogang, a great director who is now in full swing, Wang Zongjun is mainly responsible for building a good relationship with the top management of the film industry and expanding contacts, while Wang Zonglei is responsible for the company's real business.

As the real helmsman of Huayi, Wang Zonglei didn't expect that Li Xiaole, who he had always wanted to poach before, would take the initiative to call him.

It's just that Li Xiaole didn't come to join Huayi Company, but came to borrow actors, which made Wang Zonglei very surprised, he was surprised that Li Xiaole came to borrow not other actors, but Feng Xiaogang's royal actor Ge You, you must know that although Ge You does not belong to Huayi Company, but has signed a film contract with Huayi Company, other companies cannot sign a film contract with him during the filming without Huayi's consent.

When Wang Zonglei heard Li Xiaole say this on the phone, the biggest doubt at that time was:

"Is Director Li speaking on behalf of China Film Group, or on behalf of himself?" If it is China Film Group, can he Li Xiaole represent? If it is a "person", this makes Wang Zonglei even more puzzled, he Weishenme will think that he will lend Ge You?

When Dangdang, there was a knock on the door outside, and Wang Zhonglei knew that it was Li Xiaole mentioned by the secretary on the phone just now, so he turned around and said, "Come in." ”

"Mr. Wang, hello." As soon as Li Xiaole entered the door, he shook hands with Wang Zonglei: "I took the liberty to come and disturb me." ”

"Director Li, you are too polite, I am looking forward to the stars and the moon and looking forward to you, hurry up~ Come and sit down~" Wang Zonglei asked him to sit down with a smile on his face, and looked at Li Xiaole by the way, he was younger than he imagined, and he felt very introverted, and he couldn't feel the flamboyance of young people at all.

"Director Li, I think it's still early, why don't we go to the bar and talk, the atmosphere here is too serious, let's talk while drinking." Wang Zonglei looked at his watch and proposed, he hasn't dealt with the people of China Film once or twice, Yan Fusheng and those people have become accustomed to going to any entertainment venue to consume as soon as they open their mouths, no way, who called them a big company with the right to distribute films.

"No, let's talk here." Li Xiaole said with a smile.

As he was talking, the secretary outside had already brought tea, Li Xiaole took the tea and noticed that Wang Zonglei had a stack of documents on "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Hero" on his desk, and he snickered in his heart.

After just a few words of greeting, Li Xiaole smiled and went straight to the point:

"Mr. Wang, you and I have work to do, time is tight, I'll get straight to the point, I want to find Ge You to make a movie, I need your company's consent, I hope you can help, arrange for me......"

"This ......" Wang Zonglei, who had already learned of his intentions, smiled dryly, and said a little embarrassedly: "Director Li, it's not me who embarrass you, let's tell you the truth, our company is going to release a movie "Mobile Phone" at the end of the year, Ge You is afraid that he will have to cooperate with the publicity, and the time may not be empty." ”

If you talk plainly, you want to borrow our company's ace actor, is this the wrong thing for us Huayi, although you are the production director of China Film, you can't deceive people too much.

"Well, you can read my script Jihua first, and then we'll talk." Li Xiaole took out the USB flash drive, walked to the computer in front of the table and asked, "Can I use it?" After getting Wang Zonglei's affirmative answer, he connected to the computer, turned on the projection equipment in front of him, and let the documents be projected on the wall.

"This is a film below us and a comedy, we have signed a contract with Zhang Guorong, and other actors are also negotiating......" Li Xiaole called up the projection of his script, which has Zhang Guorong's contract, as well as China Film approval documents, script outline, etc.

Wang Zonglei frowned after watching it roughly, this movie called "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is obviously Feng Xiaogang's best light comedy style, this time Huayi's "Mobile Phone" is a black comedy and it is not too pleasing to the audience, if this "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" is released at the end of the year, it will definitely divert a lot of box office of "Mobile Phone".

You must know that Li Xiaole's "Crazy Stone" has earned a box office of 40 million, as long as his new film can maintain the standard, coupled with Zhang Guorong's market appeal, it is not impossible to defeat "Mobile Phone", which did not have an advantage in the original theme, and Feng Xiaogang, the big director of his company, lost to the small director of China Film, I am afraid that this blow is both market and morale.

Just thinking about it, I saw that the next picture in the file is China Film's schedule in the second half of the year, "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Matrix 3" in November, two annual Hollywood blockbusters competing for the market, and at the end of December, the schedule was vacated for "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb" to be on the file, just against "Mobile Phone".

At this time, Wang Zonglei's face changed and he looked at Li Xiaole, thinking, what does this mean? Is it a clear threat to yourself? Although he was a little worried in his heart, he was more angry, if it was really according to the information shown by Li Xiaole, it would indeed be unwise to have a head-on conflict with him, but this breath made Huayi unable to swallow.

"Mr. Wang, don't get me wrong, this is not my Jihua, I have to go to South Korea to shoot the location of this film, and it is likely that I will not be able to catch up with Jihua." Li Xiaole smiled mildly and continued to press the computer's mouse:

"Actually, I'm not borrowing from you for nothing, we still have a lot of archived scripts in our second studio, and I have written a few script outlines for a few novels myself, I can transfer them to your company, even if it's a resource exchange......"

Before Wang Zonglei could react to anything, he saw that the projection patterns on the wall were constantly changing, and several script outlines appeared, namely "1942", "Night Banquet", and "Assembly Number".

Wang Zonglei looked at these dense scripts, and his first reaction was to scold: "This little director is too arrogant, right, but he thinks he is the best director in China after making a movie?" I even wrote a few scripts and wanted to use them for our company...... I still write so much in one breath, thinking that our Huayi is a garbage recycling factory. ”

But even if you want to refuse, you have to say something, Wang Zonglei could only reluctantly take the mouse, and looked at what these scripts were talking about one by one, but after just a few glances, he felt very surprised, turned his head and glanced at Li Xiaole, and asked with a strange expression:

"Director Li, is this really all your handiwork?"

"Yes, at the time of separation, it was adapted from the three novels "Remembrance of 1942", "Hamlet" and "Lawsuit", in fact, I only wrote a little, and the details are far from perfect, so I can be regarded as providing an idea for your company......" Li Xiaole said honestly, these three movies were originally Feng Xiaogang's works, and they all had original novels, and he didn't spend much effort to roughly write a few outlines according to the movie plot in his impression.

But Li Xiaole's modest words made Wang Zonglei stunned when he heard it, and he felt extremely shocked! You must know that adapting a novel into a screenplay does not sound difficult to a layman, but if you really make a movie, you understand how difficult it is.

Turning the simple text of the novel into a script involves the scenes, character settings, the beginning and end of the story, and the trade-offs between the length of each plot.

More importantly, the behavior logic of all kinds of characters in it, in order to be reasonable and allow the plot to develop smoothly, it is necessary to understand people with different social status and different environments, and people are always the most difficult to control in the world, so every screenwriter must have a deep understanding of human nature, which is not only a matter of experience and skills, but also a matter of the screenwriter's own experience.

When creating from scratch, the screenwriter can make his own adjustments, but adapting the original novel story into a movie script requires decades of skill, you must know that the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay is a heavier award than the Original Screenplay Award.

For example, the world's most appealing series of movies such as "Harry Potter", "The Lord of the Rings" and "007" and "X-Men" are all adapted from comics and novels.

This Li Xiaole is so young, and he has adapted three scripts with such high quality by himself, which is amazing......

And as a producer who has been in the film industry for many years, although Wang Zonglei has only simply gone through these three scripts, although they can only be regarded as outlines, but you can clearly see the plot and the context of each character, the skeleton of the script has been formed, and it is a first-class movie story as long as you spend time enriching the details.