"Liu Jialing is not one of those Miss Hong Kong wearing halos, and Xu Jinheng's family will never allow a mainland girl with no identity background to enter Xu's house, originally in the realistic version of Cinderella and the prince's love story, the vulnerable Cinderella should be pitied and sympathized with by everyone, but things are different when it comes to Liu Jialing, because she is a foreign girl who is looked down on in her bones, because she is high-profile and wants to marry the son of a family."

Li Zhi held the goblet, and out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at Xu Jinheng and Liu Jialing who were sitting at the table not far away, "She is also a poor woman, and she has not woken up from the dream of marrying into a wealthy family until now...... In fact, none of the male entry is a good thing, the key is to see whether he has a conscience for the female entry. ”

Lin Youlun, who was discussing things with Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang, suddenly took out a tissue to cover his mouth and nose, turned his head and sneezed.

While Lin Youlun turned his head, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang quickly exchanged glances.

Jinxiao asked Lin Youlun out, ostensibly to celebrate the success of "Blade" in advance, but in fact, he wanted to discuss with Lin Youlun the next blockbuster shooting plan of Golden Harvest.

Although Golden Harvest has accumulated some experience in the process of entering the international film market in the past two years, it is easy to make a movie with hundreds of millions of investment, and once it fails, the loss is not something that Golden Harvest can afford.

The safest way is, of course, to cooperate with Lin Youlun, although he has to share part of the benefits, but at least the risk of film investment failure can be minimized, which has basically become the consensus of the entire Hong Kong film industry.

Lin Youlun turned around and said sorry.

He Guanchang asked with concern: "Lin Shengcai returned to Hong Kong, didn't he catch a cold?" ”

"It shouldn't be, I want to sneeze for some reason, I guess there is something behind my back to say bad things about me!" Lin Youlun said and pulled out another tissue, covered his nose and wiped it, not noticing the strange expressions on the faces of He Guanchang and Zou Wenhuai at this moment.

The expression on He Guanchang's face was first stunned, and then he smiled: "Mr. Lin is so humorous. ”

Lin Youlun raised his glass, "Some time ago, the board of directors of Jiayi was successfully reorganized, and I have to thank Jiahe for its strong support, here I will toast the two of you first!" ”

This time it was Zou Wenhuai who answered, "Lin Sheng's words are serious, Lai Sun Group only got a seat on the board of directors in Jiayi after the most, mainly due to Lin Sheng's contributions, and Jiahe is just assisting from the side, everyone has cooperated for so long, if Lin Sheng even has to thank for this, it will be too outward." ”

In this reshuffle of the board of directors of Jiayi, Lin Youlun has an absolute advantage from the company's equity to the board seats, and the second most profitable is Jiahe.

Fortunately, Lai Sun Group was sniped by Lin Youlun once in the competition for Jiayi's equity, and the momentum was frustrated, and in the subsequent acquisition of the new art city, it was "pitted" by Lin Youlun and Lei Juekun again, and the copyright of the two most profitable film series "Best Partner" and "Back to the Future" in the hands of the new art city were bought by Lin Youlun in advance. Lin Baixin, the head of Lai Sun Group, also seems to feel that it is difficult to enter the film industry, so he turned to expand in the direction of television, and it is said that the negotiations between the Lin family and ATV boss Qiu Degen have entered the most difficult stage, and it will not take too long for ATV to change hands.

To say that Golden Harvest is not greedy for the two movie series "Best Partner" and "Back to the Future" in Lin Youlun's hands, it is definitely a deception, but Golden Harvest also knows very well that whether it is "Best Partner" or "Back to the Future", Lin Youlun will not be able to cooperate with them.

The starring roles of these two film series are Mecca, and as the founder of New Arts City, Mecca will never cooperate with Golden Harvest. And most of the starring roles in the "Back to the Future" series of movies are wireless art, so if the sequels of the two movie series are filmed, Lin Youlun will only find Shaw Brothers to cooperate.

After Shaw Brothers got such a big benefit, Jiahe naturally couldn't sit still, so he finished drinking a glass of wine, and after sitting down, He Guanchang immediately proposed to Lin Youlun the idea of cooperation.

Lin Youlun and Golden Harvest are cooperating in two movies, one is "Legend of the Night 2" directed by Wu Yusen, and the other is "Die Hard" starring Cheng Long, but that film is actually a collaboration between Lin Youlun and Cheng Long Weihe. Although Weihe is a subsidiary of Golden Harvest, Golden Harvest did not directly invest in that movie, so to be precise, there is only one film that the two sides are cooperating.

"Legend of the Night" did make a lot of money for Golden Harvest, but at the beginning of the filming of "Legend of the Night 2" this year, Lin Youlun said that the series only planned to shoot two episodes for the time being.

This also means that Golden Harvest's idea of making money by constantly launching sequels to "Tales of the Night" has failed, and although the results of "Blade Warrior" that is being released are not bad, neither the box office nor the influence can completely replace "Tales of the Night", so Golden Harvest wants to get another zombie film from Lin Youlun to supplement the gap after "Legend of the Night" with "Blade".

Having learned the lesson of only making two parts of "Tales of the Night", Golden Harvest hopes that Lin Youlun will provide a movie that can shoot multiple sequels like "Blade" this time.

There are many vampire movies in Lin Youlun's memory, but there are not many that meet the requirements of such multiple sequels.

"Tales of the Night" and "Blade", one with a female character and the other with a male character as the protagonist, basically include all the elements that vampire movies can play, and it is very difficult to innovate.

Since the release of "Mr. Zombie" in 1985 caused a sensation, Hong Kong has set off a wave of competition for zombie films, and nearly 10 follow-up works have been released in less than half a year.

The trend of competing for filming stopped for a while, but then the global sensation of "Tales of the Night" once again stimulated Hong Kong film companies, and for a time zombie films based on Western vampires emerged in an endless stream, but these films were limited by production costs, the special effects production was very poor, and the box office of course would not have too bright performance. However, Hong Jinbao's Baohe launched a "Zombie Family" during this period, which achieved unexpected success in Japan, and briefly set off a "zombie craze".

It's a pity that once the trend passed, zombie films were once again beaten back to their prototypes, and Hong Kong film companies gradually recognized the reality, and the low-cost reproduction of "Legend of the Night" could not satisfy the audience's appetite at all, but traditional zombie films still had a market among the audience on the 1st with their cost advantages and some flexible ideas.

This year, Deng Guangrong's "Shadow Jie" film company launched a zombie film "Fierce Ghost Mission" that is different from the Maoshan Taoist spell cast by Baohe Company, the zombie in the film is no longer the old man wearing the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty, but changed to the Japanese Dazuo who committed suicide in Hong Kong during the Anti-Japanese War, and imitated the image of Western vampires wearing black cloaks and red eyes, and the method of dealing with zombies has also changed from Maoshan Taoism to Western means of subduing vampires such as stakes nailed into the heart and garlic to ward off evil spirits.

The audience feels fresh about this kind of zombie film that combines soil and ocean, and the box office of the film easily exceeded 10 million, and the screenwriter of this movie is Wang Jiawei, who "deserted" in the hands of Lin Youlun, and the director is Liu Zhenwei, who helped Wang Jiawei intercede with Lin Youlun.

During this period, although Hong Kong zombie movies showed a trend of diversification, and some even gave up the traditional Maoshan technique, but on the whole, the reflection was not satisfactory, too many shoddy productions made the audience start to get tired of this kind of theme, plus other types of films are more marketable than this, film studios have moved to make more popular genre films, and the once extremely popular zombie theme rarely dares to be involved.

The recently released "Blade" relies more on dazzling special effects and action to win, and this film adaptation of American comics is not strictly a zombie movie.

In view of the fact that zombie-themed movies are at a low ebb now, and it is impossible to play more new ideas by imitating vampire movies, Lin Youlun thought of a movie.

"In Tales of the Night, I tried to explain the origin of vampire zombies in a scientific way, and when I was writing the script, I wondered, can zombie movies be transformed into science fiction films?"

Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang all showed puzzled expressions on their faces, although "Legend of the Night" did add a lot of science fiction elements, but the whole film still belongs to the genre of magic films according to the 1st, zombie films have become science fiction films, Lin Youlun's idea is really a bit unbelievable in their opinion.

Of course, both of them are very smart and did not express their position, because many impossible ideas can be made possible in the hands of Lin Youlun, and Lin Youlun has successfully proved this many times.

"Suppose there is a virus that can turn into a zombie-like horror creature, and those who are infected with this virus lose their self-consciousness of classifying, leaving only the instinct of the body, living like the walking dead, so I named the infected person of this virus zombie."

Lin Youlun first introduced the concept of this "sci-fi zombie film", and then talked about the plot of the movie.

"The story takes place in an extremely secret underground scientific research center, where a group of mysterious bioengineers gathered, they are studying a special virus, the entire research center is controlled by a central computer, an accident caused the central computer to block the entire research center from the inside, a special task force began a rescue operation, when they arrived at the underground laboratory, they found that the research personnel inside were infected by the virus and turned into living death, Once they bite or scratch themselves, they will become infected, and even immediately become the same as them, and the rescue operation will become a fugitive ......"

(To be continued)