"What does Mr. Lin mean to make "Demon Beast City" a big production?" Xu Ke asked with some urgency.

Lin Youlun added another point to Xu Ke's statement: "It's not just a big production, if the box office results are satisfactory, you can consider making it into a series, just like "Black Super SWAT Team". ”

After the great success of the first episode, the sequel did not start filming immediately, and the outside world has been speculating about the filming time of the sequel, and basically every once in a while there will be news that the sequel of the film is about to start filming, but it has been confirmed to be fake news.

Despite this, everyone still firmly believes that "Black Super SWAT Team" will definitely launch a sequel, and Lin Youlun's words just now also confirmed this.

Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng quickly exchanged glances, and each saw joy in each other's eyes. Originally, I just wanted to use this movie to repair the relationship with Lin Youlun, but I didn't expect to get a bigger surprise.

"Mr. Lin thinks how much investment is appropriate for this movie?"

When she was still in Xinyi City, Shi Nansheng was the company's housekeeper, and after the establishment of the film studio, she has always been responsible for the finances, and this question is most appropriate for her to ask.

"The initial budget can be positioned at 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and if it is not enough, it can be added."

Lin Youlun said it very lightly, but Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng couldn't be calm. It's not that Xu Ke, who has invested hundreds of millions of dollars, has never made a movie, but he really didn't expect that the investment in "Monster City" could be so high.

"Monster City" originally only made a shooting budget of 20 million, but now Lin Youlun is 5 times as much as he opened his mouth, and the gap is huge. For a while, even Xu Ke was in a trance.

At the beginning, Xu Ke wanted to make "Zhu Xian" into a big-budget movie. Lin Youlun refused to invest. The last movie started filming with the support of Lin Jianyue, and although it won a lot of word-of-mouth, it lost a lot at the box office.

And "Demon Beast City", a movie that Xu Ke did not pay special attention to, easily won the support of Lin Youlun, which can be said to be heart-planted flowers and flowers, and unintentionally planted willows and willows, which is probably like this.

When Xu Ke was still sighing, Shi Nansheng had already bargained with Lin Youlun. First of all, there is the question of directors and producers.

Filming the movie "Demon Beast City", Xu Ke's initial idea was to serve as a producer, and then find an obedient person to be the director, he hung the name of the producer and did the director's work.

The producer responsibility system that the film studio has always pursued is based on the fact that Xu Ke, the producer, can suppress the directors below, and if you encounter a slightly "rebellious" director, there will definitely be problems during the filming process.

Predecessors such as Hu Jinquan and good friends such as Wu Yusen are all because they can't stand Xu Ke's strong production style. Later, he parted ways with him.

Now that the film is invested by Lin Youlun, Xu Ke can't do this anymore.

Lin Youlun will definitely serve as the producer of this film. No matter how strong Xu Ke is, it is impossible to interfere with the director's work as a producer in front of Lin Youlun, and he doesn't want to give up control of this movie, so he can only go into battle in person.

As a director, he is not stable, and Xu Ke is still worried about the final editing rights of the film.

In other words, Xu Ke can also use his better understanding of movies to persuade the other party, but in front of Lin Youlun, it is estimated that no one in Hong Kong dares to say such a thing, so Lin Youlun wants to make this request, and Xu Ke really can't refuse.

When Xu Ke was a producer before, he always held the final editing power of the film in his own hands, but now that the role has been transposed, he has become a director, and there is an equally strong Lin Youlun as a producer on his head.

"Unless there are special circumstances, I will not interfere with the director's work at will." Although it is not a 100% commitment, Lin Youlun can do this little by little, and Xu Ke is already very satisfied.

"And who is the character for this movie?" Shi Nansheng raised another important issue.

"The role candidate is determined by me, of course, if I determine the candidate, Director Xu has objections, we can discuss it again." Lin Youlun said that it could be discussed again, but the subtext in the words was very clear - this matter was not discussed.

Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng glanced at each other helplessly, Lin Youlun gave in to the final editing right of the film, and they didn't have much hope for the decision on the role candidate, and the situation was just as they expected.

The four important roles in "Demon Beast City", except for the heroine who has been determined to be Li Jiaxin, the other three roles are still vacant, and in this meeting, Lin Youlun did not reveal too clear intentions for the role.

Originally, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng were still a little disappointed about losing the right to decide on role candidates, but what happened in the next few days made them secretly glad that as soon as the news of three role vacancies in "Demon Beast City" came out, a series of phone calls came in, and they were all acquaintances who recommended actors to them, in other words, in the past, the decision on role candidates was in their hands, and this thing was really difficult to do, but now the decision on role candidates is in the hands of Lin Youlun, Xu Ke and Shi Nansheng explained the situation, and those people died down.

Their face is good for Xu Ke and his wife, but when they get to Lin Youlun, it doesn't play a big role.

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After reading the newspaper that had just been delivered in the morning, Lin Youlun couldn't help but shake his head.

The casting turmoil of "Monster City" continues to ferment in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and even Lin Youlun didn't expect that the matter would become so popular after the worst incident, and many media are tracking and reporting on the matter.

"Demon Beast City", which has invested hundreds of millions of yuan, has been hyped by the Hong Kong media as the opening drama of 91, and the lineup of "Lin Youlun Producer + Director Xu Ke" is even more eye-catching.

Originally, it was planned to determine the role candidates for the film after the Spring Festival, but now in this situation, it is really necessary to advance the plan.

picked up the coffee cup that was put aside, and found that it was already cold, Lin Youlun was about to ask the nanny Wu Ma to change a cup for him, and there was a sound of footsteps at the door of the study.

Mother Wu walked to the door of the study and knocked lightly.

"Mr. Lin, there are guests at home, and Mrs. Chen will let you go down."

Lin Youlun was stunned when he heard this, and the coffee cup in his hand stopped in mid-air.

"Who's coming?"

"It's Mr. Wang Jing's family, who said they came to pay New Year's greetings in advance." Mother Wu replied.

Lin Youlun put down the coffee cup, and his heart was full of doubts.

Now that there is more than a week left in the Spring Festival, you should choose a closer time to pay New Year's greetings, Wang Jing's excuse is really bad.

"Auntie, this is my special renewal. The high-grade Hetian jade that Jiang bought, and found a special carving master to make this Guanyin, which has the great virtue of Miaofa Temple, and can ward off evil spirits and exorcise demons at home and protect the safety of the house......" In the living room, Wang Jing was working hard to introduce the gifts he brought to Chen Huiqing, and his wife and daughter were sitting aside.

Wang Jing took the crew of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in the new. Xinjiang desert has eaten more than half a year of wind and sand, and this time I came back to bring a lot of local specialties, among which the two most valuable jade carvings, one was given to my father Wang Tianlin, and the other is now in his hands.

"It's really not a good time for you to give this gift, my mother just decided to become religious some time ago."

Lin Youlun was still on the stairs, when he heard Wang Jing's exaggerated voice, he couldn't help but sarcastically say something sarcastic.

Wang Jing was stunned when he heard this, and he was also embarrassed by his thick skin, so he immediately changed his words and said, "Auntie, is this true?" You see I'm confused, I've been filming in the mainland during this time, and I haven't heard about it. ”

"Okay, Ajing, don't be in a hurry to explain, Aaron, he's joking with you." Chen Huiqing took the jade Guanyin in Wang Jing's hand, "Aunt accepted this gift, I didn't prepare anything, so I'll give each of you a red envelope!" ”

Wang Jing's family came to pay New Year's greetings too early, and Chen Huiqing hadn't had time to prepare the gifts or anything, but the red envelope had already been sealed.

Chen Huiqing took out three big red envelopes, Wang Jing and his wife and daughter both shared, Wang Jing's daughter took the red envelope and said sweetly "Xie Lu Xie Grandma", Chen Huiqing happily held her in her arms and kissed her pink face.

"I don't know when I can hold my granddaughter!" Chen Huiqing suddenly sighed faintly.

Wang Jing and his wife didn't speak, because Chen Huiqing's words were obviously said to Lin Youlun, who had just come downstairs.

Lin Youlun coughed awkwardly and gave Wang Jing a look.

"Come to my study, I have something to discuss with you."

Wang Jing didn't get up immediately, but looked at Chen Huiqing, as if asking for her opinion.

"Go ahead, I should go to the kitchen and cook too." Chen Huiqing put down Wang Jing's daughter and stood up.

Wang Jing's wife also stood up together, saying that she was going to the kitchen to help Chen Huiqing, and her daughter was left to Wu's mother to take care of.

Wang Jing got up and followed Lin Youlun upstairs to the study.

Lin Youlun pulled out a chair and sat down at the desk, without his greeting, Wang Jing found a sofa and sat down.

"Tell me, what's the matter with me?"

"New Year's greetings, I heard that you are going to the mainland for the Spring Festival this year, and my aunt is also going with you, so I hurried over this time, what if I can't find anyone if I come late?" Wang Jing said eloquently.

"Really?" Lin Youlun looked at Wang Jing without blinking, and the expression on his face was clearly disbelief.

Wang Jing was a little uncomfortable under Lin Youlun's gaze, twisted some fat buttocks, and changed to a more comfortable sitting position.

"New Year's greetings are the main thing, but of course there is another small thing."

Lin Youlun's eyes rolled angrily, and he knew that Wang Jing had other purposes for coming this time.

"I heard that you and Xu Ke are going to make a big production, how about recommending a leading actor to you?" Wang Jing said enthusiastically.

"If you have this leisure, you might as well keep an eye on the post-production of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", I have already arranged the role selection for that movie, and you don't need to talk about this anymore." Lin Youlun opened his mouth and blocked everything Wang Jing wanted to say. (To be continued......)