After the release plan of "The Legend of the Great Sage" was announced, Black Pearl Company received a cover letter from the brokerage company from all over the world, and in the eyes of the outside world, this time Li Xiaole will choose the international route and will choose some people with better English, so the actor agencies in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan have expressed their enthusiasm for this "The Legend of the Great Sage" beyond imagination.

Lei Ting, who has been busy with this project for a whole year, also felt in a good mood for this, and asked Li Xiaole with satisfaction: "You shouldn't have to worry about the actors this time, I think you can invite more Hollywood stars, at least the lineup is not worse than "The Avengers". ”

But Li Xiaole's answer was beyond her expectations, he said with a smile: "Sister Tingting, this is a Chinese movie, we don't need foreign movie stars to play an important role at all, of course, for the sake of the market, I will add some international movie stars to play some small supporting roles." "It's like Hollywood movies always have to add an Asian face to cater to the market, and he's going to do the other way around.

Lei Ting was not surprised by Li Xiaole's decision, because this is Li Xiaole's style, but she was still a little worried, after all, such a movie made with the strength of the entire Black Pearl Company, if the box office in the overseas market is not good, it will hurt the company's vitality, and those actors should be invited to participate?

Lei Ting's worries didn't last long, Li Xiaole spent a few nights drawing up a list of actors, handed it to Lei Ting early in the morning, and instructed him: "You go and make invitations for all the people above, and contact their companies directly." ”

Invitations? Lei Ting was stunned when she heard this, there are generally two ways to choose actors, one is casting, directly announcing the news that the crew is going to start filming in various channels, and letting each agency bring their own artists to audition, and then the crew will select the most suitable role, the second is to set the role, the crew is facing the actors who the role is favored, and directly apply to the other party, but this way of fixing the role is generally for the leading actors.

As soon as Lei Ting opened the list that Li Xiaole gave him, she couldn't help frowning when she had always been silent, dozens of characters, most of them were supporting roles, and almost all of the people who could be selected were actors who could take the lead in the mainland, so she couldn't help but ask with some suspicion:

"Are you too abrupt this time, these are characters with few shots, and the salary is not high, will they be willing to come?"

Li Xiaole gently stroked the bangs on his forehead and smiled: "It's because all of them are supporting roles that they come, which doesn't take them much time, and many scenes can be filmed in just one or two weeks." Seeing Lei Ting's frowning appearance, Li Xiaole smiled:

"I'm not looking for them for any fame, but I really need the best actors in China, without them, "The Legend of the Great Sage" will not achieve the effect I want, rest assured, with the current plan of the 3D screen promoted by China Film, these companies should know what the movie "The Legend of the Great Sage" means, no matter how busy their units and brokerage companies are, they will arrange the schedule."

Lei Ting listened and completely guessed what Li Xiaole was going to do, it seems that he is making things as loud as possible, he is trying to create a voice, so that everyone can clearly understand that the national 3D screen reform that China Film Group wants to promote is for the release of "The Legend of the Great Sage", and he Li Xiaole is about to use this Chinese film to appear on the world stage.

At the same time, let the entire domestic film and television industry realize that "The Legend of the Great Sage" will be a work that will change the international status of Chinese films, and to be able to appear in this movie, even if it is a small supporting role, is an opportunity for Chinese actors to appear on the international stage.

This afternoon, at the same time, China Film, New Picture, Huayi, Central Academy of Drama, Xinbao Film and Television, China Television Company, Pony Galloping Film and Television and other more than a dozen of the top domestic film and television institutions have accepted such an invitation letter, which is printed with the logo of the pirate ship of the Black Pearl Company, and the text in it is very simple, a character name, the time required and the salary, and the payment is signed by Li Xiaole himself.

For the brokerage company, this simple short paragraph of text is already very amazing, but for these top mainland actors themselves, this is definitely not enough, so Li Xiaole also wrote a personal letter to all the actors who participated in this "The Legend of the Great Sage".

On Wednesday afternoon, the sky was clear, and the Working People's Cultural Palace "Taimiao Studio".

Jiang Wen was sitting on the bench reading a copy of the third version of the script of "One Step Away", when he heard the wooden door of the courtyard being pushed open by someone "squeak", and saw Wei Xiao wearing glasses rushing in, panting and shouting: "Teacher Jiang~~Teacher Jiang~~~Letter~~Your letter~~ Someone is looking for you to film." ”

"What do you believe or not?" Jiang Wen frowned and snorted, and scolded in a very penetrating voice: "You little rabbit cub, didn't I tell you, I'm still writing this book, and I won't take anyone's play." ”

"You can wait and see......" Wei Xiao was out of breath and handed over the crumpled letter in his hand.

Jiang Wen tore open the envelope and saw the title of "Jiang Wenwu's brother" at the beginning of the front, so he grinned: "Hehe, this Director Li finally came to me, what is his "Journey to the West"...... Is it about to start filming? ”

"It's the ...... of "The Legend of the Great Sage"" Wei Xiao corrected breathlessly, while looking timidly at Jiang Wen, who was looking down at the letter, and said: "Don't be angry, this time I didn't let you play Sun Wukong...... It's for you to play the Bull Demon King...... If you think this role is too light, I'll help you turn it down......"

"Light~? What is light? Jiang Wen looked up and glared at Wei Xiao halfway through: "What's not light about the role, the Bull Demon King is good~ suitable for me...... Don't you think I'm not good enough? ”

"Cow ...... Mr. Jiang, of course you are a cow~! Wei Xiao hurriedly smiled and stretched out his thumb.

Jiang Wen looked at the reflection of the window glass next to him, made a few expressions, and shook his head again and again: "Why do I think I'm not good enough...... How should this cow be played? After thinking for a while, he pointed to Wei Xiao and said, "Wei Xiao, you will go and buy me a cow in the afternoon, and bring it here to raise it for a few days......"

"Buying a cow ......? Good...... It's ......" Wei Xiao was stunned for a moment, then nodded and turned around to leave to buy cattle.

"Come back~!" Jiang Wen yelled, Wei Xiao immediately stood up and touched his head and asked, "Teacher Jiang, what else do you have to order?" ”

"You go to buy cows, what cattle do you buy? Cows, cattle, cows. Or a buffalo? Male, female? Jiang Wen frowned and snorted.

"What kind of cow is the Bull Demon King?" Wei Xiao was suddenly asked stupidly.

"You're still a college student, haven't you read the four famous books? In the original text of "Journey to the West", the real body of the Bull Demon King is a big white cow! Only buffalo have white ones! Buy me a male buffalo. Jiang Wen slapped Wei Xiao on the back of the head and shouted, "No...... Buy two, I want to see what kind of action they make when they fight. ”

Within a few days, the list of actors of "The Legend of the Great Sage" was passed among major domestic film and television companies, quietly causing a big discussion in the entire Chinese film and television circle.

"Lao Li, do you know that "The Legend of the Great Sage" is about to start, I heard that our company's big brother Chen Long is going to play a supporting role......"

"It's the same on our side, this Black Pearl Company has a really big appetite this time, and Chen Baoguo from our Beicheng Normal School is going to be honest...... The company squeezed out time for him alone. ”

"Really, fake? It seems that those bigwigs have already discussed it this time? ”

"Who says it's not, it is said that China Film is promoting this national 3D screen, that is, to promote this "Legend of the Great Sage", this drama is probably really unbelievable."

In the office of China Film Group, Han Sanpin, who was wearing reading glasses, was full of tiredness, leaning on the bench and looking at the reports, and Han Xiaoli next to him was also constantly holding a calculator to check the numbers brought by the theaters in various places, and finally got the final result, and he was stunned for a long time: "1,298.76 million...... There are no inflated figures. ”

Han Sanpin looked up at Han Xiaoli's face at this time, was stunned for a long time without speaking, turned his head to look at the ceiling, and took a deep breath: "I didn't expect that the box office of a movie can reach this point, and our domestic films are even today, if Xie Lao can see it in the spirit of heaven, he can also look at it......"

"Mr. Han, Black Pearl Company has given us a lot of 3D screen technical materials, we can make a similar 'Chinese giant screen' to imax, Huayi, New Picture, Poly Bona also expressed to us their desire to promote the national 3D screen...... "Han Xiaoli said excitedly.

"Heh, this thing is getting more and more lively." Han Sanpin couldn't help laughing and sighed: "But this time these people can work together, it's really a little surprising to me, haven't Zhang Weiping and Wang Zongjun always had some contradictions?" Remember last month when they had a war of words? ”

"Mr. Han, you haven't understood it yet?" Han Xiaoli smiled, put the materials on the table, and pointed with his fingers: "This matter, it's not Li Xiaole who went to be a lobbyist in person, he seems to have called the top leaders of all the film companies, saying that as long as they can support the national 3D screen plan this time, then, he will use the actors of these film companies to play an important role in "The Legend of the Great Sage", saying that this time he wants to push Chinese films and Chinese actors overseas, no, he will go to our Jiang Wen~~"

"He asked for Jiang Wen? Show me the list of actors~" Han Sanpin was stunned when he heard this, he was busy checking the box office of "Slam Dunk" and the 3D screen pushing the light recently, and he didn't ask about anything else, but he didn't expect Li Xiaole to make such a big deal again......