Although Black Pearl officially announced that the magical epic movie "The Legend of the Great Sage" has entered the agenda, which has made fans around the world uproar, "The Legend of the Great Sage" is not Li Xiaole's most important job now.

After resting for two days and enjoying a short two-person world with Ha Ji Won, Li Xiaole joined the crew of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and began to serve as the chief director of this large-scale stage crew.

On the other hand, although he agreed to cooperate with Black Pearl to develop this project, as the chairman of China Film, Han Sanpin did not take any practical action, and he was not optimistic about the theme of "The Legend of the Great Sage" at all, especially when Li Xiaole ambitiously said that he wanted to shoot 3D, he felt that this plan was too dangerous.

"Oh my God...... Director Xiao Li is really a little big this time, he wants to use an investment of nearly 2 billion yuan to make a domestic movie? Just after the meeting, Han Xiaoli, who returned to the office, couldn't help but smack his tongue when he heard the news.

"Maybe it's more than ......" Han Sanpin said with a wry smile: "He said that he wants to build a film and television base, the specific scale is not yet known, but I think it will definitely not be smaller than Hengdian......"

"Hengdian spent 3 billion ...... Even if the regional tourism plan is supported, Director Xiao Li will need at least 10 billion......" Han Xiaoli was stunned for a moment, and then gasped.

"yes...... I think Xiaole's heart is good this time...... But some of them were too impatient. Han Sanpin took out a cigarette, lit it and took a breath, shook his head and said worriedly:

"He also said that this time he wants to invest all his own, just asking me to help him win policy support, he is going to eat a fat man."

"I didn't expect it~!" Han Xiaoli nodded fiercely when he heard this: "This Director Xiao Li has been in the United States for so many years, and he hasn't forgotten our Chinese movies~!" It's like those Hong Kong producers, who know all day long that they are looking for us for money and stalls, they just fancy our market, and they don't care about whether the movie is good or not, look at Director Xiao Li~! I feel very happy just because of this kind of courage! If there are a few more such people in China Film, what Hollywood movies are we afraid of!? ”

"But we can't let him sacrifice his personal interests for the development of the industry." Han Sanpin shook his head with a sigh: "The more he is like this, the more we can't let him be so impulsive." ”

"Don't you agree with him building this film and television base? I still don't think he has the ability. Han Xiaoli felt stunned, isn't this a good thing?

"Of course I agree, you and I know Director Li's talent best, if he really wants to do it, this thing must be capable." Han Sanpin turned his head and looked at Han Xiaoli with a strange expression: "But do you know how long it will take him to repair this base?" ”

"Five years?" Han Xiao thought about it for a while, and put forward a more reasonable number: "No...... I think it will take at least 6 years......"

"It will take him a year to complete it...... said that he was going to start filming "The Legend of the Great Sage" in September next year," Han Sanpin replied with a deep smoke.

"A year?" Han Xiaoli couldn't cry or laugh, and shook his head again and again:

"Is he joking, let's not talk about construction, even if it is the process of approving land by local departments, it will take half a year, not to mention that it may not be approved, does he think that our China Film Group is the State Council? You want whatever land you want......"

"Alas...... I also watched him make such a big deal of publicity these days, and I had such big expectations for this project, and I didn't want to hurt his enthusiasm. Han Sanpin smiled bitterly.

"That's ...... Director Xiao Li brought his entire team back to China after winning the Oscar, and he was willing to invest such a large amount of money...... If we tell him that this project can't be done at this time, I'm afraid it will chill his heart...... Talent is rare. Han Xiaoli nodded deeply, like Li Xiaole's situation, if it is placed in South Korea or Japan, which attaches importance to the cultural industry, the Ministry of Culture will definitely give full support.

But under China's system of high taxes for making films, if you want to get the approval of the upper echelons, it will take a lot of efforts...... Definitely not a year or two thing.

"So this thing has to be done, but we can't do it right now, but we have to do it slowly in the future......" Han Sanpin said in a deep tone: "We have to stabilize Director Li now, we can't hurt his enthusiasm and refuse him, nor can we promise him everything, drag it slowly, to shoot this "The Legend of the Great Sage", all the time is not ripe, we must make this project stable for about 5-7 years, this plan is safe." ”

"Understood, that's it." Han Xiaoli nodded thoughtfully.

When Han Sanpin and Han Xiaoli discussed how to treat Li Xiaole, Li Xiaole also had his own troubles, when he entered the huge stage crew of the Olympic Games, he found that no one in this crew listened to him at all, in fact, he was only a fictitious title as the chief director.

This is actually not surprising, because most of the group performance programs have been prepared a year ago, Zhang Yimou, who has experience in large-scale stages, has organized the entire team of tens of thousands of people in an orderly manner, and each program looks very exquisite, and the leaders of the Film Bureau and the General Administration of Sports are very satisfied with this.

On this basis, Li Xiaole's task is heavier, and the original words of the leaders of the two General Bureaus are: "Director Li, you don't have many programs, but you must be fine, you must be good at the foundation of Director Zhang." ”

Li Xiaole was speechless for a while, it was too difficult to be better than Zhang Yimou...... It is important to know that although many viewers feel that the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games is very ordinary because of the problem of broadcasting in China, in fact, in the eyes of various media around the world, the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games has reached a height from an artistic point of view that is difficult for any session to achieve......

Let him come up with a mass program that is better than Zhang Yimou, this is simply difficult.

It is important to know that the incomparably large square crew of Ludao has 11 departments such as art, music, makeup and modeling, aerial stunts, sound, video technology, and fireworks engineering, and more than 15,000 people participated in the opening ceremony alone...... So far, he can't even recognize people......

The two executive assistant directors, one is Zhang Jigang of "Guanyin with a Thousand Hands", which was choreographed and directed at the closing ceremony of the Athens Paralympics, and Lu Jiankang, the chief director of the 2001 World University Games, the 10th National Games in 2005, and the opening ceremony of the East Asian Games......

are all well-known figures in China, and young people like him can't interfere at all in many links, and they are not qualified to interfere, after all, they have been rehearsing for more than a year......

There are also top Chinese and foreign artists such as Cai Guoqiang, Chen Qigang, Mark Fischer, Chen Yan, Sha Xiaolan, Eiko Ishioka, Xu Jiahua, Cheng Xiaodong, Tan Dun, etc., as well as first-class experts in technology and production, all of whom are figures of his Li Xiaole's uncle's generation, and it is simply impossible for him, an airborne soldier, to command these people......

In this way, Li Xiaole has been in the group for a week, and he has hardly done anything, just wandering around to enjoy and study, and he doesn't seem to have any plans to propose any new programs, just boring his head on his desk every day, drawing the design artwork of "The Legend of the Great Sage", and at the same time recruiting first-class designers in the screenwriter's Republic to participate in the architecture, monsters, weapons, and various conceptual designs of "The Legend of the Great Sage", busy with his own work, no matter what, he must stay in the crew during this time.

In fact, this kind of marginalized situation, Li Xiaole had already anticipated it, of course he had his own ideas about the opening ceremony, and he had already planned what to do, but he had to wait for a suitable time before proposing it, because only in this way could he get the best exchange of conditions.

He is different from Zhang Yimou, who was born in a traditional film studio, and feels that it is the honor and responsibility of a Chinese citizen to take over the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, and he does not have any requirements, only a pitiful remuneration, and he is fortunate to have suffered for more than a year.

The Sports Bureau also has this attitude, they think that the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is like the Spring Festival Gala, and the participants are eager to give a car and horse fare, and many participating Chinese artists are only paid two tickets to the competition......

Frankly speaking, Li Xiaole loves his country very much, otherwise he would not have returned to China to make his own country's films, and he also very much wants to show the beautiful side of his country's culture at the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games, but he doesn't think it should be a unilateral effort.

Want to work? Of course you can, take the benefits~! It's as simple as that, or he's a busy man who's not obligated to do anything!

So although he has nothing to do at the moment, he is also very at ease, and he knows that there will always be opportunities for the Tao.

A week has passed unconsciously, and the crew has built a simulated training ground in Daxing District, a suburb of Beijing, which has built a rehearsal hall in a one-to-one ratio according to the "Bird's Nest" gymnasium, accommodating the large-scale rehearsals of 14 foreign performance teams after entering Beijing, and more than 300 toilets have been repaired.

Every day, more than 15,000 people gather from 8 a.m. to train until 5 p.m., and many special events, such as "movable type printing", which requires a high degree of cooperation, train until 10 p.m.

In this 6-minute and 45-second show, each actor has more than 20 kilograms of barrel-shaped props, and they have to lift hundreds of times at a rehearsal. The temperature inside the props often exceeded 50 degrees, and everyone was already soaked and sweating profusely before each rehearsal began. It was inconvenient to go to the toilet during rehearsals, but the amount of water evaporated too much, so some actors tried to find a way to use a small bottle of vinegar. When you are thirsty, "smell vinegar to quench your thirst".

Li Xiaole saw that in the most difficult environment of the opening ceremony "Dream", the actors had to train to walk freely in all directions of the "earth", and also to perform sidewalks, handstands, and somersaults on it.

In fact, even the French designer Marc Fischer himself thought that it was impossible to achieve these actions when he created them, but the 58 20-year-old young men trained for a year to do this, and the future accident prevention performance actually trained 400 actors, all of whom were selected from Shandong and Henan martial arts schools.