"There are many theories about aliens, and there is an opinion that aliens live and work among us! In some of the photographs taken by researchers with an astonishing new radiation camera, some people were surrounded by a pale green halo around their heads, possibly caused by rays emitted by their brains. However, when trying to query the people with halos, it was found that the people had disappeared completely, and there was not even any sign of their former existence. Aliens are hiding among us, and we don't know what they're going to do, but there's no evidence that aliens can harm us. ”

Lin Youlun kept talking in one breath, like an orator. Zhang Mingming listened quietly with a curious smile, and occasionally interjected a sentence or two when he encountered something of interest.

"Assuming that this view of promiscuous life is true, and that aliens have lived all around us, why has no one discovered them?" Lin Youlun asked such a question, and then asked himself: "This involves another important evidence that many people believe that aliens exist, the man in black!" ”

Seeing Zhang Yuming's doubts, Lin Youlun then explained: "Some UFO witnesses, or witnesses who try to reveal UFO secrets, are often threatened and intimidated by some mysterious people, asking them not to divulge secrets. Some say they are a 'special force' sent to Earth by aliens in order to prevent humans from discovering the aliens that exist on Earth. ”

"Although these mysterious people have appeared in various UFO incidents, people's understanding of them is vague, only that most of them are big men; Dressed in black; The face is a 'baby face' or 'oriental face'. Normally, when they meet people, they always interrogate them in detail, and then take away all the records, negatives, photographs, analysis results, UFO fragments, and so on. ”

Zhang Mingming interjected, "I feel that what these men in black do is no different from that of agents. ”

"In fact, many people share your opinion, and the UFO researchers believe that the existence of the Men in Black is unmistakable, so they will inevitably try to explain them theoretically. If the 'Men in Black' were agents of a certain country, then everything seemed reasonable, and the government had some secrets about aliens, but it didn't want ordinary people to know about them, and then they blocked the news through special means. ”

Lin Youlun stopped and took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said, "Mr. Zhang must be very strange, why do I want to tell you this, because I was writing a script recently, and the content of the story is related to this group of men in black. ”

"Sci-fi?" Zhang Mingming tried to ask.

Hong Kong's sci-fi films are often unworthy of their names, and in order to save costs, they do a lot of things to cut corners, so Zhang Mingming is really a little unconfident in Hong Kong-made sci-fi films, and it is not without reason. When he was filming "Interstellar Blunt Tire", he had the ambition to make the film a Hong Kong "Star Wars", but under the interference of traditional Shaw Brothers production, it was reduced to a low-budget farce.

"Interstellar Blunt Tire" attracted great attention when it was released, but the box office was not satisfactory, and the film left the deepest impression on the audience not aliens, but the heroine Zhong Chuhong, who imitated Marilyn Monroe in the film and showed her sexy image.

Lin Youlun knew what Zhang Daoming was worried about, and said lightly when he picked up the teacup: "The investment in the film will not be less than 100 million Hong Kong dollars." ”

Zhang Mingming's mouth grew up, and his fist was almost pinched out of water, so it took two minutes to say such a sentence:

"Is Mr. Lin serious?"

"April Fool's Day is a week away, so let's talk about the movie before that." Lin Youlun took a sip of hot tea, put down the cup and said.

Zhang Mingming secretly scolded himself for being confused, just now he was only excited, and he actually finished such an important matter.

"The premise of this script is that aliens not only exist, but also live among us, just in front of normal humans, who will disguise themselves as humans. Humans have set up an organization called the Interstellar Immigration Bureau (MIB), which is responsible for managing aliens living on Earth, UFO researchers call them 'Men in Black', and their official name is 'Black Super Special Police'. ”

"How do these black super SWAT officers deal with witnesses who have discovered aliens?" Zhang Yuming interrupted Lin Youlun slightly, and then asked a question.

"They have an amnestic stick from alien technology in their hands, and witnesses to mysterious events are able to find and erase their memories. Their job is to constantly wipe the butts of the Earth's aliens, erase their exposed feet, and then eradicate the aliens who don't follow the rules or harm ordinary humans if necessary. ”

Even the amnestics have come out, and Zhang Mingming has finished it, and there is reason to believe that this is a complete science fiction film.

"Agent K is an experienced and capable black super special police officer, and his old partner who has been with him for more than 20 years is facing retirement, and after performing the last one, he personally erased his old partner's memory with an amnestic stick, so that he can return to the world of ordinary people. K began to look for a new partner, at this time, when the Hong Kong policeman Ah Fei was chasing a robber, he accidentally broke the fact that the other party was an alien, K was responsible for investigating and dealing with the matter, and found that Ah Fei had the potential to become a black super special policeman, so he introduced him into the organization. ”

Ah Fei successfully passed the assessment and officially became a member of MIB, and since then he has no identity, no name, code name J, and has become K's new partner. Their mission is to oversee the activities of aliens on Earth, and any aliens who have any bad intentions will be annihilated by these two SWAT officers in black suits. The prince of the Aquilonians was killed by the Zerg on Earth, and the cosmic subatomic energy he carried with him was also missing, if this thing was found by the Zerg, it would bring a devastating disaster to the Aquilonians, and the Aquilonians threatened to destroy the Earth if they did not hand over the cosmic subatomic energy within 24 hours. K and J were ordered to deal with the matter, and the two followed up and investigated, and finally eliminated the Zerg leader before he escaped from Earth as a spaceship, and the universe was peaceful again. ”

Lin Youlun just said a general outline of the plot, but that's all, it's enough for Zhang Mingming to digest it for a while.

Zhang Yu carefully recalled the plot content just now, and couldn't wait to chew out the juice of Lin Youlun's every sentence.

Soon Zhang Mingming sorted out several elements of this movie: the male protagonists are K and J, one is old and serious, and the other is lively and jumpy; The heroine is a female doctor in the autopsy room, a dispensable vase character; All sorts of aliens, this is the film

The main play.

Zhang Mingming's first concern is stunt production, the original "Interstellar Blunt Tire" was a big failure because of cutting corners in the production of special effects, although Lin Youlun promised 100 million Hong Kong dollars in production funds, but did not say how much money would be invested in special effects production.

"A lot of experience in "Star Wars" is worth learning from, and we now have more mature special effects skills than Lucas when he filmed "Star Wars", and the plan given by Aurora is to use simulation models and special effects together, and aliens are the real protagonists of this movie, so I think it is necessary to use more than 80 of the film's funds to do this." Lin Youlun was worried that Zhang Yuming did not pay enough attention to this special effect, and especially emphasized this point.

Before he had time to enjoy the joy of controlling more than 100 million shooting funds, 80 million of them were allocated to the special effects company by Lin Youlun, and the remaining 20 million is also a large amount, but to make this movie well, there are too many places to spend money, Zhang Yu made a brief estimate at the beginning of the year, and the total salary he can use to pay the actors cannot exceed 5 million.

Popular stars don't have to think about it, just find two salaries that add up to more than 5 million, and find someone to play at will, and I'm a little sorry for this movie with a total investment of over 100 million.

Just when Zhang Yuming was suffering from gains and losses and was in a dilemma, Lin Youlun directly told Zhang Yuming that the candidate for Agent K in the film had been decided.

"The role of Agent K requires old age and seriousness, and there are requirements for the actor's age and acting skills, I think Zhai Long is good, if you don't have better suggestions, this role will be set for him."

As soon as Lin Youlun explained this, Zhang Yuming felt that Agent K seemed to be tailor-made for Zhai Long. Zhai Long has recently become popular with "The True Color of Heroes", but he is past middle age, and it is difficult to have any possibility of becoming popular in the future. has a lot of fame, good acting skills, and the salary requirements are not high, isn't such an actor tailor-made for "Black Super SWAT Team"?

Agent K decided that Zhai Long would play the role, and the candidate for Agent J, who partnered with K in the film, Zhang Mingming naturally thought of Jiang Dawei.

The discord between Zhai Long and Jiang Dawei is well known in the entertainment industry, and everyone who has experienced that era knows that the two of them were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone has been hoping that the two can reconcile, but there has been no warning. Until the day when Zhai Long won the Golden Horse actor throne with "The True Color of Heroes", Jiang Dawei specially flew back from Canada to present Zhai Long as an award guest, and the two staged a touching drama of brothers and friendship on the spot, proving that the friendship of 12 years is still there.

Zhang Yuming felt that if this drama could bring Zhai Long and Jiang Dawei together, it would definitely be a very sensational thing. The improvement of the relationship between Zhai Long and Jiang Dawei and Lin Youlun as an investor in this film all made Zhang Yuming have a kind of eager idea.

This idea was directly rejected by Lin Youlun, "Agent J came to take over Agent K's class in the film, and then you found two actors who are about the same age to play K and J, if this movie doesn't have a sequel until four or five years apart, are you going to let the two of them retire together in the movie?" I need a young actor who won't look old in 20 years to Agent J, the younger the better! ”