Chapter 526: A Director I Haven't Heard of
The director of the 526th chapter of the text volume that I have never heard of
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Long Wu's ambition was completely dispelled by Su Ming's words, so that he was not even interested in listening to what the specific story was. …。 … It doesn't matter what the story is, as long as it's a horror movie, the content of the movie and the ending of the movie are doomed: no good death.
If you don't die well, you can't die well, anyway, Su Ming invested money, and Long Wu wasn't prepared to make much money from it, and he couldn't lose it.
In the end, Long Wu still helped Su Ming establish the initial team, and at first glance, this lineup was actually not bad.
Producer, Taoyuan Entertainment Company. The system zuò people, Long Wu himself. Both of them are well-known in China.
Producer, Zhang Jiahui...... This late-blooming actor is definitely a powerful faction, acting and directing, there are many filmmakers in Xiangjiang with feelings, Zhang Jiahui is one of them, in recent years, the horror film market is sluggish, but he insisted on shooting two horror films.
A Yulan miracle and a Tuodi exorcist were released locally in Xiangjiang, and the box office was actually good, at least it didn't lose money. It's a pity that it was not reviewed by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and the mainland is not allowed to release it. This is also the reason why no one makes horror movies now, compared with the box office of hundreds of millions in the mainland, the best in the Xiangjiang market is only tens of millions, if it can't be released in the mainland, it really doesn't make a profit.
Long Wu especially emphasized that the success of these two dramas has a lot to do with Zhang Jiahui starring himself. If he shoots by another person, his salary will account for more than half of the investment, this time as Su Ming's producer, just to make the film team look better, and will not really participate in the audience, if there is time and stop by, maybe I will go to the set to take a look.
To put it bluntly, it's just a name, and I can't count on it.
Finally, there are the directors and screenwriters.
Small production, niche themes, big directors can't count on it, big names at the level of To Qifeng, Wang Jing, Liu Weiqiang, Ye Weixin, Long Wu can find it, but obviously it will not be invested in a horror film with an investment of 10 million.
The director and screenwriter are the same person.
Guo Zijian.
As a layman, Su Ming had never heard of this name at all, and he couldn't even remember that this person had appeared in any movie.
Long Wu is very confident in this person and highly recommends it.
Of course, this confidence is based on an investment of 10 million, and this investment amount is very good to be able to invite Guo Zijian, if it weren't for Long Wu's help, Su Ming could only invite students who had not yet graduated from the film academy to guide. He served as a director and screenwriter, responsible for assembling the crew and selecting actors.
"Have you really figured it out? Horror movies are the ones that need special effects the most, and 10 million horror movies are made, not only do they have no good actors, but they don't even need special effects, and they are destined to lose money. It's better to make additional investment, or change the theme, now popular romance films, nostalgic films, as long as there are thirty or forty million, anyone will buy any bad movie. When he was leaving, Long Wu was still persuading Su Ming.
Although romance films and nostalgic films are good, they are not Su Ming's strong point, and they are not in line with his overall plan.
"Okay, Guo Zijian, I'll take care of it, at the latest a week, he will fly to the mainland with the crew members, where do you go to film, I'll tell him to fly over directly, save the turnaround, and save you some money." Long Wu asked.
"Filmed at the zoo." Su Ming said.
"The whole movie, at the zoo?" Long Wuqi Dao.
Su Ming nodded.
Ryugo was completely speechless, well, there was not even the last bit of hope. If a horror film can be combined with ancient legends and mysterious regions, such as Tianchi in Changbai Mountain and Shennongjia, there may still be a glimmer of life, at least it is a selling point.
What's in the zoo? Could it be that if a group of tigers and lions roar at the camera, the audience will feel so scary and terrifying?
"Then you prepare an outline of the story, I'll go and sue Guo Zijian......" Long Wu said with a forehead.
Regarding the filming of the movie, Su Ming only sued Nangong Yan for the time being, but Nangong Yan didn't say anything. On the one hand, she is more amateur than Su Ming; On the other hand, after experiencing many events, she has an invisible confidence in Su Ming, and it seems that there is no problem that this man can't solve, Su Ming is a man who continues to create miracles.
Behind the miracle is hard work and dedication.
While waiting for Guo Zijian to come, Su Ming didn't do anything, locked himself in the feng shui pavilion and stayed at home, conceiving the whole story.
This is a story that doesn't look scary, it's a little funny, but it's terrifying when you think about it.
In addition, he also checked the 'Guo Zijian' director on the Internet.
Unexpectedly, Long Wu really didn't perfunctory himself, although the recommended director, although he is not famous, is by no means an unknown person, and has a deep foundation and immersion in movies.
In the earliest days, Guo Zijian, like many famous actors and directors, played the role of a small boy in the theater, but did not become famous because of his appearance.
The experience of the dragon set has allowed Guo Zijian to meet many big names in the circle. He worked as a screenwriter for five films, and sometimes worked as a scene reporter and assistant director, and was very familiar with all aspects of film shooting;
The assistant director in "The Next Generation of Thieves", the screenwriter and assistant director of "Little Things in the Big City", the assistant director of "Dragon and Tiger Gate", "Firefighting Heroes" co-filmed with Nicholas Tse, Yue Wenle and other young actors, and the director of "Wild Dog", was finally promoted by Stephen Chow to co-direct "Journey to the West......
The director of "Fighting the Ring", known as "revitalizing the spirit of Hong Kong films", won four awards, including Best Film at the 17th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards and Best Film at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards.
Especially the Journey to the West chapter on demon reduction, Su Ming deliberately found the subtitles and read them carefully, the so-called co-director, Guo Zijian's status on the set is actually higher than that of the assistant director, many times he is the director, at this time, Stephen Chow plays more of the role of the chief director, and a lot of the specific director's work is done by him. Due to the need for final publicity, it is generally Stephen Chow who comes forward.
The Hong Kong film industry has described him as 'a new generation of directors like Akira Kurosawa and Ang Lee who perfectly combine business and art'.
Su Ming has seen almost all of these movies, and several of them can be called thunderous.
Judging from this experience, Guo Zijian is at least a qualified director.
Although the hematopoietic mechanism of Xiangjiang films is still running and can cultivate directors like Guo Zijian, Hong Kong films are still inevitably declining. It can be seen from the situation of his film production company, which rents a two-story wooden building, and when reporters interview him, the ground creaks when he walks in the office.
If it weren't for poverty, it is estimated that it would not be Su Ming's turn to ask him to make a movie. (To be continued.) )