Ling Shizhe couldn't figure out why Li Hanxiang suddenly asked this, and was silent for a while before replying: "Yes, I proposed this comic, but the specific things are still done by the people below." 【頂【点【小【Say,"

"This cartoon is very well done, the plot, character design, lines, drawings, and the knowledge about the professional aspects of flying involved in it are very good......" Li Hanxiang did not hesitate to praise this cartoon, and all kinds of praise were applied.

After he praised it, Ling Shizhe said directly: "Director Li, if you have anything to say, just say it directly." ”

Hearing that Ling Shizhe had already said this, Li Hanxiang was not hypocritical, and said: "Some time ago, "Top Gun" was listed in Hong Kong, although it was not popular, but it also became famous in Hong Kong, and Mr. Shao also knew, I heard that this comic was made by you, and Mr. Shao asked me to ask you, do you sell movie copyrights?" ”

"Why, he wanted to make Top Gun into a movie?"

Li Hanxiang replied: "Yes, he wants to make a movie and let me be the director." ”

Burst! Ling Shizhe couldn't help laughing, a Hong Kong film company, a Chinese director, actually wanted to shoot "Top Gun......

He suddenly thought of the classic movies of the 80s, Tom in it, and the famous SB logo of Shaw Brothers...... Ling Shizhe couldn't help but feel a chill, what kind of international joke is making, can this kind of film that reflects the power of the US air force be made by a Hong Kong film company? What was this Shaw thinking?

And the content in it portrays the Soviet Union as a big demon.

To make this kind of movie, the film company and the director must have a strong government background, and most companies dare not touch this kind of subject.

If nothing else, investment alone is not something that Shaw can afford, and even if the funding problem is solved, it must be supported by the Pentagon; In the end, the film director must be a pure American, and he must also be good at shooting modern military themes, so many elements are soft together to make this movie.

Now Run Run Shaw actually wants to shoot "Top Gun" and let Li Hanxiang direct it? Although this director is very famous, he is good at shooting Chinese historical dramas, and what Hollywood movies are good at there.

Ling Shizhe thought about it for a long time, but he could only explain that Old Man Shao was crazy about money.

"Director Li, Run Run Shaw asked you to be the director, let me ask you, how will you shoot?"

Li Hanxiang did not hesitate and replied: "I can't make this kind of movie that reflects modern military themes." ”

"You're not confused, you just tell him that he can't make this movie." Ling Shizhe waved his hand, not wanting to talk nonsense with him.

"Since this movie is not good, then "God of Cooking" can, right?" Li Hanxiang said with a retreat.

"You want to shoot it, right?"

Seeing Li Hanxiang nodded, Ling Shizhe smiled helplessly, this Li Hanxiang has a lot of eyes, his real purpose is actually to come to "The God of Kitchen", he was worried that if he put it forward directly at the beginning, he would be rejected by Ling Shizhe, so he moved out of the part where Run Shaw wanted to shoot "Top Gun", and Ling Shizhe would definitely not agree. Then he proposed to shoot "The God of Cooking", Ling Shizhe decided to shoot him once, but it was not good to decide the second time, so he had to reluctantly agree to him.

Speaking of this "God of Cooking" is an inspirational cartoon made by Ling Shizhe last year, the background of the story takes place in the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, a female chef grew up to be a generation of cooking masters, the story is based on the Xuanwumen incident as the starting point, the heroine's father is the personal guard of the prince Li Jiancheng, and unfortunately he was involved in the struggle for the throne between the princes, and he escaped after the Xuanwumen incident, and met the heroine's mother on the road......

The heroine's mother is not an ordinary person, she is a female official in the palace, who is responsible for the diet of the harem concubines, because she was unfortunately involved in the competition for favor of the harem concubines and was assassinated, fortunately she escaped from the palace without death, and on the way to escape, she encountered bandits again, and was rescued by the heroine's father.

After the two met, they got married and lived an incognito life in the Changbai Mountain area. Unexpectedly, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, in order to completely eliminate the power of the hidden prince Li Jiancheng in the court, ordered the whole country to arrest Li Jiancheng's people, and the heroine's mother died on the way to escape...... The young heroine entered the palace after several turns and began her life's bumpy and legendary experience......

The structure of the story is completely a Chinese modified version of the later Korean "Dae Jang Geum", which focuses on describing the ancient Chinese poetry culture, food culture, traditional Chinese medicine culture, agricultural science and technology culture, ancient military knowledge, and ancient calligraphy and painting culture.

There are trivialities in life, shortcomings between neighbors, brutal court battles and court struggles, and grand war scenes.

The plot of the story is twisty and bizarre, and its structure is far more responsible than that of South Korea's "Dae Jang Geum". This comic is aimed at the markets of Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, and since its launch, it has become popular throughout the Asian market.

The comics are also available in North America, but they are not as good as "Top Gun" and "Transformers", which are sold in Western styles, and are specially for Chinese, Japanese-Americans, and Korean-Americans in North America.

Li Hanxiang saw the international influence of this comic, and wanted to put it on the movie screen.

"If you want to shoot, I can leave it to you, but you have to tell me, how much Shaw Brothers is involved in this matter?"

Li Hanxiang replied: "It was the Shaw Brothers who asked me to ask, they want to adapt him into a TV series and movie, of course, I also want to shoot it myself, this theme is really good, it's a pity not to shoot it." ”

"I won't sell the copyright, I decided to shoot it myself, and it will be produced by DreamWorks, and I'll rest assured that I'll leave it to you, Shaw Brothers...... Don't get involved. Ling Shizhe waved his hand and agreed.

The big director in front of him is very good at filming Chinese historical dramas, especially women's dramas, which is his forte, and handed over "God of Kitchen" to him to be responsible, Ling Shizhe is also relieved, in fact, he wants to hand over this comic to Li Hanxiang to shoot.

The only thing that made him unhappy was that this Shaw Brothers had to mix everything, and he didn't think about whether he could be mixed up.

"You DreamWorks invested in filming, so the relationship is good, is it making a movie?"

Ling Shizhe shook his head and denied: "There are too many comic stories in this comic, one movie can't hold so much content, let's make it into a TV series, just shoot it here, the place is the imitation Tang Dynasty royal garden where you are making movies now, as long as you don't object to the TV series." ”

"I am willing to make TV series, I used to make TV series for them in Shaw Brothers and Taiwan/Wan. But the key is to have a TV station when filming a TV series, how will you broadcast it then? ”

Ling Shizhe said to Zhao Xiaoyun: "You tell Director Li." ”

"Okay," Zhao Xiaoyun nodded, and explained to Li Hanxiang: "Director Li doesn't have to worry about the TV station, we have actually considered this issue for a long time." As early as last year, we invested in two Chinese TV stations in North America, one in Los Angeles in the United States, and one in Toronto, Canada. ”

Li Hanxiang's eyes lit up and said: "It's easy to run if there is a TV station, but I don't know how big these two TV stations are and how wide the radiation is?" ”

"Chinese TV, don't expect the scale, this one in the United States is about the same size as Hong Kong's TVB, it is a wireless TV station, not on satellites, it belongs to the ABC TV network, the entire Chinese community in the United States is covered, ABC is the largest shareholder of the TV station, we are the second largest shareholder, this TV station has its own TV drama production department, if you want to shoot a TV series, they can provide you with the crew.

This TV station in Canada is much smaller, from the director to the cleaning and sweeping staff, there are less than 15 people in total, and there is no TV program production department of its own, their programs are all purchased and broadcast, you don't have to worry about coverage, the entire Chinese community in Canada is under his coverage. ”

"That's a lot easier, let's move on to the next question." Li Hanxiang said reassuringly.

The key link of the playback has been solved, and the remaining problems are much easier to handle, DreamWorks is responsible for the investment, the investment amount is initially set at 500,000 US dollars, the director is Li Hanxiang, the producer is Zhao Xiaoyun, and the investment problem was quickly discussed.

But the next question, the two sides had a disagreement, first of all, the script of the TV series, Li Hanxiang said that he was responsible for the script, but Zhao Xiaoyun and Ling Shizhe disagreed, they knew that Li Hanxiang had strong screenwriting skills, but he was just one person, at most one or two helpers, but no matter how well their scripts were written, there would be many loopholes.

On the contrary, there will be no problem if it is handed over to DreamWorks, DreamWorks has a professional screenwriting department, and there are many Chinese screenwriters who are proficient in Chinese history, and the comic "God of Kitchen" is from them, and it is more reassuring to hand over the script to Ling Shizhe, Li Hanxiang just needs to shoot according to the script.

But Li Hanxiang vetoed it, believing that not participating in the creation of the script completely limited his creative ability, and insisted that he was responsible for the script.

Neither side could convince anyone, and a stalemate ensued for a while.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this stalemate is actually the contradiction between the different film and television production models of the East and the West, and the vast majority of Hong Kong directors who shoot film and television dramas do not have scripts, and they all write scripts during filming, and they are very particular about the director's ability to play on the spot.

But Hollywood is different, it has always made the script first and is filming, which is a typical assembly line industrial production model.

In Hollywood, it is very complicated for a TV series script to go from the beginning to the formation.

The creation team of a script can be divided into a creative group, a plot group, a line group, a structure group, a character group, a detail group, and even a joke group responsible for writing jokes and a lens group responsible for studying shots.

Several comic scripts created by Ling Shizhe are completely in accordance with this model.

Obviously, Hollywood's manufacturing model is more mature and complete than Hong Kong's. Li Hanxiang has been making movies in Hong Kong and Taiwan before, and his contact is the Hong Kong model, and he is very unfamiliar with the Hollywood model.

This brings us to the second problem, Hong Kong has a small geographical area and limited market capacity, so in order to control the cost of filming, the production system is adopted.

Hollywood is different, he has always adopted the producer system, and in terms of cost control, it is not as harsh as Hong Kong.

The change of the system also made Li Hanxiang extremely uncomfortable.

Ling Shizhe opened his mouth and said: "Director Li, do you want to live in a small place in Hong Kong for the rest of your life, or do you want to have a place in Hollywood?" ”

"Is there anything to say about this?"

Ling Shizhe glanced at Zhao Xiaoyun and continued: "If you want to continue to nest in this small place in Hong Kong, then we can only express our regret to you, our cooperation is in the middle of you are filming a movie, and it will end here after the shooting, but if you want to have a place in Hollywood, you must follow a more mature film and television production model than Hong Kong." In this way, no matter whether you can achieve something in Hollywood in the future, at least you can stand firm. If you can't even stand on your feet, how can you talk about achievement? ”

This is very clear, Hollywood is the mecca of film and television practitioners all over the world, if you want to survive here, you must abide by the rules of the game here, and your set in Hong Kong is better to put away.

Threat, this is a naked threat, Li Hanxiang scolded his mother in his heart, looked at Ling Shizhe blankly, a little overwhelmed, his brain was very confused now.

As a very respected director in Southeast Asia, he is actually reluctant to cooperate with someone like Ling Shizhe who doesn't know anything about film art, even if the other party is very rich.

The reason why Li Hanxiang is willing to come and cooperate with him is because he takes a fancy to the North American theater chain in his hand, which means that with Ling Shizhe, he has the opportunity to enter the Hollywood of his dreams.

Can that director resist the temptation of Hollywood? No, no one can resist it, and he Li Hanxiang is also a mortal with the naked eye. He is a big director in Southeast Asia, but who knows who he is in Hollywood, so many times, he tries to maintain a good relationship with Ling Shizhe.

But now Ling Shizhe actually threatened him with this, and quit if he didn't agree, his self-esteem couldn't accept it all of a sudden. Since he became famous, no one has dared to talk to him like this, not even Run Run Shaw, although he has fallen out with Run Run Shaw before.

Li Hanxiang's lungs exploded, and he stared at Ling Shizhe with a flushed face.

Seeing the tense momentum of the two, Zhao Xiaoyun hurriedly came over to play a round game, pointed at Ling Shizhe's head with his hand, and said, "You, don't talk if you can't speak, no one treats you as a dumb person." ”

turned his head and said to Li Hanxiang: "Director Li, don't be angry, I can't speak, he offends people when he speaks, he is a straight intestine, and he is a person who will say whatever he wants." Come on, take a sip of tea to dissipate your anger, Director Li don't have the same knowledge as him, and he can't be angry with him. He's a technical person, you know this kind of person generally can't speak, didn't a scholar in the West say that they are people with very low emotional intelligence, and they are generally knowledgeable with him......"

Zhao Xiaoyun has been spinning at the bottom since she was a child, and she has long practiced a good eloquence, and as soon as she said a few words, she wiped out most of Li Hanxiang's anger, took the tea in Zhao Xiaoyun's hand, and took a big sip.

Then he sat down, put the teacup on the dining table, and looked at his heaving chest, estimating that his anger had not completely subsided.

Ling Shizhe touched his nose and scolded in his heart, relying on you so-called artists, you are too easy to get excited, as for you.

At this time, a crisp female voice sounded, "Otherwise, everyone takes a step back, the script is still in charge of your dream factory, and our Director Li must be involved in the whole process, what do you think of this proposal." ”

Ling Shizhe was stunned for a moment, followed the voice and looked, only to see a young and beautiful girl sitting next to Li Hanxiang, aged about twenty years old, wearing a white dress and long skirt, looking extremely beautiful and refined.

When was there an extra woman in the house, Ling Shizhe pointed to the girl who spoke just now, and asked Zhao Xiaoyun, "Who is she?" ”