Chapter 72. Harness the two "kings"!

Creative Director Lee Siu Tai's office.

"What do you say? The male protagonist of this play, did you choose Andy Lau and Liming?! When Li Zhaotai listened to Chen Xuanting's suggestion, he couldn't help but shout.

Yes, anyone who hears such a plan will probably call it out.

Who is Dawn? Who is Andy Lau?!

Two of the Four Heavenly Kings to star in a TV series? International jokes!

So Li Zhaotai smiled, "Ah Ting, don't laugh, how is this possible?" Not to mention that Andy Lau has already cut off relations with us wirelessly for many years; Let's just say Liming, now that he is popular, many film companies and record companies are waiting to sign a contract with him, how can he join this show? ”

Chen Xuanting seemed to be confident, suddenly took out a document, handed it to Li Zhaotai and said: "This is the filming contract between Liming and our TVB, he still has thirty episodes of scenes to complete, and now he is ready to start filming "No Regrets in This Life" led by Zhou Haimei......"

Li Zhaotai looked through it and said, "That's true, you mean ......"

Chen Xuanting said firmly: "Let him change the play!" ”

Li Zhaotai smiled: "How is this possible? This is the TV series that Fang Yihua named him to star, how can he change it easily? ”

Chen Xuanting smiled: "There was once a poor boy who fell in love with the daughter of a certain banker, so he said to the famous banker, I am the mayor's nephew, I like your daughter very much, I don't know if you can fulfill me?" When he turned around, he found the mayor again and said that I am the son-in-law of a banker, and I have always admired you, and I don't know if I can get closer to you. As you should know, the mayor thought he was really the banker's son-in-law, so he thought he was his nephew, and the banker thought he was really the mayor's nephew, so he married his daughter to him. ”

After Chen Xuanting finished telling the story, he smiled but did not speak.

Li Zhaotai suddenly smiled, "Although I understand what you mean, I don't understand what you want to do?" ”

"It's very simple, we just need to tell Liming that Andy Lau will appear in this play, and he who has always hoped to compete with Andy Lau will definitely not let go of this opportunity!" Chen Xuanting said firmly.

"Are you so sure?"

"Of course, you believe me!"

Li Zhaotai was still a little unconvinced, after all, he knew what kind of character Liming was.

This person used to like to play big names the most, and Li Zhaotai received a lot of complaints about him.

The first time was during the filming of the TVB TV series "The Legend of Jin Wengong", because he had lived abroad for many years, his body had not fully adapted after returning to China, and the work intensity was too high, and Liming was often sick; Once he had a cold and fever, Dawn was late for the set, and drove his private sports car to the set, which caused dissatisfaction among the director and other actors, and after the filming was completed, Dawn was hidden by the wireless.

In desperation, Liming had no choice but to go to Taiwan to seek a way out and participated in the TV series "The Age of Storms". After the broadcast of the "Wind" drama, the ratings in Taiwan soared, and the limelight overshadowed the drama starring Zhao Yazhi at that time, and the ending song "Wind and Clouds" sung by Li Ming affectionately was also warmly sought after by the audience. Due to the fact that the Hong Kong TV drama market was once dull at this time, the dramas that Liming starred in Hong Kong before were released in Southeast Asia and received a huge response. Returning to Hong Kong from his trip to Taiwan, Dawn starred in the TV series "Man on the Edge" last year, and his dramatic plot and wonderful performances made him an instant hit, and his unruly image of the prodigal son has since been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and this drama has become one of the top 10 most-watched TV dramas in Hong Kong's history.

But just when his acting career was developing smoothly, a "sound incident" dealt a serious blow to the dawn of the sky. In May this year, Hong Kong supported the flood relief in East China by organising a fundraising event for the Performing Arts Stars Extravaganza. Dawn was about to leave after the performance, and someone suddenly donated a large amount of money to ask Dawn to sing another song "I'm Sorry I Love You", Dawn hurriedly turned back to the stage and began to sing when the sound engineer was unprepared. Because the sound engineer was not familiar with the song, he turned up the tone of the accompaniment, and Dawn didn't know how to deal with it at the time, so he sang the broken note, which caused an uproar in the audience, although the audience still gave him great encouragement, but the report of "the popular idol Dawn went out on the spot" became the focus of national media coverage the next day. An incident that seems to be experienced by almost all singers today was exaggerated at the time and spread all over the country with people's heated discussions.

In order to save his image in the minds of fans and the audience as soon as possible, Liming had no choice but to take over the filming of the new wireless drama "No Regrets in This Life", hoping to divert the audience's attention from his "broken sound" incident.

"Well, since you said that Dawn would take the initiative to change the scene, what about Andy Lau? What could he do? Now that he is the owner of a film company, a singer, and a hot movie star, how can he participate in our wireless TV series? ! Li Zhaotai smiled helplessly, "You don't know that he has a bad relationship with us, and he was cornered because ......of the Five Tigers contract" Li Zhaotai said this, sighing.

Indeed, Andy Lau was the most popular among the Five Tigers back then, and in order to control this cash cow, Wireless issued a very harsh five-year sales contract.

Andy Lau rebelled against wireless's [***] and exploitation, and united with the other four of the Five Tigers to discuss the refusal of the visa.

Who knows that the wireless executives saw their calculations, and took various methods to break through, and the first choice was Tony Leung, who was relatively weak-willed, at that time, Tony Leung's stars were hidden under Andy Lau, Huang Yuehua and Miao Qiaowei, and even Tang Zhenye's popularity was not worse than him, plus he wanted to support his family, so he signed a contract with wireless alone. The Five Tigers will break with each other from then on. Tony Leung has also become a pain in Andy Lau's heart.

And wireless treats Andy Lau not so politely, hides him, and if he doesn't give in, let him not think about it for the rest of his life.

Fortunately, Andy Lau has the help of nobles, and he entered the film industry as soon as the contract expired, and then soared to the sky through unremitting efforts, until he is now called the "king" level.

In Li Zhaotai's view, trying to persuade Andy Lau to return to wireless filming is simply a fantasy and an impossible task.

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Andy Lau has been very popular recently, especially the new song "Forget Love Water" written by Chen Xuanting for him, which almost swept the major charts and became a mess. And in addition to loving this song, what people want to know most is who wrote it.

In the face of such a question, Andy Lau was almost exhausted by the question, and the only answer was----Spare me, he won't let me!"

Needless to say, it's still that mystery man! The second boss of that canopy!

"Forget the Love Water" is popular all over Hong Kong and as far away as Asia.

In addition to singing this song at major concerts, Andy Lau's most important thing is to win awards. Take it softly.

While winning the award, this big star, known as the "iron man" of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, felt powerless for the first time. On the one hand, he has to partner with Wan Ziliang, Wang Zuxian and Qiu Shuzhen to shoot the second part of "Las Vegas Tycoon", and on the other hand, he has to take into account the new investment of Tianmu Company, especially Ma Weihao's script "Yafei and Yaji". Regarding this play, Chen Xuanting proposed to use Tony Leung and Jacky Cheung. These two people are Andy Lau's heart disease, one once broke with himself without morality, and the other tied with himself as the Four Heavenly Kings, and his singing skills are first-class, and he is known as the "God of Song" of the new generation of Hong Kong singers after Xu Guanjie. These two people were like thorns in his throat and a mountain on his back, and he couldn't breathe.

However, Chen Xuanting said that to do business, you must be open-minded, even if it is an enemy, how can you cooperate, and harmony is the only magic weapon to obtain benefits in the business field.

Although Andy Lau doesn't quite agree with Chen Xuanting's surreal view that "there are no eternal enemies in the world, only eternal interests", he understands that as the major shareholder of Tianmu, Chen Xuanting has reason to ask himself to put aside his selfishness and cooperate with Tony Leung and Jacky Cheung. After all, Tianmu has just won a battle, and it needs more records to support it to become a shining new star in the film industry.

In this very special situation, the black humor comedy "Yafei and Yaji" started filming smoothly, and Ma Weihao, as the screenwriter, also served as the producer of this play. It can be said that it is rare to pick a big beam.

When Chen Xuanting came to the filming base of Macau's "Casino Tycoon 2", the crew was filming a group of casino scenes.

It is said that in order to shoot this scene, Andy Lau personally took a visit to the senior management of the Lisboa Casino, and the senior management did not dare to make an assertion, and directly notified the "gambling king" Stanley Ho by phone, and after receiving a positive answer, the crew of "Las Vegas" was allowed to shoot inside the casino, but it was only for one hour.

Although there is not much time, Andy Lau is already grateful, you must know that this Putin casino is a place to make money, and the preciousness of an hour can be seen.

When Chen Xuanting came to the casino filming venue, he saw the fat man Wang Jing muttering to the photographer about how to move in the next scene and what kind of lens to use to highlight the actor's expression changes.

Not far away, Qiu Shuzhen, who is the object of the fat man's pursuit, is touching up her makeup with the help of her assistant, she is originally young and beautiful, after finishing her makeup, I saw her long black hair trimmed into a double braid of a Hong Kong woman in the forties and fifties, the tail of the braid is tied with a bow, which looks simple and pure, and the jade-like cheeks are inlaid with two star-like, shining eyes, as beautiful as a hibiscus out of the water, long eyelashes, a straight nose, and a ruddy small mouth, making her look more delicate and moving.

As the boss and starring of this play, Andy Lau is wiping the sweat on his forehead with an absorbent tissue, after all, this is July, the weather in Hong Kong is hot, especially when filming such a scene, he can't help but wear a suit, and put a vest on the inside of the suit to show the demeanor of the gambling king, which makes it difficult for Andy Lau, who is afraid of heat, to sweat on his forehead, and he can't wipe his face with a cold towel, so he can only use an absorbent tissue to gently stick it on his forehead to let him absorb sweat.

The whole crew seems to be fast-paced and the atmosphere is harmonious, but no one will know that the arrival of Chen Xuanting will break such a calm and set off a wave of waves!

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