If the six years from 71 to 77 years were the era of Wang Xiaohu's fight against the country, then from 78 years when Wang Xiaohu let Jackie Chan read and start a business, it was the era of sitting on the country. 【Reading.com】

It's easy to fight the country, and it's even more difficult to sit firmly in the first place in Hong Kong movies, but this is just the habitual thinking of outsiders.

To be precise, Wang Xiaohu is not a surname that sits on standby, he now has more ambitious ideological ambitions, from the moment Xu Guanwen established the Hui Brothers Film Company, Wang Xiaohu knew that Hong Kong films could not be maintained by himself.

Just like the Shaw Brothers film dynasty that is now beginning to weaken, if Wang Xiaohu sticks to the old concept, today's Shaw Brothers is a true portrayal of tomorrow's Concord.

Before the arrival of the 79 New Wave and the glorious era of Hong Kong films, Wang Xiaohu was ready to build his team as solid as an iron bucket, not to embezzle this or suppress that, he just made the golden age of Hong Kong films more brilliant and longer.

So after the New Year, Wang Xiaohu immediately set up the "Myth" crew.

"Mythology" is a heart-wrenching epic blockbuster, including military warfare, martial arts action, special effects, history, love and other aspects, so the team of this crew is bound to have more people involved.

Wang Xiaohu deserves to be the director, action director, screenwriter, producer, producer, and even the leading actor of the film.

As an old partner for many years, Yuan Heping is responsible for the martial arts instruction of the film, and he is also an assistant director. This is mainly to improve Yuan Heping's ability to control large-scale productions and big-scene movies, who made him the second action director in Hong Kong, and only Wang Xiaohu can let him come over as a martial arts instructor, and others don't ask the eighth master at all.

"Ah Hu, we have cooperated, haha!" Yuan Heping was very positive about being able to join forces with Wang Xiaohu again, and he had also heard the investment and filming implications of "Myth", and naturally knew that Wang Xiaohu was increasing his experience in this area, and he was very grateful.

"You still have to rely on the eighth master." Wang Xiaohu clenched his fists, this style made Yuan Heping cry out, punched Wang Xiaohu and said: "You are tricking me, don't bury people like this." ”

Wang Xiaohu laughed and pulled Yuan Heping to start studying the script.

After Yuan Heping read the script of "Myth", he was surprised for a long time and didn't come back to his senses, not only was he amazed and said: "Ah Hu, I used to hear rumors from others that this film is very grand, but I didn't expect that the scene in your script was more magnificent than the rumors." ”

According to the hints in the script, Yuan Heping learned that this war will involve fighting alone, fighting with one enemy and a hundred, fighting on horseback, and even bows and arrows of 100 or 1,000 people, and so on.

Just these 100 or 1,000 extras are enough for Hong Kong filmmakers who have always been petty and childish.

"You, how much money are you going to invest?" Yuan Heping asked with some excitement in his voice. For anyone who is a director, the first word that comes to mind when he sees such a good script is: money!

You can't make a movie without money, you can't make a movie without big investment, and you can't make a blockbuster movie if you can't hire good actors. Especially after "Police Story" invited Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao, two Taiwanese actresses, to join and start a precedent for large-scale investment production, everyone saw the benefits of high investment and high reporting.

But not every film company has enough money to squander, even if they attract a few rich people to invest, they are worried that the money they pay will not recover the cost, and even a large company like Shaw Brothers once the cost of each film exceeds 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, it still needs Shaw's special approval.

"I haven't accounted for it." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile: "But the special effects part is going to cost millions of dollars, and the later stage will also be produced by Hollywood's industrial light and magic, and their technology is much more advanced than that of Hong Kong." ”

Yuan Heping felt dizzy, the special effects alone cost millions of US dollars, although Wang Xiaohu did not give a clear figure, he had already guessed the total cost of the film through the hints brought by this sentence: 20 million, no, at least 30 million Hong Kong dollars! Just like "Earth-shattering" that died two years ago, God, Ah Hu is going to make such a big move!

"Big eyes, don't be stupid, come and help me design the action of this scene." Wang Xiaohu saw that Yuan Heping's surprised brain couldn't turn, and greeted him with a smile.

"Uh-oh." Yuan Heping hurriedly agreed, lying on the table and studying the script with Wang Xiaohu.

After Wang Xiaohu's several revisions, the script of "Myth" was basically finalized.

Among them, the ancient scenes adhered to the original plan, just eliminated the golden silk cat and replaced it with the princess of a small country in the Qin Dynasty era, Meng Yi still greeted the princess according to the order of Qin Shi Huang, and still needed to cross the enemy country in the middle, and encountered the robbery and killing of the enemy country, and finally the Qin army's welcoming team was wiped out except for Meng Yi and the princess, and the two climbed the mountains and waded all the way back to the Qin country.

In this way, it is basically an overhaul of the entire history of the Qin Dynasty, and a few small countries are fabricated as allies and enemies of the Qin Dynasty, which is the result of Wang Xiaohu's repeated considerations, and this is also to avoid some historical bricks from coming out to pick thorns, after all, this is a movie, and some history should be revised and revised, and it should be apocryphal.

After returning to Qin, Qin II (who was still the crown prince at the time) made a statement to Qin Shi Huang on the grounds that Meng Yi had been welcoming his relatives for too long and that the princess had traveled a long distance and suffered, so Meng Yi was assigned to Lishan to supervise the construction of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum.

Since the princess entered the palace, she has always been silent and sullen, in fact, on the way to escort, the princess has long had feelings for General Meng Yi.

At this time, Qin Shi Huang was already terminally ill, and then took the princess to Lishan to check the construction of the royal tomb, and after seeing Meng Yi again, the princess finally smiled rarely.

Cha Xu Fuqiu's elixir, Prince Qin and the prime minister made a plan to send Meng Yi to take the elixir, but on the way back, he arranged for the army to rob and kill, so a heroic epic that made people passionate and sang and cried.

In this robbery and counter-robbery, Meng Yi stepped on the corpses of hundreds of people alone, held the pass to the death, and asked his subordinates to give the elixir of life to the First Emperor, but he was beheaded by the leader of the rebel army.

Although the elixir was delivered, King Qin was worried about the effect of the medicine, so he immediately forced the princess to take it, but the princess passed out, and King Qin thought that the medicine was poisonous and did not take it

This is the ancient part of Wang Xiaohu's revised "Mythology" script, which mainly combines "Mythology" and Li Bihua's "Qin Warriors", the advantage of this is that it makes the love that has been waited for 2,000 years more perfect and moving, and the audience will not look too abrupt.

What's more, Wang Xiaohu's revised script has two large-scale war scenes: the first is to take the princess out of the enemy country's array, and the second is to deal with the robbery and killing of the prince and the prime minister.

"During my time in Hong Kong, I plan to have a few of our martial arts instructors design the action parts of these two major war scenes. Then arrange a group of dragon and tiger warriors to rehearse. Wang Xiaohu bit his pen cap and said to Yuan Heping: "Of course, our live shooting is on the mainland, and I will ask about a thousand PLA soldiers to play the soldiers of the Qin Dynasty." ”

"PLA soldiers?" Yuan Heping was a little puzzled when he heard this, "It's okay for PLA soldiers to protect their families and protect the country, but I'm afraid it won't work for them to film, they have no professional training!" ”

Wang Xiaohu laughed, pointed at Yuan Heping and said: "Big eyes, you don't know something, don't look at this group of People's Liberation Army has not been trained as actors, but they are organized and disciplined, and it is easier to command." And they are soldiers themselves, and it is very suitable to play soldiers in the film, where can I find such a suitable extra. ”

"But will they be able to listen to us?" Yuan Heping was still puzzled.

Wang Xiaohu waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I have friends on the mainland, and there is no problem in mobilizing a thousand people." ”

Yuan Heping blinked, and said in his heart Ah Hu, you are becoming more and more unfathomable, I am afraid that only you can maintain such a good relationship with the mainland in Hong Kong, and even the soldiers of the People's Liberation Army can call it!

"I'm afraid it's not enough for just a few of us, we need art directors, photographers, drama managers, etc., and for such a big scene, I'm afraid it will take several." Yuan Heping thought about it and said.

Wang Xiaohu nodded: "Well, I've thought about it, let's come out of Hong Kong with a batch, and then let the mainland cooperate." In terms of photographers, I plan to transfer Xie Dongshen and Li Qingsheng, who studied in Hollywood, back, and bring Wang Jiaxin and Zhang Yuan over with the props, what we need most in this line is martial arts guidance, you, I, Yuan Biao, Yuan De, and Yuan Kui have all participated, and the mobilization meeting will start tomorrow. ”

After Wang Jiaen's two-year-old birthday, Wang Xiaohu immediately put all the seven small blessings in a hurry to hold a meeting in the company, and when all the personnel arrived, Wang Xiaohu sent a script to each person, and then coughed twice and said: "Brothers, the company is going to prepare a big drama this year, because the scene is grand, so I invite you to come together to help design the action, you have half of the script of this play on hand, and ask everyone to put down their work during this time and work together to design the action." ”

When the Seven Xiaofu brothers heard this, they hurriedly read the script, their reaction was similar to Yuan Heping, and they were all stunned, but soon, they became excited one by one, and it was also a rare opportunity for them to participate in such a big movie action design, and I believe that after the baptism of this big drama, they have more experience in martial arts guidance and directing in the film industry.

"Do you have faith?" Wang Xiaohu asked, hugging his arms.

"Yes!" Qi Xiaofu replied neatly and loudly.

(To be continued)