"Painted Skin" is an oriental love magic film co-produced by Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, based on the story of "Liaozhai Zhiwei", starring Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, and Zhou Xun, a scene of love and hate. The investment is claimed to be 100 million, and the final box office is 250 million, which is quite successful, and the sequel is a box office of 500 million.

It's just that the lens of the movie pays more attention to love, and lacks the real magical atmosphere, except for the success of Southeast Asia, other places can't understand this movie at all. Shao Shuaijun felt that it was necessary to make a lot of changes to "Painted Skin" to make the script more majestic and easier to understand.

is not only the pursuit of special effects, but also the pursuit of scenes, 200 million to practice, not extravagant and sorry for yourself. After all, if the movie is successful, he is the real king of the mainland, and no one dares to despise him anymore. In case of failure, it will not be like Chen Kaige, who filmed "Wu Ji", who has not slowed down for several years, because he is the boss himself, and he does not worry about no new movies to invest in shooting.

"200 million, I hope Lin Feizhong and Yu Dong will not be scared away."

Li Xiuxiu went to contact the investment, and Shao Shuaijun finally wrote the script of "Painted Skin" three days later. The changes to the original are mainly focused on the ending, using a large scene of dialogue, rather than a few people in the cave to love each other.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, Du Wei Wang Sheng and his wife Pei Rong were a loving couple known to everyone in the town, and Wang Sheng led the Wang family army to fight fiercely with the sand bandits in the Western Regions and rescued a beautiful woman, Xiao Wei. Xiao Wei is the nine-tailed fox dressed in human skin, its skin must be maintained by people's hearts, Xiao Yi who is transformed by desert lizards under his hands, every few days in Jiangdu City to kill people to worship Xiao Wei, making the whole city panic.

Xiao Wei fell in love with the brave and handsome Wang Sheng, and used witchcraft to charm Wang Sheng, trying to replace Pei Rong's position. But Pei Rong found out that she was not an ordinary person, and invited Pang Yong, the former commander of the Wang family's army, to investigate secretly, and finally found out that Xiao Wei was the nine-tailed demon fox, but Xiao Wei was a demon fox with tens of millions of subordinates, in order to save Wang Sheng and the people, Pei Rong resolutely decided to incarnate herself as a demon, leave Wang Sheng, and let Xiao Wei be Mrs. Wang.

Wang Sheng, who was scolded by Pang Yong and woke up, begged Xiao Wei to save Pei Rong, and Xiao Wei found out that Wang Sheng was just confused by witchcraft and didn't really love her. She angrily told Wang Sheng that if she wanted to save Pei Rong, she had to defeat her army of monsters. In the end, Wang Sheng led the Wang family army to strangle the monster army, and everyone was killed and wounded, and Wang Sheng was no longer able to continue.

So Wang Sheng and Pei Rong decided to die together, Xiao Wei was moved by the love of the two, and took out the elixir he cultivated to save the two. And she was beaten back to her original form as a fox and returned to the mountains. Wang Sheng and Pei Rong regained their loving lives. ”

The whole script is more simplistic, it is a shemale battle, as long as you have a little understanding, you can understand the story that the movie is going to tell. Shao Shuaijun has always believed that in order for a movie to be excellent and achieve a high box office, it must not be tricky, and the simpler it is, the more it can move people.

After the script was completed, Li Xiuxiu's phone call also came, and more than a dozen film and television investment companies interested in "Painted Skin" decided to ask Shao Shuaijun to elaborate on the script and see if it was worth investing in. The time is set for June 12, at Nortel's International Exchange Center.

The next day, Shao Shuaijun took the photocopied script and went to Nortel. This time, the heads of more than a dozen companies came over, plus Shao Shuaijun, the hottest director in the mainland, and Zhang Huijun, the principal, personally came to receive them, closed the exchange center, and forbade students from entering and leaving.

Wang Shiheng, deputy general manager of China Film Warner Hengdian Film and Television, Zhang Jing, general manager of Century Hero, Zhang Qiang, general manager of Forbidden City Pictures, Wang Zhonglei, vice president of Huayi Brothers, Teng Zhan, general manager of Jin Yingma Film and Television, Yu Dong, general manager of Poly Bona, Lin Feizhong, general manager of Media Asia Variety Film and Television, Wu Zhan, general manager of Huaxia Film, Lin Xiaoming, boss of Huanyu Film, Li Shubao, manager of Emperor Film, and heads of several smaller film investment companies, gathered together.

Shao Shuaijun briefly introduced the script of "Painted Skin" on stage, and then said: "This movie, I want to be close to "The Lord of the Rings", the shooting cost of the movie is expected to be 50 million, and the special effects production of the movie may cost 150 million or more, in terms of movie actors, I hope to use some young actors who are in the limelight as much as possible, such as Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Zhou Xun and others, if you have anything to ask about the movie, you can ask." ”

"Mr. Shao, I would like to ask, what is your box office expectation for the movie, and how do you consider the overseas market? You know that we are engaged in film investment, and we all like to make money rather than lose money, hehe. It was Lin Xiaoming, the boss of Huanyu Films, who impressed Shao Shuaijun the most that he cooperated with Zhou Xingxing in "Shaolin Football", and later fell out with the story.

"The box office has always been a college question, and you might expect a lot of money, but it loses. You might also play around casually and it makes a lot of money. However, I think that as long as the investment is in place and the shooting is done carefully, the market prospect of "Painted Skin" is predictable, and my positioning is 500 million Southeast Asian box office, as for North America and Europe, it is difficult to say. ”

"Then Mr. Shao's ascension to the sky, is he involved in this investment?"

"Not involved." Shao Shuaijun shook his head.

"Why?"

"There are three films to be made this year, and for a new company, three films are enough. Moreover, the investment direction of the Shuai Army is very clear, with a small cost and comedy, "Painted Skin" is too high-end. ”

"In other words, Painted Skin is very risky?"

"If I only make money and don't lose money, I will definitely borrow money to shoot it myself, and no longer look for investment. Make a movie, you can't know for sure whether it's a loss or a gain. Well, I've made the script clear, so it's up to you to think. Shao Shuaijun waved his hand and walked off the stage.

To be honest, he didn't want to shoot "Painted Skin" so much, he really just used it to practice, and if he couldn't get investment, he just went to shoot when he got it, it didn't matter. However, it is obvious that the success of the first few films has given this group of CEOs great confidence, and after a short discussion, the investment intention was determined in the afternoon.

After a long time of bargaining, there were six film companies left to jointly fund the filming of "Painted Skin", and Shao Shuaijun did not ask about the specific sharing model. The director's remuneration he received was 5% of the box office, which is worth the price with his current fame.

The bosses of more than a dozen film companies gathered at Nortel, which soon attracted countless reporters, and at the beginning of the day, the reporters finally waited for Shao Shuaijun and others who were about to go to the restaurant to have dinner and celebrate.

As the host, Principal Zhang Huijun was very happy to tell reporters: "Today, I think it is an epoch-making day, a film with the highest investment in the mainland has been announced in our school. As an outstanding student of our school, Shao Shuaijun's latest movie, "Painted Skin" with an investment of 500 million, has reached an investment agreement, and I believe that in the near future, everyone will be able to see this, an oriental magic blockbuster! ”

500 million is naturally boasting, and the film industry has long been accustomed to blowing 10 million into 30 million, and 100 million into 300 million.

Click! Click! The flash flashes.

The next day, countless newspaper headlines appeared with such a headline: The largest investment in the history of the new film project, Shao Shuaijun challenged the cost of 500 million.

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