"How's the company doing?"

After returning to Hong Kong, Wang Xiaohu immediately summoned Yuan Heping, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Xu Guanwen and Huang Baiming for a meeting. [No pop-up novel network]

"Modern Bodyguard" has completed the filming work in Concord Studios, and the set can be vacated." Xu Guanwen was the first to speak, after all, he was the earliest owner of the satellite company of Concord. "There is probably more than a month of shooting time left, counting the month of post-production, it can basically catch up with the Spring Festival."

"Sanmao, where are you?"

You must know that Sammo Hung, Huang Baiming, and Mai Jia have collaborated on four movies, "Tooth Shaker Tiger", "Tiger Field Chicken", "Ghost Fight", and "Involuntarily".

"Ugh." After Sammo Hung looked at Huang Baiming, he said: "The filming of the two tiger scenes is basically normal, "Ghost Fight" has not yet started, and the actors of "Involuntarily" have not been determined. ”

Four movies a year, even Sammo Hung can't bear it, of course, these four dramas are basically Xinyicheng and them as the main force, so let's take a look at Huang Baiming before Sammo Hung's report just now.

"How long will it take?" Wang Xiaohu frowned, it is obvious that the progress of this kind of work is not very fast, and every play takes up quite a lot of time, Wang Xiaohu also plans to let Sammo Hung direct "Shaolin Temple".

Sammo Hung pulled his hair vigorously and said: "It will take half a year at the earliest, and if it is faster, I am afraid that the quality of the film will not be guaranteed." ”

Wang Xiaohu nodded, since the establishment of Concord, it has always adhered to the high-quality route, if the quality of the film is not good, Wang Xiaohu would rather not pass the script.

At present, it seems that Sammo Hung can't get out, and if he had known, he wouldn't have let the senior brother take on so many scenes at once.

Wang Xiaohu sighed, turned his head and asked Jackie Chan again: "Ah Long, where is your "Young Master Dragon" filmed?" ”

"Hmm, it's time to shoot the place where the shuttlecock kicks and grabs the mountain bag, and I'm setting up a set in the film and television city these days, and the scene of grabbing the mountain bag is a bit big, and it will probably take a month."

Jackie Chan is a little unsure, after all, in the past, big-scene movies like "Police Story" were filmed by Wang Xiaohu himself, and then Jackie Chan was pleasantly surprised to find that the big scene can improve the audience's perception and excitement, so this kind of scene was arranged at the end of "Young Master Dragon", and the mountain bag is actually a copy of American football.

"Okay, it's still the same sentence, don't be afraid of the big scene, pay attention to the safety of the martial artists, and don't make negative news that is not good for the company." Wang Xiaohu still recognizes Jackie Chan's current work attitude, which can be seen from the tone of his speech and his attitude at every meeting.

This Jackie Chan has changed a lot from the Jackie Chan in his previous life, and this change is a bit inclined to himself. Wang Xiaohu could vaguely sense that Jackie Chan was imitating himself, but he didn't break it.

"The filming of "Brave and Fearless" is almost completed, and "Qimen Dunjia" has not yet started."

Yuan Heping didn't wait for Wang Xiaohu to ask, and reported his work first.

Wang Xiaohu nodded, "In this way, except for Big Eyes, other companies will proceed according to the original plan, pay attention to have a good relationship with other film companies during the Spring Festival PK, especially those directors who have been turned into a new wave by the media, don't take it lightly if they don't shoot commercial films." ”

"Okay, that's all for today, after you go back, you all think about what else is missing, I will stay in Hong Kong for a week, and then go to the mainland, then, let's dismiss."

Wang Xiaohu clapped his hands, dealt with the company's problems in the past month, and announced the dismissal of the meeting.

"Ah Hu, you just said at the meeting that you have other arrangements for me." Yuan Heping stayed, staring at Wang Xiaohu with big eyes.

"Yes." Wang Xiaohu nodded and said: "This time I borrowed a good theme in the mainland, well, it's about "Shaolin Temple", I want you to postpone the filming of "Qimen Dunjia" and get this movie done first." ”

After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking, he told Yuan Heping about the plot of "Shaolin Temple", and the latter frowned a little after listening to it: "Ah Hu, it seems that the type of Shaolin has been almost filmed by the Shaw Brothers, as far as I know, the Shaw brothers filmed no less than 100 films ten years ago, and in recent years, Liu Jialiang Brothers' "Shaolin Thirty-six Rooms" and "Shaolin Tent Master" have been of high quality, I'm afraid not."

"You're worried about no box office?" Wang Xiaohu looked at Yuan Heping with a smile: "Are you still worried that if this drama hits the street, it will affect your reputation as a director?" ”

Yuan Heping shook his head and said: "Reputation doesn't matter, after all, your reputation is bigger than mine, you are not afraid of ruining your reputation, what am I afraid of." ”

Yuan Heping smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "You're right, I'm worried about the box office, and I'm afraid that the audience will be aesthetically tired of Shaolin's theme." ”

"Then we'll make a movie that makes them not aesthetically tired!" Wang Xiaohu shrugged his shoulders and said, "Tell you, I selected a group of martial arts athletes this time, all of whom are mainland martial arts champions. ”

"Is Jay like that?" Yuan Heping was stunned, the name of martial arts champion made him quickly think of Jet Li.

"Yes, I almost forgot, your friend's son was also dug up by me, and I will take you to see him later, his name is Donnie Yen, the son of Mai Baochan."

After Wang Xiaohu finished speaking, Yuan Heping laughed and said, "His mother called me." Well, if the actors in the mainland this time are all of the same level as Jie Zai, I can basically rest assured. ”

"Okay, now let's talk about the action design of Shaolin Temple"

It wasn't until noon that Wang Xiaohu and Yuan Heping walked out of the conference room, and when they were eating in the restaurant of Concord Company, Wang Xiaohu met Li Shaonan and Gu Zhaofeng, several of their screenwriters.

"Shaonan, how is the script of "Shanghai Tang" prepared?"

"Master, it's a complete draft, and I was going to send it to you this afternoon." Li Shaonan ran to Wang Xiaohu's table with the lunch box, sat down and said, "It's basically written according to your requirements." ”

“ok。” Wang Xiaohu patted him on the shoulder and said, "After dinner, I went to my office to take the outline of the script of "Shaolin Temple" for polishing, and there is no need to make it too complicated, especially in terms of dialogue. ”

"Hmm. Listening to what you say, Master, I feel that this book should be very simple. Li Shaonan took a bite of rice and said.

"Almost, it's probably the easiest job you've ever had in the industry." Wang Xiaohu laughed

When he returned home in the evening, Wang Xiaohu turned on the TV, and there were two TVs in his home, one receiving TVB TV and the other receiving Li's TV station.

"Why aren't you idle when you get home?" Zhao Yazhi sat next to him with a smile: "Hey, it's "Chameleon" directed by Li's Xu Xiaoming, an old film from four years ago. ”

Wang Xiaohu sighed and said, "Yes, it seems that the struggle between TVB and Lidi is getting stronger and stronger." ”

Since TVB spent a lot of money to poach Xiao Sheng from Li's three major martial arts instructors, Xu Xiaoming and Cheng Xiaodong are Li's big celebrities, the former directed "Silkworm Transformation" and "Chameleon" once fought in the ring with "Jingwumen" that year, but because the plot and set are no longer on the same level as "Jingwumen", the ratings failed miserably.

It's not that these two TV series are not good-looking, at least Wang Xiaohu watched "Silkworm Transformation" when he was a child, and he would hum the theme song inside, which shows that Xu Xiaoming, a martial arts instructor, also has high attainments, but he was born at the wrong time and met the reborn Wang Xiaohu.

"What are you thinking?" Zhao Yazhi couldn't help but ask when she saw her husband pondering.

Wang Xiaohu smiled and said, "I want to dig Xu Xiaolong over." ”

"You're going to dig the foot of the wall again?" Zhao Yazhi blinked her big beautiful eyes and smiled bitterly: "If that's the case, Lidi won't have an advantage in martial arts TV series." ”

"Isn't there still Cheng Xiaodong?" Wang Xiaohu said nonchalantly: "Don't worry about this. I haven't told you yet, we're going to Shanghai in a week to shoot the location, and before that, you're going to go with me to our ancestral home to recognize our ancestors. ”

Zhao Yazhi nodded and said, "Okay, I also want to see what your ancestral home is like." ”

On the third night after Wang Xiaohu returned to Hong Kong, he secretly met Xu Xiaoming at Yingji Cha Sun.

"Mr. Wang, I don't know what you have to do with me."

Xu Xiaoming has long hair, he is one year older than Wang Xiaohu, and he still looks relatively handsome, otherwise he would not have become Li's popular student.

"Actually, I came to you this time to persuade you to change jobs." Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

is so direct, so straightforward, and even said the words that made him jump ship without any cover-up, Xu Xiaoming still thinks that he heard it wrong.

He plucked out his ears and said, "I, I heard you right, right? ”

"You heard it right, I have a good script and want you to make it into a TV series, of course I can cooperate with Lidi to shoot, but if I do that, it will make my situation very embarrassing, so I think it's the best way to dig into Li's corner."

Xu Xiaoming bit his lip and took a sip of tea, it was obvious that Wang Xiaohu had his concerns when he said this, after all, he used to be the major shareholder of TVB, and Run Run Shaw was his father-in-law, if he cooperated with Li, it would indeed make the two families fall out.

"What type of script?" Xu Xiaoming asked with some emotion, after all, the current Concord Company is the best film company in Hong Kong, and the salary of their employees is as much as twice that of other companies, but this company has strict control over employees, and rarely hears about Concord's external recruitment and poaching.

Wang Xiaohu said unhurriedly: "Huo Yuanjia." ”

"Hehe, Mr. Wang, you're really kidding!" Xu Xiaoming said haha: "If I'm not mistaken, you filmed a "Jingwumen" for TVB back then, and that TV series beat Li's miserably, and it only improved a little bit after a year." ”

"This type is not very good, if I come to receive it, I will definitely not be able to surpass Mr. Wang."

"You've also watched "Jingwumen", haven't you found that the core of "Jingwumen" is actually Chen Zhen?" Wang Xiaohu picked up the teacup and said: "That's just my work to commemorate Bruce Lee, to put it bluntly, it's a ticket." ”

"Poof!" Xu Xiaoming squirted out a sip of tea, but fortunately, he didn't spray it on Wang Xiaohu's face in time.

Xu Xiaoming said: If you are playing tickets, how can we be embarrassed to make TV people, playing tickets will make such a classic TV series that is beyond people's reach, if you don't play tickets, people will not be able to live?

Wang Xiaohu didn't blame him for his gaffe, but said seriously: "There are very few introductions about Huo Yuanjia in "Jingwumen", I think the script is a comprehensive introduction to Huo Yuanjia's growth from the young master of the Huo family to a generation of heroes, and the image of Huo Yuanjia is completely plumped. ”

Xu Xiaoming saw that Wang Xiaohu was not joking, and the purpose of the script he said was very attractive, and he suddenly opened his mouth, yes, at first he frowned because this theme was filmed into a TV series by Wang Xiaohu, and Liu Jialiang did not play many roles in Huo Yuanjia in "Jingwumen", and the audience did not know much about how Huo Yuanjia grew up before, which is definitely a good idea to increase ratings.

"Mr. Wang, give me a few days to think about it, okay?" Xu Xiaoming pondered for a while and then said.

“ok！” Wang Xiaohu said with a smile.

Before leaving, Xu Xiaoming suddenly asked: "Mr. Wang, aren't you afraid that I will reject you, and then tell Li's company this good idea, and then we will shoot it ourselves?" ”

Wang Xiaohu gently curled the corners of his mouth, spread his hands and said: "It doesn't matter, whoever shoots is the same, anyway, I still have a lot of good scripts in my head, and if you do this, you won't be Xu Xiaoming." ”

"Well, Mr. Wang, you really think so highly of me." Wang Xiaohu's words won Xu Xiaoming's great favor. He had already decided that even if he didn't agree to Wang Xiaohu, he wouldn't tell Li's company executives about this idea.

Moreover, Xu Xiaoming believes that the good script in Wang Xiaohu's mind is definitely not just about Huo Yuanjia's genre, as he said, making TV series is just his act of playing tickets, and his current Concord Company's main focus is on movies.

"Hey, I'm really embarrassed!" Xu Xiaoming sighed, on the one hand, he had just gained a firm foothold in Li, and on the other hand, it was an olive branch thrown by Hong Kong's largest film company, everyone knows that making movies is more profitable than shooting TV series in these years.

"Maybe it's a good opportunity for me to move from TV to film!" Xu Xiaoming frowned and pondered.

After several trade-offs and ideological struggles, Xu Xiaoming seemed to vaguely know what he should do.

At the same time, Wang Xiaohu, who was in the tea house, looked at the teacup in his hand and muttered to himself: "First win "Shanghai Tang", then get "Huo Yuanjia", and then turn over the old TV series "Jingwumen", Hong Kong's TV market will be left to Shao Laodou, and I will occupy the TV market in the mainland." ”

This is Wang Xiaohu, in his mind, Hong Kong's TV market is as narrow as the film market, rather than being caught in the battle between Lidi and TVB, it is better to directly throw off his arms and impact the mainland, although the current mainland TV market is not yet mature, you must try the crab first.

(To be continued)