When Du Qifeng learned that Chen Ping'an was looking for him to be the assistant director, a trace of excitement flashed in his calm eyes.

In Hong Kong, Chen Ping'an's assistant director is not for everyone.

Counting with his fingers, Xu Ke, Wang Jing, Guan Jinpeng, Cheng Xiaodong, Chen Jiashang...... These people have all been Chen Ping'an's assistant directors. Although Xu Ke and Wang Jing were already very famous directors before they became assistant directors for Chen Ping'an, what about the rest?

Especially Chen Jiashang, he is simply Du Qifeng's role model!

Chen Jiashang joined Dark Horse International with Xu Ke's film studio, first as a screenwriter, and later became Chen Ping'an's assistant director, assisting Chen Ping'an in shooting many movies, and now he has begun to direct movies by himself.

Now he's working on a "Midnight Bell" flavor thriller that is scheduled to be released this Halloween. Zhang Yijia is the producer of this thriller, but unlike Huang Baiming and Xu Ke who are producers of Du Qifeng and Cheng Xiaodong, she is just a name, occasionally checking the crew's accounts, and most of the power is concentrated in Chen Jia's hands.

The outside world is full of expectations for this thriller film called "Dark" directed by Chen Jiashang. Because he served as the assistant director of "Midnight Bell", "Oriental Daily" has taken it to a new level.

"Midnight Bell" directed by Chen Ping'an not only created a new genre for Hong Kong horror films, but also became a world-renowned Hong Kong-style thriller on behalf of Hong Kong. Chen Jiashang, who has been sharpening his sword for ten years, wrote and directed his debut thriller and suspense film "Dark Night", and I believe that it will be the best Hong Kong-style thriller after "Midnight Bell" ......"

Since "Midnight Bell", there have been many horror film directors in Hong Kong. There are also many follow-up films, but unfortunately in addition to the film directed by Yu Yunkang of Xinyicheng, it has a bit of Hong Kong-style thriller spirit. Other horror films have not yet jumped out of the original Hong Kong horror film model, and they are too pretentious.

It's Japan. Many thrillers have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and they understand the connotation of the Hong Kong-style thriller "Midnight Bell" very well, and it is very popular in Japan. Some people have already said that the seeds of Hong Kong-style thrillers planted by Chen Ping'an will blossom in Japan.

This time, Chen Jiashang's own "Dark" also has the meaning of winning glory for Hong Kong, so it is very expected.

Chen Ping'an has read the script of "It's Dark", and the name is very ordinary, Chen Ping'an can't help but want to complain. But the content is not bad. Chen Jiashang has been a screenwriter for many years, and the time he has been with Chen Ping'an is not short, and he has been affected by it, and his script creation has begun to have the flavor of jumping out of the scope of the times.

In general, the script of "It's Dark", except for the name, the content is quite good, suspense and thriller coexist. It's just that there's still a lack of coherence in one go.,Overall, it's a book worth praising for.。

The rest depends on Chen Jiashang, the director, whether he can grasp it during the filming process.

In order to give Chen Jiashang a little motivation, Chen Ping'an once looked for him. said that if this movie is smashed, he will come back and continue to be an assistant director for himself, and he will not open a new film for three years.

Du Qifeng used to play TV series. is also a wireless old man, the 83 version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". He is one of the executive directors.

He has a good relationship with Huang Baiming, when Huang Baiming was the executive chairman of Xinyicheng a few years ago. I didn't look for him to film. "Happy Ghosts" and "The Seven Year Itch", two films of Xinyicheng, are directed by him.

However, the power of the crew is still in the hands of producer Huang Baiming, and he, the director, has a bit of a puppet quality. Even if this year's "Eight Star Annunciation" has a box office of nearly 40 million, what is really remembered is the producer Huang Baiming, who is more like an executive director.

It is precisely because the movies he directed are all under the aura of Huang Baiming, so he did not ask himself to open a new play, and the company did not arrange it for him. Now that Chen Ping'an has named him as an assistant director to assist him in filming a Christmas film, he knows that his opportunity has come.

"Go Left, Go Right?"

The name of this script is a bit strange, but he doesn't dare to underestimate it, because it was created by Chen Ping'an.

Chen Ping'an smiled: "Let's take a look first." ”

Before Du Qifeng came to the office, Zhang Yijia simply read the script. For this script, she has a bad evaluation.

After reading the script, Du Qifeng and Zhang Yijia feel the same, the book "Go Left, Go Right" is not the same as the current Hong Kong films, it can be said that it is not the same way at all.

How to put it, pure and pure. It is not only different from the funny, hot, violent or action and other popular elements of commercial films, but also different from the light and elegant literary style of literary films.

In short, it's weird, if the current Hong Kong films are full of fast-paced and exciting, which makes people's blood boil after watching it, then the book "Go Left, Go Right" gives people a kind of bubbling calm, as if in the atrium of people's hearts, injecting a trickle of clear stream, so that the hearts of people living in a fast pace give birth to a faint warmth.

On the whole, this film is biased towards literary films, but the feeling of small and fresh is completely different from the current literary films with "bitterness, hatred and deep hatred" and "pathos" as the main tone. It's hard to say how the market reacted after the release.

If it was an ordinary director, he came to Zhang Yijia with this kind of book, and Zhang Yijia probably called back directly. Even if it is a director who has become famous like Xu Ke and Guan Jinpeng, she has to think about it.

But now, it is Chen Ping'an who has taken out this book, and Chen Ping'an has never missed it since his debut, so even if he has doubts about this book, Zhang Yijia can't say anything. can only wait and see, maybe Chen Ping'an's miracle can continue.

After Chen Ping'an stepped into the Hong Kong film industry, every film he has shot so far has been a success. Even if it is a documentary, it has become a sensation in the United States and won the Oscar for Best Documentary.

The only film that missed should have been "Mom Loves Me Again", which was filmed last year, and suffered a miserable box office after its release in Taiwan, and was not listed in Hong Kong at all.

But this is the opinion of the outside world, but the top management of Dark Horse International does not see it that way, in their opinion, the success of this film with a very small investment is no less than other films shot by Chen Ping'an, because Jiang Zhiqiang has already operated this film to the mainland according to Chen Ping'an's instructions.

This was Chen Ping'an's compulsory order, and Jiang Zhiqiang was still in love at first, worried that he would have trouble with the mainland.

Oh, it failed to be released in Taiwan, and it was not released in Hong Kong at all, you asked me to introduce it from the mainland, and I look down on the mainland, don't you?

But after the relevant departments in the mainland reviewed the film, they made a decision at the moment, and this is it! In their eyes, this film will be the best film among all Hong Kong and Taiwan films introduced by the mainland this year.

The mainland side is also full of praise for the Dark Horse International Film Company, which made this film, believing that it is a conscientious film company, which not only has excellent educational significance, but also truly reflects the current situation in Taiwan in the movie.

According to the news fed back by Jiang Zhiqiang, the mainland is preparing to release the film nationwide, and will arrange schools, enterprises and institutions to organize the viewing of the film, receive the baptism of the soul, and improve the ideological understanding.

Hong Kong and Taiwan movies that can enjoy this kind of treatment are rare. At the wine table, there were officials from relevant departments who drank too much and lost their words, telling Sù Jiang Zhiqiang that the box office of this movie is likely to catch up with "Shaolin Temple".

Of course, in view of the mainland film mechanism, even if the mainland box office of "Mom is in Me Once" exceeds 100 million, Dark Horse International will not be able to share much, at most it will make money from selling copies, and it will not be a problem to recover costs.

However, the benefits that this film brings to Dark Horse International are not that money can measure, but that the government has been recognized by the mainland, and many relevant policies will be taken care of.

In the past two years, with the relaxation of Taiwan's policies and the change of the mainland system, the joint production between Hong Kong and Taiwan and the mainland has gradually begun.

Xu Xiaoming also talked to Chen Ping'an about this, but Chen Ping'an's current experience is in the United States, so he didn't consider it for the time being.

Zhang Yijia is the person who knows "Mom Loves Me Again", she remembers very well that when she was filming in Taiwan, Chen Ping'an said that this movie was not going to be released in Hong Kong and Taiwan. If Lianhai Pictures hadn't kept persuading and forcibly releasing it, it wouldn't have messed up.

Earlier, this incident set off a discussion in Hong Kong public opinion, saying that Chen Ping'an Jianglang had begun to lose his hand. But Zhang Yijia knows very well that when this movie is released on a large scale in the mainland next summer and autumn, no one will mention the miss again!

"Boss, what do I need to do now?" Du Qifeng closed the script and asked.

It's not that he doesn't have opinions, but he is an assistant director for Chen Ping'an, which is different from the usual assistant director.

"Aren't you curious about the heroes and heroines of this play?"

"According to the convention, the male protagonist must be the boss, is the heroine, isn't public opinion hyping up now, is it the champion of this year's Asian sister?"

"You're half right. The male protagonist is indeed me, and the female protagonist has nothing to do with Sister Ya. ”

"Unrelated? Can it be in the media? ”

"The media? Hehe, I'll go with their tone? ”

"Then, the heroine of this play is ......"

"Zhou Huimin."

"Brother Dayou's rookie singer?" Zhang Yijia was full of gossip.

Du Qifeng was also surprised: "Angel? Former RTHK hostess? ”

Nima, I thought you knew I was an angel, can you not speak so lightly!

Chen Ping'an was stunned for a moment and nodded: "That's right, it's her." I think her image and temperament are very suitable for the heroine in this movie, and the theme song of this movie is also given to her to sing. Lao Du, when I went to the United States, you worked hard, you had to worry a lot about the crew, framing, casting, etc., Ah V's acting skills may be relatively immature, you take her and tell her about the play. ”

"No problem."

"Oh yes, there's one more thing. I plan to make this film into a comic and publish it in the newspaper first. The candidate is already being found, and it is estimated that there will be news soon. When the time comes, you can cooperate with him. ”

Caricature? Comics before making a movie? This routine is unreasonable! (To be continued......) R1292