Chapter 179: "Mr. Zombie" starts filming

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After the time entered 1984, Lin Jing became busier.

was busy with his studies, busy with the writing of "The Rise of a Great Power", and even "Love Letter", which had already determined the main character candidates, was hung high and put aside for the time being.

For Lin Jing's busyness, Wang Guxian, who still stayed in Hong Kong and occasionally came to see her, felt tired and couldn't help asking.

"Don't you feel tired when you're so busy, why bother to practice yourself?"

"It's not tired, it's fulfilling. Fulfillment, you know? ”

Obviously, Wang Guxian doesn't understand anything other than running on the set every day, playing a few insignificant small roles, and then having nothing to do.

"The world of Xueba is not something that mortals like me can understand."

So she had to use such an emotion as her own commentary.

Then Lin Jing said at the right time.

"Hmph, mortal wisdom!"

Wang Guxian had no choice but to run to the side and draw circles.

In this way, another month passed on New Year's Day.

During this month, 66 continued to release several films.

Among them is produced by Golden Harvest, produced by Hong Xinbao, directed by Qian Yuesheng, and starring Lin Zhengying, Dong Wei and Chen Long.

"People Scared of Ghosts" continues the popularity of ghost movies in the early 80s, inheriting the style of the previous work "People Scared" as a phantom comedy action film, combining traditional kung fu comedy elements, and also promoting the scenes of playing ghosts and ghosts and real ghosts, and the story is full of jokes and jokes.

And Lin Zhengying, Uncle Ying, finally became the protagonist from a supporting role in "People Are Scary", although he has not been able to show the magic of catching ghosts and catching zombies like the later zombie films, but he still showed off the pear orchard skills he learned from Pink Chrysanthemum.

It's just that the whole movie seems to be too obsessed with being funny, and a lot of funny jokes break up the main line, and the foreshadowing is not enough, and the result is that when it should be the "gaochao" part, all the fighting scenes are casually cutscene, and finally it ends hastily, a typical anticlimactic.

This also led to the unsatisfactory box office of "People Scared of Ghosts". Not only did he fail to pass "Scary" to the next level, but he couldn't even pass 10 million. Although it was profitable, it was also a fact that it failed to catch fire.

Hong Xinbao, who is the producer of this film, also believes that the "Ghost Fight" series may end with this "People Scared of Ghosts".

After the painting of "People Scare Ghosts", two popular films of the year came up.

One is the third sequel to Xinyicheng's "Best Partner", "Best Partner Queen's Secret Order", and the other is "Teppanyaki", the successor of Golden Harvest's "People Scared Ghosts".

These two films. What's more interesting is that the male protagonist of "Best Partner Queen's Secret" is Xu Guanjie, and the male protagonist of "Teppanyaki" is Xu Guanwen, and the two brothers each represent the two sworn enemies of Xinyicheng and Golden Harvest to fight in the ring on the big screen, I have to say, it is also a good attraction outside the big screen.

It's just a pity. In front of "Best Partner Empress Secret", although "Teppanyaki" is also good, it is still difficult to match.

In just one week of its release, the box office of "Best Partner Queen's Secret" left "Teppanyaki" far behind.

When the two movies were drawn, the total box office of "Best Partner Empress Secret Order" went to more than 290 million, while "Teppanyaki" was only more than 190 million, almost a gap of 10 million box office.

In this new year. At the beginning of the year, Jiahe lost to Xinyicheng and lost.

At this time, Jiahe misses the good results of last year.

Although Golden Harvest failed to beat Xinyicheng in terms of total box office revenue last year, with the 2.71 million of the annual box office champion "Food Truck" and the 24.13 million of "Plan A", the runner-up of the annual box office, it steadily surpassed the 23.27 million of Xinyicheng's "Best Partner: The Great Show of Magical Powers".

But this year, on the annual box office charts. Golden Harvest is a little hanging, because so far, there is no more Golden Harvest except for the already released "Teppanyaki". "Brave Double Cannon", which took over "Teppanyaki", has a good momentum, but looking at the box office trend, it is at most similar to "Teppanyaki". In Yue's "Best Partner: The Great Show", it failed to make people see hope.

And more importantly, except for these two masterpieces at the beginning of the year, Golden Harvest has no plans for large-scale production in the future. Therefore, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang are two. It's all a little anxious.

The screenwriters of the two masterpieces "Plan A" and "Fast Food Truck" that won last year were Lin Jing, and the screenwriters of the other two movies "Happy" and "Dao Ma Dan" that exceeded 20 million were also Lin Jing.

"Is it going to end up falling on Lin Jing?" He Guanchang thought about it for a long time, and only thought of such a way that was not a solution.

But this year, Lin Jing's script, which can dominate the world and is known as the "golden script", is no longer so easy to invite with the rise of Time and Space Film Studio. After all, everyone else has their own film production company, so why do you have to work hard to write a popular script for you.

What's more, last year, one of the foundations of the cooperation between Golden Harvest and Lin Jing was that Lin Jing's time and space film studio also needed Golden Harvest's cinema chain. And now, there are rumors that there are rumors outside, Time and Space Film Studio has reached a consensus with Shaw Brothers Films, and Shaw Brothers Films is ready to withdraw from the field of film production, specializing in the field of television, and lease all its theater chains to Time and Space Film Studios.

As an insider, He Guanchang naturally has his own news channels and knows that this rumor is true, and just some time ago, the lease contract was signed. Although not all of the Shaw Brothers cinema chain is leased to Time and Space Film Studios, Time and Space Film Studios has indeed managed to own 13 movie theaters, and all of them are large theaters with more than 100 seats.

Time and Space Film Studio can produce zuò films on its own, and now the only screening channels to curb its exhibition have been solved, and Time and Space Film Studio is equivalent to a dragon entering the sea, and there is nothing that can hinder its development and growth.

Thinking of this, He Guanchang shook his head, he no longer thought that inviting Lin Jing to the script would be successful. Although the cooperation between Golden Harvest and Lin Jing has always been pleasant, the relationship between Hong Xinbao and Lin Jing, as a member of Golden Harvest's "fierce general", is even better.

He Guanchang, who was sitting in the office and felt depressed, walked out, but as soon as he went out, he saw Hong Xinbao coming in a hurry.

"Xinbao is here." Generally speaking, Hong Xinbao stays in his own branch and rarely comes to the head office of Golden Harvest.

"What is it?" Hong Xinbao greeted.

"Come to the head office today, what's the matter?" He Guanchang asked casually.

"Nothing special, just come over and report for a new film project." This year, Hong Xinbao and Cen Jianxun started another film company called "Debao". "Brave Double Cannon", which is under the name of Golden Harvest and is still in theaters, is the new work of this "Debao".

Hong Xinbao is like this, he always seems to like the new and hate the old in the film company, believing that the old does not go to the new and the new does not come, and is keen to build a new one every once in a while. In just a few years, from Baohe to Debao. The film company changed three or four.

He Guanchang looked at Hong Xinbao, his eyes were a little complicated.

Hong Xinbao's film production company, and the movies produced by Zuò, are all paid a fixed salary, and there has never been a dividend, no matter how high the box office of the movie is. Although his salary. is much higher than the vast majority of filmmakers, but this high is nothing compared to the box office revenue of "Food Truck", which is close to 30 million, and it is no wonder that he has such thoughts.

Maybe he wants to ask for the influence of Golden Harvest and jump out of Golden Harvest. He Guanchang said in his heart.

"Isn't "Brave Double Cannon" just released, and there will be new projects so soon?" He Guanchang asked. After asking, before Hong Xinbao could answer, he said in a mocking tone, "It won't be a new golden script, right?" ”

The so-called golden script refers to the script written by Lin Jing, although the weight is small, it is as valuable as gold.

"Where is the golden script so easy to get." How could Hong Xinbao not understand what He Guanchang meant by the "golden script" in his mouth, and smiled. replied, "It's the sequel to "Double Dragons Go to Sea" to "Brave Double Cannon". ”

"Brave Double Cannon" is a hit at the box office, and the newly established "Debao" can be regarded as the first shot, and this is the time to take advantage of the situation to pursue. Whether it is Hong Xinbao or Cen Jianxun, they both think this way and do so.

"I see." He Guanchang was a little disappointed.

"In fact, Ah Jing did write a new script." It's just that He Guanchang has just expressed his disappointment. Hong Xinbao's next sentence aroused his interest again.

"New script, isn't it?" Hearing that Lin Jing wrote a new script, it seemed that he still had the intention of handing it over to Hong Xinbao, He Guanchang's eyes suddenly lit up. The thought that had just been extinguished burned again.

"It's just a pity that she has to leave this script to her own company." Hong Xinbao seems to have come specifically to attack He Guanchang today, and there were big ups and downs in his words.

"That's a shame." He Guanchang sighed, and he still had a sentence "How good it would be if it could be handed over to Jiahe to make zuò".

"But she's going to invite me to be the executive producer, and let Gen Bolai star in it." Hong Xinbao's words are not shocking, and he is endless.

Lin Zhengying used to have a name called Genbao, Hong Xinbao and Lin Zhengying played from childhood to adulthood, although Lin Zhengying has changed his name, but he is still used to calling him Genbao in private. It's like Hong Xinbao's brothers are used to calling him Sanmao.

"Miss Lin's courage is rare in the film industry." Without the idea of inviting dramas from Lin Jing, He Guanchang quickly restored his true colors as the big boss of Jiahe and commented on the characters.

"Haha." Hong Xinbao smiled, saying that he was also satisfied with Lin Jing's courage.

In fact, things are not as complicated as He Guanchang thought, what is not courageous, what Lin Jing thinks is purely a zombie film like "Mr. Zombie", which Uncle Ying can't act.

The script of "Mr. Zombie", the first film in the "Zombie Daochang" series of films, after Lin Jing's "spur", the screenwriting team of Time and Space Film Studio "exhausted", in Wang Jing's exaggerated words, worked hard, and finally passed the review.

This version of "Mr. Zombie", although it can't be said to be perfect, is indeed better than the original.

With the script and abundant funds, it is natural that the project can be launched.

But before filming started, Lin Jing still had a few points to consider.

In terms of overall style, "Mr. Zombie" is actually a comedy action movie, although it has the coat of a phantom. Action scenes account for a large proportion of it. As a director, Wang Jing has made a lot of movies, but he is not good at reading action scenes.

In the previous films, on the basis of grasping the overall style, he concentrated on filming literary dramas, and handed over martial arts to action directors to shoot.

In this way, Lin Jing must find a good action director. And just right, Lin Zhengying, who has been booked as the starring role, is also an excellent martial arts instructor.

Beginning in the seventies, he began to work as a martial arts instructor. It has always been relished that he used to be an action director in Bruce Lee's "Big Brother Tangshan", "Enter the Dragon", "Game of Death" and other films, and worked with Bruce Lee to design action scenes for these films.

It can be said that in action scenes, Lin Zhengying has qualifications and talents, and is fully qualified for the position of action director of "Mr. Zombie".

Of course, no matter how capable Lin Zhengying is, he is only one person after all. A lot of action scenes that require a lot of action actors and stuntmen behind the scenes to complete. At this point, it is precisely what the space-time film studio lacks, after all, although the space-time film studio has risen quickly, the time is still too short, and many departments have not yet had time to improve.

Therefore, Lin Jing also invited Hong Xinbao to be the producer, one of the purposes was to let Hong Jiaban help make this film.

And with such a big Buddha as the big brother in Hong Kong's film industry, Wang Jing, who is so happy and in love, probably won't dare to be too reckless to point fingers at areas he is not familiar with, and at the same time, it will also reduce many other unnecessary troubles and branches.

With the producer, director, and behind-the-scenes crew, all that's left to do is gather the rest of the original. The original version is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, including Lin Jing, so she is not prepared to make too many changes.

For example, the two apprentices of Uncle Jiu, Qian Xiaohao, the actor of the rich and handsome Qiusheng, Xu Guanying, the actor of the Silk Wencai, the female ghost Dong Xiaoyu, the actor Wang Xiaofeng, who is known as the ghost queen, and Lou Nanguang, the actor of the security captain Ah Wei.

Once you've identified the main characters who can have a lot of leeway, the rest is much simpler.

Ren Tingting, who exists as a corner of the vase, is actually as long as she is young and beautiful. However, the original Li Saifeng acted well in it, and she had a good relationship with Lin Jing, so she still plays it now.

Others, the **oss of the whole film, the zombie king Ren Weiyong, under the fact that the fertilizer water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, was still handed over to the original Yuan Hua, who is now a member of the Hong family class.

The cameo four-eyed Taoist Chen You, the rice shop owner Wu Ma, the rice shop owner's son Ah Caitian Qiwen and so on.

In addition, as the first part of the series of movies, "Mr. Zombie" deliberately buried a few foreshadowings, such as Mr. Feng Shui, which did not appear in the original version, which will be an important character in the later series of films.

After the preparations are completed and everything is ready, "Mr. Zombie" is finally ready to be filmed.