Of course, when it comes to specific issues, Xiao Ran still has to help Liu Kui make this first movie.

This comedy movie is actually the script of "The Best Friend" in the previous life, although this movie definitely can't talk about depth, but there are still a lot of jokes, and the cost of filming is not too high.

So this time the budget is still 30 million, and Xiao Ran even thinks that after the filming, there should be a little money left for publicity, you can advertise on the "People's Daily", or contact the major TV stations to advertise, and there should be no problem with leaving 10 million for publicity.

Because Yida Group has also seen that if Xiao Ran's new comedy film is finally successful this time, I am afraid that the new film company will rise again.

Therefore, in addition to investment, Yida Group did not help too much this time, and handed it all over to Xiao Ran to deal with himself.

Because of the 40% share of a star art city, five movies a year is actually Xiao Ran's bottom line, and using this condition in exchange for the investment of Yida Group and the national cinema screening, and more importantly, of course, the overseas sales port.

After using Xingyi City to stabilize the cooperation between the two sides, all the newly opened companies must be handled according to independent production, and Yida Group can no longer interfere, all of which will be handled by Xiao Ran himself.

Xiao Ran, who has made a name for himself, is now short of a few pioneering works, and it is enough to be able to support a few brand-new companies.

Although Xiao Ran feels that this "Best Friend" has no connotation, as a funny comedy, it is actually qualified, after all, Liu Kui, who directed for the first time, is really not suitable for filming too complicated movies.

And almost all the scenes in "Best Friend" can be completed in the office, movie theater, residential area and parking lot in the city. It's all live-action now, but it's still more than in the desert. In the mountains and snow, or in real scenes like "Mr. Zombie" that require special Republican-style architecture. The reality of "Best Friend" is simply too easy to solve.

"Xiao Ran, the actor's problem can be implemented in two days, right?"

Liu Kui's words made Xiao Ran inevitably start to think, in fact, the hero and heroine of this movie are easy to find, one is handsome and handsome, the other is beautiful and cute, and there is no shortage of this kind of actor in the entire entertainment industry!

At this time, Xiao Ran suddenly laughed and said, "This is still not easy to find?" Uncle Luo, please come over for a while. ”

At this time, as soon as Wang Luo heard Xiao Ran summoning him, he hurriedly ran over: "What's the matter?" Xiao Ran, is there already a role that suits me? ”

Xiao Ran suddenly straightened his face and said sternly: "There is no role suitable for you!" Because just now the fourth senior brother told me that you farted to sleep when you started work that year, and went to the set with dark circles under your eyes, but you were kicked out by the director. Is there such a thing! ”

When Wang Luo heard this, his eyes immediately widened, and he suddenly grabbed Liu Kui's shoulder and shouted: "Old Liu, you are dead on the street, and you have a lung!" If you slander Lao Tzu like this in front of your junior brother, I will strangle you bastard! ”

At this time, Xiao Ran waved his hand at him and said, "It's okay, Uncle Luo!" After the test, I am very satisfied with your response, there is already a suitable role for you, and I will notify you to start work in a few days. ”

At this time, when Wang Luo heard Xiao Ran's words, he was immediately stunned. Then he started laughing on the spot, and Liu Kui was also blindsided by their trouble, and asked Xiao Ran: "Which role do you want Lao Wang to play?" ”

"Niu Jingfan! You see how much his table fits the character. ”

The word cow essence means rude in Cantonese. With Wang Luo's expression at this time, it was just right.

After choosing the first role, Xiao Ran continued: "If the actor is the protagonist, the fat water will not flow into the fields of outsiders. Let's play the role of Brother Pig, and let the role of Brother Pig be given to Lei Xiaolong. This guy always says that I don't care about him, as for the female characters in the play, they need to be three beautiful and one ugly. The heroine is paid 100,000 yuan, and the other two are paid 50,000 yuan, you can go directly to the film and television city to pick actors, now that the film industry is so sluggish, many beauties have not started playing, and the ones signed are not long-term and dead contracts, you report the name of our Star Art City, naturally there are beauties willing to go with you. ”

In fact, although Xiao Ran's salary is not high, it is also reasonable, with the fame of Xiao Ran and Xingyi City now, not to mention the salary of tens of thousands, if you directly open the zero salary and the need for unspoken rules, it is estimated that there are many beauties willing to follow.

In Huaxia Film and Television City, the country's largest film and TV series shooting base, the most indispensable resource is beauty, especially if you want to be famous, you can ignore it!

"That funny ugly girl character, and another stinky role, have you chosen it?"

Liu Kui asked Xiao Ran, in fact, it is not difficult to find actors for these two roles, but Liu Kui was afraid that Xiao Ran had already booked someone, so he asked clearly.

At this time, Xiao Ran smiled mischievously: "I heard that at the Struggle Film Company, there was just a scene manager who was fired, this person was born with a big mouth, looks obscene and likes to talk about right and wrong behind his back, and is often beaten, so look for him." ”

"You're talking about bad mouths, huh? If he were to act, the brothers and sisters in the line would die of laughter when they saw it. ”

At the mention of this character, Liu Kui couldn't help but secretly laugh, although people are really annoying, but they are really very in line with the character.

Xiao Ran continued to prank: "As for the funny ugly girl role, leave it to our eldest lady of the Lu family, anyway, Tao Wenhua did everything possible to stuff her daughter into our company, saying that she hoped that she would play a subversive role in the movie, which could be accepted by the audience and change their opinion of her, I think this role is good!" ”

Hearing Xiao Ran's words, Liu Kui couldn't help but sweat!

Let the daughter of the richest man in China play this kind of funny and funny ugly female role, Xiao Ran's courage is really too great.

However, since he is Xiao Ran's confirmed actor, Liu Kui can't say anything, so the two of them discussed for three days and then worshiped God and turned on!

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In fact, for the entire Chinese film circle, it is mainly the southern filmmakers who have this habit, especially the Cantonese movies shot by the earliest southern Cantonese people, which basically need to worship the gods before turning on.

Now although Cantonese movies have declined, this custom has been retained, and Xiao Ran's new comedy movie "The Best Friend" has many staff from Nanyue, so he still retains the custom of turning on the camera to worship God.

Three days later, after the worship was over, all the actors were in place.

The role of Xu Dinggui in the movie, Xiao Ran didn't plan to let Yaoyang play it, because many audiences are most familiar with him or the villain, except for Qiusheng, who is not a villain in "Mr. Zombie", but Yaoyang has mentioned to Xiao Ran before that he wants to play some roles that are more inclined to literature and art, and Xiao Ran also agreed.

Although this role is not literary, it is at least much better than his previous roles, of course, the biggest attraction of this play is actually the three major friends, so these three people, Xiao Ran is very cautious in casting.

The first scene was filmed in the scene where the actor Xu Dinggui, played by the seventh senior brother Yaoyang, was an extra in a foreign country, and then his uncle came to him to go back to inherit the inheritance.

"Agui, are you alright?"

Another extra ran forward to help Xu Dinggui, who was beaten down by a foreigner.

"Damn, this kid is really."

It turned out that when the two were fighting and trying out, the foreigner didn't use the fake action to complete it, but directly did it.

"Forget it, the rent and meals depend on the money from being an extra, bear with it."

Here Ah Gui was about to fight back, but his colleague stopped him and advised, but the foreigner was still provoking.

"When Lao Tzu gets rich, you will enter Chinatown, and Lao Tzu will beat you flat!"

Ah Gui responded to the foreigner's provocation, but turned around to find that his uncle had come, and only after asking did he know that his father had passed away.

"Did his dad leave him a lot of inheritance?"

"How many can there be? His father loves to spend money again, and he loses money in business, and our Xu family's coffin business plummeted, and the stock market fell sharply last year, and there was a loss again, and there was only one billion and eight billion left. ”

Hearing this, Agui was already stunned, and when he turned around, he directly flattened the foreigner, and ushered in the applause of the audience!

"Click! Call it a day and shoot the next scene. ”

At this time, Liu Kui, the director of the movie "Best Friend", and Xiao Ran, the producer, were both on the scene, because the requirements of this scene were not very high, so they could already receive the goods after filming two or three times, and directly began to shoot the appearance of the other three friends, but this first scene said that it was set in North America, but it was actually on the set of Huaxia Film and Television City, and a few foreigners were just invited to serve as extras.

Xiao Ran naturally wouldn't be so convulsive, and went to North America to shoot specifically for such a scene, and I believe that the first scene of this movie in my previous life should have been filmed like this, otherwise the urine of the fat director who was obscene and loved money in his previous life could really go to a foreign country to shoot for such a scene?

After filming Xu Dinggui's appearance, the entire crew began to change the scene, turning the background into a church, and the character who appeared became Niu Jingfan, the No. 1 friend who went to the church to confess, that is, the character played by Wang Luo.

"Priest, my name is Niu Jingfan, I like to lose my temper when I'm not happy, and I like to swear, but I was recently promoted to be a security manager, so I want to quit."

"As long as you have a positive heart, the Lord will definitely help you."

"Of course I have to help, if I don't help Lao Tzu, I'll turn my face, fucking bastard!"

"If you want to swear in the future, use the name of the fruit instead."

"The name of the fruit? Bananas, you Barra! ”

The priest was played by Xiao Ran's father Xiao Yuanshan, because this was the first movie directed by the apprentice, and he had just finished filming "The Legend of Ip Man", so it was just time to make a cameo appearance.

After filming the scene of No. 1 bad friend, it was the turn to shoot the other two scenes, one was to play the stinky mouth with rotten mouth, and treated the guest's funeral as a happy event, but he was beaten, and the other was an obscene pig brother Chao, who installed a fan on the ground and specially blew the skirts of female colleagues...... (To be continued......)