Although he had only just seen the names of the six scripts, some images had already begun to emerge in Lin Xiaozhi's mind. Without it, because all of these scripts have appeared in Hong Kong in history, and they have all been made into movies, and he has seen them all.

What impressed him the most was the three movies "New Mr. Zombie", "Black Man" and "Three Heroes of the East", which of these three he had at least repeated a few times, and he still remembered the general outline of the story without looking at the script.

""Three people do the world", Debao seems to be ready to make this a series......"

A few years ago, Debao invited Lin Zixiang, the king of the music world, to partner with the first-line female artist Zheng Yuling to shoot a romantic comedy "Three People in the World", which reflected the middle-aged remarriage and love, and was a great success after its release, and there was this series. Lin Xiaozhi was deeply impressed by this series, because if it were not for the butterfly effect he brought, now his other woman, Zhou Huimin, should also join the series and break into the showbiz because of it. It's a pity that Zhou Huimin eventually became his female secretary, but the movie still has to be filmed, without the jade girl Zhou Huimin, Debao invited another jade girl, who was the runner-up of the Asian sister in 87, Li Jing, a young female artist who is charming and pure, and who is not glamorous under Zhou Huimin, still made this movie popular.

"It should be like this, I heard the screenwriting team say that this script was asked for by Mr. Xian himself. I also contacted Mr. Xian before, and he meant that this series had a good reputation among the audience, and he was ready to shoot another follow-up. and "New Mr. Zombie" is also a book he asked the screenwriter team for, I heard that he is going to invite Lin Zhengying to shoot them, and strive to make a high-quality product. ”

These words made the corners of Lin Xiaozhi's mouth curl, obviously disapproving.

The first part of "The World of Three" was indeed a big hit, with a small cost of several million yuan in Hong Kong alone, it won more than 24 million box office, and sold other city films and videotapes, this movie has brought a net profit of 30 million Hong Kong dollars to Debao, and it has earned a lot. However, when the second part of "Three People's New World" came out last year, although the local box office still received more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars, and the videotape distribution also sold at a good price, the foreign films did not sell well, and the profit has fallen to less than 20 million Hong Kong dollars.

It is difficult to shoot a masterpiece that surpasses the previous one in the follow-up, this is a curse of the series, and now the third part will be opened, it is difficult to say what the prospects are.

However, considering that the investment cost of this movie is not large, and it is the representative work of Debao President Xian Qiran, Lin Xiaozhi thought about it and decided to approve the filming of three, even if it makes less money, it doesn't matter. The next time he goes north, he plans to bring a batch of film copyrights that focus on the warm route, negotiate with the mainland to approve Media Asia's distribution of video tapes in the mainland, or jointly build a 'movie channel' with mainland TV stations.

It's "Mr. New Zombie", I heard that it was also a script that Xian Qiran wanted, Lin Xiaozhi couldn't help laughing. His "Resident Evil" has recently become very popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the novel version has unexpectedly been reprinted in five editions in the past month, with a total of 370,000 copies shipped, half of which have been digested by Taiwan and Macau, which is no less than the appeal of some well-known celebrities. This kind of novel, which is completely different from the traditional Hong Kong and Taiwan-style pseudo-science fiction, has won unanimous praise from book fans and the publishing industry, and now Hong Kong and Taiwan not only have high expectations for the movie version of "Resident Evil", but also inevitably be compared with the traditional Hong Kong-style zombie film. In the past month, the box office of two or three zombie films has risen in varying degrees, and Xian Qiran also joined in the excitement to make one, probably wanting to drink a bowl of soup with it.

"Leave the script for me to read here, if it's okay, I will approve Debao to make four movies: "Three People Do the World", "Seven Princesses of Martial Arts", "New Mr. Zombie", and "Genuine Wei Xiaobao's Daughter...... As for the ...... between "Three Heroes of the East" and "Black Heroes"

He remembered that the investment in these two scripts was not low, so he opened the file bag and quickly looked through some of the previous contents, and after confirming that it was the first draft of the scripts of the two movies in his memory, he looked up and said to Zhu Zhishan: "I have read these two scripts roughly, I'm afraid the investment will not be too low, you help me call the main creator and screenwriter to come over, I have something I want to ask them......

The so-called main screenwriter is the main operator of a script, although the script can also be created as a team, but there must be one person who puts forward the main idea and summarizes the main outline and story line of the script, and then he himself and the rest of the screenwriters work together to improve the plot, which is the soul of a script.

"Okay, I'll go ...... right away"

It's all in an office building, Zhu Zhishan only went out for five or six minutes before coming back, and brought a thin man with short hair, "Miss Shao Liqiong, the chief editor of "Three Heroes of the East", has something to do at home and asked for two days off and is not here, boss, this is Mr. Chen Desen, the main creator and screenwriter of the script of "Black Man", ......"

"It turned out to be him"

Without his introduction, Lin Xiaozhi has already recognized who this man who stood in front of him and behaved very restrained, it turned out to be Chen Desen, the director of "October Siege", who was later known as the "No. 1 Chinese disaster film", a man who was nicknamed by the media as "Kezhu", "a man hated by Goddess Luck".

Although the media is a bit exaggerated, if you really know about this person's unlucky past, I am afraid that no one can laugh, so I can only look at him sympathetically and sigh how can a person be so unlucky.

Undoubtedly, Chen Desen is an unlucky person, he joined the film industry very early, but his past before the filming of "October Siege" Lin Xiaozhi was very clear from time to time, only that he took the script of "October Victoria" in 1999 to solicit investment everywhere, wanting to make this movie with more than 8 million US dollars.

What was the concept of more than 8 million US dollars at that time, and the exchange of Hong Kong dollars was about URUU million. In 1997, the highest-grossing Hong Kong film was Jackie Chan's "A Good Man", with a box office of HK$45.5 million; In 1998, the annual box office champion "Storm and Storm Dominates the World", the box office in this port was only 41.5 million; The highest-grossing Chinese film in 1999 was Stephen Chow's "The King of Comedy", which grossed 10,000 yuan. In 1998, the output of Hong Kong films fell from 3,400, 4,500 a year at its peak to 700 or 80 films, "all the streets are pirated, movies are sluggish, no one wants to invest in movies at all, and they are not in the mood to film".

It took more than two years for Chen Desen to pull half of the investment from Zeng Xianji, vice president of HP Bank, to half of the investment, and the other half of the investment is also difficult to find. In the past two years, Chen Desen has met with countless investors in the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but there is still no hope. During that period, Chen Desen was looking for money while filming the movie "Spy Maze", which won 30UU million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in Hong Kong in 0l. Xu was thus more confident, and seeing that the project of "October Victoria" was repeatedly shelved, Zeng Xianji decided to invest in the film in full.

Then disasters struck one after another, the movie hit when the movie started, Hong Kong, as the hardest-hit area, Hong Kong people were once in danger, and they even went to the street to buy vegetables for fear of getting sick, let alone start filming, the venue did not come, the stars refused to act, and they had to stop for half a year. Half a year later, just after the start-up, another bad news struck, and the investor Zeng Xianji committed suicide. Then Chen Desen was involved in a money laundering lawsuit, and then his mother had a stroke, the crew fight, his family was found to have cancer, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and soon after Chen Desen himself had a car accident, and his old mother also died a few months later, and under the successive blows, the movie had to be shut down again. It wasn't until after 09 that filming was restarted. Rao is so, when filming started in 09, there were still some unlucky things one after another, otherwise it would not have been dubbed 'the first Chinese disaster movie' in the mainland, where the Internet was already very developed at that time

"Lin Dong, ...... you looking for me?"

Sensing that Da Lin Xiaozhi's gaze on him was very strange, Chen Desen could only ask cautiously, he and Lin Xiaozhi joined the film industry in the RR year, but one of the two started as an executive director, and the other was in the crew to record and move sundries on the spot, and the different paths made the gap between the two farther and farther away. If it weren't for the fact that he was a top student who graduated from the Department of Authentic Literature, and had written articles in the newspaper for a few years, and he was also a little ambitious, he would not have handed in his resume as soon as his head was hot when the Media Asia Screenwriters expanded at the beginning of the year, and finally became a signed screenwriter of Media Asia.

"Sit, don't be so inhibited"

Awakened by his words, Lin Xiaozhi realized that his thoughts were far away, and he smiled and invited the two to sit down, ignoring Zhu Zhishan on the side, and asked him: "Although you mentioned at the beginning of the script that this is an adaptation of Hong Kong comics, you also said that the adapted script is very different from the comics, so let me ask you, how much do you think this script Media Asia needs to invest?" ”

The comic version of "Black Man" was created by a person named Li Zhida last year, if it wasn't for the mention of this at the beginning of the script, Lin Xiaozhi really didn't know this. However, with his understanding of the Hong Kong comic industry, he has only heard of a few people such as Huang Yulang, Shangguan Xiaobao, Ma Rongcheng, etc., and he really doesn't know who Li Zhida is. But there are very few Hong Kong comics that can be adapted into movies, so Lin Xiaozhi never thought that Media Asia would adapt comics into movies, and the cartoonist named Li Zhida could refuse the adaptation fee offered by Media Asia. But don't forget that he also has a publishing house that focuses on comics, and Lin Xiaozhi still knows a little about the low income of most Hong Kong cartoonists.

It stands to reason that Lin Xiaozhi shouldn't have asked him about investment, but out of expectations for the director who filmed "October Siege" in the future, he temporarily changed the question.

"Xie Lu Xie Boss"

Chen Desen sat down stiffly, and after listening to him finish speaking, he realized that he was interested in filming this movie, and immediately couldn't hide the joy on his face, and said: "The script is not my work alone, and the rest of the screenwriting team also participated in the creation." ”

On the other hand, he did not forget to answer Lin Xiaozhi's question: "In terms of investment, if the group is willing to invest 30 million Hong Kong dollars, I think it can basically be filmed, but if you want to shoot better results, you need at least 40 million to 50 million Hong Kong dollars." Li Zhida's "Black Man" comic is very creative and very good, but the original author's imagination is still influenced by Hong Kong's traditional martial arts comics and movies, and in our opinion, many places are too conservative. So when adapting, I referred to the ideas of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and some other American comics, so that if the movie is filmed, it will also be convenient for Media Asia to be promoted to Europe and the United States......"

At first, he seemed to be a little unable to let go, but after talking for a while, Chen Desen seemed to forget all this, the excitement and expectation on his face were not hidden, and a pair of eyes stared directly at the boss Lin Xiaozhi, as if he couldn't wait for him to immediately nod and agree, and invest forty or fifty million to shoot it.