Volume 1 Chapter 347 Truant Weilong
"Bang Bang ......"
There was a knock on the door outside the office, Lin Xiaozhi was looking down at a new copy of the company's screenwriting materials sent below, and he didn't raise his head to answer when he heard the sound: "Come in" still looked down at the documents
"Boss, it's me" The familiar voice made Lin Xiaozhi raise his head, and when he saw clearly who was coming, he immediately put down the documents in his hand, and his face was full of smiles for a moment.
"Ashin, how do you have time to come to the company today?"
The person who came was no stranger, it was Ye Weixin, the production director of New Asia Films.
Last year, he made a lot of fame with a "Friend", but after that, Ye Weixin spent most of his time free except for a movie outside. For this reason, Lin Xiaozhi promised that he would have time to help him write another script. And after this promise was delayed again and again, he himself finally remembered it after the filming of "Red Alert", and took the time to write a script for Ye Weixin.
Seeing him coming to the company, Lin Xiaozhi suddenly had a plan in his heart. If you count the time, that movie should be finished too.
Sure enough, as soon as his words fell, he saw the smile on Ye Weixin's face. The young man nodded happily: "Fortunately, I didn't disgrace my life, and I finally got it done before the Lunar New Year."
Listening to what he meant, not only has the filming been completed, but even the post-production has been completed.
Lin Xiaozhi was surprised that the script he gave Ye Weixin was nothing else, it was the second follow-up to the first movie "Color is Empty" that the two co-produced together. This film with a sex comedy is not only very popular in Hong Kong, but also in Taiwan, Singapore, Japan and Thailand, and has caused quite a stir. In the past two years, some people have mentioned from time to time that the audience has not resisted any calls because it is a third-level film that plays the edge ball. On the contrary, in the past two years, the voice of constantly calling for New Asia to shoot the second part has not stopped.
Previously, in response to market expectations, Lin Xiaozhi came up with the script for the second part and handed it over to Ye Weixin, who had co-directed this movie with him, to shoot.
However, "Color is Empty" may not be difficult to film, but it was only planned to start at the end of September, and it has only been three months now. It's just that Ye Weixin's shooting speed has never been fast, and it seems that this meeting will not only finish filming in three months, but also finish the post-production, which really surprised Lin Xiaozhi.
"It's also done later?" He asked in surprise, and in response to him, Ye Weixin nodded confidently: "It's all done, I have the experience of the first part, and the difficulty of filming is not too big." In order to catch up with the Spring Festival, we filmed for eleven or twelve hours during the filming period, unless the weather was affected. ”
After speaking, he also had some doubts on his face: "Three weeks ago, I remember that I had already reported to the company, saying that "Color is Empty" was completed, why didn't you see it, boss?" ”
3 weeks ago...... During that time, Lin Xiaozhi was the busiest time, busy with the management of the subsidiaries after the establishment of Media Asia, busy with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to track the listing arrangements, and with the major securities firms about the initial offering.
Lin Xiaozhi smiled awkwardly when he heard this, he really didn't have any impression of this.
"It's okay, although our New Asia is the leader in this year's summer file, but because there are too many things to be busy around the end of the year, only a few small-budget movies will be released. Give up at the end of the year, but the upcoming New Year stalls can't be so easy. I was still a little worried before, because at present, only Mr. Xian personally took charge of the filming of a rich series, which has been completed, and it can catch up with the first batch of releases for the Chinese New Year. Another movie starring Zhou Xingchi is only halfway filmed, and although Liu Zhenwei is a fast gunner, it is estimated that it will not be completed until mid-to-late January, and it will not be released until February at the earliest. Now that your "Color is Empty" has caught up, that's good news......"
Undoubtedly, the appearance of Lin Xiaozhi and Media Asia has robbed many people of their scenery. Although Yongsheng, which should have been popular in Hong Kong this year, still relied on a few of Wang Fatzi's films to gain a firm foothold in the Hong Kong film industry, and at the same time set off a lot of waves, compared with Lin Xiaozhi and his New Asia and the subsequent acquisition of Debao, the attention of all walks of life in Hong Kong to Yongsheng is undoubtedly much worse than that of Lin Xiaozhi and his film group, and it can be said that it is not a level at all.
Even if, in the second half of the year, they combined "God of Gamblers" and "Saint of Gambling", and invited Zhou Xingchi and Liu Dehua, the two hottest stars in Hong Kong, to join forces to shoot a movie called "The Gambler", which exceeded 2 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office on the first day of release. The box office exceeded 10 million Hong Kong dollars in five days, becoming the biggest winner at the end of the year. But in the face of the upcoming listing of Media Asia, Yongsheng was undoubtedly robbed of too many opportunities and status by the appearance of Lin Xiaozhi.
The movie starring Chow Xingchi he mentioned was "Truant Dragon" written by Wong Bingyao, a famous screenwriter in Hong Kong, and he spent a lot of effort in order to get this script.
Wong Ping-yiu, who graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Hong Kong Chinese, worked for a time in the government and also worked as a secondary school teacher. In 198l, Wong Bingyao joined the Hong Kong film industry and wrote the first script "Mouse Street" for Cheng Long's "Boxing Company". In the same year, Wong Bingyao entered "Golden Harvest" and soon became the queen screenwriter of Sammo Hung's films, and the first work of their collaboration was "The Loser". As Hong Kong's most famous comedy script creator, Wong Bing-yiu's comedic talent is undeniable. During the period when he was struggling with Sammo Hung in "Golden Harvest", he created the popular and blockbuster "Lucky Star" series for him.
Later, Sammo Hung left Golden Harvest to build his own film company, and Wong Bingyao created the "Mr. Zombie" series of best-selling movies for him.
Huang Bingyao has a very good relationship with Golden Harvest, but after Lin Xiaozhi acquired Debao, Golden Harvest has made no secret of its hostility towards this new junior who came out to take over from Xinyicheng to challenge his status.
This way of drawing camps clearly has undoubtedly added a lot of trouble to Lin Xiaozhi. Although his Media Asia is in the limelight, Golden Harvest, as the leader of the Hong Kong film industry, has successively dragged down Shaw Brothers and Debao, and even Xinyicheng is also facing the worry of being dragged down, and at the same time, with the global box office of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" nearly U billion US dollars, Golden Harvest's momentum in Hong Kong is not below Media Asia now.
Wong Bing-yiu's script for "Truant Dragon" was created in the middle of UU, inspired by one of his mischievous juniors, but it was actually written by Chow Sing Chi's "The Saint of Gambling". As soon as Liu Zhenwei's film came out, Huang Bingyao also went to the theater to watch the movie after its release, looking at the exaggerated nonsensical style of Zhou Xingchi on the screen, he wrote a draft soon after he returned. It is said that Lin Xiaozhi knew about the script of Lu Dao, but he accidentally heard him mention it during a chat with Chen Xunqi.
After learning that Wong Bingyao had already created the script, he immediately contacted him directly to buy it. After being excused by him that the draft had not yet been finalized, he contacted him several times within a month, and finally he took over Chen Xunqi's hand, and finally bought the script from Huang Bingyao. After buying this script, Lin Xiaozhi immediately thought of inviting Chen Jiashang to direct. However, Chen Jiashang also approached Golden Harvest, although he was very moved by this script created by Huang Bingyao, but in the end he politely refused to take charge of the director.
Helpless, Lin Xiaozhi could only send an invitation to Liu Zhenwei again, believing that with his ability, the "Truant Dragon" series after changing the director will not be buried.