Volume 1 Chapter 38 ATV Set
Shortly after returning home last night, Lin Xiaozhi's mobile phone rang. As he expected, Qiu Yueqing, who had been hidden by ATV for almost a year, had the title of Asian sister champion, but had never even received the department, softened, and was soft and soft on the phone, hinting at temptation, in short, the meaning was nothing more than one, she knew that she was wrong, and this drama was accepted.
After another important role, Lin Xiaozhi became more and more comfortable, and he drove to the company early the next morning and met Secretary Wu, who was holding a stack of documents and was about to leave the office.
"What, Jiang Hua hasn't been to ATV for a few days?"
Lin Xiaozhi frowned, before the three-day vacation, he asked Secretary Wu to help him contact ATV artist Jiang Hua. On the first day of coming to New Asia, Lin Xiaozhi had a relationship with him, and felt that whether it was his image or appearance, Jiang Hua was more in line with the image of the actor in "I'm Crazy for Qing", and the most important thing was cheap. Unexpectedly, Secretary Wu saw him and told him that Jiang Hua had not been to ATV for a few days.
"Yes, Assistant Lin. I've already asked the artist management side, and ATV hasn't arranged any dramas or activities for Jiang Hua recently, so they don't know where Jiang Hua is now! ”
"Thank you, Secretary Wu!" Jiang Hua couldn't find anyone, which made Lin Xiaozhi's good mood a little lighter, but he still nodded to her to express his gratitude, and then pushed the door into the office.
"Hello Assistant Lin!"
"You're early!"
"Assistant Lin, it's early!"
"You're early, too!"
Wang Jia'an leaked his identity early, so that everyone in the office knew that his identity as the assistant to the president may not have been obtained by ordinary means, and with the Lin family's entry into ATV is a foregone conclusion, he has already been branded as Lin Baixin's nephew, and he can't erase Lin Xiaozhi and is not ready to erase it.
Seeing that he came to work, several people sitting in the office hall stood up to greet him, and Lin Xiaozhi also politely returned one by one, but did not stay in this hall. In fact, every time he comes to the company, he has to frown at the location of the office of Xinya Film, which is simply not what a film company that wants to develop should have, it is more like the leather bag film companies that have sprung up after taking over Taiwan's capital investment in Hong Kong.
If you think about it, there are a lot of similarities between the two.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Come in!"
Walking straight to Wang Jia'an's office, Lin Xiaozhi knocked on the door, and after a response came from the office, he pushed the door and walked in.
"Lin Shao......" Wang Jia'an's face, which was not too cold, suddenly brightened when he saw him come in.
"Sit down, sit down, a few days ago you said that you would take a few days off to contact the fund and the director, how is it now?"
Lin Xiaozhi was not polite to him, pulled a chair and sat down opposite him, "Mr. Wang, accept your auspicious words, it's basically done, by the way, Mr. Wang, if you have time in the past two days, help me apply for a secondment crew with ATV in the name of the company!" ”
This is the advantage of relying on ATV, there is no need to worry about the crew at all, Xinya only needs to apply with ATV, and bear the salary of the crew during the filming, etc., and there is no need to run around to contact each other at all.
"So fast!" Wang Jia'an's face flashed with surprise, and then his face narrowed with a smile, and asked, "How many funds have you contacted?" Is there a problem with the director's side? ”
"It's almost two million, which is enough for us to shoot "I'm Crazy for You" to the fullest. On the director's side, I contacted it on my own initiative, Mr. Wang, don't be surprised, when all the actors and crew are done in the past two days, I will print out the contract. ”
"How could it be, it was Lin Shaoyou who proposed to make this movie." Wang Jia'an's eyes flickered, he got up and helped him make a cup of black tea, and then leaned on the table next to him, "I'll coordinate with ATV when the crew waits, as long as the actors and directors on your side are fine, you can start the film within a week!" ”
Lin Xiaozhi nodded, it was not too difficult for him to get everything done within a week, if Jiang Hua could not be contacted, he would have to change the actor again.
"By the way, has Zheng Sheng's movie started filming?"
During the chat, Lin Xiaozhi inadvertently mentioned Zheng Zeshi, but it was good that he didn't mention it, but as soon as he mentioned him, Wang Jiaan's face suddenly collapsed, and he nodded with a bitter face: "It's been two days of shooting!" ”
"What?" Lin Xiaozhi grew his mouth in surprise, and he felt a little regretful in his heart. He also wanted to go over to see the opening ceremony of Hong Kong movies, but he didn't expect to take a few days off but miss it. However, seeing Wang Jia'an's bitter face, he was curious and asked, "What, is there something wrong with Zheng Sheng?" ”
Although he came to New Asia not long ago, Lin Xiaozhi also discovered that Wang Jia'an and Zheng Zeshi seemed to be inherently wrong, and they would be in trouble when they got together.
Wang Jia'an nodded with a bitter face: "A few days ago, Zheng Sheng said that he was not satisfied with the crew, and I finally changed the crew for him, but it was only a few days, and he told him that there were not enough makeup people, so I asked me to go to ATV to borrow someone again." The previous budget of "Maoshan" said that the two million were good, even if the new money from Qiu Dong was added, I don't think three million is enough for him...... Hey, I don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are at home, I hope he won't toss anymore! ”
"How come, I read the script of "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies", although two million shots are barely enough, they can also be filmed, and after Qiu Dong allocated another sum of money, three million is enough!"
Lin Xiaozhi smiled and comforted him, but he didn't talk nonsense. He also received a copy of the script of Zheng Zeshi's "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies", and read a little before going to bed at night, and he had already read the entire script, and the general outline of the story was also in his chest.
The movie tells the story of Huang Dalong (Zheng Zeshi), who was born in Maoshan Zhengyi, who is proficient in astronomy and geography, and is more fond of studying new methods of catching ghosts and curing corpses. The two have a pair of mischievous children Xiao Ming and Xiao Hua, and they also have a ghost as a ghost servant. Because of jealousy of Huang Dalong and his senior brother, Mao Shan Zheng's other true legend Mao Tianming broke into the prestige, some people designed to release the extremely powerful pre-Qin ancient corpse to tempt him to catch the corpse, not wanting a few people to be killed by the pre-Qin ancient corpse, absorbing the true Yuan of a few Taoist priests The ancient corpse is even more powerful, I don't know that Huang Dalong, who rushed to the news in the Dao, took a lot of effort to finally subdue the pre-Qin ancient corpse, but he didn't want to get into bad luck from then on, everything went wrong, and soon he hit the small belly chicken intestines, He was very jealous of Huang Dalong's talent, and his senior brother Mao Tianming came to fight and make trouble. Mao Tianming was jealous of his younger brother Huang Dalong, and designed him to be imprisoned, and then he himself carelessly released the ancient corpse of the pre-Qin Dynasty that was suppressed by Huang Dalong, and many ghosts and monsters that he recovered in his early years.
Needless to say, this is exactly a follow-up film of "Mr. Zombie", since Lin Zhengying's "Mr. Zombie" detonated the zombie film market in Hong Kong and Taiwan, a large number of directors and actors have devoted themselves to making films every year. Zheng Zeshi is no exception, he not only participated in the performance of many zombie films, but even supervised and operated himself.
Although the theme of "Maoshan Taoist Fighting Zombies" is old and there is no major breakthrough, it is not without novelty. Lin Xiaozhi has read the script, as long as Zheng Zeshi's directing skills are not too bad in this movie, at least the box office in this city will exceed 5 million, as for how far he can go, it depends on his skills.
Wang Jia'an's eyes rolled when he heard this, and said: "Since you are so familiar with the script, Lin Shao, anyway, there is still some time to prepare for another movie." In our company, there are only two of us who can speak in front of Zheng Sheng, it's better to stay in his crew during this time, Zheng Sheng said that this movie must be rehearsed before the end of June and wait for the release, I'm afraid it will be more hurried during this time, in case something happens, you, the producer, are also in the crew, so you can discuss it. What's more, didn't you mention before that you want to go to his crew and learn something? ”
Lin Xiaozhi groaned slightly, and then agreed.
Seeing him nod, Wang Jia'an happily immediately took out his notebook from the drawer, tore off a page, and wrote an address in the New Territories to him, which was a modern drama venue of ATV.
Because of the financial constraints, ATV did not have a large set like its rival TVB, and only set up a few smaller buildings in a few remote areas of Hong Kong for its own filming.
When Lin Xiaozhi drove to the place according to the address written by Wang Jia'an on paper, it was already past ten o'clock in the morning.
"Hey, hey, the car over there, please pull over!"
As soon as he arrived at the place, Lin Xiaozhi was looking around looking for a parking place, when he heard a loudspeaker reminder, looked in the direction of the sound, and saw two patrol officers in police uniforms walking towards him.
"Hey, man. Parking is not allowed here, you have to stop and go that way, there is an open space about 700 meters to turn and park! ”
Seeing that his car came to a stop on the side of the road, one of the patrol officers came up and knocked on his window to warn.
"Okay, sir, I'll drive the car over right away. By the way, sir, can I ask you, where is the address on this paper? ”
Lin Xiaozhi handed over a cigarette, but was rejected by the somewhat short and thin patrolman, he picked up the paper and looked at it, looking at him in surprise: "You want to go to the ATV set?" Then, do you see it clearly, go in that direction, go around that alley and turn a corner! ”
Knowing that he was going to the ATV set, the patrolman seemed polite, pointed him the way, and reminded him to park his car carefully, and then turned around and walked away, and went to patrol other places with his companions.
Lin Xiaozhi stopped the car, followed the direction pointed out by the patrolman, and soon found the ATV set.
said that it was on the set, but in his opinion, it was actually more like an unfinished construction site. It was a very large piece of land, which looked almost 10,000 square meters, surrounded by a huge fence, and after showing his badge and passing the security review of several ATVs at the door, Lin Xiaozhi walked in.
In his previous life, he had seen a lot of film and television cities in the mainland, and his eyesight was not bad. As soon as he stepped into the set, Lin Xiaozhi looked around for a while, and determined that the ATV here seemed to be planned into two pieces, a small part of which were imitations of modern buildings, both in the north and south, and there were many buildings in this small area, most of which were one-story adobe brick houses and civilian wooden houses. The larger part of the plan seems to have just begun, and there are a number of neatly planned trenches around it, which seem to be laying the foundation for the buildings on the ground.
ATV in the 80s actually had its own set!
Lin Xiaozhi also knows a little about Hong Kong film and television, but it is the first time he has learned that ATV not only has its own studio, but also the scale seems to be not small.