Wu Tian was busy again.

Wu Tian arranged Ba Sing in Tianrenju, and found a professional screenwriter from Tianzheng Film and Television who had just been in the industry for a long time, and the three of them formed the screenwriting team of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", early every morning, after Wu Tianchen finished practicing, he came over to start the screenwriting work.

Although it is said that the original work should be respected to the greatest extent, after all, there is a huge difference between the expression techniques of the movie and the novel, which means that the original work must be deleted in many places, and Ba Sing himself has no disagreement on this.

However, this does not mean that the adaptation of the script is very smooth, and any creative person has his own independent way of thinking, and it is inevitable that there will be many different opinions, disputes and compromises, and the creative process of the script is not easy.

But fortunately, Wu Tian and Ba Sing can always find a way for both parties to agree when there is a contradiction, and finally resolve the contradiction well. Although it wasted a little time, the summer was not over yet, and the script was finally released.

"Director Wu, this book can be said to be the best script I've ever participated in, but ...... I'm afraid I won't be able to pass the review of the General Administration......" Bai Yiwen, a young screenwriter, said worriedly.

"Hehe, don't worry, the script has been approved." Wu Tian said with a smile.

"Huh?" Bai Yiwen and Ba Sing couldn't help but be stunned and exclaimed, the script here has just been printed, and Wu Tian over there actually said that it has passed the review?

"When we started writing, I had already arranged for someone to rewrite it again, but it was rewritten according to the standards of the General Administration." Wu Tian smiled, "In order not to affect our thinking, I haven't said this." ”

"Uh...... Then our book is completely different from the one sent for approval.,Can it work? Ba sang worriedly.

"What's not to do?" Wu Tian said with a smile, "The key now is to start the film first and make a film." It's easy to explain from the General Administration, anyway, they didn't stipulate that the script can't be modified after the start-up, so at most we have a larger revision. ”

"But ......" Ba Sing looked helpless, this Director Wu is too unreliable, right? It's too risky, what if the General Administration doesn't pass the issuance review in the end?

"Don't worry, I can handle all of this." Wu Tian said with a smile, "I don't know if you're interested in looking at the book that has been approved?" See how big the gap between the two books is? ”

Ba Sing nodded, he naturally wanted to read it, after all, it was a script adapted from his own work, just like his own child had grown into an adult, and he couldn't help but want to see it after all.

Bai Yiwen is familiar with the routine of adapting the script of the novel, and said with a smile: "Don't look at it, it's absolutely unrecognizable, hehe......"

Wu Tian laughed, took out a text file from his mobile phone, and sent it to the computer used to write the document, so that the two of them could enjoy the script that had passed the review - not only was it unrecognizable, but it was even more miserable......

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"Lao Zhang, I'm going to pull you out again, I've worked hard for you." Wu Tian said with a smile.

"Tianshao, look at what you said, I can help you, it's too late for me to be happy." Director Zhang said with an excited look.

At the beginning, Lao Zhang was just an assistant director of a TV station, and he followed Wu Tian step by step to participate in the big production, especially the several works that Wu Tian asked him to direct, all of which achieved quite high box office results, which made him one of the hottest directors in China, and in the first two years, he won the crown of Best Director and Best Film at the European Film Festival in a row, all of which are inseparable from Wu Tian's appreciation and promotion.

Including this time, Lao Zhang, the book of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", has also read it a long time ago, and he has also moved the idea of adapting it into a movie, but there is no doubt that unless he is willing to make large-scale deletions and changes to the original work, there is no way to pass the review, and once it is deleted and modified according to the standards of the General Administration, will the filmed thing still be "Ghost Blowing the Lamp"? Unless you don't mind being scolded to death by the audience!

This time Wu Tian personally went out, it is likely to go to the rules and regulations of the General Administration, Lao Zhang is very clear about Director Wu's ambitions, when they were making movies together, Wu Tian did not complain less about the impersonal feelings of the General Administration, let alone mention it, if he has the opportunity, he will definitely try his best to promote the General Administration to change its position, and try his best to let China also launch a film classification system, so as to win more creative space for Chinese directors.

Therefore, this "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" will definitely be an epoch-making work, and what is zoned is the Chinese film classification system, which may become the first part of the Chinese movie!

Being able to participate in this work is enough to make Lao Zhang excited, even if he is still an assistant director for Wu Tian, he is very happy, not to mention that Wu Tian is just a nominal chief director this time, who in the circle does not know, the so-called chief director does not need to participate in the filming at all, just a name, and Dingtian points out a few key points to the executive director!

"Well, this is Ba Sing, he will participate in the whole process of this shooting, supervise the content of the script and scene design, which may damage the authority of you as a director, you have to be more responsible." Wu Tian introduced with a smile.

"No problem, Brother Zhang, we are a family, happy cooperation, hehe." Director Zhang shook hands with Ba Sing and smiled.

"I'm a layman to movies, and I ask Director Zhang to give me more guidance and be more forgiving." Ba Sing smiled low-key.

The two exchanged pleasantries, and Gao Yang and Liu Xiaoqing also brought two people to Tianrenju.

"Hehe, our main creative team has gathered." Liu Xiaoqing smiled first.

"Welcome, Haibo, I'm a fan of yours." Wu Tian smiled and shook hands with a small-eyed man and said.

"Director Wu is too polite, I'm your fan, it's like a fake." Haibo laughed blindly.

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For the choice of this actor, Wu Tian is the result of careful consideration.

Ba Sing's "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" is not a book that drives the plot with the protagonist, but a book that drives the protagonist with the plot, and even the writing is in the first person, which makes it difficult to see the original appearance of his character! In other words, the characters described in his books are not very plump, there are not too many traces of personality, and there are no memorable characteristics. In comparison, in terms of the choice of the protagonist, the space is much larger, as long as it is not too outrageous, it is completely competent.

From the perspective of a director, it is far more difficult to shoot such a protagonist without any characteristics than those characteristic characters, after all, what the audience needs to see is a vivid person, and when it comes to the screen image, any character cannot be still bland, it must be concretized!

So, what kind of person is Hu Bayi?

According to the records in the book, Hu Bayi was born in a military family, served as a Red Guard, was sent to know, participated in the counterattack war, killed prisoners of war in anger and was restored, worked as a self-employed person, and then met the big golden tooth in Panjiayuan and embarked on the road of touching gold.

What kind of Hu Bayi can be created by such an experience? First of all, this person must have the temperament of a military family, dare to kill and dare to do, and have the shrewdness of a small trader, as well as the helplessness of the difficulty of social survival, and finally embark on the road of touching gold with the ancestral half of the dragon hunting method.

Such a person can be said to be very complicated, and it is difficult to sing the way the character is handled, although there is no deliberate description of the character traits, but there is no contradiction in the character image in the whole book.

The current problem is, how to visualize this complex and unobvious character, and who is the right person to play it?

Wu Tian thought about it and finally found a suitable candidate - Hai Bo.

Hai Bo and Wu Tian are the same age, born in a military family, after entering the film and television industry, he first came into contact with TV series depicting the 70s, and then acted in war films, which can be said to be able to fully interpret Hu Bayi's military temperament. And the oiliness of the small trader is enough with his natural small eyes!

The most important thing is that Haibo's performance is very down-to-earth, seemingly unpretentious, but clumsy!

"Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in the eyes of those who have not read the original book, or do not understand the environment of that era, will always be imagined as a picture similar to a US adventure film, but Wu Tian is not willing to shoot like this, after all, this is a Chinese adventure film, really want to make the characters and equipment in it, all like the blockbuster of the United States, it is not realistic at all, Wu Tian is more willing to try a simple style, so that the characters, images, and scenes are as close as possible to the era in the book, rather than artificially creating those empty and tall styles... …

For Wu Tian's idea, Ba Sing is also very supportive, and more importantly, Ba Sing is also very satisfied with his image after seeing Hai Bo......

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After the image of the male protagonist is determined, the image of the heroine and the supporting actor is a little difficult to decide.

First of all, according to the description in the book, the heroine Shirley Yang thought that she was Chinese, with a high nose bridge, as a photographer, but also the granddaughter of Partridge Whistle, with a bold and generous personality, bold and careful, etc., these characteristics are not visible at all in the actress introduced by Gao Yang.

This can make it difficult for Wu Tian to do, so he can't directly veto others, right? But how can you face Gao Yang? After all, the idea of deciding to make another movie was stirred up by Gao Yang.

But what Wu Tian didn't expect was that after a few days, when Gao Yang brought the actress over again, her image and temperament completely changed.

From the skirt of the first meeting, changed to a pair of jeans and a shirt, and immediately became a little more generous and wild, although the bridge of the nose could not be raised, she wore a pair of contact lenses, which made the color of the pupils a little lighter, coupled with the originally relatively tall height, and the skin tone that was deliberately tanned a little, so that her whole temperament has changed quite significantly.

In addition, the way she spoke was also very different from last time, the original sweet and small leisure route suddenly became a lot more hearty and heroic, although there were still many traces of intentionality, but Wu Tian had to be impressed, this is definitely a natural actor.

"Convinced, huh? Hehe, I specifically asked Ba Sing to clarify your positioning of the heroine, are you still satisfied? Gao Yang was like a winner, and faced Wu Tian, but Wu Tian also agreed.

As for the supporting actor, it is undoubtedly the most difficult role to find.

Looking at the current film and television industry in China, there are countless actors, but there are really few fat actors!

Although people's aesthetics are biased towards thin and well-proportioned body shapes, the lack of fat people is the sadness of the Chinese entertainment industry, which proves the extreme immaturity of the Chinese film and television industry, everyone wants to be a star, wants to be the protagonist, and all of them are developing towards the image of the protagonist.

Not to mention anything else, the current famous actor training base camp in China, what is Chinese opera, Chinese film, the first admission standard is to look at the image, women are also beautiful, men must be handsome, that is not choosing actors at all, but in beauty pageants!

As a result, every year, all the actors who are produced are of the leading role, and some have struggled out and become stars, but those who can't struggle can only leave the industry, or after being silent for many years, they will resign themselves to changing their image and acting path, and maybe have the opportunity to become a big supporting role.

Well, Wu Tian can agree with the idea of people going to high places, but he can't agree with actors who only rely on their faces to eat!

If, your image is not very good, but you have a good acting talent, then you can also position yourself as a supporting role from the beginning. Film and television schools should bear the responsibility of cultivating gold medal supporting roles, otherwise it will cause the entire film and television industry to have no supporting roles that match the image!

For example, now, Wu Tian really can't find a suitable fat man!

Hong Island's Boss Hong, Ouyang, is too old, don't think about it, Lin Fatzi, who debuted with Xingye, has always taken the comic route, how can he play Wang Kaixuan well? As for the fat people in the mainland, they are either not professional actors, such as cross talk and sketches, although it is okay to make a garbage film, but it is still far from acting in a blockbuster. The rest are some young actors who are not famous and have no professional education.

It's no wonder that in "Looking for the Dragon", which Ba Sing personally participated in the filming of the previous life, Wang Fatzi actually used a Huang Da actor who was not fat at all, although the fat man is not fat, but he has acting skills and fame......

However, Wu Tian's concept is that special actors can't rely on makeup, at least the body type, makeup can't make up for it - the movements and habits of fat people are not at all different from those of thin people, and the details determine everything......

It seems that he can only draw and pull from the supporting role study class of Tianlong Film and Television Base to see if there is a suitable candidate...... (To be continued.) )