That's right, the movie that Xu Guanwu wanted Yu Yunkang to direct was the famous "Ghost Street" in the history of horror films. In fact, now the three major ghost film series "Black Friday", "Moonlight Panic" and "Ghost Street" are all in the hands of Xu Guanwu, and Yu Yunkang could have directed any of them.

However, Xu Guanwu transferred "Ghost Street" to Yu Yunkang for guidance, mainly because "Black Friday" and "Moonlight Panic" have already been released, and the box office and word of mouth are good. This increases the pressure on the sequel a lot, and if Yu Yunkang doesn't play well, it is very likely to be criticized by fans, and it may even ruin the series directly.

In comparison, "Ghost Street" is now the first part of filming, so there is no pressure brought by the previous work, and it is also convenient for the director to play. In addition, "Ghost Street" is also a rather unique film in the history of horror films, Freddy is both cold-blooded and murderous, mischievous and humorous, and is a powerful ghost with a full personality. And his skill of killing people and manipulating death in his dreams is also not found in previous horror films. Therefore, it is easy to shoot "Ghost Street", which is also convenient for Yu Yunkang to gain a firm foothold in Hollywood with this film.

After listening to the story told by Xu Guanwu, Yu Yunkang couldn't help but be surprised. He originally thought that the story of "Murder List" was novel enough, but he didn't expect Xu Guanwu's "Nightmare on Elm Street" to be much more novel than "Murder List". A chattering ghost, the unique skill of killing people in dreams, this kind of idea that no one has thought of before is really amazing. Although Yu Yunkang has not officially taken over as the director of this film, he already feels that this movie is very interesting.

The most important thing in a horror film is the setting of the villain. It's like Sadako in "Midnight Bell". It has bizarre superpowers in itself. Anyone who has seen her video. After seven days, he will die. The cocot in "The Grudge" is full of resentment, and anyone who enters her house is also inseparable from the fate of a tragic death. Michael of "Moonlight Panic". Mills, possessed by a resentful spirit, will kill all relatives. Jason in "Black Friday", wearing a softball cap and holding a large knife. Whoever is unchaste may be killed. The chainsaw man in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" wears a human skin mask and is armed with a chainsaw, killing like crazy. The mutant people who were exposed to nuclear radiation in "Eyes Across the Mountain" live on cannibalism, cold-blooded, barbaric and cruel......

In horror films, villains are always much more brilliant than the positive, and with a wonderful villain character setting, this horror film is basically successful. And no matter how you look at it, Freddy, the Nightmare Ghost King, is a very wonderful setting, even among so many horror movie villains. It's still a maverick with a distinct personality, just like a firefly at night. His pitted face. Sharp and slender blades, sinister and sinister laughter, miraculous skills...... They had already betrayed him.

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Xu then called the United States and told Richard and David that they didn't have to look for a new director for "Ghost Street" because he had found a very suitable director for the film.

Richard and David couldn't help but be stunned after receiving Xu Guanwu's call, they were also busy looking for a director for "Ghost Street", and now Xu Guanwu actually said that he had found it, which means that the hard work of the two of them in the past two months has been in vain. However, since Xu Guanwu is the investor, he has the right to decide the ownership of the director, and Richard and David have no way to refuse.

"Xu, is the director you are looking for reliable? I think it's better to be cautious. Richard hesitated.

Choosing a director is a very important power for producers. Because it involves a power struggle between investors and producers. Xu Guanwu basically did not interfere in the selection of directors earlier, and everything was delegated to Richard and David. This also gives the two of them a lot of power, who to choose as the director, who to choose as the photographer, and who to choose as the actor...... Everything is up to them, so they are in the crew, and they become characters similar to the emperor.

And now that Xu Guanwu has stuffed a director, does this mean that he will do the same in the future? This may just be the first step in his desire to get involved in the field of filmmaking.

Thinking that the power in his hands was about to be diluted, Richard and David couldn't help but be a little resistant, so they naturally suggested to Xu Guanwu.

"No problem, I can trust his talent." Xu Guanwu smiled and said, "He is a Hong Kong director, and he has made two very good films before. ”

"Hong Kong director?!" Richard and David looked at each other and both felt that something was wrong. Xu Guanwu sent Hong Kong movies before, then Hong Kong actors, and now Hong Kong directors, wouldn't even the producers be sent together? ! Then what will happen to the two of them? Everyone is from Hong Kong, so they will naturally look towards their own people.

Richard, who was a Jew himself, knew how grouped his own people were.

"Okay, since you can trust him, then send him over, and we will treat him well." Richard hurriedly replied with a smile.

After hanging up the phone, David looked at Richard suspiciously, "You're crazy, you should refuse." Otherwise, if he sends someone over later, we won't have a place. ”

"How can you ask me to refuse, he has already made up his mind." Richard glanced at him and said, "But you don't have to worry, we just need to give this director some problems so that his movie can't be made, and Stanley naturally knows that Hong Kong directors can't get mixed up in Hollywood, and he still has to reuse us when the time comes." ”

"It turns out that you had the idea, and it was really good." David's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but laugh.

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Just when Richard and David were discussing how to give Yu Yun a stumbling block, Xu Guanwu was also planning to go to the United States. "Cannonball Speed" will be released in the United States in half a month, and this film is one of Xu Guanwu's highlights this year, with a cost of more than $20 million alone. It is also related to whether "Full of Gold" in the second half of the year can be released, Cheng Long, Hong Jingbao. Whether the three of Yuan Biao can go further and wait. Therefore, he wanted to go to the United States to personally supervise the war.

In addition, at the beginning of the year, he promised to accompany Qingxia's mother and daughter to travel to the United States. It's just that Lin Damei was still busy filming "Love in a Fallen City" at that time, so the time was not allocated, which made her unhappy for a while. So at this time, when "Love in a Fallen City" was finished and Lin Qingxia had nothing to do, she just took her to the United States to compensate. Or wait a little longer? "Love in a Fallen City" was released, and Lin Damei was busy with publicity again, so I am afraid that she will not be able to spare time again.

Lin Damei couldn't help but be very excited when she heard the news that Xu Guanwu was going to take their mother and daughter to the United States. immediately packed up with Xu Guanwu and prepared to go there for a few days. In fact, what she cared about was not where to play, but she was very happy when she thought that in the next period of time, she could enjoy Xu Guanwu alone.

As for Zhao Yazhi's side, she was also very sensitive to this matter, but she also had something to do recently, so she didn't have time to eat Lin Qingxia's vinegar.

At the beginning of the year, when Xu Guanwu filmed "Love in a Fallen City" for Lin Qingxia and Zhang Luo, Zhao Yazhi showed a strong sense of jealousy, complaining that Xu Guanwu only let Lin Qingxia go out to film, but even the TV series had to restrict her from filming. Xu Guanwu was jealous of his wife. had to promise her that as long as she found a good script, she would also be open to her.

Zhao Yazhi felt very happy after listening to it at that time. Next, I searched for the script with great fanfare. But with her status as the proprietress of the Xu Group, who dares to fool her with a script casually, and knowing that she is such a big name, no company dares to invite her casually. So after looking for a few months, I didn't find a suitable one, I thought that this matter would be settled, but who knew that there were really people who didn't believe in evil.

Director Xu Anhua specially found Zhao Yazhi and invited her to play a very important role in his new play. Director Xu Anhua is a director who was promoted by Shaw Brothers last year, and made a family warm comedy "Five Blessings", although it is a rare sincere work of Shaw Brothers in recent years, but because the movies released at the same time are too strong, so this movie just barely survived.

So director Xu Anhua was then swept away by the Shaw Brothers, but there were still film companies that appreciated her talent and immediately recruited her. This company is the Pearl City Film Company owned by Teddy Robin.

Zhucheng Film Company is funded by Hong Kong business celebrity Leung Li Shaoxia, with Teddy Robin as the general manager, and produced a "Dragon and Phoenix Thief Says Thief" last year, which is a comedy of police and bandits, which can be said to be unique at the time, and has also achieved a very good box office. Teddy Robin, who has been off to a great start, has decided to ramp up his efforts this year, intending to take advantage of the trend to launch four films. It's just that if you want to increase the scale, you have to recruit troops.

Although Zhucheng Film Company is abundant in terms of money, it is very short of manpower, because many film talents are monopolized by Xu's, Shaw Brothers, and Golden Harvest, and other independent film companies either rent from the three major companies, or have to rely on themselves to tap new talents.

For some film companies that just want to make quick money, it is still relatively fast to rent people. But for Teddy Robin, he really wants to develop in the Hong Kong film industry, so he would rather choose to take the more difficult second path. Fortunately, Hong Kong's entertainment industry is booming now, attracting many young people to devote themselves to this industry, including many young and beautiful handsome guys and girls, so there is generally no shortage of actors.

It's just that it's more difficult to do it in terms of professional talents such as directors, after all, directors are different from actors. A newcomer who has never acted can also play the leading role, but a newcomer who has never filmed will never be a director. And in Hong Kong, the directors are all in the three major companies, and it is very difficult to find a free director.

Fortunately, there is no endless road, God can't starve to death blind sparrows, and Teddy Robin really found one, she is Xu Anhua, who has just been swept out of the house by Shaw Brothers. Teddy Robin had watched "Five Blessings" directed by Xu Anhua before, and thought it was a very good movie, but it was a pity that it was not popular, and the miserable box office made him feel very pity. Therefore, after hearing that Shaw Brothers had terminated the contract with Xu Anhua, he immediately found Xu Anhua as soon as possible and sincerely invited her to join his Zhucheng Film Company.

Xu Anhua had also heard of the character of Teddy Robin before, and knew that he was a good hand at playing music, but he didn't know if he had a talent for movies. So Xu Anhua didn't agree to Teddy Robin right away, but wanted to hear his opinions on the movie first. If it suits her heart, it is not too late for her to join, if the concept is different, then it is not the same. After all, Xu Anhua has a stubborn personality and has his own insistence there, and he doesn't want to force himself to make movies he doesn't want to make in order to cater to commercial interests.

And Teddy Robin actually happens to be a literary young man, especially in North America for a period of time, deeply influenced by the rock music over there, he feels that money is just something outside the body, life is short, so everything must be meaningful, otherwise it will be a waste of his youth, so he does not respect commercial films very much.

The two hit it off, and Xu Anhua immediately decided to join Zhucheng Film Company and start filming the new drama "Crazy Robbery". (To be continued......)

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