As the Chibi crew frantically rushed to catch up with the filming schedule, Xu Jin also forgot about Tang Ren's contract here.

Time came to October in a flash, and the filming task of "Red Cliff" was only half completed.

There are too many pictures to be shown in this drama, and the grandeur of the scenes makes Xu Jin a little doubtful that the length of a movie can express these pictures intact.

Such a magnificent scene is just a movie, it's not just a big action for editing, and any random cut of a picture will be distressed to death!

This question was not only thought of by Xu Jin, but also by many actors, including Liang Yingdi, who is more familiar with the director.

Taking advantage of the gap in filming, Liang Yingdi directly approached the director and asked: "This film has been filmed for nearly three months since it started filming, and you and I know how much content of the pictures filmed, it is clear that it is not half of the script, but this is also the result of our hard work."

According to this progress, it is estimated that it will be filmed until December, but by that time, the crew has filmed so much content, what about the movie? ”

Liang Yingdi raised his doubts: "If there are many scenes that need to be edited in the official editing, it is better not to shoot at all, and directly omit not only saves the crew's time, but also saves the actors' time." ”

Director Wu said with a solemn face: "In fact, when I was filming for a month, I already had such doubts, there are too many things I want to express, and the content of the script is too much, and the movie is only two hours long, and I can't present what I want to express at all." ”

He looked left and right and said in a low voice: "So I talked to the producer to see if I could divide this movie into two parts." ”

Liang Chaowei's face changed slightly, and his eyes were slightly condensed: "Two up and down? The choice you made is very bold, the first step has not yet been released, you can't see the market, and the second part is already ready? ”

Director Wu smiled bitterly: "I also have to do it as a last resort, with such an excellent work, are you really willing to delete too much of the picture?" Anyway, I can't bear it.

Especially those scenes that look incomparably grandiose and magnificent, I can't wait to keep them all, how hard have we worked to contact these soldiers, and how late have we stayed up every day? If I delete it, not only do I think it's a pity, but those tricks that involve in contact every day and night will also be very poignant. ”

Liang Yingdi sighed softly, everyone is a young actor, and no one wants to be deleted from the scene where he finally appeared in a scene, even if the trick in that scene is so black that he can't even see his appearance clearly.

Liang Yingdi said: "This film is a good film, since you already have an idea in your heart, let's do it according to your idea." ”

Director Wu said a little embarrassedly: "It's just that the actors who filmed together suffered from it, and they originally said that the filming would be completed in about three months, but now it looks like it has to be extended for another three months." ”

Liang Chaowei looked at him with a smile: "It's not just three months that have been wasted, Chibi was originally scheduled to start filming in May, but you see, it dragged around and started filming in July."

But even so, not many people have proposed to terminate the contract with you, not for your face, but for the face of the script, everyone wants to participate in an excellent script and earn a good reputation. Angkor, you have to work hard! ”

Wu Daodao: "Definitely, definitely!" ”

Gradually, the news that "Red Cliff" will be divided into two parts was released, and the actors did not feel strange, and the acceptance was very good.

Xu Jin was still immersed in the filming of the crew, and he passed October unhurriedly, and came to November, seeing that the crew had not yet filmed, but Tang Ren couldn't wait.

It is imperative to talk about contract renewal!

Tang Ren also has a good relationship with Director Wu here, and Tang Ren also laid the foundation in Xiangjiang in the early years, and maintained good relations with major companies and investors.

Therefore, even if Xu Jin signed a contract with Chibi has long passed, Tang Ren did not take advantage of this to pry Xu Jin away, nor did he make trouble.

This film is known to be a blockbuster, specifically aiming to break records, and no company wants its artists to miss this opportunity.

But what if its artists are no longer artists?

If next year, Xu Jin is no longer Tang Ren's artist, and this film will not be released until next year, is it necessary for Tang Ren to go around in circles for Xu Jin?

In November, Tang Ren finally couldn't wait and intervened in Xu Jin's filming.

The company began to shoot with the Chibi crew, requiring Xu Jin to go out for at least two days a week to run notices, and even asked the crew to allow Xu Jin to play a scene!

This news was unilaterally notified by Tang Ren to Director Wu, and he did not tell Xu Jin.

But maybe Tang Ren didn't expect that Director Wu didn't look for a company, but directly found the actor and asked about Xu Jin's situation.

Taking advantage of the gap in filming, Director Wu asked with a serious face: "Xu Jin, are you in conflict with Tang Ren?" ”

Xu Jin was stunned and observed Director Wu's face.

Did he guess something? ’

After thinking for a few seconds, Xu Jin chose to answer truthfully: "Yes, there is a little contradiction, this year is the last year of my contract with the company, if I don't choose to renew the contract, I will be free next year." ”

Director Wu frowned, he thought that the contradiction was a small contradiction between the actor and the company, such as Xu Jin being disobedient to discipline, disobedient and willful, so Tang Ren was angry and used resolute means to ask him to leave the crew.

I didn't expect it to be a contradiction in the renewal of the contract!

Director Wu had a headache.

Seriously, Xu Jin's situation is the last thing he wants to see, if he had known that Xu Jin and Tang Ren were in the last year of contract this year, maybe he would not have chosen to hand Xu Jin the script in the first place.

Why do you say that?

Because often in the last year, the negotiations between the company and the star are unsuccessful, and the star is determined to leave, and the company naturally wants to squeeze the star's itinerary, so that the star will desperately receive the notice on the show in the rest of the time and make money for the company!

This is called "making the most of it".

In the crew, there have been some such situations, originally the actors filmed well in a crew, but because they couldn't negotiate with the company to renew the contract, the company immediately asked the actor to quit the crew, stopped filming this drama, and asked him to take some announcements that make money faster.

Often, the contract signed between the crew and the actor is not valid as the contract signed by the company for the actor, and this is the case.

Unless it is a large crew, it will negotiate with the company according to the content of the contract signed with the actors, and will not let people go, gritting their teeth and letting the actors continue filming.

The crew doesn't want to offend the company, but there will be such a situation, because the actors have already filmed most of the scenes in the crew, and the crew can't afford the cost of replacement.

And if you suddenly change the script and write this character to death, it is very likely that the whole film will collapse.

Director Wu also has a headache here, although he is a big crew, but the crew itself has not done things according to the contract, and the filming time has been delayed again and again, and the schedule signed by the actors has long passed.

can continue to shoot now, it is all the company behind the actor who adjusted the schedule and gritted his teeth to support it.

Tang Ren now asked to summon Xu Jin back according to the content of the contract, which even Chibi couldn't say anything.

But the problem is that Xu Jin, an actor, has a very heavy role, and now that half of the filming has been completed, it is impossible for the crew to release people, which means that the investment in the early stage has to be remade! 88

Not to mention that the crew is willing to release people, and other stars are also unwilling, they may not be able to spend a few more months free!

So what about writing the role of Xu Jin to death?

This is simply impossible, after all, he plays Zhuge Liang, and he can't die at all in the plot of Chibi!

In the end, Director Wu could only endure Xu Jin leaving the crew for two days a week, although he knew that doing so would reduce the quality of the actors' filming, but he had no choice!

I have to say that Tang Ren's request just happened to poke at the tip of Director Wu's heart, and it just happened to be the kind that would not be broken.

Director Wu really didn't want to agree to this condition, but there was no way, but it was a pity that Xu Jin would not affect the filming state and not be able to create Chibi completely.

Xu Jin didn't know that Director Wu had such complicated thoughts in his heart, so he couldn't help asking, "Is something wrong?" ”

Director Wu frowned, "You still don't know?" ”

Xu Jin looked dazed, "Could it really be that something happened?" My agent didn't tell me. ”

In fact, seeing Director Wu like this, Xu Jin already had a faint premonition that something really happened to Tang Ren.

Director Wu looked at him, stopped talking, and finally waved his hand and said: "Forget it, you call your agent yourself to find out, this is a matter between you and your company, and it has nothing to do with the crew." ”

After a pause, he said earnestly: "Xu Jin, no matter what happens to you and your company in the end, I hope you can remember that this is a matter between you and your company, and it has nothing to do with the crew, no matter what, the crew is innocent!" ”

Xu Jin's face became solemn: "Yes, director, I know." ”

After the director finished speaking, the crew began filming soon after, and at this time, Xu Jin had just finished sending a message to He Chuan.

He was afraid that calling for too long for a while would also affect his mood and slow down the progress of the crew, so he didn't choose to call, but used text messages.

This shoot was filmed in the evening.

In the evening, while Xu Jin was having dinner, he took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and found that He Chuan had replied to the text message and made three calls.

Because he was filming, the phone was not connected, so He Chuan sent a text message later.

[Xu Jin, if you don't tell me, I don't know that the company's senior management thinks that you have no intention of signing a contract, and are ready to make good use of your value in the last two months and do their best to squeeze you]

[Xu Jin, now the biggest hole card in your hand is Chibi! ] The company's senior management has a good relationship with Chibi's investors, and they don't want to have conflicts with Chibi because of your relationship, which will affect future cooperation, so this time in order to make your itinerary vacant, the conditions proposed to Chibi are very relaxed.

Xu Jin frowned when he saw the text messages in the past two days, and even He Chuan didn't know about it in advance.

In other words, has the company bypassed He Chuan and issued a notice arrangement for him directly from the top leadership?

Xu Jin immediately made a call to He Chuan.

Unexpectedly, He Chuan hung up the phone.

Xu Jin felt that something was wrong, so he didn't call again, but took advantage of this time to hurry up and eat, and he had to continue filming at night.

The places where the big guys eat are all on the same occasion, some actors choose to bring their own private food, while others eat the box lunches provided by the crew.

Xu Jin chose the boxed lunch provided by the crew, and among all the first-line actors in the crew, Liang Yingdi, Zhao Wei and Liu Yifei all chose to bring food in from outside.

It's not that the lunch box provided by the crew doesn't taste good, it's originally made from a big pot of rice, and the taste is just like that, it's just that some celebrities want to pursue better taste and better nutrition, so they will choose to bring their own rice.

To put it bluntly, it is also a box lunch that dislikes the crew.

Although most of the actresses bring their own box lunches, they also eat with other actors, and they don't engage in any independent small gangs.

Liu Yifei sat opposite Xu Jin, and saw that Xu Jin had a serious expression since he looked at his mobile phone, frowning even when he was eating, and couldn't help asking: "Is something happening?" ”

Liu Yifei asked, frowning and giving a big chicken leg to Xu Jin, she didn't like the taste of chicken legs.

After so many days, everyone is also accustomed to Liu Yifei giving Xu Jin the dishes he doesn't like to eat.

Some people think that the relationship between the two is very close, but the problem is that Xu Jin has a very hearty attitude and does not approve of leftovers, plus the two have filmed so many TV series together, and the relationship is good, so they don't think too much.

Even if I think about it occasionally, I don't continue to think about it.

is also the work progress of the crew is too rushed, and every staff member of the entire crew has to devote themselves to their work, and they have no energy to speculate on the relationship between actors and actors.

If you have the energy, it's definitely idle.

Xu Jin came back to his senses and shook his head: "No, it's not a very serious matter." ”

Liu Yifei glared at him, "It's not serious, you can catch a fly when you frown together when you eat!" ”

Xu Jinshu frowned and smiled: "Is it so exaggerated?" ”

Liu Yifei nodded and said seriously: "It's just such an exaggeration!" ”

"So, is something wrong with you?"

Xu Jin said lightly: "Actually, there is nothing that every artist will encounter, which is to negotiate with the company about renewing the contract." ”

Liang Chaowei and Zhao Wei, who were listening on the sidelines, heard it and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Your contract is about to expire this year?" ”

"Renewing the contract, have you decided to renew it with the company?"

Xu Jin said: "Yes, my contract is about to expire this year, didn't my agent come to the crew a few times before, and those times I came here to talk about contract renewal." ”

He paused for a moment and said slowly: "After careful consideration, I still think that I have developed better, so I don't plan to renew the contract with the company, unless it can come up with chips to impress me." ”

Liang Chaowei said keenly: "Shares? ”

Xu Jin nodded.

Liu Yifei said "wow", with a touch of envy in her eyes, "If you are really willing to give shares, it also means that the company trusts and values you, and the actor can do this, which is already very good." ”

Zhao Wei thought of the news he received some time ago, and said meaningfully: "But Tang Ren's shares are not as easy to get as imagined." ”