"How did you know that Chang Mingsheng would definitely write a sequel?" Xu Zihao thought of another question.

"As a screenwriter's intuition, when I see this story, I can't help but think about it, Chang Mingsheng just started this story, and his story creativity is very malleable. Since the characters in this world can travel to another world, why can't the characters in that world travel to the world of normal people? After the end of this adventure, it is natural to lead to another story. ”

"You're so sure Chang Mingsheng will have the same idea," Xu Zihao asked puzzled.

"I deliberately tested him just now. His reaction was very strong, although it was only a very rough idea, but I am sure that he also thought of this problem, so I said that this person is not simple! ”

"Let's not talk about this Chang Mingsheng for the time being, I have also read his script, I want to know how much financial support the head office can provide us?" After chatting for so long, Xu Zihao is actually most concerned about this issue.

"If Chang Mingsheng is willing to revise the script according to my opinion, then the final shooting cost of the film should be about 100 million US dollars, Paramount is responsible for the initial investment, and the rest of the paste is raised by Golden Harvest itself!" Lin Mu had already thought about this problem after reading the script.

"And what about the director? Xu Zihao asked again.

Lin Mu originally wanted to ask Li Press to direct this movie, but Li Press is now busy filming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and can't squeeze out this time. Tsui Hark has a soft spot for Xianxia fantasy movies, but he is now bent on filming "Shushan" and is not interested in this type of children's movie. There are only a few directors he is familiar with in the Chinese film industry, and Lin Mu does feel a little embarrassed when it comes to directors.

"I haven't found the right person yet, do you have any good advice?" Lin Mu looked at Xu Zihao with an inquiring eye.

Xu Zihao was very embarrassed. Find a Hollywood director. He definitely can't shoot the effect that the producers imagined. Find a local director in Hong Kong, he can't accurately grasp the preferences of overseas audiences. The best choice is to find a director who can drive both Eastern and Western films, after considering this factor, Xu Zihao suddenly thought of a person, "What do you think of Wu Yusen?" ”

After Xu Zihao's reminder, Lin Mu suddenly remembered Wu Yusen, who had drunk with him a year ago, how could he forget this? But looking back, Lin Mu felt that it was a little inappropriate, Wu Yusen is good at shooting action movies, and the traces of violent aesthetics in his movies are very strong, let him make a children's movie, in terms of action design, whether Wu Yusen can grasp the heat has become a very headache.

"I think he handled it very well in the Hollywood movie "Changing Face", in fact, Wu Yusen's movie also has a delicate side." Of course, Xu Zihao has also thought about this question, but he believes that Wu Yusen is not only good at the expression of violent aesthetics, and in the film "Changing Face", Wu Yusen focuses on portraying the talent and gentleness of female characters, which is 100% recognized by female audiences, and many female audiences who have never watched action movies are also fascinated by this Zou movie.

"Wu Yusen should be the most suitable person at the moment. But whether he is willing to go back to Xiangjiang to hug the play is a question! Xu Zihao is now worried about another problem.

Lin Mu knows that Wu Yusen is now being popular in Hollywood, and it is said that he can now receive different scripts every day, which shows his popularity. Since Wu Yusen was invited to Hollywood to make films, he has never returned to Xiangjiang. During this period, many Xiangjiang film companies wanted to invite him back to make movies, but he refused. So Xu Zihao had such concerns.

"I'll talk to him personally, he should still give this face!" Lin Mu is not worried about this problem, in fact, as early as a year ago, at the party, Wu Yusen once expressed the idea of wanting to cooperate with Lin Mu. And the reason why Wu Yusen is reluctant to return to Xiangjiang to make movies. One of the big reasons is that I am not optimistic about the market of Xiangjiang movies. Moreover, in Hollywood, Wu Yusen's contact with some big-budget movies is too low. The quality of the script is not so satisfactory, and various factors have led to Wu Yusen's willingness to stay in Hollywood in recent years, and at the same time, it has also created the false impression that he is unwilling to return to Xiangjiang.

Lin Mu knew Wu Yusen's true thoughts, and if he found the crux of the problem, he would naturally be able to prescribe the right medicine, so Lin Mu did not rush to send the script to Wu Yusen after returning to the United States. He just told that he was going to use Golden Harvest's advantages in the Xiangjiang film industry to shoot a Chinese-language film produced by Zou Da, and asked Wu Yusen if he was interested.

Hearing that it was a Chinese-language movie, Wu Yusen instinctively hesitated, but Lin Muhai deliberately emphasized the big production, which can be said to be his favorite. When he learned that the film was expected to cost $100 million in filming, Wu Yusen readily agreed to Lin Mu's invitation, and at this time, he hadn't even read the script of the film.

It's not that Wu Yusen only focuses on how much investment he makes movies, this is mainly because of the woods. Wu Yusen has been very successful in Hollywood over the years, but there is still no way to compare with Lin Mu. If he just integrated into the Hollywood film industry and was recognized by the people in the circle, then Xiao Yat can be said to have successfully entered the core of this circle, and his every move can have a great impact on this circle.

As Hollywood's most legendary figure. Lin Mu's achievements have long transcended the boundaries of his own race. In Hollywood, both actors and directors are willing to cooperate with Lin Mu. Wu Yusen knows that cooperating with Lin Mu means high-quality scripts, sufficient funds and perfect benefit distribution, as a screenwriter was born, and he is a top producer in Hollywood, all the scripts that Lin Mu fancies, without exception, have become the best in Hollywood commercial films.

In a media interview just after Viacom's acquisition of Columbia Television Broadcasting, the company's chairman of the board of directors, Sanam Lei Shidong, generously replied to the host's question about the most successful investment in his business career: "I am glad that I found out that Viacom was the most successful and valuable investment of my life. ”

Lin Mu's success has made people have a wide range of trust in him, and Wu Yusen's choice has undoubtedly been influenced by this trust psychology. If you don't read the script, you will take the play, if you change it to someone else. This is never the case.

Wu Yusen has been absent from Hong Kong for many years. Return to the Hong Kong film industry. and cooperated again with the Golden Harvest Film, which he had opened for many years, according to Wu Yusen's own words, this does feel a bit fatalistic. After an interval of 10 years, Zou Wenhuai and Wu Yusen reunited again, Jiahe is no longer the previous Jiahe, and Wu Yusen is no longer the Wu Yusen of the year.

Back then, Wu Yusen went to Shaw Brothers Pictures to make films with Zhang Che, the most famous action film director at that time. Zhang Che's work was rampant in the film market at the time, and Wu Zaisen also learned a lot of professional skills from it, in Wu Yusen's words. "Replace the knife in Zhang Che's movie with a gun, then it will be very similar to my "True Colors of Heroes" Two years after Zhang Che was around, Wu Yusen began to work as a director himself.

After Zou Wenhuai left Shaw Brothers to become a director of Golden Harvest, Wu Yusen was invited to Golden Harvest as a director for 10 years. During these 10 years, he made many comedies that completely pleased the market, and this period is called "the 10 years of comedy."

Later, after he went from Jiahe to Xinyicheng, his career sank to the bottom and he was sent out to bend and dive for nearly three years. However, he also made many good friends in Wanwan because of the blessing of misfortune, and also saw the strong human touch in the Wanwan entertainment industry that is very different from Xiangjiang. In the mid-eighties, Wu's film career stagnated. With the help of Tsui Hark, the Year of the Goose successfully directed "The True Colors of Heroes", which established the film style of Wu Yusen's violent aesthetics.

"The True Color of Heroes" is not only a turning point in John Woo's life, but also a monument to Xiangjiang films. At the time of the creation of this film. Wu Yusen's arrogance is bound to appear, and the frustration and revenge that have accumulated in the film industry for many years permeate every picture, and his delicate diversion and smooth song-like editing are still impeccable today. This large-scale, high-quality work shocked all audiences and filmmakers.

This film also discovered a large number of talents for Xiangjiang films, such as Tsui Hark, Cheng Xiaodong, Pan Hengsheng, Leslie Cheung, and the same frustrated film industry back then. Zhou Runfa, known as "box office poison". Wu Yusen went to gamble, but he won, and a group of frustrated and dormant men conquered fate and burst out with incomparably dazzling light from each other!

Since the producer did not reveal more details about Wu Yusen's new film, the media does not know much about this film. Golden Harvest only revealed that although the screenwriter of the film is a newcomer, the script has been highly recognized by Lin Mu. And judging from the importance that Golden Harvest attaches to this film, the media speculates that this will be a film with an amazing production cost.

Wu Yusen's return to Xiangjiang naturally attracted the attention of all parties, when he was interviewed by reporters. A reporter asked Wu Yusen if he wanted to use this film to announce his return to Xiangjiang Films. And Wu Yusen shook his head, his answer was very interesting, "This movie is the only thing that can prove." It's that Wu Yusen has never left Xiangjiang."

The media analyzed that Wu Yusen's return to Hong Kong is just a clear signal that Hollywood films are beginning to pay attention to the Asian film market. Many people think that the Asian film revival is imminent, and a reporter specifically mentioned this issue during the interview.

"Xiangjiang's economy has begun to recover, but Xiangjiang Films, which have just come out of the depression, may have a long way to go if they want to regain their former glory. When I came back to Xiangjiang to shoot this film, everyone expected a lot from me, which made me feel a lot of pressure. In fact, I accepted the producer's invitation at the beginning, mainly because I personally always hoped to have the opportunity to cooperate with Chairman Lin. That's what I want in Hollywood. Unexpectedly, this dream was realized in Xiangjiang in the end! Wu Yusen didn't deliberately want to put his posture very high.

"Another reason why this movie attracted me was the script, Chairman Lin has won 6 Oscars for screenwriting in Hollywood for consecutive years, and he can be sure of it. Then the quality of this script can be imagined. At that time, Chairman Lin called me. I hadn't read the script yet, and then I agreed. After reading this script, I knew I was betting on the right thing this time! ”

With the praise of the producer and the director's affirmation, Chang Mingsheng, the screenwriter of the film "Looking for Immortals", became the most dazzling new star in the Xiangjiang film industry overnight, and Chang Mingsheng maintained a low profile in front of the media. Only those who really know his forest know that behind his low-key is an extreme conceit. Even in Chang Mingsheng's body, Lin Mu vaguely saw some of his shadows back then. It's just that whether Chang Mingsheng can have such good luck as himself, Lin Mu doesn't know.

Anyway, before the film started filming, the screenwriter had already become popular first, which also shows the media's attention to Wu Yusen's new film. But just when the media began to track the progress of the film's preparations, Wu Yusen, who had been making a high-profile appearance in front of the media before, suddenly disappeared from people's sight. As early as when the media thought that he was still in Xiangjiang, he had secretly left Xiangjiang.

According to the setting of the script, the film needs to find four Chinese actors, three men and one woman, to play the role of the little monk and brother riding a giant green mussel in the film, the little Taoist who pretends to be cool, and the little fairy who is the incarnation of the phoenix.

Although Lin Mu gave Wu Yusen full responsibility for the casting work, he still "handpicked two people." Lin Mu can't forget the humorous duo of Shi Xiaolong and Hao Shaowen, the image of the two little monks is already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in both Asia and the United States, this time filming "Looking for Immortals", Lin Mu's first thought was the two of them.

Lin Mu's arrangement seems reasonable both in terms of role selection and market influence, and Wu Yusen did not object to this. He went to Wanwan this time, as long as it was to persuade Hao Shaowen to star in this movie. Although Hao Shaowen, who is already old, is no longer as naughty as he was when he was a child, he still loves movies, and he is very interested in the role brought by Wu Yusen, and Wu Yusen has always had a good reputation in the crooked entertainment industry and has many acquaintances. With the help of friends, Hao Shaowen's parents were quickly persuaded to allow their children to star in the movie.

Compared with Hao Shaowen's parents' hesitation. Shi Xiaolong's father, Chen Tongshan, is "reasonable." A lot, because he himself hopes that his son can develop towards acting in the future, so after receiving the script, he readily agreed to Wu Yusen's invitation. And when he learned that he would work with his childhood friend Hao Shaowen again, Shi Xiaolong himself was also very happy.