Chapter 303: Breaking Fang Long's Record
Liu Yifei's words inspired Mu Rong.
The current script is frozen here, mainly because the story core of "Alice in Wonderland" does not match the overall background.
Since it doesn't match, find a way to adapt it.
Who said that kung fu movies can't let girls be the protagonists?
There are many martial arts films that use women as the heroines of the movie.
In the Chinese film industry that year, the first film "Chivalrous Girl" to win an international award was a woman.
Liu Yifei's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the protagonists of the story are also two women who represent tradition and new ideas.
In addition, there are also "Tianlong Babu: Tianshan Tong Ma", "The Undefeated Comeback of the East", "Three Heroes of the East", "Overlord Flower" and so on, a lot of them.
If women are the main characters, won't the problem of story compatibility be solved?
There are ready-made candidates for the heroine, and Liu Yifei, under the guidance of Mu Rong, has become the best sword horse of the young generation in China, and acting in kung fu movies is definitely not a problem.
After learning about Mu Rong's idea, Han Shanping also felt that it was feasible.
So, he found Liu Heping and the screenwriting team to rewrite a script together.
The script removed the story core of "Alice in Wonderland" and replaced it with the story core of "Mulan", which was recompiled by Liu Heping and combined with the previously made background setting, and changed to the story of a big heroine.
In this story, Liu Yifei is the only protagonist, and Mu Rong, Fang Long, and Li Lianjie have become her supporting roles.
Although Mu Rong has a relationship with her, the main line of the story still revolves around Liu Yifei.
This script finally won everyone's approval, and the project was finally approved.
Liu Yifei was a little stunned for a while when she learned that she had become the heroine of this movie.
This movie is full of big names, and even the supporting roles are famous seniors, no matter how turn it is, it will not be her turn to be the starring role.
But the script has been decided, and she can only play hard.
But after filming, she quickly got into the groove.
has two movies "Myth" and "Painted Skin" as the foundation, whether it is hanging Weiya or no physical performance, she is already very proficient.
Coupled with Mu Rong's assistance, her shooting went very smoothly.
It took three and a half months for the main scenes to be filmed.
But the follow-up crew also has to go to various places to film, such as the Gobi Desert in the Western Regions, Jiuzhaigou, Xianju Waterfall, Wuyi Mountain, Anji's Bamboo Sea, Yongkang Fangyan's Plum Garden, and so on.
The scenes in these locations are different, and the actors have to go to shoot according to their own shooting schedules.
After Mu Rong and Liu Yifei finished filming, they returned to Beiping.
Next year's Olympics are less than a year away.
As the person in charge and performer of martial arts performances, Mu Rong is naturally responsible for the performances of more than 2,000 people.
So, he put a break from the development of new projects and focused on the editing of "Fuse", the post-production of "Painted Skin", and the rehearsal of the martial arts performance at the opening ceremony.
However, the new project on Huarong's side is still in full swing.
After several years of development, Huarong Film and Television has become the largest private film and television company in China, with many artists and strong financial resources.
In the past few years, Huarong Film and Television's self-made film and television dramas have been very popular, applauded and popular.
In the early years, Huarong Film and Television was still relying on Mu Rong and Liu Yifei to support, such as "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".
But after several years of development, Huarong Film and Television's other self-made film and television dramas, the reputation has gradually increased.
The replay copyright of "Wulin Gaiden" has been sold to the fourth round, and it also won the annual award at the 3rd TV Drama Festival.
"Bright Sword" was also sold to more than 30 TV stations, making a lot of money, and winning awards was also soft, sweeping the Golden Eagle Award in 06.
"Soldier Assault" is also on Sina.com, and was rated as "Internet Popular Drama" and "Best Mainland Modern Drama" by netizens.
Wang Baoqiang also relied on this drama and was selected as the best actor by netizens, and his popularity skyrocketed.
This drama also directly led to the popularity of this year's conscription, and many young people had the idea of becoming a soldier because of watching this play.
With the success of one project after another, the development of new projects of Huarong Film and Television is getting faster and faster.
Because of the hot sales of "Wulin Gaiden", Huarong Film and Television has a high enthusiasm for sitcoms, and has acquired sitcom scripts for a long time, and has also taken out a sum of money to cultivate sitcom newcomers.
Wang Jinghua is more optimistic about an amateur named Wang Yuan, who has a script called "Love Apartment" and plans to cooperate with Huarong Film and Television to shoot it.
And Wang Baoqiang, who became popular all over the country because of "Soldier Assault", was not let go by Wang Jinghua.
She plans to open another drama for Wang Baoqiang to consolidate her popularity.
The script has been found, and the name is "My Brother is Shunxi".
In addition, because of the explosion of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", she also plans to open a sequel.
But Mu Rong and Liu Yifei's current worth is too high, and Huarong Film and Television must not be able to afford it, so she plans to find a newcomer to act.
After the box office of "Myth" exceeded 100 million US dollars, Mu Rong's worth has reached the level of 10 million US dollars.
Liu Yifei's worth is lower, only two million US dollars.
However, after the release of "The King of Kung Fu", it is impossible to say who is worth more or lower.
At the beginning of October, "Fuse" was released simultaneously around the world.
As a prequel to "Slaying the Wolf", and with the help of Mu Rong's defeat of Tyson's popularity, this drama has saved a lot of money in publicity.
In the end, it got a box office of 193 million at home and a total box office of $285 million abroad.
The total investment of this film is less than 60 million Chinese dollars, but in the end, it got a total box office of 2.4 billion Chinese dollars, and Mu Rong made a net profit of 1 billion.
This is not a vain thing like stocks and funds, but real cash.
After seeing the series of zeros in the bank card, Mu Rong immediately felt not joy, but relief.
From last year to now, he has thrown out a lot of money.
Making movies, investing in post-production studios, all of these all cost money.
Although he made a lot of money, he couldn't stand spending it like this.
This sum of money came in, and his hands were finally relaxed.
However, this is just the beginning, after the new year, "Painted Skin" was also set for the Spring Festival, which opened global publicity.
This drama is Mu Rong's first attempt at a large-scale production, and the production cost alone has reached 80 million.
Coupled with the cost of publicity, the total cost of this drama has reached 120 million.
The cost of 120 million will be at least 360 million at the box office to pay off.
But in the end, "Painted Skin" got 379 million at the domestic box office alone, directly breaking the domestic box office record.
In the foreign market, the film won a total box office of 315 million US dollars, breaking the box office record held by Fang Long for Chinese actors in overseas markets.
However, the most popular thing in this movie is not Mu Rong, but Liu Yifei, who plays Xiao Wei in the movie.
Her bewitching beauty in the movie, as well as her love-crazy performance, have conquered countless audiences, and also made many foreigners who can't even understand Chinese remember the name "show we".