The last crew Xu Luo went to visit was "Bao Qingtian".

Compared with other crews, the preparation time of "Bao Qingtian" is relatively long.

Director Yang Jie has been thinking about this task given by Xuluo since the later stage of "The Legend of the New White Lady".

As a veteran director of CCTV, it is much easier for her to mobilize resources and personnel from all parties than Feng Xiaogang.

In November, after the actors Liu Deyi and He Jiajin arrived, the crew began to operate.

Originally, the best location for the filming of "Bao Qingtian" was Bianliang in Henan, which was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.

But that was a thousand years ago, and now all kinds of folk customs and buildings of the Song Dynasty have disappeared in Bianliang.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Yang Jie still only plans to go to Bianliang at the end of the day to shoot some exterior scenes related to the Song Dynasty.

The rest is made in BJ.

There is the best group of ancient buildings here, and there is also a street full of antique scenery - the base of the North Film Studio.

There are also some of the best actors and production staff in the country.

With these advantages, Yang Jie can't shoot "Bao Qingtian" without BJ.

When he walked in from the outside, all he saw were acquaintances.

Many of these are the staff who filmed "The Legend of the New White Lady", and now they have followed Yang Jie to "Bao Qingtian".

It seems that they are Yang Jie's old team.

If Yang Jie wants to leave CCTV and build a small studio by herself, many of them will follow, right?

It's just that Yang Jie is an old-fashioned person, even if she comes out to pick up Xuluo's play, she is still in the mode of secondment from Eying Studio, and on the surface, she is not working for private - this is the benefit of Eying Studio's 15% dividend from Bailai Xuluo, and we can borrow big brands.

Otherwise, Yang Jie was unwilling to break the rules and come out for a private filming.

And Huzi beckoned them to move things in the car outside.

Dozens of tons of various New Year's goods were piled up over there, and the big guys were carrying them, and they thanked Xuluo loudly, and the atmosphere was very warm.

Walking to the courtyard where the shooting was taken, Xuluo first saw Master Bao who was sitting at the door panting and resting.

As soon as he saw him, the young man couldn't help but laugh: "Uncle Liu, you have become a now!" ”

Liu Deyi, whose face was painted black and only showed bright eyes, said angrily: "You don't praise me for losing weight, and you stare at the bad things of others all day long?" ”

Xu Luo just took a look at Liu Deyi's figure.

Don't say it, although Bao Qingtian is a very fat person, how fat can people be in ancient times?

So except for retaining a little big belly, Liu Deyi has lost a lot of weight in the rest of the place, which is about 160 pounds.

This is a very standard figure.

But the downside is that it's slightly shorter.

He was much shorter than the handsome man he saw in a red robe, a black crested gauze hat, and a scimitar in his hand.

He was walking from the corridor, and when he saw Xuluo, he hurriedly greeted him respectfully: "Luo Shao!" ”

Xu Luo smiled and shook his hand, "Brother Jiajin, are you still used to filming in the mainland?" Can you play with my Uncle Liu smoothly? ”

While speaking, there was no change in front of the young man.

It seems that He Jiajin's future development is not very good!

It's a pity that such a handsome appearance!

He Jiajin heard Xuluo's question, and replied with a smile: "The mainland is much colder than Hong Kong, but the air is drier. ”

After a pause, he said again: "Brother Liu and I are already friends, so naturally we will cooperate well." Director Yang Jie praised us for our quick entry into the play, which is very tacit! ”

"Xiao He is very desperate." Liu Deyi also praised on the side: "I was injured a few days ago because of hanging wires to shoot martial arts scenes, and now I am filming with gauze wrapped around my waist!" I also have to see a doctor every day for physical therapy. ”

"That's hard work."

Xuluo said, "Brother Jiajin, can you afford it?" ”

"What's that?" He Jia said vigorously, "Luo Shao, you don't know, I used to be a martial arts stand-in for a while, and injuries are commonplace." This time, the injury also occurred because it touched the old injury before! Just reply slowly for a few days. ”

Hong Kong actors can bear hardships and stand hard work, which Xuluo admires very much.

Even if they get hundreds of thousands, millions, or even millions of salaries, there are not a few who are squeamish, saying that this can't do this or that won't come.

At best, there is a stand-in for filming martial arts, and anything else is windy and rainy, jumping into the river and rolling in the sand, and being injured and fractured, which is commonplace.

"Xiao He, it's good that you have this energy." Liu Deyi: "Don't worry, after "Bao Qingtian", you will become popular, and when you return to Hong Kong, you are also a first-class star, no worse than Zhou Yanfa, Zhou Xingchi, and Andy Lau!" ”

He Jiajin smiled and didn't talk.

If he says thank you, it's a little sycophant, if he doesn't believe it, but "Bao Qingtian" is Xuluo's book, how can it not be popular?

The result is to see how red the undertone is.

If it is popular all over the mainland, it will have no effect, and if Hong Kong and Taiwan are prosperous, it will be called really good.

Although the mainland is very good, it is still too backward.

I have to work hard in Hong Kong for my future life.

I hope that after "Bao Qingtian" is popular this time, my career in Hong Kong can also go to the next level!

Seeing that Liu Deyi seemed to have something to say to Xuluo, He Jiajin interrupted, excused himself and left.

When he left, he was still sighing, fortunately, he was very polite to the first actor, who knew that he still called his uncle in Xuluo?

This uncle is not an ordinary polite title, obviously the two have a deep relationship - He Jiajin heard the staff in the crew say that this chubby Liu Deyi is also from Sichuan!

As soon as He Jiajin walked away, Liu Deyi asked Xuluo: "The Chinese New Year is coming soon, when are you going to go back?" You have to be there when I have a drink with your father, right? ”

"I went home at the end of January, and my mother and my aunt urged me several times." Xuluo replied with a smile.

There are two mothers at home who care, and it's still quite warm.

I've been busy outside for months, and I should go home a little earlier for the Chinese New Year to accompany my family.

Liu Deyi groaned and asked, "Then who are you going to take home?" Xiao Xu? Xiao Yu? Or is it the prettiest Xiao Zhou? ”

Old Xuluo's face flushed, "Uncle Liu, I don't have anything to do with Vivian. ”

"Isn't it sooner or later?" Liu Deyi, "Your Uncle Liu, my eyes don't spent, that girl's eyes look at you like there is a hook, and she wants to hook you to her side." ”

I didn't expect you to look at the face.

Xu Luo changed the topic and said, "Uncle Liu, when did you shoot "Bao Qingtian"? ”

"Director Yang said, it's probably on January 28th, and the Spring Festival on February 3rd, everyone can go home in time." Liu Deyi: "My son has shouted several times, telling me to go back early...... I miss him too! ”

After a pause, he smiled and said: "But now the days are better, and there is no longer any need to take 7 hours by train from Chongqing back to Yuanyin as before." Now I am back to Chongqing from BJ, and it can be reached by plane in more than 3 hours. In fact, if I wasn't busy filming, I could go back once a week. ”

Chongqing's airport began to be put into use last year, and there is no need to go to Chengdu for transit, which is very convenient.

Flying is still a luxury now, so the crowding of the Spring Festival has little to do with the plane.

Including Xuluo taking a plane back, it's the same thing, and it's the same for several girlfriends to fly back.

"Roughly in April next year, the filming of such 20 units will be completed." Liu Deyi said, "In next year's unit, have you talked to Director Yang Jie?" Is she still filming? ”

Xuluo asked rhetorically, "Uncle Liu, what do you think?" Is Director Yang Jie competent? ”

Liu Deyi laughed, "You're not joking, are you?" Director Yang Jie can't do it anymore, who else can? It's just that I'm worried that her body won't be able to support it, after all, filming for seven or eight months a year is very hard. ”

The boy nodded.

Yang Jie will be 61 years old next year, and as she gets older, she has to be more careful about many things, and high-intensity work is not suitable for her.

However, if "Bao Qingtian" is filmed smoothly and runs smoothly, it doesn't matter if she shoots a little slower.

Anyway, "Bao Qingtian" is different from "I Love My Home", it doesn't have to catch up with time.

Two or three years, three or five years later, Liu Deyi and He Jiajin are still like this, at best, Wu Jin and Zhang Jing will become mature - this is also normal, as time passes, the characters in the TV series have age changes, which is also natural!

While the two were talking, they saw Wang Congqiu coming over.

"Xiao Luo, Aunt Yang asked you to come over!" Wang Congqiu waved his hand.

"Okay!"

Xuluo hurried over.

Arriving at Yang Jie's office, Xuluo found all kinds of pictures and sub-shots, as well as manuscript paper, etc., which were more than Xie Hong's "The Legend of the Shooting Heroes".

Yang Jie was busy writing, and when she saw Xuluo coming in, she put down her pen, "You're a rare guest!" My own TV series, it turns out that this is your first time! ”

Xuluo scratched his head, "Don't you believe in Yang Dao!" Besides, our domestic TV dramas are all distributed by their counterparts, so I don't have to do anything! As long as you make sure that the TV series you shoot is good, it's fine. ”

Yang Jie smiled, "You think it's simple!" ”

"You have something to do with me?" Xuluo asked.

"That's right."

Yang Jie said: "Xiao Luo, your Aunt Yang doesn't ask you for anything on weekdays, right?" ”

"Nope."

Xu Luo immediately understood, "You have something to say, I can do it, do it immediately!" ”

Yang Jie stood up and poured him a glass of water before saying, "I only had this idea recently, and it is getting stronger and stronger, as if I can't get over it if I don't do it." ”

The boy didn't go to talk, but waited for her to continue talking.

Standing in front of her desk, Yang Jie said, "Xiaoluo, you know what I am famous for, but at that time, due to various conditions, I did not finish filming "Journey to the West", leaving a lot of regrets......

Hearing this, Xuluo probably knew what Yang Jie was going to do.

She wants to continue filming "Journey to the West".

As we all know, the original version of "Journey to the West" had 100 episodes, but only 25 episodes were filmed.

But there are about 40 "Journey to the West" stories that can be filmed, and if you want to extend it, you can at least shoot five or six more.

When filming "The Legend of the New White Lady", everyone chatted, and Mr. Wang Congqiu said that Yang Jie's filming of "Journey to the West" was based on 40 episodes.

Who knew that after filming a few episodes, she found that the cost was huge, and it was impossible to shoot 40 episodes, so she only filmed three episodes to take a look.

Three episodes were filmed and tested, hey, the effect is quite good, and the leader said you can continue to do it.

So I filmed more than ten episodes, and then there was no money again.

In the end, if it weren't for the sponsorship of 1 million by a bureau under China Railway, it would definitely not have been able to shoot 20 episodes.

It has been six years since "Journey to the West" was officially broadcast, during which Yang Jie reported three times that she wanted to shoot a sequel to "Journey to the West", and CCTV called back.

The reason is that there is no money,

In fact, CCTV is much richer than it was 10 years ago.

But they have also done more projects, all kinds of expenses have risen rapidly, and the projects have been scheduled for several years, how can they have extra money to make a sequel to "Journey to the West"?

What's more, didn't you see the Buddha in "Journey to the West" at the end and take the true scriptures back to the Tang Dynasty?

This story is already very complete, what else are you going to shoot?

There's no need!

So the project has never been approved.

Yang Jie was already discouraged.

But after filming two TV series in succession, seeing that Xuluo was so serious and willing to make TV series, she suddenly had this idea - if only I could get Xuluo to sponsor and shoot a sequel to "Journey to the West" for me.

But it's too difficult.

Not to mention anything else, Xuluo is rich, very rich, but he can't be wasted if he is rich.

It's not that no one watches "Journey to the West Sequel", it must be that the people of the whole country are scrambling to watch it.

However, the biggest and most unavoidable problem is that the copyright of "Journey to the West" is CCTV's!

If Yang Jie finds the original cast to make a sequel again, what will CCTV do to you?

If I don't hit you, you won't know it's your mother!

The copyright is gone, you can't shoot without the approval of CCTV, and you definitely can't sell it, how do you say Xuluo can invest money?

Just rely on her Yang Jie's face?

Definitely not!

Even if Xuluo agreed, Yang Jie would not do it.

She can't let honest people suffer.

But after thinking about it, Yang Jie still can't let go of this obsession.

So she chose to say it directly to Xuluo.

After Xuluo digested a little, Yang Jie said: "I'll see if I can do this, Xiaoluo, you go to apply with CCTV, Luohe Film and Television and CCTV will cooperate to shoot the sequel to "Journey to the West"; Then it is up to you to get the overseas rights of the "Journey to the West Sequel...... It's the same as when you sponsor "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

Of course, Aunt Yang can't let you suffer! Aren't you going to shoot hundreds of episodes of "Bao Qingtian"? I've taken all of them for you, shoot as much as you want, I don't want a penny from you! ”

This is Yang Jie's expedient measure.

Xuluo can get overseas copyrights by paying money, which CCTV must be willing, anyway, they have never paid attention to overseas copyrights.

With the happy cooperation of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", of course they are very happy that Xuluo is willing to be this kind of wronged leader.

But Xuluo has overseas channels such as ATV, TV Tokyo, and Bubu Stitching Monster, and I dare not say that I can earn back all the investment, but at least I can return more than half of the capital.

The rest of the money will be deducted by Yang Jie from the cooperation of "Bao Qingtian".

Xuluo asked Yang Jie to shoot "The Legend of the New White Lady" and gave 1 million, and the first part of "Bao Qingtian" was also 1 million.

According to Yang Jie's estimate, "Bao Qingtian" will have at least about 5 films, that is, it will be filmed for five years and 5 million.

Yang Jie doesn't want the 5 million, take it back to give Xuluo the subsidy for the sequel to "Journey to the West", plus the overseas copyright, I believe that Xuluo will not lose money.

Even if she loses in the end, it's amazing that she will work hard for a few more years and help Xuluo shoot two more TV series for free, won't this be compensated?

Xu Luo didn't answer when he heard this, but asked rhetorically: "Aunt Yang, how many episodes of the "Journey to the West Sequel" are you budgeted for?" How much budget do you need? ”

"It's about 15-20 episodes to shoot, and I see the specific plot arrangement of the script." Yang Jie said neatly: "In terms of cost, because I want to make the special effects better, it is best to be 20 million, but I can do 15 million, and less than 12 million may not work." ”

The young man thought for a moment and said, "Those actors...... Including Master and Brother Monkey, are they willing to come back? ”

All Chinese know that Yang Jie and the four masters and apprentices had a big quarrel and then fell out.

The reason is that after "Journey to the West" became famous, the four masters and apprentices went around running commercial performances to make money - after all, they only pay 30 yuan a month, which is not as good as the extras who do odd jobs, and it is understandable for them to make money after they become famous.

Yang Jie originally belonged to the character of old-fashioned people, so she didn't like it a little, and said that they didn't know how many times.

But they didn't listen, and Yang Jie couldn't do anything.

I don't know if it means that they are upset, once Yang Jie wanted to go on a show of "Journey to the West", she called the four masters and apprentices to come together, but they obviously agreed, but in the end they didn't come.

Yang Jie, who was on the show, was so embarrassed that she fell ill after going back.

Later, I found out that they took a temporary job that day, and it was quite a lot of money, so they went to the commercial performance.

This made Yang Jie so angry that she didn't even let the four of them come to apologize and enter the door.

Tell me, the relationship is so stiff, can they all work together again?

Yang Jie nodded when she heard this: "Our relationship has eased a lot in the past two years, and everyone has a lot of regrets and sighs when they mention "Journey to the West...... As long as we say we want to do it and treat them better, I think they will be willing to come! ”

Xuluo thought to himself, could it be that Master and Brother Monkey wanted to make more money, so they wanted to make the sequel to "Journey to the West" again, right?

I wanted to think about it, but he didn't say that, but said cheerfully: "That's it! Aunt Yang, help me talk to CCTV when you are free here! If we can do 20 million, we will do it, if it is not enough, I will add it! ”

"Really!?" Yang Jie was overjoyed, she didn't expect Xuluo to agree so easily!

Xuluo nodded: "I grew up watching "Journey to the West" when I was a child!" It's been in vain to watch it for so long, and I also have the regret that the shooting was not satisfactory, and now I have the opportunity to make up for the regret, what are you afraid of spending some money? ”

"Good! Good! ”

Yang Jie was so happy that she didn't know what to say, and her eyes were a little red.

After so many years of regrets, seeing that she has the opportunity to make up for it, how can she not be excited?

Xu Luo continued: "As for Aunt Yang, you will shoot "Bao Qingtian" for me for free, there is no need to talk about it in the future!" One yard to one yard...... Listen to me! …… Aside from the reason why I am willing to pay for my childhood dream, I invested 20 million yuan, and the overseas copyright of "Journey to the West" is probably more than that, and I have made money. ”

Yang Jie was skeptical when she heard this, "You didn't comfort me, did you?" ”

"Of course not." Xuluo said: "Copyright operation is a very powerful thing, I will explain it to you in detail in the future." Copyright in so many countries, what is 20 million yuan? Double it all! ”

"That's good! That's good! That's good! ”

Yang Jie smiled happily, so she said one sentence three times.

If the sequel to "Journey to the West" can start filming, and you can still get a budget of 20 million, and at the same time, Xuluo can make money, it would be a great result!