"Chen Kaixuan."

Li Xia tapped his index finger on the table and began to think about the candidate proposed by Lin Chaoxian.

As a well-known director, Chen Kaixuan has won many awards both domestically and internationally, and his name Li Xia has naturally heard of it.

"Changjin Lake" is indeed a good choice co-directed by Chen Kaixuan and Lin Chaoxian, but since Chen Kaixuan became the dean of the Modu Film Academy in 2018, he has basically not directed film and television production.

I don't have any friendship with him, and now I invite him out of the mountain, I'm afraid it's not easy.

"Senior Brother Lin's proposal is really good, but director Chen Kaixuan seems to have not had a new work for several years, and the difficulty of inviting him to go out of the mountain is no less than that of a teacher."

Lin Chaoxian spread his hands and smiled, "I'm just giving you a proposal, as for whether you can invite you or not, it's up to you."

Li Xia was speechless, how could he be so unkind, and thought that he had any friendship with Chen Kaixuan, and he had to invite him himself after talking for a long time.

After thinking about it, Li Xia said with some reluctance: "The teacher should be in Xiangjiang now, I still want to invite the teacher again."

Lin Chaoxian didn't expect Li Xia to be so persistent, and shook his head with a smile: "The teacher has indeed been in Xiangjiang recently, and I had tea with him a few days before I came."

"Senior brother, don't work hard anymore, and accompany me to Xiangjiang to invite teachers."

Lin Chaoxian hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't toss my old bones, you have to go yourself."

"You arrange a hotel for me, I'll take a good look at this script these days, and find a few military history experts, this kind of military history-themed movie must respect history, otherwise the audience will scold my mother."

Seeing Lin Chaoxian say this, Li Xia didn't want to force it anymore, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll introduce you to someone later, he is half a military history expert, but he has a good relationship with J Fang, and it is not difficult to find a military history expert."

During dinner in the evening, Li Xia introduced Zhang Meng to Lin Chaoxian, and Zhang Meng's fame in the circle as the director of "I Am Special Forces" and "Wolf Warrior 1-2" is already very loud in the circle.

Although the two have never met, they talk very happily, and they have a posture of hating each other.

From the initial views on the script of "Changjin Lake", the topic was soon extended to some domestic and foreign military-themed movies.

Li Xia, who was sitting on the side, was very much like an outsider, and it took a long time to interject a sentence.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Lin Chaoxian lit a cigarette and half-leaned back on the chair and took a puff, looked at Li Xia and Zhang Meng meaningfully, spit out a smoke ring and said, "I don't think you need to ask the teacher for help, Zhang Meng is a good candidate."

"I've watched "Wolf Warrior" 1 and 2, and the shooting is very good, it's no problem for him and me to direct the filming of "Changjin Lake", of course, you can't be idle, you can't just hang on to the producer, haven't you studied in film school for more than a year, it's time to test the learning results."

Li Xia put down his wine glass and looked at Lin Chaoxian with some puzzlement: "What do you mean, does Senior Brother have any arrangements for me?"

"Since it's a co-production, there must be an executive director, and I think this position belongs to you."

"What, me? Executive Director?"

Li Xia didn't expect Lin Chaoxian to prepare on a whim to arrange the role of executive director one by one.

What is Executive Director?

An executive director is a director who is responsible for filming on a set of two or more directors or in the name of the chief director.

The task is to implement the unified intention of the general director or the director team, and to carry out the work more effectively and in an orderly manner.

Producer, producer, and screenwriter Li Xia have all done it, but he has no experience in this executive director.

Although Xu Ke took him in the crew for a period of time, and he also studied at the Magic Capital Drama Academy for a year, Li Xia's heart was still very uncomprehensible if he was really asked to practice being an executive director.

Seeing Li Xia's embarrassed face, Lin Chaoxian raised his eyebrows and asked, "What, I think you're so old."

It's a bit aggrieved for me and Zhang Meng to be executive directors?"

Li Xia sneered: "Senior brother said that I laughed, I naturally can't ask for it to learn from the two of you, but I really don't have much experience here, and I am still very panicked."

"If you don't have experience, you have to learn more and practice more, to be honest, no matter how much theory you learn in school, it's all on paper if you don't practice it in the crew, I think it's settled."

Li Xia opened his mouth and wanted to say something, Zhang Meng smiled and said: "Mr. Li, don't be reserved, I think Director Lin's proposal is good, no one will make a movie from the beginning, there must be a process, and there is a tight guide for you, don't worry about it at all."

Lin Chaoxian laughed "haha", "Look, Zhang Meng and I have the same opinion, don't shirk it anymore."

Seeing that both of them said this, Li Xia knew that he couldn't shirk it, so he could only nod his head stubbornly.

"Then it's decided, you hurry up and arrange the company's affairs, and during this time, Zhang Meng and I will complete the formation of the crew, casting and site selection."

Lin Chaoxian paused, and then said, "By the way, having said so much, I don't know how much you are going to invest in this film, and whether you can get to the bottom now."

In the previous life, "Changjin Lake" took a long time from the preparation period, the script alone had 130,000 words, it took 5 years to polish, and the shooting period was more than 180 days.

It is understood that the total investment of the movie "Changjin Lake" is as high as 1.3 billion, because it is a war film and the shooting environment is relatively harsh, the shooting is very difficult, so it requires more manpower and material resources.

was originally ready to start filming in 2019, but he didn't expect to encounter special reasons, and the crew of more than 1,800 people could only stay in the Northeast and wait for the epidemic situation to improve.

Since the start of filming, there have been 7,000 people in the shooting team alone. In addition, as a war film, a large number of extras are also needed, in addition to the soldiers of our army, there are also foreign actors who play the US military, and it has taken a lot of effort just to find them, and these extras have accumulated more than 70,000 people.

The actors plus the filming crew, so many people's salaries and meals will cost a lot of money.

Now I won't encounter the irresistible external factors of my previous life, and the script doesn't need to be polished too much, but if you want to present the shocking effect of your previous life, you can't invest less.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Xia compared a number with both hands.

"A billion? Yes and bold, worthy of being a wealthy lord, it seems that I have come to the right place this time!"

As a senior director, the most fearful thing about shooting a work is that the capital chain can't keep up, and now Li Xia directly gives an investment guarantee of one billion, Lin Chaoxian is still in a great mood.