The next morning.

The crew of "Mythology" continued to shoot in the No. 1 pit of the Terracotta Warriors, and Li Mu also arrived at the scene early, if the crew needed to use a group performance, he would be on top at any time.

When Cheng Long saw Li Mu, his attitude was obviously more enthusiastic than yesterday.

"Li Mu, come here."

"What about your father?"

"In the office, or shall I call him?"

"No, I'll go find him."

"Okay."

"By the way, you wrote the script?"

"Hmm."

"Nicely written."

Cheng Long immediately went to the office of the deputy director of the museum, Li Yuansheng saw Cheng Long, and at first thought that the crew had encountered some difficulties in filming, but after asking, he learned that Cheng Long had come specially for his son Li Mu's script.

This made Li Yuansheng quite grateful, and his impression of Cheng Long was better than before.

"Director Li, Li Mu's script is of a very high level!"

"Really? Let's say okay, if there is a problem, you can pick it, but don't be merciful. ”

"Honestly, I came here this time to buy this script, and Director Tang Jili also supported my idea, we plan to shoot "Hurricane Rescue" after the filming of "Myth", and I will act in person."

"Acting in person?" Li Yuansheng showed a rare expression of surprise.

"Well, I asked Director Tang Jili, and he said that the price of scripts of this level on the market is generally about 300,000, let's follow this price, Director Li, what do you think?"

"This ...... Wait until I go back and talk to my child. ”

"Okay, then I'll go filming first."

"Okay, go slowly."

After sending Cheng Long out of the office, it took Li Yuansheng a long time to digest the news.

Cheng Long actually fell in love with his son's script, and he had to buy it with 300,000 yuan as soon as he made it, and he had to act in person, which was a bit incredible.

He also read the script of "Hurricane Rescue", and he did think that the script was very good at the time, but he thought that his calf protection mentality affected his judgment at the time, because it was a script written by his son, so he felt extremely good? But now it seems that things are not so simple.

Maybe my previous feelings about the script were real, and my son's script was really wonderful.

300,000 yuan is really a huge amount of money for an ordinary family, and more importantly, this money was earned by his son writing a script.

Li Yuansheng was in a good mood, so he found his wife in a hurry.

"In the evening, you go home early, fry a few more dishes, and call your brother too, there is a happy event at home, let's celebrate."

"Happy event? What's the happy event? ”

"The matter of the son's script."

"Cheng Long is optimistic about our son's script?"

"Well, it's not a general optimism."

"Okay, I'll fry a few more dishes in the evening, and my little brother hasn't been here for a long time, so it's just time to call it."

Li Yuansheng deliberately didn't say anything about 300,000 yuan, this big happy event, he wanted to stay at the dinner table to say.

In the evening, when Li Yuansheng and Li Mu's father and son returned home, their uncle Liu Xiaowu had already arrived.

"Brother-in-law, Xiao Mu."

"Uncle."

"Xiao Mu, you can do it, but I heard your mother say that you wrote a script, Cheng Long was full of praise when he read it, I said when did you learn to write a script?"

"Hey, hey." Li Mu smiled, but he was actually very depressed.

He wrote the script to promote the project, but he didn't think about it, just a few good comments from Cheng Long.

Is he not praised for his lack of praise?

"Sister, don't stir-fry, there are enough dishes."

"Okay, there's one last dish, you eat first, I'll come right away."

"Don't, just these four people are still in order, let's eat together."

After a while, the dishes were ready, and everyone was just about to move the chopsticks, but Li Yuansheng cleared his throat.

"I'll tell you something before dinner."

Seeing that everyone's eyes fell on him, Li Yuansheng continued: "Cheng Long went to the office to find me in the morning, but it was not as simple as just praising Li Mu for a few words. ”

Seeing that the eyes of the family fell on his face, he didn't continue to sell Guanzi.

"Cheng Long said today, saying that he admires Li Mu's script very much, so he wants to buy the script for 300,000 yuan, and he will personally play the protagonist in it, and he will shoot Li Mu's script after "Myth" is completed."

"What do you say?"

"Brother-in-law, are you serious?"

"Dad, I'll just say, how could Brother Cheng Long just praise me for two sentences, such a good script, he can't say it if he doesn't buy it quickly."

Liu Xiaohui, Liu Xiaowu, and Li Mu, the three of them said almost at the same time.

Li Yuansheng turned his head to look at Li Mu: "You kid want to go to heaven, I call Mr. Cheng Long on official occasions, Brother Cheng Long in private, and you are also Brother Cheng Long, what do you think?" ”

"Hehe, isn't that exciting?"

Then Li Yuansheng carefully talked about Cheng Long's coming to the office in the morning, and after finishing speaking, everyone's eyes when they looked at Li Mu changed.

Write a script and show it to Cheng Long, but I didn't expect Cheng Long to buy the script for 300,000 yuan, and even star in person - this kid is out of luck!

"Dad, Mom, Uncle, we can't just sell this script." Li Mu saw that his family had finally digested the news, so he suddenly said.

Seeing that everyone looked at him in surprise, Li Mu continued: "Yes, Cheng Long wants to buy this script with 300,000 yuan, and then what?" It doesn't have much to do with us when the script is sold, we can't control how the movie is made and who it is used for, don't look at me as a screenwriter, but to be honest, my right to speak will be almost zero at that time. ”

"What if I wanted to be a director? Even if it's just a vice, you have to make inches. People spend a lot of money to buy a script, you are a recent college graduate, you still study computers, and you don't have any directing experience, just because you wrote a script, you have to be an assistant director. With an investment of tens of millions, Cheng Long has such a big wrist, you have to point fingers when you come up, isn't this a dream? ”

"But if you don't have any right to speak, you can't grasp the quality of the shooting, so what's the point of whether the script sells or not?"

Liu Xiaohui obviously disagreed with her son's statement, and when she saw her, she shook her head and said: "Of course it's interesting, can't the script fee be sold for 300,000?" ”

Liu Xiaowu stretched out his hand to touch Li Mu's forehead: "I said nephew, don't you have a fever?" Do you still want to be a director? ”

Li Yuansheng looked at Li Mu: "What do you want to do?" ”

Li Mu turned his head to look at Liu Xiaowu and said: "What I mean, my uncle took the script to the West Film Studio and brought it to Director Yan Yiyun Yan to see, and then he said that Cheng Long was very optimistic about this script, and wanted to spend 300,000 yuan to buy it and make it into a movie, and even Cheng Long had to star in it, but what about the West Film Studio, which is now the Western Film Group, can be regarded as my maiden ......."

"Wait, when will the West Film Studio become your mother's home?" Liu Xiaowu couldn't help but interrupt.

Li Mumian did not change his face and said: "My uncle is the editor of the West Film Studio, I often went to the West Film Studio to play when I was a child, and the editing room is like my own warehouse, what is my mother's house?" Uncle, don't interrupt. ”

Li Mu continued: "The West Film Studio can be regarded as my maiden home no matter how I say it, so when I have a good project, I think of the West Film Studio as soon as possible. ”

"It's been very difficult for the West Film Studio these years, those who have the ability are either gone, or they are old, it's okay to go, it's also a way to make a living, and the old ones have to pay a lot of money every year - uncle, don't look at me like that, I know you are different from them, you have the ability, you stay in the West Film Studio because of true love - anyway, the West Film Studio is very difficult now, there is neither a big amount of money to invest, nor a good project to invest, but this project that Cheng Long is very optimistic about, the quality of the script is also obvious, and Director Yan heard that he also has a vision, Do you think Western Film Studio can be tempted? ”

"And then? Uncle Liu Xiaowu continued to ask.

Li Mu explained: "The Western Film Group is in decline, and the capital to jointly invest in a film with others is still there, I estimate that the investment in this project will be 30 or 40 million, at most no more than 50 million, and when the time comes, the West Film Studio will take out about 20 million to co-invest with Cheng Long's company, you said that the West Film Studio has invested such a large amount of money, and the relationship between the top is hard, so does the West Film Studio have a say in the movie?" ”

"Yes, I also have the right to speak in the Western Film Studio, what does it have to do with you?" Uncle said.

Li Mu said: "Why is it okay? Have you forgotten what I just said? How can the West Film Studio say that it is also our mother's family, and the right to speak in our mother's family, what's wrong with us borrowing it? ”

"Uncle, you just go and tell Director Yan that your nephew wrote a very good script, Cheng Long was full of praise when he saw it, and he made a decision on the spot to invest in filming, and he himself was the protagonist."

"However, your nephew has his own ideas about the movie, and he knows that he is not enough, so he wants to ask the Western Film Studio to check it, and your nephew is content to be an assistant director, and at the same time, he also wants his own uncle, that is, you to be the editor of the movie, and control the final cutting power, otherwise your nephew I would rather have the project yellow than do it."

"If the Western Film Studio is optimistic about the project and really wants to cooperate, our requirements are not too much, right? I'm just an assistant director. ”

"As for letting your uncle be in charge of editing and have the right to cut the final cut, it's not too much, right? You were originally an editor of the West Film Studio, who is not used for the West Film Studio? ”

"It's also acceptable to Cheng Longfang, right? Western Film Studio invested in such a big project and spent so much money, what happened to sending an assistant director and editor? Is it excessive? ”

"If I just sell the script to Cheng Long, then I want to designate an assistant director and editor is simply wishful thinking, but if we pull the West Film Studio into the gang, the West Film Studio invests money, and let the West Film Studio designate the assistant director and editor, it will be completely said in the past, you say that we will pull the West Film into the gang, who do we use for the assistant director and editor of the West Film?"

Liu Xiaowu's eyes lit up: "That's right." ”

For such a big project, his nephew asked him to be in charge of editing, and the key is to have the right to final cuts, which is a matter of getting ahead, of course.

Li Mu continued: "To sum up, for the West Film Studio, a project with great potential, let's take in the West Film Studio, and the requirements are only an assistant director and a person who is originally their own editor to obtain the final cutting right, which is not too much. ”

"For Cheng Long's side, it is also a good thing that the two companies jointly invest in a film and share the risks, and the other party is tough, so it can provide convenience and resolve risks in many aspects such as reviewing and distributing policies."

"The other party invested half of the money and asked to appoint an assistant director and an editor with the right to final editing, which is completely reasonable, and the West Film Studio asked for an assistant director and editor, so in exchange, the director asked Cheng Longfang to appoint it, right? Therefore, for Cheng Longfang, this transaction is also not a loss. ”

The uncle nodded: "No loss, no loss." ”

Li Mu spread his hands: "So what?" As long as the West Film Studio is willing to invest money, Cheng Long is willing to accept it, and the two sides are willing to cooperate, then whether it is for West Film or Cheng Long, it is completely acceptable for me to be the assistant director and let you be the editor, so the right to speak in the West Film Studio has been successfully moved to part of the hands of the two of us? ”

The uncle's eyes lit up and he said, "Go on." ”

Li Mu continued: "I am an assistant director and screenwriter, and the right to speak can be large or small, and you have the right to cut the final cut as a behind-the-scenes editor, and the right to speak is very important. The two of us got together, and when we were filming, I put forward my opinions to the director or Cheng Long, do you think the director and Cheng Long should consider it seriously? After all, it is clear that I, the assistant director, can influence the editing in the later stage, and if you don't listen to what I say, I will cut out what you shoot. ”

"Besides, we are also the mother's family of the investor Xiying, do you think our opinions should be taken seriously?"

Uncle asked again: "But the premise of all this is that the West Film Studio is very optimistic about the project and is willing to invest, and Cheng Longfang is also willing to accept investment from other parties, but what if both parties don't agree?" ”

Li Mu spread his hands: "Then the project is shelved, and I won't sell the script to the head office, right?" ”

These words shocked my uncle - an income of 300,000 yuan, and if you lift the table, you will lift the table, and you have the courage!

"If everything goes well, we have a certain right to speak, and with the right to speak, I can guarantee that the quality of the film and what I have in my mind will not be too far apart."

"This means that this project will definitely make money, then my 300,000 script fees will be smashed into the project as an investment to earn dividends, if the movie is released and the box office hits, then we will not earn 30 as simple."