Before writing "The Hunger Games", Li Mu first thought about a question, that is, whether the identity of the male and female protagonists should be written as Chinese or white.

In the world of The Hunger Games, the world is divided into twelve districts, and each district has to choose two contestants, one male and one female, to participate in The Hunger Games every year, and only one person from each realm can come back alive.

It is completely reasonable that there are people in the twelve districts, Li Mu has a good sense of this series of movies, if possible, it is possible for him to personally shoot this series in the future, so it seems more advantageous to write the male and female protagonists as Chinese.

But Li Mu thought about it, his top priority now is to make a name for himself in the United States, and it is obviously more guaranteed to write completely according to the original book, and novels and movies are two different things, even if he writes the male and female protagonists of the novel as white today, when making movies in the future, he can change them to Chinese at any time.

If you have copyright, how can you change it if you don't want to?

After thinking about this, Li Mu immediately started writing, and both the setting and the plot were completely written in accordance with the original work in his previous life.

After getting busy, time flies, and soon it is the day of the 27th Hundred Flowers Award.

On the evening of September 19, 2004, the 27th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award Ceremony was officially held, with Pu Cunxin and Zhang Yan as the hosts, and the CCTV movie channel broadcast the whole process.

At this ceremony, Fan Binbin won the Best Actress Award in one fell swoop for her performance in the movie "Mobile Phone".

In the spotlight, Fan Binbin wore a white dress and walked slowly onto the podium, and the host invited award presenters Lu Yan and You Yong to present awards to Fan Binbin.

"Thank you very much Huayi Brothers Media Group, thank you to my agent Wang Jinghua, thank you to my parents, and thank you again to all the audiences of the motherland for their support to our young actors, it is really not easy, thank you, thank you."

In the process of receiving the award, Fan Binbin's eyes were always full of tears, and this scene was also transmitted to thousands of households through CCTV, a national media.

"Li Mu, do you think there is something in Fan Binbin's acceptance speech?" In the evening, the uncle Liu Xiaowu came to the house to eat, and after the meal, everyone sat in the living room to watch the award ceremony.

"Huh? Have it? Li Mu was stunned for a moment and said.

"Look, she thanked everyone for their support to the 'young' actors, I don't know if you noticed, the tears in her eyes almost fell when she said the word 'young'."

"I didn't pay attention, but even if it was, it was nothing, after the 23-year-old Baihua was sealed, it was normal to be touched by the hardships that came all the way."

Liu Xiaowu said: "That's right, it's normal to be touched, especially when I was just said to be old a few days ago." ”

Liu Xiaohui asked: "Some people say that Fan Binbin is old?" Is this person eyesight normal? Fan Binbin tonight is really ...... Like a fairy in the sky. ”

"Haha...... Ha ha...... Sister, you're right, this person does not have normal eyesight. ”

"Does it really have anything to do with what I said?" Li Mu couldn't help muttering, and then immediately rejected this idea, this is a typical overthinking, as if everything has something to do with him, but in fact, people don't take it to heart at all.

"By the way, Huang Jianxin came to Xiying today and stayed in Director Yan's office for a long time, I guess Director Yan may want him to be the producer of "Hurricane Rescue"." Liu Xiaowu said suddenly at this time.

Li Mu quickly went through it in his mind, nodded and said: "This is a great director, his level is very high, and he has a good relationship with the filmmakers in Xiangjiang, so he is indeed a good candidate." ”

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After the crew of "Hurricane Rescue" was set up, the official casting work was quickly put on the agenda, the casting was carried out in Beijing, Xiying had already sent people to Beijing to play outposts in advance, and in a few days, Li Mu and his uncle Liu Xiaowu, producer Huang Jianxin and others will also leave for Beijing.

The day before departure.

Xijing City, at the entrance of a kindergarten.

A woman waiting to pick up her child suddenly saw her ex-husband Liu Xiaowu walking towards her.

"Why are you here, you shouldn't have picked up the child today."

"I'm going to travel far away, and I probably won't have time to see my kids for the next few months." As he spoke, Liu Xiaowu took out an envelope from his arms and handed it to his ex-wife.

Ex-wife Xie Lin took the envelope and put it in her bag, she didn't want to ask, but in the end she couldn't help asking, "Are you going to go far away?" ”

"There's a movie in the factory, and I'm the editor."

"The editing is post-production, and the pre-shooting should also follow?"

"This movie is very important, the investment is huge, and I need to follow along."

At this moment, the door of the kindergarten opened, and a familiar voice shouted not far from the two: "Mom-Dad......"

The little girl was pleasantly surprised to see her father suddenly.

"Let's go out to eat in the evening." Liu Xiaowu picked up his daughter and proposed to his ex-wife.

The ex-wife hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

In the evening, when she returned home, Xie Lin couldn't resist her curiosity, so she called her sister who worked in the West Film Studio.

"Wenwen."

"Sister Lin."

"Wenwen, let me ask you something, I heard that the factory recently invested in a movie, Liu Xiaowu is the editor, do you know about this?"

"Sister Lin doesn't even know about this? This Liu Xiaowu is also really, such a big thing is still hidden from you. ”

"The two of us are divorced, it's normal for him not to tell me, besides, isn't it just an editor, he's been doing this for almost 20 years, what's there to make a fuss about."

The tone on the other end of the phone immediately became higher.

"What's all the fuss about? Sister Lin, Xiying and Cheng Long jointly invested, it seems that China Film is also involved, with an investment of 60 million, Cheng Long personally starring, sister, should you make a fuss? ”

"Listening to you say this, this movie is really important, but it doesn't have much to do with Liu Xiaowu, right? He just does the later stage and gives people a hand. ”

"Do you do a late fight? Sister Lin, it seems that you really don't know, this time Liu Xiaowu is the editor who has the right to final editing, Sister Lin, you are also from the Western Film Studio, how important is the right to final editing, I don't need to say, right? This time the situation is a bit special, let's just say that the final cutting power this time has been decided to belong to Liu Xiaowu, and Director Yan of the West Film Studio may not be able to change it easily. ”

"What do you say? How can it be? ”

"How could it not be? This matter has long been an open secret in the Western Film Studio, sister, you can just ask around. ”

Hanging up the phone, Xie Lin sat on the sofa, her mind already in a mess.

……

The next day, Li Mu, Liu Xiaowu, and Huang Jianxin rushed to Beijing by plane together, and the crew had already arranged the hotel in advance. That evening, everyone got together and started discussing some of the details of the shoot.

From the third day, the film audition officially began.

starring Cheng Long, with an investment of 60 million yuan, directed by Chen Musheng, these elements together are enough to cause a small-scale shock in the Beijing film circle.

Artists from various media companies, students from film schools, and actors from the single-run gang, everyone wants to try their luck.

At nine o'clock in the morning, forty or fifty people had gathered in the audition hall, most of them were students from Beiying and Chinese opera, and there were also artists from some media companies, but there were no actors who were too famous.

The crew made it very clear when they sent out the audition invitation, and there were no too important roles in today's audition.

The role of Cheng Long's daughter has been confirmed to Liu Yifei, but she will come to meet with director Chen Musheng today and go through the motions.