Chapter 304: Regret
Zhang Songnian and Qu Xueyan themselves know each other, and there is a relationship between Li Zhengrong, so the cooperation intention of the two sides was quickly finalized.
Qu Xueyan and Zhang Songnian jointly made a partial investment in this movie, after all, both parties are not bad for money, although the investment in the two films "Infernal Affairs" is not small, but it is obviously not difficult to the point where the two of them together can't afford it.
In addition, Zhang Songnian also proposed that his father-in-law Li Zhengrong be responsible for the production and production of this movie.
After all, Li Zhengrong is the person who filmed "Infernal Affairs" and was a great success, experienced and able to control the scene, Qu Xueyan agrees.
In terms of casting, because the plot of the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy is actually the main actors and characters are those leading actors, Zhang Songnian still feels that the main roles cannot be changed, especially the two leading actors in the play.
But now there is a big problem in front of Zhang Songnian, the starring role of "Infernal Affairs" is almost the soul of this series of movies, and the image of the two leading actors has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but not to mention the protagonist in this movie, in fact, many characters with slightly more scenes are basically artists within Golden Feather Entertainment.
After the release of the first part, these characters have basically been recognized by the audience, and the image of the characters has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
If you continue to shoot sequels in the future and rashly change the actors, then the reputation of the next two films will inevitably be greatly reduced.
Fortunately, this matter was quickly resolved when communicating with Li Zhengrong.
In fact, Jin Yu Entertainment didn't know that there was more than one movie in the movie "Infernal Affairs", but a total of three movies in the entire series, if he knew, maybe Li Shouzhao would try his best to keep Zhang Songnian anyway, or at least let Zhang Songnian leave the script before releasing him.
Of course, this is mainly because Zhang Songnian has left a hand in this matter, not to mention Jinyu Entertainment, even Li Zhengrong didn't even see that the series "Infernal Affairs" could make a sequel.
However, although Zhang Songnian kept a hand, in the final analysis, he still neglected to be a hundred secrets, and he ignored the problem of considering the original cast if he wanted to make a sequel.
But fortunately, in the end, Li Zhengrong proposed a solution.
After listening to Zhang Songnian's question, Li Zhengrong first glanced at Zhang Songnian with a little surprise in surprise, and then said with a smile: "You kid is still hiding very deeply, I have read the script many times, and I never thought that you would have a sequel, if I knew that this was the case, then I would delay my retirement for another year." ”
After hearing Li Zhengrong's words, Qu Xueyan next to him became anxious first.
"Eh, I said Lao Li, how old are you, don't toss around, you can't accept the old, such a script is laborious and laborious to shoot, not suitable for an old man like you, or leave it to me, a young and strong young man, you can rest assured that you can raise your good, be a producer, and give me more suggestions for filming when the time comes."
Li Zhengrong saw Qu Xueyan's anxious appearance, and immediately laughed and did not answer.
Then Li Zhengrong looked at Zhang Songnian again, and said with a smile: "This matter is actually difficult to say that it is not so difficult to solve. ”
"Although you have left the company, but in fact, you still maintain a good relationship with the company, so since you can cooperate once before, why can't you cooperate again this time, it would be good to add one more Golden Feather Entertainment to the investment in this movie, I can go and talk to Li Jianhua about this matter, he should have no reason to refuse, if it doesn't work, I will go to Li Shouzhao again when the time comes." Li Zhengrong was very confident and said to Zhang Songnian.
And after hearing the news, Zhang Songnian and Qu Xueyan glanced at each other, and he found that the other party also glanced at him, his eyes were full of doubts, meaning that he was asking himself with his eyes what do you think about this matter.
In fact, Zhang Songnian doesn't care about the request that Li Zhengrong said at that time, anyway, no matter how much he earns, it is a figure that Zhang Songnian will not be able to spend in several lifetimes.
However, from Qu Xueyan's point of view, it may be different, Qu Xueyan has his own company, and film and television companies are notoriously money-burning.
Don't look at Qu Xueyan, he has been making a lot of movies with a high box office in recent years, and the profits are quite considerable, but obviously the money he makes is not necessarily as much as the money lost by his own film and television company.
After the first part of "Infernal Affairs" exploded, as long as the news of the sequel was officially announced, the popularity could explode directly.
In any case, unless the second part is bad, the box office of the second part of "Infernal Affairs" will not be lower than the first.
"Infernal Affairs" has a box office of more than 400 million, and the lowest number in the second part is also this number, originally Qu Xueyan could be half open with Zhang Songnian in net profit of these 400 million, but now that Jinyu Entertainment wants to insert a kick, Zhang Songnian is not sure what Qu Xueyan's attitude is.
According to my own ideas, it is best for this movie to be the same as the version of Earth, and a group of actors will use the third part, and it is best not to make any changes.
"What do you think of Songnian, I shouldn't have any opinion." Qu Xueyan didn't hesitate for too long, and made his position and attitude clear.
Zhang Songnian was a little surprised that Qu Xueyan was able to make a decision and answer in such a short period of time.
He originally thought that Qu Xueyan would think about it for a long time or something, but it turned out that it was only half a minute, and he finalized this matter.
However, after thinking about it carefully, Zhang Songnian can also understand Qu Xueyan's approach.
From Qu Xueyan's point of view, as Zhang Songnian said, the plot and actors of "Infernal Affairs 1" have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the audience will not necessarily buy it if the actors are changed rashly, and there will be scolding at that time.
Qu Xueyan wants to make a sequel to the series "Infernal Affairs", in addition to wanting to make money, the more important purpose is actually that he also wants to make a movie with a perfect plot in the real sense.
Compared with money, Qu Xueyan wants fame more to make this movie.
After Zhang Songnian reacted, he nodded with a smile and replied: "I don't have a problem, I look at those actors very well, and their understanding of the script of "Infernal Affairs" may be higher than mine, if you want to change, you may not be able to find such a suitable one." ”
Li Zhengrong also nodded approvingly and replied with a smile: "Indeed, Ren Chaoyang and that Shen Yunan are indeed very good actors, and they have been very scary because of the popularity of this movie recently, the two of them together are estimated to have hundreds of millions of fans, and if they don't star in the sequel, it is estimated that the pressure on the director alone will be not small." ”
Glancing at the two of them again, Li Zhengrong clapped his hands and said, "Okay, since you all have no problem, then please finalize the script and detailed cooperation plan in a few days, and then I'll let you talk to the people of Golden Feather Entertainment, I don't think it's a big problem." ”
In fact, just as Li Zhengrong imagined, Li Jianhua did not do anything to hinder the filming of the sequel to "Infernal Affairs", and even actively contributed to it.
Li Jianhua has indeed been annoyed recently about the ease with which he had a stiff relationship with Zhang Songnian and let him leave.
I swore before, thinking that as long as I found a few more idol stars with acceptable business ability from my old club SM to come to domestic entertainment to stir up a little, I would be able to turn the world upside down.
After all, the idols of Hallyu in the past two years were still very popular in China, and there were many crazy fans wherever they went.
But it seems that time has only passed for a few years, and the environment of internal entertainment seems to have changed a little.
Although the music scene is still bad, the entertainment culture related to Hallyu has almost disappeared in recent years.
Previously, Li Jianhua thought that it was caused by the poor business ability of domestic idol stars, and later after he successively introduced several traffic idols from the company who were not bad in Goryeo, Li Jianhua found that he spent a lot of money to attract these K-pop idols that could not afford too many snowflakes in China.
It's not that the business ability is not up to par, but it seems that the domestic entertainment industry doesn't like the Korean Wave so much.
The current fans of the fan circle would rather fan some living idols who can only play singing, dancing and rep and basketball, rather than take a look at those K-pop idols.
Li Jianhua has introduced singers, singing and dancing groups, and even girl groups from the Korean entertainment industry, has appeared in variety shows, participated in auditions and released albums, but in any case, most of these idols who have spent a lot of money to introduce have not had the effect they expected.
And the continuous investment has not seen the due return, and the board of directors has been dissatisfied with Li Jianhua's style of action more than once.
There is nothing wrong with Jinyu Entertainment saying that it is the Li family's own company, after all, whether it is the proportion of equity or the absolute right to speak, Li Shouzhao is absolutely right.
But after all, the shareholders also hold shares, if Li Jianhua's continuous continuous production of the company in a state of loss causes dissatisfaction among all shareholders, then the Li family has to sell this account.
After all, although he has absolute equity and the final decision, if the shareholders sell their shares one after another, it will certainly not be a good thing to have an impact on the company, and the stock drop will be light.
Li Jianhua has been worried about this kind of thing recently, and now he probably understands how big the difference is between the position of senior executive and general manager.
In the past, as an executive of SM Company, he had the company to cover everything he did, but now as the helmsman of Golden Feather Entertainment, he needs to give the whole company a cover.
But from Li Jianhua, it is obvious that he does not have the ability to do this at present, at least not yet.
The plan to introduce Hallyu was finalized by Li Jianhua, but now he is facing a large amount of signing fees and losses on star contracts, and he must be mainly responsible.
On the other hand, it is Li Xingruo's side, after running away from Jinyu Entertainment, new songs are one after another.
relied on Zhang Songnian's lyrics and composition, and forcibly turned the hot song list and new song list into his own list.
In the past two months, Li Jianhua has thought more than once about how far Jinyu Entertainment will go if he could keep Zhang Songnian in Jinyu Entertainment.
However, there is no regret medicine in this world.
Li Jianhua has been very anxious in the past few days, and the board of directors has become more and more dissatisfied with himself during this time.
And Li Shouzhao also expressed disappointment with the ability he showed in this position.
When Li Jianhua hadn't completely taken over his baton, his performance was actually good, at least Li Shouzhao thought it was enough to take over Jin Yu's company.
However, when he was actually at the helm of the company, Li Jianhua made many decisions that made the board members unhappy more than once.
Li Shouzhao also realized that he might have been too hasty at the beginning, but things have come to this point, his body is getting worse and worse, and there is no room for maneuver.
Even if Li Jianhua is really not enough to take charge of the big ship of Golden Feather Entertainment, then Li Shouzhao must find a way to let him stabilize the rocking boat first.
Fortunately, it seems that Li Jianhua himself has figured it out and realized the importance of Zhang Songnian, which is the most gratifying thing for Li Shouzhao.
Although the process is a little tortuous, the price paid is also a little bigger.
But as long as Zhang Songnian holds this line and does not let go, no matter how bad Jin Yu is, he will not fall out of the queue of the three major companies.
The only fortunate thing is that Li Shouzhao left a hand at the beginning.
At least the friendship between Zhang Songnian and the company was maintained, so that the two sides did not drift apart.
But this friendship has been a little unsustainable since the last time there was a disagreement with Zhang Songnian on the martial arts adaptation.
Fortunately, when Li Jianhua was still thinking about how to communicate with Zhang Songnian about copyright issues, the other party came to the door.
For Zhang Songnian's Condor Trilogy, which already plans to cooperate with Menghua Entertainment, Li Jianhua and Li Zhengming both feel a pity.
In fact, before the cooperation between Menghua Entertainment and Zhang Songnian was confirmed, Li Jianhua had been hesitant to find Zhang Songnian again to re-communicate about the copyright and see if there was room for maneuver or something, and now it seems that there is obviously no need for this.
However, when he learned that Zhang Songnian's idea of making the movie "Infernal Affairs" into a series of movies planned to seek cooperation with the company, Li Jianhua was still greatly relieved.
Zhang Songnian's mind is obviously much broader than he imagined, although the cooperation intention of the Condor Trilogy has not been reached, but at present, Zhang Songnian does not seem to have the idea of alienating from Jinyu Entertainment because of this matter.
Because the expectations are relatively low, and the case of the collapse of the adaptation of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is in the past, Golden Feather Entertainment did not hold a shelf this time.
And for this cooperation is a tripartite cooperation has no meaning, I readily agreed.
Zhang Songnian is in charge of the content, Qu Xueyan is in charge of directing, Jinyu Entertainment is in charge of everything else, and finally it is divided according to the box office revenue, and the intention between the three parties has reached an unexpected smooth.
This project, which is almost the top in all aspects of the entertainment industry, was born in such a hasty way. (End of chapter)