A few days later, director Shen Junsheng, who had already read the script, found Li Mu again, and this time Li Mu also called Liu Siying, vice president, and Chen Zhixi, the company's production director, for the purpose of giving the main actors.

The actor continues to use Shen Teng without any doubts, anyone who has read this script, the first reaction must be to find Shen Teng, when discussing the second male candidate, everyone instinctively looked at Li Mu.

According to past experience, all the scripts for which Mr. Li determines the outline are generally the ones that Mr. Li has in mind before the script is completed.

A few people guessed correctly, Mr. Li directly mentioned a name that almost everyone had never heard of this time - Zhang Yiyi.

What is a little outrageous is that this Zhang Yiyi is just the creative director and captain of a variety show called "Love Laughing Room" on Liaoning Satellite TV, and it seems that he has never starred in film and television dramas, and he doesn't know how to get into Mr. Li's eyes.

In short, the preliminary candidate for the second male number of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" was decided, which seemed a little sloppy, but no one raised any objections, because past experience showed that Mr. Li always used some inexplicable candidates, but the results were always very suitable.

said that it was a discussion, but in the end, it inevitably became Li Mu's decision.

Wolong and Phoenix Chick is a highlight of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", how can Li Mu be easily replaced?

Next:

Liu Jiannan, Mr. Jin, Ma Daxiang, Da Congming, Sasha, one person selected from Li Mu's mouth, and director Shen Junsheng recorded the selection one by one in his own small book like a little daughter-in-law.

When determining the candidate for the second master, Wang Zongyao, Li Mu was very surprised and sincerely asked everyone's opinions.

Wu Ma, Liang Jiahui, Fan Wei, Li Xuejian, Li Liqun, Wu Mengda and others were mentioned one after another, Li Mu pondered for a while, and then asked everyone: "Is Wu Meng'a appropriate?" ”

"Suitable!"

"Suitable, suitable!"

"Comedy movies with Uncle A, of course it's suitable!"

As soon as Li Mu's voice fell, several people in the office echoed one after another.

Li Mu nodded, if the second master in "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is replaced by Wu Mengda, then most of the principals in the future when filming "Charlotte's Troubles" will also use Wu Mengda.

The last discussion is the choice of the heroine, the heroine of the original time and space used Song Yunhua from Treasure Island, of course, this time and space will be replaced.

Here Li Mu also instructed the company's screenwriter to modify the heroine's personality, the background of the heroine of the original movie is a native of Baodao, which is modified to a mainlander, and then Mr. Jin came to Xihong City with the will of Wang Duoyu's second master and temporarily recruited Xia Zhu into the company.

As for the accent stalks of Wang Duoyu and Xia Zhu in the film, it can be replaced by Wang Duoyu's ending speech with a magic capital sound, while Xia Zhu's speech has a northeast flavor.

When researching the selection of the hostess, Liu Siying, Chen Zhixi, Shen Junsheng and others all coincidentally selected from the four golden flowers of Huashang.

The so-called four golden flowers of Huashang - Tong Liya, Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, and Bai Bing are also!

Now the fame of Huashang Four Golden Flowers has completely overshadowed the new four little flowers that Li Mu appointed some time ago, and the difference between Huashang Four Golden Flowers and the new four small flowers is Tong Liya and Liu Shishi.

There is no Liu Shishi in the four golden flowers of Huashang, and there is no Tong Liya in the new four small flowers.

Although Liu Shishi in the New Four Little Huadan has a popular TV series like "Step by Step", compared with Tong Liya of Non-Hua Dan, he has gradually distanced himself.

The box office of "Beijing Love Story" starring Tong Liya is 630 million, and the box office of "Living Together in Time and Space" is as high as 1.17 billion, which Liu Shishi cannot compare with no matter what.

In addition, Zhao Liying has a 700 million-level "33 Days of Broken Love", Bai Bing has a global $320 million "Time and Space Love Traveler" and a national box office of 700 million "Back to 20 Years Old".

Even Yang Mi is also in the process of releasing "Shark Beach", and now its domestic box office has officially exceeded the 500 million yuan mark, and its final domestic box office is likely to exceed 800 million yuan, not to mention that the overseas box office of "Shark Beach" has just broken through the $140 million mark.

On the whole, although the popularity of Huashang's four golden flowers is high and low, its overall popularity is still in the same echelon, and Liu Shishi in Li Mukou's new four little flowers has already fallen behind.

"I think the four golden flowers in our company are all suitable, if you have to choose one, then I will choose the white soldier." Liu Siying said.

"To Our Dying Youth" is about to start, if the heroine chooses one of the four golden flowers, it will be three or four months later at the earliest." Production director Chen Zhixi said.

"The four golden flowers may not be very suitable for Yang Mi, and the other three are fine." Director Shen Junsheng said.

In fact, Shen Junsheng's words are a bit hurtful, in case this word spreads, I am afraid that it will not be hated, but with Shen Junsheng's status in Huashang, it is indeed to the extent that he does not need to speak carefully.

Tong Liya, Yang Mi, Zhao Liying, Bai Bing, the appearance of these four people kept spinning in Li Mu's mind, pondering and pondering, Li Mu always felt that these four people had enough good resources from the company, and they couldn't divide the roles into these four positions, right?

The situation of the new four little flowers is the most embarrassing for Liu Shishi, to say that the role of Xia Zhu is not very difficult to play, Liu Shishi is probably completely controlled, but unfortunately she is an artist of the Tang Dynasty after all.

"Is there a suitable one among the rookie actors?" Li Mu looked at Liu Siying and said.

"Jin Chen's performance in "20 Years Old Again" is good, Xiang Xinran's role has allowed her to accumulate a certain amount of popularity, if she can star in "The Richest Man in Xihong City", maybe the fifth golden flower of our Huashang will be born." Liu Siying replied.

Li Mu looked at Shen Junsheng and Chen Zhixi again, Shen Junsheng and Chen Zhixi both had a good impression of Jin Chen, and finally Li Mu clapped his hands and said: "If you have time to arrange Jin Chen's audition, if it is appropriate, use her." ”

"Okay." Shen Junsheng wrote Jin Chen's name in a small notebook.

In fact, the news that the company is preparing two new movies has already spread, and director Guo Fan's one is a sci-fi blockbuster, and the heroine doesn't have to fight for anyone, it is a tailor-made role for the boss Liu Yifei. And I heard that this movie is a movie with very few characters like "Shark Beach" and "Gravity", and there is no value of attention, so everyone is focused on this "The Richest Man in Xihong City" directed by Shen Junsheng.

The heroine must be selected from the company's four golden flowers, where can such a good opportunity get these newcomers? If you really want to fight, you can only fight for the second female number.

That's what Jin Chen thinks!

So she took the initiative to find director Shen Junsheng, Shen Junsheng is the director of "20 Years Old Again", and Jin Chen is the actor of the heroine's granddaughter in the film, and the two are relatively familiar.

Shen Junsheng also had to find Jin Chen to audition for the heroine sooner or later, so after seeing that Jin Chen was looking for himself, he immediately agreed.

"Director, I heard that preparations have begun for your new film?"

Shen Junsheng's office, Jin Chen asked as soon as he entered the door.

"Well, that's right."

"The second female in the new movie?"

"The candidate for the second female number has been decided, Xu Dongdong."

Jin Chen was disappointed when she heard this, but she still continued to ask with the idea of what if: "Isn't it an artist from our company?" ”

Shen Junsheng said: "Although the person is not from our company, this role is set by Mr. Li himself. ”

Jin Chen's heart was cold, the person personally designated by Mr. Li was really helpless.

"I understand what you mean, you want to get a good role in the new movie, understandable. I was going to let you know in a few days, but since you've found me today, I won't wait. Mr. Li has also designated the heroine of the new movie, and this person is preliminarily determined to be you, but although Mr. Li has designated you, the audition process still has to be there, whether it is suitable or not, whether it will be temporarily replaced, and it depends on your audition performance. ”

"Huh? Plum...... Is the heroine designated by Mr. Li me? ”

"Hmm."

With a bang, Jin Chen couldn't believe his ears.

One minute she was full of thoughts that she had to compete for this female partner no matter what, but the next second she became the heroine?

Or is it ordered by Mr. Li?

"It turns out that my status in Mr. Li's mind is not low at all!"

Jin Chen's heart throbbed inexplicably, and then he was so happy that he almost didn't smile crookedly.

……

When discussing the cast of "Space Traveler", Li Mu called Liu Siying, Chen Zhixi and Guo Fan.

There are actually three main roles in this movie - the male lead, the heroine, and the robot dude, and maybe the captain who wakes up halfway through.

As a science fiction movie for the world market, since the male and female protagonists have decided to use Chinese, the robot brother and the spaceship captain will use foreigners.

Today, we will mainly discuss the candidates for the male and female protagonists.

The heroine Li Mu was originally scheduled to be Liu Yifei, but Chen Zhixi put forward a different opinion.

"Mr. Li, if the film "Space Traveler" can add a little more passion scenes, it may be better."

Liu Siying and Director Guo Fan both looked at Li Mu when they heard this.

The heroine of "Space Traveler" said that it was good to use it, and now Chen Zhixi said that she wanted to add a little more passion play, and she has only filmed a kiss scene with Mr. Li for so many years, does this not clear that Mr. Li minds?

So Chen Zhixi's implication is that the heroine of "Space Traveler" is going to be replaced!

I saw Li Mu raise his head and ask: "But if the heroine is replaced, how can other people have box office appeal in the world?" ”

Chen Zhixi said: "Li Lianhua has several films such as "Assassin" and "Super Body" that have performed very well in Europe and the United States. ”

Li Mu said: "Lotus is a little old. ”

Chen Zhi regretted: "Age is not a problem for the time being. ”

Li Mu looked at Guo Fan again, and Guo Fan immediately said: "Li Lianhua is still very suitable for the role." ”

Li Mu nodded and agreed: "Then this matter is settled, I regret that you will contact Lotus." ”

"Okay."

Several people then began to discuss the choice of the leading actor, and finally made it clear that they would choose between Deng Chao and Duan Yihong, and most of them preferred to use Duan Yihong.

……

Purple Jade Villa.

Liu Yifei sat on Li Mu's lap, hooked Li Mu's neck with both hands and said: "I have read the script of "Space Traveler" from beginning to end in the past few days, and found that there seems to be some passion scenes in the script, you won't be jealous then, right?" ”

As he spoke, he pressed his forehead against Li Mu's forehead.

Li Mu had already mentioned to her that he wanted to use her to star in "Space Traveler", which led to today's conversation.

Li Mu rubbed her forehead with his forehead and said, "Who do you think of me?" Isn't this very normal for us actors? What is there to care about? Isn't it just commonplace? ”

Liu Yifei looked at Li Mu slightly, as if he was a little surprised, and only heard her soft "oh".

She originally wanted to use this as an excuse to let Li Mu play the male lead in person, so that the two would not have to separate, and with her understanding of Li Mu, she knew that she would most likely be able to achieve what she wanted this time, but she didn't expect Li Mu to say that this was normal.

"But I just can't be jealous." At this time, I heard that Li Mu seemed to be quite regretful, "When the company discussed the heroine today, everyone agreed that they should still find Lotus to play the heroine, so ......"

Liu Yifei smiled when he heard this: "What is the unanimous decision, I think the eight achievements are determined by yourself." ”

In the end, he said in a very small voice: "I still say that I am not jealous!" ”

Li Mu interrupted: "You said that you are sitting in my arms like this, like a father holding his daughter?" ”

Liu Yifei was stunned, shook his head and said, "It's not like it!" ”

"Like!" Li Mu instigated, "I heard that many big directors and CEOs in the circle love to call people dad, or do you too?" ”

"Phew! I don't! ”

"Call Daddy!"

"No!"

……

Early the next morning, Li Mu was lying on the bed, next to Liu Yifei, who was revealing a snow-white beautiful back, and he couldn't help but think: "After "Shocking Demon Thieves", it is time to start the "Interstellar" project.

In fact, he has long planned to shoot "Interstellar", and the most fundamental reason why he has not seen the action for a long time is that he can't think of a suitable actor candidate.

If the actor continues to use white actors, then there are actually many objects to choose from, but "Interstellar" is an extremely rare script in Li Mu's hand that has the potential to be a global hit, and if possible, he still hopes that the movie will have more Chinese elements.

At least the actor should use Chinese.

But there are only a few Chinese actors who have world influence, so you can't still use Cheng Long, Li Lianjie, and Jiang Wen, right?

After thinking about it, Li Mu finally decided to come by himself.

As a world-class director and writer, he has also starred in many world-selling films, but in fact, Li Mu himself is still very well-known in the world.

starring him in "Interstellar" himself, the effect will definitely be stronger than using Liu Ye, Deng Chao, Huang Xiaoming, Duan Yihong, and other people who have little international reputation.

If Li Mu himself plays the leading role in "Interstellar", then the protagonist's daughter Murphy and son Tom will also use Chinese actors.

Thinking of this, Li Mu reached out and touched Liu Yifei's back, Liu Yifei turned over and became lying on his side, and glanced at Li Mu with sleepy eyes, and smiled: "Morning!" ”

Li Mu: "I've decided, you will play my daughter in the new movie." ”

Liu Yifei: "Huh? Didn't I last night? Besides, how many years older are you? All right! You're teasing me again! ”

Li Mu: "I didn't tease you, the new movie has an investment of at least 150 million US dollars, this time I will personally serve as the director and actor, and you will play my daughter." ”

Liu Yifei suddenly sobered up, only to see her staring at Li Mu intently.

Li Mu: "I'm serious, in the future, you have to enter the hearts of the characters more, with an investment of 150 million US dollars, you don't want your husband and me to lose money, right?" ”

"I ......" Liu Yifei thought for a moment and asked, "I play your daughter, so who will play your wife?" ”

The corners of Li Mu's mouth raised, and he smiled: "My wife doesn't have one, but I have a lover, and that is Anne Hathaway." ”

Smack.

Liu Yifei smashed the pillow on Li Mu's face.

"What's wrong?"

"You still ask? You laughed at the mention of Anne Hathaway! ”

"What's wrong with my laughter?"

"What's wrong with your laughter? You laugh lewdly, and laughing means you have thoughts about her! ”

"I have thoughts about her? How can it be! Women in Europe and the United States are aging very fast, don't look at her just 30 years old this year, she actually looks very old. ”

"Do you know she's 30 years old? She's old, so you don't have any ideas, so when I look old, you'll have no thoughts about me, right? ”

"How, in my heart you will never get old!"

……

On the same day, Li Mu saw Wu Jing again in the office.

In addition to caring about the upcoming "Fast Pursuit", Li Mu also wants to give Wu Jing's next film.

In Li Mu's planning, the male protagonist of "Edge of Tomorrow" is also Wu Jing, but the project will start after Wu Jing has made some fame in the West, at least after the release of two parts of "Rapid Pursuit".

The original time and space "Edge of Tomorrow" seems to have lost money, which is also the fundamental reason why Li Mu has already bought the copyright but has not started the project for a long time, "Edge of Tomorrow" has a global box office of 370 million, which is actually not low, but its cost is too high, Li Mu is ready to compress the budget of the film within 100 million US dollars, so the hope of making a profit will be much greater.

In fact, it is not too difficult to compress the cost to less than 100 million US dollars, at least Li Mu can save tens of millions of dollars just for the actor's salary.

Wu Jing's current salary is only 100,000 US dollars, Brother Tom is tens of millions of US dollars, and he has to pay dividends.

However, Li Mu called Wu Jing over today, but it was not for "Edge of Tomorrow".

"Edge of Tomorrow" is not at the right time, "Fast Pursuit 2" is not in a hurry, Li Mu wants to start the "Wolf Warrior 1" project this time.

(End of chapter)