252 Movie Casting and First Encounter with Liu Tianxian
"Rise to Fame" is a project that Wei Yang hesitated for a long time before deciding on it.
This movie will be released in 2021 with a box office of nearly 1 billion, which doesn't seem like much, but considering the cost and main creative lineup, it is definitely a dark horse.
For Wei Yang, if he wants to make money, the best way is to make youth films.
With his popularity, as long as he adds a little flower with good popularity and popularity, the box office is definitely not much worse, and the same is true for romance films.
The theme of "Rise to Fame" is more comedy and plot, with a certain amount of suspense elements, which is not his best and currently popular theme.
And this movie belongs to a group drama, and the bonus to him is not particularly strong, which can be regarded as a disadvantage.
However, Wei Yang hesitated again and again, and still chose this movie, because he wanted to have some breakthroughs.
In terms of TV series, he has become a representative of idol dramas, and if the youth films and romance films made in his film debut are successful again, then his acting path will be limited.
Wei Yang is not afraid of limited drama paths, he is the producer himself, and he can tailor other themes, but he is afraid that he will impress the audience too much, and the audience will not buy it when he shoots other themes.
Compared with the box office, in Wei Yang's view, the reputation of his first movie is more important.
To leave people with Wei Yang has a few brushes, not only do idol dramas do well, but he is also a good hand at making movies.
But this movie can't be too powerful, it has both word of mouth and room for follow-up development.
Otherwise, Wei Yang filmed "I Am Not the God of Medicine" first, and was directly praised to the sky, so Jiang Lang was able to shoot everything when he turned around, and Chen Dadao was second.
Movies and TV series are two different things, the latter doesn't cost money, and the former makes people pay for tickets.
Therefore, not only must you be able to shout and bring people in, but you also have to make people feel that the ticket money is well spent, and they will continue to spend money to support you later.
Wei Yang thinks very openly, making movies is not a one-shot deal, even if the results of "Rise to Fame" are unsatisfactory, and the word of mouth is out, follow-up movies can also get benefits.
Wei Yang doesn't plan to shoot youth films, this kind of film is generally made by newcomers, with his current status and fame, unless it is to praise people, there is no need to shoot this theme again.
Romance films are not in a hurry, there are opportunities behind, and Boss Wei will not get along with money.
In addition, Wei Yang also has a selfish intention, that is, after all, it is his first time as a director, and it is likely to be the only time he is a director.
Filming a youth film or a romance film, Director Wei has no sense of existence, and group dramas and drama movies like "Becoming Famous" can make Director Wei brush his face.
In Wei Yang's opinion, even if his personal actor bonus is not high in this group drama, if he adds the director's bonus, it is another matter.
Once "Rise to Fame" is successful, even if he does not serve as the director of the next movie, and hangs up the titles of screenwriter and producer, the audience will still think that it is his work, which can be regarded as a kind of box office appeal.
In the final analysis, the hot popularity base and abundant funds have given Wei Yang a certain degree of willfulness.
Even if it is the first movie, he doesn't have to be like "You from the Star" back then, everything is mainly about making money, but can be mixed with some other ideas.
Of course, even so, Boss Wei's business policy of insisting on looking at money has not changed.
The first goal of "Rise to Fame" is to gain word-of-mouth, but if it can achieve a bumper harvest at the word-of-mouth box office, he couldn't be happier, so he tried every means to build momentum for the movie.
Since the official announcement of the movie, the crew has begun to hook up with popular celebrities in various ways, and Uncle Ge, Huang Bo, Jiang Wen, and Liang Chaowei have been rumored all over again.
These rumors are true and false, for example, Liang Chaowei is fake, and Uncle Ge's crew really sent an invitation.
The role is an out-of-fashion actor, the role is not weak, and it is also quite outstanding, Uncle Ge doesn't care about the position, and he is also interested in the script, but his salary is really not low.
You must know that last year, Uncle Ge starred in three movies, "Zhao's Orphan", "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", and "Let the Bullets Fly", and supported the Chinese New Year stalls alone, with a total box office of over 1 billion, and he is currently the most box office appeal actor in the mainland.
casually, the salary of mainland actors is low, and if you want to ask him to star, it can't be less than 5 million.
Uncle Ge doesn't film much, on the one hand, he picks the script, on the other hand, the salary is too high, and the box office effect is not ideal, so the cost performance is limited.
For "Rise to Fame", the price is not worth putting aside, but it is a bit out of budget.
After all, Wei Yang's own salary is not low, and it is expected that the salaries of other leading actors are not a small number.
Fortunately, "Rise to Fame" itself is a closed room script, the cost of the scene is limited, and the majority of the expenditure is the actor's salary, so it is not negotiable.
Except for Uncle Ge, the others are pure hype.
No, it's not exactly hype, Jiang Wen didn't invite him, but the crew and his younger brother Jiang Wu sent an invitation, ready to let him play the role of a down-and-out tycoon.
In addition, the competition for the only female lead actress in the movie is particularly fierce.
Xu Cainu, Zhou Gongzi, Liu Shishi, Da Mimi, Fan Xiaopang, Sister Zhiling and most other popular Hua Dan have scandals with "Rise to Fame", and most of them are true.
Some female artist teams took the initiative to contact Blue Whale, and some Blue Whales sent an audition invitation to the artist team.
As an existence that is likely to become the main publicity explosion point and attract the box office like Wei Yang, Blue Whale attaches great importance to the candidate of this so-called heroine.
The little flowers in the TV drama circle like Liu Shishi and Da Mimi are completely made up, and the blue whale never planned to choose them from beginning to end.
Liu Shishi had already known the situation from Wei Yang, and he didn't have any hope at all, and was already preparing to join the group "Xuanyuan Sword: Traces of Heaven", but Tang Ren didn't give up and worked hard.
Da Mimi was also told the truth by Wei Yang early, but she was not very reconciled and believed that things were man-made, so she kept fighting for it.
Xu Cainu and Zhou Gongzi's images do not match, Sister Zhiling is not in the scope of consideration, and Wei Yang's personal favorite candidate is Fan Xiaopang.
This is not what he decided by patting his waist, figure, appearance, acting skills and influence, based on the condition index, she is the most suitable candidate.
However, Blue Whale still launched another person to fight her in the ring, that is-Liu Tianxian.
popularity and topicality, Liu Tianxian is not much inferior to Fan Xiaopang, and her appearance and figure also echo the requirements of the role, the only weakness is her acting skills, but her vase attributes are somewhat similar to the role in the movie.
At the beginning, "You from the Star" was so popular, and the topic of Fan Xiaopang and Fan Qianqian's drama was a great contribution.
If Liu Tianxian can replicate the original topic, and the characters are similar to real people, it will be of great benefit to the quality and publicity of the movie.
is not only Liu Tianxian's crew, "Fame" even wants to find the fat man of Xiangjiang Wang, planning to let him play the role of the director of the bad movie, he is also the prototype of this role.
Not to mention, Wei Yang had never considered Liu Tianxian before, but because of this proposal, he really hesitated.
Although he was more optimistic about Fan Xiaopang, he still asked the crew to send Liu Tianxian an audition invitation.
Anyway, give it a try, and there's nothing to lose, maybe you can run into the spell of 85 flowers that exploded when he saw him.........
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The preparation of "Rise to Fame" was not slow, and the first cast members were soon announced.
Rookie cop - Lin Gengxin
The Singing Nightingale - Naza
The head of the military command - Zhang Songwen
Hollywood dragon set - Wu Jing
The first three are blue whale artists, and if their own film projects are suitable, they must show their faces.
As for Wu Jing, he has always played a supporting role in Xiangjiang, which is actually a bit similar to the role in the movie that went to Hollywood and was discriminated against.
In the past two years, Wu Jing has always been interested in returning to the mainland for development, and even filmed a TV series.
Wei Yang invited, and his current ambiguous object is an artist under Guangguang, one of the investors, so he was invited to come.
As for Wei Yang's own lack of role, it is because it is still uncertain who will be the actors for the roles of screenwriter and murderer.
Now he is in contact with the actors, and he plays which one is left.
These two characters are more brilliant, but the performance is difficult, and Wei Yang wants a rough man, so that there is more contrast between iron-blooded tenderness and thickness on the outside and fine on the inside.
Therefore, he is biased towards Sun Honglei, Liao Fan, Duan Long and others, and he is most likely to play a screenwriter, with the most scenes, and it is also his old job.
In late August, Chef Xie and Zhang Yunu announced their divorce, and there was a new drama in the XX Gate that was boiling a few years ago.
Inside and outside the circle, it can be said that the whole people eat melons, but Wei Yang is busy with auditions while eating melons.
Magic City, Blue Whale Company
Liu Tianxian looked at this company that has been in the limelight in recent years with some curiosity, and the office location is more ...... than she imagined Naive.
Liu's mother, who came with her, whispered to her daughter about some matters, and she was both happy and worried about the invitation of the blue whale.
I am glad that my daughter is still bloody, and when she came back from the Hong Kong circle, not only did she catch the light, but even the famous Wei Yang couldn't help but throw an olive branch of cooperation.
Although Wei Yang has never made a movie before, the Wei girl is famous, and the outside world is still very optimistic about him.
Worrying is naturally Wei's reputation, which is called suave and suave if it sounds good, and evil ghosts in color if it is unpleasant.
It is rumored that all the actresses who have worked with him have been poisoned, her daughter is famous for her good looks, and her reputation in the circle is also clean, it is difficult for Liu's mother not to worry that someone Wei has evil thoughts.
Liu Tianxian was teased by his mother, and he was also a little worried, and he couldn't help but think of the revelations he had seen before he came, and the image of Wei Yang in his heart slowly became greasy and obscene.
After staying in the lounge for a while, the mother and daughter of the Liu family were led to the conference room by the staff.
Wei Yang was chatting with a few people in charge, and when he saw them coming, he got up and greeted them with a smile.
"Hello, it's hard for you two to make a trip."
"Yes, we also want to thank Mr. Wei for his appreciation."
"Don't dare to be, if Yifei can join our crew, it will really be like a tiger with wings."
“……”
Wei Yang and Liu's mother greeted each other, blowing each other's business, and Liu Tianxian quietly looked at him beside him.
The expression is natural, chic and handsome, much more refreshing and positive than the image she imagined and described by her mother.
After greeting for a while, Wei Yang shook hands with Liu Tianxian again, the latter didn't like to talk much, and he didn't talk much, but he was very emotional in his heart.
China Entertainment was reborn in this time period, and it took almost 800,000 words to meet Liu Tianxian for the first time, who else.........
(End of chapter)