In fact, the news that Li Tang brought back was full of uncertainty, but Cheng Er was happy, because he at least saw hope, not almost despair like before.

"Brother Li, then I'll quickly find someone to translate the script."

"What are you doing with all the effort, I'll get it."

In recent years, the translation price is very expensive, especially the script translation, which is a publication-level Chinese-English translation, which is the highest in the translation quotation, and a script of more than 100,000 words is also a lot of money.

"Uh...... Then you're in for trouble. ”

Cheng Er then remembered the legend of Li Tang when he was filming "Shanghai Chronicle", it is said that the whole process of communication with foreign actors is barrier-free, and he is even more like an American than foreign actors.

Translating the script is really a piece of cake for Li Tang, after crossing over, he is equivalent to mastering two native languages, especially the translation of lines is more accurate, closer to the habits of Ansar expression, rather than the kind of dry and decent translation. This can increase the quality of the script.

The translation of more than 100,000 words is also a big project, even if Li Tang does not come out of the door, it will take ten days to complete.

After reading it carefully and making sure that there was no problem, I sent both the Chinese and English versions to Nai'an, and left the rest of the registration and application matters to her.

On this day, he suddenly received a call from Xiao Tengdao.

"Linghu Shaoxia, what are you busy with?"

"I'm not busy, squatting at home."

"Hey, that's right, help me play a role."

"What kind of play?"

"For a movie, the movie channel cooperated with our Beijing Film Studio, and asked my old man to be the art director. You also know that my old man is not free at all during this time, so let me follow me and be an assistant director, this is not a role shortage, come and help. ”

Director Xiao Teng said that Li Tang didn't agree to this part, and he was idle anyway, but the situation still had to be asked clearly, so he said: "What kind of subject do you have, it will take a few days?" ”

"It's a story of two policemen escorting a fraudster, and it takes you about ten or twenty days to play one of the young policemen."

Li Tang felt wrong when he heard it, the two policemen escorted a criminal, and he wanted to play one of the policemen, this is definitely not a simple cameo, and it will take more than ten or twenty days, at least the third male.

"What kind of cameo are you? Brother Tao, let's go one yard to one yard, you have to talk to my agent about this matter first. ”

Li Tang was most afraid of this kind of lawsuit, so he simply made a brand and helped make a cameo, but it was just a cameo. If you let yourself play a role in the name of a cameo, then I'm sorry, talk to your agent.

Xiao Teng hurriedly said: "Don't mind, can my brother still lose you?" Let me tell you the truth, the director and screenwriter of this drama are from the General Administration, and they have been in charge of film production, distribution, screening, and economic operation in the past. He also graduated from Nortel's Department of Literature, and he is my senior brother. This time, I got a notebook and planned to be a director myself. The book is well written.,Really.,Otherwise, my old man wouldn't have taken over the errand of art direction.。 As for the shooting, don't worry, I'm watching......"

This thing is unreliable as soon as you hear it, what does it mean that the director and screenwriter are both from the General Bureau? Li Tang estimated that it might be a small bureaucrat of the General Administration, who was very quiet and wanted to play with tickets, so he got a script and pulled the movie channel to pay for it, thinking about addicting the director.

He feels uncomfortable thinking about this kind of thing, Cheng Er is a director, how difficult it is to make a movie, but look at others, he just thought about making the director's addiction easy.

Li Tanggang wanted to open his mouth to refuse, but after thinking about it, he was still tinkering with Cheng Er about "The Third Man" at this time, and he would have to face the review of the General Administration in the future, licenses, releases, and a lot of other things, people are in charge of this, and they can't afford to offend.

And Li Tang's brain moves very fast, since he can't be offended, he must be befriended, this is the life experience that Lao Li taught him. There is also the fact that Director Xiao Teng just said that this movie is a cooperation between the movie channel and Beijing Film Studio, and the movie channel is a rich unit, and they spend a huge amount of money every year on acquiring film and television copyrights, and they also shoot movies themselves, not only TV movies, but also movies that can be released.

It is said that every year, many scripts apply to the movie channel for filming funds, but of course this is very difficult. But the director of the General Administration can get the investment of the movie channel, which obviously has a good relationship. Li Tang pondered whether he could connect with the movie channel through this relationship, and then try his luck.

As for holding the script and handing it up, the person in charge was shocked after reading the script, and then cried and shouted that the myth of investing in you only exists in YY. It doesn't matter if you don't have fame, rely on formal channels, even if your script is well written, it will be in vain.

In his previous life, when he was in Hollywood, he heard that countless unknown screenwriters in Hollywood's six major production companies submit scripts to them every day, and there are hundreds of thousands of scripts piled up there in the warehouses of each company, and it is almost rare that they can really soar to the sky by delivering scripts.

So he said to Xiao Teng on the other end of the phone: "Okay, but you have to let me read the script first." ”

As a result, Xiao Tengdao paused for two seconds, and just when Li Tang wondered if the mobile phone signal was not good, the other party didn't hear it clearly, he heard Xiao Tengdao say in surprise: "Okay, I'll send it to your mailbox right away." I'm telling you that this book is really good, so take my word for it! ”

In fact, Xiao Tengdao called today, and he was also trying his luck. His father gave him this task, which in itself meant to be friendly with the one in the General Bureau. If you want to get ahead in the circle, in addition to your own ability, you have to go up to the leaders of the competent departments, down to the actors, and behind-the-scenes practitioners, and all aspects have to be in place.

Li Tang has just finished filming "Smiling Proud Jianghu", the popularity after the broadcast is predictable, and Li Tang's acting skills have already been proven by awards, if he can pull Li Tang to this play, on the one hand, he has face, and on the other hand, it is not the best way to befriend the General Administration.

Of course, he knows very well that Li Tang usually looks harmless to humans and animals, but in fact, he is a very principled person in his bones. A capable person always has a character, so he didn't have much confidence at first.

Li Tang was also a little surprised to hear Director Xiao Teng's words, although this guy usually looks out of tune, but he is a proud person, he said that this script is good, then at least it shouldn't be bad.

Although Li Tang said that he wanted to make friends with the General Bureau, the premise was that the script was passable. If the script is bad, then he has a reason to shirk. And it is impossible for him to make a bad movie for the sake of sycophancy, for Cheng Er's "The Third Man". Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

"Well, I'll give you an answer when I read it."

"Okay, good, but you'd better hurry up, I'm already building up here, and time waits for no one!"

"Got it."

Xiao Tengdao was very fast, and he sent the script in less than five minutes.

It's okay left and right, Li Tang clicked on the email and immediately looked at it.

The name of the script is "The Story of the Escort", which is particularly straightforward.

Then in the afternoon, it was signed: Wang Liang, Qi Xin.

Qi Xin is the little bureaucrat in the General Administration of Xiao Teng's mouth, and he is also the director of this play.

When Li Tang looked at this signature, he was a little disdainful in his heart. Just now, Director Xiao Teng also said that Director Qi graduated from the Department of Literature of Nortel and wrote and directed himself. Dare Qing got a notebook from someone else's hand, and then signed his own name.

Li Tangte looked down on this kind of behavior of Ah Wuzi pretending to be a diamond, for example, he gave a lot of ideas to the script of "The Third Man" before, and Cheng Er wanted him to sign it, and he resolutely disagreed at that time. After all, the creativity of the story and the overall creation are all people's, and if he just puts forward some opinions from the perspective of the actors and the audience and wants to sign it, his face is not so thick.

The synopsis of the story is a simple sentence: Li Gong'an, a veteran policeman from the police station, and Zhang Lei, a young policeman who had just graduated from the police academy and went to the countryside for an internship, were ordered to arrest Yu Tai, a fraud suspect who was wandering abroad, from a remote mountainous area and escorted them back to Shaanxi.

Director Xiao Teng asked himself to play this little policeman Zhang Lei. As for the name Li Gongan, it looks very kind, and people can immediately think of the Li Gongan in "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", a middle-aged policeman who speaks Shaanxi dialect and manages the short life of ordinary people's parents.

It was precisely because of his disdain that Li Tang looked down with contempt, but looked at him with a sudden "tsk".

Surprisingly, this is actually a rare road movie theme script in China today, two policemen with an economic criminal, and there must be a story in a threesome. Economic criminals are not the most heinous of crimes; And the combination of two policemen, a very humane and experienced veteran policeman and a fledgling rookie policeman with a strong sense of justice.

A series of stories occurred during the escort, although not thrilling, but also tense. In particular, the simple and rough style does not lose the delicacy, and the cold black humor makes people smile from time to time.

The key is that Li Tang saw Martin from this script. Directed by Brest, Robert Brown. De Niro starred in the shadow of the classic crime comedy "Midnight Run".

If not familiar with Martin. Brest is the director, so he must be no stranger to his famous work "Three Old Gunmen". Of course, there is also the classic film "Smell and Know a Woman" that made him shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Director.

When Li Tang even forgot to eat dinner and read the script in one go, the first feeling was that as Director Xiao Teng told him on the phone, this book is really good.

Although most of the drama focuses on the old policemen and fraudsters, the young trainee policemen are tendons and shafts, and they are teased by fraudsters from time to time, which also contributes a lot of laughs. The key is that along the way, the trainee police officer has changed from the beginning of his incomprehension to his perception and then to the transformation, which also contains a story about growth.

Li Tang couldn't help but smash his mouth, a little unexpected surprise, he wanted to set it almost like a sycophant, but he didn't expect it to be a good book.

He immediately picked up his mobile phone and dialed Xiao Tengdao's phone: "Brother Tao, I took this scene." ”

"Listen to me! Oh yes, I have to say hello to you for something, we don't have much money for this play, and the salary is estimated to be enough, at most 20,000 yuan on your side! ”

“……”

Twenty thousand, to be honest, too low. With Li Tang's current coffee position and popularity, the movie salary will be 200,000 yuan, to say the least. Now that he has erased the back zero, he doesn't even know what to say.

Director Xiao Teng estimated that the salary he offered was indeed a bit low, and it was a bit of a slap in the face to say that it was ugly.

He hurriedly explained: "Li Tang, you have to take care of it, there is really no way, there is only a total investment of more than one million." But don't worry, it won't be long, and according to the shooting plan, it will be done in a month at most. Don't say anything, you should give me a face this time, how about it? ”

Since Xiao Teng's guide said this, Li Tang had no choice but to say in a very reluctant tone: "Uh, okay...... But Brother Tao, this time I'm completely looking at your face! ”

"Understand, I'll invite you to dinner and sing a dragon when I go back, you can pick anywhere!"

First update!

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