"Hey, Director He Qun is also filming a TV series?"

Li Tang was inevitably a little surprised, the outside world may not be familiar with Director He Qun, who is the one who shouted "insects and rats bite, and a torn jacket" in the TV series "Mansion Gate".

But in the circle, Director He Qun's reputation is still quite high.

He is also a member of Nortel's famous 78 class, graduated from Nortel's 78 level of fine arts, and has served as the art designer of films such as "One and Eight", "Yellow Earth", and "Book of Swords and Enmity".

Photography and art are the two closest majors to directors, He Qun changed careers to become a director more than ten years ago, and has made films such as "Mutiny", "Phoenix Qin", "Fire King Kong", and has won the Golden Rooster Award and Huabiao Award many times.

Such a heavyweight film director actually switched to making TV series?

But it's understandable to think about it, after all, the box office of domestic films last year was as high as 900 million yuan, 500 million for domestic films, and 400 million for imported films. Among the 500 million box office of domestic films, a single "Hero" accounted for half of the total box office of domestic films of the year with a box office of 25 million.

Do you say that domestic films still have a future?

Is there still a market for domestic films?

In this environment, Director He Qun may have no choice but to make a TV series.

The director's ability is online, but the costume martial arts dramas have been rotten in recent years. Don't say anything else, let's talk about Wu Jing, this product has been tossed in costume martial arts dramas in recent years, and last year he recuperated for more than half a year because of an injury, but his new girlfriend ran away again. In the end, there is still no money to make trouble, or it is not rich enough.

This time, he learned from the pain and turned his grief into strength to take on three martial arts dramas in one go, what "A Chinese Ghost Story", "South Shaolin Thirty-six Rooms", "South Shaolin Fang Shiyu" and the like, he plans to take root in Hengdian for a long time.

"If it's a martial arts drama, forget it......"

He is really not very interested in the various nonsense costume dramas on the small screen.

Zeng Jia was busy on the other end of the phone: "Brother, the script is different this time. This time it is based on Liang Yusheng's martial arts "Ping's Trace", a serious martial arts drama. ”

Liang Yusheng?

Once upon a time, Jin Yong, Liang Yusheng, and Gu Long were all famous. It's just that compared with Jin Yong and Gu Long, Liang Yusheng's martial arts have not been adapted into film and television dramas.

According to rumors in the rivers and lakes, compared with the other two, Jin Haoli and Gu are short of money, and Liang Yusheng is relatively high. He has a principle that if you want to adapt his work, you can, but you have to read the script first and then sign the contract, and if the script is not changed well, you won't sign it.

The martial arts of "The Shadow of Ping" includes Li Tang, a TV series filmed by ATV in Hong Kong in the 80s...... Oh, to be exact, Li Tang has seen it all.

Liang Yusheng's style is roughly the same as Jin Yong's, both of which are the kind of historical truth, martial arts fantasy and poetic romance. The only difference may be that Liang Yusheng is relatively more realistic, resulting in a lack of coolness.

Zeng Jia continued on the phone: "The reason why Director He Qun came here this time is because the producer had previously voted for the actors and heroines Zhang Danfeng and Yun Lei on the Internet, brother, you are in the first place, and you are still far ahead!" ”

"And what's going on?" Li Tang couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Although he usually surfs the Internet, he basically just reads the news, and the so-called forums and chat rooms are basically not frequented. In his previous life, he had experienced Tik Tok, Twitter, and Facebook, but he was really not interested in the so-called forums and chat rooms in these years. The main thing is that I am not used to this feeling of disparity.

"Don't you know? Ling is thousands of votes ahead of the second place Lu Yi! ”

This year is not as good as a smartphone in the previous world, the penetration rate of computers and the number of netizens are not too high, and the so-called online voting can have tens of thousands of netizens participate in it is quite good.

Li Tang couldn't help but be curious: "Then who else?" ”

"In third place is Huang Haibin, there is not much difference between him and Lu Yi's votes, and there are also Wu Jing, Ren Quan and Zhou Jie."

I have to say that the first drama this year is still quite awesome, on this list voted by netizens, except for Huang Haibin who is a Chinese opera and Wu Jing who is a halfway monk, the other three are all in the play.

The majority of netizens are still quite discerning, and these people are all frequent visitors to costume martial arts dramas. As for Li Tang's votes, this has something to do with the fact that he created Ling Hu Chong before, including Yang Kang this time, which has been widely acclaimed, and of course, the wonderful fight scene he dedicated to Li Lian in "Hero" this time is indispensable.

"In terms of the heroine Yun Lei, the first place is Xiaoyanzi, as well as Jia Jingwen, Huang Yi, Xiao Taohong and Lin Xinru."

Without his ex-girlfriend and Xiaopang, Li Tang is not surprised, but there will be no weekly news?

may have been affected by the recent scolding of "Shooting the Condor".

Xiaoyanzi and Lin Xinru are still eating the dividends of "Returning the Pearl", and the most popular actresses in costume dramas are probably Jia Jingwen and Huang Yi.

Especially Huang Yi, the scene when the wild model collaborated with Cheng Er's short film "Criminals" is still vivid. The little girl's special efforts have left a deep impression on Li Tang, but she didn't expect the situation to rise so quickly in just a few years, and last year she starred in "Returning the Pearl III" as a new generation of Xiaoyanzi, and even Teacher Jiang had to match her.

"Is the heroine decided?" Li Tang asked.

"Not yet, it is said that Xiaoyanzi has no schedule, and others are talking. However, the producer said that they would notify us as soon as it was decided. ”

Saying that, Zeng Jia continued to persuade: "Brother, this book is good. And it is said that there are many well-known actors to join, Zhang Guoli and Wang Gang will make cameos. ”

The "Iron Tooth Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan" series is now on the air, and it is easy to find some well-known actors to strengthen their TV series with Director He Qun's connections.

This is how you mix in the circle, you obviously think very well, and you don't accept the characters you don't like, but you will always be unable to avoid all kinds of favors. For example, he played Yang Kang before in order to repay the bearded favor, including the role of Zou Jie in "Jasmine Blossom" this time, on the one hand, for the sake of money, but more often than not, he was unwilling to offend people.

If you have an iron head, then it is destined to be very difficult. What's more, he is no longer alone, and there are so many people who eat with him.

Li Tang pondered for a moment before he said, "Then you can send the script over first, and then talk about it after reading the script." ”

Zeng Jia quickly sent the electronic version of the script to his mailbox. The script is very long, with thirty episodes, and it took Li Tang almost two days to read the script.

Compared with what I have seen in my memory, it should be said that it is still relatively faithful to the essence of the original work, and some innovations have also been appropriately made.

For example, in the original book, the chivalrous spirit of chivalry in troubled times is depicted, and the themes of tolerance, understanding and sincerity are also added.

For example, in terms of character design, Zhang Danfeng and Yun Lei are also ingeniously portrayed as representatives of benevolence and wisdom, Yun Lei is no longer a girl who only knows how to cry, but has become a witty and resolute chivalrous girl.

The biggest adaptation is the finale, in the original book, Zhang Danfeng and Yun Lei's sincere love ended without a problem, but in the script, the two ended up as lovers and finally became married. This is also in line with the consistent happy ending in film and television dramas.

Although the "good friends" are not around, Li Tang has been living quite comfortably these days. In addition to Lao Li complaining that he would rather stay in Shanghai than go home, but he felt sorry for his son, so he still made a special trip to send a lot of food.

Li Tang, during this period of time, life has also become very regular, get up in the morning and exercise early, occasionally go to Xiaoguangdong to drink morning tea, when he is in good spirits, he will fry two side dishes by himself, and then cut some lo-mei sent by Lao Li, and call Xu Guangtou to eat old wine together.

Usually, I look at the script, watch the movie, and study "People in the Rivers and Lakes...... Oh, the name of the new movie directed by Zhang Yimou has been changed to "Wind Leaf Sword Knife".

To be honest, this name is not as apt as "People in the Rivers and Lakes", and the script is always in the process of revision, and Li Tang is currently in hand with the outline of the story that he has written down silently. Fortunately, the director said before that the role setting of Li Zhutou that he played would not change much, and Li Tang had already written five or six character biographies according to the description in the story outline.

As for the "Shadow of Ping", after all, it is a TV series, his interest is average, and the producer's choice of the heroine has not been decided for a long time, and he is not in a hurry to express his position.

Film and television dramas are collective creation projects, in addition to having an excellent behind-the-scenes team, the selection of actors is also particularly important. For example, this weekly news, the outside world questioned her Huang Rong, in fact, as a bystander, Li Tang saw very clearly that she was largely affected by the "stupid" Guo Jing played by Li Yapeng.

Don't look at Zhang Dabeard's hard mouth when facing reporters, he secretly told Li Tang more than once that the old man had already regretted it. At the beginning, I chose Li Yapeng to seek change, but it backfired, and I knew that Li Tang should have been chosen to play the role of Guo Jing in the first place.

For Zhang Dabeard's words, Li Tang can just listen to it, this old guy talks about people when he sees people, talks nonsense when he sees him, and doesn't blush when he talks nonsense, who knows if what he said is true or not.

What's more, when filming "Dragon Babu" last year, Li Tang once told him that he wanted to play Xiao Feng, and he didn't see this old man looking for himself!

The behind-the-scenes production team of "The Shadow of Ping" is still quite strong, director He Qun is also a director and art designer, and the photography and lighting teams are also the old team of director He Qun.

Originally, it was a team that made movies, and it was used to shoot TV series, so it can't be said that it was a dimensionality reduction blow, but at least it was definitely more than enough to deal with.

And as a martial arts scene, the most important action design is also Li Tang's old acquaintance - Cheng Xiaodong's apprentice Li Cai. In addition, the entire martial arts team is also the original team of "Heroes".

The first update, there is!

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