"Not making money?" Andy Lau blurted out in surprise, "Then you ......"

Then he remembered something, glanced at Zhang Yimou and said with a smile: "You kid, I almost let you bluff it, Director Zhang's name alone is worth 100 million at the box office."

As long as your script is not bad, you can return to the original cost.

And as you just said, you have a lot of confidence in your script, which is not like running for no money. ”

Chen Shuo just smiled, looked at Zhang Yimou and said seriously: "Although this money is nothing to Director Zhang, the investment in our drama is not much, which is already equivalent to a quarter or even a third of the total investment."

If you don't think it's enough, we really can't come up with more money, so we can only give you a share of the box office.

We can give you a 10% share of the total revenue of the film. ”

In the past two years, as Zhang Yimou began to make commercial films, his salary has also risen.

His first directorial "Red Sorghum" was only paid 200,000 yuan, and when he directed "My Father and Mother" in 99, he got a director's salary of 5 million.

and "Hero" directly doubled, with a salary of 10 million, and the salary of "Ambush on All Sides" was even more 15 million.

Even "Impression Liu Sanjie", which he supervised in 02, has a production fee of more than 8 million.

The 5 million given by Chen Shuo is indeed not high for him.

Moreover, because he is troublesome, he has always been reluctant to participate in the share of the box office.

Just take the money to make a movie and do a good job as a director, and I don't want to mix more.

It's just that these are his previous thoughts, and no one is afraid of money.

You know, just this year, he gave birth to another boy.

Previously, he already had a daughter who was two years older than Chen Shuo and a son who was more than three years old.

Since then, there have been more places to spend money.

Moreover, with the explosion of "Hero" and "Ambush on All Sides", he has been a little shaken in his decision not to take a share.

His movies make it clear that he can make money, so why can't he make more?

Two movies, $500 million at the box office, and he only got more than $3 million, not even one percent.

I feel panicked when I think about it.

Now, why not take this opportunity to see how much money you can make.

The reasons are all ready-made, let's just say that it is for the sake of Chen Shuo's kind invitation.

Generally speaking, if the director takes a share, the act of reducing the salary is understandable, and it is not considered a self-depreciation.

Seeing that Zhang Yimou was already moved, Chen Shuo made persistent efforts and said: "Director Zhang, money is actually secondary.

I feel that if you take a break from other films, you can also give you some different inspiration.

Now, our company has two relatively complete movie scripts, if you don't dislike it, you can take a look first? ”

Zhang Yimou subconsciously nodded and said, "Okay." ”

Chen Shuo was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately took out two scripts from his bag on the side, handed them to him with both hands and said, "This is the first draft of the two scripts, you can take a look at them first." ”

Without waiting for Andy Lau to speak, he handed the same two scripts to Andy Lau and said, "Brother Hua might as well take a look."

Of course, if you are willing to participate, we are very welcome, if you want to star, then you can only use the box office share to offset the salary.

With your current net worth, we can't afford to hire it. ”

With the addition of "Ambush on All Sides", Andy Lau's salary is now at least 10 million.

Even if he is willing to reduce his salary out of connection, he will have at least 8 million.

The idea of this movie Chen Shuo and others was to use Zhang Yimou's team to train their own team, and invested most of the money in the production.

The actor's salary budget is only five million, which is not enough to pay him.

"I'll take a look first." Andy Lau took the script and began to read it.

He first looked at the titles of the two scripts, one was written "Sword Rain Jianghu", and the other was written "Twin Thieves".

It is not difficult to see from this name that "Sword Rain" is a martial arts film, and he is more curious about what story "Twin Thieves" tells.

Liu Xi, who was adopted since childhood, followed his adoptive father Liu Jixiang to escort a treasure, but was stolen by a group of mysterious people on the way.

Through experience, Liu Jixiang suspected that this matter was related to the "Twin Gates" that disappeared many years ago, so he found Chang Zhong, the owner of the door back then.

Chang Zhong and Liu Jixiang were brothers in the same sect back then, but an accident that year caused the Twin Gates to collapse, and the two had no intention of rebuilding the Twin Doors and kept their names incognito.

Liu Jixiang adopted Liu Xi afterwards, while Chang Zhong formed a circus with his newly adopted apprentices.

After hearing about this, he began to help Liu Xi and the others find the lost treasures and track down the forces suspected of being the Twin Gates.

When they found the murderer, they found out that the other party turned out to be Chang Zhong's younger brother Chang Yong.

The accident back then was caused by Chang Yong, and I thought he had died in that accident. Unexpectedly, he survived, re-formed the Twin Gates, and began to do evil for his own selfish desires.

The two sides began a battle between good and evil in order to compete for the treasure.

The plot looks old-fashioned, but the various strange tricks and magic tricks depicted in it, plus the use of the characteristics of twins to achieve the effect of fish and pearls, attracted Andy Lau.

Let him watch it with relish.

On the other side, Zhang Yimou first watched "Sword Rain Rivers and Lakes".

He has an inexplicable love for martial arts, especially when he sees Chen Shuo's name in the screenwriter, which makes him want to take a look.

During the filming of "Ambush on All Sides", Chen Shuo once showed that he had a strong perception of the script, and was able to find the loopholes in the script and make up for them to make the plot more mellow.

The script begins with a narration.

According to legend, the body of the Tianzhu monk Rama Patriarch hides the secret of martial arts, as long as you get the body and understand the mysteries, you can practice peerless magic and dominate the martial arts.

It's a very clichéd beginning, and there's nothing amazing about it.

Basically, when you see this, you can know that this is a martial arts routine plot that competes for magic cheats and magic weapons.

But it's this old routine that makes it easy to make mistakes.

"Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" is basically such a routine, didn't it still win an Oscar?

As long as you can shoot something new, you can make the audience pay.

Zhang Yimou then looked down.

The fearsome assassination group "Blackstone" has been tracking Rama's body.

There is a first-class master in the organization, nicknamed "Drizzle", named after the rain of sword wounds.

After an assassination of the first assistant Zhang Haiduan to obtain half of Rama's body, a monk with outstanding martial arts Lu Zhu was ordered to turn his life, put down the butcher's knife, and retired to the rivers and lakes.

Blackstone issued a warrant and offered a large reward for her head.

The drizzle changed his appearance, and his pseudonym was Zeng Jing, who made a living selling cloth.

Under the matchmaker's matchmaking, she married Jiang Asheng, who worked as a post groom in the capital, and lived an ordinary but happy life.

Who wants to expose her identity because of an accident, and she was found by the leader of Blackstone, the Wheel King.

For the sake of her husband Jiang Asheng's life and her own happiness, she had to help the Wheel King find Rama's body.

However, once you enter the rivers and lakes, you can't help yourself, and you enter this quagmire, how can you easily get out of it?

The Wheel King sent someone to kill Zeng Jing, but he never thought that Jiang Asheng was also hiding his secret.

He turned out to be Zhang Renfeng, the son of Zhang Haiduan, who was killed by Heishi......

Seeing this, Zhang Yimou couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, this script is indeed better than his.

Whether it is "Hero" or "Ambush on All Sides", there are some unsatisfactory points.

The story of "Hero" is too spacey and too ordinary.

Although the box office and plot of "Ambush on All Sides" are better than "Heroes", it is inevitable that the weight of the story and characters is somewhat unreasonable.

Liu Zhutou, who was supposed to be the protagonist, did not have as many scenes as the supporting role of Suifeng.

And the story before and after, there is a slight sense of separation, and dividing it into two stories can become a movie on its own.

At present, this "Sword Rain Jianghu" is very good, focusing on the emotional changes of Zeng Jing and Jiang Asheng, interspersed with scenes of other characters, and presenting each role very full.

On the whole, the story is full of bright spots, and it is a very qualified work.

Moreover, two of the masters lit Zeng Jing's Ishibashi Zen and sublimated this work a lot.

It has more charm than the sword of the world in "Hero" and the sword of the rivers and lakes in "Ambush on All Sides".

He flipped through "The Twin Thieves" again, but felt that the script was a little too thin, and there were too many show-off skills in it, and there was no high artistic component.

It's just that I didn't pay attention to it after a hasty flip through it, but couldn't put it down and watched "Sword Rain Rivers and Lakes".

Seeing him like this, Andy Lau couldn't help but be interested in this script, and after reading it again, he had to admit that this script was better than "Twin Thieves".

However, he looks at the problem from a different angle.

If you look at it from the perspective of making money, he thinks that the box office of "Twin Thieves" may be better.

After all, the peak era of martial arts was Xiangjiang films in the eighties and nineties, and the current audience seems to be more willing to watch that kind of gorgeous and colorful pictures.

Of course, as he just said, if Zhang Yimou is willing to supervise the production of "Sword Rain and Rivers and Lakes", his name alone is worth 100 million.

After all, since the turn of the millennium, the only two movies in China with a box office of over 100 million yuan were made by Zhang Yimou.

And the total box office is as high as 500 million US dollars.

This is also the reason why he thinks that Chen Shuo wants to ask Zhang Yimou to supervise the production is a little whimsical.

It's just that Chen Shuo directly promised Zhang Yimou 10% of the film's total revenue share, which he didn't expect.

This also means that as long as the box office exceeds 100 million, Zhang Yimou can get a share of 3~4 million.

Coupled with the producer's salary of 5 million, it is already nearly 10 million income.

Compared with the producer of a small-budget film, it is enough to be able to take so much money.

Moreover, this is not counting the overseas box office revenue.

As long as this movie can reach the standard of more than 100 million, Zhang Yimou's income will definitely be more than what he earned before.

(End of chapter)