Chapter 43 Preparations
Lu Yang has been proud of the spring breeze recently, although the movie has been released, but his directing ability has been seen by everyone, and the most important thing is that he has proven himself in the director industry, so that everyone in the circle can see that the movies he makes can make money.
This is too important, in the film and television industry, 9 out of 10 movies invested in the end lost money, and a director who has proven himself is a sought-after sweetheart in the entire industry.
Gu Wei's company is not big, and Lu Yang was led to Gu Wei's office at the front desk.
"Senior brother, looking at your spring breeze, you've been very comfortable for a while."
Lu Yang strode over with a smile on his face, looking like he was in good spirits on a happy occasion.
"Each other, the junior brother is both the starring actor and the investor, and the harvest is no less than mine."
"Hahaha~" After speaking, the two looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
"I heard that during this time, my brother has become a guest of honor in major film and television companies, and I must have gained a lot." Gu Wei asked.
"Ahem~ What kind of guests, it's just that they asked someone around me to invite me, and I refused because of human feelings, so I just perfunctory them."
Lu Yang said with some disdain.
"When I was looking for investment, none of them gave me a good face, and I went to major film companies for a year, and I didn't give me a penny. Now that the movie is successful, one by one comes up and pretends to be good people. What did you do earlier? ”
Gu Wei was not surprised when he heard it, Lu Yang was right, but there was nothing wrong with the film companies. Everyone has a different position, but now that Lu Yang's movie is successful, it seems that they have a problem with their vision.
"Senior brother, I came to you today because I mentioned that movie to my junior brother."
"The movie is no problem, I promised you this a long time ago." Lu Yang said with a nonchalant expression.
"I've already written the script, senior brother, take a look at it first." As he spoke, Gu Wei handed Lu Yang a script.
"So fast, okay, then I'll see how your story is written." After taking the script, Lu Yang didn't care about anything else, just watched it in Gu Wei's office.
Gu Wei didn't care, and asked the assistant to add tea to the two of them, and while drinking tea, he waited quietly for Lu Yang.
Lu Yang watched it very carefully, but fortunately, the story of [Detective Chinatown] itself is not complicated, and the timeline is not long.
After a while, Lu Yang put down the script, thought about it for a while, and said
"Senior brother, your script is very well written, do you want to consider making this movie for me."
Originally, Lu Yang, who just wanted to do Gu Wei a favor and repay his favor, was a little tempted after reading the script.
Gu Wei was not surprised, he smiled and said, "Senior brother, you can't win people's love, this is the movie I want to make." ”
"I thought you wanted to make a movie just to make a small fuss and fulfill your dream of being a director.
But after reading this script, I realized that you are going to make a big one, junior brother. Lu Yang said with emotion
"Sure enough, from the time you invested in movies for me, I should have known that you are not an ordinary person, junior brother, you are courageous!"
Listening to Lu Yang's words, Gu Wei smiled and waved his hand
"How can you say so exaggerated, senior brother, I'm just doing what I want to do.
I have already started preparations in the early stage of the movie, and I still have something to ask my brother to help me do. ”
"If there is anything you need, junior brother, just ask."
"After all, I am a rookie director, although I can make my own investment in filming, but if we want to make a film, we have to find two partners. When the trouble comes, my brother will come forward to talk to me about this matter. When the time comes, I will have to borrow my brother's tiger skin. Gu Wei said jokingly.
"That's no problem, after all, I'm also going to be involved in the filmmaking, and it's not a lie to borrow my name.
The junior brother has already thought of a company to work with. Lu Yang asked.
"China Film, Wanda, Light," Gu Wei replied.
"Gao, this movie hasn't been filmed yet, and the junior brother has thought about getting through all the links of the later release." Lu Yang sighed.
"It's mainly my small family, and I can barely get people to shoot the movie, and I will have my brother to help me when the time comes.
However, the late-release aspect is really not effective. Senior brother, you also know that no matter how good the movie is, if the distribution is not done well and the publicity is not good, and the theater schedule can no longer keep up, it will be more difficult to get to the box office than to ascend to the sky.
If China Film, Wanda, and Guangguang can join in, then presumably after the movie is released, it will not be too bad whether it is publicity or scheduling. Gu Wei said.
"Okay, it seems that you have a lot of ideas, so I can rest assured. When is the filming time scheduled? Lu Yang asked.
"It will take some time to prepare for the preliminary stage, and if everything goes well, the shooting will probably take place in the first half of next year, and the shooting time is expected to be about 3 months." Gu Wei thought for a while and said.
"It just so happens that I have been free for the past half a year, and China Film has mentioned to me about filming [Embroidered Spring Knife 2], and I am going to spend a while polishing the script. Now that the inspiration is running out, it just helps you find inspiration for filming. ”
After talking about business, the two talked for a while and talked about some things that have happened in the circle recently.
especially talked about the movies released last month, watching [Thai Embarrassment] and [Zodiac] hundreds of millions of box office in his pocket, Lu Yang is still sighing
"Senior brother, do you say that in the future, we can only make movies that can be big sellers if we make comedies?"
Lu Yang's heart was also a little confused.
Don't look at the fact that he has just succeeded in a movie, but he knows that more than 200 million is the upper limit of his martial arts films.
A road comedy and an action comedy easily reaped several times his box office.
"Watching movies, most audiences still want to be happy, not to mention that comedy movies have a large audience, and many of them are suitable for families to watch movies together, and the movie-watching crowd came up all of a sudden."
Gu Wei replied.
He knew that what Lu Yang said was right, and that Chinese movies in the future would be big hits at the box office, except for some patriotic movies that promoted positive energy, most of the rest were comedies.
Like Xu Zheng's embarrassing series, Ning Hao's crazy series, Happy Twist's movie and even Jia Ling's movie later.
Comedy is a hit, and it is often small to fight big.
After chatting with Lu Yang for a while, the two made an appointment to find time to see Teacher Xu together, and Lu Yang left.
In the later conversation, Gu Wei knew that Lu Yang had just established his own film company [Free Cool Whale Film Co., Ltd.].
It seems that this senior brother is also an unwilling master. It seems that the wishful thinking of these film companies is about to miscalculate.
There are still many places that need to rely on Lu Yang, although Lu Yang originally intended to return Gu Wei's favor, but Gu Wei has never been a stingy person.
Lu Yang's share he was ready. It's not too much, but it's definitely worth his efforts.
Gu Wei knows that eating alone in this society will never last long, if you want to put all the benefits in your pocket, then the final outcome is that you will not get anything.
The best thing to do is to make the cake bigger together and share your own piece of the most delicious one.