The next day, at 7 p.m., inside Fortress Garden.

Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, Zu Feng, Sun Honglei, Chen Jianbin, Yan Danchen, Zeng Li, and Qin Hailu gathered in a box and chatted constantly.

In 2000, mainland actors did not have too many concepts of coffee positions.

Although Sidan Shuangbing has gained momentum, some agents of domestic entertainment have also learned coffee marketing in the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles with Wang Jinhua.

But these actors invited by Wu Yuan are either more traditional professional actors who are still taking the drama route, or they are young people who have just graduated.

In their current professional concept, the role is no big or small, and they should all be sung in a serious way.

Whether playing a supporting role or playing the leading role, everyone is equal in personality whether they are in the play or outside the play, and it is not said that the protagonist is superior to the supporting role.

Therefore, although the roles of the eight actors are different, it does not affect their hot chat.

In other words, they are holding a script reading and discussion meeting.

It's something that will be rare to see in 20 years, but it's very common now.

"I don't know this Director Wu, but after I got the book from a friend, I was fascinated when I saw it, this book is really well written, just reading the text makes people want to stop."

Chen Jianbin leaned on the table with one hand and waved up and down with the other: "Good guy, I read the script three or four times before I roughly sorted out the contradictions and changes in time and space!" ”

"Just for the role I want to play, there are more than a dozen "parallel world" of myself! ”

"It's so interesting, I only saw this kind of theme in American blockbusters before, but I didn't expect that there are directors in our country who make such movies!"

Chen Jianbin said that Zu Feng and Sun Honglei, who were sitting next to him, also echoed him.

Among the several actors present, most of the others agreed to join the crew without hesitation out of affection and relationship with Wu Yuan.

But they were really moved by the script, and when they talked about the script, they were all the same, obviously they had read it at least several times or even ten times in just one day after they got the script.

Chatting and chatting, Sun Honglei suddenly frowned and said hesitantly:

"Is this script good, that is, can the director shoot it well, I have a headache just by reading the script, this must not be a mess?"

No wonder Sun Honglei has this idea, he learned about Wu Yuan's situation from Chen Kun, he is 18 years old this year, he is only a junior after the summer vacation, and he has never had independent directing experience before.

Such a pure rookie director wants to make such a movie with hundreds of contradictions and more than a dozen time and space crossings, can he play and shoot well?

"Well, don't worry about that." Chen Kun stopped Sun Honglei's shoulder and said with a relaxed heart: "Yuan'er is the screenwriter of this movie, and he wrote this book, can he not shoot it well?" ”

"yes!" Zhou Xun, who is familiar with Sun Honglei, also said: "I filmed with Wu Yuan in the crew of "Seventeen-Year-Old Bicycle", and he was working as an assistant director when he had no role, and he also held a film viewing meeting with the director. ”

"Director Wang Xiaoshuai said that his junior brother has spirituality and was born to be a director, and he is full of praise for him!"

As he spoke, Chen Kun suddenly remembered something, stretched out his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then whispered: "By the way, it will be Yuan'er's ...... in a few days."

......

More than ten minutes later.

The door of the box was opened, and Wu Yuan led a handsome man in his early thirties with glasses to walk in.

"Everyone's here."

Wu Yuan looked around the box and nodded with a smile: "Let me introduce to you, this is Chen Yuan, the producer of our "The Night the Comet Comed", Chen Producer. ”

"Your acting contract will be signed by him on behalf of the crew."

As he spoke, Chen Yuan, the "supervisor" sent by China Film, took out stacks of contracts from the briefcase he was carrying.

Wu Yuan negotiated with them yesterday, but in fact, there is nothing to talk about, they are all a group of actors who are not well-known, and at most they have acted in a few film and television dramas.

Zhou Xun is the most expensive, with a salary of 6,000 yuan.

The rest of the others, because the roles are almost the same, including the male and female protagonists, are all paid a unified salary of 5,000.

Don't be too little, "The Night the Comet Comed" is expected to only need to shoot for seven nights, and they can rehearse and perform normally at the theater during the day.

This is equivalent to a part-time job, and you can get 5,000 yuan a week for part-time work, which is already a very high salary for these theater actors.

As for Zhou Xun a thousand yuan more than others, this is the value brought by the Best Actress Award at the Paris International Film Festival on her.

Zeng Li, who was supposed to play the heroine, was the most paid, after all, the whole film was carried out from her perspective, and her role was the heaviest.

But who called Zhou Xun to have the trophy for Best Actress.

can spend 6,000 yuan to invite Zhou Xun, Wu Yuan thinks it's worth it anyway.

The contract is nothing to look at, and there is no need to worry about the contract provided by China Film, everyone signed their name at the end of the contract without looking at it carefully.

After Chen Yuan took back the contract one by one, he sat down and looked up at Wu Yuan, who was the only one standing, along with the others.

Being watched by nine people in unison, Wu Yuan's heart also rose a little nervous.

The last time he came to Fengze Garden, he was just a small actor in Wang Xiaoshuai's crew.

This time, he became the director of a film crew.

Although there are only eight actors in this crew, there are only three crew members.

But in Wu Yuan's heart, infinite pride still rose.

In the dream world, it took him 20 years to become the chief director of a film crew and become a real film director.

And this time, it only took him two years to save up a film crew!

Although the crew is small, this is where his dream begins!

"Okay, since everyone has signed the contract, then we won't have to delay much."

Wu Yuan propped his hands on the table, glanced at everyone, and breathed a long sigh of relief: "Next, let's hold a few script reading meetings, read the book thoroughly, figure out the relationship between the characters, and then we can start the film." ”

"During the start of the crew, I don't care about you during the day, but every night from seven to twelve o'clock, you must arrive at the crew on time to start work, and you must bring makeup to work!"

"Questions?"

"No problem!" Everyone replied in unison.

"Okay, let's eat first, and we'll have a meeting after eating!" Wu Yuan smiled with satisfaction.

At a time when Hong Kong Island's film capital has not yet gone north on a large scale, there is no ceremony to behead a chicken, worship Guan Gong, and lift a red cloth when mainland films are launched.

So for the crew of "The Night the Comet Comed", tonight's meal is the start-up ceremony.

For the next three days, every day Wu Yuan and the eight actors would get together to discuss the script, discuss their respective character settings, their code of conduct in the film, and how to play some of the more complicated places.

Three days later, China Film helped Wu Yuan rent a filming venue, a small western-style building in the XC area.

With the actors of the crew, as well as a master who was invited from Beijing Film Studio and two rented film cameras, Wu Yuan moved to the small western-style building.

At this point, "The Night the Comet Came" was officially launched!