"Fated I Love You", a work that has set a record for the ratings of idol dramas in the history of Taiwan TV.

It is also the representative work of the "last actor" on Taiwan Island, and it has become a famous work.

To be honest, Wu Yuan doesn't like this Taiwan actor very much, not that there is anything wrong with others.

He just can't get used to the behavior of those Hong Kong and Taiwan people, using the mainland's capital and market resources, using mainland first-line actors to play supporting roles, supporting Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, quickly increasing their coffee positions and market value, and then harvesting the mainland market.

Soft Jingtian is one of the most important chess pieces.

For example, in the movie "Blood Drops" supervised by Chen Kexin, let heraldic play the male supporting role, let Huang Xiaoming play the villain boss, and then the male number one is the newcomer Soft Jingtian who has just become popular with this TV series.

Why?

With his idol drama-level acting skills and Taiwan's popular popularity, can he be matched by a first-line movie actor in the mainland?

Then just give a wave of accelerated weakening to Taiwan's film and television industry.

Taiwan has entered the 21st century, and the film industry has been weakening rapidly, but their TV drama industry, because of the study of Japanese and Korean idol dramas, once swept Asia in the first decade of the 21st century.

Starting from "Meteor Garden", 2-3 idol dramas that are popular all over Asia are produced every year.

Wu Yuan alone, there is really no way to interrupt this golden period of so many idol drama production companies on Taiwan Island.

But he can press the accelerator button for Taiwan idol dramas!

"This "Fate I Love You" is an idol drama I prepared for the company, focusing on the young market."

"Now the TV drama industry is also in the midst of drastic changes, and those historical dramas and anti-Japanese war dramas that were popular in the 90s mainly focus on the male audience market."

"But we can see it from the popularity of Qiong Yao dramas such as "Huanzhu Gege" and "Deep Love and Rain", as well as the popularity of idol dramas such as "Meteor Garden", "It's All Angels", "Pink Girl" and other idol dramas."

"Now the younger generation of TV drama audiences, especially female audiences, are more willing to watch some TV series where handsome men and beautiful women fall in love, which is more relaxed and happy, and it is best to satisfy women's fantasies about love."

Wu Yuan stretched out his finger and pointed to the script, motioning for Li Jichang to take a look at the content.

"This "Fated I Love You" tells a witty and humorous love story between a post-it girl and a domineering president."

"Post-it note girl?" Li Jichang was a little puzzled and didn't understand what the word meant.

"That's a concept I came up with." Wu Yuan patiently explained: "The word Cinderella is really common in TV dramas. ”

"So I created another novel heroine character in the script."

"The so-called post-it note girls, their functions are small, but they are indispensable, just like a tear-off post-it note, inconspicuous and not special, but there must be her by your side."

"This kind of girl is simple, simple and peaceful, and has small wishes, she has never been a big person, and she doesn't expect to become a big person, but she is like most ordinary girls in Asia."

"In the company and in the school, they are inconspicuous, maybe not as eye-catching as the hot girls, and they are not the school flowers sought after by tens of thousands of people, but they are just representatives of ordinary women."

"Such a heroine, who represents most girls, and Prince Charming accidentally started a fateful love, I believe that girls all over Asia will be in it and fascinated."

In big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the use of post-it notes is now a common thing among the white-collar class.

Li Jichang immediately understood what Wu Yuan meant, and was amazed by his idea!

Isn't this another "Meteor Garden"!

It's just that "Meteor Garden" is the four major teenagers chasing an "ordinary" ordinary girl, and this "Fate I Love You" is a domineering president chasing an ordinary worker.

The background has changed from the campus to the workplace, but the core is still the set of "Meteor Garden", and Prince Charming falls in love with Cinderella.

Li Jichang, who has done the project "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky", is relatively familiar with idol dramas in Taiwan and Japan and South Korea, and knows that this type of idol drama is the most popular at the moment.

Wu Yuan, a film director and a director who has his eyes on the world, can actually know so much about idol dramas and take out such a script, which makes Li Jichang quite surprised.

"This script" Li Jichang hesitated, could not this script be written by Wu Yuan himself?

"Ahem." Seeing Li Jichang's doubts, Wu Yuan pretended to be calm and explained: "This script was my idea, and I found a few graduate students from Nortel's Department of Literature to help write it. ”

This time, Wu Yuan didn't lie.

Although he wrote the script for the first six episodes himself, he does not plan to write the subsequent script himself.

He wrote out the outline and the follow-up storyline, and then found a few graduate students in the school's literature department to flesh out the content.

Not only this TV series, but also the TV series that the company will do in the future, he plans to do this.

Write a story outline and character biography by yourself, and find a few screenwriters to write the specific script content in detail.

In fact, the scripts of most TV dramas in later generations were completed in this way.

Otherwise, why can a TV series be named with seven or eight screenwriters.

It is nothing more than a chief screenwriter who gives the outline, and the other small screenwriters are responsible for the lines, character interactions, fights, and side plots, and divides the script into many parts and writes it in detail.

This is the so-called screenwriting industrialization.

It is definitely not possible to do such a movie script, but TV series, especially idol dramas, can be produced on an industrial assembly line like this.

This is the same as Mo Yan's books can't be ghostwritten, but online novels can also get good grades when they find ghostwriters

Wu Yuan also plans to set up a screenwriting department in his company's TV drama department, specifically poaching people from Nortel's literature department to write TV drama scripts for himself.

He is responsible for producing the outline and biography, and the other editors refine the details.

The script produced in this way cannot be said to be exactly the same as those popular dramas in Wu Yuan's impression, but it is no problem to have a seventy or eighty percent similarity.

Seriously, even if he were to write it himself, he would only be able to write seven or eight similar scripts.

Wu Yuan is a human being, not a god, there are dozens of episodes in a TV series at every turn, how can he remember every line accurately, he just remembers a general storyline.

Not to mention TV series, even movies, he writes his own lines many times, except for some classic lines that he remembers, most of the lines are also supplemented by himself according to the situation.

"Director Li, the company's TV drama department has just been established, and now there are only two or three clerks in charge of administrative work."

"As long as you join the company and make this "Fated I Love You", the company's TV drama department can be handed over to you to be responsible."

"This "Fate I Love You" is just the beginning, and the follow-up company will expand the TV drama production department at the production rate of 1-2 TV series per year."

Wu Yuandu has already thought about it, in the next 3-5 years, the era of light and shadow will focus on the idol drama market, and some of the more popular idol dramas on Taiwan Island in the future will be made first, and eat this cake.

It's not that he doesn't want to do other types of dramas, it's mainly that idol dramas are really easier to do and easier to do, plus they can seize the Taiwanese drama market.

You asked him to do Xianxia dramas and costume dramas, and there are Zhou Yi and Tang people in the mainland, all of whom have their own martial arts teams, costume teams, professional action instructors, etc., all of which they have cultivated themselves little by little.

If you want to shoot costume dramas and Xianxia dramas well, there is no shortcut, you have to train a group of professionals in this area.

This is also why Wu Yuan wants to cooperate with the Tang people, instead of doing costume fairy dramas by himself.

But idol dramas are different, this thing is a modern urban drama, you can get a batch of costumes on the street, and the shooting does not involve any professional martial arts and stunts, you can shoot it by finding a group of students who have just graduated.

Then he made a lot of thieves, "Meteor Garden" at least earned Chai Zhipin hundreds of millions, hundreds of millions in 2001!

Li Jichang, who was suddenly hit by such a big cake, was overjoyed.

Originally, he was about to lose his job, but in the blink of an eye, he could have the opportunity to take charge of the TV drama production department of [Light and Shadow Era]?!

"Thank you Director Wu for your trust, I will definitely take this project seriously!" Li Jichang agreed without hesitation and signed an employment agreement with Wu Yuan on the spot.

From today on, he will be a member of the TV drama department of the film and television production company of the Light and Shadow Era, and if "Fated I Love You" can be successful, then he will be promoted to the head of the department!

Li Jichang is also a vigorous and resolute character, and he is in his thirties when he is forging ahead.

After getting the script and story outline of the first six episodes from Wu Yuan, he went home and read it back and forth five or six times, and immediately began to gather the old brothers.

The crew of "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky" was soon summoned by him again.

Although this TV series has not been sold, the crew is not affected, and now it is the blue ocean of the TV drama industry, and TV series are being filmed everywhere in Hengdian, Beijing, and Modu.

But Li Jichang still called almost eighty percent of the crew back with a phone call.

Without him, Li Jichang has the name of [Light and Shadow Era], even if he is a crew member, he also wants to go further, and the crew work of the TV series is obviously not as high as the film crew.

They also want to move from the TV drama to the film field.

Li Jichang recruited the crew of the TV series under the name of [Light and Shadow Era], but it should not be too easy.

He not only recruited people from the old team of "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky", but also poached people from the crews of many mainland urban dramas.

In less than half a month, he formed a TV drama crew of 80 people.

With the past resumes of the crew, Li Jichang found Wu Yuan again.

"Director Wu, the crew has completed the preparations."

Looking at this crew list, Wu Yuan was very satisfied.

Li Jichang really put his heart into it.

In addition to the staff of "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky", he also dug up a group of elites.

The lighting engineer who lit the crew of "Talented Men and Women", the radio engineer who carried the recording rod for the crew of "Pink Girl", and the costume designer of "It's All Angels".

It can be described as a wealth of talents.

And he also listed several director candidates for the crew.

"What, Director Li doesn't plan to direct this TV series himself?" Wu Yuan asked with some curiosity.

It stands to reason that Li Jichang should be able to see that if this TV series is filmed well, it will definitely become a hit, right?

Wu Yuan didn't know that not everyone had his ability to resist pressure.

It is precisely because Li Jichang can see that this TV series is very likely to become a hit, so he doesn't have the courage to be a director himself, after all, he is just a newcomer to the director who has filmed a TV series.

He is really afraid that if he shoots it himself, he will mess up this TV series, and his future and money will be ruined.

"Director Wu, I think the position of producer is more suitable for me." Li Jichang said shyly.

"Okay, then I'll call you Producer Li in the future." Wu Yuan looked at the list of directors he recommended from a good start.

Mengji, whose masterpieces are "All Angels' Troubles", "The History of Martial Arts" and "Starry Pig Bajie", Li Jichang should have valued him for filming "It's All Angels".

Jiang Jiajun, the director of "Talented Men and Women", is a TV drama director born on Hong Kong Island, but he went north to the mainland early to make a living, and began to shoot film and television dramas from Hong Kong to the mainland in the late 90s of the 20th century.

He doesn't have the bad habits of Hong Kong Island film directors, and he is a fairly competent director.

In addition, Li Jichang also recommended a director named Zhu Yi, who is the director of "Pink Girl", and can be regarded as a director who has made achievements in idol dramas.

After Wu Yuan looked back and forth on the resumes of these three people, he still decided to use Jiang Jiajun.

"In the name of the company, you should contact Director Jiang Jiajun and invite him to direct "Fated I Love You".

Compared with the other two directors, Jiang Jiajun's "Male Talent and Female Appearance" was originally an idol drama in which a domineering president meets Cinderella, and he has rich experience in this area.

If you want to be stable, he is definitely the most suitable.

"Okay." Li Jichang agreed without hesitation, he couldn't wait for Wu Yuan to call the shots.

"What about the starring role?" Li Jichang asked again with some apprehension.

In addition to the director, he also made a list of alternative actors for each role from the perspective of a producer.

Actor Ji Cunxi: Chen Kun, Lu Yi, Bao Jianfeng, Ren Quan, Nie Yuan, Sha Yi.

Yes, Sha Yi is also on Li Jichang's shortlist.

He is now a well-known cream student in the mainland, a military art school grass, and has become the dream lover of thousands of women with the role of the horse Sha Pingwei in "The Wrong Sedan to Marry the Right Lang".

Although "The Story of the Cooking Class" put him on the road of comedy, Li Jichang still wanted to give him a chance.

However, Wu Yuan didn't see it that way.

Holding the ballpoint pen, he crossed out Sha Yi's name as soon as possible, and then crossed out Bao Jianfeng's name as well.

Bao Jianfeng is quite handsome, but he is too short to play the boss.

Chen Kun has nothing to hesitate, he doesn't make TV series much now, he focuses on the film market, and "Painted Skin" will enter the group in the second half of the year, and Wu Yuan will also cross out his name.

Among the rest of the people, Lu Yi, Ren Quan, and Nie Yuan are all popular TV series students, and they are all handsome in their own way.

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan put a circle on Lu Yi's name, "Contact Lu Yi first, he is the first choice, if he doesn't have a schedule, then contact Nie Yuan." ”

Lu Yi originally played the boss Qiu Shi in "Talented Men and Women", and he has already left the impression of a domineering president to the mainland audience.

Just like Ming Dao on the island of Taiwan, as soon as he appears on TV, the word "president" will come to mind.

Choosing him is definitely the most suitable.

"What about the heroine?" Li Jichang continued to ask while recording.

"Heroine." Wu Yuan looked at the list of candidates listed by Li Jichang, and he was dazzled.

Li Xiaolu, Huang Yi, An Yixuan, Dong Jie, Xue Jianing......

No matter how you say it, Wu Yuan is not very satisfied.

I don't feel like Chen Xinyi's energetic temperament in the play.

The heroine of this drama can't choose the kind of beauty at first sight, because the heroine is set to be an ordinary girl, and she must not be too beautiful.

But you can't really choose a girl who looks mediocre, after all, this is an idol drama.

From the perspective of later generations, this kind of heroine is an ordinary girl and a role set by Cinderella, so it is suitable to find a sweet girl to play.

For example, Xue Shanshan played by Zhao Xiaodao in "Shanshan Comes to Eat" is a very classic casting.

It would be nonsense to say that she is not beautiful, but her appearance in the play is at most a little sweet next door, she can't be called a big beauty, and she is not as glamorous as a female partner.

It is definitely very suitable for her to play Chen Xinyi in "Fated I Love You".

It's a pity that Zhao Liying doesn't know where she is now, and she didn't debut until 2006 after the "Yahoo Star" talent show.

Wu Yuan had no choice but to retreat and think of another person.

"Hey, Producer Li, I think the heroine of your "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky" is pretty good."

Wu Yuan smiled and said, "That little girl named Jinsha, she is quite suitable for the role of Chen Xinyi." ”

"The appearance is relatively sweet, even if it is a small jasper style, it will not be too beautiful, which makes people have a sense of distance."

"She put on glasses and wore an ordinary uniform, which fits the image of a post-it girl very well."

"Golden Sands." Li Jichang thought about it and nodded in agreement, Jinsha is indeed very suitable in terms of image.

However, "After Jinsha finished filming "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky", because the TV series has not been broadcast, she changed careers to become a singer. ”

"Last year, she signed a contract with Haidie Music, and she was the first mainland singer signed by Haidie Music, and after signing it, she was sent to a music academy in Singapore for special training."

"People should still be in Singapore now."

Jinsha is also considered unlucky, and it was not easy to make his debut as an actor, but his debut film could not be broadcast.

After several tosses and turns, I went to shoot the singer's MV, and finally was taken by the music company and signed a contract to send it to training.

But Wu Yuan didn't care so much, he said indifferently: "In this era of fighting immortals in the music world, the difficulty of being a singer is not ordinarily high. ”

"Go contact her and invite her back to the mainland to shoot a TV series."

"She is a newcomer, I invited her to play the heroine of the company's TV series, can her agency agree?"

Wu Yuan definitely has the confidence to say this, in the current mainland entertainment industry, no actor can refuse his invitation.

Li Jichang's waist immediately straightened.

Yes, he is different now, he is now a person in the era of light and shadow, a person who works for Wu Yuan, and he is afraid that he will not be able to hire actors?

"I see, I'm going to contact Sands!" Li Jichang said confidently.

Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

After the casting of the male and female protagonists is determined, the other supporting roles are easy to choose.

The glamorous and confident female second is obviously the most suitable to find Chen Hao, she is too suitable to play this kind of gorgeous female second lead.

The second male Wu Yuan chose Ren Quan, he has that kind of polite temperament, and his image in a suit is not much inferior to Chen Chuhe.

As for the other role actors, some in the mainland are old drama bones, and they are overused to act in idol dramas.

At this point, the main creative team of "Fated I Love You" was finalized during the conversation between Wu Yuan and Li Jichang.

In addition to the director, the entire crew to the leading actors and supporting roles are all mainland teams!

The first chapter will be sent before 12 o'clock in the next chapter.