Beijing, somewhere in a mid-range community.

Li Xuejian, who was wearing glasses, was sitting on the sofa, reading the newspaper in hand and listening to the news broadcast on the TV.

Since he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer during filming in 2000, and then came back to film "The Undertaker" in 2002, although Li Xuejian brushed his face in the literary circle because of this movie, he did not take on the scene very frequently.

Cancer is not an easy disease to deal with, even if the operation is successful, Li Xuejian has still focused on recuperation in the past few years, and made a movie in three or four years.

Li Xuejian, who has been acting all his life, is really unaccustomed to suddenly resting.

In the past, although he didn't act in many movies, only one movie a year or two on average, he was still a drama actor at the Central Theater and had a large number of drama performances.

Now that the drama performances have stopped, I stay at home every day to drink tea and read the newspaper, and enjoy my retirement life in advance.

After a few years of such a leisurely life, Li Xuejian was suffocated.

I want to act!

Looking at the newspaper about the release of the movie "The Sun Also Rises", Li Xuejian sighed slightly.

Just then, his phone rang suddenly.

picked up the phone casually, and just after listening to a few words, the expression on Li Xuejian's face changed and changed.

"Director Wu's new movie?"

"The male lead?"

"Act, act!"

Yes, in the case of a small selection range, Wu Yuan's first thought was Li Xuejian, who had worked with him.

Compared with You Benchang, Li Xuejian is more suitable to play this kind of withdrawn and eccentric old man.

You Benchang's appearance is too kind, especially when he is older, he looks like a kind old man, and he doesn't feel withdrawn at all.

Li Xuejian is different, as a man who has played the King of Qin, he can be selected to play Yingzheng because when he is not smiling, he doesn't look ordinary cold.

And if he laughs, he can melt the frost like a spring breeze, and suddenly become a happy old man.

This is undoubtedly very suitable for playing the role of "Li Wen".

The last time he finished working together in "The Undertaker", Wu Yuan jokingly made an appointment with him to cooperate next time, and now he just fulfilled this agreement.

Wu Yuan's invitation was naturally not rejected by Li Xuejian, and Li Xuejian, who had been recuperating at home for a long time, had long wanted to go out of the mountain again.

The two of them decided to cooperate in three times and five divided by two, and around December at the end of the year, on a snowy day in the capital, they started filming "A Man Named Li Wen Decided to Die"!

has finalized the most important actor, and the preparation of "A Man Named Li Wen Decides to Die" can be regarded as complete.

For a literary film like this, it is still very easy to prepare in the early stage.

A few leading actors must find a few powerful actors who are familiar to the audience to match the role, choose a suitable shooting location, and you can start the filming.

Wu Yuan only put a small part of his energy into the preparation of this movie, and easily solved the preliminary preparation problems.

The assistant director and producer of the crew will naturally handle and improve the other details.

And his attention turned to the company's new movie.

On September 12, the first debut film of young director Liu Meichuan, supported by the company, "Don't Knock on the Door", will be fully released in the mainland.

The production of this movie was not easy.

As we all know, the General Administration is very strict in reviewing movies involving the theme of "ghosts".

In the impression of many fans, it seems that they have watched a lot of Chinese horror movies, and they all have ghosts and murderous plots.

But in fact, these impression horror films are all made on Hong Kong Island.

It's just that the pirated discs that flow into the mainland are all Mandarin dubbed versions, to be precise, Taiwanese dubbed versions.

Therefore, some fans who don't know the situation still think that these movies are made in the mainland.

In fact, the General Administration of the mainland is very strict, and the higher the number of years, the stricter the card becomes, and any horror films involving ghosts are not allowed to pass the review at all.

And Liu Meichuan's "Don't Knock on the Door" is a very typical Asian horror film, which combines the characteristics of horror films from Japan and Hong Kong Island.

The whole process is from a thrilling perspective, without any bloody and violent scenes, but it is always startled, and the climax mostly exists in its hallucinations and sudden shots of force majeure, which challenges the nerves of fans.

For example, at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, a knock suddenly sounded on the door in the silent corridor, which made the spirits of the audience and the protagonist tense, and the tension began to rise.

Then the protagonist cautiously approaches the door step by step, lying on the cat's eye and looking out but sees nothing, empty.

Just as the protagonist in the picture and the audience looking at the first perspective are relieved, as soon as the protagonist turns around, a woman with her hair disheveled and unable to see her face stands behind him, only a centimeter away from him.

Then the protagonist and the audience are scared at the same time, and goosebumps can be scared out all over their bodies.

This is the characteristic of Asian horror films, always using the environment, background music, step-by-step action, and sudden thriller shots to render the horror atmosphere.

"Don't Knock" is one such movie, in which the protagonists are a group of recent college graduates who share a dilapidated apartment together for the sake of cheapness.

When they moved into the apartment, all sorts of strange things started happening.

The knock on the door at 12 o'clock every night, the reflection in the mirror, the creaking under the bed, the sound of marbles bouncing upstairs, and the sudden appearance of a white figure in the hallway.

All sorts of weird things that challenge their spirits and torment their brains.

I tried to escape from this apartment, but found that no matter how I escaped, I would always come back here at 12 o'clock in the morning.

It turned out to be a cursed apartment.

Of course, if the movie is really made like this, the General Administration will never pass the review.

No matter how big Wu Yuan's face is, it is useless.

So, at the end of the movie, everything is over, and the protagonist group is all crazy and admitted to a mental hospital.

Then after the inspection and the investigation of the police, the truth was finally revealed, it turned out that it was not a ghost asking for his life, it was the protagonist group who had violently assaulted a female classmate on campus, forcing this female classmate to jump off the building.

His boyfriend has been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge, and finally found a drug that can hallucinate, take it for a long time and cause nerve problems, and has been drugging the protagonist group.

All the strange things they encountered in the apartment were actually caused by ghosts in their hearts, because they were afraid of being asked for their lives every day, but they really fantasized about being asked for their lives by unjust spirits, which eventually led to nervous breakdowns, and they all went crazy.

Yes, everything is scientifically explained, a deliberate revenge, not something like a ghost asking for a life.

made up for such an ending, and the General Administration reluctantly passed the trial.

As for why Wu Yuan insisted on supporting Liu Meichuan when the domestic environment did not advocate making such horror movies, of course, it was because he considered it from a higher angle.

Liu Meichuan does have some talent as a horror film director, and when he was interviewing before, he used a handheld DV to shoot a horror short film, which really scared Wu Yuan.

It's a bit like Wen Ziren's taste when he filmed "Dead Silence".

It's a pity not to train such a talented director.

Wu Yuan's positioning of the Light and Shadow Era has never been a mainland film production company, he is aiming at the entire Asian market.

In the Asian market, in addition to the mainland of China, several other major box offices have a large market for horror films.

Hong Kong and Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and later Thailand, there are a large number of fans who love to watch horror movies.

Even in Japan and Thailand, horror films are one of the pillars of their film industry.

Especially in Thailand, some excellent horror movies in Thailand can be popular throughout Asia.

Of course, Wu Yuan wants to cultivate an excellent mainland horror film director, and go to the ring with these excellent Asian horror film directors to grab food.

This "Don't Knock" is an attempt.

Not only in mainland China, Light and Shadow Times is also actively operating the film to be released on Hong Kong Island, and plans to release DVD tapes in Japan and South Korea.

The real area of horror films is not the cinema, but the DVD market.

It's more exciting to be alone at home on the couch than watching a horror movie with other people in the cinema, at least that's what most horror movie lovers think.

From North America to Japan and South Korea, horror films have always been the best-selling genre films in the DVD rental market.

And most fans are not too picky, horror movies from all over the world are watched, what Korean-style horror films, Japanese-style horror films, Thai-style horror films, and Hong Kong-style horror movies are all favorite of horror movie lovers.

If mainland horror films can do well, they will also have a lot to do in this market!

And Liu Meichuan, who was given high hopes by Wu Yuan, immediately felt an unprecedented sense of pressure after hearing about the release of the Asian DVD of the film that the company operated in power.

Liu Meichuan is very young, only 26 years old this year, and he is a proper cutting-edge young director.

Before he was selected for the Young Director Support Program, his biggest dream in life was just to make a horror film of his own.

Since he was 12 years old, he fell in love with this genre of movies that stimulated people's nerves after watching an American horror movie "The Shining" in a video store, and since then he has been obsessed with horror movies, American, Japanese, Hong Kong Island, he has watched a lot of horror movies, and a thought came to his mind.

He also wants to make horror movies like this!

Then, he worked hard to study, and after two failures, he was finally admitted to Nortel and became Wu Yuan's apprentice.

Later, as soon as I graduated, I met the Youth Film Support Program in the Age of Light and Shadow.

With the mentality of giving it a try, he submitted his resume and rough DV self-photography works to the Light and Shadow Times, as well as the script of "Don't Knock".

Unexpectedly, among nearly 100 competitors, he stood out and was selected.

Now, "Don't Knock" has finished filming, and it will be released nationwide soon, and even overseas DVD distribution will be operated.

All this is like a dream for Liu Meichuan!

On September 12th, sitting in the No. 2 screening hall of the Beijing Light and Shadow Times Cinema, Liu Meichuan still couldn't believe it.

He grabbed the hand of Lei Jiayin, the actor next to him, and muttered, "Big head, I'm not dreaming, right?" ”

Lei Jiayin shook off Liu Meichuan's hand a little helplessly: "Director, you're not dreaming." ”

"But can you stop calling me big-headed?"

"My head is really big!"

(End of chapter)