Su Mingze went to the Demon Shadow Building with the script he had written. He had already discussed this matter with Lao Wang's classmates yesterday.
"Su Mingze?" A young man wearing half-sleeves walked straight towards Su Mingze in the hall.
"Who are you?" Su Mingze looked at the person in front of him with some confusion.
The young man extended his hand to Su Mingze and introduced himself: "Zhu Yajun, Director Li asked me to come and take you up. He is waiting for you in the office."
"Thank you." After saying this, Su Mingzhe followed Zhu Yajun, who seemed to be Director Li's secretary, upstairs.
When Su Mingze met this old friend of Lao Wang, Director Song, his attitude towards Su Mingze was quite good.
It seems that he and Lao Wang are indeed true friends...
After the simple courtesy, Su Mingze quietly waited for the other party to read his plan and script.
"Night of the Living Dead?"
"Hey! This investment is not small!" Director Li received a call from Lao Wang yesterday and thought it was just a low-cost comedy with a few million yuan. But now looking at the estimated total investment in the planning book, it is more than he thought.
Much.
But when he saw the actors he wanted to invite for the subsequent roles, he immediately understood why the budget was so high.
There are two main roles in this movie. One is the male lead Liu Shengwu who wants to invite Deng Chaolai to star.
You must know that the current Deng Dynasty does not talk about TV dramas. Since he moved to the film industry in 2006, he first participated in Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly", and later filmed Xu Ke's "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven, Chinese Partners, and Four Famous Shops."
In particular, Mermaid directed by Xing Ye, which was released in the first half of this year, directly broke the box office record of Chinese-language movies in the mainland.
Although he was rumored to have only received a salary of five million when he was filming The Mermaid, it was a movie by Star Lord, and many people paid their own way to star in it.
Su Mingze, a new director, does not have this kind of treatment. He may have to rely on Deng Chao's current reputation to promote the movie in the early stage.
In this case, Deng Chao's current salary seems to be at least 15 million, not to mention the heroine Gao Yuanyuan and other supporting actors.
"You invested in this movie alone?" Director Li looked at Su Mingze with some doubts.
"Yes, is there any problem with this?" It's not that Su Mingze doesn't know how to share the benefits with everyone, but that novice directors like him usually have to beg investors to invest.
Even if he wants to share some of his profits with others, he still has to see if others are willing to accept it.
"No problem." Director Li chuckled a few times and continued to read the script.
After simply reading the entire script, Director Li had to admit that this script was qualified as a low-cost comedy. He couldn't help but laugh out loud after reading some of the plots.
"I heard from your teacher that your graduation short film just won the Short Film Award at the Venice Film Festival?" Director Li closed the script and looked at Su Mingze and asked.
"Yes."
Director Li tapped his fingers rhythmically on the script. The script was qualified, the actors were qualified (if they could be invited), and the director was barely qualified (after all, it was just a comedy, and the requirements for the director himself were relatively low).
If you calculate it this way, this movie already has a certain foundation for success.
"We, Monster Films, can distribute this movie." After careful consideration, Director Li made the final decision.
Of course, the main reason why he agreed was that the film only needed Moying to be responsible for the distribution, and even if it lost money by then, it wouldn't be much money.
If he can succeed, it will be because he has a vision and knows how to find talents.
"I may still need your help with something." Su Mingze said after officially finalizing the movie.
"Say." For Lao Wang's sake, Director Li will still help as much as he can.
"I hope Moying can come forward to invite Deng Chao and Gao Yuanyuan." Otherwise, he was worried that if he submitted the script himself, their studio would not send it to Deng Chao himself.
"No problem." Director Li agreed directly. He just wanted to borrow Moying's name. It's no big deal.
Deng Chao Studio.
"Have you had any good books handed over recently?" Since the release of Mermaid in the first half of the year and the popular variety show Running Brothers, he can be said to be very proud now.
However, there are only so many good projects every year, and demand is always in short supply. He will still take time to take a look at the scripts that have been sent to him.
Agent Zhang Meng handed several printed scripts to Deng Chao: "These are the ones that have been screened. Take a look for yourself first."
"Hmm..." Deng Chao took the script and read it carefully. He had just finished filming Psychological Crime: City Lights and was currently in a vacuum. If he had a good script, he would naturally not give up.
After a while.
Deng Chao picked up one of the scripts, looked at Zhang Meng and asked, "What's going on with this script?"
Zhang Meng came over to take a look and replied: "Ah... you are talking about this! This is sent by someone from Moying. I think the script is well written. Is there any problem?"
"The script is very good, but why haven't I heard of this director?" Deng Chao asked, pointing to the director's name on the script.
"I know a little bit about this." Zhang Meng had already learned about these projects in advance so that he could have something to say when Deng Chao asked.
"This director graduated from Beijing Film Academy's directing department. This is his debut film, and his graduation short film just won the Short Film Award at the Venice Film Festival." Zhang Meng said everything he knew in one breath.
"This is his award-winning short film." As he spoke, Zhang Meng also played the award-winning short film, which Moying sent along with the script.
"You click on it and let me take a look." After hearing what Zhang Meng said, Deng Chao became quite interested.
Listening to the experience of the student next door, he suddenly remembered a person who had a similar experience, who also became famous through a comedy movie.
"Isn't this Xiao Yang from Chopstick Brothers?" Deng Chao recognized the person inside at the beginning of the film.
The short film lasted less than three minutes in total, and Deng Chao finished it quickly.
"Tsk tsk..." Deng Chao said with some emotion: "It is indeed an award-winning film at the Venice Film Festival. It seems that Director Su still has two skills."
After sighing with emotion, Deng Chao told Zhang Meng: "Go and contact Tianqi Film and Television above and tell me that I will accept this movie."
"Okay."
At the same time.
Xiao Yang, who was in Kyoto, also received the script and invitation from Su Mingze. Gao Yuanyuan and Liu Mintao, who played the role of Ming Jing, the eldest sister of the Ming family in The Pretender, also received the script.
After they received the script, they had to say that the title of Demon Shadow was still useful, and they all expressed their willingness to star in this movie.