On the night when Cheng Yu'an returned to the capital, friends in Beijing held a banquet to welcome him.

Except for Qin Hailu, who was filming in Hong Kong Island and couldn't come, all the good friends who we had fun with came.

It sounds like Cheng Yu'an has friends all over the world, but in fact, there are only 10 people in the house.

"Sister Xun, congratulations on being shortlisted for Venice!" Cheng Yu'an joked about Mr. Zhou as soon as he met him.

"If Love" is the closing film of this year's Venice Film Festival.

Mr. Zhou rolled his eyes: "I haven't nominated you, so what's the point of congratulations?"

"We can just say this in private, don't say it outside." Yuan Quan pulled her aside.

"Brother Yu, is "Waiting Alone" about to be released?" Cheng Yu'an asked Xia Yu.

"Yes, it will start on September 8th." Xia Yu replied while eating.

"I saw that movie at the movie studio, and it was quite good. If I don't keep it together, I can win two awards," Cheng Yu'an said.

"It doesn't matter if you get an award or not, I liked the film and it was fun to act in."

"Of course you don't care. You've got the Venice Best Actor, you've got the Golden Horse Best Actor, and you've got the Golden Rooster Best Actor. What else do you want!" Mr. Zhou stabbed at the side.

"I still need a golden actor." Xia Yu said with a smile.

Yuan Quan punched him at the side: "It's fun for you to tease her, right?"

"Hey, sister, what is Huang Bo doing now when we had dinner at your house last time?" Cheng Yu'an asked Mr. Zhou.

"I don't know. I haven't seen him for a long time. I heard he is still working on the set. What, you have a drama with him?" Mr. Zhou asked.

"I don't have a movie to shoot. It's Ning Hao's movie. He created a comedy and it will start filming in two months. I'm looking for an actor for him now. I think Huang Bo is quite suitable."

"Okay, I'll give you his phone number later. Will you still go to the theater this year?" Mr. Zhou asked.

Cheng Yu'an shook his head: "No more filming. I'm too tired from "Clues of Time and Space". I need to take a break."

"Hey, tell us," Xia Yu moved her butt over, "Who is the mastermind behind this? Don't say there isn't one."

Cheng Yu'an looked around and found that everyone was looking at him with curious eyes. Even Yuan Quan, who had always been dignified, also looked curious.

"Really want to know?"

"Uh huh huh!"

Cheng Yu'an licked his chopsticks and said with a smile: "The mastermind behind the scenes is..."

Everyone got closer.

"It can't be said, it can't be said." Cheng Yu'an shook his head and pretended to be deep.

"Tch! It's really boring."

"I really can't say. I was shocked when I first learned about it. I didn't expect it was him, but there was a ventilator above and I was told to keep this in my stomach."

Yes, Cheng Yuan was interviewed by the leaders of the General Administration and asked to take care of cross-strait relations and not to make this matter too big.

After dinner, Cheng Yu'an went home to rest. In the following time, Cheng Yu'an devoted himself to the post-production of "Clues of Time and Space" and tried his best to catch up with the Lunar New Year schedule.

On the other side, Ning Hao approached Cheng Lingfeng and put forward his own ideas:

"Mr. Cheng, please see if this script of mine can participate in the 'Rising Star Director Program'?"

Cheng Lingfeng read the script: "The name "Big Diamond" doesn't sound good, how about we change it?"

"Change it to what?"

"How about "Crazy Diamond"?" Cheng Lingfeng explained to Ning Hao, "Look, whether it's Brother Dao's gang of thieves, the real estate developer Feng Dong, plus the security guard Keke Elder Bao and the international thief Mike, they

All the crazy behavior revolves around this diamond."

Ning Hao thought for a while and said: "How about calling it "Crazy Stone". I changed the diamond to emerald."

"This name is more ironic, so let's use this one." Cheng Lingfeng immediately decided, "Don't participate in the 'Rising Star Director Program'. This movie doesn't cost much, and the company made it for you. Is 5 million enough for you?"

"It doesn't have to be so much, just 4 million." Ning Hao roughly calculated the balance before coming.

"Four million is just 4 million." Cheng Lingfeng didn't intend to settle the score with Ning Hao, "Yu'an has already found actors for you. You finalize the script first, and I'll set up a crew for you. Shooting will start in two months, right?

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"No problem." Ning Hao said.

Ning Hao has been imagining the story of "Crazy Stone" for a long time. The specific script has been revised in countless drafts from the beginning of the year to now.

Cheng Lingfeng gave him two more months, which was plenty of time.

After Ning Hao left, Cheng Lingfeng took out another script outline from the cabinet. When she was in Hong Kong Island, Cheng Yu'an gave her two scripts, one of which was "The Old Man", which had already been completed in Hong Kong Island. The one she had in hand was originally planned.

It was placed on Hong Kong Island, but after the eavesdropping incident, the aunt and nephew had such a bad impression of Hong Kong Island that they gave up the idea of ​​filming on Hong Kong Island.

"sunflower".

It tells the story of a small club leader who reformed after being released from prison.

Cheng Yuan does not plan to direct this script himself, but wants to find a new director to participate in the "Asian Rising Star Director Project".

"Who are you looking for?" Cheng Lingfeng asked.

Cheng Yuan searched for directors he knew in his mind:

"I have a senior fellow who is level 95. I don't have much contact with him, but I know him well. I asked him if he had time and if he was looking for someone else without me," Cheng Yu'an said.

At level 95, Lu Chuan is the most prominent one, and the rest are some who stay in school to teach, and some who have quit the industry and don’t know where to hang out. The better ones can make some movies.

Cheng Er is one of those people who doesn't know where to hang out.

After graduating in 1999, I made a short film and started traveling to foreign film festivals. Six years later, I still only have that graduation short film.

The graduation short film "Criminal" stayed with him for four full years, and Cheng Er even took this film to film festivals in 2003.

Cheng Yu'an walked around the college to find him. Cheng Er described him as thin and sallow, and those who didn't know thought he had some disease, but only those who knew him knew that he was like this.

Cheng Er rented a house with three bedrooms and one living room, where he ate, drank, slept and worked.

It's not so dirty that you can't walk around, but it's messy enough that you can't even look at it.

"I said you shouldn't be so poor," Cheng Yu'an said as he entered the door.

Cheng Er has been able to take his short films to film festivals for the past four years, so he is definitely rich.

But just lazy.

Cheng Er raised his head and glanced at the door, but didn't recognize Cheng Yu'an for a moment. After all, the two of them were just acquaintances in school and had a friendship over two meals.

"Who are you?"

"Me! Cheng Yu'an! The youngest one at level 98."

Cheng Er thought for a while and remembered that there was such a junior brother: "Oh, it's you. I haven't congratulated you for winning the Best Director in Venice!"

Cheng Er stood up from behind the table, asked Cheng Yu'an to sit down, and then offered him some water.

"Does Director Cheng come to see me for anything?" Cheng Er asked.

"Senior brother, do you have any new movies to film recently?"

Cheng Er shook his head: "I have some ideas, but I don't have a clue yet."

"No rush," Cheng Yu'an knew that Cheng Er was not a prolific director, "I have a script here. I wonder if you are interested."

"I don't shoot plays written by others." Before Cheng Yu'an could say anything, Cheng Er refused directly.

"You take a look first." Cheng Yu'an said and handed the script outline of "Sunflower" to Cheng Er.
Chapter completed!