Wang Jing has been very annoyed recently.

Thinking of the middle of the year, "Happy Ghost", which cost only 2 million yuan, made a big hit with a box office of 21.2 million yuan every four weeks. It ranked third in the annual box office in Hong Kong, second only to "Plan a" and "Fast Food Truck". It is so glorious.

Because of "Happy Ghost", he became a famous commercial director among Hong Kong directors. Although he is still unable to compare with directors such as Xu Ke and Ann Hui, he is already among the top five commercial directors.

Wang Jing, who has achieved success, naturally received a large number of invitations to film films.

Time and Space Film Studio does not have regulations on signing directors. As long as the studio's filming plan is not delayed, you can go out to take on work.

So Wang Jing did not stop shooting six movies in "Happy Ghost". Until December, he made one movie in less than a month in terms of time.

Unfortunately, joy leads to sorrow. There is no good script, and every movie is launched in a hurry. Although Wang Jing did his best to shoot it, it was difficult for a good cook to cook without rice.

Two of these six movies were not even qualified to be released at all, so they were shot to the distribution company. Although the remaining four movies were barely painted, they came and went in a hurry. After three days of release, they were driven down after receiving more than 100,000 yuan in box office.

Even if these movies are not expensive, most of them are just over hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the loss is a loss.

Originally, no matter how skilled his directorial skills were, it was impossible for a director to have a high box office every movie he directed.

Wang Jing thought so at first, so when the first six movies were released, the box office was only 300,000 yuan and then the painting was in disgrace. Although he was a little worried, he always felt that it was accidental. As long as he worked hard, the next movie would get better.

But unexpectedly, one crab is worse than one crab. He took on a lot of movies, which not only made him physically and mentally exhausted, but also made him famous with "Happy Ghost" because of these six movies. Thinking about it, it is really not worth the money.

Directors are different from other film industries. Generally speaking, they are high-investment and high-risk industries, and they will lose money if you are not careful. As a director, you have a bad reputation. No one dares to invest in movies for you to shoot. After all, others are not fools. Even though you know that you are a bad movie director, you will automatically come to your door.

Now, film production companies in Hong Kong, including Taiwan, frown when they mention Wang Jing's name.

Some newspapers even started from the perspective of "the bolder people are and the greater the land is", mocking Wang Jing for "the bolder people are, how crazy they can be when they make movies", and gave him the nickname "King of bad movie directors".

He failed to steal a chicken and lost a handful of rice. He got the nickname of "King of bad movie directors". Wang Jing regretted it. For a while, he didn't even dare to leave the door, for fear of being seen when he went out, so he mentioned those six movies. He claimed to be thinking about his mistakes at home, which made his father Wang Tianlin almost suffered a stroke.

After another half a month, the wind finally passed, and he barely cheered up amid Wang Tianlin's scolding and returned to the Time and Space Film Studio.

Calling Lin Jing, even though he was extremely thick-skinned, he was blushing with shame. After all, after filming "Happy Ghost", Lin Jing said that he hoped that he would cherish his reputation and not make movies for the sake of filming, which would ruin his reputation.

Now he finally realized why it is difficult to establish a reputation, but it is very easy to fall down.

After the phone passed, Lin Jing returned to the movie studio.

"I want to continue making movies? Not that I can't." She knew Wang Jing's purpose was clear.

"I promise to use the most effort to spend the most effort to carefully craft it..." As soon as he heard that there seemed to be hope, Wang Jing quickly patted his chest to make a promise, and sweared to the fullest.

Wang Jing has talent, especially in comedy movies, so Lin Jing doesn't want to see him sinking and burying him like this.

"This is the script outline of a series of movies." Lin Jing took out a folder. This was written to relax while she was learning to write books.

She didn't know when even writing scripts became an activity to regulate her life.

"Zombie Taoist Master?" Wang Jing said in confusion. Judging from the words, he immediately recalled a fantasy film "Man Scared" released in December last year, and the recently filmed "Man Scared Ghosts".

"People Scary" and "People Scary" are both produced by the Hong family, and the box office of "People Scary" is both good.

"Well, it's a series of phantom movies." Lin Jing nodded and said.

"Series, wouldn't that mean?" Wang Jing was happy. He didn't expect that the dark clouds would be so hard that the moon would bloom. The company did not give up on itself, but instead wanted to use it.

"Yes, I'm going to make it into a series, and I'll shoot it every year, two years or several years."

Lin Jing remembers reading a very good infinity novel. The author creatively combined multiple zombie films to create a relatively plump but unique zombie era in the Republic of China.

This zombie era in the Republic of China had a grand background and wonderful content.

Lin Jing planned to adapt a series of movie scripts based on this volume of this novel, rather than a simple "Mr. Zombie" or "Uncle Zombie". After all, there are many things that can be written in the theme of zombie phantom spirit in the Republic of China.

Of course, some people may think that this can easily lead to follow-up and shoot this subject badly. If you shoot a series, you may not have anything to shoot afterwards.

Just like some people believe that Hong Kong movies decline largely because Hong Kong movies like to follow the trend and plagiarize.

Once a subject becomes popular, it will rush up until it is broken.

For example, "Mr. Zombie" came out, which caused a sensation in Hong Kong, which triggered a craze for zombie films. However, more than 10 follow-up works appeared in just one year.

Lin Jing feels that following the trend is inevitable, unless you stop taking pictures. Since you cannot avoid following the trend, you cannot stop taking pictures because you are afraid of following the trend, just like people cannot give up because of choking.

In fact, it is normal for the film industry to follow the trend, and it is impossible to avoid even in Hollywood. The benefits are touching. There is no reason why I can't drink soup after eating meat.

But why is there hundreds of follow-up works in zombie movies? But only "Mr. Zombie" is considered to be the pinnacle of the work and a classic?

One of the reasons is of course because "Mr. Zombie" is the "founder", but Lin Jing believes that the most important thing is that "Mr. Zombie" is very attentive in the production.

"Mr. Zombie" took more than four months to shoot the filming time, and in terms of cost, it increased from 4.5 million to the last 8.5 million.

It should be noted that "Mr. Zombie" does not have any big-name actors. Most of the funds are used for filming movies. 8.5 million, which seems to be a medium investment in numbers. But in fact, compared with those big-investment movies, it is not much inferior in filming funds.

With the efficiency of making movies in Hong Kong, you can make a movie in one month or even a movie in more than ten days. Among those followers, which film production company, which director will spend so much time and so much investment to make a "simple" comedy action movie?

In fact, after the filming of this movie was completed, even the bosses He Guanchang and Hong Xinbao were not confident in the movie, and they even expected that the movie would be sold at most 6 million, and they were ready to lose 2 million!

Director Liu Guanwei was even more afraid of thinking that his directorial career would end there.

But the facts did not develop as they expected. Instead, they responded to the saying that planting melons makes melons and getting beans, and high investment achieved a great harvest.

Therefore, excellence is the real reason why "Mr. Zombie" stands out and becomes a classic and is known as the "King of Supernatural".

Now, let Lin Jing’s film company produce this series of movies. She has a stable source of funds and is not afraid of losing money. Secondly, she has countless supernatural materials in her head, so she doesn’t have to worry about having nothing to shoot, so she is not afraid of following the trend.

As long as you shoot it carefully, it will definitely become a classic series of movies.

In this way, the Time and Space Film Studio has two series of movies: "Happy Ghost" and "Zombie Taoist Master".

And even if you think about it for a long time, "The Zombie Taoist" has been filmed for several films, and Lin Jing is confident that she will change it and move to a new fantasy series of movies, such as "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

Of course, with current computer technology, it is impossible to shoot "Ghost Blows Out the Light" in its original flavor. But what does it matter? It will take a long time to wait until "Ghost Blows Out the Light" comes out.

"I've left the outline to you. You can take it back and discuss it with your colleagues in the screenwriter's department and write it out."

The screenwriter department of the Time and Space Film Studio has taken shape. Because Lin Jing’s emphasis on screenwriters has only been over a year, she has become the largest and most screenwriters among Hong Kong film production companies. Moreover, among the screenwriters, there are many experts like Liu Zhenwei. Even Wang Jing himself is a screenwriter and has great experience in designing "scenes".

Lin Jing believes that with his own script outline and final inspection, with the abilities of Wang Jing, Liu Zhenwei and others, they should be able to write creative good scripts.

Wang Jing's directorial ability is enough to use it to film "Zombie Taoist Master". After all, "Zombie Taoist Master" does not have big scenes and does not have any complicated directorial skills. In fact, after filming "Happy Ghost", he made so many bad movies, but he did not gain anything. At least he had a lot of experience in the director, but he finally had some benefits.

"This is no problem." Wang Jing was immediately overjoyed, and saw that he was too young to see his eyes, and answered with all his mouth, "I must try to make the script in the shortest time."

Unexpectedly, Wang Jing was happy to see the Lie. After being so happy, he suddenly revealed his true colors. Lin Jing raised his eyebrows and said, "What is the shortest time?"

"I will definitely try to write the best script." Noting Lin Jing's expression, Wang Jing immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, and sweated heavily in his heart, and quickly remedy it.

"I have to remember that you don't make shoddy things. I'd rather be slower than be more precise. I don't want to see a vulgar movie at that time."

"Sure, certain!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!