Putting down the script, Li Binbin accepted that the "Savage Girlfriend" mentioned by Jiang Yan was not the real Sassy Girl, but the movie "My Sassy Girl".
The story of "My Sassy Girl" actually started in 1998.
As early as 1998, when Xingchenhai was established, Jiang Yan made a plan for IP collection.
From that time on, Gu Hanqing’s main task was to collect copyrights from all over the world.
"Wind and Cloud", "Sacred Tree", "Bright Sword", "Love Across Time and Space", "Eternal Dragon Sword", "Fairy Sword", etc. are all Gu Hanqing's achievements.
In addition to domestic ones, Neon's "Initial D", "Hot Blood High School", etc. are also achievements.
"My Sassy Girl" by Gao Li is also one of them.
The original "My Sassy Girl" started in July 2001 and set off a savage storm in Asia. The film crew made a lot of money and the two protagonists became the top stars in South Korea and even Asia.
Jiang Yan would naturally be attracted to such a hot IP.
After "My Sassy Girl", various "savage" movie series emerged one after another, and this storm also gave South Korea a wave of publicity.
Therefore, for Jiang Yan, the collection of foreign copyrights is, on the one hand, a strategic reserve for Xingchenhai, and on the other hand, it actually means suppressing the spread of other countries' cultures.
Of course, it may be too much to suppress, but the meaning of making money, opening up the international market, and converting IP along the way to promote oneself is definitely.
After the matter is settled, the next step is how to obtain the copyright.
"My Sassy Girl" is not like "Infernal Affairs". "Infernal Affairs" does not have a novel, and in 1998, it was still three or four years before Liu Weiqiang came up with the script of "Infernal Affairs", so it was almost not difficult to compile it at that time.
Although the original novel of "Sassy Girlfriend" had not been released in 1998, it was not far from the time it was serialized. The original author, Jin Ho-sik, started serializing it in August 1999, so how to stop it from the source was Jiang Yan at that time.
to be done.
Jiang Yan's method is also very simple, that is to find the original author Jin Haozhi in advance and ask him to help write it. This is considered the best way.
Of course, Jiang Yan has already made preparations. It would be best if he succeeds. If he doesn't succeed, just wait until the novel comes out before buying it. If it doesn't work even if he spends a lot of money to buy it, then he will reject it. At worst, the movie will not be released. Anyway, his main task at that time is
I feel the progress and have no requirements on the quality of the movie.
But maybe it’s because I really didn’t have high hopes that the subsequent development would be so smooth.
Jiang Yan spent 100,000 to hire a South Korean private detective. It took them a month to find Kim Ho-sik, and then Jiang Yan and him spent three months in contact via email. Finally, Jin Ho-sik agreed to help the Chinese tycoon write a story about him and his South Korean woman.
A friend's love biography, the reason is that he feels Jiang Yan's love is very similar to his own. Of course, the huge remuneration must be the deciding factor.
By mid-1999, the adapted version of "My Sassy Girl" was written. Seeing that things were going so smoothly, Jiang Yan directly promised Kim Ho-sik that if the novel was adapted into a movie, he would be given a share.
Therefore, Jin Haozhi has been in contact with Jiang Yan via email from time to time in the past two years, asking when this work will be published and when it will be turned into a movie. He and his girlfriend have been looking forward to it for a long time.
A few days ago, Jiang Yan told him that the film was about to start. He invited Jiang Yan to be the protagonist. If the heroine was a South Korean star, he would soon be confirmed. Once confirmed, he would be invited to the scene to participate in the work.
This made Jin Haozhi so excited that he couldn't sleep for several days. After all, he was also a fan of Jiang Yan and a basketball fan.
Everything is going well up to this point.
Jiang Yan successfully obtained the copyright and protected the original author, which is considered very conscientious.
The adapted story has not lost its core, but has made some Chinese changes in some details. For example, the male protagonist became a Chinese student studying in Korea, and for example, the tree where the Time Egg was buried, Jiang Yan was replaced by a domestic university student.
A tree in the northwest afforestation project.
Song Mingxi brought Petunia to the northwest, and the journey was dusty and exhausting, just to bury a time egg.
From a love point of view, because no one knows whether the tree can survive, it fits Song Mingxi's "two-year agreement".
On the other hand, we can also popularize the knowledge about afforestation projects.
Everything is ready, just waiting for Wang Jin to get the relevant cooperation units in South Korea, and then waiting for the heroine and director to be in place.
In June of this year, before Jiang Yan's concert in South Korea, the cooperative company was finally finalized, followed by the heroine and director.
But it was also at this time that problems began to arise.
First of all, there is a schedule conflict with the original version of Guo Jae-yong. This is not a big problem. The director is very important. Jiang Yan can just change the schedule.
However, the schedule has not yet been negotiated, and there is another problem with the heroine's schedule.
This is still no problem, Jiang Yan is the boss, and the heroine Jun Ji-hyun is not particularly famous yet, so just let her follow Jiang Yan.
But this time, the selection of the hostess was leaked in the South Korean industry, so other companies in South Korea stopped working.
Everyone thought it was a big star collaborating with Kang Yeon, but it turned out to be Jun Ji Hyun, who just debuted?
You know, Jiang Yan's "My Sassy Girl" can be regarded as a reformed Chinese-South Korean co-production film. At this time in 2001, China and South Korea had not yet reached an agreement on co-production films. It would take 14 years for one to come, and Jiang Yan
Now co-productions can still enjoy the treatment of domestic films in China. This is a great preference for Jiang Yan from above. At the same time, they can also enjoy green channels in Hong Kong and even have a certain market in Hollywood. Therefore, South Korean companies also have a certain market for Jiang Yan.
Naturally, we attach great importance to this project. To put it simply, this is a road to the sky. Whoever climbs it can go straight to the sky with the east wind of the "Son of the Wind".
Therefore, the jackpot was given to a small role, which was naturally inappropriate in the eyes of the South Korean company. Therefore, Jiang Yan immediately received many female lead recommendations from chaebols, and the most powerful one was Song Hye Kyo.
Jiang Yan naturally refused. He didn't like Song Hye Kyo. Even if he liked Song Hye Kyo, he wouldn't accept it because Jun Ji Hyun was irreplaceable, so he wanted Jun Ji Hyun.
This seemed to offend the girl named Song.
Then immediately, some not-so-good voices appeared on the South Korean Internet.
“South Korean girls are not wild!”
An apparently rhythmic post appeared on a South Korean social networking site.
It revealed the name of the first movie that Kang Yeon collaborated with South Korea. The plot was not mentioned because currently not even the director, Jun Ji-hyun, knows about it. Only Kang Yeon himself and Kim Ho-sik know.
Then it also said that the heroine of the movie Jiang Yan must be a South Korean actress, and she must also act in a savage style.
This immediately aroused the national sentiment of many netizens in South Korea, and because "My Sassy Girl" was not popular on the South Korean Internet in this time and space, the rhythm was easily picked up.
Many people are asking, so in Jiang Yan's impression, South Korean girls are savage?
As a result, "My Sassy Girl" encountered a small-scale boycott.
But this actually won't cause much harm to the project. Just explain it.
But at the same time, Jun Ji-hyun's boss seemed to have been threatened, or he himself had changed his mind, and informed Wang Jin yesterday that he wanted to quit.
Wang Jin knew that Quan Zhixian was appointed by Jiang Yan, so if there was a problem, he would have to negotiate with the other party. So after spending a day, the man named Zheng finally said that he could continue to cooperate, but he would have to increase the money and treatment.
Then Wang Jin relayed this to Jiang Yan just now when he called Jiang Yan. When Jiang Yan heard this, he said, good guy, you need a bodyguard for travel again, working hours must be limited, and there are also requirements for meals, food, accommodation and so on. He is about to catch up with the stars.
The first sister was Li Binbin. Not only that, he also smelled a strong smell of discrimination.
So Jiang Yan's temper suddenly became violent.
Jiang Yan instantly became crow-ridden and overturned the table.
Since cooperation is so difficult, then we won’t cooperate!
Others think that Jiang Yan wants to make co-productions because he values the South Korean market.
This is indeed one of the reasons, because in 2001, the film market in South Korea was more than five times that of the domestic one, with a box office scale of 5 to 6 billion yuan a year, and the total domestic box office last year did not exceed 1 billion, so South Korea is also
In the past, Hong Kong films and now Hollywood films were important box offices in Asia.
Now that the mainland market has not yet taken off and the Xiangjiang market has begun to slump, it is logical for Jiang Yan to develop South Korea, Korea and Hollywood.
But for Jiang Yan, if he didn't feel that Jun Ji-hyun was really difficult to replace, he would definitely make this film a purely domestic film.
He didn't want to have much to do with South Korea. People of this era may not understand this kind of mentality, but it was different for Jiang Yan, who was disgusted by South Korea's many operations later.
To put it bluntly, Jiang Yan's willingness to cooperate with South Korea is actually very weak, so it would be fine if everything goes well with this film, but it always encounters problems. This is Jiang Yan's red line.
So even if the current problem can actually be solved with hard work, Jiang Yan is not going to do it anymore and he won't tolerate them!
Jun Ji-hyun can't come, so let's replace him!
If it's not as good as the original version, then it can't be compared. To put it bluntly, even if he ruined the movie, he wouldn't be willing to continue talking to South Korea.
Not only that, he will continue to dig.
In a few years, won't "Dae Jang Geum" be a super storm? Then he'll dig it too!
The movie "Dae Jang Geum" has made so many people yearn for South Korea. Korean medicine and acupuncture are really just invented in South Korea. Jiang Yan has long been unhappy.
Not only that, although this will not actually stop South Korea’s creative team from blocking some of South Korea’s most popular works in the future, Jiang Yan still decided to do so, and this will also become one of Stars and Sea’s tasks!
After hearing about the many problems encountered by "My Sassy Girl" and looking at the angry Jiang Yan, Li Binbin didn't know what to say for a moment.
Because really speaking, she is the one who should be angry. Who asked Jiang Yan to tease her with the term "sassy girlfriend"?
And it sounds like he is just a substitute for the man named Jun Ji-hyun, and no one will be happy about this.
But it was Jiang Yan who said this, and as the first sister of Xingchen and Hai, Li Binbin thought that sooner or later she would become Jiang Yan's woman, but she calmed down at this time.
So she continued to pick up the picture of the heroine, looked at it up and down several times, and then asked: "So, is this girl named Jun Ji-hyun really that important to the movie?"
When Jiang Yan heard this, he felt regretful again.
If an actor like Jun Ji-hyun can be called a national treasure in South Korea, it is because of her unique qualities.
Take the role of the savage girlfriend Song Myung-hee as an example. Jiang Yan looked around and at this stage, he really couldn’t find anyone who could surpass Jun Ji-hyun. Let alone surpassing him, even getting close would be difficult.
If you really want to say it, maybe Zhang Baizhi who is now at his peak acting period counts as one, and the young version of Wang Zuxian also counts as one.
But the limitations of the two are too great. One is something she doesn't want to get involved with, and the other is past the peak of her acting potential.
And if you really need to find someone to replace you, your own actors will definitely be the first choice. After all, the good news will not go to outsiders.
Then if we choose again, Chen Hao is very suitable, Li Binbin is also very suitable, Zhou Zhi would also be suitable if her acting skills were better, but if you really want to say it, it is almost the same with anyone, and none of them can surpass Jun Ji-hyun anyway.
So Li Binbin, the first sister, became the first choice. Who made her the first sister?
And if you think about it carefully, Li Binbin is actually pretty much capable of portraying Song Mingxi as half girlish and half tomboyish. The simple "test scene" just now proved this.
In fact, if we want to talk about Li Binbin's acting skills, maybe it can be summed up in one sentence: he is changeable in the early stage, single in the later stage, he has more than enough hard work, but his talent is insufficient.
Li Binbin of Time and Space is not very prolific, but the quality and exposure are pretty good in both early TV series and later movies, and she can be considered a national actress.
In fact, the characters in Li Binbin's early TV series were really changeable and lovable.
The innocent Ying Ziyan in "Little Clueless", the chivalrous Ling Chuchu in "Young Man Bao Qingtian", the cold and handsome Qin Sirong in "Young Zhang Sanfeng", Xiao Ye in "A World Without Thieves", "Hui Niang"
Wan Xin, who is constantly striving for self-improvement in "Wan Xin"...
Each of these vivid characters proves that Li Binbin is very malleable.
It is precisely because of this ability that Li Binbin began to shift the focus of his work to movies. Unfortunately, because most of the themes in movies are more serious than those in TV series, and because of Li Binbin's plastic surgery, Li Binbin's acting skills began to become one-dimensional.
It is no longer possible to see a clever and cunning character, replaced by the usual poker face.
Like Li Ningyu in "The Wind", the white-haired witch in "Kung Fu King", Shangguan Jing'er in "Di Renjie: The Empire of Heaven", and Lily in "Snowflakes and the Secret Fan", these are Li Binbin's most well-known works.
In the film, she always looks bitter and resentful, even when she is a guest star in a Hollywood blockbuster.
Of course, having a poker face does not mean that her acting skills are not good. She has also won many awards for these roles.
But I have to say that the movies she chose really limited her acting options.
Her later performances were too mediocre and lacked aura. You can see in her works that she acted very seriously. This attitude is very worthy of recognition. However, compared with the International Chapter and Zhou Gongzi of the same period, she seemed to lack stamina.
This is the limitation that talent brings to her. She has done well, but the distance is the best, and there is a gap that cannot be crossed, so this may also be the reason why Li Binbin was under so much mental pressure in the later period.
Having said that, Jiang Yan asked Li Binbin to star in "Savage Girl". On the one hand, he wanted to keep the money from outsiders, and on the other hand, he also wanted Li Binbin to have more possibilities in the film industry. This is why Jiang Yan cast "The Disciple"
"One of the reasons why "Shaolin Football" was recommended to her.
So when faced with Li Binbin's question, Jiang Yan answered frankly: "This may be hard for you to accept, but I don't want to lie to you. She is indeed very important. It can even be said that I only got this inspiration after seeing her.
But it’s meaningless to say this now. Now this role is yours, but no one knows whether you are suitable or not until you have played it. I think you can still do it.”
Li Binbin smiled and asked, "Because I am the first sister?"
"Yes, you are the first sister, you have the right to know this." Jiang Yan nodded.
"Then if I am the first sister, do I have the right to interfere in company affairs?" Li Binbin asked again.
"You can give your opinion." Jiang Yan's original plan was that the equity structure of Stars and Seas would be changed in the second half of the year to allow the backbones to truly participate, but it has not changed yet, so now only Jiang Yan has the final say in the entire Stars and Seas, but after answering, he
I also asked, "What, do you have any ideas?"
"Heitan, you have been very good to me in the past few years, the kind that no one else can envy, so logically speaking, I shouldn't ask for more from you, but this time, I want to make a request to you.
"Li Binbin looked at Jiang Yan and said seriously.
After Jiang Yan heard this, he looked into her eyes and couldn't help but stare: "Say."
Li Binbin replied: "I want to have a fair audition with her."
"...Is this what you want?"
"right."
"...I have decided not to cooperate with South Korea."
"But now everyone knows that you want to cooperate with South Korea. Now that the matter has not reached its most serious point, you say you will not cooperate. How can you explain it to the public?"
"I have my own way."
"Hei Tan, don't make decisions when you're angry."
"Li Binbin, are you out of your mind? I said that if this movie becomes a hit, the heroine will skyrocket. You are a sister. Which sister in the world would talk about meaningless fairness like you do?"
"Ayan, I just want you to make the best movie possible."
When Jiang Yan heard this, he felt helpless.
He knew that under the influence of gaze, this was Li Binbin's truest thought, but Li Binbin was also affected by the emotional line. Whether this true thought was her own was a matter of two minds, but in the final analysis, the system had rule attributes, so this
It can indeed be regarded as Li Binbin's own idea, and such an idea sounds really stupid, but it does prove how much Li Binbin values Xingchenhai and Jiang Yan, so for a while, Jiang Yan was moved a little.
Seeing Jiang Yan's silence, Li Binbin stood up and came to Jiang Yan, hugged Jiang Yan tenderly, put his face against his chest, then stroked Jiang Yan's face and said: "A Yan, I am the first sister of Xingchenhai.
, the stars and the sea are also my home, no one doesn’t want bad things at home, besides, it’s not certain who will win and who will lose.”
Jiang Yan sighed: "You will regret it, do you know?"
"Then will you make it up to me?"
"You are the first sister, do you think I will compensate you?"
"Then I want it now." Li Binbin said and put his face in front of Jiang Yan, and the distance was less than one centimeter.
Jiang Yan was still stubborn: "What do you want?"
"Heitan, if you keep pretending to be dead, I'm going to force you."
"So, you not only want to be the first sister of Xingchenhai, but also the first sister of my family?"
"Why, no?"
"Of course not!" Jiang Yan refused directly, but just when Li Binbin's eyes lost their luster, Jiang Yan said again, "Because you are already the sixth child!"
"What the sixth child...ah~ Heitan, you are too fancy..."