After Deng Zhuo received the script, he first asked the legal department to apply for the copyright, and then gave it to his wife Yang Li.
Although Yang Li had heard from her husband about Zhou Yan's style of thinking of one thing at a time, she still felt a little incredible after experiencing it herself: How many people were standing behind this guy?
Although Deng Zhuo had already said that Zhou Yan would bear the cost of the filming himself and could spend it as he pleased, Yang Li still did not dare to take it lightly and contacted a classmate in the circle, the well-known producer Li Menghuai.
As soon as they met, Yang Li handed over the script.
"This is……"
Li Menghuai suppressed his inner confusion and opened the script...
At the beginning, the script created a contradiction: the contradiction between demolition and being demolished. Then the plot turned around and suddenly returned to the hot-blooded era.
However, what surprised Li Menghuai was that the protagonist seemed to be a Taoist priest, with a deceitful mouth and a body of kung fu that he claimed was "for self-defense."
But even such a character has changed after hitting the tide of the times...
"Don't only follow the Tao, don't be afraid of the Tao!"
After roughly browsing the script, Li Menghuai gently put it back on the table and looked at Yang Li with a smile: "Old classmate, this book is not bad. As long as the director is good, he should be able to produce a good book!"
"Look at this again..." Yang Li smiled and handed over the shooting request.
In order to complete the task given by the system to promote Taoist culture, Zhou Yan had to block certain scenes in the script that related to Taoist culture.
Li Menghuai had no choice but to pick up the request and read it carefully: "These should not be very demanding. After the Olympics, works about promoting traditional culture have received a high response rate, not to mention that this script also involves the mysterious Taoism..."
After saying that, Li Menghuai smiled slightly: "Old classmate, are you planning to sell the script?"
"No..." Yang Li looked at Li Menghuai with a smile, "If you are asked to be the producer, are you confident that you can make the film well?"
Before Li Menghuai could speak, Yang Li added more: "The script was provided by Jishi, and the investor is Xinghan Holdings. There is no upper limit on investment..."
Li Menghuai was impressed: Investors with deep pockets can't be found everywhere; the most important thing is that the script is a bit closer to the main theme, which can somewhat catch up with the popularity of the 60th National Day.
Li Menghuai originally thought that if he had money and a good book, he would be able to find a big director, but after asking around, he found out: Guo Shi was filming "Three Guns", and Chen Kaige was a guest star in the main theme crew. Among the three giants in the mainland,
The other one, Feng Gang, is not suitable for works of this style...
This put Li Menghuai in a difficult position, until he woke up the dreamer with a word from his subordinate: "You can go to Xiangjiang to find Ba Ye and give it a try!"
Under the instigation of all his subordinates, Li Menghuai took the notebook and flew to Xiangjiang...
After reading the script and the shooting requirements, Ba Ye was a little surprised: "The boss who invested in the script is a Taoist believer?"
"Not necessarily," Li Menghuai smiled and shook his head, "I think there is a sentence in the script that says it better, not only the Tao, but not afraid of the Tao. It has been said in the Tao Te Ching that Tao can be Tao, but it is not Tao.
The name can be very famous. Tao is just a kind of belief, or pursuit..."
Li Menghuai knew that there were Taoists in Ba Ye's family, so he had made full preparations before coming to Xiangjiang.
Ba Ye nodded with satisfaction and sighed deeply: "This is the attitude that a person who seeks the truth should have. By the way, this script is..."
"Ji Shi provided it," Li Menghuai smiled. "The animated version of "Yue Nv Sword" released last year was his work."
Ba Ye's eyes lit up: "Many people in the circle want to cooperate with Ji Shi, but I didn't expect that I would become the first one?"
"And..." Li Menghuai said with a hint of confusion in his tone, "The investor is Xinghan Holdings."
"The one who won the first place in disaster relief donations twice?"
"Yes," Li Menghuai nodded, "Old man, the investors have said that you can pay whatever you want and choose the actors you want..."
"The remuneration is casual?" Master Ba was a little surprised, "But the requirements of this script are really too low..."
Li Menghuai sweated: "Ordinary directors should not dare to take on such a job. At the very least, the actor's temperament must be upright and gentle, which ordinary directors cannot train..."
"That's right..." Mr. Ba felt comfortable being flattered by Li Menghuai, "The requirements for actors are also relatively high. Do you have a suitable candidate?"
Casting?
The issue of casting has always been a battleground between the producer and the director. Li Menghuai also fought with the director over the issue of the third and fourth leading actors. But now the investor behind it is Xing Han, and Li Menghuai dare not take over the big pot by himself.
: "Baye, the male lead, it's up to you to decide!"
Ghost spirit!
Mr. Ba smiled, thought for a moment, took out a large book covered with small labels from the drawer, flipped through a few pages, and found the page with only the previous content: "Fu Zhenyun, from the past two years.
The Golden Rooster Best Actor, his acting skills are top-notch, and his costume style should be good."
Li Menghuai nodded: "What about the second male lead?"
"Just Zhang Zhixiao!"
The two of them smiled knowingly: Fu Zhenyun's appearance is still a little worse than that of other male leads in other movies, and he needs to make up for it. The costumed male god Zhang Zhixiao is the best choice, and he can also hold the persona of a technology tycoon and business elite.
After discussing the actors, Ba Ye made a request to Li Menghuai that surprised him: to find a Taoist to train the leading actor in Taoist knowledge.
After listening to the request, Li Menghuai felt that Master Ba was serious, so he had to transfer the question to Yang Li, and Yang Li asked the question to Zhou Yan...
"Is the Eighth Master really the Eighth Master? This question is easy to answer..."
Zhou Yan turned on his computer, found a large compressed package and a text document of only a dozen K, and sent it to Yang Li.
After Yang Li received the document, she immediately called Zhou Yan: "Mr. Shi, it's just that you sent a lot of books about fortune telling, all of which were annotated, but the document you sent alone was only a dozen K
, it has several meanings, and it’s so mysterious that I can’t understand it at all…”
"Aren't you looking for someone to be responsible for training?" Zhou Yan smiled, "This "Zhixuan Chapter" is a lost secret book of the Wudang lineage. As long as I take it out and ask them to send someone to give guidance to the actors, it still doesn't work.
questionable……"
“Shouldn’t the Tai Chi sword manual be lost in Wudang?”
Zhou Yan covered his forehead: "Sister, you have been poisoned by Jin Yong..."
"Okay, please don't lie to me..."
After hanging up the phone, Yang Li still decided to be a little unbelievable. After thinking for a moment, she called the newly recruited female secretary over: "Xiao Qi, find someone who can copy ancient books..."
Halfway through, Yang Li suddenly waved to the secretary who was walking this way: "Forget it, I'll handle it myself!"
With that said, Yang Li picked up the phone and called Zhou Yan again: "Mr. Shi, don't bother me with anything. I heard our old Deng say that your calligraphy is good, so please give me a copy of "Zhi Xuan"
"Chapter"?"
Zhou Yan was speechless. After struggling for a while, he nodded: "Okay!"
Zhou Yan is very familiar with the "Zhixuan Pian" written by his "master" Chen Tuan. He has copied the tutorial thousands of times and can almost memorize it.
Originally, "Zhixuan Chapter" was supposed to be the secret book of the Yinxian lineage. Unfortunately, after Zhou Yan's "senior brother" Huolong Zhenren passed it to Zhang Sanfeng, it was passed down one generation and was lost...