Chapter 589: Sensation in the entertainment industry
I plan to make this film as a series of films that will never be finished in one film. The first film will feature 36 main characters, including 12 first-class stars and 18 first-class actors."
There are millions of words in "Swordsman in the Snow", and it is simply unrealistic to condense them all into a two-hour movie. Fang Jing planned to arrange it into a series like Hollywood Marvel.
If the first part is a hit, then make the second and third part. If the first part fails, then let it go and forget about it. This whole scene can be considered as an explanation for the war.
"The male lead in your script is Xu Fengnian!"
"Bang!" As soon as Fang Jing finished speaking, Hu Ge slapped the table and said, "Done!"
Eighteen national first-class actors and twelve first-class stars are supporting him, including a movie king and a movie king. This kind of scene probably only happens once in a lifetime, and it makes me excited just thinking about it.
"Don't get excited yet." Fang Jing smiled awkwardly, "Well, with such a large cast, I'm a bit nervous about the pay. Is your... right..."
"The salary can be reduced." Hu Ge picked up the script without raising his head.
He has long wanted to get into movies, but he has never been able to find a good team. This time he can find a film in Nanjing, and it doesn't matter if he lowers his salary.
Fang Jing and Hu Ge talked about the salary for a while, and finally settled on a very low price.
Filming in the snow is not difficult, nor is it difficult to find actors. What is difficult is the remuneration of the actors. With so many stars starring, if based on the market price, one billion is only enough for the film salary. If you want to start filming, you have to add another 500 million...
This is why Fang Jing had to visit Hu Ge personally to talk to him. Not only Hu Ge, he also had to visit other actors one by one.
Xiaozhi uses emotion, moves with reason, plays the emotional card, and asks everyone to lower the salary.
"If you set your salary so low, will it affect Sugar Man?" Fang Jing looked at Hu Ge worriedly.
Sugar Man has a boss, while Hu Ge is just an artist under its banner. Logically speaking, the company has the final say when it comes to remuneration and other matters, and the artists themselves cannot make the decision.
If Fang Jing didn't come to Hu Ge directly, but to Tangren Film and Television, it would definitely not be that easy to talk to there, and it wouldn't be surprising if he asked for 50 to 60 million.
"It's okay. I will go to Sister Cai and tell her that I can make the final decision on the remuneration. You can rest assured to find other actors and make preliminary preparations."
Fang Jing was dubious, "Can you really make the decision?"
"Yes!" Hu Ge answered resolutely.
In the past, he was not qualified to talk to the company's top management, but it is different today. Almost all the people who made Fairy Sword popular signed contracts with Sugar Man, and they have been successful since then.
The most difficult times for Sugar Man were all carried out by him alone. Not only did he find the show himself, he also connected some of the resources to the company.
Later, whether Sugarman was grateful or tied up, he was given a portion of Sugarman shares, so he was one of the shareholders of Sugarman.
This is also the reason why he has not been filming in these years and has not forced him. He has set his own salary and other things, and the company basically doesn't care about him.
"Happy cooperation!" Fang Jing stood up and extended his hand.
Hu Ge smiled and shook hands tightly, "Happy cooperation!"
With this handshake, Fang Jing suddenly saved more than 20 million, and the favor was considered owed.
In the evening, Fang Jing came out of Hu Ge's restaurant wearing a cap, a mask and a backpack. At the door, Hu Ge saw him off.
"Crack!"
Not far away, a paparazzi took a picture of this scene, and then drove up to follow Fang Jing.
The paparazzi had been following Fang Jing from about nine o'clock until midnight. He became more and more excited as he took photos, and his hand that pressed the shutter button was shaking.
Tang Yan, Liu Sisi, Zhao Liying, Yang Mi, Liu Tao, Jiang Xin, Zhang Xinyu... Fang Jing saw many female stars. He entered the box and came out after an average of thirty minutes. He didn't know what to do.
If these photos were posted tomorrow, they would definitely occupy the first place in the headlines.
Of course, the artists Fang Jingjian saw were not just female, but also many male stars.
"Hey! Boss." It wasn't until Fang Jing came home that the paparazzi lit a cigarette with trembling hands and called the leader.
"Damn it, you still called me at what time, if there wasn't big news, I would have chopped you alive."
The voice on the phone was so irritable and angry that no one could bear to be woken up by a phone call in the middle of the night.
"Boss, does Fang Jing's popularity as a nightclub actress count as big news?"
"Huh?" The person on the phone became more energetic and asked excitedly: "In a hotel or in an outdoor car? How much time? Have you taken a clear picture of your face?"
"Um, I'm not in the hotel or in the car. The place is a restaurant." The paparazzi wiped away a cold sweat. It's their professional habit. These are the things they like to take pictures of most, so it's not surprising that the leader asked.
"Restaurant? You're talking about a restaurant! What can you do in a big crowd?"
"No, boss, Fang Jing made appointments with about ten people overnight, all alone, for twenty minutes or half an hour. These people are Yang..."
"You can go away, I'm going to fuck you. Gods don't last that long. Are you telling me whether I believe it or not?"
"Boss, that's not what you meant, I saw Fang Jing's zipper..."
"Go away! You don't have to go to work tomorrow! I'm so fooled."
"Hey, hey!"
The explanation was not clear, and the leader did not listen to the whole story. The paparazzi sent these pictures separately, and the phone rang a few minutes later.
"Fuck you!"
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The next day, Fang Jing ranked first in the trending search, with the topic "Super A-list male artists ask for scripts late at night, and there are many female stars at night parties."
The title was changed after someone clarified it. Before, it only had the second half.
The clarifiers, Yang Mi, Tang Yan and others, were on the hot search list before dawn, and were bombarded with nervous phone calls from their managers. After some understanding, they found out what was going on.
The Paparazzi Studio received more than 20 warning letters early in the morning and was forced to change the title under pressure.
"We are discussing the script."
Tang Yan was the first female artist to come out to clarify. At that time, her Weibo was full of blessings, congratulations, official announcements and the like, which made people dumbfounded.
Later, more and more artists involved posted clarifications on Weibo, including Hu Ge and others who also posted a few pages of the script, and the casting of Swordsman in the Snow broke out.
There were tens of millions of discussions in one day, and Fang Jing’s Weibo almost exploded.
Seven days later, Fang Jing released the news about the casting of "Swordsman in the Snow" and posted the list of actors who have been confirmed so far. Many movie kings, movie queens, and TV drama kings will star in the roles, as well as many first-line stars and more than a dozen national first-class actors.
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Weibo exploded and was paralyzed for a while that night.
The movie "Knives in the Snow" became a hit even before filming started. A lot of agencies called Nanjing, hoping that their own artists could participate in the filming in the snow, even for free.
"Fuck you!"
Yanjing, Yan Yalun has just returned from his hometown in Wan Province. When he opened Weibo, he saw all the news about the fierce sword in the snow.
"Are all movie casts so awesome these days? It can easily cost one billion. No, I have to call Fang Jing to ask about my role."
It is nothing new for dozens of stars to appear in the same movie. Lao Guo's 19th Generation Ancestor and Dapeng Pancake Man both have all-star casts.
But their investment is not at the same level as Fang Jing’s investment, and a budget of tens of millions still smells like bad plastic movies no matter how you look at it.
A billion in the snow! What is this concept? There have been only a handful of such big productions in the Chinese film industry for decades.