"According to the current first draft of the script, the protagonist is the younger brother of a policeman. He is a young, persistent and passionate young man, about 20 years old. It is a bit inappropriate for me to play him. There is no problem in letting A Hong play his girlfriend, but there are not many roles.
"
Ren Kuanmei felt a little regretful that these important roles were not very suitable for him.
Sun Dahai rolled his eyes, yes!
"Uncle Wei, you forgot an important role."
"Oh? Which character?"
"That's the villain. Uncle Wei, don't you want to play the villain? In classic movies, when the villain is well played, he is also very brilliant."
"Yes, Dahai. When you said that, I realized that I had gone into a misunderstanding. Yes, this villain is also very unique and worthy of my acting."
"Uncle Wei, if you decide, take Director Wu to set up a future investment company, and we will sign an agreement first. The rights to adapt and remake will be retained by Director Wu within three years, but he must continue to revise the script.
The future investment company has at least 40% of the investment rights. The roles of you, Fa Ge and Hong Gu must also be signed in the agreement. There is also the candidate for the police brother. I recommend Leslie Cheung. Although he is only older than you and Fa Ge
He is one year younger, but he has a tender face, so he has no problem playing the 20-year-old policeman's younger brother.
Moreover, he is a singer, has many fans, and is popular. He has not acted in many movies, so he is considered a quasi-newcomer, and his salary will not be too high.
You should contact Leslie Cheung and the others first, and if successful, you can sign a contract first. This way you can ask Director Wu to tailor-make these roles."
"Okay, I'll go take care of these things tomorrow. I'll contact you if I have any news."
"By the way, Uncle Wei, where does the manager of Slow Shake Bar who helped you recruit, Williams, usually work?"
"He usually works with the development company Sheng Zhiwen. Now the exterior decoration of the buildings is almost completed. While he is supervising, he is studying the interior decoration plan with the designer. Do you have anything to do with him?"
"Old William has hired a deputy, and I am going to arrange to be the manager of my aunt's coffee shop in Shanghai. Please ask Williams to help me take care of her when she has time."
"No problem, I'll just tell him."
…
Old William interacted with Sun Dahai for a few days, and then he started eating haise all over the capital. He looked like a pure foreigner. Fortunately, Sun Dahai arranged for Battelle to accompany him all the time. Otherwise, he wouldn't even know where to go to eat.
.Ordinary hotels cannot collect foreign exchange or foreign exchange coupons.
A week later, old William left with an embarrassment.
A few days later, Ren Kuanxi called: "Dahai, I have done everything you said. Fa Zai, A Hong and Leslie Cheung have all agreed to participate."
"Great! In this case, you go to Uncle Xiaoyong, tell him the situation, ask him to make a contract, and sign one with Director Wu. This is what I said on the last phone call.
In addition, each of you main actors must sign one. The movie will start shooting within three years, and you will be notified half a year in advance, and you will adjust the schedule yourself."
"Do we also need to sign a contract first?"
"Yes, you leading actors will also sign together. In this way, we have prepared most of the crew. In the future, we will cooperate with the film company and ask them to fill in other positions. Also, you
How much is your film salary? How much is Fa Ge’s?"
"In the movies I made before, the roles were not too important, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
Most of the films that Fat Jai has participated in are starring roles, but he is a contracted actor with TVB and his salary is very low, probably several hundred thousand.
Ah Hong is a newcomer, having just debuted last year. Leslie Cheung has not played any important roles in movies, and their salaries are not high."
"Is it so low? Let's do this. The remuneration will be HK$1 million for Brother Fa, HK$500,000 for you, HK$250,000 for Hong Gu and Leslie Cheung. When the contract is signed, 20% will be paid in advance."
…
Two days later.
"Hello, Dahai. I'm Chow Yun-fat."
"Brother Fa? Hello, hello. I didn't expect you to call me?"
"It's like this. Now Ahong, Leslie (Leslie's English name), I, and I are all in your company. We came to sign the contract today, but after reading the contract, some of us felt that something was wrong, so we wanted to go with Please discuss it and see if you can modify it."
"Ah?" Sun Dahai was stunned. Are they dissatisfied with the contract?
"Brother Fa, we can discuss what you think is wrong."
Without Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung, can "A Better Tomorrow" still become a classic? Sun Dahai seriously doubted it.
"Last time at Director Long's practice banquet, we talked about this movie. Knowing that you wanted to invest in it, Ahong and I wanted to make guest appearances to help you save some money. Brother Hua didn't show up a few days ago either. Let’s talk about remuneration.
I didn’t expect that when I came to sign the contract today, I saw that the salary you set for us was too high. Not only was it not a guest appearance, it was also higher than our normal salary for filming. This is not acceptable."
When Chow Yun-fat said that the salary was high, Sun Dahai's heart suddenly fell to the ground.
"Brother Fa, how much do you get paid when you are the protagonist in a movie?"
"Three to five hundred thousand, maybe. Sometimes the production fee is not enough, so you can't get this much money."
"No way. I have always felt that TVB invested 3 to 4 million in making a movie, but why should I give you 1.8 million?"
"It's not that much. Wireless claims that the production cost is three to four million, but half of the actual investment is considered too much. How can my salary be so high?
Besides, I am a contracted actor of TVB, so I can have a good role in TVB dramas. But TVB has so many contracted actors, and no one has ever been able to get a high salary."
I didn't expect that Fa Ge would be paid such a low salary, which was far beyond Sun Dahai's expectations.
Did he remember it wrong? Sun Dahai carefully recalled the memory of his previous life: It seems that in 1992, an authoritative magazine announced that Fa Ge's salary at that time was four million, and then it skyrocketed.
Because it was only then that he completed his long-term contract with TVB and ended his contract of prostitution. At the same time, the salary of Big Brother, Zhou Xingxing and others was much higher than that of Fat Brother, and even his younger brother Liu Handsome was better than him. many.
As for Hong Gu, she had already quit the film industry and was living at home to raise her husband and children. She really didn't catch up with the good times and made so many classic movies, but she didn't earn much money.
In the 1980s, the salary of actresses in Hong Kong hardly amounted to millions. As the most popular female movie star in Hong Kong, Zhong Chuhong's salary in the late 1980s was only 700,000 to 800,000 yuan.
In the 1990s, the salaries of female movie stars began to rise, but Zhong Chuhong had already stopped acting.
Thinking of this, Sun Dahai understood why Fa Ge and the others thought the salary was high. However, based on the classic level of "A Better Tomorrow" and the final box office revenue, Sun Dahai still felt that the salary they paid was a bit low.
They were all stars that Sun Dahai liked very much in his previous life, and they were both talented and talented. Sun Dahai was not a stingy person, so he still felt that he could not treat them badly.