The taxi driver drove very fast and very steadily. He must have been an experienced driver for many years.
In less than twenty minutes, they arrived at their destination, and Li Qian was now renting a residential complex.
Although I have more than 10 million in hand, I haven’t bought a house yet.
From April to now, in half a year, I have filmed two online movies and one theater movie, and I have never stopped. I am so tired.
If you just buy a house to live in, you might as well rent it first. Anyway, you will have to change it when you have time after the movie is released.
Carefully choose a better house. If you don’t have the energy now, take more rest and play around.
Lead Tong Liya upstairs, take the key to open the door, and enter the house.
Tong Liya has been to Li Qian's place several times, but this is the first time she has come so late.
"Yaya, please sit down first. Lao Qi and Lao Guo have sent me two emails in the mailbox. I will reply to them."
Li Qian smiled, poured a glass of water for Tong Liya, and came to the study.
When I turned on the computer, there were two files lying in the mailbox, which were scripts they had written intermittently over the past few months.
I printed them out and sent a message back, saying I was reading them.
Tong Liya was a little uncomfortable in the car before, but she has been waiting for this day for a long time, and she is even looking forward to it now.
She followed her to the study in a small skip. When she saw Li Qian binding stacks of A4 papers, she came over curiously.
"Li Qian, what is this?"
"The two of them have written a script for a sequel to Jaws and a suspense film."
After binding it, Li Qian put the script on the table.
"Don't you want to read it? Guo Fan seems to have come to you with the script this afternoon, right?" Tong Liya asked.
"Don't look at it, we'll talk about it tomorrow."
"Why don't you want to print it out and bind it now?"
"I'll take it directly to the studio tomorrow and say I've read half of it."
Li Qian smiled, hugged his slim waist, and was about to go out.
What time is it now?
"oops."
He twisted his body and avoided Li Qian's long arm.
I still feel a little scared in my heart.
Grabbed the two scripts.
"This is not good. Brother Kun and Brother Fan have worked hard to write the script. At least you have to take a look at it."
I jogged to the living room, opened the script, and read it seriously.
Li Qian watched her pretending to be there from a distance, peeking over here from time to time, which was a little funny.
"Come, let's read one each."
He sat down next to him and picked up another script from Tong Liya, but there were a few unbound A4 papers underneath, which fell to the ground.
I picked it up and looked at it. It turned out to be a handwritten manuscript that I had put on the table and was brought over with it.
"what is this?"
Tong Liya stopped reading the script and didn't read a single word. She lowered her head and came over to take a look.
Li Qian smiled and said, "I wrote a story a few months ago before writing "Frequency of Life and Death". I wanted to film this story at the time, but I changed it to another one."
"What, can I see it?"
Tong Liya was not interested in what Qi Yukun and Guo Fan wrote, but what Li Qian wrote was different.
"Is there anything I can't read?" Li Qian handed her the manuscript paper.
So, two thick, neatly bound scripts were placed casually on the coffee table.
Tong Liya took the pieces of manuscript paper, leaned into Li Qian's arms, and read them with interest.
Li Qian held her shoulders, flipped her black hair with his hand, and rubbed it gently.
There were not many words in the manuscript, and Tong Liya read it quickly.
"This idea is quite interesting. Take a group of people to a small island in the Pacific, let them fight each other, monitor the whole process, and use it as a gambling flag to let others place bets on the last person alive until there is only one person left alive.
People. And then this person finally fought back and made the big boss behind the scenes a fool, which is very relieved."
"It is difficult to sell domestic action movies, and there are many loopholes in them. Later, when I came up with better ideas, they were useless."
The original version of this movie "Death Row" was not well shot, but the idea was okay.
Li Qian originally wanted to change the male protagonist to a soldier returning home from the army, and the other supporting characters to be Muay Thai masters, karate masters, gang bosses, underground black boxing fighters, foreign mercenaries, etc. with different professions and identities, but they can also fight at all times.
people.
There is a very good idea in it. Whenever it is obvious that the supporting characters cannot beat them, the people behind the scenes will use drones to airdrop some weapons to them, which is equivalent to cheating the supporting characters.
"Actually, it was an idea that was rejected by the Chinese soldiers. At that time, they even thought about the male lead. But later, after thinking about too many loopholes, I forgot about it."
Tong Liya asked curiously, "Who is it?"
"Wu Jing, we don't have many action actors in the mainland anymore."
Li Qian has a movie "Wolf Warrior 2" in his mind. Thinking of that movie, he feels like he wants to put Wu Jing in military uniform.
But after thinking about it, I realized that there were too many changes in this film, and it’s hard to justify it. Moreover, action films require too much action guidance, and there are so many types of Kung Fu characters. Where would Li Qian find them?
"Wu Jing, he has been playing the villain, the killer in "Slaying the Wolf"..."
Li Qian suddenly interrupted her, "It's 12 o'clock."
"What?"
Tong Liya didn't react for a moment, her mouth was blocked.
…
"uh-huh!"
His brows were furrowed, then relaxed after a while.
…
It rained outside the window in the middle of the night, and the sun climbed up the branches again the next day.
The warm sunlight in the morning shines directly into the room and shines on a bunch of sleeping men and women on the bed.
The work and rest habits he has developed over a long period of time allow Li Qian to get ready early.
Gently pulling out the arm that Tong Liya was pillowing on her head, she felt a little numb.
"Um..."
"Did Yaya wake you up?"
Li Qian smiled and brushed the messy long hair on his head, gently stroking his smooth face.
Tong Liya opened her eyes, with a smile on her lips, and looked at Li Qian sweetly.
"What's wrong? Are there flowers on my face?"
Li Qian touched his face a little strangely.
"No, I just want to look at you like this."
"Then take a good look."
Li Qian smiled, tilted his head towards Tong Liya, and held her in his arms with his other hand.
Tong Liya squeezed into Li Qian's arms and suddenly felt something.
His face turned red, but thinking of what happened last night, he huddled in Li Qian's arms as if nothing had happened.
"Don't move your hands!"
"Okay, don't move."
"hand!"
"My hands didn't move."
"Li Qian."
"Um?"
"Will you always like me and be good to me?"
"Yes! Always will!"
"real?"
"real!"
"But if you become a big director in the future, there will definitely be many actresses trying to seduce you."
"I kicked them all away!"
"What about the beautiful one?"
"No matter how beautiful she is, she can't be as beautiful as my Yaya!"
"You will coax me."
"You said before that I was boring and couldn't coax people."
.......
It was a rare free time where she didn't have to work and could sleep until whatever time she wanted, but Tong Liya suddenly became a little sentimental.
After lying in bed for more than two hours, Li Qian got up, went to the supermarket downstairs to buy something, and cooked two bowls of brown sugar, millet, and jujube porridge.
It was almost too cold, so I took it to the bedroom.
"Yaya, let's have breakfast first."
"Blood-tonifying porridge?"
Tong Liya blushed, with a hint of charm in her eyes, and glared at Li Qian angrily.
"Let's have some porridge for dinner first. After lunch, I'll go to a nearby hotel to order a takeaway and eat something good."
After finishing breakfast with a smile, Li Qian stayed at home in the morning. At noon, he ordered a table of takeout at a hotel not far away. After dinner, he asked Tong Liya to rest at home. He took the two scripts and went to the studio.
Guo Fan greeted him from a distance, "Boss, Lao Pan is here with Huang Bo and a director."
"Ok, I know."
Li Qian handed him the script in his hand, "I have carefully read both your and Lao Qi's scripts. They are very well written, but there are still some rhythm problems. If you change them again, if it doesn't work, come and ask me again."
Guo Fan didn't doubt that he was there, and quickly took over the two scripts, "That's okay, I'll change it when I go back."
Arriving at the conference room, Pan Lei, Huang Bo, and Tian Meng, the director of "Stubborn Carrot" were already waiting.
"Old Pan, you have been waiting for a long time."
"Director Li is here, let me introduce him to you."
Pan Lei stood up quickly, "This is Bo Zi, this is Director Tian."
Li Qian nodded, smiled and said hello.
"Brother Bo, Director Tian."
He introduced Li Qian to them again, "This is Director Li, the director of "Frequency of Life and Death" which will be released during the Lunar New Year holiday, and the director of "Jaws"."
Although Li Qian appeared in the news many times in the past few days, it was just a photo at most, and you may not be able to remember it even after looking at it. Huang Bo and the two of them really don't know each other.
However, the two of them were still a little surprised to see that Li Qian was really so young.
This is especially true for director Tian Meng, who is already considered young and has just graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.
But Li Qian is too young. He made his first theatrical movie at this age, and it was released during a popular period like the Lunar New Year, which is enviable.
"Hello, Director Li."
"Everyone, sit down."
Li Qian sat down at the top of the table and said directly without any nonsense, "I heard from Lao Pan that Director Tian is preparing a comedy movie starring Bo Ge?"
Speaking of business, which was also his own worry, Tian Meng said seriously, "It's like this, the script and actors are all ready, we just need the last investment."
He is also a straightforward person. He talked about everything as soon as we met and even handed over the script.
This saves trouble. After Li Qian read the script, he said directly, "Old Pan also told me before. It has Bo Ge starring and it is a comedy. I can handle the remaining 2.5 million."
Tian Meng had a look of surprise on his face. He didn't expect Li Qian to be so direct and just said he would invest 2.5 million.
"Thank you so much, Director Li. Do you have any other requests?"
Tian Meng thought for a while and asked. After all, Li Qian gave 2.5 million so readily. Maybe he had some other requirements.
Bernard invested 2 million and added a heroine Huang Yi. This is also the norm in the industry.
"I don't have any requirements, but have you already chosen Du Jiangtao from Shonan TV as the second male lead?"
"this..."
Tian Meng was hesitant, but he said it bluntly, "Before, when Xiangnan TV wanted to invest, I promised to give them the second male lead, but they later refused to invest. Director Li, as you know, it's hard for me to refuse."
"Signed the contract?" Li Qian asked.
"That's not true."
"That's not a problem. Let's not talk about other things. Director Tian thinks that a person who is not even an actor can play such an important role as the second male lead?"
"But that's Shonan TV Station after all."
“Is Shonan TV more important, or is the quality of the movie more important?”
"If you find a suitable actor, we can sign a contract. Your promise to give this role is based on the investment of Shonan TV. Now that they don't invest, they can't blame you."
On the way to the studio, Li Qian searched for memories of this film in his mind.
Surprisingly, this is a bad movie.
That Du Jiangtao is also extremely inconsistent in the movie.
Although it is a bad movie, bad comedy is the easiest type of bad movie to sell.
But Li Qian still invested. The money was not much, and with Huang Bo in this kind of comedy, at least he would not lose money.
Don't underestimate Huang Bo's current fame. In the circle of movie lovers, it is much better than that of a popular TV star.
That's it for now. When they find a suitable actor, Li Qian will sign a contract and pay for it.
Before leaving, Li Qian shook hands with Huang Bo and said, "Brother Bo, I hope we have the opportunity to cooperate next time."
Huang Bo showed his signature honest smile, "I also look forward to having the opportunity to cooperate with Director Li."
Huang Bo didn't say anything during the whole process, which is still a bit strange to this day.
Yesterday Pan Lei told him that Li Qian was not willing to invest until he starred in the film.
But I took a look at the script today, and I’m going to invest 2.5 million in it. It’s so refreshing.
Is he that famous now?
That's impossible, otherwise why would it be returned by Shonan TV Station? It took several months to raise half of the investment.