Liu Teli asked Lu Yanhe: "How long will it take to shoot this movie?"
"It's probably just the winter vacation time, because we can only shoot during Huang Feng's winter vacation." Lu Yanhe explained, "It may be the same during the Spring Festival this year, we have to keep shooting and can't stop working."
After Lu Yanhe finished speaking, he felt that the possibility of Liu Teli agreeing to shoot this movie was even lower.
Liu Teli nodded and said, "I need to think about this script again, so I can't give you an answer right away."
"Okay, no problem. However, Mr. Liu, please give us a reply as soon as possible, because the shooting time is not far away," said Hu Siwei.
"Okay, I'll give you an answer in the next two days." Liu Teli smiled after saying that, "I'll go and stew the elbow first. It will take a long time. We'll talk later."
Lu Yanhe asked: "Let me help you."
"What's so great about this? It's a very simple job." Liu Teli waved his hand.
Chen Qiang smiled and said, "Don't help him. He won't let anyone interfere from the beginning to the end. Otherwise, if the taste is a little off, it will be your fault."
Liu Teli: "It tasted a little off a few times before, and you messed with it when I wasn't paying attention. I'm not wronging you."
Chen Qiang gently raised her eyelids.
Lu Yanhe and others laughed.
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"I heard that Jiang Yuqian is the preferred female lead for "Doomsday"?"
As soon as Chen Pinhe returned home, Zhang Yuezhen came down from the stairs wearing a soft long skirt.
Her question stunned Chen Pinhe.
"I haven't heard of it. But it's not surprising to find Jiang Yuqian. She is one of the most famous Chinese actresses in the world right now."
"Jiang Yuqian--" Zhang Yuezhen looked a little hesitant, as if she didn't want to see Jiang Yuqian and Chen Pinhe acting in this movie together.
Chen Pinhe: "If Parameter wants to find Jiang Yuqian to act in this movie, it is not something we can control. It is not a domestic film company."
"What if Parameter has a better choice?" Zhang Yuezhen said, "For Parameter, having you as an actor in the Chinese market is enough, isn't it? Why use two Chinese actors?"
Chen Pinhe asked, "Yuezhen, why don't you want Jiang Yuqian to act in this movie? She is well-known and popular around the world because of Squidward. If she participates in this movie, it will also be helpful to this movie."
"Because I don't want you to work with her." Zhang Yuezhen said, "You know, I hate you having intimate scenes with those beautiful female stars."
Chen Pinhe's eyebrows relaxed as if he had breathed a sigh of relief. He smiled, "Are you going to convince Parameter to find an ugly actress to play the role?"
"If it was a foreign actress, you wouldn't have much chance to interact with her, so I would be less jealous." Zhang Yuezhen slightly raised her head and looked at Chen Pinhe, "You promised me that you wouldn't make me jealous."
Chen Pinhe: "Yuezhen, how could there be anything between Jiang Yuqian and me?"
"I don't care." Zhang Yuezhen hugged Chen Pinhe's arm, "Anyway, I will find a way, you have to support me."
Chen Pinhe smiled and said, "I can do both, but we spent a lot of effort to get the movie "Doomsday", so let's not lose the big picture for the small one."
"Of course not. With the relationship between Nicole and I, she will definitely ensure your appearance in 'Doomsday'." Zhang Yuezhen said.
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After Lu Yanhe and his group came out of Liu Teli's house, Chen Yin asked, "Do you think Liu Teli will agree to act in this movie?"
"It's hard to say." Lu Yanhe shook his head. "To be honest, no matter from which aspect, there is no reason for Mr. Liu Teli to take this role. He is not a very prolific actor, and he is not the kind of actor who will take any role as long as it is available."
"Oh, you're right." Chen Yin sighed, "Although Liu Teli and his wife were very enthusiastic just now, it was obviously because of you, not because of the movie."
"If Mr. Liu Teli really doesn't want to act in the film, there's nothing we can do." Lu Yanhe shook his head. "This kind of thing can't be forced. We can only contact other actors."
"In fact, if we follow the direction of Mr. Liu Teli, there are still many actors that we have not contacted before, but perhaps none of them are as suitable as Mr. Liu Teli in all aspects."
Among actors, there are very few middle-aged actors who can gradually gain such audience appeal as Liu Teli does now. Basically, at Liu Teli's age, those who can still have such audience appeal and appeal are either superstars who have been popular all the way and are still popular, or they are middle-aged and have not been popular for long.
After all, the audience's love and attention are limited. There are not that many stars who can really make them like them for that long. Love has a time limit.
Chen Yin said: "If it really doesn't work, there is another idea."
"What idea?" Lu Yanhe asked.
"Try using popular male actors like Liu Zefan and Huang Kairen. Since the characters can be made older or younger, let these popular male actors with good acting skills play this type of role that they have never played before."
"Then the movie might lose a little bit of its innocence, and it would cause people to have a distorted impression of the movie." Lu Yanhe said, "If Liu Teli were to lead one of them, it might be better to make it a combination of the old and the young. If both are popular young actors and the theme is such a family comedy, people's impression of the movie would be a little vague."
"I still hope that the focus of the film will still be on this child. If the audience's attention is diverted by the two stupid thieves, the effect of the film will be discounted."
Lu Yanhe has never been against using stars in a play. On the contrary, he understands the role of stars very well. However, it is absolutely nonsense to say that a movie can achieve good box office results just by using a few famous stars.
You have to use celebrities in the right place to achieve the effect of one plus one being greater than two.
This is a science.
Shen Teng starred in a crime thriller, but the box office was still cut in half (in fact, it still sold over 100 million, which shows that he has enough box office appeal).
Chen Yin himself actually quickly realized how unreliable his previous proposal was. After Lu Yanhe said that, he never mentioned it again.
On the way back, Lu Yanhe kept thinking about who else could play these two stupid thieves and have a good chemistry with them.
I've been thinking about it so much that my scalp is about to break.
"In fact... it's quite interesting to see Li Zhibai play a bluffing, stupid thief." Chen Yin suddenly said, "The kind of person who looks smart but is actually stupid... It's a contrast to his image, but it doesn't make people feel distorted."
In everyone's mind, Li Zhibai is actually a very reckless and trouble-making person. He is not that smart and is not an elite.
Lu Yanhe thought, that’s true.
However, if Li Zhibai plays one of the stupid thieves, unless Liu Teli plays the other, no one else can suppress Li Zhibai. A senior actor who does not have the corresponding fame and status cannot "lead" Li Zhibai in the movie. This is the same as no actress can be pursued by Lu Yanhe as an "ordinary male high school student" in "Those Years".
After all, the key to the two stupid thieves in this movie lies in the "leading" thief. Once the actor for this thief is chosen, the other one can be any one. It can be a simple-minded one, an impulsive one, or a less normal one. At this time, Chen Ziyan sent him a message: Have the actors for the two stupid thieves in "Home Alone" been decided? Many people are contacting me and sending me resumes.
Lu Yanhe told her about the situation here.
Chen Ziyan: It’s such a headache.
Lu Yanhe: Well, when I first started writing the script, I thought it would be fine no matter which actor played the role, and I thought the script didn’t matter to the actor. As it turns out, I was naive.
Chen Ziyan: If it really doesn’t work, you can go and play one of the stupid thieves, and find another actor to be a middle-aged actor who has worked with you before and played your elder. That’s also fine. With you in the cast, the main cast is enough.
Lu Yanhe: I...I have to perform on the Spring Festival Gala and film "Friends", so how can I also film this movie?
Chen Ziyan: If you are really needed to shoot, the time can still be coordinated. The two days you filmed "Friends" can be used to shoot the scenes with the Wasp and another stupid thief. There are many solo scenes in your script, and not so many scenes with the same actor. As for the Spring Festival Gala, we only need to attend three rehearsals. Fortunately, your status has risen, and you are also old actors of the Spring Festival Gala, so you don't need to attend every rehearsal.
Lu Yanhe: What you said makes me... eager to do something.
Chen Ziyan: The subject of "Home Alone" actually has the potential to be a global box office hit. If you act in the film, it will also help the film's sales overseas.
Lu Yanhe: But can I perform that kind of effect?
Chen Ziyan: Just relax. For the subject of Home Alone, as long as you put aside your airs as an actor and act with a playful attitude, you will definitely be able to act well. This movie is all about cheerfulness and exaggeration.
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From the beginning, Lu Yanhe never thought that he could play the role in "Home Alone".
First, the main character of this movie is Wasp, and second, he himself has a preconceived notion that these two stupid thieves are middle-aged people.
It was after he set his sights on Liu Teli that he suddenly discovered that the age setting of the stupid thief could actually be modified.
Because age is not the main setting for these two stupid thieves, the main setting is their personality traits.
If he were to play the role, he definitely wouldn't be able to play the silly one.
The audience has no sense of involvement.
A young talent who got into Zhenhua University with just his college entrance examination scores and has become a leading figure in Chinese film and television over the years, is playing a fool?
But if he plays the role of the "leader", the other "commanded person" certainly cannot be an actor older than him. In the cultural atmosphere of "respecting the elderly and loving the young" in Chinese society, if you want to make the audience laugh easily and without burden, you must reduce these innate moral burdens.
So how do we match them?
A young man who is born with a brain defect?
A pair of brain-dead brothers?
Various thoughts kept popping up in Lu Yanhe's mind.
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"Cai Na?" Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Qingzhen in surprise. "She received an audition invitation for 'Doomsday'?"
"Yes." Lu Qingzhen nodded, "Didn't you tell me that the leading actor of this movie was originally going to be played by Yan He?"
"Yes, it was later changed to Chen Pinhe." Chen Ziyan said, "Cai Na...does she have an agent in Hollywood?"
"No." Lu Qingzhen shook her head. "It was her agency in Thailand that received an audition invitation from Parameter. As far as I know, Parameter has sent audition invitations to several famous actresses in Asia, including Jiang Yuqian."
Chen Ziyan looked puzzled.
"Didn't they look for Chen Bige?"
"As far as I know, no," Lu Qingzhen said, "It's possible that they did."
Chen Ziyan immediately called Chen Bige to confirm the news with her.
Chen Bi Ge said: "I think they asked me about it. My agent in the US discussed it with me and turned it down for me. It was just a minor female lead role with very few scenes, and there were some intimate scenes, which I didn't want to act in."
"I think so. This movie has invited several Asian actresses to audition. Logically, you should be their first choice," said Chen Ziyan.
Chen Bige must be the most famous Chinese actress internationally.
Especially in the field of film.
Even though Jiang Yuqian became very popular internationally with "Squid Game", in the eyes of the film company, if they really had to choose one of them to star in their movie, if all other aspects were the same, it would definitely be Chen Bige.
Chen Bige said: "Since the release of The Mist, starring Yan He, I have indeed received more Hollywood scripts, but the quality is not very good. They all want to take advantage of the topic of Asians to cater to the so-called diverse cast."
"You really don't need to act in these ordinary movies anymore."
"My agent in the United States is negotiating a movie for me, a spy film. If it goes well, I will probably act in it next year," Chen Bige said. "She also thinks this movie has great potential, so she doesn't recommend me to act in Doomsday."
"I haven't read the script of Doomsday yet. Did they find you and show you the script?"
"They sent it to me for review." Chen Bige said, "It was really tough. They only gave me 24 hours, and someone was specially supervising me to make sure the script didn't leave her sight. It was actually a very ordinary commercial film script with science fiction and disaster labels, and it still had those old routines."
"Hollywood blockbusters always use the same formula," Chen Ziyan said. "I pretty much know what it is."
This film is definitely a big opportunity for Jiang Yuqian and Cai Na, a big opportunity that can help them to rise to the top.
Chen Ziyan was a little hesitant about whether to help Cai Na compete for the role.
She hesitated. First, Cai Na's overseas agency contract was not in her hands, so she had no obligation to do this. Second, one of the leading actors in this movie was Chen Pinhe. Emotionally, Chen Ziyan didn't want to have anything to do with Chen Pinhe.
Linghe and Shihuo should keep as much distance as possible from Chen Pinhe.
But to be honest, if Shihuo can help Cai Na compete for this movie, then for Shihuo, it means that the subsequent cooperative relationship with Cai Na can be further deepened.
Chen Ziyan will not just focus on the small piece of land in front of her just because she has signed Cai Na's agency in China.
Chen Ziyan thought about it for a long time and decided to have a good talk with Lu Yanhe about this matter.
She and Lu Yanhe still need to reach an agreement on the matter with Chen Pinhe.
So, Chen Ziyan made an appointment with Lu Yanhe to meet at his house in an hour and hurried downstairs.
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Recommended old book on entertainment: "I Became the Scandal Heroine Overnight" (End of this chapter)
