Chapter 282
[My eyes still feel uncomfortable, I didn’t make up for it, I will make up for it tomorrow]
After leaving Ge You's house, Xu Kun took gifts and went to Feng Xiaogang's house to apologize that night.
Regardless of whether it was because he had been "educated by the Party for many years" or because he had been worshipping soldiers since childhood, his previous attitude was indeed problematic.
Now that I have decided to perform, I must make up for my previous mistakes.
Feng Xiaogang was originally very dissatisfied with his attitude during the day, but considering that Xu Kun is now a big director with a box office of over 100 million yuan, it is normal for him to have his own opinions. It is commendable that he can be so humble.
In addition, Feng Xiaogang was very satisfied with the verbal sparring between Xu Kun and Chen Hong on Yahoo Star Search a while ago.
So he just brushed the matter aside and even invited Xu Kun to his home for a few drinks.
During the dinner, Feng Xiaogang talked about the selection of several main actors. Since they had already chosen Xu Kun, the first of the new generation, as the male lead, Feng Xiaogang and the two Wangs wanted to make full use of the gimmick of the new generation taking the leading role.
The initial plan is to have Huang Xiaoming play the second male lead, artillery company commander Zhao Erdou; Chen Kun play the new instructor Wang Jincun; Wang Baoqiang play the sniper Jiang Maocai; and Zhang Hanyu play the first row officer Jiao Dapeng.
For other soldiers with more roles, we try to find young and famous actors to play guest roles.
If the original version had been followed and Zhang Hanyu had played the leading male role, he would not have been able to suppress Chen Kun alone, and Huang Xiaoming was even more of a tough guy.
But now that Xu Kun is the protagonist, the situation is completely different. Although Xu Kun's greatest achievement is in directing, in the industry famous directors have always been superior to celebrities.
As Xu is the fifth director to earn over 100 million yuan, Chen Kun and Huang Xiaoming have to keep their opinions to themselves.
Another purpose of choosing the new generation to take the lead is to take the opportunity to bring these two top new generation stars under Huayi.
Huang Xiaoming has basically reached an agreement on the matter, and Chen Kun has also wavered.
"When the time comes, you three leading actors will all be given the gimmick of performing for free - don't worry, the money will be made up from the signing fee. The so-called zero pay is just a gimmick to fool the media reporters and those guest actors."
Is this what later generations call a Yin-Yang contract?
I don’t think so, after all, the signing fee is also subject to tax.
Because the movie is still in the early stages of planning and will most likely not start shooting until the end of the year, so this is all we can talk about for now.
Seeing that Feng Xiaogang's work had come to an end, Xu Kun quickly took advantage of the opportunity to talk about his recent desire to practice with TV series, and added: "Although Lost on Journey sold well, we encountered many problems during the filming, so I want to practice with TV series first."
After listening to this, Feng Xiaogang did not find it strange. Apart from anything else, the fact that "Lost on Journey" was seriously overspent in cost was enough to show that Xu Kun still had many shortcomings.
However, Feng Xiaogang still shook his head and said: "After all, TV series and movies are not the same thing. You can make TV series, but it's better to try two low-budget movies."
"This……"
The inventory in Xu Kun's mind are basically classics, but either they cannot be filmed with current technical means, such as "The Wandering Earth"; or they always feel a bit wasted after being filmed, such as the other two "囧" series, "Charlotte's Troubles" and "The Richest Man in Xihong City".
These works would have grossed tens of billions or hundreds of millions in the future, but now the upper limit is only 200 to 300 million - with "Lost on Journey" in hand, Xu Kun will have a certain bargaining power with theaters in the future, so the upper limit can only reach 200 to 300 million.
He really couldn't bear to use these to practice.
Seeing that Xu Kun seemed to be stumped, Feng Xiaogang, although not sure what he was thinking, still gave him a clear solution: "Speaking of practice works - was the letter-reading variety show you created taken away by CCTV?"
"Have you heard about this?"
"It's CCTV, not surprising."
Feng Xiaogang crossed his legs, looking very wise, and he was just short of holding a small fan: "As the saying goes, a blessing in disguise. Don't worry about CCTV's greed. Give them more suggestions for the second season. After you have done enough favors in front of CCTV, ask them to help find out about the TV movie series on the movie channel..."
"A TV movie series?"
Xu Kun asked in surprise: "What is that?"
“In short, it is a low-budget movie shot with a digital camera. Six or seven films are shot in a row to form a series. After the filming, it is not shown in theaters but broadcast directly on movie channels.
We shot the "Legend of Lu Xiaofeng" series last summer, and we will continue to shoot other series in the second half of this year and next year - their slogan is to support young directors, and I think it's the most suitable for you to practice your skills."
Xu Kun never expected that coming to apologize to Feng Xiaogang would have such an unexpected gain - it turns out that the top directors' information and connections are beyond the reach of ordinary people.
If it is really as Feng Xiaogang said, this TV movie was tailor-made for him.
Of course, even if he could get the project for the movie channel, Xu Kun did not intend to give up on collecting scripts. After all, good scripts are not something you can get just because you want to. You might not come across a suitable one for a year or two.
If you are lucky enough to receive it in advance, you can stockpile it and buy it later.
But after leaving Feng Xiaogang's house, Xu Kun immediately called Lao Jia.
Lao Jia originally wanted to get the copyright and exchange it for some benefits from CCTV. When he heard that Xu Kun was going to take over, he naturally agreed without any hesitation.
The only requirement is that Xu Kun take some time to review LeTV's new variety show.
Although the combination of Chen Xuebin and Gan Wei is not rookies, the idea was proposed by Xu Kun after all. Without Xu Kun's help, Lao Jia always felt unsure.
In fact, from Xu Kun's point of view, he was just worrying about nothing.
Half of LeTV's filming team are people from Happy Twist, and the host is Shen Teng, so there is no need to worry about the sense of humor.
The Internet as a whole is still in a relaxed era, so it doesn’t matter even if the news is a little larger in scope.
With these two things, why worry about the show not being popular?
After hanging up the phone, Xu Kun looked at Zhu Yawen, who was applying cooling oil to his temples to wake up from a nap, and said, "Xiao Zhu, do you want to play a cameo role in Director Feng's new movie?"
Zhu Yawen paused while applying the cooling oil, hesitated for a long time, and then shook his head firmly and said, "Since we have agreed to accept the punishment, I still want to see it through to the end. Besides, I think that following you, Brother Kun, I can learn no less than filming a movie!"
This kid is quite stubborn.
In terms of talent, he is much inferior to Wen Zhang, but Wen Zhang's recent performance makes him feel that Wen Zhang's final achievement may not be better than Zhu Yawen.
That guy is actually in the crew of "Struggle" and is competing with Deng Chao!
With two undercover agents, Big Mouth Milu and Big Mouth Jiang Xin, Xu Kun knows just as much about the big and small things happening on the set of "Struggle" as director Zhao Baogang.
According to them, although the relationship between Wen Zhang and Deng Chao has not yet reached the point of a complete falling out, everyone can see that the two do not get along, and they even held back their anger during filming.
Wen Zhang was standing up for Tong Dawei.
There is nothing wrong with being loyal to your friends. Xu Kun himself is such a person and he admires such people too.
But the problem is that Deng Chao was recommended to the "Struggle" crew by Xu Kun himself, in order to repay a favor from "The Boss".
When Wen Zhang did this, did he ever consider Mr. Xu's face?
(End of this chapter)
