Chapter 402 Schedule
The top floor of a hotel.
As soon as Xu Kun and Bao Qiang took the elevator upstairs, they ran into Chen Xuebin and Huang Bin who were talking in the corridor.
"Kun'er, Baoqiang."
Chen Xuebin came forward and asked, "Should we call everyone to a meeting now, or..."
"Wait a minute, let's go to the conference room and sort out what we want to say today."
Although the special training will be carried out before the end of the month, since the crew members have been gathered in advance, they must have a place to stay.
The entire top floor was booked by the crew of "Operation Kunpeng". Regardless of whether they stayed here or not, a room was prepared for everyone, including Xu Kun and Bao Qiang.
It's other people's business if they have a home in Beijing, but if you don't prepare someone's room just because they have a home in Beijing, then that's the crew's problem.
When passing by the two foreign girls' room, Xu Kun subconsciously glanced at them and asked, "Have you signed the new contract?"
“It’s already been signed.”
Huang Bin said hurriedly, "Those two girls usually look fierce, but they were taken to the police station and detained for a long time yesterday, and they have become obedient now."
This is a good thing.
Chen Xuebin wondered, "It's strange. I sent someone to buy newspapers early this morning, fearing that yesterday's incident would implicate our crew, but it turned out to be calm. There were hardly any reports on this incident."
"normal."
Xu Kun was not surprised at all: "These two girls are candidates recommended by the Thai military government. As the saying goes, you have to look at the owner before you beat the dog. Besides, the matter was not a big deal."
"You mean..."
Chen Xuebin suddenly raised his hand and pointed upwards.
At this time, Sun Honglei walked out of the room, saw a few people and greeted them with a smile: "Kun'er, the anti-aircraft gun in the script, can we practice with live ammunition when we go to Thailand?"
Sun Honglei did not have many action scenes, and basically relied on the equipment to crush the opponents. Originally, he did not need to go for special training, but he was very proactive and insisted on advancing and retreating with everyone else.
"It might work."
Xu Kun said uncertainly: "This section is an important turning point in the whole play. If conditions permit, we must try it in advance."
"Haha, okay, I'll just learn something new from this."
Sun Honglei laughed, pointed at everyone and asked, "What are you doing?"
"We are going to hold a meeting for everyone this morning. Brother Honglei, we will have someone notify you when we are ready."
"Oh, then you guys are busy, you guys are busy."
After arriving in the conference room, Xu Kun first checked the subsequent schedule with Chen Xuebin.
Today is July 2007, 7. According to Xu Kun's suggestion, we will first get everyone familiar with the script, and then wait for Assistant Director Guo Xiaojun and Huang Bin to lead the team to Thailand on the 14rd to prepare for the advance. The main force will set off on the 23th.
After a day of rest in Thailand, the actors who participated in the special training on the 27th will go to the base arranged by the Thai military for closed training.
The rest of the behind-the-scenes team, under the leadership of Chen Xuebin, carried out various preparatory work, including but not limited to: recruiting translators and extras; building Sun Honglei's lair based on an old fortress somewhere in Thailand; making one-to-one models based on real tanks and helicopters, etc.
In addition to these, Xu Kun also has a special task, which is to attend the unveiling ceremony of the "Thailand Film Affairs Department" to be held in Bangkok early next month.
“Building materials in Thailand are too expensive.”
Chen Xuebin checked the boxes one by one and sighed, "We have so many trees, but the furniture is two or three times more expensive than here. Fortunately, we were able to ship some stuff over from China under the banner of special materials. Otherwise, we would have been in big trouble just to renovate that broken castle."
"Speaking of furniture."
Xu Kun said: "In addition to the replicas used for filming, we also need to bring some high-quality European imitations. When the time comes... you know what will happen."
Huang Bin at the side was surprised: "A project that the military government is personally watching over is also being taken advantage of?"
Chen Xuebin curled his lips and said disapprovingly: "As the saying goes, it's easier to see the King of Hell than to deal with little devils - even in our country, when we go to the countryside to film, don't we have to bleed and pay homage?" As he was speaking, Zhang Jin suddenly came over.
Without entering the room, he motioned Xu Kun to go to the corridor outside to talk.
"What's wrong, brother Jin?"
Xu Kun followed and asked curiously.
Zhang Jin looked back at the corridor, and then said, "Director Xu, you'd better take some time to talk to Zhao Wenzhuo. He was very unhappy after reading the script yesterday. He complained that he had to waste a whole year just for this half of the play."
The complete script was not given when the contract was negotiated. It was not until Zhao Wenzhuo and Wu Jing joined the crew that we got the complete script.
The character played by Zhao Wenzhuo is the only one in the action team who died, almost at the three-fifths point, so it’s not wrong to say it’s half of the play.
However, he also had a highlight one-man show before his death, which was very outstanding if performed well.
"Brother Jin, thank you."
Xu Kun patted Zhang Jin on the shoulder.
Zhang Jin smiled and said, "We are all family, it's only natural."
Compared with those people inside, he is an outsider, but compared with Zhao Wenzhuo, Wu Jing and Yang Junyi, he can definitely be considered Xu Kun's "own man".
After Zhang Jin left, Xu Kun returned to the meeting room and told him about Zhao Wenzhuo's situation.
Chen Xuebin sneered, "Is he reminiscing about the glorious past and thinking of himself as a star again? Don't worry about it. Leave it to me. I can still give him some room for maneuver."
Having said that, he stood up and walked out.
Xu Kun hurriedly stopped him and said, "Brother Chen, it's definitely not okay to just increase his salary, otherwise it will be impossible to do anything in the future - at most, we can give him a martial arts instructor."
"Don't worry, I know what's going on."
Chen Xuebin waved his hand and disappeared behind the door.
With Old Chen gone, the business naturally couldn't be done, so Xu Kun opened his laptop and watched the news while chatting with Baoqiang.
Compared to the collective silence of the print media, there are still a lot of discussions online about the foreign girls beating up the reporter, with some people leaning towards either side, but overall, most people support the two foreign girls.
Mainly due to the influence of the Hong Kong drama "Paparazzi", most people don't have a good impression of entertainment reporters, and the fact that it was a woman beating a man...
Following closely behind in popularity is the news that Liu Yifei is about to sign a contract with Huayi.
"Hey!"
After seeing the news, Xu Kun slapped his head and hurriedly called Zhu Yawen. He was so busy all day that he even forgot to inform Zhu Yawen to attend the signing meeting tomorrow.
hmm~
To be more precise, it was the dinner after the signing meeting.
Hua Yi clearly wanted to give the Liu mother and daughter a warning.
The only thing to blame is Liu Xiaoli being too greedy and stupid. When Huayi proposed the test, she should have known that her little tricks had been exposed. If she had signed the contract decisively at that time, perhaps she could have cleared her suspicion and obtained preferential treatment from Huayi.
But she chose to be petty and procrastinate as much as possible, and finally exposed her true thoughts.
As expected, Zhu Yawen was very excited after receiving the call.
He has been holding this grudge for two and a half years, ever since "Lu Yu's Appointment with the Four Evils".
In the past two and a half years, Zhu Yawen has never forgotten the condescending humiliation Liu Xiaoli inflicted on him backstage in the studio, nor will he forget the hatred when Liu Xiaoli turned the tables on him in the newspapers and almost got him kicked out of the circle.
That's why he secretly collected information related to Liu Xiaoli, and finally joined forces with Cai Yinong to avenge this arrow of revenge.
However, if we don’t meet face to face and let Aunt Liu understand where she lost, how can she get rid of the hatred in her heart?
(End of this chapter)
