The problem that Wu Ershan couldn't think of, Yue Guan actually didn't think of either.
Anyway, he had no intention of acting it himself.
But who is suitable to be the protagonist? Yue Guan thought about it carefully and found that there seemed to be nothing particularly suitable in all aspects.
So Yue Guan is ready to be the boss: "Director Wu, it's up to you to choose the actors yourself. I have absolute trust in you."
Wu Ershan: "..." He doesn't want this kind of trust.
He would be very happy if this kind of investment was converted into a movie, but if it were converted into a TV series, he would be under a lot of pressure.
Compared with movies, TV series have too few ways to make money.
However, Yue Guan said that if the TV series project of "Shading the Sky" is successful, all subsequent film projects will be his.
To be precise, Yue Guan gave him the entire series "Shading the Sky".
This is a long-term project. If it succeeds, it will be a huge breakthrough for domestic special effects and industrial technology. Wu Ershan also knows this, so he doesn't think this job is easy at all.
Especially since Yue Guan has not participated yet.
In the previous filming of the "Fengshen" series, Yue Guan participated in the whole process, and Yue Guan helped. Although Wu Ershan was also under pressure, at least he was not afraid, because Yue Guan gave him the confidence.
However, Yue Guan, the project member of "Shading the Sky", basically kept himself clear and let go of all the power. His power is much greater than in the "Fengshen" series.
When you become a householder, you know that firewood and rice are expensive.
With great power comes great responsibility.
Wu Ershan has a big head now.
"Can we lower our investment?" Wu Ershan said.
As a director, he actually wanted investors to invest less money in him.
Wu Ershan felt that he was really too conscientious.
Then Yue Guan rejected his conscientious proposal without hesitation: "If you want to do it, make it a high-quality product to pave the way for future film projects, so the special effects must be burned, and they must be burned well. Director Wu, go ahead and do it, the investors will respect you." Absolute trust.”
Wu Ershan wanted to cry: "I am not so confident about myself."
Directors like Wang Jiawei and Jiang Wen don't even frown when they defraud investors and bankrupt them. However, Wu Ershan doesn't have the senior qualifications yet, and he's not that kind of person either. He makes commercial films, so he must be promising. The reputation and credibility of investors making money.
So Wu Ershan didn't want to lose money.
For investors, this kind of director is basically the same as Wang Jing and is very popular.
However, Wu Ershan did not expect to meet an investor like Yue Guan.
He wanted to save money for investors.
Investors resented him for not spending enough money...
How can this be justified
Liu Shishi listened to the chat between Yue Guan and Wu Ershan for a while, and basically realized what the two were talking about.
She had heard about the "Shading the Sky" project before. There were no secrets in the industry, and Yue Guan didn't want to keep it secret. After all, he wanted to drag other investors into the trap, so the news would definitely be released to the outside world.
So Liu Shishi is not surprised about this project.
She weakly nominated a starring candidate: "Yue Guan, Director Wu, do you think Brother Hu is suitable to be the leading actor?"
Wu Ershan said directly: "He is on my consideration list, but actually he is not particularly suitable."
Yue Guan added: "He may not be willing to accept it."
"How is that possible?" Liu Shishi was shocked: "Lao Hu will definitely be willing to take on Director Wu's drama."
"It's just a TV series. In fact, it doesn't test acting skills, and it basically doesn't test character creation. The selling point is the special effects. This kind of drama will definitely have great appeal if it is converted into a movie, but if it is converted into a TV series, it will not attract those first-line stars and those with acting skills. A talented actor with pursuits."
This is also the reason why Yue Guan is not interested.
Even if he successfully acted in this TV series, it wouldn't actually help him much. If the performance fails, it will affect his signature.
So there is no reason for him to do this drama.
Brother Hu actually didn’t either.
Because Brother Hu has already proven himself in the Xianxia ancient puppet circle, there is no need to repeat his old path.
Even if the TV series "Shading the Sky" succeeds, will it be more popular than the Li Xiaoyao he portrayed
Brother Hu makes a lot of money, so he doesn't have to go back for the sake of salary.
"Brother Hu is now pursuing recognition in acting and breakthroughs in movies. Ordinary TV series are meaningless to him."
"A TV series directed by Wu Dao or an ordinary TV series?" Liu Shishi has the filter of a great director.
Yue Guan smiled: "The original work of "Shading the Sky" is too long. Even if it is streamlined, it cannot be finished in one or two seasons. In addition, plus the time required for post-production special effects, this is a long-term project. If there is an accident, it may last three to five years or even longer. If it is a TV series directed by a black actor, it takes such a long time and the price/performance ratio is very low."
When Yue Guan said this, Liu Shishi understood.
The supporting characters are okay, but as for the protagonist, it does take a long time to wait for so long.
"Aren't you going to have a movie project in the future?"
"That is far away. If the TV series "Shadow" is not successful, the film project will not even be approved."
The prerequisite for making a movie out of the portraits of the Great Emperor is to first make the audience familiar with the plot and setting of "Shading the Sky". Without this prerequisite, the movie will have no mass base.
Therefore, TV dramas are generally not good, and the response must be particularly good before a movie can be approved.
A big-budget movie is never something you can do just by getting excited. Fengshen and Xianqin have their own IP and popularity, which are inherently attractive to audiences.
No matter how popular the original work of "Shading the Sky" is, it is still far behind the national level of the Immortal Qin Dynasty. Without sufficient prerequisites, capital will not invest heavily in development.
That's why Yue Guancai wasn't that concerned about this project and insisted on bringing in other people to work on it together.
Even if this project is to be completed, it is still a long-term project, the cost performance is definitely not high, and there is even a risk of failure. From a profit perspective, this project is of low value.
But if it can really be done, it will indeed be a breakthrough for domestic films, and domestic special effects and practitioners should be able to make a big step forward. After comprehensive consideration, Yue Guan still felt that he had to do it, but it was a matter for the entire circle, and he would not bear it himself.
Just come together.
Whether you can succeed or not depends on your hard work and destiny.
Liu Shishi was convinced by Yue Guan.
Mainly because she felt that Yue Guan was not particularly interested in this project.
If it is a particularly high-quality project, such as the Fengshen series and the Xianqin series, Yue Guan has always been in control.
Yue Guan directly gave control of this project to Wu Ershan. It was obvious that Yue Guan did not intend to spend too much thought on it.
Of course she can't cheat Brother Hu, the relationship between them is still very good.
At this time, Yue Guan thought of someone: "Director Wu, please check Zhu Yilong. His traffic is not bad, his fan power is not low, his plasticity is also good, and he has the heart to be an actor."
Of course, the most important thing is that Yue Guangang has just met Zhu Yilong. I said before that if there is a suitable role for him, I will recommend it to him.
"If he's not suitable, then Director Wu, you might as well just do a large-scale casting in the entertainment industry to increase the publicity and serve as publicity."
Yue Guan's suggestion was obviously to use Wu Ershan as a coolie, and he had no intention of contributing.
Wu Ershan pointed at Yue Guan and said helplessly: "Okay, I'll take care of it. Yue Guan, you should pay more attention to the promotion of "Feng Shen 3"."
"Don't worry, I'm a very responsible person." Yue Guan said seriously.
[Emperor’s Qi +18.]
…
Liu Shishi discovered something - Yue Guan was very busy.
Although she only stayed with Yue Guan for half a day, Liu Shishi had already discovered that Yue Guan had taken her to several scenes in a row.
Just after chatting with Wu Ershan, Yue Guan took her to see Zhang Yimou again.
Before leaving, I signed several documents in the company.
On the way to see Zhang Yimou, Yue Guan felt something was wrong with the way Liu Shishi looked at him.
She should be practicing Hanqingmaimai Sword.
"Sister Shishi, why are you looking at me like this?"
Liu Shishi was a little moved and said: "So you are so busy, and you still took the time to see me."
Yue Guan: "???"
So what? In fact, he is really not busy these days.
It was a coincidence that I came to see Wu Ershan, and I happened to think of him.
Signing documents for the company is not even busy, just signing a few words.
As for Zhang Yimou, he was summoned by Zhang Yimou on his own initiative and was not part of his plan.
He actually has no work schedule today.
But since Liu Shishi thinks so, what can Yue Guan say
He could only say: "No matter how busy I am at work, spending time with Sister Shishi is not as important as you."
[Emperor’s Qi +20.]
Liu Shishi's touching value is +20, and her favorability value is +5.
"Actually, if you are really busy, you don't have to take time to see me. I'm not in a hurry, so don't delay your work."
Liu Shishi said that she did not want to be a beauty and a troublemaker.
Yue Guan said seriously: "No delay, seeing Sister Shishi makes me happy and makes my work more efficient."
Liu Shishi's favorability value +3.
Yue Guan blinked.
He felt that the tailwind was coming again.
Having said that, with his looks, status, and wealth, it's hard not to be a tailwind when it comes to flirting with girls.
It is difficult for people who are not handsome men to realize how easy it is for handsome men to pick up girls.
If only this handsome guy had money and could talk... that would be Peerless Lawn Mowing Mode.
The last person who made Yue Guan feel difficult was Zhang Yin.
At that time, Yue Guan only had good looks and no money.
Later, he became a user of money ability in a magical outfit.
Now, Yue Guan can only experience one feeling: seeking defeat alone.
Invincible is so lonely.
This time even Golden Finger didn't jump out to give him an imperial aura.
Yue Guan sighed quietly in his heart.
Sure enough, being invincible is really lonely.
…
Zhang Yimou called Yue Guan here to talk about business.
Although the "Immortal Qin Empire" series has not yet been established, the project has been officially established and preliminary preparations have begun. The general person in charge is Zhang Yimou.
The success of "Shadow" made Zhang Yimou realize the importance of scripts like never before. Even if the biggest selling point of the "Immortal Qin Empire" series is definitely the special effects, the script must not lose points. If there were only scripts of the level of "Hero", Zhang Yimou would now I can’t even look down on it myself.
So he kept a close eye on the script.
But now we have a problem.
After seeing Yue Guan, Zhang Yimou immediately explained the problem to Yue Guan:
"Yue Guan, according to your suggestion, we conducted a large-scale questionnaire survey, hoping to get feedback from the audience in advance."
Yue Guan nodded: "Then what?"
"Then we discovered that the audience wasn't unanimous."
"It's normal. It would be strange if the audience's opinions were unified."
"That's what I say, but we are all viewers. We still want to satisfy everyone as much as possible, but some viewers have quite opposing opinions."
Zhang Yimou handed Yue Guan a questionnaire.
Yue Guan flipped through it briefly, then frowned.
"Have you discovered the problem? Many viewers hope to see the growth of Xian Qin, and hope that Ying Zheng will encounter some difficulties, so that success will be more valuable. They even hope to torture their hearts, so that they can be more true to their feelings. . But there is still a large part of the audience who likes to watch movies that are mindless and fun, and just push them all the way."
"Director Zhang, what do you think?"
"What I want to do is try to synthesize it as much as possible, and then work with the screenwriting team to create a first draft of the script. Take a look at it and give me some comments after reading it."
Zhang Yimou gave Yue Guan the first draft of the script for the first part of "The Immortal Qin Empire".
After reading it, Yue Guan rubbed his head.
Headache.
"Director Zhang, you are suffering from the literary problem again."
Zhang Yimou: "..."
"There are two hours of plot in total. Ying Zheng spends half an hour being tortured and half an hour enduring. Director Zhang, we are making a commercial film."
"Yue Guan, this script was written after considering the opinions of the audience. Just as the audience said, Xian Qin also needs to grow up, and it cannot be a smooth journey." Zhang Yimou said.
Yue Guan looked at Zhang Yimou and said seriously: "You don't need to grow up, you can have a smooth journey."
Zhang Yimou: "..." He has never made such a movie.
"The three parts of "The Immortal Qin Empire" together will not exceed seven hours of plot. There is no time to arrange growth and twists and turns. Director Zhang, we are not making a TV series or a literary film. There are only two key points in the script. —Xian Qin must be strong and domineering, and everything else is trivial and unimportant."
"But the audience..."
Before Zhang Yimou finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yue Guan: "Some viewers' opinions can be listened to, while some viewers' opinions are simply ignored. If we listen to them, we will die faster than anyone else. Director Zhang, we cannot let everyone Everyone is satisfied, as long as most of the audience is satisfied.”
"Can't you do both?"
"No, because their demands are contradictory. For example, I was recently reading an online novel called "I'm Just an Actor". Some readers suggested that the protagonist should have a car accident and add more twists and turns. Another reader suggested It is suggested that the protagonist is beaten to a sap, and it would be better to have his head covered with blood, otherwise it would be better to suffer from vomiting and diarrhea after taking poison. If you listen to this kind of bad advice, just wait for death, it is ridiculous. Remember, we It was a commercial special effects blockbuster.”
Liu Shishi looked at Yue Guan with her mouth open the whole time.
Zhang Yimou was a god in the eyes of celebrities like them, especially female stars, but today, the old god has fallen and a new one has taken over.
Liu Shishi knew that Yue Guan was awesome before, but today she realized that Yue Guan was no longer just awesome.
This is already a heifer standing on its head.