Kang Jianfei threw the script to Tsui Hark and asked with a smile: I have made major changes according to your opinion. Now you should be satisfied, right?
This script is very good.Tsui Hark grinned, revealing two rows of untidy teeth.
In fact, the script of "New Shushan Swordsman" last year was not written by Tsui Hark, but he provided the plot framework for the DreamWorks screenwriter department to create. Tsui Hark's own screenwriter skills are not as good as Gao Zhisen.
The final version of the script "Shushan" has been written for more than four months, and has gathered the efforts of more than a dozen people, including Kang Jianfei and Tsui Hark.
First of all, the plot structure is much larger than the original time and space "New Shushan Swordsman". Of course, because the original plot of the novel is too complicated, there must be many major changes in the editing of the movie script.
For example, in the original work, the female disciple Yu Yingnan of Emei was changed to the male lead by Kang Jianfei, while Li Yingqiong and Yu Yingnan were in love with each other's senior sister-sister relationships.
As he was preparing to film the "Shushan" trilogy, the villain in the first part was set as Deng Yin, the son of the Blood God (that is, Ding Yin in film and television works).
Deng Yin was originally the junior brother of Changmei Zhenren, but was expelled from the sect for violating the teachings and accidentally obtained a magic book "Blood Nerve" and became a demon.
The general plot is that the weak scholar Yu Yingnan went to Beijing to take the exam and stayed in a dilapidated temple overnight. He happened to meet Deng Yin, who was expelled from his master. He accidentally opened the mechanism under the Buddha statue, allowing Deng Yin to obtain the magic cultivation technique "Blood Nerve".
Deng Yinben and Yu Yingnan hit it off at first sight, and the two chatted happily.
Deng Yin was so powerful that he wanted to suck Yu Yingnan's blood to practice the magic attack, but he was saved by Li Yingqiong who went down the mountain and practiced his skills when Deng Yin was expelled from his master's sect, so he could not beat Li Yingqiong, who was a fledgling cottage.
The chivalrous girl Li Yingqiong and scholar Yu Yingnan fell in love with each other, and then Yu Yingnan joined the Emei Sect and became a junior brother of the same school with Li Yingqiong.
When Yu Yingnan achieved some success in his practice, the two went down the mountain to be a hero, but found that the people in a certain town were slaughtered by the blood-cultivation technique.
Deng Yin, who had become the son of the Blood God, suffered a lot of defeat and could only rely on the magic weapon given by the master to escape in a panic.
Yu Yingnan couldn't calm down because it was his unintentional mistake that allowed Deng Yin to obtain "Blood Nervous", so he decided to end Deng Yin with his own hands.
After that, the male and female protagonists naturally had adventures all the way. During the process of various monster-fighting and upgrading, they met many righteous friends.
In addition, Li Yingqiong set up a purple-green sword in Mangcang Mountain, and Yu Yingnan also obtained the magic weapon, Nanming Lihuo Sword.
Finally, a group of friends worked together to kill the Blood God Son Deng Yin, and Yu Yingnan and Li Yingqiong finally became a fairy couple.
In order to cater to the audience's taste, there are naturally some love triangles in the film, but those are secondary and there is no too much introspection during shooting.
In fact, the plot of the script is not very complicated, but the fun is much better than Tsui Hark's "New Shushan Swordsman", and the rhythm is completely a blockbuster model from later generations, which will make the audience feel happy from the beginning.
As for the second part of the "Shushan" trilogy, it depends on the box office status of the first part before deciding whether to invest. However, the villain in the second part has been tentatively designated as the Green Robe Ancestor.
Tsui Hark was originally afraid that the script would be written as a four-way character, but he is still extremely satisfied now, at least much better than the script he had produced before.
Of course, Tsui Hark still has many changes to the script, especially when filming, it will make slightly modifications according to the situation, but the major plot direction will not change.
You should choose the actors yourself. Kang Jianfei said that the actors who signed the film contract last year remained unchanged, but don’t look for those who terminated the contract like Aaron Cheng and others. You will decide which actors you change.
I see.Tsui Hark nodded, but was thinking about which actors were suitable.
The heroine Lee Young-Qiu is naturally starring Li Saifeng. This was agreed last year. Zhao Yazhi plays a senior fairy, and she is unsure about the candidates for the male lead and villain.
Tsui Hark thought for a while and suddenly said: I am going to let Liu Songren play the role of the villain Deng Yin.
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: Liu Songren is very good. Among Hong Kong actors, he is still very chivalrous. It depends on whether he can lead Deng to the devil.
As for the male protagonist Yu Yingnan, Tsui Hark tapped his finger and said, "What do you think of Leslie Cheung?"
Kang Jianfei was still very satisfied with Leslie Cheung's image as a scholar, but it was hard to say that he would play a swordsman, so he said: Call him here to try it out.
The candidates for the male lead have already become interested, and the remaining supporting roles are much easier. Hui Yinghong and Hui Tianci can play important supporting roles, and a group of students from the training class can also be brought in and made their debut.
After more than half an hour of discussion, Tsui Hark finally left with the script with satisfaction, and Yu Kanping followed and walked into the office again.
After signing Joey Wong, Yu Kanping has been filming for the past few months. He specially created an urban romance film "Love in Taipei".
The protagonist of the movie is Taiwanese music superstar Liu Wenzheng, who mainly focuses on Taiwan and Southeast Asia at the box office. This kind of movie cannot be sold at any price in Hong Kong.
"Love in Taipei" has been released, how is it selling?
Kang Jianfei asked casually.
He did not have much hope for this Taiwanese romance film. As long as it was not a loss, it would be enough. It was mainly to allow Joey Wong to accumulate more experience in filming.
Yu Kanping sighed: The box office is more than NT$11 million, and the cost is basically recovered, and you should be able to make some achievements in Nanyang.
Kang Jianfei did not blame Yu Kanping, but said: Taiwanese local films cannot be sold, and it is already good to have a box office of over 10 million.
In addition to serving as the general manager of DreamWorks Taiwan Branch, Yu Kanping also handled other matters such as contacting Taiwanese film dealers and giving filial piety money to the Taiwan News Bureau.
After talking about Joey Wong's affairs, Yu Kanping suddenly said: Jin Chaoqun probably won't come to Hong Kong to film. He just wrote a letter of regret in the News Bureau.The day before yesterday, Jin Chaoqun invited me to dinner in Taipei and asked me to say sorry for him. He would pay off the penalty for selling the house and sell it, but he really couldn't continue filming it.
When "Bao Qingtian" was first filmed, it was banned by the Taiwan authorities and could not be sold into the Taiwan market at all.
It was sold to Guangdong TV station a few months ago, and it quickly set off a wave of Baoqingtian. It was then broadcast on more than 20 TV stations in the mainland one after another, becoming the most popular TV series in the mainland this year.
Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po published the popular broadcast of "Bao Qingtian" in the mainland, praising the TV series for its excellent filming, but was targeted by the people of the Hong Kong Branch of the Central News Agency of Taiwan.
This TV series was clearly filmed by DreamWorks TV Production Department, but Feng Huáng TV was shot while lying down and was besieged by many right-wing newspapers in Hong Kong.
As for the male lead actor Kim Chaoqun of "Bao Qingtian", under the threat of the Taiwanese authorities, he went back to write a letter of repentance. He may not be able to film in Hong Kong within a few years.
The News Bureau has not made things difficult for DreamWorks films, right?Kang Jianfei asked, this was what he cared about the most.
Yu Kanping shook his head and said with a smile: No, the News Bureau and the Third Young Master have paid tribute every year, and the Bamboo League has paid dividends, and the black and white gang has been dealt with in place.As long as there is no big problem, the News Bureau will definitely turn a blind eye.
Taiwan's administration is not easy. Although today's leader, President Chiang Kai-shek, advocates integrity and frugality, he still sets an example.
But the officials below were slanderous. Even President Chiang's sons made money better than the other. DreamWorks stuffed so much money into the News Bureau every year is really not in vain.
Just like this time, "Bao Qingtian" filmed by DreamWorks TV Production Department, it was found that it became produced by Feng Huáng TV, mainly because the News Bureau was to preserve DreamWorks' wealth.
Kang Jianfei suddenly thought that if Tsui Hark's "Shushan" was released, it would probably be that the Taiwan authorities would really ban DreamWorks.
In fact, Kang Jianfei is not afraid of losing the box office in Taiwan, but is afraid of the chain reaction caused by the ban on the Taiwan authorities.
The reason why he chose to cooperate with the mainland was mainly because Kang Jianfei was a time traveler and knew the general direction of the future.
In fact, it’s not just Kang Jianfei, anyone with a normal mind should know how to choose.
In the parallel space, after the dust of Sino-British negotiations came to an end, several right-wing newspapers in Hong Kong announced that they would stop publishing, which was considered as those bosses who were leaving a way out for their future.
Run Run Shaw stopped Shaw's production business a few months after the Sino-British negotiations ended. While shifting his energy to TVB development, he also completely turned to the Celestial Government, and he donated tens of millions of dollars to the mainland every year to help students.
Jiang Zhiqiang's brother Jiang Zhiwen invested in the joint construction of Nanguo Cinema with the mainland in the second year after the Sino-British negotiations, laying a political foundation for the future rise of Anle Cinema.
Anyway, after confirming that Hong Kong will return in 1997, smart people in Hong Kong know how to hold on.
The funniest thing is that after the ban on Taiwan was lifted, Taiwanese investors could not go directly to the mainland to invest in filming, so they invested their funds in Hong Kong companies, and then the Hong Kong director went to the mainland to shoot filming, and then took it back to Taiwan for filming.
Since about 1988, the film cooperation model of Taiwanese businessmen paying money, Hong Kong paying people, and mainland show off has started to run smoothly.
Yu Kanping came here this time to report the situation of the Taiwan branch to Kang Jianfei.The branch invested in two movies this year, one barely recovered its capital, while the other lost more than NT$1 million.
This situation proves that Taiwanese local movies are really beyond help. No wonder the Taiwanese branch of Xinyi City will stop production. For Mai Jia, it is not hesitant to have a fight with Sylvia Chang. The main reason is that Taiwanese movies cannot make money.
Dingling...
After Yu Kanping left, Zhao Yazhi's phone number was directly transferred by his secretary: When is it?You are still in the company and don’t leave Ah!
Come soon, wait for me first.Kang Jianfei hung up the phone and went out, and Zeng Bolin hurriedly followed.
After a month of publicity, tonight is the semi-finals of the Miss Oriental beauty pageant, and Kang Jianfei, as the organizer, naturally has to participate.
This script is very good.Tsui Hark grinned, revealing two rows of untidy teeth.
In fact, the script of "New Shushan Swordsman" last year was not written by Tsui Hark, but he provided the plot framework for the DreamWorks screenwriter department to create. Tsui Hark's own screenwriter skills are not as good as Gao Zhisen.
The final version of the script "Shushan" has been written for more than four months, and has gathered the efforts of more than a dozen people, including Kang Jianfei and Tsui Hark.
First of all, the plot structure is much larger than the original time and space "New Shushan Swordsman". Of course, because the original plot of the novel is too complicated, there must be many major changes in the editing of the movie script.
For example, in the original work, the female disciple Yu Yingnan of Emei was changed to the male lead by Kang Jianfei, while Li Yingqiong and Yu Yingnan were in love with each other's senior sister-sister relationships.
As he was preparing to film the "Shushan" trilogy, the villain in the first part was set as Deng Yin, the son of the Blood God (that is, Ding Yin in film and television works).
Deng Yin was originally the junior brother of Changmei Zhenren, but was expelled from the sect for violating the teachings and accidentally obtained a magic book "Blood Nerve" and became a demon.
The general plot is that the weak scholar Yu Yingnan went to Beijing to take the exam and stayed in a dilapidated temple overnight. He happened to meet Deng Yin, who was expelled from his master. He accidentally opened the mechanism under the Buddha statue, allowing Deng Yin to obtain the magic cultivation technique "Blood Nerve".
Deng Yinben and Yu Yingnan hit it off at first sight, and the two chatted happily.
Deng Yin was so powerful that he wanted to suck Yu Yingnan's blood to practice the magic attack, but he was saved by Li Yingqiong who went down the mountain and practiced his skills when Deng Yin was expelled from his master's sect, so he could not beat Li Yingqiong, who was a fledgling cottage.
The chivalrous girl Li Yingqiong and scholar Yu Yingnan fell in love with each other, and then Yu Yingnan joined the Emei Sect and became a junior brother of the same school with Li Yingqiong.
When Yu Yingnan achieved some success in his practice, the two went down the mountain to be a hero, but found that the people in a certain town were slaughtered by the blood-cultivation technique.
Deng Yin, who had become the son of the Blood God, suffered a lot of defeat and could only rely on the magic weapon given by the master to escape in a panic.
Yu Yingnan couldn't calm down because it was his unintentional mistake that allowed Deng Yin to obtain "Blood Nervous", so he decided to end Deng Yin with his own hands.
After that, the male and female protagonists naturally had adventures all the way. During the process of various monster-fighting and upgrading, they met many righteous friends.
In addition, Li Yingqiong set up a purple-green sword in Mangcang Mountain, and Yu Yingnan also obtained the magic weapon, Nanming Lihuo Sword.
Finally, a group of friends worked together to kill the Blood God Son Deng Yin, and Yu Yingnan and Li Yingqiong finally became a fairy couple.
In order to cater to the audience's taste, there are naturally some love triangles in the film, but those are secondary and there is no too much introspection during shooting.
In fact, the plot of the script is not very complicated, but the fun is much better than Tsui Hark's "New Shushan Swordsman", and the rhythm is completely a blockbuster model from later generations, which will make the audience feel happy from the beginning.
As for the second part of the "Shushan" trilogy, it depends on the box office status of the first part before deciding whether to invest. However, the villain in the second part has been tentatively designated as the Green Robe Ancestor.
Tsui Hark was originally afraid that the script would be written as a four-way character, but he is still extremely satisfied now, at least much better than the script he had produced before.
Of course, Tsui Hark still has many changes to the script, especially when filming, it will make slightly modifications according to the situation, but the major plot direction will not change.
You should choose the actors yourself. Kang Jianfei said that the actors who signed the film contract last year remained unchanged, but don’t look for those who terminated the contract like Aaron Cheng and others. You will decide which actors you change.
I see.Tsui Hark nodded, but was thinking about which actors were suitable.
The heroine Lee Young-Qiu is naturally starring Li Saifeng. This was agreed last year. Zhao Yazhi plays a senior fairy, and she is unsure about the candidates for the male lead and villain.
Tsui Hark thought for a while and suddenly said: I am going to let Liu Songren play the role of the villain Deng Yin.
Kang Jianfei nodded and said: Liu Songren is very good. Among Hong Kong actors, he is still very chivalrous. It depends on whether he can lead Deng to the devil.
As for the male protagonist Yu Yingnan, Tsui Hark tapped his finger and said, "What do you think of Leslie Cheung?"
Kang Jianfei was still very satisfied with Leslie Cheung's image as a scholar, but it was hard to say that he would play a swordsman, so he said: Call him here to try it out.
The candidates for the male lead have already become interested, and the remaining supporting roles are much easier. Hui Yinghong and Hui Tianci can play important supporting roles, and a group of students from the training class can also be brought in and made their debut.
After more than half an hour of discussion, Tsui Hark finally left with the script with satisfaction, and Yu Kanping followed and walked into the office again.
After signing Joey Wong, Yu Kanping has been filming for the past few months. He specially created an urban romance film "Love in Taipei".
The protagonist of the movie is Taiwanese music superstar Liu Wenzheng, who mainly focuses on Taiwan and Southeast Asia at the box office. This kind of movie cannot be sold at any price in Hong Kong.
"Love in Taipei" has been released, how is it selling?
Kang Jianfei asked casually.
He did not have much hope for this Taiwanese romance film. As long as it was not a loss, it would be enough. It was mainly to allow Joey Wong to accumulate more experience in filming.
Yu Kanping sighed: The box office is more than NT$11 million, and the cost is basically recovered, and you should be able to make some achievements in Nanyang.
Kang Jianfei did not blame Yu Kanping, but said: Taiwanese local films cannot be sold, and it is already good to have a box office of over 10 million.
In addition to serving as the general manager of DreamWorks Taiwan Branch, Yu Kanping also handled other matters such as contacting Taiwanese film dealers and giving filial piety money to the Taiwan News Bureau.
After talking about Joey Wong's affairs, Yu Kanping suddenly said: Jin Chaoqun probably won't come to Hong Kong to film. He just wrote a letter of regret in the News Bureau.The day before yesterday, Jin Chaoqun invited me to dinner in Taipei and asked me to say sorry for him. He would pay off the penalty for selling the house and sell it, but he really couldn't continue filming it.
When "Bao Qingtian" was first filmed, it was banned by the Taiwan authorities and could not be sold into the Taiwan market at all.
It was sold to Guangdong TV station a few months ago, and it quickly set off a wave of Baoqingtian. It was then broadcast on more than 20 TV stations in the mainland one after another, becoming the most popular TV series in the mainland this year.
Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po published the popular broadcast of "Bao Qingtian" in the mainland, praising the TV series for its excellent filming, but was targeted by the people of the Hong Kong Branch of the Central News Agency of Taiwan.
This TV series was clearly filmed by DreamWorks TV Production Department, but Feng Huáng TV was shot while lying down and was besieged by many right-wing newspapers in Hong Kong.
As for the male lead actor Kim Chaoqun of "Bao Qingtian", under the threat of the Taiwanese authorities, he went back to write a letter of repentance. He may not be able to film in Hong Kong within a few years.
The News Bureau has not made things difficult for DreamWorks films, right?Kang Jianfei asked, this was what he cared about the most.
Yu Kanping shook his head and said with a smile: No, the News Bureau and the Third Young Master have paid tribute every year, and the Bamboo League has paid dividends, and the black and white gang has been dealt with in place.As long as there is no big problem, the News Bureau will definitely turn a blind eye.
Taiwan's administration is not easy. Although today's leader, President Chiang Kai-shek, advocates integrity and frugality, he still sets an example.
But the officials below were slanderous. Even President Chiang's sons made money better than the other. DreamWorks stuffed so much money into the News Bureau every year is really not in vain.
Just like this time, "Bao Qingtian" filmed by DreamWorks TV Production Department, it was found that it became produced by Feng Huáng TV, mainly because the News Bureau was to preserve DreamWorks' wealth.
Kang Jianfei suddenly thought that if Tsui Hark's "Shushan" was released, it would probably be that the Taiwan authorities would really ban DreamWorks.
In fact, Kang Jianfei is not afraid of losing the box office in Taiwan, but is afraid of the chain reaction caused by the ban on the Taiwan authorities.
The reason why he chose to cooperate with the mainland was mainly because Kang Jianfei was a time traveler and knew the general direction of the future.
In fact, it’s not just Kang Jianfei, anyone with a normal mind should know how to choose.
In the parallel space, after the dust of Sino-British negotiations came to an end, several right-wing newspapers in Hong Kong announced that they would stop publishing, which was considered as those bosses who were leaving a way out for their future.
Run Run Shaw stopped Shaw's production business a few months after the Sino-British negotiations ended. While shifting his energy to TVB development, he also completely turned to the Celestial Government, and he donated tens of millions of dollars to the mainland every year to help students.
Jiang Zhiqiang's brother Jiang Zhiwen invested in the joint construction of Nanguo Cinema with the mainland in the second year after the Sino-British negotiations, laying a political foundation for the future rise of Anle Cinema.
Anyway, after confirming that Hong Kong will return in 1997, smart people in Hong Kong know how to hold on.
The funniest thing is that after the ban on Taiwan was lifted, Taiwanese investors could not go directly to the mainland to invest in filming, so they invested their funds in Hong Kong companies, and then the Hong Kong director went to the mainland to shoot filming, and then took it back to Taiwan for filming.
Since about 1988, the film cooperation model of Taiwanese businessmen paying money, Hong Kong paying people, and mainland show off has started to run smoothly.
Yu Kanping came here this time to report the situation of the Taiwan branch to Kang Jianfei.The branch invested in two movies this year, one barely recovered its capital, while the other lost more than NT$1 million.
This situation proves that Taiwanese local movies are really beyond help. No wonder the Taiwanese branch of Xinyi City will stop production. For Mai Jia, it is not hesitant to have a fight with Sylvia Chang. The main reason is that Taiwanese movies cannot make money.
Dingling...
After Yu Kanping left, Zhao Yazhi's phone number was directly transferred by his secretary: When is it?You are still in the company and don’t leave Ah!
Come soon, wait for me first.Kang Jianfei hung up the phone and went out, and Zeng Bolin hurriedly followed.
After a month of publicity, tonight is the semi-finals of the Miss Oriental beauty pageant, and Kang Jianfei, as the organizer, naturally has to participate.