Chapter 177 "The Romance of the Republic of China"
Although it was a bit regretful to kill that ghost movie before, but since it couldn't bring commercial value to him and the company, there was no need to make it.
He is the boss of the company, not a director who has any commercial feelings about shooting ghost movies.
So, if you kill it, kill it.
But it’s different now.
Hao Lai felt that if the ghost wanted to be an actor, why not just star in a ghost movie? He would act in his true colors and his acting skills would be absolutely true.
So, without much hesitation, Hao Lai immediately contacted Bian Dong.
Tell Bian Dong that he has a ghost movie with a good script, but currently lacks a leading actor. If the ghost is willing, he can be directly included in the film.
Soon, Bian Dong fed back the news to Xu Qingling.
Actually, after the release of Moments, many people contacted Bian Dong, but Bian Dong screened them.
After all, there is also a modern drama about ghosts acting as domineering presidents.
Bian Dong felt it was inappropriate, but in the end he felt that, as Hao Lai said, a ghost film was more suitable. Moreover, the filming background of this ghost film was the Republic of China period.
Xu Qingling revealed that the ghost named Zhang Zhao died in the Republic of China.
After seeing Bian Dong’s reply, Xu Qingling asked Zhang Zhao for his opinion.
“Yes, I am willing.” Zhang Zhao was delighted, but he didn’t expect the result to come out so soon.
Moreover, it is a ghost film and a drama of the Republic of China, so he feels that he can definitely act in his true colors.
"Okay, then I'll ask them to send the specific information."
On Hao Lai's side, after getting the exact reply from Bian Dong, he was immediately ecstatic and hurriedly said to his secretary: "Follow me. Feng Chengfeng contacted me and said that the ghost film mentioned before will be restarted again. Our company will invest all the missing funds, but the position of the male protagonist will be retained. I have a suitable candidate."
"Okay."
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Feng Chengfeng is the director of the ghost film "The Romance of the Republic of China".
If anyone has any feelings about shooting ghost films, it is naturally Feng Chengfeng.
Speaking of which, Feng Chengfeng is still very young, only in his thirties now.
He is also a talented director. He graduated from the directing major of the School of Drama. After graduation, he shot several small-cost commercial films, all of which became an instant hit.
He also became the youngest and most talented director.
However, what no one expected was that Feng Chengfeng would choose to make a ghost movie at the height of his popularity.
Ghost movies are box office poison. They have a small audience and can still make money.
Everyone advised Feng Chengfeng not to make ghost movies, but to make love movies instead. Isn't it good to make youth pain movies?
But Feng Chengfeng is stubborn.
Let’s go shoot ghost movies.
Three films were filmed in succession.
For these three films, it was very difficult to raise investment in the early stages. Fortunately, someone later invested in them because of the reputation of talented director Feng Chengfeng.
I thought maybe Feng Chengfeng would make a ghost movie and become popular?
It turns out that it was just a delusion.
Three ghost films, without exception, all failed, and the box office was terrible.
So, now, Feng Chengfeng wants to make another ghost movie, no matter how good the script is, no one is willing to invest.
This is also the reason why Hao Lai killed the ghost film sent by Feng Chengfeng.
As a qualified businessman, how can you make a loss-making business?
At this time, Feng Chengfeng, after hitting a wall one after another, looked at the script on the table and smoked the cigarettes in his hand one by one.
In front of him, smoke filled the air, almost blurring his face.
After a while, Feng Chengfeng sighed slightly. Speaking of which, Feng Chengfeng does have a passion for making ghost films. It's not that he doesn't know that the return rate of making ghost films is low, but he just has such a persistence, or obsession.
As for the reason, maybe no one believes it.
The reason is that Feng Chengfeng saw ghosts when he was a child and was helped by ghosts.
Although he has never seen each other since he grew up, he still remembers the memories of his childhood, even if he told others, others said that he might be dreaming or remembering it wrongly. .
But Feng Chengfeng knew that he remembered it correctly.
Feng Chengfeng, who has a good memory since he was a child and became wise relatively early, just feels that the ghost he saw and the help he received from the ghost is real.
He just wanted to make a ghost movie, and wanted everyone to know that ghosts are real, and there are good and bad ones.
He had the dream of becoming a director, and it was also because of this obsession that he took up the profession of director.
So, even though he knew that he would be more successful and make more money by shooting romantic movies, martial arts movies and other commercial movies, he still decided to switch to shooting ghost movies.
His biggest dream in life is to make a popular ghost movie.
Unfortunately, the three previous films all failed.
But Feng Chengfeng never gave up.
No, there is the fourth part - "The Romance of the Republic of China".
The script this time is different from the previous ones. Others only know that his ghost film is adapted from a best-selling novel, but no one knows that the author of this novel is actually him.
Yes, that was written and published by Feng Chengfeng when he was 19 years old.
It was just that Feng Chengfeng handed the script of this film to various entertainment companies, hoping to get their investment, but without exception, all of them were killed.
No one wants to invest.
Even if Feng Chengfeng later asked his grandfather to sue his grandmother, no one was willing.
But Feng Chengfeng was still unwilling to give up.
He was still unmarried in his thirties, so he sold his house, added his previous savings of around two million, and started filming.
It’s just...
Feng Chengfeng sighed when he thought of what happened next.
For this drama, he intends to strive for excellence, so the estimated cost of filming is at least 20 million. This is indeed the case. It has only been filming for less than ten days, and his savings of more than 2 million It's all going to be spent.
If there is no subsequent investment, then he will not be able to continue filming.
No, there is no way to continue filming now.
He raised his head and looked at the Taoist priest who was opening an altar not far away, with deep expectations in his eyes.
But not long after, he saw that a sudden gust of wind blew over the altar table and everything else, and even the Taoist priest's hat was blown off.
Soon, Feng Chengfeng’s assistant Xiao Li came running.
“Brother Feng, the Taoist priest ran away and said he had nothing to do.”
When Feng Chengfeng saw that scene, he already knew the outcome, but he still couldn't help being disappointed.
“Forget it, let’s not worry about it for now.”
I couldn’t help but feel a sense of sadness in my heart: Did God really not want him to make this ghost movie?
This matter started when Feng Chengfeng took the money from selling his house and started organizing people to take photos.
The actors, he organized it, because he didn’t have much money, and not many actors were willing to shoot ghost movies, so this time he hired all new actors.
Naturally, this new actor's acting skills are not as good as those of experienced actors, let alone compared to veteran actors.
So, Feng Chengfeng was also very upset when he saw those new actors who kept failing.