Li Zhibai was in pain.
Very painful.
It was not because of anything else, but because he had never realized that there were so many weirdos in the entertainment industry where he had been for so many years.
In order to find a suitable producer and director for "Nineteen Years of Crime", Li Zhibai met with countless people this month.
Because there is no professional agency for producers and directors in China, if they want to find producers and directors for a project, they can only find them through video platforms, film and television companies and friends around them. introduce.
Li Zhibai has filmed many movies himself, and he knows some production companies and friends. However, even the people introduced by acquaintances like them made him feel more surprised.
The people he met on the set before were, among other things, very strong in their professions.
This also gave him the illusion that everyone is very reliable at least in their own professional field.
But he didn't realize that the projects he would participate in in the past were all at least A-level productions in this industry. The people who could participate in this project were the best talents in various fields.
People who are not good at professional skills will not even have the chance to get to know him.
This resulted in his misunderstanding of the industry.
Li Zhibai said to Lu Yanhe: "No, I still can't be like you and recruit a group of people to do this by myself. I don't have that much ability. I have to find a production company to do it together. They pressure I will be as ruthless as possible, and the first work will be treated as my tuition fee."
Lu Yanhe was surprised that Li Zhibai would choose to compromise.
"Okay." Lu Yanhe also supported Li Zhibai in doing this, "In fact, if you go to them to do it, you can save a lot of time."
This time Li Zhibai did " "Nineteen Years of Crime Record" is quite different from Lu Yanhe's project. Li Zhibai's previous success as an actor could not convince others of his ability as a producer. The failure of the movie version also weakened his bargaining power.
If Li Zhibai wants to recruit a good team to work on this drama, he can't do it on his own for the time being. Then you can only choose to take a step back and compromise on your own interests to achieve cooperation with others.
Finally, after some negotiations, "Nineteen Years of Crime", which was produced by Li Zhibai, signed a cooperation agreement with Beacon Video. The broadcast rights will be purchased by Beacon Video and undertaken by its production company. Produced by Li Zhibai, Lu Yanhe and Yan Liang, they all invested in their personal capacities and served as co-producers.
Li Zhibai stars as the villain in this drama, while the male protagonist of this story, the policeman, is played by Jiang Jun on the recommendation of Lu Yanhe. This is mainly because Li Zhibai's salary already accounts for more than half of the actor's salary budget, and the salary of the other male protagonist cannot be too high. After weighing the balance, Jiang Jun is the most suitable.
In the end, Jiang Jun was able to get the consent of Lighthouse Video to play the leading actor in this drama because there is another very important reason. He is the leading actor in "Squid Game". In the industry, Jiang Jun is a member of the list of male stars waiting to be released.
The drama version of "Nineteen Years of Crime", which has been tossing for a long time, has finally made official progress.
Lu Yanhe felt more and more that his filming of "Love Letter" was really the result of the right time, place and people. Thanks to the help of Luo Yuzhong and Liu Bige, otherwise, with his three-legged cat skills, it might be difficult to turn on the phone.
Not every actor has the ability to assemble a code plate.
However, when it comes to actors of the level of Lu Yanhe, Jiang Yuqian, and Li Zhibai, they actually have the resources to participate in the production process.
Lu Yanhe also thinks this is a good thing. Especially actors like Jiang Yuqian who seem to have passed the peak of their popularity. If they just keep waiting, waiting for scripts, and waiting for others to come to them, they may be completely eliminated from the market.
Any top actor must have the ability to do his own projects. This ability does not mean that he has to do it himself, but that he can organize it.
Just like Jiang Yuqian found Ye Luolai to do "Telephone" together.
Li Zhibai failed to find such a person, then he could only agree to the conditions of Lighthouse Video and rely on the power of Lighthouse Video.
But this is not a bad thing. He ate one bite at a time. Li Zhibai experienced the production of the drama "Nineteen Years of Crime", and he had his first experience.
He will know what kind of people are needed to create a drama from scratch, what links it needs to go through, and what are the twists and turns in it.
In this process, he will also get to know talents from various departments and types of work.
When Li Zhibai has the opportunity to do a second film and television project in the future, no matter whether he has the ability to organize it on his own at that time, he will be more confident than this time and know more clearly what he has to face and what to do.
A person's growth is accumulated bit by bit.
At this time, Miao Yue told Lu Yanhe that she finally decided to take over the adaptation of the drama version of "Rouge Button".
Lu Yanhe was a little surprised, but not surprised.
A challenging script adaptation, with Miao Yue’s soft-spoken character but strong on the inside, the possibility of rejection is really slim.
"What about your own script?"
"Move it back, I can write my own script anytime, but if I don't follow the drama adaptation of "Rouge Button", I feel I will regret it every time I think about it.”
Of course Lu Yanhe supports his classmate’s decision.
He knows Miao Yue’s ability.
She may not be able to give a successful drama adaptation, but she will never perfunctory or make random changes.
"It feels like you are like a magnet, slowly attracting everyone around you to you."
Li Pengfei made a rare trip back to Yuming and had dinner with Lu Yanhe, he joked.
Lu Yanhe asked with a smile: "Then when will you be attracted to me?"
Li Pengfei asked: "Is there anything you need me to do?"
Lu Yanhe: "Now you suddenly ask me if there is anything I need you to do, of course I can't answer."
Li Pengfei: "The main thing is that I don't know what I can do when I'm with you. I don't have any outstanding abilities, so what can I do."
"I don't need you to do anything for me, just …We used to see each other every day when we were in high school. After we went to college, you were not in Yuming and I was busy filming, so we didn’t even see each other during the winter and summer vacations.” Lu Yanhe said, “If we can work together, we can. We meet often.”
Li Pengfei: "You have the nerve to say that you were filming every winter and summer vacation, and never took a break."
"Before, I had to go to class in addition to the winter and summer vacations, so of course the filming could only be arranged during the winter and summer vacations." Lu Yanhe said, "This situation should get better in the future."
"But I will graduate soon, and there will be no winter or summer vacation." Li Pengfei complained, "However, no matter what I do after graduation, I will definitely come back. Yuming.”
"How can you be so sure that you will go back to Yuming?"
"Zijun wants to stay in Yuming. If I don't go back to Yuming, where will I go?" Li Pengfei said, "Didn't Chen Siqi buy a house in Lingyang District? , will the editorial department of "Jump Up" be located there in the future?"
"Yes, I will. "I forgot."
Li Pengfei: "My name is still on the first issue of "Jump Up". I am the founding father. Will your office hang my photo?"
Lu Yanhe: "...You can ask Chen Siqi yourself."
"Forget it." Li Pengfei shrugged, "You have to be low-key as a person."
Lu Yanhe: "Do you want to return to "Jump Up"?"
"Return to what? What if I don't care about that? If you are interested, stay then Come on." Li Pengfei said, "I hate reading people so much. You expect me to finish a magazine? That's nonsense. My dad doesn't even dare to think so."
"Your dad did. Are you going back to take over?" Lu Yanhe asked.
Li Pengfei: "I won't do the succession thing. That's my brother's business. I've told you my goal in life. Do nothing, live happily, and rely on my dad for the first half of my life." It would be great to rely on my brother to support you for the rest of your life, to avoid brotherly feuds and internal strife in the company, and to have a happy and beautiful life.”
"Every time you say that, I feel that you are not so willing to enjoy such a beautiful life. You just don't want to have any possibility of fighting with your brother."
Li Pengfei smiled.
He put his hands on the back of his head and leaned back.
“If I didn’t know you, I might just wait to die like this.”
“How could Xu Zijun let you wait to die like this?” Lu Yanhe said, “She That’s the real reason for your unwillingness, don’t say it’s me, I’m not that capable.”
Li Pengfei let out a long sigh.
"Come on, we haven't seen each other very often in the past few years. How can you know so clearly what I'm thinking?"
"I have to meet often to know what you're thinking. , then this friend is no longer a friend.”
The two looked at each other and smiled.
For a moment, both of them felt like they were back in their senior year of high school.
"Let's organize a class reunion sometime." Li Pengfei said, "We haven't seen each other for a long time."
In the past few years, the high school class has actually organized several class reunions, large-scale, all classmates They will be notified every time, but because they are both in winter and summer vacation, Lu Yanhe is unable to participate every time.
Lu Yanhe nodded and said yes.
He then said: "But why did you suddenly think of organizing a class reunion? I have never seen you interested before."
Li Pengfei said: "It was Li Cui who gave me the gift a few days ago. When I called, he mentioned to me that Jiang Haitian’s father was in a car accident and passed away six months ago. I didn’t even know about this. Jiang Haitian never told me that he and I had a good time in high school. ,back Now that I'm in college, I don't keep in touch very often and I don't have any contact. I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart. I used to have some classmates who were close to me and had a good relationship with me, but gradually we became estranged. I still hope that there can be such an event so that everyone can get together regularly, at least to understand each other’s current situation, and to know who needs help in time. ”
Lu Yanhe looked surprised.
Only then did he realize that Li Pengfei had such a motive for organizing a class reunion.
"So that's it."
"Yeah."
Li Pengfei smiled and asked: "By the way, do you remember Mei Ping?"
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"Of course I remember, she is very active in the class." Lu Yanhe said.
Li Pengfei said: "She seems to be getting married soon."
"Huh? Getting married? So soon?" Lu Yanhe was shocked.
Marriage still seems to be a very distant thing for them at this age. Lu Yanhe did not expect that it would happen to his peers around him so soon.
"Yes." Li Pengfei said, "You didn't expect it, right? I was shocked too."
Neither Lu Yanhe nor Li Pengfei were single, but they had never thought about getting married so early.
"Will you and Chen Siqi consider this matter recently?"
"We have just agreed to rent a house together after graduation."
Li Pengfei: "You two rent a house together? Why don't you just Take it? With your financial strength, you can already afford it, right?”
“Because I haven’t paid enough social security,” Lu Yanhe said, “unless I buy a house. Go to a place like the Sheep District, where there are no purchase restrictions.”
Li Pengfei: "Uh, okay. Others may not believe it, but you two are still renting a house."
"What's wrong with renting? The place where I, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang live now are still rented." Lu Yanhe said.
“It’s mainly because it doesn’t fit in with our ordinary people’s perception of you big stars.” Li Pengfei teased, “In our minds, you have already lived in such a big mansion.”
Lu Yanhe: “It’s not interesting to live in a mansion, at least for me It feels boring now that there are only one or two of us living in such a big house, so it’s empty.”
“Do you think it’s just the housekeeper, chef, security guard, and cleaner who live in a luxury house?” Everyone has a professional logistics team," Li Pengfei said.
Lu Yanhe was surprised and asked: "Is this an exaggeration?"
"Is this an exaggeration? If you have money, you will always do everything you can to improve your quality of life. Isn't it just for spending money? If the quality of life is not improved, then what are you doing with this money? Put it in the bank and change the numbers."
Li Pengfei's words made Lu Yanhe fall into thought.
“I must admit that I have always had the concept that no matter how much money I make, I should not waste it.”
“This is not a waste.”
"Indeed." Lu Yanhe nodded.
Li Pengfei: "Yan He, don't forget, Chen Siqi is a girl who grew up pampered and pampered. Don't apply your idea of spending money sparingly to her."
Lu Yanhe: "I didn't say that I should save money and spend it. Of course I would save money when I had no money before, but now I don't have any money, right?"
"That's fine."
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In fact, as far as Ziyuan Bridge is concerned, people go in regularly to clean it.
Lu Yanhe and the three of them often go out to film, and the house is often empty.
When I signed the contract with the agency, in addition to the confidentiality clause, there was also a clause that the agency would be responsible for the daily cleaning and management of the house.
However, these are usually done when the three of them are away, so Lu Yanhe usually does not realize this.
Pay money to buy services.
This is a normal thing.
Lu Yanhe knew that he had a bit of an "ordinary family" mindset before. Actually? He himself has already begun to enjoy the convenience of "paying for services", but he still thought that he was in a state of being as self-sufficient as possible.
Chen Ziyan, Wang Biao and their entire team are helping him with his food, clothing, housing and transportation.
It is said that it is an assistant service at work, but Wang Biao is also handling many things in Lu Yanhe's life.
Whether it's work or life, he has long been separated from the general public.
This was a wake-up call for him.
It’s nothing else.
When he was acting, what he thought was the "ordinary person's state" may not be the real "ordinary person's state".
Lu Yanhe, who was always introspecting, wrote down this in his memory notebook.
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Two days later, he saw the preview of the third season of "Six" online.
This season, Zhang Lan joins and becomes one of the protagonists of the third season of "Six".
However, this season has experienced another big change, and the director has changed.
Bai Jingnian left Beijing and Taiwan and went to Northern Lights Video to film "Wulin Gaiden" written by Lu Yanhe.
This season of "Six", the director was replaced by Yuyao.
Lu Yanhe also didn’t know the style of Yuyao’s previous directed works.
Judging from the trailer, Zhang Lan didn’t have many roles. She was basically on par with the other five leading actors, and she didn’t do anything that overshadowed her. This made her gain more attention in her first appearance than in the second season. Chen Zi has much better audience feedback.
However, the story of the third season seems to continue the bloody style of the second season.
Judging from the trailer, Zhou Zhixi, played by Bai Jin, is even suspected of being pregnant, and it may be that of Hu Fan, played by Yan Liang.
Unsurprisingly, this clip from the trailer has become a hot topic.
After two years of fermentation, the drama "Six People" has basically become the drama with the greatest long-tail effect.
The audience base is so strong that it exceeds many people’s imagination.
People who are paying attention to the plot and character development of this drama have reached a very exaggerated level.
Especially after the bad reputation of the second season and the change of director in the third season, fans of "Six" are now ready to scold Beijing and Taiwan until the end of time.
However, no matter what, the popularity of the third season of "Party of Six" is still as high as any other. It was just a trailer, but it surpassed the popularity of all TV series currently on the air.
This is the power of the drama king.
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"The data of the trailer can be synchronized to the previous advertisers, and tell them that their doubts can be completely dispelled. Even if "Six People" does not have Lu Yanhe, the director has been changed. , it is also the drama that attracts the most attention and expectations from the audience."
Xu Bin said to Hu Siwei.
Hu Siwei nodded.
The popularity of the trailer for the third season really made all of them feel relieved.
At least, the audience's expectations for "Six" are still there, and they have not lost interest because of the negative reputation of the second season.
After Hu Sisi nodded, he did not leave Xu Bin's office immediately.
"What's wrong?" Xu Bin looked at Hu Siwei and asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"
Hu Si thought for a while. As the producer of "Six People", he felt that he still needed to speak out.
"Xu Taiwan, although the popularity of the trailer is high, there are loud voices of doubt. If the controversy continues like this, it may affect the ratings." Hu Siwei said, "We really don't want to go Invite Bai Jingnian back to direct the fourth season? The actors all said that the filming of this season... was much worse than before."
Xu Bin frowned.
"The second season was also very controversial, but in the end the ratings were still stable. This shows that the controversy will not affect this show."
Hu Siwei shook his head, "In On the video platform, the replay rate of the second season is one-third lower than that of the first season. In particular, 62% of the viewers on the video website skipped the clip where Chen Ziliang appeared. ”
This was not the first time Hu Siwei told Xu Bin these data.
Xu Bin also knew it a long time ago.
"Now that you invite Bai Jingnian back to direct the fourth season, aren't you shooting yourself in the foot?" Xu Bin said with some annoyance.
When Bai Jingnian wanted to leave, it was because he felt that he was not taken seriously and was not taken seriously in Beijing and Taiwan, so he left in anger.
Hu Siwei said: "You have already seen the material of the third season. Compared with the previous two seasons, it has become visibly worse. If we have to wait until the third season and be criticized miserably by the audience, If you invite Bai Jingnian back to direct, you are really shooting yourself in the foot. If you invite Bai Jingnian back before the third season is aired, you still have a little bit of initiative.”
Xu Bin: "I don't believe that he is the only one who can direct "Six People". If he is so capable, how come he didn't show up until "Six People"? He has made so many movies before, but why didn't he get any hits?"
Hu Siwei: "...If he is incompetent, how could Lu Yanhe and Northern Lights Video invite him back to direct "Wulin Gaiden"?"
Xu Bin's face was gloomy and ugly.
Hu Siwei continued: "To be honest, I can say now that the reputation of the third season will be worse than that of the second season, and the ratings may not be stable. If Bai Jingnian cannot be invited back to direct If so, it’s hard to say whether the fourth season can be filmed in Chengdu.”
“What do you mean?”
"Yan Liang and Wen Minglan have not signed the contract for the fourth season yet." Hu Sisi said, "After the end of the first season, we only signed the agreement with them for the second and third seasons. The two of them are rivals. The two actors who were most dissatisfied in the third season even had conflicts with the director on the set, and they had very different opinions on the filming. "
Xu Bin looked even more ugly.
"The two of them... have expressed this before. If "Six People" does not make changes, they will also consider leaving."
Just now because of the trailer data Xu Bin, who was very good and full of energy, could no longer be in high spirits for a while.
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"Minglan and I have reached an agreement. If they continue to shoot "Six People" as they are doing now, we would rather not appear again."
Yan Liang told Lu Yanhe on the phone.
“At that time, they even arranged for me and Minglan to sleep together after being drunk.”
Yan Liang had never told Lu Yanhe about this before, so that Lu Yanhe now sounded , there is a sense of being incredibly shocked.
"Both of us got angry, so we asked them to delete this plot and rewrite it." Yan Liang sighed, "Now they are making "Six People" more and more perfect. It's like a shitty drama. When we were filming the first season, you said that "Six People" would become a state of life that many young people yearn for. I feel that they are not filming a state of life that everyone yearns for, but a state of life that everyone yearns for. It is deliberately creating contradictions.”
Lu Yanhe: "Have you ever seriously talked to them about this matter? Who arranged this kind of plot in the script?"
Yan Liang: "It wasn't someone in Beijing and Taiwan who suggested this, saying that only The richer and more unexpected the plot, the more topical it will be. The screenwriters will write according to this opinion. Anyway, the current directors and screenwriters will not go against the people of the TV station. "
Lu Yanhe: "..."
"I just think it's a pity that such a good story and characters, such a good first season, and a sitcom that can't go wrong if you follow it, have been turned into what it is now. Like this." Yan Liang was very annoyed, "It's a waste of the script and characters you wrote."
Lu Yanhe: "It's okay, Yan Liang, if it doesn't work, we won't do it anymore."
Yan Liang: "I should join you and stop acting after the first season."
"That's not the case. You can still watch the second season if Chen Ziliang's part is deleted." Lu Yanhe said .
Yan Liang was still on fire, and when he heard what Lu Yanhe said, he immediately laughed.
"Alas." Yan Liang smiled and sighed again.
No matter what, it is always disappointing and depressing for a series that could have become a classic but has ended up continuing its journey.
Lu Yanhe asked: "Are you almost done?"
"It's almost done. The director is finishing the work. My film should be finished in three or four days." Yan Liang said, "It won't happen after the filming is completed." I have to rest and cooperate with the promotion of the third season of "Six". This time I really don't want to cooperate. If I don't hold back and accidentally say something that I shouldn't say, it will be quite annoying."
< br> Lu Yanhe said: "Haha, with your cautious character, you won't do it. When you come back, your promotion will be promotion, and you will still have time to have a meal with us. By the end of December, I will be filming "Love Letters" again. 》
Yan Liang said: "I will go and observe it then."
"When the time comes? You won't have to cooperate with the promotion of "Six People""
"I didn't sign a month-long promotion period with them. I just finished the cooperation." Yan Liang's dissatisfaction with Beijing and Taiwan can be felt over the phone.
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However, Lu Yanhe did not expect that the third season of "Six People" had just been announced, and over there, Northern Lights Video suddenly contacted Lu Yanhe and said that he wanted to release "Squid Game" It will air by the end of December.
Although one is a TV series and the other is an online drama, they are broadcast at the same time. In this era where everything is digitized, it is obviously a bit like competing in the ring.
Lu Yanhe was shocked and asked them, "Squid Game" was completed so quickly?
Northern Lights said that "Squid Game" is their most important project, and they have been working overtime to make it in time for the winter vacation.
With this subject matter, middle school students are a viewership group that cannot be underestimated.
"Squid Game" is also a short series. The original version only has nine episodes, each episode is sixty minutes.
The script written by Lu Yanhe was changed into twelve episodes in total, and each episode was filmed for about fifty minutes.
Northern Lights is preparing to make "Squid Game" a daily broadcast mode, and it will be broadcast in twelve days.
Lu Yanhe was a little confused. For this kind of short drama, you either release the entire episode in one go, or you broadcast it weekly. What's the point of broadcasting it daily?
However, Renjia video platform naturally has its own considerations, and Lu Yanhe will not intervene to adjust such things.
"Squid Game" is finally going online, and Lu Yanhe is also very nervous.
The main reason is that Lu Yanhe himself doesn’t know why this drama is so popular——
So, he is afraid that he will write the script himself and fail to write out what is truly attractive about it.
But it is an indisputable fact that this show is a hit.
Lu Yanhe will never question why a work is so popular with the audience. He will only ask himself, have you figured out why it is liked by everyone?
If you don’t figure it out, then you are actually unqualified as a creator.
Northern Lights Video released the trailer for "Squidward" three days after the trailer for the third season of "Six".
It was also at this time that Lu Yanhe knew why Northern Lights Video had made "Squid Game" a twelve-episode daily broadcast model, because Maxine, the international streaming media broadcaster of "Squid Game", would broadcast domestically. On the day the last episode aired, the entire episode was released online at once.
Lu Yanhe: "..."
He thought there was some special reason for the daily broadcast of twelve episodes.
This is what I did for a long time.
If the third season of "Six" is based on the previous two seasons and has attracted much attention, then "Squid Game" was written by Lu Yanhe at the beginning of the project, just like "Seventeen Floors" The battle royale theme has long been anticipated.
The two dramas were scheduled to be broadcast as if they were in a ring, making everyone as excited as if they had been shot.
Everyone loves to watch the ring.
Especially——
The intersection of these two dramas lies in Lu Yanhe.
The busybody media directly took the title: Avenger Lu Yanhe.
No one has forgotten the conflict that Lu Yanhe had with Beijing and Taiwan on the drama "Six People".
This is not a past that can be whitewashed by a "great reconciliation" between him and Jiang Lan on the same stage.
In fact, that time we were on the same stage, it was just the same stage.
After that, Lu Yanhe and Jingtai did not collaborate on any more dramas.
Based on Lu Yanhe’s current output and the frequency of cooperation with Northern Lights Video, we can already see the problem.
Everyone has an idea of what Lu Yanhe’s true attitude towards Beijing and Taiwan is.
Who will have better broadcast performance in the third season of "Six" or "Squidward Game"?
At this time, not many people were particularly optimistic about "Squid Game". After all, the latter is a new drama, while the former is a drama king that has accumulated two seasons. Even if the reputation of the second season of "Six" collapses, the basic base is still there.
Of course, with the configuration of "Squid Game" and the current data, it will definitely not be bad, and it will definitely be a hit.
Especially when it will be launched on Maxine——
Based on Lu Yanhe’s past performance, compared to the domestic broadcast results of “Squid Game”, everyone actually wants to see “Squid Game” "Can it continue to be a hit overseas?"
This time, Lu Yanhe does not appear in "Squid Game".
Can Lu Yanhe’s “miracle of successful learning” be replicated?
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Six thousand words are guaranteed, and two thousand words will be added.
The extra update event lasted for a week, which is quite incredible.
I also tried really hard.
Recommend reading my old book "I Became a Scandalous Diva Overnight". (End of this chapter)