Chapter 284 Escorts travel the world
After recording the 6-to-3 episodes of "Yahoo Star Search", following Feng Xiaogang's instructions, Xu Kun took advantage of his free time to make some suggestions for the second season of "Seeing Words Like Faces" .
The first season focused on revolutionary heroes and celebrities. If we do this again in the second season, it will be repetitive. It is better to start with the little people from all walks of life, those who enjoy hardships and perseverance, those who face the Farewell of life and death...
If other people from the original program team come to criticize, CCTV may not recognize it, and may even develop a resistance.
But Xu Kun’s status is different after all. Even Tang Hao, the director of CCTV variety shows, is a head shorter than him, so he takes Xu Kun’s opinions very seriously.
He was even specially invited to CCTV to hold a small symposium for the planners of the second season.
When it comes to the ideas for planning the program, Xu Kun is someone who can’t keep up with CCTV. Fortunately, he can work backwards from the results. The few examples he cited are all classics of the Duxin variety show. do.
In the end, everyone who listened was impressed, saying that it was no wonder that Xu Kun became the fifth box-office director and the strongest post-80s generation in the entertainment industry. In addition to the 'fan economy' that is hotly discussed on the Internet, there is really something in this belly. Good stuff!
After the symposium, director Tang Hao called on the producer, chief planner, and host Nikomaiti who had just joined the job, and insisted on dragging Xu Kun to a restaurant.
After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Xu Kun brought up the matter of TV and movies at the right time.
Tang Hao agreed without thinking.
Although the movie channel is directly under the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and is under the same brand and two teams as CCTV, and they are not subordinate to each other, but they are under the same brand after all, and they can always build relationships by beating around the bush.
If an ordinary young director wanted to ask Tang Hao to help him, Tang Hao would probably not agree, and at most he would just give a perfunctory sentence.
But again, Xu Kun’s identity is different after all.
If you introduce someone to take this job, you are shyly asking the movie channel, and other movie channels may not be willing to give you this face.
But if you introduce ‘The Only Show in Thirty Years’ to the program team, the situation will be completely reversed.
Movie Channel may not be flattered, but it certainly doesn’t dare to take advantage of it casually. Maybe it will thank Tang Hao for helping to connect people.
The result was similar to what Tang Hao expected.
The leader in charge of the digital film series heard that Xu Kun was interested in this project and came directly to the door the next day with Tang Hao and the script.
The reason why it is so urgent is mainly because the digital movie series is now somewhat off the established track.
When the project was originally established, the idea was to support young directors through this model.
So the first "Lu Xiaofeng Series" is directed by Hong Kong director Deng Yancheng, who has filmed "The Best in the World", and a few young people will be selected as executive directors.
Originally I thought that after two or three series of ten or so digital films were produced, young directors would have gained experience and be promoted to take on subsequent filming tasks.
The idea is great, but it turns out to be very difficult to implement.
Several young assistant directors selected from mainland majors obviously did not adapt to the rhythm of the Hong Kong crew, and they could not help but criticize the script.
Either they disliked it because it wasn’t dark enough, or they thought the scene wasn’t big enough. When they were directing the filming, they had too much ambition and too little skill, and ended up with a mess.
Of course, the xenophobia and deliberate stumbling blocks of Hong Kong people are also important reasons why these assistant directors failed to succeed.
Nowadays, digital film series have almost become the exclusive preserve of Hong Kong Island filmmakers. From the director to the main actors, they are either from Hong Kong Island or from the Bay Area.
In the movie channel, of course there are opinions on this situation, but unfortunately the unity between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places is the mainstream.
Furthermore, the results of "Lu Xiaofeng Series" are good. You can't just kick Deng Yancheng out because the assistant directors failed to train them, right?
Besides, even if there is a reason, no suitable person can be found to replace him. Therefore, the leader in charge of this project could only continue to appoint Deng Yancheng's team while being criticized internally, and at the same time try to re-screen new assistant directors.
At this time, Xu Kun suddenly expressed that he had ideas for this project. For the project leader, it was like timely rain.
With Xu Kun's identity and age, it is perfect to take over the series. Even Deng Yancheng can't fault him.
Although you, Deng Yancheng, are somewhat famous and a veteran in the industry, how do you compare a TV series director with a film director with a box office of over 100 million?
However, taking into account the great unity between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places, the project team could not directly kick Deng Yancheng away, so they planned to start two series at the same time, directed by Xu Kun and Deng Yancheng respectively.
One of them is the "The World of Escorts" series, which is similar to the previous "Lu Xiaofeng Series" and is also an ancient costume martial arts suspense drama.
It consists of 9 digital movies. The difficulty of shooting is between that of a movie and a TV series. The workload is almost equivalent to a TV series with more than 30 episodes and a relatively compact plot.
The other drama is the "Fire Man" series with firefighters as the protagonists. The script has already been written for the third part, and the remaining ones need to be written while filming.
Xu Kun briefly reviewed the scripts. The scripts of both series are good. Based on the current market feedback, he prefers "Fire Man".
But the risk of writing while filming is too high. Although the digital film series does not need to worry about subsequent publicity, if the script cannot be written in time and the "Assembly" at the end of the year is delayed, wouldn't it be like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons?
Furthermore, "Heroes of Sword" can barely be considered a costume suspense drama, and he has some experience with this genre.
So Xu Kun finally chose the Daredevil series and declined the offer to direct and star in it.
When filming "Unfortunately", he always followed the original version. At most, he made some detailed modifications from the perspective of an actor. The 'tasteless handsome guy' was also photographed.
This time he is going to stand completely from the director's perspective, practice his directing skills, and strive to be a veritable 'fifth man'.
The project leader, when he heard that Xu Kun was not planning to play the leading role, felt a little regretful at first, and then began to encourage Xu Kun to hold an open audition.
With Xu Kun's current reputation, even if the film is a digital film and cannot be released in theaters, it will definitely cause a sensation - as a leader, who doesn't want the projects he leads to gain more attention? ?
Xu Kun actually prefers to take care of his own people.
But I have already rejected the proposal to direct and act myself. It would be a bit unreasonable to reject the leader's proposal again.
In order to give the cooperation between the two parties a good start, Xu Kun finally agreed to let the movie channel release the news of the audition for the male and female protagonists in advance, and wait until the end of "Yahoo Star Search" to start the public auditions.
As for the filming crew, let Lao Chen bring back some of the old crew who filmed "The Lost Road" first, and then ask Liu Haibo to take care of the rest.
I will try to start filming in early June and finish filming before mid-October, and then I will take another month to carefully study how to play Gu Zi Di well.
After seeing off the project leader of the movie channel, Xu Kun turned around and called Feng Xiaogang to inform him of his progress.
This digital TV movie series was originally a trick given to him by Feng Xiaogang. As long as it did not affect the filming of "Assembly", Feng Xiaogang would naturally have no objections.
On the contrary, I made an appointment with him to meet Chen Shu, the heroine of "Assembly", when we go to film the finals of "Yahoo Star Search" in two days.
“Also, there is a small problem with Chen Kun. Rong Xinda is clinging to the contract and refuses to let him go. Chen Kun is hesitant and doesn’t want to make the matter a big deal. Wang Jincun is most likely an actor. No, what do you think about Deng Chao?"
"Deng Chao?"
Xu Kun thought for a moment and said, "I think Huang Xiaoming is more suitable to play Wang Jincun."
"You mean to let Deng Chao play Zhao Erdou?"
Feng Xiaogang thought for a moment and said: "Why don't you invite Deng Chao together when you have dinner with Chen Shu, and I'll do it in person Weigh it again.”
(End of this chapter)