Chapter 97 The First Scene
“Haha.” Wang Shu smiled and said, “Director Han, aren’t you trying to make things difficult for others?”
It would be better if he didn’t make literary films and make commercial ones. Forget it, I still want him to make a low-cost, high-quality commercial film.
Vice Director Han, is his little calculation rattling in his mind?
"Haha." Han Sanping smiled awkwardly and said, "Just see if you can write a script. If it works, forget it."
Wang Shu could guess what Han Sanping was thinking, and he was worried that it would be too risky to cooperate with him in a large-scale commercial film at this juncture.
If it overturns, it will have a great impact on its performance.
Relatively speaking, if you make a low-cost commercial film, it won’t be a big problem even if it fails.
But if a small-cost commercial film becomes a big box office, it will be a great success.
Cooperating with a well-known director in the industry for a big production can explain even if things go wrong.
If you were to work on a big production with a director like Wang Shu, who is neither academic nor well-connected, and has a shallow foundation, he would be the only one to take the blame if something goes wrong.
Although Wang Shu currently has a movie "The Tuner" with a box office of 150 million, it is still not enough.
Seeing that Han Sanping was talking about this, Wang Shu could only sigh and said: "Then I will give it a try."
"I will think about it later and write it down. Forget it if you can't write it."
After hearing this, a comfortable smile finally appeared on Han Sanping's face. He patted Wang Shu's shoulder again and said sincerely: "Thank you! You can do it yourself. ”
After finishing speaking, he continued, "I have to catch a plane, so I won't talk to you anymore. See you next time."
When he turned around, he saw Wang Shu following him, waved his hand and said , "No need to send it off, you can go back and entertain the crew."
Wang Shu stopped when he heard this.
Watching Han Sanping leave in the car, Wang Shu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Han Sanping may be feeling uneasy, but he knows that starting from next year, the boss of China Film Group will be his opponent.
That is to say, from next year, Han Sanping will transform into the thickest thigh in the domestic film and television industry.
Wang Shu feels that the matter of literary and artistic films competing for awards can really be moved back.
At this time, sending a personal favor
to Han Sanping is a good choice.
Han Sanping sat in the car and looked back. When he saw Wang Shu still standing there watching him leave, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
This young man is so honest!
The next day.
All departments of the "The Legend of Zhen Huan" crew are officially in operation, and the filming work is underway.
In addition to the chief director Wang Shu, there are five assistant directors, executive directors, etc. in the crew.
"The Legend of Zhen Huan" is a very big drama, and it is impossible for all the filming to be directed by Wang Shu himself.
This is time-consuming, thankless and unnecessary.
Therefore, only the most important scenes in the play involve Wang Shu personally wielding the knife. The other secondary scenes are all completed by the assistant director.
“The first shot, the first scene, Action.”
As this voice fell, the actors instantly entered the state,
The first shot by Wang Shu The scene happened to be the audition scene in the first episode.
The first scene shot in the Qing palace version of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" directed by Zheng Xiaolong was not this, but a scene of Zhen Huan at Ganlu Temple.
It’s not that Wang Shu wants to play something different, but when filming a TV series, the filming sequence of the script needs to be determined based on the scenes and actors’ schedules.
Right now, they have just coordinated to rent the Ming and Qing palaces in Hengdian, and Chen Daoming, who plays the emperor, has not yet joined the cast, so Wang Shu simply took the lead in filming the scenes in the palace.
Choose Chen Daoming to play the emperor. In addition to listening to the opinions of Wu Kebo, Chen Hao, and Yang Wang, the main reason was that Wang Shu could not find a suitable candidate for the time being, and Chen Daoming was indeed an excellent person. actor.
Chen Baoguo is starring in "Ming Dynasty 1566" and will retire next year.
Other well-known actors with acting skills are basically in full bloom, and each has no schedule.
Even Chen Daoming is still on the cast of the TV series "Lying on the Fire and Tasting Guts" jointly produced by Yangshi and Happy Culture.
"Sleeping on Fire" started production in October last year. According to the normal timeline, production will not be completed until April this year.
Only one or two months left.
Of course, this is the normal timeline.
Now, Chen Daoming has taken on the role of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" again. As early as a month ago, he asked the crew of "Sleeping on Fire and Taste the Dares" to move up his role.
At this moment, his scenes will be finished in a day or two.
Then, he joined the cast of "The Legend of Zhen Huan".
Wang Shu also thought about casting some young actors to play the role of Zhu Zhanji, who is about 30 years old, but later he was worried that his acting skills would not meet the requirements.
Also, this is a TV series jointly produced by China Film, Yangshi, and his Yishu Company.
If he wants to find a young actor who is not famous now but will be quite famous in the future to play the leading role, he will have to agree with China Film and Yangshi.
He is too lazy to argue with China Film and Yangsheng about these matters. In addition, although Chen Daoming is 50 years old, he plays Zhu Zhan, who is about 30 years old and is obsessed with men and women. Yeah, there's still no problem.
In other words, this casting was accepted by default.
Chen Daoming, formerly an artist from Huayi, switched to Chengtianmen together with Wang Jinghua in September last year. Now, he is considered an artist of Chengtian.
Regarding the fact that Chen Daoming could star in "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Chengtian's Wu Kebo was very happy. He thought it was Wang Shu's contribution and called him to express his gratitude.
On the day of the premiere of "The Tuner", Chen Hao, Cheng Tian's first sister, came specially to support her and gave Wang Shu a lot of face.
The first draft scene mainly featured four people.
They are Zhen Huan played by Zhou Xun, Shen Meizhuang played by Xu Huanhuan, An Lingrong played by Yang Ruoxi, and Xia Dongchun played by Fu Miao.
Wang Shu felt that Xu Huanhuan had also been a starring actor, so he came to her specifically to give her the role of Yu Ying'er, which was too ugly. After watching her performance, she found that her image She also fit well with Shen Meizhuang, so the role of Shen Meizhuang was assigned to her.
As for Yang Ruoxi and Fu Miao, Wang Shu did not choose their roles.
In the entire "The Legend of Zhen Huan", except for a few characters such as Zhen Huan, the Queen, Concubine Hua, and Shen Meizhuang, which were decided by Wang Shu himself, the other characters were produced by China Film, Yangshi, and Yishu. Selected by a joint audition team.
Wang Shu took a quick look and basically had no objection.
Yang Ruoxi, also known as Tie Ling'er in "Kangxi Private Interview", the heroine Su Nu in "The Story of the Eight Laughing Immortals", and the ugly girl Cuihua in "The Lucky Star Shines on Zhu Bajie" , beauty Cuihua and so on.
This is a cute girl who has not picked many roles this year and can play supporting roles and leading roles. When this year is over, she will basically only accept starring scripts.
As for Fu Miao, he has only played some supporting roles since his debut.
For example, Cao Lihua, the supporting actress in the TV drama "Beijing Yanyun" who received new cultural and ideological education, but still struggled with the contradictions bound by traditional ethics, played in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" Lu E has a docile personality and no martial arts.
Wang Shu found that as long as it was not him who decided on the roles but was decided by Yangshi and China Film, many of them were actors who had worked with TV series or worked with Yangshi.
Chen Daoming, Yang Ruoxi, and Fu Miao are all three.
Not to mention Chen Daoming, "Sleeping on Fire and Tasting Guts" is a TV series produced by Yangshi.
Yang Ruoxi plays a supporting role in the ongoing production of "Zhu Yuanzhang Exterminates Evil and Goes to Chenzhou" produced by Yangshi Zhongshi Media.
Fu Miao, starred in "Beijing Smoke and Clouds".
Perhaps, it is precisely because of this that she was selected to play a role as a graduate of theater.
At a glance, many actors who can enter this Yangshu drama are more or less related to Yangshu.
“Click.”
Wang Shu sat in front of the camera, watching the performances of several people, and suddenly shouted.
Zhou Xun, Xu Huanhuan, Yang Ruoxi, Fu Miao, and other extras suddenly returned from their acting state to a relaxed state when they heard this shout.
"An Lingrong, your acting is too sweet, please tone it down a bit."
Wang Shu shouted, and when Yang Ruoxi heard this, she quickly apologized embarrassedly.
The director in front of her is now a director of a billion-dollar box office movie. She doesn’t want to leave a bad impression in Wang Shu’s eyes.
After some preparation, shooting started again.
Wang Shu watched the performances of several people and nodded silently.
Yang Ruoxi's image can be sweet or weak. It is indeed interesting that this image will darken in the future.
I have to say that Yang Wang still has some opinions when it comes to selecting actors.
After a hard day of shooting, we finally called it a day.
That night.
Zhou Xun and others took Wang Shu to a hot pot restaurant near the hotel for a small gathering. It was still quite cold in Hengdian just after the Lantern Festival, so they had some hot pot to warm their bodies.
There are not many people at the table. Except for Zhou Xun, Xu Huanhuan, Yang Ruoxi, and Fu Miao, they are Mei Ting, Jiang Xin (played as Huanbi) and Shu Chang (played as Huanbi) who just arrived today. Liu Zhu).
Add a king tree.
This drama "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has not much else but many actresses.
The seven on the table are only part of the list, and there are still a lot that have not been included in the group.
"Doesn't Director Wang drink liquor?" Zhou Xun and others were a little surprised to see Wang Shu drinking beer even in the cold weather.
Wang Shu saw everyone looking at him and said quietly: "Isn't it just right to drink beer when eating hot pot?"
"But, it's a cold day." Mei Ting Answer the call and deliberately undermine it.
"I'm not interested in liquor." Wang Shu didn't bother to explain, so he said it directly.
"Is that so?" Zhou Xun said, "I don't quite believe it."
“Believe it or not.” Wang Shu picked up a quail egg and put it into his mouth, eating the egg to replenish it.
The seven women on the table, Zhou Xun, Yang Ruoxi, Xu Huanhuan, and Fu Miao are already a little familiar with each other after filming with Wang Shu for a day today, so they let go. Jiang Xin He and Shu Chang, the two newcomers, are more reserved.
As for Mei Ting, they had met Wang Shu before, and since she was a high-ranking person, they felt confident.
The seven of them saw Wang Shu eating quail eggs while talking. They seemed to have thought of something, and they couldn't help but feel happy.
(End of this chapter)