my time as a director

Chapter 444

At the beginning of September, the TV series "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Ancient City", which has been in preparation for several months, held a press conference again in Beijing. Li Qian and Penguin Vice President Chen Wu attended the press conference, and Xu Ke, the producer, also appeared together.

Xu Ke is still preparing for the movie "Ghost Blowing Out the Lantern". After preparing for a year, the filming is about to start. Li Qian invited him to be the producer of the TV series.

For this type, Xu Ke is the most suitable producer in China. Of course, he just grasps the general direction and controls the early preparations.

For TV dramas, the most important thing is the preliminary preparations. There is no problem with the script, the actors are okay, and there is no problem with Fu Huadao. It is easy to shoot.

TV dramas are the art of screenwriting, and directors are sometimes secondary.

The leading actor is Pan Yueming, and Li Qian's plan is to find a middle-aged actor who is not very famous but has acting skills.

39-year-old Pan Yueming was very popular a few years ago. Within seven months, he starred in three TV dramas in a row on CCTV, including "Moment in Beijing", "Red Clothes Square" and "Legend of the White Snake". He was dubbed CCTV's son.

Then Cheng Kai chose him to play in "Mei Lanfang", which can be said to have a bright future.

However, during a filming, the car was driven down a cliff of more than 20 meters, and the rib pierced the lung, and the doctor seemed to have issued a critical illness notice.

After the car accident, Pan Yueming's life entered a trough, and it was rumored that he had cheated on his marriage and loved to gamble.

At that time, Ruo Jie had the image of a pure girl. After the rumor of cheating, she was immediately criticized by everyone, and she was treated the same as Yao Chen's ex-husband Ling Xiaosu.

It wasn't until the photos and videos of Ruo Jie and Wang Dazhi came out that the truth came out.

However, most people don't care about whether he cheated or not, but are more concerned about how Ruo Jie fell in love with Wang Dazhi, after all, his appearance does not match.

Naturally, not many netizens helped Pan Yueming reverse the case, and gradually felt a little forgotten.

The role of Hu Bayi cannot be found in the industry to find a perfect candidate. Whether it is said that the author wrote it according to the image of Zhong Yuemin, or the movie version of Chen Kun in Li Qian's memory, there are actually quite a few differences from the original.

That's it, usually the male protagonist has many advantages in one body, but it is contradictory to put these advantages together.

It's better for male roles, but for female roles, there are simply no suitable people to play in many places.

The author can't wait to give all the advantages to the female characters. The skin should be white and rosy, the face should be pure and charming, the waist should be big, the waist should be thin, the buttocks should be longer than the shoulders, the legs should be long and straight, and the thighs should be beautiful. With flesh and strength, and thin legs, I can't wait for every part to be perfect.

There are no such actresses in the entertainment industry.

The male characters are relatively better. Hu Bayi is upright, gangster, and ruffian. He usually looks like a fool, but in terms of characteristics, he is a bit like Li Yunlong.

The ideal Hu Bayi should have the ruthless and wild energy of Chen Kun's version, the calmness and righteousness of Jin Dong's version, and the ruffian spirit of Zhong Yuemin.

However, Li Qian still looked for Pan Yueming, just because he was so miserable now, and he was obviously splashed with dirty water, but he could still consider Jie Jie and his own dignity.

He's a nice guy.

Li Qian is happy to help good people who are in a slump.

Moreover, Pan Yueming also meets the requirements of the character in many places. The most important thing in this kind of TV series is the plot and special effects.

There are no perfect actors anyway.

At the press conference, the reporters also asked Li Qian why he chose Pan Yueming. In their opinion, an actor with "stains" is not worth using.

It was not much different from the normal press conference, except that Chen Wu, who was in charge of the Penguin Interactive Entertainment Business Group, talked for a long time there about his "pan-entertainment strategy".

As soon as the press conference was over, Chen Wu was still dragging Li Qianyou to talk about that, those who didn't know thought he was just doing rumors.

After finishing speaking, he asked Li Qian, "By the way, Director Li, will the movie "Ghost Blowing Out the Lantern" be released as scheduled next year?"

Li Qian shook his head, "You can't tell. The movie hasn't started shooting yet, and there are close to [-] special effects shots. The post-production is also a big project."

Chen Wu said with a smile, "I'm really looking forward to the release of the movie. Our Penguin literature has countless high-quality IPs, and each of them has countless readers. They are all looking forward to adapting their favorite movies into film and television dramas. If it goes well, I can also start the adaptation of other IPs."

In fact, two months ago, Chen Wu was planning other adaptations, but the reputation of the "Little Times" series was so bad that it exploded, and so many adaptations failed in the summer, so he temporarily gave up.

There must be a role model, so that the value of IP can be increased, and more projects can be done if the value of adaptation is high. Otherwise, if the prospects are not promising, it is impossible for Penguin alone to adapt these IPs alone.

Moreover, film and television is the most important part of the pan-entertainment plan, so Chen Wu did not act rashly, and planned to wait for the release of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" to explode, and use this shareholder wind to start his own plan.

Seeing Chen Wu's eagerness, Li Qian smiled, "President Chen, I understand your thoughts, but there are eight volumes of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", it's not a one-off sale, even if it is to lay a good foundation for the next seven volumes. The first one should be cautious, otherwise it will affect the subsequent sequels, which is not good.”

Although he was very anxious, Chen Wu still nodded, expressing his agreement with Li Qian's statement, "What Director Li said is that the most important thing is to lay a good foundation for a tall building to rise from the ground."

To be honest, as far as Chen Wu is calling out for big entertainment and pan-entertainment plans every day, no fool knows what he is thinking.

Li Qian knew that the success of "Ghost Blowing Out the Lantern" would further promote the upsurge of ip adaptations of film and television dramas, and many bad movies would inevitably be born.

However, even if you don't shoot, others will shoot, something will happen.

In the tide of adaptation, there are bad movies and there are also good movies. After the first few years of barbaric growth, bad movies will inevitably be eliminated by good movies.

Li Qian still had something to do, chatted with Chen Wu for a while, and was about to leave.

When Pan Yueming saw Li Qian and Chen Wu separated, he quickly walked over excitedly.

"Director Li."

Li Qian waved his hand and stopped what he wanted to say, "Act well, actors must rely on their works to speak after all."

Back at the company, Qi Yukun greeted him, "Boss, they are all here."

"Let's go then."

Li Qian walked into the meeting room, asking as he walked, "Did you show them the script?"

"I've already finished watching. I came early in the morning, so I can audition directly." Qi Yukun said, and pushed open the door when he reached the door of the conference room.

Li Qian nodded and stepped into the conference room.

Today is the day when the male lead is decided. After more than half a year of preparation, the filming is scheduled to start after the National Day holiday. The special effects company will do special effects while filming, and the location of each part is basically confirmed.love reading

"Director Li!"

Seeing Li Qian coming in, several actors in the conference room got up quickly.

"Everyone, sit down."

Li Qian waved his hand and sat down at the main seat.

There are only five actors in the conference room, Deng Chao, Liu Ye, Chen Kun, Hu Ge, and Huang Xuan.

The appearance of the male lead should be around 30 years old. With just makeup and some special effects, he can play 18-40 years old.

Besides, he had to be handsome, and he also had to have good acting skills. Handsome guys like Huang Xiaoming and Lu Yi from the Mesozoic era were almost unimpressive. Those good actors who were mixed in literary films, such as Qin Hao, didn't meet the requirements.

Handsome!