Chapter 348: The Sword of Immortality

"The crew of the film "The Four", which is invested by Guangguang and directed by Chen Jiashang, has arrived at Xiangshan Film and Television City today. They will undergo a one-month training before the start of filming."

"It is reported that many actors from Hong Kong Island have arrived at the crew recently."

"The leading female role in The Four has been confirmed to be played by Yang Mi, who will play the "female" Wuqing."

"The popular young actor Deng Chao will play the role of Leng-blooded."

"Jiang Yiyan and Wu Xiubo have confirmed they will join the cast of The Four."

As soon as the news came out, it attracted the attention of many fans, especially Yang Mi and Deng Chao, both of whom are popular artists and have many fans.

Perhaps due to the consecutive flops of "Warring States" and "Guan Yunchang", netizens have become more demanding of domestic blockbusters.

"To be honest, I really didn't expect a female version of Wuqing. Wuqing becomes a woman, oh my god."

"It's another Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong Island. Don't make another messy adaptation and end up with a bad movie."

Then Chen Jiashang’s Weibo post came out.

“Except for some minor changes to the characters, the plot of this movie will basically respect the original work, and there will be no comments about it being a random adaptation.

The leading male and female actors Deng Chao and Yang Mi are both popular artists in the industry, and I am very happy to work with them this time."

Chen Jiashang made a direct statement to the public, giving the audience a heads-up so that the movie would not be affected by other factors and affect the box office.

After the Capital Film Festival, the festival officials held a dialogue summit between Chinese and foreign directors and invited Gu Wei to participate.

"I won't go. They say it's a famous Chinese and foreign director. If none of the famous Hollywood directors come, it will only make them look good."

Sometimes, Gu Wei really couldn’t understand why these people in China didn’t focus on making movies but were instead keen on various activities and meetings.

It seems that holding a meeting can improve our international status.

Gu Wei did not go, but many other directors in the circle were interested.

Feng Xiaogang, in particular, attended the meeting cheerfully and I heard he expressed many of his own ideas.

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To be honest, there is a very strange phenomenon in the entertainment industry. Sometimes, for the sake of honor, for example, when a director takes his work abroad to compete, everyone will unite against the enemy and cheer each other on.

Sometimes, the two sides would have a big fight over some things related to the movie, just like Yu Dong of Bona and Zhang Weiping of New Picture.

As well as the crew of "Legend of the Hongmen Banquet" which has just started filming, and "The Banquet" which has been filming for more than a month.

At the beginning, Lu Chuan was kicked out of the project by the producers of "The Legend of Hongmen Banquet".

Later, with the help of his father, he got investment from Emperor Entertainment Group, and the movie "The Banquet" was born.

The two are naturally full of topics. Now that "The Banquet" has started filming, the media is paying special attention to it.

“It will be worth looking forward to which of The Legend of Hongmen Feast and The King’s Banquet will win.”

The reporter gave this title, just to watch the fun and enjoy the event.

Unfortunately, Lu Chuan and Li Rengang tacitly agreed not to accept media interviews, and both of them held their breath.

"Let's make the movie first, and then choose a good release date. No matter who does worse at the box office, it can't be worse than The Feast at Hongmen."

In the crew of "The Banquet", Lu Chuan said with gritted teeth.

Then he took a look at the filming scene: Liu Ye, Daniel Wu, Zhang Zhen, and Qin Lan. He felt that the actors chosen this time were more to his liking, with both good acting skills and good looks.

On the other hand, Li Rengang had the same idea when he saw Feng Shaofeng, Yang Mi, and these Hong Kong directors joining the crew.

At Xingchen Film and Television Company, it has been confirmed that "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Mystical Ancient City" will start filming in July. The TV series director Kong Sheng is also selecting actors for the roles. Wang Chen will be in charge of the specific details of the play.

As for another TV series "The Eternal Sword", Gu Wei handed it over to Jiang Xueruo.

The Sword of Immortality is the first weapon in Gu Long's novel series Seven Weapons. It was listed as one of Nan Qi's Seven Spirits of Wulin in February 1974. The Sword of Immortality is a magical sword, equipped by Bai Yujing. The name of the sword comes from the poem of the poet Li Bai: "The immortal strokes my head, and I am blessed with immortality."

The story of this novel is very simple. The scabbard is old, and the satin wrapped around the hilt is equally old. There is no sign of murderous intent at all.

However, the sword in this old scabbard was terrifyingly sharp.

This is the most terrifying sword in the world - Bai Yujing's Changsheng Sword.

People in the martial arts world are afraid of Bai Yujing and his sword, because he is the only one who kills people and no one can kill him! In fact, the most terrifying thing about Bai Yujing is not his sword, but his smile. Because his smile has caused many martial arts masters to be defeated by his sword, and his smile has also saved him from death countless times from the swords of others.

"The Sword of Immortality" is not only about Bai Yujing, the owner of the Sword of Immortality, but also about the weak woman Yuan Zixia. She came alone to clean up the mess, and she easily killed all the martial arts masters, big and small. "As long as a person knows how to use his strengths, he can knock people down without using martial arts." Her strength is laughter - no matter how sharp the sword is, it can't compare to that moving smile. Life is always a scam, anything can happen, and no one knows who will have the last laugh. Love has become an eternal theme. What is Gu Long longing for?
Gu Long said at the end of the book: "So the first weapon I mentioned is not the sword, but laughter. Only laughter can truly conquer people's hearts. So when you understand this truth, you should put away your sword and smile more!"

In the company, Jiang Xueruo gathered Yu Bo, Yang Junyi, Zhang Jin and others together to decide on the leading actors.

In the office, in addition to the previous Zhou Yi Sanbao, there were also Zhang Dapeng and Wang Weiting, the directors of "Peacock Feather".

The two are old colleagues who have worked with Zhou Yi. This time, Jiang Xueruo invited them to continue directing this TV series.

"Director Zhang, Director Wang, this is the script of The Immortal Sword. Our company has adapted part of it before, and now it has been adapted by the scriptwriters of Xingchen Films. You can take a look at it first."

As soon as Jiang Xueruo finished speaking, the assistant handed them a thick document.

“In addition, the company initially plans to invest 50 million in this TV series, and additional funds can be added if the subsequent expenses are not enough.

In addition, all special effects of the TV series will be handled by Xingchen Films' internal engineers. Director Gu's meaning is that if you want to shoot, you must shoot a high-quality one and refuse to produce shoddy works. "

As soon as he finished speaking, the eyes of a group of people in the conference room lit up. What a big deal the company has made.

It's not just them. When Jiang Xueruo heard the base fee of 50 million from her mouth, she felt a little emotional. When Zhou Yi was still around, filming TV series was basically done in a stingy manner. There was no such generosity at all.

Thinking of how much Gu Wei supports her now, Jiang Xueruo secretly made up her mind to make this TV series well and promote the company's reputation for costume martial arts films.

Actually, Jiang Xueruo was a little too self-indulgent about the large investment. The reason why Gu Wei spent more was that he wanted to set a standard for TV dramas in the industry.

As the world's "number one producer of TV series", China's TV drama output in 2011 has reached an unprecedented 2 episodes. However, the effective broadcast volume of all TV stations, big and small, in the country is only 7000 to 9000 episodes a year, and only to episodes are lucky enough to enter the prime time. This means that more than half of the TV series have no future. Overproduction has caused TV dramas to fall into the embarrassing situation of having quantity but no quality.

Some industry insiders said that the domestic TV drama market, which is "not short of money", has begun to enter the capital era of mass production. In order to be able to go to the capital market to make money, some film and television companies blindly expanded production.

Coupled with the continuous influx of investment from real estate developers and coal bosses, although the TV drama market in 2011 was filled with hot money, the entire industry was working for the actors as the production costs continued to rise due to the massive influx of funds.

This year, the highest actor's salary has reached more than 30 yuan per episode. At present, actors' pay accounts for % of the production cost of some TV dramas.

In addition, plagiarism and imitation are serious issues.

After the hit "Capital Love Story", youth dramas flocked to the market;

With the popularity of the drama "Palace", time-travel dramas have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

The resource-driven volatility of the TV drama market in the first half of the year was also reflected in the fact that “travelling back in time has become China’s latest craze.”

Because of its super strong ability to attract money, the screen has become a "harem world" with female stars competing to "enter the palace" and even the air is filled with the smell of jealousy, intrigue and scheming.

However, criticisms of falsifying history, excessive jokes, and rampant proliferation have forced this year's most popular TV drama themes - time-travel dramas and palace fighting dramas - into a corner due to policies.

According to information released by the General Administration, starting from January 2012, 1, costume palace dramas and time-travel dramas may bid farewell to satellite TV's prime time.

Following the "advertising restriction order" on screens that stopped commercial inserts in TV dramas, it was clearly stipulated at the end of the year that the operating rights of on-screen patch ads would gradually return to theaters.

"Boss Jiang, have you chosen the heroine?"

After taking a quick look at the script, the two directors asked.

"Zhao Liying, the actor who worked with us before in "The Royal Secret Agent"."

"It's her!" Yu Bo and Yang Junyi looked at each other and spoke at the same time.

Several of them have worked together before, so of course they are very familiar with each other.

Among the three, only Zhang Jin had never worked with Zhao Liying, and at this moment he was listening with a blank expression.

"Everyone should cooperate well when the time comes. There are many directors under the company. If there are suitable roles in the future, everyone will have a chance."

Hearing Jiang Xueruo's words, Yu Bo, Yang Junyi and Zhang Jin, who were sitting on the sofa, all smiled at the same time.

The reason why everyone continues to choose to follow Jiang Xueruo is largely because of this reason. After all, no actor can refuse to appear on the big screen.

"The Sword of Eternal Life" was handled by Jiang Xueruo. The overall framework was quickly built and everything was in order.

As for "The Blade Strikes", the filming progress is also very fast, especially Zhao Liying's role.

Ying Bao's hard work and dedication left a deep impression not only on Lu Yang, but also on other actors in the crew.

This little girl has huge energy in her body.

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(End of this chapter)