Chapter 328: White Snake Origin starts filming

Jiang Heng naturally didn't take "Legend of the White Snake" produced by Actions Films seriously.

To be honest, the creative team is pretty amazing to have made such a bad film of the touching story of Legend of the White Snake.

The director of this film is Cheng Xiaodong, who is really good as a martial arts instructor. From "A Chinese Ghost Story" to "Swordsman" to "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers", the action designs are all magnificent and the visual effects are very shocking.

But when it comes to storytelling, his ability is not just weak. The director's "Legend of White Snake" and "Zhu Xian 1" are both absolute lousy movies.

Of course, the failure of "Legend of White Snake" cannot be blamed entirely on the director. After all, the fundamental reason for the birth of this film was to promote Huang Shengyi.

In addition, the film also invited Jet Li, Wen Zhang, Cai Zhuoyan, Lin Xing, Xu Ruoxuan, Yang Qianhua, Jiang Wu and others.

Each supporting character has quite a lot of parts, which fundamentally reduces the scenes of developing the relationship between White Snake and Xu Xian, so that Xu Xian in the original "Legend of White Snake" is like a tool, and his presence is not as strong as the third male disciple of Fahai played by Wen Zhang.

In this life, Wen Zhang plays Xu Xian. He will definitely have more scenes, but it probably won’t be filmed very well.

Jiang Heng's work, however, was based on the story of "White Snake: Origin" and was slightly modified and improved. The whole story is both touching and has a little reunion.

Because it tells the story of the two people's previous lives, the audience knows that they later got together.

When the familiar soundtrack sounded, I felt wonderful instantly.

Coupled with the stunning special effects and 3D version, there will be no pressure for the mainland box office to exceed billion.

In terms of the main creative team, the director and male lead are Jiang Heng, the female lead is Jing Tian, ​​Zhao Liying plays Xiaoqing, and the villain national teacher is Liu Xun.

The old man is 70 years old this year and has not participated in film and television dramas for several years.

However, facing Jiang Heng's invitation, Liu Xun was still somewhat tempted.

After all, he has been acting for a lifetime, and he hopes to be able to star in a big-budget film with super high box office. He also hopes that the works he stars in can be seen by audiences in more countries.

After learning that he only needed to be responsible for the literary part and that there would be a special stunt double for the rest of the action scenes, Liu Xun still agreed.

Of course, another reason why he agreed so readily was that Jiang Heng paid him a lot of money, which he could not refuse.

Even though he is a well-known supporting actor, he actually did not make much money in his life and still has certain pressure on retirement.

Not only him, many Hong Kong actors live in extreme poverty when they get old, and only a very small number of them truly achieve financial freedom.

In addition, there is another outstanding character in the film, that is, the disciple of the national teacher, a young Taoist priest with great magic power and kung fu.

For this role, Jiang Heng chose Zhang Jin, a thin man with great kung fu skills.

In "SPL 2", he defeated Wu Jing and Tony Jaa alone, and his performance was very outstanding.

I believe she will be able to perform well in "White Snake: Origin".

In Hong Kong, Zhang Jin, who had just received the invitation for a role, could hardly believe his ears.

He is not very famous in the circle. When people mention him, they often say "Cai Shaofen's husband."

Zhang Jin naturally hopes to make a name for himself, but the Hong Kong film industry is in decline and he has no connections in the mainland, so he doesn't know when he will be able to make a name for himself.

I really didn't expect that there would be such an unexpected opportunity.

The moment Zhang Jin answered the phone, he didn't ask anything. After confirming that it was director Jiang Heng's new film, he immediately agreed.

Then I immediately called my wife and told her about it.

Cai Shaofen was more excited than Zhang Jin. She naturally hoped that her husband would be successful and that others would say that she had married the right person.

I hurriedly booked two plane tickets and prepared to accompany Zhang Jinjin to the crew.

But at the end of February, "White Snake: Origin" held a new film press conference in Beijing.

In addition to the cast and crew mentioned above, also present is Huang Bo, who is here purely for a cameo appearance. He will voice the Shiba Inu Dudou in the film and also play the role of Xu Xian's brother-in-law.

In addition, Gao Yuanyuan was invited to play the role of the Snake Mother in the film.

As for the little fox demon Baoqingfangzhu, Jiang Heng chose the young actress Jiang Yan. Jiang Yan was born in 86 and graduated from the acting department of Beijing Film Academy. She has a good appearance and figure, but she just can't become popular.

Jiang Heng also remembered this person by chance and ordered his assistant to contact him by phone.

At this moment, Jiang Yan is really unknown.

When I first heard that it was director Jiang Heng who invited me, I thought the other party was a liar. It was only after I arrived at iQiyi and Tencent Video Film Company and signed the contract that I dared to believe that it was all true.

Even so, she still felt dizzy when she arrived at the new film launch.

In response to media interviews, Jiang Yan expressed her immense gratitude to director Jiang Heng and said she would work hard to play her role well.

Jiang Heng laughed and said politely that she would become famous sooner or later!
Jiang Yan naturally didn't dare to believe this, but looking at Jing Tian standing beside her who was so bright and beautiful, she couldn't help but feel envious.

The filming locations for the drama "White Snake: Origin" were mainly set at the China Film Digital Base, Hengdian Film and Television City, as well as the Broken Bridge of West Lake and Yunnan and Guizhou regions for exterior scenes.

As for this moment, we first arrived at the China Film Digital Base.

Everyone attending the new film launch took a bus and after getting off the bus, they went to the hotel to check in.

For someone like Jiang Heng who owns houses everywhere, it is natural that he would go to a mansion near the filming base.

Not long after Sui Jingtian came in and rested, he heard the phone ring.

I picked it up and saw that it was a call from Han Sanping.

Director Han is quite busy this year because to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he will be directing the tribute film "The Founding of a Republic".

All the actors in the film performed for free, and of course his old friend Jiang Heng was among them.

"Congratulations! Another blockbuster movie is starting!"

Jiang Heng laughed: "What's there to congratulate? It's just an ordinary movie!"

Han Sanping said, "Don't be so modest. Do you dare to say that the box office of White Snake in mainland China will be less than 1 billion after its release?"

"Of course not!"

"The overseas box office must be at least 500 million US dollars!"

"more or less!"

"Look at you, you're like a human money-printing machine, how much do you make this year?"

Jiang Heng smiled, "The money I make from making movies is hard-earned money, but it's not as much as those business tycoons!"

"Aren't you a business tycoon? Take your game for example..."

"Stop it, Old Han, from your tone, you sound a bit anti-rich!"

Han Sanping sighed, "The budget is limited and the box office prospects are not good. Of course I hate the rich and of course I am worried!"

Jiang Heng smiled and said, "Not really, not really!"

"Oh, right, there are two characters, Chiang Ching-kuo and Kong Ling-kan, you pick one!"

Director Jiang was dissatisfied and said, "Why are they all on the Kuomintang side?"

Han Sanping said, "Don't these two have more roles? I'm on your side, okay?"

Jiang Heng chuckled. He naturally didn't believe what Han Sanping said, but he could guess the other party's purpose.

In "The Founding of a Republic", the rivalry between Chiang Ching-kuo and Kong Lingkan was indeed wonderful, and Han Sanping hoped that these scenes could be even more exciting.

Invite the extremely famous Jiang Heng to make a guest appearance, and then put the wonderful shots in the trailer, which will definitely increase the box office.

We can't let Jiang Heng choose a reporter who doesn't have any dramatic conflict, that would be such a waste!
(End of this chapter)