Chapter 332 People are on the wrong road

In the CEO's office at Bonna Pictures, Yu Dong was smoking a cigar and chatting about the script with a short-haired, smiling man.

In fact, there was some truth in what he said when he met Jiang Heng before.

What his friend showed him at that time was not the script, but the story outline.

And this plot has a prototype, from the Hollywood movie "Tom Clancy's The Rise of Skywalker".

It tells the story of an advertising businessman who boards a plane to Chicago to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family.

At the airport, a vulgar man named Del made him unbearable, but unfortunately, they were sitting next to each other on the plane, and a sudden snowstorm caused the plane to change its route.

By accident, Neil and Del moved into the same room and their belongings were stolen by thieves.

With no other choice, the two took the train together…

Well, the script that Yu Dong saw at this time was later named "Lost on Journey", and the person who discussed it with him was called Liu Yiwei.

However, after the release of "Lost on Journey", Liu Yiwei was not listed among the producers, supervisors, screenwriters, etc. The film crew finally positioned him as an original creator.

In fact, he had the opportunity to serve as the producer. He came up with the story outline, and he signed the contracts of Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqi.

But he finally refused, allegedly because the weather was too cold. Maybe Lao Liu really has a lot of money!
Originally, "Lost on Journey" was produced by Wuhan Huaqi Company, but this time, the first person to contact Liu Yiwei was Yu Dong.

He had long wanted to participate in film production, and this desire became even stronger when he saw Guo Fan filming "A Chinese Ghost Story".

In the entertainment industry, if you don’t have the title of producer or producer, the name of this big shot will always be a little weak.

Yu Dong is an ambitious person. How can he be the CEO of a distribution company for his whole life? He must enter the field of production.

But he doesn't dare to make a blockbuster right away.

Jiang Heng is a well-known figure in the film industry. He claims to be a shareholder and CEO of Bonna Pictures who is on par with Jiang Heng, so naturally he needs to be alert and not lose face.

If the films he produced lost money or were not very good, wouldn't that be a shattered reputation?
Therefore, Yu Dong has been keeping an eye out for good scripts and creative ideas over the past year, hoping to come up with something eye-opening, which is how he and Liu Yiwei hit it off.

As for now, the film's script, director, and main actors have been almost agreed upon, and only some details need to be finalized.

"Old Liu, why don't you be the producer?"

"I?"

Liu Yiwei thought about it for a while and agreed.

Yu Dong then sighed that the script was still very good, but the main creative team was a little weak.

Liu Yiwei laughed, "Boss Yu, if you say that, you are just begging for food with a golden bowl in your hands. Director Jiang is the major shareholder of Bonna Pictures. He will definitely support the company's first film, right?"

Yu Dong smiled awkwardly and didn't answer immediately.

Naturally, he was a little conflicted, thinking that he couldn't "stay under someone else's command for too long", yet he stayed at Bonna Pictures for many years.

In terms of film distribution, Bonna Pictures is already number one in the country.

After all, the box office of Hollywood blockbusters these days is not particularly outstanding.

Bonna Pictures, however, releases almost two of Jiang Heng's blockbusters every year, and also distributes many Hong Kong films and small and medium-budget films.

If we go out and start anew, we don’t know how long it will take to create another “Bo Na”, or maybe we won’t be able to achieve this goal at all.

But he still wanted to prove himself, but he always felt awkward asking Jiang Heng for help.

Fortunately, Liu Yiwei was able to give him a way out, “Director Jiang has made cameo appearances in films produced by other companies. If he doesn’t come to your film, people will think there is some conflict between you two!” Yu Dong smiled instantly when he heard this.

"Yes, according to what you said, I should go find him. What role would be best for him to play?"

Liu Yiwei smiled, "Any character I meet on a train or a plane will do. If that doesn't work, I can also let him play himself in the film!"

Yu Dong's eyes lit up when he heard this. It was indeed feasible to let Jiang Heng play a cameo role as himself in the film!
After the discussion was complete, Yu Dong called Jiang Heng and told him the outline of the script and the guest appearance.

Jiang Heng is in Hangzhou at the moment, having just finished filming the scene where Xu Xian is reincarnated and then meets White Snake and Xiaoqing.

Because West Lake is the most famous tourist attraction in Hangzhou, there are so many tourists.

Even if an internationally renowned director like Jiang Heng came, he would only have one hour to film on the Broken Bridge, and that had to be in the morning when there were fewer people.

So the crew arrived early to set up the venue, and fortunately it only took two takes to complete the filming.

The crew will go to Yunnan, Guizhou and other places to shoot exterior scenes later, but since they are in Hangzhou, they always have to take a break.

Jiang Heng gave the crew half a day off, and he took Jing Tian to tour the West Lake.

When Jiang Heng received Yu Dong's call and heard him tell the outline of the story, he instantly realized, isn't this "Lost on Journey"?

Although this movie did not make a lot of money at the box office, the jokes were cleverly designed and Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqi also performed very well.

It was this film that gave Chinese-language films two more comedy stars who could pull in box office success.

But the influence of "Lost in Journey" does not stop there. "Lost in Thailand" also had a box office of over 1 billion yuan, and Huang Bo in the film shined even more.

In fact, Jiang Heng had contact with Xu Zheng and Huang Bo, because "Crazy Stone" was invested and produced by iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures.

But Jiang Heng didn’t have much thought about the many classic films from his previous life.

He has a "super microscopic computer" that can make special effects blockbusters, and he is not very keen on snatching other people's projects.

Of course, if any script or project comes to him, Jiang Heng is willing to accept it.

But I didn’t expect that "Lost on Journey" would fall into Yu Dong’s hands.

Immediately, a question popped up: "Lao Yu, when are you going to start shooting your film?"

"Uh!"

Yu Dong was silent, because the story was about what happened during the Spring Festival travel rush, and the best time to shoot the film was from November to January or February of the following year.

But it's only May now, and it would be a bit unwilling for him to wait for half a year and do nothing.

His idea was to shoot some of the rural exterior shots in the film in the Northeast, especially in the northernmost cities, where green buds were probably just beginning to appear in the fields.

If it was one night later, it would be too late. We can't use special effects technology!
The total investment is less than 10 million, where would that money come from?

"Director Jiang, I want to start filming now. Let's go to the Northeast to find a suitable place to shoot the exterior scenes in the film! There will be several exterior scenes involving Wuhan in the film, but the time is very short. Can you take a look at the special effects company?"

Jiang Heng thought about it and recalled the movie "Lost on Journey" that he had seen in his mind. It seemed that there was no problem.

It’s just that the guest appearance seems to be a bit of a hassle.

Because he is about to take the crew to the southwest. If Yu Dong leads people to the northeast, half of China will be separated from them!
After thinking for a while, he said, "It's not a big problem, but as for the cameo in the movie, I'd better choose the scene on the plane!"

Yu Dong was extremely happy to hear this, "Then I'll discuss with the screenwriter and make a plot where you didn't buy a first-class ticket and sat in economy class!"

(End of this chapter)