Chapter 46: Immortal Heroes
After "100 Million BC" was released in Hong Kong, it quickly sparked a viewing craze and received good reviews from the media.

The main reason is that Hong Kong's entertainment industry is well developed, and all kinds of novel settings and ideas emerge in an endless stream, and the audience has long been accustomed to them.

Take the concept of time travel, for example, that's something that others have left over.

In the 91 film God of Gamblers 2: The Shanghai Beach Gambler, Stephen Chow traveled to Shanghai in 37 and was able to use a mobile phone to call Hong Kong. At the end of the film, Long Wu led a group of Flying Tigers and shot at the Japanese in 37 with submachine guns.

When it comes to the logic of time travel, God of Gamblers 2 is also quite ridiculous. Several qigong masters can travel through time and space by working together. What does this mean?
The end of science is metaphysics, and we are still developing a chicken feather time machine!

Just watch it for fun!

The audience watched the movie with an entertainment-first mentality, so some of the logical flaws of "100 Million Years BC" were not so obvious. In addition, the Jurassic jungle in the second half was like the planet Pandora, with pterosaurs flying all over the sky and the domineering Tyrannosaurus Rex... The Hong Kong audience was very excited to watch it.

Even though it was released a week earlier, "100 Million BC" still did very well at the box office.

Except for "Glass Bottle" and "The King of Comedy" which ranked third on the opening day, it remained the single-day box office champion for some time afterwards.

Traditional Hong Kong films are really out of date!
Many production companies and filmmakers in Hong Kong came to congratulate Jiang Heng and seek advice from him, and he was hosted for numerous banquets.

Even Xiang Huaqi of China Star is considering whether to cooperate with Jiang Heng to shoot "The Legend of Zu".

After communicating with Xu Ke, Xiang Huaqi called Jiang Heng directly and invited him out for a chat.

Jiang Heng answered the phone, not surprised.

He has met too many "movie industry bigwigs" recently and drank too much. He knew that Xiang Huaqi was preparing for "The Legend of Zu", so it would not be surprising if he was found, but he would just forgo cooperation.

It’s not easy to take the Xiang family’s money.

Old monster Xu is so domineering when filming.

If they insist on filming together, they will either be like wooden puppets or go their separate ways. There is no need for that, but we still have to give them face.

But on this day, Jiang Heng went out with a bang and headed straight for the restaurant box that Hua Qiang had booked.

When they went in, they saw only the Xiang couple and Xu Ke.

One more thing to say is that when Xiang Tai was young, her appearance was no less than that of popular actresses. It can only be said that gaining weight is a woman’s natural enemy!

Although Xiang Huaqi has a domineering personality, he appears to be very polite. He first praised the box office and reputation of "The Matrix", and then congratulated the film on being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Xu Ke, who has always been arrogant, couldn't help but show envy when looking at the young Jiang Heng.

The Academy Awards are of great importance in the minds of Chinese people, and those nominated are basically art films shot by Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and others.

Jiang Heng's commercial blockbuster was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, which is definitely a win for both fame and fortune.

Talking about the movie "100 Million Years BC" which is currently being screened, Xu Ke suddenly said: "Director Jiang, the Jurassic era you designed is fantastic and magnificent, with a hint of fairy tales!"

Jiang Heng laughed and thought to himself, do you know how much I copied from Avatar? The only thing missing was the floating mountains and people riding pterosaurs!

On second thought, it seems that we can just copy the plot outline of "Avatar" and make a copy!

Forget it, let’s not ruin the classics!

Jiang Heng was full of thoughts, but in reality he was silent for a few seconds, then he said with a smile: "I just felt that it was based too much on historical materials and not shocking enough, so I thought of making the scene bigger!"

Xu Ke nodded slightly, "Indeed, a fairy-tale movie is good to watch because it is shocking and grand!"

Jiang Heng was stunned when he heard this, thinking, did I mention Xianxia just now?
It seems not!
Xiang Huaqi said: "Mr. Jiang, are you interested in fairy tale movies?" "Yes, I really like reading fairy tale novels!"

Xu Ke was pleasantly surprised: "You have also read The Legend of Swordsman of Shu Mountain!"

Jiang Heng was stunned for a moment before he realized that the fantasy novels they were talking about were not the same thing!
"Yeah, I read some!" Jiang Heng said reluctantly.

Xu Ke asked: "What do you think of this book?"

Seeing that the three were all looking at him, Jiang Heng took a sip of beer and said with a smile, "What can I say? It's too grand. There are too many characters in it. When I read the latter part, I forgot all the characters in the front!"

Xu Ke said: "The book written by Huanzhu Louzhu is magnificent and covers everything from heaven to earth. It can be called the most amazing book in the world!"

Jiang Heng laughed and did not comment.

Seeing that he seemed to disagree, Xu Ke asked, "Director Jiang, do you think my evaluation is inaccurate?"

Jiang Heng waved his hands and said with a smile: "No, I just think this book is too grand and it's too difficult to adapt it into a film!"

Xiang Tai rarely spoke up, "Even Director Jiang thinks the script is difficult to write?"

Jiang Heng nodded. "Too many main characters will distract the audience's attention and affect their sense of immersion. Without a sense of immersion, destroying the world and saving the people will be meaningless to the audience!"

After hearing this, Xu Ke's face suddenly turned ugly.

He has almost finished revising the script of "The Legend of Zu", and just as Jiang Heng said, there are too many main characters.

Take this drama for example. You said that Xuan Tianzong, played by Zheng Yikin, is the protagonist, but he doesn’t have that many scenes.

Baimei, Gu Yue, Li Yingqi, Dan Chenzi and others all have considerable roles.

Even Lian Xing, played by Wu Jing in the original work, seems to be very important.

This is terrible. The audience has just brought their emotions into the character of Xuan Tianzong, but various other characters come on stage one after another, and Xuan Tianzong is not very outstanding, so the audience will feel nothing after watching the show.

Of course, Jiang Heng would not say this completely.

Xu Ke was a little unhappy and said coldly: "What should Director Jiang's fairy tale movie look like?"

Jiang Heng was stunned for a moment, and murmured: "Xianxia, ​​if you want to tell me what my idea of ​​a Xianxia movie is like, I have no idea at the moment. But I do have some ideas about Xianxia novels!"

Xiang Tai was puzzled, "Director Jiang, are you planning to write a novel?"

Jiang Heng hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Well, I'm a little tired of always making movies, so writing a fairy tale novel wouldn't be bad either!"

Xu Ke said: "Oh, then I can look forward to Director Jiang's masterpiece!"

Jiang Heng smiled, "Don't worry, it will definitely be published within a year!"

No one doubted this. With Jiang Heng's current fame, if he announced that he wanted to write a novel, there would immediately be a publisher willing to cooperate with him.

You don't even have to write it yourself. Just provide a story outline and the publisher will help you find a ghostwriter.

A novel written by a famous director will surely sell well to a newbie!

As for the content of the novel, Jiang Heng has already thought of it. It is "Zhu Xian", which was called "the three great online books" together with "The Journey to the West" and "The Legend of the Little Soldier" in the early years, and is also known as the "martial arts bible of the post-Jin Yong era"!
(End of this chapter)