Director’s Legend

() "Painted Skin" is an oriental romantic fantasy film co-produced by mainland China and Hong Kong. It is based on the story of "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio", starring Zhao Wei, Chen Kun and Zhou Xun. It is a scene of love-hate entanglement. The investment was claimed to be 100 million, and the final box office was 250 million, which was considered a success, and the sequel even made 500 million at the box office.

It's just that the film's lens is more focused on love, and lacks a real magical atmosphere. Except for the success of Southeast Asia, other places can't understand this film at all. Shao Shuaijun felt that it was necessary for him to make a lot of changes to "Painted Skin" to make the script more majestic and easier to understand.

Not only the pursuit of special effects, but also the pursuit of scenes, 200 million to practice, not extravagant, I will be sorry for myself. After all, the movie is a success, he is the real king of the mainland, no one dares to underestimate him. If it fails, it won't be like Chen Kai who made "The Promise" and hasn't recovered for several years, because he is the boss himself, so he doesn't have to worry about not having new film investment to shoot.

"200 million, I hope people like Lin Feizhong and Yu Dong won't be scared away."

Li Xiuxiu went to contact the investor, and Shao Shuaijun finally wrote the script of "Painted Skin" three days later. The changes from the original version are mainly focused on the ending, using a large-scale dialogue instead of a few people loving each other in the cave.

"During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Duwei Wang Sheng and his wife Pei Rong were well-known loving couples in the town. Wang Sheng led the Wang family army to fight fiercely with sand bandits in the Western Regions, and rescued a beautiful woman, Xiao Wei. Xiao Wei is the nine-tailed fox. The master turned into human skin, the skin must be cared for with the human heart, and Xiao Yi, who was transformed from a desert lizard under his command, would kill people every few days in Jiangdu City to take his heart to worship Xiaowei, causing the whole city to panic.

Xiao Wei falls in love with the brave and handsome Wang Sheng, and uses magic to charm Wang Sheng, trying to replace Pei Rong's position. But Pei Rong found out that she was not an ordinary person, and invited Pang Yong, the former commander of the Wang Family Army, to investigate secretly, and finally found out that Xiao Wei was a nine-tailed demon fox, but Xiao Wei was a demon fox with tens of thousands of subordinates. In order to save Wang Sheng and the people, Pei Rong resolutely He decides to turn himself into a demon, leave Wang Sheng, and let Xiao Wei be Mrs. Wang.

Wang Sheng, who woke up after being scolded by Pang Yong, begged Xiao Wei to save Pei Rong, only then did Xiao Wei discover that Wang Sheng was only bewitched by witchcraft and did not really love her. She angrily told Wang Sheng that to save Pei Rong, she had to defeat her army of monsters. In the end, Wang Sheng led the Wang family army to strangle the army of monsters. Everyone was killed and injured, and Wang Sheng was unable to continue.

So Wang Sheng and Pei Rong decided to die together. Xiao Wei was moved by their love and took out the elixir she cultivated to save them. But she was beaten back to the original form of a fox and returned to the mountains. Wang Sheng and Pei Rong resumed their loving life. "

The whole script is more simplistic, it is a battle between monsters, as long as you have a little understanding, you can understand the story the movie wants to tell. Shao Shuaijun has always believed that if a movie is to be successful and get a high box office, it cannot be mysterious, and the simpler it is, the more touching it will be.

After the script was completed, Li Xiuxiu also called. More than a dozen film and television investment companies interested in "Painted Skin" decided to let Shao Shuaijun explain the script to see if it was worth investing in. The time is set on June 12, at Nortel's International Exchange Center.

The next day, Shao Shuaijun took the photocopied script and went to Nortel. This time, the heads of more than a dozen companies came over, together with Shao Shuaijun, the most popular director in the mainland, and Zhang Huijun, the principal, came to receive them in person, closed the exchange center, and prohibited students from entering and leaving.

Wang Shiheng, Deputy General Manager of China Film Warner Hengdian Film and Television, Zhang Jing, General Manager of Century Hero, Zhang Qiang, General Manager of Forbidden City Films, Wang Zhonglei, Vice President of Huayi Brothers, Teng Zhan, General Manager of Jinyingma Film and Television, Yu Dong, General Manager of Poly Bona, Media Asia Variety Lin Feizhong, the film and television manager, Wu Zhan, the general manager of Huaxia Films, Lin Xiaoming, the owner of Universal Films, Li Shubao, the manager of Emperor Films, and the heads of several smaller film investment companies gathered together.

Shao Shuaijun briefly introduced the script of "Painted Skin" on stage, and then said: "This movie, I want to be on par with "Lord of the Rings". It will cost 150 million or more. In terms of film actors, I hope to use some up-and-coming young actors, such as Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Zhou Xun and others. If you have any questions about the film, you can Just ask."

"Mr. Shao, I would like to ask, what is your expectation for the box office of the film, and how do you think about the overseas market? You know that we are engaged in film investment, and we all like to make money rather than lose money, haha." It was Lin Xiaoming who spoke, Huanyu As the boss of the movie, what impressed Shao Shuaijun the most was the story of him collaborating with Zhou Xingxing in "Shaolin Soccer" and then having a falling out.

"The box office has always been a question of learning. You may look forward to it, but it loses. You may also play casually, and it makes a lot of money. But I think that as long as the investment is in place and the shooting is careful, the market prospect of "Painted Skin" can be expected. , My positioning is 500 million box office in Southeast Asia, as for North America and Europe, it's hard to say."

"Then Mr. Shao's handsome army, will he participate in this investment?"

"Not participating." Shao Shuaijun shook his head.

"why?"

"Dengtian Shuaijun has three films to produce this year. For a new company, three films are enough. Moreover, Dengtian Shuaijun's investment direction is very clear, small cost plus comedy, "Painted Skin" is too high-end."

"In other words, "Painted Skin" is very risky?"

"If you only make money but don't lose money and have no risk, I will definitely borrow money to make it myself, and I won't look for investment anymore. For making a movie, you have no way of knowing exactly whether it is a loss or a profit. Well, I have made the script very clear, just watch it. Everyone's opinion." Shao Shuaijun waved his hand and left the stage.

To be honest, he didn't want to shoot "Painted Skin" that much. It was really just for practice. However, it is clear that the success of the previous films gave the group of executives great confidence. After a short discussion, they confirmed their investment intention in the afternoon.

After a long time of wrangling, there are still six film companies that jointly finance the filming of "Painted Skin". Shao Shuaijun didn't ask about the specific division mode. The director's remuneration he received was 5% of the box office, and with his current fame, it was worth the price.

The bosses of more than a dozen film companies gathered in Nortel, and soon attracted countless reporters. When the lights first came on, the reporters finally waited for Shao Shuaijun and others who were about to go to a restaurant to celebrate.

As the host, Zhang Huijun, the principal, was very happy to say to the reporters: "Today, I think it is an epoch-making day. A film with the highest investment in the Mainland has announced its approval in our school. As an outstanding student of our school, Shao Shuaijun's latest film, investment The 500 million "Painted Skin" has reached an investment agreement, and I believe that in the near future, everyone will be able to see this, an oriental fantasy blockbuster!"

500 million is naturally bragging. The film industry has long been accustomed to blowing 10 million into 30 million, and 100 million into 300 million.

Click! Click! The flash went off.

The next day, there were countless newspaper headlines, and this headline appeared: Shao Shuaijun challenged the cost of 500 million for the largest investment in new film project in history.

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