Huayu’s ex-husband

Chapter 194 193. Compensate Ning Hao with a movie

After hanging out with Yang Mi all night, Wei Wu did not continue to indulge in Wenrou Township the next day, but immediately rushed to the company to work.

However, he is not in a hurry to edit the film today, but wants to meet and chat with a few directors. After all, the signing press conference will be held soon.

Less than half an hour after Wei Wu arrived at the company, the front desk informed him that Ning Hao had arrived. Wei Wu quickly asked the front desk to bring him in.

After Ning Hao was led into Wei Wu's office, Wei Wu asked the receptionist to serve tea, and then the two briefly exchanged greetings.

After the tea was almost finished, Wei Wu started talking about business:

"Brother Hao, you also know that we are going to hold the signing conference for the Seventy-Two Transformations of Bad Monkey the day after tomorrow.

"I plan to officially announce the shooting plans of several movies at the press conference, which can be regarded as an advertisement.

"I've basically made arrangements for them, so I want to see if you have any arrangements for the time being?"

Ning Hao couldn't help but look embarrassed when he heard this: "Actually, I've also been worried about this problem recently. I've had enough rest, but I just don't know what subject to shoot.

"Although several notebooks were handed over to me one after another, I was not very satisfied with them. Then I prepared to write a notebook myself, but after writing a few beginnings I couldn't continue!"

Wei Wu felt somewhat guilty after hearing this, feeling that this matter might have something to do with him.

Originally, after "Crazy Stone", Ning Hao should write "Crazy Racing" and become famous with this movie, becoming the fourth mainland director to be crowned the billion-dollar club.

But now that "Crazy Racing" has been snatched up by Wei Wu, Ning Hao was a little confused for a while and didn't know what to film!

But since Wei Wu asked him to meet today, there was no way he would be unprepared:

"If you don't have a suitable notebook on hand right now, I've written one here. Why don't you take a look?"

Ning Hao immediately beamed with joy: "Of course you have to take a look. Boss, your talent is well-known! The book you wrote must be good! What is the subject of it?"

Wei Wu took out a folder from the folder box on the table and handed it to him and said:

"It's a bit similar to your "Crazy Stone", a black humor suspense film."

The smile on Ning Hao's face became even more uncontrollable: "Really? That would be even better! Boss, you are taking too much trouble!"

Ning Hao said as he rubbed his hands excitedly, picked it up, opened the folder and looked at the title:

""The Murderer"...this name is a bit interesting!"

That's right, the script prepared by Wei Wu and Ning Hao this time is the black humor suspense movie "The Murderer" directed by Cao Baoping and starring Liu Ye and Zhang Yi in 2016.

However, relatively speaking, Zhang Yi, who has fewer roles, is much more outstanding than Liu Ye. His five-star killer contributed most of the film's jokes.

The reason why Wei Wu wants to give this movie to Ning Hao can be regarded as a kind of compensation!

And Ning Hao is now the living sign of the Bad Monkey 72 Transformation Plan. Wei Wu originally wanted to buy horse bones with thousands of gold, so that others can see that following him can be popular and drink spicy food...

Even if he exchanged "The Murderer" for crazy racing, Ning Hao would still be at a loss.

But there's nothing we can do about it. There are really too few movies that are as popular and popular as "Crazy Race"!

Even if there is such a movie, Wei Wu must have made it himself, and there is no way he can use it to compensate Ning Hao!

The film's reputation is quite good, with a Douban score of 7.9. However, the box office of 135 million is not so impressive.

However, as a crime suspense movie adapted from a real case, the box office is actually not low.

After all, most movies in the crime suspense genre do not have high box office.

Even good movies are no exception, such as "Fireworks in the Day" (104 million), "Witness" (181 million), "Rescue Mr. Me" (195 million), "No Man's Land" (259 million), etc.

Even though the other film is also directed by Cao Baoping and has a huge reputation, "Scorching Sun".

When it was released in 2015, it broke the box office record for mainland crime suspense films, but the final box office was only 303 million.

Now that we are talking about "No Man's Land", the reason why Wei Wu first gave Ning Hao the script of "The Murderer" was because he was afraid that he would be silent and suddenly come up with "No Man's Land".

If Ning Hao really came to Wei Wu for investment with this script one day, Wei Wu would definitely be in a bit of a dilemma.

That’s not to say that this movie can’t make money. For this movie in the previous life, the total investment in production and promotion was about 40 million. In the end, the film studio split 97 million, with a return rate as high as 242.5%.

But the problem is that the subject of this movie was not chosen well, and it could not pass the review after filming. The backlog was too long!

In the previous life, the movie was started in March 2009, and before the end of the year, Ning Hao had finished filming and finished all the post-production.

Normally, this movie should be released during the Lunar New Year holiday in 2009. But as a result, the film was delayed for 4 years and revised repeatedly until it was finally released during the Lunar New Year in 2013.

Even if this movie can make money, to be honest, it will be a loss for investors.

After all, with such a large amount of money invested over four years, I could have invested in four movies, but now I have only invested in one.

If the company's capital chain was weaker, the company would have gone bankrupt in four years!

Moreover, this movie in the past life can be seen by the audience because Ning Hao is, after all, the fourth director to enter the billion-dollar club, and his reputation is still well-known.

However, now that Ning Hao is no longer in "Crazy Racing", his fame and influence are really not that bad compared to his previous life.

Under such circumstances, it’s hard to say whether this movie will be released after it’s finished filming!

And even if it can be released, there is a high probability that it will definitely take more than 4 years!

Therefore, it may not be convenient for Wei Wu to invest in this movie. After all, his company will be listed on the market in two or three years at most.

By then, the movie will not be released, and the cost will not be recovered for several consecutive years. If competitors continue to make a fuss about this matter, the stock price will be ugly...

In order to prevent this situation from happening, Wei Wu made a special agreement when signing the contract with Ning Hao and the others.

For all the contracted directors under Bad Monkey Pictures, Bad Monkey Pictures has priority investment rights in their film and television drama projects during the contract period.

But companies can also voluntarily give up this right, so that their projects can attract investment from outside.

After all, directors and actors are still different, and you can't be too overbearing.

If Wei Wu is not optimistic about their project and will not invest, there is no need to forcefully prevent others from investing.

Ning Hao finished reading it quickly and praised without hesitation:

"Well, it is indeed a very good book. It is absurd and satirical, with multiple clues in the narrative. It unfolds in circles and is linked from beginning to end.

"This is the movie I want to make, so let me make this! Well...is there a prototype for this story?"

Wei Wu shook his head: "No, I just suddenly thought of such a story, so I wrote it and polished it.

"Also, take this script back and think about it yourself and make changes. Anyway, you can shoot whatever you feel comfortable with!"

Of course, this story has a prototype, and the prototype is called "The Case of the Five Brothers Pursuing the Murderer in Liupanshui." But the problem is that this case in the previous life happened in August next year, and the real murderer was caught in September 2008.

By then, this movie will definitely have been released!

In addition, this movie itself is quite heavily adapted, but in fact the correlation between the two stories is very small.

Even if someone really connected the two incidents, they probably wouldn't say that the movie "The Chaser" was adapted from this case.

It may be said that Liupanshui and the other five brothers were inspired by watching this movie, so they pursued the murderer thousands of miles to seek justice for their brothers.

But it is a human life after all. Since Wei Wu made this movie, it means that he also owes others a share of karma.

So when the time comes, he will definitely find a way to intervene, so that this case will most likely not happen.