Millennium director

"Eighteen-Year-Old Sky", this is a TV series that impressed Wu Yuan deeply.

This TV series can be said to be the first campus youth idol drama in China.

It's different from the story in "Meteor Garden" where a domineering president falls in love with Cinderella.

Although the actors in "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky" are handsome men and beautiful women, even the teachers are both handsome men and beauties, changing the stereotype of middle-aged people.

But the values ​​displayed in this drama, as well as the point of view of exam-oriented education suppressing students' creativity, are still very good.

Although there are traces of imitating Japan's "GTO Spicy Teacher", in 2002, this TV series was really ahead of its time.

However, like "Sword and Fairy", this TV series is also difficult to sell after filming.

If you are half a step ahead, you are a genius; if you are one step ahead, you are a madman.

No domestic TV station is optimistic about such a "deviant" TV series.

The filming was completed in 2002, and it was not until January 2004 that this TV series was launched on a local channel in Jiangxi, with almost no response.

In July next year, Mango Channel, which has boldly carried out youth-oriented and entertainment-oriented reforms, dared to risk the world's disapproval and bought this drama and broadcast it on stars.

After that, the show became famous and was regarded by many young people as the best campus youth TV series in China.

Wu Yuan is still very interested in the director and producer of this TV series. If possible, he hopes to recruit this person to Light and Shadow Times to be in charge of the company's TV series department.

Without him, Wu Yuan wanted to make a few low-cost but easy-to-sell idol dramas to supplement the company's cash flow and prepare for making domestic blockbusters after 2010.

Movies such as "Princess Little Sister", "Sheep Star", "Smiling Blockbuster" and "Destined to Love You" could have been filmed in Taiwan first.

These Taiwanese dramas dominated the mainland idol drama market from 2005 to 2010.

Of course, Wu Yuan was too embarrassed to sign his name as the screenwriter. He couldn't afford to embarrass this person.

Just how to contact the director and producer of "Seventeen Years Old Sky"?

Wu Yuan put away the books and planned to go back and make a phone call to check on the situation of the drama.

He really couldn't remember who specifically funded this show.

Just as he stood up to walk out, two girls who had just come in from the library door met him head-on.

"Brother, are you back to school too?" Liu Yifei held Zhou Yang's hand and called to Wu Yuan with a look of surprise.

He was lowering his head in deep thought, then raised his head to look at the girl and showed a faint smile: "Well, come back to class."

Liu Yifei's eyebrows curved and her smile became even brighter.

Doesn't this mean that her senior brother will appear in school more often, and she will have more opportunities to see her senior brother?

"That's right." Wu Yuan's voice interrupted her reverie.

"The first round of broadcasts of "Sword and Fairy" has been sold out, and it will be broadcast on Mango Channel this summer vacation. By then, you should be promoting it with Hu Ge."

"Thanks for your hard work."

As one of the producers of "Sword of Immortal", Wu Yuan is very grateful to Liu Yifei for starring in "Sword of Immortal".

Although from the perspective of future generations, it was the TV series "Sword and Fairy" that made Liu Yifei successful.

But standing at the moment, almost no one is optimistic about this TV series, including the actors.

At that time, Liu Yifei, who took over the drama, already had the heroine to play in the movie "Your Name".

Originally, she had every reason to refuse this TV series. After Liu Xiaoli confirmed that she would be selected for "Your Name", she was also a little hesitant about the invitation to "Sword and Sword".

But after Liu Yifei heard from Cai Yinong that Wu Yuan also invested half of the drama, she agreed to play the heroine without hesitation and even convinced her mother.

Wu Yuan knew that the reason why Liu Yifei decisively accepted the drama was because of him.

Being attracted by a beautiful woman is such a happy trouble.

Wu Yuan couldn't help but reached out and touched Liu Yifei's head: "I have something else to do, so let's not talk about it for now."

"In the summer, I'm going to make an award-winning movie. There's a supporting role in it, and she's the granddaughter of the hero and heroine."

"If you don't mind it, come and play this role when the time comes."

“There aren’t many scenes, so we can shoot them in three to five days.

The movie "Amour" was originally a French film directed by Michael Haneke, and there was no role of the granddaughter in it.

But Wu Yuan added such a role, and the scenes are not much, only five or six minutes in total.

It's not that it was added specifically for Liu Yifei, but Wu Yuan felt that the original plot lacked a third-generation part, and such a character was needed to make the story more complete, or more tragic.

There is no doubt that this role is very suitable for Liu Yifei. Her age and temperament are suitable, and the role itself is not difficult to play, as long as she plays her true character.

Of course Wu Yuan would not deliberately not let the little girl act just because she liked him.

In his mind, movies are above all else.

"Yeah!" Liu Yifei's eyes were bright and she nodded her head in agreement.

Zhou Yang on the side also looked at Liu Yifei with some envy: "Qianqian, Director Wu is so kind to you."

She may have sighed unintentionally, but the effect would be different in the ears of someone with a caring heart.

Liu Yifei's earlobes immediately became visibly red, and her cheeks turned bright red, "What are you talking about?"

Okay, Wu Yuan couldn't continue this topic. He waved his hand and left the library quickly.

Watching Wu Yuan's leaving figure, Liu Yifei punched Zhou Yang on the shoulder angrily: "It's all your fault. Before I even said a few words, my senior brother was scared away by you."

"Okay, okay, it's all my fault that our Princess Sissi couldn't chat with her sweetheart for a while." Zhou Yang helplessly tapped Liu Yifei's little nose.

Wu Yuan was gone, so she was no longer ashamed. She smiled and said, "That's right!"

The two girls laughed together and started fighting again.

Under Wu Yuan's influence, Zhou Yang and Liu Yifei, who participated in drama rehearsals together and starred in "Your Name" together, became very close and became close friends.

Well, this is a good thing, at least Zhou Yang has a much better character than Jiang Yan.

On the other side, when Wu Yuan returned home, he called Director Han immediately.

In China, if you want to ask about things in the industry, it is right to ask Dong Han. Whether it is the film industry or the TV drama industry, Dong Han is very familiar with it, and there is nothing he doesn't know.

Then, Wu Yuan got a piece of news that surprised him.

Director Han himself is one of the producers of "Eighteen Years Old Sky".

"No way, Director Han, you are the vice chairman of China Film Group, and you still work as a producer for TV series?" Wu Yuan said in surprise on the phone.

Director Han explained helplessly: "There is no way. In those few years, the film industry was in the cold winter, but the TV drama industry was booming. How many people who work in movies are making TV dramas, and I am the only one left."

"Why are you asking about this?" Director Han also asked curiously.

"It's harmful." There was nothing to hide, so Wu Yuan replied openly: "It's not like watching the domestic TV drama industry booming, so I want to get involved."

"Since we want to be a film and television company, we can't just make movies. Great people have said that you can only walk steadily on two legs!"

"You want to make a TV series?" This time it was Director Han's turn to be surprised.

"Yeah, can't you?" Wu Yuan didn't bother to explain too much, "Director Han, since you are the producer of "The Eighteen-Year-Old Sky", you should know the director of this TV series, right?"

"Can you tell him for me that I would like to invite him to come to our company to make a TV series?"

"No problem at all……"

The two communicated again, and Wu Yuan finally learned that Li Jichang, the director of "The Eighteen-Year-Old Sky", was originally a producer and director.

Even his main job is to be a producer, but this is his first time being a director.

It's no wonder that after "The Eighteen-Year-Old Sky" aired with good results, the director never made another film.

"It would be even better if you were a producer."

Wu Yuan immediately agreed with Director Han and invited Mr. Li Jichang to meet at the Light and Shadow Times next week.

A little unknown director who has made a TV series that has never been broadcast, naturally has no possibility of rejecting the invitation when facing someone of Wu Yuan's level.

Soon, Wu Yuan met Li Jichang in the general manager's office of Light and Shadow Times.

Li Jichang is not very old, he looks to be in his thirties, but his temperament is a bit literary and weak, he is also very thin, and he wears a pair of glasses. He looks more like a scholar than a director.

"Director Li Jichang, right?" Wu Yuan took the initiative to shake hands with him and asked him to sit down.

There was no way, Li Jichang was too nervous.

When Director Han told him that Wu Yuan wanted to see him and invite him to join the Light and Shadow Era, Li Jichang's first reaction was that Director Han was talking nonsense.

But the person who said this was Director Han, and he had to believe it.

After believing it, Li Jichang's first thought was not joy, but fear.

How could a great director like Wu Yuan, who has sold over a billion yuan in movies in Asia and easily grossed hundreds of millions of dollars in box office in Hollywood, know that he was at the bottom of the industry?

And personally invited him to join [Era of Light and Shadow]?

With this confusion, anxiety and fear, Li Jichang arrived at the Age of Light and Shadow an hour in advance as agreed.

It wasn't until he actually met Wu Yuan that he believed that Wu Yuan actually knew him.

"Hello, Director Wu!" Li Jichang excitedly held Wu Yuan's hand: "I am you, oh no, you are my idol."

“I’ve seen every movie you’ve ever made, including ‘Juno’, and I love every one of them!”

"You are a role model for our Chinese directors. I didn't expect that I would actually meet you."

"Okay." Wu Yuan smiled and interrupted his incoherent praise, "No need to say more."

"Director Li, I also know you." Although Wu Yuan only learned about Li Jichang from Director Han, he immediately said, "You shot "Eighteen Years Old Sky" very well."

"There has never been such a youth campus idol drama in China before. You did a very bold thing."

"I particularly appreciate you."

"I asked you to come to the company today because I also want to invite you to join our company's TV drama department. Next, our company has several idol dramas that we want to produce, and we need a director in charge of TV drama production."

"I think you are qualified for this position."

"Come and see, this is an idol drama I prepared for the company."

As he said that, Wu Yuan took out a script from the drawer. There was not much content, only the first six episodes, which he had written in a hurry in the past few days.

On the cover of the script, there are seven big words written: "I am destined to love you!"

There are some things today that I haven’t updated a bit. I’ll look at it tomorrow and add one or two thousand words to make up for it.