Millennium director

Chapter 146 "Destined to Love You" has fixed roles, with an all-mainland cast!

"Destined to Love You" is a work that set a ratings record for an idol drama in the history of Taiwanese television.

It is also the masterpiece and famous work of Taiwan's "last movie king" Yao Jingtian.

To be honest, Wu Yuan dislikes the Taiwanese actor very much, not that there is anything wrong with him.

He just can't stand the behavior of those Hong Kong and Taiwanese people who use the mainland's funds and market resources, use mainland first-line actors to play supporting roles, favor Hong Kong and Taiwan stars, quickly increase their popularity and market value, and then harvest the mainland market. .

Ruan Jingtian is one of the most important chess pieces.

For example, in the movie "Blood Drops" produced by Chen Kexin, Hua Hui was cast as the supporting actor, Huang Xiaoming was cast as the villain boss, and the male lead was newcomer Yao Jingtian who had just become famous with this TV series.

Why?

With his idol-drama-level acting skills and his explosive popularity in Taiwan, he can be co-starred by a top-tier mainland movie actor?

Then let’s just give Taiwan’s film and television industry a wave of accelerated decline.

As Taiwan enters the 21st century, its film industry has been declining rapidly. However, their TV drama industry, because of learning from Japanese and Korean idol dramas, once became popular in Asia in the first decade of the 21st century.

Since "Meteor Garden", there have been 2-3 popular idol dramas produced in Asia every year.

Wu Yuan alone cannot interrupt the golden period of so many idol drama production companies in Taiwan.

But he can press the accelerator button for Taiwanese idol dramas!

"This "Fated to Love You" is an idol drama I prepared for the company. It focuses on the young market."

"Now the TV drama industry is also undergoing drastic changes. The historical dramas and anti-war dramas that were popular in the 1990s mainly targeted the male audience market."

"But we can see from the popularity of Qiong Yao dramas such as "My Princess" and "Love in the Rain" and the popularity of idol dramas such as "Meteor Garden", "It's All Angels' fault" and "Pink Girl". come out."

"Nowadays, the younger generation of TV drama viewers, especially female viewers, are more willing to watch TV dramas about handsome men and beautiful women falling in love, which are more relaxed and enjoyable, and preferably can satisfy women's fantasies about love."

Wu Yuan pointed at the script and motioned to Li Jichang to take a look at the content.

"This "Destined to Love You" tells a humorous love story between a post-it girl and a domineering president."

"Post-it girl?" Li Jichang was a little confused and didn't understand what this word meant.

"This is a concept I came up with." Wu Yuan explained patiently: "The word Cinderella is really common in TV dramas."

"So I created another novel heroine character in the script."

"The so-called post-it girls, they have small functions, but they are indispensable. They are like a post-it note that can be easily torn off. They are inconspicuous and not special, but they must be around you."

"This kind of girl is simple, simple and settled, with small aspirations. She has never been a big shot and has no expectation to become a big shot, but she is like most ordinary girls in Asia."

"In the company and in school, they are inconspicuous. They may not be as eye-catching as hot girls, nor are they the school beauties who are sought after by thousands of people, but they are exactly the representatives of ordinary women."

"Such a heroine who represents most girls, and Prince Charming accidentally start a destined love. I believe that girls all over Asia will fall in love with it and be fascinated by it."

In big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, it is now very common among white-collar workers to use post-it notes.

Li Jichang immediately understood what Wu Yuan meant and was very impressed with his idea!

Isn't this another "Meteor Garden"!

It's just that "Meteor Garden" was about four young men chasing an "ordinary" ordinary girl, while this "Destined to Love You" is about a domineering president chasing after an ordinary employee.

The background has been changed from the campus to the workplace, but the core is still the same as "Meteor Garden", where Prince Charming falls in love with Cinderella.

Li Jichang, who has worked on the project "Eighteen Years Old Sky", is relatively familiar with idol dramas in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, and knows that this type of idol drama is the most popular at the moment.

Li Jichang was quite surprised that Wu Yuan, a film director with an international eye, could understand idol dramas so well and come up with such a script.

"This script" Li Jichang hesitated. Could it be that Wu Yuan wrote this script himself?

"Ahem." Seeing Li Jichang's doubts, Wu Yuan explained calmly: "This script was my idea and I asked a few graduate students from the Nortel Literature Department to help write it."

This time Wu Yuan didn't lie.

Although he wrote the scripts for the first six episodes himself, he does not plan to write subsequent scripts himself.

He had written out the outline and subsequent storyline, and then found a few graduate students from the school's literature department to flesh out the content.

Not only this TV series, but also all the TV series the company will make in the future, he plans to do this.

Write a story outline and character biographies yourself, and find a few screenwriters to write down the specific script content.

In fact, most of the scripts of later TV series were completed in this way.

Otherwise, why can one TV series have seven or eight screenwriters named on it?

It is nothing more than a chief screenwriter giving an outline, and other small screenwriters are responsible for lines, character interactions, fighting, and subplots, and divide the script into many parts to write in detail.

This is the so-called industrialization of screenwriting.

This is definitely not possible with movie scripts, but TV dramas, especially idol dramas, can be produced in this industrial assembly line.

This is similar to the fact that Mo Yan’s books were written by ghostwriters, but there are many online novels that can be done well by ghostwriters.

Wu Yuan also plans to set up a screenwriting department in the TV drama department of his company to recruit people from the Nortel Literature Department to write TV drama scripts for himself.

He is responsible for producing the outline and biographies, while other editors refine the specific details.

The script produced in this way cannot be said to be exactly the same as the hit dramas in Wu Yuan's impression, but it is no problem to have a 70% to 80% similarity.

To be honest, even if he were asked to write it himself, he would only be able to write a script that is 70% to 80% similar.

Wu Yuan is a human being, not a god. There are dozens of episodes in a TV series. How can he remember every line accurately? He only remembers a rough plot.

Not to mention TV series, even in movies, he often writes his own lines. Except for some classic lines that he remembers, most of his lines are also added by himself based on the situation.

"Director Li, the company's TV drama department has been newly established. Now there are only two or three clerks responsible for administrative work."

"As long as you join the company and produce "Destined to Love You", the company's TV drama department can be left in charge of you."

"This "Fated to Love You" is just the beginning. The company will continue to expand the TV series production department at a production rate of 1-2 TV series per year."

Wu Yuan has already thought about it. In the next 3-5 years, Light and Shadow Era will focus on the idol drama market, and be the first to produce some of the more popular Taiwanese idol dramas in the future, so as to take a piece of the cake.

It's not that he doesn't want to do other types of dramas, the main reason is that idol dramas are really easier to do, and they can seize the Taiwanese drama market.

You ask him to do fairy tale dramas and costume dramas. In the Mainland, there are Zhouyi and Tang Dynasty dramas. They all have their own martial arts teams, costume teams, professional action directors, etc., which are all cultivated by them bit by bit.

If you want to make good costume dramas and fairy tale dramas, there is no shortcut. You have to cultivate a group of professionals in this field yourself.

This is why Wu Yuan wants to cooperate with Tang Dynasty instead of making his own costume fairy tale drama.

But idol dramas are different. This is a modern urban drama. You can buy a batch of costumes on the street and the filming does not involve any professional martial arts or stunts. You can just find a group of freshly graduated students.

Then he made a lot of money. "Meteor Garden" made Chai Zhipin at least several hundred million, several hundred million in 2001!

Li Jichang was overjoyed when he was suddenly hit by such a piece of cake.

He was about to lose his job, but in the blink of an eye, he actually had the opportunity to take charge of the TV series production department of [Light and Shadow Era]? !

"Thank you, Director Wu, for your trust. I will definitely take this project seriously!" Li Jichang agreed without hesitation and signed an entry agreement with Wu Yuan on the spot.

From today on, he is a member of the TV series department of Light and Shadow Times Film and Television Production Company. If "Destined to Love You" succeeds, he will be directly promoted to the head of the department!

Li Jichang is also a resolute person, and in his thirties, he is also at the time of forging ahead.

After getting the scripts and story outlines of the first six episodes from Wu Yuan, he went home and read them over five or six times, and immediately started gathering his old brothers.

The crew of "Eighteen Years Old Sky" was quickly summoned by him again.

Although the TV series was not sold, the crew and crew were not affected. It is now a blue ocean in the TV series industry, and TV series are being filmed everywhere in Hengdian, Beijing, and Shanghai.

But Li Jichang still called back almost 80% of the crew with just one phone call.

Without him, Li Jichang has the reputation of "Era of Light and Shadow". Even the crew members are thinking about going further. The work of the TV series crew is obviously not as high as the film crew.

They also want to move from TV series to movies.

Li Jichang doesn't want to take it too easy when recruiting TV drama crew members under the name "Era of Light and Shadow".

He not only recruited people from the old team of "Eighteen Years Old Sky", but also poached people from the crews of many mainland urban dramas.

In less than half a month, he formed a TV series crew of 80 people.

With the past resumes of the crew members, Li Jichang approached Wu Yuan again.

"Director Wu, the crew has completed preparations."

Looking at the cast list, Wu Yuan was very satisfied.

Li Jichang is really attentive.

In addition to the staff of "Eighteen Years Old Sky", he also recruited a group of elites.

The lighting engineer who lit the lights for the crew of "Beauty and Beauty", the sound engineer who carried the recording pole for the crew of "Pink Girl", and the costume designer for "It's All Angels' fault".

It can be said that there are many talents.

And he also listed several director options for the crew.

"Why, Director Li doesn't plan to direct this TV series himself?" Wu Yuan asked curiously.

Logically speaking, Li Jichang should be able to see that if this TV series is successfully filmed, it will definitely become a hit, right?

Wu Yuan didn't know that not everyone had as strong an ability to withstand pressure as he did.

It was precisely because Li Jichang could see that this TV series was likely to become a hit that he didn't have the courage to direct it himself. After all, he was just a new director who had filmed one TV series.

He was really afraid that if he filmed it and screwed up the TV series, his future and money would be ruined.

"Director Wu, I think the position of producer is more suitable for me." Li Jichang said shyly.

"Okay, then I will call you Producer Li from now on." Wu Yuan looked at the list of directors he recommended in an obedient manner.

Meng Ji, the representative work of "It's All Angels' Trouble", "Martial Arts" and "Starry Pig", Li Jichang must have valued him for having filmed "It's All Angels' Trouble".

Jiang Jiajun, the director of "Talent and Beauty", is a TV drama director born in Hong Kong Island, but he moved north to the mainland early to make a living. In the late 1990s, he began to move from Hong Kong to the mainland to shoot film and television dramas.

He doesn't have the bad habits of Hong Kong film directors, and he is a fairly competent director.

In addition, Li Jichang also recommended a director named Zhu Yi. He is the director of "Pink Girl" and can be regarded as a director who has made achievements in idol dramas.

After Wu Yuan looked back and forth on the resumes of these three people, he decided to use Jiang Jiajun.

"In the name of the company, contact Director Jiang Jiajun and invite him to direct "Destined to Love You."

Compared with the other two directors, Jiang Jiajun's film "Men and Women" was originally an idol drama about a domineering president meeting Cinderella, so he has rich experience in this area.

If you require stability, choosing him is definitely the most suitable.

"Okay." Li Jichang agreed without hesitation. He wished that Wu Yuan would make the decision.

"What about the starring role?" Li Jichang asked again with some anxiety.

In addition to the director, he also listed the candidate actors for each role from the perspective of a producer.

Male protagonist Ji Cunxi: Chen Kun, Lu Yi, Bao Jianfeng, Ren Quan, Nie Yuan, Sha Yi.

Yes, Sha Yi is also on Li Jichang's candidate list.

She is now a well-known college student in Mainland China and the star of the military arts school. With her role as the prince-in-law Sha Pingwei in "Marrying the Right Man in the Wrong Sedan Chair", she has become the dream lover of thousands of women.

Although "The Story of the Cooking Class" put him on the path of comedy, Li Jichang still wanted to give him a chance.

However, Wu Yuan didn't see it that way.

Holding a ball pen, he immediately crossed out Sha Yi's name, and then crossed out Bao Jianfeng's name as well.

Bao Jianfeng is quite handsome, but he is too short to play the role of Boss Bao.

Chen Kun has nothing to hesitate about. He doesn’t make TV series anymore and focuses on the film market. He will also be joining the cast of “Painted Skin” in the second half of the year, and Wu Yuan also dropped his name.

Among the remaining people, Lu Yi, Ren Quan, and Nie Yuan are all popular TV drama niche actors, and each is handsome in his or her own way.

After thinking about it, Wu Yuan circled Lu Yi's name and said, "Contact Lu Yi first. He is the first choice. If he is not available, contact Nie Yuan."

Lu Yi originally played the domineering boss Qiu Shi in "Men and Women", which already left the impression of a domineering president to mainland audiences.

Just like Ming Dao from Taiwan, whenever he appears on TV, people will think of the word "president".

Choosing him is definitely the most suitable.

"What about the heroine?" Li Jichang continued to ask while recording.

"The heroine." Wu Yuan looked at the list of candidates listed by Li Jichang and was dazzled.

Li Xiaolu, Huang Yi, An Yixuan, Dong Jie, Xue Jianing...

How can I put it, Wu Yuan is not satisfied.

It doesn’t feel like Chen Xinyi’s energetic temperament in the play.

The heroine of this drama cannot be chosen to be a beauty at first sight, because the heroine is set to be an ordinary girl, and she must not be too beautiful.

But I can't really choose an ordinary-looking girl, after all, this is an idol drama.

From the perspective of future generations, this kind of heroine is an ordinary girl, a Cinderella character, so it is suitable to find a sweet girl to play.

For example, Xue Shanshan played by Zhao Xiaodao in "Shan Shan Comes to Eat" is a very classic casting choice.

It would be nonsense to say that she is not beautiful, but her appearance in the drama is at best that of a girl next door, a bit sweet. She cannot be called a great beauty, and she is not as gorgeous as the co-star.

It is absolutely suitable for her to play Chen Xinyi in "Destined to Love You".

It's a pity that Zhao Liying doesn't know where she is now. She didn't make her debut until 2006 on the "Yahoo Star Search" talent show.

Wu Yuan had no choice but to retreat and think of another person.

"Hey, Producer Li, the heroine in your "Eighteen-Year-Old Sky" is pretty good, I think."

Wu Yuan smiled and said: "The little girl named Jinsha is very suitable for the role of Chen Xinyi."

"She looks relatively sweet, in the style of Xiaojiabiyu, but not too beautiful, which makes people feel distant."

"She also wears glasses and an ordinary uniform, which fits the image of a post-it girl."

"Jinsha." Li Jichang thought for a while and nodded in agreement. Jinsha indeed fits the image.

However, "after Jinsha finished filming "Eighteen Years Old Sky", because the TV series was never broadcast, she changed her career to become a singer."

"She signed a contract with Haidie Music last year. She was the first mainland singer signed by Haidie Music. After signing, she was sent to a music academy in Singapore for special training."

"He should still be in Singapore now."

Jin Sha was also unlucky. He had finally made his debut as an actor, but his debut film could not be broadcast.

After several attempts to shoot the singer's MV, he was finally noticed by a music company, signed a contract and was sent for training.

But Wu Yuan didn't care about that. He said nonchalantly: "Being a singer in this era where the music gods are fighting is not that difficult."

"Contact her and invite her back to the mainland to film TV series."

"She is a newcomer. I invite her to play the leading role in the company's TV series. Can her agency not agree?"

Wu Yuan definitely has the confidence to say this. In the current mainland entertainment industry, no actor can refuse his invitation.

Li Jichang's waist straightened up immediately.

Yes, he is different now. He is now from the age of light and shadow. People who work for Wu Yuan are still afraid that they cannot hire actors?

"I understand, I'll contact Jinsha right now!" Li Jichang said confidently.

Wu Yuan nodded with satisfaction.

After the casting of the male and female protagonists is confirmed, it is easy to choose other supporting roles.

Chen Hao is obviously the most suitable candidate for a beautiful and confident second female lead. She is very suitable to play such a gorgeous second female lead.

Wu Yuan, the second male lead, chose Ren Quan. He has that kind of gentle temperament, and his image in a suit is not much inferior to that of Chen Chuhe.

As for other character actors, many of them in the Mainland are veteran actors, and they are overqualified for acting in idol dramas.

At this point, the main creative team of "Destined to Love You" was finalized during the conversation between Wu Yuan and Li Jichang.

Except for the director, the entire crew, including the leading actors and supporting actors, are all from Mainland China!

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