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After sending the reply email, Wu Yuan did not receive a reply immediately.

In fact this is normal.

He also doesn't care whether Chen Kaige will adopt his suggestions for modifying the script and make more commercial modifications to "The Orphan of Zhao" according to his ideas.

Anyway, after he sent the email, he called Li Xiaoping and asked her to take over the follow-up contact.

If Chen Kaige is willing to modify according to this script, Light and Shadow Times will participate in the investment of "The Orphan of Zhao" and become one of the investors.

If Chen Kaige is unwilling to make changes, then this cooperation may not be achieved.

However, Wu Yuan privately believed that Chen Kaige would most likely not agree to his revised version.

Every director has his own style of screenwriting. Chen Kaige is famous for being good at screenwriting, fun-loving, and very stubborn.

When "The Promise" was criticized for being criticized, Chen Kaige didn't think it was because the script was not written well, but because the audience didn't understand it and the audience's level was not good enough.

This shows how blindly confident he is in his script.

Even if it were Wu Yuan who revised the script for him this time, Chen Kaige might not be able to listen.

This is completely different from inviting him to film "Painted Skin 2".

Wu Yuan, who didn't think this cooperation would work, turned around and forgot about the matter.

Chen Kaige does not lack investors, and the Light and Shadow Era does not lack investment projects either.

The film universe plan of the Light and Shadow Era has been officially launched after Wu Yuan held a meeting to discuss it.

Recently, the company's senior management and the screenwriting department have been meeting every day, constantly improving the first-stage plan, creating a world view and background to fill in the script, and then they are busy working on their own projects.

After Wu Yuan decided on this development strategy, he stopped paying attention to everything and began to enjoy his vacation life.

At least until June, he won't be able to do any more work and must relax.

The same goes for Liu Yifei. Xianyuqian wanted to rest more than he did, so the young couple happily arranged their travel plans.

By the way, Liu Yifei loves to travel. If she doesn't have work arrangements, she can travel abroad for half of a year, and the rest of the time she can stay at home reading or singing karaoke.

Wu Yuan also planned to experience Liu Yifei's rest life this time, and booked a South American tour with her. Starting from Cuba, passing through Brazil, Uruguay, Tierra del Fuego, and Chile, and then returning to China from Chile, the entire tour is expected to last two days. months.

It’s also a good thing to travel around the world while you’re still young.

He doesn't want to wait until he is 70 or 80 years old before retiring to experience some global travel. By then, he will probably no longer have the energy.

However, just when he and Liu Yifei had planned their travel arrangements and were about to set off, Wu Yuan received a call from Director Han.

The Golden Rooster Awards relented, and they communicated through Director Han, hoping to invite Wu Yuan to participate in the 2011 Golden Rooster Awards.

In fact, the Golden Rooster Awards have long since relented.

In 2009, when the 27th China Golden Rooster Film Awards were held, the organizers of the Golden Rooster took the initiative to invite Wu Yuan to participate.

The Golden Rooster took the initiative, which was actually a hint to Wu Yuan that the previous conflicts had long since ended. Give him a step to cooperate. We will give you a reward when you come.

But at that time, Wu Yuan had just participated in the Venice Film Festival and Paris Fashion Week, and the post-production of "Interstellar" was delayed again and again. It was already delayed to the point where it was no longer possible and he had to go directly back to the United States to do post-production.

In addition, Golden Rooster also hinted to him that the best film could not be awarded to him, but would have to be awarded to Chen Kaige's "Mei Lanfang" and Feng Xiaogang's "Assembly".

To Chen Kaige, that's because Chen Kaige himself is a member of the Beijing faction. After his reputation plummeted after "The Promise", he needed "Mei Lanfang" to avenge his disgrace.

And also giving a piece of cake to "Assembly Number", just like Wu Yuan's situation, is also to reconcile with Feng Xiaogang.

It can only be said that Jin Rooster has really offended too many people, and it is too late for reconciliation.

At the 2009 Golden Rooster Awards, if Wu Yuan was willing to go, he could only win the Best Director Award.

This made Wu Yuan laugh angrily.

"Li Wen" won the Best Picture at Venice. If you give me the Best Director Award, are you trying to reconcile with me or enmity?

Perhaps in the eyes of the big guys on the Golden Rooster Organizing Committee, the Golden Rooster Award, which is great, the most powerful in China, and no one can question it, can give you an award, which is already an act of giving face.

But Wu Yuan didn't like this face.

The Chinese film industry can be said to have progressed one step at a time in the past ten years. It is making rapid progress. Excellent actors and directors are emerging one after another, and the film market is also exploding.

However, Golden Rooster has not kept up with the development trend of mainland films at all, and even seems to be going backwards. It is becoming more and more closed and "niche". The Golden Horse and Golden Statue, which are also listed as the three Chinese-language Golden Roosters, are gradually being pulled away. Opened the gap.

It is said that the selection of Golden Rooster is too closed and too biased towards Hong Kong films, but compared with Golden Rooster, it still pales in comparison.

If Wu Yuan remembers correctly, the situation at the 2011 Golden Rooster Awards was also quite special.

The Best Feature Film Award was not awarded to the darkly humorous "The Piano", nor to Feng Xiaogang's "The Great Earthquake", but to "Flying" produced by Bayi Film Studio and praising the aerospace industry.

This is understandable, after all, the Golden Rooster Award has its own political significance.

So the question is, if he is asked to participate in the 2011 Golden Rooster Awards, what award will the Golden Rooster Masters give him?

He doesn’t have any Chinese-language movies planned to be released this year?

"What Golden Rooster means is that they hope you will make a Chinese film this year and next, and then they will send you a double-yolked egg for the best feature film."

Director Han's words on the other end of the phone made Wu Yuan happy on the spot.

"You mean, Golden Rooster wants to give me an award, but because I haven't had a movie released recently, I'm asked to make one right now?"

"Director Han, do you think it is necessary for me to make another movie specifically for a Golden Rooster Award?"

"Is this the golden rooster giving me gold, or am I here to give gold to the golden rooster?"

To put it bluntly, Wu Yuan is now taking his film to participate in the Golden Rooster Awards and winning the Golden Rooster Best Picture Award. It has no value in improving his personal reputation.

On the contrary, for the Golden Rooster, it can allow the Golden Rooster to use Wu Yuan's fame to regain its gold content in the mainland.

Yes, Wu Yuan winning the award can bring gold content to the Golden Rooster.

Because among the many great domestic directors, Wu Yuan has not won the Golden Rooster. He just won a lot of awards abroad. He did not win the Golden Rooster. Is it the Golden Rooster's problem or his problem? Everyone with a discerning mind knows it. .

"Director Han, please thank Jinji for my kindness." Wu Yuan said nonchalantly on the phone: "But I don't have any new movie plans this year."

"There may be one next year, but it will definitely not be made specifically for the Golden Rooster. It will most likely be a commercial film, and I'm afraid it won't be favored by the Golden Rooster."

"This" Director Han said with some hesitation: "Director Wu, we are all Chinese filmmakers, so we still need to maintain unity."

Yes, one sentence directly rises to the point of destroying unity.

Wu Yuan rolled his eyes and almost rolled his eyes to the sky, but he did not back down. He just said in a strong tone: "Let's talk about it next year. I will enjoy a rare vacation."

"Whether you can participate in the Golden Rooster or not depends on fate."

"Hey" He said that this was the end of the matter, and it was hard for Director Han to persuade him. There was no need for him to persuade him, so he could only say with a smile: "Okay."

"Then I wish you, Director Wu, a happy holiday!" (End of Chapter)