Millennium director

December 8, 2012.

Magic City, the headquarters building of Tangren Film and Television Company.

Hu Ge, the mainstay of Tangren Film and Television and the leading actor, came to the company early this morning.

He was a little confused and didn't know why General Manager Cai notified him to come to the company.

At the same time, he was also a little depressed.

In recent years, Hugo's development has not been very good.

Back then, when he just debuted, he participated in Wu Yuan's first Chinese-language commercial film "Your Name" and also served as the leading actor.

In those days, it was rare for a domestic movie to exceed 100 million at the box office, and only Zhang Yimou's "Hero" successfully achieved 300 million.

The box office of "Your Name" not only broke the domestic box office record, but also achieved the highest box office record for a Chinese-language film in various Asian countries!

Even now, "Your Name" still holds the record as the highest-grossing Chinese-language film in Japan!

This result is simply a legend!

Logically speaking, Hu Ge, who had such perfect debut performance, should start the unparalleled mode in domestic entertainment, chopping melons and vegetables along the way.

But a car accident interrupted his acting career.

After two full years of rest, Hu Ge returned to action.

During his car accident, the company could be said to have helped Hu Ge a lot. They saved him at all costs and gave Hu Ge full support both physically and mentally.

After returning to work, he also repaid the company with all his strength and took on a series of the company's self-produced dramas.

TV series such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "Legend of Sword and Fairy III", "The Myth", "Bitter Coffee" and "Shangri-La" were all produced by the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, these TV series cannot be said to be bad. Several of them have become his masterpieces and become popular TV series at the national level.

But Hu Ge was a movie star at the beginning, and he once held the domestic movie box office record!

During this period, he also tried to make movies.

Whether it was a movie script handed over from outside or a movie invested by Tangren himself, Hu Ge had filmed them all.

But the final box office results can only be said to be disappointing.

The Tang Dynasty platform is really too small, and Hu Ge himself doesn’t have much room to display.

Just like Liu Yifei who worked alone in the original time and space, the scripts Hu Ge had access to were not well-made and excellent scripts.

Most of these good books are digested within companies such as Huayi, Guangying Times, Galloping Pony, and Guangguang.

They may give some unimportant roles or important supporting roles to outsiders, but it is absolutely impossible to let the protagonists be played by actors contracted by Tangren.

Using your own good scripts to praise actors from other companies, what kind of charity is this?

Hu Ge, who is deeply bound to the Tang Dynasty, is destined to have no access to good resources in the film field.

This is the current situation in the entertainment industry. Before Internet companies have entered the market, all good resources are in the hands of top companies.

So he can only hang out in the field of TV series.

After several years of hanging out together, his popularity in TV series has indeed become higher and higher, but his popularity in movies has also become further and further away.

In the past two years, under the arrangement of the company, he even tried to release music albums and become a singer.

Not to mention, some of the songs he sang in "Sword and Sword III" were quite popular.

In terms of TV dramas, as he grows older, Hu Ge is less willing to continue playing ancient puppets and wants to transform.

In the past two years, he has filmed many urban dramas, such as "Modern New Humanity" and "The Impeccable Master Ru Lin", which are his transformation works.

It's a pity that the effect was a failure. The results of the two TV series were very poor. For this reason, Tang Dynasty also lost a lot of money.

Therefore, when Mr. Cai called him to the company today, Hu Ge thought in his heart that Mr. Cai wanted to persuade him not to think about the transformation and to continue filming the company's costume idol drama.

I have to admit that in the field of costume idol dramas, especially those with fairy tale elements, Tang Dynasty is indeed the number one in the country, and it becomes popular no matter how it is filmed.

Previously, the company had purchased the IP of the "Xuanyuan Sword" game series and planned to replicate the success of the "Xuanyuan Sword" series and adapt this type of game into a TV series again.

It was under Mr. Cai's persuasion that Hu Ge went back to film "Xuanyuan Sword: Traces of the Sky", but he strongly refused to play the male lead. In the end, he played the role of Yuwen Tuo, who is both good and evil, and he played two roles. Corner, it can be regarded as making some breakthroughs.

At that time, he told Mr. Cai that this was the last time he would film the company's costume idol drama, and he would never film the company's costume idol drama again.

He is no longer the Hu Ge who was in his early twenties, and it is really not suitable for him to act in this kind of costume idol drama for teenagers.

But today, Mr. Cai asked Hu Ge to meet at the company again.

This put an extra layer of shadow in Hu Ge's heart.

Isn't it because the company is planning to make a new TV series about ancient heroes and puppets?

The previous broadcast effect of "Xuanyuan Sword: Traces of the Sky" was indeed not as good as "Sword and Sword III", which made many senior executives of the company miss the time when Hu Ge took the lead.

It can be said that Hu Ge is the magic weapon of the Tang Dynasty.

"No matter how much you try to persuade me this time, I will never agree again!" Hu Ge secretly made up his mind, walked into the elevator with a heavy expression, and went up to the eighth floor.

Cai Yinong's office is on the eighth floor.

After a while, he arrived at the door of Cai Yinong's office.

With his relationship with Cai Yinong, there was no need for false communication. After knocking on the door to remind him, Hu Ge opened the door and walked in.

However, unlike what he imagined, there were actually other people in Cai Yinong's office.

A middle-aged elite who looked to be in his thirties or forties, wearing a suit and a little bald on the top of his head, was sitting opposite Cai Yinong in the sofa area, sipping tea.

"Xiao Hu, you're here." Seeing Hu Ge's arrival, Cai Yinong immediately showed a bright smile on his face and waved to him repeatedly.

A look of confusion flashed across Hu Ge's face, and he walked over quickly: "Mr. Cai."

"Who is this?"

"Here, let me introduce you." Cai Yinong took Hu Ge's arm and introduced him: "This is Director Liu from the era of light and shadow."

"Director Liu is the director of the film production department of Light and Shadow Times. He came to us at Tangren this time to discuss cooperation."

"Cooperation?" Hu Ge was stunned: "Are we going to cooperate with Light and Shadow Times to produce a movie?"

In Hu Ge’s impression, Guangying Era rarely cooperates with other companies to produce movies. Even if it does cooperate, it is usually with state-owned enterprises such as China Film and Shanghai Film Co., Ltd., or top film production companies such as Guangwang and Huayi.

Isn’t it good enough for Tangren’s level?

"Of course not." As expected, Cai Yinong shook his head, with a somewhat self-deprecating look on his face. Tang Ren was able to cooperate with Light and Shadow Times in the field of TV series production before, but now it is impossible to even do this.

"Director Liu is here to cooperate with you."

"To be precise, I invite you to participate in a new movie in the era of light and shadow!" (End of this chapter)