Millennium director

Wu Yuan temporarily put Zhang Yishan's matter aside. After he gains more than 10 or 20 pounds, Wu Yuan will decide whether to use him as the male lead of "The Monkey King" based on his image.

At the same time, the film is also starting to prepare for the early stage.

As a superhero special effects movie, the so-called early stage preparation work is actually mainly to find a special effects company to do modeling, and to find an art team to design some pictures and scenes, make costumes, etc.

Wu Yuan needs to participate in these things, but he doesn't need to participate in them very deeply. He just needs to be a big boss who can grasp the overall situation.

This is much easier and more comfortable than Guo Fan who is currently filming "The Wandering Earth".

After all, he is a veteran commercial director, and he is different from a small director who is making a science fiction blockbuster for the first time.

This also makes Wu Yuan feel a little idle.

The early stage preparation work of "The Monkey King" does not require him to keep an eye on it all the time. It is expected that the film will not be officially launched until the end of the year, which means that he still has three to five months of free time.

It is the summer vacation now, and there is a movie being released by Light and Shadow Times, which is "Accidental Manslaughter" that Li Xiaoping had chosen and bought the copyright to remake.

Unlike Wu Yuan's impression of the Chinese version of "Accidental Manslaughter" produced by Chen Sicheng, the creative team of the Light and Shadow Times version of "Accidental Manslaughter" can be said to have completely changed.

The director is Li Yang, who has no interest in youth films after filming "Better Days". He wants to try a breakthrough in new themes, and this "Accidental Manslaughter" is just delivered to his door.

The director became Li Yang, which also led to major changes in casting.

Li Yang finally chose Wang Qianyuan to play the tragic father of the male protagonist Li Weijie.

Wang Qianyuan, this actor, has excellent acting skills and is a favorite of many directors of art films. From "The Piano in a Factory" to "Saving Mr. Wu", he has contributed excellent performances.

Wang Qianyuan, in particular, has a face that shows "deep hatred and bitterness". He can play a bad guy, or an honest man who has been bullied and completely despaired and turned black.

He doesn't need to act at all. As soon as Wang Qianyuan shows his face, people can believe that he has a very tragic experience, which is very suitable for the male lead Li Weijie.

Li Weijie's daughter, the girl who was violated in the story, was played by Tan Songyun, a professional baby-faced girl designated by the company. Although Tan Songyun is not a girl now, it doesn't feel out of place to let her play a 17-year-old girl. The most important thing is that the fat water does not flow to outsiders. The company's own movies must be digested internally first.

However, the role of Li Weijie's wife was played by Tan Zhuo, just like the original version. Tan Zhuo and Wu Yuan have worked together in "Dear", and she can be regarded as an actor who has a pleasant cooperation with Light and Shadow Times. It just so happens that Light and Shadow Times does not have a contracted artist who is old enough to be a "mother", so this role was given to her.

Li Yang was also very satisfied, or in other words, basically all film directors favor Tan Zhuo. This actress is very popular in the field of literary and artistic films, even more popular than Wang Qianyuan.

As for the villains in the movie, the Thai female police chief and her husband, they are played by Kara Hui and Ning Li.

Needless to say, Ning Li is also a man who makes people feel very scheming just by looking at his face. Just like in "The Wandering Earth 2", he started from the beginning, even if he did nothing, and even helped the male protagonist Liu Dehua all the time, but the audience felt that this person was not a good person as soon as they saw his face, and he was definitely a villain behind the scenes.

It can only be said that some actors are really determined by their image and acting path, and they are "born bad guys".

And Kara Hui was appointed by Director Li Yang. He believed that Kara Hui could play the feeling of a vicious woman, especially in recent years, Kara Hui has aged and become thinner, and her appearance is indeed more sinister.

So, this movie with a completely different cast from the original was born!

Even the name of the movie is not "The Manslaughter", but "The Manslaughter Concealed Heaven", and it was released two years earlier than the original time and space, in the summer of July 2017.

However, they are all adapted from the original Indian version, and the final effect is similar.

At present, the movie has been released in mainland theaters for a week and has achieved a box office of more than 600 million. Although it is not like those annual blockbusters that can take more than 1 billion in the first week, according to the current box office trend, the final total box office should be no problem to break 1 billion.

And the cost of this "The Manslaughter" is just over 100 million, and it will be a very successful commercial movie invested by Light and Shadow Times!

But this matter has nothing to do with Wu Yuan. Although he is the big boss of the company, he has no intention of participating in the promotion and celebration banquet of "The Manslaughter Concealed Heaven".

Wu Yuan thought about it, since he had nothing to do, he might as well go to visit Liu Yifei.

She is currently filming "Time Travel Cohabitation" in Shanghai, which has been filming for almost two months, and it will be completed smoothly in about half a month.

This movie has a little bit of science fiction and magic, but the story is still quite interesting, at least it is a qualified chick flick.

In the past month, Liu Yifei has called Wu Yuan frequently to talk about interesting things that happened on the set, and invited him to visit the set implicitly, after all, Wu Yuan was really free during his vacation this year.

As soon as he thought of it, on July 24, the next day, Wu Yuan took a plane to Shanghai, and asked his assistant to order two cars of milk tea and iced drinks, and went to the set together.

The crew of "Time Travel Cohabitation" is currently filming in an old two-story residential building on the outskirts of Shanghai, where the male and female protagonists live together.

The only difference is that the male protagonist rented the house in 1999, while the female protagonist rented the house in 2018.

The two people lived 19 years apart, but the same door closed and turned out to be the intersection of two time and space, and two people from different time and space met in one room.

So a series of wonderful stories began to be born.

It was afternoon when Wu Yuan arrived at the crew. The crew had just finished filming a set of scenes where two people got along in a house with disordered time and space.

"Hey, you're here?" Liu Yifei, who took the water from the assistant and was about to drink it, saw the two cold drink trucks parked outside the crew and Wu Yuan leaning against the car, and a smile immediately appeared on her face.

Wu Yuan told her during the video call last night that he would come to visit the set today.

But she was still very happy to see him.

As the heroine, Liu Yifei's every move has always been the focus of attention, and soon other crew members also noticed Wu Yuan's figure.

The crew's director Su Lun also walked over in surprise, "Director Wu, are you here to visit the set?"

"Welcome, welcome, you even brought drinks, the crew is blessed today."

Before he finished speaking, Su Lun's eyes suddenly lit up, and he swallowed the second half of Gong Wei's words back into his stomach, and asked with wide eyes and expectation: "Hey, Director Wu, since you are here, why don't you come to guest star?"

"It just so happens that we have a funny scene of Haidilao employees serving door-to-door service this afternoon, which can be used as an Easter egg!" (End of this chapter)