Rebirth of Xiangjiang - 1978

If Mai Jia hadn't been with Lin Daoqiu for a long enough time, everyone would have thought that Mai Jia said this just to disgust Lin Daoqiu.

It’s not good who should be the director. Mai Jia actually recommended Sammo Hung in front of Lin Daoqiu. Isn’t this making Lin Daoqiu look bad?

When Lin Daoqiu heard what Mai Jia said, his face looked very calm.

Because before that, he had already guessed that the other party would recommend Sammo Hung to be the director.

I have to say that Maijia's proposal is indeed the most appropriate and pertinent.

After all, Sammo Hung is also the eldest brother of the Hong Kong film industry. There are many people who are senior to him, but everyone has to give him face.

Moreover, the main actor, Jackie Chan, is also his junior brother, and as Sammo Hung is the director, Jackie Chan naturally does not dare to be disobedient.

As for the supporting roles or guest stars, they can naturally be arranged properly with Sammo Hung around.

The previous New Year films, such as "The Five Lucky Stars", "Oriental Condor", and "Train of Fortune", all had a large number of stars participating in the performances, which shows that Sammo Hung is indeed capable of coordinating everything.

But even if Sammo Hung has all the good qualities, if Lin Daoqiu decides that he will be the director, Lin Daoqiu really can't make this decision.

"If you have any other opinions, you might as well share them."

Lin Daoqiu did not agree or reject Mai Jia's proposal. He wanted to see if there were any other candidates.

Not to mention being better than Sammo Hung, it doesn't matter even if it's a little bit worse, as long as it's on the passing line.

Then people at the scene began to recommend their own director candidates, from Chu Yuan and Zhang Che, to Mai Jia and Yuan Heping, everyone recommended everyone, and some even recommended Wang Jing to be the director.

Except for Sammo Hung, it seems that everyone has managed to set a unified standard, and everyone has someone they want to recommend.

After this meeting, no conclusion could be reached in the end, but in the end a few people came to the surface.

Sammo Hung, Mai Jia, Chu Yuan, and Yuen Woo-Ping are generally the people who are discussed the most. Apart from them, only Lin Daoqiu is the most suitable to direct this drama.

When he returned to the office, just by looking at the expression on Lin Daoqiu's face, he knew that he was not in a very good mood at this time.

Wen Jun, Zheng Danrui and Wang Jing followed closely and followed into Lin Daoqiu's office.

"Brother Qiu, I think we should choose Director Chu. He has high qualifications and seniority. He is also flexible in filming, and we can also help from the side. It will definitely be no problem."

In Wenjun's opinion, as long as Sammo Hung is not allowed to be the director, he doesn't care who becomes the director.

Wang Jing originally wanted to join in the fun, but when he compared himself with the directors on the list, Wang Jing still kept silent and didn't even think about competing.

After all, not only is he inferior to those on the list in terms of seniority and seniority, but his box office success is also not as high as theirs.

If he wants to participate in this director's competition, he will be just a disruptor at best.

"Director Chu Yuan does have good qualifications and seniority, but he is not suitable to be the director of this drama."

Lin Daoqiu rejected Wen Juan's proposal without thinking. The director of this drama cannot be someone with seniority or seniority.

When Lin Daoqiu said this, Wen Juan was speechless and had to lower his head.

"Brother Qiu, how about letting Mr. Ba be the director of this play?"

Since Chu Yuan is not suitable, Zheng Danrui thinks that letting Yuan Heping direct this drama should not be a big problem.

But Lin Daoqiu simply shook his head. Yuan Heping was going to be taken to Baodao to film "Royal Senior Sister". This matter had been decided before.

Moreover, Yuan Heping is not very suitable to direct this drama. After all, this drama is not a simple action drama.

With Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao and the others on board, Lin Daoqiu doesn't need to worry about the action of this film at all.

Chu Yuan and Yuan Heping were not suitable, and Wen Juan and the others didn't know who to mention. After all, the remaining candidates were not necessarily better than Chu Yuan and Yuan Heping.

"Forget it, let's let Mai Jia be the chief director of this drama and arrange a few directors for him to assist him."

Lin Daoqiu really couldn't think of any good candidates, so he simply settled on letting Mai Jia direct the play.

Wen Jun and Zheng Danrui will naturally not object to this. After all, Mai Jia is also one of their own, so letting him direct is the best choice for New Oriental.

The next day, when the news came out that Mai Jia had become the chief director of the new drama, many people were surprised by this, but most people felt that this was reasonable.

Their ideas are almost the same as those of Wenjun and Zheng Danrui. New Art City is a subsidiary of New Oriental. Mai Jia has been with Lin Daoqiu since the founding of New Oriental.

Letting him be the director of this drama is a compromise. It's not the best choice, but it's certainly not the worst.

In addition to Mai Jia, the chief director, Teddy Robin, Yuan Kui, Cheng Xiaodong, and Wang Jing have all become members of the directing team.

It can be seen that Lin Daoqiu is very concerned about this drama produced by the Performing Arts Association, and arranged so many directors for Mai Jia to assist him.

As the chief director, Mai Jia had to discuss the issues of this new play with Lin Daoqiu before he left Hong Kong.

After all, Lin Daoqiu will be going to the treasure island for three months, and the film should have entered the filming stage by then.

Mai Jia wanted to ask Lin Daoqiu what he thought about this drama before he left.

"Mr. Lin, I heard that you had people build a Kowloon Walled City on the Ax Shan Road studio. I heard that it will take at least four months to complete. In fact, you don't need to be in such a hurry to appoint a director."

Mai Jia had heard someone talk about this matter before. He thought that even if Lin Daoqiu needed to stay on the treasure island for three months, the Kowloon Walled City might not have been built when he came back. There was no need for him to be in such a hurry now.

The director decides.

"Four months at Kowloon Walled City is too long. I have asked them to shorten the construction period to one month."

Lin Daoqiu's original hope was to build a very good Kowloon Walled City.

But after he thought about it carefully, he realized that after the Kowloon Walled City was built, it would remain on the set of Ax Shan Road.

When the time comes to film such a scene at the Tseung Kwan O studio, wouldn't it mean that I have to rebuild the Kowloon Walled City?

The money aspect was still a small problem, but the problem was that a lot of time was wasted, so Lin Daoqiu changed his mind and shortened the construction period to one month, just to shoot one look, and the scenes in the room were still done using sets.

This way you won't waste too much time.

"I see. If that's the case, then I wonder what kind of name Mr. Lin plans to give this drama?"

Lin Daoqiu had previously thought of giving the play "The New Seventy-Two Tenants".

But now the story is no longer based on "Seventy-Two Tenants", so naturally the name cannot be used again.

As for what kind of name to choose, Lin Daoqiu actually didn't think about it himself. When Mai Jia asked, Lin Daoqiu suddenly fell into deep thought.