How can a director be a gigolo?

Chapter 128 The Great Guide

If you're going to cast a young actor, you should cast a truly young one.

Since real high school students are hard to find, Wang Xiaohao plans to find one from an art school!

Given Wang Xiaohao's current appeal to actresses, finding a suitable candidate shouldn't be difficult.

However, it is quite difficult to find someone who looks somewhat like Qi Zhen!

In the original version, the young Fujii Itsuki and the adult Fujii Itsuki don't look alike, but they are completely unrelated, even their face shapes are quite different.

Wang Xiaohao had no choice but to leave the film crew and go to various art colleges in Beijing to cast actors, and also to explain the situation to Gong Yanchang, the boss of Wenhua Xingyu.

The filming of "Love Letter" was truly fraught with twists and turns. Not to mention the two casting changes.

The film crew will have to suspend production for a while.

With so many accidents, it's clear this movie is bound to go over budget.

Wang Xiaohao naturally had to give some reports to Gong Yanchang!

Ultimately, this situation arose because Wang Xiaohao became overconfident and failed to do his preliminary work properly.

The lack of a clear understanding of the actors' condition and the difficulty of filming ultimately led to these successive accidents!

Wang Xiaohao has already decided that he will pay for the extra expenses himself!

Unexpectedly, Gong Yanchang was very magnanimous. He simply waved his hand and told Wang Xiaohao to just keep shooting and produce high-quality photos.

As for overspending, he didn't care at all!

On the contrary, he was very interested in the love action film that Wang Xiaohao said he would tailor-make for Jin Ningxin, and asked what kind of film it was and whether it could be made into a blockbuster.

Wang Xiaohao had actually considered the films he had promised to make for Jin Ningxin, one being the Tomb Raider series and the other the Resident Evil series.

The female lead doesn't need to have great acting skills; she just needs to go out and kill!

Then Wang Xiaohao thought of "Ghost Blows Out the Light".

Of course, the novel "Ghost Blows Out the Light" does not exist in this world.

There isn't even Tomb Raider.

So when Wang Xiaohao mentioned "tomb raiding theme", Gong Yanchang immediately frowned.

In the eyes of Chinese people, tomb raiding is obviously immoral and violates human ethics.

Wang Xiaohao quickly explained, "Tomb raiding is just a cover; the real purpose is exploration..."

Then Wang Xiaohao briefly recounted the plot of "Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe".

Actually, Wang Xiaohao, who had read the original novel of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", did not think that the filming of "Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe" was particularly good.

However, among the various Ghost Blows Out the Light series, "Choosing the Eldest Son Among Short Ones" is considered one of the better ones!

However, even though Wang Xiaohao said that Ghost Blows Out the Light is not actually focused on tomb raiding, but rather on adventure.

Gong Yanchang shook his head again and said, "No! This kind of subject matter carries too much policy risk!"

You know the situation in China. Even if this kind of subject matter gets released, you'll be pulled from theaters if someone sues you!

Wang Xiaohao sighed inwardly, thinking, "Fine! Looks like this movie really won't be made!"

He felt a pang of regret, thinking that since "Ghost Blows Out the Light" couldn't be filmed, then "Tomb Raider" probably wouldn't be possible either.

So you're filming "Resident Evil"?

Wang Xiaohao could only think of a few female-centric movies, especially series films.

Don't mention "The Hunger Games" to him. Domestic audiences are basically indifferent to that. They're all confused about why the movie is so good and how it became so popular.

Unfortunately, social structures and the problems encountered are different, so the resonance they evoke is often different as well.

Just like in the country, most people don't think there's anything wrong with vaccines.

In the United States, the mere mention of vaccines immediately conjures up images of conspiracies and extermination!

You might laugh at these people for being too wise, but the real reason is simply that Americans have suffered losses in the past and are therefore very wary of it.

It can only be said that the officials of some countries are truly inhumane when it comes to being unethical!

Wang Xiaohao thought for a long time but still couldn't come up with a movie to make for Jin Ningxin.

Jin Ningxin's acting skills are really not good, but she has studied dance and some martial arts routines. She is agile and hardworking, so the best she can do is kung fu movies and take the action heroine route.

However, ordinary kung fu movies are no longer effective these days.

Some works like "Ghost Blows Out the Light" and "Resident Evil" still have some potential.

If we can't film these things, then what can we film?

Wang Xiaohao hesitated for a moment. At this moment, Gong Yanchang, who was already prepared, took out a script and said, "Take a look and see if this script can be filmed?"

What the heck? "The Feast at Hongmen"?

Whether it was a stereotype or not, it reminded Wang Xiaohao of a movie of the same name from his previous life, which immediately gave him a very bad feeling.

He flipped through the script, his expression gradually turning strange.

The good news is that this script for "The Feast at Hongmen" is different from the one in the previous life.

The bad news is, this script is absolutely terrible!

If the previous version of "The Feast at Hongmen" was pretentious and deliberately mysterious, then it was just another piece of nonsense—exploring human nature and other such rubbish within a perfectly good heroic epic.

So, this version of "The Feast at Hongmen" is a nonsensical comedy full of scatological humor. It blends together all sorts of outdated, awkward, and funny scenes.

This made Wang Xiaohao subconsciously think of the movie "Red Cliff" from his previous life.

Wang Xiaohao couldn't help but ask, "Was this script written by someone from Hong Kong?"

Gong Yanchang asked curiously, "How did you know? By the way, I asked Liang Qiusheng, a famous screenwriter from Hong Kong, to write the script for me."

You've surely heard of Leung Chau-sheng, right? He wrote the screenplays for all the classic Hong Kong films back in the day, including "Ghetto Justice," "Love in Paris," and "The Devil's Disintegration"!

The three films that Gong Yanchang mentioned are all classic films in the world, and they are all very famous.

Moreover, "Ghetto Justice" is a gangster film, "Love in Paris" is a romance film, and "The Devil's Demise" is a fantasy film.

Every single one of these movies has sparked a huge craze!

To put it another way, the status of "Ghetto Justice" is roughly equivalent to that of "A Better Tomorrow" in its previous life.

So "Love in Paris" is equivalent to "An Autumn's Tale".

As for the status of "The Demon's Disintegration", it is probably the same as "A Chinese Ghost Story" in this world.

A screenwriter who can write three classics, and all of them are different types, is enough to show how amazing this screenwriter is!

Unfortunately, although Liang Qiusheng was very talented, he had already passed the peak of his creative career.

His creative ability has declined drastically; he's just fooling people to make money for his retirement.

There are many such things in past lives. In the beginning, many famous Hong Kong film directors and screenwriters went north to make films, which made everyone look forward to seeing them make even better films.

As a result, they all failed to adapt to the new environment. After moving north, they didn't make many good films, but instead made a lot of bad ones.