Chapter 593 Su Lun, Lu Yang, Tian Yusheng

Su Lun, Lu Yang, Tian Yusheng, Bi Gan, Hou Pu.

These are the five directors selected for the second phase of the Light and Shadow Times Young Director Support Program.

Except for the last one, Wu Yuan had no impression at all and suspected that he might be a pearl in the ocean, the first four were all directors he had heard of and were talented.

It can only be said that under the control of a reasonable and fair selection process system, real talents will not be buried.

Even if Wu Yuan did not make any arrangements in advance, these people would still stand out and enter the support list.

Wu Yuan continued to read and soon saw the content of the movie scripts they were selected for.

Lu Yang's was indeed "Embroidered Spring Knife".

He is not a newcomer. In 2010, he won the KNN Award in the New Wave Unit of the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea with his directorial debut "Blind Cinema".

In 2012, his second completed film "RV Adventure" was shortlisted for the Asian Window Unit of the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.

While he was working on Blind Cinema, he had already written the story of Sword of Assassination. The script was written in 2010.

But when Lu Yang wanted to shoot Sword of Assassination, a company advised him to change the costume drama into a modern drama, and was not optimistic about the script.

Because Sword of Assassination is a traditional martial arts film, that is, a traditional martial arts film without any special effects or 3D gimmicks, the market is generally not optimistic about movies of this theme.

Relying on his own connections, he barely persuaded China Film to give an investment, but China Film was only willing to give 15 million, which was half of the 30 million budget in his mind.

China Film also said that after he found the male lead, he would talk to China Film. If the male lead is strong enough to increase the success rate of this project, China Film is willing to continue to follow up.

Originally, Lu Yang was embarrassed by this matter and was looking for a suitable male actor everywhere. The first target was Zhang Zhen, and he was still trying to persuade him to take this play.

At this time, the second phase of the Youth Support Plan of Light and Shadow Era happened to be launched.

With a try-it attitude, Lu Yang submitted the script to Guangying Times again, hoping to get another support fund from Guangying Times, which might be enough for him to shoot "Embroidered Spring Blade".

As a result, he passed all the tests and was shortlisted for the five-person list.

Wu Yuan was very generous in this director support plan. He had already told Li Xiaoping that there would be no upper limit. As long as the script was good enough, Guangying Times would make up the investment.

Guangying Times is no longer the fledgling when it was just starting out. The company's cash flow is abundant. In order to support new directors, it can afford to lose money.

And whether it will lose money is still uncertain.

So, Lu Yang's "Embroidered Spring Blade" won Guangying Times's 15 million investment, plus China Film's 15 million, which was enough for the filming.

Zhang Zhen heard that the funds had been supplemented, so he agreed to take over the film. Now Lu Yang has taken the crew to scout locations across the country and select places to prepare for the start of filming.

Tian Yusheng is the same.

After graduating from university, he and his friends founded Shengtang Studio and entered the screenwriting industry as a screenwriter.

The script of "Lost on Journey" was written by Shengtang Studio. Later, the movie earned 50 million yuan at the box office, and Tian Yusheng also entered the film industry.

Don't underestimate the box office performance of 50 million yuan.

For a low-cost comedy movie, this box office is already very high.

"One Thought in Heaven" made by Mahua only earned more than 3 million yuan at the box office after its release. This is the general situation of low-cost comedy movies in China.

In comparison, "Lost on Journey" is already as successful as it can be.

It is also because of this that Tian Yusheng also participated in the pre-production of the comedy movie "Lost in Thailand" from the end of last year to the beginning of this year.

After the script and shooting of "Lost in Thailand" were almost completed, Tian Yusheng came up with the idea of ​​the script of "Ex-Files", and his original intention was not to direct and act in it himself.

In fact, after the script of "Ex-Files" was completed, many companies in the industry were vying for this project. After all, Tian Yusheng already had two successful examples.

There is no doubt that companies will be eager to snatch his new script.

But after being a screenwriter twice, Tian Yusheng's ambition gradually grew. He felt that he could not only write scripts, but also try to be a director.

However, he had talked with several companies that approached him. These companies were willing to invest in this "Ex-Files", but they all hoped that Tian Yusheng could find an excellent director and protagonist, rather than let him do it himself.

After all, Tian Yusheng has no directing foundation and no successful experience before. How could anyone invest money to take risks?

It just so happened that the young director support plan of Light and Shadow Times appeared at this time, and Tian Yusheng naturally came to Light and Shadow Times.

Unexpectedly, this script also passed all the way and entered the final five-person list.

Light and Shadow Times originally had the idea of ​​supporting new directors, so Tian Yusheng could naturally get a production fund of 10 million yuan and start his first directorial project.

The remaining Bi Gan, Hou Pu and Su Lun had similar experiences to them. They all had the mentality of giving it a try, or failed to attract investment everywhere, so they submitted their scripts to Guangying Times.

However, compared with Lu Yang and Tian Yusheng, the scripts of these three are not very sellable.

Su Lun entered the industry after graduating from the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama in 2009. Similar to Wu Yuan's previous experience, she started as an assistant director and spent three years in Hengdian.

During this period, she did not forget her dream of being an independent director and wrote a script for a romantic comedy. It was not "Time and Space Cohabitation" as Wu Yuan remembered, but "Summer Leisure" which he had never heard of.

This is a campus love comedy. Guangying Times invested 8 million yuan to encourage and support it. After all, there are really too few female directors in the circle, and they should be supported.

As for Bi Gan and Hou Pu, let alone, these two are directors of art films, and their scripts are also purely art awards, which are completely insulated from the box office.

Guangying Times did not expect these two directors to generate income for the company. They were selected for awards because their scripts were the most artistic and film-artistic scripts among the hundreds of scripts submitted this time.

Bi Gan's script "Roadside Picnic" was highly praised by the screenwriter department during the internal screening of the company. They thought he was the next Jia Zhangke and would definitely shine in the field of foreign film festivals and become the representative of the new generation of mainland art film directors after Jia Zhangke.

Hou Pu's evaluation was slightly lower than Bi Gan, but the senior executives of the company's screenwriter department and director department also believed that he had great potential and would become a frequent visitor to domestic and foreign film festivals after a few years of training.

A large company of the size of Guangying Times must focus on both box office and awards. It is also appropriate to invest in several award-winning directors at the right time. This is why the final list of three commercial film directors and two art film directors was selected.

In order to support these five directors, Guangying Times also took out 45 million yuan in support funds this time!

Wealthy and powerful! (End of this chapter)