Chapter 328: The Filming of "White Snake" Begins

Jiang Heng naturally didn't take "Legend of the White Snake" produced by Action Films seriously.

To be honest, the main creative team is quite good to be able to film the touching story of the Legend of the White Snake so badly.

The director of this film is Cheng Xiaodong, who is really good at martial arts guidance. From "A Chinese Ghost Story" to "Swordsman" to "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers", the action design is magnificent and the visual effects are very shocking.

But when it comes to storytelling, his strength is not ordinary weak. The director's "Legend of the White Snake" and "Zhu Xian 1" are both absolutely bad movies.

Of course, the failure of "Legend of the White Snake" cannot be blamed on the director. After all, the fundamental reason for the birth of this film is to promote Huang Shengyi.

In addition, the film also invited Jet Li, Wen Zhang, Cai Zhuoyan, Lin Wei, Xu Ruoxuan, Yang Qianhua, Jiang Wu and others.

Each supporting role has quite a few scenes, which fundamentally reduces the emotional development scenes between White Snake and Xu Xian, so that Xu Xian in the original "Legend of the White Snake" is like a tool man, and his presence is not as good as the third male disciple of Fahai played by Wen Zhang.

In this life, Wen Zhang plays Xu Xian, and he will definitely have more scenes, but it is estimated that he will not be filmed too well.

Jiang Heng's side, however, is based on the story of "White Snake Origin" and slightly modified and improved. The whole story is both touching and has a little reunion.

Because it tells the story of the previous life of the two, the audience knows that they were together later.

When the familiar soundtrack sounded, it felt very beautiful instantly.

Coupled with the shocking special effects and the blessing of the 3D version, there is no pressure for the mainland box office to exceed 1 billion.

In terms of the main creators, the director and male lead are Jiang Heng, the female lead is Jing Tian, ​​Zhao Liying plays Xiaoqing, and the villain national teacher is invited to Liu Xun.

It is said that the old man is 70 years old this year and has not participated in film and television dramas for several years.

However, facing Jiang Heng's invitation, Liu Xun was still somewhat moved.

After all, he had been acting for a lifetime, and he also hoped to participate in a big-budget film with super high box office, and he also hoped that the works he participated in could be seen by audiences in more countries.

After learning that he only needed to be responsible for the literary part, and the rest of the action scenes had a special stand-in, Liu Xun still agreed.

Of course, the reason why he readily agreed was that Jiang Heng paid a lot of money, which made him unable to refuse.

Although he is a diamond-level supporting actor well-known to the audience, he actually did not make much money in his life, and there is still a certain pressure on retirement.

Not only him, many Hong Kong actors live in a very embarrassing situation when they are old, and only a very small number of people have truly achieved financial freedom.

In addition, there is another more outstanding character in the film, that is, the disciple of the national teacher, a little Taoist priest with great magic power and kung fu.

For this role, Jiang Heng chose Zhang Jin, who is thin and has extremely high kung fu.

In "SPL 2", one person suppressed Wu Jing and Tony Jaa, and his performance was very outstanding.

I believe that he should be able to perform well in "White Snake: Origin".

In Hong Kong, Zhang Jin, who had just received the invitation for the role, could not believe his ears.

He was not well-known in the circle. When others mentioned him, they talked most about "Cai Shaofen's husband".

Zhang Jin naturally hoped to make a name for himself, but the Hong Kong film industry was declining, and he had no connections in the mainland, so he didn't know when he would be able to make a name for himself.

I really didn't expect that there would be such a good opportunity.

The moment Zhang Jin answered the phone, he didn't ask anything. He confirmed that it was a new film directed by Jiang Heng, and he immediately agreed.

Then he immediately called his wife and told her about it.

Cai Shaofen was more excited than Zhang Jin. She naturally hoped that her husband would make a name for himself, and others said that she married the right person.

She hurried to book two plane tickets and prepared to accompany Zhang Jin to the crew.

But at the end of February, "White Snake: Origin" held a new film press conference in Beijing.

In addition to the above-mentioned cast and crew, Huang Bo was also present. He was a guest star who would voice the Shiba Inu bellyband in the film and guest star as Xu Xian's brother-in-law.

Gao Yuanyuan was also invited to play the role of the snake mother in the film.

As for the little fox demon Baoqingfangzhu, Jiang Heng chose the young actor Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan, who was born in 1986, graduated from the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy. She has a good appearance and figure, but she just can't become popular.

Jiang Heng also remembered this person by chance and ordered his assistant to contact him by phone.

At this moment, Jiang Yan was really unknown.

When she first heard that it was Director Jiang Heng who invited her, she thought the other party was a liar. After arriving at iQiyi Film Company and signing the contract, she dared to believe that all this was true.

Even so, she still felt dizzy at the new film press conference.

Facing the media interview, Jiang Yan said that she was extremely grateful to Director Jiang Heng and would definitely work hard to play her role well.

Jiang Heng laughed and said politely that she would be famous sooner or later!

Jiang Yan naturally didn't dare to believe this, but seeing Jing Tian's bright and beautiful appearance, she couldn't help but feel envious.

The filming location of the play "White Snake Origin" was mainly set at the China Film Digital Base, Hengdian Film and Television City, and the Broken Bridge of West Lake and Yunnan-Guizhou region for outdoor shooting.

As for this moment, it was first to go to the China Film Digital Base.

The people who participated in the new film press conference took a bus to go there. After getting off the bus, they went to the hotel to check in.

Jiang Heng, who had houses everywhere, naturally went to the mansion near the filming base.

Not long after Jing Tian came in, he heard the phone ring.

He picked it up and saw that it was Han Sanping calling.

Director Han is quite busy this year, as he is going to direct the tribute film "The Founding of the People's Republic of China" to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

All the actors in the film were paid for their roles, and his old friend Jiang Heng was naturally indispensable among them.

"Congratulations, another blockbuster film has been launched!"

Jiang Heng smiled: "There's nothing to congratulate about, it's just an ordinary film!"

Han Sanping said: "Stop pretending to be humble here. Do you dare to say that after the release of White Snake, the box office in the mainland will be less than one billion?"

"Of course not!"

"The overseas box office must be at least US$500 million!"

"Roughly the same!"

"Tell me, you are like a humanoid money printing machine. How much do you need to make this year?"

Jiang Heng smiled, "I earn hard-earned money from making movies, but I can't compare to those business tycoons!"

"Aren't you a business tycoon? Just talk about your game..."

"Stop, let me tell you, Old Han, from the tone of your voice, why do you feel like you are hating the rich!"

Han Sanping sighed: "The budget is limited and the box office prospects are insufficient. Of course I hate the rich and of course I am worried!"

Jiang Heng smiled and said: "No, no!"

"By the way, there are two characters, Chiang Ching-kuo and Kong Lingkan, you choose one!"

Director Jiang was dissatisfied: "Why are they all on the Kuomintang side?"

Han Sanping said: "Then the two of them have a lot of roles, so I'm okay with you?"

Jiang Heng chuckled. He naturally didn't believe Han Sanping's words, but he could guess the other party's purpose.

In "The Founding of the People's Republic of China", the rivalry scenes between Chiang Ching-kuo and Kong Lingkan were indeed exciting. Han Sanping hoped that these scenes could be more exciting.

Inviting the famous Jiang Heng to make a cameo appearance and then including the exciting scenes in the trailer will definitely increase the box office.

You can't let Jiang Heng choose a reporter who doesn't have any dramatic conflicts. That would be such a waste!