Chapter 510 Guest Appearance
After hearing the news from Jiang Heng that "Jurassic World" is likely to be released in June next year, Zhang Yimou was indeed a little nervous, because the disadvantages of "The Great Wall" were too obvious.
"Jurassic World" is a big IP movie, and his Qin version of "The Great Wall" is an original story.
In terms of actors, the male protagonist Huang Xuan and the female protagonist Yang Mi are not well-known internationally, let alone the other characters.
Although "Jurassic World" is based on dinosaurs as its selling point, it will not spend a lot of money to hire Hollywood A-list stars, but the second- and third-tier stars will always choose one who looks familiar.
In addition to the modern story of the former, he photographed the distant ancient East, so he is slightly at a disadvantage no matter how he calculates it.
If it is released at the same time or later, it will definitely suffer.
The only thing that can be done at the moment is to speed up the filming progress and let the film be released in advance.
At the same time, Jiang Heng can make a guest appearance to increase the popularity of the cast!
Zhang Yimou expressed his thoughts. Jiang Heng had no objection and said with a smile: "Look, let me play a guest role!"
Zhang Yimou glanced at Zhang Ruonan, who was chatting with Yang Mi, "How about you two playing a young couple?"
Jiang Heng smiled, "You won't let us play Meng Jiangnu and Fan Xiliang, right?"
Zhang Yimou smiled, waved his hands and said: "No, no, you are so good at kung fu, you will definitely play a master in the film!"
Jiang Heng said: "I only have half a day!"
"I know, half a day is enough, I will definitely let you finish it!"
In Jiang Heng's mind, the image of Mr. Chen, played by Liu Songren, was handsome and pretentious and then quickly completed the production.
The reason is very simple, because Liu Songren was not available, so he came to make a guest appearance.
It's just that the appearance was too stunning, the death was too careless, and the contrast between before and after was too great, so that the audience still can't forget it after so many years.
He wouldn't be like this, right? He couldn't be like this, right? Jiang Heng muttered in his heart.
Immediately, he waved to Zhang Ruonan and told him about his guest appearance. The latter looked surprised.
Because two months ago, she was just a high school student studying in a vocational high school. Now she has not only become the heroine of "The Three-Body Problem", she also has a guest role in Zhang Yimou's blockbuster, and she also starred in the film with director Jiang Heng. Playing a couple in the movie is really exciting just thinking about it!
Yang Mi on the side could only sigh secretly after hearing this. This girl's luck is really so good!
The guest appearance was agreed upon, and Zhang Yimou called in a team of screenwriters to set up the identities of Jiang Heng and Zhang Ruonan.
Without much thought, Jiang Heng was assigned the identity of a court envoy, and Zhang Ruonan was the princess of the Qin Dynasty.
The Qin Kingdom was a martial artist, and its princesses were different from those in later generations who stayed at home and stayed behind, and were strictly controlled by rules.
Zhang Ruonan plays a princess with good martial arts. Because she misses her eldest brother Fusu who guards northern Xinjiang, she secretly hides in the convoy of the imperial envoy played by Jiang Heng.
Because the two have already made an engagement, the envoy played by Jiang Heng is happy to take the princess north with him.
After they arrived in the Northland, a wave of monsters attacked. The two climbed onto the city wall and bravely killed the monsters. In the end, they both died in order to save the young master Fusu.
Jiang Heng looked at the script he had written temporarily with his team of screenwriters. He was angry and funny, "Can these contents be filmed in half a day?"
The screenwriter looked embarrassed, "I just wanted to be more reasonable!"
Zhang Yimou advised: "Anyway, our two crews are close to each other. When filming is about to take place, we will prepare in advance and pick you up!"
Jiang Heng said: "I will have to go to Northern Europe to shoot outdoor scenes in a month at most!"
Zhang Yimou said: "I know, I know, I will refine the scenes here and I guarantee that the filming will be completed soon!"
"All right!"
After all, it was his own film, so Jiang Heng couldn't care less about it.
First I went to try on clothes, put on makeup, and shot a few sets of shots. We had lunch together at noon, and continued shooting in the afternoon. It was already past eight o'clock in the evening when we were all busy.
Zhang Yimou wanted to arrange a meal, Jiang Heng waved his hand and said: "Forget it, I'm so tired from filming now, so I won't do all the fuss. Let's eat and drink well when we're all done!"
Zhang Yimou was born in 1950, and he is already over 60 this year. After working on the set for a day, and then drinking and eating and chatting for a few points, it is really too much.
I can only say a little apologetically, "I owe you this meal. I will treat you to dinner after the filming is over!"
Zhang Ruonan looked flattered and hurriedly said no, no, no.
After leaving the set and getting into the Mercedes-Benz S600, Zhang Ruonan sat in the passenger seat like a quail.
Jiang Heng drove the car and said with a smile: "You are so hungry, what do you want to eat?"
Zhang Ruonan nodded slightly, "Just eat whatever you want!"
Jiang Heng said: "You say it's casual, then I'll arrange it casually!" He then drove to a hot pot city not far from the China Film Digital Base.
As soon as he entered the door, the beautiful female greeter came forward, bowed, and said with a smile: "Director Jiang, is this still your exclusive box?"
Jiang Heng said: "No need, just two people, just change to a smaller one!"
"Okay, this way please!"
Zhang Ruonan followed him upstairs with a surprised look on his face, and came to a well-decorated, luxurious and medium-sized box.
After ordering the food and welcoming the guests out the door, Zhang Ruonan asked in confusion: "Do you come to this place often?"
Jiang Heng smiled, "Not only do I come here often, this hot pot restaurant is also an industry owned by the company!"
"Ah?"
Zhang Ruonan was very surprised. She knew that the company had a real estate development company. It had developed many real estates and commercial complexes in the capital in the past few years. She didn't know that the company also entered the catering industry.
Jiang Hengdao: "The company has too much money on its books. It cannot be kept in the bank all the time. It must be used for investment. Catering, tourism, hotels, pharmaceuticals... I opened this hot pot restaurant to get out when filming." Convenient to eat!”
Zhang Ruonan nodded slightly, she understood what Jiang Heng meant. Big stars are easily photographed outside, so it would be much more convenient if they had their own store!
I couldn’t help but sigh, “How awesome!”
Jiang Heng smiled, "It's nothing. When you have a lot of money, you will find that it is very simple for money to make money. They are like having the ability to reproduce and will multiply on their own, making more and more money!"
Speaking of this, Jiang Heng suddenly remembered "The Richest Man in Xihong City".
I can produce it in advance and let Zhang Ruonan play the heroine!
"Want to do a comedy?"
"ah!"
Zhang Ruonan was stunned, wondering how Jiang Heng's thoughts jumped.
"I, I can't!"
Jiang Heng smiled and said: "It's okay, the point of laughter is not yours anyway!"
"Oh!" The girl lowered her head, a little shocked.
Jiang Heng thought to himself: "Well, when "The Three-Body Problem" is finished, I will let you star in a comedy, and your reputation will be consolidated a lot. When you go to Beijing Film Academy or China Theater to study, you will have to make time to film one film a year." Two works...!
After Zhang Ruonan heard this, she felt that Jiang Heng was really kind, thinking so long-term and thoughtfully for her.
"Director Jiang, you are really, really nice!" (End of Chapter)