Chapter 588 Summer Smoke

According to Zhang Chen's idea, it was natural to be cautious and continue to let Yan Fei and Peng Damo co-direct.

But since Jiang Heng said so, he couldn't be a bad guy and block Song Yang's future.

"Of course, Director Jiang has a keen eye. If you say he can do it, then he will definitely do it!"

Song Yang was overjoyed and thanked him again.

At noon, Jiang Heng took several main members of the crew to treat the two to a meal. In the afternoon, they often went back and went straight to the iYouTeng Film Building.

When Du Huan got the news, he was overjoyed.

Because after the release of "Charlotte's Troubles", the box office trend was not much weaker than "The Richest Man in Xihong City", and more than 2 billion was definitely no problem.

And with these two movies, the "Happy Twist" team has become the most popular comedy group in China.

If you don't win over such a "team", what kind of team can you win over!

In his opinion, if Zhang Chen hadn't always wanted to maintain independence, he should have acquired them as a whole.

When he heard that Jiang Heng let "Happy Twist" contact other film and television companies and did not intend to continue cooperation, he was confused for a moment. Isn't this equivalent to pushing "Jinshan" out?

Du Huan persuaded twice, and seeing that Jiang Heng was indifferent, he gave up.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Chen led a young man to the door with a script, saying that Jiang Heng agreed, which really made him feel like a ray of light.

Seeing the first draft of the script revised by Jiang Heng, Du Huan seemed to understand something.

He vaguely understood that Jiang Heng should be afraid that they would use bad movies to make money and destroy the brand of iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Pictures.

But if the script is creative, he will definitely be willing to cooperate.

"As expected of Director Jiang, this script is very interesting and the setting is very clever!"

Du Huan praised and glanced at Song Yang, who was looking reserved. "It's great that you can think of this idea!"

"Thank you, Mr. Du, for the compliment!"

"Director Jiang has been judging people for so many years, and I believe you can do it well! You are responsible for the actors. As for the investment...!"

Because everything had been agreed with Jiang Heng in advance, Du Huan just repeated the previous agreement and put it in black and white on the contract.

Then the crew was set up, the money was paid, and the filming started. The efficiency was as high as the golden age of Hong Kong movies.

Of course, there are fast and slow ones. After the New Year, the postmodern fantasy love drama "Sito" was prepared and started shooting in Beijing in mid-May.

The main location of the film's exterior scenes was in Yunnan, and the indoor or special effects scenes were shot in the digital base with "building a shed" or "green screen".

Because the two crews were very close, Jing Tian would come to the crew of "Jingwei Filling the Sea" after work, and she and Yang Mi were like good sisters, and sometimes they even slept in the same room, so Jiang Heng had to go back to his own home!

One day, Yang Mi took a leave to attend the Shanghai International Film Festival, and Jing Tian stayed at Jiang Heng's place that night.

At night, Da Tiantian, who couldn't sleep, drew circles on Jiang Heng's arm with her fingers, looking bored.

"Oh, so annoying, always being so sneaky, when can you be more open and aboveboard!"

Jiang Heng pinched her chin and said with a smile: "Why, can't you wait?"

"Just a little bit, didn't you say you were going to retire?"

"Well, really?"

"Of course!"

"After retirement, go to a place where no one knows us?"

"Yes!"

"You won't care about the entertainment industry anymore, right?"

"I'm too lazy to attend film festivals, okay? After retirement, unless it's a matter of life and death for the company, the rest will be left to them!"

Da Tiantian was much happier when she heard this.

Because Jiang Heng's state in recent years is indeed as he said, he is too lazy to attend any activities, such as various in-circle ceremonies - film festivals.

In his own words, we have already won the box office, so we don't need to fight for honors anymore.

So over the years, his films have been nominated for a number of domestic film festival awards, but they are basically concentrated in the best actor and actress, supporting actor, newcomer and other awards, after all, we have to consider the actors.

As for the awards for best director and best film, he usually doesn't participate even if he knows he can win them.

At first, there were some rumors that Jiang Heng looked down on the mainland's film festivals.

But as Jiang Heng continued to shoot various blockbusters that broke box office records, his reputation gradually improved.

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People in the industry are used to him not attending film festivals.

On the contrary, sometimes, when Jiang Heng had to attend some events because of the leader's order, he would scare other directors and actors, thinking that he wanted to "gain both fame and fortune"!

In the blink of an eye, it was late June, and the annual summer box office battle was about to begin.

This year's summer season can be said to be full of blockbusters.

What the audience is most looking forward to is naturally Jiang Heng's special effects blockbuster "The Return of the Great Sage".

What puzzles the audience is that the plot of this movie has been kept secret, and it is still unknown which episode of the book it is about.

The second most eye-catching one is "Legend of the Demon Cat" directed by Chen Kaige.

In the original history, this costume blockbuster was released in 2017.

Perhaps stimulated by Jiang Heng, Chen Kaige shot this film two years earlier and started the promotion activities early.

When asked by a media reporter what he thought of his strongest rival Jiang Heng's new film "The Return of the Great Sage", Chen Kaige said: "Jiang Heng is a good director. From the perspective of commercial films alone, he is the best. Not only in China, but also in the global film market, there is no such excellent commercial film director!

However, in one's life, many things are fixed. How much you eat, how much you use, how much you can do. There are too many people who are brilliant and talented when they are young, and their creative desire is overwhelming. But when they are a little older, they can't write anything and can't do anything well...!"

Many reporters agree with Chen Kaige's statement, because there are indeed many writers who wrote many classic works when they were young.

But suddenly one day, they can no longer write anything that satisfies themselves, and then fall into mental exhaustion.

Chen Kaige said that the name of "The Return of the Great Sage" can be seen that this should be a film different from the previous "Journey to the West" series of films. Jiang Heng should have made a new attempt, which may surprise the audience, or it may be very bad.

But no matter what, he hopes that "The Return of the Great Sage" will be a big hit at the box office.

Of course, his "Legend of the Demon Cat" will also be a big hit.

The scale of the Chinese-language film market today is several times larger than before, and it can accommodate two blockbusters that are "big hits" at the same time.

After this statement was posted online, Chen Kaige was criticized by many netizens.

Especially Jiang Heng's fans, who thought that Chen Kaige was implicitly saying that Jiang Heng was going to fall into a state of "running out of ideas".

Although Jiang Heng has shot many special effects blockbusters over the years, there are so many themes suitable for special effects, such as mythology, science fiction, mecha, monsters, disasters, etc., and there is absolutely enough to shoot! (End of this chapter)