Chapter 67: The Protagonist Candidate

Two days passed quickly, and during these two days, Chen Feng still lived a day of retreat, and the door did not go out. Of course, despite this, in today's Internet era, it is normal for "Xiucai to know everything about the world without going out". 、

Since Cao Yunfang released a solemn statement to the media two days ago, Isabella, a newly baked Italian supermodel, has really cocooned herself and shot herself in the foot, which has been criticized by all walks of life, especially Long's fans, who expressed strong protest against her attempt to borrow the scandal with Long. Just a few hours after Cao Yunfang's public statement was announced, Isabella received several death threat letters, and the glass of the house was also smashed by unknown people, so she had to apply to the police for protection, and changed her residence as soon as possible。

At this time, Isabella, the "Italian super new model" who could have taken advantage of this opportunity to cooperate with Long in the endorsement advertisement, soared into the sky, like a meteor across the starry sky of the Italian modeling industry, and fell in an instant. And just before Cao Yunfang's statement, she was favored by several famous brand companies and negotiated with her about endorsement advertising, and when she was about to sign a cosmetics advertisement worth $5 million, this statement came out, of course, this endorsement advertisement was immediately lost, and other companies that were originally interested in her changed from the previous rush to avoid snakes and scorpions. It is safe to say that Isabella, a super newcomer who was originally very optimistic about the media, immediately became infamous and her stars dimmed. At this point, Isabella, an Italian beauty who originally rose from the bottom and had just tasted fame, naturally hated Long and Cao Yunfang, Long's agent.

Chen Feng had some expectations for such a result of Isabella, but he didn't expect the consequences to be so strict, Isabella went from a star-studded star to an immoral artist that everyone shouted and beat almost overnight. The contrast between before and after is huge. But the reason why the other party is like this is completely self-inflicted, and Chen Feng can't be blamed for anything, Chen Feng doesn't feel guilty except for a little sigh.

And here in Hong Kong, since Chen Feng put "Winter Love Song" two days ago After the script was handed over to Yang Tianming, and Yang Tianming was handed over to Chen Yongqi, the president of Asia Television, Asia Television gave a shooting plan in two days, because considering the problem of filming in the northeast of the mainland, the budget has of course increased a lot, and the initial budget cost is about 3000 million Hong Kong dollars, which does not include labor costs, The number is much less than he expected, money is not a problem in his plan, the main problem is that I can shoot this classic romantic drama well, at least not worse than the original, or even surpass, after getting this project, Chen Feng immediately instructed to double the budgeted cost, 6000 million Hong Kong dollars, a total of 20 episodes, and the average cost of each episode is 3 million Hong Kong dollars, so it should be enough. After the project was determined, the first one was of course to find a director, for which several TV directors of Asia Television recommended themselves, and finally under the recommendation of President Chen Yongqi, the new director was selected Deng Jian, who was only 35 years old, who had been working as a commercial film director on Asia Television before, in addition to shooting a few well-known advertisements for Hong Kong people, he had no experience in directing movies and TV series independently, but despite this, he had followed a famous Hong Kong TV drama director as an assistant director for a long time, so, under the strong recommendation of Chen Yongqi, Chen Feng planned to give him a chance, because his intuition told him that this Deng Jian is a talent, this feeling is similar to when Chen Feng faced Karina, after experiencing several such things, Chen Feng believes in his intuition very much.

And Yang Tianming seems to have a lot of confidence in Deng Jian, and has no objection to Chen Feng's decision, and also said that looking at Deng Jian's face, he will definitely do something in the future. When Chen Feng heard him say this, of course, he praised his decision to choose him as the president of Huateng Entertainment in the first place.

If Yang Tianming's ability to look at feng shui and people's faces is used for business development, especially in the appointment of cadres at all levels within the company, he will naturally be able to achieve the most appropriate allocation of resources and truly give full play to his professional talents.

After the director of the "Winter Sonata" TV series was selected, the next choice was naturally the main actors. For this point, especially the male and female protagonists, Chen Feng, the screenwriter, of course, has the most choice.

Chen Feng filtered all the male and female actors in his brain, and found that the most suitable ones to play the heroine, especially in Hong Kong, since there are only Mengxue, Cecilia Cheung, Zhong Xintong, one of the members of the Twins group, the first of the three candidates Chen Feng thought about it and filtered it out directly, her temperament and personality are somewhat similar to the heroine Weizhen, and she is the best among the three daughters in appearance, if she plays the role, she will definitely be able to fascinate a large number of audiences, but Chen Feng doesn't want to have anything to do with her, so of course he can only exclude her, and Cecilia Cheung is in appearance, is also very good in temperament, she just debuted in 1998, her image is clear and beautiful, and she is praised by the media as Kobayashi Qingxia, and the agency also intends to package her as the new head of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, but Cecilia Cheung, who has an outstanding personality, still insists on maintaining her true colors. After taking over the advertisement for Sunshine Lemon Tea, Cecilia Cheung was discovered by Stephen Chow and became the heroine of "The King of Comedy". She played the role of Liu Piaopiao, a little dancer who did not lose her simple personality in the play, and her emotions were sincere and touching, and she became an instant hit, and was known as one of the heads of the new generation of lustful women. The film eventually became the box office champion among Chinese New Year films at that time, with a result of HK$30 million. Since then, Zhang Zhi took over the filming of the love literature "Star Wish" produced by Golden Harvest Film Company and directed by Ma Chucheng and played the heroine, and performed with Ren Xianqi. This film has been staged in the prime time of the summer vacation in August 99, and the box office has exceeded 10 million, which has established her status as a good singer in the film industry, and the movie "Star Wish", its plot and artistic conception can be said to be similar to "Winter Love Song", it is so poignant, so she serves as the heroine of "Winter Love Song", which is also very compatible, but Chen Feng thought of the ** door in a few years, and he was also deeply worried about it, afraid that a few years later because of this door would ruin this innocent love classic drama, the third twins** , her image is quite in line with Weizhen, but she has not officially debuted yet, not to mention that she is also one of the main characters in a few years, so for the long-term consideration of this classic drama, Chen Feng can only give up. As for Junshang, the actor of "Winter Love Song", Chen Feng searched through the memory number in his mind, and reluctantly found three candidates, namely Liming, Aaron Kwok and Ekin Cheng, who were barely able to compete with Pei Yongjun, the "grandmother killer" is comparable, but these three are obviously too old in terms of age, and now the three of them are almost thirty-five or sixteen years old, and it is nothing for them to pretend to be tender, but Chen Feng feels a little awkward, not to mention that these three people seem to belong to the colder and cooler kind of personality in addition to their appearance, which is a little inconsistent with the handsome Shang in the play.

After thinking about the lack of suitable candidates for the hero and actress for two days, Chen Feng proposed to Yang Tianming the plan to audition for the hero and heroine of "Winter Love Song", which can not only increase the media attention of this "Winter Love Song", but also vigorously promote the re-emergence of Hong Kong ATV.

Yang Tianming is against this plan, he believes that this is regarded as the first TV series of their Hua Teng to live in Hong Kong ATV, and should be cautious, to be on the safe side, if possible, it is better to invite stars to star rather than rookies, so as to minimize the risk.

Chen Feng thought about Yang Tianming's statement and felt that his concerns were normal, so he asked him to talk about the choice of the hero and heroine. In the past two days, Yang Tianming has also roughly read the script of "Winter Love Song", and he also has high expectations for it.

"I think it's best to choose Mengxue for the heroine in this drama, I think her appearance and temperament are very consistent, and her current appeal in Asia also plays a great role in promoting this TV series, so we can give her the highest salary per episode. I know her personally, and his father is also a former customer of mine, and the relationship is not bad, if you think it is okay, I will take the initiative to contact her immediately, and I believe that if we can offer a higher salary, she will agree. Moreover, I know that she currently has plans to pursue a career in the film and television industry. Yang Tianming said the candidate in his mind, and it seemed that he had identified Mengxue. Actually, Chen Feng also felt that Mengxue was very suitable in her heart, but she really didn't want to have anything to do with Mengxue anymore, after all, "Winter Love Song" was a script written by himself, but the heroine chose Mengxue, and after Hongye knew about it, she would inevitably have bad thoughts.

"Is there any other candidate besides her?" Chen Feng asked quietly.

"Xiao Feng, believe me, Meng Xue is the most suitable candidate to play the heroine of this drama. At least, in Hong Kong, I don't think anyone else is fully qualified for this role except for her, because she is the best, and if she agrees to star in this series, without our promotion, this drama is destined to be popular, which is better than taking the risk of bringing in new people and then advertising every day. ”

Chen Feng had no choice but to retreat and said: "I think that Cecilia Cheung is not bad, have you ever watched "Star Wish" starring her and Ren Xianqi, it is a love literary film, it is very moving, her acting skills are also very good, and her personal charm is also very good, on the contrary, although Mengxue's personal image is slightly better than hers, she has no acting experience at all before, which is a big trouble." Therefore, of the two, I still tend to Cecilia Cheung. ”

"Well, I have seen the movie "Star Wish", and the theme song of the same name "Star Wish" sung by Cecilia Cheung is also very popular now, of course I know something about her, but how can she compare with Mengxue. If Meng Xue doesn't agree to act, we'll look for her again. Xiao Feng, what do you think?" Yang Tianming is planning to support Meng Xue.

Chen Feng was embarrassed to refuse Yang Tianming's mention in person, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "This...... Let me think about it, don't notify him for the time being, and the rest of the characters in the play, you can negotiate and determine it first. ”

"Xiao Feng, aren't you optimistic about Mengxue playing the heroine? or...... What do you think of herself?" Yang Tianming asked suspiciously.

Chen Feng saw that his sworn brother had said everything about this, and he could only count: "This matter is unclear for a while, in short, I think it is a little inappropriate to let Mengxue play the heroine." ”

"Okay, the candidate for the heroine, let's put it for the time being. Yang Tianming diverted the topic and said, "And the choice of the leading actor, the first thing I think of is your ......."

"What?me?" Chen Feng asked in surprise, "How did you think of me, I'm only seventeen years old now." How is it possible to star in such a romantic drama?"

"What's wrong with this, you are the chairman of our Huateng Entertainment, so you naturally want to make some contributions to our company. You probably don't know that your appearance is very mature, although your real age is only seventeen years old, but the appearance of the appearance, everyone can believe that you are twenty years old, and it is a big deal to use some makeup to make you more mature. If you, the screenwriter, star in person, you will naturally be able to better grasp the heart of the actor and perform his charm, and with your long's fame, this TV series can rise to a global ratings frenzy even if it is filmed badly, not only in Hong Kong, but also in Asia, our Hong Kong ATV will officially show its face in the world, and Hong Kong TVB is not worth mentioning at all. If so, if you can participate, Mengxue will definitely be able to agree, and it may even be zero pay. With the combination of these two handsome men and beautiful women, plus this good script you wrote, I really can't think of a reason why I can't be an instant hit. Yang Tianming said with a wistful face.

Chen Feng was somewhat moved to star in the infatuated male handsome man and experience the addiction of filming a TV series, but when he thought of it with the heroine Mengxue, Chen Feng naturally felt very awkward.

"For the time being...... I don't want to develop into the film and television industry yet......" Chen Feng said with some hesitation.

"Xiao Feng, didn't you say that you wanted to revitalize Hong Kong dramas? If you were to start the first shot of the Hong Kong drama revitalization plan, it would naturally be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort. What's more, you definitely don't want the "Winter Love Song" you wrote to be scrapped. As far as I know, it's hard to find a better person in the world to play this actor than you. Only you can make this "Winter Sonata" a classic, an eternal classic of our Asian TV. Yang Tianming said demagogically, "Believe me, Xiao Feng, you are the most suitable person." ”

Chen Feng is very moved in his heart, if he can really create this classic romantic drama in person, who wouldn't want to? What's more, only he knows the "original appearance" of this TV series, and at the same time, he can be the producer or producer of course. But the problem is that if Mengxue is starring, this will be a little difficult, and if you change to a different heroine, you may be able to.

After thinking about it, Chen Feng decided to tell the truth to his sworn brother.

"Big brother, that's the case, in fact, I also knew Mengxue before, and the relationship with Hongye was very good before, I came to Xiuzhou twice, and stayed for a few days. But...... She...... How to say it, I didn't expect her to have a crush on me, on a flight to Los Angeles where the three of us ran together, because we encountered a minefield, everyone thought that we were going to encounter a plane crash, and her life was short, she suddenly confessed to me, so, now the relationship between the two of us and her is very awkward, and it is impossible for me to partner with her in this love series. ”

Yang Tianming obviously didn't expect that Mengxue, a fairy-like character, would actually have a crush on Chen Feng, which was simply incredible, and after a while, he said in disbelief: "Xiao Feng, are you sure you're not joking with me." Or, I heard it wrong just now, you said Mengxue she has a crush on you?"

"Big brother, how can I joke with you about this kind of thing, it's true. There's no need for me to lie to you. Chen Feng replied angrily.

"Xiao Feng, it's not that I don't believe you, you shouldn't have had much contact with her before. How could she suddenly have a crush on you? This is just too strange?" Yang Tianming said his question.

"Yes, I also feel very strange?" Chen Feng also said confusedly, "Now that I think about it, I feel that when I first met her, she had thoughts about me, maybe it was really love at first sight." As for the specific reason, you have to ask her herself to know. ”

Yang Tianming couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Xiao Feng, it seems that your kid's peach blossom luck is too prosperous, and I underestimated it a little before." It is really worthy of the body of destiny, the peach blossoms bloom, good luck comes naturally, some people can't ask for it, but you are distressed by it. Speaking of this, he suddenly said very strictly, "Xiao Feng, I have to warn you again, in the next twenty days, you had better not go out, stay at home all the time, and avoid seeing unrelated people, you know." ”