I am a director, but I have the skills of an actor

Chapter 233
"Mr. Wan, Mr. Wan."

In the cafe, Leonardo saw that Wan Qingshan was distracted again and shouted a few words quickly.

"Sorry!" Wan Qingshan apologized quickly after coming to his senses.

"Are you feeling uncomfortable? Do you want us to talk some other time?"

The matter was only half-said, but Wan Qingshan had already passed away five or six times, which made Leonardo worry about whether there was something wrong with Wan Qingshan's health.

"It's okay, I was just thinking about other things."

Leonardo looked carefully at Wan Qingshan's face and saw nothing unusual before he continued,

"I'm almost ready here. In three days, the actor's interview will be held.

If you are not feeling well, you can postpone the interview for a few days. "

"It's okay, I will participate when the time comes."

"OK, it's June now. The plan is to start filming in July and wrap up in mid-September. Do you have any problems here?"

"No."

Seeing that Wan Qingshan was a little distracted, Leonardo didn't say much. After quickly agreeing on several things, it was over.

Before leaving, Leonardo said worriedly, "If you need help, you can come to me."

"Thank you, I have nothing to do." Wan Qingshan replied with a dry smile.

Leonardo saw this and said nothing more.

After Wan Qingshan watched Leonardo get into the car, he drove to watch the later stages of "Fire", and then went to the securities office to buy Apple shares with the US$9000 million that the lawyer had used to avoid taxes.

Later, he went to the supermarket to buy some vegetables and went home to cook.After eating, I started writing the script and lost my mind. I wrote the script and my mind wandered.

This kind of life has been going on in Wanqingshan for half a month.

Ever since he flew back to Los Angeles after his fight with Chen Yumo, Wan Qingshan has been distracted often.

In the past half month, Wan Qingshan had called Chen Yumo, and Chen Yumo also called frequently. The two of them seemed to be the same as before.

Regarding the quarrel that day, Wan Qingshan thought about apologizing first, but as soon as he mentioned that matter, Chen Yumo would change the topic, making Wan Qingshan unable to continue talking.

Three days later, Wan Qingshan went to audition for actors in "Marriage Story."

The interview is mainly for the female lead.

And this time for the female lead, many female stars came to interview, including Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Natalie Portman, and almost all well-known female stars.

During their interviews, although Leonardo would ask Wan Qingshan for his opinion, Wan Qingshan was usually vague and let Leonardo decide everything.

Wan Qingshan knows his role in the "Marriage Story" crew. He is just a director, not a producer.

Leonardo didn't really want Wan Qingshan to choose the actors. He gave him the editing rights. If he was given the right to choose the actors, what rights would he have as a producer?

He asked Wan Qingshan to interview actors. He was just grateful that Wan Qingshan did not raise the price, so he respected Wan Qingshan.

Finally, the female lead was won by Keira Knightley, the heroine of "Pride and Prejudice".

Some B-list stars with acting skills were cast for the supporting cast.

After the interview, Wan Qingshan resumed his old life, watching the later stages of "Fire" and writing the script.

Halfway through, Anne Hathaway and the others also called to invite him to the party, but they were all rejected by Wanqingshan.

If there was no quarrel with Chen Yumo, he might have gone, but after the quarrel with Chen Yumo, he now has no other ideas.

When it comes to relationships, he is not the kind of person who breaks things down, and the quarrel makes him pay more attention to this aspect.

In mid-June, Wan Qingshan flew back to China. Penguin had set up the framework of the online ticket purchasing platform and invited him back to discuss cooperation.

When Wan Qingshan returned home, Chen Yumo was actually at home.

"You didn't go to work today?"

"Why are you back?"

The two asked each other at the same time.

The two of them were stunned for a moment, and then both laughed dumbly.

"Qingshan, um, you were right before, I was too greedy, so I stopped the company from acquiring land for development.

I just finished my work yesterday and am taking a break at home today.I was still thinking about going to Los Angeles in two days, and you suddenly came back. "

Wan Qingshan was immediately overjoyed and said with a smile on his face, "Penguin asked me to talk about the new company, so I rushed back today."

"New company?" Chen Yumo asked curiously.

Wan Qingshan was stunned for a moment and slapped his forehead fiercely, "I forgot to tell you that on the day I was planning to go abroad, Penguin Company came to me and said it wanted to invest in Qingshan Media Company.

I didn’t want Penguin to invest in it, so I changed the subject to talk about the online ticket purchasing platform. I originally wanted Penguin to change its development direction, but in the end, Penguin and I partnered to open an online ticket purchasing company.

I wanted to tell you that day, but what happened later made me forget to tell you. "

"It's okay, it's the same now."

After finishing speaking, Chen Yumo suddenly thought of something and said quickly, "Qingshan, if they mention the online broadcast rights of movies in my hand, you must not agree to anything."

Wan Qingshan's eyes lit up. Chen Yumo's words made him guess the reason why Xiao Ma forced him to cooperate.

"Don't worry, I won't promise them anything. When they bring it up, I'll say it's your thing and I can't make the decision."

Chen Yumo stopped taking land for development, and the feeling between the two returned to the same as before.

Wan Qingshan was very happy, but Chen Yumo felt a little pity deep down in his heart.

She stopped the business of acquiring land for development, not because she felt she was greedy. Everyone was doing this, so why was she greedy when she did it?

She was willing to stop because she didn't want the two of them to be in trouble because of this incident, so she stopped.

It was a pity that she stopped. She never thought about continuing to acquire land for development without Wanqingshan. She still paid more attention to her family than making money.

The next morning, Wan Qingshan and Chen Yumo went to discuss cooperation with Xiao Ma.

Chen Yumo didn't want to come at first, but Wan Qingshan said that he was in a domestic company and would need your help to look after him from now on. If you don't come, then what will happen next, how will you care about it, so Chen Yumo followed him.

Regarding the cooperation content, Wan Qingshan looked at the preliminary contract handed over by Xiaoma. The new company invested a total of 3000 million, Penguin invested 2000 million for 70% of the shares, and he invested 1000 million for 30% of the shares.

If additional funds are needed in the future, the capital contribution will be in proportion. If one party does not contribute capital, the shares will be reduced in proportion.

Although the proportion of investment and shareholding is somewhat unequal, Wan Qingshan has no problem with it. After all, the new company is being run by Penguin, and the platform framework has been built by Penguin. He has such a small share, which is still an advantage.

Wan Qingshan didn't have any objections to the initial draft of the contract. He just wanted to come over to sign and pay after the complete contract came out.

However, Wan Qingshan made a request.

"Mr. Ma, let's make a contract with three people. My wife and I will each hold 15%."

Chen Yumo was surprised. Before coming, Wan Qingshan didn't tell her to let her join in the business.

Xiao Ma was smiling all over her face. It would be nice to let Chen Yumo come in. Then it would be even better to discuss the online broadcast rights for thousands of movies and TV shows in her hands.

"No problem, I'll just change it when I ask someone to get the contract."

Then, the three of them had lunch together. In the afternoon, the complete contract was drawn up, and the lawyer Chen Yumo contacted also came.

After the lawyer read the contract and said there was no problem, the three signed it.

After signing, Wan Qingshan went to the bank and transferred 3000 million to the new company's account.

Wan Qingshan originally had no money, but all the money he earned in the United States was used to buy Apple stocks.

But fortunately, Zhang Zhao transferred the funds advanced by Wan Qingshan for Qingshan Media Company some time ago in order to go public.

Wan Qingshan had advanced a lot of funds before, so Zhang Zhao almost transferred all the money earned by Qingshan Media in the past two years before repaying the 2000 million.

After finishing the matter this time, Wan Qingshan was not in a hurry to fly to Los Angeles and stayed in Shenzhen to accompany Chen Yumo. Except for receiving a call from Feng Linlin midway and flying to Shanghai to renew his endorsement contract with Armani, he never left Shenzhen.

It wasn't until Leonardo called at the end of June that Wan Qingshan flew to Los Angeles to start filming "Marriage Story."

The shooting of "Marriage Story" is very simple. Except for the use of mirrors to create a confused atmosphere and the use of mirrors to be deliberately trivial and sometimes deliberately out of focus, there is nothing else to pay attention to.

In addition, the film itself is very depressing, and Wan Qingshan did not have to change the scenes to suit his own style, so it was very easy to shoot.

Wan Qingshan filmed it very easily, but while filming, something happened to the crew.

Leonardo and Knightley didn't know whether it was because they were lonely, or because the bastard saw Mung Bean in the eye, and they actually came together.

The two people came together and were first noticed by the crew.

Westerners may have different views on love. Even if both of them are idol stars, they would admit it directly when asked by the crew.

As a result, many reporters came outside the crew the next day.

There were a lot of reporters, so the filming progress was delayed a little bit.

The reporter is a small problem, but the big problem is that the two came together.

It's normal to fall in love, but the time is wrong. We are filming now, and the two of them are still the male and female.

Most of the plot of "Once Upon a Marriage" requires two people to perform, the irritability and confusion during divorce, and the feeling of love but no longer meaning.

It takes a group of couples who have just fallen in love to feel this way...
,,,,,,
"Cut, Leonardo, Knightley, look more excited and look sad in your eyes. You are arguing now, not bickering." Wan Qingshan shouted helplessly.

"Sorry!"

'"Sorry!"

The two apologized quickly. They both knew that they didn't perform well, but they just couldn't act out that feeling now.

Wan Qingshan has a headache. This quarrel scene is particularly important, but the current state of the two of them is... a short scene, and it has been like this for more than ten times.

"Both of you, let's rest for 5 minutes and adjust your condition."

Five minutes later, the two of them were still in the same state, causing Wan Qingshan to want to forget it, just leave it at that.

But then I thought, don’t ruin your own brand, there are still so many scripts in his study, waiting to be used to make money.

So Wan Qingshan began to slowly sharpen his lens.

Watching the rolls of film being burned, but not much usable material, Wan Qingshan is now glad that he did not invest, otherwise he would have died in a hurry.

Due to the condition of the two people, it was originally expected to be completed in mid-September, but in the end it was postponed to mid-October.

After filming was completed, Wan Qingshan did not have time to work on the later stages of "Marriage Story". For "Fire", the special effects were completed at the end of September, but because of "Marriage Story" Wan Qingshan did not have time to watch it.

Leonardo was not easy to rush, because his condition delayed the filming progress, and he had no nerve to rush Wan Qingshan immediately.

People gathered in the screening room in Columbia.

"Fire" is the first part of the movie universe, so after Columbia's senior executives heard that Wan Qingshan said that the movie was good, they all came to watch "Fire".

The plot of special effects blockbusters is always very simple, and the same is true for "Fire".

At the beginning of the movie, Largerald, played by Tom Hiddleston, goes to deliver pizza in a wealthy area.

But because the pizza box was a bit oppressive, the man in the wealthy area forced Raj to help him throw away the garbage, otherwise he would file a complaint against him.

Raj didn't dare to refute, so he could only take the garbage and throw it away.

He went back to the pizza shop and talked about the incident with his colleagues, but instead of being comforted, he mocked him and said that if it were him, he would definitely punch him.

The first 5 minutes of the plot are used to describe Raj's cowardly character.

The scene changed. Raj was off work, and he went to feed stray cats as usual.

While he was feeding the stray cats, purple thunder suddenly erupted in the void in the alley.

Under the flash of thunder and lightning, Fan Bayi walked out of the thunder and lightning with a proud look, wearing a midriff-baring outfit and a very conspicuous waistcoat line.

Fan Bayi looked at the stunned Raj, with very suspicious eyes and a contemptuous tone,

"just you!"

"you,,,"

Before Raj finished speaking, Fan Bayi glared at him, and a ray of purple thunder appeared from the void and struck Raj, knocking him out.

Then, Fan Bayi mentioned Raj and walked into the purple thunder and lightning, disappearing without a trace.

Then, the scene changed, and under the eyes, Raj woke up on the bamboo bed.

After waking up, Raj was still in a daze. The simple wooden door was pushed open and Fan Bayi walked in.

Raj shrank back from the bed in fear, "You,," "Shut up, all you have to do now is follow me."

After Fan Bayi finished speaking, he turned around and walked out. When he reached the door, he looked back and saw Raj huddled on the bed, still motionless. Her eyes widened and turned purple, and at the same time, traces of purple thunder appeared in the sky.

Raj's expression suddenly changed and he quickly got out of the bed, "I'm coming, I'm coming."

The purple thunder in the void immediately disappeared, and Fan Bayi's purple eyes returned to normal.

At this time, the people in Colombia looked at each other, and all their thoughts were in vain.

For Jiang Zhiqiang and others, Wan Qingshan wrote the budget for "Fire" at US$[-] without calculating the budget.

Facing Colombia later, Wan Qingshan still wrote $8000 million.

After the filming of the movie was completed, the crew still had more than 2000 US dollars in their account.

Although there is still money, it has already overspent, because 8000 million, of which 500 million is publicity expenses, Wan Qingshan has overspent by nearly 1000 million.

Colombia's budget for "Fire" is at most 5000 million.

Wan Qingshan wrote 8000 million, but he still overspent. Columbia thought Wan Qingshan was greedy for money.

In the Chinese film industry, it is normal for directors and producers to make money. Columbia, which has cooperated with Huayi for several years before, also knows this.

Wan Qingshan is greedy for money, and Columbia doesn't care about it. Anyway, there are countless ways to make Wan Qingshan spit it out and make Wan Qingshan pay back.

But from the first few minutes of the scene, people in Colombia knew that Wanqingshan was probably not greedy for money.

The special effects of special effects blockbusters are usually a few large-scale special effects lasting several minutes, but "Fire" goes in the opposite direction. It starts with small-scale special effects, especially the special effects with traces of purple thunder.

For special effects companies, small but sophisticated special effects and large-scale special effects consume about the same amount of energy, so they don’t save much money.

The cost-effectiveness is low, and the small special effects have no sense of shock, so only those who are prodigal directors and people who take money for granted will do it.

No one in Colombia would have expected Wan Qingshan to be a prodigal director.

After being disappointed, the people of Columbus continued to look at the screen.

On the screen, outside the room, on the clear water, blue sky, and deserted beach, Fan forced Raj to do various exercises. In the middle, if Raj was lazy and had questions, he would whip him with a long whip with a hint of purple electricity.

The exercise plot is a bit boring for a long time, so Wan Qingshan limited the duration of this plot to about 5 minutes.

5 minutes passed.

Fan Bayi stunned Raj again, then lifted Raj and disappeared into the purple lightning.

The scene changes to Raj waking up from the soft bed in his home under the rising sun.

He was stunned for a moment, and then his cell phone rang. The manager of the pizza shop called and asked him why he didn't come to work yet.

Raj was stunned for a moment, and then casually made an excuse to ask for leave because he was sick.

After hanging up the phone, he immediately looked at the phone and found that the date was June 6th, and the day he fed the cat was June 15th.

The time was normal, as if his experiences after meeting Fan Bayi were all hallucinations.

After Raj was surprised for a while, his life continued as usual, delivering pizza at work and feeding the cats after get off work.

The dull plot lasted for 5 minutes. One day, when Raj went to deliver pizza, a man with a gun broke in at the door of the customer's house.

Raj had the opportunity to pick up a baseball bat and hit the man from behind, but he was too cowardly to dare.

After the gunman robbed the money, he did not leave as Raj thought, but started shooting.

After killing a family of four, when the man was about to kill Raj, thunder broke out in the void, and Fan Bayi appeared. A purple thunder the size of a finger killed the man and saved Raj.

Then, Fan Bayi said with great disdain, "Coward, you don't even dare to take action!"

This made Raj stunned for a moment, and then shouted to Fan Bayi, "You have been here, why didn't you come out to save them."

"Then why didn't you work up the courage to save them?"

Raj was stunned, and then Fan Bayi said a word and disappeared again in the thunder and lightning.

"People can only rely on themselves."

Then, Raj was taken back to the police station for interrogation by the late police. Because Raj did not have any fingerprints on the firearm, so even if he could not explain why the man was electrocuted, nothing happened, but his job was gone.

The store manager fired him with a sympathetic tone.
Then the scene changed, and Liu Yifei, dressed in a black women's suit, was walking on the street at night.

After walking a few steps, several drunken men came out of the bar and surrounded Liu Yifei.

Faced with the lewd smiles and unclean lips of several people, Liu Yifei, expressionless, opened her small cherry mouth.

A stream of black air flew out of her mouth.

For the special effects of this black air, Wanqingshan paid a lot of money to Sony Special Effects Company. If you look closely, you can see countless shrunken corpses floating in the black air, including people, animals, and bugs...
The black energy directly invaded a man's body, and then the man instantly turned into a mummy.

Then countless small bugs immediately emerged from the mummy. The small bugs flew and attached themselves to the bodies of the remaining men. Then, the several men immediately fell down and their bodies quickly decomposed.

In the blink of an eye, the bugs flew up from the corpse and headed towards the bar.

When Liu Yifei walked through the door of the bar, the noise from the bar to the outside disappeared instantly, and then the bugs flew out of the bar and scattered in all directions.

Early the next morning, TV news showed that hundreds of people died overnight, and their bodies decomposed rapidly.

Raj, who was watching TV, was surprised by the news when Fan Bayi appeared.

Fan Bayi glanced at the TV, "She's here, you don't have much time."

"What's coming?" Raj asked blankly.

"Your opponent is here. If she finds you and you haven't awakened yet, you will die."

"What opponent? What awakening?"

Seeing that Raj was still at a loss, Fan Bayi shook his head slightly, "Maybe it's a good thing for you to die in ignorance."

Then, before Raj could speak, Fan Bayi disappeared again.

The scene turned to Fan Bayi looking at the sea on a deserted beach and asked, "Do you think he can really do it?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the waves rolled and a huge transparent head made of water appeared.

"I don't know, over the past thousands of years, I have met countless people who failed.

Whether he can succeed or not depends on himself. It takes courage and perseverance to stimulate his energy. "

After the woman's mechanical voice made it difficult to distinguish, Fan Bayi said in a deep voice, "Then give up on him? Wait for the next one?"

"No, even if we fail, we must have the heart to never give up on anyone.

Original member, you have endured the courage and perseverance of awakening energy because Fengjie has helped you, so you don’t understand how valuable it is to not give up.

But I hope you can learn not to give up from these people, whether they fail or succeed. "

Sadness appeared on Fan Bayi's face, and after a few seconds, she returned to her usual expression.

"I know. Starting tonight, I will be in his dream, forcing him to have courage."

"Courage cannot be forced."

When Fan Bayi wanted to ask what to do, the huge head spread out and merged into the sea water, causing ripples to create huge waves.

Huge waves crashed in front of Fan Bayi, and were separated by a purple thunder barrier that emerged from the void.

That night, after Raj fell asleep, the scene turned. When Raj got up, had breakfast, and went out to look for a job, he encountered two men at the entrance of an alley who robbed a girl with a knife.

The girl called for help from Raj, but Raj ran away in a hurry.

After running two steps, he heard a girl's scream from behind him.

Then the camera switches - Raj wakes up from bed.

Realizing that it was just a dream, he smiled.

In the following days, Raj would have dreams every day. The dreams he encountered were either seeing robbers robbing people, or seeing cars about to hit people. But every time, Raj did not dare to come forward to rescue him and would only run away. .

After a few days, he began to change. When he first woke up, he realized it was a dream and smiled.Later, he began to blame himself. For the last time, he almost rushed to save people, but in the end he hesitated.

While Raj was dreaming, the outside world began to panic, and most people began to flee the city.

Because hundreds of people died every night, and their bodies decomposed rapidly.

Wan Qingshan did not film the escape scene, because there are many materials in the Colombian copyright library of large numbers of people fleeing.

During editing, in order to control the length of the film and the focus of the plot, these materials were not included in the movie. Wan Qingshan took them and edited them before putting them in the movie.

One morning, Raj went out with his luggage. Like most people, he was ready to leave the city.

Walking along the busy street, suddenly, a voice came from behind Raj.

"You can't escape, she's here for you."

Raj stopped and suddenly turned his head to look at Fan Bayi who suddenly appeared behind him.

"The dream I had recently was not controlled by you."

Jela looked very excited, and the dreams he had had in the past few days made him feel very painful.

He was not a fool. The memory he had exercised for a long time before, but it had only been a day, reminded him that Fan Bayi had controlled his dream.

"I didn't control your dream this time, I just triggered your subconscious.

Those dreams of yours are your subconscious wanting to save the previous family of four. "

Raj's expression froze, and just when he was about to speak, Fan Bayi suddenly looked across.

"She is coming!"

Raj followed Fan Bayi's gaze and saw Liu Yifei, dressed in a black suit, looking coldly at the sidewalk across the road.

After their eyes met for a moment, the look in his eyes that seemed to belong to a dead man made Raj feel frightened, and he immediately looked away and took a step back.

Just as Raj took a step back, Liu Yifei disappeared instantly, and then Fan Bayi immediately pulled Raj over, dodged, and landed a few meters away.

After Raj stood firm, he immediately looked around and saw Liu Yifei appearing where they had just stood.

Liu Yifei looked at Fan Bayi in surprise, and then, with a wave of her hand, a thick black air appeared out of thin air and attacked Fan Bayi and Jila.

Fan Bayi snorted coldly, jumped forward, and purple thunder and lightning appeared all over his body to face the black energy.

boom!
There was a loud noise,
Fan Bayi dispersed the black energy and rushed directly towards Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei's eyes lit up, and then she raised her left hand, and punched Fan Bayi with her arm wrapped in black energy.

boom!
There was a loud bang, thunder and lightning, and fists wrapped in black energy collided.

Fan Bayi then changed his moves, jumped up and punched Liu Yifei on the head.

At the same time, countless purple thunders as big as arms appeared above the two people's heads, and followed Fan Bayi's fists, slashing towards Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei's temperament suddenly changed, and her appearance also changed. Half of her face still looked like a fairy, but the other half looked like a ghost.

Her temperament and appearance changed drastically, Liu Yifei's hair flew out of thin air, and a black aura filled with various corpses appeared all over her body.

The black energy gathered upwards as Liu Yifei raised her arms.

boom!
There was a loud thunder, causing the people around who were fleeing in panic due to the fight between the two to fall to the ground.

The two were evenly matched again this time. After a few more moves, Fan Bayi lured Liu Yifei away with a flash of his body, and then the place where the two fought came to the rooftop of a building.

During the fight between the two, Wan Qingshan specifically asked Sony's special effects company not to destroy buildings like monster movies and Marvel movies. The effect he wanted was a vision change.

The highlight of the special effects commercial blockbuster is the special effects fight, so the fight between the two lasts for more than ten minutes.

As for the vision in the sky, Wan Qingshan and the people from Sony Special Effects Company discussed it for a long time before coming up with it.

Purple electricity and black energy, as the two of them fought, changed in the sky in surprise, turning into knives, guns, beasts, and even ferocious beasts from the Chinese Book of Mountains and Seas, colliding in the air.

This made many Columbia executives look very excited.

Although I have read the script of "Fire" before, the script is a script and the pictures are pictures. Such strange changes are not written in the script.

This was the first time they saw this change, and they were shocked.

After the shock, they all thought that since this kind of special effects blockbuster, which is not used in Hollywood special effects blockbusters, can surprise them, it will naturally make the audience feel fresh.

The box office comes from the freshness of the audience. All Hollywood companies know that none of the previous high-grossing movies in Hollywood was not because of novelty.

It’s just that Hollywood has been developing for so many years and has filmed all kinds of themes. In addition, the risk of adapting movies from Marvel is low, so it started to pursue adaptation.

But now "Fire" is filmed by Wan Qingshan, which is very novel. The box office...
(End of this chapter)