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    After the time entered 1984, Lin Jing became even busier.  I am busy with my studies and writing "The Rise of a Great Power". Even "Love Letter", which has already confirmed the main role candidates, has been hung up and put aside for the time being.  Regarding Lin Jing¡¯s busy schedule, Wang Zuxian, who still stayed in Hong Kong and occasionally came to see her, felt tired and couldn¡¯t help but ask.  "You're so busy, don't you feel tired? Why bother yourself?" "This is not called tired, but fulfilling. Fulfillment, you know?" Obviously, in addition to running around the studio and playing a few insignificant small roles every day,  Then Wang Zuxian, who had nothing to do, didn¡¯t understand.  "The world of academic masters is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals like me." So she had to use such a sentiment as her own annotation.  Then Lin Jing said something at the right time.  "Humph, the wisdom of mortals!" Wang Zuxian had no choice but to run to the side and draw circles.  So, another month has passed since New Year¡¯s Day.  During this month, several movies were released one after another.  "Among them is "Man Scares Ghosts" produced by Jiahe, produced by Hong Xinbao, directed by Qian Yuesheng, and starring Lin Zhengying, Dong Wei and Chen Long.  "Scaring Ghosts" continues the popularity of ghost films in the early 1980s, inheriting the ghost comedy action style of its predecessor "Scaring Ghosts", blending traditional kung fu comedy elements, and combining ghosts pretending to be scary and real ghosts.  The mischievous plot is carried forward, and the story is full of jokes, making people laugh endlessly.  And Lin Zhengying, Uncle Ying, finally became the protagonist from a supporting role in "The Scary Man". Although he has not yet been able to show off his magical skills of catching ghosts and zombies like in the subsequent zombie movies, he still showed off that he learned from the fans.  The pear orchard skills learned from Chrysanthemum.  It's just that the whole movie seemed too obsessed with being funny, with a lot of funny jokes distracting from the main plot, and not enough foreshadowing. As a result, when it was time to get to the "gao chao" part, all the fight scenes just passed by casually, and finally ended hastily, which is typical  Anticlimactic.  This also led to the unsatisfactory box office performance of "People Scare Ghosts".  Not only did it fail to surpass "The Scary Man", but it failed to even surpass 10 million.  Although it also achieved profits, it is also true that it failed to become a hit.  As the producer of this film, Hong Xinbao also believes that the "Ghost Fighting" series will probably end with this "Man Scares Ghosts".  After the release of "People Are Scared of Ghosts", two popular films of the year were released.  One is the third sequel of New Art City's "The Best Partner", "The Queen's Secret Order", and the other is "Teppanyaki" which is the sequel to "The Man Who Scares" from Golden Harvest.  These two movies.  What¡¯s more interesting is that the male protagonist of ¡°Online¡± is Xu Guanjie, while the male protagonist of ¡°Teppanyaki¡± is Xu Guanwen. The two brothers each represent the two mortal enemies of New Art City and Golden Harvest and compete on the big screen together.  I have to say, it is also a great attraction outside of the big screen.  It¡¯s just a pity.  In front of "The Queen's Secret Service", "Teppanyaki" is also good, but it can't compare.  In just one week after its release, the box office performance of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" has left "Teppanyaki" far behind.  By the time the two movies were finished, the total box office of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" had reached more than 29 million, while the total box office of "Teppanyaki" was only more than 19 million, a gap of almost 10 million.  In this new year.  At the beginning of the year, Jiahe was defeated by Xinyi City and lost a lot.  At this time, Jiahe misses the great achievements last year very much.  Although Golden Harvest failed to beat Xinyi City in terms of total box office revenue last year, with the annual box office champion "Fast Truck" with 27.1 million, and the annual box office runner-up "Plan A" with 24.13 million, it steadily surpassed Xinyi City.  23.27 million for Yicheng's "The Best Partner Shows His Magical Powers".  But this year, it¡¯s on the annual box office list.  Jiahe is a little bit in doubt, because so far, Jiahe has nothing more besides "Teppanyaki" that has been released.  "Teppanyaki" follows "Teppanyaki" and has good momentum, but judging from the box office trend, it is at best similar to "Teppanyaki".  In terms of surpassing "The Best Partner Shows Their Magical Powers", it failed to give people hope.  And more importantly, apart from these two masterpieces at the beginning of the year, Jiahe has no plans for any major productions in the future.  So Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang.  All a little anxious.  The screenwriters of last year's two major hits, "Plan A" and "Food Truck", were both written by Lin Jing, and the other two movies that made over 20 million, "Happy" and "Dao Ma Dan" were also written by Lin Jing. Going back to  The year before last, "Five Lucky Stars" also achieved very good box office results.  "Is it going to fall on Lin Jing in the end?" He Guanchang thought hard and only came up with this solution.method.  But this year, Lin Jing¡¯s script, which can dominate the world and is known as the ¡°golden script¡±, has become less easy to recruit with the rise of Time and Space Film Studio.  After all, others already have their own film production companies, so why should they give you the money and work so hard to write a good and popular script for you?  What¡¯s more, last year, one of the foundations of the cooperation between Jiahe and Lin Jing was that Lin Jing¡¯s Time and Space Film Studio also needed Jiahe¡¯s theater chain.  Now, there are a lot of rumors outside that Spacetime Film Studio has reached a consensus with Shaw Brothers Films. Shaw Brothers Films is preparing to withdraw from the field of film production, specialize in the television field, and lease all its theaters to Spacetime Film Studio.  As a member of the industry, He Guanchang naturally has his own information channels and knows that this rumor is true, and the loan contract was signed some time ago.  Although not all Shaw Brothers movie theaters are leased to Time and Space Film Studio, Time and Space Film Studio does successfully own 13 cinemas, all of which are large theaters with more than 100 seats.  Time and Space Film Studio can produce movies on its own, and now the only screening channels to curb its development have been solved. Time and Space Film Studio is equivalent to a dragon entering the sea, and nothing can hinder its development and growth.  Thinking of this, He Guanchang shook his head. He no longer thought that inviting Lin Jing to write a script would be successful.  Although the cooperation between Jiahe and Lin Jing has always been pleasant, Hong Xinbao, a "strong general" under Jiahe, has an even better relationship with Lin Jing.  He Guanchang, who felt bored sitting in the office, walked out. Unexpectedly, he saw Hong Xinbao coming in a hurry as soon as he went out.  "Xinbao is here." Generally speaking, Hong Xinbao stays in his own branch and rarely comes to Jiahe's head office.  "He Sheng." Hong Xinbao greeted.  "Come to the head office today. Do you have anything to do?" He Guanchang asked casually.  "Nothing special, I just came here to apply for a new film project." This year, Hong Xinbao and Cen Jianxun set up a film company called "Debao".  "The Brave Cannon", which is under the name of Golden Harvest and is still being released, is the new work of this "Debao".  Hong Xinbao is like this. When it comes to film companies, he always seems to like the new and hate the old. He believes that the old will not go and the new will not come. He is keen on building a new one every once in a while.  In just a few years, from Baohe to Debao.  The film company changed three or four.  He Guanchang looked at Hong Xinbao with complicated eyes.  Hong Xinbao¡¯s film production company receives a fixed salary for the films it produces, and there is never any dividends, no matter how high the box office of the film is.  Although his salary.  It is much higher than most filmmakers, but this high is nothing compared to the box office income of "Fast Truck" which is close to 30 million. It is no wonder that he has such a high income.  idea.  Maybe he wanted to rely on Jiahe¡¯s influence and jump out of Jiahe.  He Guanchang said in his heart.  "Isn't "The Brave Cannon" just released? Are there new projects so soon?" He Guanchang asked.  After asking, before Hong Xinbao could answer, he said in a joking tone, "Isn't there a new golden script?" The so-called golden script refers to the script written by Lin Jing. Although it is very small, it is as good as  As valuable as gold.  "How can a golden script be so easy to get?" How could Hong Xinbao not understand what He Guanchang meant by "golden script" and smiled.  He replied, "It's the sequel to "Double Dragon". ""Double Boom" became a hit at the box office, and the newly established "Debao" was considered to have fired its first shot. It was time to take advantage of the situation and pursue it.  Both Hong Xinbao and Cen Jianxun thought and acted this way.  "So that's it." He Guanchang was a little disappointed.  "Actually, Ah Jing did write a new script." It was only He Guanchang who had just expressed his disappointment.  Hong Xinbao's next words aroused his interest again.  "It's a new script, isn't it?" He Guanchang's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard that Lin Jing had written a new script and seemed to intend to hand it over to Hong Xinbao.  The thought that had just been extinguished started to burn again.  "It's just a pity that she has to leave this script to her own company for production." Hong Xinbao seemed to be specifically here to attack He Guanchang today, and his words were full of ups and downs.  "That's really a pity." He Guanchang sighed, but he also said, "It would be great if it could be produced by Jiahe." He didn't say it out loud.  "But she is planning to invite me to be the producer and let Gen Bao star in the movie." Hong Xinbao kept saying it was not surprising.  Lin Zhengying used to be named Genbao. Hong Xinbao and the others grew up playing together with Lin Zhengying. Although Lin Zhengying has changed his name,Privately, I still used to call him Genbao.  Just like several of Hong Xinbao's senior brothers, they used to call him Sanmao.  "Ms. Lin's courage is rare in the film industry." He no longer worried about the gain or loss of inviting a drama from Lin Jing, and He Guanchang quickly returned to his true nature as the big boss of Jiahe, commenting on the characters.  "Haha." Hong Xinbao laughed, saying that he was also very satisfied with Lin Jing's courage.  In fact, things are not as complicated as He Guanchang thought. What about boldness and lack of courage? What Lin Jing thought was purely a zombie movie like "Mr. Zombie", which could only be acted by Uncle Ying.  The script of "Mr. Zombie", the first film in the "Zombie Taoist" series, was "prompted" by Lin Jing, and the screenwriting team of Time and Space Film Studio "worked hard" to put it in Wang Jing's exaggerated words.  , finally passed the review.  Although this version of "Mr. Zombie" cannot be said to be perfect, it is indeed better than the original version.  Now that we have the script and sufficient funds, we can naturally start the project.  But before starting filming, Lin Jing had a few things to consider.  In terms of overall style, "Mr. Zombie" has the appearance of a ghost, but it is actually a comedy action film.  Action scenes play a large part in it.  As a director, Wang Jing has made many movies, but action scenes are not what he is good at.  In the few films he made before, he focused on filming literary dramas based on grasping the overall style, leaving the martial arts to the action director.  Therefore, Lin Jing must find a good action director.  And just in time, Lin Zhengying, who is also an excellent martial arts instructor, has been booked as the starring role.  Since the 1970s, he has been a martial arts instructor.  What has always been popular is that he once acted as an action director in Bruce Lee's films such as "Brother Tangshan", "Enter the Dragon" and "Game of Death", and designed action scenes for these films together with Bruce Lee.  It can be said that in terms of action scenes, Lin Zhengying has the qualifications and talents to be fully qualified for the role of action director of "Mr. Zombie".  Of course, no matter how capable Lin Zhengying is, he is only one person after all.  A large number of action scenes require a large number of action actors and behind-the-scenes stuntmen to complete.  At this point, it is precisely what Space-Time Film Studio lacks. After all, although Space-Time Film Studio has risen rapidly, the time is still too short, and many departments have not yet had time to improve.  Therefore, Lin Jing also invited Hong Xinbao to be the producer. One of the purposes was to let the Hong family class help make this film. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? With such a giant Buddha as the Hong Kong film industry boss, Wang Jing, who loves to achieve great results, probably will not dare to be too showy and point fingers in areas that he is not familiar with, and at the same time, many other unnecessary troubles and details will be reduced.  With the producers, directors and behind-the-scenes staff, the next thing to do is to recruit the rest of the original cast.  The original characters are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, including Lin Jing, so she is not prepared to make too many changes.  For example, the two apprentices of Uncle Nine are Qian Xiaohao who plays the role of rich and handsome Qiu Sheng, Xu Guanying who plays the role of elegant and talented person, Wang Xiaofeng who plays the female ghost Dong Xiaoyu who is also known as the ghost queen, and Lou Nanguang who plays the security captain Ah Wei.  Once the main characters who have a relatively large room for performance are determined, the rest will be much simpler.  Ren Tingting, who exists as the corner of a vase, can actually be anyone as long as she is young and beautiful.  However, the original Li Saifeng's performance in it was pretty good, and she had a good relationship with Lin Jing, so she is still the one to play now.  Others, the big boss of the entire film, Zombie King Ren Weiyong, was handed over to the original Yuan Hua, who is now a member of the Hong family class.  There are guest appearances by Chen You, the four-eyed Taoist priest, Wu Ma, the rice shop owner, A Caitian Qiwen, the rice shop owner¡¯s son, and so on.  In addition, as the first film in the series, "Mr. Zombie" has deliberately buried several foreshadowings, such as Mr. Feng Shui who did not appear in the original version. He will be an important character in the subsequent films of the series. This version specifically mentions  I clicked and Feng Cuifan made a guest appearance.  With preparations complete and everything ready, "Mr. Zombie" can finally start filming.
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