Chapter 83
The most sensational event in Hong Kong in October was that Zou Wenhuai, who was far away in Hollywood, the United States, suddenly announced that he would invest $60 million to shoot six international big-scale films.
Just when all Hong Kong filmmakers were impressed by Zou Wenhuai's big moves, Li Xuan came to Cai Yongchang with the finished film "King of Thousand Kings". After half a month of emergency production, Wang Jin finally completed the post-production of the movie in late October.
Without Zou Wenhuai, Cai Yongchang would not say anything polite to Li Xuan, so he directly arranged the movie to be released at the end of November. During the filming schedule, Li Xuan paid attention to Hong Jingbao's "Ghost Fighting Ghosts", which had been in full swing for a long time, was scheduled for November 9th.
The Christmas season that Li Xuan paid the most attention was given priority to a movie that was being filmed. "Lin Shirong" invested by Jiahe, directed by Yuan Heping and starring Hong Jingbao. Obviously Jiahe has a not small ambition. After Yuan Heping's "Drunk Fist" and "Snake-shaped Hand" directed by Yuan Heping made Chenglong famous last year, Jiahe targeted Hong Jingbao again, intending to make Hong Jingbao's reputation reach another level.
As for why Jiahe Theater didn't directly release "Ghost Fight" on Christmas, it was because "Ghost Fight" was shot solely by Hong Jingbao's own film company Baoxiang.
The movies of independent film companies are expected to be released in the Christmas and New Year periods of Jiahe, and it was a bit possible five years ago. At that time, Li Xiaolong had just passed away, and the Xu brothers had not joined Jiahe yet. Jiahe had no outstanding movies. But now, Jiahe is full of talents, so he will not send the two best-making golden periods to other independent film companies.
Li Xuan had no objection to this, after all, there was nothing wrong with wanting to make money from his family. Unless Li Xuan wanted to hand over part of his company's equity or accept some investments in Jiahe's movies. However, Li Xuan didn't want to do this. Now making movies is more of an interest for him, and he didn't want to have a big boss pressing him out of thin air.
Under Li Xuan's intimidation, Liu Chuwei also completed the task assigned to him by Li Xuan, and finally drove the shooting progress to two-thirds within half a month, which made Li Xuan feel much more at ease.
Windsor Building, located at 311 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, is a commercial building that has just been completed less than a month ago. The brand new corridor rooms and many vacant properties can be used as the setting of the villain Toshimamoto headquarters building in "King of Killers". Moreover, Causeway Bay is the territory of Shin Yee An, and it is very convenient to film here. Even the protection fee is saved. Who dares to collect the protection fee of the boss?
At around 9 a.m. on October 27, 1979, the opening ceremony of "King of Killers" was held at the entrance of Victoria Park in front of Windsor Building.
Li Xuan and Wang Jin were standing in the crowd and talking to the two brothers of the Xiang family. As for Zhong Chuhong, she was pulled aside by Xiang Huaqiang's wife Ding Pei, and muttered something with Wen Ce, the actor of the villain female thug in the play, and a chuckle came from time to time.
This is the first time Li Xuan saw Ding Pei in reality. She has short hair and delicate face. She is worthy of being the beauty who fascinated Li Xiaolong and then fascinated Hua Qiang. However, she rarely acted in movies at this time, and now she appears here as the producer of "The King of Killers".
As for Wen Chu'er, some people may not be familiar with her. But her sister's name is Li Xuan, who is known as the name Li Xuan. It is Yuan Qiu, the actor who plays the landlady in "Kung Fu". Wen Chu'er's Kung Fu is handed over by her sister. However, unlike her sister's appearance, Wen Chu'er is very beautiful. In addition to acting in movies at Shaw Brothers, she is also the leading actress of Lishi. At the beginning of the year, she also starred in "Huanhua and Sword Records" with Zhang Guorong.
This time, Xiang Huaqiang found an actress who knew kung fu, and borrowed her and Yuan Hua from Shaw Brothers.
However, what surprised Li Xuan even more was the group of starring actors and supporting actors who attended the opening ceremony this time.
At first glance, there were about thirty creators and actors all had black suits, black pants, black leather shoes, and Asians and Europeans. If it weren't for the incense table and cameras in front of me, someone would have called the police and said they were black and would be at the party.
In this way, there were still a circle of people around, especially in the crowd, there were many green-clothed policemen pointing at this side.
"Brother Qiang Sheng, you guys talk, I'll get to know other actors!" Li Xuan looked at Yuan Hua not far away and said to the Xiang brothers.
Xiang Huaqiang, who was so sarcastic, was stunned, looked at Li Xuan and smiled, "Go, go, a few people asked me who Li Xuan was when I asked them to act."
"Hehe, I'm still a little bit famous!"
Li Xuan laughed at himself, turned around and walked towards Yuan Hua.
At this time, Yuan Hua was talking to Zeng Zhiwei. Both of them were both Dragon and Tiger Martial Artsmen before, but they were familiar with each other. Yuan Hua had already put on makeup and wore a close-fitting black suit. Her long hair was neatly combed back with hairspray. With that vicious long face, she looked like a big villain.
"Ah Hua!" Li Xuan greeted him from a distance.
Yuan Hua turned his head and shouted, "Mr. Li."
"Hey, why are you so angry? Just call me Brother Xuan directly. I am very familiar with the people in your Yuan family." Li Xuan said with a close smile.
"Hehe, Brother Xuan!" Yuan Hua was not vague and said, "I said it."
"Yes." Li Xuan clicked, looked at Zeng Zhiwei on the side and said, "This is Brother Zeng, I have been admired for a long time."
"Haha, Li... Brother Xuan, I should have been relying on you for a long time. How can I compare to this miserable guy?" Zeng Zhiwei replied in a compliment.
"Haha, each other's batches." Li Xuan shrugged and looked at Yuan Hua and asked, "A Hua, I heard from Dong Wei that you are the best kung fu in the Yuan family. Have you ever thought of making movies like Sanmao and the others? My company is newly opened and I really need talents like you."
"Uh..." Yuan Hua was stunned. He didn't expect Li Xuan to raise this question.
Why didn’t Yuan Hua want to come out to make a movie? I remember how glorious he and Hong Jingbao and his group were when they were filming and working as martial arts commanders. Li Xiaolong even said that he would lead them into Hollywood. But the words were still gone, and their entire martial arts commanders were scattered.
Finally, Hong Jingbao took a group of people to Jiahe. Seeing that there were too many people following Hong Jingbao and his appearance was not outstanding, he went to Shaw Brothers alone. After being an unknown supporting role and martial arts commander for nearly five years, he thought he was about to get moldy, but he didn't expect that someone came to him to act in a movie, and there were still big villains with lines and roles.
And as Li Xuan said just now, he would definitely not be a supporting role when he joined the company. Yuan Hua hesitated for a moment. His five-year contract with Shaw Brothers was about to expire. Should he come out and make a breakthrough?
"Ah Hua, actually I already have the script for the next movie. I think you are very suitable for a character in it." Seeing Yuan Hua start to shake, Li Xuan threw down another sugar-coated cannonball.
However, this sentence is not vernacular. Before Li Xuan remembered the movie "King of Killers", he thought of another classic killer movie "Black Man". Unfortunately, because he liked this movie so much, Li Xuan was reluctant to take it out for others. He was going to use it to shoot his first real director movie.
Besides, although Xiang Huaqiang knows how to fight, he doesn't feel so sharp when he fights. His skills are not as good as the master's degree Li Yutian who always follows him. That guy is a Muay Thai master, otherwise why would he control his big group of red flowers and double sticks? Fortunately, there are not many fighting scenes in "King of Killers" and it's simple, otherwise I don't know what it would be like.
"Brother Xuan, can you give me some time to think about it?" Yuan Hua replied cowardly.
Li Xuan had no idea what to do, so he nodded and said, "Yes, but it's better to be faster."
"Haha, Ah Hua, what else are you thinking about? I wonder if every movie of Brother Xuan has been sold out." Zeng Zhiwei smiled from the side.
Li Xuan smiled helplessly, looked at Zeng Zhiwei and said, "Will Brother Zeng come here too?"
"Uh..." Zeng Zhiwei didn't expect it to get angry, so he waved his hand and said, "No, no, Boss Luo is not bad to me."
"Uh, then I won't force it." Li Xuan nodded regretfully.
Zeng Zhiwei is now determined to be a director, and Luo Wei also supports him very much. He has filmed several films in a row, so of course he doesn't want to leave now. As for the identity of this actor, Xiang Huaqiang was not invited, he didn't think about becoming an actor yet.
Since the main talks were over, Li Xuan would not stay. Looking at Ren Dahua alone in the distance, Li Xuan said to Yuan Hua and the others: "Those two people continue, I'll go see Ren Dahua over there."
Li Xuan is indeed addicted to poaching people! (To be continued. Please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!)
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