"The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" is a novel published by Ma Boyong in 2017. It has not been written yet at this time, so it was censored by Gu Zhongyu.

Gu Zhongyu, who had just debuted, was just an actor. He had no choice. He only filmed from scripts given by others. He had no right to speak. Later, he became the boss of his own company and gained capital and strength. However, for the sake of safety, he had no right to speak.

Choose to remake some film and television dramas that have been proven by the market in their previous lives and can be popular, such as "Insidious" and "Struggle".

Now the company is completely on the right track, and he has enough spare money on hand. Now, just the shares he invested in Penguin, Ali and some popular real estate can bring him several small targets of income every year.

With enough capital, he really wants to film some subjects he likes, and this drama is one of them.

China’s costume dramas have always been a signature cultural product. From the early martial arts dramas of Hong Kong and Taiwan Jin Yong, Qiong Yao’s costume romance dramas, to the mainland’s remakes of four major classics, the market for domestic costume dramas can be said to have always been very prosperous, and

There are many kinds and a hundred flowers are in bloom.

The joking "Ji Xiaolan with Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth", "Emperor of the Han Dynasty" and "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo"

The historical dramas "Ming Dynasty 1566", "Yongzheng Dynasty" and "Toward a Republic"

In the early days of martial arts dramas, there were remakes of Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" series, and later "The Best in the World" became the final swan song of martial arts dramas.

These TV series are suitable for all ages and are the fond childhood memories of countless people born in the 80s and 90s!

However, in recent years, the market for traditional costume dramas has been continuously squeezed. Starting from the first part of the Tang Dynasty's "Legend of Sword and Fairy", TV dramas of the ancient puppet and fairy tale types began to seize the market. Because of the casting of handsome men and beautiful women,

Youth romance stories are more likely to be loved by young audiences, especially female audiences.

The continuous critical hits of the three Qing Dynasty palace dramas such as "The Palace Locked Heart", "Bu Bu Jingxin" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan", which became popular this year, have dealt a huge blow to the male-oriented costume drama genre!

The producers finally realized how popular TV series with female protagonists are!

It turns out that when making TV series, all you need to do is please the female audience. It doesn’t matter what the men like to watch! So they changed their minds and began to make movies and TV series that were completely focused on women.

The past few years have also been the darkest moment for the domestic costume drama market. It can be said that bad movies have appeared frequently, and even the aesthetic vision and production level have not improved but have retreated. When you open a TV series, you will see all kinds of bright costumes and colors, and women with death Barbie pink on their lips.

Actors, muscular and facially paralyzed male protagonists, bloody love stories, special effects fights that cost less than 50 cents...

(I’m talking about you! Yu Zheng! Come out and get beaten!)

So nowadays, traditional serious or masculine-oriented costume TV dramas are no longer touched by anyone. Next year there will be "Legend of Chu and Han" to be broadcast. This is considered the last domestic costume war drama, but it is also a blockbuster.

Damn it! After this show, no one is willing to please the male audience on the TV screen.

The majority of male compatriots have gradually quit TV dramas and begun to shift their energy and time to games, live broadcasts, and novels.

Oh! It can’t be said that there are no TV dramas for male compatriots. There are still many people watching those local and Taiwanese anti-Japanese dramas, although they are mostly uncles.

The drama "Twelve Hours in Chang'an" was jointly produced by Gu Zhongyu and Yang Ma. It has applied for a key national film and television cultural industry support project. The main filming location is not Hengdian, but in the thousand-year-old city of Xi'an. For this purpose, a special

A small "Chang'an City" was built for filming. It also had local TV stations, a bunch of tourist bases, and cultural industry company sponsorships, so the financial pressure on Zongheng Film and Television was not too great. The total investment was just over 200 million, and Gu Zhongyu just came out.

Less than 100 million.

In 2011, the cost of filming was already high. You must know that the total investment of the historical masterpiece "Legend of Chu and Han", starring Cheng Dao Ming and Ha Rundong, which will be released next year, is only 240 million.

The investment in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" is almost the same, and Gu Zhongyu has no intention of making an originally compact story as long as he did in his previous life. This drama will not exceed 30 episodes in full, and each episode

The budget is very sufficient.

If Gu Zhongyu hadn't shamelessly lobbied his brother for help and only relied on his own efforts, this drama would definitely not have attracted so much investment and assistance.

And in order to save money, Gu Zhongyu also invited many of his students at Nortel and even his senior brothers and sisters to participate in the show. For his sake, these people basically charged friendly prices, or even made guest appearances with no pay at all!

The company's largest investment in film and television dramas currently is this project. "Ball Lightning" can be a hit. Anyway, this movie is completely invested by Gu Zhongyu personally. I am happy to be responsible for the profits and losses.

But "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" will definitely not work! If this drama fails, it will not only lose money, but also it may be difficult to negotiate cooperation with Yang Ma and those big boss units with Chinese characters and place names starting with them in the future.

Well, even my eldest brother has to show his face.

It’s hard to explain to the friends who I invited at all costs. We acted in the works at friendly prices or even for free, but the result was this after it was broadcast?

The production cycle of this TV series is not too long and can be completed in about three or four months.

However, if you include "Ball Lightning" and some projects that are still being planned, Gu Zhongyu probably won't have the leisure time he has now next year.

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Gu Zhongyu quickly scanned the cast list. He was naturally the male protagonist, Xiaojing. Li Mi found his junior Zhu Yilong, who is also a contracted artist of Zongheng Entertainment. At present, Gu Zhongyu's company is still somewhat prosperous. Apart from him,

There are no very famous first-line male artists, which is not conducive to the future development of the company, so now he has begun to consciously help these seniors and juniors.

In "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", in addition to the two male protagonists, the villain Long Bo plays a more important role. Gu Zhongyu still found Jia Qianji, his teacher at Nortel, Zhou Weilai, just like in the previous life.

As for the black boss Ge Lao in the original work, Gu Zhongyu directly changed him to a Tang Dynasty person, and he was played by the secretary of Tazhai Village, oh no, teacher Wang Jinsong.

His identity also changed from a slave to a Confucian scholar. He was a scholar who failed the imperial examinations many times and stayed in Chang'an City to concentrate on society!

There are many similar changes to the plot. After all, everyone knows Ma Boyong’s novels, and they all end in an anticlimax.

In fact, if you think about it, it’s unreasonable. A purchased Kunlun slave could actually become the BOSS of the underground world in Chang’an City at the foot of the emperor? Isn’t this so damn inspiring?

This is Chang'an City, not Gotham City!

This is the seventh century AD, not the twenty-first century. The time to introduce these "high-end talents" is too early!

Moreover, the Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty did not only refer to the current black people. In addition to the Negro race in Africa, most of them should be the Negritos, also called dwarf blacks, who belong to the brown race in Southeast Asia.

Not to mention, Gu Zhongyu hates Brother Ni very much!

In addition, Gu Zhongyu looked at the other characters. Among the good guys, there are currently some that are lacking, mainly female characters.

If we don’t arrange for some of our own fish to come in, would that be reasonable?
Chapter completed!