Chapter 39: Taking Bingbing to Sanlitun

According to the Hollywood-style commercial film script structure guided by Seeing Lu Kuan, Ning Hao modified it for a day and night without thinking about tea or rice, and finally produced a draft that was closer to the story of *Crazy Stone* in the future.

With the blessing of Ning Hao, Boss Lu's pace of transforming into Director Lu continued to accelerate, and he could also start considering the production of his first movie.

The first movie he planned was *Whiplash*, for three reasons.

First, 90% of the filming scenes are indoors, and renting a university campus venue is enough, so the cost is relatively low.

Second, after the release of *Hero*, the domestic commercial film trend is rising; at that time, borrowing this east wind to release the fast-paced *Whiplash*, the profit prospect is clear.

Finally, for the first movie, he is definitely going to get some resources from Mei Yanfang; he plans to find Xie Tingfeng for the male lead; he received Mei Yanfang's kindness when he debuted, and these few thin faces must be sold.

The rest is the funding problem; the original 2014 investment was about 20 million yuan, and that was under the strict Hollywood film industrial system, with various union clauses restricting filming time and minimum wages.

Put it in the current 2002, with Boss Lu's various flashy operations, there is no big problem in compressing the cost to below 7 million.

The filming team will use the cheap labor of the Beijing Film Studio, and can also borrow their factory logo and filming quota to solve the license problem.

Let Ning Hao guest star as the cinematographer; under his own on-site guidance, there will be no problem.

The post-production is just editing and soundtrack, which can be completely found by enthusiastic Beijing Film Academy seniors and juniors to generate electricity for love, and he will write the theme song himself.

Boss Lu thought of the theme song and realized that he had stood Fan Bingbing up for a long time; he had been saying since before the festival that he would take her to meet music producers like Zhang Yadong, but it had been delayed until now.

After a few phone calls, he made an appointment with Zhou Xun and Fan Bingbing to meet at Bar 88 in Sanlitun.

Beiping is a divided city; half is noble, half is commoner, and Sanlitun is the intersection of the two.

The dazzling light balls and the jaw-dropping price tags constantly remind people of the chasm between classes.

The same hysteria and drunkenness seem to be telling you in your ears that all living beings are equal.

"Brother Xun, what have you been busy with lately? Let's have a drink today?"

The two have successfully developed into drinking buddies; Boss Lu is handsome and speaks well, and Zhou Xun loves it very much.

"Sure, I just came out of the recording studio."

Immediately after, she said fiercely: "This time I listened to your guidance, and it exhausted me; if there are no results, you just wait!"

Zhou Xun doesn't like to hear the little Daoist priest calculate her feelings, but she doesn't mind him calculating her career.

Especially after hearing about Seeing Lu Kuan's deeds in Xiangjiang, the small circle in the domestic entertainment industry is very interested in his Inquiry Realm Consulting Company.

With outsiders present, Fan Bingbing restrained her softness and bone-deep charm well, but was still surprised by the weight of Seeing Lu Kuan's words in front of a popular actress like Zhou Xun.

Could it be that Zhou Xun's first album disclosed in the media was also planned by Seeing Lu Kuan?

Although Fan Bingbing's status in the domestic entertainment industry is far from hers, they are all friends, and Zhou Xun didn't forget her when chatting with Seeing Lu Kuan.

"Bingbing, I heard from Little Lu that you also want to try releasing an album or something."

"Yes, Sister Xun."

Artists in this era pay attention to the three-pronged approach of film, television, and song; this is also the atmosphere passed down from Xiangjiang and Taiwan, and Zhou Xun is not surprised by this.

"Yadong is stuck in traffic on the road; he should be here in a while." Zhou Xun looked at her watch.

"You guys chat with him later; I suggest making an appointment for two songs first, releasing a single to try it out; making an album is really too tiring."

Seeing Lu Kuan also nodded: "Brother Xun signed with Warner Music, and it was planned by Director Song Ke himself; you are just starting, it's better to try a single first."

Fan Bingbing nodded obediently, looking like she was waiting to be picked...

No, looking like she was waiting for orders.

"Don't worry, Brother Xun; although your voice is a bit special, your popularity and appeal are there, so the results of this album won't be bad."

The *Summer* of Zhou Xun in the future achieved sales of 280,000 copies during the boiling point period in 2003, which was quite good, comparable to professional singers like Liu Huan and Yu Quan of the same period.

Zhou Xun toasted him and smiled: "Borrow your auspicious words."

Not long after, Zhang Yadong and Gao Yuanyuan also arrived; the two walked over leaning on each other very sweetly, no longer needing to avoid suspicion.

Two years ago, Zhang Yadong divorced Dou Wei's sister and officially threw himself into the embrace of the great beauty...

Zhou Xun introduced everyone; Gao Yuanyuan looked at the handsome Seeing Lu Kuan in surprise: "Zhou Xun, is the little god who speaks and follows the law you mentioned so young!"

Zhang Yadong had a relatively wooden personality; hearing this, he also looked at Seeing Lu Kuan from head to toe.

Seeing Lu Kuan smiled: "What little god, it's just a rumor; I just finished the Beijing Film Academy art exam today."

Fortunately, Li Yapeng and Wang Fei were not here today, otherwise, Seeing Lu Kuan would have to take a group photo no matter what; three years later, it would become a famous scene!

Zhou Xun's current boyfriend Li Yapeng, Li Yapeng's ex-girlfriend Qu Ying, Qu Ying fell in love with Zhang Yadong in 2005, Zhang Yadong is Wang Fei's exclusive producer, and Wang Fei married Li Yapeng in 2005...

It's really messy!

The topic turned to business; talking about Fan Bingbing's music path, Zhang Yadong was a bit embarrassed: "Wang Fei just signed with Sony Music and asked me for songs, and there is Pu Shu's *Life Like Summer Flowers*; I really don't have the energy for the time being."

This was not an excuse; he still had to be busy with the soundtrack for his current girlfriend Gao Yuanyuan and his next girlfriend Xu Jinglei's movie *Metro of Love*.

Boss Lu expressed his envy; he used to spend money to play with women in his past life, where was he as high-end as Zhang Yadong, who could harvest at will just by relying on talent.

The key is that after breaking up, not a single female star said he was bad...

Fan Bingbing was a bit discouraged; she finally found the hottest music talent in the industry today through Seeing Lu Kuan's relationship, but didn't expect to be declined again.

"How about this, Yadong, I'll write a few songs for Bingbing, you take a look and help polish them."

Anyway, he had to copy songs for *Whiplash*'s theme song, so how much he copied didn't matter.

It was just that due to Boss Lu himself really not having too many music bacteria, he estimated that he couldn't completely replicate and display the handed-down songs of the future.

For example, Zhou Jielun's several national style songs, he could sing and hum, but he knew nothing about the details such as the combination of various musical instruments in the melody, the breathing rhythm of the main and chorus switching, etc.

This is the significance of the existence of professional music producers.

Zhou Xun and others looked at him in surprise; a disdainful sarcasm suddenly came from the booth behind them:

"Damn it, now any cat or dog dares to mix in the entertainment industry, and they aren't afraid of making people laugh their teeth off!"

Zhou Xun's face was ugly, and just as she was about to scold, she saw a fat-headed, big-eared, crew-cut middle-aged man stand up, looking at Fan Bingbing with lewdness.

"Bingbing, if you want to sing, find me; why are you talking to this little white face?"

Note: The previous book had problems with *Whiplash*, so let's set sail from here in this book, fulfilling a wish~

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