Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 179 Jackie Chan's guest appearance
Many people, including the media, believe that Li Qiutang's sudden attack on Liu Zhenwei these days is because "Robot" is too bad. Li Qiutang is worried that "Robot" will have a customer-driving effect, and when "In Time" is released, the audience will lose interest in domestic science fiction.

Another reason may be that Li Qiutang is simply unhappy with Liu Zhenwei and "Robot". After all, Li Qiutang became famous last year for his verbal battle with Feng Xiaogang. This young man from Northeast China is also full of vigor and he dares to say things he doesn't like.

It’s true that these are the two reasons why Li Qiutang criticized Liu Zhenwei. There is no other deeper reason.

The celebratory reception was over, and the interviews after the reception were also over, but Li Qiutang’s work was not over yet.

He quietly told Liu Yifei to go back to the hotel first and he would go to accompany her after he finished his business.

Li Qiutang had several guests to meet and several small meetings to attend.

Li Qiutang finally rejected the investment from SAIF Partners. He will discuss cooperation with Cao Ping and two other investors tonight.

After Huayi went public, investors saw the development potential of the film and television industry and wanted to give it a try.

Li Qiutang's Autumn Pictures is considered to be one of the most promising startups among many.

Some people invest in mature large companies like Guangxian, Xiaoma, and Berna, and naturally some people invest in small startup companies like Qiutian.

After talking with the two investors, it was almost midnight. Li Qiutang and Cao Ping went to have a small meeting with Zhang Zhao, president of Guangxian Pictures, and Li Xiaoping, vice president of Guangxian Media. The two companies decided to cooperate and had to discuss how to do it.

Cao Ping said on the stage that Autumn Pictures will make two movies next year, but this was just bragging. In fact, only one has been confirmed, which is Lost on Journey, and the distribution has already been sold to Guangxian.

Making one movie a year doesn't sound very good, but for a small startup company, two movies is neither more nor less.

However, Lost on Journey was not included in the three films that Autumn Pictures collaborated with Guangxian. Guangxian looked down on Lost on Journey and felt that the combination of Xu Shanzheng and Wang Baoqiang would not make money in the market.

They took a fancy to another unfinished script of Autumn Pictures, called "My Transformed Boyfriend", which is the urban fantasy romance version of "Martin's Morning" mentioned earlier.

Li Xiaoping and Zhang Zhao both agreed that this kind of romance film could easily achieve great success with small investment as long as the right actors were chosen.

This is the first time that the two companies have cooperated, so it is impossible for them to come up with a blockbuster to trick the other party.

"But the script hasn't been completed yet, and we don't know if we can do it." Cao Ping has been following this script.

"It's okay. We can take our time to work on the script. We all think that this kind of fantasy romance is rare in China and should be able to attract a group of audiences."

One reason why working with Guangxian is more comfortable than working with Huayi is that Guangxian does not have any signed actors and will not force actors in.

Wang Changtian and Zhang Zhao will still recommend actors, but they will not force the crew to use them. The bald guy under Guangxian is not even in the eyes of movie directors right now, and he and Guangxian Company have no plans to enter the film industry so early. Female artists like Xie Nan and Liu Yan are okay for guest appearances, but Guangxian has not pushed them to be the leading actors.

The same was true in "My Transformed Boyfriend". Although the script had not been finalized yet, Zhang Zhao had already reserved a guest starring role for Liu Yan.

Xie Nan had no intention of becoming an actor, so Liu Yan took the initiative to ask the company to transform her into an actor. Since the artist was so proactive, Guangxian was willing to give her a push.

"Is Liu Yan's performance in 'In Time' pretty good?" Zhang Zhao asked casually.

"It's pretty good. I get along very well with Yifei." Not to mention the play, it's just a guest appearance, and it's all finished.

Liu Yan plays the mother of the male protagonist Yang Peng in "In Time", and her role is pretty good.

The two sides talked about cooperation until 2 a.m., and Zhang Zhao smoked a pack and a half of cigarettes. Before leaving, Li Qiutang advised him to smoke less.

"I've said I've quit smoking countless times, but I just can't. So let it be." Zhang Zhao said with a smile.

It’s too late, Liu Yifei should have fallen asleep, so I won’t disturb her.

Li Qiutang returned to her room, only to find someone lying on her bed.

God knows how Liu Yifei got his room card.

Liu Yifei was still asleep. Li Qiutang finished washing up and lay down in bed. The girl, half asleep and half awake, leaned over and muttered, "Are you done talking?" "Well, let's go to sleep." Li Qiutang gently kissed the girl's forehead and lay down next to his girlfriend.

The next afternoon, Li Qiutang, Liu Yifei and Liu Ye entered Hong Kong through Pengcheng.

Few mainland film crews come to Hong Kong to shoot movies.

But the Hong Kong film company was not at all curious about Li Qiutang and In Time. As Jackie Chan said when he invited the creators of In Time to dinner on the first afternoon, "The Hong Kong crew has no interest in your drones, robots, robot dogs, etc. Their horizons are limited to Hong Kong."

Jackie Chan has traveled all over the world, and this was the first time he saw the equipment brought by Li Qiutang on a mainland film crew.

Jackie Chan hosted a banquet that night, but neither Jaycee Chan nor his wife came. Jackie Chan brought his brothers from the Jackie Chan Stunt Team to receive the crew.

Jackie Chan's schedule was very tight, so the crew filmed his Easter eggs the next day.

It took Jackie Chan more than five hours to put on his old-age makeup. The crew waited for him for five hours and the filming started at 3 pm.

"Put on some old-age makeup for me, too." Liu Yifei was eager to try.

"You are not in this scene." Li Qiutang said from the side.

“I want to see what I look like when I’m old.”

"The skin sags, the face is full of wrinkles, and you may get Parkinson's disease and tremors."

"You're talking nonsense. I'm sure I'll be a beautiful old lady when I'm old."

Jackie Chan finished his makeup and entered the venue.

"Come on, get ready, start."

A close-up of Jackie Chan's arm shows a long scar where the life span counter originally was. The skin on his entire arm looks like dried tree bark, old and lifeless, and the time on his arm no longer ticks - the time here is not created by special effects, but painted on by the makeup artist.

The camera pans upwards to show his profile, while Unit 2 takes a picture of his back and over his shoulder, revealing that he is standing in a cemetery.

"Crack!"

"How's the director?" Jackie Chan trotted over to watch the playback.

"Very good, big brother, let's shoot the scene of you going down the mountain." This is the last shot of Jackie Chan's cameo.

The old Yang Peng walked down from the mountain, which meant that he had once again returned to the grassroots and among the people.

Jackie Chan made a cameo appearance, but he didn't say a word the entire time.

"Please let me say something." Jackie Chan was so anxious.

"No words." This cameo was thought up on the spur of the moment, so there was no words for Jackie Chan. "Why don't you think about it yourself and see what to say? I'll let you do it."

Jackie Chan likes to let himself play. But he designed several emotions and lines, and when he watched them on the monitor, they were either wrong or rejected by Li Qiutang.

Finally, Jackie Chan compromised, thinking that the design without dialogue was correct. The power of silence was extremely heavy at this moment.

"I'll give you a subjective shot from a passerby. Big brother, take a look at the shot and then go down the mountain."

Li Qiutang breaks the fourth wall here and chooses to draw the audience into the story through the movie's easter eggs.

"Okay, come on, all departments get ready, let's get started."

(End of this chapter)