Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 170 Friends Guest Group

On April 4, Zhou Ziheng ended the book signing event and returned to Asia.

He first went to Japan and spent a week with Izumi Sakai, and then rushed back to Hong Kong.

The first thing Zhou Ziheng did after returning to Hong Kong was to register and establish a film and television company.

The company was named Hengyu Films.

After the company is established, the next natural issue is starting a business.

"The Tazza" is the company's first work.

Zhou Ziheng didn't dare to invest too much in this play.

After all, he is a new director who has just started out. He has invested too much money, and if the movie flopped, he would suffer a huge loss.

However, since he himself will be the protagonist of the movie, his investment in this play cannot be too small.

The current market offer for him to make a movie is four million.

There’s nothing we can do, the top stars are just so awesome.

Although the term "top stream" was not widely used until later generations.

But in fact, the concept of top stream already existed in the 1990s.

The Four Heavenly Kings are the well-deserved top streamers

Of course, Zhou Ziheng must be added now.

Although he rarely makes movies, he is well-known and popular all over the world.

Because of this popularity, he is now like Lu Han in the future.

Although he has not proven that he has the ability to carry the box office, he has managed to push his pay to the highest level in the industry by relying on his popularity.

His salary was four million, and he was a new director, so he would have to use a lot of film when shooting.

Fortunately, apart from himself, the remuneration for other people was not too high.

Therefore, the total investment budget for this play is only eight million.

This is not to say that the film’s cast is weak.

On the contrary, the lineup is quite good.

Tony Leung Ka Fai, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Li Zhi and even Leon Lai have guest appearances.

Although most of them have very few roles and can only be considered cameo appearances.

But as long as they make a guest appearance, Zhou Ziheng can use their names to help promote the show.

So, in terms of cast, this drama is not weak.

The story of "The Tazza" is a down-to-earth and ordinary story.

Zhou Ziheng carried out localization transformation on it.

Mainly tells about:

The protagonist Gao Heng works hard in a furniture factory in Guangdong to earn money.

Due to his low salary, his income was barely enough to make ends meet, but Gao Heng had a strong character and he was unwilling to live in such poverty.

One day, he saw a group of people playing cards in a corner of the furniture factory. He couldn't help but join in, but he lost all his hard-earned money.

Later he found out that the people playing cards were not rookies like him, but many of them were cheaters.

In anger, he went to find those con men to argue, but unexpectedly he met the con master Hui Ge (played by Tony Leung).

In order to learn advanced gambling skills and recoup his gambling capital, Gao Heng went to great lengths to become Hui's apprentice and promised to retire after winning a certain amount of money.

Finally, he learned his lesson and started his career as a con man after coming out of seclusion.

At first, he really just wanted to win back the money he lost.

But human desires are endless, and the desires in his heart made him sink step by step. He broke the original agreement and began to indulge in the desire to win money.

Moreover, he began to play more and more and started going to Macau where gambling was rife.

One day, his excellent gambling skills attracted the attention of the beautiful lady Boss Zheng (played by Lizhi), and he and another civilian con man Gao Guanglie (played by Wang Zhiwen) began their career as a con man.

While clearing out casinos across Macau, he falls in love with another woman (Fennie Yuen) at first sight.

During this period, Gao Heng and his group had a feud with another group of con men.

In the final round of revenge gambling, Gao Heng bet his own life, won the gambling, repented, and began to retire.

Different from the gambling films that were previously made in Hong Kong, Zhou Ziheng intends to focus more on exploring human nature in this film.

The film explains the situation from a perspective close to reality, describing the downfall of gamblers and the miserable life of con men who make a living from gambling.

There won't be the kind of magical gambling skills of the God of Gamblers Gao Jin in the movie, but only the intrigues and psychological games among the con men in order to win the gambling game.

Because most of the characters in the movie are Zhou Ziheng's friends.

They are basically free guest appearances.

For example, Tony Leung, Leon Lai and others.

Therefore, before the filming of the movie started, Zhou Ziheng specially treated everyone to a meal to express his gratitude.

"To be honest, Hengzi, I really admire you.

It’s fine that he can sing and write songs, but now he can even write scripts.

And your writing is not bad, it is not an exaggeration to say that you are a versatile person."

At the dinner table, Tony Leung said to Zhou Ziheng with a look of regret.

“Indeed, if you hadn’t been acting in this play, I would have wanted to play the role of Gao Heng.

If I play this role well, maybe I can win another Best Actor award."

Tony Leung Chiu Wai also chimed in.

Everyone has read the script "The Tazza".

The person who likes this script the most is undoubtedly Tony Leung Ka Fai, followed by Tony Leung Chiu Wai.

Both of them particularly like the role of Gao Heng. If this play was not prepared by Zhou Ziheng for himself, both of them might have wanted to compete for the leading role.

“I won’t give this play to you two. When there is a chance in the future, I will create a play tailor-made for you.

Here, I would also like to raise a glass to thank everyone for their support.

You all are so busy, but you still took time out to help me perform this play, and you all did it for free. I will always remember this kindness.

Thank you all! ”

Zhou Ziheng stood up and thanked everyone solemnly.

Free performance.

To be honest, if it weren't for that person, no one here would do that.

Especially Lizhi.

Li Zhi had retired a long time ago, but when Zhou Ziheng felt that the role of Boss Zheng was suitable for her and sent the script to her, she agreed without thinking twice.

And he even performed for free. No matter what, Zhou Ziheng had to remember this favor.

"You're so polite, we're all friends, it's normal for you to make a guest appearance!
Besides, maybe we will still be counting on you for help in the future!"

"That's right. You are the big boss now. Once Hengyu Cinema Line is established, we will have to count on you in this part of Hong Kong."

"Don't say anything else. If there's a good show in the future, just give us priority."

Tony Leung Ka Fai, Carina Lau and even Tony Leung Chiu Wai all spoke with a smile.

"Ajie is busy filming "Fist of Fury". Otherwise, you can ask him to come over and play a cameo role for you." Lizhi also laughed.

In fact, Zhou Ziheng was more familiar with Jet Li at the beginning, but less familiar with Lizhi.

But since Jet Li never came to every party, Li Zhi never missed one.

Gradually, Zhou Ziheng's relationship with Jet Li is average, but his relationship with Lizhi is better.

"Brother Jie, I don't dare to ask him to come. If he comes, he will steal all the show."

Zhou Ziheng smiled.

He said this both jokingly and truthfully.

Sometimes, having a too large a lineup isn't always a good thing.

Just like Tony Leung Chiu-wai, when he came to make a guest appearance this time, Zhou Ziheng didn't dare to give him too important a role.

First, there are no suitable decent characters.

Secondly, if too many roles are given, it will steal the show, which is not good for the movie.

(End of this chapter)