Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

"Too Soft Hearted" continues to be popular and is extremely popular in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

While Zhou Ziheng was cooperating with Pacific to promote the record in mainland China, he was also keeping an eye on the situation at Hengyu Film.

In early November, Hengyu staff contacted Japanese writer Suzuki Koji and eventually acquired the film adaptation rights for the series of novels for HK$2 million.

Now that he has purchased the copyright, Zhou Ziheng is not limited to the novel "The Ring".

He also asked his staff in Japan to contact the Japanese game company CAPCOM and acquired the film adaptation rights of the game "Resident Evil" that the company had just developed for one million.

Zhou Ziheng has no plans to shoot the "Resident Evil" project for the time being.

But with the copyright in hand, I have the initiative whether I sell or film it myself in the future.

In addition to purchasing the copyright, Hengyu has been making a lot of moves recently.

The project "The Yellow Sea", also known as "The Dangerous Ambition", has been officially launched.

The leading actor is tentatively confirmed to be Zhang Fengyi, who was recommended by Zhang Yimou.

After a series of interviews, Hong Kong actor Francis Ng was chosen to play the role of Lao Mian.

Wu Zhenyu was not the one invited by Zhou Ziheng.

Instead, he came to Hengyu Company for the audition on his own.

Although Wu Zhenyu is one of the best actors in Hong Kong in later generations.

But in fact, Wu Zhenyu was still playing supporting roles at that time.

It's not really a supporting role, he's just a small actor anyway.

After his actor contract with TVB ended in 1992, he has always hoped to make a difference in the film industry.

Since no one wanted him to play the leading role, he could only play villain roles that no one else wanted to play, and he has been playing villains in some small productions.

Currently, his most famous role is Zhang Cuishan in Jet Li's 1993 film "The Demon Cult Leader".

Zhou Ziheng remembers that it was probably after he played "Liang Kun" in "Young and Dangerous" that he gradually came to prominence and became a well-known and powerful actor among Hong Kong actors.

At this time, "A Chinese Odyssey" had not yet been filmed, so naturally no one knew about him.

For a young actor like him, the Hong Kong circle or not has nothing to do with him.

There are no movies for him to shoot and no money for trying to please the Hong Kong circle.

So, when Hengyu Films was recruiting actors, he went directly to Hengyu for an interview.

Finally, with his superb acting skills, he successfully impressed Zhang Yimou and got the second male lead role in "The Conjuring", which is second only to the leading actor.

There are actually quite a lot of roles that require actors for "The Conjuring".

However, apart from the male lead and the second male lead, the role of the villain gang's boss has a lot of scenes.

This role was eventually given to Taiwanese actor Gao Jie.

As for the female characters in other movies, Zhang Yimou made the decision and let Gong Li play a cameo role as the male protagonist's wife, who had almost no scenes and only a few shots.

As for the role of the professor's wife who was killed in the movie, it was given to mainland actress Ning Jing.

Ning Jing has been quite popular in mainland China in the past two years.

In 94, Ning Jing, who was only 22 years old, won the Best Actress Award at the 42nd San Sebastian International Film Festival for her role in the feature film "Bombs at the Double Lights" and was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award.

Then he starred in Jiang Wen's "Sunny Days".

After this movie was released in Hong Kong and Taiwan this year, it attracted huge attention.

Zhou Ziheng remembers that she will win the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress next year for this movie.

Of course, Zhou Ziheng chose her to participate in the show not because of her popularity.

Mainly recommended by Jiang Wen.

Perhaps they fell in love during the filming of "Sunny Days", and Jiang Wen and Ning Jing got together.

At present, for actors who want to develop and make money, Hong Kong and Taiwan are undoubtedly the best places.

So, when Jiang Wen heard that Zhou Ziheng's company drama still needed an actor, he recommended Ning Jing.

As for the purpose! It is nothing more than to let Ning Jing enter the Hong Kong and Taiwan film industry.

After the actors were almost selected, Zhang Yimou brought the crew to Guangzhou in mid-November and started filming "The Conjuring".

Zhou Ziheng happened to be in Guangzhou at that time, so he hosted a banquet to entertain the crew.

"Mr. Wu Zhenyu, I heard from Director Zhang Yimou that your acting skills are very good.

How about it, are you interested in signing with Hengyu Films?
Apart from anything else, you will never be missing in the drama.

If there is a suitable play, you can play the leading role."

The place where everyone was entertained was not far from Hengdong.

This tea restaurant was opened by Zhou Ziheng himself.

Because of the celebrity effect, the restaurant's business is very good.

At the dinner party, Zhou Ziheng appeared and stayed for a few minutes before leaving.

He was the boss. No one here was enjoying their meal, so he tactfully came out and left after a few minutes.

After leaving the private room, he asked someone to call Wu Zhenyu out and asked him if he was willing to join Hengyu.

Hengyu Films was excluded by the Hong Kong circle, and many actors were unwilling to star in Hengyu's films.

In order to break the impasse, Hengyu must train his own team.

Although Wu Zhenyu does not have much box office appeal, he is a talented actor.

Keeping him in Hengyu can ensure that Hengyu's films will not lack talented supporting actors.

Of course, as Zhou Ziheng said, he would also let Wu Zhenyu play the leading role.

This guy is a great actor.

It's a bit of a waste to only let him play a supporting role.

However, Zhou Ziheng will not let him play the leading role for the time being. He will at least give him some time to calm down.

When Wu Zhenyu heard Zhou Ziheng invite him to join Hengyu, he was obviously hesitant.

It can be seen that although he came to star in Hengyu's movie, he was still very concerned about Zhou Ziheng's relationship with the Hong Kong circle.

“I think you can think about it carefully. This should be a good opportunity for you.

Although we at Hengyu were excluded by Hong Kong filmmakers, we have our own system.

It can be said that we have achieved self-production and self-sales.

The Hong Kong circle has no influence on Hengyu at all.

The only impact is that you won’t be able to win the Academy Awards.

However, if there is no Hong Kong Film Awards, there are still the Golden Horse Awards!

Have you seen the recent list of nominees for the Golden Horse Awards?

"Tazza" was nominated for several major awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.

The Golden Horse Awards do not exclude Hengyu. "

Seeing that he was hesitating, Zhou Ziheng said a few words and then let him go.

It won’t be a big loss for him whether Francis Ng comes to Hengyu or not.

He just loves talent.

If the other party really doesn't want to come, he won't care.

……

"Yunzi, tell me, should I agree to Zhou Ziheng's request?"

After coming out of the private room where Zhou Ziheng was, Wu Zhenyu did not immediately go back to the private room where the crew was, but instead called his good friend Andy Lau.

The two have known each other for many years and attended the wireless training class together.

Later on, they played supporting roles together and lived together.

Compared to his miserable state now, Andy Lau is much better.

He never got a leading role when he was at TVB.

And Andy Lau started to play the leading role in TVB dramas in the mid-to-late 1980s.

After that, the two of them almost started working in the film industry together.

It was also Andy Lau who first came to prominence. The movie "Love Unforgettable" co-starring with Derek Yee made Andy Lau a hotshot. In the past two years, he has never had trouble getting roles to play, and he has always been the leading actor.

"Brother, I think you are overthinking it. With such a good opportunity in front of you, are you going to give it up?
If you give up this opportunity, when will you get such an opportunity again?

Hengyu does have a very bad relationship with the Hong Kong film industry.

But no matter how bad it is, it is still a film company that owns cinemas!
Look at what the film industry has done to Hengyu. Actors have been called upon not to film Hengyu's movies, and the Academy Awards have jointly boycotted Hengyu's movies.

But what about the result?
The result was that not only was Hengyu fine, but his movie was still selling well at the box office as usual.

For you, the Hong Kong industry has nothing to do with you. Although you are a Hong Kong film actor, don’t you have any movies to shoot?
In my opinion, whoever provides me with a role to play is my bread and butter.

The dramas I’m currently starring in are all from the Hong Kong industry, so there’s no way I can go against them.

But you are different. You are just a small character in the Hong Kong circle. So what if you betray us?"

Liu Qingyun said loudly on the phone.

"So, you want me to join Hengyu?"

“If I were in your shoes, I would definitely join.

Even though everyone in the Hong Kong circle scolds Zhou Ziheng, it should be said that he is really talented.

I think Hengyu Company has great potential.”

"I understand!" Wu Zhenyu nodded after hearing this.

After hanging up the phone, he went straight back to Zhou Ziheng's private room.

"Mr. Zhou, I'm willing to join Hengyu!"

(End of this chapter)