I didn't want to be an actor

The speaker is Yu Wanqing.

Yu Wanqing is the senior vice president of New Classics Media and the president of New Classics TV.

She is also the producer of "The Wind Chaser" and "The Beginning"!

Yu Wanqing was previously the director of the Program Purchasing and Sales Center of Yunnan TV Station. During her tenure, she worked with Rong Guangjiao (producer Jiang Xiaorong + director Yu Rongguang + screenwriter Wang Juan) several times, including "Legend of Dance and Music", "Heroes of Nanqiao Mechanics" and "Unfortunate Fate"...

In 2015, she resigned and joined New Classics. With the help of Yu Wanqing, Yu Rongguang and Jiang Xiaorong produced "Battle Through the Heavens" and "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

Wang Juan directly became a contracted screenwriter of New Classics and participated in the adaptation of large-scale head IPs such as "Celebrating Yu Nian", "Douluo Continent" and "Snow Swordsman"...

That's right, Yu Wanqing is the producer of these dramas.

Let's put it this way, the dramas of Shen Liang and New Classics are basically produced by Yu Wanqing...

However, even though Yu Wanqing is very well-known in the circle, Huang Wei... is not easy to deal with!

Huang Wei and Noon Sunshine broke down!

Noon Sunshine!

They broke up right away.

“It’s okay, Huang Wei’s next drama “Northward” is produced by us!”

Shen Liang shook his head: “But we have discussed the shooting rhythm, lighting, color tone with Director Huang Wei…”

“Then we can’t just wait!”

Director Yao Xiaofeng waved his hand: “…It’s okay…wait a month and see.”

Yu Wanqing asked Shen Liang directly: “Do you have a schedule in a month?”

“…Maybe not…”

Yu Wanqing sighed: “What a mess!”

“Good things take time…”

…

The reason why Shen Liang disagreed was that in addition to the fact that 20% of the deposit had been prepaid to Director Huang Wei for “The Beginning”, the most important thing was that “The Beginning” was a hit!

It’s not easy for a director to come across a hit in his life.

Back to the point, “The Wind Chaser” was forced to stop filming, and Shen Liang didn’t have any thoughts - this drama was signed in 2019, and he was not the investor.

In fact, he did not participate in the investment of the next few dramas...

Of course, the pay is quite high: 50 million per drama...

In fact, with his status - the first person in the film industry, there is no need to shoot TV dramas!

But... there are too few good movie scripts.

"I also want to make movies and act in good dramas, but good dramas need good scripts... I am only 26 years old this year, and I can't play many roles. If there is a good TV drama script invitation, of course I will participate."

Shen Liang told the brothers in the live broadcast room the truth...

By the way, he talked about the suspension of "The Wind Chaser": "No one wants this... I guess I will have time to continue filming until next year... The schedules behind are all full, "The Beginning", "Kim's Secretary" and an ancient idol "The Devil"..."

"Why act in ancient idol dramas...I was chatting with an old classmate before, and talked about ancient idol fairy-tale film and television dramas. At the beginning, our theme was to complain about the brainless and saccharine ancient idol dramas, and then he complained, why these dramas invited such expensive actors, made such expensive sets, and spent so much effort, but in the end they used such bad The script ruined everything. If they hired a good screenwriter and wrote a good script, would they die? "

"I answered, 'Who is willing to write a good script for ancient idol dramas? The screenwriters with aspirations want to write suspense reality dramas. This kind of industrial saccharine ancient idol drama for ordinary audiences is only worthy of a bad script written by a bad screenwriter. '"

"Then he asked me, 'Don't ancient idol dramas deserve good scripts? '"

"I answered him, 'Since a group of idol fans can pay for a stinky and rotten plot, who would spend the money to write a good plot? Save a little bit'... Moreover, the cruel fact is: there are many screenwriters who want to have aspirations when writing ancient idol dramas, but these screenwriters will be scolded by the editors, platforms, and producers, and they will think that they don't understand the audience..."

"This is a fact. Ancient idol dramas are a commercial process The most popular subject matter, then investors must be deeply involved. The plots that you think are stupid are not stupid in the eyes of investors. They just choose plots and methods that make money faster, just like fast food.

It’s not that there are no good screenwriters who have participated in the adaptation of ancient puppet dramas, but when they are repeatedly modified by investors with stupid plots, they are embarrassed to leave their names on the scripts. "

"The goal of ancient puppet dramas is to make money and promote young actors. Their goal has never been art. Do you talk to them about pursuits?"

"He asked me to shoot a different ancient puppet, and I agreed!"

"At first, the iQiyi platform found me and wanted me to shoot a drama. I just told Senior Brother Deng Ke that I wanted to shoot a different ancient puppet, and then I picked "The Demon King" from a bunch of projects..."

"Deng Ke... "The Son of Heaven" The director of "The Son-in-law", he is also from our Zhongchuan..."

"...Ugly men in ancient costume dramas...What ugly men in ancient costume dramas?"

"Oh, you said that there are more ugly men in ancient costume dramas...Now capital and personal connections are the key, and the relationship of mutual cooperation is the key! The audience's aesthetics...is not important!"

"Moreover, most of these dramas are small-budget split-account dramas with less than 30 episodes. Split-account dramas mean that after the video is launched, the platform will extract funds from the membership fee based on the number of clicks and views and share the revenue with the film company. For the platform and the film company, split-account dramas are likely to "win big with small". On the one hand, in order to save money, some actors with small status will be selected. It doesn't matter if the actors are not handsome, anyway, everyone likes to watch sweet pets, so just create some artificial sweetness. The advantage of ancient costume dramas is that they can be fictional and imaginative, which makes it easier to create sweetness..."

"On the other hand, the ugly sons of capitalists have entered the market... They bring their own investments..."

"In a while, "Lotus Tower" will be broadcast. Then everyone can wash their eyes..."

"When will it be broadcast... It should be August 9... It will be broadcast after the Olympics..."

"Why are the Olympics over? Nonsense, who dares to fight against the Olympics? Isn't this looking for death!"

"...What? "You Are My Glory" will be launched on July 26th...ahem...Then I made a mistake and treated me as if I didn't exist..."

"...Yang Yang + Rouba, double top streaming, stable ratings share...I will definitely stay away...I can't, "Lotus House" is just a martial arts drama..."

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That's right, Tengxun arranged for "You Are My Glory" to compete in the Tokyo Olympics!

This decision makes people wonder if Teng Xun is out of his mind.

Well, Shen Liang asked and found out that Tengxun Video was originally planning to use "Lotus Tower" to compete with the Olympic Games...

Saying, ‘This year’s situation is different, no one will care about the Olympics’…

Fortunately, the three major TV stations, Dragon TV, Beijing TV and Jiangsu TV, decided to start broadcasting on August 9, so Tengxun did not forcefully broadcast "Lotus Tower"...

This is the Olympics!

Convinced…

Anyway, Shen Liang didn't dare.

By the way, the filming of "The Storm Chaser" was stopped, and Shen Liang happened to have time. Chen Jiadong suggested that he find a variety show to promote "Life Events"!