She dominates the entertainment industry with her disaster system

These two points can be said to be the two most attractive points for Su Lingxi in the entire "Crime and Punishment" project. Compared with who the director and producer are, these two benefits are much more attractive to her.

To be honest, if you really analyze it carefully, Su Lingxi is actually not very satisfied with the director of this project.

Both Cao Yiping and Tang Wanhua are famous directors with their own characteristics in the film industry, but their areas of expertise do not include suspense or crime films, which is particularly concerning to her.

As we all know, the narrative rhythm and visual presentation of a film are crucial, and these two aspects are closely related to the director's ability level. If you are not careful, you will end up making a bad movie.

Su Lingxi is an actor who is very careful about his reputation. The reason why he thinks twice before accepting a role is because he doesn't want his name to be associated with bad movies.

Especially now that she is very famous, word of mouth becomes more and more important.

If you are not careful, not only will you be nailed to the rack of shame by public opinion and unable to get up, but you will also damage a lot of passers-by's popularity, and your box office appeal may also be greatly reduced.

Therefore, even though Tang Wanhua cited the performance of "Ghost Bullet" as endorsement, Su Lingxi still had doubts about the director of this project.

The next morning, while eating breakfast in the RV, Su Lingxi confessed to Yang Qian the concerns that had been bothering him for a long time.

"Director Cao Yiping is good at analyzing characters' emotions. He has made many romance films and feature films. Suspense is not his forte." Yang Qian started talking, and her thoughts were similar to what Su Lingxi had thought last night. "He has been focusing on making mainstream films in recent years. This time he suddenly came out to challenge a new theme. I'm afraid he has other purposes."

"Maybe he wants to help his apprentice?" Zhang Wenya closed the curtains of the RV and sat over to join their conversation. "I heard someone in the group mention it before. Director Cao has a 'personal assistant director' who he has been coaching for several years. He is very young and seems to have been learning from him since he graduated from college."

Hearing this, Yang Qian frowned, "Now I don't know whether the rumor is true or not, so I can't rule out this possibility."

"But if you want to change the director, I support you." Yang Qian said, showing them the data page on her notebook. "Cao Yiping's creative level has been declining exponentially in recent years, and his box office performance has also been slowly declining. From his debut work "Peach Blossom Tribulation" to now, he has made two suspense films, and the results were not satisfactory. You can even describe it as a Waterloo."

"Most importantly, don't you think the structure of the script of Crime and Punishment is very similar to many Hollywood films of the same type? If conditions permit, why don't we just make this project directly--"

"Make it a co-production project, right?" Su Lingxi took over the conversation and said the word she wanted to say first.

"Yes, this is both a challenge and an opportunity for us." Yang Qian touched her chin, her eyes vaguely showing some eagerness to try. "In recent years, the company has participated in many projects, and I have personally followed up on several of them. If we can attract a powerful overseas production studio to invest in the production with us, we can make this project a co-production without much effort."

"For example, if Columbia Pictures is willing to cooperate with us in producing a film, we can let them take the majority of the money and we can reduce the investment ratio. The premise of cooperation is that they need to provide the new director."

"Hollywood's film system is much more complete than ours. I believe that as long as we can find a good director to take over this script, coupled with your acting skills, it is not impossible for you to directly look forward to the Best Foreign Language Film in two years. Isn't this arrangement more beneficial to us than the current situation?"

Seeing that Yang Qian was getting more and more excited, Su Lingxi had to speak up and pour cold water on her, "But now these are just our wishful thinking."

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and Su Lingxi didn't think she could be so lucky - the six major Hollywood film studios are all very picky, and the possibility that they would like this script is only 1%, let alone being willing to spend money and effort on this script or even help find a director.

As for the outlook for the best foreign language film...it sounds more like Yang Qian's accidental mumbling in her dream at night.

Su Lingxi never relies on imagination when doing things, nor is he blindly optimistic. Before making every major decision, he always separates emotional thinking from rational thinking when looking at something.

Emotionally, she understood Yan Xi's idea very well, and even at one moment she could completely empathize with her - who wouldn't want to find the best and most famous director? If she had the ability and connections, the first thing she would do would be to find Martin Kubrick to make a film for her that would win awards.

But rationally, Su Lingxi knew very well that the plans that Yang Qian mentioned had basically no chance of being achieved.

For the mainland market, the script of Crime and Punishment is novel and the plot keeps turning around, which is a rare good script. However, in Hollywood, films with similar themes and settings have been popular for several years.

The only bargaining chip they hold has no appeal to others, so how can they be qualified to sit at the negotiation table?

"Also, we must consider that the original initiator of this project was Director Cao." After calming down, Su Lingxi continued, "You all know Director Cao's status in the industry. If we really want to replace him, the pressure from public opinion will definitely not be small."

Yang Qian realized that her thoughts had gone astray. She coughed and turned the laptop in a different direction. "Indeed, public opinion is very important to us now. We need to think about this matter carefully."

Zhang Wenya thought about it again and again, and suggested: "We can actually find a way to add a director who is good at shooting suspense themes to the co-directing quota. What do you think of this plan?"

The co-directing model does not limit the number of directors, but except for unit-format films, few crews will co-direct with more than two directors, which seems to be some kind of tacit unspoken rule.

But some rules are meant to be broken.

"I think this plan is feasible." Su Lingxi had no objection. "The key is whether several directors are willing to accept this directing model."