Chapter 702 702. Untitled
Nie Wei was really surprised when Wang Jiawei rushed to Kyoto to find him, but out of respect, Nie Wei put down his work and rushed to the company to meet Wang Jiawei.
Wang Jiawei came with Yuan Baye, the old man who gave Nie Wei a high evaluation. Wang Jiawei recognized Nie Wei, and his praise played a big role.
Nie Wei and Wang Jiawei met for the first time in the company's tea room.
After greeting each other and waiting for everyone to sit down, Wang Jiawei directly opened his mouth to formally invite Nie Wei again: "Nie Wei, I have seen your performance, you are really suitable for the role of Ma San."
Wang Jiawei's straightforwardness really seemed a bit too eager, so Nie Wei had to speak out his thoughts and replied: "Director Wang, to be honest, I am hesitant about this role. The label on him is too clear, and I am afraid that I can't interpret it well."
"You are too modest. Since I chose you without an audition, I naturally believe in your acting skills. Don't you think this role has a lot of room for development? Young people should try more roles and don't trap themselves in one image, don't you think?" Wang Jiawei's speech was quite persuasive. Sure enough, every big director has a bad eloquence, otherwise how can he explain the play to the actors.
While persuading Nie Wei, Wang Jiawei was also observing Nie Wei's expression.
Just now, when Nie Wei answered him with the answer of "hesitation", Wang Jiawei was happy. Although Nie Wei did not agree immediately, this "hesitation" was at least much better than rejection. This word represented that Nie Wei was wavering in his heart. He said that he could sign Nie Wei today if he tried hard.
So Wang Jiawei also put a lot of effort into persuading Nie Wei. Not only did he express his "ambition" for this movie, he even talked about the play to Nie Wei on the spot, analyzing the character and charm of the character Ma San.
Mr. Yuan Ba and Wang Zhonglei, who were accompanying him, suddenly became idle and had to drink tea one pot after another. During this period, the two of them went to the toilet together and smoked a cigarette. When they entered the box again, they found that Nie Wei and Wang Jiawei were no longer talking about the movie roles.
"Director Wang, I can agree to take this role, but I don't have enough time, because I may have another movie to shoot next, and the start time is in early spring next year, so the time will be a bit tight." Nie Wei said, giving Wang Jiawei a shot in advance.
Because in his impression, this great director is famous for procrastination, and it takes several years to shoot a movie, especially this "The Grandmaster". It is rumored that one of the male actors was at most a flower boxing and embroidered legs before the shooting, but by the time of shooting, he had already won the martial arts championship. First, this male actor does have some talent for martial arts, but more importantly, the filming span of this movie is too long.
Now Wang Jiawei invited me, probably because the actors invited before have "run away", and I am most likely a substitute.
Of course, Wang Jiawei invited me with sincerity, and even came to Kyoto specifically. Nie Wei also felt that he was highly valued, so the substitute thing didn't matter.
Hearing Nie Wei's words, Wang Jiawei answered without thinking: "It doesn't matter, there is definitely enough time."
After hearing this, Nie Wei had no reason to refuse. The key point was that he also wanted to work with this director Wang in sunglasses. However, what Nie Wei didn't expect was that Wang Jiawei's answer was completely different from what he thought. What he called enough time was not what Nie Wei thought at all.
When the two shook hands and reached a verbal agreement, Wang Zhonglei and Yuan Baye just rushed back to the box and happened to see the scene in front of them.
"Brother Nie Wei agreed?" Seeing this, Yuan Baye smiled and asked.
"I agree." Wang Jiawei also smiled, then looked at Wang Zhonglei and said, "Mr. Wang, can we draft a contract now? The salary and treatment will be calculated according to the industry standards."
The contract was quickly drafted. As a top Asian actor, Nie Wei's previous movie had a good box office and reputation in Hollywood, so his value was naturally high. The film salary quoted to Nie Wei was 15 million. In fact, it was priceless. Even the boss of a film company offered a sky-high price of 30 million, but Nie Wei did not respond.
Because Nie Wei knew very well that in order to maintain his actor's value, he must strive for excellence in the movies he starred in. Only in this way can he always maintain his reputation and maintain his appeal to the box office.
However, 15 million is only the salary for Nie Wei to play the leading role. Wang Jiawei invited Nie Wei to play a supporting role, so naturally he could not get so much salary, and Wang Jiawei could not give it. After all, if Nie Wei was paid 15 million for the supporting role, what about the leading role? The salaries of several leading roles are not as much as those of the supporting roles, so why not rebel?
But Nie Wei had not played supporting roles in recent years, so the two sides discussed and finally decided that Nie Wei's salary would be 5 million yuan.
When Master Yuan Ba heard this number, his eyes twitched and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. A supporting role cost 5 million yuan. Wang Jiawei really spent money like water when filming. If he were the director, he probably wouldn't hire Nie Wei at all, because it was too expensive, which exceeded Master Ba's bottom line.
But in Wang Jiawei's opinion, Nie Wei only received 5 million, which was a great deal. Before coming to Kyoto, he also did some research and knew how terrifying Nie Wei's box office appeal was in Asia.
Of course, the King of Sunglasses never had any pressure on the box office of his movies. Businessmen who could find him to make movies probably didn't expect to make money, but no director would refuse more box office.
As for the rest of the treatment, everything depends on the treatment of the male and female protagonists. After all, Nie Wei is a top actor. Even if he plays a huge role, he deserves it.
After the contract was signed, Nie Wei curiously asked when the filming would start, and he was dumbfounded.
"Maybe we have to wait until next year, maybe summer, maybe autumn. To be honest, I still need to think about this version of the script, and there are some masters I need to visit, and the actors also need training..."
Nie Wei was no longer in the mood to listen to Wang Jiawei's words. He had heard that this great director was very slow in making movies, but when he really experienced it, he found that the degree of his procrastination was beyond his imagination.
It seems that he agreed so readily just now, not because he wanted to finish the filming before the New Year, but because he was waiting for his new movie to be finished, and he might not start filming there.
This is really fucked up, Nie Wei couldn't help but curse in his heart.
But just after cursing in his heart, Nie Wei was suddenly startled, thinking of a sentence in Wang Jiawei's words just now, and immediately asked him: "You mean, you want to visit some masters, are they martial arts teachers?"
"Yes, the original intention of creating this movie is to construct a love, hatred and hatred of a martial arts hero in the Republic of China, which involves a lot of martial arts knowledge. It is not enough to rely on the Eighth Master alone, so I have visited many masters intermittently over the years and asked them for advice." Wang Jiawei said to Nie Wei very frankly.
Hearing this, Nie Wei's eyes began to light up, and he said directly: "Director, can I go with you?"
Not only was Wang Jiawei surprised by Nie Wei's sudden request, but even Yuan Baye beside him widened his eyes, and Wang Zhonglei couldn't help but blurt out: "Nie Wei, what did you say?"
"I mean, I want to visit these masters with the director and ask some questions about national martial arts." Nie Wei answered seriously, and at the same time asked Wang Jiawei again: "Director Wang, I am very interested in this aspect, so can you take me with you?"
"Of course it's no problem." Wang Jiawei was stunned for a moment, and immediately agreed happily after he came to his senses, while Yuan Baye beside him looked at Nie Wei thoughtfully.
Nie Wei's words of asking for advice were sincere, because Wang Jiawei's words just now made him find a good way to solve one of his troubles.
A while ago, after a long period of accumulation, Nie Wei finally integrated the Ming Jin and An Jin together and entered the realm of Hua Jin. However, for Nie Wei, this progress is not perfect and there are still flaws.
Because Nie Wei's boxing skills actually come from the old man who adopted him. Although the old man's boxing skills are very wide and he has passed them all to Nie Wei without hiding anything, after all, they are a family boxing, and there are limitations in his vision, and this limitation also blocks Nie Wei's way to continue to improve.
Now he is not a real Hua Jin master, but only a half-step master.
But Wang Jiawei's words gave Nie Wei an idea. Since the other party has to ask many martial artists for help, Nie Wei will undoubtedly have more opportunities to ask for advice if he follows. At that time, he will learn from the strengths of many schools and broaden his horizons, which will definitely help him to truly enter the realm of the master in the future.
Wang Zhonglei looked at Nie Wei's determination to follow Wang Jiawei, and smiled helplessly, tacitly agreeing with Nie Wei's choice.
Wang Jiawei's list of people to visit included more than 20 martial artists from various sects or some secluded folk masters. Seeing this list, Nie Wei was looking forward to it more and more.
However, Wang Jiawei would not visit these seniors immediately. In fact, he still had a lot of things to do. If it were not for inviting Nie Wei, he would be busy with his work now.
Nie Wei could not leave immediately. He also needed to finish all the work in a hurry before he could leave Kyoto. After all, some documents and decisions must be completed by him personally.
Before leaving Kyoto, Wang Jiawei told Nie Wei that the journey to find the master would start in about a month.
And this month just gave Nie Wei enough time to handle his own affairs, so that he could be free and concentrate on completing this journey.
Unknowingly, twenty days had passed, and a lot of things had happened during this period, such as the continuous daily limit of Apple's stock finally showed a trend of slowing down.
This trend also made many retail investors holding Apple stocks feel that it was okay, and they sold their stocks to cash out. In response, Nie Wei also used all the funds of his investment company to buy as many of these scattered shares as possible, but the process was not smooth.
Because it was not only Nie Wei, many investment companies were also optimistic about Apple and were also buying the company's stocks. During this period, even if Nie Wei bought at a premium, he finally got less than one million shares.
In the end, Nie Wei also stopped. At present, he still couldn't compete with those big financial groups with strong financial resources. Moreover, after the first wave of selling ended, the remaining retail investors were more convinced that Apple's stock would rise again. There were fewer and fewer retail shares on the market. It was not worth spending energy on this stock.
Moreover, Nie Wei, who knew the future well, knew that he still had a chance, so he was not in a hurry.
However, this time, the crazy rise of Apple's stock also doubled Nie Wei's net worth. Not counting Nie Wei's hidden wealth, the total of his exposed assets alone exceeded 5 billion US dollars.
If nothing unexpected happens, Nie Wei can be ranked in the top 200 in the Forbes world rich list at the end of the year. In the mainland, his wealth and net worth can even be ranked in the top five.
Apple's stock came to an end. For Nie Wei, there is another important thing, that is, the Golden Bell Award of Taiwan.
After nearly a month of judging, the review of the Golden Bell Award of Taiwan was also carried out twice. Only after the third review is over, the final list of nominees will be announced.
"Fated to Love You" has applied for a total of ten awards, including the Best Drama Program Award, Best Director, Best Drama Actor, and Best Drama Actress. According to Nie Wei's prediction, at least eight of these awards should be able to enter the final shortlist.
Huayi and Zhongtiantai have begun to build momentum for the artists and workers nominated for "Fated to Love You", which is also a pressure on the Golden Bell Awards Organizing Committee, because over the years, the Golden Bell Awards have been biased against idol dramas.
For so many years, no idol drama actor or actress has ever won a trophy at this awards ceremony.
If the performance of "Fated to Love You" was just average, it would be fine, but the performance of this idol drama was too dazzling, so dazzling that more than 90% of the people in the entire Taiwan knew about this idol drama during that period, and it can be said that it was really popular all over the island.
In this case, Huayi and Zhongtiantai had more ideas, especially Chen Qiaoen. She never thought that one day, the honor of Best Actress would be so close to her. Although the final list of nominees has not been announced, the betting companies in Taiwan have already included Chen Qiaoen in the list.
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