Disaster Artist

Li Ji and his son Li Lang have been insisting on creating, focusing on comedy. This time they came up with a creative idea and thought it would be successful.

The story, called "Schmidt's Bay," follows a billionaire and his soap opera star wife, hippie son, and courtesan daughter who go bankrupt overnight, and the family is forced to leave their accustomed luxury and face displacement.

The only thing that is fortunate is that the father bought a piece of barren land that didn't **** as a private land in order to tease his son. Schmidt's Bay is now their only foothold, which also means that they don't need to sleep on the streets. But must survive in this poor and backward town.

The whole story, from the idea to the idea to the plot, both Li Ji and Li Lang believe that they have the potential to succeed, and to a large extent reflect their own current situation. The irony is that this is certainly a quality that other series do not have.

So, they found a group of small partners, hoping to gather everyone's strength to find a TV station willing to give the green light for this series.

Li Ji played the father, Ou Cuixia played the mother, Li Lang played the son, and Mei Jingzhi, an actress who had worked with Li Lang on stage plays, was found to play the daughter.

The four of them decided to support each other, advance and retreat together, and each found a TV station to submit script projects through their own contacts, from public TV stations to cable TV stations, looking forward to opening up the situation.

However, the reality is cruel.

The two leading TV stations with the most paying viewers worldwide, Home Theater TV and Showtime TV, turned them down after reading the script in detail.

Three other public television stations also expressed no interest, especially one of them shot just after watching the title of the episode. "Such a title will never be successful."

The general view is that such a "rich" and "middle-class" drama with a high-level perspective is difficult to be recognized by ordinary audiences; and the entire market comedy is generally sluggish at present, those plots are ups and downs, tension, excitement, awakening Themes that resonate are worth trying.

Before and after, they have been busy for more than a year, from the TV station to the film company to the brokerage company, they have really tried every means to try to open up the situation through different contacts to find more possibilities, but the end No one is optimistic about the prospects of this series at all.

Cornered.

Li Ji is really desperate now, and their last attempt with countless efforts and energy ended in failure again.

How to do?

What can't be done, because in Lanchuan, this is the most common and common phenomenon. Although we can see new episodes hitting the market every year, the success of one episode may be that a hundred episodes have been abandoned. Possibly a failure of ten pilot episodes.

Maybe alcohol is the only way out.

Li Ji looked at the alcohol in front of him, and was initially dissuaded by Ou Cuixia, but after all, he couldn't hold back and took a sip.

Tonight, they are going to gather together to discuss and see a way out. Even if it is dark now, they still need to discuss and see. They can't just disarm and surrender like this, right?

"dad!"

The alcohol burned in his mouth, and before Li Ji had time to swallow it, he heard a calling voice, the point being that he could clearly feel the joy and excitement in the voice.

Gumbling, Li Ji swallowed, then turned to look, Li Lang and Mei Jingzhi appeared one after the other, with a hint of anticipation between their eyebrows.

Li Lang, who has been rolling around in Lanchuan for more than ten years in a blink of an eye, has spent his 20-year-old youth and reached the threshold of 30 years old, but so far he has not had a role worth mentioning. Instead, he has made a lot of attempts in stage plays. , but every time you make a stage play, you are losing money, and survival is getting more and more difficult.

Mei Jingzhi is similar. In fact, she is a dancer herself, not to mention modern dance, ballet, etc. She has participated in some TV dramas and stage plays, but because of her beautiful appearance, she always acts as some brainless vases, and she has a role in the scene. Not many, lack of bright spots, and she herself is helpless.

Li Ji looked at his son, but was a little dazed because of the alcohol, and couldn't speak for a while.

Ou Cuixia became more sober, and she asked eagerly and joyfully, "Have you found a TV station that you are willing to take over?" She could not help but feel a little trembling in her voice.

"No." Li Lang shook his head.

Ou Cuixia's smile was so stiff at the corner of her mouth.

But Li Lang immediately said, "Dad, do you still remember Jiang Haowen? The film selection manager of the Gate Pictures? I met him when I was making the horror comedy 'Carnival', and even visited our house? "

"Domen Pictures?" Li Ji frowned, his focus was obviously not on Jiang Haowen, he probably didn't remember, "Do they make comedies?"

of course not.

Li Lang hurriedly waved his hand, "It's not that we're going to go to Damen Pictures, but Blue Whale Pictures."

"What and what?" Ou Cuixia was also dazed.

Seeing that Li Lang was too excited, Mei Jingzhi helped explain, "That's it, Jiang Haowen suggested that we go to Blue Whale Films, because Blue Whale Films has now opened a brand-new scholarship program to combine major films The company's selection managers get together and pick the ones they think are worthy of shooting but are buried by the big studios."

Then Li Lang added, "Also, it's not limited to movies or TV dramas."

Li Ji expressed skepticism, "Scholarship program? Liuguang Film also has a scholarship program, but how many tricks are there, don't you know?"

Li Lang shook his head again and again, "This time is different, this project is called the 'Blacklist Project', it specifically selects scripts that big film companies are not interested in, and invites 60 film selections from 24 large and small film companies. The managers involved, which in itself is a guarantee of authority, and for a project like ours that was rejected by a large company, it was a boon.”

Mei Jingzhi immediately added that ~www.novelmt.com~ The most important thing is that Lu Qian will also participate in the selection of the first blacklist. "

Li Ji and Ou Cuixia exchanged glances:

Lu Qian again?

In the past year, the name "Lu Qian" has been everywhere. No matter what field or place, it can't be avoided. However, because it appears too frequently, people have a feeling of rejection. performance.

Is that Lu Qian really reliable?

Li Lang seemed to be able to sense his father's worries, and then he gave the most realistic answer, "Dad, if it wasn't for this project, we would have no choice."

This is the cruelest and bloodiest reality. Now they can only be dead horses and live horses. No matter what opportunity they have, they must seize the opportunity to try, otherwise they can only accept the reality of "no one cares" and "no way out" .

Do they still have the right to choose?