The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Recently, Li Zhen has been running for a long time in Los Angeles, especially in places like the Screen Actors Guild near Hollywood.

He is busy with the selection of actors for "Demacia: Glory", which is a task assigned to him by the headquarters.

Speaking of Li Zhen, he was also a high-achieving student studying abroad. He graduated from a famous American school, and joined 'Dimension Entertainment' after returning to China.

At the beginning, he worked in the marketing department as Wu Jingtong's subordinate. Later, because of his excellent work attitude and ability, he also made a lot of achievements, so he was taken back to the United States by the company and took charge of the "Dimension North America" ​​branch. His main job was to be directly responsible for the development of dimension Entertainment work promotion work.

At the same time, "Dimension North America" ​​will also be responsible for some work in South America, but its influence in South America is very weak.

Since he was transferred to the United States and based in Los Angeles, the content of his work has gradually changed.

He was indeed working on the content promotion of "Dimension Entertainment" at the beginning. The most important part was the promotion of the game "Taiwu Scroll 2" in the North American market, and he has always maintained contact with the publisher Activision.

But later, as the head office paid more and more attention to the North American market, his job content became more complicated from just doing marketing at the beginning, and even many jobs in sales and business cooperation required him come here.

At the beginning, he was more or less in a hurry, but later on, as he accumulated more and more experience, he also found that he became more and more handy.

He also recruited a lot of employees in the United States, including people of all ethnicities; the company headquarters also transferred a lot of people, and the air of "Dimension North America" ​​was getting bigger and bigger.

Today, they have surpassed 'Dimension Japan' and become the largest branch of 'Dimension Group' outside mainland China, with more than 60 employees.

After recruiting so many people and setting up such a big shelf, they have made some achievements after all.

They are cooperating with Activision to carry out the promotion and maintenance of "Taiwu Scroll 2"; they have sold the North American market copyrights of some old works of Past Dimension Entertainment; The rights to North American screenings, CDs, and online broadcasts of one were all sold, and the upper TV series of "Martial Arts Master" was also successfully sold...

For film projects like Dimension Entertainment, the work of finding and contacting actors is also done by Li Zhen.

For example, the villain "No. 18" in "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts: Flames of War" was brought by Li Zhen himself to contact Henry Cavill after talking about it.

After the project "Demacia: Glory" started preparations, he received an overseas call from Fan Zhe, saying that he would also be appointed as one of the executive producers of the film "Demacia: Glory", And responsible for finding suitable actors in North America.

At the same time, during the phone call, Fan Zhe also said that after a while, he will fly to Los Angeles with the director of the film, Liu Minghui, to watch the audition in person and meet with related actors.

Immediately after the phone call, Fan Zhe sent him an email, which contained a lot of information about the project, especially Zhu Zhe's role list and the requirements of these roles.

For most of the roles, the roles are not very important, the salary budget given is only average, and the requirements for famous celebrities are not high, so it is easier to find. Li Zhen has accumulated some contacts and cooperation during his stay in the United States, and he has easily found many suitable actors.

Among them, one of the more famous ones is the actor of the villain Urgot.

Li Zhen contacted a British actor named Conan Stevens. He once played the role of "Magic Mountain" in the first season of "Game of Thrones".

Not bad for him as Urgot, the mighty Noxian executioner.

But the rest, there are two very important roles, he is a little uncertain.

One is Laxana Crownguard, also known as 'Brilliant Girl Lax', and the other is Galen Crownguard.

The brothers and sisters of the two defending families, according to Fan Zhe's meaning, are planning to use Western white actors.

In fact, on the whole, although the movie "Demacia: Glory" is of Chinese origin from investment to production company, the selection of actors is very international.

Originally, Li Zhen thought that Galen's actor should be the main focus, after all, this will be one of the two male protagonists of the movie. Relatively speaking, Lacus's appearance time is very small in the movie. I don't know if there are ten minutes in total.

But unexpectedly, in the follow-up communication with Fan Zhe, Fan Zhe asked him to find the actor of Lacus, and he asked a lot.

One, it looks good. I want a blonde girl with a sunny and beautiful appearance, the kind of girl who looks very kind and strong; second, there are certain requirements for acting skills.

Just these, that's easy to find.

But in addition, there are some requirements: the popularity does not need to be too high, but a long-term contract must be signed, and the salary increase is within the contract regulations, which must be strictly controlled.

Although Fan Zhe didn't say it clearly, from these requirements, Li Zhen also has his own guess: It is estimated that this is for the future to make a sequel, and maybe even make an independent movie of "Bright Girl Lacus" . If the contract is not signed in advance, after the first film is finished and it becomes popular, the second film will immediately open its mouth and ask for a salary of several million dollars, isn't it a joke?

The salary increase that should be there is what people deserve; but if you can't use this role to become popular after filming the movie, and continue to pick up the salary, it's impossible to play.

Signing a long-term contract naturally has its meaning.

Not only Lux, but also Galen's actors have the same request. It's just that Galen's actor should choose a well-known Hollywood actor.

With these requirements, Li Zhen has been running for a long time.

Actresses, he found five or six candidates, and at the same time drew a list, there were dozens of not-so-famous actresses in it, and he was waiting for Fan Zhe to come back and choose.

But the actors of "Galen" are quite difficult to find.

Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Charlie Hunnam, Ryan Gosling...

He searched for this series of names.

There are those who refuse directly when they hear that they are going to make a movie in China, and those who open their mouths to pay tens of millions of dollars; when they hear that they are going to sign multiple film contracts, they don’t talk about it at all...

The entire initial contact was very unsuccessful.

But in the end, there were actors who accepted his initial offer -- at least with the inclination to continue the conversation.

Chris Evans, the actor who plays Captain America Steve Rogers in Marvel's superhero movies.