Chapter 466: Train to Busan

On May 5, when Wang Chengguang and his group boarded the flight to Seoul, Huang Yimei in the first class cabin was excited, "Sister Nancy, there will be a beauty pageant for my dad. We'll choose the most beautiful female star from South Korea to be his wife in the new movie?"

"If my mother knew about this, she would definitely come to the crew to watch."

Others in first class...

Wang Chengguang said speechlessly, "Aren't you afraid that your father will come and beat you up?"

Now he and a small team are flying to Seoul with a large amount of film data to do post-production special effects. A few days ago, he said that if Nancy starts Taking 2 now, it may catch up with the end of this summer season.

But after some thought, in order to further expand Nancy's influence and status in the South Korean film and television industry, Wang Chengguang took out the script of Train to Busan! Nancy was directing and filming in South Korea.

The role of the male lead Shi Yu is played by Huang Zhenhua, the second male lead, the slightly reckless fighting macho man Shang Hua, is played by Huang Jianzhi, and the rest are cast from South Korea.

The filming and post-production of Train to Busan was definitely much faster than that of The Wandering Earth. If this movie becomes a hit, the influence of Huang and his son in South Korea will be further enhanced. They are also characters in The Wandering Earth, so their appeal will be even stronger.

Originally, Train to Busan was a zombie movie with a post-apocalyptic theme, and it attracted over 1150 million viewers. Based on the ticket price in 2002, that would have been 5.3 million Hong Kong dollars. If it had been sold at ticket prices in the mid-to-late 21s... the movie would have been a much more successful one.

Moreover, it has won so many awards at various film festivals that it is almost numb. This is not only a wonderful disaster film, but also a deep exploration of human nature.

After the doomsday, what is actually more terrifying than zombies is the good and evil of human nature in the various small territories of the survivors. Different carriages of a small train are bases.

This is a supporting role for Huang Jianzhi, the action-hungry man who became famous after the hit movie Taken. He plays a supporting role to Huang Zhenhua. It's like the father supporting his son. What a simple basic move.

The movie was also made to commemorate the victory, to make the little broken ball become greater. As for the original Train to Busan, it didn't even make 10 million in North America? That was because there were too many zombie movies in Europe and America before that.

Moreover, it couldn’t get a good release date, nor was the promotion and marketing good. Because of some problems, it was not released in mainland China, which resulted in the box office of several hundred million Hong Kong dollars in South Korea, but the final global box office did not even break 100 million US dollars.

As for Huang Yimei's fun, of course, when she arrives in Seoul and announces the casting for the new project, Nancy will choose a virtuous, gentle, and most wife-like female star to play the wife of Shanghua's character.

Still a pregnant woman!

Huang Jianzhi, who is in his 50s, is not as burly and strong as the original version, but he has proved to the world how good a fighter he is through Hurricane Rescue. With a little makeup to look a little younger, he looks like a handsome and elegant uncle in his s. The beautiful South Korean woman will definitely benefit from it if he is paired with her.

As for the father and son Huang Jianzhi and Huang Zhenhua, they are set up as overseas Chinese in South Korea. One of them has lived here for decades and married with children, and the other is an international student who became a securities fund broker.

These scripts were all completed in one night and are at the color comic level, just waiting for Nancy to show her power.

Huang Yimei glanced in the direction of the economy class and whispered, "Director, if my dad really has an emotional crisis because of the film, you will be responsible."

"Also, we've known each other for such a long time, and I always feel that the relationship between you and Sister Nancy and Sister Wenwen is weird, and a little bit unreasonable."

Countless people in the outside world have been saying that he is a gigolo, but what is the truth? At first, Huang Yimei and others also gradually believed that, but when you really get to know him more, you will find that no matter how much money he has or what his fame and background are.

Nancy and Zhou Wenwen were more like maids to their master... they were too obedient and followed his orders. Behind people's backs, they called Wang Chengguang "boss" instead of "lover" or "husband" or something like that.

For Huang Yimei, this was so outrageous that it was beyond imagination!
Of course, Huang Jianzhi, Huang Zhenhua, Ling Jing, who have several old grandfathers with them, and Jiang Xueqiong, who has an old grandmother with her, are not curious about this. After all, Wang Chengguang is the Ghost King... Fortunately, this Ghost King does not harm people and just wants to make movies.

Wang Chengguang laughed, "Little girl, don't ask around and don't think too much. If you're bored, take a nap. Also, think about where you're going to go in Seoul."

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Time passed quickly, and when the two crews arrived at an airport in Seoul, they were surrounded by a group of reporters and media people as soon as they came out. Even with six spirit puppet robots leading the way, they were almost trampled by the crowd.

"Director Nan, are you possessed by a demon or have you been kidnapped and threatened? If you were threatened, please tell me. How could you invest so many billions without blinking an eye? If The Wandering Earth loses money, it will lose hundreds of billions of won."

"Director Nan, we have handsome guys in South Korea. Wake up! Have you been bewitched?!"

"Director Nan, you are back this time to lead the crew of Hurricane Rescue. Are you going to participate in the 23rd Blue Dragon Film Awards? The filming of Hurricane is so great. It opened up a new genre of action movies, gun battles and fighting movies. It will definitely win a big award, instead of being stingy like the Hong Kong Film Awards!"

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Various reporters bombarded the crew through the microphone. Wang Chengguang signaled, and Nancy stayed with the two spirit puppets to face the enthusiastic media.

Anyway, Infernal Affairs Part 1 and Part 2 and Hurricane have created box office success in South Korea time and time again, and this year is not the only time Nancy has returned to South Korea.

When she was helping Wang Chengguang buy land, build supercomputers, recruit talents and develop special effects industry, she came back several times in private, but she always came and left quietly. With her martial arts and spiritual puppet strength, no one could stop her if she didn't want to.

Being surrounded by the media this time is also a publicity and promotion!
Things went just as Wang Chengguang had planned. When Nancy announced that she would return this time not only to carry out the post-production of The Wandering Earth, she would also invest tens of millions of US dollars to start a new film, which would be shot in South Korea and in which she would select a large number of actors to star in.

The script was written by Wang Chengguang...

On May 5th, the entire South Korean entertainment industry was in an uproar, and even the financial circle was in an uproar. When Wang Chengguang was creating his identity background and supplementing his resume, he arranged for Nancy to connect with the network of contacts in South Korea left to her by her deceased parents.

Many of those contacts came forward and wanted to invite Nancy to dinner, or at least invite Nancy and Wang Chengguang together.

After all, from his debut to now, Infernal Affairs Part 1 and Part 2 and Hurricane were all written by Wang Chengguang. These three masterpieces have already proved his strength. How much money was invested in Infernal Affairs Part 1 and Part 2? A total of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

But the box office in China and South Korea was more than 6 million Hong Kong dollars, and the sales volume was 2000 million US dollars.

The return on investment is too high, and the same goes for Hurricane. The three crews have made a bunch of big stars famous, and these stars are also cash cows.

As long as it is not a super special effect like The Wandering Earth, an investment of 800 million yuan will not be enough to fill the hole. For ordinary scripts and film projects, how much capital would be willing to wave checks and want to join the circle and make a fortune?

Some people in the background hope that Nancy will open a legitimate film and television company and plan to go public. In the concept of capital, as long as the copyrights of Infernal Affairs, Hurricane and Hurricane Sequel are there, the company will be successful.

This is a lot of money in itself! The contracts signed by big directors and actors and stars are also cash cows!

Regardless of whether The Wandering Earth is a huge hit or a huge loss, if Wang Chengguang were to sell the script to others now, there would be plenty of film and television groups scrambling to pay for it.

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On May 5, the Train to Busan crew had just begun to expand in Seoul and recruit various crew members. Wang Chengguang was also taking his stuff to the special effects production base when he saw Huang Yimei running over with a notebook and laughing, "Director Wang, there's another row on the Internet."

"Since yesterday, when the news spread to the domestic Internet that Sister Nancy was going to invest tens of millions of dollars in a new movie, netizens have flocked to Sister Nancy's blog, including Sister Wenwen's blog, to ask if there are any tomb-sweeping Easter eggs in the new movie."

"In the Infernal Affairs series, there was a tomb-sweeping scene in Paris. Will there be tomb-sweeping scenes in South Korea this time? Even though we have a rule that people cannot become spirits after the founding of our country, many viewers still hope that new films released in major theaters will directly watch the tomb-sweeping Easter egg version, with just a few seconds of conversation."

"There's no need to be so cautious in avoiding it. Did my brother and dad already know something? No one told me..."

There's nothing wrong with it. When Hurricane Rescue swept across the world, the mainland version still lacked a grave-sweeping scene, which commented that those evil forces who were swept to death would go to hell even after their death, including many blacks, whites, and mixed-race people.

The Easter egg issue once again sparked public opinion.

It has been more than half a year since the first and second parts of Infernal Affairs were filmed. With the fast internet speed in areas of Hong Kong and Macau, Xinghuo Video has launched genuine movies. The era of paid membership has not yet begun. There are only a dozen seconds of advertisements, and the member barrage function has been directly enabled.

It allows netizens to interact remotely through videos.

At this stage, the reputation of the two films is getting higher and higher, and the accumulation is getting stronger and stronger. At the very beginning, Mr. Huang said that a group of classics will be brewed over time and become classics... It is gradually becoming a reality.

Many mainland netizens climbed over the wall to watch the show multiple times, and also left comments to interact.

With or without barrage, it feels like a new wave of soul has been injected. Screenshots such as the insider terminating the transaction have long been popular on the Internet and have become emoticons.

At this stage, there are still countless movie fans calling on Wang Chengguang to shoot the third part of Infernal Affairs as soon as possible, just like the first and second parts were released so closely.

Wang Chengguang laughed and said, "Train to Busan also has Easter eggs. We even went to Paris to sweep graves, so there must be places like Busan and Seoul. And there are also Easter eggs for grave sweepers in The Wandering Earth."

"By the way, you can post a blog later and say that the entire network will select lucky people. The selected crew can pay 100,000 RMB to invite them to play the grave sweepers in Train to Busan. One is from China and one is from South Korea. It's just a conversation scene with their backs to each other. Not much acting skills are required."

“Let Xinghuo Blog do a survey, and all participants will win the prize based on luck.”

Huang Yimei was shocked. "One hundred thousand per person? It's a great thrill for ordinary netizens to be lucky enough to star in a big movie. And you're also paying one hundred thousand? Director, if you spread the word, there will probably be a coal boss willing to give you one million just to let his mistress appear in a big movie."

She could imagine how popular the topic of tomb-sweeping Easter eggs is now, and how much interest it has aroused among netizens. At least it is very popular in the Spark Movie section and blogs.

而这才2002年5月，十万块……多少家庭掏空家底都拿不出的积蓄？也别说2002年了就是到了2022年，大部分家庭也很难直接有10万存款的。

Twenty years later, salaries have increased and prices have risen, but mortgages, car loans, etc. are no longer trivial matters.

Wang Chengguang's smile became more stable. "Even for The Wandering Earth 1, we will recruit two Chinese grave sweepers and give each of them yuan for the questionnaire survey. At worst, we can just reshoot it."

The lineup of the underworld universe is getting bigger and bigger. Train to Busan can be a setting. It originally took place in Busan, but it was actually spread all over the world. In the end, only South Korea had the strongest intensity, and healing potions were found in all other regions...

Similar to what he had done in the World War Z dimension.

The more topics there are, the more powerful they will eventually become. This is what Marvel has proven.

Huang Yimei nodded hurriedly, holding her notebook and going back to the guest room to do some work, but suddenly stopped and said in surprise, "Can I pass messages for you now? Will Sister Nancy and Sister Wenwen be jealous? And if this happens, the gossip that has been circulating on the Internet for a year about you having a secret relationship with me will be confirmed."

Wang Chengguang rolled his eyes and set off for the special effects base.

When it comes to publicity and hype, this media king who graduated from the Department of Architecture is really skilled. This is indeed the case. When Huang Yimei released a new update, recruiting four lucky people to join the filming of the big movie easter egg, each person will receive a prize of 100,000 yuan, and the winners will be provided with accommodation, air tickets and meals.

This topic directly became the number one hot search on Xinghuo Blog!

After all, it was 2002. How to master blogging and attract enough attention on the Internet to retain a large number of active users... The various patches and upgrades to operate the new version, the split of Xiaohuo 7.0 had already been clearly figured out.

Using a laptop or desktop blog to read national news and enjoy all kinds of fun and excitement is a great way to retain users.

Many traditional film and television stars have also started blogs, just like Nancy, Zhou Wenwen, the Huang family, and then new stars like Ma Haowen and Bai Erru, to interact closely with netizens.

As soon as the hot search came out, the whole network knew about it. Xiaohuo's split body was even more powerful in conducting questionnaire surveys. A registered user could only take one questionnaire survey. The number of registered users on the Xinghuo platform followed closely, and it soared from more than 100 million to 200 million. Too many netizens registered more and took more questionnaires... in order to increase their chances of winning. Xiaohuo's split body even discovered early on that some computer experts had made plug-ins for registration and questionnaire surveys, and they were doing things like crazy.

Then all those who cheated were suppressed by Xiaohuo's split body!
It is normal for netizens to use plug-ins and write scripts. It was the most popular thing in the early 00s after the millennium. Various studios could even support a group of game gold-earning people. However, playing this in the face of Xiaohuo 7.0 split is not a technology of the same era.

To put it bluntly, once Xiaohuo 7.0 is freed from restrictions, he will be able to transform into the biggest villain in the Matrix series and use the virtual world to feed all of humanity.

From that day on, not only did the topic of tomb sweeping become popular, but the luck of winning the questionnaire lottery also began to sweep the entertainment industry around the world.

Hollywood is not immune!

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that Lao Wang is hiding something, but no matter what you are hiding, being able to create super heat and topics on the Internet means huge profits.

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More than a month has passed, and it is June 6st.

Still in a large suite in a hotel in Seoul, Wang Chengguang heard a knock on the door and called out, "Come in." Huang Yimei pushed the door open and walked in, "Director, the Tokyo International Film Festival has invited you. Infernal Affairs 1 and 2 have both been nominated for many awards."

"They also want to invite you to be a member of the jury, but not this year but next year."

Wang Chengguang thought for a few seconds and shook his head, "This year's Tokyo Film Festival is too close to our Hundred Flowers Awards. I won't go to Tokyo. The jury members are not interested either, so they all rejected it."

It is not uncommon for Chinese film and television actors to serve as jury members and even jury chairmen of the Tokyo International Film Festival... Of course, before the millennium, it was basically Hong Kong directors and actors, and after the millennium, mainland Chinese became the mainstream.

This Class A international film festival has some influence in Asia, but it’s just so-so outside of Asia, so it doesn’t matter whether you win or not.

Infernal Affairs Part One and Part Two were nominated for this year's Huabiao Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards respectively, and the momentum for a Grand Slam is quite strong.

The next moment he asked curiously, "How is the progress of the Train to Busan crew?"

Huang Yimei was even more excited when talking about this. "I visited the set recently. There were many South Korean actors and the behind-the-scenes team. They all looked up to my dad and eldest brother with great admiration. They have all become as famous as Huang Yitiao."

"In all kinds of scenes, whether it's a drama or an action scene, as long as they appear, they can do it in one take. They will only reshoot when they are dragged down by the South Korean actors acting opposite them. I find it incredible. How can their acting skills be so strong?"

"You have to know that they have only been in the industry for a year and have no previous acting skills. I even suspect that they are cheating. Those South Korean actors have been hit too hard."

Under her commentary full of complaints, Wang Chengguang said, "..."

This is really cheating. Huang and his son don't want to lose face for the Chinese entertainment industry in South Korea, right? So they pass it every time, even if you have several grandfathers as teachers.

If the teachers hadn't possessed us to act in our place, it wouldn't have been so smooth.

After he poured Huang Yimei a cup of tea, Rose thanked him and continued, "It's really amazing. Even if my dad has a god-like brain and is a professor of physics at Tsinghua University, he can't be so dimensional and strike like this even if he crosses over to the entertainment industry."

"My brother, who is an architect, has been in the circle for more than a year. It's also unscientific. You don't know that my brother is in our mainland. Before he entered the circle, he couldn't even chase girls. He even relied on my parents to arrange blind dates for him. Now many South Korean girls are chasing him."

Most of the truly veteran actors, including the best actor and actress in South Korea, will have a certain estimate and judgment on whether a script is good or bad.

Scripts like "Train to Busan" delve deeply into the good and evil, ugliness and beauty of human nature when the end of the world comes. Regardless of how the box office performs, the various life and death crimes that take place in the different carriages will definitely do well in terms of winning awards.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been able to win awards at more than a dozen film festivals.

Those practitioners can make a rough estimate after reading the complete script. Combined with Nancy's brilliant previous work "Rescue," it is not difficult to conclude that this will be another blockbuster that will take off both in terms of word-of-mouth and box office.

In such a big project, the Huang father and son performed so well. They have already become famous stars, so there are certainly many people who want to support them.

When you become famous, everyone you meet around you will be a good person!
Wang Chengguang smiled and took a sip of tea. "Then you don't have to worry about not being able to find a sister-in-law. But didn't I hear that Bai Erru wanted to match your brother with his daughter? The one from the Bai family is also rich and beautiful."

Huang Yimei nodded, "Yes, we did bring them together, but Sister Bai had just broken up and hadn't gotten over it yet. She met my brother and had dinner with him twice, but she was very reserved... After my brother said ten sentences, she just said "um" or "oh", and there was no follow-up."

"Jiang Xueqiong also helped my brother to make some connections. She said she was introducing me to her when she was the boss' assistant at Qing Ting. She was pretty, and had a good personality and personality, but she had been married once, so my brother never met her."

This is also true.

In the original storyline, Huang Zhenhua and Jiang Xueqiong's assistant Su Gengsheng became a pair of bickering lovers. When they were together, they thought that the other party was really good and a good woman. However, it was only after they had developed a deep relationship that Huang Zhenhua found out that Su Gengsheng had been married and was now divorced.

Now? Not to mention Huang Zhenhua is famous, even if he has no money, he is a handsome Beijing native, tall, a leader in a public institution, and his parents are professors at Tsinghua University.

It is difficult to go on a blind date directly with a divorced person. If Huang Yimei had not gone to work at Qingting and become Su Gengsheng's subordinate, it would have been difficult for the two enemies to be happy with her as a matchmaker.

Wang Chengguang took a sip of tea and nodded, "Let him do what he wants. Your parents are not in a hurry anyway. If they really wait for Train to Busan to be released, he will be a big hit in Asia. This time it will be his turn to be nominated for Best Actor."

Over the past month, the production of Train to Busan has been progressing very well, and the box office for this summer season is stable. He just needs to communicate more with China Film Group to realize the release of Train to Busan in mainland China.

As for the special effects of The Wandering Earth, they have been completed long ago. What he completed on Fan Earth is nothing more than the special effects base in reality has to keep up with the rhythm and not reveal a sense of black technology that is too out of date.

While Wang Chengguang was chatting and laughing, his phone rang. It was a pop-up message from MSN. He looked at it for a few seconds and smiled, "It's a beautiful day in June."

According to the separate report left by MSN Xiaohuo 7.0, a second-generation chaebol who had harassed Nancy and Zhou Wenwen many times had avoided one or two car accidents during the chaotic period when traffic lights failed many times, but failed to avoid the third time.

He was covered in blood in his car.

It's normal. When Nancy openly brings investment and sets up a crew to do projects between Korea and Busan, no matter if you like these beauties or the money, everyone will do it.

In Paris, there are the Mafia and the second generation of the conglomerates, and the same is true in South Korea.

But in Paris, there have been many people who shot themselves in the back on the street, so coming to South Korea will definitely be a different scene. The traffic killer of Xiaohuo 7.0 is also super powerful and swift. This is a super intelligent Skynet that can feed all mankind.

God of the Internet Age.

This is not the first bloody incident. Following some units in Paris, South Korea is also going to start blacklisting. However, this time there is no need to be too metaphysical. We just need to suspect that Nancy or Lao Wang has a super hacker team.

Hacker showdown? How common.

More than ten minutes later, Wang Chengguang was still chatting with Huang Yime when he heard a knock on the door. Without any extra shouting, he asked one of the two robot puppets he left beside him to open the door from outside and let in several uniformed policemen.

This kind of communication with the spirit puppet can be done through telepathy.

"Boss, this is the Seoul police. The leader is a section chief. They said there's a case that needs your help in investigating. We've already notified the legal team, and they're on their way."

Wang Chengguang smiled and walked towards a section chief, "What case?"

A section chief took a deep breath and said in stiff Mandarin, "Director Wang, you are an internationally renowned figure. We would not have disturbed you if we had not received a specific report. An employee of the Nan's Special Effects Base reported that you were illegally taking controlled drugs to add to the fun..."

"Someone even reported you for falsifying the financial accounts of special effects expenses by real name."

This is a big pit. Once his reputation in South Korea is ruined, his development in the mainland will be ruined. After all, the mainland's ban on fans is the strictest in the world.

Wang Chengguang laughed, "There is such a thing? Who is the informant? I don't want to take revenge on anyone, I'm just curious about who is so wicked, and isn't he afraid of being skinned and pulled out of hell after he dies?"

A section chief was still polite, "Sorry, our police cannot disclose the informant's information."

He knew that the consortium was plotting against Wang Chengguang, but... he was just an ordinary section chief and any prosecutor could order him around.

The police in South Korea are much weaker than the prosecutorial system.

Wang Chengguang's gigolo Nancy also came from a chaebol family. A certain section chief also felt wronged. It was a fight between gods, and it was the pawns like them who were being tortured.

Wang Chengguang nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk about it after my lawyer arrives. I hope that after the whistleblower is gone, someone will remember to sweep their graves and burn incense on Qingming Festival."

A section chief, "???"

Including the few policemen he brought with him, they all looked at Wang Chengguang in confusion and shock. The higher-ups were only reporting that you had illegally consumed some kind of...drugs and powder, including financial accounts. This was not a big deal at all for someone in the North American entertainment industry.

It's just a scam for the mainland director Wang Chengguang.

You told them in front of them that the informant was gone? Did anyone remember to visit the graves during the Qingming Festival? So in each of your movies, the tomb-sweeping Easter eggs all reflect reality?

The lawyers finally arrived five minutes later.

Huang Yimei also walked to Wang Chengguang's side and whispered, "Director, I just sent a text message to the embassy for help."

She definitely believes in Lao Wang, after all, he is their family's mentor.

Wang Chengguang was amused, "You are such a clever little fellow."

The two were still talking when the phone of a section chief who led the team rang. He answered it very skillfully, but his face changed drastically after just a few words. "What? The informant is gone? What does that mean? This is impossible..."

He spoke in South Korean. The person on the other end hung up after talking for two minutes, but a certain section chief was stunned for four or five minutes before he looked at Wang Chengguang in horror. What he saw was Director Wang teasing Huang Yime for being a clever ghost with a gentle smile.

But a certain section chief's heart was about to fall into hell.

The whistleblower is gone, literally gone, and they have lost all traces. All network data and information, as well as paper archive information, across the entire Internet and various systems in South Korea are gone.

If it weren't for the memory of those two people, a certain section chief would have suspected that these two people really didn't exist in this world. How long did it take him to wait for the other party's legal team from the time he left the police station to come here?
This is even more mysterious than the ruthless gangster in Paris who shot himself in the back on the street.

For example, how did the super hacker team delete the physical paper files? After all, several second and third generation chaebols have died.

(End of this chapter)