182. Rejection
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Li Chong was a little confused. He was a film director and even if he had a production company, it was just for the convenience of making movies. Besides, even if he invested, he was still shooting movies. Why do you ask if you are not interested in TV series?
Zheng Rixian is not too old in this position. He only landed from a government department to KBS TV as the director of the TV series production bureau last year. On the surface, he is powerful, but in fact he has never made any big achievements. After all, he did not climb up step by step from the TV station. KBS TV is another place where he is mixed, and he doesn't know much about this production department.
Kim Kyutae is Jung Il-hyun's college junior. Now he is a not-so-eminent TV series director and screenwriter. Kim Kyutae has been brilliant in the past and has filmed many popular TV series, but in recent years, due to some of his own reasons, even TV series can't be filmed. At a TV party, Jung Il-hyun drank a lot, and Kim Kyutae even gave himself too much. Two people who were not very successful got together. They sat in the corridor of the hotel and began to complain to each other. One said that he was not satisfied with his talent, the other said that he was isolated and helpless; the other said that he would definitely become the director of a popular TV series again, and the other said that he should have been to be the director; in short, he said all the words he was pressed into his heart to the other party.
As a result, Kim Kyu-tae woke up the next day and was stunned. She had been so over the years. Unexpectedly, she would say everything in her heart when she met a senior. What should I do? Just when Kim Kyu-tae was struggling, Jung Ri-hyun gave him the opportunity he had always dreamed of. Jung Ri-hyun had a sum of funds to invest in a TV series, but no director in KBS TV station made him the director of the production bureau. He was all the deputy director in charge of TV series, and basically undermined him, as the director. Now that he has such a good director, Jung Ri-hyun also wants to hold it in his hands.
Kim Kyutae also thought for a long time and finally decided to take a gamble. After all, he has not been filming a TV series for several years. If he doesn't find a way, he will be no different from an ordinary TV station employee. It's better to fight. He didn't expect that Jung Il-hyun's funds would be so large, reaching 15 billion won. This is unimaginable in this period. During the economic crisis in 2008, the funds for TV series production of major TV stations were shrinking, and even the TV series outsourcing business was opened to introduce foreign capital. This was unimaginable in the past, so Kim Kyutae took out the script that had been buried in his heart for a long time.
Kim Kyutae didn't know that Jung Rixian's funds were accumulated in his hands over the past year. They were the funds for the filming of three TV series. However, he couldn't spend them all, and the result was that he accumulated more and more. This time Jung Rixian also took a gamble and chose to believe Kim Kyutae.
As for finding Lee Chong, on the one hand, it was a scandal of Kim Tae-hee. He had just chosen Kim Tae-hee as the heroine of the TV series. If someone else had been replaced, but Kim Tae-hee would not have. Originally, Kim Tae-hee's starring was proposed by Jung Il-hyun, so she could not be replaced anyway, so she could only calm down this matter. On the other hand, Kim Kyu-tae was chatting with her good friend screenwriter Choi Wan-gyu and told her that after meeting a colleague named Lee Chong in the studio, she was knocked out by Choi Wan-gyu. Choi Wan-gyu highly praised Lee Chong's "The Chaser", so she was familiar with Lee Chong. As soon as she said that Lee Chong was also a director's identity and a popular director who wrote and directed himself. Kim Kyu-tae was also depressed after knowing Lee Chong's real identity. Such a good opportunity to meet a movie director was missed. Unexpectedly, Kim Kyu-tae received a call from Jung Il-hsien and said something about Lee Chong.
In fact, to be precise, I look for Lee Chong, one is to eliminate scandals for Kim Tae-hee's reputation; but to use Lee Chong's reputation to enhance the quality of the TV series, and the third is to promote it, which is popular before filming.
Kim Kyu-tae and Lee Byung-hun are old friends, and Lee Byung-hun happens to be one of the starring actors of the movie "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Strange Guys" that Lee Chong and Kim Tae-hee watched in that cinema. Although Lee Byung-hun has not filmed a TV series in recent years, such a big production, coupled with Kim Kyu-tae's face, should be able to invite Lee Byung-hun to star in it. Kim Kyu-tae also contacted Lee Byung-hun and did agree to take on the TV series.
The purpose of finding Lee Chong is to make Lee Chong and Kim Kyutae co-director. Lee Chong's action design in "The Chaser" is very good, so Kim Kyutae hopes Lee Chong can become the director of this TV series; at the same time, he also makes an excuse for Lee Chong and Kim Tae-hee to appear in the same cinema. Director Lee Chong and the heroine Kim Tae-hee appeared in the same cinema in order to understand Lee Byung-hun's acting skills. As for why this news was revealed after three days, the imagination of the media will definitely be attributed to hype and promote the new TV series, so that the scandal can be made plausible.
Jung Ri-hyun told Lee Chong the whole story. Lee Chong was silent there. Unexpectedly, he could only enter such a big vortex in just three days. Jung Ri-hyun's words could only be believed half of them. He could not guess the politicians, but in order to cover up Kim Tae-hee's scandal, he created a propaganda point for the new drama. After all, Lee Chong was still very famous in the entertainment industry in the first half of 2008.
Lee Chong thought for a long time, "Director Zheng, tell you the truth. I am deeply sorry for Kim Tae-hee xi's scandal. I will also release a statement tomorrow. As for the director of this TV series, I'd better forget it. After all, I still have two movies to shoot now, and the company has another movie being filmed. I may not have time until this time next year." Lee Chong decided to reject this proposal. He did not want to step into the muddy waters of KBS TV.
Kim Tae-hee looked at Lee Chong in an instant throughout the whole process. When she learned that Lee Chong was a film director, her first reaction was incredible. There were such a small film director in Korea, but only Lee Chong was so famous, and he was also the director of a popular award-winning film. Kim Tae-hee's curiosity about Lee Chong was already very serious. Today, when she learned that Lee Chong might become her colleague and would be on the same crew with her, Kim Tae-hee was still secretly happy, but at this time Lee Chong actually refused. Kim Tae-hee's loss can be imagined.
Just when everyone was surprised and silent about Lee Chong's decision, Kim Kyu-tae took out a folder and put it in front of Lee Chong, "Director Lee Chong, don't be too busy refusing. This is the script of this TV series. You can take it back and see what kind of script will be worth the investment of 15 billion won. If it is the cost of your scandal with Kim Tae-hee xi these two days, it is estimated that it is 20 billion won investment."
Li Chong looked at Jin Kui Tae in surprise. He had already clearly refused. Jin Kui Tae even took out the script for himself to watch. Is he so sure that the script of this TV series will impress him?
Kim Kyutae was not sure, but Kim Kyutae was quite confident in his script. The story he and Choi Wankyu carefully created for two years would not be so vulgar. He was confident in his script, but the screenwriters all had a problem, that is, once they saw a good story, they would fall in hopelessly. He believed that Lee Chong would do the same.
Chapter completed!