"Alright, everyone go back and come up with a new proposal today. Mr. Wang Shu can also write your idea into a detailed proposal for me."
Seeing that no one had any immediate solutions, Chen Bo directly stated.
Then the meeting was adjourned, and everyone went to prepare their proposals.
Wang Shu also returned to his room.
Since the filming progress could not continue, Wang Shu had to personally come up with a script to shoot.
He figured Chen Bo wouldn't treat him unfairly, so he spent a day in his room adapting the background and settings of "Fist of Fury" to South Korea.
He changed the story to have the protagonist, Tang Long, be a young man from Longguo who, at his uncle's request, goes to South Korea alone to help restaurant manager Chen Qinghua.
This was because Chen Qinghua's restaurant was frequently disrupted and threatened by a local triad, forcing him to sell the land at a low price.
They also often sent their thugs to cause trouble, causing the restaurant's business to decline.
As Tang Long was new to South Korea, he was not accustomed to the language and customs, which led to mockery and dissatisfaction from the restaurant staff.
However, when the triad came to cause trouble again and knocked out one of the staff members, and everyone was helpless.
Tang Long used his Longguo kung fu to push the triads back step by step.
This amazed the restaurant staff with his Longguo kung fu.
However, the leader of the triad group was very displeased with this matter and specifically demanded that Tang Long be expelled from South Korea.
They even brought guns to the restaurant to retaliate against Tang Long. After Tang Long returned to the restaurant, due to the presence of guns,
He could only feign agreement to their demand to leave South Korea. However, in reality, he lured the thugs out of the restaurant and took them all down.
And in this action sequence, Tang Long displayed many classic martial arts from Longguo, such as Tai Chi, which directly subdued the gunmen.
The thugs immediately issued an assassination order for Tang Long. On New Year's Eve, a sniper was dispatched to assassinate Tang Long.
However, Tang Long was agile and had already sensed the sniper's presence, thus successfully evading and tracking the killer.
When he returned to the restaurant, he discovered that Manager Chen Qinghua had been taken away by the thugs.
Enraged, Tang Long single-handedly stormed the thugs' lair and severely beat all of them.
He also warned them to stop causing trouble.
The humiliated triad thugs hired the world taekwondo champion and a Japanese karate master, setting a trap to kill Tang Long.
But Tang Long, with his superb martial arts and tenacious fighting spirit, ultimately defeated the enemies and annihilated the thug group.
After organizing the script, Wang Shu directly took it to Chen Bo's office.
At that moment, Chen Bo was in his office explaining the situation to the investors back in Longguo.
Due to this sudden incident, the investors were planning to withdraw their funding.
So Chen Bo had been begging all day, assuring them that he would come up with a new plan soon.
"Director, it's Wang Shu!"
Wang Shu called out from the doorway of Chen Bo's office.
"Wait a moment, I have something else to attend to!"
Chen Bo quickly covered the phone and shouted to Wang Shu outside the door.
"We are giving you a final deadline, which is tonight. If we don't have a satisfactory response tomorrow, we will withdraw our funding directly."
On the phone, the investor spoke aggressively to Chen Bo.
Chen Bo could only be meek; after all, he was not the investor.
"Come in!"
After hanging up the phone, Chen Bo directly called out to the door.
Hearing this, Wang Shu pushed the door open and entered Chen Bo's office.
"What can I do for you?"
Chen Bo asked Wang Shu.
"The story I mentioned this morning, I've finished the script. Would you like to see it?"
Wang Shu directly took out the script he had written and asked Chen Bo.
Chen Bo gratefully accepted the script, planning to just glance at it.
He hadn't taken Wang Shu's idea seriously during the meeting, thinking Wang Shu was just saying it casually.
He didn't expect this guy to actually write a script.
So, even though he didn't have high expectations for the script, he opened it patiently and read it carefully.
A few minutes passed.
Chen Bo couldn't help but praise it.
Setting aside the content, the script's formatting and the writing style were already very professional.
Furthermore, the script's descriptions were neither superfluous nor lacking.
Reading the entire script, he could already visualize the story unfolding into scenes in his mind.
Many veteran screenwriters couldn't achieve this level of scriptwriting.
As for the story itself, although simple, it was meticulously crafted, tightly connected, and closely aligned with his desired effect.
Most importantly, if filmed according to this script, it could save a quarter of the budget.
Keep in mind that the total investment for this series was only a little over 40 million.
Saving a quarter of the budget would directly save ten million.
"Brother Wang Shu, I never expected that you would also have such talent in screenwriting!"
After reading the script, Chen Bo couldn't help but give Wang Shu a thumbs-up and exclaimed.
"It's alright, I just wrote it casually."
Wang Shu replied with feigned modesty.
"I think this script is very good. I'll send it to the investors now and let them decide whether to use it."
Chen Bo said to Wang Shu directly.
Then he took several photos of the script Wang Shu gave him and sent them to the investors' group chat.
Meanwhile, the investors and investment companies in Longguo were discussing whether to withdraw their funding.
Suddenly, upon seeing what Chen Bo had posted in the group chat, they all curiously opened it and read it carefully.
"Did you guys see the new script Chen Bo posted?"
In the conference room, an investor asked others after reading the script in the group chat.
"This script is quite good, not inferior to the previous one!"
"I think so too, and the writing quality of this script is also very high. Could it be that Chen Bo found some big shot screenwriter to write it on short notice?"
"Chen Bo's standing might not be enough to easily get those old guys to write it?"
"But look at the vocabulary used in this script, an ordinary screenwriter wouldn't have such skill."
In the conference room, the investors were discussing amongst themselves.
They were very optimistic about this script.
More importantly, as investors, they had a thorough understanding of scripts.
For domestic scripts, they could tell at a glance which were works of master screenwriters and which were by newcomers.
They could even identify which master wrote many of the works.
Therefore, upon seeing the script Chen Bo sent, they unanimously agreed that it must have been written by a master screenwriter.
However, they couldn't figure out which master it was.
"Chen Bo, your script is quite good. After everyone's thorough research, we can temporarily hold off on withdrawing our funding. But I'd like to ask, which teacher is the screenwriter of this script?"
About ten minutes after Chen Bo sent the script to the group chat.
An investor in the group chat directly tagged Chen Bo and asked.
"Approved! Brother Wang Shu, you've truly helped me out!"
Chen Bo trembled with excitement upon seeing the replies in the group chat.
He had originally thought that his movie would also face withdrawal of funding and be ruined.
He never expected Wang Shu to save him and give him a second chance.
"This work was created by our lead actor, Wang Shu."
Chen Bo replied directly in the group chat.
"Wang Shu? He can also write scripts?"
"No way, is Wang Shu that skilled at writing scripts? The professionalism and literary quality are beyond that of ordinary editors. I never imagined such an excellent script would be written by Wang Shu."
"Unbelievable, too unbelievable. What kind of monster is this Wang Shu? Not only can he write so many excellent songs, but he's also good at acting, and now he's even writing scripts so brilliantly."
At this moment, when these investors learned that the script was written by Wang Shu.
They all showed expressions of disbelief.
This was because they had all investigated Wang Shu. When Chen Bo suggested Wang Shu as the lead actor,
They had already conducted a comprehensive review of Wang Shu's background and circumstances.
Although Wang Shu wasn't very famous at that time,
They saw many shining points in Wang Shu, so they directly agreed to Wang Shu taking the lead role.
But they never expected that Wang Shu, in addition to his exceptional talent in music and acting,
Would also be so gifted in the profession of screenwriting.
"Chen Bo, have you discussed the screenwriter's fee with Wang Shu?"
The investors continued to ask.
"Not yet."
Reminded by the investors, Chen Bo suddenly remembered.
Since Wang Shu had given him the script, he couldn't mistreat him.
He should pay the appropriate fee, especially since he had saved him at this critical juncture.
"Brother Wang Shu, how much do you want for the screenwriting fee?"
Chen Bo asked Wang Shu with a serious expression.
Normally, he would be the one to decide how much to pay the screenwriter.
But today, he was giving this right to Wang Shu. As long as Wang Shu's price wasn't too outrageous, he could afford it.
After all, if it weren't for Wang Shu's help this time, not only would the investors withdraw their funding, but he would also be in a lot of trouble.