In 2006, Ning Hao set up a stall for 5 consecutive days, the script of "Big Diamond" was still unattended, and when he was preparing to close the stall in frustration, Andy Lau came, read the script and said: I invested 3 million!
Ning Hao: It's hard to meet a Bole, can you throw more? 3 million is not enough!
Andy Lau: No! My "Asian New Star Guide" program has a total of 25 million yuan, investing in 7 young directors, and the support for newcomers is 3 million. No more, I can't get it out!
However, the 3 million light paid actors are tight, and the movies are filmed, and there are more places to use money! Which is enough?
Ning Hao's eyes rolled, and when he had an idea, he told Andy Lau that he would go back and consider it first.
Turning around, he used the banner of Andy Lau to look around for investors and look around, and no one was willing to pay.
This "thousand-mile horse" came to Andy Lau's office again, in fact, the small actions behind Ning Hao's back, Andy Lau was clear, but he smiled slightly and did not bother.
Andy Lau told Ning Hao that 3 million shots of "Big Diamond" can't work, you can change it to shoot stones!
A sentence made Ning Hao wake up like a dream, Mao Sai suddenly opened, changed the script overnight, reduced the cost a lot, and changed the name to "Crazy Stone".
When selecting actors, Ning Hao thought to himself, fat water does not flow to outsiders, "thin water" will first help digest it from his own family!
He asked Andy Lau to come out, so that he could save a sum of money and borrow Andy Lau's fame to increase the popularity of the film.
But Andy Lau's schedule really can't be pushed away, and can only be abandoned.
He also asked Guo Tao to play the leading role, giving 100,000 pieces of remuneration, Guo Tao was a little displeased: I am a good villain and a little famous, you will not give such a point, right?
Ning Hao quickly explained: You are the highest salary!
Guo Tao was discouraged and agreed to star. However, halfway out of the way to bite the gold, Sun Honglei read the script, very like, willing not to pay money to play the male number one.
After Guo Tao heard about it, he quickly gave in, who knew that Sun Honglei could only give up in the end because of the schedule problem, and finally decided on Guo Tao.
In the corner of "Brother Dao", Ning Hao took a fancy to Liu Hua.
He called Liu Hua: Brother Hua, there is a script that Andy Lau is optimistic about, and there is a role in it that is very suitable for you, and only you can play it well!
Liu Hua: How much is the film paid?
Ning Hao: Twenty-five thousand...
Liu Hua "snapped" and hung up the phone, was he angry?
A few days later, Ning Hao did not die and hit again, and Liu Hua asked: Has the money increased?
"Nothing..."
Liu Hua wants to scold, with you idle nothing to do, over and over again to call me to open shabu!
Ning Hao was in a hurry, he told the assistant director, continue to fight, cry as soon as the phone is connected, the more miserable the better.
Sure enough, a call to sell miserable + rainbow fart won Liu Hua's sympathy and good feelings, and he agreed to come down beautifully.
After hanging up the phone, the assistant director wiped a bead of sweat on the door of his head, I was really too difficult!
Get Liu Hua, the rest of the personnel is relatively simple, even very smooth.
Ning Hao used 10,000 yuan to invite Huang Bo to play "black skin", and spent 80,000 yuan to invite Hong Kong actors to play the international thief.
Wang Xun, who played the "Four Eyes", is a native of Sichuan, is well-known in the local area, is one of the "Top Ten Laughing Stars of Bashu", and after being invited to the crew, he was dumbfounded.
Even if the salary is low, the conditions of eating and living are also worse than the sky, 3 people squeeze together to sleep, he turns around to leave. After reading the script, I was deeply attracted and stayed.
Ning Hao also emailed Tao Hong to ask her to play the "Dao Brother" girlfriend, and also attached the script.
Who knew that this email was cut off by Xu Zheng, it turned out that his husband and wife used a mailbox, Tao Hong had other plays to perform at that time, and he couldn't get out.
And Xu Zheng read the script, very fond of it, he took the initiative to ask for help, to play the "lust for real estate developer" in it.
Xu Zheng's joining made Ning Hao happy and broken, because Xu Zheng had just finished filming "The Eight Precepts of the Starry Pig", which was very hot!
He said to Xu Zheng: I have to pay you out of my own pocket.
Xu Zheng told him that he didn't want a penny! That's it, Xu Zheng
0 film remuneration starring.
In the end, it was really impossible to invite low-paid actors, so I had to let the assistant director Yue Xiaojun star.
Inside, there was a scene of luxury cars colliding, buying two five- or six-handed cars from the old car dealership and spraying it all over the place. In this way, he also spent 10,000 yuan to suck Ning Hao's cold air in pain.
There was no money in the middle of the shooting, ning Hao simply took out his own film remuneration of 150,000 yuan and pasted it in.
The theme song of the film is also sung by Andy Lau, and not a penny is given.
As soon as the film was released, it caused a huge response, especially Andy Lau also made a special publicity.
The income of 23.5 million yuan made Andy Lau and Ning Haole close their mouths.
The film became a masterpiece of Chinese black comedy, and Ning Hao won the Golden Horse Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director award for this film.
Huang Bo was too hot to be unwanted, and Xu Zheng also successfully transformed and made a good start for his film career.
And Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Huang Bo thus became the "comedy iron triangle" and created many brilliant achievements.
Some people joke that this is a movie where the protagonist has no fire and the supporting role is all on fire.
However, in Guo Tao's heart, he still recognizes this movie, right? I don't know if he named his son "Stone", does it have anything to do with this?
After "Crazy Stone" became popular, there were many follow-up works, but none of them surpassed it.
Who says low investment doesn't make a good job? Intentions are key.