"Minister of Britain, the last emperor is a large production with an expected investment of 20 million US dollars. I hope to get the full support of the government and allow full-scene shooting in the Forbidden City." Qiao Feng said solemnly in an office of the Ministry of Culture.

"Mr. Qiao, we are very happy and welcome to work with us in the country without avoiding the external situation. We have approved the script of the last emperor you submitted. We fully support the filming needs. However, after all, the Forbidden City is different from other places. It is full of national cultural relics, so it is probably inappropriate to use it for real-life shooting. "The Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Culture first welcomed the cooperation to work, and then looked embarrassed and refused Qiao Feng's request to take real-life shooting in the Forbidden City.

On the side, the person in charge of the Chinese film cooperative production company, commonly known as the co-production company, is a little anxious.

This is a big production that is expected to invest 20 million US dollars, which is a big production that China has never had before. Although it is dominated by a Hong Kong company, the joint production company has also been mixed up. In the future, we will tell you that we have co-produced a big production film of 20 million US dollars with Hong Kong, and it will be a big production film that is not on the surface.

Besides, this is Qiao Feng’s movie. Others in China may not know who Qiao Feng is, but how could the person in charge of the co-production company not know?

When the Quick Pistolman was filming in Dunhuang, the Xiying assisted the shooting was a link between the joint shooting company.

There is also the Shaolin boy who invested in the script by Qiao Feng, which was also filmed by a joint filming company and a Hong Kong Left Film Company.

There was also a direct cooperation with Qiao Feng once, that is, the kung fu boy passed the love level. This movie was produced by Qiao Feng and Hepai Company, and the domestic copyright belongs to Hepai Company.

If it is a commercial film, then it will not be cooperative if it doesn’t work together. However, this last emperor is obviously not the case. This is a feature film, a biographical drama film. Judging from the content of the script, it is obviously going to be released in Europe and the United States.

Of course, this can be seen just by looking at the expected investment of 20 million US dollars. Otherwise, if it is released in the mainland, Hong Kong, and even Southeast Asia, the film will not even be able to recover the cost.

This is the most invested movie in the movie produced by Qiao Feng. If you can't even recover the cost, it would be funny.

Qiao Feng's undefeated golden body was broken. Undoubtedly, Qiao Feng would not let such a thing happen.

That's sure, this film can only be regained if it is released in Europe and the United States, especially in the North American market.

How can it be revealed to move a story about Chinese people to Europe and the United States? If you win an international award again, even if there is a nomination, it will be very exciting for China today.

"Minister, there is a precedent for filming in the Forbidden City. You forgot that in 1973, the American NBC company filmed the documentary "Forbidden City" in the Forbidden City. "The head of the co-production company reminded in a low voice.

"Oh, I remembered it, I remembered it, there was something happening." Deputy Minister Ying nodded suddenly, but said to Qiao Feng in a difficult situation: "Mr. Qiao, although there were precedents, it was a documentary after all, just a filming of the Forbidden City, and there were only so many people filming, which was completely different from the large-scale shooting of thousands of people in the last emperor. With more people, it is easy to cause some damage to the Forbidden City and cultural relics."

"Minister of the British, the last emperor, I invested 20 million US dollars to make it into an epic film with grand momentum, rich colors and spectacular scenes. If you can't shoot in the Forbidden City but choose to set the scene, you will inevitably lose a lot of the vicissitudes of history that have been accumulated for hundreds of years, which will be a great harm to this film. Moreover, this is a good opportunity to introduce modern Chinese history to the west. We should shoot it perfectly, right?" Qiao Feng organized the speech and said again.

"This... OK, I'll report it to my superiors to see if I can get permission?" Deputy Minister Ying said after pondering for a moment.

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"How is it? Do you agree?' Qiao Feng said goodbye and left and went to the street. Section Chief Yang was waiting outside. Li Hanxiang and others hurriedly surrounded him. Li Hanxiang asked anxiously.

"The script has been reviewed, but it is still not allowed to be shot in the Forbidden City." Qiao Feng said helplessly.

"Oh, I know." Li Hanxiang smiled bitterly after being disappointed. Although he was hoping that he could be allowed to take a live scene in the Forbidden City, in fact, he was ready to be rejected.

Because of this kind of thing, Li Hanxiang had already encountered it once when he was shooting behind the curtains and ruled the country two years ago. That time he also wanted to shoot in the Forbidden City with hope, but the application was rejected in the end.

Although the actual shooting locations of that drama include the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, the Chengde Summer Resort, the Eight Temples in Chengde, the Eastern Qing Tombs, etc., they are all restricted shooting, especially the Forbidden City dramas. When filming the Emperor Tongzhi ascends the throne ceremony, they can only shoot external scenes, and the rest of the internal scenes must be filmed elsewhere.

In the cut shot, there is a picture of the main entrance of the hall behind the emperor being blocked by an iron railing during the throne ceremony.

"Don't be discouraged." Qiao Feng smiled and comforted: "At least, the script has been approved and there are no restrictions on the content to be deleted and modified. This is a great victory. Besides, it is not that there is no hope for the real scene shooting. Minister Ying agreed to report to the superiors and apply. Maybe in the end, he could give us good news."

"That's all I can do." Li Hanxiang sighed a little discouraged.

"Let's go, go back. Since the script has been reviewed and approved, it's time to choose and decide on other subsequent roles. Start preparing as soon as possible. After the results come, we will start the early shooting." Qiao Feng said.

The shooting of the last emperor was a huge project. Of course, all serious historical dramas in China were quite huge.

Such a huge project is definitely impossible to start shooting after all the personnel are fully arrived. I don’t know how much time it takes and how much investment it takes.

Take the scene of Puyi's throne ceremony for example. There are no less than 2,000 temporary actors needed. It is impossible to wait until all these 2,000 temporary actors are found before starting filming.

If the scenes of the throne ceremony are far behind, I don’t know how much it costs to eat and drink with extras alone, so I don’t have to say that I have to pay a salary.

Therefore, shooting can only be done while shooting. When you have not prepared a big scene, take some simple scenes first.

For the 20 million US dollars of large production, the whole company has taken the most attention to it. Soon, in just one week, the preliminary preparations will be almost done.
Chapter completed!