The group soon arrived at The Tang Dynasty Guangying Culture Company, where Xie Wenyuan greeted them in person.
Xie Wenyuan had once been a major director, but he had long since stopped directing films and television himself. He had moved into behind-the-scenes work and operations, becoming a nationally renowned producer and executive producer. With multiple sources of capital behind it, the company was not only among the best in China but also had deep ties with Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Supposedly, it even had cross-shareholdings with foreign entertainment groups and so forth.
Even Old Zhu did not know much about the specifics. He only knew that Xie Wenyuan was, broadly speaking, merely a representative himself.
Still, he could already make the final call on most matters, especially those involving regular productions. It would be fair to say his word was final.
When they said he had gone a long time without a project, that certainly did not mean the company was not filming anything. The company and its various subsidiaries and studios were working full steam on all sorts of films, television series, and animation, covering big and small screens as well as web films and series. Projects were springing up everywhere.
The lack of a project referred specifically to Xie Wenyuan's own planned direction: a big-budget period xianxia production. They had indeed been searching for a year or two without finding anything particularly satisfying. They had actually bought some relevant IPs and had their own screenwriters produce original scripts, but none had ultimately passed review.
Chu Ge's book had not passed at first either. Only after Old Zhu came in with funding had things begun to feel as though the right circumstances were falling into place.
So much for all those reviews, evaluations, and research. Often, all it