Money Laundering Is One Thing, but You Had to Drag Liu Tianxian into It!

[Not a rebirth story] In early 2011, Gao Jian, a third-year directing student, flew aboard a military aircraft to evacuate Chinese citizens from North Africa. Looking down at the warships escorting them, he thought of Hollywood, which had completely dominated the domestic film market. Envious but unwilling to accept it, he suddenly came up with the idea of adapting his own evacuation experience into a movie. As luck would have it, he bound himself to the [Film and Television Challenge] System, which pitted his films against future Hollywood releases. Winning earned him all kinds of rewards.

“What? A rookie director investing 700 million, without hiring Jackie Chan or any popular pretty boys, trying to beat the Rambo, G.I. Joe, and The Expendables franchises? You’re not even playing to either crowd!”

“Three hundred million for an animated movie for kids? And it’s full of such lame Bashu dialect, yet you think it can beat Kung Fu Panda and Toy Story?”

“Building a soundstage for some lousy sci-fi movie will take tens of thousands of square meters and a billion!?”

“Money laundering! You’re definitely laundering money!”

“You filthy coal tycoon’s son! Fine, launder money all you want, but how dare you drag our Liu Tianxian into this? Now we’ve lost both the money and the girl, waaah...”

This book is also known as: Are You a Director or a Movie Star?; The Godfather of Film and Television: How Can He Do Everything?; I Invested a Billion and Made Ten Billion at the Box Office, So Why Are You Calling It Money Laundering?; I Really Don’t Have Time to Chase Fairy Sister; Starting with Black Sea Operation.

P.S. A distinctly different entertainment-industry story, with well-structured, satisfying payoffs. Everyone’s welcome to read.