National Intelligence Service Agent Reincarnated as a Genius Actor

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After arriving at the set in Paju, Yeonwoo and Minsu entered the building.

“Wow, actor. The scale is considerable.”

“I see. It seems bigger than the special studio in Daejeon that I visited while filming 「Stars Beyond the Garm」.”

Manager Kim Min-soo was also impressed by the grandeur felt from the entrance because it was the first time he actually came.

I heard from CEO Joo-seong Kim that he would actively support me, but seeing it with my own eyes was amazing.

shudder.

Just then, the door of the inner studio opened and the two directors and writer Kim Jin-joo came out.

“Oh, Mr. Yeonwoo. When did you come?”

“I came right after class. I just arrived.”

At that moment, director Hwang Min-kwon, with tears in his eyes, ran towards Yeon-woo and took both hands.

“Keup, actor Ryu. Thank you so much! How could I have made my imagination a reality if it wasn’t for you!”

Yeon-woo scratched his cheek as he slightly pulled out both of his hands as if in trouble.

“It was not me, but Joo-seong Kim, CEO of LN Media.”

“Isn’t everyone giving full support to the actors as they take on the lead roles!”

“That’s right.”

CG Director Jeong Yo-han from behind nodded.

Since he didn’t like to see a grown man smirk, Yeon-woo hurriedly changed the topic.

“Director Jung. How about the Chromakey set?”

“It’s pretty.”

Jeong Yo-han nods his head with his thumbs up.

“Oh, it’s not like this, let’s go take a look. I’ll guide you.”

Director Hwang Min-kwon guides the way by pointing with both hands in a confused tone whether it is the director or the guide.

Yeon-woo smiled at the sight and moved forward.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw Saturn (土城) of a fairly magnificent scale in a large cavity covered with green Chromakey wall.

It was literally a wall built with clay.

“Wow, how did you make this?”

When Yeon-woo admired it, director Hwang Min-kwon followed him like a guide.

“At first glance, it looks like it’s made of real clay, but when I heard the explanation from CEO Lee Joo-seok, he said that it was actually just the outer surface and baked with a torch. It’s a material used to make a jjimjilbang.”

“If you are CEO Joo-seok Lee, you are the company that made the interior of the ship in the Master Plan.”

“He told me not to worry about the budget, so I entrusted it to the best company in Korea. Haha.”

Yeon-woo approached and took a closer look, but it looked like a real wall made of clay, even if you looked at the gaps and other details.

‘It is almost similar to the place where the anti-government forces in the Islamic world are sitting.’

Yeon-woo nodded and walked again, looking at Kim Jin-joo.

“Then, is this the gateway to Cardiac in the story?”

“Yes. A large-scale battle scene will be filmed here.”

Cardiac is the medical term for heart.

Before entering the heart, the main character and his supporting red blood cells will engage in a large-scale battle with the white blood cells that have been chasing them.

Yeon-woo spoke to himself while looking at the wall covered with green chroma key over Saturn.

“Then the Carotid artery will rise up into the sky as a huge pillar of light behind you.”

“We have already started CG work. It will be expressed on a grand scale.”

The carotid artery is the fastest and most direct route from the heart to the brain.

In the work, it will be expressed as a huge pillar of light that leads to another world.

Most of the place names and names will be filled with medical terms, and the fact that the main character, a doctor, looks at him with an absurd expression is one of the minor gag codes in the work.

‘Who’s going to think that it’s a carotid artery when they see a huge pillar of light rising through a dimension?’

Yeon-woo smiled as he looked at director Hwang Min-kwon, who self-proclaimed as a guide.

‘And who would invest in making a scenario like this? Don’t be foolish.’

The more Yeon-woo thought about it, the more unknown director Hwang Min-kwon was because of his lack of skills.

This was because there were no producers large enough to capture his imagination and no investors who could make bold decisions.

‘CEO Joo-Sung Kim is making a huge investment, of course, because he trusts what I have achieved…’

Basically, reading the scenario in the representative room that day was probably because I felt the same emotions that Yeonwoo felt.

When I went to the other side, I found a room full of red pebbles.

Looking at the unidentified rubber tower piled up on the other hand, Yeon-woo tilted his head.

“What is that?”

“Ah, that’s a gimbal. It’s just stacked without air yet.”

Red pebbles and red gimbals.

“Then this is Cardiac?”

It was the ‘heart’, an important point in the play.

It is not the heart of the common figurative expression, it is the heart.

“That’s right. I’ll mark each of those gimballs one by one, get their motions, and then CG-process each one. It may look strange, but it’s a technique used a lot in Hollywood.”

If it’s director Jeong Yo-han, then that’s it.

Having seen his filmography, I had no doubts at all.

After that, Yeon-woo and his companions, who looked around the set in turn, came out to the entrance.

“Um? Come to think of it, there is no set for the second half?”

I looked around all the way around, but there was no set that looked like a world in my brain where the sci-fi background of the near future would be contained.

Director Jeong Yo-han answered Yeon-woo’s question.

“The second half has to be almost 99% CG, so when Saturn is finished, we have to push out the entire set and shoot with full chroma key.”

Yeonwoo nodded at the explanation.

The thing I’m really worried about is the chroma key shooting.

The only experience I have had with chroma key so far has been to change from a classroom to space while hanging on a wire when filming a CF for a telecommunication company.

Even then, there was nothing to say about acting as it was a filming where all you had to do was lay down and hold a position.

“I haven’t done a chroma key shoot, but what’s the most important thing? I’ll prepare myself.”

“Hmm, is it important?”

After pondering for a moment at Yeon-woo’s question, he nodded and Jeong Yo-han opened his mouth.

“I guess it’s just imagination? I have to act so that it looks like something is flying when it doesn’t actually fly, or like bombs exploding everywhere when nothing explodes.”

“Imagination….”

As Yeon-woo nodded and fell in thought, Kim Jin-joo patted her on the back.

“Ah, if it was Yeonwoo, you would do well even if you didn’t do it? And the desert sprinting scene in “The Star Beyond the Garm” is also a CG shot.”

After all, it was true that he rode a horse while imagining an imaginary army in the distance beyond the desert.

Yeonwoo smiled and opened her mouth.

“I will prepare hard for the rest of the time.”

Seeing such Yeon-woo, director Hwang Min-kwon opened his mouth.

“I’m talking about other roles. I’m going to audition, but maybe Yeonwoo…?”

“No. Choose it from the perspective of the director and writer.”

“All right.”

If Yeonwoo gets involved in production beyond this, it may limit the discretion of the director.

‘A work is a picture drawn by the director’s imagination.’

The actor only had to prepare to become the best brush.

***

– 「Sketch」 The screening ends this week.

– The highest-grossing independent film ever.

– Finished with a new Korean independent film box office record [6.71 million viewers].

The break-even point in audience mobilization of “Sketch,” which cost 4.5 billion won to produce, was 1.3 million.

However, since it broke the break-even point only six days after its release, it achieved tremendous additional profits.

After about 40 days, the theater began to reduce the number of screens allocated to “Sketch”, and although director Park Chan-hong, who had already reached 10 million viewers several times, finished the screening with 6.71 million people.

“Honestly, when I was stationed abroad, it was rare to go to the theater and watch it unless it was ‘Americans come out and smash everything’.”

Yeon-woo, who was lying on the bed, rolling around and looking at articles related to “Sketch” on his smartphone, nodded.

It is an independent film in the human-documentary genre.

Even considering that it won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, it was a huge box office record.

Then the phone call came.

“Yes, Director.”

– You answer the phone right away?

“I was just looking for an article about “Sketch”. The screening ended today.”

– That’s right. So I called. Not for actors, but for investors.

Excluding the director, he is the only investor in the independent film “Sketch”.

That’s Ryu Yeon-woo.

“The box office sales have been counted.”

– I just got a call from the distributor. It’s still a tentative figure, but the actual sales won’t be much different. Total sales are 563 billion won.

It was expected, but it was still a large amount.

“It’s an inconceivable amount.”

– Of course, the net return for you and me is much less.

A number of expenses, such as value-added tax, the film development fund, distribution of profits with theaters, and distribution fees, are deducted from the total sales.

‘Thinking of 10% and 3%, and theaters and distributors…’

Yeon-woo finished the calculation in his head.

“About 23 billion or so.”

– Well? how did you know The total amount of dividends paid out is 23.4 billion days.

If you look at the dividend ratio to the amount invested by Yeonwoo, even if you exclude the ratio promised to LN Enter, the amount directly distributed to Yeonwoo is about 5.4 billion won.

“Obviously you have to exclude taxes, but it’s still a huge amount.”

– Congratulations.

“What I have to say. Congratulations, Director.”

It really won an award and was a success at the box office, so I caught both rabbits.

This was not the end of the story, and there were still additional profits to be made in overseas distribution rights and in the domestic OTT market.

– If you agree, I would like to give bonuses to the staff and actors who participated.

“Of course. I will leave that part to the director.”

– Okay. The dividend will be paid within this month at the latest.

I ended the call with director Park Chan-hong and fell into thoughts for a while.

‘So far, I have accumulated quite a lot of income from entertainment activities.’

This is an amount far exceeding the amount of salary accumulated during his lifetime dedication to the country in his previous life.

‘Because I’m spending enough for my family, and I’m well prepared for the tax issue.’

Yeonwoo looked around the officetel.

I lived there before graduating from high school, and it’s been almost two years since I’ve been here.

It was a dormitory assigned by the company, but I did not feel the need to move to another place, so I kept using it.

‘Hmm, I think it would be better for me to move.’

Of course, it wouldn’t be a problem if Yeonwoo continued to stay here, but considering the other rookie actors who have recently been recruited into the company, I thought it would be right to give up one more seat.

And did you not promise not to cherish and live foolishly like you did in your last life?

“Money is all gone when you die anyway. Well, I’m glad I made a donation.”

Yeonwoo picked up her smartphone and tried to calculate the amount of money she would receive soon and her current assets.

‘Even after tax, it would be over 7 billion won.’

Among them, Leehan Technology’s CF and this “Sketch” had a large proportion.

In addition to that, starting with 「Summer Wardrobe」, I did a lot of works for just two years in a row, so it was worth it.

Yeonwoo picked up the smartphone and pressed the call button.

‘When spending money, this person’s consulting is perfect.’

After a few ringing tones, I heard a familiar voice over the handset.

– Oh, Yeonwoo!

“Is Jinwook hyung busy?”

– No, filming for “Prisoner” is over and he’s resting at home.

“I’m thinking of moving.”

There is also an acting practice room in the house…

The high-end village, where not only Son Jin-wook but many celebrities live, has always looked good.

‘Let’s move now.’