There is an interesting coincidence!

"Tooth Wolf", which was purchased by TBS and is scheduled to be broadcast late at night, has a premiere date on the same day as "Nava the Armored Warrior".

The difference is......

Tooth Wolf is a weekly drama that airs one episode per week. And Nava is a daily drama, and the schedule is early in the morning.

To be honest, both dramas are quite miserable.

Needless to say, the late-night file of "Tooth Wolf" is not much better, and the morning file of "Nava" is not much better, after all, neon "housewife dramas" are popular.

TBS is not optimistic about Tooth Wolf and does not invest too many promotional resources, while ANB is also not optimistic about Nava's ratings prospects, although they have invested resources in publicity.

It can't be helped!

Although "Tooth Wolf" is a local work, the scale is too large and not conducive to ratings. Although "Nava" is an "all-age" work, the background of the story takes place abroad......

Congenital insufficiency!

Putting aside the long sighs between ANB and TBS, Meng Lang, who was just about to board a plane to return to China, saw an unexpected news on the neon network.

"Thunder Puppet" turned out to be popular!

To be precise, this drama is actually becoming popular in neon? The neon people, who are deeply influenced by Chinese culture, seem to love the themes of "puppet show" and "puppet show".

Initially, there was a neon variety show that introduced "Thunder Puppet", which aroused the curiosity of many viewers.

Then with the help of the Zhengyi Flavor Formula, neon netizens saw the episodes after the "translation". Not only did I get to know the puppet villains, but I also learned how to pronounce poems!

On the neon largest ACGN forum [Inner World], you can see discussions about "thunder puppets" everywhere.

Even the news that the production team was acquired by PD and that the new work was going to be based on the theme of "shadow puppetry", they all knew.

To this end, it has also increased the search volume of Yahoo's keyword "shadow puppetry"!

This made Meng Lang sigh with emotion.

The "Thunder Puppet" series, although it has gained a group of hardcore fans and is known as a masterpiece by word-of-mouth explosion, has really not made any money.

PD invested in this drama, just to spend money to buy a little word-of-mouth, it is best to make money, and it doesn't matter if you can't make money.

I never expected it!

This series has an audience overseas, and according to his observations, there are quite a few of them, and the enthusiasm is even greater.

Can you take advantage of it?

Although I don't expect to make money with this series, it is also a good income to break into the overseas market and earn a wave of word-of-mouth.

"I'll give it a try when I get back!"

After learning Mr. Meng's idea, Chen Huan was full of joy and said: "European and American neon have invested millions of dollars each to promote it, if it really works, then consider the next step of IP development!"

"Then I'll leave it to you!"

"That's right! I've been away for the past two days, and nothing happened to the crew, right? Yan Tao sent an email to find me, what is the matter?"

"Everything is fine with the crew!"

Chen Huan smiled and said, "Director Yan should be looking for you for next week's wedding, I hope you can be there." ”

"Finally got the certificate?"

Meng Lang was curious: "When is it?, why don't you tell me in advance?"

"Ahem......"

Chen Huan's face was strange, and after looking around and no one eavesdropping, he whispered: "Fengzi gets married!"

Boy!

Meng Lang called the insider!

This practice of getting on the bus first and then making up the ticket is exactly the same as him, Yan Tao is worthy of being the second director of PD, and he perfectly inherited the style of the first director.

"Good thing!

Meng Lang said with a smile: "What about the others, hurry up and let him come to my office, and I will seal him a big red envelope!"

"It should be in the prop factory, Severn OV was messed up by him, and now he's holding his breath and planning to prove himself!"

Messed up?

Hearing this, Meng Lang suddenly became calm. After saying goodbye to Chen Huan in a hurry, he drove to the props factory in the suburbs and asked Yan Tao about the situation.

"How can I say it......"

Yan Tao scratched his head and explained: "The commemorative trilogy is coming to an end, considering the particularity of this OV series, I changed the theme song in the last work "The Betrayal of the Sun". ”

As a result, it was sprayed miserably!

The original theme song of "UItra Severn" has been sung for many years and has become a common memory of Severn fans. Yan Tao's rash change of the theme song is undoubtedly a "failure" in their opinion.

So why change the classic songs?

Fans strongly demanded that Yan Tao change back to the original theme song, otherwise he wouldn't watch it or buy DVDs.

Severn OV series, ratings are not important, peripheral derivatives are not important, the main profit point is still "fan to collector's edition DVD set".

For the sake of a simple "theme song" to offend fans, resulting in the cancellation of the DVD set, Yan Tao's operation was indeed a failure.

"Lost Memory" and "Older Than Earth" got off to a good start, and the memorial of the final work of the trilogy, "The Betrayal of the Sun", can be said to be the top priority.

Well done, this trilogy is bound to become a masterpiece, regarded as a classic by countless fans, and some people still buy DVDs to collect or watch it years later.

If you don't do it well, it's a trivial matter to be scolded, and it will affect the completion and reputation of the entire "Memorial Trilogy", then it's bad!

"Change it back!"

Meng Lang suggested: "Saiwen has been broadcast for many years, and feelings are a point that we must pay attention to. Since they like the old theme song, use the previous version and don't go against the audience. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it. ”

Yan Tao is not a stubborn person, since Mr. Meng said so, let's change it back.

"The Betrayal of the Sun" tells a story about "negative energy" as a clue.

A large amount of gold suddenly appears in a village, and the villagers fight for the gold, which is full of ugliness. A strange eyeball floating in the air sucked something out of these villagers' bodies, and then the Zhu Xingtuan came here......

As the last work of the Sevenn OV commemorative trilogy and the final work of the trilogy, "The Betrayal of the Sun" introduces the concept of "negative energy" in the plot of Ultraman Eddie TV, and explores the pros and cons of human negative thinking about greed and selfishness, and the quality is absolutely passable.

And PD is more generous than Tsuburaya!

When Tsuburaya filmed the Severn OV series, the budget given was not much, and it can be seen from the clumsy special effects and sets that the crew really didn't have much money, and the OV was all supported by the plot.

But Meng Zai gave Yan Tao a large amount of money, which was enough for him to make fine special effects and improve the shortcomings in details.

This also leads to ......

From the perspective of Meng Lang's viewing experience, the finished quality of the PD version of the "Commemorative Trilogy" is obviously better than the original.

The grades are also better!

The commemorative trilogy, which did not land in theaters, was all broadcast by Big Bird Satellite TV. As a TV special that aired at noon, the average rating reached 3.11%!

On the Big Bird video, the cumulative number of views of the trilogy exceeded 100 million. Among them, the number of broadcasts of "Lost Memory" has exceeded 50 million!

The cumulative DVD sales of the trilogy have exceeded one million copies. Based on the price of the collector's set of 88 yuan, this part of the income is also tens of millions.

All in all!

After filming this trilogy, although it cost a lot of money, it didn't lose money after all, and even made a small profit.

This also strengthened Meng Lang's confidence that he could continue to shoot and get out the "Final Chapter Six Parts" and "Evolution Five Steps".

That's for later, though.

"The memorial trilogy has just ended, and the final six-part series will not be produced so quickly. As for your next focus, you can lean towards the PD Incredible Comedy Series!"

"Okay!

Yan Tao nodded and agreed: "The results of "Robot Little 8" and "Robot Madoka" are not bad, will the theme of the new work continue to use robots?"

"Forget the ...... robots"

No matter how fragrant the pork head meat is, you will get tired of eating too much. In recent years, "robot" works have been frequently launched, even if the audience is not tired of watching it, Meng Zai is also tired of watching it.

Let's play with something else!

What kind of magical girl, food, super detective, beautiful girl mask can be!

Anyway, the "Incredible Comedy" series originally took the route of "spoof". As long as it can make the audience happy and earn a certain rating, any theme can be stuffed into it.

"By the way, do you have any honeymoon arrangements?"

"Nope!"

Yan Tao shook his head and looked at Mr. Meng curiously, not knowing why he cared about this.

"That's easy!"

"Since there is no honeymoon trip, then you should have plenty of time, so let's stop making any TV series, just make movies!"

Meng Lang smiled and said, "How about the theatrical version of Ultraman Gaia?

Yan Tao: "???"

The Ultraman Gaia TV drama hasn't been broadcast, so it's time to consider the theatrical version?

"Mr. Meng, isn't this okay?"

Although Yan Tao was very interested in this movie, he felt that there was something wrong with Mr. Meng's approach!

It's also a pillar-level IP!

On Kamen Rider's side, even the empty me dragoon Ajito has no theatrical plan, and Ultraman has already filmed several films in a row, is this fair?

"Who says Kamen Rider doesn't?"

Meng Lang said speechlessly: "Before, Bai Cang couldn't be busy alone, so all the theatrical plans proposed by President Ono were put on hold. ”

"But now there's Omori!"

"I've already told him to make a theatrical version of Ajito's "G4 Project" first, and then a whole Dragoon theatrical version of "The Last Event", and the 555 theatrical version of "Vanishing Paradise" is also in the list of plans......"

So many?!

Knowing that Mr. Meng had made arrangements, Yan Tao was also a little relieved.

Since Mr. Meng has taken it all into account, Ultraman is also his favorite theme, why not take it?

Gaia has two theatrical versions.

In chronological order, they are "Armageddon" and "Gaia Reappears".

Gaia's reappearance tells the story after the ending of Gaia TV, which is not suitable for filming now.

Therefore, the draft plan that Meng Lang handed over to Yan Tao can only be "Super Time and Space Armageddon"!

Interesting......

Many people have seen this movie and know that the promotional slogan of this movie is "Three heroes gathered that can't be seen on TV!"

But!

How many people know that the full name of this movie is "Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dinah & Ultraman Gaia, Armageddon in Time and Space"?

The name is really long......

The full name of the Ultraman theatrical version is generally relatively long, and the usual name used by fans is usually "abbreviation".

For example, "Super Eight"!

This is the abbreviation of "Armageddon! Super Ultra Eight Brothers", and the Starlight Warrior is the abbreviation of "Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dinah: Warrior of the Star of Light".

Tsuburaya has a bad habit!

When they name big movies, they like to add the name of "every main character". For example, the style of "XX Ultraman & XX Ultraman: XXX Armageddon".

It's not that it can't be done!

Neon special effects movies, especially TV drama spin-offs, like this kind of stinky and long shit title, and they are complacently printed on posters to hype it.

The reason for this is that they hope to attract fans and passers-by to buy tickets to watch the movie through "prefixed character names".

Take Armageddon, for example!

The title of the film comes with the three Ultraman names of "Tiga Dinagaia", and the uninformed audience was immediately attracted when they saw it.

It's a great way to do it!

But Meng Lang didn't like it!

He feels that there is no need to use this method to attract attention with IP movies of the level of "Ultraman" &"Kamen Rider".

On the contrary, the concise and catchy film title is more in line with his expectations for IP works such as Ultraman and Kamen Rider.

The Final Holy War!

Armageddon!

Super Ultra Eight Brothers!

Without any prefixes, as long as the figure of "starring Ultraman" is posted on the movie poster, fans will naturally buy it.

Why are there so many bells and whistles? There is a group photo of the three heroes of Heisei on the poster, and the audience naturally knows that this film is a "gathering of the three heroes of Heisei gathering" film.

This is Meng Lang's opinion!

Yan Tao felt that it made sense, and he also supported the practice of "reducing the title of the film". The title is too long and too awkward, and it is completely unnecessary.

Just make sure it's catchy!

In the final analysis, the success or failure of a movie is determined by the "content". Instead of making a big fuss about the title, it is better to polish the script with heart.

The project of "Armageddon" includes a part of the script outline.

After Yan Tao read it carefully, he nodded at Meng Lang, saying that he had no problem and was fully qualified for this job.

Of course, he also had doubts.

Judging from the project plan, "Armageddon" should be a movie of great significance. Why didn't Mr. Meng shoot it himself, but entrusted it to him?

"I have something else to do!"

In this regard, Meng Lang explained: "After Gaia is finished, I will probably make a big movie with M78 as the background to give fans a reassuring pill and save them from making trouble all day long." ”

"I see......"

Yan Tao nodded thoughtfully.

Tiga, Dinah and Gaia had to be broadcast, which made many old Ultraman fans unable to sit still.

What about the M78 universe?

What about the Land of Light?

They are worried, fearing that the fire of Tiga Dinah and Gaia will lead the Ultraman series to the path of "constantly opening up parallel worlds" and completely abandon the M78 universe.

It's a hard thing for them to accept!

Although the parallel world is very good, and Tiga Dinah is also doing well, but in the bottom of their hearts, they still prefer Ultraman from the main universe of M78.

This is also normal!

After all, from the first generation to Audi, the M78 universe has laid an unshakable foundation in the minds of the audience through many works.

Even if the follow-up U40 galaxy, the Didai universe is very good, it still can't replace the status of the M78 main universe.

The audience's current thoughts are: without M78 and the Land of Light, there is always a feeling that Ultraman is missing something......