Chapter 210: Plan Ahead
The Sharpley is a weak chicken.
Even if he is placed in the ranks of cosmic people, he is considered a relatively weak one. He first appeared in Severn, and also appeared in the TV drama of Ax and Orb.
The image of this cosmic man has been changed several times, initially as a strange man wearing a fencing mask and a gold foil coat with a special badge on his chest, and during the Super Galactic Legend period, Tsuburaya made a second-generation Sharpley star in a silver foil coat.
Later, this design was followed.
Pengda's version of the Sharpley Star Man is silver, and in terms of shape, it is more like a "silver Kamen Rider without a belt".
And that animated character, the shape is the same, but the hands are more armored, and the setting is a robot.
This one is really a design crash.
The designer designed the Sharpley Star according to Meng Lang's instructions, and the finished product was successfully registered with the image patent. Before this, no one knew that a similar character image had appeared in other works.
After Meng Lang learned about what happened, he took the initiative to contact the producer of this animation to negotiate how to deal with this matter.
Because neither side is responsible for it.
Pengda came out relatively late, but he holds the image patent. The other party came out earlier, but there was no patent in hand.
In addition, neither the Sharpley nor the animated character was particularly important to both parties, and things were easily settled.
The two companies issued a joint statement.
This incident is purely coincidental, and there is no plagiarism in the design of the holster. Pengda will remake the Sharpley into the character's avatar, signifying a handshake between the two parties.
This belongs to the image linkage!
Although there was a lot of turmoil in the middle, the final result was very good, after all, both sides earned enough exposure in this turmoil.
Like Severn TV dramas, because they did not premiere in China, the discussion has never been hot. But after this plagiarism scandal appeared, the number of fans who paid attention to Saiwen surged, and Meng Lang received many private messages asking when Saiwen would be broadcast.
"It's almost time!"
Saiwen's TV drama has a total of 48 episodes.
The original version has one more episode than this, and the one less episode is the banned episode 12 "Dedicate Love to the Planet" to be precise.
Saiwen is one of the most depressing works of Showa Ori's plot, and it is also the work of Eiji Tsuburaya and Tetsuo Kaneshiro to let go of themselves. They tried to add more discussion of human nature and irony of reality to the original "anti-war" theme.
This has also led to great resistance from Severn, both in neon and overseas.
Take China as an example, the Severn TV dramas seen through formal channels (pirated network disks are not counted) are all deleted versions. Most of these episodes have been cut to varying degrees.
The line cannot be crossed, this is a matter of principle.
In the episode of Dedicating Love to the Planets, Meng Lang is a crooked nut, if it is filmed, the impact will not be as big as that of Tsuburaya. But it will also be resisted by the neon audience, after all, "talking about nuclear color change".
He didn't want to die, so he simply deleted it.
What good will he do by filming this episode? If he gets into trouble with some radicals, it's going to be troublesome. Although the group of people who were bombed in the first place were almost dead, as long as there was one left, this joke could not be made.
So his version of Saiwen only has 48 episodes!
It's not very long, and compared with the first generation, there are about ten more episodes. In addition, Severn was not as hasty as the original, so he made sufficient preparations before the start of filming, and the filming progress was fast.
20 episodes have been produced so far!
You can consider starting the broadcast in China, and the schedule will be the Spring Festival file at the end of the year. As a happy day for the whole family, Severn's ratings are definitely good.
The premiere platform has not yet been decided.
The main reason is that Director Tao is on a business trip and has not come back yet. Jiangchuan TV has been coveting Saiwen for a long time, and if the conditions given are good, Meng Lang is willing to hand them over.
Shop around!
The storm of the design crash made Meng Lang extra vigilant. In order to avoid the recurrence of such things, he plans to preemptively register all the classic monster images in the future.
It's a rainy day.
As a "monster" company, Tsuburaya has designed countless monster images. While there are many monsters that are refurbished versions of old holsters, there are also many new ones.
From the first generation to Mebius, each of Tsuburaya's Ultra works will leave a big suspense for the audience, that is, what new monsters will appear in this work?
Mebius was a watershed moment.
Before Little Dream, the audience will look forward to the appearance of new monsters. After Little Dream, the audience will look forward to the new episode of the whipping corpse.
It's so realistic!
In the past, Ultraman also had whip corpses, but it was once in a while. After that, Ultraman often whipped corpses, and occasionally a new monster appeared.
This is also a reflection of the current state of finance.
There are many monsters that can be remembered, both the Showa and Heisei systems. Especially the boss monster of each work.,It's really hard to forget.。
Most of these monsters have specific design rules. If someone finds out this law, then Meng Lang will be in danger.
The image of the monster has been preemptively registered by others, and he can't copy it, so he can only let the designer redesign it. Not to mention the time-consuming and labor-intensive, the redesigned monsters are not necessarily as good as the original.
There is no choice but to preemptively register!
This is true not only of Ultraman, but also of Kamen Rider. The subsequent images of weirdos and knights need to be registered in advance, so as not to be cut off.
He plans to implement a system of "shoot one and make one bet", specifically a series of works such as Ultraman and Kamen Rider, and when making one, he needs to make a leather case and model for the next one, and at the same time register the image patent for the next one.
This will be a lot less troublesome.
And this is also the norm in the industry, like Tsuburaya and Aunt Dong, after entering the new century, they have also embarked on the road of pre-registration.
It's just that they play at a high level.
Take Aunt Dong as an example, the design of the new knight, they will make N plans, and then register them in a unified manner. Before the start of filming, the main ride was remade according to the knight that had been designed, and as for the design registered early, it became a second or even a third ride.
Everyone understands the reasons for this.
Business competition is cruel!
There are billions of people on the earth, and not everyone has a good brain, and if they don't take precautions, the person who deliberately makes trouble really appears, so what should you do?
It's not just a monster of TV dramas!
Monsters like those that have appeared in OV and big movies also need to be considered. It's just that there are not many of these parts, and it's a drop in the bucket compared to TV dramas.
How normal this is!
The monsters that appear in the Ultraman theatrical version are mostly whip corpse TV monsters, and even if there are new monsters, there are not many scenes.
There is only one Belial!
Looking at all the theater villains produced by Tsuburaya, there are more scenes in Beria. If you change to another villain, there will be no picture after a theatrical version.
It's like Beria, after the theatrical version is over, you can still go to the TV drama to recognize a son and mix well.