Chapter 336: Signing a Letter of Intent
Sha Lun shook his head, "I don't need you to contribute, you and I personally contribute to the development of the game, it's a drop in the bucket, I will find a way to raise it!"
Sun Quan frowned, "Then how do you let me buy shares?"
Saron: "Your Immortal Dragon Ring!"
"The Immortal Dragon Ring?" Sun Quan understood a little, but he didn't fully understand what Salun meant.
"You want to adapt my book into a game?"
Salun smiled and nodded, "Yes, you know, the works I have written over the years are basically urban, and urban works are not suitable for adaptation into online games, I have read your "Immortal Dragon Ring", the creativity is very good, and the writing is also very exciting, the popularity and popularity of this book are very good, and it happens to be a fantasy work, I have thought about it carefully, your book is very suitable for adaptation into a game, if you agree, you can use the game adaptation rights of your book to buy shares, what do you think?"
Sun Quan sighed, and subconsciously glanced at Shenji next to him.
Shenji had an expression of staying out of the matter at this time, just listening with a smile, and he was no longer interested in speaking.
Sun Quan fell into thought.
He remembers that after Saron changed careers, the first game he made was "Divine Death".
In order to promote this game, he also deliberately came back to the starting point to write a book with the same name, and reached a promotion agreement with the starting point, and the promotion advertisement of the game "Divine Death" has been hanging on the starting point's webpage for a long time.
may be due to the lack of energy and focus, and the popularity dissipates after a long period of stopping, Sun Quan remembers that the popularity of "Divine Death" during the starting point serialization was not very high.
Compared with the popularity of the works at the peak of Shalun, it is much worse.
Just after he thought that Sha Lun's career change failed, about a few years later, Sun Quan couldn't remember clearly, but he suddenly heard that Sha Lun had booked the rights to adapt Tomato's new book game.
At that time, Tomato's new book had not yet been published, but the news in the circle was that it was 50 million for the game adaptation rights.
At that time, it was a shock in the circle.
I was not only shocked by the high popularity of tomatoes and the outrageous copyright price, but also shocked that after Shalun changed her career, she quietly developed the company to that height, and bought a game adaptation right, which was already able to offer such a sky-high price.
"How? Think about it?"
Saron asked with a smile.
Sun Quan suddenly asked, "If I use the game adaptation rights of this book to buy shares, how many shares can I have?" Also, has your company been established?"
Sha Lun shook his head slightly, "The company has not yet been established, but I have experience in doing the company, but I have gone bankrupt before, in recent years, although I have been writing online articles at the starting point, I have also been working part-time as a planner and consultant for several companies, so you don't have to worry about the establishment of the company!
When I bring in the funds and the company is established, we will talk about the formal shareholding contract, and then we will talk about the specific shares, do you think this will work?"
"I'm out for a cigarette!"
Shenji said suddenly, then waved his hand at Sun Quan and Salun, and left unhurriedly.
I guess I'm really not interested in listening to it.
Sun Quan waited for Shenji to leave, exhaled, and said with a smile: "Okay! It's okay to sign a letter of intent, and when the contract is officially signed, you can talk about the number of shares!"
Saron was a little surprised, "Really? Do you really agree to use the adaptation rights of "Immortal Dragon Ring" to buy shares?"
Sun Quan nodded, "Well, there really is! However, let's talk about the ugly words first! If the shares are too small for me at that time, I don't agree." ”
Sha Lun smiled, got up and stretched out his right hand to Sun Quan, "No problem! I will let you see my sincerity when the time comes! I wish us a happy cooperation!"
Sun Quan got up, and the two of them clasped hands together, smiling at each other.
Both of them are very young, Sun Quan is only 23 years old, and Sha Lun is not much older, but Sun Quan has seen some personal interviews with Sha Lun before, so he knows that this guy is different from ordinary people, he published his first book at the age of 18, and at the age of 19, he worked as a consultant for several advertising companies, and he started his own company at the age of 20.
When Sun Quan looked at his interview record before, he felt that if this guy didn't brag, he was a genius.
Unlike ordinary people who write online articles out of interest, Salun writes, as if because the company he opened in his early years went bankrupt, he was forced to write online articles to save himself.
And then he became one of the platinum gods in the early beginnings.
Now it seems that in the past few years of writing online articles, he should have saved enough money and adjusted his state, which is because he wants to start a company again and continue to toss.
Sun Quan couldn't figure out how Sha Lun could find him to cooperate.
The original time and space, the starting point is not without popular fantasy works, but Sha Lun created a story by himself that time, and then adapted it into a game.
In this life, for some reason, he actually fell in love with his "Immortal Dragon Ring".
Maybe in the original time and space, Sha Lun also asked a certain great god who wrote fantasy to talk about the adaptation of the work? Because he didn't talk about it, he wrote a game adapted from "Divine Death" in a fit of anger?
Sun Quan's mind flashed such suspicions, after all, Shalun himself is good at urban works, and fantasy is not his forte.
At the same time, the starting point contract for this year is very loose, except for the works signed by buyout, the starting point currently signs contracts with the authors only need the electronic copyright of the work.
Such as traditional publishing rights, simplified publishing rights, game adaptation rights, audio adaptation rights, TV series adaptation rights, movie adaptation rights, comic adaptation rights, etc., all belong to the author.
It's not as domineering as 15 years later, when all the rights are signed.
Otherwise, even if Sha Lun fell in love with Sun Quan's adaptation rights of "The Rings of the Immortal Dragon", he would not come to Sun Quan himself to negotiate, just go directly to the starting point.
……
The starting point of this annual meeting is not low in grade, and the service is great.
Sha Lun made a phone call to the hotel front desk and said that she wanted to borrow the hotel's printer, and the front desk agreed without hesitation.
This greatly facilitated Sun Quan and Sha Lun to sign a letter of intent.
The letter of intent was printed out in duplicate, and after a brief check, the two of them signed it happily and pressed their fingerprints.
The content of this letter of intent is not complicated, but it is agreed that within two years, Sun Quan will not sell the game adaptation rights of "Immortal Dragon Ring" to other companies for the time being, and within two years, as long as Shalun's company is established and the funds are in place, the two parties will officially sign an agreement on the game adaptation rights of "Immortal Dragon Ring" to become a shareholder of Shalun Company.
The specific shares, according to the value of the company, will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
If you just look at the terms of this letter of intent, the two people who signed this kind of letter of intent seem to be quite unreliable.
Before a company was established, it talked about the matter of investing in the adaptation rights of other people's works.
The other does not first determine a minimum shareholding ratio, and just signs such a letter of intent with someone.
But they just signed it.
For Sha Lun, his style of doing things may have always been like this, or it may be because he came to attend the starting point annual meeting this time, and happened to see Sun Quan, and then thought that Sun Quan's "Immortal Dragon Ring" was suitable for adaptation into a game, and he came to Sun Quan on a whim to try his luck.
Regardless of whether you have dates or not, try to hit two shots first, in case it succeeds?
Anyway, try and you won't get pregnant.
As for Sun Quan, if what Sha Lun just proposed was not to buy shares, but to buy the game adaptation rights of his "Immortal Dragon Ring" for hundreds of thousands, he might have rejected it in one bite.
Because he knows that in a few years, when the film and television industry and the game industry are in the boom of IP adaptation, the copyrights of well-known works with a little adaptation value at the beginning are almost bought out.
At that time, an adaptation right of the platinum author of the starting point could easily sell for millions, or even tens of millions.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for him to sell the game adaptation rights of "Immortal Dragon Ring" for hundreds of thousands now.
If you hold it in your hand for a few years, even if the game adaptation rights of his book can't be sold in the end, it will only be a loss of hundreds of thousands.
But if it is sold, it is a price of tens of millions, and it can be sold for millions no matter how bad it is.
The risk is not big, the prospect is promising, and he will sell it cheaply if his brain is in water.
But what Sha Lun talked to him today about was the adaptation right to become a shareholder.
For Sun Quan, these are two concepts.
Although, if the final game is adapted, it may not make any money, and it will be a loss.
But after all, there is still the possibility of making a lot of money!
Once you make a big profit, it is likely not to be a gain of hundreds of thousands.
Not only monetary gains, but also opportunity gains one step ahead.
Just think: when the works of other gods have not yet sold the game adaptation rights, his "Immortal Dragon Ring" is not only adapted, but also very popular.
When the IP is hyped up by the entertainment industry and the game industry, when the adaptation rights of other gods can sell for millions, tens of millions, it is rare for him and Sun Quan to sell the adaptation rights lower than others?
Therefore, signing this letter of intent that is only valid for two years does not have any psychological burden.
Anyway, within two years, he didn't plan to sell the game adaptation rights of the book, and within these two years, if Sha Lun really brought in the funds, the company was officially established, and he used the game adaptation rights of the book to buy shares, why not?
On the contrary, he has nothing to lose.
After signing the letter of intent, the two went downstairs to order a few dishes and asked for a bottle of red wine, which was regarded as a celebration of the signing of the letter of intent.
Eating and chatting, it ended after more than an hour.
By the time Sun Quan returned to the room, Shenji had already returned, sitting cross-legged on the bed and coding, with his laptop lying horizontally on his lap.
Catching a glimpse of Sun Quan coming back, Shenji temporarily stopped his hands, frowned and asked, "How did you talk in the end?"
Sun Quan hummed and replied with a smile: "Agreed, you don't seem to be optimistic?"
Shenji was silent and shook his head slightly, "I can't say whether I am optimistic or not, I just think that Salun is a bit big this time, and I am going to engage in game ......development."
Shook his head again, "If he says to stand up, maybe I'm still a little interested, just game development, I don't understand this thing, I don't touch what I don't understand!"