Cao Jingyi, who was already anxious, did not waste any more time, and two days later, Sun Quan heard Xue Zihan's report, and Cao Jingyi had officially signed the investment agreement on behalf of Youku Video.

The terms of the contract are similar to those obtained by Shanda Literature.

Even if Sun Quan had heard about this matter, he was not interested in learning more about it, and most of his time and energy had been focused on the writing of new books.

He writes three to five chapters a day, and he is quite satisfied with the feeling of writing it so far.

It has been a few days since the completion of "The Last Wish of the Dead", and he also wants to publish a new book as soon as possible, so he plans to try his best to code words and save as many manuscripts as possible in the next period of time.

As for the company's affairs, he doesn't care about what he can do, anyway, whether it is 99 yellow stewed chicken, or salted fish studio, or salted fish film and television, fisherman's wharf, etc., there are special people to take care of it.

In addition, his daughter-in-law Yuan Shuiqing also officially returned to work, and the matter of bringing the baby was mainly handed over to Sun Quan's parents, and the nanny at home.

In this way, time flies.

In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed.

Sun Quan's new book has nearly 200,000 words in stock, but he has not decided to release it immediately, and he plans to continue to save some more manuscripts.

After all, the second season of "Dead Wishes" will start filming soon, and when the time comes, he will have to be resident in the crew, and at that time, he will hardly have time to code during the day, so he must have a little more, a little more.

No, this afternoon, he received the script for the second season of "Dead Wishes" from the screenwriter.

Tonight, he doesn't have much time to code.

At this moment, the night outside is hazy, Sun Quan is sitting in front of the computer in the study, squinting his eyes and reviewing the script on the computer little by little.

I think that at the beginning, the script of the first season was sent back by him several times and asked the screenwriter to revise it.

And tonight, after silently reading the freshly released script of the second season, he didn't find any major problems, and the script drafts of dozens of episodes were no problem in the general direction.

There are only some details, in the eyes of him, the original author, there are still a little problems.

Probably because when the script of the first season was played, the screenwriter had already run in with him, and understood the script style that he Sun wanted?

Perhaps!

After reading the entire script quickly, Sun Quan took a sip of tea, pondered for a while, and began to make various marks on the script, and the places he felt needed to be modified were directly marked on the document in red font.

It was a meticulous job, and he was busy until more than one o'clock in the morning before he finished marking the entire script.

He casually sent the marked script back to the screenwriter, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The script is almost polished, the second season of "Dead Wishes" is about to start filming, and the new book will be published as soon as possible, which makes him a little big.

Doing two brain-burning jobs at the same time, the mental pressure is really great.

He was thinking: Did he participate as little as possible in the second season? Give the position of chief director to Wang Zheng?

Screenwriter...... After working with him in the first season of "Wish of the Dead", he can understand the style of the script he wants, and Wang Zheng, the assistant director, also collaborated with him in the first season of "Wish of the Dead", does Wang Zheng also understand the style he wants?

If Wang Zheng already understands the style he wants, then after the second season of filming starts, how much difference will there be in the script with or without his grandson?

Concentrate on doing one thing well, this truth is the experience he has summed up for many years.

is like the famous saying in the book "Rain and Clouds": Because of the ability to be extremely affectionate, it can be extremely capable of the sword.

Half-heartedness is not good at everything.

Just like in his memory, some great god authors who made money and became famous in the original time and space, after opening their own companies or studios, most of the works written by those great gods themselves lost their previous edge, and the quality dropped significantly.

He Sun Quan didn't want to follow in the footsteps of those great gods in the original time and space.

Professional things should be left to professional people to do.

Maybe you can give it a try......

When the second season started filming, I also went to the script for a few days, but during those days, I didn't say anything, everything depended on the effect of Wang Zheng's shooting.

If the effect is good, I can live near the crew and try not to go to the crew during the day, take a little time every night to check the finished product shot by Wang Zheng, and keep it if there is no problem, and let Wang Zheng reshoot it after it is flawed......

These thoughts flashed through Sun Quan's mind one by one, and then he nodded slightly, with a faint smile on his face.

He thought it would be nice to deal with it this way.

He is a grandson, and what he is best at is only code words after all.

In terms of running a catering company, he is not as good as Kuang Longfei and Luo Na, in terms of running a film and television company, he is not as good as Xue Zihan, and in terms of making variety shows, movies, and TV series, he is definitely not as good as Wang Zheng.

Therefore, as long as Wang Zheng can shoot the effect he wants, why should he Sun Quan have to be the chief director?

In the first season, it can be said that he is the chief director, which can attract more fans to watch this show.

And now that the reputation of the first season has begun, it is not surprising that as long as the second season of this show does not change its name and the quality of the episodes does not decline too seriously, the popularity of this second season after the broadcast should not be bad, and not many people will stop watching this show because the chief director of this show is not him Sun Quan.

Changing directors and starring actors is different after all.

The starring role remains the same, if the director is changed, what the audience wants to watch, it should still be watched.

With a hundred thoughts in his heart, Sun Quan gradually made up his mind.

It was such a happy decision.

As long as Wang Zheng can shoot the effect he Sun Quan wants, the filming of the second season of "The Wish of the Dead" will be handed over to Wang Zheng.

......

The next morning, he called Wang Zheng to inform him of his decision.

On the phone, Wang Zheng was very surprised, and after repeatedly confirming that Sun Quan really thought so, Wang Zheng did not refuse, but said: "Then try it!

......

Two days later, the screenwriter sent the revised script to Sun Quan.

Sun Quan took two hours to review it.

After picking a few more revisions, he still marked out the places he was still dissatisfied with and sent them back to the screenwriter.

Because there were only a few things that needed to be revised this time, the screenwriter sent the revised script to Sun Quan again that afternoon.

This time, after review, Sun Quan had no opinions.

replied to the screenwriter: "It's hard work! Take a break for a while and continue to write the script for the third season!"

Without waiting for the screenwriter to reply, he sent all the scripts he had just reviewed to Wang Zheng.

And p.s.: "Brother Zheng, the script is ready, you can prepare it, choose a day to start shooting!"

Not for long.

He received replies from the screenwriter and Wang Zheng successively.

"Mr. Sun is polite, it's all my business, okay, I'll start writing the script for the third season after a few days off, don't worry!"

Here's the screenwriter's reply.

Wang Zheng's reply was: "Received! I have forwarded the script to Zihan, and asked her to complete the final preparations as soon as possible according to the content of the script. ”

......

Just like that, half a month passed in a flash.

In the past half a month, Sun Quan's manuscript has reached more than 380,000 words.

With so many manuscripts, if you say it, the big and small authors in the industry will definitely be surprised.

In recent years, although many authors have the habit of saving manuscripts before publishing books, there are still very few who can save manuscripts to this amount before publishing books.

For most authors, before the publication of a new book, it would be good to have 30,000 or 50,000 words in the manuscript.

Even if it is a great god author, before the book is published, the general manuscript is only one or two hundred thousand words, and there are few exceptions.

With so many manuscripts in hand, Sun Quan's heart is steady.

I also have a mind to pay attention to the preparations for the second season of "Dead Wishes".

Contacting actors, equipment, costumes, props, etc., Xue Zihan told him that these preparations were almost ready.

And director Wang Zheng also told him that he had flipped through the script of the second season, read it several times, and had split the plot in the script one by one, and the crew had been summoned.

You can shoot at any time.

When Sun Quan got this information, he said, "Then let's start filming!"

So, the boot date was set, and the boot location was also set.

The location is still in the magic capital.

The boot date is set for three days later.

Three days later, Sun Xinxin's book manuscript had more than 30,000 words, and so far, his new book manuscript has reached more than 410,000.

According to the plan, accompanied by his assistant Yu Xinxin and two bodyguards, he set off for the magic capital.

The affairs of the family and the company were handed over to Yuan Shuiqing.

He was relieved about this.

In terms of academic qualifications and IQ, Yuan Shuiqing dumped him a few streets, so the company, studio, etc., were handed over to Yuan Shuiqing to take charge, and he was very relieved.

And this is one of the great benefits of marrying a good wife.

......

On the car to the magic capital, Sun Quan sat in the back seat, looking at the scenery outside the window and hunting, feeling a little bored.

It's a long journey, and you can't waste so much time on the road.

He thought about it, took out his mobile phone, logged in to Youku Video, found the first season of his "Wish of the Dead", and checked the current popularity and reputation of this show.

He hasn't paid attention to his performance in this show for a few days.

only knows that this drama has made a lot of money for his salted fish film and television.

And the second season, although filming has not started yet, it is definitely going to make money.

Because Shanda Literature invested 15 million and Youku Video invested 15 million, there is already a total investment of 30 million.

In addition, in the past month or so, Xue Zihan has freed up his hands and gone around to attract sponsors, because the story of "Wish of the Dead" is set in a modern city, and the popularity and reputation of the first season are not bad, Xue Zihan has really attracted a lot of sponsors.

There are car manufacturers who sponsor a few cars, there are computer manufacturers who sponsor a few computers, and there are clothing brands that sponsor some clothing...... Wait a minute.

These manufacturers and brands not only sponsored physical objects, but also paid sponsorship fees.

In Xue Zihan's words, it is advertising money!

Let their products appear and advertise in this drama, how can they do it without giving money?

As far as Sun Quan knows, the sponsorship fee brought by Xue Zihan is even more than 11 million.

As a result, the investment in this drama has reached more than 40 million.

Sun Quan asked Salted Fish Film and Television to invest 8 million yuan, and the total investment of this drama was 50 million, so that when this drama was promoted to the outside world, it could give the audience more confidence.

Of the 50 million, he plans to keep about 10 million as publicity funds, and 40 million as the production cost of this show.

He believes that if so much investment is smashed, as long as the plot and actors' performances of this drama do not pull their hips, the quality will not be bad.

This is also a big reason why he wants to let this drama go to Wang Zheng to shoot - the production funds are so sufficient, even if Wang Zheng wastes some filming funds, it will be no problem.

Therefore, it is obvious that his salted fish film and television only invested 8 million yuan this time, plus his original adaptation rights and screenwriting fees, but it accounted for 60% of the total investment share of this drama, so I asked him how low the popularity of this drama should be, and he would lose money?

Even if you want to lose, the first thing to lose is Shanda Literature and Youku Video.

This is also a big reason why he was willing to let Shanda Literature and Youku Video participate in investing in this season.

Someone helped take the risk this season, why would he refuse?

At this time.

Sun Quan saw on his mobile phone that the number of viewers of the first season of "Wish of the Dead" has exceeded 100 million.

With more than 110 million views, this is not an ugly statistic.

In the comment area, he didn't see a few bad reviews, most of them were praised.

For example: "When will the second season be filmed? I've been waiting for the flowers!"

"For the first time, I think that domestic dramas are too short! Why is there only 14 episodes of such a good-looking TV series? Is the producer so poor?"

"The original book is finished, this drama has only been filmed so much, bad reviews!"

"I heard that this drama is directed by the original author himself?

......

Looking at the comments in the message area, Sun Quan was in a good mood.

There are more expectations for the second season because of this.

At this moment, the screen on his mobile phone suddenly changed, the mobile phone rang, and Huo Yiyi's name was displayed on the mobile phone screen.

Huo Yiyi called at this time.

Sun Quan smiled and answered casually, "Hey, Yiyi, why did you think of me today?"

Huo Yiyi: "Brother Quan, I heard that the second season of "Wish of the Dead" will start this afternoon, will you be there then?"

Sun Quan was a little surprised, she called on purpose, but she asked about it.

Immediately relieved, because he suddenly remembered that he had told Xue Zihan before that a female ghost in the second season asked Huo Yiyi to play the role, so that Xue Zihan remembered to contact Huo Yiyi.

He didn't forget that during the filming of the first season of "Dead Wishes", when he and Huo Yiyi met by chance in a breakfast restaurant early one morning, they promised that they would arrange a role for her in the second season.

Therefore, Huo Yiyi called at this time to ask about the start of the second season of "Dead Wishes", it must be because she is also attending the launch ceremony today.

Sun Quan was a little surprised that Xue Zihan actually remembered to notify Huo Yiyi to participate in today's start-up.

After all, Huo Yiyi plays a female ghost in this drama, but she is only a small supporting role.

"Well, I'm on my way to the magic capital, I should be able to arrive at noon, and I will definitely attend the opening ceremony in the afternoon, what?

"Yes! I received an invitation yesterday, hehe, this is my first time participating in a TV series, since I received an invitation, then I must go! By the way, Brother Quan, thank you! Remember to arrange a role for me, hehe. ”