Chapter 013: Authorship, Back to School
"Haha, hypocrisy, there is a thief but no thief guts, but you make what you say so high-sounding. Qiao Fei looked at Zhou Chen, who forcibly defended, and laughed.
"What do you know, I respect Xiao Jiao......"
Zhou Chen opened his mouth to retort, his mobile phone rang, and he immediately made a silent gesture to Qiao Fei.
The incoming call is an unfamiliar number.
Thinking that he had left contact information for several film companies on the script online yesterday, Zhou Chen answered the phone without hesitation.
"Hello, which one?"
"Hello, is it Gu Yu's screenwriter? I'm Zheng Xuze, the general manager of 'Baoxin Pictures'. ”
"Oh, hello, Mr. Zheng, is Baoxin Pictures?" Zhou Chen's voice deliberately raised a little and looked at Qiao Fei next to him.
The film company was a little unfamiliar, and he had never heard of it at all.
Seeing Zhou Chen's view, Qiao Fei thought for a while, shook his head, and continued to concentrate on driving.
"Screenwriter Gu Yu, our Baoxin Pictures is a newly established film and television company, looking for suitable film and television projects, and we are very interested in the two scripts you published on the script website, so we want to buy film and television rights. ”
The man who listened to the voice of about forty on the other side of the phone did not drag his words, and directly explained his intentions.
"That's right, okay, then I don't know if Mr. Zheng has any detailed plans?" Zhou Chen's bright eyes flickered, revealing a thoughtful look.
"Detailed plan: After we buy the script, we will prepare the relevant film and television projects. ”
"In this way, I am only willing to sell the script of "The Great Wall" at present, and I want to seek investment and cooperation from film companies for "Crazy Stone". ”
Zhou Chen didn't know where the other party came from, so he simply didn't talk nonsense, and said directly.
"If that's the case, then we can just talk about the script of "The Great Wall" first. ”
"I don't know how Mr. Zheng plans to buy it, I believe you know the relevant quotations on the script. ”
"Yes, if the screenwriter Gu Yu is willing to sell out all the copyrights, including all the copyrights, including the signature, we can offer a higher price. ”
"Don't you sign it?" Zhou Chen was a little surprised.
Then this is not to buy a script, but to buy a work, who is it for?
"Yes, your script is very creative, and the design of many big scenes shows your amazing imagination, but there are still a lot of things that need to be scrutinized and revised in the script, so we will organize the screenwriter team to deal with it better, and we don't want to involve other copyrights on the issue of authorship and cause us disputes in the future. Of course, if you insist, we'll keep your co-writer's signature. ”
"Okay, I see. Zhou Chen nodded, but he was a little funny in his heart.
He's an original screenwriter, a co-screenwriter, what's that?
Nowadays, many famous directors have a team of behind-the-scenes screenwriters, and those people are actually co-writers.
Where do their signatures appear?
It's usually at the end of the movie, when the ending song plays, in the long list of hundreds or thousands of cast and crew.
With that dense list, it's not easy for you to find a person, and the signed screenwriter is often several people, and no one cares at all.
Even on various encyclopedias, their names are difficult to find.
Especially now, out of the need to create idols, all-round directors who can direct, act, and write are sought after.
In order to create this kind of super director, film and television companies are trying to find ways to do such things.
Mr. Zheng, who wants to buy his script, may be buying a script for a new powerful director.
The company may be a hidden existence, and when the work is bought, it will quickly be resold to a larger and more famous company before it can run the project.
"What does Gu Yu's screenwriter mean that we are willing to pay 1.5 million to buy out your script. Mr. Zheng's voice on the other side of the phone rang again.
"I need to think about it, Mr. Zheng, I'll call you back at seven o'clock in the evening at the latest, okay?" Zhou Chen thought about it.
"Okay, then I'll wait for good news, goodbye. ”
"Goodbye. Zhou Chen hung up the phone and looked at Qiao Fei.
"What's going on, what's the signature?"
"Nothing, want to buy the rights to my script, along with the byline. ”
"I don't even leave you a signature, are you crazy?"
"I can't say that, I don't send scripts just to sell them. ”
"Can that be the same, are you so short of money?" Qiao Fei looked at Zhou Chen suspiciously.
Zhou Chen's two scripts are very popular on the script network, and nearly 50 companies have paid to read them.
According to the price of 1000 yuan, even after deducting taxes, the income is nearly 200,000 yuan.
This guy has never applied for payment before the script is sold, and Lai is in a good buddy's house and pretends to be pitiful because he owes rent.
If it weren't for the fact that after she read it on the script network last night, she would have thought how miserable Zhou Chen was.
"Of course you're short of money, aren't you short of money?" Zhou Chen said angrily.
The system task requires the filming of "Machine Ji", with a shooting cost of 30 million, if he has it, then why bother to make other movies first?
"Of course it's missing, I still want to buy a suite for my family, I haven't had any money, and I bought this car with the salary I bought after filming "Swordsman Love 2". ”
When Qiao Fei heard Zhou Chen's words, she was also concerned.
If you think about it carefully, she is indeed just a small star now, like those first-line and top stars of others, but they are all worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions.
"That's it. ”
"Can this be the same, the script was written by you with great effort, and you don't even have a signature, so it has nothing to do with you, you are willing to do it? Besides, don't you want to direct it yourself?"
"It's not that hard. And I only sell the script of "The Great Wall", and keep the rest. Zhou Chen thought that the script was rewarded by the system, and he was a little embarrassed.
However, thinking that he has to eat a movie every three days in the system this year, from watching movies, analyzing films, to simulated performances, and shooting, he has never slacked off at all, and the system rewards four scripts is really nothing.
However, the system has collected a lot of data by analyzing, parsing and shooting videos, and has become more humane.
Zhou Chen is almost certain that the system is a movie-related advanced AI, through his analysis and research of so many movies, stories, and characters, and then searching for big data, he is constantly improving himself.
"Whatever you want, it's not my work anyway, okay, I'll be at school in a while, are you going to see Teacher Yuan empty-handed like this?"
"It's okay, you can go to the teacher and download the script from the online script and print it out for the teacher to read. ”
"I'm talking about the script, I'm talking about gifts!" Qiao Fei rolled his eyes at Zhou Chen.
"Oh, then buy some fruit, other things don't fit. Zhou Chen understood.
"Other things, how do you know if they are not suitable if you haven't bought them?" Qiao Fei shook his head helplessly, Zhou Chen still didn't understand the world.
"Then what do you say to buy? I think the teacher is the best gift to see me show her my excellent work. ”
"......!" Qiao Fei suddenly felt that he had suffered a ten-thousand-fold critical blow, and he was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.
What teachers in the world want to see most is for students to get ahead and make a career.
Other things outside the body, for them, some people have given them.
"Then buy some fruit. After a little hesitation, Qiao Fei agreed to the plan.
The main reason is that Mr. Yuan has a noble character, and he really doesn't like those materialistic gifts.
The School of Drama is located on the east side of Nanluoguxiang in Dongmian Hutong, which is usually crowded with people, and motor vehicles are closed to entering and leaving from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Zhou Chen and Qiao Fei naturally knew this.
So they parked the car outside, got out of the car and walked to South Causeway Lane, found a fruit supermarket to buy fruit, and then walked inside.
It's just past half past nine, but there are already quite a few tourists hanging out.
The school is in this downtown area, very low-key, if you don't pay much attention, you may have walked over, and you haven't found that the corner of the alley is the drama academy.
However, the school is very tightly guarded, and no one is allowed to enter or leave at will.
Zhou Chen and Qiao Fei revealed the identities of the alumni and registered their names, and the doorman let them in.
Entering the familiar campus, the two of them touched the scene, and they both felt a little emotion in their hearts.
Today we are proud of our alma mater, and tomorrow we will be proud of our alma mater.
This sentence is said by many schools, but how many people actually do it?
The School of Drama graduates three or four hundred people every year, and in the end, the waves are swept away, and it takes a few grades to produce a character who is really qualified to say such things, and they don't know if they have this qualification in the future?