Zhang Chu read the hundreds of words he had just written several times, and then slapped his head twice with his hand to delete them.

What was written did not satisfy him, and it could not show the cruelty of the war scenes.

In Tolkien's book, dialogue dominates the main story, almost all of which are dialogues.

In Peter Johnson's movie, many plots have been adapted, including the plot that Zhang Chu is writing now.

When the plains of Paliano were lost, the regent of Gondor decided that he should not give up his outer defenses, so he sent his youngest son Faramir to lead the knights to attack the fallen area that had been occupied by the Orc army of Mordor!

It's like hitting a stone with an egg, it's a real death charge!

There is no direct depiction of the war scene here, and Zhang Chu intends to write the scene of the ordinary residents of the city seeing off the army from the side, in this way to foreshadow the end of the warriors.

On top of that, Gandalf's move to have Pippin secretly set fire to the beacon was actually an adaptation of the film's own writers, and in Tolkien's case, Rohan, the regent of Gondor, sent emissaries for help.

The messenger also sent the news to the king of Rohan, but he was killed on his way back to Gondor, so the regent did not actually know that the king of Rohan had summoned a large army to come to his rescue.

The two versions are very different, and in order to make the story more dramatic, Zhang Chu did not use Mr. Tolkien's version when writing the book, but used the version of "The Princes of the Beacon Opera".

I can't say which setting is better, I can only say that Zhang Chu personally prefers the setting of the movie version.

The regent in it is actually a generation of Ming Jun, but he is portrayed as a faint monarch in the movie!

He combined it with the film and then wrote it in his own words.

The advantage of this is that there are enough references.

But that's also a disadvantage.

After having a reference, I will find that what I wrote is still a cut away from the ideal level, so I have to delete and overturn and rewrite from time to time, which invisibly increases the workload!

Zhang Chu is a perfectionist, since "The Lord of the Rings" has been written to the third part, it is necessary to write the last part well and write it into a work that satisfies everyone.

Just as he was immersed in the sound of keystrokes, a prompt suddenly popped up on the WeChat computer, and several new messages came out.

"Who, it's past nine o'clock in the evening and you still send me a message. Zhang Chu didn't pay attention to it, and planned to finish it in one breath while his thoughts were smooth.

Words flowed from between his fingers, he had just been stuck here for a long time, and he finally had something to satisfy him!

Five hundred words, a thousand words, both hands have not stopped.

It's like that's how you start writing with full concentration, time flies, and the word count grows happily.

It wasn't until he saved the manuscript that he opened the WeChat client to see who was inside the beating message reminder.

The software showed that more than forty minutes ago, the agent sent three voice messages to Zhang Chu.

"I just saw the pictures you posted on Weibo, if you have drawn them all, you can take these pictures to the company as peripheral products to promote, and even make dolls. ”

"In addition, the first week of sales of "The Lord of the Rings" came out, and it broke 3.8 million copies worldwide! The domestic sales contributed more than half, the United States had nearly a million, and the rest were some small countries. ”

"If you see this news, just reply to me, a Hollywood company has come to the door with a script!"

There are three different things in three sentences, and the agent is really busy.

The Lord of the Rings is now cooperating with China Gold to launch the same 24K version of the Supreme Lord of the Rings, but the price is too high, and only local tyrants can afford it.

The reason why the price is so high is to prevent the flood of goods in the market, in case someone wears it and goes out, only to find that everyone has one, and hitting the ring is as terrible as hitting the shirt!

Now that Zhang Chu, the comic image drawn by the author himself, is released, it can come in handy.

From keychains, coasters, thermos mugs, notebooks to figurines, there's no place you can't use it.

Zhang Chu knew that the periphery of the Lord of the Rings was a huge gold mine, which was hundreds of times stronger than the periphery of works such as "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Legend of Wukong"!

Now there are so many uses for small-scale development, and when the film is released, it may be possible to make much more money than box office revenue by uniting those manufacturers and film companies after the film is released.

These comic images all had clear images in Zhang Chu's mind, so it should be very simple to draw, and he could draw all the members of the Fellowship of the Ring in an afternoon.

The second thing surprised him, the Chinese version of "The Lord of the Rings" sold nearly two million in seven days in a week, which is a huge success for a fantasy work with a Western background!

It has injected a shot in the arm for the entire publishing market, allowing people to see the infinite possibilities of book sales.

The English version has sold almost one million in the supermarket in the United States, and Zhang Chu has not gone to the United States to promote it on radio or television programs or newspapers, relying on the publicity and distribution channels of Random House.

"The Lord of the Rings" has a very good reputation in the UK, and these people find that Zhang Chu is simply true love for the UK, starting from "Sherlock", almost every work has an appetite.

However, the population of this once empire on which the sun never sets is too small, contributing more than 300,000 copies in the first week, which is already the highest sales of the year.

It can sell so much, thanks to the word-of-mouth of the two seasons of the "Sherlock" TV series and the status of "Life of Pi" and "The Da Vinci Code" in the hearts of British readers.

Zhang Chu is very satisfied with this data, and the sales will definitely decline in the future, but almost everyone can conclude that it will definitely break through the 10 million mark within the year!

"Hollywood companies come to me with a script? I don't think I have authorized a project for them lately, right? It's weird to come to me with a script and ask me what to do. ”

His mind was full of doubts, and he didn't remember the licensing of the work at all, so he was quite curious about this.

Wrote so many works, but Hollywood only took the rights to two projects!

One is "Life of Pi", which has just been released not long after the poster, and the other is "The Da Vinci Code", which has not been reported at all.

Although there are many companies chasing "The Lord of the Rings", those prices are not satisfactory, and Zhang Chu refused early.

While he was waiting for Zhou Kang's reply, he said with a muttering voice: "Could it be that they are holding the script and want me to write it according to the script, this derivative form is quite common." ”

It's a common form, but Hollywood studios usually hire second-tier writers, and the price of first-tier writers is really unaffordable, and no one will take the job!