The adaptation from text works to film and television works has never been smooth sailing, in fact, only a few have succeeded, and most of the adaptations have actually failed.

This is especially serious in the domestic film and television industry, although many TV series and movies adapted from literary works have attracted a lot of attention, the risk of failure is very high, especially in recent years!

In the past, many TV series came from martial arts and romance, but now it is the same, but the audience doesn't buy it.

It's not that the audience's aesthetic requirements have become stricter, but that these productions have no intention at all and are shoddy.

In the 90s and early 21st century, the visual effects were not developed, but although some mythological dramas and Xianxia dramas filmed at that time had average visual effects, the stories were very attractive.

Now that so much time has passed, the visual effects of the TV series have not improved, but have become more and more spicy to the eyes!

The producer probably spent all the money on inviting actors, and was reluctant to make some good effects, so they made fantasy and fairy tales into martial arts.

If you have money to cut out pictures, you don't have money to do some special effects.

In terms of movies, it is a little more reliable, although there are many examples of adaptation failures.

There are two types of adaptation failures, one is a commercial failure, and the other is an artistic failure.

The commercial failure is easy to understand, that is, the film did not recover the production cost after its release, which led to the loss of the producer!

Nowadays, the box office is only a small aspect of the movie's profitability, and it is pounced on the movie box office, maybe it is okay to sell broadcast rights or peripheral products.

More films have actually recovered their costs during the filming stage, and it has presented a rare advertising show to the audience.

In addition, there is a situation where money laundering is carried out under the guise of making movies, people don't care about the box office of the movie at all, as long as there is this project, the black money goes in, and then launders it back.

The failure in art is mainly due to poor word-of-mouth, although the critics and audiences have different standards, they all agree that this movie is a failure, especially the art film itself is expected to be well received, but it has been made with a flood of bad reviews.

If the Lord of the Rings series of films is filmed, it will definitely take the commercial road, and if it is successful in business, it doesn't matter how badly it is!

Zhang Chu does not expect to be like the three movies directed by Peter Jackson on the earth, with a bumper harvest at the box office and word of mouth, which is an extremely difficult thing.

Zhou Kang knew Zhang Chu's worries, and he said: "The price offered by Disney is slightly lower than that of "The Da Vinci Code", $5 million + 2% box office profit dividend; Warner Bros. is as rich as ever, with a $10 million buyout and no dividends; Paramount gives a figure of $8 million + 2% box office profit dividend; Twentieth Century Fox buys out ...... $8 million"

This number and the quotation are indeed a bit low, because Zhang Chu got a copyright fee of 10 million US dollars and a global box office dividend of 3% on "The Da Vinci Code", in addition to 10% of the profit dividends around the movie, which is almost the highest price of Hollywood copyright transfer in recent years!

As a result, it was lower on the side of "The Lord of the Rings".

"The price is outrageous, I won't say yes. ”

Zhang Chu really didn't understand why the price gap was so big, and if that was the case, he would rather not make it into a movie.

"These companies are mainly based on readers' feedback and the evaluation of their own project teams. Although "The Lord of the Rings" is selling quite well at the moment, it was because of you, not because of itself. When "The Da Vinci Code" was born, everyone discussed the content in it. Even if you say that "The Lord of the Rings" has a sequel, in the eyes of these companies, it is estimated that it is just an ordinary fantasy work, and there are not too many highlights at present. ”

Zhou Kang told the truth and did not hide anything.

Even he also thinks that there are not many eye-catching plots in "The Lord of the Rings", and they can't compare to the earth-shattering creativity of "The Da Vinci Code"!

Now the influence of "The Lord of the Rings" has not yet fully come out, it is a slow-burning work, so Zhang Chu feels that he can't sell the movie copyright in a hurry in the first part, the highlights have not come out yet, and the highlights are all behind!

The tip of the iceberg of the entire Middle-earth world has just emerged, and the content of the first part alone cannot support the content of a grand work.

Zhang Chu held back a lot of energy in his heart, "I feel underestimated, if the content of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy appears, they will not give tens of millions of copyright fees for each part, don't want to get the adaptation rights!"

"So, you should hurry up and write it now, let them see how wonderful the story is, give them a thirty-year Hedong and thirty-year Hexi, don't bully the young man and the poor reversal!"

Zhou Kang's agent looked angry.

"Uncle Zhou, you seem to have stolen my lines, shouldn't this sentence be for me to say?" Zhang Chu suddenly laughed.

The quotations of these companies have strengthened his idea of not transferring the copyright for the time being, and after he finishes writing the third part of the king, he must send the physical book to the person in charge of these companies, so that they can take a good look!

"I'm putting myself in your shoes. If you follow the way we talked about it, then I'll reject them all at once?"

Zhang Chu nodded: "Yes, let's refuse first." ”

Zhou Kang asked curiously: "You have a lot of confidence in this one, is it really very exciting behind it?"

In fact, this is a particularly euphemistic inquiry, Zhou Kang is just worried that if the content behind "The Lord of the Rings" is the same or similar to the first part, it may not really be a masterpiece.

Against the backdrop of his previous excellent works, if the quality of the book is average, or if there are no surprises, then not only the film company will be disappointed, but even the fans will be disappointed.

Zhou Kang was worried that Zhang Chu had swelled, but he didn't say it.

"Of course. This book is different from previous works, it is a self-contained work, like a whole world, a bit like Homer's epic poems, Dante's divine comedy. ”

Zhang Chu could see the agent's expression of wanting to speak, and took the initiative to say: "I'll send you the second part of "Twin Towers", if you still feel that it is not exciting enough and amazing after watching this one, it must be my problem!"

"I can't help you with writing, and I don't understand the fantasy genre. The current mainstream is not this type of writing, you call it non-mainstream writing, which may not be acceptable to most readers. They need a process of channeling, digestion. ”

"We have time, don't rush too much. ”