When the competition between Hollywood studios was surging, the gossip media was like a shark smelling fishy, keenly aware of the excitement, so they didn't bother to verify it, and directly began to announce it outside!

These entertainment media are the most undisciplined, and the fake news published every year is estimated to circle the earth.

Although the Hollywood Reporter is more formal and not the kind of eighteen-line magazine sold in supermarkets, they immediately released relevant news on their official website.

"The Chinese writer "Life of Pi" is highly sought after, and many Hollywood manufacturers are approaching!"

In the article, the reporter wrote: "A Chinese work that has recently made the New York Times bestseller list, a skinny Indian teenager and a ferocious Bengal tiger drift together at sea for 227 days. The booker Prize-nominated Life of Pi has been critically acclaimed in the industry, while its author's other book, Sherlock, has been adapted into a British drama of the same name. According to people familiar with the matter, a number of film companies, including Warner Bros., are in contact, please see the follow-up report for specific news. ”

Journalism is now working smartly, and when The Hollywood Reporter posted the news on its website, the rest of the media reprinted it as a news source!

Among them, there are many big media outlets such as Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, and the National Inquirer, all of which reposted this unconfirmed news on their websites.

There are all kinds of things happening in the entertainment industry, and being able to occupy a place in these media is crucial for "Life of Pi" to successfully break into the North American market.

Prior to this, there had been little media coverage at all, and Life of Pi had barely made it to the New York Times bestseller list only thanks to the operation of Random House.

After all this news, I'm afraid that the popularity will have to rise to a level, and it won't fall off in a short period of time!

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Zhang Chu was sitting in front of the computer, he was watching the matcha performance, obviously this little guy was lying on the side of the computer and playing, but he was startled by his hanging tail!

That stupid appearance is not to mention how funny it is, Zhang Chu thought that he had a black cat sheriff before, but he didn't expect to overestimate this guy's IQ, cats and tails are worthy of being two animals.

He withdrew his gaze and put it on the monitor, at this time he was a little tired from writing "Sou Shen Ji", and he always felt that it was difficult to write when the plot entered the middle and late stages.

"Why don't you watch something funny?"

Writing is like controlling water, and it is better to block it than to sparse it.

Instead of spending the whole day there, it's better to relax your mind and find a way to spend it.

The various fitness failure videos and pretending to fail videos in station B all left Zhang Chu's footprints, and the empty study room echoed with hahaha laughter.

Laughter is probably the best relaxation, after seeing all kinds of embarrassing things uploaded by netizens, he is much more relaxed, and it is indeed good for physical and mental health to go shopping over there if there is nothing to do!

Choosing to write "Sou Shen Ji" is right or wrong, Zhang Chu can only stick to it.

This is perhaps the most controversial of all his works, and even "Ghost Blows the Lamp" does not have so many negative reviews and readers are disgusted with the trend.

He likes "Sou Shen Ji" from the perspective of being a reader, but not every reader will like this book.

The only thing that can be done is to write the rest of the content and finish it all at once!

As for what to write in the future, Zhang Chu didn't want to think about it for the time being, lest he think too much and make his thinking confused.

Only now has he written the plot of Yaochihui, and there are still about three or four hundred thousand words left before the completion of "Sou Shen Ji", which is already the result of his full horsepower.

It is estimated that the full text will be handed over to Nanhai Publishing Company for publication in April, and if the serial update is updated, it will probably be scheduled for half a year later!

If you can't wait for readers who are serialized on the Internet or newspapers, you can choose to buy physical books to read them in advance.

Zhang Chu wrote, and the rest of the thoughts in his head poured out, "Maybe when the time comes, you have to ban spoilers in the book review area of the origin Chinese website." The rest of the place can't be managed, and there must be no problem over there. ”

If readers who buy a physical book directly publish the endings of various characters in the book review area, it is estimated that many readers will abandon the book or choose to subscribe only to the finale.

But the reputation of the physical book is inseparable from the discussion of readers, if the readers of the origin Chinese network want to watch the finale, then you can go to Weibo or Douban to find it.

"I hope the sales of this book are okay, and the word-of-mouth is estimated to be highly polarized. ”

He shook his head and threw out the distractions, and immediately began to continue to code, these things are still left to the market and readers to test.

The sound of the mechanical keyboard is not too loud, not to mention the sound of music to cover it, Zhang Chu wrote very quickly, a lot of the content was thought out in his mind, and he could take it out directly after organically combining it with the content of the wild fox version under the tree.

In many cases, there is a difference between the content of the online serialization and the published content, because the author and the publisher have made appropriate changes!

For example, sometimes everyone is complaining about a certain plot, and it can't be modified when it is serialized.

When the manuscript is about to be published, it can be corrected along the plot line, so as not to be coherent.

Underwater Crystal Palace, Heavenly Yaochi Palace, this description of the Great Wilderness Yaochi Palace is quite a bit of a description of Journey to the West, full of ancient style, and the text makes people feel very accomplished!

"Looking down from the sky, vermilion and emerald green, dotted with jade ribbons, shining brightly. The long palace platform and corridor are already full of high-ranking friends, and they are well-dressed. On the white jade floating platform of the central Bahe hall, hundreds of beauties sing and dance, colorful and pleasing to the eye. Silk and bamboo drum music, human language singing, very lively. The clear waves are vast, and thousands of light boats pass through it, transporting vegetables, fruits, wine, and other things to all corners of Yaochi Palace......"

These descriptions describe the most solemn peach conference in the Great Wilderness in great detail, which is also the content of the gao tide of "Sou Shen Ji".

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Thousands of words of content came to the computer from his mind through the hand on the keyboard, Zhang Chu stretched his waist and prepared to take a break, only to find that he had a few missed calls and a few > on his mobile phone that was set to muteHe walked to the balcony and unlocked the fingerprint lock to find that the call was from his mother, and the voice message was sent by his father Zhang Bowen.

"Is there something urgent at home?" Zhang Chu secretly felt a little flustered, it was a video call a week prescribed by Chu Lan before.

didn't care about listening to any voice messages, he directly called back Chu Lan's phone, silently praying that everyone in his family was fine.

"Hello?"

Chu Lan's angry voice came out of the phone, which made Zhang Chu feel a lot more at ease.

He asked bluntly, "Mom, what are you doing calling me so much half an hour ago?

"It's not a big deal, I just saw a few news stories and wanted to ask you. Have you eaten dinner?" Chu Lan's thinking was very jumpy, and he paid attention to these little things.

Zhang Chu doesn't know much about what happened to him, and there are often news related to him, which is not an uncommon thing at all.

"Dinner, in the cafeteria, the rice is harder. What kind of news is it, my father > "probably means that your "Life of Pi" is said to have been favored by Hollywood companies and has become a sweet spot. Some companies are willing to pay 10 million US dollars to buy the adaptation rights, and there are already rumors outside!"

This answer was beyond Zhang Chu's imagination, and he said self-deprecatingly: "Which company gives so much money? I'll sign the contract right away!"

That's 10 million US dollars, and when converted into RMB, it's half a billion smaller, and Zhang Chu doesn't have that much net worth now.

Chu Lan also sighed with regret, "I knew it was fake, it was 10 million dollars, I didn't dare to think of it before." ”

"Actually, you can think about it a little, but the price will definitely go down a few notches. ”

The copyright of a book worth 10 million US dollars is not an ordinary work, I am afraid it has to be the best-selling series!

At present, judging from the news that Zhang Chu knows, it seems that Lionsgate is communicating with Menglong Culture Media, and what this kind of independent studio is best at is to be careful, and it is impossible to give too high a price.

The film adaptation rights of "Youth Pi" can be sold as high as "Sherlock", and Zhang Chu has to faint with laughter!

The first season of "Sherlock" has a copyright fee of up to £1 million, and the second season has a full £3 million plus a 3% profit dividend on the later stage.

Although the profit dividend in the later period is a lot boring, considering the BBC's terrifying earning power, the 3% profit dividend is estimated to bring Zhang Chu another two or three million pounds of income.

Can Lionsgate pay that much for Life of Pi?

And they are willing to let a writer like Zhang Chu, who is not famous in Hollywood, have a later dividend?

It's almost impossible!

Chu Lan calmed down, "What is the highest offer you received over there, I can't see that your earning ability is really not weak, much stronger than your father." ”

"The specifics are all communicated by the company, and I didn't ask carefully. But it seems that there is only this intention, and it does not involve money. ”

"You have to make up your own mind, but you don't even know if the company sells you. Lao Zhou is a good person, anyway, he has to keep an eye on himself. Your dad suffered a loss, so what kind of "Basic Deduction Method" was sold to American television, and it was blown up at the beginning, saying that it was produced by CBS, and the production level and ratings were guaranteed, but now I haven't even seen a shadow!"

Speaking of this, Chu Lan saw that his son's "Sherlock" had already started filming the second season in full swing, but "Basic Deduction" still doesn't know who the starring role is and when it will start filming.

Zhang Chu comforted and said: "They will definitely not use it as an ornament when they spend money to buy it, it is estimated that they are making a script." And the female version of Watson is indeed a bit risky, it is estimated that the people at the TV station are still weighing, just rest assured!"

In my previous life, I could see Lucy Liu playing Watson, and I will never lose this American drama to butterflies in this life.