In the afternoon casting work, Li Zhifan did not participate, but had a meeting with Cheng Wenbin, senior vice president of Oriental Entertainment, who came from China.

Cheng Wenbin came this time to discuss with Li Zhifan the business issues of Oriental Entertainment's layout in Hollywood and even the global film and television industry.

Regarding the layout, in addition to the construction of film and television cities in Chinese mainland, a number of foreign film and television cities will also be acquired, and they will be bought directly together.

Among them, the most objective money scene is Disneyland.

It only took one year for Oriental Entertainment to take a controlling stake in Disney Film and Television, and it is a very vast project to encroach on Disney.

This century-old brand is not so delicious, the company's shareholders are as many as 10,000 people, and absolute control in addition to directly buying the equity of the current major shareholder, there is also direct investment in shares, diluting the original equity.

But the latter approach is not advisable, because Disney's size has not yet reached the point where it can dilute its equity and expand its scale, and its main tourism, hotels, and ecological parks are all real economy, not the Internet economy, which has the opportunity to expand its market value.

Secondly, Disney is a listed group, while Oriental Entertainment is not listed, and it is very difficult to hold it.

But this time, Cheng Wenbin brought good news.

Disney agreed to sell all Disney parks in Asia to the Oriental Group for 99 years.

It's bound to be a very big project and a win-win project.

If Disney and the Eastern Bloc are still there 99 years later, the two sides will return the talks, which will inevitably be a grand event that attracts the attention of the world.

But the Oriental Group does not just want to lease for 99 years, and on this basis, the Oriental Group has put forward another feasibility, that is, to set up a Disney Asian branch to control and operate Disneyland throughout Asia, which is located in Beijing, and the Oriental Group directly buys this branch, but whether it is in terms of equity or management rights, it is not separated from Disney headquarters, which means that the Oriental Group has invested in Disney in this way.

There are uncertainties as to what the final outcome of this negotiation will be, but at present, the largest entertainment market in Asia is China, and Disney wants to further penetrate into multiple cities in China to build Disneyland, and it is difficult to complete it without the help of local companies.

The Eastern Bloc also saw this and put forward the proposal.

And with the real estate development business of the Oriental Group, if the cooperation goes well, every time a community is built in a city in the future, it can be used as a small Disney park, after all, so many Disney cartoon characters are very popular with Chinese people.

"Zhifan, I heard that you are going to sign a few child stars here, do you have any plans?"

After chatting about the project, Cheng Wenbin turned the topic to business, and he also knew about the casting situation on Li Zhifan's side, as for how he knew about signing a few child stars, Li Zhifan didn't care, anyway, there are so many people in this company, everyone can be eyes and ears, and it is not necessary to work for anyone, which is also a means for superiors to supervise subordinates.

Therefore, Li Zhifan is in his personal assistant team and brokerage team, all of whom are old people who have followed him for many years, and they are not suitable for the staff provided by Oriental Entertainment, at most, let them play small hands and do peripheral work.

"Of course!"

Li Zhifan replied briskly, "I plan to make a new IP series, and this series is aimed at overseas markets." ”

"Oh, what series?"

Cheng Wenbin asked curiously, he didn't know much about culture and entertainment, but he was very interested in the company's projects, especially the projects that he expected to make money.

"Well, it's a Western fantasy series!"

Li Zhifan said, "Some time ago, I watched a lot of Western magic works, but since science fiction occupied the main stage of Hollywood, whether it is writing magic works or making movies with magic themes, there are a lot less, and it is very rare to have a readable work in two or three years." ”

What makes Li Zhifan unbelievable is that there is actually a work "The Lord of the Rings" at this time, and after checking the publication time, it was found that it began to be published in the thirties of the last century.

However, this also confirms some of Li Zhifan's earliest speculations, the timeline probably began to change from the 70s to the 80s, and at that time, it was the time when the global entertainment industry in both planes began to take off.

So, in the Western fantasy series, Li Zhifan has "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Harry Potter" to come up with.

Almost none of the main characters in A Song of Ice and Fire are magical, and they are just like mortals in real life.

No one can be brought back to life with the help of magic, and the original author, Martin, completely obeys the laws of human life in reality.

"A Song of Ice and Fire" is not so much an extremely "low-magic" fantasy as it is more like a parallel history of a fictional world.

But "Harry Potter" is different, a standard fantasy masterpiece.

And the stories of "Harry Potter" are more fairy tales, the text is also very concise and straightforward, and the storyline is also a template, which is more suitable for children to watch, especially the adapted movie, which is more attractive to children.

"A Song of Ice and Fire" is different, it is completely an adult fantasy literature, the background is very complex, the relationship between the characters is very complex, the emotional entanglements of the characters are also very complex, and the brain-burning intrigues are even more complicated, so the TV series was renamed "Game of Thrones", which is very in line with the core of the original book itself.

After comprehensive consideration, Li Zhifan decided to shoot "Harry Potter" first.

One of the main reasons is because "Harry Potter" has been completed, and all seven of them have been made into movies, and there are dramas to follow.

In addition, there are side works such as "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", which can be regarded as completing the overall world view and story structure of "Harry Potter".

After making this plan, Li Zhifan thought that he needed to find some young actors, and when he saw these mixed-race children, he thought, why not make a bold adaptation plan?

Fictionalizing a place is not applicable to the original UK, and all actors are invited to play with mixed-race people, including adult actors.

This bold idea made Li Zhifan more and more exciting the more he thought about it, so he immediately started to start with it, starting with the first "adaptation", directly writing the script and making a movie, and slowly working on it at a rate of one a year.

Cheng Wenbin, who was on the side, heard that it was a magic series, and immediately thought of "The Lord of the Rings", and couldn't help but have a headache: "Oh, my God, it can't be "The Lord of the Rings", right? I watched it when I was in school, it's too difficult to read, and no film company can remake it!"

"Huh?" Li Zhifan was stunned for a moment - what? "The Lord of the Rings" was not filmed?

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