"Is there any news on the copyright of the novel I asked you to buy?" Li Xiang remembered what he had told Jason.

"In addition to "Twilight", which has been won by Summit Entertainment, I have already won the film adaptation rights of several other novels, but it is a bit expensive, and the three series of novels cost nearly 5 million US dollars!" Li Xiang's name in the film production company in the United States is Maze, which means maze, and the idea comes from his favorite "Moving Maze", but unfortunately the third part was made paste.

The partner of the company is Jason, Li Xiang accounts for 70% of the shares, and Jason accounts for 30%. At present, the company's copyrights include: the screenplay "Double Treasure Fighting Demons", the novels "The Hunger Games", "Moving Maze", and "Divergent" film and television drama copyrights. In other words, if there is a company that wants to produce related movies or TV series in the future, it needs to buy it from Sister Films.

"It's okay, these novels will definitely earn us back more than $5 million in the future!" Li Xiang waved his hand vigorously, this matter Jason did so beautifully. However, this trip can be regarded as spending the little funds of the Flying Studio. But it doesn't matter, "Happy Death Day" will have a few weeks in time, and the domestic box office achievements will be counted, and according to the box office score of 100 million, he can also get 5 million director remuneration.

"Speaking of which, have you written any scripts lately? Your scripts must be great, I won't pick them. Jason was not satisfied with Shuangbao's own remuneration, and immediately had the idea of making a new film.

"Jason, are you interested in the zombie theme?" Li Xiang also wanted to confirm Jason's likes and dislikes.

"That's my favorite!" Jason said excitedly.

The originator of zombie movies in a broad sense comes from George Romero's 1978 "Dawn of the Living Dead". The film also sets the basic framework for future zombie movies:

1. The zombie is brought back from the dead for unknown reasons, and the zombie itself does not have any consciousness and thinking ability, and is completely dependent on instinct to act;

2. Zombies like to eat human flesh and attack humans in search of live human flesh;

3. Zombies will be infected, and people bitten by zombies will also become zombies after death, attacking their partners who originally fought side by side;

4. Zombies don't die, because they're already dead, so no matter how much they hurt their bodies, zombies will continue to move unless they attack their heads;

5. The panic caused by the slow-moving zombie group chasing down the living will cause psychological oppression to the audience.

Since then, zombie movies have used this as a criterion for portraying zombies, and even the famous "Resident Evil" series, all game setting stories and scene development are planned according to the zombie mode of George Romero's "Death Trilogy" series.

Zombies, as symbols of Western horror themes, are the most modern, although they are not as old as vampires, werewolves, mummies, etc. It may be that its setting is broader and more flexible, and there can be countless changes under a general premise, without many of the limitations of traditional horror genres. Most zombie films have a critical attitude towards reality behind them, and they are often grafted together with religious themes, expressing human worries and reflections on themselves.

Speaking of excellent zombie movies, there are really countless, and our domestic audience is probably more familiar with the movie of the same name adapted from the "Resident Evil" series of games. Fans also witnessed the transformation of the heroine Milla Jovovich from a delicate woman to a rough female man. is also normal, when Mira starred in the first part, she was only 27 years old in her prime, and by the time of the seventh "Final Chapter", she was 42 years old and a mother of two children. (Her husband is the director of the "Resident Evil" series of movies, and this Nima is called true love)

There is another one that everyone is more familiar with, which may be the future, "Train to Busan" from Smecta. The quality of this film is very good, and in addition to this, the gimmick of Asia's first zombie film is also the key to its popularity. (The actor Kong Yu is really a good actor, and domestic audiences may be more familiar with his other movie - "The Melting Pot", a work that was blown to the sky by Douban netizens, Lao Y thinks that the movie is indeed well-made, but it is a bit exaggerated, some people just kneel for a long time and can't stand up!)

Then there is "The Walking Dead", which has been renewed to the ninth season in the future. This popular American drama, which began in the past 10 years, can be said to be a household name, and it has also made the production TV station AMC earn enough American knives, and how big is the TV series? "The Walking Dead" plays at least 30 seconds of trailer at the Super Bowl halftime show every year! The No. 1 sport in the United States is neither the NBA nor Major League Baseball, but the NFL Major League Rugby, and every year its finals, the Super Bowl, rank first in the ratings in the United States, and it is really the old American 'Spring Bowl'.

The most eye-catching part of the Super Bowl is the halftime show at halftime. MJ, Madonna, Beyoncé and Mars have all performed in the midfield. As for the trailer of the movie and TV series, it actually started in 1993. The ratings are the first, and the advertising fee is bound to be high, and the advertising of the halftime show is expensive from $150,000 per second, so don't be surprised that it is only low! You can see how much money AMC made through "The Walking Dead".

The script that Li Xiang prepared for Jason, which most people may not have read, is called "The Undead". Bart was a soldier who was shot and killed during an operation, and not long after his body was buried in the ground, Bart was resurrected. Bart found his friend Joey, and after repeated research and argumentation between the two, they came to the conclusion that Bart had become a zombie and had to live by sucking blood.

In this way, every day, Bart turned back into a corpse, and when night came, he came to life. Barthes's thirst for blood bothered Joey, and after discussion, a brilliant idea came up - if human blood must be sucked, why not eliminate the filthy and multitude of villains who exist like rats in Los Angeles?

This film has a strong black humor style, and the film's ridicule of war, racial discrimination, and politics can be called spicy and intense. At the same time, it also pays tribute to many classic zombie movies. Li Xiang didn't want to shoot this kind of subject in China, but it was no problem to hand it over to Jason.

After listening to Li Xiang's general introduction to "The Dead", Jason was very interested in this movie, and the two discussed, as soon as Li Xiang's script was completed, he would send it to Jason as soon as possible, and Jason would go to Lions Gate to invest in it. There is no way, the copyright of the novel cost more than half of the funds of Li Xiangfeixiang Studio, and the two of them now add up to less than $5 million, so they need to contact Lionsgate. The budget is $10 million, and Lionsgate should take care of the rest.