Chapter 103: Empty Rejoicing
(ps: It's almost 4 o'clock, how I wish I could be a full-time writer at this moment, so that I can sleep until I wake up naturally, but it's just a dream, maybe I can look forward to the next book?! I'm sorry, I accidentally fell asleep just now, and I dreamed again...) )
Kim Jong-kwan didn't expect that not only the acquisition of popular IPs had progressed, but even the excellent original scripts were brought in three by Su Ji-sub, and he couldn't help but be a little excited!
And there's a reason why he's excited...
In South Korea, there are a lot of original scripts, and many directors like to write and direct themselves.
Many talented new directors get the chance to get ahead by becoming screenwriters first, so many directors like to conceive their own stories and shoot them themselves.
Therefore, many excellent scripts are 'not for sale' in the fundamental sense! It is almost impossible to buy them, and the only way is to cooperate, invest in this director and let him shoot it himself.
Another is some of the strangeness of the Korean system, the price of a movie script written by a rookie screenwriter is between 15 million and 20 million (about 9 to 120,000 soft girl coins), but the production company only pays them 3 million to 5 million won in advance, and then the screenwriter has to start creating according to the requirements of the production company, and the rest can only be obtained when the film begins to be produced, and if the project is aborted, then the screenwriters are equivalent to working in vain!
What's even funnier is that it often takes more than a year to create a brand new project, and the screenwriters can only use this money to support it, and they have to face the crisis of the eventual abortion of the project to create.
Not only will a lot of time and energy for the comeback be wasted, but in the end, it will be difficult to get the manuscript fee!
If you are trapped in a project for three or four years and have no other income, it is not impossible to be trapped to death.
Just at the beginning of 11 years, there was an example of a real occurrence!
The 32-year-old female screenwriter Choi Go-eun was trapped in the project and had no other income, and finally died of illness and starvation in a monthly rental room, which shocked the whole of South Korea!
The autopsy report states that he died without eating for several days...
A talented female screenwriter who has not yet been able to show her ideals and ambitions was starved to death like this, how ironic!
In contrast, screenwriters who still sign a contract with the company are more secure, and they still have a monthly salary to get, at least they will not starve to death, but relatively, the degree of creative freedom is inevitably limited.
So it is precisely this situation that Kim Jong Kwon is so happy after seeing so many finished scripts!
It stands to reason that those screenwriters who have become famous should have their own contracted companies, and they should usually write scripts according to the company's requirements, so it is really surprising that they can still get 'private goods' in this case.
Kim Jong Kwon couldn't wait to pick up the "Lord Sun" placed on it first, and then began to look through it.
After a while, he put it down for a while, then picked up another copy of "The Inheritors" and began to read it carefully.
Finally, the following book "You from the Stars"...
"It's all TV scripts?" asked Kim Jong-kwon, disappointed.
He thought that Su Ji-sub really surprised him, but he didn't expect that the original script was an original script, and a famous screenwriter was also a screenwriter, but the problem was that these three books were all TV drama scripts!
Su Ji-sub immediately said angrily: "Good movie screenwriters have changed careers to become directors! You can pull the script out of their hands, and you will be my brother in the future!"
Kim Jong Kwon thinks about it, good movie scripts are hard to find, more than 10,000 movie scripts are written in South Korea every year, but in the end, only about 150 can be on the big screen, how cruel this ratio is!
There must be some excellent dusty works in these scripts that have been eliminated, but what can it be, not everyone has such a 'talent' as him.
Fortunately, there are several popular IPs that can be adapted into movies in front of them, which makes Kim Jong-kwon's mood not so depressed.
And when I read these scripts, 'Aura' gave corresponding fragmentary pictures, which proves that these three works have potential, and it seems that the potential is not small!
Thinking of this, Kim Jong Kwon immediately said: "These are all very good works, don't cheapen others, let's digest them internally first, and then make the rest public." ”
He is such a person, what is there to think about his own people in advance, and he doesn't care if it is unfair to others!
"You know? This is the work of the Hong sisters, written by Kim Eun-sook, and written by Park Ji-eun! Do you know how much I spent on these three scripts?
Kim Jong-kwan immediately coughed embarrassedly, among these three people, Park Ji-eun's reputation is slightly worse, but he is also a first-line screenwriter, it is impossible to buy these three scripts without bleeding, and even money may not be able to buy them.
"It's just a joke, how can you take it seriously, how is Brother Yin Cheng lately?" Kim Jong-kwan quickly changed the subject.
"Yin Cheng's new drama seems to be almost finished, and it will be up to him to see if he wants to take a break for a while or continue to work. ”
Su Ji-sub is not a pedantic person, and he can't do the stupid thing of helping others make wedding dresses if he doesn't use it for his own company.
Although Kim Jong-kwan doesn't come to the company often, he also knows that Zhao Yincheng is filming "That Winter, the Wind is Blowing", so he naturally has no opinions.
"Brother Ji Xie and Brother Yin Cheng of this "Inheritors" should not be able to look down on it, you can hand it over to Yu Bin to play, this kid has been grinding me for a long time, and this time I can just gag his mouth. ”
Inheritor, just listen to this word to know what kind of story it is telling, just in time to throw it to Kim Woo Bin to practice, Kim Jong Kwon is still quite interested in his cheap apprentice.
Su Ji-sub didn't care and acquiesced, he had read these three scripts more than once, this "Inheritors" was not suitable for him at all, and there seemed to be no suitable candidate in the company except for Kim Woo-bin.
"Do the remaining two brothers have ideas?" Kim Jong-kwan seemed to remember who was the boss, and casually asked Su Ji-sub's opinion.
"From the perspective of the character image, it seems that the book "You from the Star" is more suitable for me... Su Ji-sub thought about it and said with a certain certainty.
"And it's not that you said that the current audience likes to watch novel themes, this alien setting seems to be quite interesting. ”
Originally, Su Ji-sub thought that Kim Jong-kwan should agree with his point of view, but he didn't expect him to immediately shake his head, "The script of "You from the Star" must be fine, I have a hunch that this drama will be very popular, but in comparison, I think the drama "The Sun of the Lord" is more suitable for my brother." ”