Chapter 151: Promoting Jurassic Park (Three More Requests for Subscription)
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For Lin Han, the copyright fee of 5 million US dollars is really not low, the price of film adaptation rights of many writers is low, and Hollywood studios have never lost their treasures, and they can attract them to spend money to buy Chinese novels, which is nothing more than to accommodate the tastes of Chinese audiences and win the box office with unlimited potential. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hollywood is clearly coming for China's huge film market, and moviegoers alone can no longer satisfy Hollywood's appetite, and every best-selling novel has many fans, and it is this hundreds of millions of best-selling novel readers that Hollywood values.
For readers of science fiction, if you choose between "Hollywood" and "domestic", the vast majority of readers will probably choose Hollywood.
There are only science fiction novels in China, and there are very few science fiction movies, "Yangtze River No. 7", "Future Police", and "Wesley" are relatively hot in recent years, and if you go back a little further, it is "Thunderbolt Baby".
Many domestic movies are based on comedy + science fiction, science fiction is just a gimmick, comedy is the core, such as "Super School Bully", as for the bad movie "Love Crazy Sage" is also implanted with a bit of science fiction plot in the movie, there is an alien princess or something, but it is not a science fiction film.
Who dares to say that they have seen five domestic science fiction movies in the real sense? And for a movie lover, he has seen more than ten Hollywood science fiction movies!
China's thousand-year-long history and culture has created a cultural atmosphere that looks back to the tradition, even if we don't make martial arts films, we can shoot historical and cultural films such as "Confucius", exploring the future is not the most concerned thing for the Chinese nation, and the five thousand years are the proud places of many descendants of Yan and Huang.
For Hollywood filmmakers, buying the film and television adaptation rights of the novel is the initiative, and the price of $5 million is probably the highest price of any best-selling novel in China.
In terms of industry rules, in Hollywood, the executives and directors of film studios believe that they are the authors of the films, and when they buy the rights to adapt a film, the original author is equivalent to giving up the copyright.
The film company can modify the script as needed, and the original author has no control and no say in the entire process of film creation.
If there are people on the production team, such as producers, directors, lead actors, and many studio executives, there will be multiple rounds of discussions based on the original novel to improve the plot. There may be hundreds of "minor" changes along the way, and when everything is updated, the shadow of the original novel is gone, as if a full-body cosmetic surgery has been performed.
There are two conditions in Lin Han's sale of the film adaptation rights that are not allowed to be changed, one is the global box office dividend, and the other is the participation of the script, which must be approved by the original author himself before he can be put into filming.
Jack Harrison didn't know what gave the young man in front of him so much confidence, and he opened his mouth to persuade and said: "To tell you the truth, we Hollywood studios don't let an author have so much decision-making power, and if you keep getting stuck in the script, our shooting schedule will be delayed indefinitely, and this is a time bomb." ”
"I think it's a matter of mutual respect, I respect the professionalism of Hollywood, you respect my work, I don't have any opinions on the finished film editing, I only care about my script. ”
"A novel is a novel, a script is a script, and only Hollywood screenwriters know what kind of script the market needs now, and we have to leave professional things to professionals. Jack Harrison was also arguing at this time, and the two of them directly ignored the people around them.
Chen Jiaxuan smiled helplessly, she turned around and took out a few bottles of mineral water and put them in front of these guests, and her agent waited for a while before going into battle.
Lin Han suddenly thought of something, he wanted Hollywood to invite Chinese male stars to star in the movie, which was more difficult, so he simply sold them the film adaptation rights of another novel.
This novel has not yet been published, as long as it is revealed to Paramount, Lin Han is sure that it will definitely attract their attention, and no one can refuse "Jurassic Park"!
If this movie does not involve itself in the screenwriting, the rest of the people do not know what the follow-up plot will be, because the novel only has the first chapter, and it is still in Chinese.
"Mr. Harrison, I think we can suspend this argument for a moment. I have another book here, which I think is very suitable for a film adaptation, and the main character is still American, without any changes to the setting, and the most important thing is that it can be adapted into a film series. ”
"You mean I, Robot? Although it has nine stories, I don't think it's a good series to make, and some of the storylines are too short to make a movie. Jack Harrison could tell that he had actually studied Linham's novels, but this time he guessed wrong.
Lin Han shook his head, he picked up a copy of "Fantasy Era" on the coffee table, he flipped to the position of "Jurassic Park" and handed it to Cheng Huaiyuan on the side, because only Cheng Huaiyuan could understand Chinese among the three people.
"This novel is called "Jurassic Park", and the characters in it are basically Americans, and this is a dinosaur novel, science fiction and horror. ”
Jack Harrison was intrigued when he heard this, and he asked, "Is there an English version, I can't wait to read it!"
Lin Han spread out his hands and said helplessly: "For the time being, I am not ready to publish it in one go, and only one chapter will be published every month." If the novel had an English version, do you think Paramount would be the first to appear here?"
Science fiction movies are one of Hollywood's best genre films, and there are very few novels that can be adapted into series, and now Hollywood's favorite thing to shoot is sequels, and all kinds of movies are followed by 2, 3, 4 and so on.
Being able to create a money-making sci-fi film series is very important for the studio.
"So can you briefly tell us about the plot of the novel and why we would have chosen it?"
"Costa Rica has a separate island, and Dr. Hammond has built an extraordinary park on it, and dinosaurs are the protagonists of this park, using the blood of ancient mosquitoes in amber to extract the genetic information of dinosaurs to breed dinosaurs, and then use this park to make a lot of money for admission.
Unfortunately, the park's computer system management got out of control due to the destruction of the staff, and all the dinosaurs escaped the control area, and the visitors fled separately but could not escape the clutches of these carnivorous dinosaurs. These dinosaurs killed each other, people were killed and injured countless times, and in the end there were few survivors, and dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex, velociraptor and chicken dragon chased and killed humans everywhere, and the whole island was filled with a terrifying atmosphere. ”
Lin Han's deep voice described the synopsis of the story, and several people at the scene couldn't help but feel numb in their scalps, how could humans compare with dinosaurs, this was a massacre without suspense!
Harrison felt that the hairs on his arms stood on end, and he was thinking about himself being chased by the Tyrannosaurus Rex, watching the Tyrannosaurus Rex slowly chew and swallow a human, and the whole person suddenly felt bad!
Where is this science fiction film, it's a complete thriller, okay, it's really easy to scare people, combining science fiction and thriller, Harrison has read countless Hollywood scripts, but he also has to be moved by this idea. (To be continued.) )