Chapter 120: The sky-high asking price

The sound of keyboard tapping echoed in the room all the time, and Lin Han wanted to describe the scene where the protagonists saw the dinosaurs at the beginning, which was the most shocking part. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In addition to exhibiting dinosaur fossils in museums, what would it be like to see living dinosaurs?

Grant saw a trunk sticking out of the palm tree to the south, bare and leafless, except for a large, curved trunk. But the trunk of the tree actually moved, and turned to face the new uninvited guest. Grant realizes that what he is seeing is not a tree trunk at all!

What he saw was a 50-foot tall behemoth with a beautiful, curved neck, and it was a dinosaur!

'Oh my God!' said Ellie in surprise, and everyone stared at the animal in the bushes, saying nothing but sighing.

His first impression was that the dinosaur was so beautiful. The dinosaur is drawn in the book as large and ugly, but the movements of this long-necked dinosaur are elegant, almost with some dignity. It is agile - it behaves without the slightest clumsiness or dullness. The reptile looked at them with a wary gaze and let out a low whimper, like the kind of sound an elephant makes. In a few moments, another head came out of the bushes, followed by a third, a fourth!"

The living real dinosaur appeared in the novel like this, and Lin Han couldn't help but get excited when he wrote it, it was not a 3D virtual image.

The first dinosaur in "Jurassic Park", Brontosaurus, a huge herbivore that lived in the post-Jurassic period, was officially unveiled, and was also classified as Diplodocus.

With a long neck, a gentle call, and a casual footstep that is several stories high, the Brontosaurus is one of the longest animals on land.

When his stomach was rumbling, Lin Han stopped his movements, and the content he wrote was enough to be published in the magazine, and after he sent the novel manuscript to Li Wenyuan, he went to the kitchen to boil water and start making noodles.

It's more than nine o'clock in the evening, and who still has the heart to cook, instant noodles are the most convenient and fast way.

After a while, the aroma of instant noodles fermented, Lin Han took a deep breath, and then began to eat happily.

In order to ensure nutrition, he also added two ham sausages to the instant noodles, and now he is starting to miss supper a little, so he wonders when to ask Wang Hao out for barbecue.

"Bang ......"

There was a knock on the door, but there was a doorbell but it never rang, probably no one else except Chen Jiaxuan.

So Lin Han got up and opened the door, and sure enough, it was Chen Jiaxuan in a long skirt.

"How do you eat instant noodles, it's too unhealthy. Recently, if you don't write or participate in publicity, you should be kind to yourself, and you really can't go out to eat. ”

Chen Jiaxuan looked at the instant noodles on the table, almost turning into a Tang monk and chattering.

Lin Han hurriedly raised his hand in surrender and said, "Sister Xuan, I have a special situation today. I just wrote the beginning of a novel, and only now do I realize that I forgot to eat, only this once, no other example!"

"Why are you writing a new book again, didn't you say you want to take a break?"

"Fantasy Times magazine was privately banned by several other magazines, and an author who originally said it was good also quietly submitted the manuscript to others, and I was ordered to do so. Do you want to take a look?"

Chen Jiaxuan shook her head, she couldn't understand these science fiction novels at all, "The Martian" turned a few pages every day, but when she encountered those related scientific and technological descriptions, she didn't have too many ideas except for adding some admiration to Lin Han, she would rather read some romance novels.

"I talked to Shengtian Entertainment today, and they are willing to spend 2 million yuan to win the film adaptation rights, and they promise to invest at least 50 million yuan in filming, at least inviting domestic first-line male stars to play the leading role. As soon as they signed the contract, they immediately began to set up projects at the Radio and Television Bureau and invite masters to write scripts. ”

"What kind of science fiction movie can be made for 50 million yuan? This is not 50 million US dollars, just the special effects shots are almost this number, don't you need to pay the actors, now the production cost of a youth movie is tens of millions, and science fiction films are actually this number. ”

Lin Han didn't want to say anything anymore, Sheng Tian Entertainment didn't know what to like about this novel, but the conditions were too much like charity.

Science fiction has not been adapted into a movie for a long time, but not every writer is willing to hand over his children to others for millions of yuan.

Seeing that the science fiction market is booming rapidly and the trend of youth movies is gradually fading, Shengtian Entertainment may want to be the first person to eat crabs in the Chinese film market, but it is too petty.

Chen Jiaxuan also knew that this condition could not make a good science fiction film at all, so she changed the topic and asked: "What are the conditions for that elephant entertainment in Hollywood?"

"Alas, reselling the copyright, and still trying to get it from me cheaply, 200,000 US dollars for RMB is less than 2 million, where did the confidence come from will definitely succumb. ”

This aroused Chen Jiaxuan's curiosity, "Then what is the bottom line in your mind, I will know it in my heart when I negotiate at that time." Do you have a preference for letting Hollywood make the film or letting a domestic company make it?"

Lin Han spread out his hand and said, "Regardless of the black cat or white cat, if you can catch mice, you are a good cat." As long as the conditions they give are suitable, then there is no need to specify which one to choose. ”

In fact, he doesn't remember what the specific price of the film adaptation rights of "The Martian" in the previous life was, but in the promotion, it was a six-figure price, which was only hundreds of thousands of dollars.

But in this life, the influence of "The Martian" has obviously increased a lot, and he is not as unfamous as the original author in the previous life, he has another best-selling science fiction novel.

"You haven't said the bottom line, how should you negotiate? More and more studios will definitely come to me in the future, and I have to prepare well. ”

"Actually, my purpose is very simple, that is, to get a proportion of the global box office dividend, and the adaptation rights can be sold very cheaply, but I must get that dividend ratio.

The original author's share will definitely not be much, about 3%-5% is a victory, of course, the higher the better. If possible, I would like to adapt the script myself, or be involved in the writing of the script and the subsequent filming process.

I had to go to the set to peek at the teacher, and by the way, I was a consultant for the whole process, and how other people's sci-fi films were filmed. ”

Chen Jiaxuan gasped: "You are really a lion's mouth, not only do you want to pay box office dividends, but also change the script to become a consultant." Someone else really has to have their brains pumping to agree to your condition. ”

Lin Han glanced at her and said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet! They want to shoot this movie, and the investment cannot be less than 50 million US dollars or 250 million yuan, of course, the more investment, the better." This has to be written into the contract, and there is a copyright time limit, if I don't shoot it within 5 years, I will take back the film adaptation rights. ”

"Aren't you afraid of scaring everyone else away?" Chen Jiaxuan's head was a little dizzy, and it was really difficult to ask for a price.

"Don't I believe in your ability? With Sister Xuan here, those conditions are not trivial. (To be continued.) )