Chapter 127: Picking Fat and Thinness [Ten Changes]
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If only Shengtian Entertainment and Elephant Entertainment took a fancy to the IP of "The Martian" before, now as long as it is a film company, there is no missed it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
With so many people paying attention, it suddenly changed from a buyer's market to a seller's market, and Lin Han took the initiative in the transaction, without looking at other people's faces.
"I've printed out all the quotes from these companies, and now let's sift through them slowly. ā
Chen Jiaxuan took out the thick stack of papers in the folder, put it in his hand and raised it gently, which made Lin Han start to worry a little.
Now choosing the film company to shoot "The Martian" is like marrying a daughter, it has to be carefully selected and all aspects are considered.
Lin Han took it resignedly, he picked up a red gel pen and began to make numbers: "I originally wanted to give them a scoring system, for example, investing 100 million US dollars is 5 points, 80 million is 4 points, and 50 million is 1 point." But this is more difficult to measure, so let's just look at the conditions. ā
"You just want to be lazy, I've replied to the outside in a unified way, our request is not a few million copyright purchase fees, but a real global box office share. I don't know how many companies were scared off. ā
Chen Jiaxuan's first thing is to eliminate those film companies that are expected to underinvest, and shooting science fiction movies is to burn money, although "The Martian" does not necessarily use too many special effects, no aliens, no space wars.
But those realistic Martian mountains, storms, starry sky, aircraft, flames, and explosions all need to be synthesized with post-special effects, and even the masks on the spacesuit helmets are fake, and the CG spaceships and characters need to be very realistic, which are all big money-burners.
Lin Han frowned and looked at the quotation form in front of him: "Do they really want to make a movie? It's annoying. ā
"Warner is really a Hollywood tycoon, and he actually said that he would spend $120 million to create this space board Robinson Crusoe. The rest of the conditions are also not bad, and it seems that there is room for bargaining, so I will save it for a while to negotiate. ā
"Chang'e Pictures has been shooting those magic movies recently, right? I remember that they had a movie that broke 2.1 billion yuan at the box office last year?" Lin Han raised his head and asked, this kind of rising film company is actually worth considering.
Chen Jiaxuan nodded, "Chang'e Pictures is said to have been built by several returnees of the second generation in cooperation with professionals, and it has the wealth, connections and ability, and now it is rising very fast." There are two movies released in the summer this year, but they haven't made science fiction films, so they may not have enough experience?"
Lin Han turned his head to look at Chen Jiaxuan: "If you look at the experience of making science fiction films, almost all domestic film companies can be eliminated, and everyone has no experience." ā
"That's right, the director who has made science fiction films in China is really good, and you may be the best. ā
None of the domestic film masters seem to have taken over science fiction films, so it's still a question of which director will be invited to direct, anyway, Lin Han knows that it can't be himself.
Hollywood companies are worthy of being wealthy, and the conditions offered made Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan excited, while most of the domestic film companies were eliminated in just a while.
In the end, there were only 3 domestic film companies and 6 large Hollywood studios in front of him, and these 9 film companies were the targets of Lin Han's primary selection.
"It's my time, so you can wait for my good news. Chen Jiaxuan will not say that Lin Han used to be a lion's mouth, but praise him for his foresight.
A science fiction novel with wide popularity at home and abroad, the price and conditions of film adaptation rights will not be so easy.
Lin Han smiled with relief: "Next, you just need to tell me the final result, don't tell me the process." ā
After Chen Jiaxuan sorted out the quotations of these nine companies and put them aside, he got up and prepared to go to his studio to find a think tank to sum it together, and it was best to release the news so that they could have a sense of crisis first.
As for Lin Han, it is a little more relaxed, except for occasionally using a calculator to calculate how much he can probably earn for the manuscript, there is not much to do.
Writing novels requires recharging and accumulation, and Lin Han has a lot to know.
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Within a day, well-informed people on the Internet began to break the news in a similar way, and it is said that "The Martian" is in contact with major film companies and is expected to be adapted into a movie.
It's just that these revelations have not received the attention of most people, and only a very few people have seen them.
No wind and no waves, Hollywood's top gossip magazine "TMZ" was the first to report: "According to the grapevine, Paramount gold producer Caroline Johnson is actively fighting for the film adaptation rights of the science fiction novel "The Martian", and at present, Time Warner, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, MGM, and Columbia Pictures have all been involved, and I believe we will be able to see this movie in the next year!"
Subsequently, domestic magazines were not to be outdone, and "Tencent Entertainment" exclusively reported: "The battle for the adaptation rights of the "Martian" film has entered a white-hot stage, according to people familiar with the matter, Lin Han offered sky-high copyright fees and a number of global box office shares, and asked to personally participate in the screenwriting work, with a tough attitude, which caused dissatisfaction among many film companies. At present, there are three film companies still competing for adaptation rights: Shengtian Entertainment, Dadi Pictures, and Yiyun Films, and domestic film companies vs Hollywood giants, who can snatch "The Martian"? Please continue to pay attention to follow-up reports!
For a while, the Internet was full of people in the know, true and false news were flying all over the sky, and netizens were dazzled, and they didn't know which one to believe.
At this time, in the forum of Hanlin Academy, there are landlords who are also collecting information from all parties, and then summarizing, analyzing, and identifying, and everyone is very excited.
"This novel is set in China, if it is handed over to Hollywood, can they make that feeling in China?"
"But if it is filmed by a domestic film company, I am very worried about becoming a sci-fi romance film, and every time I say that it costs hundreds of millions of special effects to be comparable to Hollywood, and now I am unappetizing when I see this. ā
"Actually, I don't want to see an adaptation, I think it will ruin the novel. ā
"Is Lin Han crazy for lack of money? My novels are indiscriminately handed over to others to shoot, I would rather let him shoot them by himself and support Lin Han's "The Martian"!"
"Khan, you still dare to believe in Lin Han's directing ability, and just beg him to write science fiction novels obediently. ā
"Upstairs, are you really a senior fan? You can go and see the director's cut of "Out of the Solar System", Lin Han's directing ability is really not bad. ā
"It's so tangled, whether to choose a domestic film company or a Hollywood Big Six, this is really a difficult problem, but fortunately it is not up to me to decide. ā
"No matter who you give it to, I hope you don't mess it up, I finally like a novel, is it easy!" (To be continued.) )