After discussing for a while, Hao Lick said: "Boss, I'm afraid that these stories adapted from movies may not be able to get much derivative income." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"It's true, even if the adaptation is not good, the box office is not good, but what about the perfect thing in the world? It's also important to get their various copyrights right first. ”

How important it is, only Li Mo knows it alone.

Li Mo and a few people ate and slept, but in fact, it was still daytime at this time, but according to the time difference, it was exactly the second half of the night on the side of the magic capital......

After a good night's sleep, Li Mo got up.

That's all he had to bring, but when he came to the United States, he worked out the rest of the outline by the way.

Li Mo lay in front of the computer and suddenly hesitated.

The first IP he started was a big IP, but many shameless things happened in this IP.

Li Mo beckoned to Hao Like.

"Boss, what do you command?"

"You go find William Gibson's contact information."

"Who is he?"

"A famous writer."

"Okay."

The first IP he copied was "The Matrix", to be precise, it didn't have any original novels, so it was once rumored on the Internet that Andy Wachowski got inspiration from "Midnight Bell".

Then came a set of "Empire of Fakers" trilogy, "Heroes of Time and Space", "Ghosts" and "Shadows".

Publishers have sold 100 million copies of the book in English-speaking alone, and countries are competing to translate and publish it, including China. Li Mo liked to read books in his previous life, and he also bought one stupidly.

It is rumored that the author once said that the movie turned my novel into a child's cartoon, and simplified my thoughts, the world is not as simple as the director thought. So I can only think of cinema as a distant relative of my novels.

It may be that the publisher is spreading rumors, otherwise the author would be even more shameless. That's what the publisher said, which is also too shameless to say.

The truth is that this novel has nothing to do with the "Matrix" movie at all.

If anything, it's William Gibson's Neuromancer. The book has won both the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Philip Dick Award.

The Matrix borrows a little bit of the ideas from it.

I'm just borrowing some of my ideas, and it's impossible to pay the copyright...... As a result, William Gibson did not get half a dime of the copyright fee.

Li Mo can also do this, but he has been making trouble for the BBC for more than half a year, and there is no need.

It's just a phone call, it's really not good, Li Mo flew over by himself, gave the author some money, and made it clear, I have a science fiction book series, I may borrow some of the ideas from your book, I believe William Gibson will agree.

In fact, strictly speaking, as long as it is not too excessive, the average author does not care. For example, Li Mo's Jurassic Park, there have been a lot of "fan fiction" in the United States, and some of them are so anxious that readers can't stand it, can Li Mo be careful?

But if you spend money, and it's a super big IP, you can't just hand it over to other authors to write...... Li Mo's hand fell off the keyboard, and he thought, do I still have to write a set of books?

It's timely, because even if the novel is written now, it doesn't have the technology to shoot it.

But in this way, Li Mo's time will be even more tense in the future.

He still can't write the second set of books, which is the Hannibal series.

The author has written only five books, three of which are Hannibal, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Red Dragon. "The Silence of the Lambs" has not yet come out, but the author should be writing it, and it will be published next year, and "Red Dragon" has been published for several years.

There is no way to plagiarize this series of books.

Li Mo thought for a while and said, "Hao Lick, you sent someone to Paramount to buy the film rights of "Red Dragon". ”

Hallick often deals with people in Hollywood, and Paramount is already an important partner of Li Mo, so he immediately remembered and said: "Boss, which "Murder Night" do you mean last year, that movie was very bad at the box office. ”

"I know, no matter what happens at the box office, buy it, and besides, the author seems to be writing a new novel, which also has something to do with this one, and when it is published, you immediately take the rights to its film adaptation."

"Okay," said Hollick, who didn't understand, but listened honestly.

There is a reason why "The Night of the Murder of Evil" was unsuccessful, and several Hannibal films were later sold out, one is that there is no excellent performance by Anthony Hopkins, and the second is that the secret of the success of "The Silence of the Lambs" is not to show the cruel modus operandi of criminals, but to focus on revealing the inevitable social causes of his psychological pathology, which has aroused the resonance and reflection of the audience, and the third is that the novel "The Silence of the Lambs" itself is better than "Red Dragon", attracting more audiences to the cinema.

After the huge success of "The Silence of the Lambs", there were "Hannibal", "Red Dragon", and "Young Hannibal" series, all of which were good at the box office.

As for what "Murder Night" is, I'm afraid few people in the future can know.

It's the copyright of this movie, I don't know what the reason is, it was transferred from Paramount to Universal, anyway, it's already a movie that has been released, and the response is not big, and it won't take much money to take it.

The third series, he also can't start, "Spy Shadow", the novel will take a long time for the author to write, the key is that next year its author will publish a "Bourne's Identity", several "Spy Shadow" novels are inseparable from this novel.

Li Mo starts now, and he will inevitably collide with "The Identity of Bourne", maybe everyone will start to revise the manuscript at home now. Even if Li Mo forcibly hired someone to ghostwrite and publish it in advance, there were still many things that could not be explained.

Li Mo hesitated for a long time, but still stopped the idea.

The fourth series may be taken down, Li Mo said: "You send someone to CBS TV station to buy all the rights to one of their old TV series "Mission Impossible" twenty years ago." ”

At that time, this TV series was very popular.

However, CBS has no plans for a remake, as long as you can afford the money, there is no big problem in taking down this copyright.

Li Mo started with this series of movies, he has watched all five movies, and he still remembers it very clearly, and he can write a relatively complete outline.

Hao Like saw that Li Mo had started to code, and he immediately went down to complete what Li Mo had explained.

There was a reply on the same day.

First of all, CBS, they put forward the statement, what copyright has what price, anyway, the lion opened his mouth.

After bargaining, Io Studios took all the rights to "Mission Impossible" for four million dollars, but poor CBS thought it was a big bargain.

Paramount, on the other hand, received a friendship price, and you could take it for $100,000, but when it really had remake value, Paramount had to have the right of first refusal. The main person who bought it was Li Mo, and they were a little confused, so they were afraid that Li Mo would pick up the leak.

With this additional clause, even if the copyright falls into the hands of Li Mo, Li Mo will not make movies anyway, which is actually equivalent to returning to Paramount. Can that be the same?

William Gibson had a telephone conversation with Li Mo, although he was a famous writer, but Li Mo was not polite, saying, I have an inspiration, but there is a small part, a very small part, which may be somewhat consistent with the idea of which of your books. The BBC scared me, you're an old-timer, let's make it clear. And Li Mo generously said his "inspiration". Other people can not worry, how famous are people, as for coveting an idea?

William Gibson listened to it on the phone, oh a few times, and praised Li Mo for his big brain, and said generously, it's okay, you write it, I won't have any opinions, for example, there are so many dinosaur novels on the market, do you have any opinions?

Of course, it has to be made clear that Li Mo and he excused themselves on the phone for a while, and William Gibson finally agreed that Li Mo would pay him $100,000 and that he would grant Li Mo the right to quote some of the ideas from his novel.

After the negotiations, William Gibson asked Leemer to send a lawyer to his home to sign the contract.

But Li Mo is not ashamed, not sorry for William Gibson, because the ideas quoted are dispensable, even if they are not clear, it doesn't matter, this is a benevolent approach of Li Mo. I'm really sorry for Andy Wachowski.

Anyway, he was ready to plagiarize on a large scale, and he didn't feel sorry in his heart. William Gibson agreed, and with a sigh of relief, he continued with the next two series, "Here Comes the Grim Reaper" and "Scream".

As a novel, it may not sell well, but with a novel, it is equivalent to controlling the copyright. Even if it is not easy to sell, I have made so much money for bantams, I believe that this face has to be given.

The next series he voluntarily gave up again, "American Pie", well, that's not something he can write at his age.

But I don't even plan to let go of the IP, there are too many series to choose from. "Scream" has been figured out, and there is no need to let go of "Scream".

Next came "Ace Spy", but Li Mo had to leave the keyboard.

It's an exciting time.

Thursday is Christmas Eve, and the long-awaited "Jurassic Park" is finally released.

There are still film companies that don't believe in evil, this is a rare Christmas file of the year, alas, you can't just release your movie. Even if all the audience has watched the dinosaurs, but after watching it, if you want to watch a second movie, you can choose our movie.

Therefore, there are still thirteen movies being released at the same time in this schedule, but the scheduling rate is pitiful, and the scheduling rate of thirteen movies is only 42%, and most of them are not prime time.

The Jovovich returned to Los Angeles with their daughter.

Mira threw herself into Li Mo's arms from afar and asked sweetly, "Li, see if I'm beautiful now?" ”

The stylist of Angel Economist Company took the artwork drawn by Li Mo and reshaped her, which was indeed much better than the original, but it was not as good as what she would look like when she grew up.

The problem is this action...... Li Mo glanced at the Jovovich couple, the couple smiled, they really didn't care when they got to Yili and saw the appearance of the model. There are so many beautiful models, Li Mo doesn't have an idea, can he still beat his own daughter's idea?

Li Mo thought to himself: You lie on me, let you see it immediately!