Chapter 044: Strange Dream Mutation? A dream!
"Hu Shuntang, wake up quickly! You've arrived......"
Suddenly, a shout exploded in Tang Nian's mind, and he, who was in a deep nightmare, sat up straight from the bed all of a sudden, and a thick book covering his forehead fell to the ground. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"It's okay, it's just a nightmare...... It's just that this nightmare is too real...... If it weren't for that shout, I wouldn't have woken up......"
Getting up and looking at the pale face in the mirror, Tang Nian said with difficulty.
"Jing Ke's Assassination of Qin", which lasted for a whole month, made Tang Nian's energy almost overdrawn, and after returning to Hengdu Film and Television City, it took him a full four days to recover a little and slowly adjust.
Of course, a video chat with a girl once a day is also an essential spiritual comfort.
After the girl arrived in North America, because of Director Zhang's care, she quickly adapted to the filming of the movie, but unfortunately the girl's English was not up to par, every time she video chatted, she still held the line script for oral training, and she was very envious of Tang Nian's proficient English speaking level...... There is no way, who let Tang Nian have a means of cheating, during the filming of "The First Chaos in History", Tang Nian's strange dreams were interspersed with a large number of Western historical mythological figures, and there are more modern characters.
As a result, it is not very difficult for Tang Nian to be fluent in American English, but Tang Nian has never had the opportunity to practice, and by chatting with the girl, his spoken English was quickly picked up, and he soon became the girl's teacher......
Director Zhang filmed a historical war film similar to "Meng Jiangnu" in North America, and its story comes from the Civil War that broke out after the founding of North America.
North American Hollywood film shooting is a complete set of streamlined operations, the script and funds are the company's responsibility, Director Zhang is only the director in charge of shooting, using the perspective of a Chinese director to interpret some events in the Civil War.
In it, the girl plays a native Indian girl in North America, a Mary Sue character who is a supporting role at best.
But the girl is already very satisfied with this, before this she was just working hard in the television industry, the film industry is a circle that she envies but has always been timid, and now she is very satisfied to be fortunate enough to participate, which is a good learning opportunity for her.
The girl is looking forward to a collaboration with Tang Nian after her wonderful performance on the big screen.
It's just that at this stage, Director Zhang's films shot in North America are still in the script-based stage of script creation, the scene construction is in full swing, and some necessary actor training is also steadily underway......
Tang Nian concealed that he might have a cameo in this movie, and was ready to surprise the girl when the time came......
"If you think about it, I haven't had a weird dream in almost a month...... I just took a nap today, and I had a nightmare, and this nightmare was so abrupt......"
Recalling the bits and pieces with the girl, a smile appeared on the corner of Tang Nian's mouth.
But today's sudden nightmare made Tang Nian fall into deep thought.
In the later stage of the tour of "Jing Ke Assassinating Qin", Tang Nian had the idea of raising funds to shoot a movie, and until the end of the drama tour, Tang Nian could no longer suppress this idea in his heart.
Of course, with the current situation in the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible to make a large production, and only a small production is feasible.
In small productions, it is not advisable to place a wide range of places that need to replace the venue and build scenes such as feature films and road movies, and only horror films are the most suitable film projects at this stage in the Tang Dynasty.
With the production experience of the super web drama "The First Chaos in History", Tang Nian dare not say that he is 100% sure, but it seems that he is comfortable completing a small-budget horror film with an investment of about five million.
It's just that at this stage, Tang Nian is still in the period of script preparation, and the actors and investment are still to be determined.
But Tang Nian has a bottom in his heart, the actors are ready-made, and if he can't do it, he can invest in Brother Hu, and after a month of drama tour, he also has a good relationship with Brother Hu. And the investment, he now has more than two million funds, which is all the remuneration obtained from the filming of "The First Chaos in History", and he can borrow a sum of money from Brother Ma in his personal name for investment...... As for the current stage, Tang Nian pondered the most about the script.
For a small-budget movie, and it is a horror film, the most needed and most important thing is the script!
Originally, Tang Nian's plan was to create an original script, but the script is different from online novels, their styles and rhythms are very different, and the real script has reached the stage of storyboard scripts, which is much more boring than online novels.
After thinking about it, Tang Nian still set his sights on online novels.
Because of the malleability of online novels and the large space for adding original characters, as long as they are recreated without destroying the world background and power system setting of an online novel, it is okay.
If you don't see "Legend of the Seven Realms", which has no trace, it has become a fan drama; Xiao Ding's "Zhu Xian" has also been changed to a game drama for the whole people to fight monsters, although there is a lot of scolding, but I still can't hold back my curiosity and want to see how the original work is ruined......
Tang Nian, on the other hand, adopted the method of collecting popular horror, ghosts, and thriller online novels for screening.
The Z-big "Infinite Horror" was given up by Tang Nian for the first time, because it involved too many background characters from other well-known movies, which could not be eliminated, and the insistence on replacing it would lose its taste and sense of substitution.
Acacia washes red beans in "Panic Boiling", which also has this problem.
As for "Ace Evolution" and "Horror High School", as well as "Death Train" and "Thriller Paradise", while there are the above problems, the difficulty of adaptation is too great.
Looking at "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Notes on Tomb Robbery" and "The Last Captain Who Touched Gold", etc., either the copyrights were bought, or people refused to sell them, and they wanted to sell them at a price, and the cost budget of Tang Nian was only five million......
Before and after, Tang Nian conducted a lot of screening, and finally locked his eyes on the remaining three books, "Hell Apartment", "Midnight Owner", and "Persona of the Poll Bureau".
Among them, "Persona of the Poll Bureau", Tang Nian weighed it again and again, and finally chose to give up, because although this work is suitable for the big screen, it involves too much with the country, and the strange things encountered are interspersed and interrelated, and it is difficult to separate them, which is suitable for changing into a TV series, but not suitable for adaptation into a movie. If it needs to be adapted into a movie, then the storyline in it is more likely to be reduced to a running account.
If he could, Tang Nian could start with the TV series first, shoot "Persona of the Poll Bureau", brush up on a wave of presence in the form of a super web drama, and then consider the possibility of moving it to the big screen.
test the waters with super web dramas, promote all the characters by the way, and then use the momentum of super web dramas to attract investment, and then start film production......
…… Thinking too much...... Let's talk about "Hell Apartment", if it weren't for Tang Nian's budget being too small, Tang Nian would really want to be the first to launch the work "Hell Apartment", because the storyline and character settings of this work are too suitable for adaptation.
Each death order given by the Hell Apartment constitutes a separate story, as most of the Hell Apartment occupants die.
Then new occupants come in and make a fresh start......
This kind of mode can be filmed without restrictions, as long as it is profitable to move to the big screen, it can form a separate IP series, similar to "Pirates of the Caribbean", and shoot one by one......
However, Tang Nian finally chose "The Midnight Owner", because this work, the independence and completeness of its story, as well as its independence, are even better than "Hell Apartment"!
Not only that, but the work has also received wide acclaim in the publishing market and has sold well.
In the early years, Tang Nian actually read this work and posted it on the starting point literature network, the author Tang Xiaohao is also a powerful writer, but unfortunately this work was blocked by the starting point literature network for some reason, and it is difficult to search even with the second work "Chasing Drugs".
The story begins with the mysterious death of the protagonist's adoptive father in the town, and tells the story of the protagonist taking over his father's coffin shop, and then sending a series of strange and bizarre stories in the town.
Tang Xiaohao, a writer's work, has a significant feature, that is, each story of the novel is a separate volume, except for the protagonist and the main character, the others are all a story that is wiped out at one time, and then a new character comes up.
Judging from the pattern alone, it has a strong publishing style.
What's even more commendable is that the first volume of the work "The Midnight Owner", "White Fox Covers", in which the final mystery is revealed, is also troubled.
This point is completely in line with the unwritten regulations of the State Administration of Optoelectronics that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, all animals and plants are not allowed to become sperm, and real ghosts are prohibited in the works...... As long as everything is artificial, then the possibility of the work being passed is greater.
Coupled with the height involved in this work, it is only in a small town, and the scene construction is very easy, and Hengdu Film and Television City has grabbed a lot of such ready-made venues.
Coffin shop, crime scene, hospital morgue, secluded cemetery...... Everything is ready-made!
Overjoyed, at the urging of Tang Nian, Lao Liu and Lao Chen set off to the author Tang Xiaohao, ready to buy the film and television adaptation rights, if they can't buy them all, at least buy the film adaptation rights of the first volume.
The other personnel of the Huangliang Performing Arts Workshop, after resting, were dispersed to the entire Hengdu Film and Television City to continue to train in the ranks of extras.
As for Tang Nian, he bought the first volume of the paper book "The Midnight Owner" for the first time and read it intensively.
The best result is that Tang Xiaohao, the author of the original book, can be invited to be the chief screenwriter of the movie......
"Huh? Hu Shuntang? Hu Shuntang ......"
Suddenly, Tang Nian seemed to remember something, his face changed greatly, and he quickly picked up the book on the ground, his face was cloudy.
Because he remembered what was going on with this cry in the nightmare!
It turned out that when Tang Nianchun was doing leisure to read "The Midnight Owner", he quickly fell asleep, but the storyline in this book entered his mind and made him have nightmares.
From the arrival of the protagonist Hu Shuntang in the town until the trick of the white fox cover mask was really revealed, Tang Nian has experienced the plot of "White Fox cover noodles" on both sides with the character of Hu Shuntang, until the third time has just begun, on the rickety rural bus, the conductor shouted, suddenly woke up the sleeping Hu Shuntang, and also completely woke up Tang Nian, who was about to fall into the nightmare cycle again, so that he struggled to break free from the nightmare cycle.
"Strange dreams have mutated?"
Tang Nian said in disbelief, closed his eyes and carefully recalled the scene in the nightmare, and then compared the plot in the book, but it was exactly the same!
Even Tang Nian looked in the mirror and saw the frightened expression on his face because of fear, which was so real......
You must know that whether it is a movie or a TV series, no matter how powerful the actors, horror movies are a big challenge for them.
Because of other film and television works, its characters can be shaped through a sense of substitution, but horror films are different.
The real horror film shooting scene is not scary at all, even funny, and some props are not satisfactory because the actors have prepared in advance.
The reason why horror films look so scary on the big screen is that the post-processing is in place, and the background music and atmosphere rendering are put into place, and the other is the clever visual processing of the switching between the camera and the picture.
If the strange dream can mutate to this extent and bring the realistic scripts and novels into the depths of consciousness, then this is a god-like weapon for Tang Nian.
Just imagine, if an actor can make himself feel immersed in the experience through this method similar to 'Huangliang A Dream' after getting the script, it is definitely a super plug-in for God to block and kill God and Buddha to block and kill Buddha!
When it comes to auditions, no one can do him.
Thinking of this, Tang Nian endured the excitement in his heart, took a deep breath, and slowly lay down on the bed, soothing his emotions, trying to fall asleep, because he needed to verify this bold guess.
The scarlet cover of the book "The Midnight Owner" covers Tang Nian's face.
But Tang Nian, who still had a trace of sober consciousness, opened his eyes in the dark, and was surprised to find himself standing on an urban and rural bus parked near the town, and had to walk down at the urging of the conductor.
The plot is like a restart, the remaining memories of the previous round are quickly blurred, Hu Shuntang looked into the distance blankly, saw a pair of white-eyed Yan Ye, and walked over with a friendly smile......
Everything is so real!
The strange dream has really mutated, mutated into a new ability, a new ability that can integrate the script into the depths of the actor's consciousness and greatly improve his ability to shape his characters.