Come home tired.

Zhang Shaojie quickly copied the 20,000-word "Legend of the Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and put the manuscript paper in a drawer.

After that, I began to study at Jin Yong's home, and the lecture notes and knowledge manuscripts given by Jin Yong were carefully reviewed. Of course, there is also a "Fundamentals of Film Script Writing", which is a textbook for Jin Yong when he was learning screenwriting, in which many learning experiences and understandings are recorded in the book.

Just as Zhang Shaojie began to enter the study state, the phone rang.

"Who?"

"I, Huang Yulang."

"So you, Boss Huang!" Zhang Shaojie said with a smile.

"Shaojie, I haven't been able to contact you for a long time, Ming Pao said that you went to your hometown in the mainland to visit relatives and friends?" Huang Yulang said on the phone.

"Well, I found my former hometown in the mainland and stayed for more than ten days. Shaohuai had to come back before school started! Zhang Shaojie explained.

"Hehe, I also want to travel to the mainland and enjoy the mountains and rivers of the motherland, but the company is too busy and has no time." Huang Yulang said with a smile.

Zhang Shaojie knows that it is true, although Yulang International has become a leading enterprise in the Hong Kong comic industry. However, the comic market in Hong Kong is too fierce, and if you are not careful, you may be surpassed by your opponents!

One in five people in a city reads comics, and it can be said that the potential of the urban comic market has basically been tapped to the extreme.

In this market, there are not only other local comic companies in Hong Kong competing in it, but more importantly, the comic giants are also eyeing it on the sidelines.

Before the 60s, the comic industry in Hong Kong did not form a climate at all, and until the mid-70s, the comic book reader market was still dominated by comics.

However, Hong Kong's local comics have developed rapidly, and a large number of local comics artists have appeared, snatching local comic readers back from this comic book with Hong Kong comics that are more in line with the tastes of local readers in Hong Kong.

Although not many people regard Hong Kong cartoonists as "national heroes".

However, in the field of comics, the comics have been squeezed out of the mainstream of the local comic market, which shows that the Hong Kong cartoonists of this era have really reflected the national spirit in their actions!

Huang Yulang said: "That's right, Shaojie! Now that you're back, take the time to take a look at the company, as a major shareholder of the company, you can't even be impressed by the company's main cartoonists, right? ”

Zhang Shaojie nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go over now!" ”

"Yes, that's fine! Remember to bring the manuscript of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" with you, our current manuscript is still obtained from "Ming Pao" and "Martial Arts and History" magazines. I drew drafts of Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling and other characters, you can come and see, give a little opinion, if you are not satisfied, I will redraw! Huang Yulang said.

Hung up the phone, Zhang Shaojie drove to Yulang International Company by himself.

After becoming a shareholder of Yulang International, Zhang Shaojie has not personally visited Yulang International Company.

This time, Zhang Shaojie brought a 500,000-word manuscript of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", in addition to some follow-up outlines and settings to facilitate the adaptation of comics.

The original plot of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", although it cannot be said to have reached an impeccable level. However, it is indeed better than the major film and television adaptations and comic book adaptations.

The Hong Kong film and television industry and the comic industry have adapted the original book's economy and ability, Zhang Shaojie can't believe it.

Even if Huang Yulang is the godfather of Hong Kong comics, if he changes the plot randomly, most of the readers of the original "Tang Dynasty" will scold his mother.

Moreover, if the "Datang" comic starts to change the plot of the original book, film and television companies will scramble to follow suit in the future. Then the film and television version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", a tragedy that is more thunderous than the other, may be repeated again!

The only thing Zhang Shaojie hopes for is that Huang Yulang's comic adaptation may be in line with the original work, and he will change the plot or something, which is the most annoying!

Of course, comic book adaptations can also greatly enhance the cultural influence of a novel.

A novel of 1 million words, if it is serialized in a newspaper or a weekly, can generally only be serialized for 1 year.

But the serialization life of comics often far exceeds that of novels. A million-word martial arts novel, if adapted into a comic, can be serialized for three or five years, or more than ten years.

Take Huang Yulang's "Dragon and Tiger Gate" as an example, since its inception in the early 70s, it has been serialized for more than ten years!

Huang Yulang's best-selling "Dragon Tiger Gate" was initially popular because it benefited from Bruce Lee's kung fu films. However, after the curtain fell on Bruce Lee's popularity, the hardcore readers of this comic have not decreased but increased. "Dragon Tiger Gate" can be said to be a microcosm of the rapid development of Hong Kong's comic industry since the 70s.

In fact, the phenomenon of a relatively long life in the serialization of popular manga is common throughout the world.

The comic market in Hong Kong, the United States, and other places shows that this kind of long-term serialized comics, once the serialization is getting better, readers can buy it for decades! As long as there is a market, there is money to be made, and readers want to continue serializing, then there is generally no reason for a comic to end hastily.

For example, "Doraemon" was serialized in 1969, and by the time of Fujita's death in 1996, it had been serialized in magazines for 30 years, and more than 100 million copies of the manga alone had been sold.

American superhero comics are often serialized for more than forty or fifty years. The "X-Men" series, which began serialization in 1964 and ended in 2011, sold more than 500 million copies in 47 years, ranking second in the world's comic book circulation list.

A popular martial arts novel like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is the best choice for adapting serialized comics.

The first is that the plot is full, with martial arts moves, novel backgrounds, and plot settings detailed.

The second is that the book is long enough, and if you adapt the comics, it will be enough to be serialized for many years.

At this time, the Hong Kong comic market was extremely hot.

In the comic circle, it is not that there is no performance. Instead, they are worried that there are not enough scripts to adapt, and that they can't train a larger number of good cartoonists to satisfy the hungry market.

A popular long-form martial arts novel like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" undoubtedly solves the script needs of comic book adaptation.

In this way, cartoonists can be freed from the painstaking and meditative plot, and only need to follow the development of the plot in the novel, process and imagine it in their minds, and draw it into a comic work.

Soon after Zhang Shaojie came to Yulang International Company, Huang Yulang took the company's people and gave a grand welcome.

"Everyone warmly welcomes Mr. Zhang Shaojie, the most popular novelist in Hong Kong, the author of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", and an important shareholder of Yulang International, to join the company!" Huang Yulang pulled Zhang Shaojie and said to everyone, "Applause!" ”

Bang Bang Bang!

There was a thunderous round of applause.

The cartoonists under the major Yulang institutions have expressed unprecedented welcome.

Although, most cartoonists, Zhang Shaojie doesn't know much about it.

However, Huang Yulang took the trouble to introduce them one by one.

Qi Wenjie, Ruan Dayong, Zhang Wanyou, Qiu Fulong and many other Hong Kong comic cadres

These well-known painters earn more than 100,000 Hong Kong dollars a year, and most of them reach hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. Such an income level is really expensive, and it can even compare to the income of first-line stars and directors in the Hong Kong film circle.

When Zhang Shaojie heard about the introduction, he was immediately amiable to these cartoonists.

Because, these cartoonists earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, which also means that they can contribute more profits to the company! And the value of the comic characters created by these painters and the intangible cultural assets is immeasurable!

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