After Xiaobawang's listing press conference, Jackie Chan, Lin Qingxia and others have returned to Hong Kong.

And Cheng Xiaodong is constantly begging Zhang Shaojie's script.

Zhang Shaojie was also free and easy, holding "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", casually pointing to an article and saying: "This book has a total of 12 volumes, with 474 articles, all of which can be used as scripts!" ”

Cheng Xiaodong smiled bitterly: "However, a short article of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" is too concise, if it is not processed at length, how can it be adapted into a script?" ”

Zhang Shaojie smiled: "Look at it! ”

Saying that, Zhang Shaojie flipped through "Nie Xiaoqian" and wrote the story with ease. In fact, after a long period of sharpening his writing, Zhang Shaojie's writing ability has changed from what it used to be. Especially according to the classics in memory, rewriting the script is even more confident, and it is as light as a weight.

The original text of "Liao Zhai * Nie Xiaoqian" tells that the scholar Ning Caichen entered the broken temple to stay and met the female ghost Nie Xiaoqian, Xiaoqian wanted to fornicate with her, but was rejected by him. Later, he gave Ning Caichen gold, but he was also refused. Nie Xiaoqian felt that he was a gentleman, so he told Ning Caichen about his life experience, and begged him to move the bones and bury them so that they could get rid of the control of the monsters. Ning Caichen agreed, and Nie Xiaoqian lived in Ning Caichen's house to help him serve his mother and Ning Caichen's wife. After the death of Ning's wife, the female ghost Nie Xiaoqian married Ning Caichen as a ghost wife, and then lived a happy life with Ning Caichen.

In this original story, the plot of talented and beautiful women is emphasized, and the length of Yan Chixia and demons is only described with very little ink.

Zhang Shaojie followed the 87 version of the "A Chinese Ghost Story" movie, writing that Ning Caichen helped the chivalrous guest Yan Chixia to fight the tree demon grandma. Then, Nie Xiaoqian was snatched to the underworld by the old demon of Montenegro, ready to marry a concubine. Yan Chixia felt Ning Caichen's infatuation and helped him go to the underworld to save Xiao Qian, although he defeated the old demon of Montenegro and saved Xiao Qian. However, the plot ended in tragedy, Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen were separated from each other and could only be reincarnated.

"Why?" Cheng Xiaodong said a little angrily.

"What, why?" Zhang Shaojie was puzzled!

"Why do you want to write a tragedy, Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen in the original book live happily together. In your script, you finally let Xiaoqian reincarnate, isn't it a tragedy? Cheng Xiaodong said.

"Please, if you change it according to the original book, it's just a cliché talent and beauty drama, with no suspense and no sensationalism, how can it have a good box office?" Zhang Shaojie said disapprerovingly.

"But, according to normal logic, doesn't the audience prefer comedy and reunion?"

"Having said that, the film is only 100 minutes long, and what is needed is a strong stimulation of the audience's perception. Whether it's comedy or tragedy, the purpose is to stimulate the audience and cause the heart to shake. The previous talent and beauty dramas were bland, and the audience would not feel anything! Zhang Shaojie emphasized, "In other words, if you don't shoot, I'll leave it to Tsui Hark to shoot!" ”

"Shoot, why not! This script is mine! Cheng Xiaodong hurriedly hugged "A Chinese Ghost Story" in his arms, for fear of being taken back by Zhang Shaojie.

"Baolong Film Company has a deposit of 130 million Hong Kong dollars. "A Chinese Ghost Story", you go and talk to Gu Long, invest 50 million Hong Kong dollars! Zhang Shaojie emphasized, "The computer special effects budget of 40 million yuan, the shooting cost of 10 million yuan. You plan carefully, at least you have to come up with a production level that is not inferior to "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"! ”

"Hiss" Cheng Xiaodong was shaken!

Last year, the largest production in Asia, "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", which was invested in Asia, had a total production cost of only 43 million yuan, while the new film "Six Fingers of the Demon", the director of "Datang", cost only 7 million Hong Kong dollars.

And now, the investment scale of "A Chinese Ghost Story" directed by Cheng Xiaodong has reached 50 million, which has refreshed the blockbuster investment scale of the Hong Kong film industry!

"Come on, Brother Dong!" Zhang Shaojie encouraged.

Cheng Xiaodong nodded solemnly. For directors, Zhang Shaojie is undoubtedly a good boss, he can not care about the return on investment of the movie, he can not care about the popularity of a director, but he can make sincere works.

Contemporary Hong Kong directors such as Tsui Hark , Cheng Xiaodong , how lucky they are to meet a boss like Zhang Shaojie.

—————————— Mi Zhen is handsome with Lin Qingxia and Jackie Chan, and he is very successful in advertising and marketing, and the brand reputation of Xiaobawang has gradually started. Jackie Chan and Lin Qingxia also returned to Hong Kong in October.

In mid-November, the president of Tokuma Bookstore, Yasushi Tokuma, also led the visiting team and took a flight to Hong Kong.

In fact, Tokuma Kang's purpose of coming to Hong Kong is also very simple, because he has seen Zhang Shaojie's ability to continue to create miracles. Tokuma Kangkuai hopes to achieve a deeper cooperative relationship with him.

"Zhang Sang, you've been in the limelight again recently, a combination of Xiaobawang game console, "Super Mario Bros.", and "Alice Cube", defeated Atari in Asia simply and beautifully!" Tokuma Yasukuai is not in the video game industry. However, he briefly consulted some experts and came to the conclusion that if the manufacturer produces Xiaobawang, it must be sold at a price of more than 17,000 yuan to ensure that it does not lose money.

However, Xiaobawang stubbornly lowered the market price to 12,800 yuan, which stunned the market.

Although many experts predict that the Xiaobawang game console must be making money at a loss. However, Xiaobawang's speed in conquering the city in the market has really attracted attention.

And after the two games of "Super Mario Bros. and Alice Cube" sold well, many market experts began to admire it - it turned out that Xiaobawang's doctrine was that the console hardware was at a loss, and the game made money!

Although, Xiaobawang's business philosophy is not profound.

However, this kind of business policy is difficult for today's entrepreneurs to accept.

Nowadays, whether it is a TV, a computer or a video recorder, the main profit of these products comes from the price difference of hardware. Manufacturers can obtain more than 40% gross profit margin by assembling and assembling hardware, which is the mainstream production mode of entrepreneurs now.

Zhang Shaojie said with a smile: "How can you make money with Tokuma Bookstore, now that you know the book, Tokuma Bookstore already has the ability to be inferior to Kadokawa Bookstore." In the future, there will be an opportunity to become the largest publishing group in this book! ”

"The largest publishing group, how easy it is to say it!" Tokuma said with a wry smile, "Our bookstore can sell more than 1 million books every year, and there are no more than 10 categories. But it's much inferior to Kadokawa Bookstore, Shogakukan, Kodansha, and Shueisha! Not to mention newspaper giants such as the Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Maisai Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, and Kokeizai Shimbun! ”

Although the publishing industry seems to be less visible internationally than the publishing giants of the United States and Europe. However, in reality, local newspapers such as the Yomiuri Shimbun have a circulation of more than 10 million copies per month, and Shueisha's manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump sells 6 million copies per issue at its peak.

This huge circulation has brought these newspaper giants an unparalleled right to speak, and it is easy for the publications under these newspaper giants to have a circulation of hundreds of thousands of copies, or even more than one million copies.

The reason why Tokuma Shoten is weak is that it is not as successful as Kadokawa Shoten in investment in entertainment films, and it is not as successful as giants such as Shueisha and Yomiuri Shimbun in terms of newspaper circulation. In particular, the ability of entertainment resources to transform each other is even weaker!

It is precisely for this reason that Tokuma Bookstore is very active in expanding its channels – creating bestsellers, investing in movies, and investing in anime

A series of measures are all proof that Tokuma Shoten intends to become bigger and stronger, and to become the existence of Kadokawa Shoten that is not inferior to Kadokawa Shoen.

However, over the years, Kadokawa Bookstore has been very successful in the collaborative marketing between different copyrights of films, and has continuously launched bestsellers and created popular movies.

How difficult it is for Tokuma Shoten to imitate the development route of Kadokawa Shoten, and even surpass Kadokawa Shoten!

However, Zhang Shaojie's appearance made Tokuma Yasui feel that his eyes lit up - "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is not exactly the weapon he hopes to use to resist Kadokawa Bookstore?

"Zhang Sang, the sequel to the "Tang Dynasty" movie, if you need funds, we are willing to do everything we can to invest!" Tokuma said.

"Nope! The sequel to the movie version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", I will always let Baolong make production, Baolong is not short of money! Zhang Shaojie flatly refused.

"Then, the copyright of the TV series "Datang" Tokuma Kang Kuaidao.

"No, I don't have any experience in making martial arts movies!" Zhang Shaojie said.

"Then anime copyright, Zhang Sang, don't refuse this time, okay? I have a lot of sincerity, we are ready to invest in more than 300 episodes of ultra-long anime, each episode will invest more than 30 million yuan, and the total investment will reach 10 billion yuan, such an investment scale is a rare big production in the animation industry," Tokuma said through gritted teeth.

"Who is the director of the anime?" Zhang Shaojie asked.

"Hayao Miyazaki!" Yasukushi Tokuma introduced, "This is a very talented anime director! ”

Zhang Shaojie was shocked, Hayao Miyazaki came to produce the anime "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", so what about "Valley of the Wind"? Does it mean that history has changed, and there is no more "Valley of the Wind".

Thinking of this, Zhang Shaojie suddenly smiled and said, "Okay, I agree." However, I ask that in the future, I will get 10% of the income of the anime version of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty"! Moreover, this anime must be made into a classic, not perfunctory! ”

"Of course, Tokuma Bookstore has always been based on the concept of fine products!" Tokuma Yasukuai assured.

(To be continued)