Chapter 557: Lessons from the Triple Gate Adaptation
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Of course, Tong Yan also hopes that the film and television adaptation rights of his novels can be sold at millions of sky-high prices, but for today's market, it is not realistic, game companies are willing to pay high prices, millions and millions of dollars, because it is easier to guide online readers into gamers, the conversion rate is higher, and there is already a successful precedent like "Zhu Xian", but there are no film and television dramas yet, no one can guarantee the popularity of the Internet, and it can still be popular on TV.
Tong Yan's "Rage Thunder" and "Monstrous" are both otherworldly fantasy novels, and the road to film and television adaptation is even more difficult, relatively speaking, "Emperor Immortal" is a fairy tale novel, integrating ancient Chinese background, it is still relatively easy to shoot, so Tong Yan wants to see his novel become a film and television drama, and at present, he can only count on "Emperor Immortal", so he doesn't look too heavy in terms of price, as long as the TV series can be popular, it will definitely drive physical book sales and online subscriptions, and the lost east corner will definitely receive Sangyu.
In the end, after a series of tug-of-wars, the copyright price was set at 300,000, which was more expensive than Jiang Xuerou expected, and lower than Luo Li Hou Xiaoqiang expected, fortunately, Tong Yan Wuji looked at it more openly, and did not express dissatisfaction with this price, although it cannot be compared with the film adaptation fee of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", but the influence of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" has gone beyond the scope of online articles, and it is not good to be a comparison object.
With the 3 million of deep-sea technology, Tong Yan is also more open to money, he is now more concerned about the quality of this drama, he hopes that his readers will not shout that they will be fooled after seeing it in the future, and they will not complain that he is not a person and ruin the classics in their minds.
However, after selling the copyright, the adaptation of the work is up to the people, Tong Yan has at most the right to suggest, and he can't control the adaptation. can't control the casting, can't control the director, the most he can do is try his best to promote it when it is broadcast.
Fortunately, Jiang Xuerou still respects him, the original author, and asked him what his adaptation ideas are, Tong Yan naturally wants to use this opportunity to brainwash the producer: "This novel is counted as a biography." The total length is 3.5 million words, there are as many as thousands of characters with names and surnames, and the worldview structure in the middle and late stages is too huge, and the power system is also amazing, so it is not realistic to adapt the full text, so I suggest intercepting the previous part for adaptation, so that if the first part is successful, you can also shoot the second part, which is equivalent to an adaptation fee that can be used many times. ”
"You're kind of thinking about us." Jiang Xuerou smiled.
"I just want to see an excellent TV series called "Emperor Immortal". I hope it can be at the level of "Water Moon Cave Sky". ”
"Do you like "Water Moon Cave Sky"?"
"I like it very much, and "Ask the Sky" is also very good." Tong Yan did not hesitate to praise.
"So what do you think of Yu Peng playing the leading role?" Jiang Xuerou asked further.
Tong Yan knew that sooner or later there would be this question, he didn't want to answer it, the question was whether it was useful for him to say it, and did Zhou Yi have any other candidates for the actor besides Yu Peng?
Tong Yan didn't hate Yu Pinach, on the contrary, he felt that this actor was not bad, and the city of "Xiao Shiyi Lang" was bad at the beginning. But it is full of charm and makes people love and hate. After that, Bai Qiwei in "The Young King", Tong Bo in "Water Moon Cave Sky", and Fang Xu in "Ask the Wine to the Sky" all gave excellent performances, and it is suitable for him to play an uncle like Qiu Ce, but the problem is that Zhou Yi's TV series have always been used for pineapple as the starring role. With Yang Junyi and Zhang Jin, the heroine is generally played by an out-of-fashion actress in Hong Kong who is about 40 years old, and she doesn't feel uncomfortable at all when she plays a teenage girl.
Such a combination is becoming less and less fresh, and it is becoming less and less marketable, and the TV series after Zhou Yi 05 are becoming more and more difficult to sell. Tong Yan hopes to see a more diverse mix of roles, and there can be fresher mainland Xiaohuadan to play the role of Yan Moqing, instead of Hong Kong's aunts.
Hearing that Jiang Xuerou intended to let Yu Peng be the leading actor, Tong Yan felt that he was going to suffer, who would the words and ink of the eternal iceberg girl's face fall? Is it 36-year-old Cai Shaofen? 42-year-old Chen Farong? Or 43-year-old Zhou Haimei? This is Zhou Yi's usual lineup!
Seeing that Jiang Xuerou was still waiting for her evaluation of the pine, Tong Yan dared to ask: "Mr. Jiang, haven't you ever thought of using actors from other companies to play your play?" ”
"I have my own company, so why use someone else's? Wouldn't it be better to save the cost of production in this way? ”
The co-authorship is still cheap, Tong Yan has nothing to say, "Yu Peng is very good." Tong Yan summed up his statement, he had given up his efforts, but Jiang Xuerou still praised him, thinking that the script he provided was a good idea, the story of the emperor was so long, and it was more reasonable to intercept the part to shoot.
came to the magic capital, Tong Yan in addition to the two friends of watermelon and 314, and Wang Ping, a classmate, this guy often runs to Jinling, but Tong Yan rarely comes to him, this time I just took the opportunity to see him.
Listening to Wang Ping, he was in the racing team, that is, the Volkswagen team where Han Sai played, and it happened that he invited Han Sai by the way, and he promised to put the electronic copyright of all the works under his name in Aiyue, which was very face-saving, and the two were already friends.
I heard that Tong Yan came to talk about film and television copyright this time, Han Sai was very interested, his "Other Country" was originally a script idea, and director Guan Jinpeng intended to be the director, but it has not been able to come true, and he is really short of money when it is changed into a novel.
Seeing that Tong Yan Wuji, a child, encountered this kind of thing, he also shared his experience in the adaptation of the TV series "Triple Gate".
"Triple Gate has also filmed a TV series?" Tong Yan was surprised.
"It's been a long time ago, it's been almost ten years, and it didn't take long for it to be blocked by radio and television, and it can only be circulated locally on the Internet," Han Sai sighed, "The heroine is very popular now, her name is Dong Jie, and she was still a girl at the time, I forgot what the male protagonist was called, and I didn't mix it up later." ”
"I'll definitely look back!" Tong Yan said with interest.
Han Sai immediately stopped: "Don't, don't watch it, sell the adaptation rights to them, I regret dying, that TV series is too rubbish, I can't watch it myself, and I don't recommend it to my book lovers." ”
"Do you have a deep love for your work and think that no matter how you shoot it, you will ruin the classics?" Tong Yan said with a smile.
Han Sai pouted: "I really don't think "Triple Gate" is a classic, the classic is that I was only sixteen or seventeen when I wrote Triple Gate, and I wanted to read it, that is, a passing novel, but I still have to say that the TV series is very badly filmed, they don't care at all, if I am a director, I have to be better than the original book." ”
"You're already a writer, a race car driver, and a singer, why do you still want to be in the acting industry?" Tong Yan joked.
Han Sai touched his stubble, worried about the country and the people: "Domestic movies are bad, and when I take the time one day, it's time to save ......" (to be continued.) )
PS: The second more ~~~