Chapter 123 Invitation from the film and television company
The book that Wen Xun wrote before was "The Alchemy Master of Steel" was only the first book in a series, and it stands to reason that he would of course continue to write the second book. But he didn't have to be in the same hurry to write the second book as he was in the first one, because as a businessman, it's not a good thing to release a new product too quickly.
If it takes more than a month to release a new book to be published, the first book has not yet attracted the vast majority of consumers, so the second book will come out? What about people who have read the first book and will buy the second book, but have not had time to read the first book because of the kind and reason? Do they just buy the second book or the first one?
After the release of the second book, the sales of the first book will definitely decrease to a certain extent, and Wen Xun released it so diligently, isn't it just to make less money! In the opinion of Wen Xun, it is normal for him to release it at a rate of half a year, after all, he has a book with ten thousand words! An ordinary best-selling author can write 300,000 words a year, which is already a lot, who can write as much as Wen Xun?
In the past few days, Bertelsmann's first batch of book money after re-signing the contract was transferred to the account of Rotten Keyuan Publishing House, but Lan Yang had a little trouble when he wanted to transfer the money to Wen Xun. It turned out that Wen Xun's own account was a personal account, while the account of Rotten Keyuan Company was a company account. It was a large-amount transfer, an inter-bank transfer, and needed the support of a cashier's check, and the small head of the local bank begged not to transfer millions of deposits out of the bank, and finally it took nearly enough time to transfer the money to Wen Xun's account.
What is turned around this time is the net profit after all costs are removed, that is, the U million before tax! Because when he signed the contract, he signed with Bertelsmann as a legal person of the company, Wen Xun also passed some reasonable tax avoidance measures of the publishing house to avoid paying a large amount of personal income tax.
After getting the money, Wen Xun was a little confused. If he wrote books in the earliest days to change the fate of his family, Fullmetal Alchemist wrote to prove that he was capable of writing a good book. So what is he going to do now?
Continue to write Fullmetal Alchemist? This is a way to avoid the biggest cost of the Bertelsmann operating model: the cost of mailing brochures! For Bertelsmann, the printing of more than a million copies of the brochure every month and sending it to all parts of China every month takes up a lot of cash flow. Isn't that a huge increase in costs?
If you use the network, although the customer base may be relatively small now, it can reduce a lot of operating costs, even if the profit is a little smaller temporarily, but this year is not a great development of the industry? Isn't the Internet so hot? After a few years, this network has developed, and it has entered every household like a large color TV, so won't he Wenxun's business start?
And he's not ignorant of this book business, doesn't he still have Lan Yang to use? When the time comes, cooperate with Lanyang to get a company out, run a business, and slowly grow bigger, isn't this also a way?
However, this point bow just flashed in Wen Xun's mind, and Wen Xun did not directly start to do it according to this idea. After all, the investment in this idea is too large, and Wen Xun has no experience in business, so even if he doesn't lose money by relying on the ability of dreams, but if he presses all the millions in the company for several years, isn't it like a matter of a while?
After thinking about it for a while, Wen Xun felt that his brain was almost dry, but he still didn't come up with any more creative ideas. However, he is not worried that if this ordinary person can't think of it, he can only continue to think depressedly, and he can go and sleep with peace of mind, and then see if he can see any good opportunities and good ideas in his dreams!
So Wen Xun closed the curtains, lay down on the bed, and slowly entered the dream. When he entered the dream, he found himself sitting on the sofa in his living room! This surprised Wen Xun, he had never dreamed of his home scene.
Just as he was thinking about what he would foresee this time, he suddenly heard the phone ring at home. When he picked it up, it turned out to be Lan Yang calling: "Hey, Wen Xun?" I'm Lan Yang, let me tell you, I just received a call here, it was from a film and television company in Songjiang, they want to have a conference call with you to see if you are willing to cooperate......".
Hearing this, Wen Xun was suddenly stunned. Film and television companies? Cooperate? "How to cooperate?" He asked Lan Yangdao.
"They didn't go into too much detail, saying they wanted to talk to you directly on the phone. I guess I want you to help write the book? Lan Yang thought about it and guessed.
"I guess it's ...... too," Wen Xun nodded and agreed. He thinks it should be like this, now Wen Xun can be said to be the hottest popular fried chicken in the Chinese literary world, if a film and television drama has played the "Wen Xun writes" signboard, it is estimated that it will attract a lot of people to watch. Wen Xun felt that if he was the CEO of a film and television company, he would have done this, after all, he was not only famous now, but also proved his strength through "Steel Alchemist", right?
"They left a phone number for me, you can find a paper note, I'll tell you ......, Lan Yang said at this time." It's okay, needless to say, I'll come to you. Wen Xun replied unexpectedly.
After half an hour, Wen Xun arrived at Lan Yang's office, and after the two of them discussed for a while, they used the landline to call the film and television company in Songjiang.
After Lan Yang and Wen Xun reported their names, a voice came from the phone, "Oh, hello Wen Xun, I look up to ...... for a long time"
Regarding this and the more painful and non-nutritious greetings, Wen Xun casually agreed to two sentences and then asked directly to the point: "I don't know how your company wants to cooperate with me this time?" ”
"That's right, the contemptible surname is Gu, Gu Zhaojie, is the vice president of Songjiang Jiaye Film and Television Company. This cooperation plan is what we want to do, we hope to cooperate with Wen Xun you to come out with a script ...... "......", said on the phone.
Hearing this, Wen Xun didn't get excited, he thought for a while and asked: "But I don't have any experience in writing film and television scripts yet...... "......".
"It's okay, it's okay, we have professionals on our side. Professionals can do everything, you can't write our professional screenwriters can write it for you, you can't write storyboard scripts, our screenwriters can write it for you. Even if you are not familiar with the design of film and television dramas and plot plots, our screenwriters can also help......" said so politely on the phone.
Although this is polite, after listening to it for a long time, why does Wen Xun feel that it is so wrong? Everything is the help of the other party's screenwriter, so what did he do quickly? If the other party even takes over the plot setting or something, then Wen Xun has nothing to do! Co-authoring this script is a pillar of the name of "Wen Xun Creation", right?
"You mean, let me put my name on it?" Wen Xun ignored the other party's whitewashing, and asked directly.
"I can't say it completely, our company also took into account that you are still young and have little experience, so we asked a professional screenwriter to help. This is not just a name, the copyright of the text can also belong to you, and we will also buy out the royalty money for the film and television adaptation......" The other end of the phone seemed to hear that Wen Xun's voice was wrong, and immediately said more politely.
But this and more polite statements made Wen Xun a little unhappy. What does Jiaye Film and Television mean? It's purely regarded as a mascot and an attractive signboard, right? He didn't know anything when he heard the news, and he didn't even need to give the other party the creative estimate, just simply hung up his name, helped with publicity, and then fooled his fans?
"What about this buyout, our company is ready to pay 100,000 yuan, the current life of the ...... RMB" Hearing Wen Xun didn't speak for a long time, the person on the other end of the phone hurriedly threw out a new base code.
This 100,000 yuan is indeed a huge amount of money in ordinary people in this era. If it was an ordinary writer, if it was not good, he would have agreed directly...... and he didn't have to pay any responsibility anyway, just a name for the pillar, and he got 100,000 yuan for nothing! Isn't this business cost-effective, and it doesn't take much effort to ...... "......"
But Wen Xun felt a little unhappy, he had just had the consciousness of Yihe as a public figure recently, and he had just had the pride of becoming a teenager role model, could it be that he had self-destructed his image after only a few days? Yes, self-destructing image! He Wen Xun is not Bi Qikai!
Bi Qikai and the bad boy template guys can mess around at will, and then put on a look of "Lao Tzu is like this, how do you drop it......", and he can also get praise from fans for his "true temperament". But Wen Xun is different, Wen Xun is a good boy template! If he messed around, the children would go back and say it directly to their parents、...... You see, Wen Xun did it...... How will Wen Xun sell books to parents openly and honestly, and how will he sell books to children? Now it is because parents and teachers believe in Wen Xun's character that they are willing to allow children to read Wen Xun's books!
In addition to this and the worry of destroying his image a little, there are other things that Wen Xun is unhappy about...... Although he still likes soft sister coins very much, he is not the Wen Xun who continued to use money to save the whole family back then! Wen Xun back then may not have received the money without worrying about the result, but now Wen Xun is different!
The other party only needs his name and doesn't want him to write it by hand, so doesn't the potential meaning be that he thinks that his biggest advantage is fame? Even if he proves himself through "Fullmetal Alchemist", in the eyes of the other party, he is just a child whose fame is greater than his strength. Isn't the subconscious meaning of the other party that he doesn't want Wen Xun to interfere in the script at all? Don't you just don't trust Wen Xun to come up with an interesting script?
And the price is only 100,000 yuan! Then why did Wen Xun promise them? He simply wrote a script and came out to find someone to shoot it, didn't he? He really can't write?
"Well, let me think about it, I'll call you back in a few days." As he spoke, he pulled the phone.
He had an idea, he had a goal!