"Alex, your movies are doing really well right now, but, are there any new TV series lately? If you have it, you must find me, the cooperation between Endeavor Elite and you has been very good, you have a new business development, but you must come to me. ”

With a smile on his face, Alexander coped with the conversation with the people of Endeavour Elite Company, but his eyes never stopped, wandering the hall all the time, searching for Levy's whereabouts.

Where did this guy run away again?

It's September, and the annual Emmy Awards are underway. This time the banquet was the party after the Emmys. Alexander and Levy, as the owners of Enigma, have their own company with a hit show, and they are also invited.

At this year's Emmys, they also won nothing. CSI and Super Heroes, although still good ratings, are still not treated at the Emmys.

It wasn't a big deal - Alexander didn't take the Emmys seriously. But after the Emmy, before Alexander could rest for a while at the banquet, he was pestered by the people of Endeavour Elite Agency, saying that he had a new business, which made Alexander quickly realize something.

I'm afraid it's Nick, this guy, he's coming here again.

If you have a new idea, you have to discuss it with yourself first, the brokerage company knows about it, and you don't know it yet. Alexander suppressed the anger in his heart, and while greeting the people around him, he felt a little anxious in his heart.

"There are no new works lately,......" Alexander perfunctorily, but the other party was not satisfied with his attitude.

"I saw Nick talking to the Sci-Fi guys over there. Are you ready to make a new sci-fi TV series? Alex, we're good friends, don't hide it from me if you have a plan......"

Nick over there? Alexander heard what he wanted to know in his words and hurriedly apologized. He strode over. At this time, he was also surprised by another name.

SCI-FI TV? Nick is going to work with them?

Hurried a few steps, and sure enough, he saw Levy standing there. It's just that there doesn't seem to be anyone around him anymore.

"Nick, where did you go? I've been looking for you all along. ”

"Just hanging out...... Is there anything looking for me? Looking at Alexander, who was a little dissatisfied, Levy asked directly.

"You're fooling me again...... I heard, you're talking to someone from Sci-Fi? Is there really such a thing? Alexander looked at Levy's smile and became even more depressed.

This guy is still laughing and not in a hurry at all. He probably thought that he could easily convince himself, right?

There are many TV stations in the United States, and in addition to the four major TV networks, there are also quite a few pay TV stations, local TV stations, and other TV stations. Sci-Fi is a relatively small TV station, this TV station was founded in the 90s, just a few years after its establishment, and its main business project is to show science fiction TV series.

Sci-fi TV series are not a very popular genre. In terms of market share, it has never been very high. The reason is that because the production cost of TV dramas has never been high, it is often difficult for such TV series to produce good enough results. Naturally, there is nothing to see. However, science fiction fans have always been extremely enthusiastic about their favorite genres, and they are willing to pay for all kinds of related products. Collecting discs and supporting actors has made the genre enduring. It's hard for this TV station to become bigger. But it's not hard to maintain an income.

After all, this TV station is a joint venture between Paramount and Universal, and both companies have worked very little with Levy's before, and this time even Universal is blocking Levy's films. It's also puzzling what Levy is talking to them now, and what he will be talking about.

"It's not a particularly in-depth collaboration," Levy smiled and opened his mouth with the same expression, "I was thinking that we could launch a TV series on their TV station." ”

"Sci-fi TV series?" Alexander furrowed his brow, "Nick, that's not a good idea. ”

"It's just a sci-fi TV series."

"You don't come, I don't know you yet? Every time you want to do something, you do it step by step in advance, and you have done enough foreshadowing, and then you say your purpose. What do you say is just making a sci-fi TV series, in fact, what you really want to do is a sci-fi movie, right? ”

Alexander's keen judgment made Levi raise his head in surprise, he didn't expect that his careful thinking was easily seen through by Alexander.

It seems that the cooperation in the past few years has also learned a lot about each other. For Levy's habit of liking to lay the groundwork safely and make enough preparations before starting filming, Alexander obviously also understood

"Well, I do have that in mind." Levy shrugged. It's kind of admitting this statement.

"Do you really want to make a sci-fi movie?"

Alexander, who was still a little angry just now, calmed down after hearing Levi's confession. Levy is not an idiot, he is very organized, and if he wants to make a certain type of film, it must be well thought out...... These are things that Arissanda knows better than anyone.

However, he is still talking about science fiction.

"Nick, have you really figured it out? You're talking about science fiction. Alexander didn't understand Levy's thoughts, "Even if you don't have to say it, you know that science fiction is a very unpopular film genre. For this type of movie, the Oscar doesn't want to see it, and even the reputation among the audience is quite average. The audience may watch this kind of movie as fun and as an interesting story, but such a movie will never be recognized. With your current reputation, making science fiction films? What are you thinking? ”

From the time Alexander heard Levy talking to someone from the science fiction TV station, his questions had already rushed to his mind. Levy is now a director with a fairly good reputation, and such a reputation is not easy to come by. Alexander knows how difficult it is for a director to gain the reputation of the audience, and he also knows how difficult it is for Levy to have the reputation he has now. This is a good reputation for several movies that are excellent products, as long as he shoots a bad movie, his reputation is over.

Although Alexander has been joking, saying that he wants Levy to shoot some commercial films. However, that doesn't mean he can watch Levy take his hard-earned fame to the ground.

A director's creative golden age is often not long, and it can't be wasted.

Hearing his words, Levy just frowned, "Alex, you have too deep preconceptions about science fiction films. Science fiction movies, not without good movies. ”

"It's not that I have deep prejudices, it's that the entire film industry has a bad impression of this kind of movie."

"First of all, I didn't shoot movies for the Oscars. Again, theoretically speaking, science fiction films can also win awards, and since we can make other films, why not give ourselves some imagination to use at the Oscars. ”

Levy's rebuttal has his point: in the future, he will know about the gravity of an award-winning work. To say that science fiction works can't win awards is too underestimated science fiction.

"Because reality is heavy, dreams can't fly." But Alexander insisted on his opinion. He spread his hands, "The reality is that the Oscars don't like sci-fi films, and sci-fi films never win awards. ”

"Oscar didn't like it. It's some kind of science fiction film. Levy corrected, "Isn't science fiction without awards, isn't traveling around the earth in eighty days a science fiction film?" ”

Around the globe in 80 days? Alexander smiled a little wryly, indeed. When this novel was written, it was a science fiction novel, the work of Verne, and it was definitely the originator of science fiction. And it was made into a movie in 1957. And, as a modern person, who would think of circumnavigating the globe in eighty days as science fiction! Eight days around the world is more than enough!

"You are hard-mouthed, when you traveled around the world in 80 days and were filming, it could no longer be regarded as science fiction." Alexander was somewhat dissatisfied.

"That's the greatness of Verne's novels, his science fiction coming to life...... I'll give you an example, but what I want to say is just a truth: for movies that are logical and have excellent films, the academy will not discriminate. Instead of blaming the academy, science fiction films should blame themselves for not being angry. Levy looked at Alexander still unconvinced, and opened his mouth again, "Alex, let's say so. When you think of sci-fi films, what will be the first thing that comes to mind? ”

"Stunts, graphics, big scenes...... I understand. ”

"Yes, that's right, that's why." Levy clapped his hands, "Too many sci-fi films are supported by stunts." What is a movie, as an old man of the academy, watching? Whether the structure of the story is clear, whether the plot of the story is reasonable, the shooting technique of the story, the performance of the characters, and other aspects of editing, music, lighting, etc., ......"

"These are the weaknesses of science fiction films."

"Yes. The reason why many science fiction movies are called science fiction is to hide the essence of the story that is not rigorous enough. When the director makes up the story too far from reality and can't make the story complete, he uses black technology to make up for it, and in order to be reasonable, they call it science fiction. ”

"Fantasy, yes, but under the premise of fantasy, the story has to be rigorous and reasonable. But a lot of science fiction movies can't do it. After watching Star Wars, who can explain what the Force is? This kind of inexplicable illogical romanticism is a fatal flaw in the eyes of the academic school. No matter how great and rigorous he expounds on interstellar law, it is unacceptable to fight cold weapon warfare in the space age, it is not a rigorous story. Not to mention his story, aside from the cloak of science fiction, it is just an old-fashioned space opera story, as a movie, it has great enlightenment, as a science fiction work? It can only be said that it is so-so. ”

"Which science fiction film has a good connotation since Kubrick? If you want science fiction to have depth, then give science fantasy profundity. But they don't express the idea of deep thinking through science fiction at all, what they are entangled with is still a little shallow human emotion - human nature, human nature, human nature! Without their own thoughts, they are pulling a little bit of old-fashioned concepts of human nature, shallow and incomprehensible, they are not playing science fiction, their fantasies are not based on science at all, but on the perspective of being cool, good-looking, and cheating the box office, such things, they deserve to win no awards for 10,000 years -- they are not science fiction at all. ”

Levy's grumbling made Alexander suffocate. Although he no longer agreed with what Levi said, the confidence and momentum expressed by Levi made him never refute.

"Tell me what you think." Alexander sighed, "Let me hear what the hell you're thinking." (To be continued......)