Chapter 107: A Web Novel Suitable for Adaptation into a Movie

"Time Magazine" how to arrange Shao Yingying after he said this, Shao Yingying didn't know anything about it, and at the end of the interview, Wang Zhongjun hurriedly walked to Shao Yingying's side, looking dissatisfied.

"Xiao Shao, what you said just now was too straightforward, right?"

Shao Yingying looked at Wang Zhongjun in Wang Zhongjun's office and said, "Straight? We all have a home, and a foreign devil asks us why the hygiene of our home is not clean, what should I say? Can I say that everyone in our family is cheap, so we like to play this routine? ”

"Xiao Shao, why are you so good at biting people without opening your mouth?" After listening to Shao Yingying's words, Wang Zhongjun said angrily: "Okay, let's not talk about this, okay?" But how can you open your mouth and say that you are challenging the box office of "Titanic", this is too big, Zhang Yimou has played twice on this road, "Hero" and "Ambush on All Sides" can't play the box office, people haven't said anything big, what do we Huayi use to fight? If we really use a big investment to smash it, once the box office fails, we will lose money! Wang Zhongjun trembled and was a little uncalm, he was afraid that Shao Yingying would be angry and throw a big price to invite Hollywood stars to come to China to participate in the filming, which would cost more than 10 million US dollars at every turn, and now Huayi can't afford it at all.

Shao Yingying stretched out his hand, trying to suppress the anger he had just finished the interview and said to Wang Zhongjun: "Mr. Wang, I can admit in front of anyone that I Shao Yingying coaxed, it's not a big deal, but if someone presses our entire circle to the ground and spits, I will be the first to disagree." You can rest assured, use big investment to hit the box office. I don't do it, once the movie we make doesn't get a good box office in the Chinese market, don't expect to get back many green tickets when we go to North America. ”

"And." Shao Yingying walked to the door in a few steps and said to Wang Zhongjun: "Mr. Wang." I think you're a bit conservative at times. ”

"Zhang Wan! What about Zhang Wan!! ”

Shao Yingying walked out of Wang Zhongjun's office and shouted unscrupulously in the corridor.

"Didn't Minister Zhang ask you to send out to film? Follow the crew of "Life and Death" ...... "An employee who dared to speak followed Shao Yingying's angry voice in the office area.

Shao Yingying stopped and nodded slowly: "Which department are you?" His original intention was to let the person in front of him take over Zhang Wan to run an errand for him, but when he got closer, he found that there was a web page full of text hanging on the computer screen: "What are you doing here?" ”

"No, no, Boss Shao ......" The clerk stood up a little timidly.

Shao Yingying looked down, and the first line of text on the webpage read: 'The previous life was like a mess. Countless fragments of memories are as disorganized in my mind as the catkins that fly in the summer. ', this ......

I don't know why, Shao Yingying felt very attractive when he read the first line of text in this manuscript. By the time he got closer to the clerk and leaned over and held the mouse to continue looking, he had been finishing the entire chapter!

Good writing.

Shao Yingying copied so many movie and TV series scripts and never wrote such a natural text once, at this time. Shao Yingying glanced up at the title. On the top is written the four words "Hippie Smiley", and then, the website is the starting point Chinese network.

Web novels?

Shao Yingying in 2005 really didn't have much time to pay attention to the changes in the online world, until when he found this text, he found that a world that had never appeared on his computer was unfolding to him.

Shao Yingying, who didn't say a word, returned to his office, opened the web page in front of the computer, and when he found the novel, he spent an afternoon reading it all!

This is a novel of only 110,000 words. But these 110,000 words make you reluctant to give up a word, and the three male protagonists appear in front of you in such different styles. The whole novel will always suddenly move or sad you in a relaxed atmosphere.

Youth, these 110,000 wrote the true meaning of the words 'nostalgia for youth', whether it is a narrative or flashback, the combination is just right, at least in the eyes of Shao Yingying.

Shao Yingying remembered a lot of movies that later broke 100 million box office on the big screen with small fights and big fights, such as "Du Lala's Promotion" and "33 Days of Broken Love", but none of these two movies can write the cruelty of reality and the helplessness of youth so embarrassing.

"Who is that, immediately contact the starting point Chinese network, and say that this pen name is ...... Dance? What is this name...... Ask if the film rights to the novel, whose pen name is Dancing and whose book is "Hippie Smiley Face", are still in our hands, and we plan to buy the film rights of this book.

Huayi has enough actors, they have a whole 'Huayi Performing Arts Network' of actors to choose from, now what Shao Yingying wants to do is to let Huayi have a few more directors who can be called, Wei Jiahui and Ning Hao alone are definitely not enough, at least two more must be cultivated, just who to cultivate...... It's a problem. There don't seem to be many directors who are good at making this kind of movie, and the director Teng Huatao, who has filmed "Snail House", "Wang Gui and Anna", and "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" in real history, is good, he can not only control similar themes brilliantly, but also add some ideas that are exclusive to him.

Lao Xu, Xu Jinglei is also okay, the effect of workplace light comedy such as "Du Lala's Promotion" is also good, and now Xu Jinglei has just finished filming "Me and Dad" and "Letter from a Strange Woman", and is taking care of the two paths of actor and director, but she has not yet walked out of both roads, even if she became popular after filming "Carry on Love to the End", it is not as good as the other four Hua Dan.

"By the way, help me with Teng Huatao and Xu Jinglei, I will see them tomorrow."

Teng Huatao can actually control the adaptation of "Hippie Smiling Face" by himself, but Xu Jinglei is the person Shao Yingying must win, and he is also the female director that Huayi must come up with and can stand, with Wei Jiahui, Ning Hao, Teng Huatao, Xu Jinglei The four directors, Shao Yingying can even make Huayi stand firmly in the good times in the future trend, and he himself can concentrate on shooting rhythmic movies born of adversity.

The next day, Huayi got in touch with the starting point. The starting price for the hippie smiley face is 300,000.

This amount of money is a bit high for the script, Shao Yingying is a person who knows the market situation, and the trend of a person who sits on the Internet in addition to writing a name to become a screenwriter has not yet come into being. He has the certainty of lowering the price.

What he didn't know was that the dancing "Hippie Smiley" didn't cause much of a sensation when it was written, and in the world of online novels, it took half a year to write these 110,000 words, which created the essence of 110,000 words. Of course, the novel that really makes dancing profitable is "The Changing Face Samurai", which makes dancing have a record of monthly income of more than 10,000. At that time, it seemed that a great god with an annual income of more than one million had just appeared at the starting point, blood red.

The path to publication of "Hippie Smiley" was also hilarious, and the dance and the publisher were talking about a different book. As a result, people fell in love with "Hippie Smiley", and now, "Hippie Smiley" has just been written, and "Face-Changing Samurai" has not yet been born.

Take advantage of this opportunity. Shao Yingying pushed the price to 250,000. In one go, it lowered one-sixth of the total price, and even brought an additional requirement, that is, the starting point must hang the advertisement of Huayi's upcoming adaptation of "Hippie Smiley" on the homepage.

Huayi and Shanda have a good relationship, which makes the deal more smooth, and the starting point has not even returned the price, and the signing date has been agreed, because the adaptation of their novel into a film by a company like Huayi is a kind of publicity for them themselves.

At the same time, Teng Huatao and Xu Jinglei arrived.

Teng Huatao is still a small director. The only TV series that can get its hands on it is "You Must Be Necessary" starring Chen Kun and Lin Xinru, before "Double-sided Tape" came out. Teng Huatao's fame is only limited to the circle, even if there are two big names in "You Must Be".

"Director Teng, welcome, Lao Xu, sit."

Shao Yingying did not pose as a small actor in front of these two people, but talked very equally.

Teng Huatao and Xu Jinglei glanced at each other and smiled, and the two sat down one after another.

On the seat, Teng Huatao was still wearing a suit on a hot day, and Xu Jinglei was wearing a white dress, which was very temperamental.

"Don't hide it from the two, we Huayi have a lot of dramas to shoot recently, and after having Huayi Performing Arts Network, actors are not the most scarce problem in Huayi, but directors are the most scarce resources. The two should also know that the cooperation between the company and the director is divided into two modes, one is that the director has done a good job of looking for investment, and the company depends on the situation; The other is that the company is ready for a qiē, and at this time, the company's choice is generally the director who has cooperated with the director and the director signed by the company to shoot. ”

Shao Yingying glanced at the two of them and said again: "Huayi has a drama now, but the director in my hand doesn't even have a schedule, are you two interested?" ”

"The script is in the computer, and the two of you can watch it at any time, with only 110,000 words."

Teng Huatao opened his mouth and asked, "How much to invest?" ”

Shao Yingying looked at Teng Hua and smiled, and responded: "Director Teng is very practical, the investment in this drama is not much, 10 million, the actor company has set the male number one to be played by Wen Zhang, the heroine has not yet been decided, and the salary of several million will definitely not be used, as long as it meets the investment ratio, the director can make his own decisions." ”

"I want to read the script first." These are Xu Jinglei's words.

Shao Yingying also nodded and said, "Yes." He reached for a piece of paper in a drawer, picked up a pen and wrote down a few words: "Here's the URL, the name of the site, and the name of the novel." ”

He didn't mention whether to let these two people jointly guide or compete for the post, anyway, as long as there was a question, he would answer it immediately, making the two of them very nervous as if they had seen competitors, without the slightest smile.

This is the state!

Shao Yingying will definitely not smash Qian Bai into it, even if he uses "Hippie Smiley" to pave the way for the future of these two directors, he has to see the real strength of the two of them at this stage.

"The two of them patronized and chatted, and Huayi's conditions were forgotten. There is only one director position for "Hippie Smiley", and I need two of them to write a whole set of shooting plans and storyboards, which shouldn't be too much? You may wish to think about it. ”

Sent these two people away, Shao Yingying doesn't have to think about the rest at all, Wang Zhongjun has 10,000 ways to keep these two people in Huayi, otherwise he will be in vain!

After discussing the matter of Teng Huatao and Xu Jinglei with Wang Zhongjun, neither of them got Wang Zhongjun's good face, because Wang Zhongjun was not very optimistic about these two people, and he was currently thinking about how to poach a guy like 'Huang Xiaoming', who was born with a star face.

"Xiao Shao, you said that Xu Jinglei and Teng Huatao are already angry before they get out of the first one, are you wasting so much effort on the two of them? The most important thing for us now is how to dig out 'Huang Xiaoming' and how to bring out 'Feng Shaofeng', these two people are cash cows when they come out, no less than Wen Zhang's income. ”

Shao Yingying can't explain this kind of thing, Xu Jinglei has always been the worst of the four Hua Dan, "Carry on Love to the End" has been popular for a while, whether it is an actor or a director, it is not brilliant, and the salary is not high, if it has not been performed or exported in a few years, it should be forgotten. As for Teng Huatao, are there fewer such directors thrown off in the circle every year? There are even some directors who have made one or two popular dramas and changed careers after no works, some open hotels, some run companies to do business, and they can survive and get better and better by relying on TV dramas, Shao Yingying and Zhao Baogang belong to the top-notch group.

"Mr. Wang, I won't stuff the company with burdens, believe me." Shao Yingying can only say this, his vision has not missed, this is the only thing he can say to Wang Zhongjun. (To be continued......)