Chapter Seventy-Eight: Choosing a Director
If this story is a fantasy novel, then Zhou Xiao's first month in the Japanese entertainment industry should probably be called the beginning of a legend or something, the Japanese who have really experienced this Shi Qi don't care too much about Zhou Xiao's appearance, after all, it's someone else's business, even if he does anything, it's all his business, as long as he can bring more and more haode music to everyone.
But this does not seem to be true, because when the Japanese media that received the fax sent an interview invitation to AZX, Inoue in charge of the reception said that Zhou Xiao was busy with his own affairs recently, so he couldn't spare time for an interview for the time being, and when the reporters asked what Zhou Xiao was doing, Inoue's words made everyone's face full of black lines: "He is now looking for a director and is ready to invest in a movie." ”
What does he want to do? I didn't do so much after doing a little bit, and now I'm going to make a movie instead? What about the single? What about novels? Advertise that...... Well, even if that is the same category as your investment in movies.
As a result, when the reporters asked such a question, Inoue's answer was quite simple and did not hesitate: "Zhou Xiao's single is expected to be released at the beginning of next year, if there is no accident, the single will be the theme song and interlude of the movie." ”
Well, it is normal for a singer-songwriter to post one or two singles a year, and it is true that there are perverts who post many singles a year, but it seems that Zhou Xiao is not ready to do this kind of perversion.
And what about novels? The media asked without giving up.
"The second novel has already been sent to Wenchun, and the two novels are expected to be serialized for at least a year."
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Now, the media can only say that Zhou Xiao has accumulated a lot of money, because although he seems to have done a lot of things and turned out to be fine, but in fact? Whether it is a single or a novel, it is the property he has accumulated by singing, but it is just put on the table at the same time, if you understand it this way, it seems that Zhou Xiao's statement that he is doing these things "at the same time" is not quite right, because he actually only does one thing at the same time, but he does not take a break after doing one thing but goes to do another thing soon, it seems that all his ideas and work have been arranged very early and have been thought out a long time ago.
Zhou Xiao weishenme to do so many things? It's very simple, his goal is to build AKB, not to build an AKB that is the same as sadness, what he hopes to build is an AKB that surpasses the previous life and is even more powerful! For this, some hardware must be owned, Qiu Yuankang had it at the beginning, and of course Zhou Xiao does not have it now, so just five years later, Zhou Xiao must let himself have that kind of strength before he can do what Qiu Yuankang can do.
What is Yasushi Akimoto's strength? He was able to establish AKB, mainly relying on two strengths, one is to continue to write lyrics for eight years, don't think that Zhou Xiao can treat this point casually, if Zhou Xiao does not show enough songwriting strength and speed, the public will be very suspicious of Zhou Xiao's strength. So next year, Zhou Xiao will increase the speed of his songs, and will show his composition speed at the right time, of course, this is based on the countless Japanese music in his mind in the past fifteen years.
And Akimotoyasu's second strength is his diversified strength and his vast intercourse.
In terms of strength, Yasu Akimoto not only writes songs, but also accumulates rich contacts in TV stations as a script writer, and novels, directors, scripts and other work have also brought him a considerable group of friends, which are his most valuable resources, and Zhou Xiao, who started from scratch, must try to accumulate these things.
In addition to these two points, Zhou Xiao's ambition to "be an AKB that surpasses AKB" makes him have to develop a bigger shili!
Because the difference with Akimoto Yasu is that Akimoto Yasu is actually a working boy, although he also has his own investment, but in fact, the investment he pulled is the bulk of AKB, and AKB in the later period has been injected into many entertainment companies, which has not allowed his AKB to be boycotted or divided and cannibalized, at this point, he is far inferior to Denis's Kitagawa old man, because the old man can almost completely control Genesys, the entire Genesys industry, is much more powerful than 48G!
Zhou Xiao doesn't want to work for others like Yasu Akimoto and then can't control AKB, he wants to be Yasu Akimoto who founded AKB, but at the same time, in terms of ruling AKB, he is ready to be Kitagawa!
The road ahead is difficult, but Zhou Xiao is not afraid, since he is here, he has to create this legend, otherwise, the income from this song alone is enough to make him live happily for a lifetime, so why bother to keep busy?
When dealing with the media, Uncle Inoue also found Zhou Xiao a candidate for his film director.
The choice of this director is not easy at all.
A script written by a newcomer who has never been proven at all, many slightly famous directors simply disdain to read it, and if you sing well, it doesn't mean that you are good at acting.
Inoue, who had no choice, had to start talking to younger directors after obtaining Zhou Xiao's consent, but Zhou Xiao was still the one, it was best that the director could have some experience, even if it was not director experience but only on-set experience, with this, Inoue could at least find someone to talk to, but in this conversation, he found that young directors may not be easy to find, most young directors are very self-charactered, and they want to make their own movies and have their own personal style. Handing over the film to such a director may be able to produce a very good work, but it is very detrimental to Zhou Xiao's growth, what Zhou Xiao needs is the kind of director who has been cultivated under a more mature system and has experience but no particularly obvious style.
In the end, after Zhou Xiao was also involved, the two locked up one person.
This person is still working under Iwai Shunji and photographer Shinoda Noboru at the moment, but according to Uncle Inoue's friend, she does already have the intention of being an independent director, and after studying under Iwai Shunji for so long, her level must be very good, the popularity of "One Liter of Tears" has nothing to do with the quality of the film, and the level of the original film of the movie version, especially the screenwriter, is even worse.
"If she doesn't object, it's her, and hopefully she'll teach me enough." Zhou Xiao knocked on the table and said.
The next morning, in a café in Tokyo, Zhou Xiao held the hand of the thirty-year-old woman he was targeting: "Hello Ms. Nagata Koto, I'm Zhou Xiao. ”
"I really didn't expect you to even write the script so well." Nagata Qin said when she shook hands with Zhou Xiao.
As a Japanese, how many things Zhou Xiao has done in this period of time, and what is surprising is that it seems that Zhou Xiao has never been willing to do one thing all the time, and after changing several things, and getting quite good results in each of them, he actually put his attention to the movie again. When she first heard that Zhou Xiao wanted to find someone to make a movie, the first thing she had was a ridiculous feeling, can the script or something be written so simply? You don't pay for your own money, and don't drag yourself into the water.
But although she was a little disdainful, she didn't refuse like other directors but took over the script, the reason is very simple, she was originally in contact with this line of work because she wanted to be a director, in Zhou Xiao's history, she could really direct in 01 years, but now someone gives her a chance, even if it is a small opportunity, she will try her best, she has already thought about it when she takes over the script, as long as the story is a little more attractive, she will take it, Even if he used the director's advantage to influence Zhou Xiao to change the script during filming.
But when she opened the script, she froze.
Before Zhou Xiao started writing the script, he asked Uncle Inoue to use his relationship to get the scripts of several TV series and movies that had been filmed to read, so when he started writing by himself, he didn't have any hesitation, not to mention that the plots of most movies were already in his mind, he just pushed it over little by little, and deleted the plots that were not so important and not good-looking in the movie, and added the plot in the TV series version that seemed good to him.