Chapter 427: The Madness of Technoades
Japanese movies and TV series are not as good as those in the United States, but although they can't do it in this regard, their comics are good, and in Japanese comics, there has never been a shortage of works that describe the super energy system, such as the old man Fujian or something, but after so many years, few people have tried to unify the Japanese super system or create a complete and complex system, why?
The answer is complicated, first of all, the style is different.
Every manga artist's style of painting is different.,Eiichiro Oda and Kishimoto Kishimoto.,Anyone who knows a little bit about Japanese comics can easily distinguish their style of painting.,So,If you want to unify the things of the two works,,You have to face a problem of style unity.,Conan appeared in Lupin III and was scolded for a long time.,Not to mention other comics.。
This can be avoided if it is a live-action movie and TV series, but the next question about investment quickly becomes apparent.
Although Japanese manga are published in magazines, the magazine itself has no copyright, and the copyright belongs to the manga artist himself, and it is not impossible to produce a work that includes the entire magazine, but if you really want to shoot a live-action version of something related to manga, and go to every manga artist to talk about copyright, it must be a huge investment, so if you use the comics that have been born to create a unified super system, although you can rely on these manga artists to ensure the excellence of each work, it is very difficult to act.
If you want to use comics to create a zào super energy system, in Zhou Xiao's opinion, there is only one way, that is, to build a huge platform like the Marvel Universe from the beginning, and then use huge sums of money to attract comic artists to create comics under such a construction.
It's really a huge amount of money, and the money that Japanese cartoonists, especially those super cartoonists, can't afford to make, don't look at Zhou Xiao's money, even if Zhou Xiaozhen comes up with a billion dollars, it's really not easy to raise a few super cartoonists.
Comics are not good, Zhou Xiao quickly thought of live-action movies and TV series.
The advantage of live-action movies and TV dramas is the development of the entertainment industry in Japan. It is easy to build a huge, star-oriented platform, set a good story for each star, release a TV series every quarter to describe a person, and then create a TV series that integrates all the stars in a few years, and move the movie version of the Avengers to the Japanese drama, which has become a very bold idea of Zhou Xiao.
When Zhou Xiao said such a series of messy thoughts, he could almost see the black lines on the faces of Qiu Yuankang and the others.
Because I want this idea to succeed...... It's just too hard. The first thing is that the Japanese don't have a super system culture, Marvel. The Avengers or something, Japanese audiences are actually interested, but they are not as light as the Chinese can accept various cultures, so it caused the situation that the Avengers were popular when they were released but soon lacked stamina.
If you want the Japanese to have this kind of culture, you have to cultivate it slowly? How to cultivate? It takes a variety of dramas that meet the Japanese aesthetics to be broadcast continuously and slowly edified, so that Japanese audiences can germinate a sense of identity.
Moreover, a large part of the Japanese audience is housewives, and this group of thirty or forty-year-old aunts is essentially no different from Chinese aunts. Fresh men and parents are short, love triangles and terminal illnesses are always their most concerned topics, as for superpowers, saving the earth or something. They weren't interested and couldn't understand it.
Therefore, if Zhou Xiao really wants to create his own TV super energy system, either you put down your body to win over this group of aunt audiences, and make superhero films into falling in love with parents. Either they don't cater to these audiences at all, and only work on the younger audience with little TV culture.
Two options, the former is relatively easy. In the previous life, Takuya Kimura's Antang machine qì people took the route, but it is obvious that the Antang machine qì people did not succeed, and the ratings of the whole drama were not good at all. As for the latter...... In fact, many young directors like Yuichi Fukuda in his previous life have taken this route, but it is obvious that works of such a route can only be played in late night at this stage.
Zhou Xiao also knows very well that this is very difficult, not only requires a lot of investment, but also requires a huge amount of energy and time, but he just wants to try, now it is the end of 2007, and his plug-in is only until 2014.
It is also an advantage for him, on the one hand, he has a very mature work of "SPEC2", and using this work as a starting chapter can at least guarantee the plot and attention.
On the other hand, Takuya Kimura's Antang Ki qì is also a very suitable work as a sequel.
SPEC2 is already very good in terms of quality, and if you want to open up a new situation behind this drama, you must have enough gimmicks, and Kimura is undoubtedly the most gimmicky storage zài, as for the things he has to solve, such as Kimura's habit of only filming one movie a year, and how to distribute the benefits to them on the Genesy side is a problem.
With these two works as the opening, plus Zhou Xiao's camp has a very powerful guy like Yuichi Fukuda, with the worldview of these two dramas, Zhou Xiao is looking forward to other excellent Japanese screenwriters joining in the future to improve the entire worldview, and correspondingly, Zhou Xiao only needs to pay enough money to invite people.
"I support Zhou Xiao for you to do this." A voice said suddenly, and the person turned his head to look over and found that the person who said this turned out to be Hideaki Anno.
"Why do you say that?" Someone asked.
"You all know Marvel's appeal, right? It is said that Marvel's first "Avengers" has also begun to prepare, and when this movie comes out, it should be a big impact on the film industry all over the world, and if you want to compete with these things, it is impossible to rely on the existing Japanese animation and comic system, because we all know very well that the advantages and disadvantages of Japanese culture are in its own self-contained. Hideaki Anno said.
Listening to these words, everyone nodded again and again, he was right, the advantages and disadvantages of Japanese culture are this, in fact, it is very simple to ask Japan if these cultural people want to go out, if you can make money and earn fame, who would not want to go out.
"But...... We are not completely unaccepted by the world's mainstream culture, and. This person also has enough appeal in the country, and the key is that he still has enough funds! If we didn't have any chance before, so we simply didn't have any ideas, his appearance is undoubtedly our biggest and only chance, if we don't try it, we may never have a chance again! "Anno Hideaki looks quite hot-blooded, and Zhou Xiao's words seem to have completely aroused his blood cells. At that moment, he was very excited and said to everyone present.
After Hideaki Anno's words came out, there was no need for him to point out who this person was, everyone was already staring at Zhou Xiao, a few young people didn't feel anything, and those over forty years old generally had expectations in their eyes, and when people were older, they would take on more responsibilities, and compared to young people, they hoped to revitalize Japan's TV and film industry.
"Indeed...... If there is a chance. There's really only one chance......" Akimoto said with a heavy weight after thinking about it.
"Although I don't like this kind of work very much, and I'm not good at creating such works, but Zhou Xiao. If you really want to do this, I'll introduce you to more people I know. Takeshi Kitano said.
"Zhou Xiao, if you need a consultant or something, you must come to me." Anno Hideaki said, in fact, in the history of Zhou Xiao. Among the screenwriters and consultants of "Antang Ji qìren" are Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsuruki, and various screenwriters of SPEC, with the help of several screenwriters from the anime otaku circle. The first few episodes of "Antang Ji qì Ren" are full of all kinds of old animations, NETA of old Japanese dramas, these NETAs are actually the essence of the whole show, and it is difficult for ordinary people to understand the Japanese entertainment industry or people who don't know much about the Japanese otaku circle.
But...... Such a work will be talked about by young people, but it will not be liked by uncles and aunts, so after a few episodes, the whole show has to start changing its style and start to go in a direction that is more pleasing to such audiences.
"It's just that I don't understand a little bit, do I have to use the SPEC worldview? If you really want to create a series of stories like this, you can create a world view yourself. Someone said.
"Oh? It's true? Although Zhou Xiao also thought about this method, he didn't care about it very much, so he had to say: "I came up with this idea after reading SPEC and having the idea of continuing it." ”
"I also don't think there's any need to continue to use the SPEC worldview, it's more appropriate to set a new worldview, Zhou Xiao, it's not that you can't make this, I'm still very relieved of this." The person who said this was Ti Yukihiko, the director of the last SPEC, and he said so, which means that even people on the SPEC side agree with Zhou Xiao's idea.
"That'...... Okay, I'll try to start with a new background, but there are a lot of things that need your help! Zhou Xiao said politely.
On this day, there was an incomparably high-level meeting, a group of people also talked about a lot of things, but these are the only things related to Zhou Xiao's new work, after chatting with these people, Zhou Xiao also completely let go of his hands and feet and began to prepare for the new drama, the general plot of this new drama is still the "SPEC2" of the previous life, but the background is not continuing the so-called SPEC in the fifth lesson of public security and several characters who were originally continued from SPEC, but writing a new background for these things.
The first modification Zhou Xiao made was on the male protagonist of "SPEC2". The main actor part of the whole play, Sewen Yanliu originally had no superpowers, but considering that the whole drama is a super drama, Zhou Xiao is still more inclined to set him up with something beyond the ability of ordinary people, this ability may not be a superpower, or it may be that he has obtained some super equipment just like Iron Man in the Avengers.
In addition to these, the superpowers of several main characters, the general direction of the plot has also made some adjustments, these adjustments are very necessary, because some people's superpowers are set too strong, if it's just a TV series plus a movie and a special edition, it's fine, but if it's done as a series of TV series, such a plot is a bit unbalanced.
If it was only Zhou Xiao himself, it might be a bit hard to set up such a complex and huge setting, so in the next period of time, many people began to gradually join Zhou Xiao's work.
Needless to say, Yuichi Fukuda, who has been working with Zhou Xiao, also brought several friends and screenwriters he knew, and they served as special consultants after they joined.
As for the screenwriting. Originally, the screenwriters of "SPEC2" and "Antang Machine qì Ren", producers and even director Ti Yukihiko have also joined Zhou Xiao's team, and every name in the team may be scary when taken out, what Hideaki Anno, Yoshihiro Tomiyasu, and even Yoshiki Tanaka...... It can be said that in today's Japan, there is probably only Zhou Xiao who has the ability and conditions to gather so many super geniuses. The rest of the people, those who have the conditions will not do these things due to their age and energy, and those who have the ability often lack the economic strength to invest and will not do these, they have both, and they are often thorough businessmen, and many times they need to consider their immediate interests, and only Zhou Xiao has a lot of money in his hand, and he has his eyes on ten years later. will be willing to start the whole project now.
Because there is already a very mature script, most of the changes in the whole show are in the background and the rationality of the so-called plot, which is undoubtedly a much more interesting job than making up stories for this group of tech nerds. So the whole revision work is going very smoothly, and when this group of technical nerds helped Zhou Xiao create a new work together, they not only left countless shining points and NETA in the editing of the work, but also invisibly taught Zhou Xiao a lot of things. But just this is enough to make Zhou Xiao happy, it's very simple. If he were the only one to do this, he would have been able to create SPEC2, and maybe even Antang Ki, but the follow-up of his dream, and even the construction of the entire so-called Japanese superpower system, would not have been possible on his own.
And a group of technical nerds such as Hideaki Anno are also impressed by Zhou Xiao, the reason why they will do this is that they thought that Zhou Xiao just got a script for SPEC2 and then had a whim, so he wanted to do something about Japan's super system, but after a careful understanding, he found that the things in Zhou Xiao's mind were very complete, including not only a complete Japanese drama like SPEC2, but also the content of several theatrical versions and movie versions later, and they couldn't imagine that they could set the whole work in such detail before filming.
What's even more unexpected is that Zhou Xiao still has another complete script in his mind that is not a story at all! This script, which Zhou Xiao called "Antang Ji qì people", is not inferior to "SPEC2" in terms of grand and complex setting, and it is also the same in terms of storytelling, the two dramas are so complete that all those who have listened to Zhou Xiao's thoughts even have a faint feeling that it is not the same script, and there has been a zài in the world for a long time.
Now that the story is already there, everyone's work is simple, and the people who have been brainstorming almost all day long have begun to draw a meticulous and complex connection between the two stories like a pencil, inextricably linking the two seemingly unrelated stories with the plot, becoming a complete and clear part of the same world structure, when such two scripts appear in everyone's pen, everyone is full of a sense of achievement, because what they wrote was born is not just the script of the two plays, This is a complete and wonderful world, which is different from reality and makes people extremely fascinating about life.
"This thing...... It can only be born under the pen of Zhou Xiao and us, and only Zhou Xiao can dare to shoot......" said Hideaki Anno after completing part of his work one day.
"It's him, other companies and creators, I'm afraid it's hard to do it." Another creator on the side also said.
The short conversation between the two attracted everyone around them to nod their heads in agreement, and in their eyes, this was indeed something that only Zhou Xiao could do.
Look up, in the entire creative studio now, who is not a guy who can take charge alone, and only Zhou Xiao, who has made achievements in all aspects, and whose movies can even go straight to Hollywood, songs, novels, and today's scripts are also convincing, can bring these people together.
Only Zhou Xiao will not consider the issue of investment and return at all, and insist on making such a film with an uncertain future, without considering the ratings of housewives at all, but satisfying their geek, these works that these technical nerds yearn for, and only Zhou Xiao can take out 5 billion yen to open an account as an investment in the first two TV series of the series.
Yes, that's right, 5 billion yen, that is, about 50 million US dollars, maybe some people don't have much idea of this number, that's an example, Takuya Kimura's 2011 super drama "Antarctica" should be regarded as Japan's top TV drama investment, the first episode of this drama, which is usually the highest investment in the whole drama, is about ...... 100 million yen.
Zhou Xiao is undoubtedly ready to use a huge amount of money to smash out a TV series that is just as legendary even if no one watches it.
It can be seen that he has made the mistake of being rich and willful again...... (To be continued......)