Chapter 223: Begin to Design Dinosaur Kombat (Ask for Tickets)
Combo is a very interesting setting, 5 game characters combine two cars, so that there are 10 effects.
Yang Yun felt that the person who came up with this idea was really a genius, and after charging up his qi, the two characters could press 3 buttons at the same time to release a combined attack.
Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie are Hot Wheels, Xiaolongnu and Zhu Bajie are sweeping thousands of armies, Sha Seng and Zhu Bajie are whirlwind fists, and Sun Wukong and Dragon Horse are flying evil.
Yang Yun simply depicted these tricks and effects on paper, but he didn't notice it, and the people around him were like looking at monsters, and they didn't say a word.
"What's wrong? I'm just giving you an example, your project team will go back and set it up yourself. Yang Yun raised his head and found that no one had spoken, so he cleared his throat and prepared to continue.
"Mr. Yang!" Zhang Guoqiang couldn't stand it anymore: "You didn't stop talking for 3 hours alone, isn't it time to rest?" ”
Han Wei couldn't help but say: "Mr. Yang, making games is not a day or two to make haode, we still have a lot of time to refine the content here, there is no need to work so hard, right?" ”
Yang Yun did say that his mouth was a little dry, and after drinking a few cups of tea, his throat was a little hoarse.
"I'm sorry, I'm like this, it's not easy to come out if you immerse yourself in it......" Yang Yun noticed that it was getting dark, and it was estimated that he would start talking at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone didn't eat dinner, "Okay, call it a day today, I'll treat you in the evening and have a big meal!" ”
"No need, Mr. Yang!" Zhang Guoqiang smiled and said: "You go home to rest, we will let the canteen send some boxed lunches, and we will strike while the iron is hot tonight." Discuss the details! ”
Yang Yun scolded with a smile: "You all advised me to rest just now, how can it be my turn to be a double standard?" You are discriminating against people! ”
Everyone in Longteng is hee-hee-haha, Zhao Yongping rarely opened his mouth once, and explained: "It is indeed a double standard, but they all love you, the Longteng engine!" ”
"Yes!" Zhang Guoqiang sighed: "It doesn't matter if we work hard, but your core brain must rest well, don't get tired of your body!" Mr. Yang, leave it to us, we will definitely make the Legend of Journey to the West into a classic side-scrolling game that is no less than the Battle of Red Cliffs! ”
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For the remaining two arcade games, Yang Yun did not arrange to meet. "Dinosaur Kombat" and "Saikyo 1945" are clearly European and American style games. The former is based on a set of comics, Xenozoic-Tales, and Capcom's game was inspired by the animated adaptation of this comic, Cadillac and Dinosaurs.
So Yang Yun has been waiting for news from Yang Zhan and Jiang Shaoyun, who returned to the United States ahead of schedule, just to deal with copyright.
It didn't take a few days. Good news is here. Jiang Shaoyun made a transatlantic call.
"Mr. Yang. There's good news and bad news, and you'd like to hear that one first? ”
Yang Yun couldn't cry or laugh: "Transoceanic calls are very expensive!" Less chirp for me! ”
Jiang Shaoyun said with a smile: "The good news is that we have obtained the game adaptation rights of Dinosaur Kombat. They are also willing to sell the rights to the animation adaptation. The bad news is that Mr. Schultz would like to be able to meet you personally with the details of the adaptation. ”
"Huh?" Yang Yun was embarrassed: "Isn't this Jihua that disrupted me again......"
It's not wise to blindly start the game without getting the adaptation rights.
Dinosaur Kombat in addition to the game itself is fun, it also has a cultural heritage here, comics only began to appear in the late 80s, and then the animation adaptation, hit North America, generated a huge market, Capcom only entered the game adaptation.
Now the animation is sold to Yang Yun along with the game, which makes it difficult for him.
Who is going to do American anime?
Longteng Animation Academy only has Hong Kong comics, Japanese comics, and these three majors are traditional Chinese comics, and almost no one knows how to do European and American styles.
If you can't find talent, you can only outsource to European and American animation companies?
But how does he know which company produced the original animation!
Yang Yun went up and down Longteng, and finally had to turn to the Hong Kong branch for help, and he called Ma Rongcheng directly.
"I'm still quite interested in American comics, but it's a pity that there are some shortages!" Ma Rongcheng thought about it and recommended a person: "I'll introduce you to a person, his name is Chen Lianpeng, an independent comic book producer, and he has a good relationship with Cheng Long, so you can also take down the film adaptation rights." ”
Yang Yun almost fainted, is this the rhythm that suggested that he shoot Jurassic Park?
After thanking Ma Rongcheng, Yang Yun still contacted Cheng Long, who was filming in Hollywood, and talked about it.
Cheng Long was very interested when he heard it: "Dinosaur movie! Brother Yang, you hurry up to Los Angeles, you don't know how popular dinosaurs are in the United States now! Novels, comics, and multiple film companies are vying for adaptation rights! ”
In this way, Yang Yun felt the need to go to the United States, if nothing else, if a Chinese face could appear in the dinosaur Kombat game, what a wonderful thing!
After sending the third batch of experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences sent by Zhu Shuguang to Japan, appeased the other two game production companies that had not yet been authorized, and handed over the rest of the chores to Zhao Yongping, Yang Yun flew to Los Angeles two days later.
Cheng Long was very excited, and took the initiative to ask his agent to help collect information, and made a transatlantic phone call every day to report the situation of the dinosaur market.
The most striking thing is, of course, that Universal Pictures won the film adaptation rights of the "Jurassic Park" novel.
In the first half of last year, Universal Pictures defeated Warner Bros., Sony, 20th Century Fox and other companies to get the right to change the film's shooting, and handed it over to the great director Spielberg to shoot.
The 3Djishu of the movie has matured in the United States, and everyone can guess that there will be a grand scene of dinosaurs on the same stage with people, hundreds of dinosaurs running wildly, and even scenes of dinosaurs eating.
It can be said that this is a science fiction film that people are quite looking forward to!
And Schultz's comics are fundamentally different from Jurassic Park, and the animation of Cadillac and Dinosaurs, unfortunately, there is no movie in later generations.
Cheng Long works hard in Hollywood, of course he knows Universal Pictures and Spielberg, but now he may not have been in the eyes of a big director at all, let alone get a role.
So Yang Yun's call made Cheng Long very enthusiastic and active, he felt that this would be an opportunity, quite a rare opportunity!
Cheng Long personally picked up the plane at the airport and took Yang Yun to his Los Angeles studio.
"Brother, do you need jet lag?"
"I'm in good spirits! Tell me, what do you want to do about it? ”
Cheng Long took out a simple jihua book with a list of several things to do.
First, get the game adaptation rights, animation adaptation rights, and movie adaptation rights of comics.
Second, find a film investor and let a professional team handle the film shooting.
Third, strive to make games and animations first, and build momentum for the movie first.
Yang Yun stroked his forehead and said with a wry smile: "Big brother, are you preparing to compete with the Oscar for Best Director?" ”
Cheng Long was surprised: "Spielberg did make a lot of blockbuster commercial films, but it was called the best director, how did I not know?" ”
Yang Yun was stuck, waved his hand, bypassed the topic, and asked with some concern: "Big brother, seriously, I don't think it will be difficult to win the film adaptation rights." But the work behind is too difficult, who are you going to find as a film investor? Who is the director looking for? Who makes the 3D special effects? And that Chen Lianpeng, I heard that he is your friend? It's no problem to hand over the animation to him, I can help you, only the game is made! ”
Cheng Long gritted his teeth and said: "This is my chance, I can't give it up!" The Dragon Warrior movie did well at the box office, earning $12 million in North America, which is higher than my Flying Eagle Jihua! The death squad is also ready to enter the filming of Jihua, which shows that our idea of adapting the movie through the game is correct! Now that dinosaurs are hot in North America, and you plan to make dinosaur games again, I really hope that through this opportunity, I can become a mainstream actor in Hollywood in one fell swoop! If you miss it, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a few more years......"
Yang Yun looked at Brother Cheng Long and didn't know what to say.
Jurassic Park is so awesome, even if he doesn't know the specific amount of money he makes, he has a general idea and knows that it is a very money-attracting film.
Can the movie adaptation of Cadillac and dinosaurs really compete with a strong director like Spielberg? Yang Yun has no score at all, and he doesn't understand movie shooting at all.
But Yang Yun likes and admires Cheng Long very much, judging from the fact that he has been in the film for decades and has never used a stand-in, he is worthy of respect.
Gritting his teeth, Yang Yun made up his mind: "Big brother, I'll try my best!" I took the adaptation rights, which is a matter of millions of dollars, which is nothing to me. But film investment, I really don't understand, I still have to rely on you in this regard, I will invest some money in it at most...... Oops, wait, I almost forgot about someone! ”
Square Enix's Final Fantasy Movie!
Yang Yun almost forgot about this group of people, he only asked for 49% of Final Fantasy's game copyrights, and gave up rights and interests such as movies, animations, and peripherals, just for this pit.
Square Enix invested in movies and lost more than $100 million, which was taken advantage of by Sony and suffered heavy losses.
The Pokemon movie was a huge success, and it must have had a huge thrill for Square Enix.
If the live-action version of the dinosaur movie is also successful this time, will Square Enix be asked to do the CG of 3D special effects in advance? You must know that Final Fantasy has not yet been released on the PS platform, and there is not much money to make, and it is a good time for Yang Yun to dig into the wall!
If you want to stimulate Square Enix, you must be a huge success with dinosaur movies, let Miyamoto Masashi and them see, what is called manga adaptation of games, manga adaptation animation, game adaptation of successful commercial operations!
Hum!
Yang Yun stood up and walked around the room while carefully thinking about the details.
Finally he stopped, looked at Cheng Long, and said word by word: "This movie, Longteng Company has invested!" (To be continued......)