In addition to the game adaptation project of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms 4", Wedo Entertainment will also prepare a project.

The film and television adaptation of "The Master of Mystery".

This work should be regarded as one that Fan Zhe likes quite a lot.

For the writer Squid, he has a considerable liking for it, and "The Master of Mystery" should be regarded as Fan Zhe's favorite one of his works.

This work is also a phenomenal existence on the Internet. There are a lot of die-hard fans, and indeed from the perspective of the content of the work, the world view, setting, and story background are very distinctive, the characters are full, the protagonists and supporting roles are excellent, and the plot arrangement is also very good.

didn't choose to change "The Master of Mystery" before, but chose to adapt another squid's work, that is, "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts", into a TV series, and the main factor was to take into account the difficulty of changing.

Although "Martial Arts Grandmaster" is a fantasy theme, it has martial arts content, and it needs to do a lot of special effects shots. But all in all, it's a story that takes place in a modern urban setting. Non-combat graphics, no special effects at all. After the work was filmed, the entire post-production special effects work was done quickly and not particularly difficult.

For "Martial Arts Master", the most difficult part of the whole work is the action scenes. This special effect can't help too much, what is needed is the superb action design, and at the same time, the actors are sufficiently rehearsed and dare to fight during the actual shooting.

If it weren't for the action scenes that spent a lot of energy on filming, the entire drama, including the later movie "War", would not have taken so long to produce the project.

On the contrary, "Master of Mystery" is a very different situation.

Just the background of an era, it is very difficult to do.

In the original work of "The Master of Mystery", the story background is completely empty. The era is set in a Victorian-like England, where the age of steam has begun, with giant ships and cannons, bullet trains, top hats and tuxedos......

The world background of steampunk, coupled with the church that believes in gods and the secret organization that secretly believes in evil gods......

This twisted and supernatural world is quite attractive in the author's pen.

But good-looking is not the same thing as adaptation.

It is precisely because of such a peculiar and attractive world background that the adaptation of "The Master of Mystery" seems difficult.

For film and television, the modern urban background is of course the best to deal with.

Secondly, ancient backgrounds like "Fantasy of the Three Kingdoms" are also easier to deal with. Although it is not modern, there are a lot of such things for shooting in China, there are a large number of antique film and television bases that can be used, and there are many very suitable filming locations in the vast territory itself.

Can the eighteenth-century Victorian British style?

If you want to shoot this thing in China, it's too difficult. It is difficult to find such a scene on a large scale in the country.

For Wedo Entertainment, if they plan to shoot this drama, the difficulty they encounter is actually relatively large.

Now before them there are two choices.

Or, go abroad to shoot; Or, the compositing of the post-production effects shot will be more extensive.

The latter is a bit too difficult. It's not that the 'dimensional' system can't do it, it's mainly that it's too time-consuming.

It is foreseeable that the 'Dimensional Supercomputing Center' has reached the point where it is about to be built under the huge investment. At that time, the computing power mastered by the 'dimensional' system will be greatly improved.

But in the same way, with the development of the company, there are more and more projects, and the difficulty of development is also increasing, and the pressure carried by the 'dimensional' system is not comparable to that in the past.

If it is not necessary, Fan Zhe still does not want to replace all the shots with special effects synthesis when there are other options.

Therefore, after the establishment of the project, in addition to the script polishing and preliminary design, the company also sent out seven or eight teams to fly to various places in Europe to find suitable shooting locations.

Some shots with fantasy elements, shots of the whole city, etc., can be processed by post-compositing, which is necessary; However, some lenses can still be found in a suitable place abroad for shooting.

Especially the UK.

This matter will be handed over to the framing team, Fan Zhe will only need to make a clapper at that time, just set the place, he doesn't have to worry about it much, and when the time comes, the people from the 'Dimension Europe' branch will go to contact and negotiate accordingly.

There is also a problem that plagues "The Master of Mystery", which lies in the actors.

The entire story of "Master of Mystery" takes place in a world similar to a Western setting, and the actors still need a certain percentage of white people.

Of course, just like "Demacia: Glory", in the choice of individual characters and even some main characters, Dimension Entertainment can generously use one, two, or even more yellow people.

So what's going on? Fantasy themes, who can say what?

Of course, if you don't choose black actors, you may be criticized in the European and American markets in the future - in fact, when "Demacia: Glory" was released in the Western world, there were many corresponding black organizations running out to find trouble.

However, Wedo Entertainment is a company based in China, and it is not so much influenced by the so-called political correctness of the European and American worlds.

They simply chose to ignore it.

Those black organizations have been making trouble for a while, and they haven't continued to toss - the movie "Glory", in the final analysis, just didn't use black actors, didn't hack them, and didn't have any suspected racist content, so it couldn't cause too much trouble.

In this regard, Wedo Entertainment still pays more attention.

But choose black actors...... Forget it, unless the character is clearly described as a black man in the original book, Dimension Entertainment does not intend to curry favor with the black race in this regard.

chose the yellow race, because the works made by Wedo Entertainment still attach great importance to the domestic market. Choosing blacks specifically for political correctness is not necessary.

Fan Zhe himself didn't like it.

Although there are many difficulties encountered in the film and television development of "Master of Mystery", now Wedo Entertainment has enough strength to overcome it.

Now, there are only things that Fan Zhe doesn't want to shoot, and there is nothing he doesn't dare to shoot.

"The Master of Mystery" was officially announced.

This work should be done according to the model of American dramas at that time. The whole episode was filmed at one time, which was too difficult and time-consuming. The first season of "Master of Mystery" will have ten episodes, and the investment will reach the point of 12 million dollars per episode, and if you don't want to compromise on quality, you can only do it in this way of seasoning.

Otherwise, after the whole episode is done, there are dozens or hundreds of episodes, how much money do you have to invest? A billion dollars to do for five years?

Even if Fan Zhe is crazy, Ye Jiayi will stop him.

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There's another chapter later