Flying back from Kentucky non-stop, Yi Feiyang was extremely tired.

Back home, his two girlfriends, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Alba, are filming a new drama about Dream Entertainment, and the whole villa is empty.

took out the phone and wanted to call the fat man Gao Jiabao to drink, but remembered that this guy was complaining about his acquisition of the TV station and making trouble with himself, so he could only throw the phone on the table in amusement.

Yi Feiyang let out a sigh and fell heavily on the sofa, facing the current situation, it seemed to be satisfying, but he was a little at a loss.

Now that the filming rights have been settled, the most important step is nowhere to start. Because although Yi Feiyang started shooting horror movies, he has never shot zombie movies!

Zombie movies are different from "Ghost Record", different from "Chainsaw", but somewhat similar to science fiction films packaged with a lot of red ketchup, the whole pattern belongs to the kind of apocalyptic flow, and Yi Feiyang really hasn't studied much about it.

But he is a director, and if you want to make such a film, you have to be exposed to and enter such a world.

So first of all, we must first figure out what is going on with the terrible and crazy creature "zombie", what are the weaknesses, and how to improve the survival rate is the key!

Although I have watched a lot of novels and movies in my previous life, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, so let's find more things to understand this monster that only exists in movies or games, which makes people feel frightened but never tired of it.

Thinking of this, Yi Feiyang hurriedly got up and called around to ask for information, he planned to watch all the zombie movies, and then look for something on the Internet to learn more about zombies.

A few hours later, Yi Feiyang's royal attendant Fat Jack knocked on the door of Yi Feiyang's house with a large number of zombie films.

"Hey. Jack. You're finally here! Yi Feiyang snatched the disc. If you look closely, it's basically all the information you need to find.

Fat Jack is actually very hard, originally he worked hard enough to shoot the cartoon "Kung Fu Panda", especially this drama has reached the post-editing production, and it will be released this summer. Glorious lintel, just watch this play.

At this time, the boss Yi Feiyang had something to do by himself, and the fat man was also loyal, so he directly left the work at hand, ran all over the major video stores, and bought all the movies about zombies and zombies.

"Boss, you are in such a hurry, I only found these, but the well-known ones should be here. For example, this 1978 "Dawn of the Living Dead" directed by George Romeo, this guy used $500,000. That's more than $55 million in the world! Ben looked at Yi Feiyang, whose face was unhappy and his eyes showed a little fierce light, and hurriedly added: "But I think he is much worse than you!" You used 20,000 to create a miracle of 200 million! ”

"Haha, my Jack is so smart!" Yi Feiyang's face was cloudy and clear.

"Thank you boss for the compliment, I've been following you for so long, even if I don't want to be smart!" The fat man scratched his head and continued. "Nowadays, the entire world entertainment industry and TV industry are playing the theme of zombies, especially under the influence of the popular "Resident Evil" game, the United States has shot a lot of such movies, well, this is the film version of "Resident Evil", this is the remake of "Zombie Forbidden Land", and "Don't Enter the Living......", "The fat man flips the things in his hand like a takeaway," but the coolest are these two, which were filmed in your hometown of Hong Kong, "Biochemical SWAT Zombie Mission" and "Biochemical Zombie"! ”

"Dizzy, you even found a Hong Kong film, it's really cool, it's worth commendating!" Yi Feiyang grinned and touched his round head.

"These are all things I should do, do things for the boss, willingly!" The fat man touched his head and smiled innocently.

"Okay, thank you!" Yi Feiyang gave the fat man a bear hug, thanked him sincerely, and then sent him out.

After coming back, Yi Feiyang sat in front of the TV and stuffed a series of weird or terrifying, bloody or exaggerated zombie movies into his mind one by one.

According to the information on the Internet, Yi Feiyang can be regarded as having a deeper understanding of zombies.

A zombie is an undead creature, commonly known as the living dead. Chinese movie fans always like to call foreign zombies zombies, but these are fundamentally two different things, zombies and zombies are fundamentally different, zombies are generally directly transformed by the living, and zombies must be transformed by the dead. Zombies are afraid of light, but zombies are not afraid. Zombies move fast, zombies move slowly, and when they see the flesh of a living person, they are extremely fast. Zombies are predominantly East Asian. Zombies and zombies are not within the Six Realms of the Three Realms.

Zombies can be understood as corpses that are not completely dead, and the brain in charge of thinking is severely damaged, but they can still retain some of the lower animal-like thinking. The cerebellar function is preserved in large quantities, and the movements are slow but not out of shape. Pain, fear, and other innate human weaknesses have been eliminated. It can be said that zombies have evolved from humans to creatures with serious brain degeneration. The behavior is the instinct of all animals on the earth, such as the instinct to find food and remove dissidents, in contrast, zombies will simply think, rest, move, use tools, and live in their own territory.

To deal with zombies, headshots with firearms are the safest way, find a safe place to hide yourself, have plenty of food and clean water, Yi Feiyang firmly remembered these points.

Next, after pouring a cup of coffee, Yi Feiyang took a shallow sip, took a pen, smeared on the white paper, and analyzed it according to the information received, adding his own understanding.

Thinking and considering, Yi Feiyang wrote a few points in the direction of "The Walking Dead":

First, the original "The Walking Dead" is not as good as movies such as "Resident Evil" in terms of scene control, especially the big scenes of the walking dead walking everywhere, which rarely appears, and the audience has a lot of criticism for this.

And Yi Feiyang feels that since he wants to create the history of TV dramas, he must let go of everything, fight with the spirit of throwing money, and ruthlessly create a sense of endangerment in the apocalyptic world, as well as a strong picture impact.

If there is one drama that has done the best in this kind of zombie movie or TV, it is undoubtedly the "Doomsday War" starring Brad Pitt in the previous life. The film received an investment of $125 million. In order to show the feeling of "world war" in the novel. The crew filmed all over the world. Filming in Scotland completed. The crew moved to the Philippines, the United States, London, Hungary, Malta and other countries to shoot, and finally formed an unprecedented spectacular crowd scene and fantasy visual impact.

Yi Feiyang clearly remembers that from top to bottom, there are hundreds of shots of the scene of the sea of people from the sky, and the scene of thousands of zombies building a ladder to hit the high wall is even more exciting.

So in Yi Feiyang's view, since you want to shoot the apocalyptic zombie world, you must be "big". Because the scene is big, it can bring out the reality of your play, in the words of a veteran zombie movie fan, "The protagonists of zombie movies are not men and women, but the whole environment!" ”

Yes, when the audience watches this kind of movie, they don't watch the heroes and heroines kiss me or fight with zombies, nor do they watch how they fight zombies and escape, but see what the whole world has become.

Come to think of it. Yi Feiyang wrote solemnly on his notepad: "It's not zombies that change, it's the world!" ”

After setting the tone. Yi Feiyang continued to think about the connotation of this TV series to be profoundly expressed.

In the past, the connotation of many zombie movies was nothing more than complaining about the government's inaction, revealing racial contradictions - zombies and people, implying racial differences, and revealing survival contradictions, etc., but Yi Feiyang was unwilling to let his TV series fall into such a narrow point of view, because this is a TV series with dozens of episodes, not a two-hour movie, and he can completely put many points of view into it and explain it well.

Therefore, Yi Feiyang must dig deep into the meaning behind "The Walking Dead" and strive to make a breakthrough, rather than the game mode, which is simple to ride alone and survive alone.

There is a masterpiece in later generations, "I Am a Legend".

The portrayal of surnames and hidden connotations in that movie make the whole movie very plump and perfect no matter from any point of view, and the two open-ended endings are even more ingenious, and people can't help but admire its uniqueness.

It can be said that whether it is a zombie movie or a disaster movie, the ultimate goal is through two completely different lines of expression of good and evil.

And almost all directors take goodness as the main theme of this kind of theme, and occasionally the evil of some surnames is also mentioned in passing or used as a background introduction, but this situation will be broken by themselves!

Because Yi Feiyang clearly remembers that in the previous life in this "The Walking Dead", the male protagonist Rick drove a car, and a backpacker chased after him desperately, hoping to get his help, and even begged twice in a row and begged loudly in the same way, but Rick ignored him in the end, and finally the backpacker was bitten to death by zombies, leaving only blood stains all over the ground.

This can be said to be the evil in people's surnames, but this is the real human nature when facing the crazy zombie world.

"Man can destroy himself, but he cannot destroy humanity!"

Yi Feiyang wrote this sentence heavily.

……

Although Yi Feiyang had said before that he would temporarily put down the movie in his hand and shoot a TV series, no one took his words seriously. After all, Hollywood is a place that pays attention to face.

How can a big-name director like Yi Feiyang deign to shoot a TV series.

But when Yi Feiyang officially released the news to the outside world, claiming that he would shoot Robert's comic of the same name "The Walking Dead", the outside world was shocked, really, shocked.

"God, it turns out that all this is true, China Yi really wants to shoot a TV series!"

"It's incredible, what a transition from film to television?!"

"We are waiting for the first TV series of China Yi!"

……

Of course, there are still many comic fans during this period, and they make a lot of nonsense.

"Please don't spoil this comic that has just become popular, let's make your movie!"

"The essence of comics lies in originality, although China Yi has filmed "Iron Man", but there are too many adaptations, I really don't know what this "The Walking Dead" will be adapted into!"

"As we all know, Yi is from Hong Kong and is not an out-and-out American comic book fan, so this "The Walking Dead" is likely to be ruined by him!"

……

As for Yi Feiyang's fans, they are talking about his new work this time with great interest.

"As long as it's easy to shoot, it's all good!"

"We're looking forward to his new work!"

"Support him! Encourage him! Come on! ”

……

Meanwhile. With the constant calls from the outside world.

Inside the office of Dream Entertainment.

Yi Feiyang and the creative team of "The Walking Dead" are discussing the recruitment of characters and the filming of the scene.

"Boss. In my opinion, the most important thing in filming "The Walking Dead" was the choice of characters. Yes, like that great movie Resident Evil, which has now become a rare brand! "The one who spoke was Tom, the director of the production department and director of AMC TV, a man with glasses who was a thousand degrees of myopia, although his eyes were short-sighted, but he saw the market very clearly and grasped the market very accurately, only during the reign of William Some, the defeated president. has not been reused, and now Yi Feiyang has promoted him to be in charge of the production of "The Walking Dead", which can be said to have given him a lot of room for development.

"That's right! I watched the "Resident Evil" drama no less than three times, and even bought the genuine DVD, oh my God, the storyline and biochemical effects in it are amazing! This time it was Tom's good friend Harry, a short man who compared himself to Napoleon, but was assigned by the company to be a warehouse manager, and now he was also promoted by Yi Feiyang to be the head of the investment department.

"Then you say. Will our TV series surpass that movie? Yi Feiyang asked them with a smile.

"Well...... Tom was silent for a moment, "it's hard to say. After all, Resident Evil is adapted from a game and has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and our adaptation of a comic book or a TV series is a bit ...... in terms of scale It's not as good as others. ”

"Yes, TV series are all small-budget productions, how can they be compared with big movies?" Harry said.

Seeing that everyone thought so, Yi Feiyang suddenly knocked on the table and said, "You are all wrong!" ”

"In my opinion, a TV series can be made on the scale of a movie, or even bigger than a movie!"

"Ah, that's going to cost a lot of money!"

"Yes, it's too expensive to make!"

"Our TV station is already in debt, wouldn't it be worse if this continues?"

There was a lot of discussion, and they didn't seem to approve of Yi Feiyang's huge idea.

In fact, you can't blame them, for a long time, American TV dramas have been subservient to movies. TV people and filmmakers are not on the same level at all, so they don't see things in the same way. Filmmakers like to make blockbuster movies and engage in big productions, but TV people always pay attention to "keeping costs low", so the development of the television industry is greatly restricted. This situation was not until the birth of a "Prison Break" in 2005, which broke the dividing line between TV series and movies, and let people know that TV series can also be filmed like this, and TV series can be more exciting than movies!

In fact, in terms of the capacity of movies and television, movies are generally more than 90 minutes, and super blockbusters are only more than 2 hours, while TV series do not have much time limit, which can better and more perfectly interpret the storyline. In addition, TV dramas occupy a huge audience, and almost every household can watch your shows, and movies, only by buying a ticket can you enter to watch it. Finally, the broadcast quarter of American TV dramas is a great knowledge, if it is compared to a movie, then it is a sequel in a quarter, which will continue to attract people to watch, so as to lay a fixed audience, such as "Game of Thrones", which caused a sensation in the world in the previous life, it can be said that the world's audience base surpasses the most bullish "Titanic" and "Avatar".

In short, in any way, TV dramas have an advantage over movies, but the result is often the opposite, in the United States, and even in the world, TV dramas have not been able to do movies and have been subordinate.

Now Yi Feiyang wants to break this unwritten "rule", spend a lot of money, and use the means of shooting movies to shoot TV series, so that TV series can give full play to their potential ability and guide a revolution of the century!

"That's right, you all have a point!" Yi Feiyang stood up and overlooked the world of flowers under the floor-to-ceiling windows. "But in my opinion, TV can also be compared to movies, and even surpass it in terms of investment!"

"How is this possible?"

"It's incredible!"

There was a lot of talking.

"Nothing is impossible! Nothing unbelievable! Yi Feiyang said firmly, "This world is like this, entertainment is paramount!" As long as the TV series we shoot is as exciting as a movie, then the audience will buy it. We'll be able to create a ratings miracle then! ”

"But what about cost recovery? It's likely to lose money! Someone asked.

"Don't forget." Yi Feiyang turned around and smiled slightly. "We're a cable TV station, it's a pay show!"

"Can you beat the box office by charging by cable?" Someone else questioned.

"Of course, we can't compare with the ticket price, a ticket costs six to seven dollars, our show charges only three dollars in the first quarter, and the average TV episode is only a few cents, but don't forget, we are doing TV, what is the most? The largest audience! So. We want small profits but quick turnover! ”

"What's more, in addition to cable charges, we can also work on TV commercials to get everyone attracted to our programming, then those advertisers with big pockets will come uninvited!"

"So, this is a virtuous circle process, as long as we work together to do a good TV show, then we can turn the current situation of AMC TV from a loss to a profit!"

Yi Feiyang's words are very imposing and reasonable. Let everyone's blood get excited.

Tom, who was in charge of the production department, suddenly said, "Boss, I have an idea. When the time comes, is it possible to join forces with the online platform to upload the episodes after our TV series is broadcast, so that the audience can click to watch, so that more people can be attracted, after all, there are many more people who are online than those who sit in front of the TV! ”

“binggao！ Good idea! Yi Feiyang snapped his fingers, "This idea is very good, and it is also very practical, I like it!" ”

You must know that many popular American dramas in the previous life basically spread on online platforms, Yi Feiyang had noticed this, but he was the first to mention it, it seems that this Tom is a talent who is good at thinking.

"I have an idea, too!" This time it was Tom's friend who stood up, and it was also Harry who was pulled by Yi Feiyang, and seeing that his friend had made a good impression on the boss, Harry couldn't wait to raise his hand.

"As we all know, online platforms can only attract more viewers if they are free, but we can add ads from the beginning, middle, or end of the film to make money!"

originally thought that the idea he proposed would be praised by Yi Feiyang, but ...... Yi Feiyang smiled and said, "The proposal is good, but the effect may be terrible!" ”

"Just imagine, when you are in a hurry to watch a TV series, there are advertisements in the front, advertisements in the middle, and advertisements at the end, will you be in a bad mood? even scolded, is this a TV interstitial advertisement, or an advertising interstitial TV?! ”

Yi Feiyang can be said to hate this! In my previous life, when I watched TV shows, the most annoying thing was that there were endless advertisements and constant insertions.

Harry didn't expect such a reaction, and his face turned red.

"However, you gave me a good piece of advice - diversify and seek to maximize profits!" Yi Feiyang's tone changed.

"So what to do? It is to adapt TV shows into online games, and even introduce TV shows into mobile phone elements and make mobile versions to make huge profits from them! ”

Yi Feiyang's words were very bold, which made everyone surprised. The adaptation of a TV series into an online game is sharp enough, and it even needs to be linked to the mobile phone sector, the question is whether the mobile phone is so smart?

They don't know, but Yi Feiyang knows very well, the future of mobile phone intelligence is very popular, not to mention downloading TV series, and even being able to watch TV series directly online!

However, this also made Yi Feiyang suddenly have another idea, that is, to develop a huge mobile phone market. Now the mobile phone market is just starting, the most famous is Ericsson and Nokia, as well as Japan's Sony, but Yi Feiyang clearly knows that in the future, South Korea's Samsung and the United States' Apple are the two major hegemons in this field, according to the current market share, he only needs to spend a small amount of money to acquire a lot of shares in these two companies......

Thinking of this, this time it was not the big guy's heart that was agitated, but Yi Feiyang's own heart, and when he thought that he was likely to control the world's two largest electronics companies in the future, Apple and Samsung, Yi Feiyang's blood boiled.

"Adjournment! That's it for today's meeting! Alex and Harry from the Investment Department, come here, I have something to do with you......" Yi Feiyang said excitedly. (To be continued......)