Liu Cixin hadn't thought about winning the Hugo Award before, but it was all a blind fantasy before, just like the kind of blind fantasy of the lottery players who fantasized about the tens of millions of prizes, but now that he was provoked by Li Mu, his heart immediately became enthusiastic.

Yes, it's not that he hasn't read the Hugo Award-winning works, if you want to talk about the level, he is definitely enough!

A few months ago, he encouraged Li Mu to take the first step in writing, but now that Li Mu is aiming for the Hugo Award, he is cringe?

That's not going to work!

"You're right, the winning works of the Hugo Award are just like that, others can get it, we can get it, I'll think about an article when I go back this time, no matter which of the two of us wins this award in the end, it's a good thing for the Chinese science fiction community."

Li Mu shook his head and said, "It's still not right." ”

Liu Cixin was stunned: "What's wrong?" ”

Li Mu said with a smile: "It's not about the two of us who will win the Hugo Award, but the two of us will inevitably win the Hugo Award, the difference is just a matter of sooner or later, what I just said depends on who of the two of us can win the Hugo Award 'first', not who can 'can' win the Hugo Award." ”

Many editors in the private room were stunned when they heard this.

Everyone thought that Li Mu's appetite was big enough, but now it seems that everyone still underestimates Li Mu's appetite.

See what he just said?

"It's not about the two of us who will win the Hugo Award, but both of us will definitely win the Hugo Award!"

Listen to what that has to say.

I really think of the Hugo Award as a certificate of merit for some horns.

Liu Cixin's heart suddenly became hot, and he even faintly felt the urge to sit in front of the computer to create.

Then Li Mu said: "The problem of science fiction is that the circle is too small and too closed, if science fiction writers want to break through the ceiling, they must find a way to break the circle, find a way to let people in the non-science fiction circle know your work, I just said that winning the Hugo Award is just one of the ways to break the circle, in fact, if you want to break the circle, there are still some other ways." ”

Seeing that everyone's eyes fell on him, Li Mu continued: "For example, film and television adaptations, let's take Brother Liu as an example, if Brother Liu's work "The Wandering Earth" is adapted into a movie tomorrow, and the box office sells 400 million, and audiences across the country are enthusiastically discussing "The Wandering Earth", and the popularity even surpasses that of "Hero" directed by Zhang Yimou and becomes a real phenomenal movie, then everyone says that in the future, will Brother Liu's novel break through the small shackles of the science fiction circle? Will the novel sell 100,000, 200,000, 500,000, or even 1 million? ”

"Of course it's possible!" Li Mu cut the railway.

"Therefore, film and television adaptations can also help science fiction writers break the circle."

Liu Cixin sighed and said: "If the film and television adaptation is a big success, of course it can help the writer break the circle, but how can the film and television adaptation be so easy, now let alone make the successful adaptation of my work more influential than "Hero", that is, it can be released normally after the adaptation, and even as long as someone is willing to adapt, I have to thank God." ”

Li Muxin said this.

Because he knew that Liu Cixin would later sell the film and television copyright of his novel "The Three-Body Problem" at a mere price of 100,000 yuan, and the couple who bought the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" sold it for 120 million yuan a few years later.

At that time, "Three-Body Problem" was already Liu Cixin's best-selling work, and it still only sold 100,000.

The best work, the film and television copyright was sold at a low price of 100,000 yuan, which is enough to show how low Liu Cixin's expectations were at that time.

However, Liu Cixin's low expectations for the film and television copyright value of his works are just a good thing for Li Mu.

So he said: "Brother Liu, you have to believe me, I understand movies, in August 04, Cheng Long went to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum to film, it just so happened that my parents worked in the museum, and I had the opportunity to get in touch with Cheng Long, so I figured out Cheng Long's preferences and wrote a script, and it turned out to be Cheng Long's favorite." ”

"In the end, the film was jointly invested by Cheng Long and West Film Studio, with an investment of nearly 60 million, with me as the assistant director and screenwriter, and my uncle as the editor and mastered the final cutting right, and now the film is already in the post-production."

"What I mean by this is that since I said that Brother Liu's novel is suitable for adaptation into a movie, it will not be untargeted, but there must be a reason for me to say so."

"The investment in science fiction movies is generally very large, judging from the current number of domestic screens, the number of theaters, and the overall market, it is indeed not suitable for fear of costing science fiction films at this stage, but the domestic film market will become more and more prosperous, and the domestic film market will sooner or later be able to prosper to the extent that it can accommodate these large investment science fiction films, I always firmly believe that this is only a matter of time."

"In the future, once the conditions are ripe, I will definitely invest in our own sci-fi blockbusters in China, and several of Brother Liu's sci-fi novels are very suitable for adaptation in my eyes."

Liu Cixin was silent.

On the one hand, Li Mu's words made him very useful, and on the other hand, he felt that Li Mu was talking about it.

He said that he is optimistic about his science fiction novels, and he also said that his science fiction novels are suitable for adaptation into movies, but is he willing to use real money to buy the film and television rights of his science fiction novels?

Most likely, not.

Therefore, the so-called optimism is actually just talk.

At this time, I heard Li Mu say: "I don't have any money in my hand for the time being, otherwise I will definitely buy the film and television rights of Brother Liu's novel as soon as possible." ”

Liu Cixin thought: "Sure enough, otherwise it must mean that it will not be, and the meaning of being optimistic is just talking." ”

Then I heard Li Mu say: "But now it's okay, "The Hunger Games" is selling well in the United States, and it is expected that there will be funds flowing in in my hand in a few months, but I don't know if I want to use this money to buy the film and television rights of Brother Liu's novels, Brother Liu, will you sell it." ”

"Do you really want to buy it?" Liu Cixin was really surprised now.

Li Mu nodded.

"I want to pick two works in Brother Liu's novels first, and as for the price of the copyright, ......"

Li Mu thought about it, and finally said something that he thought Liu Cixin could accept, and it would not deviate too much from the current market price.

"How about 300,000? Buy two first, 300,000 each. ”

300,000 yuan, which is almost the ceiling of the current price of adapted scripts, in August, Cheng Long saw that he could use Li Mu's father's affection, and the script fee for "Hurricane Rescue" was 300,000.

In fact, from the perspective of later generations, it is also appropriate to buy the copyright of Da Liu's work at a price of 500,000 1, but Li Mu feels that he does not need to buy the copyright at a price much higher than the current market price.

Sometimes if you bid too high, it will make the other party feel weak, and they don't know what kind of medicine you are selling in the gourd.

Now buy the copyright at a price that does not exceed the highest price in the market, after the copyright price skyrockets in the future, Liu Cixin will definitely feel that he has lost, and then Li Mu can ask Liu Cixin to be the consultant of his own film, and give Liu Cixin part of the income through the consultant fee, and then he can also use this to let Liu Cixin help promote the movie, so he will not necessarily lose some of the benefits.

However, what Li Mu didn't expect was that when he said the price of 300,000 yuan per piece, the atmosphere of the entire private room was different.

Everyone looked at Liu Cixin's eyes and was instantly full of envy.

300,000 each, and 600,000 for two.

600,000 is a huge amount of money for this era, especially for science fiction writers of this era.

After Liu Cixin saw that Li Mu didn't seem to be joking, he immediately agreed.

"Which two would you like to buy?"

Li Mu thought for a while and said: ""The Wandering Earth" and "Country Teacher". ”

Liu Cixin nodded and said, "Okay." ”