In the afternoon, he continued to audition for the role of the killer, because Zhang Zijian, Huang Bo, and Zhang Hanyu's acting skills all passed, so the anti-tool director Shen Junsheng was a little difficult to choose, so in the end, Li Mu could only make the decision himself.

Considering that the movie "The Way to Steal the Key" is a bit comedy in terms of genre, so in the end, Li Mu simply decided to be played by Huang Bo. Moreover, the appearance of the killer in the original movie was originally half a pound and eight taels with Huang Bo, and Li Mu felt that it was more suitable for Huang Bo to play the killer.

As for the choice of the heroine, Li Mu finally decided on Gao Yuanyuan. Although her acting skills are not very good, she can barely say that she is in the past, and the most important thing is that her image, temperament and age are very close to the original, so all things considered, Gao Yuanyuan has become a more ideal candidate.

The total investment of "The Method of Stealing the Key" is about 10 million yuan, the movie has no big scenes, and the shooting is relatively simple, and the preliminary preparations are not as complicated as "Inception", so it will be officially launched next month, and the shooting cycle will be about a month, and if everything goes well, it should be able to catch up with the Spring Festival file in 08.

When Li Mu finally finished the casting of "How to Steal the Key", and held two meetings in a row about the preliminary preparations for "Inception", he finally calmed down, but he was a person who couldn't be idle, so he wanted to do something when he had time.

Thinking that the more than 40 million copies he sold in the United States were all helped by "Science Fiction World" magazine, and he had a good relationship with President Qin Li, editor Yang Feng, deputy editor-in-chief Yao Haijun and others, so Li Mu thought that he would also repay Li and help "Science Fiction World" magazine if he could.

At its peak, the monthly sales volume of "Science Fiction World" magazine was nearly 400,000 copies, but since the beginning of the new century, under the combined effect of various reasons, the sales of "Science Fiction World" magazine have been directly cut in half, and now the monthly sales volume has been less than 200,000 copies.

This month, Li Mu won the Hugo Award, which is known as the Nobel Prize in the science fiction industry, and the "Science Fiction World" magazine also showed its face in the central government.

If Li Mu took advantage of the popularity of the Hugo Award just won at this time, coupled with his super popularity in the film industry and the industry, and then he serialized his first work after winning the award on the platform of "Science Fiction World" magazine - not to mention the 400,000 copies sold by the magazine back to its peak, at least it is not a big problem to return to 300,000 copies sold.

And after the serialization, all the copyright is still in Li Mu's personal hands, and the magazine serialization will not affect the subsequent publication and copyright development of the work, to a certain extent, the serialization of the 200,000-selling "Science Fiction World" magazine is actually a good publicity for the work, but with Li Mu's popularity today, he doesn't need this opportunity very much.

But after all, Li Mu has nothing to lose, he has no loss, and he can take advantage of the situation to help the "Science Fiction World" magazine and old friends and help them, so why not do it for Li Mu?

With this plan, Li Mu began to choose works from his mind, and after some weighing, he finally set his goal as "Pacific Rim". ….

If it is serialized in the magazine, it will only be 10,000 or 20,000 words per issue, and Li Mu only took two days to write enough for one issue. But the storyline of this movie is very simple, and the main selling points are all kinds of mecha warriors and monsters, so you can't copy this movie without copying pictures.

Fortunately, Li Mu's art skills are good, and he has movie pictures as a reference, so the illustration is not difficult for him.

Mechwarriors: Storm Crimson, Dangerous Wanderer, Tango Wolf, Cherno Alpha, Eureka Raider.

Monsters: Scythe Head, Ridgeback Turtle, Tailed Rat, Abomination, Thunder Beast, Poisonous Woman, Intruder, Avenger.

It took a total of five days, and Li Mu finally completed all the content of enough to serialize one issue, and then he dialed President Qin Li's phone.

"Li Mu? Something to do with my sister?" The voice on the other end of the phone was very pleasant.

Li Mu said, "Sister Li, I have written a new book, which has more than 20,000 words, and I want to serialize it in our "Science Fiction World" magazine.

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"Serialized in a magazine?"

Qin Li was a little moved, how could she not understand that this was Li Mu's kindness? But the more she knew, the more she couldn't let Li Mu suffer, so she didn't directly promise Li Mu, "You give my sister two days, and my sister will give you an answer in two days."

"Okay." Li Mu said with some surprise.

After hanging up the phone, Qin Li went out directly to find the competent department of the magazine, "Science Fiction World" magazine is not a private company, although Qin Li is the president of the magazine, there are some things that she can really decide directly.

Two days later, Qin Li called Li Mu's mobile phone.

"Li Mu, the serialization you said has been arranged, and the manuscript fee is 10,000/1,000 words, just send the article over."

Li Mu's voice on the phone was a little surprised: "10,000/thousand words? Didn't the highest remuneration for a magazine in the past be 180 per 1,000 words?"

Qin Li smiled: "It was before, it is now, and there have been no three Hugo Award winners in our "Science Fiction World" magazine before-what do you think Sister is running these two days?"

"Thank you, Sister Li, I'll send it to the magazine's mailbox right away."

Qin Li smiled: "Don't, it's my sister who should thank you well, in the past two days, the club has been guessing whether the magazine's sales will break 300,000 copies next month, and the conclusion is that it is difficult, and everyone almost agrees that it is almost impossible." But now that you're on the serialization team, the result may be really hard to say."

"Sister, you think too highly of me." Li Mu said with a smile.

Qin Li said, "If you can't afford it, you can't afford it, you have been creating miracles since my sister met you."

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After hanging up the phone, Qin Li came to the editorial office of the magazine in a happy mood.

The editors saw that the president seemed to be in a very good mood, so they guessed the reason.

"President, is this a great thing for our magazine? Could it be that he was praised by the leader at a meeting?"

"I think it must be that our magazine has made such a big move this month, and it has also won glory on the face of the leader, and it is deserving to be praised."

"Didn't you see that the president came to us with pleasure? I think most of this good thing has something to do with our editorial department."

"Something to do with us? Do you want to give us a raise?"

"Wage increases? What do you think?"

"Okay, okay, don't guess." Qin Li said with a smile after quieting everyone down, "Li Mu's new book will be sent over immediately, and from next month, Li Mu's new book will be serialized in our magazine, so I just came to inform you."

All the editors were stunned when they heard this, and immediately asked the doubts in their hearts:

"Serialized in our magazine?"

"Why didn't Li Mu publish it directly?"

"President, are you saying that Li Mu's new book will be serialized in our magazine?"

"His book will be rushed to be published by any publishing house, and what is he doing in a magazine? How much does a magazine pay for a manuscript?"

"***, you said that now there is a big brand of the first Asian winner of the Hugo Award, can the sales of our "Science Fiction World" return to the 400,000 sales at its peak?"

"Thinking too much, the times are different, and there will never be that kind of pomp and circumstance like before."

"Li Mu's new book has been sent." At this time, editor Yang Feng suddenly said to everyone.

Everyone hurriedly came over, only to see that Yang Feng had opened the document at this time, and everyone finally saw the title of Li Mu's new book - "Pacific Rim"!.

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