Chapter 283: The Legend of Sword and Fairy
Zhang Songnian smiled and shook his head, martial arts dramas have declined in this era, if Zhang Songnian takes out a martial arts script now to talk to the people of Golden Feather Entertainment about the ratings, then the other party will most likely think he is crazy.
What Golden Feather Entertainment wants now is a script that can have an immediate effect on the ratings.
The story of the Condor trilogy is indeed very exciting, but people in this era have lost their enthusiasm for martial arts, and it is unrealistic to want to break the ratings record through a martial arts drama.
And there may also be copyright issues involved, selling it to Jinyu Entertainment in the form of a script, that Zhang Songnian will inevitably feel inappropriate, this is not what he wants.
The copyright of the Condor Trilogy must be firmly grasped in his own hands, but after all, the price given by Jin Yu is not low, but if he is not even qualified to buy out, then presumably the people on the side of Jin Yu Entertainment may not be happy at that time.
In fact, Zhang Songnian may not care about the copyright of other scripts, after all, the price given by Jinyu Entertainment is really high, and the price of a script is often tens of millions, even if it is the top screenwriter in the industry, it is difficult to have this value, but Jinyu Entertainment directly quoted Zhang Songnian without saying a word, and the price was quite refreshing, which is also the reason why Zhang Songnian is willing to continue to maintain a cooperative relationship with Jinyu Entertainment.
But even so, Zhang Songnian still can't ignore this copyright issue in the scripts of the Condor Trilogy.
As one of the martial arts series with the most remakes on the planet, the Condor Trilogy has been remade no less than dozens of times in the past few decades, and the number of adaptations is the highest among all martial arts works.
It can be said that the potential IP value of the Condor Trilogy is very large, so big that Zhang Songnian feels that it cannot be ignored.
Although the times are different now, and Zhang Songnian is not sure about the results of these works, his intuition still tells Zhang Songnian that in order to avoid unnecessary disputes, the copyright of this thing should be firmly grasped in his own hands.
"Not now, the timing is not right, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can consider it." After thinking about it, Zhang Songnian rejected Li Xingruo's suggestion.
Li Xingruo tilted his head with some curiosity and asked, "Then when do you think the right time is?" β
"When my books become popular, I can talk to others about adapting them into films." Zhang Songnian said without thinking.
"Huh" Li Xingruo laughed out loud all of a sudden.
Although Li Xingruo doesn't know much about the current market, he also knows that martial arts basically have no possibility of coming out in this world, and he doesn't know where his husband got so much confidence.
Zhang Songnian glanced at Li Xingruo helplessly, he could see that his wife seemed to be laughing at his innocence, but Zhang Songnian couldn't tell her that these were actually very popular in his last life, and this world might be able to be on fire like that.
Li Xingruo didn't hit Zhang Songnian anymore, but she saw a book called "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" on Zhang Songnian's desk, and Li Xingruo, who was curious, took it over and planned to flip through it, she wanted to see what Zhang Songnian wrote.
After seeing Li Xingruo sitting obediently on the side, Zhang Songnian also put his eyes on the computer screen, and then stared at the screen intently and began to think.
There are countless excellent classic scripts in Zhang Songnian's mind, but it is really hard to say that it can steadily surpass phenomenal dramas like "In the Name of the People" in terms of quality.
After all, many works are not of the same era at all, and there is not much reference in the data at all.
And in fact, in addition to the quality, the popularity of a drama also needs to be in the right place at the right time, for example, "In the Name of the People" was officially endorsed when it was broadcast, and it coincided with the rising anti-corruption sentiment of everyone, so it is naturally expected that the TV series can become popular.
However, works like "In the Name of the People" are actually not perfect, the audience of this drama is limited, or this drama is only suitable for adults, which means that the upper limit of this drama is always limited.
It's not that this drama is bad, but because of the reality theme and anti-corruption type of TV series, most of the teenagers will be naturally screened out, because few people pay attention to these problems at a carefree age, and only adults who have been beaten by society know how common the phenomenon in "In the Name of the People" is in society, and how heart-wrenching the lines in the play are.
Thinking of this, after thinking about it, Zhang Songnian made a decision in his heart about what kind of script he planned to write for Jin Yu.
Two hours later, Zhang Songnian, who had been busy with the script framework for two hours, wanted to get up from the chair and stretch, but when he got up, he found that there seemed to be a person sitting next to him.
Zhang Songnian looked at the serious Li Xingruo and felt a little funny.
This woman seems to have laughed at herself just now for writing a bit of an idiot dream, but now she is fascinated by "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
The essence of human beings is really fragrant.
However, seeing Li Xingruo's serious look, Zhang Songnian became more confident for no reason.
Gold always shines, and sure enough, no matter what world a good work is in, the light will not be too dim.
Zhang Songnian thought for a while, and finally stretched out his hand and shook it a few times in front of Li Xingruo.
After Li Xingruo's concentration was interrupted by Zhang Songnian, he raised his head a little dazedly and found that Zhang Songnian was looking at him with a smile.
Li Xingruo wrinkled his eyebrows, he had read a good book, but his thoughts were interrupted, and Li Xingruo asked Zhang Songnian angrily, "What are you doing?" β
"Is it pretty?" Zhang Songnian asked.
When Li Xingruo heard this, he gave Zhang Songnian a white-eyed, naΓ―ve man.
However, Li Xingruo still nodded honestly and replied: "It's okay, good-looking, no wonder you are so confident." β
In two hours, Li Xingruo read about tens of thousands of words, the ups and downs of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the magnificent style made Li Xingruo unstoppable, if it wasn't for Zhang Songnian interrupting himself, Li Xingruo felt that he could keep reading.
Zhang Songnian was very satisfied with Li Xingruo's reaction, and the book had already gained its first reader in the world before it was published, which made Zhang Songnian feel more confident.
A confidence that allows martial arts to sweep this era again.
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A week later, according to the agreed time with Li Zhengming, Zhang Songnian appeared in the building of Golden Feather Entertainment with the script in his hand.
Zhang Songnian walked in the familiar corridor, and the eyes of the people around him all looked sideways, and there were few employees of Jin Yu who didn't know Zhang Songnian.
"Mr. Zhang is good."
"Mr. Zhang is early"
"Mr. Zhang."
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When he met people who had been greeting him frequently on the road, Zhang Songnian only nodded with a smile and did not answer their questions directly.
Zhang Songnian's ambiguous attitude made everyone's hearts as uncomfortable as tickling, and since Zhang Songnian left Jin Yu for a month, it can be said that the most unaccustomed people are the people in the animation department.
Although Zhang Songnian rarely came to the company before, Zhang Songnian's role in the animation department is actually similar to that of Dinghai Shenzhen.
Since Zhang Songnian left Jin Yu, the animation department is like losing the Dinghai God Needle, and the enthusiasm of the entire department has dropped a lot in an instant.
Before Zhang Songnian left, the animation department had not worried about performance for a long time, but because of Zhang Songnian's departure, the animation department's project this year has not progressed, and the previous several phenomenal animation works can also clearly feel that the popularity of IP has come to an end, and it has begun to decline little by little.
Therefore, seeing Zhang Songnian's sudden appearance in the Golden Feather Entertainment Building should also be the happiest in the animation department.
"Damn, isn't this Mr. Zhang, didn't he say that he was coming back, that's really good!"
"It's better to come back, or I'll be hard at work."
"To be honest, without Mr. Zhang in charge of the animation department, I always feel empty in my heart, as if I don't have a sense of security."
"Indeed, I feel this way too, and I thought I was alone in this time."
"Indeed, our Golden Feather Animation Department does not have Mr. Zhang, just like the West can't do without Jerusalem"
Looking at Zhang Songnian's back, the people in the animation department had no intention of working, but gathered together and whispered, their expressions full of excitement.
originally thought that the company and Zhang Songnian had some big conflict, and then caused Zhang Songnian to leave, but now it seems that it is not necessarily the case, because since Zhang Songnian can still appear in the Golden Feather Entertainment Building, it means that there is actually no problem on both sides.
And this time Zhang Songnian's sudden appearance in the Golden Feather Building made them infinitely reverie, maybe this time when they came back, the two sides would re-talk about the return to sign the contract.
Zhang Songnian didn't know that he had such an important position in the animation department, but when he walked in from the company's gate all the way, Zhang Songnian found that he was quite well-known in Jinyu Entertainment for the first time.
Along the way, Zhang Songnian has received a lot of people to greet him, if it was in the past, Zhang Songnian may respond, but thinking that he is not Jin Yu's person now, and the person in power now is Li Jianhua, Zhang Songnian simply cooled down, lest Li Jianhua have any thoughts in his heart, it is better to have more than one thing than one less.
When Zhang Songnian appeared in the general manager's office of Jinyu Entertainment again, there were already many people sitting in the office.
Zhang Songnian's eyes swept over slightly, and he found that they seemed to be basically old acquaintances.
Li Zhengming, Jiang Guangmin and Wen Yanjun, the head of the film and television department, made Zhang Songnian more curious that Li Jianhua was not there.
But that's fine, anyway, Zhang Songnian doesn't really want to communicate with Li Jianhua face-to-face, and it's probably the case that the Tao is different.
"Yo, the pine is coming, sit down." After hearing Zhang Songnian's knock on the door, several people in the office stopped talking, and then Li Zhengming gestured to Zhang Songnian with an enthusiastic face.
Zhang Songnian smiled and nodded, then walked into the office and found a place to sit down, and the script in his hand was also placed on the table.
Everyone's vision also focused on the script in front of Zhang Songnian with Zhang Songnian's movements.
Seeing everyone's reaction, Zhang Songnian didn't talk nonsense, and said directly: "Mr. Li, I have probably finished the script you told me last time." β
While speaking, Zhang Songnian pushed the script in his hand in front of Li Zhengming.
Li Zhengming heard this with a hint of joy on his face, and then picked up the script in his hand, and several other people also put their eyes on Li Zhengming's hands, and Wen Yanjun, who was anxious, was even more direct, and directly came to Li Zhengming's side to look at the script in his hand together.
In the face of Xingcan Entertainment's fierce pursuit in the back, at least they can't catch up in the short term, and Golden Feather Entertainment needs more high-quality scripts, and then widen the gap between the two.
Everyone knows this, but it's really hard to do.
It's not that the Jin Yu screenwriting team can't write a good script, but there is really no way to guarantee that they can write a phenomenal hit script.
Therefore, Li Zhengming can only pin his hopes on Zhang Songnian, in the past two years, Zhang Songnian has been creating miracles for Jinyu Entertainment, and this time it is not impossible.
For Zhang Songnian, Li Zhengming trusts him from the bottom of his bones.
"The Legend of Sword and Fairy?" Looking at the name of the script in Li Zhengming's hand, Wen Yanjun read it out on the side.
This is the first script that Zhang Songnian finally decided to give to Jin Yu Entertainment after repeated consideration.
As a post-90s generation, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" has brought a deep impression to Zhang Songnian, if you have to Zhang Songnian's drama, it is the pinnacle of the Xianxia series of TV series, there is no one.
Classics must be able to poke at the eternal things in human nature, so as not to be worn away by the impetuousness of the times.
There is nothing wrong with this statement at all.
The drama "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" was one of the TV series that Zhang Songnian watched when he was a child, and when he looked back, he found that this drama was one of the few TV series in which in addition to the plot, the screenwriter also tried to tell the audience other things.
Love and kindness are the themes of this drama.
Love, friendship, and family affection are all reflected in this drama, and these feelings are all sincere and moving.
uses the story of fantasy Xianxia to tell ordinary and real feelings, this TV series is worthy of the name of the peak of Xianxia.
Because of the time relationship, Li Zhengming didn't read the script carefully, but just spent more than ten minutes roughly flipping through it, and he didn't even have time to think about many plots and characters' personalities, but this did not affect Li Zhengming's inner shock.
The potential of this drama is definitely no worse than "In the Name of the People", and it may even have a higher ceiling.
Because of the theme type of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", its audience is destined to be much higher than the former.
(End of chapter)