Chapter 298: Recording a New Song
After accepting Zhang Songnian's request, the film and television adaptation of the Condor Trilogy between Menghua Entertainment and Zhang Songnian went quite smoothly.
Originally, during the negotiation on copyright issues, Fu Yiwen thought that Zhang Songnian would be a difficult person to communicate, but she never thought that when the two sides really started to communicate and set up the project, Fu Yiwen found that Zhang Songnian was unexpectedly easy to speak.
And after the project was established, Zhang Songnian also took out the most classic adapted version of the plot in his impression to the screenwriting team of Menghua Entertainment for reference.
After all, in terms of the level of screenwriting, Menghua Entertainment is actually worse than Jin Yu, and Zhang Songnian is also worried that the screenwriter level of Menghua Entertainment is not enough, which will ruin the classic IP of Condor shooting, it can be said that Zhang Songnian is quite dedicated to this matter.
And the people of Menghua Entertainment only reacted after getting the script provided by Zhang Songnian, why Zhang Songnian kept emphasizing that he had the right to adapt the screenwriter, not only did the emotional family write well, but the level of the screenwriter was not bad.
Regarding the script of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the people of Menghua Entertainment were really stunned when they watched it.
Everyone studied it several times, and finally several Menghua Entertainment's gold medal screenwriters agreed that Zhang Songnian's script was already quite perfect, and at most, it was time to communicate with the director team about the problem of the script shots, as for the content, they really had a saying that they couldn't change.
The most difficult thing to control in script adaptation is to control the rhythm of the plot while taking into account the restoration of the original story.
After all, the original book has a million-word plot at every turn, and if you really want to restore all the plots, I'm afraid you will have to shoot seventy or eighty episodes.
The length of seventy or eighty episodes of a TV series is obviously unrealistic, whether it is in terms of market audience recognition or production cost, it is unlikely.
Judging from the script given by Zhang Songnian, if nothing else, this TV series will not exceed forty episodes at most.
Although the plot has been streamlined a lot, the framework of the story, the characters and the main plot line have basically been retained.
Not only that, when reading the script, everyone feels that there is not much difference from reading the original book, which is the most commendable, which is definitely the most exquisite factor in a screenwriter's ability.
However, thinking that Zhang Songnian is the original author of this one, it is reasonable to write such a script, after all, no one knows this story better than him.
This was unexpected by Menghua Entertainment, originally they thought that even after winning the project of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the progress would not be so smooth, which was destined to be a long pulling process.
After all, Zhang Songnian said at the beginning that he wanted to intervene in the screenwriting, and when he wanted to adapt, the two sides estimated that there would be a lot of disputes and mutual compromises.
It's not the first time that Dream Entertainment has adapted a classic, in the past, when cooperating with those original authors, most authors would choose to dictate the script, regardless of whether they have the right to write a screenplay, this situation has been seen too many times by the screenwriters of Menghua Entertainment.
The final results are mostly unsatisfactory, basically a result of mutual compromise between the two sides, and the ending is that the final result is the product of compromise between the two sides, in fact, most of them are not what the two sides wanted to do at the beginning, so adapting classic works into film and television, Menghua Entertainment is losing money most of the time.
And the choice of Zhang Songnian this time is also the result of Fu Yiwen's ruthlessness to try again, after all, most of the previous adaptation failures were due to the fact that there were classic versions for the audience to refer to and compare, coupled with emotional factors, it is normal for the newly adapted version to have a bad reputation.
But the project "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is different, no one has remade the Condor before, and there is no comparison without a backshot, and there will be a lot fewer people with broken mouths at that time.
Moreover, the script produced by Zhang Songnian has not overturned in the entertainment industry, which is why Fu Yiwen feels that it is worth gambling.
As long as she can catch Zhang Songnian's express line this time, no matter how bad the reputation of the Condor Shooting is, Fu Yiwen firmly believes that it will not be rotten there, Zhang Songnian has brought her too much shock in the past, and this risk is worth taking.
And taking a step back, adapting "Who Gets to the Legend of Heroes" is also better than being a big injustice remake of someone else's bad work.
So even if Zhang Songnian demanded that the lead of the project must be in his hands, Fu Yiwen felt that it was worth the risk.
In fact, when she saw that several gold medal editors-in-chief of the company couldn't help but praise the script that Zhang Songnian took out, Fu Yiwen knew that she should not have made a mistake this time.
The two sides didn't even have a chance to argue over how to adapt it, and the source of this contradiction was stifled by the script that Zhang Songnian took out.
The script that Zhang Songnian took out mainly refers to the two classic versions he has seen on the earth in his previous life, namely TVB's 83 version and 94 version.
These two versions are classics to a certain extent, but they both have some slight flaws, Zhang Songnian spent more than half a month to summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the two versions, and then mixed them together.
TVB's version of 94 can be said to be the most faithful to the original work and the version with the highest degree of plot restoration, so Zhang Songnian is slowly combing the plot with this version as the framework.
In the middle, Zhang Songnian continued to ask his father-in-law Li Zhengrong a lot of questions about script creation, so that the screenwriter of Menghua Entertainment saw this version of the script, which can be said to be quite difficult.
Menghua Entertainment finally experienced the happiness of Golden Feather Entertainment at the beginning, and now Fu Yiwen finally knows why the efficiency of Golden Feather Entertainment was so high and the momentum was so fast.
Over the past year, one big production project after another has been running, although the level of screenwriters of Jinyu Entertainment is very strong, but it has not been so strong that no movie box office schedule can win the box office championship.
But relying on Zhang Songnian, Golden Feather Entertainment has done it.
Previously, Fu Yiwen was surprised by Jin Yu's high efficiency more than once, but now it seems that all this is just because of Zhang Songnian's high efficiency.
For example, the polishing of the script, the polishing of a normal script is as long as a year and a half for a screenwriting team, and as short as ten days and half a month.
But here in Zhang Songnian, there seems to be no such thing as script polishing, as long as he takes out something, it seems that he can directly devote himself to the project, which does not seem to be much time, but there are only a few movie schedules throughout the year, but if the time node card is not accurate, the box office will be a big difference.
Menghua Entertainment can be regarded as experiencing the happiness of Golden Feather Entertainment before.
Just kidding, with such a baby, even a small company can become the number one giant in the entertainment industry sooner or later.
Thinking of this, Fu Yiwen is even more determined to maintain a close relationship with Menghua Entertainment.
Zhang Songnian must win over his own side, even if he really can't win over, he must maintain the most basic cooperative relationship, which may be the biggest reliance of Menghua Entertainment to avoid being opened up by other companies.
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Zhang Songnian's perception of Menghua Entertainment is really good, this group of people seems to be focusing on persuasion, and the efficiency is very high, it can be said that it is basically not inferior to Jinyu Entertainment in this area.
Whether it is the project or the preparation of the crew, as well as the casting of the actors, Menghua Entertainment only took more than a week to complete it, and the efficiency is terrifying.
Originally, Zhang Songnian was worried that his previous strong attitude would not arouse the other party's disgust with him, and there would be things like deliberate non-cooperation in the process of communication.
What Zhang Songnian didn't expect was that it seemed that Menghua Entertainment had a high degree of recognition of the script he came up with, and he didn't plan to make too many changes at all, and then after the project was established, both the director and the screenwriter were quite friendly to themselves, and they respected their opinions both in casting and storyboard production.
The cooperation between the two parties was surprisingly smooth.
What Zhang Songnian didn't expect the most was that the other director really seemed to regard himself as the leader of the project, but as long as there was something uncertain, he would always find Zhang Songnian.
Because whether it is the director or screenwriter of the crew, from the establishment of the project, the creation of the script to the details of the final shooting of the casting, as long as there is a time when it is not good to make a choice, it is not wrong to find Zhang Songnian.
Zhang Songnian can always give them the most effective and practical advice, and after asking these questions a few times, the crew team of Menghua Entertainment instantly admired Zhang Songnian, and everyone obviously intended to regard Zhang Songnian as the backbone of the project.
Zhang Songnian originally only planned to express his attitude and position at the beginning, although he said that he must take the lead, but in fact, he did not really plan to focus on the project from beginning to end.
If you really want to do this, you might as well form a team to do the film and television of the Condor Trilogy.
The main thing is that Zhang Songnian has a lot of things recently, and the filming progress of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" on the side of Golden Feather Entertainment is also in full swing, and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" seems to be intent on catching up with the progress now.
Zhang Songnian ran back and forth from time to time all day long, and Li Xingruo's new single also had to be recorded.
When everything came together, Zhang Songnian, who just wanted to be a salted fish, was obviously very distressed.
That's not the original intention of coming out and setting up a studio on your own.
At least this busy state is far from what I expected.
But whether it is "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" or "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", they are scripts that they value very much in their hearts, and they can't make any mistakes, and they can't do anything to destroy the classics.
Fortunately, as the filming progress of the crews on both sides gradually entered the state, Zhang Songnian ran a lot less, although he still had to go to the set to watch it occasionally.
But after all, it is not like before, I have to go to the crew set of Jinyu Entertainment in the morning and the crew of Menghua Entertainment in the afternoon.
Fortunately, there is basically no such daily life in the future, as long as the crews on both sides can complete their own script content step by step, basically the final effect will not be too bad.
However, Zhang Songnian suddenly thought that almost all the crews of the companies on both sides were turned on the front and back feet, and looking at Menghua Entertainment's intention to catch up with the progress, Zhang Songnian couldn't figure out whether Menghua Entertainment's idea was to have a hard fight with Jinyu Entertainment for a while.
Zhang Songnian thought about it and decided to write down this matter first.
Although Zhang Songnian also wants to know that if "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" are broadcast at the same time, the ratings of which drama will be better, but if such a situation really occurs, then the person who loses the most is probably himself.
Whether it is Jinyu Entertainment or Xingcan Entertainment, Zhang Songnian's cooperation with both sides is a sharing model, the two dramas are out of their own hands, the palms and backs of their hands are meat, whoever loses and wins Zhang Songnian will be very distressed about the money lost.
At the beginning, the premiere time of the communication between the two sides should be the second half of the year, but when the second half of the year will be, there is actually no decision on both sides, and it stands to reason that the summer file is also the second half of the year
Although Zhang Songnian felt that Fu Yiwen would not necessarily do this, he was afraid of what happened.
I have to confirm this matter with Fu Yiwen when I go back, and after Zhang Songnian silently wrote it down in his heart.
Fang Cai looked at Li Xingruo, who had been sitting next to him seriously.
After the matter of the two crews came to an end temporarily, Zhang Songnian recalled that because of the problem of the project establishment of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", a lot of time was delayed, and the new song that should have been recorded a week ago this month has been dragged by Zhang Songnian until now.
Zhang Songnian's buttocks moved, and then his arm wrapped around Li Xingruo, who came back to his senses from the state of reading seriously.
Li Xingruo raised her eyes slightly, glanced at her husband, frowned slightly, and asked with a trace of dissatisfaction for Zhang Songnian disturbing her reading: "What are you doing, don't disturb me reading." ”
"We still have to record a new song, haven't you forgotten that?" Zhang Songnian asked tentatively.
Li Xingruo continued to focus on the book "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" in his hand, and said without a trace of anxiety, "Well, remember, but aren't you busy, I'll talk about it when you're done, and it will take a while for you to practice singing." ”
"Uh" Zhang Songnian was speechless for a while.
But I feel that there is nothing wrong with what Li Xingruo said, with Li Xingruo's talent, songs like "Because of Love" should not be too difficult for her.
On the other hand, the last time I was recording a song with Li Xingruo, I kept stuck in the progress because my emotions were not in place, and in the end, it took several days to finally complete the final recording.
And this time, if you want to release a new single this month and win the new song list and hot song list of the month, it is obvious that there is not much time left for Zhang Songnian at present.
Originally, because the project of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was delayed for a week, if the recording was delayed for another week, and a new song would be released in the second half of the month, it is estimated that there will not be much time left for Li Xingruo's new song to climb the list.
Thinking of this, Zhang Songnian closed the book in Li Xingruo's hand with his hand, and then in Li Xingruo's increasingly dissatisfied eyes, he lowered his head and gently stamped a stamp on Li Xingruo's side face, and then said softly with a smile on his face: "When we're done, we'll record it tomorrow, and strive to complete the recording within a day, and we will release new songs every month." (End of chapter)