Chapter 47 Infinite World
Chen Linfeng has been laying the groundwork for this novel for a long time.
Strictly speaking, Infinite Horror is fan fiction, a series of stories carried out by the protagonist based on many movie plots.
The main content of the story is that the main god (big ball of light) selects suitable candidates from various worlds to form a team and puts them into a world with the background of novels, movies and other works.
The Lord God issues various tasks. If team members fail to complete them, they risk being wiped out.
In this process, the protagonist continues to meet new teammates and compete with other teams in order to one day leave the main god space.
However, this creates a problem. Writing this novel will inevitably create the risk of infringement.
So since 1998, Chen Linfeng has successively published some of the original movies of the mission world in Infinite Horror in the past life in the form of short novellas in various literary magazines.
Several movies including "Resident Evil", "Alien", and "Death is Coming" have been turned into novels.
Among them, "Resident Evil" was rewritten by him into "Resident Evil World", adding the setting of World War Z.
"Alien" was changed to "Cosmic Monster" and the appearance and fighting methods of the monster were changed. The plot refers to the later Alien prequel movie, the story of Prometheus.
The name of "Death is Coming" has not been changed, and the story has been localized.
"The Grudge" is more difficult to handle. He changed the world to the story in the Chinese classic "Liao Zhai", involving the plot of this mission world, and did not pay much attention to the background. He changed it to a Chinese-style one. Ghosts don't have much influence either.
In addition, the original works include "Legend of Legend", "Jurassic Park", and other classic movie worlds that have been staged.
Worlds such as Legend of Gods and Ghosts and Jurassic Park are relatively late in the plot of the original work and will not appear in the first book of "Infinite World" written by him.
Chen Linfeng's "Infinite World 1" only intends to write about the plot of the Zhongzhou team entering the biochemical world again and encountering the Demon team and almost being wiped out.
For those subsequent classic movies, it depends on whether he can or has the capital to buy the license when he writes the second one. If he can't buy it, he can only change it to other mission worlds of the same type.
In addition to some changes in the mission world, Chen Linfeng has also made changes to the protagonist's character.
In the original novel of the previous life, the protagonist Zheng Zha was a smart and passionate white-collar manager in the early stage. Later, Chu Xuan took on the role of internal wise man, and Zheng Zha became a brainless gorilla. The rotation is too stiff.
So when Chen Linfeng was writing, he set Zheng Zha to be a college student, passionate and righteous, but still with some sense, and he had to try his best to maintain his character in the later stages.
Able to become a decisive and resolute captain without losing his rationality.
When Chen Linfeng designed the outline, he planned a growth line for the protagonist, just hoping to make his character change more reasonable.
Of course, he will not forget the cruel words he said on the Internet.
At the beginning of Infinite World, which is also the beginning of the Resident Evil mission, Chen Linfeng renamed the character of the original aunt Yuan Yuan, slightly increasing her role.
When first facing Zhang Jie, the only senior person, he was stupid and arrogant. After being taught a lesson, he became timid and cowardly.
Then as expected, he didn't have enough physical strength and died while climbing the stairs in the first mission.
A total clown.
If this book can become a novel genre like the previous life of Infinite Horror, it will trigger many online writers to imitate or create fan fiction.
Then this garden will surely become a classic forever because of this opening depiction.
Chen Linfeng is looking forward to that day.
By the summer vacation, he had almost finished writing the novel. He spent two days finishing it and a few more days combing and checking for errors and omissions.
After confirming that it was correct, Chen Linfeng mailed a copy of the novel to Mei Ya and Kodansha far away in Neon.
Merting and Kodansha quickly sent someone to sign a contract with him.
Mr. Mei's side was hosted by Sister Mei, because Chen Linfeng had already been given the top royalties ratio in the country, and this time the conditions were also based on previous conditions.
Sister Mei was also very familiar with Zheng Yuling, who came from Mei Ya, and it didn’t take long for the two to negotiate terms.
After that, Sister Mei mainly talked with her about the release and promotion strategies of the new book.
Since we have cooperated many times and have a good relationship with each other, the negotiation progressed quickly, and Chen Linfeng was quickly found to sign the contract.
The main receptionist at Kodansha is Chen Linfeng. Thanks to the success of both of Chen Linfeng's novels, he has gained a lot of fame in Neon. This time, the conditions for him have been improved, and he has met the conditions for a famous writer - 12 points of royalties.
At the same time, Tanaka, who came to sign a contract with him, also brought two people, one from Capcom and one from Constantine Pictures.
The two men came to him seeking authorization for a film adaptation.
This matter also starts with the publication of his collection of short stories by Kodansha.
Neon's Capcom employees discovered the biochemical world chapter in "Kirin Short Story Collection" and reported it to the company's upper management.
Capcom’s senior management took a look and realized that this is a movie that my game will be adapted into. The plot is almost exactly the same!
Looking again at the earliest publication date - 1998, which is a full year earlier than the year 1999 when the script of the movie started. This certainly cannot be said to be plagiarism, but rather the movie script is suspected of infringement.
They quickly contacted Paul Anderson, who was doing post-production work in Emily Kendall.
Paul felt like he was really screwed up. At first he didn't believe such a thing existed.
After reading the contents of the translated novel, he had to painfully admit that there was indeed a huge overlap in content.
Nonsense, it is written according to the plot of the movie. Can it not overlap?
"Paul, are you sure you haven't read this article? Perhaps you have heard a similar story somewhere before?"
"I really don't remember. Did I write the script after hearing such a story?" Paul Anderson patted his head hard.
He doubted whether he had really heard it before, and then forgot about it, leaving only the content of the story in his mind, otherwise how could such similar content appear!
No one would think of such a thing as rebirth.
"Paul, please read back. There is a second story about the biochemical world written by this author, which is connected to the previous content." John from Constantine Pictures reminded him.
Chen Linfeng not only wrote the first part, he also wrote the second part that received better reviews.
Paul read it carefully and admired the story of the second part.
If we can really make a second part and follow this story, it seems that the effect will be very good.
Paul somewhat understood what his friend John meant.
He thought for a long time and decided to contact the author from China and get the authorization together with the second story.
Chen Linfeng learned of his intention and readily agreed to authorize.
Then he made a suggestion.
“My new book contains content about the biochemical world.”
Chen Linfeng turned out his original manuscript, “I will use the biochemical world as a mission copy of this novel. If possible, I hope How about using the adaptation rights of the first Biochemical World novel in exchange for the title license of your movie? "
"This can be a good linkage!" Tanaka said in surprise, if it can be done, he can already do it. Imagine how much the movie and the novel were released at the same time, promoting each other's publicity.
Seeing that the other two people were a little confused, Chen Linfeng told them the general setting of "Infinite World" and its relationship with the biochemical world.
John from Constantine Films was a little hesitant. He didn't have the appropriate authorization when he came.
He himself doesn’t want to be too meddlesome. How can the collaboration of a novel writer from the Eastern world bring any benefit to their movie?
At this time, Tanaka stood up. He emphasized the influence of Chen Linfeng’s works in Neon.
“Johnson, Mr. Qilin is extremely influential in Neon. He is an up-and-coming author, and his two books have sold more than three million copies, and a large number of fan clubs and fan groups have appeared in schools, and the number of people he has radiated will only increase."
He said sincerely, "In China, Chen Jun's influence may be greater. He is not only a famous writer, but also a famous actor. Both countries may become interested in movies because of his new book."
He lowered his head and bowed, "I think you should not miss this good publicity opportunity."
Sato, who came over from Capcom, couldn't help but nodded. Kirin's popularity in Neon is indeed extraordinary. Generally, otherwise the employees of their company would not see the stories in the novel collection.
John said hesitantly, "I need to call the company for instructions."
(End of Chapter)