Chapter 107 Blessed people don’t have to be busy
After the initial excitement passed, Xu Kun began to have troubles again.
This book and him are a match made in heaven, but the problem is that this is a martial arts drama, a magical martial arts drama that requires a lot of special effects.
An investment of 12 million is probably not enough.
But he didn't want to miss this book no matter what.
Gritting his teeth, he decided to take down the book first and think of another way to deal with the money.
So he said to the two of them: "I like this script very much, and that's the name... That computer game has a huge influence on young people. It's best to change the name to avoid being criticized."
"Change your name?"
Chen Luoping and Xu Yiling looked at each other and said, "How about changing the Immortal Sword into the Heavenly Sword and the Strange Heroes into the Heroes?"
""Heavenly Sword Heroes"."
Xu Kun repeated the name, nodded and said, "This is a good name."
Next, the two parties discussed the authorship rights, script price, modification intention, etc. The two of them were more insistent on the authorship rights and script price, but they were not that concerned about the second revision. They were probably used to seeing the crew make temporary changes to the script, and they were numb. .
In the end, Xu Kun bought out the script for 40,000 yuan.
The two screenwriters promised to help split the script into character scripts and modify some details according to Xu Kun's opinions.
For example, the male protagonist is nicknamed "Scholar of Wen, Jian and Wu", but he claims to be illiterate and a blind and illiterate scholar. Isn't this nonsense?
Besides, Xu Kun's temperament is more like a heroic one, rather than a Confucian one.
In addition to these two people, Xu Kun also plans to invite Du Liang to join the crew. He likes the rest of this drama, but the protagonist is slightly less heroic, and this is what Du Liang is good at.
Du Liang naturally didn't say anything about this. He promised twice, but in the end nothing was done. This time he had to help free of charge.
Three screenwriters and one Xu Kun worked hard for more than 20 days and finally finalized the second version of the script.
The revised version mainly added some lines to show the protagonist's spirit, also refined some fragments, and smoothed out the plot before and after.
Xiao Ting's nickname was also changed from "Wenjianwu Scholar" to "Zhangjian Lingyun". Zhanjian means using a sword as a staff, implying that he is blind.
As for Ling Yun, it not only praises his extraordinary light skills, but also refers to his iconic white hair. It also secretly means "Ling Yun's ambition".
By the way, the male protagonist can control his hair to switch back and forth between black and white. The white hair is the hero Xiao Ting, and the black hair is King Abelo.
Xu Kun showed the revised script to trusted people around him, and the reviews were generally good. The younger the feedback, the better.
Considering that this kind of magical martial arts drama mainly targets young people, the effect should be pretty good.
Xu Kun was going to show the script to Jia Yueting to see if he could trick him into making more money, or help introduce other coal bosses.
As a result, just after I made an appointment with Jia Yueting, I got another call from my hometown, and I opened my mouth to ask if the funds were sufficient.
After asking carefully, it turned out that it was not the county that wanted to invest more, but the news that spread to the city. The city leaders suddenly had the idea to directly advertise that our Lao Baigan could not handle Moutai Wuliangye. Would investing in a TV series be more successful?
The counties below have such courage in setting up vegetable greenhouses, but the city cannot lack such courage.
So Xu Kun temporarily postponed his appointment with Jia Yueting and followed the county leaders to the city. When he came back, he had an additional five million investment agreement.
There was no betting agreement signed this time.
Major wineries have never been willing to spend money on publicity. Lao Baigan was stingy. In 2007, he also spent a lot of money on Hu Jun. Advertisements about "drinking to make you manly" were flying all over the place.
Nowadays, investing in local potential stocks in advance is not a problem at all. As a result, after just a few days, Jia Yueting became a little anxious, especially when he heard that Xu Kun was going to negotiate a sponsorship contract with the winery, and was afraid that Xu Kun would get bigger and bigger and throw him away.
So before Xu Kun could open his mouth, he opened his mouth and directly increased the investment from 10 million to 13 million. Now he had collected 20 million, which was enough to catch up with the total investment of "The Young Emperor".
With the contacts Chen Xuebin has accumulated over the years, he can easily come up with a general framework if he has money.
Now that everything is ready, all that is needed is a qualified tool director.
Xu Kun was just thinking about how to advertise for talents, and screenwriter Chen Luoping took the initiative to recommend a person named Liu Haibo, a young director under the age of thirty.
However, although he is young, he has already directed three TV series. The first two were co-produced with others, and the "Four Famous Catchers" just filmed this year was completed by him independently.
Xu Kun and Chen Xuebin met with the young director born in 1975 on behalf of the company. After a cordial discussion, they previewed the yet-to-be-released "Four Famous Captors in the Capital" and initially decided that Liu Haibo would direct the film. drama.
Liu Haibo has a lot of research on special effects. The three dramas he filmed were also martial arts dramas, so he is quite familiar with it.
The most important thing is that although he is young, he is not arrogant. He said that if he encounters problems during the filming process, he will definitely communicate with the producer and work out a solution to get the best of both worlds.
The nominal producer of this drama is none other than Xu Kun [Note: In the original history of this drama, the male protagonist was also the producer because his girlfriend was a management representative].
So the project of "Heavenly Sword Heroes" was officially launched, with a total investment of 20 million, and it is known as a large-scale magical ancient costume martial arts drama.
Next, Chen Xuebin was responsible for the registration and preparation procedures, while Xu Kun and Liu Haibo started to select the crew - Xu Kun was the main one who made the decision, as he was the producer who brought the funds to join the crew.
Historically, this drama has a rating of 8.3 on Douban. Both the characters and the plot are commendable.
Because the original name was also "Legend of Sword and Fairy", it was compared with "Legend of Sword and Fairy" by some gaming parties back then.
He believes that the Heavenly Sword is higher than the unrecognizable drama version of the Fairy Sword, and King Abelo, who goes all the way to the bottom for his career, is a real man. The lustful and courageous Li Xiaoyao is not the real Li Xiaoyao at all, and the bullshit Tang Yu Xiaobao should be rounder and thicker. .
However, the results of "Heroes of Sword" are far inferior to the drama version of Sword.
The biggest reason for this is the failure in casting. Although the appearance of the male protagonist Shao Feng also has some problems, it can still cater to the preferences of some audiences.
And the heroine...
Many viewers commented on this drama: I endured such an ugly heroine until the end, and you actually gave me a knife? !
The heroine is the former Joan Girl, and she was indeed quite beautiful when she was young. However, when filming this drama, her appearance had deteriorated, and she had some weird looks, which made her look like a middle-aged aunt a lot of the time, even She is also an aunt who cannot tell the difference between male and female.
In fact, being able to watch the finale with such a heroine is enough to show the charm of this show.
But the problem is that when "Sword and Fairy" was aired on stars in 2005, it bumped into the drama version of "Legend of Sword and Fairy".
On one side is the androgynous aunt, on the other side is Liu Yifei in her prime. The gap is so huge that it is unbearable to look at. Even though the plot and characters of Skyward Sword are more novel, the special effects are not much inferior, and in the end it is still powerless.
But now that it's Xu Kun's casting, he will naturally not make such a mistake.
He plans to let Huo Siyan play the female lead. Although she was outshone by Fan Bingbing on the set of "Cell Phone", she is considered quite capable among many young actresses.
Especially in the play, Tang Ruoxuan was involved in a blood feud, and I saw a lot of crying scenes in pity. This is exactly what Huo Siyan is good at.
As for the perseverance part…
When she acted in "Ignite 2", she specially trained her acting skills in this area. Although the effect was average, it was barely enough no matter how polished she was.
But just when Xu Kun was about to tell Huo Siyan the good news, Li Yixiang suddenly came to the door.
He murmured his ink for a long time, and then at Xu Kun's urging, he managed to say: "Can Zeng Lai play the heroine of this drama?"
(End of chapter)