The Rise of Otaku

Chapter 87 Fruit Pirates

Xia Huan’s so-called A-rated script was an adventure story about pirates. After reading it thoroughly, it felt like Pirates of the Caribbean, which was full of fantasy.

It truly deserved to be called an A-rated script. It was much more vivid and wonderful than those movies that were produced by Zhou Yu, which were automatically adapted from some short stories.

The characters had distinct personalities, the progress of the plots and the pace of the story were far beyond any scripts that were automatically generated.

Zhou Yu had also written some novels from time to time. So he still had some abilities to tell if it was good or not. Unfortunately, his own animation base did not have the ability to produce such a good script, and this could not be changed even if it was upgraded. Unless he could find his own scriptwriter.

Unfortunately, the probability was too low, so far he had not seen any signs of scriptwriter yet. Even the animation director, he also had to plant it.

Speaking of animation directors, there was Yang Kuai at home, and this cooperation was a good opportunity for two brothers to work together. However, Xia Huan had already hired a director himself. And it seemed to be extremely good.

Ling Daoran, a legendary animation director, all basic attributes were full. Special effect “Legendary Editing”. Even after the shooting, he could modify the flaws of the film according to his own will. He, who was a perfection paranoiac, would fall into the curse of endless re-editing his own work from time to time. Once that happened, the only way to save him was to drink “Forgetting Potion”

All stats were full, and even with a special effect. Although there was a strange defect, it still seemed to be profitable if it only cost one bottle of forgetting potion to produce one movie. Although he did not know how much this strange potion was.

Not bad for the future protagonist. Having such a powerful follower, he would definitely be able to dominate the entertainment industry.

Zhou Yu was completely astonished by those stats. It made his mouth water when he just looked at it. Comparing to him, Yang Kuai’s stats were very sad.

‘Why Yang Kuai did not have those stats…’

“A good script plus a good director, although the actors are not the best actors, it is more than enough to make a B-rated movie, The success of Beidou all depends on this movie. However, the hateful Nandou put obstacles in our way and forced all the investors to withdraw their investment. It caused us to run out of the money in the middle of shooting, so we can only ask Mr. Zhou for help.”

Xia Huan’s words were full of helplessness. If he had other ways, he would not have come here to seek help from Zhou Yu. Since he also felt embarrassed to ask help from Zhou Yu many times. Moreover, that hateful Nandou had already put the words out that they wanted to destroy Beidou. It scared away many potential investors as well.

The film festival would arrive soon. If Beidou could bring Fruit Pirates to this grand event, then they would be able to give them a very heavy slap on their faces.

Zhou Yu was once again amazed by his luck. Xia Huan was truly a protagonist. The wave pool was just completed no long ago. And it just happened that it could be used to shoot sea scenes of the movie.

Not only could it help Little Niannian, but he would also be able to get Moe Coins. So of course, Zhou Yu would not refuse it.

Giving the beaver and the monkey the specific requirements of the filming set, they would build the parts of the filming base as quickly as possible, and then it would be assembled by Zhou Yu as usual.

This was a movie with a strong Western Fantasy flavor, so the setting was very medieval Western-style, especially the beaver’s design of the delicate wooden ships. They could be directly sold as display models. Although those pirate ships and naval warships were no match for the majesty of the aircraft carrier model, medieval ships also had their unique charm. After filming, they could also be used in the water park as decorations.

The first scenes that they filmed were the land scenes. And because most of the children were in the water park, so nobody noticed that there were some more strange buildings in the yard of brother Yu.

Zhou Yu liked to watch small people making films a lot. It was much more interesting than the movies on the screen. Ling Daoran apparently had better control of the whole filing crew than Yang Kuai. Under his command, the crew was working orderly and efficiently. Even though little Niannian’s acting was not very good, under the buff of the legendary director, he was actually doing okay. Of course, the director himself was not very satisfied.

A perfection paranoiac would demand perfection in every shot. Sometimes some scenes needed to be repeated several times. There was once, a scene was repeated several times, and then Zhou Yu saw a red angry face emoji suddenly popped up from Ling Daoran’s head. Seeing this situation, the assistant on one side quickly rushed towards him.

Then a bottle of yellow medicine in his hand was hurriedly poured into Ling Daoran’s mouth.

It turned out that paranoia would not only occur in post-processing of the film but would also occur from time to time during the filming.

Alas, it was not easy to keep a legendary director. If it was unlucky, who knows how many forgetting potions he would need to drink.

Zhou Yu was also quite disappointed with Yang Kuai. At first, when Yang Kuai heard Xia Huan saying that they would not use him, he was very angry. But when he saw Ling Daoran’s legendary director aura, he instantly knelt before him.

Running back and forth, and getting everything Ling Daoran needed, he was extremely attentive. In the end, he even jumped in cheers when he got the role of a director assistant.

However, two days later, Zhou Yu was surprised to discover that Yang Kuai’s basic stats were increased a little. It was probably acquired by following the legendary director and learning from him.

Well, that was an unexpected gain.

The shooting went smoothly. By the end of the shooting the land scenes, 80% of the film were completed, leaving behind some sea battle scenes. However, when Xia Huan was looking forward to slapping Nandou’s face fiercely at the film festival, something unexpected happened.

One day, all the cameramen in the film crew suddenly disappeared and could not be found anywhere.

When Zhou Yu got up, he saw Xia Huan pointed his middle finger at the sky and shouted angrily, “Damn you Nandou, shameless asshole! You even used the Stop Filming Card on me!”

Looking up, no one knows when there was a big word “Stop” appearing in mid-air. It was probably the Stop Filming Card that Xia Huan was talking about.

It turned out that after seeing the shooting was going so well, the spy from Nandou secretly used the Stop Filming Card to trap all the cameramen inside a restricted zone, which would not release all the cameramen after a certain period of time time. So they would be able to delay the shooting schedule of Fruit Pirates.

The business battle of the ACG world was really interesting.

Now that Beidou had no money to invite additional cameramen, and they were also running out of the time. Realizing that they would not be able to complete the film before the film festival, all the Beidou staff were extremely upset. Even Xia Huan, the executive producer also felt gloomy.

‘Sigh, they have won. The Fruit Pirates project is now officially canceled. But everyone, this is not the end. I promise that I’ll return the humiliation 100 times more back to them very soon!”

Xia Huan made a summary and was ready to take the film crew back to the company, but Zhou Yu stopped him.

‘It is hard for my Little Niannian to get a protagonist role, how can you quit like that? Hell no, I’m not agreeing to that!’ Besides, it cost Moe Coins to design and construct those sceneries. He needed to get some money back at least.

“Mr. Zhou, I really have no other choice. If I do, I wouldn’t have given it up.”

Xia Huan was helpless, but Zhou Yu shook his head and took something out of his storage room.

Cross-Dimension Camera.