Chapter 83
"Hahaha, it's okay. If he really has a cerebral hemorrhage, I will have to find a way to save him."
The two of them just laughed and joked. After all, Longchao Charity still needs someone to keep an eye on it, and Du Yusheng can't get away from it.
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The update speed of the writers of End Point was somewhat beyond Su Wei's expectations. The content of 800,000 words should be more than enough to make a movie.
It's not a big problem that the book is not finished yet. It can be made into the first part.
After dinner, Su Wei called He Qiuying to find out the situation.
This is the miserable thing for business people. They are on standby 24 hours a day, and they will also receive calls after get off work.
Su Wei's essay solicitation has brought great benefits to the End Point platform, almost making End Point monopolize the market.
As Su Wei's only contact person, He Qiuying naturally couldn't ignore the essay solicitation situation.
After He Qiuying's introduction, Su Wei realized that such a strange book as "The Martial Arts of the Heavens is Eternal" is an exception after all.
For most writers, even those who write fast have only 200,000 or 300,000 copies so far, and they are just on the shelves.
The slow ones have just published their books. There are also many unconfident writers who choose to avoid the early stage when great writers gather, and wait two months before publishing their books.
In short, the momentum is good.
Su Wei has not read "The Eternal Victory of the Martial Arts of the Heavens" to see whether it is well written.
But Du Yusheng is an old bookworm, and he is fascinated by it, so Su Wei naturally chooses to believe it.
"Manager He, I like this book "Zhu Tian Zhi Wu Dao Yong Chang". Please help me negotiate the film and television rights. I will arrange for people to make it into a movie later."
"Zhu Tian? What's wrong with Zhu Tian? I bought the adaptation rights of all the works involved in his book, so I can make a movie."
"Money? Money is not a problem. Just spend it. If it's not enough, ask me for more. It's not a big problem to ask for a high price. It's a loss to take advantage."
"Yes! You guessed it right. It's mainly for promoting martial arts. It's time to bring out the things of our ancestors to see the sun."
"Okay, then I'll leave it to you! I believe in your business ability. Come on!!!"
For He Qiuying, although she worked overtime during the break, it didn't affect her mood at all.
After all, not every customer is like Su Wei, willing to spend money and easy to talk to.
Most of them are inferior customers who have a lot of trivial matters, and they are stingy and find faults everywhere after signing the contract.
After hanging up He Qiuying's phone, Su Wei didn't dare to delay for a moment and called Zhou Yulong again.
"Hello, Director Zhou, congratulations on the box office success!"
"Oh, what are you talking about, Boss Su? Congratulations."
Zhou Yulong's face was full of joy.
"Boss Su called to ask about the performance of "Wu Yang". Don't worry, the current box office of "Wu Yang" has exceeded 2 billion. According to this trend, the final box office will be at least 4 billion."
This result is enough to be written into the glorious history of Zhou Yulong.
And from the script to the actors, to the publicity and release of this movie, Su Wei, as the investor, really did as he said, except for paying money, he didn't ask anything.
This is the most comfortable movie Zhou Yulong has made since he started working.
"Oh, I don't care much about the performance of "Wu Yang". I just want to ask Director Zhou if you have any arrangements recently. I have a martial arts script and I want you to direct it."
Hearing Su Wei say this, Zhou Yulong's eyes lit up immediately.
101. Chapter 101 Selling feelings and riding on the popularity
Chapter 101 Selling feelings and riding on the popularity
"Oh? Martial arts?"
The martial arts films directed by Zhou Yulong are "the most interesting", otherwise, "Noon Sun" would not have been so popular on the first day of its release.
"Boss Su, if this was a few months ago, I would never have thought that you would actually have internal strength. I also spent money to buy a pill of that Shenzhi pill, hehe, I didn't expect that there is actually internal strength in this world."
It's not that Zhou Yulong deliberately changed the subject, but just said a few good words first, and it's also convenient to make requests.
The better the director, the more he likes to pick the script. If the script provided by Su Wei doesn't suit Zhou Yulong's taste, he doesn't want to take it.
Su Wei didn't expect that Director Zhou had also contributed to his alchemy career.
But it makes sense. He has been fighting for martial arts films all his life. Although he is not young, the opportunity to practice internal strength is in front of him. With some spare money on hand, how could he not pursue his dream?
Resisting the urge to call Zhou Yulong an "unlucky guy", Su Wei said with a smile: "Oh? It seems that Director Zhou is now also a master of internal energy."
"Haha, Boss Su, please stop making fun of me. I am an old man, and I didn't succeed after taking a few pills, so I gave up the idea. But Xiao Wu suddenly felt the energy. I heard that he has not left the house during this period, and has been meditating and practicing at home every day."
Xiao Wu? Su Wei quickly realized that Zhou Yulong should be talking about Wu Yong, the three-time champion of Sanda.
"Wu Yong? Doesn't he practice Sanda? If he neglects Sanda because of his training, it will be hard for him to win the championship again."
"Hahaha, Master Su was joking. What Xiao Wu and his colleagues do is also a high-risk profession. Everyone who plays sports is injured. Those who fight desperately do so for money and honor. Xiao Wu has all these, so naturally he doesn't want to fight anymore."
People are lazy, mainly because Su Wei gave too much, and there is also a share of the box office.
Wu Yong earned more money than he could earn in his entire life as a boxer, so it was normal for him to retire.
"It sounds like Director Zhou is very envious."
"Hey, I envy you, but I envy that the young man is young and strong, and he can practice internal force in a short time. I am old, I am afraid that my life is a bit uncertain."
Su Wei could hear the regret in Zhou Yulong's tone.
After a chuckle, Su Wei said: "Not entirely. Recently, there should be a functional drink on the market, which is specially made for assisting the practice of internal force. You can find a way to ask, maybe there will be a surprise."
"Oh? Really? Then I have to ask! Boss Su, talk later..."
Zhou Yulong hung up the phone after he finished speaking.
"..."
Su Wei was speechless. This old guy talked to him for a long time, but he hung up the phone before getting to the point. He really didn't know how to comment on this.
Less than half a minute later, the phone came back.
"Oh, Boss Su, look at my brain. I can't get my head around the word 'internal strength'. What were we talking about just now? Scripts?"
"Yes. I've picked a novel. At least 100,000 people are reading it now. It's quite popular. Isn't it popular to adapt novels in recent years? Why not give it a try?"
The performance of a novel can reflect the quality of the work to a certain extent. Zhou Yulong has also learned about this.
Compared with unpublished scripts, this is to have performance first and then shoot. Even if the final product is not good, there are fans to pay for it. To put it bluntly, the risk is small and the return is high.
Zhou Yulong pondered for a moment and said, "It is indeed feasible to adapt the novel IP into a film and television, but we need to find a screenwriter. Some plots can be written in novels, but they are not allowed to be shown on the screen. By the way, does Boss Su have any requirements this time?"
"Requirements, of course there are."
Here it comes.
"I would like to hear... details."
Once upon a time, Zhou Yulong felt that all the investors' meddling was a pile of shit.
But after meeting Su Wei, this concept was changed.
It smells so good!
"The title of that book is "The Eternal Flourish of Martial Arts in the Worlds of All Heavens". It's about a modern man who gains the ability to travel to the world of martial arts, and then stirs up trouble in various classic martial arts worlds. Because it involves many classic martial arts works, I plan to buy all the adaptation rights of these martial arts."
Such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Return of the Condor Heroes", "Tian Long", etc., have been filmed long ago, and there are even more than one version.
But Su Wei doesn't care, or rather, Su Wei wants this popularity.
"When the time comes, we can refer to those popular film and television works for the scenes in the world of all heavens. The roles will also be played by those former actors - if they are still alive. Try to respect the original work as much as possible. Of course, the most important thing is that the effects of the skills involved in this book are not allowed to be changed at will. Don't be like a certain work, changing the fighting spirit into wings to fighting spirit into horses, which makes people laugh."
The world of all heavens? All the actors are those who were popular in the past?
Zhou Yulong's eyes gradually brightened.
In this way, the topic brought by the sentiment can even attract those who are reluctant to watch the movie to the cinema.
Of course, the premise is that the reputation of the movie cannot collapse.
Zhou Yulong pondered for a while and felt that with his directing ability, he would definitely not make the movie too bad.
However, a good cook cannot cook without rice. The quality of the movie must be related to the capital investment to a certain extent.
"It sounds good, but there are still many actors who are still active in the front line and get high pay. The cost is too high, and even if it is released, it may not make money. Moreover, the IP of online literature is generally adapted into a TV series, which has to connect multiple martial arts worlds. It is difficult for a movie to contain so much content."
TV series? The quality standard is much worse than that of movies.
Su Wei pondered for a moment and had an idea in his mind.
"Let's put it this way, Director Zhou. I will definitely buy other scripts after this one. Otherwise, you can just shoot my scripts in the future. Let's not talk about TV series. Every episode will be shot according to the standards of movies. To use the words on the Internet, we will strive to make every frame a wallpaper. You don't have to worry about the funding issue at all. You can spend as much as you want, one billion or one hundred billion. I may not have any other advantages, but I have a lot of money."
Shooting TV series according to the standards of filming movies? Every frame can be used as wallpaper?
Even if you have money, you don't spend it like this. What's the point?
What's the point? Zhou Yulong probably had a guess in his mind.
"Is this... to promote traditional martial arts?"
"Well, it's not a good thing to keep the things of our ancestors hidden like this. We have to dig them out and expose them to the sun."