fantasy blockbuster era

Chapter 3 Filming of The Romance of the Dragon and Snake

The two slept together that night, and the next day Wang Fei called his parents and told them what he wanted to do with Zhang Yang. He was quite nervous and prepared to be scolded, but his parents were very reasonable and agreed. .

Now the two hit it off and cooperated with each other.

Zhang Yang looked for a screenwriter, and Wang Fei went to recruit.

What does a good show need?
Zhang Yang thinks there are mainly four things.

First is money!

Second is the script!
Actor again!
And finally the special effects!

These four things are indispensable, and without any of them, it is impossible to make a good-looking drama. Now that he has 5000 million funds from the system, the next step is the script.

To be honest, there are too many good IPs in the previous life, and there are so many popular novels on the website, you can find a huge reader base if you just find one, and if the filming is not outrageous, there will be people who will read it.

But filming a drama is different from a novel, and the scripts required for filming a drama are completely different things.

No matter how good a novel is, through the hands of some screenwriters, what is changed is a completely different DOG SHI except for the same name!

So Zhang Yang decided to recruit a few screenwriters first. It doesn't require you to be very good, as long as you are obedient, know how to write scripts, don't change blindly, respect originality, and listen to what he says.

Zhang Yang's school is considered to be a well-known film academy in Longguo. Thousands of people graduate every year, while there are hundreds of similar academies in Longguo. Every graduation season, there are hundreds of thousands of students, many of which are 10. What I do after graduation is not a job related to my major at all, and I don’t know how many talents are buried in it.

These schools have countless alumni QQ groups, and everyone in them may be the talent he needs, which is cheap and affordable.

There are dozens of such QQ groups in Zhang Yang's mobile phone.

He picked up his phone, edited a message, and sent it directly to various QQ groups.

"The crew recruits editors, and the salary is favorable. Experience or no experience is acceptable. Works are even better. Obedience is required. The salary is 5000+. If you are interested, please contact me."

As soon as the message was sent, Zhang Yang's phone buzzed immediately!

Drop drop!
Dozens of inquiry messages were sent directly.

"Is there really no need for experience?"

"Newcomers also have 5000? Liar?"

"I am a recent graduate of XX school, this is my work"

"Hello, I am XXX, graduated from XX college, this is my work."

Normally speaking, in the screenwriting industry, many newcomers are able to enter this industry only through the guidance of seniors, or write a good script to start their careers. He directly recruits very few graduates in this way.

These newcomers have just debuted, most of the salary is 2-4K to write an episode of the script, and the bad ones are only the basic salary. He directly pays 5K, which is considered a very good salary!
Zhang Yang selected a dozen students with their own works and good grades in school, so they made an appointment for a video interview tomorrow and ignored it.

After this batch of interviews is over, he will make an appointment for another batch. There are too many newcomers who are studying screenwriting, and he may not be able to find them.

Next, he started looking for a good IP.

He is responsible for all the funds given by the system, and there is no need for any responsibility, so he directly rummaged through the system for novels he had read before and thought they were good.

""Sun God""

"eternal life."

"The Romance of the Dragon and Snake."

"Holy grave."

"Seek the devil."

"Your Majesty, please forgive me."

"Cover the sky."

"Dou Po."

"Evernight."

"Walk with a knife in the snow."

These works are all very famous novels on the Internet in the previous life, and have a lot of readers.

However, these works are very popular, and many copyrights have already been sold, especially animation copyrights, most of them have been sold.

But it doesn't matter, he has traveled through time, and he is planning to shoot a fantasy reality drama, which doesn't affect him at all.

After researching for a few days, Zhang Yang finally chose a novel "The Romance of the Dragon and Snake" written by the dreamer.

This book can be regarded as the pioneering work of the national art genre of online novels. It was very popular when it was released, and it became brighter and darker.

Although it is a national art style, it can also be regarded as fantasy.

The whole book is the author's second creation based on Chinese martial arts. From the early stage, it is quite normal, next to Chinese martial arts. In the middle stage, it is almost normal. It is upgraded on the basis of Chinese martial arts. In the later stage, it is completely abnormal, and the level of force is basically out of line. Chinese martial arts, falling into the fantasy level.

Every step uses some boxing slang words, which seem to be right and wrong. After a rough look, it seems very reasonable to think along the author's train of thought.

Moreover, this book is a pioneering work, the content is very interesting, the reader base is huge, the characters of the male and female protagonists are full, and the characters are many but not chaotic. When filming, it only needs to be slightly adapted, and the special effects can keep up. The joyful enmity and the imagery of various martial arts fighting in the book is a very good-looking drama!

Of course, the system is paying for it now, and Zhang Yang likes to read this book very much, he has the final say on what he wants to shoot!
When he decided to shoot "The Romance of the Dragon and Snake", the system actually realized the original of the novel.

Zhang Yang flipped through it, and it was exactly the same as in memory!
[That's it, just find a screenwriter and change it accordingly! 】

Touching the cover of the novel, Zhang Yang was very excited.

Early the next morning, he started video interviewing screenwriter applicants. After a whole day of interviews, he selected ten people to enter the final round.

He selected a short section of the novel "Romance of the Dragon and Snake" for these people, and each person adapted a part of the script based on this section and sent it to him for reading. After a week, he finally decided on the list of candidates!
The requirements are that no random changes should be made, the original work should be respected as much as possible, no random additions of characters are allowed, and everyone's language, movement, demeanor, etc. must conform to the original description.

In the end, one person will be selected, and will be given a basic salary plus a salary of 5000 yuan per episode of the script.

Of course, this is only the price of the first season. If the follow-up filming is good and the experience value brought by Dragon Snake is more, then continue to increase. Now that they are all newcomers, this salary is very good.

After all this was done, Zhang Yang and Wang Fei spent a few more days, taking advantage of the graduation season, when the recruitment activities of various colleges and universities were frequent, and recruited a group of crew members.

However, the crew is still short of a few experienced cameras and props. Although they have recruited a few newcomers to shoot, they are still almost meaningless. Wang Fei simply took Zhang Yang to his company and asked to borrow a few people. Now the whole crew will be fine. Everything is ready, only the actor is owed.

During the recruitment period, Zhang Yang uploaded the book "The Romance of the Dragon and Snake" on the Internet through the system.

Not long after the novel was uploaded, it attracted the love of many people.

Many readers not only fell in love with this novel, but were also frightened by the author's speed of changing 10 hands a day.

In the circle of online literature, because this book set off an upsurge in Chinese martial arts.

Many readers are discussing related content.

All kinds of large rewards continue to flow.

"The Romance of the Dragon and Snake" shines again!
The top work of martial arts in the last world has become popular in the Internet circle!

……

[Sure enough, no matter which world a good book is in, it will never be buried. 】

Looking at the comments of netizens, it is both publicity and pride.

……

After publishing the book, Zhang Yang finally chose a person named Li Xiaoqiang as the screenwriter.

"Li Xiaoqiang, 22 years old, graduated from Southwest Film and Television Academy, right?"

At ten o'clock in the morning, in the coffee shop, Zhang Yang looked at Li Xiaoqiang who was sitting across from him.

He is a little shorter than him, looks like 175, wears a pair of glasses, and has a student-like face, which looks like he has just graduated.

In fact, in the last round, Li Xiaoqiang has basically been selected. Among the ten people in the re-examination round, Li Xiaoqiang adapted a plot that was very well written. Now there are some things that need to be explained when entering the job.

"That's right, you fully meet my requirements. What you are filming this time is this novel. I will give you some time to revise a twelve-episode web drama script as soon as possible after you return. The salary will be 3K per month. , after the script is revised, I will buy it for you at 5K per episode, five insurances, one housing fund and so on. See if you have any other problems."

Zhang Yang handed him a thick copy of "The Romance of the Dragon and Snake".

"No problem."

Li Xiaoqiang turned a few pages and nodded.

Although he hadn't seen it, but with his ability, he felt that he was qualified for this position.

After graduating, he hasn't received a job related to screenwriting for a long time.

Now that he has an opportunity, he doesn't want to miss it.

"Director Zhang, I don't know what requirements you have for the script."

"About the script, first write the first season of 12 episodes. Then the first thing is to write as soon as possible. Everything is ready on the crew side. There are only a few minor problems left. The filming will start soon. Your side As soon as the script is finished, go to GD to register and start immediately, so you have to write quickly. The second is to respect the originality and try to write the style of the original work. The short paragraph you adapted before is very good. The third is not to save me money."

"Okay, Director Zhang."

After interviewing Li Xiaoqiang, Zhang Yang called Wang Fei again.

"Old Wang, is the company registration done?"

"Okay, don't worry, all the certificates have been obtained."

Wang Fei was arranged by him to do the registration of the company. After running around and spending some money, he finally got it done.

"Okay, let's go check out the office space this afternoon and rent a better office."

Throughout the afternoon, the two of them visited more than a dozen places with the agent, and finally selected the Huahai Building, No. 20, which has an entire ninth floor. The area is large enough, the terrain is high, and the facilities are good. Moreover, the Huahai Building itself is one of the city's landmarks. One, apart from being expensive, there are almost no disadvantages.

Zhang Yang directly signed a three-year contract, not short of money!

"Tsk tsk, Lao Zhang, you are really rich now. You made an investment of 5000 million yuan, and the investors don't care where you spend your money." Wang Fei was envious.

Although his family owns a film and television company, they are all small-scale online movies. They make one to get money back, and then make another one. They are all small productions. Where did they make such a big investment of 5000 million.

"Haha, be envious."

Zhang Yang raised his head and put his hands on his hips.

It's useless to be envious, the system father gave it to me!

"Get out." Wang Fei glanced at him, too lazy to answer.

The two have been busy for almost a month, recruiting people, setting up a crew, creating a company, writing a script, renting an office, buying office furniture, and registering a script project. Today, everything is finally ready, except for the actors.

In the company conference room, Zhang Yang was sitting at the top of the table, with dozens of people from all over the company staring at him.

"Everyone, Xuanyu Film and Television Company will be formally established today!"

(End of this chapter)