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"Squidward Gaming 2" is scheduled to be released on October 10st, Halloween in the West.

As early as a month ago, a certain website spent a sky-high price of 300 million per episode to purchase the first round of broadcasting qualifications, which caused a sensation across the country. There is no doubt that this is the most watched film this year, or even the most watched TV series in recent years.

Zhu Longyi, the lead actor in the first season, continued to play the male lead, and many big-name stars were added to the second season; the variety show derived from the TV series also received extremely high attention and had a gratifying viewership rating; costumes and props related to the TV series also flooded major toy markets in China and small stationery stores around schools.

But an accidental incident changed everything.

The incident happened in a small county in the south. An elementary school student bought a villain mask from the Squid game from a stationery store near the school. He then called a large group of friends to beat and kick one of them, forced him to play the candy game, and made the bullied friend eat the dirty candy that fell on the ground. Later, the parents of the child involved found out about this and came to the school to seek an explanation.

Children like to imitate, it is an instinct. In Xia Haoyang's era, children would also imitate the plots of war movies or police and gangster movies. All the children would be divided into two groups and then both sides would play war games or police and gangster chases.

When the "Young and Dangerous" series of movies were popular in Hong Kong in the 90s, they also caused a stir in mainland China. At that time, many people believed that they would lead students to learn bad things, which eventually led to the movies being banned in mainland China.

This incident of primary school students fighting in a small southern county was amplified by the media and eventually attracted the attention of the central official media. Then an article titled "Children in lower grades imitate violent and bloody "games" on TV shows, thus breeding school violence" was published. Suddenly, the media became one-sided, especially many self-media people began to criticize "Squid Game" for being too violent and bloody.

Some media even called for schools to add courses on violence and online harm, and to educate young students about the dangers of watching shows that are not suitable for their age.

If such an appeal is reasonable and justified, more media people are calling for a ban on the TV series "Squid Game" and prohibiting its release. After all, banning a TV series is the simplest, cheapest and most effective way.

Friendship Brothers Pictures produced "Squid Game", which led to widespread criticism from media outlets across the Internet, and its stock price continued to fall.

At the beginning, Xia Haoyang's studio was also implicated, and many people scolded Xia Haoyang on the Internet for writing such a script, saying that it was purely to promote violence and wrong heroism!

As a result, the studio published a notice in a dignified manner: It is the screenwriter's business to write the script, but the filming of movies and TV series is the behavior of directors and producers. If the director and producer feel that the script is too dark or the content is too bloody, they can choose a euphemistic shooting method and not reflect it in the film. Moreover, if the official State Administration of Radio, Film and Television feels that there are problems with the film's pictures or plot, they can request a reshoot or even not let the film be released!

Now that it has been released, it means that the film has been approved by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, so what does this have to do with the screenwriter?

When Xia Haoyang had no idea about this, the company directly passed the buck. You know what, although everyone thought Xia Haoyang should have some connection, no one was angry about his passing the buck, at least from a legal point of view, it was completely reasonable. So after a few days of fluctuations, the stock of Fat Cat Studio continued to rise.

In Xia Haoyang's office, a large group of people were sitting inside, listening to Xia Haoyang answering a call from Mr. Wang, president of Friendship Brothers Film and Television.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Wang, I didn't know the company would issue such an announcement. I have been resting at home these days and have not paid attention to online news. I really don't know about this." Xia Haoyang tried his best to explain.

"The style of the entire script is somewhat gloomy and dark, I admit this, but I mentioned this to Director Zhang when he was filming, and I also told you frankly when you came to buy the script that if we really follow the script, there will be some violence and blood, and I am worried that it will not pass the review."

"As for inducing children to breed school violence, you think too highly of me. To use a comment made by Mr. Lu Xun after reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Zhuge Liang's wisdom is close to that of a demon! If I could even think of such a thing, then I would be a demon too."

"I sold the script to you at the beginning purely because you and Mr. Wang came to my company to ask for the script, and that's why I thought of this story. Yes, I can also choose not to take out such a good script, but ask yourself, Mr. Wang, how is the movie script I gave you recently? I can tell you frankly that the scripts I gave to the five film and television companies were all of similar quality, and Director Zhang picked them completely randomly at the time."

"Yes, yes, there are not so many conspiracies. Besides, we have always cooperated happily. There is no conflict between you and me. Why would I deliberately harm you?"

"I don't know how to solve this problem, but if the public reaction is too serious, the film can't be released at most. In fact, we can find some self-media to call for a film and TV rating system. Squidward is definitely a good film for adults. You say that children following the trend will lead to school violence, but why can't you just set up a rating system and not let children watch it? Why can't adults watch it too?"

"Yes, you should spend some money first, find some internet trolls, especially those big self-media celebrities with a lot of fans, and ask them to call for a film rating system. Then you'd better keep a low profile, and even announce that the TV series will be postponed."

"Okay, that's it. Let's keep in touch if there's anything."

Xia Haoyang took a deep breath and hung up the phone.

"Fatty, you're awesome. I admire you. At the beginning, you said that if the company didn't shoot this script, it would cause trouble, and it would be most cost-effective to sell it. That was really wise. Now the stock of Friendship Brothers Film and Television has been falling like crazy, but our company has not only not fallen, but has skyrocketed against the trend. You are really a monster!" Juzi patted Xia Haoyang's shoulder hard.

After listening to the phone call between Mr. Wang and Xia Haoyang, Zhao Yishen, Lao Xie and others were amazed that the fat man had foreseen the current outcome.

It’s not that Xia Haoyang is a monster, but this incident has also happened in another time and space.

In the original Chinese mainland, "Squid Game" was a banned work and would not be introduced and broadcast by TV stations. Even in countries around the world that have a film rating system, it is not recommended for minors who are too young to watch it.

Basically speaking, "Squid Game" is a 14+-rated TV series worldwide.