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Fance hesitated for a moment, and then asked Cheng Xinyuan: "Director Cheng, let me ask, which part of "Hunting Red" are you going to make? Do we have the copyright?"

"..." Faced with this question, Cheng Xinyuan fell silent, and his silence surprised everyone.

Weng Chi blinked his peach eyes and frowned in surprise, "Don't tell me you made such a fuss, but you still don't know the copyright of this book, do you?"

"Ah..." Cheng Xinyuan opened his mouth and blinked, the answer was obvious.

"Ah shit!" If Xiao Hanrui and Fan Si weren't still sitting here, Weng Chi would definitely start scolding Cheng Xinyuan for his account book.

"You are a director, don't you know that you need copyright to make a novel? Are you a fool?" Weng Chi glanced away and found that Yan Yu and the others were looking at him, so he swallowed the word "forced" abruptly.

"You don't think you can shoot whatever you want, do you? Do you know what film and television copyright is? If you don't have anything, you dare to find someone to write the script, and even write several editions. How dare you send the script to Su Ting... ..." Weng Chi suddenly felt a pain in his heart when he said this, he realized that he might be the one who was stupid, otherwise how could he be friends with Cheng Xinyuan.

"Is Su Ting the heroine?" Fan Si suddenly interjected and asked, "Did she agree? Or is it just an intentional inquiry."

"Basically agreed." Cheng Xinyuan said quickly.

"I agreed verbally," Weng Chi added with a glance at Cheng Xinyuan, "If it's settled, I'll try my best to save the film's schedule early next year, but the premise is that it will be finalized!"

Fance nodded. It's not a big problem to have this sentence. It can be said that Su Ting's sincerity is very sufficient.

The problem is obviously on Cheng Dao's side.

"Let's not talk about the copyright issue, you all sent her the script before, and now you say overthrow it and start over, is it okay?" Fan Si pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose again. He has been working in a large film and television production company since graduation. For work, the company has a set of standard procedures from the early planning and script creation, and everyone only needs to perform their duties.

But looking at Cheng Xinyuan's bewildered face, Fan Si realized that this would not work for this movie.

Weng Chi didn't seem to care much, he pointed at the table with his finger, and said: "Get the person over first, I think she can understand that the previous version has not been reviewed, and why she would Choosing us, I think besides the script, there must be other things that attract her, right, Xiao Fan?"

Weng Chi's words are already very clear, except for this novel and the adapted script of the novel, in fact, the most attractive part of this movie, which is still a castle in the sky, is Cheng Xinyuan.

After all, not everyone can win the awards he has won. After all, his external image is still very positive. He does not want to label himself a "banned film director". He is willing to reconcile with commercialization. It doesn't matter if a bad movie is made, enough attention is already enough to make a lot of actors flock to it.

Especially actors who need a chance.

For example, Su Ting, who is eager to transform.

In fact, not only actors, but also myself.

If he succeeds, he will be successful and famous, but if he fails, he is just two words on the big screen.

Anyway, it is better to have words than no words, at worst, go back to work as a screenwriter for the drama.

"The new script is to adapt the previous story, or choose a new story?"

"Xiao Fan's question is very good. If it wasn't for Xiao Fan, I thought Cheng Dao had already figured it out..." Weng Chi gritted his teeth and said, "I guess Cheng Dao doesn't even know who owns the film and television copyright?"

Which story to choose will involve which copyright owner to find. Although it is common that different copyrights of novels correspond to different copyright owners, there have also been cases where the same copyright of a novel was split and sold by the novel copyright owner, such as a series of stories. In a novel, the first few stories may be a copyright and the last few stories are a copyright.

"I think, anyway, let's go buy it directly, or see if we can cooperate with the copyright owner." Cheng Xinyuan said with a dry smile, "I think the adaptation made by Lao Wang is quite simple."

"Old Wang, someone asked him to take pictures! You want to take pictures yourself! Can it be the same?! You open your mouth and say you are working with the copyright owner, why do they want to work with you? See how beautiful you are?!" Weng Chi said angrily He wanted to kick Cheng Xinyuan under the table, but Cheng Xinyuan quickly dodged in response.

"That...how about asking where the copyright is first?" Yan Yu hurriedly refilled Weng Chi's cup of tea, and then refilled it for a circle of people. He watched Weng Chi's cold face and began to drink hot tea before carefully saying, "Before Didn't Xinyuan say that he had contacted the author, the author must know about his copyright situation, why not ask him directly, it's inconvenient if he doesn't know."

"It's convenient, it's convenient. He and I were chatting online a few days ago." Cheng Xinyuan took out his mobile phone and started looking through contact information, while Weng Chi sat aside and became angry again.

"If you have time to chat with him online, you don't have time to ask him about the copyright? You told him you wanted to make a movie and he agreed to you???"

"Is the film and television copyright still in the hands of the author?" Yan Yu asked.

"Impossible." Fan Si and Weng Chi said in unison.

"Although it hasn't been announced that it will become a film and television series, but given his popularity, some companies will definitely buy film and television copyrights from authors and novel platforms. Whether it's movies, TV series, or online dramas, they will definitely be sold." Fance said calmly, "I have been in contact with the author as a reader before. What do you think of the author? I feel a little naive. He likes to chat with people about the content of his works, and he doesn't care much about other things. He actually wrote this novel. It has been around for two or three years, and it has been lukewarm before, but it suddenly became popular this year."

"It's sold." Cheng Xinyuan looked at the phone screen and said, "He said that the film and television rights were sold to Emerald City."

"So it's the Emerald City..." Weng Chi rubbed his chin and said in a bit of embarrassment, "If it's this company, I'm afraid it will be a bit difficult."

The full name of Emerald City is Emerald City Culture Communication Co., Ltd. Although it is called "Cultural Communication" but they do not have the qualifications for film and television production, but the company holds the copyrights of a large number of novels. Sign some unknown works in batches, and then sell them for a price. Some of them are sold directly to earn a huge price difference, and some of them are sold in the form of cooperation to collect royalties.

It can be said that they are a copyright investment company, and the standard is not profitable. It is too early to talk to them about buying copyrights.

"How about this," Weng Chi thought for a while and suggested, "Cheng Xinyuan, first ask the author about the copyright details, such as how many years it has been signed, and whether there are any additional conditions. I will contact the boss of Emerald City, but speaking of it , Boss, it's actually more appropriate for Cheng Xinyuan to contact him..."

"Why?" Cheng Xinyuan asked in bewilderment.

Weng Chi took his mobile phone to Cheng Xinyuan and pointed it out to Cheng Xinyuan.On the screen of the mobile phone is the encyclopedia introduction of Emerald City, and the founder column says: Tang Yize.

"Here, your old friend is good."

"fart!"

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Xiao Hanrui: The tool man is a real hammer.

Yan language: real hammer +1