Chapter 447 Uneasy thoughts (make up for yesterday)
Two days later in the morning.
Sitting on the plane flying back to City M, Sun Quan looked out the window at the winding mountains and rivers on the ground, with a faint smile in his eyes.
I felt quite emotional.
This time he came to attend the Qidian annual meeting, and he did meet some emerging authors as he wished, including many future great authors.
This was what he expected.
But he also encountered a few things that were not what he expected.
For example, companies like Jiuzhou Entertainment want to buy his film and television adaptation rights for "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon". For example, during this annual meeting, many authors expressed their favor to him either explicitly or covertly.
The purpose of these people was very clear to Sun Quan.
It's just that he wants to sell the film and television adaptation rights or game adaptation rights of his works to someone else's studio.
His Salted Fish Studio must have spread among the author circle. It is estimated that many people have heard of his studio, and he can easily spend three to five million to buy the game adaptation rights or film and television adaptation rights of an online book.
Three to five million...
For most writers these days, it is not a small number. Some authors who participated in the Qidian Annual Conference may not have earned so much royalties from their writing.
One can imagine how attractive such rumors are to these authors.
In the past few days, wherever Sun Quan went, other authors almost always greeted him with smiles when they saw him.
Everyone seemed to see the God of Wealth.
The only ones who remained unmoved were a few top gods.
For example, San Shao, such as Red Blood, etc.
These top masters have made a lot of money in the past few years. For example, Hong Xue made an annual income of one million in 2006. In the past two years, San Shao has become the face of Qidian, and his income is even higher.
As far as Sun Quan knows, San Shao has established his own company, and the various adaptation rights of his works are operated by his own company. Naturally, he has no interest in selling them casually.
Except for a few top masters, the other authors participating in the annual meeting this time already knew Sun Quan, and they looked for opportunities to deepen their relationship with him in the past few days. Those who did not know each other originally also looked for opportunities to get to know him in the past few days.
Including several female authors from the girls channel.
One of the female authors...probably had a strong desire to sell the copyright! She didn't find a good opportunity, but she actually wanted to create one.
Just last night, she secretly sent a private message to Sun Quan and asked him to go to the bar for a drink.
It was already past 10pm.
When he saw the private message she sent, a sentence flashed through Sun Quan's mind - the drunkard's intention is not to drink.
A man and a woman alone go to a bar for a drink in the middle of the night, and they are two people who are not familiar with each other. Is that really a drinking party?
Not to mention, the female author was pretty pretty, with fair skin and a decent figure. Sun Quan didn't refuse or accept. He just pretended that he hadn't seen the private message and deleted it and her.
At that time, he was playing Landlord with Shen Ji and others and was having a great time. Who had time to go drinking with her?
His wife is so beautiful and has already satisfied all his fantasies about women. How could he go on a date? Make a date and then spend hundreds of thousands to buy the right to adapt her work?
The price of this appointment is too high.
At this annual meeting, his harvest was pretty good.
As for the film and television adaptation rights, he obtained the rights to "Concubinage", as for the game adaptation rights, he obtained the film and television adaptation rights of Shenji's "The Way of Buddhism", and also booked the film and television adaptation rights of an urban novel with Liu Hui.
He admired Liu Hui's writing style, but his current work was too arrogant. He wanted Liu Hui to write a book that was a little more restrained and had a smaller format. He thought that if the format was smaller, the investment would be less.
It will be great. I can try to make a web series in the future.
Liu Hui agreed.
Liu Hui is currently very popular in Qidian City, but he has never tried selling film and television adaptation rights, so he agreed to Sun Quan's pre-ordered subject without much hesitation.
Liu Hui didn't think it was difficult for Sun Quan's requests to make him write more passionately and in a larger format. He might not be able to do it, but if he wrote in a smaller way, he still had confidence.
Sun Quan was looking forward to this.
He has always felt that for male videos, urban literature is more suitable for adaptation into film and television dramas than fantasy and fairy tales.
Firstly, the investment is not large, secondly, it does not require a lot of special effects like fantasy and fairy tales, and thirdly... the writing style and character dialogue of urban writing are also more down-to-earth and humorous, which are difficult for fantasy and fairy tales to do.
Arrived.
The only bad thing is: Qidian’s urban novels also like to play with upgrades. The protagonist’s career grows bigger and bigger as time goes by, and women tend to get involved in groups at every turn.
There are also some urban writers who like to create some novel cheats.
And these are all areas that are not suitable for adaptation into film and television dramas.
So although he likes Liu Hui's writing style, he doesn't want to sign the few books currently under Liu Hui's name. Instead, he makes custom orders with him. This is an attempt, and he hopes to succeed.
If it works, it will be a stable way to make money in the future.
Because the starting point is here, there are quite a few authors who are good at writing urban literature. The most important thing is which of these people’s writing styles are suitable for film and television adaptations, and which ones’ writing styles are not suitable? Everyone is like a mirror.
This is unmatched by ordinary entertainment companies.
In terms of understanding the writing styles of Qidian’s great masters and well-known authors, who among those people from entertainment companies can compare with Sun?
only……
Thinking of this, looking at Sun Quan outside the plane window, his brows wrinkled slightly.
He was a little hesitant, should he invest in or buy a film and television production company?
Even a smaller one is fine. In the early stage, as long as you can produce online dramas, it will be fine.
He feels that many of Qidian's works may not be suitable if adapted into movies or TV series, but adapting them into web series is quite feasible.
For example, the once extremely popular "Remaining Sin" is a web drama.
There are also "Soul Ferry" and so on.
At present, web dramas have not become popular yet, but in Sun Quan's memory before his rebirth, web dramas will become more and more popular in the next one or two years.
If he starts preparing now and enters the show before online dramas become popular, he may be able to gain an early advantage.
The first person to eat crabs will always benefit a lot as long as he doesn't die.
At least I can eat a lot more juicy big crabs than others.
After all, writing online articles is not a long-term solution. To this day, Sun still thinks that writing novels is a dead end.
Let’s not talk about it in detail, let’s just say that in the two years before his rebirth, the once unparalleled top gods such as San Shao and Shen Ji were not as popular as each new book. At that time, they were only in their thirties.
Years old is the time when one is in the prime of life. People of this age in other industries are at the peak of their careers, but those who can write online articles... are already on the decline.
Sun Quan doesn't think he can stay popular forever.
Before his rebirth, he was an old fool. After his rebirth, he was able to write three successful books in a row, which was far beyond his expectations.
He didn't even know when he would turn into a dog again.
Therefore, he is always thinking and worrying.
The company he founded at 99 Braised Chicken was his insurance policy. It was his last resort, but it didn't mean he liked catering.
If he really liked it that much, he would not have plunged into the Internet literary circle after graduating from college with a culinary major and never come out.
In the film and television industry, or the small area of online dramas, he felt that although he did not have the technical advantage in shooting, he had the content advantage in the online writing area, so maybe he could give it a try.
There are examples of other people's success.
For example, there are not very successful examples - "Little Times" by Guo Si, and more and more successful examples - "Riding the Wind and Waves" and "Flying Life" by Han Er.
And Enchantress, who turned into a screenwriter, wrote "Wolf Warrior 2" and so on.
Sun, who has read some Korean entertainment novels, even remembers that in Korean entertainment, the rights of screenwriters of TV series seem to be higher than that of directors. The screenwriter directs the direction of the director's filming, and the quality of Korean dramas shot in this mode seems to be
It's pretty good, at least it's much better than those bad domestic dramas.
Mr. Sun has many ideas.
But as I think about it, I can't help but smile bitterly.
Because he is short of money.
He had heard about how expensive film and television companies are. It costs money to open a company, it costs money to recruit talents, and it costs money to invest in filming a TV series. There are even more things that need to be spent.
And he... doesn't have hundreds of millions in property to inherit.
He started from scratch and only made money by typing with his hands. Although his reputation and income are considered to be top-notch in the online writing industry, he seems to be far away from cross-border investment in film and television companies.
Moreover, it seems that the film and television industry is not something you can get around just by having money.
Connections and background are indispensable.
Otherwise, just the approval procedures for a project may be stuck for several months, or even longer.
He once again felt the helplessness of reality.
There are many ideas and many things that I want to do, but I lack all the conditions and it is difficult to even take the first step.
An idea flashed through his mind.
——Maybe I should find a group of partners!
If you are short of connections, find a partner who is not lacking in connections.
If you don’t have a good background, find a partner who doesn’t.
If you are short of funds, find a partner who is not short of funds.
…
Is it true that when you are reborn, you have to try something you have never played before? Regardless of success or failure, at least it can enrich the experience of someone like me.
It will also be helpful for future writing!
When he thought about it, his mind suddenly came to life.
He suddenly knew what direction he should work towards if he wanted to set up a film and television company. He didn't have to worry about the funding for now. He would wait until the adaptation rights in his hands were gradually realized. If he only filmed online dramas in the early stage, the financial pressure should not be too great.
big.
The key now is to find a partner with connections and background, and then to find a director who is not currently well-known but has sufficient ability.
Isn't there an old saying: A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find.
The director, in Sun Quan's view, is the "general".
Once he has found this general, he can hope to make the web series he wants to produce well, and only then can the content he wants to film have a chance to be perfectly presented.
No one knew that he attended a Qidian annual meeting and thought so much about web dramas on the return flight...