Chapter 337 'The Legend of the Condor Heroes' novel released
In the end, there were no major surprises in the Spring Festival movie market.
"Famous" earned more than 700 million at the box office in the first seven days, and then began to struggle to continue.
In the end, when it is released, it is estimated to be over one billion as predicted by many media.
Xu Ji and Sha Yetong did not pay attention to these during the Spring Festival.
Have a good vacation.
After all, I had been staying in the capital for nearly a month without any rest due to preparations for the Spring Festival Gala.
Tongji Entertainment’s annual vacation is on the 15th.
However, it is said that Youman has returned to Chengdu after the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.
Because the later stage of "The Legend of the Wither Heroes" has been completed.
So we need to prepare for the next broadcast.
Originally, the mountain studio was supposed to be on annual leave.
But because there was only the final part of "The Legend of the Heroes of the Sacrifice", I applied for Xu Ji to work overtime during the Chinese New Year.
Xu Ji hesitated but agreed.
Then I gave Shanyue Studio a long vacation after the new year.
There is nothing the employees are unwilling to do.
After all, you will get overtime pay if you work overtime during the Spring Festival, and there will be a long holiday after the new year.
This kind of treatment is basically unthinkable in some other companies.
Station g, at this time Chi Jiang also returned to the company after celebrating the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.
Logically speaking, he doesn't take holidays.
But there is really nothing to do if you stay in the company.
Tongji Entertainment's last drama "Parents' Love" has been completed for a long time.
During this period, Station G did not introduce any other new dramas.
At most, I bought the online copyright of "Infernal Affairs" after the release from Tongji Entertainment.
What Chi Jiang didn't expect was that when he came back, he received good news from Youman.
Tongji Entertainment's new drama has been produced and will be broadcast directly online after passing the review.
Of course, it is impossible for Chi Jiang to make no preparations. After watching this drama, he plans to start a tailor-made publicity plan for it.
As the first drama of G station this year, we must be fully prepared in all aspects.
But when he heard the name and theme of the play, Chi Jiang was stunned.
"Martial Arts?"
"Seriously?"
Chi Jiang never expected that Xu Ji Company's new drama would be a martial arts drama.
He was quite happy when he heard it was a big production.
I hope there will be a drama comparable to Sword and Fairy.
When I saw the word martial arts, my heart suddenly went cold.
It’s not because Chi Jiang is pessimistic, but because there is indeed no market for Chinese martial arts dramas.
Especially pure martial arts dramas have not appeared for a long time.
The death of martial arts is not just what netizens say.
Even if it is a drama produced by Xuji Company, Chi Jiang does not have high hopes.
"Mr. Chi, is Tongji Entertainment's new drama really about martial arts?"
The first meeting after the film and television department resumes work in the new year is to discuss the promotion of new dramas.
At this time, a team leader couldn't help but ask.
"Yeah."
"I have already confirmed with them."
After hearing Chi Jiang's words, some people actually still have some illusions.
"Will it be a martial arts drama with other elements?"
"For example, Xianxia?"
"Xu Ji is the founder of the fairy tale drama."
Chi Jiang still shook his head.
"I've asked about this too."
"It's a pure martial arts drama."
"No other elements."
After hearing Chi Jiang's words, the meeting fell into a rare silence.
"Mr. Chi, can we talk to Xu Ji and the others about not buying this drama?"
"Who doesn't know what the market for martial arts dramas is like now?"
“I’ve already lost money and no one dares to take pictures anymore.”
Someone couldn't help but say.
Chi Jiang answered without any hesitation: "No."
"No matter what, we still have to buy the copyright of this drama."
"Don't forget that we have a cooperative relationship with Tongji Entertainment and signed a contract."
"And when I hear a drama that might be popular, I buy it, and if it's not popular, I just don't want it. How can there be such cooperation?"
After Chi Jiang said these words, others no longer had any objections.
These people in the film and television department are basically brought up by Chi Jiang.
Basically no one will question his decision.
In fact, Chi Jiang was also a little helpless.
There are still some fans of martial arts dramas, but the number is getting smaller and smaller than before.
Such a number of people simply cannot support the popularity and traffic of a drama.
This is a reality that we have to face.
The only possibility now is that this martial arts drama from Tongji Entertainment can really change fate and change the current situation of the martial arts market being dead.
Chi Jiang still has some expectations for this.
After all, Xu Ji has created enough miracles.
"Okay, there's no need to discuss the drama any more."
"The following is mainly about the promotion of this drama."
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, after Xu Ji and Sha Yetong ate the glutinous rice balls made by Tang Xianshu and Chen Ya, they were ready to leave home and go back to work.
Now that most of Tongji Entertainment's dramas for another phase have been completed, it is estimated that intensive script writing will be required in the next period of time.
In addition, the planning of the variety show project that was previously planned to be produced has also been put on hold for a long time, and it is time to start shooting.
As for Sha Yetong, she originally had many invitations to perform at evening parties during the Spring Festival.
But because I went home with Xu Ji to celebrate the New Year, I was pushed away.
My schedule will probably be full after I go back this time.
Xu Ji and his wife had just arrived in Chengdu when they received a call from Youman.
After much talking, I got another day of rest.
Promise to go to the studio to find Youman the next day.
It’s similar to what Xu Ji thought.
It’s just about the script.
Pang Er's "Famous" is only released during the Spring Festival, so logically speaking, it should take some time off.
But the other party looked like a workaholic and came directly to Xu Ji to start asking for the script.
In addition, some other directors in the company are also restless.
Directors like Yang Anran, who have not yet completed the final stage of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", have asked Xu Ji to help write the script for the next one.
I want to shoot the second part directly and seamlessly after the first part is completed.
Xu Ji expressed his helplessness.
He doesn't know why his company is full of workaholics.
"Learned it from my boss."
Sha Yetong revealed the truth in one word.
In fact, Xu Ji is basically open all year round.
In addition to being a director and making movies, I am also very busy at other times.
""The Legend of the Heroes of Shooting and Decoration" has been reviewed."
"The original film resources have also been sent to the G station. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be broadcast online in March."
Although Xu Ji doesn't really care about this, Youman still has to report to him every once in a while.
Only then did Xu Ji remember that he had always felt that something was missing before.
Only then did I feel that, as such a classic martial arts masterpiece, in addition to the drama, the original novel should also be released.
Only in this way will it appear complete.
Just do it.
This is easier for Xu Ji.
After all, he had seen the original work, and it existed as clearly as a video in his memory.
All you need to do is type.
In comparison, it is much easier than writing a script.
Just as he was told, Xu Ji started writing the novel directly in Youman's office.
However, the entire novel is close to 1.1 million words, and even just typing on the keyboard will take a long time.
In a whole afternoon, Xu Ji typed out less than 100,000 words.
Later I discovered that this efficiency was too slow, so I simply switched to voice input the next day.
This kind of efficiency is indeed much faster. If nothing else happens, we should be able to finish the entire novel before the TV series is broadcast.
"Publisher?"
"What the hell?"
When Youman heard Xu Ji's words, he was a little confused.
"I recently wrote a novel."
Xu Ji told the truth.
Youman was a little helpless. She originally thought that Xu Ji was writing a new script, but she didn't expect that this guy suddenly went to write a novel on a whim?
But I still had no choice but to agree.
"Let me ask you."
Xu Ji then asked: "By the way, who is the most influential person in the country currently?"
Youman: "I've never heard of this before, but Fengyun is quite famous."
Xu Ji: “Can I contact them?”
Youman thought for a while: "It's no problem to contact them there."
"But do you want to publish the novel online?"
Xu Ji nodded.
The main reason is that the physical book industry is not very prosperous now.
The influence of novels published online is even greater.
Shanghai, Fengyun's company headquarters.
Everyone else is very busy, reviewing manuscripts and responding to the author's questions.
Screenwriter Feng Xia also looked very busy at this time.
But in fact, it’s just pretending.
As the editor of the martial arts channel, he doesn't have many drafts at all.
"I have read this manuscript almost three times"
"Why is it still so long before get off work?"
"I'll take a paid shit later to pass the time."
He was muttering to himself, but he didn't realize that the editor-in-chief was already standing behind him.
"Editor-in-Chief."
Feng Xia suddenly turned around, was startled, and shouted.
"Do you have time now?"
"Come here with me."
Feng Xia was stunned for a moment, and at the same time felt a little uneasy.
After all, his performance during this period was indeed somewhat poor.
But for cool screenwriters like Wuxia, it’s not just a day or two that ranks at the bottom.
Don’t talk to yourself all of a sudden.
You won’t fire yourself, right?
Although the salary in this job is a bit low, I still get a basic salary every month.
But the work is indeed quite relaxing, and Feng Xia definitely doesn’t want to change jobs.
"Editor-in-Chief, what do you want from me?"
In the office, Feng Xia asked nervously.
However, the criticism he expected did not come. Instead, the editor-in-chief suddenly asked:
"Do you know Xu Ji?"
This question made Feng Xia stunned for a moment.
"It's not the singer or the director, it's not right either."
"Is this the star Xu Ji?"
The editor-in-chief nodded.
"Tongji Entertainment suddenly contacted us, Fengyun."
"Said he wanted to cooperate with us."
Feng Xia was stunned for a moment.
I even wonder if the editor-in-chief made a mistake.
Why did Xu Ji suddenly come to cooperate with them?
Although Fengyun is indeed the most influential website in China.
But in fact, compared with super first-line stars like Xu Ji, there is no comparison at all.
Moreover, Xu Ji is also the boss of the company, and the scale of Tongji Entertainment’s company is not necessarily smaller than that of Fengyun.
"Editor-in-Chief, you mean that Xu Ji plans to publish novels on our website?"
"Or a martial arts novel?"
Feng Xia looked incredulous at this moment.
"Well, I actually don't understand why."
"That's just the situation."
"The copyright of the novel does not belong to us, it is only published on our platform."
"I have already agreed, and the contract has been signed and sent over."
"Promise to give Xu Ji's novel platform the best recommendation resource."
"Originally, I planned to give all the royalties to Xu Ji, but Xu Ji requested that the entire book be completely free of charge."
"There is no need to mention this."
"The main reason I asked you to come is to serve as the editor of Xu Ji's novels."
After hearing the editor-in-chief's words, Feng Xia asked strangely:
"Then Editor-in-Chief, why are we doing this?"
There is no copyright, and the novel is not free, and there is no subscription fee.
The result also directly gives the website the best promotional resources.
This is simply confusing.
But the editor-in-chief just looked at him blankly like he was an idiot.
Then he explained:
"How can we not plan for anything?"
"Don't you know how popular Xu Ji is now?"
"I just stole the show at this year's Spring Festival Gala."
"If the news spreads that Xu Ji is writing a novel here, it will definitely reach the top of the hot search list."
"Have you ever thought about how much traffic it will bring to our website?"
"It doesn't matter what kind of novel Xu Ji writes, it has no impact on us."
"As long as there are some names among the authors of our website, it is enough."
In fact, the editor-in-chief didn't say that he didn't think Xu Ji could write anything.
Moreover, it is still a martial arts novel, even if it is a paid model, although the results are higher than ordinary novels due to its reputation.
But that’s all.
After all, Xu Ji writes martial arts novels, and he, the editor-in-chief, knows best how cool these things are.
As for the copyright issue, he never thought about it.
Think about it and know that it is impossible to give Xu Ji.
After all, the other party’s own company has enough film and television capabilities.
All in all, this time is actually a complete pie-in-the-sky thing for Fengyun.
It is equivalent to getting a large wave of free publicity traffic directly from Xu Ji.
The next day, Fengyun directly put Xu Ji's name on the homepage of his website.
Even the official Weibo account posted multiple promotional content.
"Xu Ji, a well-known singer, songwriter, director, and screenwriter, will soon release his first novel on Fengyun, so stay tuned!"
As predicted by the website, not long after the news was revealed, it was directly on the hot search on Weibo.
This news is really eye-catching.
Everyone knows Xu Ji’s name, but it is the first time that it is suddenly associated with writing novels.
"What's going on? Is this true or false? Has Xu Ji started writing a novel?"
"I was also confused. I thought I had seen it wrong, but I didn't expect it was really Xu Ji."
"It should be true. Fengyundu directly promoted it on the homepage, saying it will be released tomorrow, or is it a martial arts-themed novel?"