Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 225 January is Coming

In December, the temperature dropped across the country.

Whether it is Shanghai or Tokyo, the two areas where Su Yan often travels back and forth, it started snowing.

But at this time, the crew of the movie "Your Name" and the TV series "I Want to Tell You" have basically been formed.

The original male protagonist of Your Name, Taki Tachibana, has a weaker personality, and his appearance gives people the impression of being delicate, but not handsome.

What's even more difficult is that his acting skills must be good enough to portray the temperament of a girl after being possessed. In addition, Su Yan has high hopes for this film, so he directly approved a production budget of more than 300 million yuan within the company.

The choice of the male lead for this movie is naturally the top priority.

It took more than half a month for the crew to finally decide on the actor who would play him.

Qi Hao, 23 years old, is a first-line movie star in Xia country.

He looks young and has good acting skills. He debuted as a child star and has been working in the film and television industry for thirteen years. Although he is young, he is an "old veteran" in the film and television industry.

And I really want to tell you that setting up a crew is much simpler.

After Su Yan, who plays the male lead Kazehaya Shota, and Gu Qingyuan, who plays the female lead Kuronuma Shoko, were confirmed, among the other supporting actors, only the role of the second female lead Hu Tao required a little more effort.

After all, there are not many actors who can switch between the temperaments of green tea and pure goddess.

However, given the current influence of Dimension Film and Television Company, 99% of the actors in Xia Country would not refuse Su Yan's invitation.

So it only took a little effort to invite a first-line actress to participate.

After all, even if it's just a female second role
That would be much more effective than boosting the popularity of the heroines in the self-produced dramas of the three major TV stations.

The current account funds of Dimension Film and Television Company exceed 20 billion, and there are more than 300 employees of all kinds. While they are divided into two crews for filming, the people in the operation and publicity department are also negotiating the details of publicity cooperation with all parties according to the plan to promote FZ and Rurouni Kenshin.

Su Yan has started filming a new drama. It is difficult to hide this kind of thing from the media, and naturally, it is also difficult to hide it from Su Yan's fans.

In order not to snatch the publicity traffic from fz and Rurouni Kenshin movies, Su Yan has formed the crews for his two new works, but did not announce the news of the start of filming.

But in just two days, this news spread throughout the Xia country's TV drama industry.

"Your name? I really want to tell you? The titles of these two new plays of Lao Zei are really strange!"

"The title of the work tells me it's a romance work. Oh, two more depressing masterpieces are born!"

“I’m looking forward to the scene where people all over the country wail after the two works are released!”

"Is it possible that the two works are not depressing? I feel that the titles of the works are actually quite youthful!"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible! If you only look at the title, wouldn't Tokyo Love Story be better? But if there is no if-line ending, this drama is simply a great tragedy of life!"

"Anyway, according to gossip, it seems that Lao Zei is personally playing the male lead in the drama I Want to Tell You. After a long time, we can finally see Lao Zei and Gu Qingyuan working together as the male and female protagonists again!"

"The last time these two worked together as the male and female protagonists was in Edgewalker, right?"

"Isn't it Tokyo Love Story?"

"The heroine of Tokyo Love Story is Shen Liqian, right? Don't get it wrong. This time, although I think the possibility is very small, I still hope that the characters played by the two can have a good ending! The Rurouni Kenshin movie version has confirmed that Gu Qingyuan has almost no role, and it is estimated that there are only some memories interspersed in the plot. From the released materials, the real heroine is a girl named Kamiya Kaoru played by Shen Liqian. The regret that Kenshin did not complete in the TV series must have an end."

"dream!"

"Although I follow the old thief's works, I absolutely do not believe that he will do pure love one day!"

"As we all know, in the endings of Lao Zei's works, the hero and heroine either part forever, like Edgewalker and April. Or there is no hero, like Life is Strange and Puella Magi Madoka Magica, or... the hero and heroine break up, like Tokyo Love Story. Don't fantasize, as long as you watch these works with the expectation that Lao Zei's works are depressing dramas, then you won't feel the pain of being stabbed in the back by Lao Zei."

"Then let me ask you. If you watch it with the mindset of watching a depressing drama by an old thief, and eventually one day you discover that what the old thief created is pure love, then is this another form of backstabbing?"

"Then I will eat ten kilograms on the spot. I'm leaving my words here. You are welcome to save this post and come and dig up my grave next year! The two new works of the old thief will not make you depressed. Come find me when the time comes. I will broadcast live!"

"Although I'm annoyed by your arrogance, but when I think of you as an old thief, I feel that the chance of slapping you in the face is slim! Forget it, I'll save it first. If the prediction comes true, I'll come and supervise you eating!" In December, the vast majority of film and television drama fans in Xia Country were still not paying attention to the TV dramas that were aired this quarter.

fz’s materials and promotional video details have been interpreted in various ways by fans and are basically no longer fresh. When everyone is bored, they can only pay attention to the news about Su Yan’s new crew.

Although they are just two titles.

However, on major video websites, "Your Name" and "I Want to Tell You" remained in the top ten of the hot search list for three days, which is higher than the popularity of the A-level dramas this season.

In this situation, Su Yan's colleagues in Xia Country all felt despair.

As for the three major TV stations, the usually inactive Shanghai TV Station could no longer sit still.

Although they don't know what the script will be like or what the final film will be like, now that Su Yan's crew has started filming, the three major TV stations have begun to form a negotiation team to go to Tokyo to compete with Su Yan to discuss the terms of cooperation.

In the past, Su Yan asked them to broadcast his works, and the cost of broadcasting copyrights was also average.

But now, they are competing with each other. Everyone has informants within their own organization and knows what the other party is doing, but everyone also understands that who can win the broadcasting rights of "I Want to Tell You" still depends on how much funding budget the station has.

Involution is not just happening among employees.

The top executives of the three major TV stations have also begun to feel this a little bit.

Time passed, and soon it was late December.

The entire market became tense from this moment on.

Throughout Xia Country, fz's publicity efforts reached their peak, and whenever there was advertising time on Sakura TV, the first information that popped up was always the announcement of fz's broadcast time.

Su Yan, Zhuang Yuxin and other main crew members of fz also started to set off for Shanghai, and began to accept variety shows, interview programs, and various commercial activities arranged by Sakura TV. The news media in the TV drama section have been reporting news about Su Yan almost every day these days.

Especially at the promotional event at the end of the month, Su Yan appeared in a golden armor with a cold expression and holding a sword of disloyalty, and he topped the hot searches on major websites that day.

Until now, no one knows the setting of this drama with a strange name and starring a bunch of Western actors.

But no one doubts its excellence.

This is the reputation that Su Yan has established among his fans through his many works.

Soon, December is over
January is here.

There were no new TV series broadcast during the three-day New Year's Day holiday at the beginning of the month.

Starting from January 4th, the three major TV stations, as well as large, medium and small TV stations, have started broadcasting their own dramas one after another.

On Friday and Saturday of the first week of January, Zhongxia TV, Sakura TV and Hudu TV all broadcast their self-produced A- and B-level dramas on these two days.

Although the schedule is crowded, the top executives of the three major TV stations understand the situation.

During this period, everyone can compete with each other to get some ratings.

Wait until Fate Zero starts airing at 8pm on Sunday.

During the same period, or even in nearby periods, the ratings of major TV stations will be extremely bleak.

In addition to Sakura TV, there will be several TV series and variety shows in the same period!
And so, time came to Sunday, the day when Fate Zero was to be broadcast.

On this day, Su Yan's fans stopped pretending and started posting crazily during the day. On major video sites, hot search terms such as "fz starts airing" and "Su Yan's new drama" were directly at the top of the list.

The media also began to publish articles frantically to attract traffic during the day.

The entire TV drama industry in Xiaguo is waiting for the start of fz at 8 o'clock tonight.

(End of this chapter)