Depressive screenwriter.

Chapter 345 New Year

It has experienced the Spring Festival period many times.

In the new year, Su Yan will basically not have much emotional fluctuations about the release of his movies.

After he took out the scripts of Naruto and One Piece, hundreds of people in charge of film and television creation in the entire Dimension Film and Television Company felt from top to bottom how much Su Yan valued these two TV series.

In terms of TV drama investment, the pre-sale of a single episode is lower than that of Code Geass.

After all, the special effects production of One Piece and Naruto is definitely easier than Code Geass, which has more war scenes.

And Su Yan was very clear that the two works were TV series, not movies.

No matter how popular the One Piece Naruto animation was in the previous life, it was not produced to the quality of a theatrical movie.

Su Yan would definitely not produce them in Xia Country to the standard of top movies. This involves a consideration of return on investment. Moreover, considering the length of the two works, if they are too meticulous, the special effects production team will definitely collapse during the serialization period.

But at least the visual experience after being made into a TV series has to be good, and it must not look out of place or awkward to the audience, and the fighting scenes must also be smooth.

Of course, this is from Su Yan's perspective. For practitioners in the TV drama industry in Xia Country, Su Yan's investment in a single episode of the two TV dramas Naruto and One Piece is already the ceiling of the industry.

Besides, the example of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion is there. If he could join the crew of Su Yan's two TV series, there might be a slight chance for him to become a global star.

In fact, it is difficult to judge how popular these two works will be after they are broadcast, but in the casting stage, Naruto and One Piece directly shocked the practitioners in Xiaguo.

As a screenwriter, Su Yan, together with the director and producer, held a casting meeting in Tokyo which lasted for more than twenty days.

And more than a thousand actors were invited to audition from all over the world.

And the auditioners are basically children around 11 or 12 years old and some teenagers around 14 or 15 years old.

Naruto is okay. In the original work, the story of Naruto when he was twelve years old only has more than a hundred chapters. If it is made into a TV series, it will be filmed in seven quarters and then broadcast in three to four years.

It wouldn't be a particularly outrageous change if a boy of 11 or 12 years old jumped to 14 or 15, and the subsequent Shippuden could also be filmed naturally.

It's different with One Piece. The arc from the beginning to the Marineford War is too long. If it is really made into a TV series, we have to consider the issue of the actors' aging during the filming process, from boys to teenagers, and even the changes in their image after middle age.

However, Su Yan had no way to deal with this situation. If the makeup technology could not solve the problem, he could only replace the actors later.

But casting at the beginning is definitely the top priority.

Su Yan was not confident in handing the work over to others, so he did the whole process himself.

With Dimension Film and Television's cash reserves of over 10 billion, Su Yan basically doesn't have to worry about funding issues no matter what he wants to do in the film and television industry.

The film and television industry is not like those heavy industrial industries, where building factories and production workshops requires hundreds of millions of dollars.

In this industry, hundreds of millions is a huge sum of money for a project, and there is no need for any expensive equipment, not to mention the staff salaries.

Both One Piece and Naruto use new young actors, so the pay will naturally not be high, and Su Yan will set a good contract at the beginning, so there will be no child labor exploitation contracts, but there will definitely be a good division in terms of character image and copyright, and the cost in this regard is not high.

Therefore, more than 80% of the investment in the two works will be spent on production and special effects.

These things happened one after another for a month.

A film and television project can be launched very quickly if you invest and take risks yourself without the interference of other investors.

After the actors are confirmed, the next step is to form a production crew, and mobilize machinery and equipment as well as partner companies.

However, with sufficient financial support, everything happened faster than the market imagined.

In April, the crew lineups for the two works were basically finalized, and dozens of special effects companies of all sizes also signed contracts with Dimension Films.

At this time, spring arrives and cherry blossoms are in full bloom.

Su Yan and Shinozaki Yumi finally had time to take some time off from their busy work. In April, the UBW episode of FSN, which had been prepared for a year, began to air.

After a year, Altria, played by Zhuang Yuxin, has once again become a top star in the global TV drama circle.

Although the heroine of the UBW chapter is Toosaka Rin, Altria still became the focus of all FSN viewers.

The premiere of this work had a viewership rating of 6.82%, which was a significant increase based on the previous work, the FSN Saber line.

It was launched simultaneously in seven overseas countries, and ranked first in the ratings in five of them.

But now, for both Su Yan and Shinozaki Yumi, they can actually look at such results rationally and become accustomed to it.

After all, having been in the number one position for so many years, I have become accustomed to being number one, accustomed to breaking records, and accustomed to being far ahead.

Ratings and ranking are no longer Su Yan's main concerns. What he cares about is the breadth of these works' dissemination around the world.

At the same time, as FSN UBW was being aired, pre-promotions for Gundam SEED, which will be aired in July, and Suzuya's Journey, which will be shown in theaters, also began.

It is true that the Fate series IP needs to be developed, but Su Yan actually pays more attention to the Gundam IP. After developing the Gundam and Fate series IPs in the past two years, he will promote the Naruto and One Piece IPs to the world in the next three to five years.

Of course, in addition to these long-form IP masterpieces, Su Yan will also consider other works with lower commercial value.

Su Yan also plans to include works that are suitable for adaptation, such as Slam Dunk and Demon Slayer, in his future plans.

However, Ruth took things one step at a time, and many of the works he was interested in could only be temporarily put on the schedule.

Soon, it was May.

Tokyo, on the top floor of the Dimension Film and Television Company branch, Su Yan’s chairman’s office.

After signing the last document of the day, he let out a long sigh.

Shinozaki Ikumi, who was responsible for signing the documents with Su Yan, also lay down on the table without caring about her image, with her hair scattered all over the table.

"it is finally over."

The end of Shinozaki Ikumi does not refer to the end of today's work, but the end of the initial preparatory work for Su Yan's series of works.

"Tomorrow, I can finally sleep in. Which shareholder of a large film and television company in the world would be like me, scheduling a schedule from 5 am to 11 pm for three consecutive months. I don't get enough sleep at all. I can only make up for it by relying on the driver to drive and sleeping on the plane! If this continues, I feel like I will age prematurely."

"Aren't I the same? And you have to believe in your potential. How could a few months of high-intensity work affect your appearance? You were twenty years old when I met you, but now I see that you are younger than an eighteen-year-old girl." Su Yan said with a smile.

"You're such a smooth talker." Shinozaki Yumei gave Su Yan a glare, but the smile that appeared on the corner of her mouth afterwards showed that she was very pleased with Su Yan's compliment.

"However, after this operation, our company's work for the next two to three years has been basically determined."

The launch of two Gundam series, the start of filming and release of the fourth and fifth Rurouni Kenshin movies, the operation of the Fate series, the filming of TV series of Naruto and One Piece, as well as the development of games and peripheral derivative products for the above works.

It is hard for Shinozaki Yumi to imagine that the core stories of these works were all created by Su Yan alone, but the fact is that Su Yan can produce the scripts on time. Adding these works together, the scripts he has to write every week have a text volume of tens of thousands of words.
This is a terrifying number, equivalent to the workload of many screenwriters in a year.

And if other screenwriters could really produce this kind of work, the quality would definitely be touching.

Su Yan is different. Anyone in the industry who gets his script will know the quality of Su Yan's script, except for some scene arrangements and some plot details that need to be changed as filming starts, depending on the shooting location and season. As far as the main plot line is concerned, there is no need to doubt the quality of Su Yan's script.

Moreover, while completing these tasks, Su Yan is also responsible for many other affairs of the company. He is simply not a human being.

However, what Shinozaki Ikumi didn't know was that in Su Yan's previous life, there were some groups that could write 20,000 words a day in literary creation. They wrote and updated at the same time. Su Yan had a ready-made plot, and he just copied it in his mind. For Su Yan, who was now proficient, writing a script of 10,000 or 20,000 words a day was just a little over three hours of work. He could almost finish the script he had to hand in every week in three days.

Even if Su Yan wanted to, he could add a few more works to the number, but there is really no need to do so now. Su Yan understands the principle of biting off more than you can chew. If too many works are produced at the same time, the end result will be that people will fight against each other, competing with each other and affecting each other's market.

(End of this chapter)