Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 259: Arclight's flaws

Seeing that Meng Baiwan declined the script invitation, Wang Baoqiang felt regretful but did not force her to invite him again.

As he said, it is indeed a bit difficult to ask a suspense creator to write the script for an action comedy.

We'll have to find another screenwriter.

However, although the creative cooperation failed, the investment cooperation can still continue.

The two agreed to discuss the specific investment shares after the project plan was finalized.

After discussing the serious matters, the next thing was to chat, and they started discussing "Detective Chinatown 2".

There is an easter egg at the end of the first part, where the two male protagonists "Tang Ren" and "Qin Feng" were invited to the United States.

This is actually equivalent to a preview, telling the audience in advance that the background of the second part will be in New York's Chinatown.

"I still think the second part should bring out the concept of 'global detective community'." Chen Sicheng looked at Meng Bai.

"Okay, but it's better not to have too many people appear." Meng Bai said: "I think if we put the setting of 'detective competition' in the third part, the rhythm of the movie will be better."

The two had actually discussed the content of the second movie several times before.

Chen Sicheng proposed a setting concept, that is, every country in the world should have a well-known local detective.

Each of these detectives has their own unique skills and strengths. At the invitation of the mysterious man, everyone is invited to join a community platform that focuses on case sharing and reasoning.

Meng Bai also supports this idea.

After adding this setting, the "Chinatown Detective" duo of Qin and Tang can more reasonably set various motivations for them to travel around the world.

However, the two also have differences. Chen Sicheng thinks that this setting should be used directly in the second part, while Meng Bai prefers that it should only be related in the second part and officially appear in the third part.

"Or there is another way, insert a web drama between one or two movies and take out the setting of 'Detective Community'."

Meng Bai said: "This way, the setting of appearing directly in the second part won't seem too abrupt."

"Then what is the web drama about? And if we want to shoot a web drama, Haoran is fine, but Baoqiang may not be suitable." Chen Sicheng frowned.

"It's okay. We can add a new character and set him as 'Tang Ren's apprentice' or something like that. He would ask his master for help when he has a case he can't solve, but Tang Ren is only half-baked, so Qin Feng is pushed out and the two of them can work together."

At this point, Meng Bai suddenly had an idea: "Or we can just use the new character as the male protagonist and let Qin Feng return to China to become a hidden remote support. This way, it will not break the combination of "Chinatown Detective", and it can also complete the classic setting of "Armchair Detective". After Qin Feng returns to China, we can see if we can link it with several other projects..."

Seeing his junior brother bursting with inspiration and becoming more and more excited, Chen Sicheng hurriedly said, "OK, anyway, the web drama is your home ground, you can make the decision, and tell me if you need any cooperation."

In fact, there is nothing that needs to be coordinated. Although the "Detective Chinatown" project belongs to the "Green Ivy Detective Universe", it is relatively independent because of its different form.

Meng Bai's idea is that the movie part will only use the big background setting and character relationships, and all the linkages will be put in the web drama part.

After the celebration banquet, Chen Zhixi went to discuss the subsequent streaming media copyrights, while Chen Sicheng accompanied Wang Baoqiang to discuss how to announce the news.

Meng Bai was not idle either. The weekend was a "new home party". He hired a housekeeping service to clean up the new house again these two days.

Then there were the company's matters. Liu Jun heard that he was back and wanted to find him for something.

"Awards ceremony?"

Meng Bai looked at the invitation in his hand. The cover read "The First Golden Bone Flower Network Film and Television Festival". "Is this a newly established award? I don't think I've heard of it before?"

“It is indeed a new award, and the organizers are Weibo and Guduo Media.”

Liu Jun introduced him that this "Golden Bone Network Film and Television Festival" is, as the name suggests, an award specifically for online audio-visual programs. Online dramas are a new film and television project, and among the traditional major TV drama awards, there are no awards for online dramas so far.

Even for unofficial awards such as the "National Drama Festival" and the "Hengdian Wenrong Award", online drama projects are mostly used as a foil.

But at the same time, the scale of the online drama market has been increasing year by year, and it has gradually been able to compete with TV dramas.

Faced with this situation, many people in the industry have begun to discuss whether a professional award for online dramas should be established.

Weibo itself has a "Weibo Night", but that is more like an entertainment industry party.

So they broke away from their own system and joined hands with Guduo Media, which specializes in online film and television data, to create this "Golden Guduo Online Film and Television Festival".

This year is the first session.

But having a platform alone is not enough. If you want to give out awards, you must have registered works.

Therefore, the organizers sent out "invitations to heroes" to all major film and television companies that have produced online dramas, as well as several video platforms, inviting everyone to participate.

"Have you been to other houses?"

"I asked privately, and everyone is quite supportive," said Liu Jun.

Yes, after all, the organizer is Weibo. As the largest media platform in China, we should give it some respect.

"Okay, then let's also register the works that meet the requirements and support them."

After saying that, Meng Bai complained again: "I'm not saying anything, Brother Jun, this is just something that's worth you coming to me to talk about."

Liu Jun smiled and said, "If it's just for the award, it's certainly not worth mentioning, but I have a new idea."

"what idea?"

Liu Jun did not answer directly, but asked: "What do you think we are still lacking in the online drama field?"

"What's wrong?"

Meng Bai was a little confused. After thinking for a while, he said with emotion: "I'm missing an equally matched opponent..."

"..."

Liu Jun was choked, but he had to admit that what Meng Bai said made sense.

If we talk about a single project, there is still a competitor.

Like last year's "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" and "The Rise of Phoenixes", and this year's hits "The Mystic Nine" and "Yu Zui".

But when it comes to the overall picture, at least in the field of online dramas, there is really no team that can compare with ArcLight.

It has funds, channels, projects and IPs, and it seems that there are no flaws.

But this is definitely not what Liu Jun wanted to say.