Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 701 A Prophecy

"The Method of Stealing Keys" is actually "Lucky Key"...

Shen Yan also bought the adaptation rights.

Shen Yan has acquired the adaptation rights to many of Japan's comedic works...

Well, the Chinese-language film market is huge, but it lacks creativity.

Under these circumstances, searching the world for successful movies to remake is a shortcut!
Hollywood does the same thing, except they turn the story into an American story, which isn't so easy for Chinese-language films...

Because we have to be mindful of censorship!
Therefore, Shen Yan mainly buys the copyrights for comedies...

The majority of the works are by Koki Mitani and Kenji Uchida.

He resolutely avoids any works by Shinobu Yaguchi!
Because it can't be adapted...

These kinds of works, after being adapted, can't be called classics, but they are definitely quite conventional.

Furthermore, the casting is excellent; the actors possess both acting skills and a certain level of popularity and buzz. This avoids relying solely on popularity or engaging in empty, unrealistic artistic pursuits…

It is a combination of the most mature markets and the most mature business models.

As for "Hello, Crazy"...

Adapted from a stage play.

The plot is about multiple personality disorder...

It tells the story of a patient with dissociative identity disorder whose different personalities fight and hurt each other, and in the end, the six alternate personalities choose to "disappear" in order to support the main personality.

It's quite niche...

However, this was Rao Xiaozhi's breakthrough work in the theater world.

Since he wants to make it, let him make it. Just find someone to invest some money.
By the way, "The Method of Stealing Keys" is the same as "Endgame," a story about body swapping.

Shen Yan continued, "I also came up with a body-swapping story a couple of days ago, about a gang leader swapping bodies with a bullied high school student..."

"The Guy Inside Me," the one that went viral on TikTok with the line, "Sorry, I love your mom!"

"A gang leader..." After hearing this story, Rao Xiaozhi smiled and then said, "This movie would be best made into a co-production..."

"Oh, you mean it's difficult to get approved if there's a gang leader involved?"

"And there's school bullying too!"

"Okay..." Shen Yan nodded, "Next year I'll find time to find Leung Ka-fai and Kara Hui to collaborate!"

"Me, a director?"

"Of course you should be the director, why would I?"

Rao Xiaozhi asked in confusion, "You're not directing anymore?"

"We'll see..." Shen Yan scratched his head, "I don't have any thoughts on that for now."

Indeed, Shen Yan doesn't have a specific film he wants to shoot right now...

To be honest, there weren't any particularly great movies in the following years.

Parasite...it's actually pretty good!
The most striking feature of this movie is that the wealthy characters in it have actually done nothing wrong. They are loving couples, have adorable children, and there is no infidelity, emotional abuse, or child mistreatment. They are also generous and not stingy with their drivers and servants.

She was truly kind and innocent.

But you just can't help hating them!
This is called class consciousness—whether you're close or not, class makes the difference.

But this movie isn't suitable for Shen Yan to direct!
Rao Xiaozhi continued, "...Then give me the script, I'll take a look!"

"There's no script, only a script outline and the main storyline. You fill in the details and make changes yourself..."

"I have to write the script myself?" "...You don't want to?"

Rao Xiaozhi immediately replied, "Yes!"

"That's fine then. I'm going to lie down for a bit. I'm so sleepy after a 12-hour flight!"

……

The recent trending topics on Weibo have all been about Shen Yan winning the Golden Lion Award twice…

And it also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film!

Many of his fans have already hailed Shen Yan as the number one actor in the Chinese film industry.

Although Shen Yan himself posted on Weibo that "La La Land is a musical with a love theme, which may suit the jury's taste... I'm still a beginner in the film industry and have a lot to learn, so please don't praise me too much... Also, La La Land is aiming for this year's Oscars, and the release date will depend on its performance during the awards season..."

Oh, and by this time, the Douban rating for "La La Land" has been released: 8.9!
Of course, the number of ratings is quite small...

After all, it hasn't been released on a large scale yet!

Shen Yan winning the Golden Lion again makes the producers of "Eternal Love" happiest—it boosted online viewership and subsequent sales of broadcasting rights!

The online viewership data for "Legend of Fei" has also increased significantly!

It was also mentioned that, according to the online viewership data for major TV dramas this year, "The Empress of China" initially ranked first with 135.5 billion views, then "The Journey of Flower" quickly surpassed it, and subsequently, "Eternal Love" also overtook "The Empress of China"...

The online viewership of "Legend of Fei" has exceeded 10 billion!
It's certain that these data are fake!

It's 100% watered down...

But this also proves the popularity of these dramas!

Then, Alibaba Pictures announced that it had acquired the film rights to "Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" and launched an online poll to determine the most suitable actors...

Liu Yifei surprisingly beat Yang Mi to become the best actress in the movie version of Bai Qian;
As for the male actor, Shen Yan is undoubtedly the most suitable actor to play Ye Hua!
To be honest, Shen Yan had no idea about this vote.

During his live stream that evening, a netizen messaged him about the movie version of "Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms." He shook his head, saying, "These kinds of fantasy dramas are hard to write scripts for... and I've already acted in the TV series versions..."

"It's not about the money. Even if he gave me a blank check and told me to fill in any number, I still wouldn't accept the bid..."

"I myself am not confident that I can successfully adapt it into a movie. I don't think anyone is more professional than me when it comes to commercial films!"

"Let's not talk about this anymore. I don't care who the female lead is, I don't care who she is!"

"Ali Pictures... Alibaba only knows how to dump data and traffic, completely disregarding content. I will not cooperate with such a company!"

"Don't believe me? Then let's discuss this again after 'The Ferryman,' the movie version of 'Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms,' and 'Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back' are released..."

I made a bold prediction, then briefly discussed *La La Land*: "*La La Land* will most likely be released in December, aiming for awards! The specific release and distribution strategy is still being finalized..."

Changing the subject, we started talking about the National Day film season...

"Never Say Die" versus "Lost in Hong Kong".

The script for the play "Never Say Die" was written at the filming location of the movie "Goodbye Mr. Loser". At that time, director Song Yang was playing Zhang Yang, Xia Luo's stepfather. Zhang Yang would play cards with Teacher Wang and others during the day and start discussing the script with Song Yang after he finished work in the evening.

When creating "Never Say Die," the film was actually aimed at the big screen because boxing action scenes are very limited on stage, while this can be greatly amplified on the big screen.

"Initially, they wanted to do male-male swapping, but I felt it wasn't exciting enough, so I mentioned female-male swapping... and they were very receptive to the idea!"

"The budget for 'Iron Fist' wasn't high, and the lead actors were changed to Allen and Mary... I also read the script and then decided to invest..."

"I saw the internal screening, and the quality was good, with plenty of laughs... Comedy movies are a family-friendly genre, so I think it should be able to gross over 18 billion!"

"Lost in Hong Kong... I don't know much about it... I don't understand things like capital operations either. Anyway, I'm only good at making movies honestly!"

(End of this chapter)