Pokémon's Lord of Fear

This is the best way for the wealthy to relax, but the price of relaxation is too high. Most people cannot afford it. But for Teng Shu, this problem is not a problem. Teng Shu walked out of his bedroom and said something to the old butler Shibata, and the old butler went to arrange a gold coin swimming pool.

While eating the breakfast carefully prepared by the old housekeeper - soy milk and fried dough sticks, Teng Shu was also thinking about the development of the company.

Soy milk and fried dough sticks were made by Teng Shurang, and it was also the breakfast that Teng Shu would eat from time to time. However, the old housekeeper made it more meticulously, and the materials used were all first-class ingredients, and the taste was very good.

As for the company's development, Teng Shu took another factor into consideration.

"Aesthetic fatigue." Teng Shu narrowed his eyes.

Horror movies, horror movies, most of the horror movies basically have a routine template, or the ways of scaring are somewhat similar. The sudden shot of the face jumping combined with scary music is the most basic way of scaring.

Dead Silence, Ghost Call, and The Corpse in the Mountain Village, three horror films, established Teng Shu's position as a great director in the field of horror films.

However, Teng Shu noticed the hidden danger here.

People will get aesthetically fatigued, just like the specialty movies of island countries. If you watch them every day, you will get bored and want to vomit. It may be okay at the beginning, but if you watch them too much, you will really find them boring.

Teng Shu felt that he might need to make some other kinds of movies to relieve this aesthetic fatigue and avoid becoming a director who only knows how to make horror movies. Teng Shu didn't want to be labeled like this.

This is also the reason why Teng Shu wanted to shoot Sherlock Holmes, which is to give the audience a change of taste, so that the audience will be interested in the next horror film.

[Fear value: 23100 points]

The fear value of the old corpse in the mountain village also popped up. Teng Shu took a look and found that there was no prompt to obtain new skills, so he ignored it. If he couldn't obtain new skills, then this thing would not be of much significance to Teng Shu.

Teng Shu only cares about whether he can get some new stuff.

I guess it’s because the fear value is not enough.

"The next horror film I'm going to shoot is 'Inner Dimension', but I don't know what work to choose as the transitional film in between." Teng Shu was a little hesitant.

A second Sherlock Holmes movie? That's possible. After all, the first Sherlock Holmes movie caused a sensation in the detective circle, and the ratings also soared, which made Teng Shu earn a lot of money. It also directly made 221b Baker Street a real place name.

If we shoot the second part, there will be no problem in just continuing the popularity of the first part.

It won't be a big problem if it becomes popular again at that time, and it can continue to increase the popularity of the Sherlock Holmes IP. Teng Shu thought about it and decided to make this TV series to give the audience a change of taste.

"What a pity. I originally planned to release Harry Potter to test the waters." Teng Shu pinched his brows. He thought of the luxurious castle he had bought before, which he had originally planned to use for filming Harry Potter.

As for the popularity of Harry Potter, Teng Shu is not particularly worried. Previously in "Tom and Jerry", Teng Shu introduced Merlin, Jerry's second cousin, and at the same time pointed out the concept of magic and buried the Hogwarts Easter eggs. The audience also showed great curiosity about magic.

The popularity of magic shows in the Pokémon world has also increased. Teng Shu feels that the launch of Harry Potter will not fail. Based on the current situation, it will even be a success.

However, the world view and plot of Harry Potter is too large, and it takes a lot of effort to transform it to be closer to the Pokémon world.

"There are three plots in the second season...that woman must be there, and then..." Teng Shu was thinking about what the plot of the second season of Sherlock Holmes should be like while eating.

However, the Squid King is about to appear in this season. Teng Shu plans to let Holmes deal with the Squid King first, and at the same time lay the groundwork that there is someone behind the Squid King, in preparation for bringing out the final BOSS Moriarty.

Just at this moment, Teng Shu's cell phone vibrated, and Teng Shu picked it up and took a look.

【The famous film critic Lao Hei’s loss of fans is actually related to Teng Shu? !】

"what?"

Chapter 216 Sherlock Holmes Season

Teng Shu was a little confused. He didn't know this film critic, Lao Hei, so what did his loss of followers have to do with him? But after clicking in to take a look, Teng Shu realized that the reason why the other party lost followers was really related to him.

[Not suitable for minors] This bold and enlarged review caught Teng Shu's eye. Teng Shu's mouth twitched. His horror films were not recommended for minors to watch. What's the difference between this and taking a child to see Alien? Anyone with a normal brain knows that bloody horror films like Alien are not suitable for children to watch.

It would make the children cry and affect the viewing experience of other audiences. However, Teng Shu had never really considered this matter. After all, most of the audience were adults. Adults had their own judgment. They would not take their children to watch a horror movie, right? If they were teenagers, it would be fine. But for those who were six or seven years old, or four or five years old, it would just cause trouble.

Unexpectedly, this old black man would find another way to attack him from here. Teng Shu felt helpless. He had already seen that this old black man was just criticizing for the sake of criticizing. Teng Shu wanted to complain about these criticisms, but he had to admit that as a film critic, he did have some stuff.

Some of the points mentioned are indeed minor flaws in Teng Shu's films.

"Routine, template-based, no, you can tell after only making three movies?" Teng Shu felt a little helpless when looking at Lao Hei's film review, but there was not much problem with what the other party said. Basically, horror movies can be made by following a routine template, especially the haunted house type, which are almost the same in essence.

When you first watch European and American horror movies, you will feel that they are somewhat novel, but after watching them many times, this novelty will disappear. The reason is that they are very formulaic. Teng Shu feels that Hollywood blockbusters are almost all copied according to a template.

Movies about haunted houses often change the way the characters die, and the rest of the plot is basically the same. There is always a parent who doesn't believe in ghosts, the first child who sees a ghost, and a small animal that discovers the ghost but is scolded by its owner for screaming.

The appearance of James Wan has added some new routines to European and American horror films, but Wan's horror films have a strong East Asian flavor, which is to say that the East Asian horror film style was moved to Europe and the United States and adapted to local conditions.

"Forget it." Teng Shu put his phone down. He was too lazy to pay attention to this inexplicable film critic. Teng Shu knew very well that no matter how well his movies were made, it was impossible for everyone to like them. After all, people always have various hobbies. For a movie, five out of ten people might like it while five might hate it. It was impossible to make everyone like it.

The previous version of "Hello, Li Huanying", as a purely emotional film, could not be liked by everyone, let alone a horror film?

"I might as well write the plot." Teng Shu yawned, then curled up on the bed with his tablet computer. He planned to finish writing the plot of the second season of Sherlock Holmes today.

For the first plot, Teng Shu chose "That Woman". As one of the few cases in Sherlock Holmes's detective stories that could make Holmes suffer a setback, this case still has some status. Even in some adaptations, Irene and Holmes have some strange relationship, which is relatively normal. The abnormal one is the type where Watson changes his gender and then communicates with Holmes about life.

From the perspective of the original work, it is indeed a bit outrageous.

"The plot of the second and third episodes." Teng Shu scratched his head. How to write this?

"Maybe I don't need to be too obsessed with the original plot. Some hardcore reasoning is also fine, just like the classic Murder on the Orient Express." Teng Shu thought thoughtfully. Murder on the Orient Express, as a classic work of Agatha, has a high status in the circle of detective novel lovers.

Moreover, if this work is adapted, it is just suitable to be adapted into the length of a movie, and the Sherlock Holmes filmed by Teng Shu itself is about one and a half hours per episode, which fits this perfectly, and some details can also be added, such as Sherlock Holmes took the train to solve a case, but encountered a case on the way.

"Then the second episode will be Murder on the Orient Express, and for the third episode..." Teng Shu thought of another very interesting work.

"The Case Files of Young Kindaichi" is an orthodox mystery manga from the island country. It originally competed with "Detective Conan" in the detective suspense track, but Conan was better in the end. However, compared with Conan, Kindaichi is a pure orthodox mystery work, and the proportion of reasoning is much larger than that of Conan.

Most of the character designs in the story are for the purpose of reasoning, so if it is purely from the perspective of reasoning, Teng Shu will only choose Kindaichi. As for the case to choose, Teng Shu immediately thought of the corpse trick - the Ijinkan Village murder case.

Multiple mutilated corpses were pieced together to form another corpse, allowing one person to survive and escape. This design was also borrowed in Young Justice Bao, and it is a very interesting case.

When he first watched it, Teng Shu was very surprised when he saw the moment the trick was revealed. However, there were also some plots in this story that made people complain. After thinking about it for a moment, Teng Shu decided to keep it.

The prisoner killed his girlfriend for revenge, and the prisoner himself was also very painful. The design of this plot can only be said to be controversial, but Teng Shu thought about it and decided to keep it. As for what the audience thinks, that is the audience's business, and this can also increase some topics.

"So, Holmes received a commission at Baker Street. The client asked him to investigate the legend of the mummy guarding their village. When Holmes went to investigate, he took the express train and encountered the Orient Express Murder Case. After solving it, he arrived in the village and then solved the Ijinkan Village Murder Case..."

"Among them, Sherlock Holmes discovered some of the existence of the Squid King, and in "That Woman" it was confirmed that there was a manipulator. In the Orient Express Murder Case, the identity of the Squid King was revealed, and in Ijinkan Village it was confirmed that the Squid King was involved in the design of most cases." Teng Shu nodded.

The plot design is almost done, so it is time to start designing and perfecting the script. At the same time, we need to start auditioning actors. Old actors like Dame do not need to be replaced, and the role of Irene.

Teng Shu took out his cell phone and sent a message to Kaluni. He had told Kaluni before that he would give her a role.

Conan's early works still had some reasoning, but later on he seemed to become obsessed with big explosions, and the reasoning aspect weakened a bit.

Kindaichi can be considered a traditional mystery comic. From the perspective of reasoning alone, Kindaichi is indeed more pure.

However, in the competition between these two works, Conan is better.

If you are interested in mystery, you can check out The Kindaichi Case Files. Some of its spin-offs are quite good, such as The Criminal Case Files.

Chapter 217 The Influence of Popular Works

Kaluni responded quickly.

[Thank you Director Teng Shu! Also, I watched your "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", it was just as scary as ever! ]

Looking at the message on the phone, Teng Shu smiled and replied with a thank you.

As for why he gave the role of Irene to Kaluni, there were naturally some reasons. In addition to discussing this with Kaluni, the main reason was because of Kaluni's outstanding acting skills.

I have to say that although Kaluni is a Pokémon champion, her acting skills are indeed very good. She is a pure actor and her acting skills are simply amazing. The role of Irene is a very important role. Teng Shu needs an actor with good acting skills to portray the other party as perfectly as possible, so Teng Shu chose Kaluni to play Irene.

After deciding to make a Sherlock Holmes film to change the audience's taste, Teng Shu entered the endless work of script adaptation. There were many adaptations of the woman, but Teng Shu felt that the adaptation in the British TV series Sherlock was indeed a bit more challenging. He found it hard to imagine what it would look like if Kaluni stood in front of Sherlock Holmes with that look.

But the problem is, if there is no adaptation, the plot of the woman would hardly support a length of one and a half hours. Even if Teng Shu expanded the plot of the original work, it would not be able to reach a length of one and a half hours.

So after thinking about it, it seems that the only plot in Sherlock Holmes can be used as a reference, but I still need to get Kaluni's consent.

"No, with Zoroark here, there is no need for Kalini to make such a big sacrifice. Just use a phantom template." Teng Shu thought of something, and he felt a lot more relaxed. After all, if Kalini really went up in person, it probably wouldn't work.

Although many actors often talk about dedicating themselves to art, in fact, unless they are really aware of it, most people cannot do this. What's more, Kaluni is the champion. Even if Kaluni really wants to sacrifice herself for art, the league will not allow it.

"So that's it. After Holmes solved Irene's case and saved her from being attacked by the Dark Organization, he made the other party fake her death and escape. After that, he received the commission for the Orient Express Murder Case. There's no need to change too much, just add some Pokémon in it." Teng Shu kept writing his thoughts on the tablet.

The case of Murder on the Orient Express is long enough and does not require too many additional adaptations. It can even be carefully polished to make the entire plot more complete.

"Oh, right." Teng Shu remembered something, picked up his phone and sent a message to Zoroark, then put the phone down. He decided to write while filming. After all, the first episode alone would take a while to shoot, and the second episode, Murder on the Orient Express, needed to be filmed on a train. He needed to communicate with the alliance in advance and coordinate a train.

That's why Teng Shu spoke to Zoroark and asked Zoroark to prepare to deal with this matter in advance.

As Zoroark sent the matter to the work group, the group suddenly became lively.

The big boss Teng Shu seldom works overtime, or has never worked overtime, but he pays overtime pay for any overtime he works, and it is triple overtime pay as required by the alliance. Now that Teng Shu has arranged work on the weekend, these employees have naturally become active.

As the news spread, the company's phone was flooded with calls.

Everyone knows what kind of ratings miracle Sherlock Holmes created this year, and the popularity of the first season also made countless actors famous. Among them, Dame, who played Sherlock Holmes, became an instant hit and became a hot star. Countless celebrities and people who think they are frustrated have sent invitations.

Just thinking about meeting Teng Shu and getting a role. Dam can make a comeback with the help of Holmes, so why can't they?

Even crazier than the actors are the advertising sponsors.

Advertising sponsorships for Sherlock Holmes came in like a stream, especially from some big clothing brands, which wanted to directly contract all of Sherlock Holmes' clothing supplies and make their clothes synonymous with wisdom.

"I think we should provide the largest, best, fastest and most luxurious train in our Galar region to Director Teng Shu so that he can shoot Sherlock!" The president of the Galar Regional Alliance, a burly man, was slamming the table excitedly.

Good, good, Holmes.

Their Galar region has always been nicknamed the Fish and Chips Alliance by other alliance regions, meaning that this place has no other attractions except fish and chips. As a result, Sherlock Holmes came and brought super high ratings, which corrected the stigma in one fell swoop and even caused a chain reaction, bringing countless tourists to check in.

Sherlock Holmes' former residence has become a place where countless tourists rush to take photos. Some smart businesses that have linked themselves to Sherlock Holmes have also made a lot of money, which is enviable.

No one knows how many times the number of tourists in Jiqing City has increased. Now the minister of the tourism department is smiling every day. After hearing that Teng Shu is going to shoot a new Sherlock Holmes, his face became rosy and he looked very energetic. The other ministers rolled their eyes when they saw him.

"I have no objection. I will coordinate with the Ministry of Rail Transportation to allow sufficient time and route for Director Teng Shu's train. As long as the filming is not over, the train will not stop!" The Ministry of Transportation also expressed their support. Their alliance has already received an application from Ghost Pictures to use a train to film Sherlock Holmes.

This must be supported, and it must be made into the best possible train. It should also be arranged to pass through some scenic spots in Galar, which can also serve the purpose of promoting Galar. The scenery in their Galar region is very nice.

"Director Teng Shu is truly an amazing director." Dan Di couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the information in his hand and discussed with the ministers in front of him how to support Teng Shu in making movies.

Dandi has been fighting for the Galar region, but unexpectedly, Teng Shu suddenly made the Galar region popular. This time's filming, the choice of scenes and advertisers alone can be said to be outrageous. There were even disputes between villages over who was suitable to be the filming location for Teng Shu.

In the end, it was the alliance president who made the final decision. It all depended on Director Teng Shu's own choice, which finally put an end to the dispute.

Chapter 218: What to do if there are too many talented actors?

"Boss, The Village Corpse has already grossed over 500 million!" Zoroark said excitedly. Teng Shu didn't really care after hearing that. It was just 500 million, which was a normal number for his horror films. So far, none of the films shot by Teng Shu had a box office of less than 1 billion.

The title of billionaire director was given to Teng Shu early on.

However, horror films are ultimately limited by the subject matter, and it is difficult to achieve a very high box office. It is also very difficult to catch up with the highest box office in Pokémon's history.

Teng Shu has already thought of a solution. He plans to make a splash with "Pokémon Unite", the highest-grossing Pokémon movie in history, which grossed 4.5 billion League Coins, by making big-budget movies with other themes.