Become Famous Another Day

 Tom White talked about HP’s development strategy and his appreciation for Lu Yanhe. Lu Yanhe quickly realized one thing. He is a very talkative person.

 After chatting with Tom White for another half an hour, Lu Yanhe slowly figured out his purpose.

It turned out that he was interested in "Six People" and wanted to adapt "Six People" into an American TV series.

Lu Yanhe was stunned.

"Mr. White, although I am the screenwriter of "Six People", the copyright of "Six People" does not belong to me. If you want to buy "Six People", there is no point in looking for me. Its copyright belongs to Beijing TV Station - the TV station where it is broadcast. In hand." Lu Yanhe explained.

Tom White said: "I know, in fact, I know that Maxine has bought the rights to adapt "Six"."

Lu Yanhe looked at him doubtfully, "Then what do you mean by the copyright of "Six People"?"

  HP has no way to adapt "Six People".

Tom White said: "We want to work with you and ask you to write another script like "Six"."

"Um?"

Lu Yanhe didn’t expect that Tom White was looking for him for this purpose.

Lu Yanhe really didn’t dare to agree to such an invitation to cooperate easily.

“Mr. White, I have several scripts currently being written, and I don’t have time to take on new scripts for the time being. Besides, I’m not good at writing scripts in English either,” Lu Yanhe said.

Tom White said: "I know you are a very popular star in China and a very popular new screenwriter. However, you have also seen that the drama "Six People" is so well written and well shot. But because your Chinese TV series have no distribution channels, they are only popular in China. Now that they are on Maxine, they have not achieved the same influence as yours in China. You must also know the reason for this, because you do not have a global presence. There is no platform that can be seen by a global audience, and there is no channel for global publicity.”

Lu Yanhe frowned when he heard Tom White say this.

 Because he knew what Tom White said was right. Indeed, at present, these domestic video platforms have not even reached a certain scale of users in other Asian countries and regions, let alone on a global scale.

 Without global channels, no matter how popular your work may be, it will never be seen.

Lu Yanhe said: "Mr. White, you are right about this. I admit it, but it is not enough to impress me."

 Tom White said: "Doesn't the goal of making a series that audiences around the world love also impress you?"

"No, this goal touches me. However, I have already written "Six People" with such a theme. If you ask me to write another script with the same theme as "Six People", I will definitely not be able to write it better than "Six People". "Lu Yanhe said, "That's why I said this can't make my heart move."

Tom White sighed with regret and said: "There is absolutely room for further development of this story."

"But the characters are gone. The six protagonists have already written down the character types that I most want to write about this subject. If I write again, I can only write characters who are very similar to them. Not only do I think they are similar, but The audience may feel the same way.”

Tom White heard this and said: "Then you don't plan to write sitcoms with urban settings in the future?"

 “Not in a short time.” Lu Yanhe said bluntly.

Tom White sighed regretfully.

  “Okay.”     Although he failed to reach an initial intention on cooperation, Tom White did not change his face towards Lu Yanhe because of this, nor did he get up and leave, but continued to chat with him.

"In the past few years, I have been paying attention to the film and television market in mainland China. Its large and rapid changes are very rare in the world." Tom White said, "Compared with Hollywood movies , but our streaming media has never been able to get in. "

Lu Yanhe: "Any country must have its own areas to defend, especially in this era, where unexpected contradictions and conflicts are occurring in almost every area. Just like several of our domestic platforms, in the United States, we are on fire After it became popular, your government and judicial system found some high-sounding reasons to ban it.”

Tom White nodded, "I don't mean to accuse or criticize. I know this very well. It's just that facing a huge market like mainland China, we are like seeing a gold mine but not being able to participate in the mining. You must feel like this." Understandable.”

Lu Yanhe laughed.

Tom White’s directness and frankness made Lu Yanhe feel a little better about him at this moment.

“Of course I understand, just like we also hope to let the whole world see Chinese film and television dramas.” Lu Yanhe said, “Actually, Mr. White—”

 “Just call me Tom,” said Tom White.

Even though he looks more than ten years older than him, this is the habit of foreigners, and Lu Yanhe knows it after watching so many movies and TV series.

"Okay, Tom." Lu Yanhe laughed, "Although we can't collaborate on a drama like "Six People", we may be able to find other projects that we can collaborate on."

Tom White looked at Lu Yanhe with some surprise, "Huh? Do you have any other good stories?"

"I have indeed written several stories that are currently being filmed or have been filmed, including the movie "Rouge Button" directed by Wang Zhong, and the road comedy "On the Road" starring Jia Long. In addition, there are two Two series are about to be filmed, one is "Squid Game" which is very similar to "Seventeenth Floor", and the other is our costume sitcom "Wulin Gaiden". These stories may not be suitable for adaptation into English series, but these stories "It should be popular in Asian countries and regions," Lu Yanhe said, "There is no talk about distribution of these projects outside mainland China. If HP pays attention to the Asian market and wants to get good works, maybe you can check it out. Look at these."

Tom White showed a bit of incredible surprise.

“You have actually written so many scripts? If I remember correctly, you only started working as a screenwriter two years ago.”

Lu Yanhe took out his Tiger Balm and answered.

"I only started trying to be a screenwriter two years ago for "Six People", but I have actually been trying to write my own scripts for a long time. The story of "People on the Road" was written by me when I was a senior in high school. of."

 The look of shock on Tom White's face lessened slightly, but he was still surprised.

“I have heard of Jia Long, he is a very famous comedy movie star in China.” Tom White said, “It seems that I really need to take a closer look at the projects you mentioned.”

 Lu Yanhe kept smiling.

"Of course, you won't be disappointed, Tom, I think we really have the potential to make a good collaboration," he said.

  Chinese-language film and television dramas have always been influential in Asia. Unlike in Europe and the United States, except for big directors, they have almost no voice.

  HP happened to find Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe was not shy and directly introduced his projects to Tom White. It would also be a good thing if it can really promote cooperation between HP and these projects. One more channel, more choices.

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 There is more to come later today, so I will give a short update first. (End of chapter)