Depressive Screenwriter

In its fifth week of airing, it could be said that Fate finally entered its main storyline.

This was because the work had too many characters, and the early stages were mainly about character development, with the Holy Grail War being just small-scale skirmishes.

However, the images of several main characters, Gilgamesh, Iskandar, Artoria, and Diarmuid, had been basically established. In the eyes of fans, they were generally considered to be righteous or neutral characters, and they were loved by a large number of fans.

As for the perverted killer Gilles de Rais, Hassan, who had little presence in Su Yan's previous life, and the Berserker-class mysterious hero who only went berserk and screamed from beginning to end, they were generally disliked.

On the Master side, except for Kiritsugu Emiya and Waver Velvet, the other five were uniformly regarded as scum by the audience.

The audience also started discussing the combat power of the various heroes, just like in Su Yan's previous life.

Although the viewership rating for the fifth episode was only 5.61%, which was not as good as Madoka Magica, the arguments about the various characters were already comparable to the later stages of Madoka Magica.

With only a few days left until the summer season, and the internet filled with discussions about several films in the Spring Festival档, the Madoka Magica forum was like a pure land. No matter how popular the upcoming films were, the Fate/Zero fans were completely unaffected.

In a villa district in Shanghai, at Su Yan's home.

He attended various events during the day and watched the online public opinion trends at night.

The broadcast of Fate/Zero would continue until March, and the work was still in its rising popularity phase, but in three days, the Rurouni Kenshin movie would be released.

Su Yan had been reborn in Xia Guo for so many years, and basically the skills randomly drawn by the system were only useful in swordsmanship, physical fitness modification, and music.

Other things like photography from Life is Strange and street fighting skills from Cyberpunk were basically useless. He couldn't use them on weekdays, and he didn't dare to use them.

After all, Su Yan didn't need to carry a camera in the crew, and he wouldn't fight with gangsters on the street.

For the Rurouni Kenshin movie, combined with the swordsmanship skills he had drawn, Su Yan was truly confident in this work.

If you were to say whether Su Yan's portrayal of Kenshin was more handsome than Takeru Satoh, the actor in the live-action version of Kenshin in his previous life, Su Yan couldn't say for sure, because aesthetics are subjective.

But the fight scenes in the movie were definitely much better than the wire-action movements in the original live-action movies.

Having produced so many works in Xia Guo, Su Yan was only confident in surpassing the original in all aspects with the Rurouni Kenshin movie.

Moreover, there were several Rurouni Kenshin movies in a row.

If the first one became popular after being released during the Spring Festival, then it could be directly turned into a series of movies in Xia Guo.

And based on the situation of those series of movies in Su Yan's previous life, as long as the first one had a good reputation, the box office would be higher and higher as the series progressed.

Taking a deep breath, Su Yan uploaded a new video on his official website creator account.

It was a character cosplay promotional video of Yukishiro Tomoe and Kenshin, played by him and Gu Qingyuan yesterday.

Everything that needed to be done had been done, and next, it was up to the market.

Time passed.

In the next few days, the promotional efforts for Rurouni Kenshin, The Counterfeit Detective, and Breaking the Formation were maximized.

However, the other six films released in the same period were not willing to be salted fish either, and the main creative teams also had densely packed roadshow schedules in major first-tier cities.

The news media also went all out, reporting on several films.

But overall, Breaking the Formation, an ancient costume blockbuster with a full lineup, slightly surpassed Rurouni Kenshin in the pre-release movie fan expectation list, ranking first.

Rurouni Kenshin was second, and The Counterfeit Detective was third.

Regarding these lists, Su Yan's fans and the star fans of the other films were arguing fiercely on the internet again.

Hot topics such as spending money to buy trending searches, buy list rankings, and hire trolls to smear others appeared in the fan wars of several parties.

Even on February 9th, the day of Chinese New Year's Eve, these online flame wars continued.

Because Su Yan, Shi Peihua, Shen Liqian, Gu Qingyuan, and other original cast members of the Rurouni Kenshin TV series and movies had to cooperate with the promotion during the Spring Festival, they did not go home this year, but gathered in Su Yan's large villa in Shanghai, and the few of them put together a New Year's Eve dinner.

"Everything depends on tomorrow!" Shi Peihua said with a serious expression.

"You're getting nervous again." At this time, Ayaka Shinozaki stopped pretending. She kept looking at her phone during the meal, just in case some negative rumors about Su Yan and the Rurouni Kenshin main creators would emerge on the internet at this critical moment.

Sometimes those black materials didn't need to be true. As long as the audience and fans believed it was true, it could ruin a movie. As for subsequent compensation, it would be a messy account.

Ayaka Shinozaki and Su Yan had never encountered this kind of thing, but there were examples in Xia Guo's film history of movies flopping because of these things. Even if the black material was clarified afterwards, the fact that the movie had flopped was irreversible.

"I'm a little unwilling! Why am I the female lead in the Rurouni Kenshin movie, but the most discussed character in the relevant forums is Yukishiro Tomoe? Yukishiro Tomoe has less than two minutes of screen time in the movie version, right?" Shen Liqian complained.

She and Gu Qingyuan had a good relationship. Although the two competed with each other in the company, it didn't affect their friendship. As the two generations of female leads of Rurouni Kenshin, although she was mentally prepared, she really didn't expect that even her fans, Shen Liqian's fans, admitted after watching the TV series version that Yukishiro Tomoe could not be surpassed in this series of works.

"The word-of-mouth will be reversed after the movie is released tomorrow," Gu Qingyuan replied with a smile.

"Shen Liqian, your performance in the movie is excellent."

"There's heat when there's arguing. I hope that after the movie is released tomorrow, the Yukishiro Tomoe party and the Kamiya Kaoru party will completely quarrel," Su Yan said with a smile, raising a glass of drink.

Although he himself didn't have much hope for this kind of thing.

In his previous life, the Rurouni Kenshin manga was serialized for several years before Yukishiro Tomoe appeared in the manga's Reminiscence arc, and then this character, who only appeared in a few chapters, completely surpassed the fan popularity accumulated by Kamiya Kaoru for several years.

What's more, in Xia Guo, Yukishiro Tomoe's appearance was even before Kamiya Kaoru.

I just hope that Kamiya Kaoru won't be scolded by Yukishiro Tomoe's fans in the movie version.

However...

Su Yan looked at Shen Liqian and recalled the appearance of Emi Takei, the actress who played Kamiya Kaoru in the Kenshin movie version in his previous life.

This idea was immediately dispelled a lot.

At least Shen Liqian's appearance crushed the other party. Su Yan watched the manga version first and then watched the movie version in his previous life. He didn't have much opinion on the Kenshin movie version, except that he would feel in his heart after the actress of the female lead Kamiya Kaoru appeared...

"It would be better if she was more beautiful."

After all, the charm of the character was not as good as Yukishiro Tomoe, and the appearance was not as good, so she would definitely be criticized!

Su Yan's action of staring at Shen Liqian for more than ten seconds was too obvious, and a group of people at the dinner table collectively stared at Su Yan.

Su Yan said expressionlessly.

"Happy New Year."

The awkward atmosphere disappeared.

"Happy New Year!"

Everyone at the dinner table laughed collectively.

"Take the first place in the Spring Festival档!"

"That kind of thing is up to fate, but at least the word-of-mouth should be first."

"The total investment so far is 440 million, and the break-even point is more than 1.3 billion box office."

"When has Teacher Su Yan ever done a loss-making business? The goal of the Rurouni Kenshin movie is at least 2 billion box office!"

At midnight, New Year's fireworks rose in the night sky of Shanghai, and Su Yan also sent a New Year's red envelope to all employees in the company's fan group.

The new year has arrived.