Depressive Screenwriter

Having experienced the Spring Festival release window multiple times,

Su Yan now has minimal emotional fluctuations regarding the release of his films.

After he brought out the scripts for Naruto and One Piece, the hundreds of people responsible for film and television creation in the entire Dimensional Film and Television Company felt Su Yan's emphasis on these two TV series from top to bottom.

In terms of TV series investment, the pre-sale price per episode is slightly lower than "Code Geass".

After all, the special effects production difficulty of "One Piece" and "Naruto" is definitely simpler than "Code Geass", which has a lot of war scenes.

Moreover, Su Yan is very clear that the two works are TV series, not movies.

In his previous life, no matter how popular the "One Piece" and "Naruto" animations were, they were not produced according to the quality of theatrical films.

Su Yan would definitely not produce them in Xia Country according to top movie standards. This involves a consideration of return on investment. Moreover, given the length of the two works, if he pursued perfection too much, the special effects production team would definitely collapse during the serialization period.

But at least the sensory experience after being produced into a TV series must be good, and the audience must not feel out of place or embarrassed. The fight scenes must also be smooth.

Of course, this is from Su Yan's perspective. For practitioners in the Xia Country TV series industry, Su Yan's investment per episode for the "Naruto" and "One Piece" TV series is already the ceiling of the industry.

Moreover, with the precedent of "Code Geass" there, if they could join Su Yan's two TV series crews, perhaps there would be a chance to become a global superstar.

In fact, no one can judge how popular these two works will be after they air, but during the casting stage, the "Naruto" and "One Piece" works directly stunned Xia Country practitioners.

Su Yan, as the screenwriter, director, and producer, held a casting conference in Tokyo for more than twenty days.

And he invited more than a thousand actors from all over the world to audition.

Moreover, the auditionees were basically children aged eleven or twelve and teenagers aged fourteen or fifteen.

"Naruto" is okay. In the original work, the plot of Naruto's twelve-year-old period is only more than one hundred episodes. If it is made into a TV series, strive to complete it in seven seasons and broadcast it in three to four years.

In this way, the age jump from eleven or twelve to fourteen or fifteen will not change particularly ridiculously, and the later Shippuden can also be filmed smoothly.

"One Piece" is different. From the beginning to the Marineford arc, the length is too long. If it is really made into a TV series, the age increase of the actors during the filming process must be considered, from teenagers to adolescents, and even the image changes after middle age.

However, there is nothing Su Yan can do about this. If makeup technology cannot solve it, he can only change actors later.

But the initial casting is definitely the top priority.

Su Yan didn't feel relieved to hand over the work to others, and personally took charge of the entire process.

With Dimensional Film and Television Company's cash reserves of hundreds of billions, Su Yan basically doesn't have to worry about funding for anything he wants to do in the film and television industry.

The film and television industry is not like those heavy industries, where building factories and production workshops costs hundreds of millions of dollars.

In this industry, hundreds of millions is a huge sum for a project, and there is no need for expensive equipment. As for the actors' salaries, it goes without saying.

The "One Piece" and "Naruto" works use new young actors, so the salaries will naturally not be high. Moreover, Su Yan will set the contract at the beginning to avoid any exploitative child labor contracts, but he will definitely do a good job in dividing the character image and copyright. The cost of this is not high.

So more than 80% of the investment in the two works will be spent on production and special effects.

These things kept him busy for a month.

The launch speed of film and television projects that are invested and bear risks by oneself, without other investors pointing fingers, is very fast.

After the actors were determined, it was the establishment of the production staff, the mobilization of machinery and equipment, and the cooperation companies.

However, with the support of sufficient funds, everything was faster than the market imagined.

In April, the crew lineup of the two works was basically determined, and dozens of large and small special effects companies that cooperated also signed contracts with Dimensional Film and Television Company.

At this time, spring came and the cherry blossoms bloomed.

Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki finally had time to free themselves from their busy work.

In April, the "Unlimited Blade Works" arc of "Fate/stay night", which had been in preparation for a year, began broadcasting.

Yu Xin Zhuang's Artoria once again became a global TV series top streamer after a year.

Although the heroine of the "Unlimited Blade Works" arc is Rin Tohsaka, Artoria is still the focus in the eyes of all "Fate/stay night" viewers.

And the 6.82% viewership rating of this work's premiere also increased significantly on the basis of the previous "Fate/stay night" Saber route.

And it was launched simultaneously in seven overseas countries, and the viewership ratings topped the list in five countries.

But now, for Su Yan and Ayumi Shinozaki, such achievements can actually be viewed rationally and taken for granted.

After all, they are used to being in the first place for a long time, used to breaking records, and used to being far ahead.

Viewership ratings and ranking are no longer the main points that Su Yan cares about. What he cares about is the breadth of the spread of these works around the world.

At the same time, during the popular broadcast of "Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works", the warm-up publicity for "Gundam SEED", which will be broadcast in July, and "Suzume", which will be released in theaters, also began.

It is true that the "Fate" series IP needs to be built, but Su Yan actually attaches more importance to the "Gundam" IP. After building the "Gundam" and "Fate" series IPs in the past two years, he will promote the "Naruto" and "One Piece" IPs to the world in the next three to five years.

Of course, in addition to these long IP masterpieces, Su Yan will also consider other works with lower commercial value.

Su Yan also has plans to include "Slam Dunk" and "Demon Slayer", which are suitable for adaptation, in his future plans.

However, the road must be taken step by step, and many works that he is interested in can only be temporarily listed on the plan.

Soon, time came to May.

Tokyo, the top floor of the Dimensional Film and Television Company branch, Su Yan's chairman's office.

After signing the last document today, he let out a long breath.

Ayumi Shinozaki, who was in charge of signing these documents with Su Yan, also lay directly on the table, regardless of her image, with her hair scattered all over the table.

"Finally over."

Ayumi Shinozaki's "over" does not refer to the end of today's work, but the end of the initial preparation work for Su Yan's series of works.

"Tomorrow, I can finally sleep in. Which large film and television company in the world has a shareholder like me, who has scheduled the schedule from 5 am to 11 pm for three consecutive months, with completely insufficient sleep, and can only rely on the driver to drive and catch up on sleep during the flight! If this continues, I feel that I will age prematurely."

"Aren't I the same? And you have to believe in your potential. How can a few months of high-intensity work affect your appearance? I knew you when you were twenty years old, but now I see you, you are younger than an eighteen-year-old girl," Su Yan said with a smile.

"You're so glib," Ayumi Shinozaki rolled her eyes at Su Yan, but the smile on her face showed that she liked Su Yan's praise.

"But after this operation, the work of our company in the next two or three years is basically determined."

The broadcast of two "Gundam" series, the filming and release of the fourth and fifth "Rurouni Kenshin" movies, the operation of the "Fate" series, the TV series shooting of "Naruto" and "One Piece", and the game development and peripheral derivative development of the above works.

Ayumi Shinozaki found it hard to imagine that the core stories of these works were all created by Su Yan alone, but the fact is there. Su Yan can take out the script on time. These works add up to tens of thousands of words of script text that need to be written every week.

This is a terrifying number, which is the amount of work that many screenwriters do in a year.

And if other screenwriters really have this output, then the quality must be touching.

Su Yan is different. Any industry insider who gets his script, except for some scene arrangements and some plot details that need to be changed slightly according to the filming location and season, the quality of Su Yan's script does not need to be doubted purely on the main storyline.

Moreover, Su Yan has to be responsible for many other affairs of the company while completing these tasks, which is simply not human.

However, what Ayumi Shinozaki doesn't know is that some groups in Su Yan's previous life could update 20,000 words a day in literary creation. They were still writing and updating at the same time. Su Yan has ready-made plots, and he can directly copy them from his brain. Writing one or two thousand words of script a day is only three hours of work for Su Yan, who is already skilled.

Even if Su Yan wanted to, he could add a few more to this number of works, but now there is really no need for it. Su Yan understands the principle of not being able to chew too much, and the ultimate result of producing too many works together is that his own people fight each other, competing with each other and affecting each other's market.