Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Exploiting Hollywood 1980 Chapter 346: Video Game Adaptation

Having dreamed of two movies in a row, Ronald also asked David Simkins to prepare some display boards for the studio executives to see. Now that he's written a script himself and is interested in joining the ranks of producers, these jobs should also start to become familiar.

David Simkins, who was given some additional workload for no reason, had to read the script that was still being sent to the company at the same time. While working overtime every day, he felt that he was very motivated to struggle.

Ronald himself focused his energy on promoting "Dancing Hot". He wanted to use the film to release it as the first film led by Daydream Pictures.

Turning on the home computer, Ronald shoved in the floppy disk, and after a noise and waiting, the interface of the text star editing software appeared on the screen. He created a new document and started writing the selling points and difficulties needed to sell the script.

"Advantage:

The investment is small, there is a fixed audience, and the cost of marketing is low. You don’t need to hire famous movie stars. You can find directors who shoot musicals or youth movies for guidance.

Disadvantage: Not enough budget to hire movie stars, distributors may have concerns. If the other party is willing to invest more resources, the script can also be modified to suit the star.

The best sales target:

Touchstone Pictures, owned by Disney..."

"Squeak..." The dot-matrix printer printed the document, Ronald picked up the pen and revised a few places, then put it in the document filing area marked with the "Dancing Hot" project.

...

What Ronald didn't expect was that the first thing he saw on his "Spicy Dancing" sales board was not the touchstone Katzenberg, nor his manager Nisita, but the "Longwei Kid" series. Producer, Weintraub.

"What's this? Your new project?" Weintraub condescended to come to Ronald's humble apartment. This was the first time he took the initiative to come to Ronald's house to talk things over.

Before he got down to business, he first saw a few panels that Ronald had placed by the wall.

"Ah, yes. My script assistant is very good. This is a script he likes. I just bought the production rights from the original producer."

Ronald simply turned a few panels over and placed them on the table. "It's a script with teenage women as its main market, and I'm going to make it with a small budget under five million."

"Is it such a small production?" Weintraub heard that it was a small production, and hurriedly wanted to increase the budget and grab this project that Ronald was fancying.

"You can release it at MGM/United Artists. I'll give you 5 million and get a budget of 10 million as the next project of 'Moonlight Sultry', how about it?"

"This movie is from a female perspective, and teenage men may not like to watch it very much, so I didn't want to use stars, and I just aimed at that relatively small audience. Small investments are easier to pay for."

"Exactly, I came to you today, just to get back to the book." Weintraub took Ronald's "Dancing Hot" script and read it, then motioned Susan to hand Ronald the two documents Germany.

"These are two invitations to adapt Longwei Kid into a video game. You have the property rights to the characters of Miyagi-sensei and Daniel-san, as well as a part of the share of the second part of Longwei Kid. This contract requires your consent. "

Weintraub's concubine and assistant, Susan Atkins, took out two documents and handed them to Ronald.

Ronald took a look. One was a development contract from Atlus Corporation. This is a game development company in Dongying, which specializes in making games for home game consoles for Nintendo of Dongying.

"Is this NES game console the most popular little gray box right now?" Ronald looked at the plan. This game was developed for home game consoles. The game console needs to be connected to a TV and played with a handle.

"Yes, the American version of the game console is like that. There is also a Japanese version of the game console." Susan pointed to the picture on a page in the plan,

to Ronald.

"Huh? Isn't this a red and white machine?"

"Red and white machine? The name you gave is easy to understand." Susan smiled. "The other is the development authorization for computer games."

Ronald picked up a second license, a game development license for newer models of computers, the Atari ST, and the Commod Amiga.

"Commodity, I know, it's a game console with a keyboard. Didn't Atari go bankrupt?"

"That's old news from you. After the reorganization of Atari, it is mainly a computer brand. ST is their new computer model. This computer has 512K of memory and can also be equipped with MIDI devices. Many people in the music industry like it. use.

Commod's new model, the Amiga, also doesn't have a gamepad, which is used by many animation companies to color paintings. Both are computers used by many professionals. "

"Then why make games for them?"

"People always want to be entertained, isn't it great to be able to use a working computer for entertainment?"

"Well..." Ronald himself only used that old personal computer to write. He didn't expect that the computer has developed so fast now. In addition to composing music and painting, it can also be used to play games. "Are you going to update your computer yourself?"

He quickly found the place where he needed his signature and signed it. Handed it back to Susan.

"Your script..." Weintraub next to him had quickly flipped through Ronald's "Dancing Hot" script, and he hesitated.

"Is it not suitable for a big production? It doesn't matter. I can find investors slowly. Do you have any ideas for releasing this film? The production budget is not very high."

"Well... so what, my current MGM/United Artists are still fighting against various pre-merger factions, and we'd better focus on 'moonlight sultry' now."

"That's right, it doesn't matter. I'll look for a few others."

Ronald looked at Weintraub. His main energy now has been on managing a huge company and integrating internal human resources. He must not be as interested in this kind of small market and small production works as before. .

"This script is really well written." After Weintraub put down the script, Susan picked it up and flipped through it.

"Why, do you like this script too?" Ronald didn't expect Susan Atkins to like the script very much.

"Yeah, what girl hasn't imagined that she can dance well, partner with the boy who dances the best, and win everyone's envy?"

"How about you, do you want to try to release this movie?" Ronald said half-jokingly, seeing her fascinated look.

Weintraub pulled Susan over and said a few quick words in her ear.

"Sorry, Ronald. Jerry's focus is on MGM's business, my main job is to assist him, I'm afraid I can't divide more energy to release this film"

Susan Eakins explained to Ronald why she couldn't help release the film. She slowly put the script down, "However, I really like this movie, you have to make it out when you get a chance."

"Of course, I'm going to find a publisher and set up a project, and then find a director." Ronald looked at Susan, who was about the same age as himself, thinking that although this woman is not too young, she still has a very bright heart for a young girl.

...

"Just put it here." Ronald let in two door-to-door installation workers, and a new computer that looked very much like his original computer was placed on the desk.

"Mr. Li, this is a new product from IBM, PC 286. It uses the latest Intel 80286 CPU, 640KB of memory, a 1.2M high-capacity double-sided 3.5-inch floppy disk, and a 20M hard drive."

Ronald looked at the characters displayed on the screen, no longer the green of the old-fashioned monitor, but a white character.

"The monitor looks good."

"Yes, this is a 256-color true color display", the installation engineer took the keyboard and entered the C drive.

"Is this the hard drive?" Ronald looked at the letter C on the drive letter. The first two A drives and B drives were all floppy disks.

"Yes", the young engineer hit a win, then the monitor jumped and a blue-white interface appeared.

"This is the latest Microsoft Windows, and you can use this device, the mouse, to select files, etc."

Ronald took the mouse, and naturally double-clicked the close symbol on the window, and the file manager was closed.

"Ah, yes, this double-click can..." The engineer also introduced.

Ronald double-clicked again, opened the C drive interface, and dragged the files from the floppy drive into this window.

"Yes, it seems that Mr. Li has used it before, so that he can copy the file."

"Thank you," Ronald offered a $20 tip and a Coke to the two installation engineers.

Sitting there for a while playing Windows, Ronald was bored, the system seemed familiar, but not fun.

He still backed out and opened the Word Star software using the Dos character interface. Hard disks are indeed much faster and less noisy than floppy disks. Ronald opened a new file and started writing his own summary of the sales feedback on Hot Dance.

"It seems that older women also like the story of the script. Maybe they can use this advantage to gain the goodwill of female executives in the company..."

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