Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

Christopher was stunned for a moment, adjusted his glasses subconsciously, and thought for a moment before saying: "Mr. Yu, to be honest with you, the screenwriter and I have already had preliminary ideas on how to adapt the novel, but you also know that adapting the novel If it becomes a film and television script, that is the responsibility of the screenwriter and director and has nothing to do with the author of the original novel."

"But, I can understand your mood. As far as I know, you are also an excellent director, so I will make an exception and tell you my idea for the adaptation."

"Thank you, Mr. Kristoff."

In the video, Kristoff began to talk about his preliminary ideas for the adaptation:

The male protagonist (white) is a retired special forces soldier who has been living in the underground city. On the way, he encounters the heroine (mixed Chinese and American) who is attacked by gangsters. The hero saves the beauty and saves the heroine.

The two came to the heroine's house. The heroine's adoptive father was a black scientist and told him about the history of the wandering earth. How to break out of the solar system, where we are now, 40 generations have passed.

The population dropped from 3.5 billion who rushed out of the solar system to 1 billion.

Human beings live in underground cities all over the earth. Life is difficult. There is very little communication in underground cities. Technology has slowly degraded over the past 1,000 years. No one can repair the planetary engines left over from the solar system era. Existing humans only feed engines. People in this era generally believed in Sun God religion.

Suddenly, government special forces rush in and want to arrest someone. The male protagonist pulls the female protagonist away with all kinds of bravery. Black scientists were beaten to death by government troops to buy time.

After various pursuits along the way, just when the government forces were about to catch the hero and heroine, the hero and heroine were rescued by the rebels.

It turns out that the heroine is the daughter of the former leader of the rebel army. When she arrived at the rebel base, she began to tell the history. It turned out that the former leader of the rebel army was also a high-level member of the coalition government. Seeing the suffering of the people, she wanted to use strategic resources to provide relief, but corrupt officials did not agree and were persecuted. , later led the rebel army in the uprising. He was arrested a few years ago and was recently publicly executed.

The rebel army decided to save the heroine's father. Everyone agreed that after making various preparations, they would fight all the way to the government hall. Rescue the heroine’s father.

At this time, the big BOSS at the top of the government appeared and started a round of Darwinian theory of evolution. But the heroine immediately refuted the universal values, and the two sides started fighting if their values ​​​​did not match.

At this time the world collapsed. The earth encounters the gravitational attack of a huge black hole (or asteroid belt). Everyone thought that a catastrophe was coming, and they wanted to disperse the birds and beasts.

In order to encourage everyone, the heroine delivered a speech on universal values, and everyone regained their confidence. However, various rescue operations were still in vain. The hero's father finally drove the last ancient super-large colonial ship into a black hole to complete the redemption.

The rebel army took over the government and a new democratic and liberal government was established.

At the end, the hero and heroine, wearing protective suits, finally came to the surface for the first time. They hugged each other, saw the alien planet rising on the horizon, and began a new journey to wander the earth.

The three people in the video fell into silence after listening, and no one spoke for a while.

"How about this story?" A trace of pride appeared on Kristoff's face.

"Mr. Christopher, this adaptation of yours is very Hollywood." Meiliang interjected.

"Ms. Mingmei, you are right. This plot has gathered various elements commonly used in Hollywood, including values. If it is filmed, it will be wonderful."

"But this is a science fiction novel written by a Chinese." Mingliang complained.

"I understand what you mean, Ms. Bright." Kristoff reacted immediately: "The protagonist you are talking about is white instead of Chinese or Asian? I cannot deny it, but this approach is in line with the current mainstream values ​​of Hollywood. At the same time, It also guarantees box office sales.”

Meili and Li Wan nodded after hearing this.

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In science fiction movies, especially apocalyptic ones, which one doesn’t have white people saving the world?

Of course, there will also be beautiful women and black men who are full of foul language as assistants. As for Asians - they are either unknown people engaged in technology or they are cannon fodder.

This is almost standard.

At this time, Yu Dongqing spoke.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Kristoff, after listening to your script, I don't intend to sell the adaptation rights to you."

"Why?!" Kristoff looked surprised: "Is it because the protagonist of the adapted movie is not you Chinese? My God, you actually take this so seriously, okay?"

Kristoff pondered for a moment: "How about I change the male protagonist to a Chinese, and let your Chinese martial arts star Li Yunjie play the role?"

This is possible.

Li Yunjie is extremely skilled, he is completely qualified for this role, and he is Chinese.

But Yu Dongqing shook his head: "Mr. Christoph, you misunderstood me. What race the protagonist is is secondary. The most important thing is that the spiritual core reflected in this novel is the collectivism of human beings united to save their homeland." , your change is not reflected at all. It is your American-style personal heroism."

Kristoff actually laughed when he heard this.

"Collectivism? Mr. Yu, do you think collectivist films can be tolerated in the United States? And dear Mr. Yu, you question collectivism in this novel! Otherwise, how could there be a collective trial of 5,000 soldiers by a ragtag group of people? !”

"You are right, but this does not mean that the script adaptation must be in accordance with the spirit of the original work. So, I'm sorry, I cannot sell you the film and television adaptation rights of this book."

"Do you Chinese want to film? Film that kind of so-called collectivism? With all due respect, let's not discuss whether it's good-looking or not. You can't produce Hollywood-style blockbusters in your country now! Let's just say one thing. You can produce it in your country. Special effects like those in Hollywood blockbusters?!"

On the video side, the three of them were silent.

After a while, Yu Dongqing said slowly: "Mr. Christoph, if you don't have it now, it doesn't mean you won't have it in the future."

"Well then I wish you success."

"Thanks."

The other party's avatar disappears from the channel screen.

"FUCK!"

In his office in Los Angeles, Christopher couldn't help but cursed: "This Yu Dongqing is too arrogant! He has made a few kung fu movies and thinks he can make science fiction movies? NONO!. Rejecting me is the last thing he has done." Stupid decision!"

"Mr. Christoph, you don't need to be too angry." The assistant next to him comforted: "Although the Chinese is unwilling to sell the novel to us, we can find other science fiction novels. I think there are still many excellent novels.

"Yes, there are many, but I like this one very much." Mr. Kristoff sighed: "It can completely be changed into a series like "The Silver Star Empire", which is really a pity."

In Yu Dongqing's study, the three of them were speechless.

"What are you waiting for? Drink tea, keep drinking tea." Yu Dongqing said with a smile: "Mingming, the water is a bit cold, please heat it up."

"Forget it, don't drink anymore, I want to go back." Li Wan sighed after finishing speaking, looking at what Yu Dongqing wanted to say but couldn't, shook his head and left the study.

"Brother Li, let me see you off." Meili followed and walked out.

Now that the matter was done, Yu Dongqing turned off the computer and returned to the living room with the tea cup. Meili had already sent Li Wan back.

"Husband, do you feel sorry for what happened just now?" Mingliang asked.

"A bit, after all, 3 million US dollars is not a small amount." Yu Dongqing said with a smile.

"Actually, you didn't plan to sell the novel to Christopher at all, did you?" Meiliang looked at him and said.