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Chapter 337 The Third Leg
"Mr. Huang."

"Boss." Huang Ze was also greeted by a long-faced foreigner in his early thirties, who was hired from Disney by Huang Ze at a large sum of money and given the position of vice president.

It's Chris Sanders.

He is not well-known now, but his resume is good. He joined Marvel Comics Studio in 84 and joined Disney in 87. He has participated in "The Rescue Squad" and "Beauty and the Beast", and recently he is in the "Lion King" project team.

The job is important, yes, but it is not indispensable, so the people Huang Ze sent were able to recruit him to Xinghai Animation.

But Huang Ze knew one thing, that "Lilo and Stitch" in the previous life was his work.

He was also one of the screenwriters of "Mulan", and later switched to DreamWorks and directed "How to Train Your Dragon".

He can direct, write, do styling, and do dubbing.

This is exactly the talent Huang Ze needs!

If "The Lion King" was not still in the early stages of production, Huang Ze felt that if he wanted to recruit him after it was released, the price he would have to pay would at least double.

"Yes! Gather all the people above the level of team leader and go to the meeting room."

After everyone gathered, Huang Ze distributed the design drawings he had drawn earlier to his subordinates.

"This is the next project the company will work on! There is only one such project."

“I have high hopes for it, too.”

"I wrote the script, and I also drew the designs for the main characters."

"Of course, I'm not a professional painter, so I may need you to do some fine-tuning."

After a few opening remarks, Huang Ze temporarily gave the time to others and asked them to finish reading the design drawings and scripts first.

Chris Sanders, who came to Star Ocean Animation for US dollars, read the script for a while and his eyes suddenly lit up.

The story of alien creatures and a little girl.

"Hehe." Chris Sanders curled the corners of his mouth. He had fantasized about this when he was a child. After "Alien ET", he had always wanted to make a similar story, but he had no ideas, and his previous position could not decide what kind of story to make.

I didn't expect that the first project for this company, which I came to for money, would be like this.

Just what he wanted!

Looking at the design again, hmm, this blue alien creature is well designed and cute enough.

Seeing that everyone had seen enough, Huang Ze spoke again.

"I'll give you two years. Cost is not an issue. The budget should be at least 15 million US dollars. We should strive to produce this animated film."

"If this film is released and can recoup its costs, 10% of the revenue earned from the global box office market will be everyone's bonus! We can sign an agreement on this!"

Huang Ze was quite generous.

Firstly, it is to calm people's hearts, to attract them with huge benefits, and let everyone concentrate on their work.

Secondly, the biggest source of income for cartoons comes from various licensing activities every year.

The box office profit may be a significant number, but it will not account for the majority, so you won’t lose too much.

Of course, that amount of money is definitely more than enough for this team of over 200 people.

The expressions on the faces of everyone present were enough to illustrate this point.

After hearing Huang Ze's wish, everyone couldn't hold back their smiles, and said with great joy, "We must make "Lilo & Stitch" according to Director Huang's requirements!"

"Well, I feel relieved with your words!"

In the next few days, Huang Ze basically stayed in Xinghai Animation, sharing his creative inspirations with everyone and finalizing the tone of the film.

This discussion lasted for seven days before Huang Ze decided to temporarily let go of Xinghai Animation.

It was already evening when Huang Ze walked out of the Xinghai Animation office. He looked up at the sky and felt more expectant.

“I hope this movie won’t disappoint me.”

If this film can make a name for itself in the world animation film market, taking this first step well will make the rest of the process much easier.

By then, you will be able to walk on two legs.

One leg is still following the path of hand-drawn animation, while the other leg is directly following Pixar and investing heavily in 3D animation.

It would be fine to let Pixar release the film first. By then, all major distribution companies will definitely be hit hard by Pixar's "Toy Story".

After all, "Toy Story" won the North American box office championship that year.

Moreover, the crushing of 3D animated films over hand-drawn D animations is visible to the naked eye.

Basically, everyone with insight can realize that 3D animation replacing hand-drawn animation is the general trend.

But other companies haven’t joined yet!

At that time, even if Xinghai's new animation was not finished, it was almost done. It would not be a problem to sell it at a good price to other distributors except Disney!

"Hehehe!" Back in the car, Huang Ze couldn't help but stretch out his hand and take a look.

"If the animation can succeed, Xinghai Film and Television will be able to stand on three legs in the future!"

Action movies, cartoons, oh, and horror movies.

……

Zhang Jianya, who was in charge of the horror film, performed quite well. Less than a week after Huang Ze shifted his focus away from Star Ocean Animation, he came back with a series of storyboard scripts.

"Oh."

"Is it finished already?" Huang Ze raised his eyebrows.

I can draw the storyboard script quickly because I have the original film images in my head and I don't have to hesitate at all. Although Zhang Jianya is not as fast as me, this speed is still very good.

Much better than Wang Jiawei.

He has been discharged from the hospital, but he doesn't even have a script yet. No one knows what he is thinking about every day lying on the hospital bed. Huang Ze even doubts whether Wang Jiawei's new script can be released this year.

"It's finished!" Zhang Jianya smiled. "I can't say I'm a master in the field of horror films, but I've made three films after all, and this is a sequel. Don't worry, I've paid attention to most of the points you want to express, but I don't know if I got it right."

"Let me take a look." Huang Ze took it without saying anything and started reading it immediately.

In fact, it is very similar to the first part. At the very beginning, there are hints to the audience again and again, hinting at how the main characters will die, and then the heroine encounters a disaster.

The plane in the first film exploded very quickly.

The second part is about a highway, which sounds like a less spectacular scene than a plane explosion. But the first part is about a plane at night, and the explosion was so fast that there aren’t many scenes of the disaster.

But there is more that can be filmed in the second part.

This is an unlimited speed highway during the day.

Even if you see an accident ahead, you can't stop behind.

Cars are destroyed one after another and people are killed, which makes for a lot of visually impactful scenes.

This is also where Huang Ze mainly looks.

After all, these scenes have nothing to do with ordinary horror movies.

(End of this chapter)