After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 285: Youzu Tribody and Zhongying Wandering

"The Three-Body Problem" is undoubtedly a very good IP, but Zhang Fanfan has it in his hands, so he can't do this.

People who understand the industry see a deadlock, but the intruders who don’t understand break it!
The company willing to co-develop "The Three-Body Problem" with Zhang Fanfan is called "Yoozu Interactive", whose founder Lin Qi was born in the 80s.

At that time, Youzu was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's SME Board, with a market value of nearly 200 billion.

Going public gives the company more room to seek new directions.

Lin Qi saw a PPT in a consulting company that analyzed in detail the entire development process of the two IPs, Star Wars and Marvel. One of the data gave him "a great stimulus": Star Wars sold nearly $100 billion in total during its entire life cycle.

At that time, Youzu only earned more than 10 billion RMB a year from its mobile gaming business.

Lin Qi's ambition was thus aroused.

At a drinking party, Lin Qi met the writer Kong Ergou.

Kong Ergou wrote
After leaving Xiao Ma, Kong Ergou wanted to lead his own team to produce movies, and Lin Qi also had the idea of ​​trying his hand in the film and television industry.

Hit it off immediately!
Lin Qi had read The Three-Body Problem earlier, and he said to Kong Ergou, “Go and buy back the copyright in two weeks. We’ll set up a company, and you’ll be the CEO.”

It’s not your own money, so you don’t feel bad about spending it.

Kong Ergou offered a sky-high price that shocked the industry and won the adaptation rights for The Three-Body Problem.

In this way, Youzu Pictures was officially established, and Lin Qi fulfilled his promise and appointed Kong Ergou as CEO.

On the third day after the company was founded, they announced their participation in the filming of the movie “The Three-Body Problem”.

Each "Three-Body" movie has an investment of 2 million RMB, and a total of six films are planned to be shot, with a total investment of billion!
This was definitely a huge production in the industry at that time!

However... the series of problems that followed proved indirectly that the film and television giants had foresight...

The filming of the Three-Body Movie was a huge sensation, so much so that many big shots in the world came out to pay attention, while some watched silently.

Some bigwigs took advantage of the research period to meet with Lin Qi and Liu Cixin, and told the media: "Make this movie a business card that will make domestic films among the world's top level."

The boss is very concerned.
Lin Qi was also very generous. He originally invested 2 million yuan in the first part of the "Three-Body" movie, and increased the investment to 4 million yuan, doubling it.

However... the result was disastrous.

Kong Ergou, who came from a film and television company, had no experience in completely managing and producing a movie, and Zhang Fanfan had even less experience.

Due to the lack of grasp of the overall macro situation, the movie "The Three-Body Problem" buried countless landmines during the creation period!
First of all, it’s about the content. Zhang Fanfan built a 50-person screenwriter team.

This number is extremely unreasonable. Normally, two or three screenwriters for a movie is considered too many.

The director with the most screenwriters in the industry is Jiang Wen, but there are only five or six of them, and, because that is Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen is the main controller of the script, and others are just polishing his inspiration.

Unprofessional filming. There was a green screen scene, all the staff and actors were already there, and when everything was ready, the director team suddenly found that the prepared screen was not long enough.

In the end I didn't change it and just shot it anyway.

Besides, Zhang Fanfan spent a lot of time thinking about the special effects.

The first special effects company invited by the film crew was the Hollywood team VHQ, which had participated in films such as "Life of Pi" and "Avatar".

From the perspective of capabilities, there seemed to be no problem, but the key point was that when the special effects team was found, the film had already been shot - a completely reverse process.

When the crew took the early materials and asked them to optimize them, the people in Hollywood were confused and couldn't do it.

So they replaced VHQ and cooperated with a domestic media company called "Mindy".

Mindy is not a well-known special effects company in China. Later, the company went bankrupt and was included in the list of dishonest companies.

What Hollywood couldn't handle, Mindy certainly couldn't handle either.

After a year of hard work, Youzu Pictures only got a rough cut of the movie with incomplete special effects.

When the post-production was almost completed, the film was finally finished and sent for review.

At that time, everyone in Youzu Pictures had a unanimous attitude that as long as the film could pass the review, they would immediately shoot the second part.

However, the film was taken away before it was even reviewed by the General Administration.

In the end... he was killed directly.

In 2016, there was no news about "The Three-Body Problem", which was originally scheduled to be released in the summer, and doubts arose online.

Someone broke the news on Weibo that The Three-Body Problem has been postponed indefinitely, Kong Ergou has resigned, and all the footage shot by Zhang Fanfan has been discarded.

The incident quickly turned into a public relations crisis. Eleven hours after the Weibo post was published, Zhang Fanfan responded: "Rumors will be broken on their own. We welcome you to continue to hype them up."

This Weibo post became his last public Weibo post.

It has always been on his Weibo.

Every year, people go to 'sweep the graves'.

After that, Youzu Pictures entered a turbulent three years.

In the past three years, the company has changed four CEOs in succession.

The growing popularity of "The Three-Body Problem" has increased its commercial value, and more and more people are coming to get a piece of the pie.

In 2015, Guangguang Media participated in this project through "investment + distribution".

The division of copyright rights between Youzu and Zhang Fanfan has also changed several times. At the beginning, Zhang Fanfan’s condition was that he must be the director of all the projects of "The Three-Body Problem".

Later, the contract changed to: all other derivative rights of "The Three-Body Problem" were given to Youzu, but he had to be the director of the movie.

After joining Guangxian, Lin Qi couldn't handle Zhang Fanfan, so he often invited Zhang Fanfan to the office of Guangxian's president Wang Changtian for tea.

The three parties communicated together on how to carry out subsequent cooperation on this IP.

From the perspective of Youzu and Guangxian, all the cooperation is blocked because of Zhang Fanfan.

Because he had to be the director, they had almost no way to communicate anything with other parties.

Zhang Fanfan was unwilling to give up the copyright, which was not a problem from a commercial compliance perspective, but his personal strength delayed this good project.

Especially after "The Three-Body Problem" won the Hugo Award, it was no longer someone's own project.

However, Zhang Fanfan insisted on being the director, which put the project into a deeper deadlock.

He was directly killed by the big shots in Tianti, so who would dare to let him be a director?

Zhang Fanfan's "spokesperson" Song Chunyu dominated Zhang Yifang's opinions.

Song Chunyu trusts her husband very much and sincerely believes that her husband is the most talented director in the world and he just lacks an opportunity.

It’s almost the same as Bao Bao’s wife. Her husband is the most handsome in the world!
After several rounds of negotiations among the three parties, Zhang Fanfan finally gave in and said that they could talk.

A long and tortuous negotiation started, and Zhang Fanfan asked for 100 million yuan.

It was a good opportunity, but Lin Qi didn't seize it.

He thought: After a couple of days, I can let it air dry and then bargain.

Unexpectedly, two days later, Zhang Fanfan said first: Brother, I think one hundred million is still too little, can you add another 20 million?

After repeated negotiations, in January 2018, Youzu finally acquired the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" for a sky-high price of 1 million yuan, and acquired Baixing Society under the name of Zhang Fanfan and his wife.

At this point, Zhang Fanfan and his wife were officially out.

Youzu has begun a new round of development planning for The Three-Body Problem.

In December 2018, Youzu established the Three-Body Universe Cultural Development Company, determined to build its own Three-Body Universe.

Lin Qi holds a total equity stake of 65%, Bilibili holds 5%, and Liu Cixin holds 5% of the shares of his holding company.

Tencent, Netflix, Bilibili, Yihua Kaitian and other companies all obtained the adaptation rights of "The Three-Body Problem" from Youzu after that.

The reason why Li Mingyang knew so much about this is because he participated in the filming of The Three-Body Problem movie and worked as a production manager.

Not only does he know the inside story of The Three-Body Problem, he has also seen the finished film.

Although Zhang Fanfan's version of "The Three-Body Problem" did not make any drastic changes to the original novel, it was filmed without any ups and downs and was so bland that it did not seem like a movie.

It’s a bit like a PPT, introducing this story…

Later, after becoming a senior executive at Penguin Video, he understood even more.

The Three-Body Problem did not become a hot IP in the industry until it won the Hugo Award.

In 10, it has become a major IP in the film and television industry.

Because the boss likes...

In order to please their superiors, China Film Corporation once tried hard to obtain the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem", but the couple, one wanted to be the screenwriter and the other wanted to be the director, which made China Film Corporation very worried.

Later, China Film Group simply gave up on The Three-Body Problem.

Around 2012, China Film Group bought Liu Cixin's other three science fiction short stories, "The Wandering Earth", "Micro Era" and "Supernova Era", and held an open audition for directors.

This is also the reason why The Wandering Earth was born.

China Film couldn’t get the copyright for The Three-Body Problem, so it started making The Wandering Earth!
In the end, The Wandering Earth was a huge success at the box office and in terms of reputation, opening the door to domestic science fiction films.

Zhang Fanfan's Three-Body Project fell into oblivion, and so did he... He retired early and went to enjoy life.

The Three-Body Problem is too difficult...and most importantly, no one has filmed it!

There is nothing Li Mingyang can copy, a castle in the vacuum!
He has no confidence...

But The Wandering Earth is different!

He has watched The Wandering Earth 2 and , especially The Wandering Earth , more than a dozen times!
Although he couldn't remember everything, he still had an impression of the plot, characters, conflicts, and storyboards.

With the main framework.

There are also Guo Fan, Liu Cixin, and Wu Jing!
We just need to wait another two years and spend money to make The Wandering Earth.

Playing with that little broken ball now is just asking for death.

The small broken ball relies on the human wave tactic, which cannot be produced by cheap domestic special effects artists.

Only abroad...

And it is impossible for foreign countries to allow his little broken ball to appear!
The Hollywood film industry is the jewel in the crown of European and American industries!

It touches their most fundamental interests.

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(End of this chapter)