Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 47 Infinite World
Chen Linfeng has been laying the groundwork for this novel for a long time.

Strictly speaking, Infinite Horror is fan fiction, a series of stories based on the plots of many movies and the protagonists.

The main content of the story is that the main god (the big light ball) selects suitable candidates from various worlds to form a team, and puts them into the world based on novels, movies and other works.

The Lord God issues various tasks, and if the team members fail to complete them, they are at risk of being wiped out.

In this process, the protagonist constantly makes new teammates and competes with other teams in the hope of leaving the main god space one day.

However, this raises a problem: writing this novel will inevitably incur the risk of copyright infringement.

Therefore, since 1998, Chen Linfeng has published the original movies of some mission worlds in the previous life of Infinite Horror in the form of short novellas in various literary magazines.

He has written novels based on several movies, including "Resident Evil", "Alien" and "Final Destination".

Among them, "Resident Evil" was rewritten by him into "Resident Evil World", adding the setting of World War Z.

"Alien" was changed to "Cosmic Monster", with the monster's appearance and fighting style changed, and the plot was based on the later Alien prequel movie, the story of Prometheus.

The name of "Final Destination" remained unchanged, but the story was localized.

"The Grudge" is more difficult to handle. He changed this world into a story from the Chinese classic "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". The plot of this mission world does not focus much on the background, and changing to a Chinese-style ghost will not have much impact.

In addition, the original work also includes "The Mummy", "Jurassic Park", and other classic movie worlds that have already been staged.

Worlds including The Mummy and Jurassic Park appear relatively late in the original story and will not appear in the first book of "Infinite Worlds" he wrote.

Chen Linfeng's "Infinite World 1" only planned to write about the plot where the Zhongzhou team re-entered the biochemical world and encountered the demon team and was almost wiped out.

As for the subsequent classic movies, it depends on whether he can or has the capital to buy the license when he writes the second part. If he really can’t buy it, he can only change it into other mission worlds of the same type.

In addition to these slight changes in the mission world, Chen Linfeng also made changes to the protagonist's personality.

In the original novel of the previous life, the protagonist Zheng Zha was a white-collar manager who was somewhat intelligent and passionate in the early stage. Later, Chu Xuan took on the role of an internal wise man, and Zheng Zha became a brainless gorilla. The character change was too abrupt.

So when Chen Linfeng was writing, he set Zheng Zha as a college student, passionate and righteous, but also somewhat rational, and he also tried his best to maintain the basic color of his character in the later stages.

Able to be a decisive and resolute captain without losing his rationality.

When Chen Linfeng designed the outline, he planned a growth line for the protagonist, just hoping to make his character transformation more reasonable.

Of course, he will not forget the harsh words he said on the Internet.

At the beginning of the Infinite World, which is also the beginning of the Resident Evil mission, Chen Linfeng changed the character of the original aunt to Yuanyuan and slightly increased her role.

When he first faced the only senior person, Zhang Jie, he was stupid and arrogant. After being taught a lesson, he became timid and cowardly.

As expected, he didn't have enough energy and died while climbing the stairs in the first mission.

Totally a clown.

If this book can become a novel genre like its predecessor Infinite Horror, it will trigger many online writers to imitate it or create fan fiction.

Then this Yuanyuan will surely become a classic forever because of this opening description.

Chen Linfeng is looking forward to that day.

By the summer vacation, he had almost finished writing the novel. He spent two days finishing it and several more days sorting it out and checking for errors.

After confirming that it was correct, Chen Linfeng mailed a copy of the novel to Mengya and Kodansha far away in Neon.

Moe and Kodansha quickly sent people to sign a contract with him.

Mengya was received by Sister Mei, because Mengya had already given Chen Linfeng the top domestic royalty rate, and this time it was also based on previous conditions.

Sister Mei was also familiar with Zheng Yuling who came from Mengya, and it didn’t take long for the two of them to agree on the terms.

After that, Sister Mei mainly talked to her about the distribution and publicity strategies of the new book.

Since they had cooperated many times and had a good relationship with each other, the negotiations progressed quickly and Chen Linfeng was soon found to sign the contract.

Kodansha was mainly receiving Chen Linfeng. Thanks to the great success of his two novels, he had gained considerable fame in Japan, so this time he was offered a higher standard, meeting the standards for famous writers - 12 percentage points of royalties.

At the same time, Tanaka, who came to sign a contract with him, also brought two people from Capcom and Constantine Films.

The two men came to him seeking authorization for film adaptation.

This story begins with the publication of his collection of short stories by Kodansha.

An employee of Capcom in Japan discovered the biochemical world chapter in the "Kirin Short Story Collection" and reported it to the company's top management.

When the Capcom executives saw this, they were shocked and realized that the plot was almost identical to the movie that our game was about to be adapted into!

If we look at the earliest publication date - 1998, it is a full year earlier than 1999 when the film began to be written. This certainly cannot be said to be plagiarism. Instead, the film script is suspected of infringement.

They soon contacted Paul Anderson, who was doing post-production at Emily Ken.

Paul felt really screwed. At first he didn't believe it at all.

After reading the translated novel, he had to painfully admit that there was indeed a lot of overlap in the content.

Nonsense, it's written according to the movie plot, how can there be no overlap.

"Paul, are you sure you haven't read this article? Perhaps you have heard a similar story somewhere before?"

"I really don't remember. Did I write the script because I heard such a story?" Paul Anderson slapped his head hard.

He wondered if he had really heard it before and then forgot about it, leaving only the content of the story remaining in his mind, otherwise how could such similar content appear!

No one would ever think of being reborn.

"Paul, turn the pages to the back. There is a second story about the biochemical world written by this author, and it is connected to the previous content." John from Constantine Pictures reminded him.

Chen Linfeng not only wrote the first part at that time, he also wrote the second part which received relatively good reviews.

Paul read it carefully and appreciated the story of the second part.

If a second part could really be made, based on this story, it seems like the effect would be very good.

Paul began to understand what his good friend John meant.

After thinking for a long time, he decided to contact the Chinese author and obtain the authorization for the second story together.

When Chen Linfeng learned the purpose of the visit, he readily agreed to provide the authorization.

He then made a suggestion.

"My new book contains content from the biochemical world."

Chen Linfeng flipped through his manuscript and said, "I will use Biochemical World as a mission copy of this novel. If possible, I would like to exchange the adaptation rights of the first Biochemical World novel for the name authorization of your movie. How about that?"

"This can be a good linkage!" Tanaka, who was listening, said in surprise. If it works, he can already imagine how much it will help promote each other if the movie and the novel are released at the same time.

Seeing that the other two people didn't quite understand, Chen Linfeng explained to them the general setting of "Infinite World" and its relationship with the biochemical world.

John from Constantine Films was a little hesitant because he did not have the corresponding authorization when he arrived.

He himself didn't want to get involved. What benefit could a collaboration with a novelist from the Eastern world bring to their movies?

At this time, Tanaka stood up and emphasized the influence of Chen Linfeng's works in Neon.
"Johnson, Mr. Qilin is an extremely influential new writer in Japan. His two books have sold over three million copies so far, and a large number of fan clubs and fan groups have emerged in schools. The number of people influenced will only increase."

He said sincerely, "In China, Chen Jun's influence may be even greater. He is not only a famous writer, but also a famous actor. Both countries may be interested in the film because of his new book."

He bowed his head, "I think you should not miss this great opportunity for publicity."

Sato from Capcom couldn't help but nodded. Kirin's popularity in Japan was indeed extraordinary, otherwise the employees of their company would not have seen the stories in the novel collection.

John said hesitantly, "I need to call the company for instructions."

(End of this chapter)