Huayu Entertainment: Who let him be the director!

Chapter 55 Negotiation
The copyright negotiations for "The Coffin Man's Diary" were not as smooth as expected.

News soon came from Director Chen that the original author, Hisamon Aoki, wanted to meet the director in person.

What else can Zhou Qing do?
I can only obey.

He quickly finalized the time and place of the meeting through Director Chen and Aoki Hisamon.

However, the time conflicts with class schedule, so before leaving, Zhou Qing still has to ask for leave from his class teacher.

Fortunately, with the success of Zhou Qing's "127 Hours", the class teacher will not be able to obstruct these things.

When he heard that Zhou Qing was going to Japan to discuss copyright, he immediately agreed without hesitation.

“Are you going to shoot a new movie?”

Wang Jinsong asked while looking at Zhou Qing expectantly.

"I am indeed a little itchy."

Zhou Qing smiled and did not hide it from Wang Jinsong.

"That's good! What kind of movie are you going to make this time?"

Wang Jinsong's eyes suddenly lit up and he asked with great interest.

"A movie about a undertaker. I accidentally read the novel before. It was well written and meaningful. This time I want to film this story."

Zhou Qing gave Wang Jinsong a brief introduction.

Wang Jinsong became more and more excited.

It sounds like this story can't be a commercial film, so Zhou Qing still plans to win an award this time.

If he wins another major award from one of the three major European film festivals, then this guy's reputation as a great director will be completely solidified.

"If you need any help from the school, please let me know. The school and I will spare no effort to support you, just like before."

Wang Jinsong did not ask any further questions, but just expressed his attitude to Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing expressed his gratitude to Wang Jinsong, and before leaving, he reminded Wang Jinsong: "Teacher Wang, the copyright of the novel may not be negotiated. Everything is unknown now, so please keep it a secret for me and don't tell anyone."

"Of course I know. There's no need to explain."

Wang Jinsong waved his hands. How could he possibly make a fuss before the matter was finalized?

Only then did Zhou Qing leave with peace of mind.

The flight tickets had already been booked by the assistant, and everything that needed to be prepared had also been prepared by the assistant.

Zhou Qing soon boarded a plane to Japan.

"Director Zhou."

Director Chen came to pick me up at the airport in person. He didn't show anything on the surface, but he felt a little upset inside.

This is the first task Director Zhou assigned to him.

Unexpectedly, after so many days of hard work, we still couldn’t get it done, and finally Director Zhou had to take action himself.

Frankly speaking, the result was not very good.

But the author of the novel is really difficult to deal with.

"What's going on with Aoki Hisamoto?"

Zhou Qing asked casually as he left with Director Chen.

"I lobbied him many times, and he finally relented, but he also made many specific requests, one of which was that you come to talk in person."

Director Chen introduced the situation to Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing didn't care about this. It wasn't an excessive request for the other party to ask for his sincerity.

Click, click, click!
"Director Zhou!"

While he was communicating the situation with Director Chen, reporters suddenly jumped out and started taking pictures of Zhou Qing.

This actually surprised Zhou Qing.

This is Japan, am I really that popular?

It can only be said that Zhou Qing still underestimated the weight of the three major European companies. This thing is not only heavyweight in China, but also in the world.

What's more, the scandal that happened in the ugly country recently has also spread to Japan.

This also made Zhou Qing's popularity in Japan much higher.

However, Zhou Qing had no intention of accepting any interviews this time. He just quickened his pace to avoid the reporters.

"I'm sorry, Director Zhou doesn't accept interviews."

Director Chen was protecting Zhou Qing from outside and shouting at the reporters, not caring whether they could understand him or not.

Fortunately, there were not many reporters and the car was parked not far away, so the group left smoothly.

"Berlin Best Director Award winner, 127 Hours director Zhou Qing made a low-key appearance in Japan."

"The reporter found Zhou Qing, a Chinese director, at the airport. Director Zhou Qing just won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival."

Some related reports still leaked out and attracted some attention to a certain extent.

However, these things have nothing to do with Zhou Qing, and Zhou Qing can't take care of them at all.

Under the guidance of Director Chen, he met Aoki Hisamon, the author of "The Coffin Man's Diary", in an inconspicuous business hotel.

"Mr. Zhou, nice to meet you."

"Hello, Mr. Aoki."

The two sides greeted each other in a friendly manner through the translation, and then went in and sat down politely.

"127 Hours is a touching movie. My wife and I love it very much. It is well deserved that such an excellent movie won an award at the Berlin Film Festival."

"The Diary of the Coffin Man is an excellent novel that touches people's hearts silently. I like it very much."

After some business exchanging, the two sides started to talk about business.

Aoki Hisamon then put forward his other request to Zhou Qing.

First of all, if Zhou Qing is adapted into a movie, the name cannot be changed.

Only the Chinese translation of "Diary of a Coffin Man" can be used.

"Mr. Aoki, movies and novels are two different literary media. It would be inappropriate to use the name of the novel directly as the name of the movie."

"But I will also respect Mr. Aoki's opinions and try my best to meet his requirements. We need to find a balance between the two sides."

"Mr. Aoki, what do you think of 'undertaker'? 'Diary' is indeed inappropriate, so just remove these two words."

After some negotiations between the two sides, the name of the movie was finally decided to be "The Undertaker".

Then Hisamon Aoki raised the second point, that if the movie was to be made, he would have to read the script first.

The script needs to be approved by Hisamon Aoki before it can be filmed.

Although Zhou Qing felt annoyed by this request, to be honest, he could understand it.

"The Coffinman's Diary" is Aoki Hisamon's child, and the other party naturally does not want it to be destroyed.

In fact, if it weren’t for Zhou Qingbailin’s reputation as a great director, Aoki Hisamoto wouldn’t even bother to talk about it.

However, although he understood it, Zhou Qing naturally could not accept that his own creation was constrained.

Started negotiating with the other party again.

After another round of discussion, Zhou Qing finally agreed to let Aoki Hisamon be the script consultant, but he only had the right to make suggestions and not the right to make decisions.

In addition, there were some other requests, big and small, some of which seemed ridiculous to Zhou Qing.

He didn't expect that Aoki Hisamoto was more difficult to deal with than he had imagined.

Fortunately, the final result was good. Although it was a waste of time, he and Aoki Hisamon still reached a cooperation.

The copyright of "Diary of the Coffin Man" was finally acquired.

Aoki Hisamon shook hands with Zhou Qing enthusiastically and invited Zhou Qing to his home, but Zhou Qing declined.

(End of this chapter)