After the filming was completed, I awakened my superpowers.

Chapter 127 The most tragic crew in history (asking for monthly tickets)
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Honestly.

At this moment, Sheng Yixia wanted to turn around and leave.

Just kidding, he just wanted to get some big IP, a big-budget movie, and play a role and quickly get in and out.

I really don't want to get involved in this mess.

But Director Xu saw that Sheng Yixia looked a little excited, and he didn't know what he thought of. He patted his shoulder and said with emotion: "Yixia, don't get too excited for now, especially don't reveal our intentions. After the filming starts, we will tamper with the plot little by little. By then, it will be a done deal, and the investors and producers will have no way to do anything to us."

As a director, especially a famous director, what's wrong with "minor" changes to the script during filming? Even if the changes become more and more, it's because the script is unreasonable~~
By the time the filming is completed, can we just postpone it and reshoot it?

Moreover, investors value results more than process. As long as you shoot well and ensure that the final film is good-looking, the investors will be able to explain it.

So although this is risky, it's still worth a try.

Sheng Yixia took a deep breath, calmed down her excitement, and looked at Director Xu and Han Ming with a slightly complicated look: "Director Xu, Brother Han, I really didn't expect this~~"

Yes, he really didn't expect it.

Director Xu was dressed in a satin shirt, cloth shoes, and Buddhist beads on his hands, looking like an immortal. Han Ming, on the other hand, was a graduate of a regular school, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. Who would have thought that the two of them had secretly joined hands, preparing to usurp the throne and subvert the entire work!

"Alas, I have been suffering from female dramas for a long time." Director Xu said helplessly, "Yixia, you also know that I come from martial arts and action dramas, but now you know how difficult it is for me to take on a serious martial arts or fairy tale drama?"

"No, I didn't pick it up at all."

"No, to be precise, even if there are, they will be greatly modified by investors, producers, and platforms on the grounds that they do not meet market demand. Passionate fighting becomes sweet love, adventure and treasure hunting becomes lovers' playfulness, and going down to the mortal world to experience disasters becomes endless entanglements between men and women. Even cruel wars have become a rage for the sake of a beauty."

"Love, the whole screen is about love. I'm not Li Jianmin, I can only act in romance dramas."

At this point, Director Xu became somewhat indignant, and pointed the finger directly at the overbearing Director Li.

Uh……

Sheng Yixia secretly felt lucky that the domineering Director Li was not here, otherwise the two of you would have started fighting again.
but.

Mr. Xu's words really touched Sheng Yixia's heart. In fact, he quite liked watching TV series such as fairy tales and fantasy. Some of the old TV series were quite well-made and included love stories between men and women, but they were only a part of the overall content.

However, as the platform became increasingly popular and gradually occupied a dominant position, the platform discovered through big data that the TV drama market is dominated by female audiences, and ancient costume female dramas are relatively more likely to become popular, and can also attract a large number of female audiences to recharge, order in advance, and even sell peripheral products.

There are some special reasons, which I won’t go into detail.

Capital is profit-seeking, so it will naturally tend to do these things. Especially once a female-oriented drama becomes popular, it will lead to a large number of follow-up works, and gradually the screen will be filled with love stories.

Even if serious male-oriented fairy tales and fantasy dramas are to be filmed, they will undergo some subversive changes, greatly weakening the elements such as combat and adventure, and adding a large number of love elements.

This has resulted in a large number of male viewers being unable to find the content they want to watch, and then choosing games, novels, comics, etc.

The loss of male data has also made the platform more convinced that the female market is easier to serve, and it will continue to increase the output of content for women.

Over time, the traditional fairy tales and fantasy will have no future.

Thinking of this, Sheng Yixia looked at Director Xu curiously and said, "Director Xu, our Fairyland Romance: The Three Realms War God Falls in Love with Me is essentially a female-oriented work, right? How do you plan to change it?"

"Add a worldview framework, improve the settings of each world, balance the combat power of each world, transform the conflicts between each world from love conflicts between men and women to irreconcilable conflicts such as fighting for survival resources, and make the wars between each world more reasonable and tenable." Director Xu had obviously thought about this problem a long time ago, and he seemed to be talking nonstop as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Reset and improve the main storyline structure, strengthen the racial conflicts among the worlds, redesign the distribution of combat power to make it relatively rational, redesign the economic system, resource system of each world, and pyramid system of species in each world to make the war more comprehensive and not limited to destroying the enemy's vitality."

"..."

Watching Director Xu talking and his face turning red with excitement, Sheng Yixia's eyes and mouth couldn't help but widen slightly.

No, Director Xu, aren't you too ambitious? Aren't you completely changing other people's works?
"I also know that remaking other people's works is not good." Director Xu calmed down a little and said helplessly, "But don't I have any other options?"

"Director Xu, I understand you." Han Ming said seriously, "Other production teams can modify male-oriented works, so why can't we modify female-oriented works?"

Han Ming's words made Sheng Yixia think of something.

I remember that Han Ming once took on a male fantasy IP work and acted in it with great enthusiasm, but he found that the film was changed terribly... In the end, he was brutally attacked by fans of the original novel.

Until now, he is still silently enduring the occasional online violence from fans of the original novel.

If this film is remade again, will Han Ming once again suffer from the attacks from fans of the original female IP?

In fact, they said.

Sheng Yixia was still somewhat tempted. After all, the investment in this film was huge. If he could really create the role he wanted, or one that suited his own aesthetics and ideas, it might not be a bad thing.

But the problem is that this film will take a long time to make.

Besides, his reputation as a drama tyrant has already spread, and if there is another one like this, wouldn't it completely confirm that Sheng Yixia is a drama tyrant? Wherever he goes, he will change the play, add more scenes...

"Yixia, don't worry too much." Director Xu saw that Sheng Yixia seemed a little entangled, so he persuaded her, "This matter may not have a lot of resistance. In fact, I have had in-depth discussions with the senior management of the platform."

"The dividends of female-oriented content have actually reached their limit. The competition among various websites for female viewers has completely entered the red ocean stage. Now, it is the male-oriented fantasy content that is a blue ocean market."

"As long as a male-oriented Xianxia blockbuster is released and becomes popular, it will add a lot of data to the platform. According to my analysis, major platforms will significantly increase their investment in male-oriented works in the future. If we want to do it, we must be a pioneer!"

Sheng Yixia also agreed with Director Xu's analysis.

After all, the male audience members were not dead, they just had nothing to watch. He himself had a deep understanding of this.

the most important is.

Sheng Yixia's card upgrade has reached a bottleneck. He feels that with the help of the Internet, it is not particularly difficult to upgrade the cards to golden legend, but it will be very difficult to go one or two steps further.

Take the card [Scientific Inspiration] as an example. It was upgraded to the Golden Legend level a long time ago, but now the Bionic Girlfriend has received 50 million in revenue sharing, but it still cannot be upgraded any further.

Obviously, card upgrades become more difficult as time goes on.

Sheng Yixia doesn't know how much of the profit share she will get before her scientific inspiration can reach a higher level and produce new entries, but it is foreseeable that the scale of online movies is too small after all. Even if a hit is produced, the best that can be achieved is something like a bionic girlfriend or a big star.

The road ahead still has to rely on hit online dramas and big movies in theaters.

After all, once these two become hits, the former will become a phenomenal work, while the latter will have box office revenue of billions or even more. They also have a strong long-tail effect, making it easier for the characters they interpret to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Simply put, the current size of the online game cannot support a character with "national popularity". It is more suitable to be used in the early and middle stages to quickly accumulate the card pool so that one's tactics can be more diversified.

If you really want to get cards of mythical quality, you still have to rely on hit online dramas and hit theater movies, preferably ones that can become popular all over the world.

And now.

"A Romance in the Fairyland" was the entry point in front of him.

The most important thing is that the director and the male lead of this film...seem to be like-minded people! ? ?
Sheng Yixia thought for a moment and said, "But I don't think we can completely abandon the romance. The market for pure sweet dramas has begun to shrink. We might as well make the heroine more intelligent, lurking, forbearing, and even playing games with various forces for her own purposes. We can write about her as a heroine."

"When the hero and heroine fight each other openly and secretly, they also fall in love with each other, and finally their feelings are tested by justice and racial survival."

Just kidding, although he thinks he should make TV series that men will also like to watch, it doesn't mean he has to give up on female audiences. You know, most of his current fans are women.

Most importantly, women can hold up half the sky.

Without them, how can Sheng Yixia make the cards have better potential for upgrading?
Even if it’s just for the quality of the cards, he has to go the route of appealing to both male and female audiences!

Director Xu and Han Ming looked at each other, both revealing smiles of relief and expectation.

When Sheng Yixia heard the news earlier, he pretended to be shocked, incredulous, and even wanted to run away. It was clearly an act, testing the firmness of their wills and their determination to truly change.

After they both opened their hearts and spoke frankly to each other, Sheng Yixia immediately stopped acting and began to show his true colors as a drama queen, and started to figure out the plot and rhythm.

We share the same ideals!
Director Xu was happy, but then he said with some concern: "What you said makes sense, but I'm not good at directing emotional scenes, especially the kind of emotional scenes you mentioned."

"Director Li is good at it." Sheng Yixia immediately suggested, "Director Li has a lot of experience in dramas with strong female protagonists, and can complement Director Xu very well. Besides, his filming of the detective Yan Xiayi is almost finished, so he can free up his hands."

"Li Jianmin?"

When this name was mentioned, Director Xu's face turned dark.

In fact, the two of them originally had a good relationship, but they had different philosophies in directing plays. In addition, both of them were stubborn people, which led to them making sarcastic remarks to each other every time they met.

Han Ming was also a little worried: "It's not unprecedented to have two directors, but Director Xu and Director Li don't get along well."

Director Xu's face twitched, and he was obviously full of resistance to Sheng Yixia's proposal.

Sheng Yixia didn't care about this.

Don't you want to be the drama tyrant? How can you be the drama tyrant without paying a price?
Sheng Yixia felt that he had some talent in convincing people with reason within the crew. He coughed twice and said seriously, "Director Xu, Brother Han, what we are going to do is no less than a revolution."

"You are all big names in the industry now. I believe that you are not doing this for fame or money, but because you feel that the online drama industry has reached a point where it is difficult to reverse. You want to break the constraints of capital and truly do something for the audience and even for the development of the industry."

Director Xu and Han Ming's expressions relaxed a lot, and there was some light in their eyes.

Sheng Yixia's words really touched the heart of their hearts. They already have fame and money, so the reason they are going against the capital is to do something, right?
Maybe you will become a pioneer, maybe you will become a martyr, but someone has to stand up and do this kind of thing.

"We are all working for our ideals, so why can't we put aside our prejudices and unite more people to do the right thing?" Sheng Yixia said earnestly, "Director Xu, you have to admit that Director Li is an excellent director, right?"

Director Xu thought about it, and although he was reluctant to admit it, he nodded: "In fact, Li Jianmin is still a bit good, but his personality is a bit stubborn, a bit overbearing, a bit self-centered, a bit petty, and a bit arrogant..."

"That's the way it should be." Sheng Yixia said solemnly, "If we find a yes-man director who only obeys Director Xu's orders to work with us, what's the point? The collision and integration of different ideas can make our work better."

Director Xu thought for half a minute, and finally nodded and said, "What you said makes sense, and if we bring this guy into our group, no, our team... we will have a much stronger voice against the will of capital and the platform. I can make sacrifices for a great cause~"

"Well, you are worthy of being Director Xu, so generous." Sheng Yixia gave him a thumbs up and praised him repeatedly. Since he has decided to team up with Director Xu, Han Ming and others to start a business, then he, Sheng Yixia, must do a good job.

Otherwise, you'd have wasted several months of time only to produce a crappy drama that doesn't work and has little power to upgrade. It would be better for you to act in a few more online movies.

"It's that old guy who I haven't been able to get through to recently. His team said that he was too frightened at the dinner that day and went to a sanatorium to recuperate." Director Xu said.

"I'll go find him later." Sheng Yixia knew what was going on. If the National Non-Governmental Bureau wanted to train some potential extraordinary people, they would still take them to a training camp. The purpose was to train their discipline, unify their thoughts, and let them understand the basic knowledge of the extraordinary world, and then let them digest the first wave of evolutionary potions.

They cannot just take evolutionary potions randomly; they have to do it step by step. As for those who awaken naturally due to different influences in extraordinary events, they are only a minority after all, so they have to be very lucky. It can definitely not be used as a regular training method.

After the three of them reached a consensus, they felt that they could not keep holding meetings here, so they walked out of the corner again.

Nothing happened when the three of them went in, but when they came out, they all looked radiant and fresh. They announced to everyone that Sheng Yixia had been confirmed to play the role of the young lord of the demon world, the little demon lord Chao Qianjue.

After confirming this matter.

President Xu and Han Ming also felt relieved. Having Sheng Yixia, a great drama master, join the team would be a huge help. It was like Liu Bang getting Han Xin and Liu Bei getting Zhuge Liang. Great things would be accomplished.

Zhang Qing didn't know what kind of agreement the three men had reached secretly, but since Yixia wanted to act, she let him go. Next, it was her turn to negotiate the agreement and haggle with the producer. He could act, but the pay couldn't be reduced.

However, Sheng Yixia has a high traffic now, and Zhang Qing knows very well that Sheng Yixia has the habit of changing the script while acting. What if he changes the script and the death in five episodes becomes death in six episodes, seven episodes, or something like that?

Therefore, Zhang Qing felt that the contract could not be signed, so she went to negotiate with Mr. Zhang from Xikun Entertainment.

Mr. Zhang thought that Sheng Yixia had very few scenes, appearing in only five episodes from beginning to end, but the total price could not be too low, otherwise Zhang Qing would not do it, right? So after much thought, he felt that 10 million was more appropriate.

This would also be worthy of Sheng Yixia's current appeal and traffic. After all, Sheng Yixia's strength is only limited to the online movie circle. How many people are used to watching online movies?
But Zhang Qing refused to accept this price.

She secretly estimated that according to Yixia's habit, the drama would most likely be doubled, and he would probably last until the tenth episode before dying.

Therefore, she proposed to change the pay to two million per episode as long as Yixia appeared in it. The producer would advance ten million and pay more for subsequent additional scenes.

Mr. Zhang thought to himself that Sheng Yixia deserved the title of the Great Drama King.

However, their Fairyland Romance is a big IP, the story framework and structure are complete, it is not just an online movie with an investment of several million. Can you, Sheng Yixia, change it however you want?
It's just a third-line supporting role. Director Xu is a very strong person. At most, he will allow you, Sheng Yixia, to add more scenes to the seventh or eighth episode.

After thinking it over, Mr. Zhang felt that a total price of around 15 million was acceptable, so he finalized the deal with Zhang Qing. The two parties drafted the contract and signed it on the spot. The most important clause of the contract was that as long as Sheng Yixia had a role in a certain episode, even if the role was small, he would be paid 2 million per episode.

This contract is different from the contract of the male lead Han Ming. Han Ming's salary is 1.2 million per episode, but for the entire 40 episodes, his total salary is 48 million. The total salary of the female lead Song Baowen is about 30 million.

In theory, Sheng Yixia's remuneration for this film ranks third among the entire crew.

Because the total remuneration that Mr. Zhang will give to the second male lead Zhang Yixu will probably be around nine million.

As for other actors, they are not at this level at all. Those who earn a few hundred thousand or one or two million are considered good.

Overall it looks quite high.

But in fact, in this kind of production with an investment of hundreds of millions, the total salary expenditure of more than 100 million is relatively low. The main reason is that this drama is a top IP drama and a favorite drama of A Station, so many people want to squeeze in without asking for salary.

Han Ming and Song Baowen also received some discounts on their pay.

Subsequently.

After repeated auditions, the other three powerful generals under Zhang Qing also got a supporting role. Although they are now well-known, they are far from comparable to Sheng Yixia in terms of box office appeal.

Moreover, the roles of these supporting actors are average, so their respective pay is not high, adding up to only about three million.

Overall.

Today, the four most powerful generals under Zhang Qing's command all won roles, which can be considered a complete success.

After the audition.

After Sheng Yixia and the main creative team had a meal, they left and prepared to go home to rest for a while before starting to film The Taoist Priest Conquers Demons.

But he never expected that as soon as he got home, he habitually opened the Extraordinary Home APP and took a look, and found that Rei Ayanami had sent him a message, saying that she had come to H City and asked him to pick her up at the airport, to prepare for a face-to-face meeting, and also to show him something good.

This was too sudden.

Sheng Yixia was completely unprepared. She quickly checked the time and found that Rei Ayanami's flight had already departed half an hour ago.

Calculating the time, there is still plenty of time to pick up the plane now.

He thought about it and called his assistant Yu Jiaman to come over, preparing to ask her to drive Lao Deng's S600 to take him to the airport to pick up someone. The main considerations for finding a designated driver were that he could take a break on the way, and secondly, he could also chat with Rei Ayanami in the car.

Of course, the most important thing is that Sheng Yixia doesn’t like driving, especially driving when there is traffic congestion in H City, as he thinks it is a waste of time.

You Jiaman is busy in the studio now. The office is not far from Jingchen Huating. After receiving the call, he quickly rushed to Jingchen. He drove the S600 out of the garage with some trepidation and drove towards the airport.

Sheng Yixia changed his mobile phone and checked the message on the Magician ID, and found that the National Non-Government Affairs Bureau's task settlement regarding the dinner incident had been finalized.

As the main force in killing DR007 Scarlet Spider, the Juggler saved a large number of people and successfully resolved the crisis. The reward for this mission was a silver medal and 600 points, which brought his total points to 980 points, including two silver medals.

However, these points were still more than 300 points short of the points needed to exchange for the fantasy doll, which made Sheng Yixia frown slightly.

His mind turned, and he suddenly remembered something, and checked the account of the illusionist again.

At the end of the Dinner Party Incident mission, the Illusionist received a bronze medal and 200 points. Similarly, he now had four bronze medals in his account and 630 points.

Sheng Yixia thought about it and transferred 330 points to the magician's account, which was counted as a loan from the Illusionist to the magician.

In this way, the points in the magician's account reached 1310 points.

He immediately exchanged for the [Phantom Doll] that he had been longing for for a long time. This thing was worth 1288 points, plus a silver medal. It was the most expensive piece of equipment that Sheng Yixia had exchanged so far.

However, this puppet has its own magic power, which can make the fake look real and have various wonderful uses, making it very suitable for the role of a magician.

With it, you can use a lot of tactics, and even at critical moments, you can use it to impersonate your real self, so that you don't have to be absent every time the vest appears, which will arouse suspicion from others if it happens too many times.

After redeeming the treasure.

Sheng Yixia took a short nap in the car, and then the car arrived at the airport. He asked You Jiaman to wait in the parking lot, and he went directly to pick him up.

And this time.

Baggage carousel.

A man in his fifties, wearing a suit and looking quite energetic, and a young man in his twenties were picking up their luggage.

The mature man looked a little excited: "I'm going to meet the mechanical instructor soon. I'm really looking forward to it. I don't know who this guy is."

This mature man obviously means "I love Ayanami Rei".

"Boss, I feel like that mechanical instructor is not the same person we knew before."

"I feel the same way. This guy is very capable, has a very quick mind, and his suggestions are wild and unpredictable. He is definitely not one of those familiar old Dengs." Ayanami Rei also agreed, "He might be a fellow countryman called back from overseas by the Super Research Institute. He must be a big shot in the industry, or even an authority in the industry. When you meet him, you must be polite and don't drool all the time~"

"Don't worry, boss." The young man patted his chest to show that he understood.

As they were talking, the two had already picked up their luggage.

The two dragged the huge suitcase to the exit and looked around.

soon.

The young man locked onto a handsome young man who looked familiar and was holding a handwritten sign that read: "I love Rei Ayanami."

It was obvious that the other party was here to pick them up.

After all, who else but his mentor would give someone such a name?

The young man greeted his mentor, dragged his luggage and walked over quickly to meet him. He smiled and said, "Hello, hello. Are you here to pick up my mentor?"

As he spoke, he pointed at the sign.

Sheng Yixia glanced at the two of them and knew what was going on. She put away the sign and then focused her attention on the mature man. She smiled and extended her hand: "You must be Ayanami Rei, hello."

Rei Ayanami was stunned at first, then looked around, and with a strange look on her face, she stretched out her hand and shook hands with Sheng Yixia: "Young man, where is your mentor?"

tutor?

My Gao Laodeng?

Oh~ That's not right... Judging from Rei Ayanami's tone, could he be referring to the mechanical instructor?
And this time.

Ayanami Rei seemed to have noticed something was wrong. He adjusted the frame of his glasses, looked at Sheng Yixia carefully, and whispered, "You are not the one... yes, the one who simulated his girlfriend...?"

"Dr. Wu, yes, you are Dr. Wu?"

At this point, the young man also noticed this, and was immediately surprised and delighted: "Dr. Wu, I didn't expect to meet you."

"It's fate~ Hehe, by the way, you are not the apprentice of the mechanical instructor, Lao Deng, are you? How come you are also an actor?" Ayanami Rei said excitedly, "Where is your instructor? Did he become autistic because of my scolding and dare not come to see me?"

"..."

Sheng Yixia was silent for a few seconds before saying, "I am the mechanical instructor."

"..."

The two people opposite each other fell silent for a moment.

at the same time.

Gao Laodeng's voice suddenly sounded behind Sheng Yixia: "Yixia, why are you at the airport too?"

Sheng Yixia turned around and saw Gao Laodeng with a surprised look on his face, and immediately fell silent.

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