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Chapter 205 Written into a Novel

Zheng Jing ignored the outside public opinion for the time being.

He was writing the script while filming on the set.

[“I like the night to come like a tide and submerge the earth.

The lights in the city light up one by one, illuminating their own small spaces, but they cannot penetrate the curtain of darkness. "

Selena stood on the steeple of the Gothic church. Her black leather jacket almost blended into the night. Her shoulder-length black hair was blown back by the wind, echoing the rustling of her cloak.

Overlooking this brightly lit city, Selena is the queen of the night.

A huge full moon rose and shone on her pale face.

Her black eyes flashed with a cold light, and Selena saw her prey. She jumped lightly from the top of the church and landed on the cobblestone street.

Even on a full-moon night, werewolves' power would be greatly enhanced, and vampires would have to stay away.

But Selina is fearless, because she is the best vampire warrior, the ruler of the night - the Death Walker...】

At first, Zheng Jing just treated it as a job and wrote the script of "Underworld" according to the plot in his past life memories.

But as Zheng Jing wrote, inspiration surged and he became more and more excited.

He felt that Selina and Lilia, the characters he created, seemed to have life and were brought to life.

Zheng Jing poured so much emotion into the story that he simply turned it into a novel.

The original "Underworld" is set in the 5th century AD, when the Black Death broke out in Europe.

A village was attacked by a virus and only one man named Alexander survived.

The virus of the Black Death awakened the recessive genes in Alexander's body, and he became the first undead.

Later, Alexander married and had three sons in total.

The eldest son Marcus was bitten by a bat and became the first vampire.

The second son, William, was bitten by a wolf and became the first werewolf.

The third son is an ordinary man who does not have the ability to live forever, but he still carries Alexander's recessive gene in his body.

After William became a werewolf, he was unable to transform into a human being. He always looked like a werewolf, and he was irritable and hurt people everywhere.

Anyone bitten by him will also be infected and turned into a werewolf.

The werewolf group grew larger and gradually became a scourge. The noble leader Victor organized an army to fight the werewolves and maintain order.

In order to capture his brother William, Marcus cooperated with Victor and turned him and his army into vampires.

The vampire ranks began to grow, gradually forming an organization, and eventually developed three levels of power: elders, council, and executive department.

Marcus and Victor are both vampire elders.

William, the ancestor of the werewolves, was captured by vampires and imprisoned in a prison.

The werewolf tribe also became slaves of vampires until the first human-shaped child, Lucian, appeared in the tribe.

Lucian is the first werewolf who can transform back into a human and control his emotions. He fell in love with Victor's daughter Sonya, but was separated by Victor.

The vampire and the werewolf fell in love and got pregnant, which was a taboo in the tribe. Victor had no choice but to kill his daughter and the fetus in her belly.

Lucian rebelled in anger and fled with a group of werewolves.

In order to seek revenge, Lucian began to search for the bloodline of the third son of Alexander the Great.

Alexander's third son was an ordinary man, but his descendants' blood contained recessive genes that could tolerate "werewolf" and "vampire" blood, allowing the abilities of vampires and werewolves to evolve.

The protagonist of the story, Michael, is the descendant of the third son.

The heroine Selina is a "death walker" trained by Victor. She was deceived by Victor and thought that werewolves killed her entire family, so she specifically hunted werewolves for revenge.

At the beginning of the story, Selina was hunting a werewolf, but she found that the werewolf was following an ordinary person, as if there was a conspiracy.

She continued to investigate, only to find more and more mysteries, and the truth behind them was revealed step by step.

The story is rich enough to fill three movies.

In Underworld adapted by Zheng Jing, the male protagonist Michael becomes another female protagonist - 14-year-old girl Lillian.

And in the setting, Lillian is the last bloodline of Alexander's third son.

If Lillian doesn't have any more children, this line of blood will be cut off.

However, Lillian fell in love with Serena, and the two women could not have children.

The conflict of severed bloodline is also one of the foreshadowings of the contradictions in this book.

Because the plot in his mind flowed smoothly and inspiration was flowing, Zheng Jing wrote the book very quickly.

Especially after Li Xiaoran knew that Zheng Jing was writing a new book and she was the heroine, she often went to the crew and helped Zheng Jing write the book.

By August 8, the first part of the novel, Underworld: The Mist, was completed, totaling 31 words.

The word count is not high, half as much as the first Twilight Saga.

This is because Zheng Jing deliberately simplified and deleted the text to make the pace of the whole novel faster.

Perhaps influenced by The Da Vinci Code, when Zheng Jing wrote Underworld, he set up a suspenseful hook at the beginning and added many decryption plots in the middle, which made the reading irresistible and satisfying. After finishing the book, Zheng Jing sent the manuscript to Amanda.

Let her find someone to translate it into English and then find time to publish it later.

Zheng Jing didn't have high expectations for the sales of "Underworld".

Although Chen Guofu and others said that the quality was no less than "The Da Vinci Code" after reading it.

But Zheng Jing still understood that there was no necessary connection between the sales volume of a novel and its quality.

The reason why "The Da Vinci Code" became popular is due to its subversive deconstruction of Christianity, which took advantage of the popularity of God.

It's no problem for "Underworld" to become a small hit, but whether it will become a big hit depends on luck.

After finishing the writing, the scenes at Wuxi Film and Television City were about to end.

At noon on September 9, the crew had partially completed filming and many people were taking photos to commemorate the occasion.

Zhang Yi said: "Mr. Zheng, we will rest for two days and then move to Julu Ancient City for filming.

We will need to borrow these warriors for another half a month or so."

The filming of Last Stand involved many war scenes.

In order to capture the spirit of the soldiers and the magnificent scenes of the war, Zheng Jing asked Zheng Hui for help. In the name of the crew, he sponsored a sum of money to the army and invited a regiment of soldiers to join the filming.

Now that all the scenes at Wuxi Film and Television City have been filmed, we will go to Julu Ancient City, which is the main filming location for the war scenes.

"No problem, just follow the plan." Zheng Jing said, "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

Zhang Yi said with a smile: "OK, you go ahead and do your work. See you in Julu."

After working together for a period of time, Zhang Yi was more satisfied than expected with Zheng Jing's attitude towards filming.

For most celebrity actors, time is very valuable and they often take time off when filming.

It is common that some of the main actors have never even met each other after a play is finished.

It is rare for someone like Zheng Jing to stay in the crew and film all the time.

Zheng Jing also said hello to the other main creators and got into a business car.

Chang Jihong was also in the car.

She handed Zheng Jing a newspaper and said, "On September 9, Southern Metropolis Daily has already decided on the candidates for the Four Little Flowers."

Zheng Jing took the newspaper and started reading.

Inspired by the Four Dan Actresses and Two Bing Actresses, the selection of the Four Little Flowers and Four Little Heavenly Kings organized by the southern media this time was very grand.

The selection of the Four Little Flowers is divided into two parts: audience voting and media voting.

The audience votes totaled 21.37 votes, and the media votes totaled 2123 votes, from reporters from 47 media outlets.

The final candidates were Zhao Yanzi, Gao Yuanyuan, Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun. Huang Yi, whom Huayi wanted to promote, was not selected.

But Xu Jinglei fell behind.

This is also normal. In terms of works and popularity, Xu Jinglei is the worst among the four young actresses of the first session.

Last year, she lost to Xu Fan in the vote for the most popular actress among college students.

This time, for the sake of so-called fairness and to disgust Western film and television, the Southern media deliberately selected Gao Yuanyuan into the four little beauties.

Chang Jihong continued, “The Southern Media has a great influence. All the major film and television companies are competing for this selection, and some are directly spending money on public relations.

However, in this selection, they were not influenced by public relations and achieved a certain degree of fairness, justice and openness.

So when the Four Little Flowers came out, the audiences were very accepting and the reviews on the Internet were mostly positive.

The candidates for the Four Heavenly Kings will be announced tomorrow. I estimate that it will be you, Lu Yi, Li Yabang and Ren Quan.

This selection by the southern media has had a great impact on the Four Dan and Double Ice concept packaged by our company.

After all, the Four Dans and Two Bings are just our opinion, while the Four Little Flowers and Four Little Heavenly Kings are selected by dozens of media outlets and hundreds of thousands of audiences.

How do we respond?”

Zheng Jing thought for a moment and said, "I will write a statement to refuse to participate in the selection of the Four Heavenly Kings.

Tell the artists in your company that if the media asks about the Four Little Flowers, they don’t need to avoid it, just deny it directly.”

"Okay, does Gao Yuanyuan want to issue a statement?"

"You can publish it. Find someone to write a copy for her. Make sure the writing is bold and can cause controversy."

In Zheng Jing's view, the hype and formation of a concept itself is popularity.

The selection of the Four Little Flowers by the Southern media will have an impact on the concept of the Four Dans and Two Bings.

But if used well, a wave of reverse hype can also allow more people to know the concept of Four Dans and Two Bings, and at the same time increase the popularity of Gao Yuanyuan, Yang Xue and others.

As long as Western Film and Television continues to issue press releases and produce programs, with the help of the Four Dans and Two Bings, the future development will get better and better.

This concept will naturally be deeply rooted in people's hearts and surpass the influence of the four little beauties.

(End of this chapter)