Huayu Entertainment: Tianxian really wants to improve

Chapter 30 It’s great to be a best-selling author!

Before Gu Bei could think about it, they arrived at the 20th floor of the hotel.

Both Hollywood figures chose the same hotel.

There is a small bar that serves hotel guests only.

Due to its strict management and private environment, it can also be used for business receptions and is more intimate than a business meeting room.

Moreover, the hotel is located on 57th Street in front of Central Park, so you can sit and watch Central Park. The view is extremely wide and unobstructed.

The waiter led the two men to the depths.

When the door opened, a Jewish man came up to me:
"Isn't this my genius writer here?"

First they hugged, then shook hands, showing great enthusiasm.

"Robert Friedman, you can call me Mr. Friedman, currently the Vice President of Co-Production at Paramount Pictures."

Robert loosened his tie, leaned sideways on his seat, and smiled at Gu Bei and the other man sitting opposite him. "What would you like to drink?"

"Tea will do."

Gu Bei looked natural.

He was not intimidated by Robert's title.

Many of these titles are empty. The longer the title, the less valuable it is. Especially for a position like vice president, you can wholesale a lot of them to show off.

"Bruce, seriously, your book is so good!"

Robert was generous in his praise, “I saw your book in an airport bookstore, with a blue cover and Shakespeare’s lines, and I thought, why not give it a chance.

So, I enjoyed the saddest trip of my life, but luckily I was in first class so no one could see me.

Robert had a very good attitude and was quite talkative. He talked for half an hour.

After a long time, we finally talked about the key details.

Joel probed on Gu Bei's behalf: "Mr. Friedman, Bruce is actually a director as well. He really hopes to adapt his own work, and his short film has been shortlisted for the Sundance Film Festival."

"You should trust us. Paramount Pictures has its own green light committee and we will help this project find the most suitable director for him."

Robert did not refute, but just emphasized Paramount's professionalism.

If you were really professional, you wouldn't have bankrupted yourselves!
Gu Bei saw clearly that Robert was refusing.

He didn't say anything. Joel now acted as a temporary agent, serving as a buffer between himself and Robert.

"A screenwriter is also fine. There should be no one in the world who knows this work better than Bruce, right?" Joel followed Gu Bei's previous instructions and took a step back to continue testing the waters.

"Speaking of the script, I actually don't think you can't be the screenwriter, it's just that some parts need to be revised."

Robert did not refuse directly, but looked directly at Gu Bei.

"Where?"

"Asian women have always performed poorly at the box office. I think changing the role to a white girl would have more potential at the box office."

Robert became interested. He had really thought about it. "As for the male lead, what do you think of a Jewish guy? A sunny and handsome Jewish boy would be very attractive. This would make for a much better story!"

Gu Bei finally understood that Robert wanted to sneak in some illicit stuff.

Joel looked at Gu Bei, waiting for his instructions.

"I'm very sorry, there is still a big conflict between our creative concepts." Gu Bei stood up and refused very decisively. This level of change would simply ruin the work.

"There's no need to get so excited. We can talk slowly."

A hint of surprise flashed across Robert's eyes, as if he didn't expect that Gu Bei, who seldom spoke, could have such decisiveness.

Gu Bei shook his head and left the box, followed closely by Qiao Er.

"Why does Hollywood pay such low copyright fees, and why are their conditions for adaptation so harsh?"

Gu Bei discovered that even though the two Hollywood people were best-selling authors, they were very polite, but their politeness could not hide their inner arrogance.

After a pause, Gu Bei continued to express his confusion: "My book has already sold over 100 million copies. When it is rolled out in other countries next year, it will be able to reach 1000 million copies sold worldwide within a few years.

I can earn $2000 million in royalties in the future, and they only give me $20 in copyright fees?"

Gu Bei had seen the sky-high copyright fees for domestic online literature and completely failed to understand the logic behind the current copyright fees.

"Bruce, that's not how the price is calculated." Joel shook his head. "Don't think that they're begging to buy it now, but after the contract is signed, we'll be begging them to adapt it with all our heart!
Plus, if you're a writer, your biggest benefit is the new readers the movie brings you.

If you're good at math, you can calculate that a $1 million movie can generate 100 million to 300 million additional sales for your book. How much more royalties can you earn?"

Gu Bei didn't even need to do mental arithmetic; the answer came to him as soon as he thought about it.

"At least two million dollars, and maybe as much as six or seven million dollars!"

There was no need for Joel to continue.

For a movie with a box office of $4000 million, the shareable profit is about $40 million, and one point is $.

We can earn more than one million US dollars here.

As for the $20 copyright fee, it’s just an extra!

It’s great to be a bestselling author!

but……

If a movie can make $4 million at the box office, why should we limit our imagination to $1 million?

Gu Bei thought of "Twilight".
This series should be the one that started the North American youth novel adaptation craze.
Then came The Hunger Games series, and subsequent teen novels haven't made much of a splash.

He remembered that Twilight was produced by Summit Entertainment.

Joel said that the copyright purchased by MTV Films will expire in April next year, and Summit Entertainment can only obtain the copyright after that.

He seems to still have a chance!
"Joel, do you have Stephenie Meyer's contact information?" Gu Bei walked out of the elevator and looked at Joel who was still in the elevator.

"Bruce, honestly, with your current status, you should have your own book agent!"

Joel looked at Gu Bei helplessly.

He is a book editor at Random House and actually does not need to help Gu Bei with the copyright sales matters. This is what his book agent said, and he would only do it because he needed to maintain the relationship between himself and Gu Bei.

"I recently wrote an opening, the opening of a dystopian story." Gu Bei said lightly.

Joe was stunned.

He looked at Gu Bei excitedly.

"Just like The Fault in Our Stars, it's still written in the first person, and the protagonist is still a young girl."

"Do you think a rebellious girl shooting a bow and arrow would be cool?"

"It seems like it could be written into a series of novels. How about a trilogy?"

With every item Gu Bei mentioned, Joel's eyes brightened.

In the end, his eyes were almost enough to replace light bulbs.

"father!"

(End of this chapter)