The adaptation of text works to film and television works has never been smooth. In fact, only a few of them succeeded, and most of the adaptations of works have actually failed.

This is especially serious in the domestic film and television industry, with many TV series adapted from literary works. Although the movies are paid a lot, the risk of failure is very high, especially in recent years!

Many of the TV series in the past came from martial arts and romance, but now the same is true, but the audience just doesn't buy it.

It is not that the audience's aesthetic requirements have become stricter, but that these productions are not attentive and shoddy.

In the 1990s, visual special effects were not developed in the early 21st century, but some mythological dramas filmed at that time, although the visual effects of fairy tales were average, the stories were very attractive.

So long has passed, and the visual effects of TV series have not only not improved, but have become more and more eye-catching!

The producer probably spent all his money on hiring actors, and was reluctant to produce some good effects, so he made fantasy and fairy tale into martial arts.

If you have money to cut pictures, you don’t have money to make some special effects.

And it should be a little more reliable in terms of movies, although there are many examples of failed adaptations.

There are two situations where adaptation fails, one is commercial failure, and the other is artistic failure.

It is easy to understand that commercial failures are not recovered after the movie was released, which led to the producer's losses!

Nowadays, box office is just a small aspect of movie profitability. If you lose the movie box office, you may be able to sell playback rights or peripheral products.

More movies actually recovered their costs during the shooting stage, and it presented the audience with a rare advertising show.

There is another situation where money laundering is done under the guise of making movies. People don’t care about the box office of the movie at all. As long as there is this project, they can go in and get the money in and then clean it up.

The main failure in art is the poor reputation. Although the standards of film reviewers and audiences are different, they unanimously believe that this movie is a failure, especially artistic films themselves, which are expected to receive good reviews, but they are criticized for being filmed.

If the series of films in the Lord of the Rings were filmed, it would definitely be a business path. If you succeed in business, it wouldn't matter no matter how badly you were scolded!

Zhang Chu has no hope of winning both box office and reputation like the three movies directed by Peter Jackson on Earth, which is extremely difficult.

Zhou Kang knew Zhang Chu's concerns, and he spoke: "The price offered by Disney is slightly lower than "Da Vinci Code", with a box office profit dividend of 5 million US dollars + 2%; Warner Bros. is as rich as ever, buying out $10 million US dollars, without dividends; Paramount gave a figure of 8 million US dollars + 2% box office profit dividend; Twentieth Century Fox bought out $8 million..."

This number and the quotation are indeed a bit low, because Zhang Chu received a copyright fee of US$10 million and a 3% global box office dividend in "The Da Vinci Code". In addition, there is a 10% profit dividend around the movie. It is almost the work with the highest copyright transfer price in Hollywood in recent years!

As a result, when it comes to "The Lord of the Rings", it becomes a little lower.

"This price is too outrageous, I won't agree."

Zhang Chu really didn't understand why the price gap was so big. If this was the case, he would rather not make a movie.

"These companies mainly rely on the feedback from readers and the evaluation of their own project team. Although "The Lord of the Rings" is selling well at the moment, it was because of your reasons, not because of itself. When "The Da Vinci Code" was released, everyone was discussing the content. Even if you say "The Lord of the Rings" has a sequel, it is probably just an ordinary fantasy work in the eyes of these companies, and the highlights are not too many at present."

Zhou Kang told the truth, he didn't hide anything.

Even he also felt that there were not many plots in "The Lord of the Rings" that could make people shine, and they were not as good as the stunning creativity of "The Da Vinci Code"!

The influence of "The Lord of the Rings" has not yet come out yet. It is a slow-hot work, so Zhang Chu felt that he could not sell the copyright of the movie in the first part. The exciting part has not yet come out, and the highlights are all behind!

The tip of the iceberg of the entire Middle-earth world has emerged, and the content of the first one alone cannot support a grand work.

Zhang Chu felt a little excited, "I feel that I was underestimated. If the content of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy appears, they will not give each of them a level of copyright fee of tens of millions, so they will not get the adaptation rights!"

"So, hurry up and write it out now, let them see how wonderful the story is, and give them a reversal of thirty years, Hedong and thirty years, and don't bully the young and poor!"

Zhou Kang, the agent, looked angry.

"Uncle Zhou, you seem to have snatched my lines. Shouldn't this sentence be asked to me to say?" Zhang Chu suddenly laughed.

The quotations of these companies further strengthened his idea of ​​not transferring copyright for the time being. After he finished writing the third King of Kings, he must send the physical book to the person in charge of these companies to let them take a good look!

"I put myself in your shoes. If I follow the previous handling method, then I will reject them?"

Zhang Chu nodded: "Yes, let's refuse first."

Zhou Kang asked curiously: "You have a lot of confidence in this movie. Is it really exciting after it?"

In fact, this is a particularly tactful question. Zhou Kang was just worried that if the content after "The Lord of the Rings" is the same or similar to the first part, it may not be considered a masterpiece.

Against the backdrop of the excellent works before him, if the book is of ordinary quality or no surprises are found, not only the film company will be disappointed, but even the fans will probably be disappointed.

What Zhou Kang was worried about was that Zhang Chu was swelling, but he didn't say it out.

"Of course. This book is different from the works of the past. It is a work of its own system, like a complete world, somewhat similar to the articles of Homer's epic and Dante's divine works."

Zhang Chu could see the agent's expression of his desire to speak but stopped, and took the initiative to say: "I'll send you the second content "The Twin Towers Warriors". If you still feel that it is not exciting enough or amazing enough after watching this, it must be my problem!"

"I can't help you with writing, and I don't understand fantasy works. The mainstream now is not this type of writing method. This is called non-mainstream writing, and most readers may not be able to accept it. They need a guide and digestion process."
Chapter completed!