Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 434 Picking Up Money (Second Change)

Yang Xiao waited for several days, and finally got Yu Dong's manuscript.

She waited anxiously, because the November issue was almost scheduled, and if Yu Dong's manuscript arrived a few days later, it might have to wait until the December issue.

It started to be published in November, and it is possible to finish publishing a full-length novel in two issues, but only one issue in December is left, and it is basically impossible to finish publishing.

This means that if Yu Dong's manuscript arrives a few days late, he will not be able to participate in the selection for the Galaxy Awards next year.

After getting the manuscript, Yang Xiao read it immediately.

The name "Moon" reminded Yang Xiao of Yu Dong's last book "The Martian", and it seemed that he was getting closer.

After watching the first section of "Moon", Yang Xiao frowned.

To be honest, this first episode is a bit like The Martian, where a person is stranded on a planet.

However, the difference is that the protagonist in "Moon" takes the initiative to go to work, and there is a three-year contract. In addition, except for the damage to the communication equipment, other equipment is intact, which means that his life is apart from Apart from being boring, there's nothing dangerous about it.

But Yang Xiao always felt that the lines in "Moon" revealed a feeling of depression, which was completely different from the cheerful atmosphere of "The Martian".

Something big is bound to happen later.

Sure enough, an accident happened later, the protagonist encountered an accident and overturned the car.

When the protagonist woke up, he heard the artificial intelligence "Li Ming" talking to the upper management of the company on Earth.

Seeing this, Yang Xiao was a little puzzled.

Isn't the communication equipment in the base damaged?Why can artificial intelligence still communicate with the earth.

Could it be that the communication equipment has been repaired?
But the key point is that the protagonist didn't show surprise when he saw this scene, and he didn't even ask why the communication equipment was working.

Could it be that Yu Dong wrote the latter and forgot the previous setting.

Is this possible?
Of course not.

With doubts, Yang Xiao continued to look down, but the more he looked, the more doubtful he became.

After the protagonist inspects the base, he finds that a stroller has been damaged outside. He wants to repair the car, but his boss refuses to let him go.

He went anyway, though, and found someone in the stroller, someone who looked exactly like him.

When the story came to this point, Yang Xiao found something strung together.

There are two protagonists. In the previous section, the protagonist of the story was always rescued in the stroller, but the protagonist who woke up later was another one.

A word popped up in Yang Xiao's mind - cloning.

Seeing this, she finally understood what kind of story Yu Dong wanted to tell in this novel.

Looking further down, things slowly became clear.

It is indeed a clone, and it is not just the two of them. Before them, there were at least four clones. Each clone has the same memory, that is, they signed an agreement with the energy company to work on the moon for three years , You can go home after the three-year period expires.

But this is not the case, the protagonist's body actually completed the three-year contract and flew back to Earth, leaving the clone to continue working for the company.And every three years, the clones of the previous generation that completed the task will be burned, and then the next generation of clones will be activated, and the cycle repeats.

Moreover, Ontology knows and agrees with this matter.

Seeing that the main body knew about this, Yang Xiao suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Since Ontology knew this, he didn't regard those clones as himself at all, and he didn't even regard those clones as human beings. That's why he agreed to the energy company's plan to let them kill those clones on a regular basis.

Yang Xiao couldn't help substituting herself into the main body. If someone gave her a lot of money, the condition was to clone countless of her and let these clones work.

Will she agree?
After thinking for a long time, she didn't find the answer. She always felt that this was wrong, but she couldn't guarantee that she could resist this temptation.

"This is probably Yu Dong's purpose."

Yang Xiao sighed, Yu Dong's novels maintained a high standard as always, and now is not the time for her to think too much, she collected the manuscript, went to find Tan Kai, and asked their editorial department to proofread the manuscript as soon as possible. Issue schedule.

……

On the streets of New York, a couple just came out of a bookstore and were planning their evening activities.

The girl saw the movie theater sign in the distance and asked, "Honey, is there any good movie this week?"

The boy shook his head, "There is no good movie released at this time... Maybe not necessarily, I saw a movie recommended by YU and Quentin earlier."

The girl became interested, "What's your name?"

"I don't remember, I just glanced at it, the name seems to be quite long."

"Since it was recommended by YU, why didn't you write down the name seriously?" The girl complained, "The movie he recommended must be a good movie, and Quentin also recommended it."

Obviously, the girl is a fan of Yu Dong's books, and she trusts Yu Dong's recommendation.

"Maybe it's just the film's propaganda method, maybe YU and the others haven't seen this movie at all, and I just saw it on the news." The boy explained, and then looked in the direction of the movie theater: "Why don't we go see it? Look, if YU and the others really recommend it, then the movie theater poster will definitely write about it.”

"Ok."

The two walked towards the movie theater hand in hand. In the movie theater, after some searching, they finally found the movie with a long name, and it was indeed recommended by YU and Quentin.

There are not many film schedules for the movie, but there are quite a few people who come to see it, but it can be seen that most of the audience are going for YU and Quentin.

Many people didn't think about what movie to watch before they came. When they arrived at the cinema, they found that this movie was recommended by Yu and Quentin, so they chose it.

And when they watched the movie, there was only one thought in their minds: YU and Quentin are really trustworthy.

"This movie is so good, dare I say, it's the best movie I've seen this year."

"Although the atmosphere was tense all the time, it seemed to be very humorous, and everyone laughed to prove it."

"Indeed, the comic effect produced by dark humor is very impressive."

"I didn't pay attention to the screenwriter, was it YU?"

"No, the screenwriter and director are a guy named Guy Ritchie."

"Have not heard."

"It may be a young director. Although this movie is very good-looking, it can be seen that the cost is not high."

"That's why it shows that YU and the others are very powerful. Such an unknown director and such a low-cost movie can be excavated by them."

"There are some plots in the movie that I don't understand."

"It's okay, let's watch it again tomorrow, and bring George and the others along, I think George will definitely like this movie."

……

Jimmy's plans for Two Smoking Barrels weren't particularly serious.

He also likes this movie, but he doesn't think the box office of this movie will be very high. Even after their promotion, it may be able to reach 2000 to [-] million US dollars, and it will be worldwide.

But after the box office came out in the first week, Jimmy was a little dumbfounded. The North American box office of "Two Smoking Barrels" reached 600 million U.S. dollars in the first week, and the three-day box office is getting higher every day, and the audience's evaluation is also very good.

From the analysis of the data, the final box office of this film in North America should be at least 2000 million US dollars, which is higher than the global box office that Jimmy had previously expected.

And as long as this movie can get a good box office in the United States, it will definitely have a good start when it is released in the UK in a few days.

At that time, with a box office of 2000 million pounds in the UK, these two box office alone can break through 4000 million US dollars.

The box office of tens of millions of dollars does not seem high, after all, the previous "Groundhog Day" had a box office of [-] million in North America alone.

But the difference is that the cost of "Two Smoking Barrels" is ridiculously low.

With the box office in the first week alone, Deep Space has already earned it back.

After the Stings and several other investors arrived in the United States, Deep Space quickly reached an agreement with them and bought 300% of the copyright for $80.00 million.

Of course, those investors are willing to do such a transaction.

They invested a total of less than 200 million US dollars in this film. Now according to Deep Space's proposal, the film is worth 375 million US dollars, and the profit has doubled.

And they still have 20.00% of the copyright left, and there are infinite possibilities in the future.

You know, before Deep Space got in touch with them, the movie couldn't be sold at all, and it almost fell into its own hands.

So although the conditions given by the deep space are not very high, it also makes them feel like a pie has fallen from the sky.

When Jimmy settled for 300 million to buy the movie, it was based on the final box office of the movie being between 1000 million and 2000 million, so that Deep Space could also make some money.

But he didn't expect that the potential of this movie would be so great.

Assuming the film eventually grosses $5000 million worldwide, Deep Space stands to make at least $1000 million in profit on the deal, which is at least, not counting revenues other than the box office.

If the follow-up works well, this movie can bring tens of millions of dollars in revenue to Deep Space, pure revenue without any impurities.

Seeing the results of "Two Smoking Barrels", Jimmy was also very emotional. Fortunately, he had quit writing a screenplay a long time ago, otherwise he would be pissed off by Yu Dong.

Although Yu Dong is not good at business, he has a very accurate view of the cultural industry.

The operation of "Two Smoking Barrels" this time even gave him a feeling that he was picking up money.

No, you have to bend over to pick up money, but this time the feeling is that the money is falling directly from the sky, and you can just follow it if you are good at it.

And all of this was caused by Yu Dong's trip to England and watching a movie.

This is also why Jimmy clearly expected to make money by opening a computer room in China, but he didn't put in any energy, because opening a computer room is too labor-intensive and may take risks, so it is better to focus his energy and funds on the film and television industry.

(End of this chapter)