The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 568 Will the drama be unfinished?

Beijing, a community.

Lu Xiao and his wife Yu Xiaoling finished their meal and fed the dog. It was past nine o'clock in the evening. Usually, the two of them seldom cook and eat at night. Then I have to walk the dog.

But even so, the two still cherish such a busy pace of work and life, because after having a child, such a "relaxed" good day may never be there again.

However, today the two of them did not bring food back from the canteens of their respective units, but cooked a fairly sumptuous dinner.

Except for getting off work early today and not working overtime, the main thing is that I don’t have to work on the weekend tomorrow.

"Hurry up, I'm going to start playing."

Lu Xiao was holding two pillows on the sofa, adjusting the angle of the sofa to form a half-lying support arc, while calling to his wife who was busy in the kitchen.

The huge curtain on the top of the wall facing the sofa slowly fell, the projector was turned on, and Yu Xiaoling brought out two plates from the kitchen.

Lu Xiao got up and turned off all the lights in the living room, and the whole living room seemed to become a small home theater.

"You don't need snacks to watch a drama?"

Yu Xiaoling curled up on the sofa comfortably, picked up two pears, took a bite, and handed the other to Lu Xiao.

"My wife is still thoughtful, I didn't even think about it, why don't I go downstairs and buy something to eat? Or order a chicken feet and duck neck for takeaway?"

"No."

"What?"

"I want to lose weight."

"Then you eat fruit, and I eat takeaway."

"Why are you eating and watching? It's a good idea."

When the young couple was bickering, Lu Xiao had already used the remote control to operate the page on the curtain and entered the Fantasy World.com.

"Huanshi.com is also dead. Why do you want to open a diamond membership for screencasting? It's a threat to Meng's self-respect."

Yu Xiaoling was a little puzzled: "I remember Huanshiwang didn't need screencasting before?"

"I need it now." Lu Xiao was a little upset: "I saw it on the Internet before I got off work, and I was scolded all over the Internet. I didn't want to get used to this problem, but after asking all over the unit, no one has a diamond member, at most Gold members, gold members can't cast their screens, Huanshi.com is a junk website that wants money like crazy."

"how much is it?"

"40."

"So expensive? Did you buy a continuous monthly subscription?"

"This rubbish website is so stupid. Guess what? Diamond members don't have continuous monthly subscriptions. I'm glad he didn't directly set it to only pay for seasons and years. It's still not completely annihilated."

Yu Xiaoling immediately responded: "This calculation is too precise... But there is no way, they spent a billion yuan, and the wool comes from the sheep."

After the release of the first-quarter financial report, under the background of the so-called "film and television bubble burst", the stock prices of all video websites have fallen continuously, and several long-form video websites have begun to release rumors that they will increase membership fees, causing netizens to ridicule.

In the end, it may be due to the pressure of public opinion and the fear that the competitors will benefit from the fisherman, so the price did not rise.

Unexpectedly, in mid-July, Huanshi.com suddenly announced that it would increase the membership fee.

Everyone wondered why Huanshi.com dared to be the first to eat crabs. As a result, Huanshi.com and DreamWorks jointly announced that "Suspect Tracker III", "Dynasty" and "Elysium" will be exclusively broadcast on Huanshi.com.

Later, it was revealed that Huanshi.com spent a billion yuan to buy the three dramas from DreamWorks.

There was a heated discussion in the public opinion for a while, and the media naturally reported it in a shocking manner. The peers were envious and jealous. After all, the purchase price was really astonishing. In addition, Penguin Video also quietly increased the membership fee during this round of heated discussions.

Generally speaking, streaming media rarely announce the purchase price. Although many dramas claim to cost 2 million to [-] million yuan in production, they are actually a lot of water. Those with a real production cost of more than [-] million yuan can be regarded as s+ level.

The three dramas cost 10 billion yuan, and the average cost of each drama is more than 3 million yuan. Although DreamWorks did not announce the production cost, it can definitely recover the cost.

According to the number of episodes, "Suspect Tracker III" has 15 episodes, the least number of episodes in the three seasons. Although "Dynasty" and "Elysium" have not announced the number of episodes, according to DreamWorks' consistent urine, generally it will not exceed 15 set.

Calculated based on 45 episodes, the average network broadcast cost of an episode is more than 2200 million, which can be compared to "Black Mirror II" with only five episodes.

In addition to Netflix, Netflix is ​​even a big dog. Not only has its market value exceeded 2000 billion US dollars, hitting a new high, but it is also unprecedentedly generous in spending, definitely no less than Huanshi.com.

The profitability of these three dramas of DreamWorks is too greedy, and it is estimated that it will not be much lower than "The Walking Dead".

It’s just that DreamWorks has made a name overseas since its establishment. After several years of operation, its international brand image is not weaker than that of production companies such as HBO. Netflix bought it, and overseas audiences also bought it. Synonymous with the output of national dramas.

This is the main reason why Netflix is ​​willing to cooperate with DreamWorks so generously. Other film and television companies can only watch this copyright channel.

Even if there are many domestic dramas that can be sold to overseas streaming media after they become popular in China, the copyright price cannot be called up, and Netflix will not make efforts to promote it.

How can it be like the DreamWorks dramas launched on Netflix, which are pushed on the homepage of all sections, regardless of the United States, Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic.

While colleagues are envious and jealous, for audiences like Lu Xiao, it is mixed feelings.

Many viewers of the younger generation tend to watch DreamWorks dramas at Station C, and since the membership fee of Huanshi.com has increased, Lu Xiao no longer renews his subscription to Huanshi.com.

As a result, Lu Xiao, who is a fan of DreamWorks, can only be happy for DreamWorks to sell sky-high copyrights and make a lot of money--fans are like this, and at the same time follow other netizens to scold Huanshi.com for being greedy and shameless.

But can he not read it?
Of course not.

"Suspect Tracker" is a drama of DreamWorks - although most of the episodes of DreamWorks have been praised as dramas.

The overseas influence of "Suspect Tracker" is far less than that of a phenomenon-level drama series like "The Walking Dead", but its domestic influence exceeds that of "The Walking Dead".

Douban scored 9.4 and 9.5 in the first two seasons, which can be called a divine drama among divine dramas, even slightly surpassing the "Black Mirror" series and "Signal".

Among the four leading actors, Wu Yue has "Gravity", and the other three leading actors Pan Yueming, Duan Yihong, and Song Yi all became famous through this play.

For the sequel of this drama after two years, and it is the final season, Lu Xiao's reluctance is also a must-see.

The charm of "Suspect Tracker" lies not only in the escalating high-energy plot, but also in the in-depth shaping of the characters. The audience is like a friend of the protagonists in the play, and they are deeply invested.

Although Lu Xiao complained, he actually didn't think it was worth the 40 yuan, even though it was enough to go to the cinema to watch a blockbuster special effects movie.

You can also create a movie-watching experience at home.

He only thinks that the most comfortable thing in the world is to watch his favorite drama with his lover in the air-conditioned room tomorrow night when he is not working, and the drama is released all at once.

There is no need to chase or wait, and you can even finish watching it heartily in one breath—if the wonderfulness of the plot can overcome drowsiness.

Because the final season only has 15 episodes, which is less than the 20 episodes of the first two seasons, there have been discussions on the Internet about whether it will be unfinished. After all, according to the end of the second season, there are still many unfilled pits, and one season can be completed perfectly. ?

There are a lot of comments on the Internet, such as actors don't want to act, don't want to be stereotyped by a drama, or the salary has not been negotiated, the actor's asking price is too high, DreamWorks doesn't want to continue filming, so it just ends.

I also feel that DreamWorks is eager to open new pits and wants to end the show as soon as possible.

There are also those who think that the frequent twists and turns in the two seasons, the pits dug are too deep, and the appetite of the audience is too high. DreamWorks is not sure to continue digging, so it hastily filled the pits.

All kinds of speculations are rampant. After all, fans of the show are eager for DreamWorks to film ten or eight seasons, but they are told that the third season is over. Naturally, there is a lot of dissatisfaction.

However, since DreamWorks didn't seem to have done such things as unfinished or unfinished business, Lu Xiao just buried a trace of worry deeply in his heart.

He really wanted to see how the war between the two artificial intelligences would end.

DreamWorks dramas generally do not have an opening song, and after the animation logo passes, they directly enter the previous summary.

After all, after nearly two years, it is necessary to review the plot of the previous season so that the audience can quickly enter the plot.

Although Lu Xiao has already reviewed the second season these days, he still stares at the picture on the screen with some excitement.

At the end of the first season, the KB organization sent a character played by Song Yi to pretend to be a victim who was about to die in a murder case to catch Duan Yihong, and followed the vine to find the designer of the machine that could "predict" crimes and KB attacks, and kept hiding himself The identity of Pan Yueming.

Pan Yueming was then kidnapped.

Duan Yihong had no choice but to look at the monitor on the street lamp on the street, trying to ask for help from the machine invented by Pan Yueming that can monitor the entire human society, and finally got a response.

So far, the sci-fi tone of the whole show has directly risen to a new level, and the machine has also jumped from the audience's mind as a kind of supercomputer that can process big data on human monitoring information network information to artificial intelligence.

In the second season, Duan Yihong and Wu Yue, the captain of the criminal police who officially joined the protagonist team, possessed almost omniscient attributes under the blessing of the machine, thus rescuing Pan Yueming who was kidnapped by Song Yi.

Afterwards, although the elements of the unit crime-solving drama are still maintained, the main line has become a confrontation between the KB organization that has gradually surfaced and the protagonist group.

The appearance of the machine prevented all KB attacks. The mysterious KB organization knew the existence of the machine, and after sending Song Yi to find and kidnap the inventor of the machine failed, it started to intensify.

Under the blessing and protection of the machine, the protagonist group can also contend with this extremely mysterious and huge organization. In the process of the two sides' confrontation, Song Yi, who was originally on the side of the mysterious organization, fell in love with the protagonist group, and gradually began to wash their hands. Jumping back, there is a tendency to join the protagonist group.

And after Song Yi was moved by the protagonist group and jumped back, he also confessed a great secret in the organization.

It turns out that the organization invented an artificial intelligence called "Ghost", and it will be launched soon.

The organization didn't want to trouble the protagonist group because the machine prevented them from launching the KB attack. They wanted to catch Pan Yueming, the designer of the machine, and set out the location of the machine server.

It's that there can only be one "God" in the world, and the real intention of the organization is to let the "ghosts" controlled by them replace machines.

Song Yi resolutely defected when he discovered the truth.

Although later, under the protection of the machine, the organization has never been able to do anything to Pan Yueming, but the address of the machine server is not only known by Pan Yueming, the designer.

After all, the server of the machine is a supercomputer, which occupies a large area and consumes a lot of power.

The whole country plus the official secret department and the designer Pan Yueming, no more than 7 people know the address of the machine.

The organization repeated its tricks again, preparing to plan a KB attack, the machine gave an early warning, and the national security department began to track it, and then was attacked by the organization that already had the blessing of "ghost", and captured the insider in the security department who knew the machine's address.

At the same time, the non-relevant list obtained by the protagonist group also pointed to this insider in the security department who was targeted by the KB organization. Come one step, can't save it.

The insider who fell into the hands of the organization revealed the address of the machine server under the "torture" of the brain implanted chip.

In a wide space dug out of a remote mountain in Guizhou, the mountain is big enough to hold a supercomputer.

After Pan Yueming's insider in the security department was robbed by the KB organization, he brought the protagonist group to the location of the machine server in anxiety.

The organization also sent its men to raid the machines' hideouts.

The entanglement and battle between the protagonist group, the official guard force and the KB organization kicked off the climax at the end of the second season.

But when the KB organization broke through the defense and entered the inner space of the mountain like an air-raid shelter, what was displayed in front of everyone was an empty silence.

In the wide interior space of the mountain, let alone a supercomputer, there is not even a single cable.

Only bugs and critters.

Not only did the machine hide the truth from the KB organization, but it also hid the officialdom. It somehow moved itself away!
(End of this chapter)