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Chapter 426 The Princess' Resources (Earth)

Lu Linlang tried to recommend the filming plan of Truman's drama called "Heroes (Tentative Name)" to several domestic long-form video platforms.

The long-form video platforms are interested in Truman, but they are consistent with the decisions of major Hollywood companies. If Truman wants to make a movie with any theme, even if he has never set foot in it, based on Truman’s previous achievements, they will willing to invest.

But a TV series worth 3 million US dollars is too exaggerated. Even if the ratings can reach the top, the investment of this amount is too huge, and it is impossible to recover the cost.

And Truman’s request to the partner is not only that they are willing to pay for it, but also enough people to watch it, at least 100 million, the more the better, don’t watch the ratings of popular dramas on domestic video platforms that can easily exceed [-] million, but Those are lively themes such as love puppet and so on, and the ratings of war themes are often not good.

Although the war themes filmed by Truman are probably different from the war themes of those anti-Japanese dramas, but whether this rule can be broken, everyone still has doubts in their hearts.

Therefore, both parties are dissatisfied with each other. Naturally, this cooperation cannot be successful. They just touched it briefly and put it on hold.

So when Lu Linlang received the call from the sixth princess later, she was a little confused.

"You mean, the sixth princess wants to invest in "Hero" that Truman is preparing to shoot?" Lu Linlang added the word 'you' because she knew the other party's identity.

"We don't have so much money." The other party said with a smile, "I just hope to sell us the right to broadcast the film and television."

"Then your usual price is..." Lu Linlang asked.

"Our purchase price for the film will not exceed 300 million. Although the custom-made film will be a little higher, but Truman's series does not meet the 'exclusive ownership' regulations, so it can only be 300 million." The other party said.

"Your price is indeed a bit low. If the copyright is only in our studio, it can be negotiated." Lu Linlang thought that the size of a fly is also meat, but there is still the biggest obstacle, "But the contract that Netflix gave us is exclusive. Copyright, so I'm afraid you'll have to talk to Netflix."

"It's because the money is too little, so it's hard to negotiate~" The other party smiled, "So I'm here to talk to you, Truman, as a director, still has some negotiating qualifications."

Speaking of this, Lu Linlang was actually a little angry, just a little bit, so she couldn't bear it at all. She smiled and said, "It's really hard to talk about just 300 million episodes."

The other party suddenly brought up another topic, "I heard that Truman is going to the Philippines for filming, why doesn't he come to the mainland?"

"The cost of filming in the Philippines is lower, after all, the cost of each episode is very limited." Lu Linlang emphasized the 'limited cost'.

As long as she still wants to hang out in the mainland, she can't offend the sixth princess. Therefore, even if the other party's conditions are outrageous, Lu Linlang can't show impatience, she can only be cautious in her words.

"If the shooting cost refers to the venue, personnel and equipment, we can help solve it." Over there said.

Hey... Lu Linlang's eyes lit up.

……

Adam didn't understand what the six princesses on the mainland could help with.

"Isn't Six Princesses the same TV station as BBC and ABS?" He asked, "They also need to pay a lot of costs to mobilize various resources. No one will give us these costs for free."

"You don't understand." Lu Linlang said, "You don't know why the sixth princess is called the sixth princess."

Adam has question marks all over his face in the video.

"What do you think of Trumen?" Lu Linlang asked Trumen.

"God said that if there are J8, J10 or even J20 to assist in the shooting, there will be no problem at all!" Truman said, his voice only carried the excitement of a child seeing his favorite toy.

What is that... Military blind Lu Linlang doesn't understand.

"We are considering the issue of actors." Feng Zikai said, "Although Truman plays the leading role, a large number of Asian supporting roles and group performances are needed. Group performances are easy to solve, but the number of supporting roles is large, and the protagonist does not change. The supporting roles must be changed in each episode, otherwise the audience will definitely feel bored, Hollywood and Broadway can’t solve the problem of such a large number of supporting roles, and going to the mainland is also an option.”

Of course, mainland actors can also be invited to the Philippines. In terms of cost, it is not a big problem. The problem lies in the selection channels of actors. How to choose suitable mainland actors in the Philippines?This is a headache for Feng Zikai, so it is an option to choose actors nearby in mainland China.

Finally, Feng Zikai added, "In principle, as long as it is an actor who has worked with Truman, including those who have worked with him before, they can no longer be used."

"It's so strict... It's a pity that Yuan Lang and Xu Sanduo can no longer be used." Lu Linlang said, she didn't ask why, every director has quirks, especially Truman and Feng Zikai.

"Since everyone has no objections, I will contact the sixth princess again to see what conditions the other party can offer." Lu Linlang said.

But Adam still has doubts. He doesn't understand why they have to consider it so carefully for a price of 300 million yuan. As for the so-called resources, in Adam's understanding, resources have to be paid for, and any resource is like this, so If the other party's quotation is 300 million plus resources, it is necessary to list what is included, so that it is easy to negotiate.

It was difficult for Lu Linlang to explain Adam's American thinking for a while, so she asked him to watch the three major battles, which are war movies accumulated with these resources.

……

Adam really went to see the three major battles.

After watching it, he was shocked that these three great war movies were not included in his knowledge system.

He thinks this is as great as the "War and Peace" filmed by the Soviet Union, and that film used hundreds of thousands of regular Soviet troops and cost 5 million US dollars. It was in 600, and it can be said to be the most expensive film in history. movie.

At that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were fighting for hegemony, and the two sides were confronting each other in various fields, and movies were no exception. The United States was obsessed with making epic blockbusters. Trying to put the Soviet national treasure "War and Peace" on the big screen, the Soviet Union made a move, and let the world see what it means to make a movie under the national system.

Adam said: "I can't imagine what a great movie CH can make if he has such resources~"

In fact, Adam wanted to say that it would definitely win an award, but considering that it is a resource from the mainland, and the Oscars have obvious political stances, otherwise, why didn’t the Soviet Union’s "War and Peace" win an Oscar?

……

The six princesses can provide Truman with less resources than they did when filming the three major battles. After all, it is the era of the market economy. The era when a letter of introduction can mobilize thousands of troops to assist in filming is gone, but...

"J8 and J10 are fine, J20 needs to be coordinated." The man said, "Does your script include the story of the Air Force?"

(End of this chapter)