Super entertainment red envelope

Chapter 832 No one shoots The Lord of the Rings?

Li Zhifan didn't participate in the casting work in the afternoon, but held a meeting with Cheng Wenbin, the senior vice president of Oriental Entertainment, who came all the way from China.

Cheng Wenbin came here this time to discuss with Li Zhifan the business issues of Oriental Entertainment's layout in Hollywood and even the global film and television industry.

Regarding the layout, in addition to the construction of film and television cities in mainland China, it will also acquire a number of foreign film and television cities, and they will be bought together directly with the land.

Among them, the most objective Qian Jing is Disneyland.

It only took one year for Oriental Entertainment to go from being a shareholder to holding a controlling stake in Disney Film and Television, but it is a very huge project to encroach on Disney.

This century-old brand is not so easy to buy. The company has more than [-] shareholders. In addition to directly buying the current major shareholder's equity, Absolute Holdings also directly invests in shares to dilute the original equity.

But the latter method is not advisable, because Disney’s size has not yet reached the level where it can dilute its equity and expand its scale. Its main tourism, hotels, and ecological parks are all real economies, not the Internet economy, which has market value inflation. Opportunity.

Secondly, Disney is a listed group, while Oriental Entertainment is not listed, and it is very difficult to hold a controlling stake. It is not just what the shareholders say, but also requires the approval of the Securities Regulatory Commission.

But this time Cheng Wenbin brought good news.

Disney agreed to sell the management rights of all Disney parks in Asia to the Eastern Group for 99 years.

This must be a very large project and a win-win project.

If Disney and Oriental Group are still there after 99, the meeting between the two parties will definitely be a grand event that attracts the attention of the world.

But Dongfang Group doesn’t just want to lease it for 99 years. On this basis, Dongfang Group has proposed another possibility, which is to establish a Disney Asia branch to control and operate Disneyland in Asia. The location is set up in the capital. The Dongfang Group bought this branch directly, but it was not separated from the Disney headquarters in terms of equity or management rights, which meant that the Dongfang Group took a stake in Disney in this way.

What the final outcome of this negotiation will be, there are certain variables, but currently the largest entertainment market in Asia is China. Disney wants to further penetrate into multiple cities in China and build Disneyland. Without the help of local companies, it will be difficult to complete. of.

The Dongfang Group also made a suggestion after seeing this.

In addition, with Dongfang Group's real estate development business, if the cooperation goes well, every time a community is built in a city in the future, it can be equipped with a small Disney park. After all, Disney has so many cartoon characters that are very popular among Chinese people.

"Zhifan, I heard that you are going to sign some child actors here, do you have any plans?"

After talking about the project, Cheng Wenbin turned the topic to business. He also knew about Li Zhifan's casting situation. As for how he knew about signing a few child stars, Li Zhifan didn't care. Anyway, there are so many people in this company. Anyone can be eyes and ears, and it doesn't matter who they work for. This is also a means for the superior to supervise the subordinate.

Therefore, Li Zhifan's personal assistant team and management team are all old people who have been with him for many years, and they are not suitable for the staff provided by Oriental Entertainment. At most, they let them play small hands and do peripheral work.

"Of course!"

Li Zhifan replied straightforwardly, "I plan to make a brand new IP series, which is aimed at overseas markets."

"Oh? What series?"

Cheng Wenbin asked curiously. He actually didn't know much about culture and entertainment, but he was very interested in the company's projects, especially those projects that were expected to make money.

"Well, it's a set of Western magic series!"

Li Zhifan said, "Some time ago I watched a lot of Western fantasy works, but since science fiction has taken over the main stage of Hollywood, there have been a lot fewer works of writing fantasy novels or making movies with magical themes. It is already very rare to have a readable book."

What surprised Li Zhifan was that the work "The Lord of the Rings" actually existed at this time. After checking the publication time, he found that it began to be published in succession in the 30s.

However, this also confirms some of Li Zhifan's earliest speculations. The timeline probably began to change from the 70s to the 80s. At that time, the global entertainment industry in both time and space began to take off.

Therefore, in the series of western fantasy novels, Li Zhifan has "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Harry Potter" to offer.

Almost none of the main characters in A Song of Ice and Fire are magical, just like mortals in real life.

No one can be brought back to life with the help of magic. The original author, Martin, completely complies with the laws of human life in reality.

Rather than saying "A Song of Ice and Fire" is an extremely "low magic" fantasy novel, it is more like a parallel historical novel in a fictional world.

But "Harry Potter" is different, a standard fantasy masterpiece of magic.

Moreover, the stories of "Harry Potter" are more fairy tales, the text is very concise and straightforward, and the storyline is also a template, which is more suitable for children to watch, especially the adapted movies, which are more attractive to children big.

"A Song of Ice and Fire" is different. It is completely an adult fantasy literature. "Game", it is very in line with the core of the original book itself.

After comprehensive consideration, Li Zhifan decided to shoot "Harry Potter" first.

One of the main reasons is because the book of "Harry Potter" has been completed, and seven of them have been made into movies, so there are dramas to follow.

In addition, there are side works such as "Where are the Fantastic Beasts", which can be regarded as completing the overall world view and story structure of "Harry Potter".

After making this plan, Li Zhifan thought that he needed to find some young actors. After seeing these mixed-race children, he thought, why not make a bold adaptation plan?

Directly fictionalize a place, not applicable to the original version of England, and all the actors are of mixed race, including adult actors.

This bold idea made Li Zhifan more and more excited, so he immediately started to work on it, starting with the novel. The first novel "adaptation" was completed, and he directly wrote the script and made a movie, and slowly worked on it at the rate of one movie a year. .

Cheng Wenbin on the side heard that it was the magic series, and immediately thought of "The Lord of the Rings", and couldn't help but have a headache: "Oh, my God, it can't be a novel like "The Lord of the Rings", right? I read it when I was in school, too It's hard to understand, and no film company can remake this novel!"

"Huh?" Li Zhifan was taken aback—what? "Lord of the Rings" nobody filmed?

(End of this chapter)