Don't call me Master, call me Director

"Hey, I hope the film critics don't go too far." The manager of the publicity department lamented as he touched his increasingly dangerous hairline.

How else can we say that the Japanese are dead-headed? If they were replaced by European and American countries, after seeing the influence of film critics' speeches decline, their first reaction must be to pressure the other party to make concessions, rather than just thinking about it like this How to repair the relationship.

Contrary to Dongbao, which is caught in internal strife, Bandai is currently united.

With FSN's siege in Japanese theaters, Bandai is not only making a lot of money at the movie box office, but also related toys can't stop selling.

In particular, the toy Excalibur, which is sold in movie theater kiosks, has become the favorite product of movie fans. Almost one-third of the audience who have watched the movie will choose to buy a brush.

Just like the lightsaber of "Star Wars" in another world, Excalibur has not only become the symbol of FSN, but also its symbolic business synonym.

What makes Bandai even more happy is that Matou Shinji did not lie, he really reached an agreement with Time Group to allow his own products to enter Europe and the United States.

Probably because he really doesn't care about the profits of peripheral products, or maybe he hopes to prove his sincerity through this move.Cloris actually agreed to use Time Group's channels to sell Bandai-made peripherals, and didn't care about the division, as long as the cost was a little lower.

This is undoubtedly a good start for Bandai. Even if the products that can be sold are limited to FSN, it also gives Bandai hope for the future.

It can be said that all the forces related to FSN were very happy throughout May, except for Shen Erye.

Because just as everyone was busy making money from this movie, Shen Er was short of money.

It stands to reason that Shen Er should not be short of money at this time. Those distributors who sold out FSN's domestic distribution in Cannes have already transferred the money to Xingyue's company account, and Bandai has just paid Xingyue the profit share of the first batch of movies.

At this time, it should be the time when Xingyue Company has sufficient funds and everyone enjoys the fruits of victory, but Erye Shen is now poor.

The reason is very simple. When the company "divided the spoils" internally, Shen Er did not include the cost of summoning the heroic spirits into the cost of the movie, but put it into his own account separately.

Don't underestimate this money, not to mention the cost of renting the spirit veins from the Tohsaka family, the holy relics of the heroic spirits alone are not a small expense.

Sacred relics are basically cultural relics, whether they are bought or rented, they are expensive.

So Yitong calculated that Shen Er not only did not enjoy the first batch of FSN's share, but also owed the company some money.

There is a reason why Shen Er chose to take the cost of summoning the heroic spirit on himself.

If it were an ordinary movie company, this amount would usually be included in the cost of the movie, but once the money is included, the cost of the heroic actors will be almost the same as that of ordinary star actors, so their advantage of high quality and low price will be wiped out. Nothing left.

Therefore, in order to promote the heroic spirit actors, Shen Er can only count the money on himself, and try to reduce the cost of the movie on the actors as much as possible.

Anyway, compared to the rising social status of celebrities, summoning a heroic spirit is only a one-time fee, which is obviously much more cost-effective.

Although Shen Er made the choice for the future, it doesn't change the fact that his pocket is cleaner than his face now.

In fact, it's not quite accurate to say that, after all, Zou Yan, who loves his grandson, will still give Erye his pocket money.

It’s just that pocket money of 5 yen is not a small amount for ordinary high school students, but it’s really not enough for Shinji, who doesn’t even have the qualifications to go to Tokyo’s red-light district for a walk.

Not to mention, Shinji's younger sister Sakura is still tempting Shinji to buy Artoria's photo album and private video every day.

Second Lord Shen also found it quite strange, the day he came back, Artoria went berserk and swept through the Matou house, almost demolishing the whole house.

Under such circumstances, Sakura was able to keep these things without letting Artoria find out, which is really incredible.

At the same time, it also made Shen Er understand the fact that he was eaten to death by his sister.

"Damn, let Artoria wear that kind of clothes... I really want to see it."

In order to get rid of his own financial difficulties, Shen Er made a major decision.

"Everyone!"

In the office, Shen Er slapped the conference table vigorously and announced to everyone: "We are going to prepare to shoot a new movie."

"Master, really?!"

Like a puppy in heat, Cu Chulainn stood up with his arms propped up on the table in excitement.

"Master, am I the protagonist of the new movie?"

The big dog who asked this question was very confident, because in his opinion, none of the current members of the Heroic Spirits can compare to himself in acting.

However, Shen Er's ruthless words shattered his illusion.

"It's a pity. You won't be in the main role in this movie Cu Chulainn."

Having said that, Shinji glanced at the other Heroic Spirits by the way.

"Archer, Medusa, and Uncle Hai, the three of you will also not play important roles."

All the heroic spirits who were named nodded their heads, acquiescing to Shinji's statement.

Red A and Sister R are not very interested in making movies, so they naturally have no objection. Uncle Hai is an obedient and good baby. Since the Master said that he has no self, he will admit it.

Only Cu Chulainn was very dissatisfied, he slapped the table hard and made a "pop" sound.

"Master, why don't you let me play the role! It's not fair!" Cu Chulainn complained loudly, "Obviously that gold pick-up card that is dragging around [-] to [-] yuan all day can play the role, I am a hardworking, down-to-earth person Model workers can’t act in anything!”

"because......"

Shen Er let out a sigh while holding his forehead, and he threw a proposal on the table, with [Fate/Zero] imprinted on the white cover.

"The planning of the new movie is the prequel of FSN."

Chapter 42 New Project: Fate/Zero

Shen Er chose FZ as his second movie, which was actually a helpless move.

With the current situation of FSN opening up, it is the safest way for the second movie to choose the story of the Fate series to gain popularity in order to consolidate its popularity and expand its influence.

Just don't look at the stories of the Fate series, but there is really no one who can make a movie at this point in time.

The first to be dropped were the other two storylines from FSN.Shen Er can see very clearly that new works do need to catch the popularity of FSN, but they can't completely catch it, and it is far from the point where they want to fry FSN for themselves.

As for the rest of the Fate stories, aside from the tiankeng of FGO, most of the works with the name of Fate are either following the popularity of FSN, or the popularity of those works that are following the popularity of FSN.

Regardless of the story, those works are basically high-threshold works for fans, and are not suitable for the public.

There will be such a situation, or the nature of Xingyue doujin associations makes Fate's IP development lack a coordinated business plan, and eventually become a mess.

After Shen Erye's careful calculation, there are only three Fate stories that can be used at present: the fairy tale of love の depression, Sister Ba's Day of the Groundhog, and the love legend of Black Whistle Ah Zhen.

Pooh.

It is "Fate/Zero", "Fate/hollow ataraxia" and "Fate/Apocrpha".

The first thing Shen Er ruled out was the famous work FA of "Magical East". Whether it is too many characters, a problematic script, or the setting of parallel worlds that are easy to confuse, this work is not suitable for release at this stage. .

The second one to be ruled out is Fha, for the simpler reason that the story itself is not suitable for a film adaptation.

Fha's story is too fragmented, and its small event-triggered mode is structurally designed to fit the game.

You can't say that Fha has no main line, but its sparse main line is like the big dog in "Carnival".

Except for the last solo episode, all the other times he only has a hasty look at his miserable death.

It's not that a story with a structure like Fha cannot be adapted into a film and television work, but Shinji believes that the film and television drama model is more suitable for this story.

Looking at it this way, FZ as a prequel has become the only feasible option among countless options.

Of course, Shinji doesn't need to tell other people in the office about the choice of subject matter, he just needs to show the final result to everyone.

"I've already written the concept of the new movie in the proposal, let's take a look first, and ask questions if you have any questions."

While distributing the proposal to everyone present, Shen Er also reminded a few heroic spirits who had no performance tasks: "Although you guys don't need to play the main roles, you still have to participate in the filming, and you may act as stand-ins and crew work. personnel."

"Matou Shinji, you can say it more directly." Red A said angrily, "You can call us tool people."

"Because that's not a good name." Shen Er touched his nose in embarrassment.

Regarding Shen Er's act of standing up and down, Hong A just smiled coldly twice.

Shen Er pretended not to see Red A's expression, and turned his head guiltily.

"Hmm... is the protagonist this time Saber again?" Sakura glanced at the proposal and raised her eyes and said, "Brother, you really love her."

Shen Er spread his hands helplessly: "Who makes Arturia the most popular at present? I am a commercial film, so naturally I have to consider commercial matters."

Artoria frowned and raised her hand: "But...Master. Is your script considered a commercial movie?"

After being tricked by Sakura with [May Moon Disease], Artoria's reading range is no longer limited to the girls' comics given by Rin.

Arturia, who has a lot of modern cultural knowledge, knows more or less the current status of film culture in the world.

Shen Er's dark and cruel script is completely inconsistent with the simple and straightforward commercial films he has been talking about before. On the contrary, it is more like those black culture films that show the darkness of human nature.

In fact, even if you don't compare other movies on the market, you can see the big difference between the two stories just by comparing with FSN.

If the story of FSN is the growth path of the young girl King Arthur, then this FZ is Fuyuki City's Jedi Battle Royale No Survival.

There is no darkness, only darker. Among the nearly 20 main characters in the whole movie, except for Weber, none of them belong to normal people.

Rather, in this script full of snake spirits, the normal Weber seems abnormal.

"Indeed..." Cu Chulainn complained about the script after reading it, "Master, the Zero on your cover clearly implies that the survivors are 0?"

Shen Er stared: "Who said that? Isn't there still three masters and one servant alive?"

Rider, who has been silent all this time, expressed his thoughts: "If I remember correctly, Emiya Kiritsugu is already dead in your FSN script setting, right?"

"..."

"And Kotomine Kirei and Gilgamesh both received lunches in FSN."

Sakura gave her brother a backstab.

"It seems that Weber who returned to England will not have any good results, right?"

"No way, isn't that person named Weber still alive?"

"In reality, there are fewer people who died in the Master's script? Isn't Emiya Kiritsugu still alive, not to mention dead?"

"Maybe that guy named Webb was in a plane crash on the flight back to England..."

"Enough!"

Seeing that his heroic spirits were getting more and more outrageous, Second Lord Shen had to increase his volume to overshadow them.

"I'm filming Fate, not "Death Comes"! How could Webber die because of this kind of thing!! I'm also planning to let him continue to participate in side stories to make money... Bah, use side stories Accumulate popularity."

Sensing that he was speaking his mind, Shinji quickly changed his words.

Sakura nodded her chin, as if she had thought of something, she said, "Wei Bo is the one who helped you with chores in England, right? You have to let him work, and you have to let him act in a movie. Be careful that one day he will really die from overwork. "

Shen Er smiled and waved his hands: "How is it possible, as long as Weber's iron liver, it will be fine to give him twice as much work."

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"Ah!"

Weber, who was far away in the London Clock Tower, suddenly sneezed loudly.

"you caught a cold?"

Kenneth raised his head when he heard the sneeze.

"It's possible." Weber said while pinching his brows, "Recently, the workload is too heavy."

Kenneth said softly: "You have to be careful. Don't be too tired, just push back the work that Shinji Matou gave you."

"teacher......"

Seeing that his mentor cared so much about him, Weber was a little moved.

"You are the pillar of our modern magic department. If you fall ill, our department will be in trouble." Kenneth handed a large stack of documents to Weber, "Come on, let me deal with these documents."

"...Okay, teacher."

Weber sighed resignedly.

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"Well, anyway, those who can do more work. An outstanding talent like Weber Velvet naturally has to shoulder a heavier burden than others."

After saying this, Shen Er kept nodding his head, as if he himself was touched

But Sakura noticed a problem: "Wait a minute, brother. Mr. Velvet in your script is still a boy, right? Why do you let him play it himself?"

"This is easy to handle, I have already thought of a good solution." Second Master Shen pointed at Gilgamesh, "Just let Gilgamesh feed Weber to rejuvenate himself."

"Rejuvenating medicine..."

Gilgamesh raised the corners of his mouth sarcastically, and he leaned back on the back of the chair in a tactical reclining position.

"Hi, Shinji."

Gilgamesh slapped the table with the proposal, and said with a stinky face, "Didn't you say you wanted to summon Enkidu to make a movie with me? Then what is it?"