I became famous after I didn't grow tall

On the way back, Wei Lan saw Wei Mingjie's deep expression, noticed her gaze, and forced a smile again.

Wei Lan lowered her head and picked up the mobile phone hanging around her neck. This mobile phone was specially bought for her by Ye Luoxue. It was the lightest and most compact mobile phone on the market.

Her little fleshy hands flexibly entered information on the mobile phone and searched for "Star Wars" mentioned by Xia Yangqiu before.

Pressing the search button, a series of □□ came out:

'The big production "Star Wars" that was approved before the New Year was suspended, and Wei's Pictures faced shareholder doubts. ’

'Chengguang denied Wei's plagiarism accusation, claiming that the only thing in common between "Star Wars" and the unfilmed "Star Wars" is the background space, and the two are completely different stories. ’

'Wei's evidence was insufficient, and the appeal against "Star Wars" for plagiarism was rejected by the court. ’

Accusation of plagiarism?

Wei Lan searched for information about the main creators of Star Wars again.

"Star Wars (Part 1)"

Director and screenwriter: Chen Yuanhang

Wei Lan clicked on Chen Yuanhang's encyclopedia entry, and a long list of dazzling resumes appeared.

He entered the industry under Wei's company, shot his first movie at the age of 20, and was selected as one of the outstanding new directors of that year.

The second movie was a holographic movie.

He shot more than ten works in more than ten years, most of which received good responses.

Five years ago, he won the most authoritative federal film award-the Golden Tripod Award for Best Director with a large-scale tsunami disaster film "Under the Wind God".

In the same year, the total box office reached the master director standard set by the Federal Directors Association, and he joined the ranks of "big directors" and joined the billion-dollar club in the director industry.

In the next five years, he only shot three movies, all of which were large-scale investment and production.

It is worth mentioning that there is a movie in the list that is suspended, which is "Star Wars", which was prepared a year ago.

And Chen Yuanhang's latest movie is "Star Wars (Part 1)" of the same type.

There is also a "Star Wars (Part 2)" below, which is shown as being in preparation, and the release time is unknown.

Seeing this, Wei Lan's brows were completely furrowed. If "Starship" had nothing to do with "Star Wars", she would have eaten her phone immediately.

She continued to scroll the web page, and the latest news about Chen Yuanhang at the bottom:

'Famous director Chen Yuanhang terminated his contract with Wei's and announced that he would join Chengguang Films, and bluntly said: Good birds choose trees to roost, implying dissatisfaction with the old boss. '

This information is enough for Wei Lan to speculate a lot of things.

"Starship" was prepared a year ago and was the movie with the largest investment in the entire film industry last year. As a result, it was set up by this director named Chen Yuanhang, causing huge losses to Wei's, and even incubating the project in the rival group.

From Xia Qiuyang's attitude today, and the emotional changes of Wei Mingjie when the other party mentioned "Starship", it is obvious that he was the main force promoting this project at that time. Wei Lan also understood why her father had that reaction when she chose to watch "Star Wars" that day.

The failure of this investment also directly led to the limitation of Wei Mingjie's voice in the new film and television projects invested by Wei's.

No, maybe it's not just the newly invested film and television projects that are limited...

For a listed group like Wei's, even if Wei Mingjie is the chairman, Wei's will not be his one-man show.

Although Wei Lan was an independent film director who invested and filmed her own films in her previous life, it does not mean that she has not been involved in capital operations. She is too lazy to pay attention to many things, but it does not mean that she does not understand.

She picked up the script she had just received and read it carefully.

The script was not long. This time, she planned to shoot only three episodes like the first one. When she read half of it, Wei Lan frowned.

But she still read it patiently.

Wei Mingjie, who was handling work on the side, turned around and saw that Wei Lan had put down the script: "What do you think of this script?"

"Very bad." Wei Lan was using his mobile phone to check the information of the previous works of "Swords and Rivers", and at the same time, he made an unreserved evaluation of the script in his hand: "The plot is old-fashioned, there is no highlight, it is a mess, and it should be planned to be cut after this one."

Wei Lan checked and found that Xia Yangqiu was right in one sentence. This unit drama is indeed a big IP, but it is a big IP eight years ago.

This was the first holographic martial arts TV series.

At that time, home holographic receivers were popular, and holographic channels emerged like mushrooms after rain. When other TV stations wanted to play it safe and chose modern urban themes, Wei took a unique approach and directly filmed martial arts dramas.

With the right time, right place and right people, "Swords and Swords" swept the ratings of the year and earned enough popularity for Wei's holographic channels. It was indeed the most popular.

As a result, the higher you praise, the worse you fall.

The first "Swords and Swords" had a total of three episodes. Because of the popularity of the first part, the second part was extended to ten episodes. The consequence of water injection was that the plot density decreased and the quality declined.

At the same time, the themes of TV series withdrawn by other channels also began to diversify. "Swords and Swords 2", which cost a lot of investment, failed miserably.

Two years later, the project was restarted for the third part, which was reduced to five episodes. However, at that time, the dramas on the market were already flourishing. The third part only attracted a wave of viewers with the nostalgia of the first part, but the ratings were mediocre and did not generate any response.

The fourth part now is just a rehash of the IP.

Wei Mingjie nodded without surprise when he heard this. He didn't need to look through the script to know that Xia Yangqiu would not throw any good resources to him.

"Lanlan, you write the script and shoot what you want. I have many friends in the entertainment industry. It's no problem to rent an empty studio." At this point, Wei Mingjie looked a little ironic. He didn't expect that he was the chairman of the Wei Group, but one day he couldn't even use his own studio and had to borrow it from outside.

But Wei Lan said, "No, just shoot this one."

Wei Mingjie frowned: "Didn't you say that this script is bad?"

After a pause, he thought of something and comforted: "You don't have to worry about me being embarrassed. The current situation is only temporary."

"Really." Wei Lan shook his head and said, "Just like what Manager Xia said, it's just a sequel. If I can't shoot it well, doesn't it mean that I'm not capable? There's no need for you to invest in me to make a movie."

Wei Mingjie hesitated: "But you don't have to pick a bad movie..."

Wei Lan's mouth curled up and showed a smile.

Wei Mingjie saw a special temperament on her baby-fat face. He had seen it in many top people in the industry. That was the calmness that only people who are extremely confident in their field can have.

"There are good ways to play good things, and there are bad ways to play bad things."

Wei Mingjie showed a curious look: "Bad ways to play?"

Wei Lan: "Yes, let's make it worse, let it be more unique and have a sense of quality."

...

When she returned to the villa that day, Wei Lan made up for the first three works of "Swords and Swords".

Shooting a sequel has always been a thankless task for directors, and there are usually only two kinds of reputations: good and bad.

It is not enough to just do it well. Others will say that it is the influence of the halo of the previous work. If it is not well shot, it is even more of a good IP that is smashed in your hands. Moreover, the IP of "Swords and Swords" has been shot so far... It has almost been ruined.

Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to make a sequel, and it is even more difficult to shoot this one.

You should know that Wei Lan's standard for filming is not to shoot according to the script and leave it at that. Once she gets started, she must do the best under the current conditions.

As a result, after finishing the first three parts of "Swords and Swords", Wei Lan had some doubts about the development of film and television in this world.

Whether it is the form of expression or the cultural trends reflected in the work, Wei Lan thinks it is very old-fashioned.

The decent is the decent, the villain is the villain, the characters are still very flat, and the narrative structure is also straightforward. Even though the first Sword and Sword River was produced eight years ago, in Wei Lan's opinion, it is simply stuck at the level of 20 or 30 years ago in her era.

The two subsequent sequels are even more mediocre. Wei Lan can't help but want to skip the scenes when she speeds up the playback. Only the first one tells a story normally, but the problem still exists.

The whole "Sword and Sword River" tells the story of a righteous hero defeating the evil villain. The characteristics are probably ancient costumes and martial arts scenes. In the environment of holographic technology, some realistic visual stimulation is added.

Perhaps because holographic technology has overtaken the curve, this world lags behind in the development of lens language.

There is no slow motion, no rendering of the perspective environment... In Wei Lan's opinion, this visual stimulation of "Sword and Sword River" is still mediocre. At least she is very dissatisfied with the director's perspective and chooses to switch to a free perspective, which is equivalent to "moving the camera" by herself, so as to get a better viewing experience.

The second and third parts are the same, except that the villains and the general background are changed each time, and even forced to add water, no wonder it can't attract the audience.

The script of "Swordsman 4" is now in Wei Lan's hands. She picked up the tablet, opened the electronic script of "Swordsman 4" on it, and typed quickly on it:

'Act 1, Character: Lu Anning...'

This unit drama is tentatively scheduled to have three episodes, and the length of each episode is 30-40 minutes, which is just enough to make a three-act movie structure.

The script continues the previous work, and the protagonist is the righteous hero Lu Anning. The main plot this time is the struggle of the martial arts people around a peerless secret book.

In response, Wei Mingjie said that Wei Lan should change the script at will, and don't worry about Xia Yangqiu. The script was made by Wei's screenwriter team, which is equivalent to a buyout, and there is no situation where the screenwriter will grab the right to speak.

But Wei Lan does not intend to make major changes in the actors, background settings, or even the main plot.

One reason is that the conditions are limited at the moment. Xia Yangqiu is clearly throwing a mess over. To make major changes and attract the other party's wrangling is just to increase the time cost of filming in disguise.

Another reason is that Wei Lan likes challenges. She doesn't mind dancing in shackles. She has a lot of new inspirations for her first holographic movie.

Wei Lan plans to turn this TV series into her own stage for showing off her skills.

Announce to the world that she is here.

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