Post-shadow Development Plan

But the support that Satoru Iwata can give her is so far. As an expert in games, Satoru Iwata lacks sensitivity to businesses other than games.In addition, he is now presiding over the development of a new generation of handhelds and mainframes, which is already too much to do.

Ziyuan didn't want to continue to cause trouble for her brother who had been taking good care of her, she was going to solve these problems by herself.

So ever since she took the position of chairman, Jiufeng Ziyuan has been trying to use various methods to remove those old people who oppose diversified development from Jiufeng's core of power, so that she can keep her voice as much as possible. .

But no matter what the result is in the equity competition, if the company as a whole cannot produce corresponding performance, then everything will be nothing.

And this movie is a key project for Jiufeng Ziyuan to prove her ability to the whole company and to Jiufeng supporters all over the world.

So Shion invited almost all the directors in Japan who had made achievements in commercial films, hoping that they could provide a suitable project plan.

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"Director Kiryu, I have a question." Jiufeng Ziyuan closed the draft plan in her hand, she squinted her eyes and asked Kiryu Nanaya: "Are you sure you are not teasing me?! Or do you think we Feng is only qualified to shoot such indecent things?!"

【really...】

Qiye sighed in his heart, from Jiufeng Ziyuan's increasingly gloomy face just now, he guessed that the other party would definitely be angry.To be able to get angry after reading all the drafts he proposed, Qiye already felt that the other party's self-cultivation was really quite good.

"Chairman Jiufeng, please allow me to explain."

Jiufeng Ziyuan opened the paper fan in her hand, and she said in a very serious tone: "You only have 3 minutes, after which I will ask Iioka to drive you out."

"It's like this, Chairman Jiufeng. If it is produced according to the normal Western fantasy theme, what do you think is the probability of success of this project? Let's not talk about game adaptation, which is a difficult theme factor in the movie market, just from the theme. , do you think the "Saint and the Brave" series can be compared with the current popular "Harry Potter" series and Western Fantasy's classic theme "Lord of the Rings"?"

"...I'm afraid not."

After thinking about it for a long time, Jiufeng Ziyuan gave the answer that she herself was a little discouraged. Although the game industry is very profitable, it does not have a large audience compared to so many entertainment projects on the market.

Now is far from the era of universal games 20 years later. Gamers in this period are basically core players. Although Jiufeng has activated the talent point of light players, in terms of numbers, the number of players is actually really high. not much.

And the number of fans pushed down to the "Saint and the Brave" series is even smaller.Whether it is the "Harry Potter" series with countless book fans or the classic "Lord of the Rings" series that has been proven for 50 years, it is much stronger than the IP in its own hands.

Seeing Jiufeng Ziyuan's attitude loosen, Qiye hurriedly chased after him and said, "So, what we have to do is not to find a way to surpass these two series, but to open up a market that these two series cannot reach."

During the period of writing the script of "Goblin Slayer", Nanaya thought of many problems.He found that he was thinking wrong in some aspects, and he didn't have to compete with "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" at the box office.On the contrary, what he has to do is to borrow as much heat as possible from these two films to attract audiences to watch his film.

So how can the audience distinguish this movie from the other two most intuitively?

Using differential grading is obviously a good approach.

"So you want to open up the R-rated movie market? But this is too...too obscene." Jiufeng Ziyuan blushed slightly, thinking that Qiye mentioned all kinds of goblin atrocities in the script, and she felt a little embarrassed speak up.

"And... and more importantly, this will damage our company's reputation. You should be very clear that our company's games have always focused on all ages. This will cause a very big misunderstanding of the image of our company's games. , you should be very clear that there has always been such an argument that games are demonized."

"So you made a movie for all ages and it won't change too much the outside world's perception of the game." Qiye knew that following this woman's thinking would definitely not be able to persuade her, so she had to find a way to open her mind.

"But director Kiryu, you should also be very aware of how much energy and money I have invested in this project. As a result, you come up with such a plan for making such a rough movie. The above can only be said to be average, and they are all taking the offline profit route, which is completely different from the result I hoped to use the high box office to expand the influence!"

Jiufeng Ziyuan still has deep concerns about Qiye's R-rated movie proposal, but Qiye has her own ideas.

"Who said R-rated movies must be shoddy?" Qiye argued for his project, "Although most R-rated movies are shoddy, they use blood and pornography to attract audiences. But among them There are still plenty of well-made movies."

"For example, "The Matrix" released in 99 earned a global box office of 4.6 million US dollars at the level of an R-rated movie. This achievement is beyond the reach of many movies of all ages. Therefore, the potential of the R-rated movie market is not great. Chairman Jiufeng imagined it to be so small, but we just need suitable movies to dig out. What we have to do is how to dig out this usually unremarkable market.”

In fact, "The Matrix" is not the best example. After all, the iconic elements of this movie's R-rated movie are not particularly many, otherwise it would not have been screened in China.So if you don't understand it consciously, many people will subconsciously classify this sci-fi movie as PG-13.

It's a pity that among the current R-rated movies, the only movie that can do well at the box office is "The Matrix". It's not that there are no good movies in the R-rated movies, but that the box office results are generally mediocre.Even Quentin's "Pulp Fiction" only made $1.079 million at the box office.

Compared with "The Matrix", there is an R-rated superhero movie that is actually more convincing and representative, but the movie "Deadpool" that won a global box office of 7.6 million US dollars will not be released until 2016 .

In fact, it is precisely because of "Deadpool", which still won a super high box office under the pressure of two heavyweight superhero movies of the same type, "Captain America: Civil War" and "Superman vs. Batman", gave Seven nights chose Goblin Slayer as inspiration.

In fact, it might be much better if this project was put in 2005, because in 2004, there was an R-rated movie called "The Passion of the Christ" which earned 6.1 million US dollars at the global box office.That movie has more R-rated elements and is more convincing because it has something to do with the torture of Jesus.

Jiufeng Ziyuan somewhat understood Nanaya's thoughts: "That is to say, you plan to make the "Saint and the Brave" series of movies at the level of "The Matrix"?"

Qiye said very seriously: "Yes, in terms of special effects, I will try my best to match "The Matrix". Although the final result still needs to be seen by the special effects team, I hope that I can make this movie as perfect as possible. Of course Now, unlike "The Matrix" which is based on science fiction, "Goblin Slayer" will have more R-rated elements, especially the protagonist's methods of killing goblins, which will be the main selling point of the film."

Although there are a lot of atrocities about goblins in yellow in the original book, Nanaya does not intend to focus too much on this aspect. He plans to describe more about the killing of people by goblins and the role of goblin killers. How to kill goblins in various ways.

Looking at all the R-rated movies that hit the box office, Qiye is very clear that if an R-rated movie wants to sell well, there is no problem with blood and violence, but the yellow one is by far the best.

Whether it's "Deadpool", "Wolverine III" or "The Passion of the Christ", they didn't put R-rated elements on the lens of color, at most it only showed one or two times and it was over.

Part of the reason for this is because too many colors are easily classified as NG-17, and on the other hand, it is also because plasma films have a higher audience in Europe and the United States than colors.

"Then what about the plot? I found that you didn't use any of the plot lines in the "Saint and the Brave" series. You only vaguely mentioned in the last battle that the priestess might be the reincarnation of the saint."

Seven nights replied as a matter of course: "Because the main storyline of the original book is too long, if the original main storyline is used to tell the story, it is simply not enough for a movie to finish."

"Instead of thinking about how to compress the plot, it's better to start from scratch. Anyway, according to the worldview setting of the "Saint and the Brave" series, each generation of saint and brave is not the same person."

Qiye felt that the blood of the seniors should not be left in vain, this pit must be avoided.Facts have proved that game-changing movies based on the plot of the original work are basically dead, the difference is only in how they die.

"Then why did you choose Goblins as the theme? Obviously there are so many monsters in the game."

[You ask Snail (the author of Brother Kill) this question, how do I know. 】

Although he answered this way in his heart, Qiye still took the initiative to express his own reasons: "There are mainly two reasons. One reason is that goblins are the most common and lowest-level monsters in the game. Although the subjective impression given to everyone should be It is very weak, but in fact there are not a few players who are actually turned back by Goblins in the game. Designing Goblins as the main enemy will have a sense of intimacy for game fans, but for passers-by In other words, goblins, who are very weak in the original impression, are actually very difficult enemies, and this difference will bring them a sense of freshness."

Qiye didn't lie. When he played "Breath of the Wild" in his previous life, the people who died the most were those pokeblins (the goblin-like monster race in Zelda).In the early stage, the equipment is too poor to beat, but in the later stage, because of the increased difficulty of the game, he will always be taken away by Silver Polkbring.

In particular, these guys always appear in groups and always bring a lot of trouble to Qiye. From this point of view, they are similar to the goblins in the world of "Brother Kill".

"What about the second reason?" Jiufeng Ziyuan hurriedly asked.

"The cost of making goblins is cheaper than other monsters. Most monsters can be solved only by makeup, so that more money can be left to make special effects."