Liu Heping is not short of money.
There is no shortage of investment either.
But faced with an additional investment of 50 million, Liu Heping could not resist this kind of temptation.
The industry recognizes his plays, but the industry has little confidence in his performance.
No matter how good the reputation of "Ming Dynasty 1566" is, its ratings are still off the charts.
So he can attract investment, but not much investment.
And Yue Guan gave him an extra 50 million to make his new play more perfect in production, so he couldn't refuse.
However, Liu Heping felt a little guilty when he took the money: "Yue Guan, I'm very good at TV series, but what you want to do is a movie. I don't have much experience in this area."
"I will make movies and TV series. What I want to do is a mythical universe, similar to Marvel, with more flowers, mainly movies and TV series as a supplement."
Seeing Liu Heping's change of expression, Yue Guan knew what Liu Heping was worried about and gave him reassurance: "Don't worry, I just want you to help me sort out the outline and plot lines. This series of projects is very big, and I'll still have the remaining details." We will find other screenwriters."
Hearing what Yue Guan said, Liu Heping breathed a sigh of relief.
If Yue Guan gives him all the screenwriting duties for such a big project, then he won't have to think about doing anything else within a few years.
He thought too much, because Yue Guan was not that confident about him either.
Liu Heping is a detail-oriented person, and he especially likes to dig into details and play with metaphors. This kind of behavior is fine in a TV series, because the TV series has dozens of episodes and can be unfolded slowly, but it won't work in a movie, because the movie only has two episodes in total. About hours.
Liu Heping is good at writing TV drama scripts. When writing movie scripts, pacing is a big problem.
So the job Yue Guan gave him was to help him sort out the main line of the mythical story, and then add some details about the overt and covert struggles between the major bosses.
Other than that, he is responsible for the stories himself or finds another screenwriter to write them.
People make the best use of their talents. Yue Guan believes in Liu Heping's strength, but he doesn't underestimate his strength.
Just let him perform in what he is best at.
Liu Heping readily accepted Yue Guan's positioning of him.
In this way, his workload is not too big, but the benefits he can get are not ordinary. This wave is not a loss.
He immediately became motivated and asked directly: "Yue Guan, what are your specific thoughts? Tell me first."
"Teacher Liu, have you read "Lotus Lantern"?" Yue Guan asked.
Liu Heping nodded: "Of course, I have to say that the Jade Emperor you played as Yue Guan is so amazing. I feel that your acting skills have improved compared to before."
Of course.
When filming "The Best in the World", Yue Guan's acting skills were just like that, relying more on cheating.
When filming The Jade Emperor, his acting skills were upgraded as well.
But Yue Guan didn't want to discuss his acting skills with Liu Heping.
"Teacher Liu, what I'm talking about is what the Jade Emperor said at the end. Are you paying attention?"
Liu Heping thought thoughtfully: "So you really want to do the Conferred God Project and the Xian Qin Project?"
"Of course, I plan to make movies for both projects, with big investment and big production, and everything is required to be perfect. I will make The Gods first, but there is a problem."
"what is the problem?"
"The book "The List of Gods" is too intellectual. The saints and gods in it are just a bunch of idiots."
Yueguan is really not in trouble this time.
A saint, according to the setting, is immortal and omnipotent. He should have been so powerful that he could explode into heaven.
The results of it
In "The List of Gods", Master Tongtian is a reckless man, Yuanshi Tianzun is a retarder, I am a little better, but he is really just a little better.
The setting that makes people vomit blood the most is that the saint was so awesome in his previous portrayal, but after Hongjun appeared on the scene, he directly used three poison pills to control Sanqing...
poison…
Can kill a saint...
What about the promised immortality
What kind of qualifications does such a saint have
And are these three saints really as intelligent as Shangguan Xingfeng
Okay, this should still be there. But a dignified saint actually reduced himself to competing with Shangguan Xingfeng in terms of IQ, which already explains a lot of problems.
This kind of "Fengshen Bang", Yue Guan felt that he couldn't even shoot it.
In the Mythical Universe series, Yue Guan is ready to go out. After all, special effects are blockbusters, and the Dragon Kingdom has conquered the world before, so some ancient mythological stories are somewhat familiar to foreigners and there is still a market for them.
But should foreigners despise the intelligence of Chinese gods so much
Yue Guan felt it was inappropriate.
Liu Heping also felt it was inappropriate.
"The saints in "The Legend of the Gods" are stupid enough and have no film or television value."
He has also read "The List of the Gods", and one thing is that the IQ of those saints in "The Ming Dynasty 1566" is not as good as Zheng Michang's.
"How are you going to change it?" Liu Heping asked.
Yue Guan had some ideas before and said directly: "The background is set to be that the Immortal Sect is strong, gradually eclipsing the Heavenly Court and the Great Shang, and the Qi Practitioners are superior, superior to mortals, and enjoy various privileges.
Emperor Xin, the great businessman, was unwilling to be oppressed and worked hard to gain the inheritance of the martial arts of the Three Emperors in ancient times. He wanted to repeat the feat of the Human Emperor and abolish the privileges of Qi Practitioners. The human emperor's rank is equal to that of the heavenly emperor. From then on, the heaven governs the sky, the human emperor governs the earth, and the human race has the final say on matters in the human world.
At this time, the Heavenly Court was weak and the Heavenly Emperor was an empty frame. There is Emperor Xin who is working hard and ambitious to govern, and there are immortal sects infiltrating above, and the heaven is getting weaker and weaker. So the Emperor of Heaven opened the list of gods, provoking a dispute between the immortal sect practitioners and the royal court of the Great Shang. Catastrophe swept through the three realms, and the battle of the gods finally began. "
Liu Heping's eyes lit up when he heard this: "You want to highlight King Zhou?"
"Yes, King Zhou did not do anything rebellious in history. Instead, he was the last emperor who worked hard to govern. It is not a big problem to beautify and process artistic creation. Our country's mythological system is too chaotic and there is no unified setting. If I want to do it, I must first make a setting. The human emperor's rank is the same as that of the heavenly emperor. The human king is a lower level, but he can still communicate with the heavenly emperor equally. Emperor Xin is the last human king. After Emperor Xin, Ji Fa As the Emperor of Zhou, from now on the emperor on earth will be ranked lower than the Emperor of Heaven. He will only serve as the emperor, and the human emperor will no longer exist."
Setting things like this should be simple and easy to understand, because setting people are only a minority in the audience.
The setting of Yueguan is simple and crude, but really easy to understand.
Liu Heping didn’t think the problem was big.
"This broad framework is indeed possible, but do you want to make Fengshen a show about a duel between two heroes? Focus on King Zhou and the Emperor of Heaven, while weakening the traditional Three Pure Ones and Great Zhou Dynasty?"
"No, the focus is on King Zhou, and the Emperor of Heaven is set to be the final boss. I want to make a series. In the play of Xian Qin, the Emperor of Heaven is still the final boss. A warrior with flowing water, and a devil with iron power."
The warrior Yue Guan will be played, and the devil Yue Guan will also be played.
Teacher Tang is known as the man who created China for five thousand years.
With Zhu Yu in front, Yue Guan decided to open another track.
Just be a man who embodies Chinese mythology.