Chapter 214: The Joy of Life Trilogy and Noon Sunshine

Wei Yang has been calling for a big move since last year, but due to lack of manpower, he has never been able to do anything.

Now, Tangren's "Startling by Each Step" is about to be completed, which can free up some manpower. Blue Whale has also cultivated some new forces, so it is finally not stretched.

So Blue Whale is operating four projects at the same time.

"Chef Fang in the Flower Garden", "Soul Ferry" and "Diamond Lover", as well as Wei Yang's most valued new drama "Celebrating Yu Nian" starring him.

"Chef Fang in the Flower Garden" is to promote Zhao.

This novel was just published last year. It is not very popular, but the subject matter is good. The copyright was obtained by Orange Shell under Wei Yang.

The heroine of this drama is smart and cute, smart and lively, which is in line with the sweet girl route set by Blue Whale for Zhao, and the character is likable and easy to attract fans.

In fact, Wei Yang thought about filming Zhao's masterpiece "The Journey of Flower", but the time is not right now.

Special effects investment is easy to say, but the key is that Red Shark's game production capabilities have not caught up. If the game is not developed, it will be more troublesome to launch this project rashly.

The copyright has always been in his hands, so Wei Yang is not in a hurry. He will first shoot two sweet girl heroine dramas or play other roles to enhance and consolidate Xiao Zhao's popularity, and then it will not be too late to shoot "The Journey of Flower".

The original time and space of "Chef Fang in the Flower Room" was two seasons, mainly because they were afraid that the effect would not be good, so they shot a small season to test the waters.

Now Blue Whale certainly has no such consideration, and directly combined two into one, with a full script, a total of 36 episodes.

This drama is directed by Lin Yufen after "Eastern Palace" became popular, and a considerable part of the staff are also from the "Eastern Palace" team, so the configuration is quite good.

"Soul Ferry" is a project that Wei Yang and several senior executives finally decided after discussion.

As the first pure web drama, it still needs to be more eye-catching. "Soul Ferry" has elements such as suspense, supernatural, mythology, and reality, which is very suitable for making a name for itself and can also attract the audience to the greatest extent with a limited lineup.

After all, this kind of subject matter is hard to see on TV stations, and it can only be broadcast as a web drama, where a large number of viewers will come to "seek excitement".

If it is changed to other themes, it is not impossible to shoot, but the cast must be relatively improved, otherwise the performance and the price of the drama cannot be guaranteed.

Even in "Soul Ferry", in addition to Li Jiahang, the male lead, Wei Yang also considered letting Naza join, but later Lei Chun refused to let him go, so he considered other candidates.

Because it is the first season, and the current web drama market is still unclear, Blue Whale is more cautious, and the first season has only 20 episodes.

However, there is a difficulty at present, that is, the more outstanding role of Zhao Li has not been determined, and the director has no suitable candidate for the time being.

"Diamond Lover" is relatively simple, a typical urban idol drama, and also Blue Whale's forte, this kind of drama is to promote people + make money.

As mentioned earlier, the original choice of this drama was Tangren Hu Ge, who wanted him to lead the artists of Blue Whale.

But Hu Ge himself is not very willing to play this kind of modern idol drama now. If Blue Whale and Tangren ask him to, he can also play it, but the key is that there is now Qiao Zhenyu who participated in "Startling by Each Step".

If "Startling by Each Step" can achieve the results of the original time and space, it will be better to let him play it than to invite Hu Ge, and he is also a self-made artist.

But now this drama is a collaboration between Blue Whale and Tangren. If the female lead, male lead, and female second are all from Blue Whale, Lao Cai may have opinions, so it needs to be negotiated.

The original version of "Diamond Lover" is actually filmed well. It can't be called a masterpiece, but it is definitely an idol drama above the standard.

The disadvantage is that the plot is too watery. In order to expand the number of episodes and make more money, they have been tossing their lives, and even delayed the schedule of the male lead, so that the male and female leads broke up, and finally let the male second take the position in the finale. It is really a show.

Although Blue Whale also likes to make money, it still cares about its reputation relatively. After all, the brand is valuable.

So Wei Yang asked the screenwriter to refine the plot, removing the water in the original nearly 20 episodes, and the final product was 50 episodes.

At the same time, the ending cannot be changed. The male and female protagonists love each other for dozens of episodes, and finally get together with another person. Isn't this a trick?

The director of "Diamond Lover" is Liu Junjie, the director of Blue Whale. With his level and the quality of the team polished by Blue Whale over the years, Wei Yang basically doesn't have to worry about this play.

In contrast, Wei Yang's main focus in the future is on "Celebrating More Than Years".

Before, Wei Yang went to Qidian and took a walk to get the film and television rights of several dramas, one of which is "Celebrating More Than Years".

The influence of this book itself is not bad, and it belongs to the ceiling in the current Qidian history classification.

From 2008 to 2009, during the serialization of the novel "Celebrating More Than Years", it was once the third in the monthly ticket list of Qidian. Above it were "Devil's Law" by Dancing at its peak and "Panlong" by Tomato.

However, the difficulty of adapting these two novels is much greater than "Celebrating More Than Years", so Wei Yang chose the latter.

It has always been a difficult problem to adapt male-oriented online novels. Fantasy and fairy tales are too big, urban themes have too many minefields, and history is a relatively easy theme.

Mao Ni himself will not discuss it, but the style advantage of his works is the plot layout and character creation, and the world view is relatively not so exaggerated, which are all very suitable for film and television adaptation.

So compared with other male-oriented masters, his works have been adapted into film and television the most times and have the best results.

Wei Yang attaches great importance to "Celebrating More Than Years". The TV series he played before were basically idol dramas, many of which were biased towards the female perspective.

Even though "Eastern Palace" later added more power struggles, the emotional line still has a large proportion.

That's why Wei Yang is very good at promoting female stars, because the core tone of many dramas is romance, and some can even be called female-led dramas.

"Celebrating More Than Years" is different. It is based on the male protagonist Fan Xian as the core perspective, and it is a complete male-led drama.

To a certain extent, it can be regarded as Wei Yang's semi-transformation. He no longer sticks to romance, but starts to do business.

The original novel of "Celebrating More Than Years" is nearly 4 million words. One drama is definitely not enough, so it is planned to be divided into three parts.

The first season is similar to the original version, with Fan Xian's birth + Kyoto turmoil + mission to Northern Qi.

The plot of the second season is to open a bank in the south of the Yangtze River + the prince's rebellion, the battle of Dadong Mountain, and the death of the princess and the four masters.

The third season is about conquering Dongyi City, the death of Chen Pingping, the confrontation with Emperor Qing and his son, visiting the temple, finding out the truth, and killing Emperor Qing.

The script was created by Wei Yang with two apprentices and Wang Juan, a strong supporter.

Of course, only the first season has been written, and the next two seasons are just planning and preparation. Whether to shoot or not depends on the feedback of the first season. If it fails, Wei Yang will not throw money into it.

But if the plan goes well, these three dramas plus movies will be enough for Wei Yang to be busy in the next 2 to 3 years.

After the filming of "Shan Shan Comes", "Celebrating Yu Nian" has already started the project preparation. The script of the first season is 45 episodes, and the investment is expected to be no less than that of "Eastern Palace".

What is more difficult to determine now is the director and casting, especially the director. The casting of "Celebrating Yu Nian" has been delayed to a certain extent because Wei Yang has never decided on the director.

The two leading directors Lin and Liu of Blue Whale are not free and are not very good at this subject.

To be honest, the shooting of many political plots in "Eastern Palace" was directed by Wei Yang, Li Muge (the original director of "Eastern Palace") and other executive directors, and Lin Yufen was not very sensitive to this aspect.

Li Muge is a talented director, and Wei Yang signed him to Blue Whale after filming "Eastern Palace".

However, this guy is first-class in photography, lighting, styling, and location shooting. He is good at shooting beautiful men, beautiful women and beautiful scenery, but plot laying and rhythm control are not his strong points.

To put it bluntly, Li Muge is a technical auxiliary director. When filming "Eastern Palace", it was Wei Yang who made the requirements and then handed it over to him to shoot, playing to his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses.

This time, when filming "Celebrating Yu Nian", Wei Yang plans to still bring Li Muge with him, but his strengths and weaknesses are too obvious, and Wei Yang can't be a director every day.

In "Eastern Palace", Wei Yang is only responsible for controlling the shooting and plot of political plots, Li Muge is responsible for technology and execution, and Lin Yufen is behind him.

If it all depends on Wei Yang alone, he can hardly hold on, and he doesn't want to be so tired.

Therefore, Wei Yang planned to find other directors to co-direct with Li Muge, so he pulled Zhang Yongxin out in advance.

This guy is the director of "The Advisors Alliance" and "Awakening Age" later. He is still in Shanying and is considered one of Kong Sheng's assistants.

Zhang Yongxin is good at plot and character creation, and is also a director that Wei Yang admires. This time he plans to dig him over and form a partner with Li Muge, one inside and one outside, a perfect match.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Yongxin is also Wei Yang's fellow villager in Zaoshi, which also gives Wei Yang more confidence in poaching.

In addition, Wei Yang also brought Sun Hao, the original director of "Celebrating More Than Years", to the director team.

This guy is the most experienced of the three directors at the moment. He has been able to independently direct several TV series on satellite TV, but they are basically low-cost family dramas. "Celebrating More Than Years", a trilogy production that is expected to invest hundreds of millions, is very tempting for him.

Even if there is hope to get three "famous directors", the always steady boss Wei is still a little worried.

After all, these three famous directors are still in the growth stage, and the investment of several hundred million yuan cannot just be used for them to practice.

So Wei Yang is recently contacting the newly established Noon Sunshine, hoping to borrow Kong Sheng for a few months to help shoot the first season of "Celebrating Yu Nian" and train several of his own directors.

When the first season is finished, several directors will grow up, and Kong Sheng can "retire to the second line".

However, Noon Sunshine has just been established, and it is impossible to let go easily if Kong Sheng is the pillar of the stage. Wei Yang has made many conditions.

For example, a part of the share of "Celebrating Yu Nian" can be invested in Noon Sunshine. If the project of Noon Sunshine is short of money and the conditions are right, Wei Yang can also take Blue Whale or Emerald Shrimp to participate in the investment, and even Wei Yang himself can play a Noon Sunshine drama.

This is what Noon Sunshine is waiting for!

Wei Yang basically does not accept external projects now, but his popularity is too hot, and everyone is jealous and wants to cooperate with him in every possible way.

Kong Sheng is very important to Noon Sunshine, but if Wei Yang can be invited to participate, it will be of great significance to Noon Sunshine, which has just been established and intends to increase its commercial attributes.

So, after consultation, Kong Sheng is expected to become the chief director of "Celebrating Yu Nian", with Li Muge, Zhang Yongxin and Sun Hao as directors.

Wei Yang himself owes Noon Sunshine a big favor, but he doesn't care.

Noon Sunshine is interested in his popularity, and he also likes Noon Sunshine's team and high-quality projects. As long as it can make money, Wei Yang will not only provide people but also money.

Noon Sunshine: You are a strange person!