Chapter 259 The flaws of the arc

Seeing Meng Bai declined the invitation to write the script, Wang Baoqiang was disappointed, but he did not force it.

As he said, it is indeed a bit difficult for a suspense creator to write the script for an action comedy.

He can only find another screenwriter.

However, although the creative cooperation failed, the investment cooperation can still continue.

The two agreed to talk about the specific investment shares after the project plan is completed.

After talking about the business, the next thing is to chat. As they talked, they began to discuss "Detective Chinatown 2".

There is an easter egg at the end of the first part. The two male protagonists "Tang Ren" and "Qin Feng" were invited to the United States.

This is actually equivalent to a preview, telling the audience in advance that the background of the second part will be in Chinatown, New York.

"I still think that the concept of 'global detective community' should be brought out in the second part." Chen Sicheng looked at Meng Bai.

"Okay, but it's better not to have too many people." Meng Bai said: "I think the rhythm of the movie will be better if the setting of 'detective competition' is put in the third part later."

The two had actually discussed the content of the second movie several times before.

Chen Sicheng proposed a concept, that is, each country in the world should have a local famous detective.

Each of these detectives has unique skills and strengths. At the invitation of the mysterious man, everyone was invited to join a community platform that focuses on case sharing and reasoning.

Meng Bai also supports this idea.

After adding this setting, the "Chinatown Detective" combination of Qin and Tang can more reasonably set various motivations for them to run around the world.

However, the two also have differences. Chen Sicheng thinks that this setting should be used directly in the second part, while Meng Bai prefers that the second part is just related and will officially appear in the third part.

"Or there is another way, between one or two movies, insert a web drama and take out the setting of the 'detective community'."

Meng Bai said: "In this way, the setting of appearing directly in the second part will not seem too abrupt."

"What is the web drama about? And if you want to shoot a web drama, Haoran is fine, but Baoqiang may not be suitable." Chen Sicheng frowned.

"It doesn't matter. We can add a new character and set him as 'Tang Ren's apprentice' or something like that. He would look for his master when he has a case that he can't solve, but Tang Ren is a half-baked person, so Qin Feng was pushed out and the two of them joined forces."

At this point, Meng Bai suddenly had an idea: "Or we can just use the new character as the male lead and let Qin Feng return to China to become a hidden remote support. This will not break the combination of 'Chinatown Detective', and secondly, it can complete the classic setting of 'Armchair Detective'. It just so happens that after Qin Feng returns to China, we can see if we can link up with several other projects..."

Seeing that his junior brother was bursting with inspiration and getting more and more excited, Chen Sicheng hurriedly said: "OKOK, anyway, the web drama is your home ground, you can decide, and tell me if you need any cooperation."

In fact, there is nothing to cooperate with. Although the project of "Chinatown Detective" belongs to the "Green Ivy Criminal Investigation Universe", it is relatively independent because of its different form.

Meng Bai's idea is that the movie part only uses the big background setting and character relationships. All those linkages are put in the web drama part.

After the celebration banquet, Chen Zhixi had to discuss the copyright of the subsequent streaming media, while Chen Sicheng accompanied Wang Baoqiang to discuss how to announce the news.

Meng Bai was not idle either. The weekend was a "new home party". He hired a housekeeping service to clean up the new house again in the past two days.

Then there were the company's matters. Liu Jun heard that he was back and happened to find him for something.

"Award ceremony?"

Meng Bai looked at the invitation in his hand. The cover read "The First Golden Bone Flower Network Film and Television Festival": "Is it a newly established award? I don't think I have heard of it before?"

"It is indeed a new award. The organizers are Weibo and Guduo Media."

Liu Jun introduced him. This "Golden Bone Flower Network Film and Television Festival" is, as the name suggests, an award specially established for online audio-visual programs.

Web drama is a new film and television project. So far, there is no award for web drama in the traditional major TV drama awards.

Even in unofficial awards such as the "National Drama Festival" and the "Hengdian Wenrong Award", web drama projects are mostly used as a foil.

But at the same time, the scale of the web drama market is increasing year by year, and it has gradually been able to compete with TV dramas.

Faced with this situation, many people in the industry have begun to discuss whether a professional award for web dramas should be established.

Weibo itself has a "Weibo Night", but that is more like an entertainment industry party.

So they broke away from their own system and joined hands with Guduo Media, which mainly deals with online film and television data, to create this "Golden Guduo Online Film and Television Festival".

This year is the first session.

However, it is not enough to have a platform alone. You must have registered works to award.

So the organizers sent "hero invitations" to major film and television companies that have produced web dramas, as well as several video platforms, inviting everyone to participate.

"Are there any other companies going?"

"I asked privately, and they are all very supportive." Liu Jun said.

That's right, after all, the organizer is Weibo. As the largest media platform in China, this face should be given.

"Okay, then let's also register the works that meet the requirements and support them."

After saying that, Meng Bai complained again: "I'm not saying, Jun Ge, this matter is worth you coming to me to talk about it."

Liu Jun smiled: "If it's just to participate in an award, of course it's not worth mentioning specifically, but I have a new idea."

"What idea?"

Liu Jun didn't say it directly, but asked back: "What do you think our Arc Light is lacking in the online drama field now?"

"What is missing?"

Meng Bai was a little confused, thought about it, and said with emotion: "It's missing a rival of equal strength..."

"..."

Liu Jun was choked, but he had to say that what Meng Bai said made sense.

If it's a single project, there can still be a competitor.

Like last year's "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" and "Go Princess Go", this year's popular "Old Nine Gates" and "Yu Zui", etc.

But if we talk about the overall situation, at least in the field of online dramas, there is really no team that can compare with Arclight.

They have the funds, the channels, the projects, and the IPs. It seems that there are indeed no flaws.

But this is definitely not what Liu Jun wants to say.

"What we lack now is industry influence."

"Industry influence?"

"Or in other words, the right to speak in the industry."

(End of this chapter)