Chapter 724: New Science Fiction IP: Star Wars
The movie "The Matrix" made Qingyao Group a fortune.
This kind of profit makes all companies jealous, especially gaming companies. With over 30 million copies sold, after deducting various costs, the profit should be at least $1.5 billion.
Box office dividends, peripheral profits, games, and everything else added together, "The Matrix" made Qingyao Group's profits exceed 3 billion US dollars.
Such a horrific profit is truly terrifying. A single film can generate such a profit, and this is not just something that one company is jealous of. Even the American tycoons are extremely jealous.
The film industry is a highly profitable one, and it used to be controlled by them. Now, Qingyao Group has taken a big bite out of it, perhaps even the biggest bite. Who wouldn't be jealous?
But they were wary of the Qingyao Group, because when Su Yang got angry, he was truly ruthless. To put it bluntly, he was a bit of a barefoot guy, not afraid of the shoes. If you really pissed him off, he would use his powers to fight you to the death.
As for killing Su Yang, they had no chance at all. Su Yang had excellent security protection in China. Besides that, Su Yang's own fighting ability was also terrifying. Although the intelligence systems of various countries did not have detailed information, they did find some information.
That is, Su Yang's own fighting ability is very terrifying. This guy's learning ability is too terrifying, including his fighting skills.
Being envious but not being able to obtain what they have is the most painful thing. Now they can only hope that someone like Su Yang will appear under their command. This is a completely cheating life.
Qingyao Group, with its subsidiaries raking in the cash thanks to the massive sales of "The Matrix," was a bonanza. While everyone was naturally happy about the profits, the group was internally quite calm. After all, they had been making money like this for a long time.
Since the establishment of Qingyao Group, every time it makes money, it makes people jealous.
Get used to it, live your life as usual, and get your bonus as usual.
We lived a comfortable and happy life. Those employees who resigned due to the relocation of the headquarters are now regretting it to the core.
Some even want to come back, but while it was easy to leave in the first place, it's not so easy to come back now. If they do, they have to reapply according to the requirements of new employees, be reassigned to new positions, and start all over again.
No matter your original reason, since you chose to leave, in the eyes of Qingyao, you've left. There's no room for resentment, after all, everyone makes their own choices. But there's also no room for affection, as those with different aspirations cannot work together.
"The first part of The Matrix has been released, and filming of the second part will begin in the second half of next year, with the release date being the summer vacation of the year after next."
Su Yang organized a meeting in the conference room of Qingyao Media. As a director, Su Yang often stayed at Qingyao Media.
"But our big science fiction project can't just rely on one movie. We want to create more IPs. So we're going to launch a number of projects next. First up is the Transformers project. The popularity of the Transformers anime is already building, so we can start preparing for the Transformers project. Once everything is ready, we'll start filming and aim for a release next year."
The Big Science Fiction Project is an important project within Qingyao Media. This project aims to produce more science fiction-themed works in the future.
According to the plan, science fiction will account for 30% of the company's productions in the future. The company is strongly supported in science fiction productions, with various policy priorities and easy access to funding.
Whether it is the previous "The Wandering Earth", "Terminator", or "The Matrix", they are all part of the big science fiction plan.
Produce more science fiction works and cultivate the soil for science fiction works in China.
Furthermore, Qingyao Group has launched a writing competition in the past two years, offering high prize money, with the goal of encouraging more literary creators to create better science fiction works.
Not only can the winning works receive a bonus, but the excellent works suitable for adaptation will also be adapted by Qingyao Group into animation, TV series, movies, games, etc. If they are really adapted, then they will become rich overnight. The price that Qingyao Group gives for copyrights starts at tens of millions.
Driven by Qingyao Group, there is currently a strong science fiction atmosphere in China. In the past two years, many science fiction writers and excellent science fiction works have emerged.
The emergence of these works has also injected new vitality into the Chinese literary circle. Previously, science fiction works were not very popular in the Chinese literary circle, and were even unpopular.
Things are different now. Everyone knows science fiction can make money. So many writers are trying to write in that genre, switching genres. Often, money is the biggest motivation for progress.
"In addition to Transformers, I've also prepared a new IP. This IP is a very important IP, even more important than The Matrix..."
Su Yang's words made everyone's expressions serious.
A new IP, an IP more important than The Matrix, how important is this?
"This IP has a relatively long lifespan. In the future, there will be at least a dozen or more films in the series. You can even think of this series as a TV series..."
Su Yang's words made everyone even more curious. Seeing everyone's curious expressions, Su Yang smiled slightly and opened the PPT directly.
Four big words appeared on the big screen: "Star Wars".
"The Star Wars series is a very large series. The entire world is structured on the vast universe, and the world system is very large..."
Su Yang began to talk about Star Wars. Su Yang had actually been preparing for this IP for a long time, even for several years.
Su Yang had already finished reading the entire series. After that, Su Yang read a lot of science fiction books, and also incorporated various historical, religious, and philosophical books.
In the end, this story became a Chinese story, and this series of movies has a lot of side stories mixed in. For example, Su Yang put the Western system into the various villain empires. It looks democratic, but in fact it is controlled by various chaebols.
On the justice side, naturally, the Chinese system was put in. However, this kind of set was not so obvious, but rather subtle and gradual.
Su Yang even wrote a science fiction novel specifically for this IP. The name of the novel is "Star Wars". Currently, the novel has more than two million words, but Su Yang has not published it. In the future, the film will be shot according to this novel, but it will be shot in the same way as before.
This novel can be seen as a science fiction version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It has grand scenes and many stories. If it were to be filmed, even twenty or thirty movies might not be enough to finish it. Once this IP is cultivated, Qingyao Group will have a long-term evergreen tree for making money.
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