Chapter 329 "Zijin Chen Trilogy"
"Boss Gong, this is the set of our movie."
On the set of Blue Island's "City Lights", Meng Bai looked at a middle-aged man wearing glasses and looking gentle, and pointed to the scene where the filming was taking place.
"I've heard that Arclight's team is different from other companies and is highly standardized. Seeing it today, it's really extraordinary."
The middle-aged man who spoke was named Gong Yu. He is best known as the founder and current CEO of Qiyi TV.
"Day and Night Chase" is the first project that Arclight Films and Qiyi TV officially cooperated on. The website believed from the beginning that the performance of this drama would definitely be good. But unexpectedly, the final result was still far beyond their expectations.
"We actually didn't expect that this drama would be so popular."
Sitting down in the lounge, Meng Bai poured a cup of tea for him: "We initially thought that it would be at most better than last year's "Forensic Qin Ming". We are also surprised to have the current results."
"Mr. Meng is too modest. With the quality shown in "Day and Night Chase", this result is just right." Gong Yu took a sip of tea and said with a smile.
"Thank you." Meng Bai smiled lightly and said bluntly: "I wonder if Mr. Gong has any advice for your visit today?"
"It's not a question of advice." Gong Yu laughed and waved his hand, "I came here today to meet Mr. Meng. After all, we have been working together for such a long time, and it's too unreasonable not to meet. In addition, I also want to thank Arc Light."
For ordinary audiences, the popularity of "Day and Night Chase" is at most more talk and a "dinner drama", but for the platform, it is not that simple.
Thanks to the extremely high popularity and huge traffic brought by "Day and Night", the number of paid users of Qiyi TV has exceeded 50 million in one fell swoop, and it has also successfully reached a strategic cooperation with Netflix.
At other times, although this is also a very impressive honor, it would not be so important to Gong Yu, the "head".
But now it is different. Qiyi TV has been planning to go public on Nasdaq since last year, and the $1.5 billion bond financing at the beginning of this year is also in preparation for the listing.
In this case, every improvement of the website will help the listing process.
The influence brought by the explosion of "Day and Night" will undoubtedly accelerate it a lot.
Gong Yu naturally attaches great importance to the listing of the entire platform, so he made a special trip to Landao to meet Meng Bai.
"Mr. Gong, you're too polite." Meng Bai said, "After all, Arclight also has shares in Qiyi TV. We all prosper together, so there's no need to come here specifically to thank you."
"Mr. Meng said so, so I have to come here even more." Gong Yu said with a smile, "Being responsible for shareholders and investors is the most important job for me as the president."
The two of them joked for a while, and Gong Yu turned the topic to online dramas. He actually came here for another reason this time.
"I wonder if Mr. Meng has read the works of Mr. Zijin Chen?"
Meng Bai nodded, "Mr. Chen is one of the representatives in the field of suspense in China, with many books. We who make suspense must not miss it."
When it comes to suspense now, many people will first think of Arclight Film and Television and Meng Bai.
But in the field of suspense before the emergence of online dramas, Zijin Chen, Ma Boyong and others were also well-known creators.
Especially Zijin Chen, his main "social school" style is very similar to the "Green Ivy Series" style of Arclight Film and Television today.
Gong Yu said: "We at Qiyi TV have bought the copyrights of several works before, but we have never found a suitable team to complete the film and television adaptation. But now it is different. The level of Arclight's team is obvious to all, and I believe that these projects will be done well. I wonder if you, Mr. Meng, are interested in this series?"
"Which copyrights do you have now?" Meng Bai asked.
"Bad Kids, The Undocumented Crime, and The Long Night."
Meng Bai nodded. He had seen these three works, which were considered to be the highest level of all Zijin Chen's works.
Ha, this is really a pillow hitting the pillow. Meng Bai thought to himself.
He was still considering what project Arclight would use to form a new core after the first phase of the "Green Ivy Series" was completed. He didn't expect Qiyi TV to deliver the project to his door.
According to Meng Bai's plan, the first phase of the "Green Ivy Criminal Investigation Universe" is mainly to finish the first season of several independent projects.
Up to now, the entire universe has four independent series: "Psychological Crime", "Forensic Qin Ming", "Detective Chinatown" and "White Night Chase". The
remaining web drama projects are only the "Detective Chinatown" web drama and a brand new series called "Hunting Crime Picture Book".
Except for "Psychological Crime" because the first part was shot too early, which led to the entire series progressing too fast, the remaining dramas only completed the content of the first season.
In this way, five works and five characters constitute the entire content of the first phase.
As for why not use a group battle as the end of the stage like Marvel?
Again, Marvel has decades of comics, and each superhero has a rich plot and popularity, so it can naturally be "assembled" directly.
The "Green Ivy Series" starts from scratch. The first task is to establish each independent series story and character first, and then consider linkage, combination and other things.
Otherwise, if we make a bunch of mediocre works with little popularity, and the audience doesn't care about the characters, who will care about the universe?
Except for "Forensic Qin Ming", the scripts of the first phase were basically polished by Meng Bai when he was still in college, so they can be used directly.
But in the second phase after that, it was not so perfect.
After all, he didn't succeed in pitching a script at the beginning, and even the first phase was just words in his mind, so how could he think about the second phase.
But it's not too late to start now. Compared with that time when he was alone, Arclight now has a complete screenwriter team.
He only needs to provide creativity and overall ideas, and the rest of the content will naturally be completed by a group of screenwriters.
As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will fight solo, and if you are rich, you
will fight in groups. The crowd's collective efforts are much better than relying on Meng Bai alone.
But even so, it still takes some time. After all, starting from the second phase, more linkage content will be added, and it is necessary to fully consider whether the audience can accept it.
Arclight Film and Television is now in a stage of rapid development, and its scale and resources are fully capable of operating two or three projects at the same time.
It would be a waste of time to slow down and wait for the framework to be built at this time. It would be better to choose some new series of projects to fill in.
Meng Bai originally had the prototypes of several new stories that needed to be improved. As a result, Gong Yu came to him with a new project, which saved him a lot of energy.
Without rushing to agree, Meng Bai asked first: "Who will be in charge of the adaptation of these projects?"
Gong Yu had obviously discussed this issue with the internal staff a long time ago, and said without hesitation: "The overall production of the project will be controlled by Arclight. We at Qiyi TV are only responsible for publicity, broadcasting, operations, etc."
Meng Bai nodded. Since the other party agreed to hand over the control to Arclight, there would be no problem.
"I'm actually very interested in these works, so I wish us a happy cooperation."
"Happy cooperation."
After shaking hands, Meng Bai thought of another question: "Arc Light has several planned projects in the future, so it may not be possible to start the project immediately."
"That doesn't matter." Gong Yu said indifferently: "We originally planned to go the boutique route, and each one will be produced according to the highest standards, so we are not in a hurry, even if it is one per year."
Meng Bai was relieved when he heard it: "That's no problem."
Arc Light has two more projects in the future, and these works of Qiyi TV will have to wait until next year at the earliest.
(End of this chapter)
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