Chapter 182
After telling the crew of the TV series "The King's Guards" her opinions on the adaptation, the screenwriters went back early to hold a seminar and start polishing the second version of the script, leaving the producer sister and Director Zhang still in the coffee shop.
Director Zhang was still trying to persuade Jiang Ning to audition for the female lead. Jiang Ning had no interest in acting, but she thought of Jiang Bai, who had worked hard alone in her previous life. She smiled and said to Director Zhang, "Speaking of filming, I wonder if the other actors for the roles in "Jin Yi Wei" have been decided?"
When Director Zhang heard her voice, he knew that she probably had someone to recommend, and said, "We have contacted Teacher Ning Meng's brother Jiang Bai and invited him to participate in our audition."
Before he contacted Jiang Bai, he didn't know that Jiang Bai was Ning Meng's brother. It was only when the director of "White Snake" knew that he wanted to find Jiang Bai for an audition and knew that Director Zhang had bought the copyright of "The King's Guards" from Ning Meng that he told Director Zhang that Jiang Bai was Ning Meng's brother that he learned about the relationship.
Sure enough, Ning Meng clapped her hands and laughed, "I'm talking about my second brother. Thank you Director Zhang for giving my second brother a chance to audition!"
Jiang Ning toasted Director Zhang with coffee instead of wine.
Director Zhang knew that she was just being polite, so he said, "Of course, of course. We are the ones who invited Teacher Jiang to audition."
It's just that originally he might have only been able to play a small role like in the movie "White Snake", but with the relationship with Jiang Ning and Jiang Bai's current fame, he has to try for the second or third male lead. The reason why I didn't say the fourth male lead is because in the current script, the fourth male lead is the big villain boss of the Demon Cult. Jiang Bai's looks are okay for playing the Son of God, but for playing the Demon Cult Leader, he really lacks some of the domineering, arrogant and evil charm. Instead, the role of a loyal subordinate is more in line with Jiang Bai's temperament.
However, he hasn't met Jiang Bai yet, so everything is still unknown. Maybe Jiang Bai himself has great acting skills, and he can not only play the otherworldly little monk, but also the evil and crazy villain of the demon sect?
Speaking of the evil and arrogant cult leader, Jiang Ning thought of a person. That face was really born with evil and arrogance. He was simply born for the role of the cult leader. That face and that temperament were very consistent with the character of the cult leader in the text.
Calculating the time, that person should be two years older than me.
Although Jiang Ning worked in the system in her previous life, she grew up from a normal girl to a director. When she was a girl, the things she liked to watch were no different from those of ordinary girls. Naturally, she had heard of the title of the Four Beauties of the Cape.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ning couldn't help but say to the director and the producer, "Director Zhang, Sister Lan, speaking of casting, I remember that I met a boy in the Performance Department of Shanghai Drama Academy. In terms of appearance, he was no worse than my second brother. That face could be called the Oriental David. His appearance and temperament are very suitable for the character of the Demon Cult Leader. If you don't have a candidate for the role of the Demon Cult Leader yet, why not let him have an audition."
She took a sip of coffee and said with a smile, "After all, the audience likes to see handsome men and beautiful women."
In her previous life, Jiang Ma said something very simple. Aunt Jiang jokingly asked Jiang Ma why she liked watching "Happy Little Swallow" so much.
Jiang Ma said, "Who doesn't like to look at pretty girls and boys? Who wants to look at those old-fashioned ones?"
Jiang Ning understood it all at once. Yes, for an ordinary TV viewer like Jiang Ma, who doesn’t like to watch handsome men and beautiful women?
So for commercial idol dramas, the script comes first and the actors come second. If Jiang Ning is asked to cast the characters for this drama, the first thing he has to do is to select all kinds of handsome men and beautiful women who are pleasing to the eye.
The producer sister and Director Zhang thought Jiang Ning knew this person, so they asked for the contact information of the boy Jiang Ning recommended. Jiang Ning smiled and spread his hands and said, "I only know that he is a student of the Performance Department of Shanghai Theater Academy, and his name is Yan Yichang. As for the others, I don't know the student, and he doesn't know me. You can contact the teachers of Shanghai Theater Academy directly. They may know more than I do."
Seeing Director Zhang and the producer looking at her with surprise, Jiang Ning said with a smile, "I just thought of such a handsome guy whose temperament and appearance are just right for the role of the Demon Cult leader. As for whether to invite him or not, it is up to you to decide. As the original author of "Jin Yi Wei", the better your drama is, the more beneficial it will be to me. If the TV series "Jin Yi Wei" becomes popular, the copyright fee for my next book will also increase accordingly."
Only then did they believe that Jiang Ning really didn't know the boy named Yan Yichang, and he just said it casually because he thought it was appropriate.
Director Zhang nodded and said, "I'll consider it."
However, producer Huang Lan showed an interested look on his face. He leaned forward slightly and asked Jiang Ning curiously, "Teacher Ning Meng, are you planning your next work? What is the theme? Is it a martial arts film?"
Ning Meng is so popular now that any book she publishes will have people rushing to buy it with money. Didn’t they also buy the TV drama rights after “The Imperial Guards” had only been serialized for two months?
Jiang Ning smiled and shook his head: "It's still under consideration, so I won't reveal it for now. You'll know when it comes out."
Huang Lan didn't care when she saw that she didn't say anything. Instead, she smiled and said, "I'm looking forward to working with Teacher Ning Meng next time."
Jiang Ning had something else to do, so seeing that there was nothing else to do, she didn't stay any longer and went back to school. Producer Huang Lan and Director Zhang also left.
After Jiang Ning returned, she sent an email to her editor Wang Yong, who was far away in Guangzhou, telling him about her plans for her next work.
Before, Ning Meng told Wang Yong that "The Imperial Guards" was about to be finished. Wang Yong was so scared that he screamed and asked her not to finish it and to continue writing. He thought that for the next article, Ning Meng might want to change the subject matter, just like she did before when she wanted to write about officialdom. Unexpectedly, he received an email and it turned out to be true.
However, he had reported this matter to Director Li and Director Bao when Ning Meng called him before. When Jiang Ning said last year that she wanted to write about modern bureaucracy, they held a meeting to discuss it. In the past six months, in order to deal with this matter, they have opened up several new units in the magazine. For example, they opened a column called "Children of Jianghu" for female authors who have delicate emotional writing and like to write romance and martial arts. Later, due to the influence of "White Snake", for a period of time, there were many fairy tale works submitted, so they opened a fantasy fairy tale column.
During the past six months, "Wuxia" magazine is no longer a pure martial arts magazine that only serializes martial arts novels as it did in the past. Instead, it has been transforming the magazine little by little by taking advantage of Jiang Ning's desire to return the subject matter.
Of course, its main body remains unchanged, and it is still dominated by martial arts, but some small columns have been opened in the back and middle, and there is even a "joke" area, with some joke submissions in each issue.
When they heard that Ningmeng's new work was about interstellar mecha, Director Li Ang and Director Bao were full of questions.
Born in the 1950s, before the year 2000, the domestic technological level could not support their interstellar fantasies. It was really hard for them to imagine what interstellar mechas were. Even the "Transformers", which later became popular all over the world, had not yet appeared on the big screen at that time.
Since I can't imagine it, I naturally can't put myself in her shoes and have no idea what she is trying to write.
However, due to his confidence in Ning Meng's previous three works, Director Li Ang thought for a moment and said, "Didn't you say that she was writing the second part of Jin Yi Wei while writing this "My Years Driving a Mecha in the Star Interstellar"? When she has written 50,000 words, send it to us first to take a look, or serialize it first to see the market reaction."
The several columns they have opened now, whether it is the romance column "Jianghu Ernü" or the fantasy column "Swordsman", all have some connection with "martial arts". If you try hard, they can be called "martial arts", but interstellar science fiction sounds like it has nothing to do with "martial arts". He is not afraid that Ning Meng's works are not well written, he is only afraid that Ning Meng's works will fail in the serialization of "Martial Arts".
Perhaps if she switched to serializing in a science fiction magazine, the effect would be much better than in "Wuxia", but how could "Wuxia" magazine, which has already reaped the huge benefits of Ningmeng's works, be willing to let this big fish go? What if she never writes martial arts works again after she leaves? She has written so much, she must be tired of writing martial arts works and wants to write something else.
Director Li Ang immediately made the decision and said, "In the next issue's submission section, put a notice that science fiction manuscripts are welcome. Let's warm up first!"
In this way, when readers see that science fiction works have been added to the types of manuscripts collected, then after a few issues, they will have a psychological expectation of what science fiction columns will be opened in "Wuxia" magazine, and it will not be so difficult to accept. It is like boiling a frog in warm water, which does not scald you to death all at once, but cooks you slowly, bit by bit.
After discussing the type of the next book with Wang Yong, Jiang Ning sat alone in front of the computer, conceiving the outline of the new work.
The heroine is still a time traveler.
Yes, it’s still a female-led story.
Although Ning Meng has not officially responded yet, more and more people on the Internet now suspect that Ning Meng is a girl. Mainly, netizens have dug up some old comments on the Internet. For example, as early as two years ago, some netizens came out to reveal that Ning Meng was actually a high school genius with a very high appearance.
However, this message not only failed to stir any waves online, but was also criticized by several netizens.
However, combined with the promotion of "Congratulations to Ning Meng for being admitted to Peking University" released by the official website of "Wuxia" last year, this piece of news that had long been forgotten in the vast ocean of the Internet was still dug out by netizens, and then netizens discovered that at least two points of the comments on this news have been proven to be true.
One is that Ning Meng is a genius student (she was admitted to Peking University); the other is that Ning Meng is very beautiful (as evidenced by the fact that the director of "White Snake" wanted Ning Meng to play an important role).
Now the only thing that has not been confirmed is that Ning Meng is a girl.
But the first two have been confirmed to be true. The last point does not seem so difficult to accept because the three works currently released by Ningmeng are all from the perspective of the female protagonist.
A large number of netizens have already tacitly accepted that Ning Meng is a girl, but there are also some old readers who have been following "The Great Song" since the beginning, who still insist that Ning Meng is a man.
Jiang Ning didn't care about the speculations of netizens online. She was working on the outline and character design for the new article.
The heroine is the descendant of an ancient martial arts family on the Blue Water Star. The younger generation has won the world martial arts championship for eight consecutive times. She accidentally traveled to a remote planet where the technology level has entered the interstellar age and became the orphan of a martyr. The heroine discovered that in the interstellar age, her martial arts seemed to be eliminated, because no matter how strong her body is, it cannot defeat lasers.
Various laser swords, laser guns, laser cannons, and laser weapons even replaced the heroine's thermal weapons and nuclear weapons in the Blue Water Planet era.
But martial arts is something she has persisted in all her life since she was a child, and it has been engraved in her bones. Even in this era, it seems that learning martial arts is useless, she still insists on practicing martial arts every day.
Because she was the orphan of a martyr, she was arranged to study in a very famous school. This school was sponsored by a mecha manufacturer on this planet that designed and manufactured mechas. However, this mecha company, in addition to producing the original manual operating system, has been researching a completely new way of controlling mechas - the brain wave sensing system, a kind of research that aims to achieve the unity of man and machine through the sensing system of the human brain and the human body's nerves.
If this research is successful, the soldiers operating the mecha will no longer use manual control keyboards and shake levers, but will directly enter the cockpit. The mecha itself will become a part of your body. You are the mecha, and the mecha is your body.
This technology was actually invented many years ago. The only difficulty lies in the fact that this mecha control mode no longer requires the hand speed of the mecha warrior, but mental power. The higher the mental power, the more precise and agile the control of the mecha will be.
In the interstellar world, mental power is divided into several levels.
Let's not talk about these for now. The main thing is that after the heroine had her mental strength tested in the new school, she was assigned to the Junior Mecha Class, which was further divided into the Combat Mecha Class, the Design Mecha Class, the Maintenance Mecha Class, and so on.
It is here that the heroine meets her lifelong partner and best friend, a genius mecha designer known as the Fallen, because the mechas he designed sound powerful, but no one can drive them.
But this mecha that no one can drive was actually successfully driven by the heroine, and she drove it smoothly and effortlessly. This not only surprised and excited the genius mecha designer who was called the fallen one by those around him, but also made the heroine excited to use her martial arts talent in the mecha battle.
The genius mecha designer modified the data again and again, making the mecha's data more compatible with the heroine, and won the championship in the school mecha competition.
In short, it is an interstellar science fiction upgrade work.
The mecha competition is divided into school competition, district competition, regional competition, planetary competition, and finally the alliance competition. The interstellar citizens of countless planets will watch it in real time.
The competition is divided into individual battles and team battles, so there are more characters. It is not limited to the description of the heroine and her partner, but a group portrait. In the course of the competition, there are countless powerful mecha warriors and powerful teams. Since it is a team, of course there must be a "brain" in the team, that is, the commander.
A person who can learn martial arts to the point of winning eight consecutive world championships and is basically invincible in the world is definitely not a stupid person. In fact, the heroine not only has strong individual combat capabilities, she can also take on the role of the "brain" in the team. Even if the commander of the team is killed by the opponent first, when the opponent thinks that a team without a "brain" is just a group of loose sand no matter how powerful it is, the opponent will know that you are wrong.
Of course, this is the content of the first volume.
The second volume, of course, is about entering the Federal Military Academy after winning the Alliance Mecha Competition. They came from remote planets, but they defeated one powerful regiment after another in the Alliance Competition. Naturally, they attracted attention after entering the Federal Military Academy. However, it was after studying that they realized how big the gap between them and these chosen ones who had received elite education since childhood was in other aspects.
Then she was beaten by society and felt depressed, but was encouraged by the confident heroine who was like a little sun. She went through one event after another, integrated into the school, became a part of the military academy, and then graduated with the highest grade in the school, and joined the army with her friends. As a newly-appointed soldier, all her glory was returned to zero.
A new map and a new chapter begin.
Just by making the outline, Jiang Ning felt that she could write three million words for this article!
Because there are not only competition upgrades, but also what Jiang Ning is best at, the court layout.
Of course, what is written in the article is definitely not the court, but the game and confrontation between the entire interstellar forces of the Alliance and the Federation.
These things actually have universal principles. For Jiang Ning, writing about them is actually the easiest and very easy. The most difficult part is describing various future interstellar technologies.
Jiang Ning decided to add a lot of personal stuff in it, such as writing about the struggle between the two major forces between her Blue Water Star Alliance and the Federation, the sanctions on the core technologies of the high-tech companies in her alliance through some game struggles between countries, and how her partner purchased second-hand mechas, circumvented patents, broke through technology, and designed the latest mechas.
In fact, it is alluding to future chip events.
She wrote these things just to take precautions against possible sanctions crises caused by technological deficiencies that our country and companies may face in the future.
Ordinary people may not think deeply about these things, but smart people who are truly in the situation will definitely associate them with themselves when they see them.
She didn't want to write it too clearly. She is so popular now. If some smart people in the United States see it, will they take precautions in advance?
But Jiang Ning felt that this possibility was not high, because many technologies had not even been invented by people abroad, let alone associated with themselves.
She also emphasized in the article the importance of applying for patents and paying attention to patent layout.
In the 1990s, many countries had already started to develop patent plans, but our country was still in its infancy. Many technologies were monopolized, and even many invented technologies had not been patented, resulting in their inability to be used in the future, and we were "choked" by patents.
As she wrote this, Jiang Ning was actually feeling a little heavy-hearted. The reason why she entered the stock market in the year of the stock market crash was almost like gambling, investing all her fortune in it, waiting for the stock market boom in 1999, and also for a technology route war at the beginning of the century.
In fact, Jiang Ning felt a little powerless. Chip production is really a high-end industrial chain. Just look at the shareholders and suppliers. They are all the world's top technology companies and material suppliers, and they provide the top-level components. This cannot be achieved by having money alone. It also requires various talents and top-level technology.
Her layout in the stock market may not make any splash in the technological war at the beginning of the century, and it may even be completely futile.
If they want to avoid being sanctioned, they have to improve the entire industrial chain, which is more difficult than hell.
She was just a tiny butterfly, dreaming of quietly getting a piece of the pie in such a huge war. The difficulty of this was no less than the hell-level difficulty mentioned above.
Individual strength is too weak, and high-tech is not so easy to break through. Jiang Ning was not a scientific researcher in her previous life, and she knew nothing about many technologies.
She had no solution technically, so she could only plan from other aspects.
She is not good at business, and the field of high-tech has always been a bottomless pit where the winner takes all. If the technology stagnates or lags behind, it will be like the technology war two years later, and the loser will not even have a chance to compete.
She didn't even know if the money she would earn in two years would be enough to make a small splash in this war, but no matter what, she tried her best.
Thinking of this, she continued writing the outline.
Until the evening, when Song Peifeng returned from Tsinghua University, Jiang Ning was still thinking about how to maximize the benefits.
Even though she didn't show it, Song Peifeng was still keenly aware of the thoughtfulness between her brows. He thought that she had gone out to talk with the crew of "Jin Yi Wei" during the day and things didn't go well. But thinking of her personality, he didn't think it was that serious. So he took her hand and asked her, "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
Jiang Ning smiled and shook his head, his brows bright.
She actually already had some ideas in her mind.
After dinner, the two took a walk on the campus playground, and the breeze ruffled her hair.
As she walked, she couldn't help but glance at him softly from the side and told him what sanctions she thought the country might face in the future, and what she wanted to do to help in any small way she could.
After listening to this, Song Peifeng was stunned for a moment and looked at her serious eyes.
While most students of their age are still worried about their studies, work, relationships, or even trivial things around them, this sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl in front of them is seriously thinking about how to break through the technological blockade and improve our country's entire industrial chain of high-end technologies, which is a major strategic layout at the national level.
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