Chapter 968: Hands that cross the line will be chopped off!
Of course, if Lin Fan wants to realize this dream, he still has a long way to go.
But fortunately, Lin Fan has gathered a group of very reliable friends around him, who have given Lin Fan great help in various aspects, which allows Lin Fan to realize this lofty ideal step by step and down to earth.
However, there is always a shortage of people in this world who want to take shortcuts. Just as "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" became a hit, some people wanted to poach the core staff of Lin Fan's newly established animation studio.
The other party also offered a very good treatment. To be honest, if Lin Fan was in the position of the poached friend, he would be tempted by such conditions.
However, those who poached employees obviously had no idea who the real hero of the animation studio was.
Only the core members inside knew that all the film and television works produced by Earthling Studio, including the core scripts, creativity, and even the settings of the post-production special effects, were all handled by Lin Fan alone.
Although the Earthling Studio has a complete team of screenwriters and has now poached the famous Wen Hongjun, these people can only help Lin Fan.
The real core content is all in Lin Fan's hands. Oh, at most a backup is kept and locked in the safe in Yang Hongxia's office.
Under such circumstances, let alone the animation studio that Lin Fan spent a lot of money to build, even if he went out and found a special effects factory and spent time and money to polish it, he could have produced a successful "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World".
Therefore, everyone in the animation studio, from the person in charge Liang Wen to every employee, did not feel complacent.
Because all these successes are built on the foundation of Lin Fan. Without Lin Fan, what are they? And as long as Lin Fan is still there, such success can be replicated continuously.
Yang Hongxia revealed at the company's mobilization meeting that she had several copies of animated film scripts such as "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" locked in her safe!
Not to mention the next ten years, within five years, Earthling Studios will be far ahead of others in the field of animated films!
At this point, only a fool would quit here just for that little bit of profit.
The guys were all very patient, or they had no intention of changing jobs at all, so no matter how hard the outsiders wielded their hoes, they couldn't poach anyone.
This has made those investors who want to enter the animation film market and get a piece of the pie very anxious.
Especially after the second week box office figures for "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" were released, many people became anxious looking at the rising box office figures.
This is all money!
The market for animated films is now like a delicious cake. Lin Fan was the first to taste the most delicious bite, making everyone watching realize that there is still a lot of room for profit sharing in this cake.
At the same time, it also made everyone understand that Lin Fan alone could not have the cake all to himself. However, except for Lin Fan who successfully took the first bite of the cake, everyone else still didn't know how to start so that they could also have a taste of the delicious cake.
Moreover, this cake is not only delicious in itself, its smell and appearance are also very tempting.
As we all know, the most profitable part of an animated film is not only the box office, but also the peripheral products. Just look at the current situation that the peripheral products and figures of "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World" are hard to find, and you will know how popular these peripheral products are.
The movie had just been released, and the peripherals had just been released to the public, and the stock that Earthman Studio had stockpiled before the New Year was cleared out. Later, an urgent order was placed with the factory, but the market was still in a state of supply exceeding demand.
Someone calculated that Earthlings has made a lot of money just from selling peripherals!
And as long as the influence of this movie remains, these peripherals can continue to sell, which is a very long-term business.
Most importantly, Lin Fan revealed that he wanted to create the concept of the Conferred Gods Universe. Regardless of whether Lin Fan can succeed in creating it in the end, at least in the next few years, Lin Fan will launch secondary works of Journey to the West and animated films related to Journey to the West.
Will Nezha, a character who appears in both The Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West, really become outdated?
Not at all!
Moreover, even if the two works "Fengshen" and "Journey to the West" cannot create the "Fengshen Universe", they can be taken out separately to make several movies, not to mention live-action and animated ones.
All this makes it difficult for those capitalists who want to share the pie to sit still.
Unfortunately, not only could the capitalists not poach the company, they couldn’t even get the copyrights to Fengshen and Journey to the West, because the copyrights to these two works, no matter what they were, were all in the hands of Lin Fan alone.
Without Lin Fan's approval, no one could take away any copyright from him.
Moreover, Lin Fan never sells copyrights to outsiders. Even the opera adaptation rights given to Shi Chongshan were in a cooperative profit-sharing model rather than selling the copyright to Shi Chongshan.
Lin Fan himself is not short of money. Whether it is to make these works into movies or TV series, he can do it himself and does not need capital investment.
Just like the stone that gave birth to Sun Wukong, no one can do anything to him.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
In the end, after trying all sorts of tricks, the investors were unable to influence Lin Fan in the slightest, so they could only settle for the second best and decided to set up their own project. They would follow the pattern of Nezha: The Devil Child Comes into the World, referencing the background of Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West, to shoot their own mythological animated film.
As for whether this involves plagiarism of Lin Fan or something, of course it would be best if it can be avoided. If it cannot be avoided, then just blame it on traditional Chinese mythology.
Anyway, Lin Fan’s Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West are also based on traditional Chinese mythology, so any similarities in some backgrounds or settings can be attributed to coincidence... right?
Faced with such a situation, Lin Fan did not say anything. After all, "Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West were indeed created based on traditional Chinese mythology. We can't stop others from filming mythology-themed movies just because of the existence of these two works, right?
Of course, if they really plagiarize too much, then our company’s legal department is not just there to do nothing.”
Yang Hongxia also nodded: "I will keep a close eye on them. As long as they write their own scripts, we can help promote them when the time comes, which will also be regarded as promoting the development of the Chinese film industry.
But if they cross the line, I will let them know that their hands will be chopped off if they cross the line!"
Lin Fan wiped a non-existent cold sweat: "Well, the animated film is now on track, so I will go back to continue filming the new movie."
Anyway, don’t come to me if you have nothing to do!
(End of this chapter)