Many thoughts flashed through Wen Ying's mind, but she remained expressionless as she asked Shui Mingyue, "How long will you stay in Demon City this time?"
Shui Mingyue smiled before she spoke, her voice soft and gentle, "I originally wanted to attend the opening ceremony and then leave, but the film and television company asked if I could be a script consultant for them, kind of like working with the crew. Novels are presented in words, and readers have different imaginations in their minds. After all, the adaptation is mainly presented in pictures, so it's different after all."
Readers are both excited and afraid of novels being adapted into film and television dramas.
I look forward to my favorite works being adapted into movies so that more people can identify with my favorite works, but I am also afraid that the adaptation will be bad and ruin the original work.
Little do people know that the original author of the novel is more worried than the readers!
Readers can pour their emotions into a work just by reading it, and be moved by the ups and downs of each character's fate. The original author wrote the entire book word by word and created the characters in the book. He poured in more effort and emotional investment than the readers.
Works are the writer's children.
Selling the film and television adaptation rights is considered a promising outcome for the child, but it also means that the child is out of the writer's control, and the writer himself cannot guarantee whether the child will have a good or bad future.
People like Mu Fan, who are open-minded, have already figured it out. He often says, "A son is grown up and no longer under his father's control. Let him be!"
Shui Mingyue and Mu Fan had known each other long before the training class in Beijing, and she immediately exposed Mu Fan's open-mindedness, "You didn't say that before. You think the film and television drama adapted from your novel can sweep all major domestic professional awards."
Mu Fan: "...did I say that?"
Being stared at by Shui Mingyue and Wen Ying with burning eyes, Mu Fan touched his nose uncomfortably: "Okay, just think that I really said such words when I was young and ignorant, but I have let it go now."
Mu Fan was forced to let it go.
He also sold film and television rights, and one of his books was adapted and broadcast.
The TV series completely messed up Mu Fan's original novel. After it aired, Mu Fan thought he had Alzheimer's at such a young age. He couldn't reconcile the plot of the TV series with the plot he had written. This forced Mu Fan to reread his book several times, and then he gritted his teeth and watched the entire series, comparing it to the book. Mu Fan finally realized: it wasn't his Alzheimer's, but the TV series, except for the characters' names, had changed everything else!
Mu Fan was depressed at that time.
Is it because his story is not well written?
If the story itself is good, it should be filmed according to the original!
If the story itself is not good, why buy the adaptation rights of his work? It's a waste of money.
As someone who has been through this, Mu Fan sincerely advised Shui Mingyue, "Don't hold your hopes too high, or you'll be disappointed in the future."
Shui Mingyue was quite looking forward to it. "The film and television company has invited me to be a script consultant. It seems quite sincere. I hope my book won't have a worse ending than yours."
Wen Ying agreed with this.
In her previous life, Shui Mingyue should have agreed to join the crew as a script consultant.
Although the TV series was not aired until 2012, it received widespread acclaim after its broadcast and was indeed a very successful adaptation.
The film and television company not only invited Shui Mingyue to join the crew as a script consultant, but Shui Mingyue had also looked at the casting and felt that it was quite suitable for her description.
Of course, among all the people Shui Mingyue has met in her life, if she had to say who looks most like the male protagonist from a romance novel, it would have to be the one who saw Wen Ying at the College of Literature.
It’s a pity that he is not an actor.
Shui Mingyue had just thought of this when Wen Ying suddenly asked, "Besides the sincerity in polishing the script, are you satisfied with the casting?"
Shui Mingyue nodded. "The leading actress has already acted in two dramas, but the leading actor is a newcomer. Although Yun Chen was not invited, I am more satisfied with the current leading actor. I am not saying that Yun Chen is not good, but Yun Chen has become famous, and I am afraid that the audience has already fixed their mindset about him."
Shui Mingyue treats people gently and speaks as softly as the spring breeze, but she is actually a bit of a perfectionist.
She hopes that the first screen adaptation of her novel will be perfect.
For this reason, after the opening ceremony, the film and television company invited Shui Mingyue to be the script consultant for the crew. Shui Mingyue agreed immediately. After all, no one knows her own work better than Shui Mingyue. With her watching over it, the final cost should not be worse than the one adapted from Mu Fan, right?
Sure enough, Shui Mingyue has agreed to be a script consultant for the filming crew.
Wen Ying thought about it and couldn't find any reason to dissuade Shui Mingyue.
That's right, if Shui Mingyue hadn't been a script consultant, she wouldn't have gotten to know the new male star. If she hadn't gotten to know Shui Mingyue, the other party wouldn't have gotten the adaptation rights to Shui Mingyue's novels.
In his previous life, the male star said in an interview with the media that he had bought the film and television adaptation rights of several of Shui Mingyue's novels early on. The reporters praised the male star for his vision, and the male star's fans were even more mindless in flattering him, praising the male star as a business genius with advanced vision.
Wen Ying was not a writer in her previous life, and she didn't know much about the film and television industry, so she didn't think there was anything wrong with what the male star said.
Now that I think about it carefully, I feel that this statement is full of loopholes.
Today's film and television copyrights are not as expensive as they were more than a decade ago. Some writers are willing to sell their works at a relatively low price if they think their works can be adapted into film and television dramas.
But that is just an ordinary writer, not Shui Mingyue.
Shui Mingyue has a huge readership base, and the sales of her novels are evident.
Wen Ying knew without asking that the film and television adaptation rights of Shui Mingyue's novels could now be sold for seven figures!
So, how could that male star who is not famous now have the money to buy the adaptation rights of several novels of Shui Mingyue at once?
Wen Ying had many guesses, but she didn't show any unusual expression. Instead, she smiled and agreed with Shui Mingyue: "It's certainly good for you to control the script yourself. Is this drama filmed in Shanghai?"
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