Chapter 410: Film copyright sold

Director Gu listened to Luo Shucheng's words, but after seeing Li Jian, what dog could catch his eye?

Just like what he said to Professor Shi, no dog in the world can compare to Li Jian.

With Li Jian as a good example, he found everything else boring, especially since Li Jian was the prototype of the protagonist of "The Loyal Dog".

Luo Shucheng gave him an idea, "You can look for connections in the army. There are retired military dogs that can be hired for training. When making movies, military dogs are not required to be like sharp swords. Filming is not a documentary, it pays attention to technique. Otherwise, what else do you need the directors in your factory? Just find a photographer to record the video."

Director Gu fell silent.

It's just that this proposal can only be regarded as the next best thing in his mind. If Shi Tingyu really refuses to agree, then he will consider Luo Shucheng's proposal.

So two days later, while Shi Tingyu was taking a break, Director Gu came to the family home again.

This time he seemed to have made up his mind and showed his sincerity, including sending someone to take care of Li Jian's food and daily life, and guaranteeing that Li Jian would be returned intact after the filming of the movie.

All these could be written in the contract.

But Shi Tingyu still refused.

Director Gu had never seen such a principled person, and for a while he had no way to deal with the other party.

He gave all the conditions he could offer, but the other party still refused.

Shi Tingyu saw that the other party was a little decadent, so he said: "Director Gu also knows the situation of our family. Li Jian is a member of our family. It is not suitable to be exposed in front of the screen."

This is different from using it as a prototype to create a comic strip.

Many movie characters have prototypes, but no prototype will have as high an exposure rate as the protagonist of the movie.

People are more chasing the movie protagonist, so Li Jian must not go to make a movie.

Director Gu also wanted to do ideological work on Shi Tingyu through Lu Weiguo.

Facing Director Gu's expectant eyes, Lu Weiguo directly replied to Director Gu, "I will listen to Xiaoyu."

Director Gu almost nodded his head, he shouted in his heart, you are the head of the group after all! How can you be so unmotivated? !

At this time, Director Gu also discovered Shi Tingyu's family status in the Lu family.

She is a local emperor in the Lu family, and she has the final say.

Seeing that there is really no room for negotiation, Director Gu can only compromise.

"I won't force Li Jian to act in the movie, but I hope Professor Shi can sell the film rights of "The Faithful Dog" to our studio. The conditions I mentioned before are still valid. Professor Shi can participate in the script adaptation and has the right to veto."

In fact, Director Gu also has his own considerations

when saying this. As the author of "The Faithful Dog" and a person who actually participated in Li Jian's various meritorious deeds, Shi Tingyu's opinions must be more convincing and logical.

Moreover, with Shi Tingyu's current position, she has an understanding of both the public security system and the camp, which is much better than the editor of Menwai Han. It must be more in line with reality for her to participate in the script adaptation.

In short, he did not lose out on this one thing at all.

This time Shi Tingyu did not refuse.

However, when signing the contract, Shi Tingyu asked to add one point, that is, to ensure the safety of animal actors.

She knew from Director Gu's words that he planned to find a military dog ​​to replace Li Jian to star in the movie.

Whether it is a military dog ​​or not, the animal actor must not be allowed to get into trouble because of the filming.

Director Gu agreed and wrote this clause into the contract.

The reason why he wanted to shoot "The Loyal Dog" was because he loved the comic book series "The Loyal Dog", and he also really liked dogs.

After the previous things were agreed, it was time to discuss the price.

In the end, Shi Tingyu sold the film copyright of "The Loyal Dog" for 100,000 yuan. The copyright contract was signed for five years, and the film copyright would return to Shi Tingyu after five years.

Five years later, it was the end of November 1985. The country began to collect personal income tax in September 1986. If she sold the copyright before that time, she could even get the full copyright fee.

Compared with the 147,000 yuan income from Shi Tingyu's reprint, the 100,000 yuan does not seem to be much, but this price is equivalent to tens of millions in the future.

Only those very popular big IPs can get such copyright fees. Of course, the copyright fees for the top works in the future will be more expensive, but Shi Tingyu thinks this price is already very reasonable.

Seeing that Director Gu was very sincere throughout the process and did not give her any trouble when signing the contract, Shi Tingyu decided to give him a suggestion.

"There are a lot of reprints of "The Faithful Dog" this time, and the cover layout needs to be redesigned. It will take several months. If the movie can catch up with this wave, it will be a good way to promote it, and both sides will drive the popularity of each other."

When Director Gu heard this, his eyes lit up.

This is actually a very common promotional method in the future, but there are not many good movies now, and people don’t have any other choices. Basically, a lot of people will watch a movie, so there are not so many promotional measures.

But this does not mean that movies at this time cannot be distinguished by their popularity.

Director Gu is naturally very willing to let more people go to the cinema to watch the movies made by their factory.

He immediately prepared to go back and make arrangements for the filming.

Of course, the most important thing at the moment is to select the protagonists to star in the movie.

With the idea of ​​doing things for two people at once, Director Gu looked at Shi Tingyu expectantly.

"Professor Shi, when I read the comic strip, I learned that Li Jian was picked up by you from the military dog ​​base in the camp here. Do you think you could help the animal actors in the movie?"

Shi Tingyu glanced at Lu Weiguo, who nodded. Shi

Tingyu agreed.

Lu Weiguo knew about the military dog ​​base, and some facilities needed to be replaced, but most of the expenses were spent on the cutting edge, so the military dog ​​base had to be put on the back burner.

If a military dog ​​could participate in the filming of the movie, the income from the military dogs' filming could be used to improve the conditions of the military dog ​​base.

Moreover, many of their military dogs retired due to injuries, so it was not difficult to find a dog with the same leg disease as Lijian.

In addition, "The Loyal Dog" promotes the indomitable spirit of the next generation of military dogs in punishing traitors and eliminating evil. It has a good idea and is also a good promotion for the special group of military dogs.

That's why he agreed.

Because everyone's time is very precious, Lu Weiguo applied to the higher-ups that morning.

In the afternoon, the application was approved, and Shi Tingyu and Lu Weiguo took Director Gu to the military dog ​​base.

They were received by squad leader Li.

Long before they came, squad leader Li received a notice from above.

So as soon as they arrived, he took them directly to several dog houses that met the requirements.

There are many military dogs with leg injuries, all of whom are raised in the army.

Most people who adopt retired military dogs prefer to choose ones with intact limbs, so few people are willing to adopt these retired military dogs due to injuries.

There are only two dogs with leg injuries and similar color to Li Jian.

One is called King Kong and the other is called Stone.

Both retired due to injuries.

When they saw the two dogs, King Kong and Stone were very excited.

It seems that they are well taken care of.

Shi Tingyu used to come here often with Li Jian, so he is familiar with these military dogs.

King Kong and Stone couldn't help wagging their tails when they saw Shi Tingyu.