Half an hour later, Zhang Erdai burst into laughter, "Hahahaha, Zhang Fan, you... too..."
Wang Li couldn't help but say, "You actually have this kind of childish side?"
Zhang Fan looked at He Yue, whose face was flushed and who was trying hard to suppress her laughter. He thought to himself, "I knew it! This is so old-fashioned, it's bound to be embarrassing!"
Zhang Erdai wiped away his tears, "However, although some parts are indeed a bit funny, the overall framework is still good."
She met Zhang Fan's resentful gaze, then looked away shyly. She wasn't trying to laugh on purpose; she just couldn't help it.
"I feel that with some modifications, it should meet Director Lin's requirements, and the budget can also be controlled."
The others nodded in agreement, looking at the science fiction novels in their hands and pondering how to adapt them.
Zhang Fan's face gradually cooled down.
Lin Xiaoxiao was a little surprised to hear that the copyright had been acquired so quickly. "You've already bought it?! How much did it cost?"
Secretary Zhao smiled and said, "It's free."
Lin Xiaoxiao's heart skipped a beat. What?! No one knew better than her that free things were the most expensive.
Seeing Lin Xiaoxiao's expression, Secretary Zhao knew that President Lin had misunderstood, so he quickly explained.
"Zhang Fan's work?" She was startled, thinking it was a trap set by some rival.
"We still need to pay him. Let's calculate it and send him the money at a price slightly higher than the market price."
Lin Xiaoxiao herself used to be a working person, so it's unreasonable for her to exploit her employees now that she has money. What do you mean by having employees write essays for her children? She's the victim here, okay? She's been through the rain herself, so why should she make others suffer when she has the means to do so?
Once the science fiction movie script was found, the subsequent progress was very fast.
Zhang Erdai had just finished writing a season of "Chinese Horror" and was on leave, so he volunteered to adapt "The Sundial".
Lin Xiaoxiao sighed helplessly. What kind of workaholics are these? Their shifts are supposed to be holidays, why do they insist on working overtime?!
"Director Lin, I've never worked with science fiction before."
Zhang Erdai has started listing his inspirations for Lin Xiaoxiao and explaining his adaptation direction on the blackboard. Lin Xiaoxiao now gets a headache just looking at the whiteboard.
She's very busy, okay? Anyway, this sci-fi project is just to cripple the M platform, so it's not that important. I might as well grant Zhang Erdai's wish.
Zhang Erdai left in high spirits.
Lin Xiaoxiao continued to have her gossip-filled variety show generate buzz, saying that Feiyang Entertainment's science fiction movie was ready to start filming next month, with a huge investment and a planned release during the Spring Festival.
Mr. He, the general manager of Platform M, threw the office files all over the floor again. "Where did she buy the copyright?! Didn't we already make arrangements?!"
Xiao He never expected that such a blockade wouldn't completely cut off Feiyang Entertainment's path. Lin Xiaoxiao must have had this planned all along. Why did he bother with all this futile effort in the first place?
However, he won't lose. Whether it's financial resources or the number of copyrights, he won't lose to Lin Xiaoxiao.
So what if it's the Lin Group? It's just an old-fashioned remnant from the last century, barely clinging to life. Now it's a new era, the era of new forces like the He Group. The old-fashioned ones will only be left on the beach as stepping stones for their ships.
"Start filming as soon as possible, and release it during the Spring Festival season. If we don't have enough funding, we'll add more; if we don't have enough people, we'll find them elsewhere!"
"But, Mr. He, headquarters has already said they won't be providing any additional funding..."
"I'll fix it! Go do it, find me a top director in the industry to film it. Okay, get on with it."
After venting his anger, Xiao He looked at the messy office and his anger flared up again. This office was even smaller than his lounge at headquarters, yet it was still the largest office on the M platform.
The thought of his brothers and sisters smiling when he was "exiled" here made him lose his temper.
He had long since forgotten his father's private instructions. He didn't care about being the child most like his father or how much he loved him. If he loved him so much, why didn't he just send him to the game department? Instead, he was sent to this film and television platform that loses money every year!
He even told him to be careful of Lin Xiaoxiao? What a joke! How could he be worse than Lin Xiaoxiao? He studied financial management at a top university abroad. How could he be inferior to a rich second-generation director with a worthless degree?
Mr. He has long forgotten that his academic qualifications were obtained only because Mr. He donated a building to the school. He boasts of being a graduate of a prestigious university and, like his father, has a hierarchy of contempt regarding academic disciplines.
Lin Xiaoxiao was of course unaware of this, but if she knew that Xiao He was going to add more, she would definitely be the happiest.
With only four months left until the Spring Festival film season, not counting the time for review and promotion, it's only two or three months at most.
Lin Xiaoxiao is even busier now; before she was split in two, now she's in three. She's running back and forth between the sets of three TV dramas: "The Ten Thousand Yuan Household," "Chinese Horror," and "The Sundial."
Even though each production crew had an assistant director overseeing things, there were always matters that required her personal decision-making.
Not to mention the assistant directors all looked like they were seeking advice. Seriously, how did she, an outsider, become such a formidable figure in their eyes?! Stop with the excessive filters! Reject the myth!
It's another non-stop day. I've heard that actors sometimes take on multiple projects at once, but I've never heard of directors doing that.
When Lin Xiaoxiao arrived at the film crew, she couldn't understand how she had gone from a rich second-generation who just wanted to lie around and eat her fill to a hardworking "boss".
However, Lin Xiaoxiao continued to stare at the screen as always. After reading the script for this science fiction movie, she realized that even one million was unnecessary.
The cost is incredibly low, even cheaper than her making idol dramas.
There were only four or five actors in total, and they performed back and forth. Fortunately, the actors were all from their own company, so it was another cost-saving day. Now that Feiyang Entertainment has its own music department, they don't need to outsource promotional songs anymore, saving even more money.
The actors at Feiyang Entertainment idolize their boss and director, Director Lin. Before filming even started, they had already inquired about Director Lin's requirements. The five of them rehearsed countless times in private before filming began, all so that when their busy idol, Director Lin, appeared, they could get it right in one take, just like the seniors in the company.
Lin Xiaoxiao was confused, thinking that the actors had all become much better, at least they weren't stuttering while reciting their lines. Those days when overtime pay was deducted from the actors' salaries for delaying the production seemed like a long time ago.
However, this sci-fi movie doesn't have many scenes; it's mostly filmed in one location, so the only effort was in building the sets, which is why the progress was so fast.
Lin Xiaoxiao looked at the space station in the shot, feeling somewhat dazed. She wondered where the props team had gotten their materials from. The clothes looked familiar, and the facilities inside the space station also looked familiar. Apart from the actors, everything felt familiar.
But she couldn't quite put her finger on what it felt familiar with, since she had never been exposed to anything related to aerospace, and Lin Xiaoxiao quickly put it out of her mind.
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