Wei Yang has been calling for a big move since last year, but due to lack of manpower, he has never been able to put his efforts into action.

Now, Tangren's "Startling by Each Step" is about to be completed, so some manpower can be freed up. Blue Whale has also cultivated some new forces, so it is finally not stretched too thin.

So Blue Whale operated four projects at the same time.

"Chef Fang in the Flower Garden", "Soul Ferry" and "Diamond Lover", as well as the new drama "Joy of Life" which Wei Yang values ​​the most and in which he stars.

"Chef Fang in Huajian" is made to promote Xiao Zhao.

This novel was just published last year. It’s not very popular, but the subject matter is good, and the copyright was acquired by Orange Shell, owned by Wei Yang.

The heroine of this drama is smart, cute, lively and smart, which fits the sweet girl route that Blue Whale has set for Xiao Zhao. Her personality is likable and she is easy to attract fans.

In fact, Wei Yang has thought about filming Zhao's masterpiece "The Journey of Flower", but the time is not right yet.

The investment in special effects is fine, but the key is that Red Shark's game production capabilities have not caught up yet, and no game has been developed. If this project is launched rashly, the gains will outweigh the losses.

Since the copyright is in his hands, Wei Yang is not in a hurry. He can first shoot two dramas with sweet female protagonists or play other roles to enhance Zhao Xiao’s popularity, and it will not be too late to shoot "The Journey of Flower" later.

The original time and space of "Chef Fang in Huajian" was two seasons, but the main reason was that they were afraid that the effect would not be good, so they shot a short season to test the waters.

Now Blue Whale certainly has no such consideration and has directly combined the two into one, with the full script, for a total of 36 episodes.

This drama is directed by Lin Yufen after the huge hit of "The East Palace". A considerable number of the staff are also from the "The East Palace" team, so the configuration is quite good.

"Soul Ferry" is a project that Wei Yang and several senior executives finally decided on after discussion.

As it is the first pure web drama, it still needs to be more eye-catching. "Soul Ferry" has elements of suspense, supernatural, mythology, and reality. It is very suitable for making a name for itself and can also attract the audience to the greatest extent with a limited cast.

After all, this kind of subject matter is hard to see on TV stations and can only be broadcast as a web drama, where a large number of viewers will come to "find excitement."

If we change to other subjects, it is not impossible to shoot, but the cast must be relatively improved, otherwise the results and the price of the show cannot be guaranteed.

Even in "Soul Ferry", in addition to Li Jiahang who was confirmed as the male lead, Wei Yang also considered letting Nazha join. Later, Lei Chun refused to let him go, so Wei Yang considered other candidates.

Since this is the first season and the current online drama market is still unclear, Blue Whale is being cautious and the first season only has 20 episodes.

However, there is a difficulty at present. The relatively outstanding role of Zhao Li has not been confirmed yet, and the director does not have any suitable candidate for the time being.

"Diamond Lover" is relatively simple, a typical urban idol drama, and also Blue Whale's forte. This kind of drama is for promoting people and making money.

As mentioned before, the original cast of this drama was Tangren's Hu Ge, who was expected to lead the artists of Blue Whale.

But Hu Ge himself is not very interested in this kind of modern idol drama now. If Blue Whale and Tangren require him to act in it, he can also do it, but the key is that there is now Qiao Zhenyu who participated in "Startling by Each Step".

If "Startling by Each Step" can achieve the same results as in the original time and space, having him perform will be better than asking Hu Ge to do so, and he is also one of our own artists.

But now this drama is a collaboration between Blue Whale and Tangren. If the female lead, male lead, and second female lead are all from Blue Whale, Mr. Cai might have objections, so further negotiations are needed.

The original version of the drama "Diamond Lover" was actually pretty good. It can't be called a masterpiece, but it's definitely an idol drama that's above the standard.

The disadvantage is that the plot is too watery. In order to expand the number of episodes and make more money, they did a lot of work, even delaying the male lead's schedule, causing the male and female protagonists to break up, and finally the second male lead was forced to take the throne in the finale. It was really a tricky operation.

Although Blue Whale also loves to make money, it still cares about its reputation. After all, the brand is valuable.

So Wei Yang asked the screenwriter to refine the plot, removing the water from nearly 20 episodes of the original version, and the final product was 50 episodes.

At the same time, the ending cannot be changed. The hero and heroine are in love for dozens of episodes, and in the end they are together with another person. Isn't this just fooling people?

The director of "Diamond Lover" is Blue Whale's leading director Liu Junjie. With his level and the quality of the team that Blue Whale has honed over the years, Wei Yang basically doesn't have to worry about this play.

In contrast, Wei Yang himself later focused his main attention on "Joy of Life".

Wei Yang went to the starting point before, took a stroll and acquired the film and television copyrights of several dramas, one of which was "Joy of Life".

The influence of this book itself is not bad, but it is at the ceiling in the current historical classification of Qidian.

From 2008 to 2009, when the novel "Joy of Life" was serialized, it was once the perennial third on the monthly ticket list of Qidian.com. Above it were "The Devil's Law" by Wudao and "Panlong" by Fanqie, which were both at their peak.

However, the adaptation of these two novels is much more difficult than "Joy of Life", so Wei Yang chose the latter.

Adapting male-oriented online novels has always been a difficult problem. Fantasy and fairy tales are too big, and urban themes have too many minefields. History is a relatively easy subject.

We won’t discuss Mao Ni himself, but the style advantages of his works are the plot layout and character creation, and the world view is relatively not so exaggerated, which are all very suitable for film and television adaptation.

Therefore, compared to other male-oriented masters, his works have been adapted into film and television the most times and have achieved the best results.

Wei Yang attaches great importance to "Joy of Life". The TV series he has acted in before were basically idol dramas, many of which were biased towards a female perspective.

That’s why Wei Yang is very good at promoting female stars, because the core tone of many dramas themselves is romance, and some can even be called female-led dramas.

"Joy of Life" is different. It takes the male protagonist Fan Xian as the core perspective and is a complete male-dominated drama.

To some extent, this can be regarded as a semi-transformation for Wei Yang, as he no longer sticks to romance novels but starts to focus on his career.

The original novel of "Joy of Life" has nearly 4 million words, and it is definitely impossible to finish filming it in one drama, so it is planned to be divided into three parts.

The first season is similar to the original version, with Fan Xian's birth + Kyoto turmoil + diplomatic mission to Northern Qi.

The plot of the second season is about going to the south of the Yangtze River to open a money house + the prince's rebellion, the Battle of Dadong Mountain, and the death of the eldest princess and the four masters.

The third season is about the conquest of Dongyi City, the death of Chen Pingping, the confrontation with Emperor Qing and his son, visiting the temple, finding out the truth, and killing Emperor Qing.

The script was created by Wei Yang, his two apprentices and the powerful reinforcement Wang Juan.

Of course, only the first season has been completed, and the next two seasons are just being planned. Whether they will be filmed or not depends on the feedback from the first season. If it flopped, Wei Yang would not be so stubborn as to invest money in it.

But if everything goes according to plan, these three dramas plus movies will be enough to keep Wei Yang busy for the next 2 to 3 years.

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After the filming of "Come and See You", "Joy of Life" has already started project preparation. The script for the first season is 45 episodes, and the investment is expected to be no less than that of "The East Palace".

What is more difficult to decide now is the director and casting, especially the director. The casting of "Joy of Life" was delayed to a certain extent because Wei Yang has not yet decided on the director.

The two leading directors, Lin and Liu of Blue Whale, are not available and are not very good at this subject matter.

To be honest, many of the political intrigue scenes in "The East Palace" were filmed under the direction of Wei Yang and several executive directors including Li Muge (the original director of "The East Palace"), and Lin Yufen was not very sensitive to this aspect.

Director Li Muge is a talented person. After filming "Eastern Palace", Wei Yang signed him to Blue Whale.

However, this guy is first-rate in photography, lighting, styling, and location shooting, and is good at taking pictures of handsome men, beautiful women, and beautiful scenery, but plot development and rhythm control are not his strong points.

To put it bluntly, Li Muge is a technical assistance director. When filming "Eastern Palace", it was Wei Yang who made the requirements and then handed it over to him to shoot, playing to his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses.

This time when filming "Joy of Life", Wei Yang plans to still bring Li Muge with him, but his strengths and weaknesses are too obvious, and it is impossible for Wei Yang to be the director every day.

In "The East Palace", Wei Yang is only responsible for controlling the shooting and plot of the power struggle, Li Muge is in charge of the technology and execution, and Lin Yufen is there to back him up.

If Wei Yang was the only one responsible, he would have a hard time holding on, and he didn't want to be so tired.

Therefore, Wei Yang planned to find other directors to co-direct with Li Muge, so he recruited Zhang Yongxin in advance.

This guy later became the director of "The Advisors Alliance" and "Awakening Age". He is still in Shanying and is considered one of Kong Sheng's deputies.

Zhang Yongxin is good at plot and character creation, and is also a director Wei Yang admires. This time he plans to recruit him to form a partnership with Li Muge, one inside and one outside, a perfect match.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Yongxin is Wei Yang’s fellow villager from Zaoshi City, which gives Wei Yang more confidence in poaching talents.

In addition, Wei Yang also brought Sun Hao, the original director of "Joy of Life", to the director team.

This guy is the most experienced of the three directors at the moment. He has been able to independently direct several TV series that have been broadcast on satellite channels, but they are basically low-cost family dramas. A trilogy production like "Joy of Life" that is expected to invest hundreds of millions of dollars is extremely tempting to him.

Even though there is hope of gathering three "famous directors", the always steady boss Wei is still a little worried.

After all, these three famous directors are still in their growth stage, and the hundreds of millions of dollars of investment cannot just be used to give them training.

Therefore, Wei Yang has recently been in contact with the newly established Noon Sunshine, hoping to borrow Kong Sheng for a few months to help shoot the first season of "Joy of Life" and train several of his own directors.

By the time the first season is finished and several directors have grown up, Kong Sheng can "retire to the second line."

However, Noon Sunshine had just been established and was counting on Kong Sheng to be its mainstay, so they would not give in easily. Wei Yang had made many conditions.

For example, a portion of the shares of "Joy of Life" can be allocated to Noon Sunshine for investment. If Noon Sunshine's project is short of money and the conditions are right, Wei Yang can also bring Blue Whale or Emerald Shrimp to participate in the investment. Even Wei Yang himself can act in a Noon Sunshine drama.

This is what Noon Sunshine was waiting for! Wei Yang basically doesn't take on any outside projects now, but his popularity is so high that everyone is jealous and wants to do everything they can to cooperate with him.

Kong Sheng is very important to Noon Sunshine, but if Wei Yang could be invited to participate, it would be of great significance to Noon Sunshine, which has just been established and intends to increase its commercial attributes.

Therefore, after consultation, Kong Sheng is expected to become the chief director of "Celebrating Yu Nian", and Li Muge, Zhang Yongxin and Sun Hao will be the directors.

Wei Yang himself owed Noon Sunshine a big favor, but he didn't care.

Noon Sunshine was attracted by his popularity, and he was also attracted by Noon Sunshine's team and high-quality projects. As long as he could make money, Wei Yang would not only provide people but also money.

Noon Sunshine: You are a very nice person! (End of this chapter)