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Chapter 151 Selling Jurassic Park

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For Lin Han, the copyright fee of $5 million is really not low. Many writers' film adaptation rights are relatively low. Hollywood film merchants have always been invincible. It can attract them to spend a lot of money to buy Chinese novels, but it is nothing more than to accommodate the tastes of Chinese audiences and strive for the box office of movies with unlimited potential.

Hollywood is obviously aimed at the huge Chinese film market. Movie audiences alone can no longer satisfy Hollywood's appetite. Every best-selling novel has many book fans. Hollywood values ​​this group of readers of hundreds of millions of best-selling novels.

For science fiction readers, if they choose between "Hollywood" and "domestic", most readers will probably choose Hollywood.

There are only science fiction novels in China, and there are very few science fiction movies. "Yangtze River VII", "The Future Police", and "Wesley" are quite popular in recent years. If we trace it back a little further, it is "Pili Beibei".

Many domestic movies focus on comedy and science fiction. Science fiction is just a gimmick, and comedy is the core. For example, "Super School Overlord". As for the bad movie "The Great Sage" also has a little science fiction plot in the movie, there is an alien princess or something, but it is not a science fiction film.

Who dares to say that you have watched five domestic science fiction movies in the true sense? For a movie enthusiast, you have watched more than ten Hollywood science fiction movies!

China's thousands of years of history and culture have created a cultural atmosphere that goes back to the traditional one. Even if we don't shoot martial arts films, we can shoot historical and cultural films such as "Confucius". Exploring the future is not the most concerned thing for the Chinese nation. Five thousand years is the place where many descendants of Yan and Huang are proud of.

For Hollywood filmmakers, buying the film and television adaptation rights to the novel takes the initiative, and the price of $5 million is probably the highest price among the best-selling novels in China.

In terms of industry rules, in Hollywood, executive executives and directors of filmmakers think that they are the authors of the film. When they buy the right to adapt the movie, the original author is equivalent to giving up the copyright.

The film company can modify the script as needed, and the original author has no control or say in the entire process of film creation.

If someone in the production team, such as producers, directors, starring actors and senior executives of many film companies, will conduct multiple rounds of discussions based on the original novel to improve the plot. There may be hundreds of "subtle" changes in this process. When all the content is updated, the shadow of the original novel cannot be seen, as if he has undergone a full-body plastic surgery.

There are two conditions in which Lin Han sells the movie adaptation rights and does not allow changes. One is global box office dividends, and the other is script participation. The original author must recognize the script himself before he can devote himself to the shooting.

Jack Harrison didn't know what gave the young man in front of him so much confidence. He persuaded him, "To be honest, we Hollywood film companies will not give an author such a great decision-making power. If you keep stuck in the script, our shooting plan will be postponed indefinitely. This is a time bomb."

"I think this is a mutual respectful thing. I respect Hollywood's profession. You respect my works. I don't have any opinions on the editing of movies. I only care about my own scripts."

"Novels are novels, scripts are scripts. Only Hollywood screenwriters know what kind of scripts the market needs now. We have to leave professional things to professionals." Jack Harrison also argued at this time, and the two of them directly ignored the people around them.

Chen Jiaxuan smiled helplessly. She turned around and took a few bottles of mineral water and put them in front of these guests. Her agent was waiting for a while.

Lin Han suddenly thought of something. It was difficult for him to invite Chinese male stars in Hollywood to star in a movie, so he might as well sell the right to adapt the movie of another novel to them.

This novel has not been published yet. As long as it is revealed to Paramount, Lin Han is sure that it will definitely attract their attention and no one can refuse "Jurassic Park"!

If the movie does not allow itself to participate in the screenwriter, the rest of the people will not know what the subsequent plot will be like, because the novel only has the first chapter, and it is in the Chinese version.

"Mr. Harrison, I think we can pause the argument. I have another book here, I think it's very suitable to adapt it into a movie, and the protagonist is an American, so there is no need to modify any background settings. The most important thing is that it can be adapted into a movie series."

"You mean the novel "I, Robot"? Although it has 9 stories, I don't think it's suitable to be a series of movies. Some of the plots are too short and you can't make up a movie at all." Jack Harrison could see that he had really studied Lin Han's novels, but this time he guessed wrong.

Lin Han shook his head and picked up a book "Fantasy Age" on the coffee table. After turning to the position of "Jurassic Park", he handed it to Cheng Huaiyuan on the side, because only Cheng Huaiyuan could understand Chinese among the three people.

"This novel is called "Jurassic Park", and the characters in it are basically Americans. This is a dinosaur novel, science fiction horror."

Jack Harrison became interested as soon as he heard this. He asked, "I can't wait to read it if there is an English version!"

Lin Han spread his hands and said helplessly: "I am not ready to publish it in one breath for the time being, and only one chapter will be published every month. If this novel has an English version, do you think Paramount will be the first to appear here?"

Science fiction movies are one of the best genres in Hollywood, and there are very few novels that can be adapted into series. Now Hollywood likes to shoot sequels, with various movies followed by 2, 3, 4 and so on.

It is crucial for the film company to create a profitable science fiction movie series.

"So can you briefly talk about the plot of the novel? Why do we definitely choose it?"

"There is an independent island in Costa Rica. Dr. Hammond built an extraordinary park on it. Dinosaurs are the protagonists of this park. They use the blood from ancient mosquitoes in amber to extract the genetic information of dinosaurs to cultivate and reproduce dinosaurs, and then use this park to make money from tickets.

Unfortunately, the park's computer system management was out of control due to the destruction of employees. All dinosaurs escaped from the control area. Visitors fled one after another but could not escape the claws of these carnivorous dinosaurs. These dinosaurs killed each other, and countless people were killed and injured. In the end, there were only a few survivors. Dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex, velociraptor, and chicken dragon were chasing humans everywhere. The entire island was filled with a terrifying aura."

Lin Han's low voice described the outline of the story. Several people at the scene couldn't help but their scalp was numb. How could humans compare with dinosaurs? This was a completely unsuspecting massacre!

Harrison felt that the hairs on his arms were standing up one by one. He thought that he was being chased by the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Seeing the Tyrannosaurus Rex slowly chew and swallow a human, he was in a state of trouble!
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