Chapter 746

The remake of Lu Yan He's works by Ice Field Video is not just *Rouge*. There is also the Chinese drama remake right for *Lost in Journey* in their hands, but it seems very difficult to change this subject matter into a script they are satisfied with. Until now, even the script has not come out.

In fact, the relationship between Ice Field Video and Lu Yan He is very similar to HP.

Lu Yan He's cooperation with Ice Field Video is quite pleasant, but because Lu Yan He's cooperation with Arctic Light Video started first, Arctic Light has a share in several of Lu Yan He's hottest dramas, both exclusive and non-exclusive.

Ice Field Video wanted to get some exclusive resources, so at that time, they could only start through this way of remaking—

Of course, Ice Field Video also did the right thing.

Although Linghe only provided the remake rights, because the original work is Lu Yan He's, Lu Yan He's college classmate Miao Yue came to be the screenwriter of *Rouge*, Yu Mengling also came to star because of Lu Yan He's invitation, and at the same time, the male lead Yang Shiyi was also a newcomer Lu Yan He dug out from the theater—

Ice Field Video wants to do the drama version of *Rouge*, not just wanting a drama, they want to be able to truly cooperate with Lu Yan He.

Even if Arctic Light Video rushed to the front and snatched several series like *My Own Swordsman* and *Squid Game* to the front, at least now *Chinese Paladin* and *2 Broke Girls* have their share, and they can all be broadcast together with Arctic Light.

Moreover, Ice Field Video has now basically won the Chinese drama remake rights for all of Lu Yan He's screenwritten films. In this aspect, they snatched the first move. Arctic Light Video wants to do it again, it can only fall behind.

Ice Field Video now just wants to start from *Rouge*, through remaking dramas, to establish a stable cooperative relationship with Lu Yan He and Linghe.

Including *Tropical Rain*, which just helped Lu Yan He win an Oscar, its Chinese remake right was also obtained by Ice Field, preparing to shoot it into a Chinese TV series.

Lu Yan He feels that as long as Ice Field Video can do it well, this is of course okay.

Remaking actually doesn't matter at all—

The audience won't care whether your drama is an original script, adapted from an IP, or remade from a film and television drama. For the audience, there is always only one criterion: do they want to watch it, think it's good, and will keep watching it.

However, after listening to Linghe's inventory in terms of dramas, Lu Yan He also found a problem.

"So, the third season of *Roommates*, *Chinese Paladin*, *2 Broke Girls*, and the last season of *My Own Swordsman* will all be broadcast this year and early next year," Lu Yan He said. "Next year, actually, at most only the fourth season of *Roommates* and the second season of *2 Broke Girls* can be broadcast. This is only if these two series sequels can be successfully produced, right?"

Chen Yin nodded.

"Indeed, of course, we also took on the production of three Jump Up theater dramas," Chen Yin said. "But these three dramas basically cannot bring considerable revenue to the company in terms of sales. It is more about providing opportunities for some technical talents signed by our company to practice."

Lu Yan He said, "Then are we going to develop two more dramas this year? Otherwise, next year and the year after, we will face a blank space where dramas cannot keep up."

Chen Yin said, "We have reserves. Previously, the company would conduct script comparisons every month. Now several scripts that our internal evaluation has reached S-level have come out. Major platforms are evaluating the quotes. After the feedback from the platform side comes back, we will decide which one to do."

Lu Yan He heard that Chen Yin had plans, nodded, that's fine.

For a company, compared to earning one billion a year and only earning ten million every other year, a stable income like earning one hundred million every year can better promote the optimization and upgrading of a company—the anti-risk ability and the frequency of stable output affect not only the company's financial report, but also the confidence of company employees in their own career prospects.

This cannot be sloppy at all.

The reason Lu Yan He was nervous just now was because those two sequel works, *Roommates* and *2 Broke Girls*, are currently works that cannot yet report high prices to the platform.

Then what if the results of *2 Broke Girls* are average, or even if it counts as a hot broadcast, but it didn't explode like *My Own Swordsman* and *Friends*? With the completion of the *My Own Swordsman* series, Linghe actually has no "pillar."

Then next year, the numbers in copyright revenue will definitely be very ugly.

"By the way, Mr. Lu, for the film *Dragon Gate Inn*, do you think it is suitable for us to develop into a drama?" Chen Yin suddenly asked.

Lu Yan He was a bit puzzled.

"*Dragon Gate Inn*?" Lu Yan He thought about it seriously, "It's not impossible, but the film hasn't been released yet, so we shouldn't be in such a hurry, right?"

"Ice Field wants to buy the drama adaptation rights for this story, but because our Linghe has never done a martial arts subject drama, I actually really want to use this to build a team that can shoot martial arts dramas," Chen Yin said. "The subject matter of martial arts is enduring. I heard that you also have several martial arts film plans later, and I want to plan ahead."

Lu Yan He: "Martial arts dramas can indeed be done, it will not be outdated. However, I also don't know if *Dragon Gate Inn* will look good if changed into a drama, I can't imagine it. If you think it can be done, you keep it and do it yourself. If you think the grasp is not big, then see how Ice Field wants to shoot it. Maybe you can also use joint production as a condition to let us join the production team and observe how Ice Field will build this drama."

Chen Yin heard this, nodded, and said, "This works."

"Speaking of which, what is the situation with the film *Dragon Gate Inn* now?" Lu Yan He asked.

Chen Yin said, "Waiting for the results of the Hexi Film Festival. Long Yan wants to send this film to the Hexi Film Festival for exhibition."

Lu Yan He thought about it, nodded, "That's also fine."

The film *Dragon Gate Inn* is directed by Liu Bige. The characters and story of this film itself are quite artistic, not the kind of superficial fighting and killing film. Coupled with its all-star lineup, the Hexi Film Festival should be very welcome.

Sure enough, not a few days later, Liu Bige came to ask Lu Yan He if he had time this year for the Hexi Film Festival to go around with the *Dragon Gate Inn* crew.

Lu Yan He asked, "Has *Dragon Gate Inn* been shortlisted for the main competition unit?"

"Not shortlisted for the main competition, entered the screening unit," Liu Bige said. "Long Yan still wants to hold a large-scale global premiere in Hexi."

Lu Yan He said, "Okay, the time should be about the same. After going to Hexi, come back to shoot *Burning Fire 2*."

"I didn't expect you to act in *Burning Fire 2*. I really thought you and Long Yan were not very happy before."

"It was unhappy, but it can be considered a phased stage where some problems can be put down and temporarily continue to cooperate," Lu Yan He said. "They let Zhang Yang leave the *Burning Fire* series and gave me a generous appearance treatment. I also want to continue to participate in the *Burning Fire* series, so..."

Liu Bige: "After *Storm Calmer No. 1* was finished, Huang Tai came to ask me about the plan for my next film. I said I had no ideas for the time being. I want to rest for a period of time. Starting from the first *Late Spring*, I basically have a film every year and a half. I am indeed tired and have no new impulses for the time being. Then she said she hoped that the protagonist of my next film could be left to Long Yan's signed actors. I refused. She was very unhappy and mentioned you again, asking me if my next film is still going to cooperate with you. I said I didn't even know what my next film was going to shoot, how would I know who I was going to cooperate with."

Lu Yan He laughed.

"You are now Long Yan's biggest director. Although you are still so young, any actor starring in one of your films will directly leap over the dragon gate and become a red person in the film circle. It is also normal for her to hope that your film protagonist is left to Long Yan's actors."

"They are preparing to help me set up a studio," Liu Bige said. "They also said that if I want to independently open a film production company, they will also support me. They are willing to invest in my company, but they also hope that this can let me continue to cooperate with them."

"Is your contract with them about to expire?"

"Two more years."

"Then it's about the same. When the contract expires, you will have the initiative. Many film companies will offer you very good conditions," Lu Yan He said. "In any case, it is a good thing for you to have your own production company. In the future, let other film companies bid for your films. Whoever gives better conditions, let which company do it."

Liu Bige laughed and asked, "Then will Linghe come to bid in the future?"

"If it is suitable, why not?" Lu Yan He said with a smile. "Although the films we Linghe do now are all low-to-medium cost films, after we slowly develop and grow, we will definitely do films with larger investments. I have always wanted to do science fiction films. Of course, we are also very interested in new works by famous directors like you."

"Don't be cold to me. In front of you, I am still a famous director." Liu Bige shook his head and laughed.

Lu Yan He: "Of course."

Liu Bige: "If I set up a company myself to shoot films, will the pressure be very great?"

"It depends on how you think about this matter. If you don't intend to be responsible for the main production funds like Linghe, it is actually okay," Lu Yan He said. "You can completely write a script and then contact various film companies to find buyers, the highest bidder gets it, or say, the one who gives the best conditions gets it. Then your company only needs a few basic staff to maintain company operations, and you don't need to invest a lot of costs in daily operations like Linghe."

Liu Bige nodded.

"In fact, many big-name directors do this. Independent film companies like Linghe are very few," Lu Yan He said. "I know many people want to intervene in Linghe, or even snatch it away. I am also afraid of some capital pits and traps, so I would rather be steady and steady in the early stage."

"How can Linghe not be a small company now?" Liu Bige asked. "In the past few years, every project of yours has exploded, you should have earned a lot, right?"

"Indeed earned a lot, but compared to big companies like Long Yan that have accumulated for many years, it is still much worse. Like the box office return of *Home Alone*, there is still a considerable part that has not arrived. And we have several new projects to invest in. For those Hollywood projects, Linghe has a certain priority investment quota. In my opinion, they are projects that will clearly make money, and I cannot not invest. However, *Chinese Paladin*, which cost more than 200 million to produce last year, is also waiting for the return of funds after broadcast. *Those Years*, *2 Broke Girls*, and *Flypaper* are also in this situation. Anyway, Linghe's operating pressure is not great now, but to say how big the cash flow is, there is none."

Liu Bige: "It will be fine after surviving these few years. If it weren't for Linghe opening so many projects a year and participating in the investment of many projects, the cash flow should be more abundant."

"Yes," Lu Yan He said. "However, Linghe was established to facilitate the shooting of some of my own projects. When I can shoot, why not shoot more? If you want to shorten the accumulation stage of company development, you can only make efficiency higher. Others only do three projects a year, we do six."

"Only you can play it, it's too exaggerated," Liu Bige said. "The number of works produced by your company and the market share occupied at least occupy the output value of three first-tier companies. I saw that Lingguo Company launched four dramas last year, and the four dramas sold for 1.2 billion in total. You should have sold more, right?" Lu Yan He thought about it and said, "I am not sure, I don't remember, but the most profitable drama *My Own Swordsman*, the main investor is Arctic Light Video, and we Linghe only occupy a small part. Our final revenue is actually not great. *Friends* is also this situation. If you don't count the income of the two films *Love Letter* and *Home Alone*, last year in terms of dramas, the second season of *Roommates* barely maintained a balance of payments, with small profits, not much, and then, it is the follow-up income of the old dramas before."

Liu Bige: "Why does it sound different from the Linghe I imagined?"

"Sigh, because in terms of dramas, not counting *Roommates* which has very small costs and is just experimental, the ones Linghe truly started to control and invest in itself are *Chinese Paladin*, and the second is *2 Broke Girls*, but these two have not been broadcast yet," Lu Yan He shrugged his shoulders. "Other projects that have big names and everyone knows are very profitable, Linghe's investment proportion is not large. Earned a little, far less than you imagined."

Liu Bige: "You are talking about Linghe, not yourself, right?"

"Myself? Then I earned quite a lot myself," Lu Yan He admitted generously. "My salary and revenue share added together, last year should be higher than Linghe's income in terms of dramas."

Liu Bige: "Envy."

"What do you have to envy me for? The two films *Late Spring* and *Even Faking Death Won't Work* should also have made you financially free for the rest of your life, right?"

Liu Bige is also a lucky person.

Generally speaking, when a director who has not become famous shoots his debut work, he will not enjoy the revenue share of the work. But *Late Spring* was a low-budget film with an investment of only one or two million when it was established. Long Yan, in order to show enthusiasm and importance to Liu Bige, and also because they didn't believe how much money *Late Spring* could make, generously allowed Liu Bige to enjoy 25% of the revenue of *Late Spring* in the cooperation agreement (not box office, but revenue).

As a result, this film exploded at the domestic box office, and the copyrights of countries around the world sold off, and Liu Bige became famous in one film.

After the second film, Long Yan naturally could not lower the cooperation treatment with Liu Bige again.

Therefore, for *Even Faking Death Won't Work*, not only was Liu Bige's director salary directly added with two zeros, but the revenue share also rose by 1 percentage point.

The revenue of these two films is enough for Liu Bige not to have to shoot films for survival in the future.

Liu Bige said: "I am just depressed. Look, we directors, doing a project, as fast as I am, it takes a year and a half to make a work. Look at you actors, as long as you work hard, shooting four or five plays a year is not a problem."

Lu Yan He: "Let's be reasonable. If it is just an actor identity, compared to directors of the same level, the income of an actor shooting four or five plays is not as high as the income of that director for one play."

Actors generally cannot get revenue shares, but many directors can get them, as long as they are not the kind of newcomer directors who have just started.

This is an industry practice.

Even now, among this group of actors in the country, those who can get box office shares as actors can be counted on two hands.

As for now, there has not been a second one who can get an income like Lu Yan He.

He is an extremely special existence.

In mid-March, Lu Yan He went to the *Jiang Banquet* crew.

This drama just started shooting.

Lu Yan He, as a producer with a name, came to visit the set, which is justified.

The leads of this drama were almost all coded by Lu Yan He.

Yan Liang starred, Liu Zi, Wan Xin, Liu Zefan, Wang Jing, and more than a dozen well-known actors co-starred.

Another big drama of Beijing TV—

At that time, in order not to let Lian Bei direct the derivative drama of *Seventeen Layers*, Lu Yan He became the producer of this drama, helping Lian Bei code such an actor lineup.

By mistake, Lu Yan He was inexplicably associated with Beijing TV again.

However, fortunately, the helmsman of this drama is Jiang Lan, not someone else.

Lu Yan He came to the *Jiang Banquet* crew, everyone didn't expect it, but this crew and him were not strange at all.

More than half of the crew of this drama came from the crew of the first three seasons of *Seventeen Layers*, and had cooperated with Lu Yan He.

Lu Yan He pulled a car of food and drink to the scene as usual, a must-have for visiting the set.

Everyone was congratulating him on winning the Oscar, and asked with a smile when he would bring back another Best Actor.

Lu Yan He said thank you all the way, and waved his hand, humbly saying to work harder, until he reached Lian Bei.

Five years ago, when Lu Yan He first shot a play with Lian Bei, Lian Bei was still a new director who had just become famous by virtue of his first directed work. Now, Lian Bei has stood firm in this line and become the hottest director.

After Lian Bei saw him, he immediately asked with a smile: "How about guest-starring in a role later?"

Lu Yan He waved his hand and said: "I have no passion for acting at all recently, let me rest for a period of time."

Lian Bei heard this, nodded, gave up, and didn't force it.

"Very tired?"

"Very tired," Lu Yan He answered honestly. "After this awards season, I am really a bit afraid of going to rush for the Oscar in the future. For three full months, there are countless people to see every day, and words to say that cannot be said clearly. After coming back, I have rested for almost two weeks, and I still feel tired, it is difficult to raise real creative passion. In the past, when I had nothing to do, I would write scripts. These days, I can't write a word."

Lian Bei laughed loudly.

"It seems that it is really hurt."

"Anyway, rest well," Lu Yan He said. "I have indeed not rested for a period of time. In fact, when I shoot in the crew, working continuously, shooting five plays a year, I don't have this feeling of being drained of the whole spirit. So, I am basically walking around here and looking around there."

"Actors need time to live well and recharge well," Lian Bei said. "Especially not being able to be in a working state all the time."

"Yes," Lu Yan He asked. "*Jiang Banquet* has been shooting for almost ten days, right? How is the shooting? Didn't encounter any problems?"

"Everything is smooth," Lian Bei said. "Funds are abundant, leads are reliable, some relationship households stuffed in act not very well, I am too lazy to care. Anyway, those who act badly will be technically processed later, and the fewer shots cannot blame me."

Lu Yan He: "..."

Lian Bei's processing method really caught him off guard.

"Did Beijing TV stuff some people in?"

"Hmm," Lian Bei nodded, "And several are actors signed by the company opened by Chen Pinhe's wife."

Lu Yan He was stunned when he heard it.

"The acting skills of those few make people look at them and feel dark. I don't know why, since they are actors signed by the Best Actor's company, why don't they train them well before sending them over?" Lian Bei shook his head speechlessly, "But people can't be returned."

Lu Yan He asked: "Which few? Are they on the scene?"

Lian Bei: "There is one today, look, it's the one sitting on the chair wearing green clothes."

Lu Yan He looked in the direction of Lian Bei's gaze and saw a girl with a very beautiful image.

"The appearance is very good, unfortunately, it is a wooden beauty," Lian Bei was very disgusted.

Lu Yan He smiled.

No matter what, *Jiang Banquet* is a drama invested and produced by Beijing TV. It is really normal for Beijing TV to stuff a few actors into this drama.

Even Lu Yan He couldn't say much about this.

However, Lu Yan He knew very well that these people stuffed over by Zhang Yuezhen would be people in their camp in the future.

Lu Yan He lowered his eyes and said to Lian Bei: "Such a good script for *Jiang Banquet*, such a good lineup, it really shouldn't be ruined by a few rat droppings."

Lian Bei didn't feel anything different, nodded, "Yes." ===== CHAPTER 747 =====