Minglong Youth: Shared House with Cheng Yushan and Bian Xiaoxiao
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And Zhou Chen’s “The Undocumented Crime” actually grossed as much as 20 million!
It broke the record again!
There is no way, Zhou Chen’s book “The Undocumented Crime” not only encompasses the traditional suspense and reasoning routines, but also has made great breakthroughs and innovations. In addition, with a screenwriter like Gao Datang standing up for it, the auction price will naturally not be low!
Moreover, with the excellent case of Ever Night in the past, the investment groups don’t have to worry about losing money at all!
“it is good!”
Amid the exclamations, the host Bingbing also smiled.
“Let us give a warm round of applause to congratulate Zhou Chen and Gong Yu. At the same time, let us also celebrate the complete success of our script competition!”
Yes, after so much planning and preparation, the script competition achieved unexpected results.
Especially Zhou Chen, this demon-like existence makes their variety show shine.
Who said CCTV doesn’t understand variety shows!
Now isn’t this the best proof?
After some polite exchanges, the host Bingbing was about to announce the end of the show. However, at this moment, Gong Yu, who had been silent all along, turned his head and looked at Zhou Chen.
“and many more!”
brush!
The originally noisy scene suddenly fell into silence.
Everyone looked at Gong Yu, wondering what this guy was going to do.
Amidst countless curious gazes, Gong Yu asked very seriously,
“Teacher Zhou Chen, if you were faced with the two keywords you gave me, how would you write them?”
Yes, although he had already lost the game and was crushed by Zhou Chen.
Gong Yu accepted his defeat to Zhou Chen with all his heart.
But somehow, he suddenly wanted to see what kind of script Zhou Chen would create if he faced the same topic as himself.
“Yeah, if it was Zhou Chen, how would he write it?”
“It seems that Gong Yu is still a little unconvinced.”
“It’s not that I’m unconvinced, maybe this is just a mutual respect!”
Gong Yu’s words immediately attracted everyone’s attention.
Many people looked at Zhou Chen curiously, and they also wanted to know why Zhou Chen provided these two keywords to Gong Yu, and what kind of script Zhou Chen would write if he were to write it.
“To be honest, I just wrote these two keywords randomly!”
Zhou Chen shrugged and smiled casually.
“One is a mobile phone, and the other is twenty years.”
“If it were me, I would also write a crime drama, but the way I write it would be different!”
Gong Yu looked at Zhou Chen in surprise.
But Zhou Chen smiled and said,
“If I were to write it, I would use the mobile phone as a golden finger, and these twenty years would be a very long time span. For example, a case that has been unsolved for twenty years would reappear in front of everyone due to fate twenty years later. And the modern police twenty years later would also receive reminders from twenty years ago through this old Nokia phone. Wouldn’t that be more interesting?”
That’s right, what Zhou Chen thought of was a Korean drama he had watched before.
Because the script is very classic and has a lot of imagination, it was even introduced and adapted into a domestic web drama.
It is undeniable that the conception of this drama is indeed very powerful.
In the crime-solving drama, a fantasy element is added, but through the twenty years of time and space, a wonderful connection and contrast emerges, making the whole drama unique!
“People twenty years from now can contact people twenty years ago through mobile phones? And this mobile phone has become a link between time and space… Wow… What a great idea!”
Gong Yu was stunned when he heard this, and kept chewing over Zhou Chen’s words.
Although there were not many words, the amount of information was enormous, which directly opened up a new creative direction for him.
Yes, before this, Gong Yu usually wrote scripts in a conventional way, following the routine. But it was always difficult to make a breakthrough.
But Zhou Chen’s casual idea made Gong Yu’s eyes light up.
I only focused on the case itself and ignored other elements of the story!
A story not only needs a plot, but also characters and background!
And if the characters and background are set just right, it may make the plot even more exciting!
And Zhou Chen’s idea obviously includes all these elements!
powerful!
It’s really strong!
“Thank you, Teacher Zhou Chen, for your guidance!”
Under the gaze of countless people, Gong Yu bowed deeply to Zhou Chen, his eyes filled with gratitude and honor.
Yes, throughout this competition, Zhou Chen has always been far ahead with absolute advantage.
And now, Gong Yu is really convinced!
When it comes to content creation and creative thinking, no one can compare to Zhou Chen!
Gong Yu even felt very proud to be able to go on stage with Zhou Chen and compete for the championship and runner-up.
“Teacher Zhou!”
At this moment, a shout came from the audience.
“Can you make the script you just mentioned more concrete, or in other words, write it down? I am willing to pay 20 million to buy it!”
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone at the scene was shocked again.
But the person who spoke was not someone else, but Wang Qiang, who had been competing with Zhou Chen before!
Yes, Wang Qiang is not only a screenwriter, but also a director!
To be honest, he also lacks representative works.
Over the years, except for the scripts of youth romance, other themes have almost all been flops.
But Wang Qiang liked the script that Zhou Chen wrote casually today.
He really wants to make this kind of urban fantasy, coupled with suspense and mystery, into a TV series!
“Yes, I want to buy this script too!”
“I think the idea proposed by Teacher Zhou Chen is not much worse than the crime without evidence!”
“Teacher Zhou, just sell it to me!”
For a moment, the investment delegation that was originally preparing to retreat actually sat down again, looking at Zhou Chen with burning eyes.
They finally understood it completely.
As long as it is Zhou Chen’s script, no matter what else, just auction it off!
In the end, amid fierce competition, the script that Zhou Chen casually said only a hundred words was auctioned off by an investment company for a price of 22 million.
Chapter 237 School starts, next project
A scene that happened on the script competition show, once sliced up and uploaded to the Internet, quickly caused quite a stir.
The entire variety show was supposed to be very exciting, but no one expected that the most talked about scene in the end was the one where Gong Yu asked Zhou Chen for advice at the end of the show.
What was even more unexpected was that Zhou Chen’s casual 100-word story outline could actually attract such a huge investment from the investment group. This was truly the legendary “a word worth a thousand gold”.
“Zhou Chen should be the top screenwriter in the past ten years, or even in the next ten years!”
“Yes, from the script competition, each script can sell more than 10 million. After a variety show, it has made 100 million. Just ask so many well-known screenwriters today, who can do this!”
“Awesome! Who would have thought that he was only nineteen years old!”
This time Zhou Chen shined on the variety show, not only gaining a large number of fans, but also improving his status in the film and television industry.
Before this, Zhou Chen just wrote about his brother and made some short plays. Although he was very famous, to be honest, in the eyes of these bigwigs in the film and television industry, he was just a small-time guy and not at all worthy of the name!
But it’s different now.
Any script can be worth more than 10 million yuan or even up to 20 million yuan. This is a profit that many companies cannot achieve in a year!
It takes a lot of energy for one person to take on an entire company!
The key point is that Zhou Chen’s scripts are completely pure and of high quality!
In the future, if they want to cultivate some popular actresses in the film and television industry, they can’t do without film and television dramas. And if they want to make a really popular film and television drama, they naturally can’t do without Zhou Chen!
So, in the next few days, under the guidance of Yi Yangmou and Gao Datang, Zhou Chen was forced to participate in various drinking parties.
If Yi Yangmou hadn’t been busy filming Ever Night, he would probably have had more social engagements.
The purpose of these stars and investors in the film and television industry contacting Zhou Chen is undoubtedly to establish a good relationship first and wait for a good cooperation in the future.
In fact, some people have already started to ask Zhou Chen to write articles.
Faced with such enthusiasm from the film and television industry, Zhou Chen could only smile and perfunctorily respond, and had no intention of continuing to write the script.
In the past few months, he has been busy writing scripts and novels, and his brain is almost at a standstill.
Besides, he had made enough money and Qingbei University was about to start, so Zhou Chen felt that he needed to relax.
Yes, compared to writing scripts and participating in shows, going to college is actually the easiest thing for Zhou Chen.
“Hello, boss!”
“Come on, come on, let’s celebrate our boss, who is worth over 100 million!”
“Congratulations, Boss. I’m following Ever Night every day now!”
When Zhou Chen returned to school, Fang Yifan brought a group of members of the short drama club to celebrate with Zhou Chen.
If it weren’t for Zhou Chen, they would just be ordinary students from Qingbei University. Although their status was higher than that of other schools, it was of no use.
But now, under the leadership of Zhou Chen, they are just freshmen, but the money they earn is higher than the salaries of the employees of top 100 companies after graduation!
The key point is that because of filming short dramas, each of these people is now equivalent to a small internet celebrity.
And all this is thanks to Zhou Chen!
Even people from other clubs came over and wanted to have some soup.
“Boss Zhou Chen, school has started now, what are our next plans? I’m itching to do it!”
Fang Yifan looked at Zhou Chen and asked the question that everyone was concerned about.
The filming of the short drama was put on hold during the winter vacation because of the Chinese New Year.
Now that school has resumed and we’ve gathered together again, it’s natural for us to continue filming the skit.
“As for the short play, you can just continue filming it. However, as for the script, you should find someone to write it. I can’t write it all by myself.”
Zhou Chen touched his nose and said to everyone.
To be honest, after such a long period of development, the market for short dramas has become saturated. If we continue to do so, although we can still make money, it will become increasingly difficult.
Zhou Chen is no longer interested in this now.
But for people like Fang Yifan, if they want to continue, they have to collect more scripts.
“What do you mean, Boss?”
Fang Yifan felt something was wrong with the words and looked at Zhou Chen curiously.
“Boss, you’re not going to do the skit with us?”
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone looked at Zhou Chen.
In their opinion, the reason why the short drama became so popular was because of Zhou Chen.
If Zhou Chen doesn’t participate, will anyone watch what they film?
“As for skits, I still have to do them, but they are no longer my main focus.”
Zhou Chen grinned and did not hide it from everyone.