Chapter 711： sci-fi, retro, tribute
"The release of "Deadly Magic" has almost come to an end. After a while, I will draw it offline, and make as much preparation as possible while the audience still has an impression."
In an office at the Firefly headquarters, Lehmann held the report and said softly.
Liam nodded repeatedly in approval.
In recent days, he has also seen the daily data reports in the box office market. Everything is as expected, and even the box office placement is within the expected range.
Similar market analysis and audience research also delineated space for the follow-up trend and gave explanations.
The fact is that "Deadly Magic" is really not a mainstream genre choice for the public, and they can see through such restrictions.
However, if you can make a profit, it is much better to make less than nothing.
"This is an experimental product on a whim, and even Director Nolan didn't expect it to be a big hit." Lyman smiled, and then added: "Then just follow the plan. By the way, let Mace call for me. Come in Joseph."
After Liam reported his work, he got up and left, and after a while, Joseph came in again.
When the office door was closed again, Lyman asked him to sit down, and then he said: "Joseph, Brian and Jonson discussed cooperation with me that day. In addition to confirming the sequel of "Batman", I also agreed to a film TV series. Because of this incident, there will be another project at the end of the year, and the manpower is a little tight. So, you can recruit outside. This time, you can either be skilled or new graduates in related fields. Well, we will recruit about 12 people, and those with rich resumes will be preferred. "
Joseph was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Has the company filmed a new drama yet? This is a good thing. HBO is very urgent?"
"Maybe it is, they said they will come up with a time slot around 8 o'clock next spring. It is also because of this, and I think Firefly should also try to lay out the animation industry..."
"Animation? I don't know any professionals in this area."
"Try it, pay more attention to the trends of several existing studios."
After a few simple chats, Joseph also got up and left.
Lehman, who had nothing to do, naturally relaxed.
Read newspapers, look at documents.
It wasn't until the afternoon that he started to get busy with the new TV series plans.
In fact, he summed up some key points of the market a few days ago, but because the content required by the episode is much larger than the workload of the movie, he did not further determine the script.
Anyway, the company's screenwriting department also has enough talents to work together to form a small team that is good at this type of writing, and it is estimated that the draft will be finalized soon.
Just thinking about it, Mace, who was instructed, knocked on the office door five minutes before the meeting and reminded Lyman, "Boss, the screenwriters have all arrived."
"Well, I see."
Lehman put down his work and walked to the conference room.
At this time, the screenwriting department of Firefly has been expanded several times, also because several TV series need to be written according to the main line of the plot, and the number of personnel has been 11, among which Jonathan and Ray Warner are directors who are similar to relatives and friends. The crew doesn't count, because most of the time these two have film writing jobs, or help with inspiration and stuff like that.
Among the 11 people, although the faces are somewhat familiar, the only person Lehmann can name accurately is Runiel Guise, who can be regarded as the leader of this small group, very good at science fiction, suspense, and literary and in-depth stories. creation.
This can be considered Firefly's current screenwriting team, which is enough to handle most of the writing work. After all, everyone in the team is basically skilled, and the scriptwriting experience involved is very rich.
In addition, HBO has also confirmed a preliminary drama contract with Firefly these days. More specifically, we have to wait until the end of the pilot and sign another one based on the market performance. In fact, now it is just a commitment to prime-time broadcast rights.
As for what kind of TV series Lehmann wants to shoot.
In the plan, because of the business development needs in the digital field, and in recent years, sci-fi themes have often seen good ratings, and dramas such as "Lost" easily broke the viewership record of the same period.
No matter from which point of view, whether it fits the market or adapts to the current situation, the type of new drama must bring sci-fi elements, but the special effects shots cannot be too grand, because the scene is too large, and the digital field cannot afford it.
Maybe wait a few more years to shoot some high-quality, high-VFX series.
To sum up, the name of a sci-fi, horror, and retro-style drama jumps on paper.
That is "Stranger Things", which was called "Stranger Things" by Netflix as soon as it was broadcast in 2016.
This film is easy to shoot, and the cost is not high. It is really suitable for this time.
Not to mention, the first few seasons of this show have maintained high ratings. Of course, it is common for American dramas to gradually go downhill as they are filmed. Not every show is as conscientious as "Breaking Bad". When it is obvious that you can continue to make money easily, cruelly come to a fairly successful conclusion...
Moreover, this drama is easy to stir up momentum, or the audience spontaneously cheers.
After all, the retro style of the show and a series of small details similar to "find the difference" that pay tribute to horror classics are talked about by fans.
In Lehman's view, the concept of this drama is not sophisticated, and it can even be said to be old-fashioned, but because of the compact plot and the online characters with IQ, the relatively meticulous segmentation, and then it became the most "magic" of that year. 's episodes.
In other words, the plot has no flaws, the characters are created with intentions, and these two highlights can be kept, and the audience will not be too picky.
Lyman also spoke to Scott before planning to make the show.
The opinion of a person who is very professional in special effects and picture rendering can provide a lot of opinions on whether the filming of this show is feasible.
After all, the most eye-catching thing about "Stranger Things" is the high fidelity of the picture - the retro restoration is very thorough, completely reminiscent of the 1980s, and even the picture processing is deliberately made old.
In this regard, Scott is sure that there is no problem.
The same is true, there is no shortage of hardware and software, and the production of episodes is also on track.
in the conference room.
Everyone sat down in order.
Lehman simply said hello and asked his assistant Mace to distribute the creative materials.
After waiting for everyone to have a copy, and flipping through it for a while, Lyman said: "I called everyone here for the script of a new project, the genre is a sci-fi, horror TV series. The name is written on the text, called "" Stranger Things"."
In the eyes of everyone, Lehman continued: "This new drama will be the spring project of our company and HBO next year, so it is a little urgent... In addition, I will briefly talk about the shooting of this project. Ideas and creative direction. In terms of time, it came from the 1980s, and clothing, architecture, and social atmosphere must have the shadow of that time..."
"As for the background of the story, it starts with a secret experiment. At that time, the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union was already crazy, and there were countless similar human experiments in the sky and the ground. In order to develop the potential of the human body and deal with the super power of the Soviet Union Plan, the United States also launched a corresponding experiment, UU reading and named the star gate.
This plan is aimed at researching and developing the human body's long-distance perception ability, which is intended to monitor the Soviet Union from a long distance. (This all happened in the past, and the United States and the Soviet Union have indeed done similar things...)
In that remote western place, the researchers worked hard and finally achieved results. An experimental body marked 11 succeeded, but the experiment of stealing the functions of God also accidentally released monsters from other worlds, and the place where the monsters live We call it the world of...
Because of such an accident, the real world and the real world opened the door to each other.
And because of the intrusion of supernatural energy, people soon suffered bitter fruit.
The monsters accidentally sensed the existence of the gate, but it was not easy to pass through. Even so, some small-scale influences made the residents of the town tremble.
Then one day, the first victim appeared, a young boy mysteriously disappeared, his friends and family and the town police searched the town without finding a clue.
A living person just disappears so bizarrely? "
In an office at the Firefly headquarters, Lehmann held the report and said softly.
Liam nodded repeatedly in approval.
In recent days, he has also seen the daily data reports in the box office market. Everything is as expected, and even the box office placement is within the expected range.
Similar market analysis and audience research also delineated space for the follow-up trend and gave explanations.
The fact is that "Deadly Magic" is really not a mainstream genre choice for the public, and they can see through such restrictions.
However, if you can make a profit, it is much better to make less than nothing.
"This is an experimental product on a whim, and even Director Nolan didn't expect it to be a big hit." Lyman smiled, and then added: "Then just follow the plan. By the way, let Mace call for me. Come in Joseph."
After Liam reported his work, he got up and left, and after a while, Joseph came in again.
When the office door was closed again, Lyman asked him to sit down, and then he said: "Joseph, Brian and Jonson discussed cooperation with me that day. In addition to confirming the sequel of "Batman", I also agreed to a film TV series. Because of this incident, there will be another project at the end of the year, and the manpower is a little tight. So, you can recruit outside. This time, you can either be skilled or new graduates in related fields. Well, we will recruit about 12 people, and those with rich resumes will be preferred. "
Joseph was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Has the company filmed a new drama yet? This is a good thing. HBO is very urgent?"
"Maybe it is, they said they will come up with a time slot around 8 o'clock next spring. It is also because of this, and I think Firefly should also try to lay out the animation industry..."
"Animation? I don't know any professionals in this area."
"Try it, pay more attention to the trends of several existing studios."
After a few simple chats, Joseph also got up and left.
Lehman, who had nothing to do, naturally relaxed.
Read newspapers, look at documents.
It wasn't until the afternoon that he started to get busy with the new TV series plans.
In fact, he summed up some key points of the market a few days ago, but because the content required by the episode is much larger than the workload of the movie, he did not further determine the script.
Anyway, the company's screenwriting department also has enough talents to work together to form a small team that is good at this type of writing, and it is estimated that the draft will be finalized soon.
Just thinking about it, Mace, who was instructed, knocked on the office door five minutes before the meeting and reminded Lyman, "Boss, the screenwriters have all arrived."
"Well, I see."
Lehman put down his work and walked to the conference room.
At this time, the screenwriting department of Firefly has been expanded several times, also because several TV series need to be written according to the main line of the plot, and the number of personnel has been 11, among which Jonathan and Ray Warner are directors who are similar to relatives and friends. The crew doesn't count, because most of the time these two have film writing jobs, or help with inspiration and stuff like that.
Among the 11 people, although the faces are somewhat familiar, the only person Lehmann can name accurately is Runiel Guise, who can be regarded as the leader of this small group, very good at science fiction, suspense, and literary and in-depth stories. creation.
This can be considered Firefly's current screenwriting team, which is enough to handle most of the writing work. After all, everyone in the team is basically skilled, and the scriptwriting experience involved is very rich.
In addition, HBO has also confirmed a preliminary drama contract with Firefly these days. More specifically, we have to wait until the end of the pilot and sign another one based on the market performance. In fact, now it is just a commitment to prime-time broadcast rights.
As for what kind of TV series Lehmann wants to shoot.
In the plan, because of the business development needs in the digital field, and in recent years, sci-fi themes have often seen good ratings, and dramas such as "Lost" easily broke the viewership record of the same period.
No matter from which point of view, whether it fits the market or adapts to the current situation, the type of new drama must bring sci-fi elements, but the special effects shots cannot be too grand, because the scene is too large, and the digital field cannot afford it.
Maybe wait a few more years to shoot some high-quality, high-VFX series.
To sum up, the name of a sci-fi, horror, and retro-style drama jumps on paper.
That is "Stranger Things", which was called "Stranger Things" by Netflix as soon as it was broadcast in 2016.
This film is easy to shoot, and the cost is not high. It is really suitable for this time.
Not to mention, the first few seasons of this show have maintained high ratings. Of course, it is common for American dramas to gradually go downhill as they are filmed. Not every show is as conscientious as "Breaking Bad". When it is obvious that you can continue to make money easily, cruelly come to a fairly successful conclusion...
Moreover, this drama is easy to stir up momentum, or the audience spontaneously cheers.
After all, the retro style of the show and a series of small details similar to "find the difference" that pay tribute to horror classics are talked about by fans.
In Lehman's view, the concept of this drama is not sophisticated, and it can even be said to be old-fashioned, but because of the compact plot and the online characters with IQ, the relatively meticulous segmentation, and then it became the most "magic" of that year. 's episodes.
In other words, the plot has no flaws, the characters are created with intentions, and these two highlights can be kept, and the audience will not be too picky.
Lyman also spoke to Scott before planning to make the show.
The opinion of a person who is very professional in special effects and picture rendering can provide a lot of opinions on whether the filming of this show is feasible.
After all, the most eye-catching thing about "Stranger Things" is the high fidelity of the picture - the retro restoration is very thorough, completely reminiscent of the 1980s, and even the picture processing is deliberately made old.
In this regard, Scott is sure that there is no problem.
The same is true, there is no shortage of hardware and software, and the production of episodes is also on track.
in the conference room.
Everyone sat down in order.
Lehman simply said hello and asked his assistant Mace to distribute the creative materials.
After waiting for everyone to have a copy, and flipping through it for a while, Lyman said: "I called everyone here for the script of a new project, the genre is a sci-fi, horror TV series. The name is written on the text, called "" Stranger Things"."
In the eyes of everyone, Lehman continued: "This new drama will be the spring project of our company and HBO next year, so it is a little urgent... In addition, I will briefly talk about the shooting of this project. Ideas and creative direction. In terms of time, it came from the 1980s, and clothing, architecture, and social atmosphere must have the shadow of that time..."
"As for the background of the story, it starts with a secret experiment. At that time, the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union was already crazy, and there were countless similar human experiments in the sky and the ground. In order to develop the potential of the human body and deal with the super power of the Soviet Union Plan, the United States also launched a corresponding experiment, UU reading and named the star gate.
This plan is aimed at researching and developing the human body's long-distance perception ability, which is intended to monitor the Soviet Union from a long distance. (This all happened in the past, and the United States and the Soviet Union have indeed done similar things...)
In that remote western place, the researchers worked hard and finally achieved results. An experimental body marked 11 succeeded, but the experiment of stealing the functions of God also accidentally released monsters from other worlds, and the place where the monsters live We call it the world of...
Because of such an accident, the real world and the real world opened the door to each other.
And because of the intrusion of supernatural energy, people soon suffered bitter fruit.
The monsters accidentally sensed the existence of the gate, but it was not easy to pass through. Even so, some small-scale influences made the residents of the town tremble.
Then one day, the first victim appeared, a young boy mysteriously disappeared, his friends and family and the town police searched the town without finding a clue.
A living person just disappears so bizarrely? "
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