Capítulo 71: Chapter 71: Too Powerful Opponent
Bang!
Nanaya's head was patted by Ori.
"ah?"
Nanaya, awakened from his own thoughts, looked at Ori in confusion.
Ori put his hands on his hips and said to Nanaya angrily: "Mo~ How can a director be distracted on the set?!"
"Sorry, I was thinking about something." Nanaya shook his head, as if trying to get rid of these things from his mind, "It's my fault, I won't do this again."
"Come on, this is the 63rd time you've made this promise in the past few days." Ori shook his head. He didn't believe a single word of Nanaya's promise.
"Thinking about the script again?"
Nanaya nodded, agreeing with Ori's guess.
According to Washimine Shion's previous request, if Nanaya or Hanai Ryuichi are interested in directing the film adaptation of the "Saints and the Brave" series, they must submit their first version of the script within one month.
The script can be written by the director himself or by a co-writer. As long as there is no dispute over the right of authorship, it will be fine.
One month later, the Eagle Summit will hold a unified discussion on all submitted scripts and ultimately decide whose proposal to adopt.
According to Washimine Shion, because the scriptwriters of Washimine Group are used to writing game scripts, the scripts they had produced internally before were basically long and boring, and were not suitable for adaptation into movies at all.
Therefore, Washimine Shion hopes that directors can come up with feasible plans based on the setting set of the "Saints and Brave" series provided by her, from the perspective of professional filmmakers, for her to review, and then everyone will discuss and choose the most suitable story to produce.
But the problem lies here. The part that should not have gotten stuck, or the simplest part for a time traveler, has become Nanaya's biggest obstacle at present.
Three weeks have passed and there is only one week left before the deadline.
However, he, Nanaya Kiryu, didn't even know what kind of story he should come up with.
It's not that Nanaya doesn't have any drafts in mind. In fact, thanks to the booming fantasy and game online literature in China, as well as the trend of western fantasy and otherworldly travel in the Japanese light novel industry after 2015, Nanaya has too many materials to count. However, these themes are nothing compared to Nanaya's opponents.
Because the competitor was so powerful, Nanaya had no idea what kind of story he should come up with to fight back.
Nanaya inferred based on Jiufeng's budget and his own abilities that if he successfully won the bid, then the film would probably be completed by the end of 2001 or the middle of 2002 including post-production.
With the addition of a series of publicity operations, if we are lucky, this film will be released to the audience between 2002 and 2003.
Although this time span is very long, it is already a very ideal state.
But it is precisely this ideal state that makes Nanaya feel embarrassed.
After hearing the news about "The Lord of the Rings", Nanaya paid special attention to the movies that will be released in Japan and abroad in recent years.
For Nanaya, it was really a surprise until you see it.
In Japan, there is usually a saying that the box office has good and bad years. Whenever a super phenomenal movie appears in Japan, it will trigger a craze among the whole nation to watch the movie. As a result, the box office data of this movie will become very terrifying, and a box office of more than 20 billion yen is considered a basic operation.
But when the popularity of this movie fades, the audience's enthusiasm for movies will not be so high in the following years, so even if it is the box office champion, it will not have very good results in the years after this movie.
However, this situation was an exception in the two years from 2001 to 2002.
The Japanese box office champion in 2001 was a movie that Nanaya had no desire to protest against: Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away".
This movie, which grossed 30.8 billion yen and is still the champion of Japan's box office history 20 years later, can be said to be a monument of Japanese animated films.
Although Mr. Hayao Miyazaki has some problems in his lifestyle, as an animation filmmaker, "Spirited Away", which can be said to be the culmination of Miyazaki's works, is undoubtedly a great work.
If that were the case, it would be fine. After all, the movie that Nanaya is going to make will be released in 2002, and the game-adapted movie with a western fantasy theme does not conflict with Hayao Miyazaki's Japanese-style animated movies. Although it will have a certain impact on the box office, the conflict is not obvious.
The real trouble came in the next year, 2002. The box office champion in Japan that year was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (released at the end of 2001, but counted as 2002 in box office calculations).
In other words, it was a car crash!
What's worse is that although the box office of this movie in Japan is not as terrible as "Spirited Away" with 30 billion yen, the box office result of 20.3 billion yen can also be regarded as a big year for movie box office.
However, even more tragic things are yet to come. Because of concerns about the development of the young actors in the "Harry Potter" series, Warner directly launched the second film "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" at the end of 2002.
If it weren't for various issues such as the change of director and the actors' voice changes, Nanaya estimates that Warner might even have released the third "Prisoner of Azkaban" in 2003.
Do you think that's the end?
No, in addition to the "Harry Potter" series, there is also an epic Western fantasy magic theme competitor mentioned earlier waiting for Nanaya.
The name of this opponent is "The Lord of the Rings".
This epic western fantasy work can be regarded as the originator of western fantasy literature from the perspective of the original work, and it is equivalent to the status of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Journey to the West" in the chapter-by-chapter novels of the Chinese Empire. From the perspective of the film, this epic trilogy can force those old immortals of the academic school to bow their heads with commercial films, and winning the grand slam at the Oscars is very telling.
It can be said that Nanaya has chosen the worst subject matter and is shooting a movie like an egg hitting a stone at the worst time.
"It's the worst possible scenario..."
Nanaya covered his face. He could already imagine what kind of setback he would encounter.
If he simply wrote a western fantasy game adaptation story, he would have a lot of material in his mind. Whether it was the Chinese online literature or the later trend of Japanese light novels about office workers traveling through western fantasy games, he could find a lot of material.
By taking advantage of these materials and making up for their deficiencies, Nanaya believes that he can write a story that scores at least 75 points. Relying on the popularity of the game IP "The Saint and the Brave", it should be able to reach a level of 80-85 points.
It's a pity that he has to face off against The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which scored 90 points, and the Harry Potter series, which scored 80 points for the story but 95 points for production and special effects (in the current era). His chances of winning are really not very great.
It's like Nanaya trying to snatch audiences from Journey to the West and Investiture of the Gods, but the only one he can show off is The Legend of the White Snake. Nanaya believes that his story will be liked by some people, but if the scope is expanded to the whole world, he believes that most audiences will prefer the other two stories rather than his own.
"Senior, you don't need to be too stressed. If it really doesn't work, we can just give up this project." Ori was very worried about Nanaya's current mentality. He always felt that his senior brother always gave him some inexplicable pressure after taking over this project.
"Senior, I know that project is very important to you, but "Magical Girl Illya" is also very important to us." Rin, who was waiting for the filming, gently poked Nanaya's shoulder with a prop spear, "Didn't you say to complete your work conscientiously? You have to abide by it yourself!"
Luvia rarely agreed with Rin's point of view: "That's right, Senior, if you really want to think carefully, you should finish your work earlier."
"Haha, someone is so anxious because he is afraid of the cold~"
Rin noticed that Luvia's arms were rubbing against her chest gently, and she immediately mocked her when she realized something.
Luvia was annoyed by what Rin said. She immediately put her hands on her hips and retorted: "As a lady from Northern Europe, how could I be afraid of the cold at such a low temperature!"
Rin touched her hair with a mocking look on her face: "Who knows? After all, it's impossible for someone to wear this kind of clothes on the street in Northern Europe~"
At this time, Luvia was wearing a set of golden tights and a dark blue gauze skirt. Although she had a heat pack attached to her body, her arms and lower abdomen were exposed. It was indeed cold in the current January temperature.
Even though this was true, Luvia would not give in easily. She pointed at Rin and shouted, "You're still blaming me, but aren't you also suffering from the cold? Be careful that you get arthritis in the future!"
The clothes that Rin was wearing were indeed covering more and thicker than Luvia's, but her left knee was completely exposed. During the previous filming, Rin had stomped her foot countless times.
"That's better than you. You'll just freeze and get gastroenteritis later!"
Nanaya scratched his cheek helplessly, "It's all my fault. Can you two ladies finish the filming first before arguing? Aren't you two very cold?"
But no one listened to him at this time. Because he was often distracted on the set recently, his prestige as a director had dropped to the lowest point in history.
"So - stop arguing!"
Nanaya let out a helpless cry.
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