The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

In addition to the game adaptation film and television project of "Fantasy Three Kingdoms 4", Dimension Entertainment will also prepare a project.

The film and television adaptation of "Lord of the Mysteries".

This work should be considered one of Fan Zhe's favorites.

For the writer squid, he himself has a lot of preferences, and "Lord of the Mysteries" should be regarded as Fan Zhe's favorite among his works.

This work is also a phenomenal existence on the Internet. There are a lot of diehard fans, and from the perspective of the content of the work, the world view, setting, and story background are all very distinctive, the characters are full, the protagonists and supporting roles are excellent, and the plot arrangement is also very good.

I didn't choose to change "Lord of the Mysteries" before, but chose to adapt another squid's work, that is, "Martial Arts Master" into a TV series. The main factor is to consider the difficulty of changing.

Although "The Grandmaster of Martial Arts" is a fantasy theme, it has martial arts content and requires a lot of special effects shots. But all in all, this is a story that happened in the background of a modern city. For non-combat scenes, there is no need to do any special effects. After the work is finished, the post-production special effects work is done very quickly, and the difficulty is not particularly high.

For "Martial Arts Master", the most difficult part of the whole work is on the action scene. This special effect can't help too much, what is needed is the exquisite action design, and at the same time, the actors have enough rehearsals, and they dare to fight during the actual shooting.

If it weren't for the fact that a lot of energy was spent on shooting the action scenes, the project production time of the whole show, including the later film "War of War", would not have taken that long.

Instead, Lord of the Mysteries is a very different case.

It is difficult to do it with just one era background.

In the original novel of "Lord of the Mysteries", the background of the story is completely fictional. The background of the era is in a England similar to the Victorian era. The age of steam has already kicked off, with giant ships and cannons, bullet trains, top hats and tuxedos...

The steampunk world background, coupled with the church that believes in gods, and the secret organization that secretly believes in evil gods...

This twisted world full of extraordinary power is quite attractive in the author's pen.

But the novel is good-looking, and the adaptation is two different things.

It is precisely because of such a peculiar and attractive world background that the adaptation of "Lord of the Mysteries" appears to be full of difficulties.

For film and television, the modern urban background is of course the best to deal with.

Secondly, ancient backgrounds like "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" are also easier to deal with. Although it is not modern, there are a lot of things like this in China. There are a lot of antique film and television bases that can be used, and there are many very suitable locations for filming in the vast country itself.

Can eighteenth century Victorian England style?

If you want to shoot this thing in China, it will be too difficult. It is difficult to find such a large-scale scene in China.

As far as Dimension Entertainment is concerned, if they plan to shoot this drama, the difficulty they will encounter is actually relatively large.

There are two options before them.

Either, go to a foreign country to find a scene; or, more extensively synthesize the post-production special effects shots.

The latter is a bit too difficult. It's not that the 'dimension' system can't do it, it's mainly because it takes too much time.

It is foreseeable that the 'Dimension Supercomputing Center' has reached the point where it is about to be completed under the huge investment. At that time, the computing power mastered by the 'dimension' system will be greatly improved.

But at the same time, with the development of the company, there are more and more projects, and the difficulty of development is also increasing. The pressure carried by the "dimension" system is not comparable to that in the past.

If it is not necessary, Fan Zhe still does not want to replace all the shots with special effects synthesis when there are other options.

So, after the establishment of the project, in addition to script polishing and preliminary design, the company also dispatched seven or eight teams to various parts of Europe to find suitable shooting locations.

Some shots with fantasy elements and the whole city can be processed by post-processing, which is necessary; but some shots can still be found in suitable places abroad for shooting.

Especially the UK.

This matter will be handed over to the shooting team. Fan Zhe will only need to make a decision and fix the location. He doesn't need to worry too much. The people from the 'Dimension Europe' branch will make corresponding contacts and negotiations.

There is another problem that plagues "Lord of the Mysteries", and it lies in the actors.

The entire story of "Lord of the Mysteries" takes place in a world similar to a Western background, and the actors still need a certain proportion of whites.

Of course, just like "Demacia: Glory", in the selection of individual characters and even some main characters, Dimension Entertainment can freely use one, two or even more yellow people.

What happened then? Fantasy themes, who can say what?

Of course, if black actors are not selected, there may be certain criticisms in the European and American markets in the future-in fact, when "Demacia: Glory" was released in the Western world, many corresponding black organizations came out Find something.

However, Dimension Entertainment is a company located in China, and it is not that much influenced by the so-called political correctness in the European and American world.

They simply chose to ignore it.

Those black organizations have been making trouble for a while, and they didn't continue to toss. In the final analysis, the movie "Glory" just didn't use black actors. Make a big storm.

In this regard, Dimension Entertainment pays more attention.

But choose a black actor... Forget it, unless the character is clearly described as black in the original book, Dimension Entertainment does not intend to please the black race in this regard.

People of the yellow race were chosen because the works produced by Dimension Entertainment still attach great importance to the domestic market. It's not necessary to choose black people specifically for political correctness.

Fan Zhe himself didn't like it either.

Although the film and television development of "Lord of the Mysteries" encountered many difficulties, Dimension Entertainment now has enough strength to overcome them.

Now, there are only things that Fan Zhe doesn't want to shoot, and there is nothing he dares to shoot.

"Lord of the Mysteries" officially announced the project.

This work should be done in accordance with the model of American dramas. It is too difficult and time-consuming to shoot the complete works in one go. The first season of "Lord of the Mysteries" will have ten episodes, and the investment will reach 12 million US dollars for a single episode. If you don't want to compromise on quality, you can only do it in this way.

Otherwise, after completing the complete works, how much will you have to invest in the content of dozens or hundreds of episodes? A billion dollars for five years?

Even if Fan Zhe was crazy, Ye Jiayi would stop him.

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