Chapter 926 Writing and Buying Copyright

In 1979, Yin Jun published two novels, "Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code".

In 1980, Yin Jun published three novels, the first part of "A Song of Ice and Fire", "Warcraft" and "Forrest Gump".

But by June 1981, there was still no news about Yin Jun's new book, and Kant Henry couldn't sit still.

The second-generation owner of Henry Publishing House, through cooperation with Yin Jun, has developed a small publishing house from California into a medium-to-large publishing house with a network across the United States.

If this continues for another ten years, Kant Henry is sure that Henry Publishing will break into the top ten in the United States.

Even if Yin Jun has no other works in the future, his current five works alone will be enough to last him ten or twenty years.

Classic novels will not fade for many years.

For example, aren't Tolkien's novels still on sale?

There is also "Gone with the Wind", which is more than 40 years old and still sells a lot every year. The hardcover version has been reprinted again and again, and people still buy and collect it.

The five novels Yin Jun has written now are all classics and all are highly sought after.

Therefore, not only was Yin Jun himself rewarded with fame and fortune, but Henry Conde, who supported him, also made a lot of money, and this will be the case for a long time to come.

Logically speaking, it is normal for a writer to publish a novel every three to five years.

Kant Henry didn't want Yin Jun to publish another novel immediately. Even if he knew that this young man was a genius, a true genius, he never thought about fishing all the time, but only wanted to keep the stream flowing.

What Kant Henry is really worried about is that Yin Jun's career is getting bigger and bigger, and he will no longer write books in the future.

This shattered his dream.

But how could he have the right to force Yin Jun to write a book?

Not to mention that Yin Jun has now acquired Disney and United Artists Film Company and has become a Hollywood giant. Even in terms of publishing, they are collaborating on one film after another. There is not even long-term cooperation and pen name binding. Why should he go? Looking for Yin Jun to write a new novel?

At the beginning, although Kant Henry was optimistic about Yin Jun, he never thought that the book he wrote would be such a best-seller.

By the time it was published for the second time, Kant Henry no longer had the slightest advantage and could only sign the contract according to the conditions stated by Tang Shuxuan. Naturally, he did not win the pen name binding.

And now, the identities of Kant Henry and Yin Jun are completely unequal. Even Tang Shuxuan, whom he is familiar with, is now the president of Disney and United Artists Film Company. How can he, a publishing owner, reach such a high level?

But fortunately, Tang Shuxuan didn't have any airs. After Kant Henry called, she readily agreed and would ask Yin Jun if he had any plans to write and publish novels.

After Yin Jun received Tang Shuxuan's inquiry call, he was stunned for a while.

The first two years of my youth were relatively free and I had more time to write, so I wrote five novels in just two years.

But now he is getting busier and busier, spending more and more time on both his career and women, and has less time to write novels.

Moreover, the teenager now insists on writing novels and Hollywood scripts in English, so his writing speed will definitely be much slower. Being able to write a novel in a year is considered good.

When Yin Jun becomes more proficient and his writing skills improve, it will be possible to write two or three novels, but it is not possible now.

Now he has the second volume of "A Song of Ice and Fire" in his hands.

The second part of the brain-burning crime-solving trilogy, "Angels and Demons," is only half written.

Now that Henry Kant has asked, it would be fine to publish the second part of "Song of Ice and Fire" for him.

But not this year.

Next year, it should be this "Angels and Demons".

In fact, Yin Jundu only plans to publish one novel a year in the future, or at most two.

In addition to these, "Angels and Demons" will be followed by "The Dante Code", which will complete the series.

Yin Jun himself has only watched 6 parts of "A Song of Ice and Fire", that is, there are only six parts. If Yin Jun is capable enough, he may be able to write the seventh part. If he is not capable enough, he can only wait until he is older. I slowly compiled it when I had time.

Yin Jun has already thought about the remaining novels, and he only plans to write three.

One is "The Hunger Games."

The second one is "Twilight".

The third one is "Harry Potter" that everyone knows.

After writing a total of more than ten episodes, Yin Jun's book writing career can come to an end, and he will not touch European and American novels in the future.

After all, what he writes comfortably are Chinese novels, novels about Eastern thinking and logic.

If you ask him to write "Xun Qin Ji" now, Yin Jun can finish it in two weeks.

Even for "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", Yin Jun can restore 80% of the story of Zhong Shao and Ling Shao in a maximum of two months of retreat, and he will never give up Zhong Shao's Shang Xiufang and Li Xiuning. The two great witches, Shi Feixuan and Huan Huan, will not be allowed to escape, and they will directly become Ling Shao's women.

Writing a novel with several million words is now a piece of cake for Yin Jun.

It's just that he doesn't want to write anymore.

Most importantly, he lacked time to write novels.

And it’s not necessary.

These novels should be left to the original authors.

Even British and American novels are the same, as long as Yin Jun spends money to buy the adaptation rights.

Anyway, with the memory of his past life, Yin Jun will only buy those that will be successful and will not buy those that are useless.

Speaking of which, there is really no way to say whether the novel will be successfully adapted into a movie.

Stephen King's decades-long masterpiece, the "Dark Tower" series, was simply baffling and completely incomprehensible after it was released in 2017.

On the contrary, "Forrest Gump" written by Yin Jun in this life, the novel is a spicy and satirical comedy, but after it was filmed, it made people cry and completely immersed in it, and it is known as a classic among classics. .

There is also "The Matrix". If someone looks at the manuscript of this script, they will feel that it is completely from heaven, and no one will understand it when it is filmed.

But what was the result?

20 years later, "The Matrix" is still endlessly memorable. The various mysteries, various design languages, and various foreshadowings in it make people want to watch it over and over again.

Therefore, anyone who thinks that a best-selling novel can be adapted into a very successful movie is either naive or stupid.

This is even more evident in the mainland.

Needless to say, there are also other novels, such as "The Legend of Wukong" and other novels that ushered in the era of ordinary people writing books. They are all just to make money and have no connotation of success.

Even "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" can be made into several versions, and the content of each version is different. Sometimes you feel like you are watching a fantasy drama, and sometimes you feel like you are watching a romantic drama...

Not to mention these embarrassing movie weirdos.

There are many various copyrights that should be purchased, but Yin Jun still has to pay attention to purchasing them.

For example, "The Silmarillion" is a big IP with unlimited potential, and Yin Jun will definitely get it.

"The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" are both legendary series.

But "The Silmarillion" was before these two. It was "The Silmarillion" that opened the magnificent scene of the entire Middle-earth world.

If we follow the order of filming in previous lives, "The Lord of the Rings" will be followed by "The Hobbit", and then "The Silmarillion", this will be perfect enough.

"The Lord of the Rings" has three episodes, "The Hobbit" has three episodes, and "The Silmarillion" has no problem filming six episodes.

Calculated in this way, it should take 20 years to completely build it.

For a series to span such a long time is definitely a very dazzling achievement.

It's a matter of seconds to surpass "Harry Potter" at the box office.

As for whether Yin Jun will direct it himself or whether he will pull Peter Jackson over and hand it over to him, that will be a matter later.

Now Yin Jun's United Artists Film Company holds the film rights to "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit". There is no saying that the rights will have to be returned to the owners if they are not filmed for a few years.

With such an opportunity, it would not be a big problem for them to obtain the film and television rights to "The Silmarillion".

It’s nothing more than money.

Tolkien's foundation is controlled by his son. This man has no talent, but loves money very much. As long as enough cash is given, the share of film and television copyrights can naturally be reduced.

Come to think of it, he doesn't know how much money movies adapted from these novels can make.

A super big IP worth tens of billions of dollars, a movie series that can make many characters famous, for a large film company, it is the best treasure to conquer cities and territories!

In addition to "The Silmarillion", Yin Jun still has a lot of copyrights to buy.

Some of them have been purchased through Tang Shuxuan one after another.

For example, the rights to film remakes of the TV series "Charlie's Angels."

The movie adapted from it is called "Charlie's Angels". If the three women didn't tear each other up so much, it wouldn't be a problem to make three or five movies.

Coupled with Yin Jun's screenwriting ability, the movie can more perfectly display the characters and fierce fighting of the three beauties, and the box office will naturally increase.

Of course, it will also allow Yin Jun to promote at least one more Chinese female star.

For example, Hui Yinghong is very suitable.

There is also CBS's "Mission: Impossible" TV series, and the film adaptation rights have also been obtained.

This super spy movie, which does not even need to be renamed, allows Tom to maintain his status as a super-star in Hollywood despite the repeated failures of other movies, which shows how powerful its vitality and appeal are.

Tony Leung Chiu-wai in our Chinese film industry is not inferior to Tom Cruise, he is equally handsome.

Even if Tony Leung doesn't act, Fei Xiang can still do it.

Fei Xiang was not suitable. Li Huang trained hard for a while, but he was still not bad.

Another film that can be compared with "Mission: Impossible" is the movie series "The Bourne Identity" adapted from Robert Ludlum's novel "The Bourne Identity".

Oh, by the way, when this movie was released in mainland China, the name was literally translated as "The Bourne Supremacy".

Yin Jun thinks this name is more appropriate and more suitable for this movie.

It is also an excellent work that launched Matt Damon into a super-class Hollywood star, and it is also a movie series that can be made for 20 years without getting tired of it.

In this series of movies, Andy Lau, Liu Qingyun, and Louis Koo are all good.

You read that right.

They are all actors from Hong Kong.

After Yin Jun bought the rights to adapt these series, he always planned to let movie stars from Hong Kong perform.

He doesn't care whether these movies can be liked by everyone or whether they should use American actors to achieve high box office.

His biggest purpose in coming to this world is to launch Hong Kong movies, or Chinese entertainment, and spread Chinese culture around the world.

As for the box office and so on, that is secondary.

It is more important to let more and more foreigners identify with Chinese culture and eliminate the inherent rigid impressions!