Looking forward to the stars and the moon, "The Three-Body Problem" has finally started.
I watched the first 4 episodes, let's not talk about how it was filmed, this is really the "original" original taste.
Almost all the lines are copied directly, without changing a word.
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To be honest, the safest way to adapt the original work is, of course, this, directly copying the original, even if you are scolded, you can say that it has little to do with your level.
The drama version of "The Three-Body Problem" is very friendly to the original party, directly into the play, if you have not read the original work, it is best to read the novel first, and then watch the TV series is better.
Today, I will not comment on the TV series, but give you the story behind the adaptation of 818 "The Three-Body Problem".
Everyone knows the line in the original work, the trisolarans warn us earthlings to "don't answer", and many people say that "The Three-Body Problem" also has to listen to this advice, "don't remake".
In fact, the "Three-Body Problem" movie and TV series have not been filmed for a long time, and the biggest difficulty is precisely the copyright problem of "The Three-Body Problem" itself.
Since the advent of "The Three-Body Problem", although it is called a generation of science fiction works, its film and television adaptation rights have not been sold for a while.
It is said that in 2009, small businessman Zhang Fanfan drunk the author Liu Cixin on the wine table, and finally won the film and television rights of "The Three-Body Problem" for only 100,000 yuan.
Looking at it today, Zhang Fanfan really picked up a big bargain and stepped on luck.
In the following seven years or so, "The Three-Body Problem" won the 73rd Hugo Award (equivalent to the Nobel Prize in the field of science fiction), became famous and attracted the attention of many film and television giants.
However, because of the copyright problem of "The Three-Body Problem", there were many people asking for prices and fewer people signing contracts.
In 2014, the founder of Youzu, Lynch, took over this hot potato and founded Youzu Pictures.
He plans to invest 200 million yuan in a single film, a total of 1.2 billion yuan, to shoot the six-part series of "The Three-Body Problem".
But there are prerequisites for doing this - businessman Zhang Fanfan must be the director of the film version of "The Three-Body Problem".
As a reader's word of mouth as "a sci-fi IP that has not been born in New China for decades", its film and television adaptation is even more difficult.
Whether it was Lin Qi, Kong Ergou, or Zhang Fan at that time, the experience in making such a sci-fi film that required the support of the mature film industry was zero.
As a result, the project dragged on again and again, the money ran out, Kong Ergou left, and the movie "Three-Body Problem" was also lost.
Lynch couldn't wait any longer, smashed 120 million angrily, Zhang Fanfan and his wife were out, and "The Three-Body Problem" changed hands.
In fact, as early as the period when the copyright of "The Three-Body Problem" was still negotiating, the nomads began the development of the "Three-Body Universe".
Previously, without authorization, the nomads could only play cricket, avoid the copyright problem of the original "Three-Body Problem", first create fan works, and carry out subsequent all-round derivative work development.
Youzu spent a lot of money to buy the copyright of the original work of "The Three-Body Problem", filling the most critical gap for the "Three-Body Universe" and bringing huge imagination space to its stock price.
If others want to further commercialize the "Three-Body Problem" story, they must obtain the consent of the "Three-Body Universe" and divide the account.
It was also at this stage that the long-silent copyright operation of "The Three-Body Problem" finally made substantial progress.
Movies, domestic TV series, English dramas, animations, stage plays, audio books, radio dramas... Collaborations of all kinds are coming.
According to media statistics, at this stage, the products and authorizations that have been developed have helped Youzu recover at least 200 million, and the revenue in the signed agreement is about 600 million.
But no one expected that this was the beginning and the end of the story.
In 2020, when everything was on track in "The Three-Body Problem", the founder of the nomads, Lynch, was killed by a poisoning case.
According to the police investigation, Lynch's colleague Xu (male, 39 years old) is suspected of committing a major crime.
Xu is the general manager of the "Three-Body Universe" and the general leader of the project, and it is rumored that he fell out with Lin Qi because of the matter of tens of millions of salaries, and became a feud.
Xu's modus operandi is quite vicious and hidden, and he bought more than 100 kinds of poisons from abroad to prepare for poisoning, eliminating the possibility of Lynch's later detoxification.
He put the poison in Lynch's favorite Pu-erh tea, watched Lynch drink it, and then prepared to destroy the evidence.
After the incident, Xu has been taken compulsory measures by the police in accordance with the law, but the progress of the case has not been announced so far.
Looking back at this matter now, the biggest impact is, of course, "The Three-Body Problem".
After Lynch's death, the copyright issue of "The Three-Body Problem" was further complicated, and the connection between "The Three-Body Problem" and the "Three-Body Universe" made it difficult to advance.
Fortunately, the giants Tencent and Netflix came, and everything was settled with money, and money is really a good thing.
Now that the TV series version of "The Three-Body Problem" has been broadcast, on the surface, everyone looks happy and peaceful, but we must also understand that capital wants income, not word of mouth.
Liu Cixin said: "In China, any flying thought will fall to the ground, and the gravitational pull of reality is too heavy. ”
For "The Three-Body Problem", this is probably the same.
Compared with the domestic version of "The Three-Body Problem", I am more looking forward to the Netflix version of "The Three-Body Problem", I don't know if it can be introduced, let's look forward to it first.
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