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

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

This work should be regarded as Fan Zhe's favorite.

For the writer Squid, he himself has considerable preferences, and "Lord of Mysteries" should be regarded as Fan Zhe's favorite one of his works.

This work is also a phenomenon on the Internet. There are many diehard fans, and indeed from the perspective of the content of the work, the worldview, setting, and story background are very distinctive, the characters are full, the protagonist and supporting roles are very good, and the plot arrangement is also very good.

I didn't choose to change "Lord of the Secrets" before, but chose to adapt another piece of squid, that is, "Budo Master" into a TV series. The main factor was the difficulty of changing.

Although "Budo Master" is a fantasy theme, there are martial arts content, and a lot of special effects shots are needed. But all in all, this is a story that happened in the context of a modern city. For non-combat pictures, no special effects are needed. After the work was finished, the whole post-production special effects work was done very quickly, and the difficulty was not particularly high.

For "Budo Master", the most difficult point of the whole work is the action scene. This special effect can't help much, what is needed is the exquisite action design, and the actors have enough practice to dare to fight in the actual shooting.

If it weren't for the action scenes that spent a lot of energy on shooting, the entire show, including the movie "Fire of War", would not take that long to make the project.

On the contrary, "Lord of the Mysteries" is a completely different situation.

It is very difficult to deal with the background of the times alone.

The original novel of "Lord of Mysteries" has a completely empty background. The background of the era is in a British similar to the Victorian era. The steam era has kicked off. The huge ship cannon, the bullet train, the top hat and tuxedo...

The world background of steampunk, coupled with the churches that believe in gods, and the secret organizations that secretly believe in evil gods...

This distorted and supernatural world 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 Mysteries" is difficult.

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

Secondly, the ancient background like "Fantasy Three Kingdoms" is also easier to deal with. Although it is not modern, there are many such things as shooting in China. There are a large number of antique film and television bases that can be used, and the vast country itself has many very suitable shooting locations.

But the British style of the Victorian era in the 18th century?

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

For Dimension Entertainment, if they plan to shoot this drama, the difficulty encountered is actually relatively large.

Now there are two choices before them.

Either go to a foreign country for framing; or, more extensively perform post-production special effects lens synthesis.

The difficulty of the latter is a bit too high. It’s not that the ‘dimension’ system can’t do it.

It is foreseeable that the ‘Dimensional 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 similarly, 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 ‘dimensional’ system is not comparable in the past.

If not necessary, Fan Zhe still doesn't want to replace all the shots with special effects synthesis when there are other options.

Therefore, after the establishment of the project, in addition to the script polishing and preliminary design, the company also sent out seven or eight teams to fly to various places in Europe to find suitable shooting locations.

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

Especially the United Kingdom.

This matter will be left to the finder team. Fan Zhe will only use the plan and set a place, and he doesn't need to worry about it. When that happens, the people from the ‘Dimension Europe’ branch will conduct corresponding contacts and negotiations.

There is another problem that plagues "Lord of Mysteries", which lies with the actors.

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

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

What happened then? Fantasy subject matter, who can say anything?

Of course, if black actors are not selected, they may be criticized in the European and American markets in the future. In fact, when "De Marcia: Glory" was released in the Western world, there were no corresponding black organizations that came out. Looking for something.

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

They simply chose to ignore it.

Those black organizations have been rioting for a while, and they didn’t continue to toss them down. After all, the movie "Glory" is useless of black actors, it didn’t hack them, and it didn’t have any content that was suspected of racial discrimination. There was too much wind and waves.

In this regard, Dimension Entertainment pays more attention to it.

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

Choosing the yellow race is because Dimension Entertainment has made works and still attaches great importance to the domestic market. It is unnecessary to choose black people specifically for political correctness ~www.NovelMTL.com~.

Fan Zhe himself didn't like it either.

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

Now, there are only things that Fan Zhe doesn't want to shoot, and there is nothing that I dare not shoot.

"Lord of Mysteries" officially announced the project.

This work should follow the pattern of American TV dramas. It was too difficult and time-consuming to shoot the entire episode at one time. The first season of "Lord of Mysteries" will have ten episodes of content, and the investment meeting will reach a single episode of 12 million US dollars. If you don't want to compromise on quality, you can only do it in this season.

Otherwise, how much money do I have to invest for dozens of episodes and hundreds of episodes? One billion dollars for five years?

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

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There will be a chapter later