Director’s Legend

Stephanie Meier is a standard housewife. She has three children to take care of. Her husband Chris works as an accountant in a small construction company in Cave River Town. Her body is a bit bloated, and she no longer has the good figure of her youth. Now it takes her a whole day to take care of her three children. The youngest is just over two years old.

On this day, as usual, she prepared fruits and drinks for the children, and then sat on the balcony basking in the warm sunshine. In her hand, she was holding a book and paper exuding ink fragrance. This is a novel she wrote in the past year. She reads it every day and feels the love between the lines.

This is a book that reignites love between her and her husband.

Mel has a Bachelor of Arts degree. He met her husband when they were in college, and got married in their junior year before graduation.

It is hard to imagine that a year ago, when prices rose, the husband would have to work all day outside to provide her and her three children with food and clothing. They are only in their thirties, but they all have white hair. She was worried about her old age and family life and difficulties, and whether her husband would divorce her.

The flat life after marriage and the indifference of her husband made her suffer from anxiety transfer disorder, which is a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder, which makes her often fall into sad hallucinations. It was a spring dream, or the dream that I and Chris had seen early in the year, that saved her and became her comfort. In order to keep this beautiful dream, she began to write about her dream and wrote a novel of tens of thousands of words.

In the novel, the heroine Bella is a portrayal of her in high school. She doesn't love famous brands or talk, but she is kind, brave and beautiful. The protagonist Edward is a vampire. She gives the protagonist the superpowers she desires to possess. She is always 17 years old, can read mind, can climb the wall and walk through the forest, sometimes elegant and sometimes prodigal.

She began to immerse herself in her novels, and no longer felt the pressure of life and the neglect of her husband. He had to look at it every day before going to bed. Until one day, his husband saw these papers. After reading it, tears filled his eyes and hugged her and said, "The literary girl I love has finally returned."

This awakened Mel. It turned out that her husband liked her who wanted to be a writer.

So, last year, April 2004, she really started writing, expanding the novel to 200,000 characters. It's just a pity that Mel, who was writing for the first time, didn't know how the work was. He kept it at home and a limited number of people had read this book.

This morning, as usual, she held the novel and started reading.

Reading that Edward and Bella met for the first time, Mel couldn't help but think of the first meeting between her husband Chris and herself, and the corners of her mouth were full of smiles. At this moment, she heard the door of the house being opened.

"Gaby, is that you?" Mel called out. Gaby was her eldest son.

"My dear, it's me."

"Oh, Pancho, why are you back now?" Mel was a little surprised. Pancho was the nickname of her husband Chris.

"Hi, we have guests."

Mel walked to the living room and saw her husband lead in, a man and a woman, two Asians, both very young. Chris said enthusiastically: "My dear, let me introduce you. This is Mr. Shao and Ms. Li from mysterious China. I came here to visit you."

"Visit me? I have no Chinese friends?"

Mr. Shao is naturally Shao Shuaijun. He smiled and said, "Hello, Ms. Meier. I did come to visit you. You don’t know us, but we are very familiar with you. Because, I have read your novel, then I like the novel called "Twilight" very much."

"Oh, hello China Shao, thank you for your love, how did you read it, I haven't published it yet?"

"Haha, I have an American pen pal. He once told me about this novel, and he moved me to the breaking point. I asked him to find out that he saw it from you, so I traveled far and wide. , I came to visit you." Shao Shuaijun had already figured out the reason.

"Oh, is it Billy?"

"I don't know, I only know that his online name is Xiaobai. Why should we bother who told me that, in fact, I came today for a purpose." Shao Shuaijun went straight to the subject, "I haven't read a specific novel, but I already know the general story content. I think this is a great novel. Once it is adapted into a movie, it will surely sell out. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. I am a director, a director from China, my first one. The movie "Buried Alive" will soon be released in North America."

"Really, you are so young."

Shao Shuaijun nodded at Li Xiuxiu, Li Xiuxiu knows: "That's it, Mrs. Meyer, my boss Shao Shuaijun is very optimistic about the market prospects of the adaptation of this novel into a movie, and I plan to buy all the copyrights of "Twilight", I don't know you. Would you like to sell it?"

"This..." Mel looked at Chris.

Chris nodded: "Of course, Mel's wish is to become a writer. You will help her publish, won't you?"

"Yes, since you agree, let's talk about the price."

"Twilight", now only Shao Shuaijun knows how popular it will be. As the first novel in the "Twilight" series, "Twilight" immediately became popular throughout the United States once it was published. In the United States alone, the "Twilight" series of novels has sold more than 50 million copies, and more than 85 million copies worldwide.

Publishing is only a small income. The real big thing lies in the adapted films. Shao Shuaijun remembers that he has adapted five films in total. The first one is nearly 400 million dollars worldwide, the second is more than 700 million dollars worldwide, and the third is nearly 700 million dollars worldwide. The fourth installment topped 700 million US dollars worldwide, and the fourth installment topped nearly 700 million US dollars worldwide.

This is simply Chi Guoguo's money grab.

"Harry Potter" can no longer count, as a rebirth, if you miss "Twilight", you can go to death.

With the confidence of the future box office, Shao Shuaijun very generously signed a contract with Stephanie Meyer.

Shao Shuaijun is personally responsible for the distribution and publication of the novel. 60% of the royalty profits go to Mel and 40% to Shao Shuaijun. Except for the right to adapt the film, all the rights to adapt remain in the hands of Meyer, and the right to adapt the film belongs to Shao Shuaijun. Shao Shuaijun will pay US$500,000 for the adaptation of the first "Twilight" and promised that once the film is released, 2% of the box office will be used as a dividend for Mel.

Mel promised to continue to write no less than seven "Twilight" series of novels. All subsequent novels will divide the copyright according to this ratio. Once the box office of North American movies exceeds 100 million, the dividend will be increased to 5%. If it does not exceed 100 million, it will pay an adaptation fee ranging from USD 1 million to USD 10 million according to the percentage of revenue.

For a newcomer, these terms are simply winning the first prize. Shao Shuaijun considered lowering the standard, but thought that it was too low. In case Mel was not satisfied, he didn't care about writing, wouldn't it be a loss. Shao Shuaijun has never studied this series of movies, but he has seen it, and he can't guarantee that he can shoot the original effect without Mel.

Therefore, vigorously win over.

Mel was very satisfied with these terms, especially the first income of $500,000, which made her overjoyed. The burden on her family is too heavy.

The contract was drawn up on the spot, signed and sealed, and taken to the notary office for notarization.

Explaining that Mel was at ease writing at home, Shao Shuaijun and Li Xiuxiu left in the car, but the smiles on their lips couldn't be suppressed.

Make a big profit!