Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 716 Video Game Adaptation

  Dream about two movies in a row, Ronald also asked David Simkins to prepare some panels for the studio executives to see. Now that he's written a script himself and is interested in joining the ranks of producers, these jobs should also start to become familiar.

   David Simkins, who was given a little more workload for no reason, had to read the script that was still sent to the company at the same time. While working overtime every day, he felt that he was very motivated to fight.

  Ronald himself focused his energy on promoting "Spicy Dance". He wanted to use the film to release it as the first film led by Daydream Pictures.

   turned on the home computer, Ronald inserted the floppy disk, and after a while of noise and waiting, the interface of the text star editing software appeared on the screen. He created a new document and started writing the selling points and difficulties needed to sell the script.

"Advantage:

   The investment is small, there is a fixed audience, and the cost of marketing is low. You don’t need to hire famous movie stars. You can find directors who shoot musicals or youth films for guidance.

  Disadvantage: If the budget is not enough to hire movie stars, the distributor may have concerns. If the other party is willing to invest more resources, the script can also be modified to suit the star.

  Best sales target:

  Disney’s Touchstone Pictures…”

   "Squeak..." The dot-matrix printer printed the document, Ronald picked up the pen and revised a few places, and then put it in the document filing area marked with the project "Spicy Dancing".

  …

What Ronald didn't expect was that the first thing he saw on his "Spicy Dancing" sales board was not the touchstone Katzenberg, nor his manager Nisita, but the "Longwei Kid" series. Producer, Weintraub.

   "What is this? Is it your new project?" Weintraub condescended to come to Ronald's humble apartment. This was the first time he took the initiative to come to Ronald's house to talk things over.

   Before he got down to business, he first saw a few panels that Ronald had placed by the wall.

   "Ah, yes. My script assistant is very good. This is also a script he likes. I just bought the production rights from the original producer."

   Ronald simply turned over a few panels and placed them on the table. "It's a script with teenage women as its main market, and I'm going to make it with a small budget under five million."

   "Is it such a small production?" Weintraub heard that it was a small production, so he quickly wanted to increase the budget and grab this project that Ronald fancy.

   "You can distribute it at MGM/United Arts. I'll give you 5 million and get a budget of 10 million as the next project of 'Moonlight Sultry', how about it?"

   "This movie is from a female perspective, and teenage men may not like to watch it very much, so I didn't want to use stars, and just aimed at the relatively small audience. Small investment is easier to pay back."

"Exactly, I'm here to find you today, that's about paying back." Weintraub took Ronald's "Dancing Hot" script and read it, then motioned Susan to pass the two documents to Ronald Germany.

"These are two invitations to adapt Longwei Kid into a video game. You have the property rights to the characters of Miyagi-sensei and Daniel-san, as well as a part of the share of the second part of Longwei Kid. This contract requires your consent. "

   Weintraub's concubine and assistant, Susan Atkins, took out two documents and handed them to Ronald.

  Ronald took a look, and one was a development contract from Atlus Corporation. This is a game development company in Dongying, which specializes in making games for home game consoles for Nintendo of Dongying.

   "Is this NES game console the most popular little gray box right now?" Ronald looked at the plan. This game was developed for home game consoles. The game console needs to be connected to a TV and played with a handle.

   "Yes, the American version of the game console is like that, and here is a Japanese version of the game console." Susan pointed to the picture on the page of the plan and said to Ronald.

   "Huh? Isn't this a red and white machine?"

   "Red and white machine? The name you gave is easy to understand." Susan smiled, "The other is the development license for computer games."

  Ronald picked up the second license, a game development license for newer models of computers, the Atari ST, and the Commod Amiga.

   "Commodity, I know, it's a game console with a keyboard. Didn't Atari go bankrupt?"

"That's old news from you. After the reorganization of Atari, it is mainly a computer brand. ST is their new computer model. This computer has 512K of memory and can also be equipped with MIDI devices. Many people in the music industry like it. use.

  Commod's new Amiga computer does not have a gamepad, which is used by many animation companies to color paintings. Both are computers used by many professionals. "

   "Then why make games for them?"

   "People always want to be entertained, isn't it great to be able to use a working computer for entertainment?"

   "Well..." Ronald himself only used that old personal computer to write. He didn't expect that the computer has developed so fast now. In addition to composing music and painting, it can also be used to play games. "Are you going to update your computer yourself?"

   He quickly found the place where he needed his signature and signed it. Handed it back to Susan.

   "Your script..." Weintraub next to him had quickly flipped through Ronald's "Dancing Hot" script, and he hesitated.

   "Is it not suitable for a big production? It doesn't matter. I can find investors slowly. Do you have any idea to release this film? The production budget is not very high."

   "Well... so what, my current MGM/United Artists are still fighting against various pre-merger factions. We'd better focus on 'Moonlight Sultry' now."

   "That's right, it doesn't matter. I'll look for a few others."

Ronald looked at Weintraub. His main energy now has been on managing a huge company and integrating internal human resources. He must not be as interested in this kind of small market and small production works as before. .

   "This script is really well written." After Weintraub put down the script, Susan picked it up and flipped through it.

   "Why, do you like this script too?" Ronald didn't expect Susan Atkins to like the script very much.

   "Yeah, what girl hasn't imagined that she can dance well, partner with the boy who dances the best, and win everyone's envy?"

   "How about you, do you want to try to release this movie?" Ronald said half-jokingly, seeing her fascinated look.

   Weintraub pulled Susan over and said a few words quickly in her ear.

   "Sorry, Ronald. Jerry's focus is on MGM's business, my main job is to assist him, I'm afraid I can't divide more energy to release this movie"

  Susan Atkins explained to Ronald why she couldn't help release the film. She slowly put the script down, "However, I really like this movie, you have to make it out when you get a chance."

   "Of course, I'm going to find a publisher and set up a project, and then find a director." Ronald looked at Susan, who was about the same age as himself, thinking that although this woman is not young, she still has a very bright heart.

  …

   "Just put it here." Ronald let in two door-to-door installation workers, and a new computer that looked very much like his original computer was placed on the writing desk.

   "Mr. Li, this is a new product from IBM, PC286. It uses the latest Intel 80286 CPU, 640KB of memory, a 1.2M high-capacity double-sided 3.5-inch floppy disk, and a 20M hard drive."

   Ronald looked at the characters displayed on the screen, no longer the green of the old-fashioned monitor, but a white character.

   "This monitor looks good."

   "Yes, this is a 256-color true color monitor", the installation engineer took the keyboard and entered the C drive.

   "Is this the hard disk?" Ronald looked at the letter C on the drive letter. The first two A drives and B drives were both floppy disks.

   "Yes", the young engineer hit a win, then the monitor jumped and a blue-white interface appeared.

   "This is the latest Microsoft Windows, you can use this device, mouse, to select files, etc."

   Ronald took the mouse, and naturally double-clicked the close symbol on the window, and the file manager was closed.

   "Ah, yes, double-clicking can..." The engineer also introduced.

  Ronald double-clicked again, opened the C drive interface, and dragged the files from the floppy drive into this window.

   "Yes, it seems that Mr. Li has used it before, so he can copy the file."

   "Thank you," Ronald handed a $20 tip to the two installation engineers for a Coke.

   Sitting there and playing Windows for a while, Ronald was bored, the system seemed familiar, but not fun.

   He still exited and opened the Word Star software using the Dos character interface. Hard disks are indeed much faster and less noisy than floppy disks. Ronald opened a new file and started writing his own summary of the sales feedback on Hot Dance.

   "It seems that older women also like the story of the script. Maybe they can use this advantage to gain the favor of female executives in the company..."

   (end of this chapter)