When Jimmy proposed the plan, he expected that Han Shanping would say this, so he was already prepared.
"Mr. Han, it's what we should do to make suggestions, but we at Deep Space are a private company, and it's hard to convey our opinions."
Han Shanping understood what Jimmy meant and said with a smile, "If you really have this intention, I will help introduce you later. If this opinion can be adopted in the end, it will be a good thing for you and me. After the theater chain starts to do it,
"The existing cinemas are definitely not enough and need to be built and improved. I heard that your company has done a lot of research on this. When new cinemas are built, can you provide some technical support?"
Having said that, it was almost done. Yu Dong picked up the teacup and signaled to Han Shanping, "Mr. Han, I have other guests here, so I have to excuse myself. I'll offer you a drink in advance with tea instead of wine."
, I wish us happy cooperation.”
Han Shanping also picked up his tea cup and clinked it with Yu Dong, and said with a smile, "It's okay. You are really busy today. We have a long way to go, so you go ahead."
"Well, don't leave in a hurry. Jimmy will have a drink with you tonight."
…
After Yu Dong left, Han Shanping said to Jimmy: "Yu Dong is really a model worker. I heard that he wrote another script some time ago, right?"
"Well, the plan for a science fiction movie has been launched, and the actors have almost been found. It is estimated that we will be able to meet you at the end of next year or the beginning of the following year."
"Then your company's movies are a bit crowded next year and the year after that. "The Martian" should also be released next year. It will be difficult to allocate this schedule by then."
"There are indeed a few movies, but they can't be said to be clustered together. According to our plan, there will definitely be many movies to be released every year in the future, not only abroad, but also domestically. Box office diversion is inevitable and cannot be prevented."
Han Shanping blew the foam on his teacup and asked again, "I heard that Lenovo issued a letter of challenge to you some time ago?"
Jimmy laughed, "Mr. Han usually pays attention to news in this area?"
"The key is that your company appeared in the news, so I took a second look. You have to grasp the scale of this matter. There are still some differences between Lenovo and ordinary companies. Of course, you should not have any worries about development, but on the surface
Just save some face for others and don't look too ugly."
Jimmy nodded gratefully, "Thank you, Mr. Han, for reminding me. Don't worry, our company still does things in a measured way. Furthermore, we also very much welcome the emergence of companies like Lenovo. The domestic Internet industry needs not only deep space companies, but also deep space companies."
More vitality needs to be injected into it. Lenovo is a giant among PC manufacturers. It is better for them to enter the Internet industry than for other messy companies to enter."
"Hey, I'm just worrying blindly. You and Yu Dong must know what's going on."
…
After coming out of the tea room where Han Shanping was, Yu Dong was going back to the small building where he and Cheng Yanqiu lived, but he met Liu Cixin and the others on the way.
Liu Cixin and others gathered in a slightly larger tea room. There were about eleven or twelve people. In addition to a few science fiction writers, there were also several young writers who had just emerged in the past two years, such as Li Qiuhao, Zhao Yan, Wei
Peng et al.
Yu Dong stopped and walked in, "What are you talking about?"
Seeing Yu Dong come in, Liu Cixin said with a smile: "We didn't talk about anything. We were chatting about nothing, and there was no topic."
Zhao Yan smiled and said: "The main thing is that we ask our seniors for advice."
"It's too unreasonable to ask for advice. Let's communicate with each other." Liu Cixin said modestly.
Yu Dong nodded, "It's a good thing to communicate more. Although you don't write science fiction, the themes you are good at have a lot in common with science fiction. Deep Space may start to open an overseas version early next year. By then, your works will be
I hope it will be seen by readers from other countries as soon as possible, so you should work harder and create more works."
When the news about the overseas version of Deep Space came out from Yu Dong's mouth, everyone present was a little surprised. Before that, they had not heard anything about it.
However, they all knew Yu Dong's temperament, and it was impossible for him to joke with them about this kind of thing.
"Then when our novel is serialized, will the overseas version be serialized simultaneously?" Wei Peng asked.
"I'm afraid it's not possible to synchronize completely, but if the response is good, we can try to synchronize it as much as possible. There will definitely be fewer works on the overseas version website in the early stage, and the cost of translating a work is not low, so only works with good responses will be translated
into other languages." Yu Dong briefly explained a few sentences, and then said, "You guys have accumulated a lot of popularity in the domestic deep space, but this popularity will be useless in the overseas version. You need to prove yourself again. But.
I want to warn you in advance, don’t change your style just to please foreign readers, as you will lose more than you gain.”
Li Qiuhao smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's hard for me to change my style."
Yu Dong nodded. Li Qiuhao was telling the truth. He had been writing mythology since his debut and had never been exposed to other genres.
However, Li Qiuhao is the easiest among them, because his works have already been translated into English, and they will also be the IP works mainly promoted by Deep Space.
As for Zhao Yan and Wei Peng, they are actually not particularly nervous.
They really want their works to go global, but their mentality is that if they win, they will lose their lives, and whether they succeed or not is not that important.
"Have you guys produced any recent works?"
All three people shook their heads, and then Wei Peng suddenly turned to look at Liu Cixin: "Just now, Teacher Liu said that he has a new work that he is writing."
"Really?" Yu Dong turned to look at Liu Cixin, "Liu, do you have a new work to write?"
Liu Cixin pushed up his glasses and said with a smile: "Well, I've almost finished writing it. It's just a short story."
"Look at what you said. Since when have novels been judged by their length? What is the theme of the new work?"
"The theme is also very old-fashioned, the end of the world, disaster, and escape."
When Yu Dong heard the keywords "apocalypse, disaster, and escape", he suddenly thought of Liu Cixin's short story "The Wandering Earth".
"Can you briefly tell me the background of the story?" Yu Dong asked.
"Of course there is no problem. One day in the future, due to some special reasons, the earth will be destroyed. At this time, human beings will have to make choices in order to survive..."
"The earth is about to be destroyed, how can we make a choice?" Wei Peng asked curiously.
Liu Cixin said with a smile: "In the science fiction world, the destruction of the earth is a small matter. In the background I set, humans have two choices, one is to run away on their own, and the other is to run away with the earth."
Zhao Yan raised his hand and said: "Teacher Liu, I can understand running away by myself. You can take a spaceship... but how do you run away with the earth? Is there any special science and technology that can make the earth change its orbit? In addition, you have to take it with you
Where does the earth go? If it’s not next to the sun, what’s the use of the earth?”
Liu Cixin did not answer Zhao Yan's question, but asked instead: "If you were given the choice, would you choose to run with the earth or run in a spaceship?"
Zhao Yan held his chin with his hand and began to think seriously, and everyone else present also began to think deeply. This seemed to be a scientific question, but it also seemed to be a philosophical question.
At first glance, this question sounds like the question asked by a woman: "Your mother and I fall into the water at the same time, who will you save?"
"I chose to take the spaceship. Although I don't know much about science, no matter how I think about it, compared to taking the earth with me, taking the spaceship means traveling lighter and I have more hope of escaping."
Li Qiuhao expressed a different opinion, "It is true that traveling lightly is suitable for escaping, but at this time, human beings are not only considering escaping, but also the continuation of civilization. Bringing the earth with you means bringing civilization and supplies, regardless of escaping.
Wherever you go, the earth is right next to you, and your heart is always at peace.”
"If you need supplies, you can put the necessary things in the spacecraft. There are not only supplies on the earth, but also a bunch of useless things."
"Many seemingly useless things are an important part of forming life on earth."
At first, it was just Li Qiuhao and Zhao Yan arguing, but later Yang Peng and He Hongwei also joined in.
Once science fiction writers come on board, things become completely different.
Yang Peng did not say his choice, but was exploring the possibility of taking the earth with him. "Let me make a rough guess. If we want to take the earth with us, we need to modify the earth into a super large aircraft. In this way, we
The first problem to be solved is that we need some engines to propel this aircraft. After we have the engines, we need to find fuel. Before talking about fuel, let’s talk about the engines. Of course, let me state in advance that I have no knowledge of geology.
I know too much about it, so I don’t know whether it will cause huge damage to the earth itself if the engine thrust is too large. All the speculations I make below are based on the earth being able to withstand such a huge driving force..."
Zhao Yan and others were stunned as they listened. Before this, they thought that writing science fiction novels was mainly fantasy. Of course, scientific knowledge was also needed, but it didn't need to be too deep, just a little understanding.
But Yang Peng and He Hongwei taught them a lesson. It turns out that science fiction writers need to understand so much.
Before Yang Peng and the others spoke, Zhao Yan also felt that wanting to take away the earth was more like fantasy than science fiction.
But after listening to Yang Peng's guess, Zhao Yan and the others even felt that it was not impossible to take away the earth, as long as science and technology developed a little further.
Regarding Yang Peng and He Hongwei's analysis, Liu Cixin couldn't help but nod, "Your analysis is very reasonable."
Yu Dong, who had been silent at this time, suddenly said: "Write it down quickly, I'll wait and see."
Liu Cixin laughed: "Don't rush me. Now a lot of readers have written to me, asking me to help urge you to write science fiction novels. Are you planning not to write science fiction novels in the future?"
Yu Dong smiled and said, "It depends on the situation."
There are indeed many readers urging him to write science fiction novels. Not only Liu Cixin has received such letters, but anyone who has anything to do with Yu Dong has received them. Basically, everyone present has been spared.
Of course, Yu Dong himself received the most letters of this type.
Not only letters, but also posts on the Internet urging him to write science fiction novels.
Hearing Liu Cixin talk about this matter, Yang Peng and He Hongwei both sighed secretly. For them, Yu Dong is a big mountain in the science fiction world.
When they first entered the science fiction world, the mountain of Yudong was already towering into the sky. At that time, they regarded Yudong as a role model, a benchmark, and a leader.
But in the past two years, Yu Dong seems to be quitting the science fiction world. Although he is still very productive, there are no science fiction-themed works.
Nowadays, there are many science fiction fans in China who started to like science fiction novels after the rise of Yu Dong. They look forward to Yu Dong writing more science fiction novels day and night.
Every time news about Yu Dong's new book comes out, these people will immediately check to see if the new book is a science fiction novel. When they find out that it is not, they start to cry again.
This phenomenon is not only unique to China, there are also a large number of readers abroad who are waiting to read Yu Dong's science fiction novels.
There are many speculations as to why he suddenly stopped writing science fiction novels.
Some people say that Yu Dong has passed his creative peak and is now exhausted. However, most people do not agree with this statement because Yu Dong's output is still very high, and he even publishes several novels every year, with millions of words.
output.
Even if the quantity is large, the response to every book he publishes is very enthusiastic. This year, "The Da Vinci Code" alone has become a global hit, and its sales volume is expected to exceed that of "Old Books".
To say that such a writer has exhausted his talents, even the devil would not believe it.
There is another saying that Yu Dong has always wanted to cultivate domestic science fiction writers. Now that domestic science fiction writers have become popular, he is no longer willing to write science fiction novels and compete with these science fiction writers for readers.
This statement is too lofty for Yu Dong, but it is not completely unreasonable. Yu Dong really has no motivation to write science fiction novels because of the large number of talents in the domestic science fiction field.
Yu Dong did not talk about the new book anymore, but brought up another matter with Liu Cixin, "Since you have come to Jinling, let's stay for two more days and go to the Deep Space Park to hold a book signing for readers. "Whale Song" novel
After the collection was published, you haven't met the readers yet."
In order to coincide with the release of the later movie "Whale Song", the company put together one of Liu Cixin's short stories and short stories into a collection of novels called "Whale Song".
Yu Dong had already announced that "Whale Song" would be made into a movie at last year's Galaxy Awards, and the movie plan had already been launched at that time.
The movie is scheduled to be released in February in the United States, but it will not be available in China until April or May.
When he heard that Yu Dong had arranged work for him, Liu Cixin said with a grimace, "I knew it would be bad to see you."
Chapter completed!