Jin Yong’s copyright is too scattered!

Movie adaptation rights, TV series adaptation rights, game adaptation rights, and even stage plays...

Most of the game adaptation rights are in the hands of Perfect.

It's a pity that one of them dies.

Zero, the Condor Hero, died suddenly after copying Sword Spirit, the Swordsman was known as the Gemstone, and his secret knowledge became popular in the world, and the Condor Heroes copied Mianhui and never lived...

It is so perfect that it is still supported by Zhu Xian!

Sohu Changyou also has the rights to adapt several games. Unfortunately, except for "Dragon", the others are also dead...

Film adaptation rights?

Shen Changlin didn't know who to look for - he didn't dare to adapt it without permission. Jiangnan's "The Boy Here" quoted the names of characters from Jin Yong's work, and he was directly sued, claiming 5 million!

This matter has a great impact, and the most direct impact is that "The Legend of Wulin Banxia" is unfinished...

By the way, you don’t have to worry that Jiangnan can’t afford the compensation. He is also the richest writer after all. His friend San Shao can buy a brooch worth tens of millions, so he is rich.

Back to the topic, Chinese stars have accumulated the rights to adapt many movies of Jin Yong’s works...

China Star was originally called Yongsheng.

In the early 1990s, the martial arts film "The Swordsman" directed by King Wu and starring Xu Guanjie, Yip Tong, and Jacky Cheung came out. While creating a new era of Hong Kong martial arts films, it also set off a wave of Jin Yong martial arts adaptations.

Yongsheng Films saw the prospect of Jin Yong's adaptation, and bought the copyrights of three movies: "The Deer and the Cauldron", "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword" and "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", and handed them over to their trusted director Wang Jing to adapt them into movies.

Both "The Deer and the Cauldron" produced by Wang Jingxian were very successful. The first one grossed HK$41 million at the box office and ranked third in the annual box office list. The second "The Deer and the Cauldron 2: The Dragon Cult" grossed HK$36.5 million and ranked third in the annual box office list. fifth…

After enjoying the success of "The Deer and the Cauldron", the filming of "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer" started smoothly.

Starring Li Lianlian, Qiu Shuzhen, Zhang Min and others, "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Slayer: The Demon Cult Leader"...

This movie, which originally had high hopes from Wang Jinghe and Yongsheng Films, had an investment of over HK$50 million, and the crew even went to the mainland for filming. The box office was only 11 million, which can be said to be a total loss.

Due to huge losses, Yongsheng had to stop the filming of the sequels of the "Heaven and Dragon Sword" series, and also imposed restrictions on the adaptation of "The Legend of the Dragon".

In the original concept, Wang Jing planned to create a trilogy around the three main protagonists in the original work, and each part would be directed by a different director.

The first one was "The Legend of Xu Zhu" by Johnnie To and Aaron Kwok. Then Yong Sheng stepped in and rewrote the script with a limited budget. He decided to use the female characters in the original work to tell the story. The protagonist Xu Zhu was reduced to a supporting role. .

Both Lao Du and Aaron Kwok withdrew, and director Qian Yongqiang, who was still a newcomer at the time, took over the directing work of the film version of "Dragon", that is, "Dragon: The Child of Tianshan", starring Brigitte Lin, Gong Li, and Zhang Min On the same stage!

It's a pity that the film's extremely confusing narrative and all kinds of ridiculous settings wasted the rare sharing of the "three beauties". In the end, the film earned 6.53 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, completely extinguishing the last hope of "Dragon"...

However, the rights to adapt the film have always been in the hands of Yong Sheng. Later, it was renamed China Star, and the copyright also fell into the hands of China Star.

Until 2022, at the beginning of the year, Wang Jing's two online movies, "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Slayer: The Divine Power of Nine Suns" and "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Slayer: Holy Fire Heroes", although the overall evaluation was not high, the hundreds of millions of on-demand views on major video platforms made them popular. He earned it again.

A director with a keen sense of business would naturally not miss the opportunity to continue to use Jin Yong's old IP, and "The Legend of Qiao Feng" was naturally born.

Donnie Yen is cast as the leading actor, directed by Zheng Weiwen, the director of "Chen Qing Ling", and Wang Jing is the screenwriter and producer...

Book a bad movie!

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"The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has become a major online movie, and has released four works: "Seven Eccentrics of Jiangnan", "The Complete Seven Sons", "Beijing Beggar Hong Qigong" and "Dong Xi Huang Yaoshi". The lowest box office after splitting the accounts was 2,600

Ten thousand, the highest is 78 million.

The average cost of these works is around 15 million, and each work can earn close to 10 million.

The income is not bad, mainly iQiyi is willing to support these works...

iQiyi has always wanted to be a major online player, and originally wanted to rely on horror, horror and pornographic genres to attract traffic.

Unfortunately, policy control is very strict.

Although the several "The Condor" films produced by the new studio did not make it out of the industry, they are already at the ceiling level of Internet universities...

We are currently filming "Western Poison Ouyang Feng", and will have "Huashan Sword" in the future. Not surprisingly, "Huashan Sword" should be able to get a good box office share...

The problem also arises. After "On Sword on Mount Huashan", I want to make "Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying"... I need the copyright of the divine sculpture.

Including Tianxia Entertainment, which is preparing an infinite time-travel stream - "Taoist Priests in the World of Martial Arts", the natural choice for the opening chapter is "Swordsman"...

"Swordsman" is very suitable for Novice Village. The story of "Swordsman" is "a murder caused by a sword score and a piano score", which is very different from Jin Yong's other story settings - the Sunflower Book is okay, and the moves are very fast.

But it adheres to Jin Yong's consistent principles, and speed comes from special internal strength.

Lin Zhennan, Yu Canghai, and Zuo Lengchan only learned the moves of "Evil-Repelling Sword Technique", which were of no use at all.

The Dugu Nine Swordsmanship was a little unreasonable. When Linghu Chong blinded the eyes of fifteen masters with one move in the ruined temple, he was still in a state of losing all his internal strength. This speed was entirely brought to him by the swordsmanship itself, without any other basis...

In Jin Yong's other works, even the superb and mysterious martial arts are at least logically reasonable, which means that it sounds magical and exaggerated to the reader, but if you think about it carefully, it is really the case.

Dugu Nine Swords is awesome!

It's like once you master it, you become the protagonist of the world.

Bringing it back, the new studio responsible for the production naturally turned its attention to Jin Yong's film and television adaptation rights...

To get the rights to adapt it, of course you have to deal with Chinese stars.

In fact, it's not that China Star doesn't want to cooperate, but their conditions are too harsh. Forget about joint investment, the key is to make her son the protagonist!

left…

It looks like the pangolin in "Journey to the East", how can I praise it?

Still playing the leading role?

Even with that look, I don’t think it’s appropriate to play Tian Boguang…

To be honest, Shen Changlin doesn't really care about the rights to adapt Jin Yong's works...

Where can I have fun with online writing?

Early online articles even made the corpse of someone in an ice coffin...

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After getting off the car and arriving at the hotel, the two of them did not meet up with the crew and agreed to travel separately...

Shi Shi then asked: "What are you going to do now?"

"We are going to find a middleman to buy out the adaptation rights, and we will buy them back."

"Middleman? But I heard that Tengxun Video Platform seems to be planning to buy Jin Yong's copyright..."

Shen Changlin was surprised: "All of them?"

Shi Shi scratched his head: "I don't know, but I received an invitation to produce "The Condor"..."

""The Condor"? What for? Looking for you to play Huang Rong?"

"...Do I look like a mother?"

"The Divine Condor...I thought you were the Shooting Condor. I always thought you were suitable for a quirky character!"

Shen Changlin quickly made amends.

Shi Shi rolled his eyes at him, and then explained: "They want me to be a producer to help choose roles and so on..."

"Let you take the blame?"

"Take the blame? What blame should you take?"

"Casting...Yang Guo, Xiao Longnu, who do you choose? Whoever you choose will be scolded!"

Shi Shi hesitated for a few seconds, and then asked Shen Changlin: "Then what do you think we should do?"

Shen Changlin shook his head: "If I were you, I wouldn't participate..."
Chapter completed!