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cover news reporter Yang Fan
"Black, he is so dark!" It has appeared twice in Liu Cixin 's science fiction novel "Three-Body Linux" . On the evening of December 25, Youzu Network issued an announcement stating that the chairman Lynch unfortunately passed away. Many fans of "Three-Body Problem" immediately thought of this famous line after seeing this shocking news. On the afternoon of December 23, the media reported that Lynch was poisoned by senior management of the company. At that time, Youzu also said that his "physical condition was stable". Unexpectedly, less than 48 hours later, the 39-year-old business genius passed away.
Lynch
2 years ago in "Three-Body Body II·Dark Forest", published 112 years ago, there was a description: "The universe is a dark forest, and every civilization is a hunter with a gun, sneaking in the forest like a ghost... If he discovers other lives, there is only one thing he can do: shoot and eliminate it. In this forest, others are hell, an eternal threat." Like a curse, Lynch, who holds the IP of "Three-Body Body", eventually became someone else's "prey under the gun." Lynch's death once again makes people feel deeply that "The Three-Body Problem" is not a simple science fiction novel, but a masterpiece that analyzes human nature. 11 years ago, the copyright fee of "Three-Body Problem" was only priced at RMB 100,000, but now it is worth enough to build a commercial empire. During this period, the path of film and television transformation of "The Three-Body Problem" has also experienced several ups and downs. The difficult and dangerous process is reflected in the human relationship accidents behind it are enough to write another documentary novel.
Foreign media reports on Lynch's death
Shanxi electrician who won a 2,000 yuan bonus
Many years ago, when "The Three-Body Problem" became popular in the literary world, someone posted online to recall one of his neighbors. This article says that in the late 1990s, this guy always pushed an old-fashioned "28" to and from get off work, timid and you won't look at him when you walk on the street. He is an electrician from a power plant in Shanxi and is not very good-looking. At work, he is also a typical person who is not doing his job properly and always uses the gaps in his work to write secretly. This person is Liu Cixin.
Liu Cixin
999, Liu Cixin's two science fiction works "Whale Song" and "The End of Microscopic" were published in Chengdu's " Science Fiction World " magazine. Later, he first appeared in " Wandering Earth " in "Science Fiction World" and won the special prize of the Chinese Science Fiction Galaxy Award. After receiving a prize of 2,000 yuan that year, Liu Cixin also invited all the authors who attended the award ceremony to have a hot pot. After winning the award of "The Wandering Earth", Liu Cixin's creative inspiration exploded. From 2002 to 2005, he won the China Galaxy Award for his works such as " Chao Wen Dao ", "The Earth Cannon", and "Supporting Humanity".
In 2006, Liu Cixin began to create "Three-Body Problem", which consists of "Three-Body Problem", "Three-Body Problem II·Dark Forest", and "Three-Body Problem III·Eternal Life of Death", respectively published in 2006, 2008 and 2011.
The magazine cover of "The Wandering Earth" when it was published in "Science Fiction World"
.1 million yuan for the filming rights of "Three-Body Problem"
009, Liu Cixin sold the film and television adaptation rights of "Three-Body Problem" to director movies and for a bargain price of 100,000 yuan. Zhang Fanfan graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Beijing Film Academy in 1999 from . He has filmed two TV series and four movies. His wife Song Chunyu is his partner and has participated in the screenwriter of the main works. After reading "The Three-Body Problem", Zhang Fanfan's wife Song Chunyu discovered the business opportunities contained in it, so she contacted Liu Cixin with her husband. Many people later thought that Liu was crazy at that time and sold the film and television adaptation rights of "Three-Body Problem" at such a cheap price. However, at that time, this money was really a huge sum for Liu Cixin, and 100,000 yuan was the highest filming copyright fee for the science fiction world at that time.
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pseudo since 2011. In September 2013, the couple went to the Film Bureau to establish the project for "Three-Body Problem".In 2014, Zhang Fanfan registered a film and television studio called Baixingshe for this purpose, with a registered capital of 100,000 yuan. But the capital strength of Baixing Society alone is not enough to independently complete the filming of the "Three-Body Problem" movie. At that time, Zhang Fanfan and his wife met almost all the leading companies in the industry. "Three-Body Problem" is very popular in the Internet circle, so they have also found senior executives of Internet companies such as Ma Huateng , Ding Lei , and Zhang Qiang , who was the CEO of Alibaba Pictures at the time. Because Zhang Fanfan and his wife insisted that Zhang Fanfan was directed and Song Chunyu was screenwriter, this requirement discouraged many large companies and forced the filming of "The Three-Body Problem" to pause.
In 2014, "The Three-Body Problem" was translated into English and was widely praised on Amazon . In 2015, Liu Cixin won the Hugo Award at the World Science Fiction Conference for the first time in Asia for her first film, which also marks that China has become one of the world's science fiction powers. At that time, the call for book fans and fans to hope that "The Three-Body Problem" will be on the big screen as soon as possible.
episode version of "Three-Body Problem" movie poster
Lynch, who had been in half with huge funds, has become popular in China and abroad, and too many people have smelled the business opportunities of this great work. Among them is Lynch, chairman of Youzu Network. Lynch, who was only 34 years old at the time, started his career by making online games and is also a big fan of "The Three-Body Problem". In April 2014, Youzu was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange SME Board, with a market value of nearly 20 billion yuan at that time. Listing gives Lynch more confidence to seek new directions.
Lynch found Zhang Fanfan many times at that time and hoped to buy the filming rights of "Three-Body Problem", but the negotiations failed. I felt that I didn't wait for me to decide to jointly develop "The Three-Body Problem" with Zhang Fanfan, and agreed to the other party as the director to make "The Three-Body Problem" a movie. A friend who had worked in a consulting company gave Lynch a PPT and analyzed in detail the development process of the two IPs "Star Wars" and Marvel. One of the data gave him a "very big stimulus": "Star War sold nearly 100 billion US dollars in the entire life cycle." At that time, Youzu made more than one billion yuan a year with its mobile game business. "If I made such a thing, I might have made hundreds of billions of dollars in decades." Lynch thought.
Kong Ergou
On August 26, 2014, Youzu Film was officially established, and Lynch asked Kong Ergou, who had worked in Xiaoma Pentium Film, to serve as CEO. After the company was established, it officially announced the filming of the movie "Three-Body Problem". The website of Youzu Film shows that the single film "Three-Body Problem" invests RMB 200 million, and a total of six films are planned to be filmed. In 2015, Zhang Fanfan saw that the adaptation period was about to end, so he temporarily found Feng Shaofeng and Zhang Jingchu and to start filming the movie "Three-Body Problem". The early filming was completed in August 2015, and the film was scheduled to be released in July 2016, leaving less than one year for the later period.
: Based on the complexity of the three novels "The Three-Body Problem", it is extremely difficult to adapt the film and television version. Whether it was Kong Ergou of Youzu Film at that time or Zhang Fanfan, who held the copyright, he had zero experience in producing science fiction movies that required mature industry support. The project has been delayed again and again, and the money has been spent. Kong Ergou has also resigned, but he has no results. Someone who watched the sample film of "The Three-Body Problem" said that although the original work was not modified randomly, the filming was not as dull as a movie. "It's a bit like PPT, let's introduce this story." In July 2016, news came out of the 6th part of the movie "Three-Body Problem" that was shelved indefinitely, which attracted a lot of criticism from netizens.
Xu Yao
After that, Youzu Pictures entered a turbulent three years, and the company changed four CEOs in a row. In June 2017, Xu Yao, who was the same age as Lynch, joined Youzu Network and served as executive director and chief risk control officer. Lynch bought a lot of IPs to be developed. Xu Yao’s first task was to help the group build a complete risk control system and legal team. Xu Yao’s second task is to promote the delayed copyright negotiations of the Three-Body Problem. After Lynch's death, the outside world believed that the suspect named Xu, announced by the police, was his colleague Xu Yao.
Xu Yao
With Xu Yao's unremitting efforts, in 2018, Zhang Fanfan finally sold the "Three-Body Problem" to Youzu Network for a price of 120 million yuan. Youzu Network reorganized a new company "Three-Body Problem Universe", focusing on the development and operation of fantasy IPs, and became the global copyright holder of the "Three-Body Problem" series. Lynch then appointed Xu Yao as the CEO of the "Three-Body Universe". Lynch's actual income in the company's shares accounted for 65.96%, and was the actual controlling shareholder. Some insiders revealed that Xu Yao's annual salary before joining Youzu Network was as high as 20 million yuan, and after entering the "Three-Body Universe", his salary must be only high or low.
However, just one year later, Xu Yao resigned as the director of Youzu Network. One of the reasons was that the company's performance began to frequently turn red. In 2019, Youzu Network's operating income suffered losses for the first time since the company went public in 2014. Xu Yao left Youzu, but continued to serve as CEO of the "Three-Body Universe", which seemed to be still looking forward to the entire "Three-Body" project. In an interview with the self-media "Zhihe", he said that he hopes to further unify the "Three-Body" universe with the advancement of multiple projects. Unfortunately, both him and Lynch’s lofty ideals were eventually strangled into the curse of the “Dark Forest”.
In the second half of this year, the American streaming tycoon Netflix bought the overseas shooting rights of "Three-Body Problem" from Youzu, and was adapted by David Benioff, screenwriter of the popular American drama " Game of Thrones ", and D.B. Weiss. As the Chinese producer of the American drama "The Three-Body Problem", Lynch died of poisoning this time, which also attracted strong attention from Hollywood . Foreign media said that this will have an unknown impact on the progress of the show. Not long ago, when You Zu officially announced that the Three-Body Problem will be filmed in the American TV series, Xu Yao also stood up to accept an interview on behalf of the company.
Light takes over to create a new "Three-Body Problem" movie
"Three-Body Problem" film and television project is constantly starting, pausing, starting and pausing, and fans are gradually losing patience. It was not until 2019 when the movie "The Wandering Earth" adapted from another science fiction novel by Liu Cixin was released that the movie "Three-Body Problem" was recalled by movie fans again. At that time, Lynch also watched this "founding work of Chinese science fiction films". He once said: "Just watching the poster makes you excited." Lynch said, and admitted that the "Three-Body Problem" in his hand at that time could achieve this effect.
In fact, Youzu has never launched any successful product since obtaining the "Three-Body Problem" IP. The failure of the "Three-Body Problem" movie directly exposed that Youzu Pictures itself was unable to execute such a large-scale film and television project, and cooperation with external forces was actually the only way out.
Previously, the 2019 annual report released by Light Media mentioned that the new version of the "Three-Body Problem" movie is currently in the preparation stage. On April 26, 2020, the official Weibo of "Three-Body Problem" also revealed that the new "Three-Body Problem" movie will be launched soon, and said that the project has been planned for 4 years. The reason for the slow progress is not only the script polishing problem, but also the special effects production. The director hopes that the special effects of the picture will restore the scenes shown in the novel.
htmlOn June 23, the production company October Culture issued an announcement, announcing that it will serve as the institution of the live theater movie "Three-Body Problem". Director of "Han 3 Great Sage Return " Tian Xiaopeng , as the director of the live theater movie "Three-Body Problem", will officially direct this movie. It is said that the film will be re-established, abandoning the old materials used to shoot Zhang Fans, and setting sail from a new starting point.animated version of "Three-Body"
animation and stage play version of "Three-Body" first came
compared with the movie's infinite extension, stage plays have become the first product in the IP matrix of "Three-Body". In 2016, the stage play "Three Body: The Past of the Earth" was premiered, with a total box office of over 100 million yuan; in 2019, "Three Body: The Dark Forest", but its reputation was polarized, and the audience of the stage play was small, this series did not set off a huge craze in the end.
On the small screen, National Radio, Film and Television Administration in the May 2019 TV series filing announcement showed that the "Three-Body Problem", adapted from the science fiction novel of the same name of Liu Cixin, has passed the filing and will be filmed in September 2019, with a total of 24 episodes, and the TV series production cycle is 12 months.
stage play "Three-Body" poster
"Three-Body" stage play
On August 2, 2020, Tencent Video held an annual press conference and announced that the TV series version of "Three-Body" will be directed by Yang Lei , and starring Zhang Luyi , Yu Hewei , Wang Ziwen , Lin Yongjian , Li Xiaoran and others. On December 14, the drama version of "Three-Body Problem" was officially completed, and the official also released a wave of finalized photos of the filming and finalized photos of the character. However, the broadcast time of the show has not yet been decided.
TV series version "Three-Body Problem" filming announcement
animation, on June 26, 2019, bilibili officially announced the launch of the animation project adapted from "Three-Body Problem". This project is jointly promoted by B station and Yihua Kaitian. Yihua Kaitian launched this year's "Spirit Cage: INCARNATION" has both high reputation and playback volume. It is known as a conscientious work that can fight against Hollywood cartoons. Therefore, the animation version of "Three-Body Problem" has also been favored by many fans. Judging from the trailer released by this work, the future is promising. It is understood that the animated version of "Three-Body Problem" will be officially launched in 2021.
Founder and CEO of Art Hua Kaitian Ruan Rui
It is said that Liu Cixin is also looking forward to the animation version of "Three-Body Problem". For Yihua Kaitian, the film is undoubtedly an unprecedented opportunity and challenge. The animation industry has always been exploring the demand for "breaking the circle", and the science fiction work "Three-Body Problem", which has a huge book fan and a very high reputation, is undoubtedly a project with its own "breaking the circle" traffic.
Previously, in an interview with cover news reporters, Ruan Rui, founder and CEO of Yihua Kaitian, said: "At present, the entire script has been developed in the middle and late stages, and the director team and art have intervened very early. The original painting setting, scene concept design, etc. have accumulated a lot, and everything is going on in an orderly manner." Some viewers are also worried that taking over Yihua Kaitian in "Three-Body Problem" will affect the subsequent production of " Spirit Cage ". Ruan Rui also made it clear that there would be no conflict between the two.
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