After two days of headaches, she thought of Lin Yuan.
She felt that Lin Yuan could probably help.
After all, the headline show of the television department, "Journey to the West," was penned by Lin Yuan.
Zhao Jue did not know that Lin Yuan was Chu Kuang. She only knew that Lin Yuan was the screenwriter of this drama.
Lin Yuan asked, "Are you asking me to write a TV script?"
Zhao Jue shook her head, "You are very busy, and I'd feel bad asking you for such a big favor. However, this does have to do with scriptwriting. Do you know about the Wuxia Drama "Yang Xiaofan and Qin Tiange" that is currently being broadcasted by our company?"
"I do. I watched this TV show when I was a kid."
Lin Yuan doesn't watch TV dramas now, but his mother loves them.
She happened to be watching "Yang Xiaofan and Qin Tiange," which is currently airing.
Maybe it's because this drama is produced by Starlight.
Due to Lin Yuan, his mother has a positive view of Starlight and supports their works.
However, she does not rate this drama highly.
It seems that she might be considering dropping it recently.
In addition, Lin Yuan has some extra knowledge about this drama from his childhood memories.
No one reads Wuxia novels now.
But in Lin Yuan's childhood, Wuxia novels were popular.
"Yang Xiaofan and Qin Tiange" was a classic Wuxia novel, written by Lancet.
In the field of Wuxia novels, Lancet's status is similar to Jin Yong and Gu Long on Earth.
But the writer has stopped writing now.
Because now, not many people like to read Wuxia novels.
Nevertheless.
Perhaps because TV dramas have visual images and the performance of the actors, even though no one reads Wuxia novels anymore, Wuxia dramas still have a market. This is a remarkable phenomenon.
As such.
There are many Wuxia dramas aired every year, and some of them are hit productions.
As a masterpiece of Wuxia, Lancet's super popular piece "Yang Xiaofan and Qin Tiange" has been remade by various companies more than a dozen times over the years. Each time, it can attract some audience, even though everyone is familiar with the plot and characters.
Lin Yuan watched this Blue Star TV drama when he was a child.
He has quite a good understanding of the storyline.
"So, you should roughly understand the situation."
Zhao Jue sighed, "After the company bought the rights to 'Yang Xiaofan and Qin Tiange,' we had two top TV drama actors cast. It received a lot of attention. However, the audience may be tired of remakes, so even though our cast is outstanding, people are not buying. Recently, the ratings have continued to drop, and if this continues, the drama will lose a lot.
So, I thought, could you possibly give our writers some advice, guide them, after all, your screenwriting talent is well understood throughout the company..."
Lin Yuan was startled.
He thought Zhao Jue was asking him to help write the script, but she was asking him to save the show:
"Isn't the TV drama already airing?"
"That's not a problem, because we film and air this drama at the same time, the script can be flexible."
Lin Yuan frowned.
This touched upon his knowledge blind spot.
He is better at providing complete scripts rather than modifying others' plots. He isn't sure that he can improve them either.
"I understand if this may make you uncomfortable."
Only after hesitating did Zhao Jue then speak: "So I thought, if you find this difficult, could you possibly ask teacher Chu Kuang for help? Given your good relationship, it wouldn't be out of the question to ask him for help with sprucing up the script. I would handle the compensation. The main issue is that the investment in this drama is too high and the company has high expectations for it.
I feel that the plot can still be salvaged..."
Lin Yuan: "..."
Zhao Jue coughed, "You also have a friend called Shadow, a comic artist. Although he should be able to come up with ideas for the plot of the TV drama. After all, his creative capabilities are clear to see. As always, I would handle the compensation."
Lin Yuan: "..."
He was at a loss for words.
If he told her, Zhao Jue might not believe that if Xian Yu couldn't do it, neither could he together with Shadow and Chu Kuang.
At this moment.
Lin Yuan's system suddenly made a 'ding' sound:
"Congratulations to the host for triggering the task: Save a failing Wuxia TV drama. The task requires the host to double the viewership rating of this drama. The reward for the task is master-level calligraphy. Friendly hint one: Under normal circumstances, the golden treasure chest is required to acquire master-level calligraphy.
Friendly hint two: The host can adapt the script of this work based on the template of the Earth's Wuxia drama "Little Fish and Hua Wuque". How to adapt requires the host to explore."
The task has been assigned!
Lin Yuan almost thought that the system no longer announced tasks, but today, the system actually gave him a task!
"Accept!"
Without hesitation, Lin Yuan accepted the task. Regardless of whether he can do it, there is no punishment for failing the task.
And there's the task reward, master-level calligraphy!
That's truly desirable!
And it seems like the system has given him a direction for adaptation!
"I'll give it a try."
After accepting the task, Lin Yuan said to Zhao Jue.
After thinking it over,
Lin Yuan added, "Let's give it a try."
"You agreed!?"
Zhao Jue couldn't contain her joy. With the help of the horrifically creative Three Bros, there might be a chance of success.
"Yes."
Lin Yuan nodded.
"Here's the script for you then. We've aired up to the twelfth episode, you can reference the following plot and change it as you see fit!"
In the meantime,
Zhao Jue pulled out the script she had brought with her. "You can also watch the first dozen-odd episodes of the drama for inspiration", she suggested.
Lin Yuan nodded.
With elation written all over her face, Zhao Jue left. However, a trace of worry still etched on her forehead, since this was a risky endeavour.
Modifying a script at the last moment, and making it intriguing enough to resurrect the TV ratings was no easy task.
After all, Lin Yuan had taken over the task abruptly. Would he be able to come up with an exciting storyline that easily?
Ultimately, it was a desperate attempt to make the dead horse of a script gallop again.
After Zhao Jue had left,
Lin Yuan began to contemplate.
The tasks given by the System usually were not overly difficult.
Perhaps he should thoroughly watch "Yang Xiaofan and Qin Tiange" and then attempt to improve the show's ratings!
The condition that the drama department was in was partly, even largely, due to him but unspoken.
You see,
The TV drama "Journey to the West" had eaten up a lot of the television department's budget!
The first and second seasons combined,
had cost billions!
The show did not turn a profit, even after factoring in merchandising. To date, it was still not breaking even.
The unprecedented high ratings from the netizens, had been bought with money!
Under such circumstances, the TV department could not afford to fail. "Journey to the West" was all too draining!
Because of this,
Upon inheriting the department, Zhao Jue had been racking her brain on how to boost the ratings for "Yang Xiaofan and Qin Tiange."
As for this matter, Lin Yuan had to admit his fault.
Had he not insisted on making "Journey to the West" into a top-tier IP, and in turn spent too much budget, the TV department would probably have done much better.
They surely wouldn't have been so tied up and unable to bear even the failure of a single wuxia drama.
After all, the Starlight conglomerate was a big business, whether it lost money or not.
Or was it just that the department was too complicated?
Even for this reason, Lin Yuan was certainly going to try everything to find a solution, let alone considering his relationship with Ms. Zhao.
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"First of all, I definitely need to modify..."
"Why did the System say that the template of this drama could be applied to 'Little Fish and Hua Wuque'?"
"It seems to be an extremely popular work on Earth, whose ratings once led the market..."
"But my memory is failing me, I can't recall the content of that drama…"
"It seems that show had many death scenes..."
"The only impression left in my mind, is kill, kill and kill some more…"
"…"
Lin Yuan stopped thinking. He just customized 'Little Fish and Hua Wuque' outright.
Then he finally understood why his recollection of this drama was filled with killing attitudes.
Goodness!
This show was virtually massacred by a character called "Jiang Yuyan"! Only the show title was left!
The interesting part is:
The backdrop of "Yang Xiaofan and Qin Tiange" produced by the company is eerily similar to the drama that was 'massacred'!
He could probably move the plot of that show here with little effort!
Lin Yuan's thought process suddenly cleared!
Come forth!
Old rascal Chu Kuang!
Dishing out boxed meals, this is your forte!