Killing Three Birds With a Stone

"You already have an idea about new TV dramas?" Theron was left stunned by Levi's words.

The difficulty of script creation for TV dramas is no worse than that of movies — of course, TV dramas are not as refined as movies. To create a successful movie, the script must be polished and consistent, with each scene flowing seamlessly into the next and aligning with the overall theme. However, developing a captivating storyline with in-depth content is essential to produce a compelling TV drama while ensuring that the plotlines interconnect seamlessly. It is not easy to say and even difficult to create, and with how busy Levi is these days, Theron was stunned to see that he had already thought of a TV series during this time.

"What kind of TV series are you thinking about? Is it really like what the media said, you plan to make a spin-off series?" Theron asked, a little puzzled.

"Alexander can preside over the production of the spin-off drama, and I don't need to work hard. It's just that the city is not very sure, and they are investigating now." Levi didn't care to reveal some information.

These days, CBS has always wanted to make a spin-off drama, and Levi agrees with this, but choosing the city is still a problem: filming in other cities is a tax problem. Different taxes will result in different costs. In Levi's memory, filming the New York chapter started because New York introduced a new tax law to give preferential treatment. Now without that tax law, Levi would not be able to find a location. Alexander is also currently investigating to see which city has a higher tax rebate and is more suitable for filming.

Levi doesn't need to worry about such a play; what he worries about is the new TV series.

"So, what does the new TV series you want to shoot look like?" Theron also became a little interested: she knew Levi had tried many different types of films: detectives, politics, and romantic comedies. Many projects also made Theron unable to figure out what else he wanted to do.

"What I want to shoot is a superhero TV series." For Theron, Levi has nothing to hide. "The main story is about a group of people with powers living in a society of ordinary people."

"Superpowers? "Theron was stunned for a moment and immediately figured it out, "Can such a TV series have a good income? I don't doubt the script, but do you think achieving better ratings is possible?"

TV series with superpower themes are not so easy to shoot. The investment in such TV dramas is generally not small, and the viewers are primarily diehard fans or young people who are not very old — people under the age of 17 are not recorded in the rating statistics. When shooting TV dramas with such themes, one must consider whether the audience is broad enough.

In fact, in a sci-fi genre TV series, generally speaking, there is no shortage of a loyal audience, and there is no shortage of people willing to pay for TV dramas. However, in terms of ratings, they will definitely not be high. The most famous example was the TV series called "Supernatural" in Levi's memory. The reason why this TV series has continued to film for ten seasons is that this TV series has attracted a large number of viewers with rotten girls as the core group, and the peripheral products of the TV series are extremely popular, but the ratings... the rating of this series never crossed 1.7 and went as low as 0.6; it is a joke in front of such a TV series with more than 10 seasons.

"I have a little confidence in me - although I don't deny it; I hope that the special effects department can make some preparations for the movie through TV drama production. But I still have great confidence in this TV drama."

Levi's words just made Theron laugh. She smiled and said, "Your confidence must be very high - you still want to use special effects to shoot TV series? Do you want to experiment with that TV series?"

At this time in the 1990s, special effects were rarely used in filming TV series. Because this kind of TV series rarely has high ratings, it must be made cheaper. Demons are represented by industrial waste gas. Use the shadow of wings to represent angels, lead a husky and insist that it is a wolf, and make some ugly scenes and say it is a ghost...

In any case, is there a way for him to cut costs on special effects or anything else? Can he eat it? Levi thought.

It turned out to be the use of special effects in the TV series - as long as the special effects department is started, a TV series will cost several million at least. This kind of TV series is not a very popular type; isn't this just a loss of money?

Even if Theron doesn't care much about money, she still feels a little distressed. "It's alright to do experiments, but you must also have some confidence."

The TV series Levi wants to produce is very simple - what he wants to make is the "Heroes" in his memory. As far as he can remember, the number of viewers of this TV series is quite good, and the audience also likes it very much, at least for the few seasons before the screenwriter strike. It will not be a problem to make it funded.

"Shooting TV dramas is actually easy, as long as we show people who have acquired superpowers because they affect their daily lives, rather than their usual fights, it can be very attractive. Then there are these people's interactions, influencing each other, unlike the traditional superhero genre. This is like CSI without the absolute protagonist."

Levi explained the points that should be paid attention to in TV dramas. Theron has also taken many classes recently; she can understand these things if he explains a little.

As Levi said before, film and television works must be close to reality in order to be able to resonate deeply enough. The success of this TV series is also the same reason. If it is about people who have acquired superpowers fighting, killing, and showing off, then the TV series will be boring after only a few episodes. It is very simple for superpowers to kill people. But if it is about the confusion, helplessness, and confusion of a group of people after they acquire superpowers, then there will be a different yield.

"This idea may be really feasible... that is, if this TV series is produced, it must have a very good script." Theron listened to Levi's words. Although she didn't understand clearly, she also knew that Levi was ready and nodded, "Do you have a script?"

"The basic idea is in place, and the rest is left to the screenwriter team."

Levi didn't pay much attention to this TV series — Now, it's not the time when his career has just started, and he doesn't have to work so hard. Moreover, for this drama, he knew that the role he played might not be as significant as those of professional screenwriters.

Because the "Heroes" in Levi's memory is a bad show. In the beginning, this TV series achieved great success because of its excellent character design and beautiful storyline.

The screenwriter's focus on delving into the parents' family history, without a compelling storyline, led to a repetitive cycle in the drama. This resulted in outdated characters, inflexible abilities, and a lack of originality in the plot.

People had high hopes that they could make a TV series version of the X-Men. Starting from the second season, the ratings of the show went ups and downs again, and then never recovered, and finally, it was over until many years later, it was dug out and remade again.

[E/N: I didn't even watch the remake. The trailer was off-putting enough for me.]

Of course, such a result has something to do with the background age of this TV series: this TV series appeared in 2006, and Unfortunately, the second season's broadcast coincided with a strike by the American Screenwriters Guild, which had a significant impact on the show's production and release.

And now that Levi is going to shoot, it doesn't need much change in the first season. But many things need to be changed in the second and third seasons. Levi is ready to let the screenwriters do it themselves. He will not encounter a screenwriter's strike, the series will not be so sad, and maybe it will even become a classic.

Moreover, Levi has a more grand consideration: he wants to incorporate elements from some superpower novels he has seen in his previous life and directly build a larger superpower society.

This TV series has completely collapsed, but he has read a lot of novels, comics, and film and television works, and there are various superpower elements in them.

If you want to add some new elements every season, it is not difficult to build it up. Among the works he has seen, there are many sci-fi works with profound ideas about superpowers and social analysis — of course, Levi's memory is incomplete and messy. He is incapable of creating a comprehensive series by interlacing these elements. Fortunately, he is the boss of a big production company now, so if he wants to make a TV series, why must he write it himself? Throw out the ideas he remembers and leave it to the screenwriters to make a good script.

Of course, it would be even better if he could add some ideas.

"The superpowers in the past were too inattentive to be scientific. We need to make our TV drama scripts scientific." Levi doesn't care whether the words superpower and science are related, "For example, you can set a person who can generate electricity and be beaten to death wrapped in an insulating carpet or a person who can manipulate the direction of energy so that he can directly reject ultraviolet rays. No, a character with a special superpower who forbids all superpowers..."

Anyway, in my memory, this TV series collapsed at the beginning of the second season, and Levi didn't care if he could shoot it flawlessly but wanted it to have some major surgery.

Levi knows that he cannot plagiarize for a lifetime. When he arrived, he always wanted to do something of his own. Just how do you do your own thing? Levi doesn't think he can succeed just by modifying a successful movie.

He is a prudent person, and he still hopes to try it step by step. First, try to integrate some novels into TV series, then try to use novels to shoot TV series, and then use novels to shoot movies that are not in memory. 'I need to prepare for my future, adjust step by step, step by step progress is good.'

The TV series is the best experimental field. After filming this TV series, he first needed to see if he could do a good job of the collapsed TV series. Secondly, he needed to experiment with his own special effects company. Thirdly, he needed to let himself experiment with the movie's creativity. Can he do it? Be innovative? This TV series kills three birds with one stone.

For himself, only TV series with such value are necessary to shoot.

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