Chapter 716 Adapting video games

  Dreaming about two movies in a row, Ronald also asked David Simkins to prepare some display boards for the studio executives to see. Now that he has written a script by himself and intends to join the ranks of producers, these jobs should also start to become familiar.

  David Simkins, whose workload has been increased for no reason, has to read scripts that are still being sent to the company at the same time. While working hard every day, he also feels motivated to struggle.

   Ronald himself put his main energy on promoting "dirty dancing". He wanted to release the film as the first feature Daydream Films-led production.

  Turned on the computer at home, Ronald inserted the floppy disk, after a burst of noise and waiting, the interface of the Text Star editing software appeared on the screen. He created a new document and started writing the selling points and difficulties needed to sell the script.

"Advantage:

  The investment is small, there is a fixed audience, and the cost of marketing is low. You don’t need to hire famous movie stars, you can find directors who shoot musicals or youth films to guide.

  Disadvantage: If the budget is not enough to hire movie stars, distributors may have concerns. If the other party is willing to invest more resources, they can also modify the script to suit the stars.

  The best sales object:

  Disney’s Touchstone Pictures…”

   "Squeak..." The dot matrix printer printed out the document, Ronald picked up a pen to modify a few places, and then put it in the document filing place marked with the "Dirty Dancing" project.

  …

What Ronald didn't expect was that the first thing he saw on the sales display board of his "Dirty Dancing" was not Katzenberg from Touchstone, nor his agent Nisita, but the "Dragon Boy" series. Producer, Weintraub.

   "What is this? Your new project?" Weintraub deigned to come to Ronald's humble small apartment. This was the first time he came to Ronald's house to talk about things.

   Before getting down to business, he first saw a few display boards that Ronald put on the wall.

   "Ah, yes. My script assistant is great, and this is a script he's eyeing, and I just bought the production rights from the original producer."

  Ronald simply turned over several display boards and placed them on the table. "This is a script that mainly targets teenage girls. I plan to make it with a small budget of less than five million."

   "Is it such a small production?" When Weintraub heard that it was a small production, he immediately wanted to increase the budget and grab this project that Ronald had fancyed.

   "You put it in MGM/United Artists, I'll give you 5 million, get together a 10 million budget, as the next project of 'Moonlight', how about it?"

   "This movie is from a female perspective, and teenage men may not like to watch it very much, so I didn't want to use stars, and I only aimed at the relatively small audience. Small investment is easier to return."

"Exactly, I came to find you today, just to talk about the return of the book." Weintraub took Ronald's "Dirty Dancing" script and read it, then motioned for Susan to pass the two documents to Ronald Germany.

"This is two invitations to adapt Dragon's Might into a video game. You have the property rights of Miyagi-sensei and Daniel-san's characters, as well as the right to share part of the second part of Dragon's Might. This contract requires your consent. "

  Weintraub's concubine and assistant, Susan Akins took out two documents and handed them to Ronald.

   Ronald took a look, a development contract from Atlus Corporation. This is a game development company in Japan, which specializes in making games for home game consoles for Nintendo in Japan.

   "Is this NES game console the most popular little gray box?" Ronald looked at the proposal. This game is developed for home game consoles. The game console needs to be connected to a TV and played with a controller.

   "Yes, the American version of the game console is like that, and here is a Japanese version of the game console." Susan pointed to the pictures on a page in the project and said to Ronald.

   "Huh? Isn't this a red and white machine?"

   "Fire and white machine? The name you named is easy to understand." Susan laughed, "The other one is the development authorization of computer games."

  Ronald picks up a second license, a game development license for newer models of computers, the Atari ST, and the Commodore Amiga.

   "I know Commodore, it's a game console with a keyboard. Didn't Atari go bankrupt?"

"That's old news for you. After the reorganization of Atari, it is mainly a computer brand. ST is their new computer model. This computer has 512K memory and can be equipped with MIDI equipment. Many people in the music industry like it. use.

   Commodore’s new model Amiga computer also does not have a gamepad, which is used by many animation companies to color paintings. Both are computers that are used by many professionals. "

   "Then why make games for them?"

   "People always want to be entertained. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use the computer at work for entertainment?"

   "Hmm..." Ronald himself only used that old personal computer for writing. He didn't expect that computers have developed so fast now. In addition to composing music and painting, they can also be used to play games. "Do you want to update your computer too?"

  He quickly found the position where his signature was needed, and signed his name. Handed it back to Susan.

   "Your script..." Weintraub next to him had quickly turned over Ronald's "Dirty Dancing" script, and he hesitated to speak.

   "Is it not suitable for a big production? It doesn't matter. I can slowly find investors. Do you have any ideas for releasing this movie? The production budget is not very high."

   "Well... well, I'm still fighting various pre-merger factions within my current MGM/United Artists, and we'd better focus on 'Moonlight' right now."

   "That's right, it doesn't matter. I'll look for some other companies."

Ronald looked at Weintraub. His main focus now is on managing a huge company and integrating internal human resources. He must not be as interested in such small-market, small-production works as before. up.

   "This script is really well written." After Weintraub put down the script, Susan picked it up and flipped through it.

   "Why, do you like this script too?" Ronald didn't expect Susan Eakins to like the appearance of the script.

   "Yeah, what girl hasn't imagined herself dancing well, partnering with the boy who dances the best, and getting everyone's envy?"

   "How about it, do you want to try to distribute this movie?" Ronald said half-jokingly, seeing how fascinated she was watching it.

   Weintraub pulled Susan over and spoke a few words quickly in her ear.

   "Sorry, Ronald. Jerry's focus is on the MGM business, and my main job is to assist him. I'm afraid I can't spare more energy to distribute this movie"

  Susan Eakins stated to Ronald why she could not help distribute the film. She slowly put down the script, "However, I really like this movie, you must make it if you have the chance."

   "Of course, I'm going to find a distributor and start a project, and then find a director." Ronald looked at Susan, who was about the same age as him, and thought that although this woman is not young, she still has a bright girly heart.

  …

   "Let's put it here", Ronald let two on-site installation workers come in, and a new computer that looked very similar to his original computer was placed on the desk.

   "Mr. Li, this is our new IBM product, PC286, which uses the latest Intel 80286 CPU, 640KB of memory, 1.2M high-capacity double-sided 3.5-inch floppy disk, and a 20M hard disk."

   Ronald looked at the characters displayed on the screen, it was no longer the green of the old-fashioned monitor, but a white character.

   "This monitor looks fine."

   "Yes, this is a 256-color true color display", the installation engineer took the keyboard and entered the C drive.

   "This is the hard disk, right?" Ronald looked at a letter C on the drive letter, the first two disks A and B were all floppy disks.

   "Yes", the young engineer typed a win, and then the monitor jumped, and a blue-white interface appeared.

   "This is the latest Microsoft Windows, you can use this device, the mouse, to select files and so on."

   Ronald took the mouse, and naturally double-clicked the close symbol on the window, and the file manager was closed.

   "Ah, yes, this double-click can..." The engineer also introduced.

   Ronald double-clicked again to open the interface of the C drive, and dragged the files from the floppy drive to this window.

   "Yes, it seems that Mr. Li has used it before, so that the file can be copied."

   "Thank you", Ronald handed over a tip of 20 dollars, and asked the two installation engineers to drink a cup of Coke.

   Sitting there playing with Windows for a while, Ronald felt bored. The system seemed familiar, but it wasn't fun.

  He backed out anyway, and opened the Text Star software with the character interface of Dos. Hard disks are indeed much faster and less noisy than floppy disks. Ronald opened a new file and began writing his own summary of feedback on the sales pitch for Dirty Dancing.

   "It seems that older women also like the story of the script. Maybe they can use this advantage to gain the favor of the female executives in the company..."

  (end of this chapter)