New Script

Luo Xiao watched Wang Bin, who was looking at him with anticipation, quietly for a long moment before he couldn't help but laugh.

"Very good, very nice. Whether it's the special effects or the plot, the editing is exactly how I imagined it."

"Brother Xiao, you scared me to death. I thought there was a problem somewhere."

Seeing this, Wang Bin breathed a sigh of relief. He had just seen Luo Xiao staring at him like that without speaking and thought there was an issue with the editing.

"Since there are no problems, let's submit it for approval as soon as possible. After the approval is finished, we still need to contact the theaters, and there are many other things we need to do."

Luo Xiao gently tapped the table and spoke slowly.

"Mm, I'll have someone handle it in a bit. The connections over there are already set up. As long as our movie doesn't involve sensitive issues, it will be approved quickly."

Wang Bin nodded.

Before the movie had even finished editing, he had already started having people handle the approval process.

Seeing that Wang Bin had arranged everything for the movie, Luo Xiao felt reassured. He then took a script out of his desk drawer and placed it on the table.

"Mm, then I'll leave that matter to you. By the way, I've already selected the new script. I'm going to hand it over to Boss Chen to take a look in a moment."

Wang Bin looked at the script on the table with some hesitation.

"Brother Xiao, why do you think Boss Chen insists on making a sci-fi movie? This choice is very risky."

Sci-fi movies are in a very awkward position in the current film market.

The first issue is that sci-fi movies require a large amount of special effects, which means a huge amount of capital is needed for investment.

And the sci-fi movies released in the last few years haven't had very high ratings. Every time, they are highly anticipated, only to be called trash films by many netizens online.

So much so that in the last two years, no director has been willing to risk making a real sci-fi film.

Nowadays, there aren't many sci-fi scripts in the script market.

The script in front of them was one they had searched for a long time in the script market before finding a decent one.

Yet, at this moment, Boss Chen had resolutely chosen to make a sci-fi film for the second movie.

This was something he hadn't expected.

"How would we know what Boss Chen is thinking?"

Luo Xiao shook his head.

The two discussed a few more things in the office, and then Wang Bin left to handle the movie business.

Luo Xiao sat in the office for a short while, then picked up the script from the table, got up, and left the office, preparing to report the new script matter to Boss Chen.

"Boss Chen."

Looking at Boss Chen sitting in front of the desk, Luo Xiao walked over.

"Mm, is there something the matter?"

Chen Mo casually closed the game interface on the computer and turned to look at Luo Xiao, who had just entered.

Upon hearing this, Luo Xiao hurriedly handed over the script in his hand.

"Boss Chen, the script has been selected. Please take a look."

"Oh, let me take a look."

Chen Mo became interested upon hearing this and reached out to take the script Luo Xiao handed over.

A while ago, Luo Xiao had already submitted a script for review, but after looking at it for a moment, Chen Mo had passed on it directly.

That movie was a romance film.

For a romance film, other than some actor salaries, there were basically no other expenses.

But the preparation for this movie was requested specifically to prevent any accidents during the settlement.

Naturally, it was necessary to choose some high-investment movies.

And in his understanding, high-investment movies meant sci-fi films.

He had taken the opportunity to learn about the sci-fi movies in this world over the past few years and found that there wasn't a single successful one.

This undoubtedly gave him peace of mind.

High investment and low return—isn't that exactly what he needed?

Thinking this to himself, he opened the script Luo Xiao had handed over and took a look.

After a while, he closed the script with satisfaction.

Not bad!

This Luo Xiao certainly didn't disappoint him; the script he picked out was as terrible as ever.

After reading the entire script, the only thing he could confirm was that this was a real sci-fi movie.

However, the plot in the script was somewhat disappointing.

The general plot of the entire script was as follows:

The end of the world arrives; acid rain, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and a cold winter… a series of disasters follow one after another.

In order to survive, people start working together to build Noah's Ark.

The male lead is a framed researcher, and the female lead is a science enthusiast. The two have a common goal: to build a real Noah's Ark.

The plot started off fine. The male lead was framed and forced to leave the research team, and by chance, he met the female lead, who was scavenging in the ruins to build the Ark.

The male lead used his professional knowledge to help the female lead solve many technical problems.

If it had developed along those lines, creating some difficulties for the two, adding more twists and turns, and finally rising to the level of righteousness—where the male and female leads, for the sake of human survival, desperately fought against the scheming villains in the research team…

And finally defeated the villains in the research team, successfully built a super Ark, took a group of humans into the Ark, and finally escaped the disasters caused by the apocalypse, preserving the seeds of humanity.

But in this script, after the male and female leads met, the plot started to go off track.

Building the Ark became background noise, and it actually started describing the romance between the two—it was definitely a sci-fi romance film.

What was even more interesting was that, in the end, the two miraculously built a spaceship and left Earth directly.

Of course, the manufacturing process wasn't described; it just appeared suddenly at the ending, which was very abrupt.

But isn't this the kind of script he wanted? The more abrupt it is, doesn't that just prove how terrible this script is?

Perfect, absolutely perfect.

He slowly put the script down, looked up at Luo Xiao sitting opposite him, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Not bad, this script is very good. However, it would be better to add more special effects in the middle; it will only be exciting if the special effects are flashy."

Chen Mo spoke slowly. He wanted to use this script to consume more System Funds, so he definitely needed to make the special effects more plentiful and flashy. Of course, this was based on the premise that the plot was terrible.

Now that he had read the script and the plot was very bad, there was no problem.

Moreover, to cope with any possible changes, he naturally had to increase the script's budget as much as possible, thereby increasing the capital investment.

"I understand, Boss Chen. I will find a way to increase the mid-section special effects and such."

Seeing Boss Chen nod, Luo Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then, Boss Chen, when should we start preparing for filming?"

"Mm, we can start preparations now. The direction for selecting actors should be the same as the last script: don't use any traffic stars. Didn't those students from the drama academy join Lanpian Film and Television? You can prioritize using our own actors."

"Even if you want to find other actors, you must follow the previous rules: no amateur actors."

"As for the filming time, it will be around early September."

Chen Mo looked at Luo Xiao and spoke slowly.

Now that those students from the drama academy had just filmed a trash movie, after the movie was released, not only were those students amateur actors, but their reputations might also deteriorate.

Hmm! They were all amateur actors; perhaps people watching the movie would discover it was a trash film and wouldn't even pay attention to who the actors were.

Anyway, no matter what, continuing to use those drama academy actors was a very correct choice.