The proposal the editor thought the other side was unlikely to accept turned out to be one they agreed to very readily.
Come on, a screenwriter who pulled strings and brought funding into the production? Even if you didn't want him, you couldn't turn him down.
Besides, the author came with an audience of his own. Even if he hadn't asked, they would have wanted him to handle the script himself. That was a selling point for the publicity, all right? Only an idiot would say no.
And so, with both sides eager, all rights to "Boundless Chu Tian" were officially sold to Great Tang Light and Shadow Co., Ltd. for three million over five years. The contract expressly stipulated that the author would personally participate in writing the script, and that his views would take precedence on changes to the plot.
It was practically the treatment a celebrated author would get. Even celebrated authors didn't necessarily get treatment like this...
The vast majority of film and television professionals wanted the popularity of webnovel IPs while looking down on webnovels themselves. That split mentality was already standard practice. Some screenwriters openly declared on forums, "I adapt webnovels, but I never read them."
And they sounded quite proud of it, too.
That offered a glimpse of why webnovel adaptations so often turned into piles of crap. Aside from budget constraints, a major factor was that these arrogant film and television professionals simply didn't understand what the audience liked about the IP they were working with, or what they wanted to see.
But when someone pulled strings and brought funding, none of that was a problem.
Even arrogance was no match for capital.
The money obviously wouldn't arrive so quickly; there was still a long process ahead. But as Chu Ge looked