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Chapter 852: Chapter 807 Resident Evil Arrives

The next day.

Starlight Entertainment.

Inside the representative office.

Gu Dong made tea for Lin Yuan, looking somewhat surprised—Mr. Lin hadn’t played any games today?

In front of the desk.

Lin Yuan was typing away at the keyboard.

If anyone stood behind Lin Yuan, they would definitely discover that Lin Yuan was writing a script.

The name of this script was:

Resident Evil!

This was the movie Lin Yuan had prepared for Xia Fan.

Lin Yuan had already asked about Xia Fan’s situation last night.

Qi Continent Pictures had started off a major film with a leading female role called “Lady Blade,” which had a substantial budget of a few hundred million. The original lead actress was Xia Fan.

Logically speaking, Xia Fan shouldn’t have gotten this role.

However, the film’s director was initially so impressed by Xia Fan’s physical appearance that he overruled all objections to support her playing the lead role.

After all, Xia Fan had her own unique advantages.

She had a larger frame than most girls, standing tall at one meter seventy, which was relatively high among females.

Her appearance also carried a touch of heroism.

In a major female lead film, the female protagonist mostly needs to be both tough and cool.

Though the entertainment industry has many beautiful actresses, few meet these requirements. It was understandable that the director favored Xia Fan, who met these criteria.

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That settled the matter.

However, unbeknownst to others, one of the film’s financiers encountered problems and withdrew their investment.

Recently, a tribe aggressively entering the film industry successfully took over, becoming the largest investor of “Lady Blade.”

Following the tribe’s acquisition, they replaced Xia Fan.

They even directly switched out the director for one of their own from the tribe.

Although Xia Fan had already signed a contract with the production team, the set compensation wasn’t substantial. So, the withdrawing company split the compensation with the tribe and paid off Xia Fan.

Xia Fan was depressed about this situation.

She particularly loved the role in “Lady Blade” and had obsessively gained weight and specifically worked out for two months to better fit the physical description required by the script.

Major female lead films with such investment scales were actually few and far between on Blue Star.

This miss meant she didn’t know when the next opportunity would arise, because most of the movies, whether on Earth or Blue Star, were still centered around male protagonists. Even if the female protagonist wasn’t just a decorative figure, her screen time and significance in the film couldn’t compare with that of the male protagonist.

Sadly, Xia Fan’s physical appearance made her unsuitable for playing delicate and charming types of female leads.

Initially, the situation wasn’t complicated.

But once the tribe was involved, it was hard for Lin Yuan not to think more about it.

He didn’t know if the tribe was specifically targeting him.

After all, his relationship with Xia Fan was well known to everyone.

And his overt identity as Xian Yu had long fallen out with the tribe.

Of course, even if the tribe wasn’t targeting Lin Yuan this time, Lin Yuan had absolutely no fondness for them.

Especially after learning from the company’s upper management about various disagreements between Starlight and the tribe, Lin Yuan became even more convinced of one thing:

His conflict with the tribe was irreconcilable.

Even the chairman, during exchanges with Lin Yuan, had indicated that it would be difficult for the company to collaborate with the tribe in the future.

Not to mention, as Xia Fan was Lin Yuan’s close friend, he naturally wanted to help her.

…

Women held up half the sky.

However, in most film and television productions, women often only served as embellishments, acting as mere backdrops for the male lead to triumph and win his woman.

For female leads to shine brighter than male leads is even harder.

Yet, in Earth’s cinema, there have been several female characters who dazzled through the ages. One of the most talked-about female lead films is the very “Resident Evil” Lin Yuan was writing!

The female protagonist, Alice!

When all the global forces of justice couldn’t destroy Umbrella Corporation and the zombie virus it unleashed, Alice became a glimmer of hope in the disaster.

A true major female lead script.

In the first installment of this script, the female lead’s aura was so great it made the male lead practically invisible.

The male lead didn’t have much of a story and ended up dying in the end.

Zombie humans, zombie dogs, zombie monsters…

Alice fought everything with her body, knives, and guns.

As the netizens would put it:

The comrades change like flowing water, but Alice remains as solid as iron.

If we set aside the film’s own issues, “Resident Evil” is one of the few female-led film series with such enduring vitality.

In fact,

If it weren’t for the later films in the series having scattered plots and the fact that the female lead’s actress was getting older and gradually losing her ability to fight, this film might have stood even more tenaciously among numerous influential series films.

This wasn’t an issue Lin Yuan needed to consider temporarily.

The script he wrote was for the first film, the “Reset” of “Resident Evil.”

And whether in terms of reputation or adaptation effect, the first “Resident Evil” is a classic.

Yes.

This “Resident Evil” was adapted from a game, making it one of the most successful examples of game-adapted films on Earth.

However, Lin Yuan wasn’t worried that this world lacked the “Resident Evil” game.

When “Resident Evil” was hugely popular in his previous life, many people liked the film not just because of the game.

There were even countless viewers who had never played the game.

What made Lin Yuan even more confident was the research he had done that morning.

In this world, zombie films did not have any particularly influential works; Blue Star filmmakers mostly used zombies as just one of the regular elements in horror films.

Yes,

Some Blue Starians were very keen on horror films.

And in the eyes of Blue Star filmmakers, eerie ghost films were far scarier than zombie horrors.

Under such circumstances, “Resident Evil” was novel.

This film would let the audience see a zombie tide.

Let the audience see zombie dogs.

Show the audience how humans face zombies…

Lin Yuan was certain that the tension and thrill of zombies appearing in dense masses were definitely something those ghost films couldn’t provide.

The audience also needed a cool and tough Alice.

As for changing the female lead’s name, Lin Yuan had no plans to do so.

In this world, regardless of what face, names were bizarre and of various styles.

Just like that.

After spending a day, Lin Yuan finally completed the script for “Resident Evil.”

After some thought, Lin Yuan felt that the scale of this film needed to be upgraded.

The original film was shot on Earth in the year 2002.

Back then, due to limitations in technology and investment, the scale wasn’t grand enough.

Now that Lin Yuan was in Blue Star, with its higher level of technology and movie theaters that included glasses-free 3D technology,

there was no reason for Lin Yuan not to produce a more visually stunning “Resident Evil.”

As for whether to shoot a second or third part later, Lin Yuan couldn’t be bothered to think about that for now.

First, successfully shooting the first part was the real deal.

Having decided on this affair, Lin Yuan found Ol’ Zhou and handed over the script to him.

“A new film?”

Ol’ Zhou looked somewhat excited.

Lin Yuan nodded, “The female lead is set to be Xia Fan.”

Ol’ Zhou: “…”

Fine then.

Crown Prince.

You call the shots.

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PS: Ahem, if you want to upgrade the plot of the first part of Resident Evil to something more thrilling, does anyone have any good suggestions?