In the afternoon casting work, Li Zhifan did not participate, but held a meeting with Cheng Wenbin, senior vice president of Oriental Entertainment who came from China.

Cheng Wenbin came this time to discuss with Li Zhifan the business issues of Oriental Entertainment's layout in Hollywood and even the global film and television industry.

Regarding the layout, in addition to the construction of film and television cities in mainland China, multiple film and television cities will also be acquired, and they will be purchased directly together.

Among them, the most objective money view is Disneyland.

It took only one year for Oriental Entertainment to participate in Disney Film and Television to take control, and it was a very vast project to eat away from Disney.

This century-old brand is not that delicious. The company has as many as 10,000 shareholders. In addition to directly buying the equity of the current major shareholder, absolute controlling shares also directly invests and dilutes the original equity.

However, the latter method is not advisable, because Disney's size has not yet reached the level of diluting equity and expanding its scale. Its main tourism, hotels, and ecological parks are all real economy, not Internet economy, and there is an opportunity for market value to expand.

Secondly, Disney is a listed group, while Oriental Entertainment is not listed, and it is very difficult to control shares. It is not as long as the shareholders say that, but it still requires the consent of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

But this time Cheng Wenbin brought good news.

Disney agreed to sell all Disneyland operating rights in Asia to Oriental Group for 99 years.

This must be a very large project and a win-win project.

If Disney and Oriental Group are still there after 1999, the two sides will return the talks, which will definitely be a grand event that the world is attracting.

But Oriental Group does not just want to rent it for 1999. On this basis, Oriental Group has proposed another feasibility, which is to establish a Disney Asia branch to control and operate Disneylands across Asia, and the location is set up in Beijing. Oriental Group directly bought this branch, but in terms of equity or operating rights, it does not separate from Disney's headquarters, which means that Oriental Group has invested in Disney in this way.

What will be the final result of this negotiation have uncertain variables, but the largest entertainment market in Asia is currently China. If Disney wants to further penetrate multiple cities in China and build Disney parks, it will be difficult to complete without the help of local companies.

Oriental Group also made the suggestion after seeing this.

Moreover, with Oriental Group's real estate development business, if the cooperation goes smoothly, every time a community is built in a city, it can be used to build a small Disney park. After all, so many cartoon characters in Disney are very popular among Chinese people.

"Zhifan, I heard that you are planning to sign a few child stars here. Do you have any plans?"

After talking about the project, Cheng Wenbin turned the topic to the business. He also knew about the casting situation of Li Zhifan. As for how he knew about signing a few child stars, Li Zhifan didn't care. Anyway, there were so many people in this company, everyone might be the one who could do it for anyone, and it was not certain that he could work for anyone. This was also a means for superiors to supervise subordinates.

Therefore, in his personal assistant team and broker team, Li Zhifan has been with him for many years. He is not suitable for the staff provided by Oriental Entertainment. At most, they are asked to fight small hands and do external work.

"certainly!"

Li Zhifan replied cheerfully, "I plan to create a brand new IP series, which is aimed at overseas markets."

"Oh? What series?"

Cheng Wenbin asked curiously that he actually didn't know much about culture and entertainment, but he was very interested in the company's projects, especially projects that expected to make money.

"Well, it's a Western magic series!"

Li Zhifan said, "I watched a lot of Western magic works some time ago, but since science fiction occupied the main stage of Hollywood, there have been many fewer works of writing magic novels or filming magical movies. It is very rare to have a readable work in two or three years."

What made Li Zhifan incredible is that the work "The Lord of the Rings" actually existed at this time. After checking the publication time, it was found that it had been published one after another in the 1930s.

However, this also confirms some of Li Zhifan's earliest speculations that the timeline began to change from the 1970s to the 1980s, and at that time, it was the time when the global entertainment industry in both time and space began to take off.

Therefore, in the Western Fantasy Novel series, Li Zhifan has the opportunity to take action that can be found in "Song of Ice and Fire" and "Harry Potter".

Among the main characters in "Song of Ice and Fire", there are almost no magical people, who are like mortals in real life.

No one can be resurrected with the help of magic. The original author Martin completely follows the laws of human life in reality.

Rather than saying that "Song of Ice and Fire" is an extremely "low demon" fantasy novel, it is more like a parallel historical novel that creates a fictional world.

But "Harry Potter" is different, a standard magical fantasy masterpiece.

Moreover, the stories of "Harry Potter" are fairy tales, the text is very concise and straightforward, and the plot is the same template, which is more suitable for children to watch, especially the movies after adaptation, which are more attractive to children.

"Song of Ice and Fire" is different. It is completely an adult fantasy literature. The background is very complex, the relationship between characters is very complicated, the emotional entanglements of characters are also very complicated, and the brain-burning conspiracy is even more complicated. Therefore, the TV series is renamed "Game of Thrones", which is very consistent with the core of the original work itself.

After comprehensive consideration, Li Zhifan decided to film "Harry Potter" first.

One of the main reasons is that "Harry Potter" has been completed, and all seven of them have been made into movies, with dramas to follow.

In addition, there are extra works like "Where Are Fantastic Beasts", which perfects the overall world view and story structure of "Harry Potter".

After making this plan, Li Zhifan thought that he needed to find some young actors. When he saw these mixed-race children, he thought why not make a bold adaptation plan?

A place that is directly fiction is not applicable to the original UK, and all actors invite mixed races to participate, including adult actors.

This bold idea made Li Zhifan more and more exciting the more he thought about it, so he immediately started to work, starting with the novel, completing the "adaptation" of the first novel, writing scripts and making movies, and slowly continuing to do it at a rate of one movie a year.

Cheng Wenbin, who was standing by, heard that it was a magic series, and immediately thought of "The Lord of the Rings" and couldn't help but have a headache: "Oh, my god, it's not a novel like "The Lord of the Rings", right? I read it when I was in school, and it was too difficult to understand. Even this novel can't be remade by any film company!"

"Huh?" Li Zhifan was stunned - what? No one filmed "The Lord of the Rings"?
Chapter completed!