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Two years before the launch of the animated three-body, in December 2020, there were still two days to go before Christmas.

A piece of news began to spread on the Internet that infighting occurred in the wandering network of listed companies. CEO Lynch was poisoned and is being rescued in the hospital.

The news was refuted by Chen Fang, co-president of the tourist network, on moments that afternoon, saying that "there is no infighting, everyone is there" and "unconfirmed rumors are not expected to spread."

Then, in the evening, he issued a notice in the name of the board of directors, saying, "it is because he is not feeling well and is in stable condition after treatment."

But this night is bound to be lively, because a little later, the police notice was also released, and all the previous "refutation of rumors" were overturned. It was said that Lynch had indeed been poisoned and that the suspect had been controlled.

Twenty days after Lynch's bizarre death, someone claiming to be his sister-in-law began to reveal on Weibo that the Internet, together with Lynch's ex-wife, had illegally encroached on the inheritance of Lynch's children, and asked three questions about the network, two of which were:

Why have Lynch been deliberately concealing his illness and not letting Lynch see his wife for the last time? even the news of his death was known through forced questioning.

In addition, why rush to cremate Lynch's body, when the killer has not yet pleaded guilty?

The killer suspected of poisoning Lynch is Xu Yun, and it is a bit difficult to get him to plead guilty in a short time. According to several media reports, Xu acted cautiously and showed the characteristics of a high-IQ crime in the case. For the purpose of this poisoning, he set up a drug manufacturing facility in Qingpu District, southwest of Shanghai, bought hundreds of poisons through a dark net, and allocated poisons by himself. Before poisoning, all poisons were confirmed to be effective by cats, dogs and other pets, and a variety of poisons were used in different ways.

Lynch has been tested to contain at least five toxins, including mercury and tetrodotoxin.

Finally, in order to avoid risk, Xu prepared a total of 160 mobile phone numbers in this case, made a lot of preparations for psychiatric identification before the incident, and asked a team of lawyers to defend himself not guilty in order to escape legal punishment.

He went to such a lot of trouble to murder a man and asked about the motive, but it had nothing to do with the inheritance. He didn't even know the two eldest sisters he had tortured. If you have to find a reason, according to Lynch and Xu Yun's past, it can only be:

"for trisomy."

Liu Cixin, the author of trisomy 1, did not expect that 35 years later, a boss of a listed company would die because of him.

It was 1985, and Liu Cixin had just graduated from North China Institute of Water Conservancy and Hydropower. At that time, the university enrollment had not been expanded, and the state would allocate bags to graduates. He was assigned to work as a computer engineer at Niangziguan Power Plant in Yangquan, Shanxi Province, where he stayed for 25 years.

Due to the appointment between Luyu and Luyu, people all over the country know that Liu Cixin will start fishing in Niangziguan Power Plant for 25 years and 25 years of creation.

After the incident went viral at that time, SASAC named Liu Cixin on Weibo, saying that the reform was due to a certain degree of overstaffing in the past. It is better to reform. After the reform, enterprises can concentrate on development, and you can also concentrate on writing novels.

But in fact, according to Liu Cixin's own recollection in the interview, Liu Cixin cannot be said to be fishing in troubled waters, or at least a labor model. Because in the subsequent wave of layoffs at the power plant, Liu Cixin was the leader who made decisions about who should be laid off.

The mainstream sport of the power plant at that time was the quintessence of Chinese tradition. Liu Cixin played two games, lost more than he won, and lost a month's salary at once. Workers successfully saved the future of Chinese science fiction with superb card skills. Liu Cixin learned from the bitter experience and stopped playing mahjong. It was only after working for seven or eight years that he picked up his hobby again, science fiction.

Therefore, young people should not be addicted to gambling, lose money, win and be laid off.

It took so many years for Liu Cixin to write science fiction, and mahjong only accounted for a small part of the responsibility. The other part was because Liu Cixin was in a relationship, mainly because there was no future for writing science fiction in China at that time.

Since 1980, after a well-known scientist in China criticized science fiction as "unliterate", science fiction has declined day by day, and only a few sci-fi newspapers and periodicals in China have been required to be self-financing. By the time Liu Cixin worked, these newspapers would either transform or close down.

There were no readers and no newspapers to be published. at that time, science fiction in our country lived like a rebellious literature, poor, small and stubborn. Liu Cixin is pure in generating electricity for love.

Until 1997, the second International Science Fiction Congress was held in China. After reading the report, Liu Cixin tentatively sent his full-length work "the supernova era" to the largest science fiction magazine in China, Science Fiction World, the following year, but he was beaten back.

Yang Xiao, the then president, replied with heartache: "it's well written, but we can't afford a novel!"

So Liu Cixin sent several short works in one breath, which was selected by the editor and published in the magazine. One of the articles, "take her eyes", directly won the Galaxy Award.

The Galaxy Award has been associated with Liu Cixin ever since. From 1999 to 2006, Liu Cixin won the prize every year, dominated by the special prize and supplemented by the first prize. Second prize, don't get involved.

It has been commented that the Galaxy Award actually contains not much gold. It was said that it was the authoritative science fiction award in China because it was the only award in China at that time.

In fact, this is true, but to add the background, there were only 20 or 30 science fiction writers in China at that time.

Saying so much mainly reflects the poverty of science fiction writers. After that, Liu Cixin began to live a long-term life in the "Science Fiction World" with a fee of one thousand words. His novel "Ball Lightning" sold 30,000 copies for a fee of more than 30,000.

It is unreliable to make money by writing, and it is also unreliable to work in state-owned enterprises.

In 2000, Niangziguan Power Plant ushered in a wave of layoffs. Liu Cixin was fine, but his department had to lay off half of his staff.

At that time, wandering the Earth was being serialized, and he wrote in the book:

The earth is facing destruction, and mankind has formed a coalition government to transform the earth into a spaceship to escape the solar system. The surface could not survive and the underground could not be jammed, so half of the people were selected to enter the dungeon by drawing lots.

The other half, on the other hand, remain on the surface to fend for themselves.

The wave of layoffs continued. In 2009, Niangziguan Power Plant stood on the brink of shutdown again because of the problem of energy saving and emission reduction. This year, Liu Cixin, 46, is about to lose his job. It has been three years since the series began, and except for a response in the science fiction circle, there has been no sign of fire.

The hustle and bustle of the largest power plant in North China is now deserted and dilapidated. A person came to the fourth floor of the power plant and found Liu Cixin, saying that she wanted to buy the rights to the three-body.

But she doesn't have much money, or rather, very little.

At this point in time, in the past year, three-body 3: eternal death will be published, and with the help of the east wind of Weibo, it will become an overnight hit. Liu Cixin will gradually be on the list of the richest writers, and the contribution fee alone will be enough to provide for food and clothing.

A little further, the power plant is operating normally, and Liu Cixin is still the small leader of the largest power plant in North China, a state-owned enterprise.

But it was just at this time that the first copyright of "three-body" was sold in 2009, worth 100000 yuan. A year later, Niangziguan Power Plant was shut down for renovation because of environmental protection.

It is very interesting that in another decade, in 2020, when the local government in Shanxi discussed how to deal with these closed old state-owned enterprises, a member of the standing Committee of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese people's political Consultative Conference proposed to transform the Niangziguan Power Plant into a "three-body" theme park and a "wandering Earth" real-life experience hall.

2 the person who bought this future film which won the Hugo Award for only 100000 yuan and was urged by Obama to change the copyright of the world's top science fiction IP "three-body" is Song Chunyu.

She is not famous. But she has a little-known husband named Zhang Fanfan.

This is a man who is extremely interested in art. Because of his pursuit of art, all the film and television companies in the country that are interested in filming "three-body" have been tortured at the top of his hands.

Zhang Fanfan's job is as a director. In the past, when I made TV dramas, I cooperated with many powerful actors such as Haiqing, Wang Qianyuan, Guo Tao and so on, and the result can only be said to be lukewarm.

Later, he focused on making movies, and it was a horror movie, and the pattern opened up at once. The "mailbox", "the secret room of the secret room" and "the non-landing of the secret room" of the trilogy.

The score was all between 4 and 5, and the reason why we were able to shoot three films in a row was that although the reputation was not good, the fraud of domestic horror films had not yet been unveiled and was still very popular at the box office.

His first film, "the Secret Room", was praised by the media as the most cost-effective film in the Chinese film industry in 2010. This is the first time I have heard this kind of praise, evaluating a horror film, not saying whether it is scary or not, nor whether it is good-looking or whether it is cost-effective or not.

The second sequel, "the Untouchable Chamber of Secrets", also set a record for the fastest production of a sequel in Chinese film history. It is another strange honor, all the above information comes from the media drafts before and after the release of the two films.

Some netizens were cheap and asked director Zhang Panpan if there were any three, saying that movie fans were eagerly looking forward to it.

Director Zhang said there was, and there was a great leap forward in this three, coming directly to the three-body.

Serious science fiction fans looked up the materials of director Zhang Fanfan and exploded. I remember that there was a great protest at that time. Fans changed the lines in the original "three-body" work "Don't answer" and "Don't answer" to "Don't shoot" and shouted away among the various platforms.

But it doesn't work. His wife has the copyright. In the eyes of his wife, Zhang Fanpan is the most talented man in the world. He just lacks a chance.

It was 2013, and "three-body" was already well-known as the number one science fiction IP in China, and Liu Cixin made his debut on the rich list of Chinese writers with this work. It was at this time that Zhang and his wife made public for the first time that they enjoyed the copyright of "three-body" and began to actively contact with major film and television companies to seek cooperation.

There are many interested companies, but soon there are only a few left.

Because no matter where they went to talk, the couple took two lawyers with them, and the content creation had not been said, and the win-win way had not been worked out, so the lawyer first put forward the conditions: can he accept Zhang Panpan as a director and Song Chunyu as a screenwriter? If not, there is no need to talk about anything else. "

At that time, it was not that no company had advised them, but the couple were concerned about art and were not corrupted by mere money, so they insisted on taking pictures on their own.

In the end, what determines the outcome of this tug-of-war is not the compromise of either side, but the growing popularity of the "three-body", which makes the film and television companies believe that, although, but may also be possible.

Zhang Fanfan also noticed this change in the market. In 2014, he held a meeting at the Pangu Seven Star Hotel in Beijing and invited all the film and television companies in the country to attend.

At this meeting, in addition to reiterating the requirement of husband and wife-led creation, the minimum capital investment of the cooperative unit was further clearly regulated-at least 200 million, thank you.

The development has once again reached an impasse. During this period, Zhang and his wife even visited the Internet company. Friends who have read my article "Internet Film and Television" know that 2014 is the first year for the Internet to enter the film and television industry, and they have the best channels and the most money.

But they still turned down Zhang Fanpan.

"We are rich, not sick."

The reason for refusing is simple.

Not to mention the high risk of the film and television project itself, hundreds of millions of investment will eventually return tens of millions of dollars of the news every year.

The key is the periodicity of film and television projects. It is normal for a project to span one or two years from the establishment of the project, to the script, and then to the construction of the crew, the end of the cut, the release of the film, and the final sharing of the box office.

For these companies, the project loss of 20 million is acceptable, but the remaining 180 million of the project will take two years to recover, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Ofo has only been running away for two years from round A financing to running out of money.

Now, put such a large amount of money into such a long time, in a very high-risk project, let a person with no project experience do it.

Whoever does this must be an injustice.

Lynch and his wandering network appeared.

This is 2014.

In 2014, in addition to the domestic Internet in the mixed vision circle, there are many other changes. Mobile, for example, already accounts for half of the Internet.

Lynch's network of visitors started by doing page games. The company was founded in 2009 and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in just five years in 2014, with a market capitalization of nearly 20 billion. Lynch also became the third richest person born in the 1980s on the Hurun rich list.

But it's not safe to hold the money. Because of the rise of mobile, the good days of page games will be gone forever.

In fact, the operating cost of the page game is not high, so Lynch has enough money to find a new profit point. According to a report later on by LatePost, a friend who worked for a consulting firm showed Lynch an analysis of the development of "Star Wars" IP. He was greatly stimulated when he learned that "Star War has sold nearly 100 billion dollars in its entire life cycle."

And the booming "three-body" is obviously more likely to become "Star Wars" than "Star Wars."

So on the third day of its establishment in August 2014, the company announced that it would participate in the shooting of the film "three-body", shooting six films in a row, each costing no less than 200 million yuan.

At the moment, Lynch doesn't know what kind of film and television project he is going to invest in.

The project began to move forward very quickly, and the only one who had had relevant experience was the CEO hired by wandering Pictures at that time, Kong Ergou, an online writer, who was the president of Pentium Pentium Pictures. Donovan's special assistant.

In order to help Zhang Panfan solve the problem of lack of project experience, the travelers, as producers, helped Zhang Panfan find a group of young screenwriters to participate in the creation. 50 people.

The travelers who are not aware of the problem have announced the matter to the public in order to show their commitment to the project.

Friends who have no relevant experience can simply be understood as wanderers claiming that they have used a sliding shovel for the "three-body".

Subsequently, some media approached director Zhang Pan-fan for an interview, and Zhang Fan-fan signalled to everyone to rest assured that the biggest problem with "three-body" shooting actually lies in 3D special effects, and that he has been learning green screen technology for several years for the "three-body" project.

Students who do not know much about this can also interpret this sentence as Zhang Fanfan's external publicity, he also used a sliding shovel for the "three-body".

In the face of many doubts, CEO Kong Ergu hurriedly stepped forward to stabilize the overall situation: "such a great science fiction novel that has been written in China for decades or hundreds of years must be filmed by the Chinese themselves, and it will also be destroyed by us Chinese."

Under the three slippery shovels, the fans are directly kicked into the abyss where they can't see the bottom, and they no longer have hope for the movie.

In 2015, "three-body" won the 73rd Hugo Award for best novel, bringing the long-deposited "three-body" film project into the spotlight again.

Chinese audiences are eager to know what happened to the film, which was announced a year ago.

The public information shown by the project is that the shooting part has been completed and the film has entered the post-production stage. However, from the beginning of the post-production process, the relevant information about the production of Zhang Fanpan's version of "three-body" has become scattered and blank.

The release time is skipping tickets, so when asked, I said I don't know.

The only information that can be confirmed through official channels is that the top executives of the wandering film industry are running. In May 2015, Xiao Fei, vice president, left; in November, Yang Lu, vice president; and in the same month, Han Wei, CEO of the former nomadic film industry, wholly-owned the wandering American company, severing its employment relationship with the wandering film industry.

An exclusive survey of Sina Entertainment contacted one of the bosses, Yang Lu, and in her response, she revealed the agony of uneven team members and their own difficulties.

In the screenwriting stage, the members of the team have their own ideas. CEO Kong Ergu and screenwriter Song Chunyu have had many disputes over the script. One edition of the play, which has been written by a number of people, has the following original plot:

A three-body person who does not have a novel has special powers that can point to make you fly and throw you eight feet away.

When it comes to post-production, it is obviously more difficult.

At first, the person in charge of the three-body special effects was the Hollywood team VHQ, who had participated in the production of Avatar, Harry Potter and other projects.

In the face of such a qualified team, the travelers were very relieved at that time and gave him the material.

Then it was rejected.

Afterwards, the team and director, who had never been in charge of hundreds of millions of sci-fi projects, learned a very valuable lesson: to do special effects, you need to communicate with the special effects team before shooting.

Special effects are a detail activity. How to add special effects to get the desired results, the director needs to repeatedly run-in with the later team when shooting.

According to his own idea, the director took the material to find the special effects team to realize his dream after shooting freely, which obviously refreshed VHQ's understanding of the boundaries of his professional abilities.

After refusing on the grounds of limited ability and embarrassing hope of reviving the three-body IP, the tourists did not dare to tell everyone about this in the moments for a long time, so they could only continue to jump tickets in silence.

Later, some netizens found that the VHQ team is not as hard as advertised. The film project team took the opportunity to explain:

"the postponement of the 'three-body' is mainly due to the fact that the requirements for the later period are higher than those of the past, and director Zhang Pan-fan has completed his work as scheduled, and there is absolutely no problem that the material cannot be used."

The implication is that the extension of the "three-body" is the pot of the last special effects company.

And announced a new special effects team, in the follow-up was exposed more bad news of Mindy Media. As for whether Mindi Media has produced a "three-body" that requires more special effects in the later period than in the past, it is unknown.

Because it wasn't long before Mindy Media went out of business. Before the collapse, the chairman personally participated in the production of the late special effects of the three-body.

The blockbuster that brought down a special effects company failed to be released in the end. it is rumored that the travelers organized too many film-watching meetings, and the big shots were all "smiling and not talking." Some people commented that this is the PPT, which introduced the story.

In the Sina Entertainment report, director Lu Chuan participated in the film-watching meeting, and his speech revealed that the travelers were looking for someone to see how to save the film. And repeatedly stressed that "I am not involved in this project."

In the follow-up, the tourists and the light added another 200 million extra shots. However, there was too little material available before, the rescue plan failed, and the film was not released in the end.

But there's something illogical about it.

There was a time when someone was willing to sign a guaranteed distribution agreement with Lynch that earned 2.6 billion yuan at the box office.

Because if the film is released in 2016, it will almost be released under the name of the Hugo Award, and it will be the first science fiction film in China, and it will be difficult not to make money.

Movie tickets are non-refundable, and no one cares if you put Teletubbies in it. In fact, in the hot years of "IP", a lot of movies did that.

But Lynch did not accept the proposal. This is an anti-commercial decision, which means that he has to accept all the losses caused by filming.

In Lynch's layout, the development of "three-body" IP adopts "F3 mode", namely "Film" (Internet movie), "Free" (free mode) and "Fans" (fan economy).

The movie is only used to expand the influence and to interact with fans. The real money-making part should be the follow-up games and other products.

To put it bluntly, he doesn't want to earn less than $10 billion at the box office of all Star Wars series, but the hundreds of billions of dollars of derivative business behind the IP.

After the continuous speculation of trisomy IP, more and more top film and television resources began to tilt to the tourist side to discuss the possibility of cooperation.

In 2015, Light participated in the development of the three-body project as an investor. But more cooperation is currently stuck by one person. It's Zhang Fanfan.

The film and television companies sincerely put forward suggestions: I hope Director Zhang will stop shoveling the "three-body".

But Director Zhang is full of ambition at the moment. After learning the lessons of the previous round, he is full of confidence to prepare for the next round of shovels.

Lynch called Zhang Fanfan to the office for tea. At the moment, the atmosphere was very awkward because both sides had made indelible contributions to the last failure. When two people are drinking tea, they will inevitably think: he is not entirely to blame for this.

Neither those who make a request nor those who refuse it are strong enough.

In the end, Zhang Fanfan was relieved that the copyright could be sold, but the asking price was 100 million. There's an interlude.

Lynch saw that he was willing to talk, thinking that he was willing to quit, and that the price was bound to be negotiable and began to make a counteroffer.

Then it took several months to cut the price from 100 million to 120 million. I was startled, found that something was wrong, and hastened to agree.

Zhang Fanfan reaped 120 million yuan and walked out tearfully with betrayal of his ideal of life. After that, although he became richer, no new film and television came out, and personal Weibo stopped on the last spray caused by trisomy and others forever.

"the rumor will be self-defeating. Welcome to continue to push up the fever."

The travelers really got all the copyrights of the "three-body". In this process, there is a person who has played a great role in promoting the incident, from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, he is the poisoned Xu.

Zhihe, an official account of Wechat, published an article entitled "Xu Jie, CEO of the three-body Universe: exploring more possibilities of legal people," which mentioned the reason why Xu Jie came to the three-body universe.

Born in 1981, Xu graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and worked in law at Dewey Law firm and Fosun Group. In May 2017, he worked in the tourist network.

Before Xu joined the tourists, negotiations on the acquisition of the full copyright of "three-body" had begun, but the progress was slow. After joining the post, Xu continued to be in charge of the acquisition, and it took only half a year to complete the follow-up copyright issues and improve the risk control system that tourists lack.

This makes it possible for Lynch's business dream to come true.

After the "Zhang Fanpan" incident, Lynch realized that tourists do not have the genes for film and television. Professional people should be allowed to do professional things, and they are only responsible for IP development and subsequent game development.

On December 10, 2018, the new company, three-body Universe (Shanghai) Culture Development Co., Ltd., was established. This company, you can simply understand as the three-body IP development company. In the mode of cooperation, it has opened the development of three-body film and television.

Tourists open up the IP of trisomy, so that all people can share the creative rights of IP and carry out related peer creation. There are even high-quality content, tourists will take the initiative to support.

Bilibili's "my three-body" team, which made three-body animation based on the "my World" game, was picked up by Lynch and given sufficient budget and relatively free creative space.

The sequel, the Legend of Zhang Beihai, was broadcast on bilibili with a rating of 9.7.

The follow-up experience verified the correctness of Lynch's thinking. The development plan for the second edition of "three-body" is three films, two domestic TV dramas, one six-season English drama, one animation with more than three seasons, and several audio books and radio dramas.

The new "three-body" film will be filmed by partner Light Media, and the shooting plan was announced in April 2020.

The Light Annual report shows that "three-body" (New) is in the early planning stage. In September 2020, Netflix successfully competed with Disney and Amazon, taking the share of "three-body" English series.

The domestic online drama, developed by Penguin Film and Television, starring Zhang Luyi and Yu Hewei, was killed in 2020.

Several versions of audio books and radio dramas continue to dominate the list on platforms such as the Himalayas.

Of course, it also includes the animation of "three-body", which starts broadcasting in bilibili this month.

It can be said that Lynch in December 2020 is very close to his dream.

The film and television set up the stage, and the related derivative industries came to perform. The more assured the early film and television is done, the more presumptuous the later gamification can be done.

This is why he can accept a loss of hundreds of millions of yuan and insist on not letting Zhang Fan's version of the film be released.

It's just that he saw the flowers of the dream bloom, but failed to see the result of the dream.

At the end of 2018, after Xu completed the acquisition of the copyright of "three-body" as CEO, Xu was assigned to set up the previously mentioned three-body Universe Company and was fully responsible for the development of "three-body" IP, the same position as CEO. Only this time he served for a very short time, and only a month later, Xu submitted his written resignation on January 23, 2019.

Wu Xiaobo Channel judged that Xu Xun is a cross-border compound talent in the legal profession, and after the legal problems left over have been solved, the new problems encountered in the new project are beyond the scope of his skills. The company needs a more suitable person to lead the way.

After Xu was captured, many media cited the fact that Xu did not hold a stake in the company to prove that he had been excluded and speculated on the facts with the script of unloading and killing donkeys.

From Xu Kui's point of view, maybe the whole thing is just like this. He is the CEO of the three-body universe, and he is responsible for the operation of the whole three-body universe, but now the more successful the project is, the more marginal he is; the cake is getting bigger, but he is retreating.

There were three victims in the Lynch poisoning case. Apart from Lynch, the other two are colleagues related to the "three-body" project.

One of them is Zhao Jilong, vice president of Beijing three-body Universe Company. After many tests in the hospital, the doctor found that Zhao Jilong was chronically poisoned and the mercury exceeded the standard by nearly 10 times. His wife drank coffee from Zhao Jilong's cup and was found to have excessive mercury in her body, making it impossible for him to breastfeed.

After Lynch was taken to hospital, according to Zhou, a doctor at the first hospital, when he was admitted at 18:15 on December 16th, Lynch could still walk, but could not judge whether it was multiple poisonings, only tetrodotoxin could be seen.

Subsequently, according to titanium media reports, Lynch's condition deteriorated rapidly in the hospital. The main reason is that Lynch contains a variety of poisons, the hospital needs to take time to identify, thus missing the best treatment period.

Xu Jing, who was controlled by the police at the first time, did not choose to give a timely explanation in the face of an inquiry about the type of poison.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: leek Huang A rich (ID:jiuhuangArich), author: a rich

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