Zhang Yimou is from Shaanxi. Although his face is from the past, it has a sharp and serious demeanor. It can be said that it would not be inappropriate for him to play the leading actor Meng Tianfang, who was born in the Terracotta Warriors and Horses.

Zhang Yimou looked at Lin Chaoyang for help, but saw a smile on his face, as if he admired Li Bihua's outstanding vision.

"Ms. Li's eyes are really piercing. I think Yimou is also very suitable for this role!"

Hearing Lin Chaoyang's words, Zhang Yimou's heart sank, but Li Bihua clapped her hands happily with a bright smile, "Heroes see the same thing!"

"Teacher Chaoyang, it's my first time to make a commercial film. It's too easy to get distracted by directing and acting."

Zhang Yimou's voice sounded, with rejection written all over his face.

Lin Chaoyang said to him in a friendly manner: "Don't worry, Yimou. The workload of directing and acting will definitely be a little bigger, but it doesn't matter. I will let Yushu arrange an assistant director for you who can take charge of his own role."

Zhang Yimou had a bad feeling. If he found an assistant director who could take charge of his own role, why would he be needed?

It’s over!

You agreed to direct a commercial film, how did you become an actor?

"I.."

He still wanted to fight for it, but Li Bihua on the side was staring at his face with admiration, which actually made Zhang Yimou feel like he was being targeted by a goblin.

With the dual approval of Lin Chaoyang and Li Bihua, Zhang Yimou had no choice but to take on the role of Meng Tianfang.

After chatting with Li Bihua for a long time, the general direction of the adaptation was determined. In the following time, Li Bihua was responsible for writing the script, while Zhang Yimou went to the crew of Lin's Pictures to inspect and study.

After Zhang Yimou was settled, Lin Chaoyang felt at ease again.

Fast forward to July, news came from Random House, the American publisher of "The Truman Show", that the first royalties from the novel would be settled soon.

The novel signed a publishing contract in August last year and was published in the United States in December.

The movie "The Truman Show" nearly exceeded 10 million US dollars at the box office when it was released in the United States the year before last. It was somewhat influential, and with the blessing of Lin Chaoyang, the winner of the French Renaudeau Literature Prize.

The novel sold 12,000 copies in the first month after its publication, and sales increased steadily for several consecutive months. Sales in June exceeded 23,000 copies, and the cumulative sales in the first half of the year were 92,000 copies.

With this impressive sales volume, "The Truman Show" was successfully featured in the "New York Times" last month

It has been on the best-seller list for 5 consecutive weeks.

However, the ranking is not high, and it has been dangling at the tail of the best-seller list.

In the U.S. book market, more than 100,000 new books are published every year, and the number of existing books is as high as 3 million.

There are very few books that are on the New York Times bestseller list. Among popular science books, the ratio is only 1.1

%.

The situation of novels is much better, but the main works on the list are genre novels, which are the so-called popular novels in China. Pure literary novels only account for 15% of the best-sellers in the fiction category.
Chapter completed!