After reading the list of these actors, Mina felt a little depressed, but so what? As long as the boss ordered, she would be happy to complete it. Moreover, this was her first debut work. She cheered up and clapped her hands, loudly encouraging everyone.

"Don't worry, everyone, the boss has already drawn a detailed storyboard script. It's not difficult for us to follow the script... Okay~ Now I'll start to divide the work. Andy, you are responsible for getting the prop group to buy props and sets, k·j, you go to find a suitable soundtrack, and the photographer will be selected by Yo Shuhua. This is our first work, and we must shoot it to let others see the level of our Pirates' director team~~~"

The directors of Group B were inspired by Mina's words, and extended their hands together, shouting excitedly: "Let them see what we do!"

But they didn't know that if Li Xiaole saw this cast, he would probably exclaim the word "luxury", which actually made the handsome men and beauties in "Twilight" that were popular all over the world "Twilight" "condescend" in an American drama. This is really too constraining...

The directors of Group B probably wouldn't have dreamed that Li Xiaole didn't give it to them a bunch of third-rate actors, but to them a bunch of starry stars of tomorrow~~

In this way, while the crew of "The Walking Dead" maintained normal operation, the crew of Pirate TV's group B "Vampire Diary" also started to operate at high speed. Although "Vampire Diary" was very popular in later generations, the story is essentially nothing new, relying on the charming actors and vampire packaging to the audience's appetite. In fact, what is difficult to grasp is the exquisiteness of the costumes and special effects makeup. How to make the vampire and werewolf makeup charming and cool so that it makes those young girls crazy. This is actually very difficult.

But is this any difficulty for the current Pirates production team? They have the best TV series makeup team on this planet. Next to the crew of "The Walking Dead" is Glen Hertrek, the top ten Hollywood makeup artist, who is such a master-level makeup artist...

Zombies, vampires and ronin, not only understand the subject matter, but also save a lot of design resources. As long as you lend Glen Hertrek to Group B for a few days, these problems can be completely solved.

Things went very smoothly, all of this was in Li Xiaole's plan. The new directors in Group B had the benefits of newcomers. They were all obedient, worked hard, and were eager to prove themselves. Moreover, these people were originally famous directors in the future, and Li Xiaole didn't have to worry that they would mess up "The Vampire Diary".

However, although he is full of confidence in others, Li Xiaole is still a little worried about the future trend of "The Walking Dead". After all, he has changed a lot based on the original version, and it is not certain whether American audiences like it or not.

As soon as he got home, he opened his computer's Facebook message and looked at the netizens' reactions. He found that there were two factions with clear barriers to the evaluation of "The Walking Dead". The first faction was young fans of "Resident Evil" and a large number of zombie game fans. They almost unanimously reacted that the protagonist Rick was weak:

The netizen with a black man with a profile picture of an explosive head said angrily:

"Oh my God~! What era is it? There will be such slow walking zombie films. In the first episode, the protagonist was chased by those zombies like Perkins syndrome patients. Why run away?! Isn't it better to turn around and pop their heads? It's so unhappy!"

The netizen "Detroit Gangster" left a message disdainfully: "I'm too fake to watch this TV series. If I were Rick, I would use axe to cut all the zombies in Atlanta. I calculated it. One in 10 seconds, six in a minute, 360 in an hour, and 8 hours a day. That's it (80, chopping one in a month can save the world. Why run foolishly? It's so weak. He should come to the slums of Detroit to gangsters. I'll teach him how to cut people."

This group of people who disdained and clamored accounted for about one-fifth of the messages. Li Xiaole looked at the information of these people. Most of them were under 25 years old, mainly students who like novel sensory stimulation. For advertisers, these groups are not the main groups, and Li Xiaole does not need to pay much attention to them. The remaining traditional movie fans aged 25-40 are praised by "The Walking Dead".

Netizen "Wind Vane" exclaimed on Facebook: "The Walking Dead is so shocking and so real... I have never seen such a zombie film. I have been having nightmares after watching the first episode. I have never thought that the doomsday is so cruel... Thinking about my current life... I really have to be grateful to God... Being bullied by my classmates is much luckier than being eaten by zombies in the doomsday."

"The drowned mermaid" also agreed: "My feeling is the same. There is no too bloody scene in this drama, but I just shivered while watching it, and felt a chilling helplessness. Especially when Rick shot the little girl with a gun, I felt like I killed a little girl with my own hands..."

"Ronnin Eddie" used a blog to express his praise for the first episode of The Walking Dead on his blog:

"I swear... "The Walking Dead" is the best zombie film I have ever seen. There are so many things to praise in this episode. First of all, I must praise Andrew Lincoln's acting skills. Every move and every look can give the audience the tragedy of a man who has experienced a huge change, and at the same time it is also tough.

Li Xiaole is really good at describing characters and knows how to perform characters in a specific environment. It is neither exaggerated nor lacks dramatic conflict. The two people in this episode, Rick and the black uncle, Rick's descriptions are almost reflected through silent action scenes; and the uncle's character changes through the great changes, and his family will be destroyed after the family will be destroyed. There is no fierce crying or shouting, nor the cold fast food style. The uncle has to face the choice between killing and not killing, and he still has to live resolutely in this crazy end of the world. The tears at that time are real...

The most rare thing is that the whole drama is filled with a strong sense of human nature. When shooting zombies, the first reaction of ordinary audiences is to be stimulating, bloody, intestinal thighs, etc. But Li Xiaole's zombie films are not only these. Whether it is the terrifying stare zombies in the poster or the cute images in "Plant vs. Zombies", they are really just backgrounds and gimmicks. The focus of the story is on human nature and emotions between people.

The black uncle is entangled in killing his dead wife or not. Rick calmly accepts reality but resolutely embarks on a dangerous journey to find his wife and children. The desolation of the world is the focus of "The Walking Dead". Oh my God... It's really hard for me to imagine that this is a zombie drama filmed by Chinese... Are the directors of American horror films dead? This kind of drama should have been filmed long ago..."

Li Xiaole was lying on the bed and looking at these comments, feeling a great feeling of satisfaction. A few years ago, when he had just gained a foothold in the mainland, he began to plan to come to the United States. At that time, he was very excited to simulate shooting various American dramas and movies in his mind countless times, but the answers he got were very frustrated... He could not surpass the original version at all.

But these years have passed, after he filmed a series of movies such as "Let the Bullets Fly" and "Sedeke Barre", he learned from it many ways of shooting before, and learned to feel the rhythm of the plot, the emotions of the soundtrack, and the emotions of the characters more deeply. When he used all this to works such as "The Walking Dead", which had no dramatic stories and had to rely entirely on the director's skills, he could clearly feel his progress. He was moving to a new realm, no longer just imitating, but began to have his own style. No matter what the original version he shot, he could inject his inner strength.

He could clearly feel that he was approaching a director of Spielberg and Christopher Nolan, and this feeling was amazing~~

It has nothing to do with money or reputation, it is just a deep enjoyment within the pure art field. The calm and quiet force in the heart is sprouting and growing... Li Xiaole slowly fell asleep on the soft bed with his eyes closed, as if he was lying on a vast galaxy, falling asleep leisurely and peacefully.

After the first episode of "The Walking Dead" was aired, the outside world had a very good reputation for the series, so no matter how firm Li Xiaole refused, Sony and Fox and other companies were still continuing to negotiate with Pirate TV. All three of them hope to take the strategic initiative on Monday's TV battlefield.

The reason they don't care about Li Xiaole's rejection is because they all believe that the high ratings of the first episode of "The Walking Dead" mainly relies on the popularity of "Plant vs. Zombies", and the ratings of the second episode will definitely drop, which makes them the best time to cooperate with Pirates.

According to the ratings rules, everyone predicts that "The Walking Dead" will have a huge drop in the ratings of episode 2 and 3, and may not return to the average viewership of 6 million people until the 4th episode. If the level does not drop, it may reach 8 million at the end of the season...
Chapter completed!