Becoming Their Guiding Spirit

”Film is a huge concept, the final product of the cooperation of multiple departments. It’s not something one person can just mess around and create.”

Lucas Reeve’s words seemed to have truly bluffed Nian.

She really didn’t understand any of it.

All these years, in her eyes, filmmaking was just shooting whatever and as long as she thought it was okay, it was fine. She never expected there were so many intricacies.

Nian’s gaze towards Lucas Reeve changed in an instant.

It was as if he had transformed into a dear friend and mentor.

”Then!! How should I shoot it! Mr. Reeve.”

”You need a professional team, Miss Nian. You are the director, and in the entire film crew, the director has the final say. How could you possibly hold so many positions at once? Also, distribution is a problem. I imagine, Miss Nian, you’d want to see your movie shown in theaters big and small all across Terra, right? Not just online where only a few people watch it all year.”

”I do!!”

Lucas Reeve smiled and nodded.

”I have someone I’m very close to. Her family has a huge background, they’re even major shareholders in the Columbia Pictures Group. When I go back to Columbia this time, I’ll contact them for you. They will have a professional team to assist you and serve as your crew. Then, after filming is complete, they’ll use all their resources for promotion. All the theaters in Lungmen, big and small, will be able to see your movie right away.”

Lucas Reeve’s words got Nian all worked up.

For a moment, she seemed to have temporarily given up on finding Lucas Reeve and Surtr to be the main characters and shooting the movie herself. In her mind, she was already daydreaming about her movie premiering in Lungmen. Then she would invite her shut-in sister to come out and watch it, letting her witness the skill of her greatest older sister. Just thinking about the look of admiration in her sister’s eyes made Nian feel ecstatic.

”When, Mr. Reeve!!”

Nian asked excitedly.

Lucas Reeve nodded. ”When I... make a trip back to Columbia. Give me your phone number, and I’ll call you as soon as I contact the Columbia Pictures company.”

”Alright!!”

Lucas Reeve breathed a sigh of relief. He’d finally dealt with her.

However, Lucas Reeve didn’t plan to go back on his word. After returning to Columbia, he planned to have Jessica find a second or third-rate small director’s team to give Nian some guidance. After all, for someone like Nian, who was a complete novice among novices, even a second or third-rate director might be too skilled.

Building a good relationship with a Divine Fragment was also a good thing.

Under Lucas Reeve’s verbal barrage, Nian really did stop pestering him to be the main character. Instead, like she had met a like-minded friend with the same hobbies, she began to continuously share the scripts she had written over the years.

For example.

[The story of a genius student from the Yanese Tianshi Fu who loses his cultivation after being injured in a mission. After suffering through ridicule, he cultivates even harder, angrily shouting ’the river flows thirty years east, thirty years west; do not bully the young for being poor!’ He cultivates for 23 hours a day, 24/7, and then finally dies from overwork.]

Or.

[A little girl with the blood of a Higashi nine-tailed fox who has long been unable to summon her Shikigami. Then, during a kidnapping, she successfully summons her Shikigami. However, this Shikigami turns out to be a legendary god. After working hard together, the little girl and the Shikigami fall in love. Decades later, the little girl’s lifespan is exhausted, and she becomes an old woman and finally dies of old age, while the god Shikigami remains the same.]

To be honest.

Strictly speaking.

From Lucas Reeve’s perspective, aside from making one’s eyes glaze over, there weren’t any major problems with these scripts. They had plot twists and gimmicks. As long as the endings were changed, they were quite normal. Perhaps the problem really was with Nian’s filming.

Lucas Reeve shared his thoughts on the scripts. After all, Lucas Reeve had written web novels online in his past life and had a relative understanding.

And Lucas Reeve’s various bizarre and interesting ideas made Nian’s eyes light up. She became even more convinced in her heart that the god before her was her long-lost best friend. They had similar crazy ideas in so many areas. Why hadn’t she met this connoisseur of talent sooner? She would have probably become a famous director long ago.