An offer you can’t refuse (2)
“Is it possible?”
Jang Seung-won quickly focused on the tone full of culture and gentleness.
“That’s what the investor said.”
“Just call me Professor. The term “investor” is more awkward.”
“All right. Anyway, what the professor said is that it would be nice if the background of the engineering college was like that, and it would be nice if Mr. Seo Hoon took on the role of professor, and I hope viewers would have romance and romance in the engineering college campus, and other than that, you are saying that you can plan on your own, right?”
“That’s right. That’s all I need.”
“You mean you don’t care about romance, social accusations, thrillers, sitcoms, or anything like that?”
“Yes.”
“How much do you think about the production cost… … .”
“That’s for management to figure out. With a capital contribution, I did my job. Should I blow it up and eat it?”
Sejong Lee added with a gentle expression.
“Once you have invested, you have to believe and wait. I will persevere until it bears fruit.”
“ah… … .”
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Next to him, Kim Sang-hee was typing something quickly on his phone, as if he had another surge of inspiration.
Jang Seung-won quickly rolled his head and calculated.
‘The concept itself isn’t bad, is it? As long as the script is good, it will sell well enough.’
It is not about satisfying personal taste by creating works that run through minor atrocities.
It is a plan that will work well if it is well extracted from the line of maintaining the concept.
‘Sir Seohun Jeong is playing the role of a professor?’
Jang Seung-won calmly imagined.
A young, model-like professor with a brain of genius in a fancy lab coat.
If you set the age to around mid-late 20s, it would be appropriate, right?
Although the actor is 22 years old, there will be no sense of heterogeneity as he can easily capture the serious atmosphere.
‘Will this upset the viewers?’
The actor himself is a legendary genius who graduated from a high school and entered Korea University’s engineering department at the age of 17.
A few years from now, an engineering professor is a person who is sure to win, so what could be more suitable for the role?
Viewers will be able to be extremely immersed in the main character.
‘Add a few more handsome and pretty college professors… … .’
How about recruiting Cha Do-jin as a colleague and rival professor?
Between the two, Lee Seo-hyun is put in as a professor.
What if Han Seo-hee, who played the role of Daegun’s wife, was an undergraduate student who had a crush on Jung Seo-hoon?
Like a fireworks festival on the Han River on a summer day, all kinds of inspiration explodes in my head.
Jang Seung-won unknowingly clenched his fists.
‘I suddenly want to direct this?’
It has already been over ten years since I directed a genre other than historical dramas.
I imagined that I would continue to direct only historical dramas in the future.
But now, the images that pop up in my head are crying out for me to get out.
At that time, Sanghee Kim stopped typing on her phone and opened her mouth.
“professor. In fact, I have planned a work that is perfect for that. I will have to make amends.”
“Oh, is it?”
“But I think this will cost a lot to produce per synagogue. I’m going to put in a lot of fancy actors and create a noisy laboratory atmosphere.”
“Originally, rap is noisy.”
“The more expensive actors appear, the more drama production costs skyrocket. I think the performance fee per synagogue alone will be close to 2 billion won? In addition, if the quality of props, casting, and sets are brought in high quality, the production cost per episode could come out to more than 4 billion won.”
Extremely realistic calculations poured cold water on Jang Seung-won’s head.
A sense of loss, as if the firecrackers had suddenly gone out, seized Jang Seung-won.
‘yes. A youth drama in which a large amount of expensive actors are put in at once is far from the production trend these days… … .’
“If you need money, spend it. Isn’t that how the output will come out?”
Firecrackers started exploding in Jang Seung-won’s head again.
“Can the professor provide technical advice later? In order to properly document such an atmosphere in an engineering college or research institute, we need advice from current experts.”
“Confirmation?”
Sejong Lee suddenly let out a laugh that sounded like he was drained, and Jang Seung-won looked at him slightly anxiously.
“I said that the KAIST study was a mess.”
“Yes. So we too… … .”
“But if I had done the research properly, it would have been rather boring. It would have been a documentary, not a drama. It would have been difficult to even hold a robot contest during the airing.”
“ah… … .”
“I would do any amount of torture, but historical research in a way that would harm the atmosphere of a romantic laboratory is not allowed. Is this a drama?”
Kim Sang-hee looked at Lee Se-jong with ecstatic eyes like a girl in love.
“Professor, why did you show up just now? How long have I been waiting for someone like you?”
Kim Sang-hee and Lee Se-jong started to exchange conversations because they were beaten.
Mainly, Kim Sang-hee asked questions, and when Lee Se-jong gave a realistic answer, Kim Sang-hee adapted it again to match the atmosphere of ‘Romantic Engineering College’.
“Young and promising handsome genius professor Jeong Seo-hoon! A handsome colleague who is envious of him and keeps him in check, but has a story of his own! Caught between the two, a beautiful female professor from a conglomerate family! how is it?”
“No, writer Kim? You thought exactly the same as me?”
“This is the basic formula for a drama. And graduate students are plastered with young, pretty, handsome, and acting stars. Even if you put three or four smoke stones in there, it won’t show. It’s a flower garden, isn’t it?”
“Yes. It is a flower garden.”
“What do you think, Professor?”
Kim Sang-hee asked excitedly, and Lee Se-jong quietly emptied his glass with his face flushed from alcohol.
A voice that was still smooth and gentle, as if not drunk, answered.
“Actually, Jung is not particularly handsome in our rap.”
“Oh oh.”
“It’s because kids usually can’t wash and decorate themselves, but everyone likes a person if they just wash their face. Please come to our lab later. There are numerous people like Jung.”
“As expected, Korea Institute of Technology is the strongest!”
“Seohun, is what the professor said true?”
Even while Jang Seung-won was drunk, he asked as if he couldn’t believe it.
And Jjambab, a seasoned warlord who has risen to the stars, knows what stance to take in a situation like this.
“I started to hear a lot that I was good-looking while filming Illy Girl.”
“Oh, too!”
“He didn’t know his worth because everyone around him was a swan like him! Alas, poor swans.”
Jang Seung-won even clapped his hands and laughed.
“Originally, good genes are gradually accumulated as generations go down. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. If you look at celebrities, how many people have good brains and good families?”
“Anyway, if we put a lot of pretty boys and girls in Korea Institute of Technology, I’m worried that it will sound like a documentary because it’s too historically accurate… … .”
“Ah, Professor. The historical research that saves the fun of the play is the setting of the geographer. It’s okay, it’s okay.”
Jeong Seo-hoon quietly got away from the three people who were soaked in pleasant excitement and sipped alcohol alone.
* * *
After the daytime drink, Professor Sejong Lee went back to the university.
The PD and the writer were surprised when he said that he was going back to school instead of home.
“Shouldn’t you go home and rest?”
“Anyway, as soon as I wake up, I have to start the project again. It’s more comfortable to eat and sleep at school.”
“Oh my gosh… … . Really, not just any professor.”
“Nowadays, professors talk about dogs and cows. The nobles who become full-time professors do not know anything more than the new doctors, they do not know anything.”
“Then Professor, I’ll see you when the next production company is established.”
“I don’t have anything to change my mind, so feel free to proceed slowly. Now is the time to focus more on the lower extremities, right?”
“Thank you for your consideration.”
A shaggy graduate student showed up to drive the car, and Sejong Lee climbed into the back seat.
Looking at the car moving away, Kim Sang-hee exclaimed with drunken eyes.
“Come to think of it, my professor, your car is a Rolls-Royce Phantom.”
“You are worth hundreds of billions of won, but Phantom is your daily car. Hundreds of billions, right?”
“When I look at Professor Sejong Lee, I feel that he is an ideal professor himself. Wait, but why do graduate students work as drivers?”
“Isn’t that the identity of the profession of a professor that cannot give up this one thing?”
Anyway, today was a holiday for the entire production team, and Jang Seung-won finished lunch with accompaniment, so he made a big decision.
“Let’s go second. I will buy it.”
“How is our store?”
“Good! Let’s go there!”
“I need to contact them to open now.”
It was early, not even before work time, but the party went to Kim Sang-hee’s cocktail bar for the second time.
“PD-nim, you’re so good at drinking, why have you been so strict?”
“It’s not that I hate it. I hate being interrupted by work. One by one, each person is late because of alcohol, and then the overall tempo slows down.”
“PD Song is so careless that he has to wear clothes, but PD Jang is too strict. I wish I could just mix the two and divide it in half again.”
The PD and the writer completely harmonized and had a refreshing drink.
It was the first time that Jeong Seo-hoon and Jang Seung-won were drinking so coolly.
He seems to be in the best mood after hearing a definite answer about the producer’s investment.
“Professor Lee Se-jong and Professor Jeong Tae-hyeon, the professor character would come out of nowhere. Needless to say, Seo Hoon-ssi, I think it will be okay if you show your true self.”
“If I show my true self, the genre will have to change to war.”
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Naturally, both of them thought Jeong Seo-hoon’s words were a joke without context and moved on.
“But even if it’s a romantic youth engineering drama, there should be a villain. Who do you want to be the villain?”
“Of course, we should have Seo Hoon as the villain.”
“Yes? Are you serious, writer?”
“Who else do you ask for a villain besides Seo Hoon? How about an engineering college drama in which the villain professor is the main character?”
“Uh, after listening to it, it seems like something is okay… … .”
“A handsome, young, outstanding, and well-known professor, but it turns out that there is a dark narrative that no one else knows about, and I am walking the path of a mad scientist to resolve it.”
“Uh, do you think you can catch something?”
“It is going to a narrative structure in which the seeds sown by a mad scientist gradually bloom in the romance of a campus where pretty graduate students who adore fellow professors and professor villains hang out together.”
“Seeing that it just came out so quickly, it must have been conceived for quite some time?”
Jang Seung-won repeated his self-talk through his mouth and chewed on Kim Sang-hee’s plan.
She immediately turned on the laptop, opened the word document, and returned it to Jang Seung-won.
“Now, take a look. Assume that you put in pretty and handsome actors all at once, and go to an engineering college campus full of romance in the beginning. Professor A here is the villain, but you have to think of it as being a very handsome person in his mid-to-late 20s in the main character position.”
“Yes, I will consider the revision and read it.”
Jang Seung-won read the script with the corrections to be corrected in his head.
For nearly an hour, he just read the script without saying anything.
Kim Sang-hee sipped alcohol with a hearty smile, and Jung Seo-hoon passed the time by exchanging multi-talk with actresses for nearly an hour for the first time.
[Why do you play with me for so long today?]
[I was bored because I was waiting for a CF shoot, but thanks to Seo Hoon, it wasn’t boring!]
[Oppa, how is the chemistry with senior Lee Seohyun?]
[Tell me honestly. Where are you standing in line to enter?]
Click. Click.
The touchpad clicking sound stopped.
Jang Seung-won was slightly reminded and looked back at Kim Sang-hee.
“I tried imagining Mr. Jeong Seo-hoon to Professor A, and I automatically pictured in my head what the author was planning.”
“Isn’t that bad?”
“Are you okay? In the beginning, I enjoyed the atmosphere of a youth sitcom in a twisted feeling of not being like Kim Sang-hee, but when I woke up, I felt like I was immersed in Kim Sang-hee’s spiciness.”
“I need to do a little more editing. There’s almost nothing to touch on the lower extremity now, so I’ll just have to hold on to it leisurely.”
“Are you going to do this with PD Song rather than me?”
“What are you talking about? PD-nim is in charge of production. It will be produced by the professor’s company.”
“So you’re giving the megaphone to PD Song?”
Jang Seung-won will be in charge of production as an executive of the production company. For a broadcasting station, he is acting as the head of the drama department and head of the production headquarters.
“Why, are you greedy? But PD-nim is an expert in historical dramas. He said that the modern background is not very interesting, and he only did historical dramas for a long time.”
“I did, but I feel like I really want to try this. I was going to take a good rest for a few months after the drama ended, but the thought of vacation disappeared completely.”
“I heard that since I have to run a production company, I won’t be able to take a proper break anyway.”
A clever tug-of-war goes back and forth under the laughter that the PD and the writer exchange.
Jeong Seo-hoon observed such tension without averting his gaze.
The hand holding the phone pretends nothing is wrong and types it indifferently.
Jungwoo Song
PD-nim, if you don’t come to the bar in Cheongdam-dong right now, it’ll be a big deal.
What happen?
It’s an atmosphere where you’ll be entering new works one after another after PD-nim Jang’s performance is over.
I know what it is. Thank you. I’m going right there
A wild typo tells Song Jeong-woo’s urgency.
Jeong Seo-hoon thought of Jang Seung-won and Song Jeong-woo, who would be running, with the cold eyes of the production company ‘Director’.
Which of the two is qualified to bear the weight of the megaphone?
‘Professor, it’s an experiment that costs money, no, it’s a work, so I have to be careful.’