A Genius Director Who Dominates OTT Platforms - Chapter 83

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The Genius Director Who Dominates OTT

Episode 83

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When we launched Accomplice, the signals that the drama was a hit were clearly visible.

I’m not just talking about metrics, but you could easily find stories about Accomplice all over the internet.

But Handtip Crawl is different.

It’s not just visible…

“The whole world is Handtip Crawl.”

You can’t not see it.

Our drama has become a kind of trend.

Comedians are creating E-sports related skits on their respective YouTube channels and parodying Han Guk-yeong’s press conference.

Baseball fans are waving cheering banners that say ‘You guys are professionals too!’, and Jeon So-ra is contemplating in front of countless advertising love calls pouring in.

I heard she’s thinking about doing a TOOL commercial first…

Isn’t that a bit strange?

In the show, she’s the villain trying to destroy Seong-hwa Empire.

I guess it doesn’t matter since her role isn’t attacking the game itself?

Kim Ra-un has completely shed his Youngpal image and made a spectacular comeback.

People no longer call Kim Ra-un a ‘trendy star’.

They call him an actor.

Thanks to that, love calls are pouring in from Chungmuro.

The film industry is surprisingly picky about using handsome actors who hit it big in the drama industry, but his acting skills playing Park Seong-hwa seem to have properly stimulated the directors.

Especially, there are many directors who fell for how he even changed his voice to play a forty-year-old, according to rumors.

Actor Min Jae-ryul and Min-sik Sunbae aren’t doing as well as the two mentioned earlier, but they’re doing well enough.

The only place where there’s noise is probably Luhan’s fandom?

You know those characters.

Characters that you understand why they act that way, but watching them makes you frustrated enough to curse.

That’s exactly Pi Do-seon.

-That fucking Pi Do-seon’s mom is really pissing me off.

-I wish Pi Do-seon would have some backbone too, damn it.

-Maybe because Luhan is an idol, he’s so good at acting like he’s reading the room that it’s infuriating.

-It’s method acting he’s been honing since his trainee days lol

-I want to pluck out his eyeballs when he rolls them.

Moreover, Pi Do-seon has quite a significant role until episode 3, but his role steadily decreases until episode 10.

Yet just when you’re about to forget him, storylines related to his mother appear, making viewers feel rejection toward the character.

But it can’t be helped.

Episode 11 is by Pi Do-seon, for Pi Do-seon, and from episode 12, the awakened Pi Do-seon will become Seong-hwa Empire’s masterpiece.

Pi Do-seon’s fandom, unaware of this fact, is cursing at me asking if I brought him just to use him as a decorative punching bag.

I can’t spoil the drama content just because I’m scared of criticism, so I’m enduring it.

Now that we’ve reached episode 8, there isn’t much left until Pi Do-seon’s awakening.

Meanwhile, the fact that Handtip Crawl has reached episode 8 means Oxygen Warning has reached episode 12.

Oxygen Warning, racing toward its finale, is still doing well.

It has secured a solid fixed fanbase, and Tae-ung’s fandom is praising it daily, calling it an ‘eye candy drama’.

But…

【Will ‘Oxygen Warning’ fail to become the second ‘Four Seas’?】

【Oxygen Warning, unlike its solid domestic viewership, overseas rankings are declining】

【Actor Tae-ung’s power remains strong, but what about the drama content’s power? Questionable】

Its expandability has declined.

The overseas boom died down faster than expected, and it failed to secure additional domestic inflow.

According to rumors, CL 3 Team thinks it’s all my fault, but that’s completely wrong.

The biggest problem was the story organization issues starting around episode 9.

To be precise, the characters and story are in conflict.

If you save the characters, the story dies, and if you save the story, the characters die – it entered that kind of phase.

The density uniformity problem I felt when I first saw the script.

But it was such a subtle problem that even monitoring couldn’t catch it, so they’re blaming everything on me.

Even without us, a similar phenomenon would have definitely occurred.

Of course, Oxygen Warning isn’t a drama that failed to break even or failed at all.

It definitely succeeded.

If converted to terrestrial TV ratings, it would be just under 15%.

It’s also ranked 2nd in the integrated content rankings that include all terrestrial and OTT works.

It’s just that Handtip Crawl in 1st place is too strong.

When converted to terrestrial TV ratings, we’re calculated at least 20% or higher.

Generously speaking, you could say we’ve surpassed 25%.

So is Oxygen Warning an ordinary person born in the era of Handtip Crawl?

There was also something that added fuel to this situation.

-Next news. The ‘E-sports fever’ blowing through the drama industry is creating opportunities for conversation between parents and children.

-Housewife Jeon Hee-yeon recently watched a drama together with her son…

Although it came after an important segment in the culture news section, our drama was mentioned positively on terrestrial news.

I thought if the frame was set wrong, we might hear that we’re ‘encouraging game addiction among students’…

What kind of luck is this?

But as expected, there’s no such thing as luck in this world.

[Netflix General Manager Cha Seong-u: How is it? Netflix is attractive, right?]

It was the result of General Manager Cha Seong-u personally pulling strings.

Honestly, I was impressed.

This is why people need to play in big waters.

I never once thought about being able to lead terrestrial news.

With the situation like this, many people are experiencing stomach aches.

Excluding Oxygen Warning since that’s too obvious, there are many complainers of stomach pain.

First, there’s Hyen Games, Dayz, and GE Magazine.

Hyen and Dayz are beating the ground in regret, saying they shouldn’t have caused trouble, and it’s spread everywhere that GE Magazine didn’t even glance at TOOL because they thought our drama would collapse.

Next would be MBY?

The MBY manager who had made a scouting offer to me called with a deep sigh.

-Director Do. I’m really curious about this, but did you immediately think ‘this is it’ as soon as you saw PD Yeom’s script?

Honestly, I don’t know.

My superpower activated as soon as I received the script, so I looked at it carefully.

But even without the superpower, I don’t think I would have just thrown it away.

I answered ‘yes’ to save Writer Yeom’s face and ended the call…

“This morning, the MBY Drama Department CPs and PDs got scolded by the manager. He asked how they could just sit on a golden egg for 15 years.”

“Is that even possible?”

“That manager seems to have quite a hot temper, doesn’t he?”

“No, how is it possible to obtain that kind of information so fast?”

I talked on the phone yesterday evening?

Is it possible to get information about what happened this morning so quickly?

I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I changed Seong Tae-chang’s hearing ability to ‘unmeasurable’.

It was a title I had never given up no matter how capable Sung Tae-chang was…

Anyway, if there are people with stomach aches, there are also people raising toasts.

The most excited was TT Engine.

-Really, it won’t work?

“Absolutely not.”

-We’ll really do a good job selecting.

“Really, absolutely not.”

This crazy president contacted me asking if he could print my face on a huge banner and hang it at the company.

When I said absolutely not, he asked if he could create a new character called ‘Domen’.

When I said that wasn’t allowed either, he desperately begged, saying he’d pay a portion of the skin sales revenue.

Honestly, I was a bit tempted by that, but I ultimately said no.

I don’t know how much money would come in, but I can’t destroy my social persona.

TOOL is really doing well these days.

Among teenagers, they say if you don’t play this game, you can’t join conversations.

According to Yun Hyeon-sol’s evaluation, who’s a hardcore gamer, it was originally a well-made game.

It’s finally getting the recognition it deserves.

Just as excited as TT Engine was Netflix, which hit consecutive home runs after 【The President I Made】.

D.P, which has both Kim Ra-un and Kang Min-sik.

And.

“Hyeon-u. Want to go on an overseas trip?”

Our SSK.

“What overseas trip all of a sudden?”

“Well, I just want to send you. Looking at you these days, I want to send you to space.”

The Manager has been grinning for weeks now.

Oxygen Warning did well, and Handtip Crawl did well too, and we own 95% of Handtip Crawl’s IP.

Everything we touch turns to money.

“I’m busy to death, what overseas trip?”

“You’d go after the busy period ends. We’ll gather all our actors too, like a reward vacation.”

“Really?”

“Really.”

“What about the staff?”

“Usually we don’t send freelance staff on reward vacations… But I’ll try to push for it.”

“If it’s just trying, that’s problematic. If the freelance staff don’t go, I won’t go either.”

Without Coach Jo Tae-seok and Coach O Jun-jae, even organizing the credits would have been difficult.

“Okay. Deal. I’ll definitely send them.”

“Oh, I should contact them.”

I sent messages to the coaches with glee, then carefully spoke up.

“But how are our contract negotiations with Tivic going?”

I was cautious wondering if a second-year CE could ask such things, but the Manager was cool about it.

“Very, very, very comfortably negotiating.”

“Is there a high probability of extending the contract?”

“There is, but we probably won’t go for complete exclusivity. Even if we do, it’ll be giving Tivic first look rights, or exclusivity gets lifted after meeting annual quotas. After tasting Netflix, I really felt the difference in scale.”

“It was definitely enormous.”

“Korean viewers are flexible in platform choice, so word of mouth works fine, but overseas is on a different level.”

I was hanging out in the Manager’s office, which had become familiar, when this happened.

Suddenly the Manager’s phone vibrated, and someone was looking for me.

“Hyeon-u, you’re being called to the President’s Office right now?”

It was President Han Seong-hun.

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I was flustered seeing the numbers in the documents placed before me.

The amount of incentive scheduled for me was too much, no, does this make sense?

“President. Isn’t the unit wrong?”

I can’t imagine President Han Seong-hun making mistakes, but as a human, he could make errors, right?

Like approving documents where the Finance Team added an extra zero.

Honestly, even with one less zero, it would be a satisfying amount.

Then President Han Seong-hun smiled.

“Is there one less zero?”

“What? No. That can’t be. That doesn’t make sense.”

“Then just sign it.”

“Um, yes.”

I was a bit surprised, but there’s no reason not to take money they’re offering, right?

With this, a house… is out of the question.

Seoul housing prices are insane.

Should I buy a car first?

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