Chapter 1348 1348 Many Choices

Although Hugo didn't nod to accept the work, Rick knew that asking Hugo to nod before he saw the script would not be enough for Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin.

However, this is the second time after "Mission Impossible" that Hugo has expressed a positive response to a large-scale commercial film, which is the first step to success for Rick. Rick knew that Hugo had taken his own advice anyway, and that was a good thing. Therefore, Rick is also praying secretly in his heart that this project currently named "Doomsday" is best worthy of Kevin's efforts to plan.

Although Sergio said that Roland, Dean and Hugo could be arranged to meet, but in Rick's view, they were simply not enough, and there was no need for Hugo to come forward in person. He would talk to him first, if necessary , after the script is shown to Hugo, it is not too late to arrange for them to meet.

After sending Rick away, Hugo suddenly remembered that "Independence Day" was Will Smith's top work. The "Jedi Men" in 1995 made Will successfully enter the big screen from the small screen. After that, "Independence Day" and "Men in Black" made him the first real black box office superstar, and then started his ten-year career as a top box office superstar, known as "Shi Huang", and Dan Ze El-Washington together supported the days of black Hollywood actors.

Steven and Hugo talked twice about the "Men in Black" project, and then the script was directly rewritten and rewritten. There is no news until now, while the "Independence Day" project has changed its trajectory. Twentieth Century Fox has gone from a From the beginning, Hugo was locked in as the leading actor - of course, provided that Rick's "Doomsday" and Hugo's "Independence Day" are the same project.

In fact, "Independence Day" chose a black man like Will as the male protagonist. There is no so-called political correctness, because the standpoint of this film is to fight against aliens - more precisely, Americans against aliens people. Hugo remembered that at the beginning of the preparation of this project, the male protagonist was white, but before the official actor was selected, Will entered the line of sight, so they chose the fast-rising Will.

However, as a black actor, Will played the leading role in "Independence Day", which still has a huge appeal to black audiences, especially the great cause of blacks and whites working together to save the earth, which makes American audiences addicted. "Independence Day" provided the weight for its box-office success -- although it's uncertain how much the black factor really matters.

If Hugo starred in "Independence Day", Hugo's strong appeal would match Will's appeal to save the earth as a black person. I don't know how the box office results of "Independence Day" will change, whether it will rise or not. fell.

More curiously, if Will didn't make it to "Independence Day," would his future accomplishments matter? Before Hugo replaced Tom Hanks in "Sleepless in Seattle" and Keanu Reeves in "Life and Death", the wheel of history finally returned to the track in another way, Tom and Keanu both Still a huge success. But Will is different. It is not so easy for black actors to make a breakthrough in Hollywood.

But these are just conjectures. Nothing has been confirmed yet. Let's wait for Rick to meet with Roland first.

Hugo originally thought that new works would not be picked up until at least after this year's Oscars are over, but now it seems that opportunities for Hollywood are almost every day, and things often develop beyond plan. But thinking about it carefully, Hugo also rested for more than three months this time. He originally wanted to use this time to think about the third album of Glory to the Dead. Unfortunately, the progress is still not big, and the music bottleneck is still stuck. If there is a suitable work, it is not impossible to put it back to work again.

Thinking of this, Hugo looked down at the big box that Rick had left on the ground, let out a long breath, hesitated for a moment, sat up cross-legged, and started flipping through the box.

Since Hugo was at home alone today, he turned the script a lot more casually. He didn't need to act like he did and read the script in front of other people. He still had an impression of most of the scripts, so he knew the works of these works. Pros and cons can be directly judged.

As Rick said, in fact, the scripts that have been handed to Hugo are various, almost all themes and production scales, and almost every role is rushed to Hugo, although this shows that Hollywood is currently Hugo's trust and affirmation, at least after Hugo successively filmed works of murderers such as "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Death Row Walk", they still affirmed Hugo's diversity and absolute ability, but this still made Rain. If some cry.

Warner Brothers' "Four Brothers of Pride" script is in it, obviously hoping that Hugo and Barry Levinson can work together again, plus the cast of Kevin Bacon and Robert De Niro, The cooperation intention is very firm.

In fact, this work is not well-known, but Hugo knows it, of course not because the hero is Brad Pitt, but because this work has a profound discussion on morality and society, and the plot is similar to " The revenge story of "The Count of Monte Cristo", but the style is closer to the combination of "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Righteousness" - a reflection of the darkness of society, a discussion of intolerance to the law and the mercy of the law.

Objectively speaking, the script of "Four Brothers of Pride" is very good, and the story is deep enough, even more profound than "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Heroes of Righteousness", and the depth of excavation is also more thought-provoking. But it is a pity that Barry's technique lacks new ideas, and the lack of detail outline greatly reduces the quality of the finished product, and also makes many highlights in the plot are missed, and directly leads to the actor's play space is limited. is a pity.

Although I don't want to admit it, the fact is that Barry's inspiration and touch gradually disappeared after "Rain Man".

However, the reason Hugo put the script on the part he didn't want to take was not because of Barry, but because the theme of "Four Brothers of Pride" was similar to "Seven Deadly Sins", and it was even more heavy, and the male protagonist was a lawyer. Hugo does not want to take on such works for a short time.

In addition, Warner Bros. actually handed over the draft of the "Batman and Robin" script, saying that it was a draft, but in fact it was just a one-page plot summary, and the script was not published at all, which made Hugo very interesting.

"Batman and Robin" put forward a super high cost of 125 million US dollars at the draft stage. Obviously, he wanted to create a box office giant. Unfortunately, it backfired and this work became the Batman series. The worst of them all, not only has a bad reputation, it bears a lot of infamy, and it almost became a shameful record, and the box office is a disaster. Although the book cost did not lose money, it actually made Warner Brothers lose money and almost fainted, directly. As a result, Warner Bros. put the Batman series on the shelf, and waited until Christopher Nolan came out ten years later to make Batman bloom again.

However, Warner Bros. will hand the script of "Batman and Robin" to Hugo. In fact, this is also a signal. Since the "007" series and "Mission Impossible" successively had "gossips" with Hugo, Hollywood is also Step by step to connect Hugo with superheroes, including this time "Independence Day", they tried to borrow Hugo's good image and detonated a more heavyweight bomb.

After the 21st century, after the "Spider-Man" series became a magic weapon, the works of the two comic giants Marvel and DC became the most powerful box office cash cows in the next decade. What happened earlier in history?

Maybe Hugo will be able to know the result when he starred in "Batman and Robin". Sadly, Hugo has no such plans, at least not yet.

Beyond that, Warner Bros.'s script is lackluster, with romantic comedies like "Tin. Cup," action movies like "Executive. Decision," and "The Martian Fun." "Earth (Mars. Attacks)" such as slanted slasher comedies, etc., the subject matter is very diverse, but Hugo is not too interested.

Columbia Pictures didn't know if it was a bit of a burnout, or just a little tired of Hugo's nitpicking. They submitted eight scripts, but the quality was very mediocre, and even "The. Mirror. Has. Two." Faces)", which is useless except for the great Barbra Streisand, directed and played by himself, and the character is not suitable for Hugo - let Hugo and Barbra fall in love ? This age gap is unreasonable.

However, Columbia Pictures still has a heavyweight work. It can be seen that they still attach great importance to Hugo. In addition to quantity, the quality has not completely lost its level.

"Mr. Sweetheart" can definitely be called a famous one. This work can be said to be one of the representatives of the super high-quality film works in the 1990s. Like "Forrest Gump", this work has a good harvest at the box office and awards. This kind of situation is less common in the twenty-first century - Oscar seems to be allergic to commercial movies, and works that are too outstanding at the box office are difficult to achieve outstanding results in the eyes of the academy old school.

"Mr. Sweetheart" not only continued Tom Cruise's meteoric rise at the box office, making him the first myth in film history to have five consecutive films exceeding 100 million at the box office - now it should be the second in film history, but also Tom got his second Oscar nomination for best actor. Although he failed to win the award in the end, "Mr. Sweetheart" has become another masterpiece recognized by the Academy for Tom, who has made great achievements in commercial films.

But apart from "Mr. Sweetheart", there seems to be nothing that can enter Hugo's eyes. I just don't know if the quality of the work has declined, or if Hugo has become more critical.