Chapter 292 A Story About Friendship (Third Update!)

After hearing Yin Jun's words, Spielberg turned around and sat down, "You tell me."

If Spielberg still has some doubts about Yin Jun’s vision and impulse in investing in movies, but after knowing Yin Jun’s achievements in screenwriting across Asia, Spielberg will not ignore Yin Jun’s Every word of the creative aspect of the script.

"I once had a dream about a man walking on the moon." Yin Jun said, "So based on this dream, I conceived a story about an alien life and becoming a child on the earth. The story of a good friend.”

Spielberg's eyes widened, and he finally suppressed his desire to speak.

As he listened, he joined God even more.

Yin Jun carefully told him the story of an ugly but very gentle and kind botanist from an alien planet who became friends with a lonely child and returned home with the help of the child.

That's not all.

But when Spielberg was immersed in Yin Jun's description, Yin Jun took out a stack of papers from his bag.

Spielberg saw at a glance that on the first piece of drawing paper, above a big full moon, a child was riding a small bicycle. In the front basket of the bicycle, there was a painting of some kind of creature.

"Oh my God!"

Spielberg exclaimed in surprise. He snatched Yin Jun's drawings and started reading them one by one.

The second picture is of an exaggeratedly thin and slender hand that obviously does not look like a human hand, and a hand that is obviously that of a child. Both have a finger stretched out, and then touch together, a bright light spot. At this point it blossoms.

Then the third picture is of the alien. Although it looks ugly, a bit like a frog or a fly, its big eyes and expression are full of gentleness.

The fourth picture is a portrait of a little boy. He has blond hair, is not tall, but is full of childlike smile.

The fifth picture...

The sixth picture...

After reading it excitedly, Spielberg ignored Lucas's surprised expression and held the drawings tightly. He grabbed Yin Jun with his other hand: "Jun, listen to me... I don't know what I'm saying." What to say...gosh, I can't think of anyone like me...you know, what we have...oh, this story is mine, right?...You want me to film it, right? ?...I do! I do!"

All right.

If he hadn't been here, Yin Jun would have thought he was hearing the words of a happy woman who accepted her boyfriend's marriage.

A group of people who were drafting a contract not far away looked at Spielberg one after another, not knowing what happened to make him so excited.

Lucas was also a little demented. He had never seen Spielberg lose his temper like this.

He didn't think there was anything special about Yin Jun's story. He even thought Spielberg wouldn't like it. Last year, Spielberg also planned a movie about evil aliens abducting people on earth.

Yin Jun's idea is obviously contrary to him!

However, in this world, only Yin Jun knows why Spielberg is so excited.

Because this dream originally belonged to Spielberg, and this idea also belonged to Spielberg, but he has not yet formed a complete system.

He will have to wait until next year when he goes to Europe to shoot the exterior scenes of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to string together these fragmented memories and fantasies, and then hand them over to a screenwriter he is familiar with to compile a complete story.

the name of this story

called

"E.T."

This childlike film, which brought Spielberg worldwide acclaim for the first time, was also a super popular film.

After the filming of "E.T.", the global box office reached US$800 million! !

Even in 2016, this result ranked 60th in global film history! !

And this is 800 million US dollars in 1982!

If inflation is taken into account, it will be at least US$3 billion in 2020!

This is still the United States. If it were placed in China, the purchase value would have exceeded 10 billion US dollars!

The record of "E.T." was not broken until almost ten years later by another Spielberg classic movie - Jurassic Park, which grossed a huge $1 billion at the box office!

This is just a box office record. "E.T." has made a lot of money from various peripheral derivatives, and it has been making money steadily. It has accumulated at least 2 billion US dollars!

Yin Jun didn't really want to leave "E.T." to others, he wanted to make this classic movie himself.

But it was too late.

At the latest, Spielberg will string together his memories next year and then plan it.

Of course, Yin Jun can use his own copyright registration to prevent Spielberg from making this movie, but what good will this do to Yin Jun?

The reason why a classic becomes a classic is that it appears where it should appear at the right time, at the right node.

"E.T." should also be directed by Spielberg, a talented director, in order to become a classic.

Therefore, Yin Jun simply proposed this idea first and asked Spielberg to cooperate with him.

It took him five or six hours yesterday afternoon to draw these portraits and write a brief script.

As usual, Tang Shuxuan spent three hours in the morning translating Yin Jun's script of more than 20,000 words into English.

As for whether he will cooperate with Yin Jun...

hehe.

You can tell by looking at Spielberg's excited expression whether he is willing or not.

After Spielberg calmed down a little, Yin Jun took out the script and said, "Stephen, I am very happy that you like this story... In fact, it also proves that you are the person with a childlike innocence. I read you right, There is always childlike interest and innocence in your thinking. This is a brief script I wrote, which is more detailed than what I said. You can take a look at it first, and then we can talk about cooperation."

Spielberg took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and carefully read Yin Jun's script with the title "E.T." written on it.

When Lucas saw this, he gave Yin Jun a kick under the table and whispered: "What did you do? He still needs to be at the helm of our movie. If he wants to make your movie, your 20 million is ready to be used." Pretty?"

Spielberg would read the script and ignore everything outside, so Lucas wouldn't worry about him hearing it.

Yin Jun also lowered his voice: "I just showed it to him, and didn't ask him to shoot immediately. I won't find a chance to show him the script now. He is such a big director, and his film appointments must be one after another. I can grab it Can you beat others?"

Lucas was speechless, made a "you are awesome" gesture, and simply looked at the drawing book that Yin Jun gave Spielberg just now.

For someone like Lucas who is good at making "space operas", he actually also has a strong childlike innocence. Otherwise, how did the two living robots in "Star Wars" come from?

After watching it for a while, Lucas also saw the rich friendship contained in it, as well as the overflowing childlike innocence.

Before he could speak, Spielberg had already read the script, raised his head and asked directly: "Jun, what conditions do you want to ensure that I have full control of this movie?"

Spielberg is not the kind of frivolous person, and he will not neglect reading the script. However, there are many things in this script that he has thought about before. It can even be said that he can understand it at a glance and remember it in his mind. Forming a movie scene.

So he saw quickly, but with more concentration than before.

After reading the script, Spielberg knew that Yin Jun had not written the script wrongly. The story was still the one he had just heard. It was very beautiful, very childlike, and very attractive.

In this case, that's enough.

He needs to direct a movie like this.

This movie cannot be left to another person, this is his movie!

"I don't have any conditions, as long as you make this movie as good as possible." Yin Jun said, "Don't worry about the funding. We will follow the rules in all contracts... Oh, by the way, this movie, I want you to finish Raiders of the Lost Ark before you start planning."

Obviously, Lucas gave Yin Jun another kick just now, signaling him not to forget the agreement just now.

Spielberg was also very satisfied with Yin Jun's straightforwardness.

On the other hand, he didn't care much about the treatment issue mentioned by Yin Jun. Anyway, he liked this story. It could be said that this story was what he dreamed of. If he didn't complete it, he would have a huge regret.

Of course, he also believed that Yin Jun was not that stupid and would really give himself a very harsh condition.

In contrast, Spielberg prefers what Yin Jun said, not to worry about financial commitments.

What director doesn't like investors talking like this?

Thinking of the "E.T." script, Spielberg felt a little itchy, "By the way, George, what do you think we will form a team next month? Anyway, you are almost ready... I agree to use Harrison Ford, is this okay?”

George Lucas is more of a businessman than a movie director.

When he heard this, he nodded. If he could start work earlier and make a movie earlier, he would be able to release it sooner. That would be money!

"Okay, I also agree with your idea to go to Europe to shoot outdoor scenes." Lucas reciprocated. "I will contact you as soon as possible with your cooperation team. Don't worry, I will equip you with the equipment that best suits your needs. I am not afraid of money." many."

Seeing the two singing together, Yin Jun was speechless.

Although you are using my money, can you be a little more restrained?

Fortunately, you are not a wasteful person like truck drivers, otherwise my little wealth is really not enough for you!