Chapter 803: Spinning Top, the God Who Pulls Friends

2007 passed, 08 came.

The New Line studio, which was bought not long ago, is now a construction site.

In addition to renovating the interior and exterior, building a new building complex, and expanding the warehouse for storing filming equipment, some required interior scenes are being laid at the same time.

Because the first crew received by the studio was "The Incredible Hulk", the scenes of the laboratory and part of the street scenes will be filmed here, so they were arranged in advance.

Lehmann looked at all this with some relief, feeling a kind of busy labor charm, after all, this is their future industry.

When I was immersed in myself, a phone call came, it was a spinning top.

After this guy finished filming "Pan's Labyrinth", he finally had enough rest, and the call was for the movie.

Knowing this, Lehmann drove back to the Firefly Building, feeling very good.

At this stage, increasing the production output is of great benefit to the company's development. Does one more project add more strength?

Lehman's expectation for the company this year is to release at least 10 films, and the number is still difficult.

Going to the front door to greet him with a smile, Laiman did not expect that in addition to the top, there was a man with small eyes and a wide forehead standing beside him.

"Who is this?"

The man was a little cautious, but the top introduced: "His name is Juan Antonio Bayana, and he is a director."

"Just call me Juan, Mr. Rust," said Juan.

Welcoming the two enthusiastically, Lehmann understood a little when he saw the situation.

A director, especially a director who has not yet become famous is always short of investment.

Sure enough, a few people met and chatted for a while, and some things were raised in a very euphemistic manner.

Top has known Juan since 1993, but at that time he was still a journalist and had some passion for movies. In his spare time, he would go to an art school to study.

Later, when "Pan's Labyrinth" was filmed in other places, I went to Spain, and they were close, and the two of them met more often.

At this time, Juan had graduated from the film academy, and he usually took jobs such as advertisements and MVs, but in the process, he met a lot of friends in the circle. One of them, a screenwriter named Sanchez, had a hot chat with him. He handed over a new script he wrote, "Spiritual Orphanage" to Juan.

Although Juan became a director halfway through his career, he has a certain market vision and felt that the script was a bit tricky, so he wanted to film it and put it on the big screen.

But Juan's family conditions are just average, with more than enough food and clothing, but he can't talk about being rich, and he has no spare money, so he can't really sell his house to fight for his directorial dream.

No, no, his parents will hack to death his unfilial son.

Heck, back to the point.

Even if you don't hire high-paid actors, "Spiritual Orphanage" will cost 3 million US dollars just for the cost of filming.

What if you don't have so much money on hand? Find the gold master.

But he is just a newcomer. After asking around, the local film and television company in Spain ignored him at all. When he happened to chat with Tuo Luo about this, Tuo Tuo took it, because the character of this guy is like this, and he is willing to talk about it. Friends do their best.

But after thinking about it carefully, the Spanish market has no future, and if he wants to release it, he must first ask Lehmann to see if he is willing to invest, so he asked Juan to write the script in English and put it on Hollywood. , to make some minor adjustments according to the market over there.

Juan is very excited, and yearns for the unfamiliar Hollywood. No one has led the way before, but now he is willing to spend his time when he encounters it.

The script was replaced by a version, and Sanchez explained that Juan contacted the top, and then rested at his house for a few days.

It wasn't until I was almost ready that I rushed over.

As for the top, in addition to serving as the producer of "Spiritual Orphanage", the new work chose Hellboy's second "Golden Legion".

Under Juan's expectant gaze, Lehmann took over the script.

After flipping through it for a while, he fixed his gaze on the spinning top.

What kind of vision is this?

Only after watching the plot did Lehman know that this Nima is not "The Thriller of the Lonely Castle", which created the box office myth of Spanish movies that sell well in the world. Department of small cost dark horse.

The "Wooden Man" game set in the script is hard to forget after seeing it.

Because this film has always maintained an indescribable sense of mystery from the beginning to the end, a series of unimaginable strange things happened in the Lone Castle always kept the audience a kind of peeping curiosity in the uneasy and uneasy. of death.

Especially in the famous scene, the little boy walking slowly in the corridor with a hood, and the game "One, Two, Three, Wooden Man" to recruit ghosts, a few of them played very well.

At this moment, Lehman can be considered to understand why this piece of clothing is so textured, and it must be inseparable from the top.

Thinking about it in his heart, Juan, who was sitting opposite Laiman, has been quietly watching the situation.

But it seems that this well-known director doesn't seem to have other emotional fluctuations, and the speed of reading the script is very fast. Could it be that he can't read it?

I can't blame Juan for thinking too much. He has seen too many similar scenes. Some people see it as a horror theme and an old castle type. It's not good whether he can make a profit, and he is a newcomer who is unwilling to transfer the project. After a few hesitations, he still did not vote.

Lehman was still thinking about things, but Juan became more and more nervous, for fear of getting another rejected answer.

But how is that possible.

Even if it wasn't a dark horse movie that broke through in the previous life, "The Story of the Lonely Castle" was first released in Spain, earning 8.3 million in four days, and almost won the local annual championship, and then it entered the attention of many overseas distributors, adding subtitles, The dubbing was made into an English version and sold all over the world.

The investment of several million is also sprinkled, and this amount of money is really nothing for the fireflies at this time.

The Spanish market is too far-reaching, and there is no capital at all, so the local studios are crazy superstitious about big directors and rarely support newcomers. If Juan doesn't know Gyro, but has some connections in Hollywood, he can use this script. Pull to invest.

If nothing else, Lionsgate is a specialist in horror films, and it is basically successful as long as it is not too bad to invest in Lionsgate with this theme.

In fact, it is a matter of poor cognition and information channels. After all, Juan has never been in Hollywood.

"Director Bayana, it's like this, I made a firefly cast for this project."

"Huh? Ah, just call me by my name." After speaking, Juan looked at the top.

The top of the face I knew it would be such an expression.

But before he came, Gyro was full of confidence and assured that he would definitely get the investment, because Lehmann was a cheerful person with a good vision, so it was impossible not to see the project market - if it was too bad, Gyro would let the screenwriter change it. Compositing, beauty, and directing are all in one, and the director is a genius, and he has a lot of personality.

In the original time and space, this guy also refused the invitation of the director of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and insisted on exploring his personal image style.

"Then, Juan, you make a shooting plan. After the project is approved, Firefly will be responsible for the funding, production, and distribution. You can prepare the crew with peace of mind. As for the actors, I propose to choose one or two Hollywood actors to promote the future release. There will be benefits."

In the previous life, the team of Spanish actors in "The Lonely Castle" actually limited the distribution of the film a little. At least in the United States, the film market here is very exclusive, and in terms of cultural inclusiveness, there are basically no films from other countries that are particularly dazzling after entering. .

They say freedom is actually closed.

Of course, Juan was already very tempting to get the filming funds, and his own goal was to break into Hollywood. He listened very seriously to Lehman's words and nodded repeatedly.

Layman was also happy when the matter was settled.

This project is undoubtedly very valuable. It is also a horror movie. The viewing group is relatively small, and there is not much pressure on the publicity. Blue Butterfly Pictures can fully afford it. As for overseas, it is naturally handed over to Lionsgate.

After Juan got the promise, his body felt fluttering.

Next to him, Tuo saw that the matter of "The Story of the Lonely Castle" was settled, and he also mentioned the project "Golden Legion" that he was going to shoot.

This guy still hasn't forgotten his Hellboy. Although the first movie has a small profit margin in terms of revenue, but with his unique aesthetic, he likes this strange character - with long horns on his head and red all over his body. The product of the system of serving Huadao.