Chapter 513 Returning to China

The Oscars are also divided into small years. In the original time and space, this year's nominated movies "The Queen", "Little Miss Sunshine", "Letters from Iwo Jima", "Tower of Babel", "The Departed"...

"The Queen" has typical Oscar taste, but the quality of the film is weak. "Little Miss Sunshine" is not that good. "Letters from Iwo Jima" is a standard Eastwood movie. The problem is that Eastwood made it in the first two years. Having just won an Oscar, "Tower of Babel" is not a typical Oscar film, and the director is still a new generation foreigner;

"The Departed", a new film by the country's national treasure, is not as sharp as the previous films. The market response has been very good. If we don't give it an award, we will be embarrassed!

So, straight to Martin Scorsese…

"Carol" also has atypical Oscar tastes, and "Brokeback Mountain" only won the Oscar for Best Director last year. The probability of "Carol" winning the award is very low...

After analyzing it, Harvey explained: "But the nomination is still guaranteed..."

"As long as I can get nominated,"

Shen Xudong nodded and asked about "Seeing the Devil": "If Leonardo plays the role, the cost may have to increase, right?"

"...That's for sure, but as long as he is willing to star, he will definitely make money!"

Leonardo is a Hollywood wonder.

Let's put it this way, as long as Hollywood is the center of world cinema, even a hundred years later, young people will still remember him, just like we now remember the big stars in the golden age.

He is a Hollywood icon. To put it more exaggeratedly: all the value and significance of Hollywood's existence in the world shine through him.

Anyway, as long as the label sees his name, it will give him the green light without any nonsense.

Therefore, projects such as "The Great Gatsby" and "The Revenant" could not be acted by anyone else. As soon as he joined, he was successful!

As long as he is there, you can make money. Even if you can't make money at the box office, you can still make money from the video copyright!

Harvey continued: "If you want to cooperate with him, I think it's best to leave the script to me to run..."

"...Let's talk about it. I'll go back and discuss it with Joseph Drake..."

Harvey's expression changed: "Has the script been registered?"

"Well...Joseph Drake helped register it."

"You won't work with us?"

"This is not the same type of thing at all," Shen Xudong paused and continued: "If we follow the model of "Grind Room", I think we can make a "Pinhole Hotel"..."

"Hotel?"

"Yes, a couple who were about to divorce had to temporarily stay in a motel in the wilderness after their car broke down... After entering the hotel, the husband looked through the video tapes left in the TV cabinet and found that the contents were all extremely realistic and bloody movies. However, What’s even more shocking is that the scenes in the movie are clearly the rooms where they stayed…”

"reality show?"

"Yes... the point is how to save yourself..."

When Harvey heard this, his eyes lit up: "This can definitely be made into a series!"

"This can be added to "Grudge Room"..."

"Grindhouse" is actually the combined name of two movies, "Planet Terror" and "Death Proof"...

The main thing is to pay tribute - the object of tribute is the grindhouse film, and the so-called grindhouse film, in the 1960s and 1970s, some small theaters in the United States played a large number of more exciting movies in order to make a profit, so there were a lot of sex, violence and bloody scenes. Low-budget movies officially appeared on the stage. In such movies, a kind of personal dance called "bump and grind" often appeared, so such movies were called "grindhouse movies", and the theaters that played such movies were called For “Grindhouse Cinema”…

Quentin grew up watching these types of movies, so his taste is also biased towards these.

Shen Xudong nodded: "Okay, then change the setting to a divorce trip to Eastern Europe..."

Harvey wondered: "Eastern Europe?"

Quentin explained: "Our movies are all shot in Eastern Europe...I think it's very good. We will start shooting next March..."

"Robert, what do you think?"

Robert Rodriguez immediately realized something and asked: "...are you asking me to direct?"

"Yes...is that okay?"

"No problem. Did you write the script?"

"I wrote…"

…

I can only say that it happened by coincidence. Shen Xudong was planning to make "The Fault in Our Stars". Didn't he meet Quentin and they agreed to make a funny movie together...

Let’s move on to “The Fault in Our Stars”.

Joseph Drake is quite indifferent, he is busy with "The Grudge 2".

However, he was quite critical of Shen Xudong's cooperation with Harvey, because Harvey was notoriously greedy!

The great director Michael Moore, the best documentary director in Hollywood, made a movie for Harvey Company, but was owed wages for two years, and finally went to court.

"It doesn't matter..."

Shen Xudong shrugged: "After this awards season, I will never have any interaction with him again!"

Joseph Drake: “Who are you going to work with on ‘See the Devil’?”

“What about Scott Rudin?”

"...I can help you contact him, but he probably doesn't have much interest in this subject...he is at Disney!"

"All right…"

Disney is synonymous with family fun, and "I Saw the Devil" sells blood, violence, and the style doesn't match it!

"You prepare first... By the way, we can also look for a director for "The Fault in Our Stars"..."

"OK!"

After explaining this, Shen Xudong got in the car and headed to the airport...

He is going back to his country.

…

That "Pinhole Hotel" is actually not a good idea. Compared with "Human Skin Inn" and "Horror Wax Museum", it is a little less perverted...

This type of movie is meaningless, just like "The Purge", it sells creativity and satisfies curiosity.

Shen Xudong received US$6 million in script fees and production fees, and the copyright belongs to Weinstein Pictures...

It must be a loss, but to be honest, for this subject, US$3 million is enough to cover the shooting cost, pay Robert Rodriguez US$500,000 as director, and pay Joseph Drake US$500,000 as producer. Fees, the rest belongs to net profit...

Why didn't Shen Xudong film it himself?

The reason is simple. On the one hand, he doesn't have time, and on the other hand, he doesn't have much interest in the subject itself. He only had some impressions after browsing "Movies that use small things to make a big difference".

He once thought about becoming famous through horror movies, so he studied many movies of this type, because from a global perspective, horror movies are the most likely to make a big difference with small things.

He has at least dozens of similar ideas on this subject, such as "Garage Horror", "Horror Basement" and so on.

Basically, the plots are similar, with a few fools going to the same place and then dying mysteriously one after another.

This type of movie, like "The Cabin in the Woods", has no freshness.

Back to this, Shen Xudong must return to China as soon as possible. The Golden Eagle Festival is about to begin.