Chapter 912

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Just like many of the main creators of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are comic fans, in order for an IP to be successfully filmed, the creator must first have a good understanding of the work itself.

If you pay attention to the behind-the-scenes of the entire Middle-earth series, you can find that Peter Jackson is not a diehard fan of Tol King's Middle-earth series, but like many people, he likes it very much after watching it, and it is inevitable that some ideas will arise. After most people have ideas, they tend to gradually forget, but Jackson really sets out to implement them.

Familiarity with the novel series, solid film skills accumulated over a long period of time, coupled with a pragmatic attitude, finally created a big screen legend.

These factors seem simple, but very few people can do it.

In the office, Simon nodded slightly after listening to Jackson's obviously prepared remarks: "I have seen the proposal you submitted, and the idea of ​​splitting the "Lord of the Rings" novel into two parts for continuous shooting is very good, which can save a lot of costs. , put the filming location in New Zealand, which is to be determined, but as long as the shooting environment and tax rebates meet the requirements, this is no problem. My idea is that since it is to be split, it can be split into three parts according to the original , three consecutive shots."

Peter Jackson actually prepared a whole set of rhetoric. Hearing Simon's words at this time, he was a little stunned: "Simon, so you agree?"

Simon shook his head: "It's just an intention, Peter, you must know that the most common thing in Hollywood is uncertainty, and 90% of projects disappear in time. Therefore, first of all, I want to see " The results of "Ghost of Horror" should be regarded as a trial. Secondly, you can start writing screenplays from now on, according to the standard of the trilogy, in the future I will also see animation samples and live-action produced by you according to your own ideas. Fragments, if the trilogy starts at the same time, even with the investment budget of $70 million each, the trilogy is 210 million. So Peter, if you fail, Daenerys is still Daenerys Le, Peter Jackson may no longer be Peter Jackson, you have to understand that."

Simon's tone was flat, but Peter Jackson's whole body was filled with a shudder that he didn't know whether it was excitement or fear, and his fingertips were slightly numb.

With Daenerys Entertainment's current influence in Hollywood, if this project costing more than $200 million fails, Jackson knows that he will never have any place in this circle in the future.

but.

In fact, everything has two sides.

What if it worked?

After being silent for a few seconds, Peter Jackson forcibly calmed down his thoughts and looked at Simon with a firm tone: "Simon, I will cherish this opportunity."

Simon was very satisfied that Jackson was able to recover so quickly under the pressure of his words just now: "Very good. Then, someone will contact you about the creative commission agreement for the script. Let me talk about some of my personal views first."

Just as he was about to continue, there was a knock on the office door.

A girl came in, holding a stack of photos: "Boss, this is a photo of Mia Sara, and a resume."

Simon paused the topic, took the photo materials handed over by Girl A, and handed it to Jackson, before looking at the photos in his hand.

After a few flips, I was a little disappointed.

I remember that when I just came to Los Angeles that year, "Spring is not a day for reading" was very popular. The production cost of 6 million US dollars, but the North American box office reached 70 million US dollars. As the heroine of the film, Mia Sara has also become the dream lover of many teenagers.

It's been ten years.

The Mia Sara in the photo is still very beautiful, with a score of 80 or more, but it is no longer as stunning as that which made people's heart beat faster, and the traces of plastic surgery are obvious, and it is still a not very clever plastic surgery.

Simon picked up the resume and opened it again.

Mia Sara is 29 years old this year. Except for "Spring is not a day for reading" ten years ago, none of her other works have caused any repercussions. In recent years, many films have been marked with the mark of 'television movies' .

Actors are reduced to start making TV movies, and it is difficult to have a chance to turn over again.

Since he could not meet his requirements, Simon would not waste time on these details. If it were any other time, it would be rejected directly and let Jackson re-select the heroine. However, at this moment, there is some inexplicable memory of the passage of time in my heart.

Ten years.

It was also its own starting point.

Rarely emotional, so I decided to give the other party another chance.

The original version of "Ghost of Horror" was indeed a failure, but this time, many things have changed. In the future, even if it is not too successful, relying on his own guidance and Daenerys Entertainment's announcement, the domestic box office may exceed 50 million US dollars. very large. Achieving this standard, as a heroine, Mia Sara will be able to step out of the TV and film circles and get more opportunities in Hollywood.

Girl A's voice sounded in his ears again: "Boss, caa said that Mia Sara is in Los Angeles. If you need to, you can come over within half an hour."

Putting down the photo, Simon shook his head and said to Alison: "No, send a copy of the script of "Ghost of Horror" and let her prepare it." Then he turned to Jackson: "You arrange an audition in three days, don't worry about mine. Opinions, be stricter, if you can, it's her, if you can't, choose someone else."

Peter Jackson promised, but he had another plan in his heart.

Unlike Simon's sudden little emotion, after seeing the photos, Jackson is very satisfied.

After all, the production cost of "Ghost of Horror" is only 30 million US dollars. This era is only a medium production, and first-line actresses cannot be invited. At first, he just wanted to find a second- and third-tier vase, Mia Sarah, who has more than ten years of performance qualifications. Completely above the standard.

As for the difference between the photos in hand and ten years ago, Jackson does not have the same feeling as Simon.

And he quietly made up his mind to choose each other as much as possible.

This is the most sensible choice in terms of human sense, although Simon Westeros does not need to worry about his opinion, but if the big boss's advice is taken and the project is successful, it can bring some potential anyway. Kindness in return.

After the episode, Simon and Jackson continued the topic of the "Lord of the Rings" series, and Lady A sorted out the stack of photos and left the office.

As soon as she came to the outside world, another assistant reminded her that Michael Ovitz of caa was online.

In the heyday of caa in the late 1980s, Michael Ovitz's call could be made directly to any studio's high-level office without an assistant's transfer. Although it can be done now, Simon's is different.

A girl had previously contacted Ovitz's former assistant David O'Connor. As other caa veterans continue to retire or leave, a new generation of brokers such as O'Connor has taken charge. Alison just didn't expect Ovitz to receive the news so quickly, and called over the phone to give a general introduction to the situation. Lady A sent a script to caa as Simon ordered.

Century City, caa headquarters.

In less than five minutes, multiple copies of the script for "Ghost of Horrors" in the e-mail box were distributed to everyone in a conference room.

Actually coincidental.

When the girl called, David O'Connor was about to attend a work summary meeting of a caa executive on Friday afternoon. A certain actress who was barely considered a third-tier actress could not be considered by David O'Connor at all. The Ovie The clients currently in charge of the former assistants are Tom Hanks and Robert Redford.

However, O'Connor couldn't ignore the phone call from Simon Westeros' office. In order to get Mia Sara's photo and send it to Daenerys Studios in person, he delayed the meeting.

Of course, Michael Ovitz, who presided over the meeting in person, did not blame him, and was quite concerned about this matter. After all, Simon rarely directly asked the agency for actress information, and it was often the queen casting director who had followed Simon for many years. Linda Vargas is in charge.

Maybe Daenerys has something big going on there.

Everyone doesn't know, if it wasn't for someone's sighs and emotions, things probably wouldn't have happened.

CAA's intelligence gathering capabilities have always been very strong.

While the "Ghost of Horror" script was distributed to the top caa executives in the conference room, various information was also gathered, including basic information on Peter Jackson, a general overview of the Ghost of Horror project, Jackson's meeting with Simon at this time, and, About the Lord of the Rings series.

The original topic of the work summary meeting has been shelved. Each of the senior executives of caa quickly flipped through the script of "Ghost of Horror" in their hands. After about ten minutes, Michael Ovitz first put down the script in his hand and read it. Watch, it's already 5 o'clock.

off-duty hours.

No one has mentioned this matter. For a qualified agent, there is basically no difference between work and get off work. Sometimes even in the early morning of the weekend, when the phone rings, he has to get out of bed to help the client deal with it because the party is too much. Hey, do drugs, get drunk, fights, etc.

After everyone put down the script, Ovitz asked, "What do you think?"

David O'Connor across the conference table first said: "The script is average, but it may be revised in the future. Moreover, I think the key to this matter should not be "Terrorist Ghost", but "The Lord of the Rings", or, the whole Chinese Soil series."

Michael Ovitz nodded slightly.

This is also his idea.

According to the information gathered, New World Pictures' positioning of "Ghost of Horror" is another "Ghostbusters" series, but only looking at the script, the difference between the two series is very obvious.

The story framework is more like the "Detective Plane" series that has just released its sequel recently.

In "Detective Plane", which made Jim Carrey famous, the hero makes a living by helping people find lost pets and is inadvertently involved in various conspiracies. In "Ghost of Horror", the male protagonist who accidentally acquired psychic ability makes a living by helping people hunt ghosts, and is also involved in a series of incidents.

Both projects are comedies.

Both protagonists are bad.

In the end of both stories, the hero and heroine defeated the villain and lived happily together.

Standard Hollywood commercials.

O'Connor's voice fell, and Jay Murray, another gold medal agent on Ovitz's left, also said: "Obviously, this "Ghost of Horror" is just a practice for Jackson by Westeros, just like Michael took over "Dwarf" "Space Shock" before the Roki Park series, and Brett Natner who made "This Man From Earth" and the Victoria's Secret Show before the "Charlie's Angels" series, and the "Mission Impossible 2" An Oriental director, he also filmed Broken Arrow before."

Sitting in the corner of the conference table, Richard Lovett, who is also a new generation of caa and has been promoted to vice president, said: "Jay is right, but I think Westeros is even more for this Peter Jackson. Attention, if I remember correctly, the copyrights of the Tol King Middle-earth series are all in the hands of Daenerys Entertainment, and they were bought together with the copyrights of dc's Batman, Superman and the entire Marvel, etc.

Probably after the stock market crash of 1987, when Westeros made a lot of money. So, what do you think of? "

Richard Lovett said that, and everyone was refreshed.

Tol King's Middle-earth series of novels, "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit" and "The Silmarillion", completely constitute a Middle-earth world with an independent and huge worldview. Whether it is elves, dwarves, hobbits, humans, orcs, etc., there are a lot of stories that can be excavated in this series.

what is this?

It couldn't be more obvious.

Simon Westeros plans to create a Middle-earth movie universe after the dc movie universe and the conjuring movie universe!

If this is the case, caa must play a mental response of 12 points.

Just like the dc movie universe that is in full swing right now.

Simon Westeros split his main roles to Hollywood's major brokerage companies in pursuit of balance. It is conceivable that if the main creators of the entire dc movie universe are based on wma's customers who have a good relationship with Westeros, no matter what Whether it is caa or icm, as well as other second- and third-tier brokerage companies, life will not be easy now.

It's true that dc movie universe starring pay is not high.

This is the one thing that makes a lot of Hollywood filmmakers feel unbalanced.

However, this is not high, only compared to the amazing box office of a series of movies in the DC movie universe. Putting this aside, at this stage, most of the main creators of the DC movie universe are getting the salary level of first-line filmmakers.

Not only that, but the high popularity of these people also allows them to absorb other resources in the circle, such as advertising endorsements and other movie contracts. The salary, just past 1995 personal income reached 32 million US dollars.

Among them, the salary of Super Bat War is only 9 million US dollars.

And this year, although there is no dc series that participated, it is only the current success of the super bat war, and an extra bonus from the producer will definitely not be less.

Five contracts were signed at a low price, and now there is only one left. Many people think that Adam Baldwin will not renew his contract, or even if he does, he will charge a ridiculously high price to package the five-part contract.' The loss' was made up, but according to rumors in the circle, in fact, Adam Baldwin's side is now actively communicating with Daenerys, hoping to continue to increase cooperation.

Because the last "Justice League" may not be released until around 2000 according to the plan of the DC movie universe. After a four-year hiatus, if Adam Baldwin didn't take the initiative to maintain his popularity, even a series of advertisers behind him would not agree.

In addition to Adam Baldwin, other actors in the entire dc series, Brad Pitt as Superman, Will Smith as Cyborg, Valerie Golino as Catwoman, Nicole Golino as Poison Ivy Kidman, etc., these years have been the focus of Hollywood.

In the era of eyeball economy, high attention actually represents real interests.

If Simon Westeros really wants to create a Middle-earth movie universe after the dc movie universe and the conjuring movie universe, no matter what, caa must let its customers try their best to win roles.

Because this is the core resource of Hollywood right now.

Everyone in the conference room paused for a while because of Richard Lovett's wake-up call, but someone still raised an objection: "If you want to develop a movie universe, why doesn't Daenerys Entertainment develop Marvel?"

As soon as the words came out, facing a series of glances, the parties reacted.

This question is so stupid.

The popularity of the dc movie universe is still at its peak, and even if it is to be shared with Warner, the benefits are rich enough. At this time to develop Marvel, maybe Daenerys Entertainment can monopolize it, but what about DC? You can't just throw it away. If the two go hand in hand, it will cause serious internal resource consumption.

Tolkien's Middle-earth series is different.

Because of differences in audiences, the DC Cinematic Universe and Tolkien's Middle-earth series may compete with each other for some resources, but it will not cause too serious internal friction, just like the DC Cinematic Universe series and Daenerys Entertainment at this time. Like the "Jurassic Park" series, they can coexist completely.

Everyone discussed it again. Now that this is confirmed, the next step is how to deal with it.

Michael Ovitz, who has completely cut off the idea of ​​jumping to take charge of a big studio, finally decided to take charge himself. Since Simon Westeros can invest in a film for the development of the Middle-earth series to train his favorite director, caa also Actors can be trained in a targeted manner.

After all, in the Middle-earth series of novels, the various characters are obvious at a glance.

And there are many.

Now start to select actors for suitable roles for training. At that time, even if Simon Westero still shares resources with the idea of ​​balancing the major brokerage companies, as long as the candidates provided by caa are good enough, they will definitely be able to win more shares. .

At the end of the meeting, Ovitz also specifically assigned company vice president Richard Lovett to try to contact Peter Jackson.

The New Zealand director's management contract is signed under wma.

If you can dig it, of course it's better.

If you can't dig it out, it's definitely not a bad thing to get in touch with relationships.

When this matter was finalized, everyone continued some of the original meeting topics. By the end of the meeting, it was already more than 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Ovitz finally went out and saw a company under the company.

An agent, Mark Ferguson, was waiting outside with another brunette, Mia Sara.

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