Chapter 968 Saving Private Ryan
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Thoughts flew for a while, and soon returned to the script in his hand.
Future events will be discussed in the future.
Since it is very clear that nothing can escape prosperity and decline, then do your best to do the things in front of you. According to the script in your hand and the information in your memory, and judged by the standard of a pure popcorn movie, "Extreme Deep Cold" is actually a pass. Above the line, on the basis of the mysterious sea monster, the whole story has no shortage of business elements such as tough guys, beauties, and funny people, and they can all leave a good impression on the audience.
The reason for the failure was that Disney's distribution strategy mistakes during the downturn and chaotic period accounted for a large part. Later, it was proved that the film's video tape and TV sales were very good, and even China on the other side of the ocean also introduced this film.
With the laptop at hand on the round table, Simon finished reading the script, mulled it over a little, and typed his opinion on Extreme Chill on a planned e-mail to Amy Pascal.
According to the memo information on the script, Stephen Sommers hopes to direct the project himself, and also intends to invite big names such as Harrison Ford to make a blockbuster. Simon also sees Sommers from these information. Astute, he probably guessed Simon's idea of deliberately suppressing the production rhythm of various foreign cooperation projects.
If "Deep Cold" is launched, "The Mummy 2" will definitely be delayed.
For the "Mission: Impossible" series, Simon does have this idea.
Even if Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr. personally ran to say something at the last celebration party, Simon would not be relentless. The release interval between the first "Mission Impossible" and "Mission Impossible 2" To be precise, it is two and a half years. As for "Mission Impossible 3", it is at least the same interval, so it will be released at the end of 1998 at the earliest.
The Mummy with Fox is different.
The Westeros system and the News Corporation behind Fox are allies, so Simon will not suppress the "Mummy" series too deliberately. The production interval of "The Mummy 2" will be the standard two years, and it will be released in the summer of 1998.
On the other hand, Stephen Sommers is a commercial film director that Simon is very fond of. He hopes that the filmmaker can further expand his capabilities and develop in the direction of a producer. Sommers has been a screenwriter and director before. This time, I can just test the waters with "Extreme Cold", directing "The Mummy 2" and concurrently serving as the producer of "Extreme Cold", and the script will be directed by other directors.
In addition, Simon also hopes to control the production cost of "Extreme Deep Cold" within the previous US$50 million, and hand it over to the New World Pictures team for production. Preparations are now underway, and filming will start in the first half of next year, which can probably be placed in the 1998 Easter schedule. show. In fact, it is more suitable of course to be at the end of next year, but unfortunately there is already "Titanic" by the end of next year.
Stephen Sommers will produce "Extremely Cold" in the first half of next year, and "The Mummy 2" in the second half of the year, and the rhythm is just right.
Finally, after thinking about it, I added a sentence for the heroine to consider Natasha Henstridge.
The original Famke Janssen is now the famous "Wonder Woman", and it is not suitable to play a vase in this movie. Natasha Henstridge is just right, and the fat water does not flow to outsiders.
After writing an email, Simon picked up another folder.
Inside are several movie synopses about Jett Lee's new project.
Simon generally remembers the several films that Jett Lee made in Hollywood around 2000, and they were all quite successful in business. Kiss", Simon didn't like it very much.
Mainly because none of these films really bring out the essence of Chinese Kung Fu.
Simon also knows that this is mainly due to cultural differences, and that Jet Lee did not have the initiative to promote Jack Cheng, who was promoted to the front line with the "Rush Hour" series. As a result, the action scenes of these films are generally biased towards Western fighting. , and sometimes degenerates into a more mediocre shootout.
None of this is what Simon likes to see.
For the planned "Hero", Simon just sent the idea to China recently, the script is still being written, and, such a big project, it is impossible to start filming in the short term, and Simon does not intend to let Jet Li Bai wait for a year. So he personally spoke and gave considerable authority to let Jet Li and the screenwriting team of New World Pictures take the initiative to explore new projects.
The condition is a budget of 25 million US dollars, and Jet Li will also personally name the producer. As for the level of participation, it depends on the enthusiasm of the other party.
What Simon wants is real Chinese kung fu in Hollywood, not fights and gunfights.
The information in hand is the result of a recent brainstorm over there.
However, there is no bright idea. The setting basically revolves around thousands of Chinese Hollywood kung fu masters from China visiting relatives and friends to investigate criminals and so on. They are basically very high concept.
After browsing several story outlines, Simon drew a cross directly at the back.
Still planning to come by myself.
After all, most of the good ideas actually come from the accumulation of materials in the creator's own mind. In terms of accumulation, there are probably no more Simons in Hollywood who have more than a dozen people's memories in their minds, and they are more professional.
I just picked up another script with the words "Saving Private Ryan" on the cover. There were light footsteps in my ears, and a little girl as delicate as a doll came to Simon with a fruit bowl, a pair of dark eyes. Looking at Simon: "Dad, this is what my mother prepared."
little girl
The tone of calling daddy is obviously much more natural than that of some unscrupulous little girl who is actually calling 'sugardaddy' again.
Simon patted his knee with a smile, let the little girl sit on his lap, hugged the little one in his arms, continued to read the script in his hand, and said in Chinese: "miumiu, are you used to life in the United States?"
The little girl sat on Simon's lap, still holding the fruit plate, and picked up an apple obediently and brought it to Simon's mouth, and carefully retracted the toothpick. Hearing Simon's question, she nodded her head and said, "Very well, every day. There are delicious food, and there are many, many beautiful clothes to wear, and last weekend, my mother and I took a private jet to London, but it has been raining in London, which is not as good as New York.”
Simon ate a piece of apple, saw the little girl brought another piece of pineapple, bit it again, and said, "It's raining here in New York, you'll meet sooner or later."
"No, that is, the weather in London is always cloudy, and the streets and people are also cloudy."
Simon didn't expect that the girl's feeling about London was quite accurate, and said with a smile: "If you don't want it, then you won't go there in the future."
"Well," said the little girl, and continued to bring fruit to Simon's mouth. She restrained herself without eating a piece, and said, "Dad, can you take time to accompany me and my mother to go out to play?"
Simon turned the page of the script in his hand and asked, "Where do you want to go?"
The little girl said, "You can go anywhere, as long as you are with Dad."
Simon looked down at the little girl with big eyes rolling in her arms, smiled, understood that this was probably what the little girl's mother taught, turned her head and glanced, a certain woman was standing at the door of the villa not far away. Looking at this, seeing Simon noticed him, he hesitated, and walked over without waiting for the man to call.
Seeing her mother coming, the little girl turned her eyes around her mother and Simon, jumped off Simon's lap, and handed the remaining half of the fruit bowl to her mother: "Mom, talk to your father, I'll do it. homework."
When the little girl ran away and disappeared from the door of the villa, Simon smiled and patted her leg. Ms. Liu blushed slightly, hesitated a little, and snuggled up and sat down, feeling the man's strong arms wrapping around her waist, adapting a little He quickly relaxed, and while continuing his daughter's work just now, delivering apples to Simon's mouth, he took the initiative to find a topic and asked, "Are you reading the script?"
Compared with the shirt and trousers Simon had when he arrived before noon, the woman put on a dark green sleeveless silk dress that showed her figure at this time, and she was born in dancing. At this time, she was sitting in the arms of a man, with a soft figure and elegant temperament. The pleasant woman incense makes Simon, who has been abstinent for nearly a week, a little ready to move.
"Yeah," Simon nodded when he saw the woman looking for a topic, and said, "Isn't it summer vacation now, what is miumiu doing homework? Besides, has her school been determined in advance?"
"There's no need to be in such a hurry, girls need to be rich and don't need to do so much homework."
The woman nodded obediently: "You... let her call your father, you have the final say."
"Let's just leave the English class, and I can communicate with the children here in the future." Simon said, smiling again, and said: "Actually, the Chinese are smarter than most of the children of the same age here, so there is no need to do any more. Tuition or something, or the other children will be dead."
The woman obviously didn't know this, and was a little suspicious: "No way?"
"You'll know in time."
"Well," the woman agreed again, hesitated a little, and asked again, "Well, Simon, will you be here this weekend?"
"Yeah, go to the art troupe tomorrow to see if they are lazy," Simon said, looking at the woman's fair and slender neck, and half-jokingly said, "How about you, are you lazy?"
She seemed to feel Simon's gaze, and the blush on the woman's face became more and more, and said: "No, during this time everyone is working very hard to actively create and choreograph dances, and sometimes they are busy until late at night, and everyone is afraid of disappointing you. expectations.”
Speaking of which, it has been exactly one month since the Guofeng Art Troupe arrived in the United States.
this month.
If I have to describe it, compared to the past life, everyone seems to have stepped into heaven in one step, and the life of a princess in a fairy tale is probably nothing more than that.
As long as the IQ is normal, no one will take this kind of generous giving for granted for no reason.
Therefore, for the task assigned by Simon, the entire team is doing their best, and no one dares to slack off, for fear that the public performance at the end of the year will be screwed up, and the crystal shoes and pumpkin carts will all disappear, enjoying the luxury at this time, whether it is The girls in the Guofeng Art Troupe are also choreography teachers hired to come to the United States, and they absolutely don’t want to go back to their old lives.
To achieve this goal, any effort is worth it.
Compared with the Guofeng Art Troupe, the mother and daughter here feel that they are falling into a dream. If you use the simplest measure, the treatment that the mother and daughter enjoy is completely ten times that of the girls in the Guofeng Art Troupe. level. Many times when she wakes up in the bedroom of this seaside manor house, Ms. Liu wonders if she is dreaming.
Even if it is a dream, such a dream, of course, the longer it lasts, the better.
Therefore, there is no slack in the slightest.
After chatting intimately for a while in such a gesture, it was confirmed that Simon would be here this weekend, and Ms. Liu didn't dare to ask for anything else. She returned to the villa with the empty fruit bowl, and continued to spend time alone with men.
Simon's attention returned to the script in front of him.
"Saving Private Ryan",
Spielberg once directed the epic war blockbuster released in 1998, once in history, with a production cost of 70 million US dollars, it achieved a global attack of nearly 500 million US dollars, and it was also the North American box office champion in 1998.
Even compared to "Titanic" in 1997 and "The Phantom Menace" in 1998, "Saving Private Ryan"'s North American box office of $200 million is more because 1998 was a small year for movies , but since he can win the annual championship, such an achievement cannot be underestimated after all.
Simon, the big butterfly, did not delete the script.
However, because of the strength of Daenerys Entertainment in Hollywood, the best scripts and the best resources will naturally flow into Daenerys Entertainment first, and this time is no exception.
As a war movie, the script of "Saving Private Ryan" is actually not that popular. After all, since a series of Vietnam War movies in the 1980s, Hollywood has not seen a big-selling war movie for many years. Production budgets are often very large and risky, which limits studios from taking the plunge.
In the original time and space, if it weren't for Spielberg, this movie would probably be difficult to appear on the big screen.
Now, history has changed, and the script has been successfully cut off by Daenerys Entertainment, and Simon has to think about what to do with the project.
Speaking of which, Spielberg still owes Daenerys Entertainment a film contract inherited from the Universal era, but the estrangement between the two sides in the "Jurassic Park" series is very deep. Berg, the restrictions on the director's performance of the film contract are also very broad. According to the agreement, even if Spielberg delays the film contract for another ten or eight years, it does not matter.
Coupled with the fact that Spielberg is now focusing on the operation of DreamWorks, it is unlikely that the other party will take over the project. .
In this case, Simon can only consider other options.
According to Daenerys Entertainment's film list, there is little hope of starting this project in the short term, but Simon will not give up making this film and television classic. This is actually in line with Simon's philosophy of maintaining diversity in Hollywood, but this time, "Saving Private Ryan" is obviously not going to be released in 1998, and it has to be considered in the long run.
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