Hollywood Hunter

Just like many of the main creators of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are comic fans, if you want an IP to be successful in film and television, the creator must first have a considerable understanding of the work itself.

Paying a little attention to the background of the entire Middle-earth series, you can find that Peter Jackson is not a die-hard fan of the Thor King Middle-earth series, but just like many people. After watching it, I like it very much, and it is inevitable that some ideas will be generated.After most people come up with ideas, they often forget them gradually, but Jackson really started to implement them.

The familiarity of the series, the long-term solid film skills accumulated, plus the pragmatic attitude, finally created a big screen legend.

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

In the office, after listening to Jackson’s apparently prepared remarks, Simon nodded slightly: “I’ve seen the proposal you submitted, and the idea of ​​splitting the Lord of the Rings into two for continuous shooting is very good, which can save a lot of costs. Putting the shooting location in New Zealand is to be determined, but as long as the shooting environment and tax rebate meet the requirements, this is no problem. My idea is that since it needs to be split, it can be split into three parts in accordance with the original. Three consecutive shots."

Peter Jackson actually prepared a whole set of rhetoric. At this moment, listening to Simon's words, he was a bit dazed: "Simon, so, did you agree?"

Simon shook his head: "It's just an intention, Peter, you know, the most common thing in Hollywood is uncertainty. Ninety percent of the projects are disappearing in time. Therefore, first of all, I want to see " The result of "Ghost of Horror" is just a trial. Secondly, you can write a movie script from now on, according to the standard of the trilogy, in the future I will also see animation samples and real people you made according to your own ideas. Fragment, if the trilogy starts at the same time, even according to the investment budget of $70 million each, the trilogy is 210 million. So, Peter, if you fail, Daenerys is still Daenerys, Peter. Jackson may no longer be Peter Jackson, you have to understand this."

Simon's tone was dull, but Peter Jackson's whole body was shuddering with tremor, not knowing whether it was excitement or fear. His fingertips were slightly numb.

With the current influence of Daenerys Entertainment in Hollywood, if this project with a cost of more than 200 million US dollars 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 succeeds?

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

Simon is very satisfied with Jackson's ability to recover so quickly under the pressure of his own words: "Very well. Then, someone will contact you about the commission agreement for the script creation. Let me talk about some of my personal views first."

Just about to continue, the office door was knocked.

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

Simon paused the topic and took the photo material handed over by girl A, and handed it to Jackson in a pile before looking at the photo in his hand.

I was a little disappointed after a few pages.

I remember that when I first came to Los Angeles, "Spring is not a reading day" is on the way. The production cost of 6 million US dollars is only 70 million US dollars at the box office in North America.As the heroine of the film, Mia Sara has also become the dream lover of many teenagers.

It's been ten years.

The Mia Sala in the photo is still very beautiful, more than 80 points, but there is no such amazing stunning heartbeat, and the traces of the facelift are obvious. It is still not a very smart facelift.

Simon picked up the resume again and opened it.

Mia Sala is 29 years old. Except for "Spring is not a reading day" ten years ago, there is no other work that has caused any repercussions. Many movies in recent years have been marked with "television" .

The actor has fallen to the point of starting a TV movie, and it is difficult to have a chance to turn over again.

Since he could not meet his requirements, Simon would not have wasted time on these details.If it is other time, it will be directly rejected, let Jackson re-select the heroine.However, at this moment, somehow in my heart gave birth to some memories of the passage of time.

Ten years.

It was also his starting point.

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

The original version of "Ghost of Horror" really failed, but this time, many things have changed. Even if it is not too successful in the future, relying on his own guidance and the announcement of Daenerys Entertainment, the possibility of the local box office breaking through 50 million US dollars Great.Reaching this standard, as the heroine, Mia Sala will be able to re-enter the TV movie circle and get more opportunities in Hollywood.

The voice of the A girl sounded again in the ear: "Boss, the CAA said that Mia Sara is in Los Angeles. If you need it, you can come over in half an hour."

Putting down the photo, Simon shook his head and said to Alison: "No, send a copy of the "Ghost of Horror" script, let her prepare," said Turning to Jackson: "You arrange an audition three days later, don't worry about me Opinion is stricter, it’s her if you can, choose someone else if you can’t."

Peter Jackson promised, but he had another layer of calculation in mind.

Unlike Simon's sudden little emotion, Jackson has been very satisfied after seeing the photos.After all, the production cost of "Ghost of Horror" is only 30 million US dollars. In this era, it was only a medium production. The first-line actress could not be invited. At first, he only wanted to find a second and third-line vase. Mia Sara with more than ten years of performance experience Just above the standard.

As for the difference between the photos in his hand and ten years ago, Jackson did not feel like Simon.

And quietly made up his mind, choose the other party as much as possible.

This is the most sensible choice for human reasons. Although Simon Westero does not need to worry about his opinions, if the big boss’s suggestions are adopted and the project succeeds, it will bring some potential. Human returns.

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

Just came to the outside, another assistant reminded her that CAA's Michael Ovitz was online.

At the height of CAA in the late 1980s, Michael Ovitz’s phone could be directly sent to any high-level office of the studio without assistant transfer. Now, although it is possible, Simon is different here.

Girl A contacted David O'Connor, a former assistant of Ovitz.With the continuous retirement or departure of other veterans of CAA, a new generation of brokers such as O'Connor has become the only one.Alison just didn't expect that Owitz would receive the message so quickly, and also called the phone to give a brief introduction. Girl A sent a script to CAA according to Simon's instructions.

Century City, CAA headquarters.

In less than five minutes, the "Horror Ghost" script in the email was copied and distributed to everyone in a meeting room.

Actually coincidence.

When the A girl called, David O'Connor was about to attend a CAA executive Friday afternoon work summary meeting. An actress who was barely a third-line was now unable to meet David O'Connor. This Ovi The clients in charge of the former assistants are Tom Hanks and Robert Redford.

However, O'Connor couldn't ignore the phone call from Simon Westero's office. In order to get Mia Sala's photo to pass to Daenerys Studios, the meeting was delayed.

Michael Owitz, who presided over the meeting in person, was certainly not guilty, and he was quite attentive to this matter. After all, Simon rarely asked for the actress information directly from the brokerage company, often following Simon’s role casting director for many years. Linda Vargas is responsible.

Perhaps Daenerys might have any big moves over there.

Everyone didn't know that if it wasn't for someone's sigh of emotion, there would probably be nothing going on.

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

The "Horror Specter" script was distributed to the CAA executives in the conference room, and various information was also aggregated, including basic information about Peter Jackson, a general overview of the "Horror Specter" project, Jackson is now meeting with Simon, and, News about "The Lord of the Rings" series.

The original topic of the work summary meeting has been put on hold. Every senior executive of the CAA held a script of "Ghost of Horror" in his hands and quickly read it. About ten minutes later, Michael Ovitz first put down the script in his hand and read it. The watch is already 5 o'clock.

Off hours.

No one mentions this matter. For a qualified agent, there is basically no difference between going to work and off work. Sometimes even on the weekend morning, when the phone rings, I have to get up from the bed to help customers deal with it because the party is too much. Hey drugs like drunk fights.

Waiting for everyone to put down the script, Owitz asked: "What do you think?"

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

Michael Ovitz nodded slightly.

This is also his idea.

According to the summarized news, New World Films' positioning of "Ghost of Horror" is another "Ghostbusters" series, but only by looking at the script, the difference between the two series is very obvious.

Instead, the story frame is more like the "Detective Aircraft Head" series that has just been released recently.

In the "Detective Aircraft Head" that made Kim Carey famous, the actor made a living by helping people find lost pets, and was inadvertently involved in various conspiracies.In "Ghost of Horror", the hero who accidentally gains psychic ability to make a living by helping people catch ghosts is also involved in a series of events.

Both projects are comedy.

Both protagonists are weak.

Both stories ended with the hero and heroine defeating the villain and living happily together.

The standard Hollywood commercial film routine.

O'Connor's voice fell, and another gold agent Jay Morey on the left side of Ovitz also said: "Obviously, this "Ghost of Horror" is just a training practice for Westeros for Jackson, just like Michael took over "Dwarf" "Cosmos" before the Rogers Park series, and Brett Natner who made "This Man From Earth" and the Victoria's Secret Show before shooting the "Thunderbolt" series, and that of "Mission Impossible 2" An oriental director, he also shot "Broken Arrow" before."

Sitting at the corner of the conference table, Richard Lovett, who is also the new generation of CAA, has been promoted to vice president, said: "Jay is right, but, I think, Westeros is even more important to this Peter Jackson. Pay attention, if I remember correctly, all the copyrights of the Thor King Middle-earth series are in the hands of Daenerys Entertainment, and they were bought together with DC’s Batman, Superman, and the entire Marvel copyrights. It is probably the 1987 stock market disaster. After that, Westeros made a lot of money. So, what did everyone think of?"

Richard Lovett said so, everyone is refreshed.

Thor King's Middle-earth series, "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit" and "Elven Treasure Diamond", completely constitute a Middle-earth world with a unique and huge worldview.Whether it is an elf, dwarf, hobbit, human, orc, etc., there are a lot of stories that can be tapped in this series.

what is this?

Obviously.

Simon Westero intends to create a Middle-earth movie universe after the DC movie universe and the soul movie universe!

If this is the case, the CAA must have a 12-point mental response.

It's like the DC movie universe in the sky today.

Simon Westero originally allocated his main roles to major Hollywood agencies in pursuit of balance. It is conceivable that if the main creators of the entire DC movie universe are mainly WMA customers who have good relations with Westeros, Whether it is CAA or ICM, as well as other second- and third-tier brokerage companies, these days will not be too good.

The pay for starring in the DC movie universe is really not high.

This is something that makes many Hollywood filmmakers feel unbalanced.

However, this is not high, just aside from the amazing box office of a series of movies in the DC movie universe, aside from this, at this stage, most of the DC movie universe creators get the salary level of first-line filmmakers.

Not only that, the high popularity of these people also allows them to absorb other resources in the circle, such as advertising endorsements and other movie contracts, Batman's Adam Adam Baldwin with various endorsements and participation in the DC series and other films In the past, the personal income in the past 1995 has reached 32 million US dollars.

Among them, the pay for Super Bat Fight is only 9 million US dollars.

And this year, although there is no DC series to participate in, but it is just the current success of the Super Bat Battle, the producers will definitely have an extra bonus.

At the beginning, five contracts were signed at a low price, and now there is only one left. Many people think that Adam Baldwin will not renew the contract, or even if it is renewed, they will have to pay an outrageously high price to pack the five contracts. "Loss" came back, but according to rumors in the circle, in fact, Adam Baldwin is now actively communicating with Daenerys, hoping to continue to increase cooperation.

Because the last "League of Justice", according to the planning of the DC movie universe, it may not be released until about 2000.In the four-year gap, if Adam Baldwin did not actively 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 in Superman, Will Smith in Steel Bones, Valerie Galino in Catwoman, and Nicole in Poison Ivy Kidman, etc., have been the focus of attention in Hollywood these years.

In the era of eyeball economy, the high degree of attention actually represents tangible benefits.

If Simon Westero really wants to build a Middle-Earth movie universe after the DC movie universe and the soul-moving movie universe, CAA must let its customers try to fight for the role no matter what.

Because this is the core resource of Hollywood.

Everyone in the conference room woke up a little bit because of Richard Lovett's point, but some people raised an objection: "If you want to develop the film universe, why don't Daenerys Entertainment develop Marvel?"

The words had just been spoken, and in the face of a series of glances, the parties responded.

This question is too 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 sufficient.At this time, Marvel was developed, maybe Daenerys Entertainment could 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.

Thor King’s Middle-Earth series is different.

Because of differences in audiences, DC Movie Universe and Thor King’s Middle-Earth series may compete for some resources, but it will not cause too much internal friction, just like DC Movie Universe and Daenerys Entertainment at this time. Like the "Jurassic Park" series, they can coexist.

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

Michael Owitz, who has completely broken the idea of ​​leaving the job and took charge of the big studio, finally decided to be personally responsible. Since Simon Westero can invest in a film for the development of the Middle-earth series and let the director of his fancy practice, CAA also Actors can be trained in a targeted manner.

After all, in the Middle-Earth series, various roles are clear at a glance.

And a large number.

Now it’s time to choose actors for the right role and train them. At that time, even if Simon Westero still shares the idea of ​​balancing the major brokerage companies, as long as the candidates provided by the CAA are good enough, they will certainly be able to win more shares. .

At the end of the meeting, Ovitz also specially appointed the company's vice president Richard Lovett to try to contact Peter Jackson.

The brokerage contract of the New Zealand director is signed under WMA.

If you can dig it, of course the best.

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

After finalizing this matter, everyone continued some of the original meeting topics. When the meeting ended, it was already more than six o'clock in the afternoon. Owitz finally went out and saw Mark Ferguson, an agent of the company, on his face. Another brunette was waiting outside. The girl was Mia Sara.