Hollywood legendary director

Things went back to the day before the banquet.

The weather is still good today.

In the morning, in a big mansion in Beverly Hills.

The courtyard is very large, and the marble columns are carved with exquisite patterns to create a shady boundary.

There are flowers and grasses planted next to them, and they are all well taken care of. It can be seen that the owner is very rich.

Nonsense, can you live in such a good house without money?

A few rocks of different shapes form a rockery with a fountain on it and a variety of ornamental fishes swimming underneath.

Several clusters of bamboo surround it.Not to mention, the mood is pretty good.

In the pavilion, there is a conference table in the middle, which occupies more than half of the space. Five or six chairs are leaning in a circle. They are already full of people. Only the top one is still empty.

This group of people wear formal clothes.

Succinctly, with a calm look.Or look at the report in hand, or chat with each other.

It appears to be waiting for someone.

It continued to walk without any difference for a second, about nine o'clock in the morning.

There was another movement in the shade pavilion.

There was a sound of footsteps from far and near, and the soles of leather shoes rubbed against the pavement of cobblestones, making a unique "dada" sound.

A few seconds later, a man in a white shirt and black trousers walked over.

"President."

"President."

The people who were sitting before got up to say hello.

"Sit all." The man waved his hand and sat on the top of himself.

"How about? Are the company's recent project plans well-defined?"

The speaker, who is called the "President", is Barry Meyer, the CEO of Warner Bros.

Others are the backbone of the company's production department.

"The "Harry Potter" series is being promoted, but a good director has not yet been found. As for the Batman project." The person in charge of the preliminary planning hesitated and said: "There are still many misgivings within the company, and the project was rejected. ."

"Huh, a group of short-sighted people." Barry Meyer was a little unhappy.

He looked at the direct descendants under his hand, but no one dared to take up this topic, their heads lowered.

No one spoke, he had to leave it alone, "As for the director, isn't the recent performance called Lehman very hot? Is it possible to invite him?"

As soon as this topic came out, the atmosphere finally became active again.

Just as the heat wave of the summer vacation has attracted the eyes of countless people in the industry, the entire Hollywood has invested in the box office market.

With the outstanding performance of "Bad Guys" and "Finding Nemo", following the Oscar winner for best foreign language film, the name "Lyman-Rates" really left its mark on the senior executives of the big movie manufacturers.

Different from the artistic achievements of "Three Fools in Bollywood", the continued success of "Furious" and this time "Bad Guy" is the reason for people's attention.

After all, compared with excellent art directors, whether the business ability is excellent or not is the real Hollywood executives are more concerned about.

Because here has always been regarded as the industry standard for the supremacy of interests.

Just like the filming of "Blair the Witch" Daniel Merrick, at that time, he also became the darling of the circle.

But it is a pity that this man seemed to have consumed all his talents in his first movie. After that, he failed to make a single film, and even the sequel to "Blair the Witch" was a complete loss.

However, there are still film companies who continue to give trust that do not believe in evil-in exchange for the market response is still cold.Finally, he retired.

From this we can see how much Hollywood values ​​people who "can get benefits". Even if it is Wu Baige, he has lost two or three consecutive sets before he can't stay in Hollywood.

And Lyman is another emerging director.

Before he failed, naturally some people believed him.

""Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"? We have been in contact with the British director now, it seems something is wrong." One of them said.This series of projects has always been the company's top priority, and the selection of the director is also deliberate. Now this candidate is still at the board meeting. You personally agreed, why did you change your mind?

"No way." Barry Meyer touched his lower lip for a moment, then nodded and said, "Then if Batman is handed over to him to direct, what do you think?"

The scene became awkward again.

Since the "Spider-Man" box office is invincible hot, Warner Bros. has not thought about restarting their superhero project.

But the problem is that many people in the company still feel that it is wrong. After all, Superman and Batman were closed because of serious losses. What if they start rashly and still lose money?

Losing some money is trivial. In case, these two golden signboards are stinky, who will bear the responsibility?

Of course, Barry Meyer has always taken the initiative to restart, and he no longer cares about this.

"Then... the new project that was shelved, he should be very suitable." Barry Meyer suggested again.

"A screenplay adapted from the novel "ropebuens"? Will he agree?"

Said this project is also ill-fated.

The original novel was published in 2000, but the author Jerry Boyd is already 70 years old, so the work has been rejected by the publishing company and considered it worthless to promote.

He didn't give up, and went to the major film companies to deliver it, and finally he was taken by the director Angelica Houston.

But later, the female director lost the thought of filming, and project producer Albert Ludy approached Warner and recommended it to them.

No, Barry Meyer remembered it too.

"We have delivered invitations before, but Lehman never agreed." said one of them.

Barry Meyer leaned back in his chair, thought for a while, and shook his head, "He is always hot now, and there is no shortage of movie projects. And he can succeed in succession, there must be merits, just such a simple invitation , Will it appear that we are not sincere?"

But we are Warner Bros. When did we not invite the director like this?

However, no one said this, but everyone here is obviously holding this mindset.

But Barry Meyer is different. He is a rare high-level film company who likes to personally win over the director. He can also work closely with Christopher Nolan in the future.

"Well, don't Paramount have a reception tomorrow? Find someone to express our Warner Bros. willingness to cooperate with him."

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." One person responded.

"Okay, guys, is there anything else?" Barry Meyer also said, seeing that it was late.

"Uh, one more thing." One of them picked up the file in his hand and handed it over, "David Bird wants to see you."

David Bird is the executive director of the Warner Bros. DC comics department. He is responsible for the film and television adaptation business of DC comics. He is also the allies who have always supported Barry Meyer to restart Batman. However, his wishes are not as good as Barry Meyer’s strong.

He took it, glanced a few times, and rubbed his eyebrows again, "It's really unnerving. What do those people think? They don't want to watch Sony Columbia eating meat and soup, and they don't want to take risks. Is it filmmaking? Is it a very simple thing? I'm afraid of this and that, what else is going on, occupying a position and doing nothing, a bunch of rubbish. Recently, I have become more and more making noises. Why, express dissatisfaction?"

After a few curses, the meeting ended.