Hollywood legendary director

Would you like it?

Of course he is willing.

This work has extraordinary significance for him.

Jerry Boyd looked at the slightly younger director in front of him. If what the news says is true, then this person is only 27 this year. Although I heard that he has released a lot of great works, he still has a real reputation. After "Bad Guy", as if from then on, the director's name began to become hot.

However, those rumors are illusory to Jerry Boyd, and they are readings to pass the time in his spare time.

Until today—or this afternoon, Jerry Boyd really came into contact with him.Different from the media and newspapers, the real sense of life.

A young director with an interesting personality, quite talkative, and his own ideas.

However, thinking about his age and achievements made Jerry Boyd doubt whether his first half of his life was in vain.

Thinking of this makes people laugh.Jerry Boyd shook his head, got rid of all these random thoughts, and drank again intently.

There was a crisp crash, and Jerry Boyd picked up his beer glass, raised his head and started pouring the rest of the beer into his throat. For a while, he was proud.

He wiped the wine that fell from the corner of his mouth, and looked at Lyman with a flushed face, "I am willing."

It's so straightforward and loud.

Fortunately, there is no one else in the bar. Otherwise, if you don't know, you think these two people are privately fixing for life.

"So, tell me, what do you want me to do?" Jerry Boyd has a very bold personality. This may be because he stays in the boxing circle all the year round, and he doesn't get muddled.

Now that he decided to join the filming, he immediately entered the relevant role, "To be honest, I have very limited knowledge of the film, personally, maybe it can't help much."

Lehman smiled and said: "You come to be the filming consultant of our crew and see if we made any mistakes when we were shooting the boxing scene. Just point out any mistakes. The other is the script, which is where I need your help. Some scene designs are a bit ambiguous, and there are dialogues between characters and the content of training. You have to fill in as much as possible."

Paul Haggis is a good screenwriter, but he has never been in the boxing circle, so he focuses on different directions in the adaptation. He focuses more on the "Maggie" personal family situation and conflicts. The above, weakened the boxing part, so in fact it seems that some plots are slightly procrastinated, which is not conducive to the rhythm control of the film. Unlike Lehmann, he wants to deepen the part of "Maggie" fighting hard for boxing and weaken the background line of the characters. .

The main line always revolves around the four themes of "inspiration, chicken blood, choice, respect and death".

As soon as Lyman's words fell, Jerry Boyd showed a thoughtful expression. As the original author of the novel, he naturally knew nothing more about what happened.

......

It is common sense to drink without driving, and to drive without drinking.

Lyman drank, so he didn't drive.

After having a pleasant chat with Jerry Boyd, it was 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and Lyman called and asked Johnson to send someone to pick him up.

Early the next morning.

He went straight to the headquarters of Warner Pictures.

Warner's head office is also located in Burbank. In fact, the so-called "Hollywood Big Six", in a true geographical sense, only Paramount's company is headquartered in Hollywood.

Because it was reported long ago, and no one stopped Lehman, he went up to the 8th floor smoothly.

There are a lot of people on the floor, most of them are the internal staff of Warner and some producers.

When Lyman walked along, someone greeted him, and he nodded in greeting.

After arriving at the president's office, Barry Meyer's assistant had been waiting there long ago and greeted him again.

The two of them walked in one aisle one after the other, and they reached Barry Meyer's position.

The left side of the office is near the floor-to-ceiling windows, and others are sitting there handling documents.

"Director Lyman."

"Mr. President."

The two shook hands intimately, and Lyman had a gentle smile on his face.

"How are you preparing for the establishment of the crew?"

"It's okay, it's time for your company's filming expenses to be accounted for." Lehman reminded.

"Well, I will notify the Finance Department in a while to send the funds in."

Because the two parties are cooperating to develop this project, they will complete it as discussed at the beginning.

Therefore, the total shooting budget is about 40 million U.S. dollars, Lehman accounts for 30% (basic film remuneration is converted into investment share), and 12 million U.S. dollars will be spent, and Warner will bear the remaining shooting funds.

The financial transactions between the two are used by a newly opened bank account, which is also convenient for Warner to inquire about the whereabouts of funds.

After talking about the funding for the filming, Lehman talked about another thing, "Does Mr. Barry Meyer know Clint Eastwood?"

"Why are you looking for him?"

Barry Meyer certainly knows Eastwood. In fact, the collaboration between Warner and the director is frequent.

Although operating his works does not make much profit, it will not easily lose money.

After so many years of cooperation, there has been a lot of tacit understanding.

Just like that, Barry Meyer was a little surprised that Lyman asked him why?

"I want to ask Mr. President to do me a favor."

......

Clint Eastwood also joined the brokerage company, but not CAA, but ICM.

Some time ago, he directed a feature film "Mystic River", which is still in theaters now. At the box office, the market performance of art films has not been very good. Although the reputation is good, they can barely make a small amount of money compared with expenditures. The big heads still look at the offline DVD and video tape market for their inability.

However, people don't worry about this.

He is already 73 years old, and his wish is to die on the filming scene (this is what he said when he won the best director Oscar. By 2019, he is 89 years old, and he even made a "Mule". Self-directed and self-acted), is a filmmaker who truly loves his career.

After the filming, he rested at home as usual, thinking about what to shoot the next movie.

But I didn't expect Warner's executive Barry Meyer to call, but it was his private number.

"Mr. Barry Meyer, is there anything?"

After a few polite sentences, he asked frankly.

It's okay, this busy person will definitely not call him.

"Your "Mystic River" is currently in theaters. If you need help, just speak up."

"Nothing needed, it's already in theaters, and those who love watching will naturally go to it."

After a boring discussion, Barry Meyer still said: "Then are you free lately? I want you to play a movie."

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