Hollywood legendary director

On October 15, the morning sun shined through the floor-to-ceiling windows into the large bedroom.

A slightly awake Lyman opened his eyes, and then hugged Eva's soft body tightly, smelling the faint fragrance of the shampoo between his nose, and couldn't help but slacken and refused to get up.

After a few minutes, Eva said: "Get up."

"Ok."

Lehman agreed, and also sat up from the bed.

"Are you going out tomorrow? In addition to the "007" project, who else is looking for you?"

"For "Casino Royale", Johnson is still busy communicating with MGM. He probably will be preparing for it this year, but he can't start the machine. So I picked up another movie. It's an independent work. The salary is not much. But the role is quite interesting, there is a lot of room to play, just to sharpen the performance."

"This is a good thing, but this kind of project is very insecure. Most of them are three-day theater trips and there is no market prospect."

"It's okay, there is no pressure to play independent works."

After the two of them washed and ate breakfast, they went to the hotel together to participate in the celebration party of "Dead Silence".

After the North American film was released, although it still continued to harvest the box office overseas, this did not affect Firefly Pictures's intention to encourage the main creators of the crew, and to take heart.

Around ten in the morning, the reception began.

Because it is an internal gathering, the scale is actually small, but the atmosphere is also lively.

After all, all the film crews got incentive bonuses for "Dead Silence" box office sales.

Amidst the excitement, Lehman saw the spinning top again.

He came to Lehman for the new movie "Pan's Labyrinth".

"In just two or three days, are you ready for the shooting mission?" Lehman picked up the planning table above and looked at the top in surprise.

Well, he underestimated the enthusiasm of this guy, or that he was very excited to be able to direct a project he was fascinated by.

"It's only the preparatory stage. The actor only sends messages to Ron Pullman, but in order to start shooting as soon as possible, it is better not to delay or delay." The spinning top looked in good spirits and replied with a smile.

"This project is produced by Alfonso Cuarón? Is he willing?"

At this time, no one mentioned the name of the so-called "Mexico Three", and at this time in Hollywood, the most powerful and basic Mexican director is undoubtedly Alfonso Cuarón.

Just when Gonzalez was still polishing small literary productions, he was not famous internationally; Gyro had just realized the direction of future shooting from the evil B-level film, but Alfonso had already directed "Harry Wave The Great Director of "Prisoner of Azkaban".

"He's been idle lately, and he's very interested in this project. Don't worry about the salary. He is here to help. I will pay for it personally." The top seemed to have thought of something, and quickly explained.

"I don't mean that. Since he is willing to help you, he will pay from the project budget and the production business will follow the rules."

With Alfonso Cuarón's status, the salary of being a producer is not that high, and Lehmann doesn't care about this expense.

After the reception, Lehman asked Joseph to match the budget with the new project prepared by the top as soon as possible.

The director’s current salary has increased by 30% compared to that of "Hellboy". The approximate salary is 6.5 million plus his own studio to bear the production cost of 5 million.

In all, from the point of view of only the profit space of the co-producers, it is estimated that the studio with the top can account for 10% of the total box office revenue (not deducting the cinematic account). The copyright belongs to Firefly Pictures, but the sequel and even offline There is also a copy of the spinning top studio in the surrounding area.

Later, just after the project of "Pan's Labyrinth" was established, while Gyro was busy preparing to build a crew, Lehmann saw the possibility of a good project adaptation from the quarterly sales list of Random House.

Speaking of which, adapting popular novels into film and television dramas is a very popular project development method in the circle.

But Firefly Pictures does not actually have much experience in this regard. This is also quite surprising to the interest partners such as Warner, Lionsgate and so on-Firefly's projects are mostly original scripts, which is too rare.

And that day, after seeing a novel, Lehman turned out the phone and called his agent Johnson, "Help me keep an eye on the right to adapt a novel."

Lehman glanced at the newspaper and continued: "The name is "The Devil Wearing Prada."

Hanging up, Lyman thoughtfully.

And this work may be better known by another translation: "The Queen in Prada".

...

When Johnson received the call, he immediately set off for Oklahoma. On the way, the content of the novel appeared in his mind.

From the editor-in-chief of Random House, he quickly got the address of the original author, and went to the test himself.

Johnson has been with Lehman for so many years, and he still has a certain understanding of this person. Under normal circumstances, he does not like that someone interferes in his private affairs, but if it is not a private matter and is a novel author, then it probably means this It will be the next movie project of Firefly Pictures, and it is also a fashion work for the female market-"The Devil Wearing Prada" is a novel about a female college student entering a top fashion magazine as the editor's assistant.

Well, it's pretty yy. It is estimated that for female readers, getting close to the secrets of the fashion circle is their most fresh and curious topic.

After all, according to what the editor-in-chief said, this novel is very popular among readers, mainly housewives, and it has dominated the sales list for 50 consecutive weeks before, and it seems that there is still market potential for tapping.The editors of Random House had a point.

But after Johnson hurriedly read the original work, he found that the writing of the novel was quite rubbish, and it was not a work with great insight or innovative themes. However, this was what Lehman asked him to do, which seemed quite interesting.

Johnson naturally raised his energy and got ready to plan.

But I didn't think...

"What, the adaptation rights are sold?"

After finally finding the author Lauren Weisberg, after explaining his intentions, this is the case again.

Lauren Weissberg is also dumbfounded.

She is 28 years old this year. In 2003, she released the novel "The Devil Wearing Prada" based on her career experience.

But the novel actually caught fire in mid-2004, but in 2003, she didn't understand the market at that time, and met a Fox staff member who came to talk about the right of adaptation, and she gave it to her very happy.

This is because I was told that I needed to watch Fox's plan to make a movie.

Yes, two years have passed, and the total sales of novels are getting higher and higher, but the adaptation is still a long way off.

Lauren Weissberg was very annoyed at this, because not making a movie not only meant the loss of copyright income, but also meant that he could not see his work on the movie screen.

She was so frustrated, but she had nothing to do with Fox.

Because such top studios are used to spending a small amount of money to store the relatively popular books and works on the market as company reserves.

As for whether to shoot or not, let's talk about it.

Of course, Lauren didn't understand this aspect at all as a film and television novice, and the result was completely different from what she had imagined. Hateful Fox also promised her to play a role in the movie and show her face.

"Can you show me the signed adaptation contract?" Johnson didn't give up.

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