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After the project "Old Nowhere" was almost completed, Lehman also started other work.

First, "Pan's Labyrinth" entered post-production. Lehman visited the editing progress of Gyro and Alfonso in the past, and then the casting aspect of "Fatal Magic".

Christian Bell and Michael Kane, the two former queens of "The Mystery of the Shadow", plus the new British actor Rebecca Hall, have all been identified as actors, but for the rest, Nolan returned Tangled.

In other words, after the success of "The Mystery of Chivalry", Nolan's weight in Hollywood began to increase. For example, in this casting, many movie stars are willing to participate in the audition, and there are many first-line movie stars.

But the project budget is there. Those who are too expensive can't afford it, those who are too cheap have no appeal, and they are too low to form a double-lead lineup with Bell.

Of course, Nolan's careful consideration is very simple for Lehman. He directly recommended the original Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson.

In fact, after starring in Wolverine, Hugh Jackman was almost bound to this role. The audience would feel that he would be acting in any role, and always felt that the impression was not good, but "Fatal Magic" is a rare non-" The "X-Men" series also perform tasteful movies, because in Nolan's movies, the characters always have to serve the camera, which is easy to be ignored by the audience and the influence is not as great.

In other words, the success of the character is based on the success of the movie itself. It is like a screw that will be made small and inconspicuous, but in reality, Hugh Jackman is topical enough, and because I am deeply restricted by the narrow play path. , With a deliberate breakthrough, the pay for non-"X-Men" works will usually be reduced by a large part-the pay of the sequel actors will basically be reduced if they leave the sequel.

In addition, it is Scarlett Johansson.

She is now in a low period of her career. Last year's "Escape from the Clone Island" suffered a big defeat (production cost was 122 million, North America 35.81 million, overseas 124 million, and at least a loss of 70 to 80 million at the box office alone. Blood also made Spielberg unable to hold it at the time)-Warner's publicity draw was also very high.

This Michael Bay’s ambitious movie that wanted word-of-mouth and doubled the box office not only accelerated the acquisition process of DreamWorks, but also directly blocked the various careers of the protagonist in it. Not to mention maintaining the status, but it needs more opportunities.

Therefore, these two actors with both strength and propaganda value joining "Deadly Magic" are actually very cost-effective.

Of course, Nolan, who was reminded, also quickly thought of this. Don’t forget that this savvy ability is not much lower than his directing talent. Soon, after hosting another round of auditions, Hugh Jackman and Scarlett- Johnson joined the crew with a salary of 6 million and 2.2 million respectively.

This is the case. On the "Spartan" project side, Director Zha is still busy experimenting with new special effects on the screen with Scott and the actors have not trained a muscle, far from the time to start shooting.

The next day, Lehman went to the company and Johnson found it. Lehman flipped through the list and crossed out a few unfavorable scripts. Then he went to the conference room and asked the staff who collected copyright to hold another round of meetings.

After greetings from the boss, chairman, Lehman, and Mr. Rust, several people took their seats one after another.

Lehman opened his mouth and said, "It's been so many days, let's report on the work."

Johnson has the closest relationship with Lehman, so he was the first to answer, "The copyright of "The Da Vinci Code" is in Columbia's hands. The copyright of several novels including Dan Brown has been taken away. I will ask. Now, Colombia has a complete development plan and does not intend to involve outsiders."

"In addition, the other script you saw, "Legend of the End", was intended to be produced as early as the 1990s, but the budget was too high at that time and the special effects technology was immature. It was delayed. Now the copyright falls to In the hands of Aqiwa Gosman, we had worked with him on "Smiths" before, and after looking for it, he said that he could talk. By the way, he has now established a Caojing Production Company. If it really wants to be taken down, a lot of profits need to be distributed."

Lehman frowned, and said, "You can't miss "Legend of the End", let's continue talking to him. This script reminds me of "New York Trip."

"A follow-up story?"

As early as after "New York Trip", Lehman said that there would be a sequel plan, so Johnson asked.

Lehman said helplessly: ""The Walking Dead" is said to be a TV sequel, but it doesn't have much to do with the story. The second part I want to shoot is a story about zombies forming a group of corpses and breaking through New York. The script of "Legend of Doom" is actually very suitable for the third. The Ministry, that is, the whole world was captured by zombies, and human beings are almost extinct."

Johnson was taken aback.

He didn't expect Lehman to have such a plan for the movie, step by step, to form three works representing zombies, under the mutual cooperation and momentum, how big the box office market should be?

At least not worse than the first three in the "Harry Potter" series.

Johnson said bluntly: "Well, I will try my best to negotiate with Aqiwa Gosman, and I must get the copyright of the script. He lacks funds, and he can't shoot such a big scene alone. "

Lyman laughed blankly. Johnson didn't pay much attention to the script. After hearing about the trilogy and the derivative plan of a TV series, his eyes lit up.

Originally, he still wanted to create the third ending story of his own, but it couldn't be compared to the ready-made one-after the movie "Legend of Doom" was filmed, the title was "I am a Legend", which is that one man, one dog, doomsday survival... ...

Similar scripts are readily available, and of course you must get them.

"If you can't get the copyright of the adaptation, you can cooperate in development, but you must have a follow-up offline market development if you let a part of the profit." Lehman thought for a while and reminded.

Johnson nodded in response.

Afterwards, a member of the screenwriting department stood up and said: "I searched through the company's backlog of scripts and found that there are several themes that might be very good."

"What is it?"

"Uh, there are some works that a niche audience might be able to win."

Lehman did not expect that there was a middle-aged literary and artistic person hidden in the screenwriting department.

"Can you elaborate on it?" Lehman asked curiously.

"I brought the script, boss, do you want to see it?"

Lyman waved his hand. "You can summarize it first."

The middle-aged white man named Runier-Guise entered the company last year. It originated from the expansion of the company's management and followed Rodriguez Perlman's entry at the same time. The screenwriting business was fairly skilled.

But he himself is a practitioner who likes to study avant-garde film works.

Runier stood straight, with a serious expression, "One of them is about the story of an underage girl's unintended pregnancy. Diablo Coti has always been very restrained in telling such a sharp subject, not criticizing or advocating it. , Even almost an understatement, but the thoughts inside are moving; the second is a story about a beauty pageant."

"Perhaps it sounds a little sloppy, but in fact this is a script about family relationships..."

"It sounds like a lot of risk." Liam on the side retorted: "These two scripts have not been invested for so long, so everyone must think it is very risky."

Runir-Ghis did not deny anything.

If someone is very optimistic about the scripts that have been piled up in the script library, they would have been shot.

"I'll take a look first." Lehman was interested.

Take a look at the script title "Juneo" and "Little Miss Pageant".

Well, the former Lehman is very impressed, but I don’t know that this work was not shot at all at first. The latter opened and read for a while, Lehman also understood which movie it was-"Little Sunshine", it is indeed a Warm works about family affection.

Lehman picked up two scripts and said: "For film companies to survive, commercial works are indispensable, but as directors, we must have the ability and don't forget the feelings of filmmakers. Business and art must be grasped with both hands. Be hard. Runier you are responsible for negotiating the adaptation of these two projects."

Runier-Jess was very excited. He felt that he had met a boss who could agree with his ideas and was very happy to take the task.

In addition, the rest of the staff also provided several options, but Lehmann was always willing to come.

Because everyone’s choices are very careful, and all of a sudden, there are 13 more scripts with a little potential in the company. Of course, most of them have not been verified by the big screen.

Only three items are highlighted by Lehman...