Hollywood legendary director

Warm afternoon, Firefly Pictures Building.

Garcia saw Lehmann's assistant Mays staying outside the office and asked in a low voice, "Is there anything wrong with the boss?"

Mace nodded calmly.

Although her salary is not high, and the company's status is not comparable to that of Garcia's real power in production, but because she often follows Lehman, no one will offend her.

What's more, Metz will also be responsible for reminding and receiving visitors of Lehman's work arrangements and schedule actions.

Therefore, even executives like Joseph would be very kind to her at the company.

Seeing Metz nodded, Garcia asked with some interest: "Do you know who it is?"

"It seems to be a director. The boss has been waiting for him for a while."

"Director..." Garcia felt like he knew something.

After all, he just received an internal call, and the boss asked him to come over.

And now to see a director, does that mean that the company has a new project?

I thought it was nothing big, but combined with this situation, there may be new moves.As a producer, Garcia quickly thought.

Because Firefly still rarely interacts with the director.

To put it bluntly, directors are generally not invited to the company if there is no project, but once invited, there is basically a shooting plan.

"I don't know which director, what is he good at?" Garcia curiously asked.

"What is Reitman?" Metz recalled seriously, and then said: "Jason Reitman."

"Oh, it's him." Garcia might understand.

Bubimes has very little contact with industry personnel and has limited familiarity. Garcia often deals with such personnel.

And to be received by Lehman more intimately, it is impossible not to have results.

Excluding some of the same names, a very clear image quickly emerged.

After all, there are always few capable people, especially in places like Hollywood that have the most performance.

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Jason Reitman, born in 1977, Canadian.

In 1988, he made his debut in "Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother" directed by his father Ivan Reitman;

In 1989, he again appeared in his dad's movie "Ghostbusters";

In 1990, as a set assistant, he turned from an actor to behind the scenes;

In 2000, the first official feature film "We Believe in God" was filmed. This is a horror-themed work, which has achieved impressive results, but accumulated experience for subsequent directing.

Because of his father's sake and personal struggle, Jason Reitman is very experienced in the director circle, wandering around the major studios in the form of a studio, and mixed very well.

But even so, the boss of Firefly, Lehman, who has higher grades and seniority than him, took the initiative to invite and greet him, and waited for him for several months. What kind of courtesy was this?

Of course, the reason for waiting is because he has no schedule. Some time ago, he was still busy with the director and producer of the TV series "The Office". It was a project he cooperated with NBC, and he needed to ensure the quality of the project.

As soon as the project ended, he rushed to Firefly.

After meeting, he also took the initiative to release the closeness.

Now anyone in the industry does not know the name of Firefly, this studio already has the ability to control the schedule.

As a director, he is naturally willing to make good friends.

This not only means cooperation opportunities, one more way, one more choice.

After greeting each other, Lyman sat down on the sofa opposite him.

This director who is close to his age is worth waiting for.

Of course, in all fairness, Jason Reitman is well-known in the circle, but he is not as big as everyone knows, even in terms of hierarchy, he should only be regarded as a second-line director, not even a second-line top.

The reason for this attitude is that the film "Juneo" is one of his masterpieces.

This product is very different from the action comedy style that his father Ivan Reitman focuses on. Most of the films he shoots prefer a more three-dimensional, more modern, and sharper perspective, with humorous ridicule, which makes the audience smile. At the same time, inject some thinking.

In other words, Jason Reitman’s films are mostly centered on the current realities of American society, choosing relatively marginal occupations or subjects, and shaping characters through complex and significant value conflicts or psychological crises, showing non-mainstream The integration of values ​​and mainstream life concepts.

The characters in his films can be divided into two categories: "physical teenagers" and "psychological teenagers". They are faced with life crises or severe contradictions in values, and then analyze and discuss the problems of American society through their experiences and choices.In order to express these serious themes easily, his film language has outstanding personal characteristics in the use of close-up shots, triangular composition, music and quick editing.

In short, if "Juneo" wants to achieve the dark horse posture of the previous life, while being highly topical, he is the most suitable director candidate.

After all, if you only shoot according to the script, it will undoubtedly make the movie "too much."

The theme focuses on the social status quo of teenage pregnancy and inability to support it. It is very sharp. Once it is not filmed, it will inevitably become a complaint and the viewing experience will be very heavy.

And this type of heaviness is not acceptable to the market.

People have rebellious psychology. The more you are bb, the less people love to listen.

Moreover, it is the beginning of the story of underage sex.

Therefore, how to reduce the sense of sharpness, not fall into the vulgar comedy routine, and also use a relaxed tone to warn young people, it is not easy to achieve this level.

Original time and space, this film was invested by Searchlight, and this studio has always liked to dig out low-cost works.

Well, "Little Sunshine Girl" is also from this...

After inviting Jason Reitman, with a budget of 6.5 million US dollars, it took more than a month of production time, and the world gained more than 230 million...

All kinds of things made Lehman willing to wait for him to vacate his schedule.

After turning to the topic, Lehman naturally took out the script project and invited him to take over as the director.

And Jason Reitman also knew that Firefly had a project to find him. After reading the script roughly, it felt pretty good, so he readily agreed: "Director Luster, I like the film you made very much. "Day Dreamer", I watched it several times from left to right, and I had long hoped to cooperate with you. There was no chance before, now? I have no reason to refuse."

Lyman smiled and let Mace serve coffee.

He had specifically inquired about this person before. After all, he had to intervene in the filming trajectory of a director. If it is too early, it is likely to change.

But in 2005, this product only made a humorous comedy "Thank you for smoking", a story about the spokesperson of an association that promotes tobacco culture.

In terms of style, this film is a bit more sharp than Juno. It satirizes the inside story of the three most profitable industries of guns, tobacco, and alcohol, but it is also humorous.

In addition, this product is just like his movie style, and the interpersonal relationship is maintained very well.

In other words, the temper is not very violent. Generally speaking, when a director is always a bit more temperamental, can it not be able to subdue the crew without being strong?

However, there are always differences.

Jason Reitman is a more casual director who doesn't like to be restrained. It can be seen from his cooperation with many studios and never tied to any one.

So, don’t look at Jason’s seemingly good talk and propose to be the director of "Juneo", but if the cooperation plan given by Firefly is too harsh, Ya will definitely turn around and leave.

Today, people are waiting.

With the support of Firefly, with style theory, it should be able to achieve results that are not too far from the previous life.

And his own director's salary is very easy to talk about, just follow the rules.

He won less than US$4.5 million in "Thank you for smoking" including the share. The 5 million basic salary of "Juneo" must be enough for him.

But this one is only the most basic.

According to Lehman, before the movie box office was released, no one except him could have predicted so accurately.

Jason Reitman certainly didn't know that the film could gain that kind of audience support.

Then, the division of interests requires some thought.

It can satisfy Jason and make Firefly get the big head.

After thinking about it for a while, Lehman said, "I'm very sure that you will be the director. After the project is approved, you will be supported in the shooting. Well, 6 million basic salary plus 10% of the North American net box office share ,what do you think?"

how about it?

That's very satisfying.

After hearing this, Jason Reitman swelled in his heart, said a few polite words, and almost bowed down and hugged the firefly's thigh.