Hollywood legendary director

"The release of "Fatal Magic" has almost come to an end. When I finish painting for some time, I will immediately deploy it offline, and try my best to make more preparations while the audience still has an impression."

In an office at the Firefly headquarters, Lehman said softly with a report.

Liam nodded repeatedly in approval.

In recent days, he has also read the daily data reports on the box office market. Everything went as expected, and even the box office drop was within the expected range.

Similar market analysis and audience research also set aside space for the follow-up trend and gave an explanation.

The fact is that "Fatal Magic" is really not a popular mainstream genre choice, and they can see through such restrictions.

However, it is enough to be profitable, and it is much better to make less than nothing.

"This is a whim experiment. Even Director Nolan didn't expect it to be a hit." Lyman smiled, and then said: "Then follow the plan. By the way, let Metz call for me. Joseph comes in."

After Liam finished reporting his work and got up and left, not long after, Joseph walked in again.

When the office door was closed again, Lyman asked him to sit down, and then said: "Joseph, Brian and Jonson and I discussed cooperation that day. In addition to confirming the sequel to "Batman", I also agreed to a TV series. Because of this incident, another project came out at the end of the year, and the manpower is a bit tight. So, you can recruit outside, this time familiar or new graduates in related fields are fine. Well, recruit 12 or so, and rich resumes are preferred. "

Joseph froze for a moment, and then smiled: "Is there a new drama in the company? This is a good thing. HBO is very urgent?"

"Perhaps it is. They said they will put out the time slot around 8 o'clock in the spring next year. It is also because of this, and I think Firefly should also try to layout the animation industry..."

"Animation? I don't know any professionals in this area."

"Try it and pay more attention to the movements of the existing studios."

After talking briefly, Joseph got up and left.

Lehman, who had nothing to order, naturally relaxes.

Look at the newspaper, look at the document.

It wasn't until the afternoon that he began to get busy with the new TV series plan.

In fact, he summarized some of the key points of the market a few days ago, but because the content required for the drama is much larger than the workload of the movie, he did not further determine the script.

Anyway, the company's screenwriting department also has enough talents to work together to form a small team that is good at this kind of writing, and it is estimated that the draft will be finalized soon.

Thinking of this, Metz knocked on the office door five minutes before the meeting was about to start and reminded Lehman: "Boss, the screenwriters are all here."

"Well, I got it."

Lyman put down his work and walked to the conference room.

At this time, Firefly’s screenwriting department has undergone several expansions. It is also because several TV shows need to be written according to the main line of the plot. The number of personnel has already been 11, among which Jonathan and Ray Warnall are directors similar to relatives and friends. The team is not counted, because most of these two have film writing work, or help find inspiration and so on.

Among the 11 people, although the faces are a bit familiar, only Runier-Giss can accurately call out the name of Lehman. This can be regarded as the leader of this small group. He is very good at science fiction, suspense, and literary and in-depth. creation.

This can be considered as Firefly's current screenwriter team, enough to handle most of the writing work, after all, everyone in it is basically a familiar hand, and the script creation experience involved is very rich.

In addition, HBO has also confirmed a preliminary episode broadcast contract with Firefly these days. More specifically, it has to wait until the end of the trial broadcast and sign another one on this basis based on market performance. In fact, it is now a promise of prime time broadcast rights.

As for what type of TV series Lehman wants to film.

In the plan, due to the business development needs of the digital field and the fact that science fiction subjects have often seen good ratings in recent years, dramas such as "Lost" easily broke the ratings record of the same period.

No matter how you look at it, whether it fits the market or adapts to the current situation, the genre of new dramas must bring science fiction elements, but the special effects shots must not be too grand, because the scene is too large for the digital field to afford.

Maybe wait a few years to shoot some high-quality, high-visual effects drama series.

In summary, the name of a sci-fi, horror, and retro-style drama leaped on paper.

That was the "Stranger Things" that Netflix had once aired in the 16th year.

This film is easy and inexpensive, so it is really suitable for the choice at this time.

Not to mention, the first few seasons of this drama have maintained high ratings. Of course, American dramas? It’s common to film and gradually go downhill. Not every movie has a conscience like "Breaking Bad". When it is obvious that you can continue to make money easily, cruelly come to a fairly satisfactory conclusion...

Moreover, this drama is easy to get a lot of momentum, and the audience spontaneously supports it.

After all, the retro style of the show plus a series of small details like "Let's find the difference" that pay tribute to the horror classics are talked about by fans.

In Lehman's view, the concept of the show is not sophisticated, or even old-fashioned, but because of the compact plot and the role of IQ online, the relatively meticulous segmentation processing has become the most "magic" of that year. Episodes.

In other words, the plot is not flawed, the role is shaped with ulterior motives, can keep these two highlights, the audience will not be too picky.

Before planning to make this TV show, Lyman also went to talk to Scott.

A person who is very professional in special effects and screen rendering can provide a lot of opinions on whether the filming of this drama is feasible.

After all, the most eye-catching thing about "Stranger Things" is the high fidelity of the picture-the retro is completely restored, completely like the 80s, and even the picture processing is deliberately old.

In this regard, Scott is sure that there is no problem.

The same is true. There is no shortage of hardware and software, and the production of drama series is about to be on track.

In the meeting room.

Everyone sat down in order.

Lehman simply greeted him and asked his assistant Mays to distribute the creation materials.

When everyone had a copy in front of everyone, and after looking over it for a while, Lehman said: "I'm calling you all for a new project script, the type is a science fiction, horror TV series. The name is written in the text, called " Stranger Things."

In the sight of everyone, Lehman continued: "This new drama will be the spring project of our company and HBO next year, so it is a bit urgent... In addition, let me talk about the shooting of this project. Ideas and creative direction. In terms of time, it revolves around the 1980s. Clothing, architecture, and social atmosphere all have the shadow of that time..."

"As for the background of the story, we have to start with a secret experiment. At that time, the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union was crazy, and there were countless human experiments like going to the sky and the ground. In order to develop the human body's potential and deal with Soviet superpowers According to the plan, the United States also launched a corresponding experiment and named it Stargate.

This project aims to research and develop the human body's remote sensing capabilities, and is intended to monitor the Soviet Union from a distance.(All this happened before, and the United States and the Soviet Union have indeed done similar things...)

In that remote place in the west, the researchers worked repeatedly and finally achieved results. An experiment marked 11 succeeded, but such an experiment to steal the function of God also accidentally released monsters in a different world, and the place where the monsters live We call it the inner world...

Because of this accident, the inner world and the real world opened the door to each other.

And because of the intrusion of supernatural energy, people quickly got bitter fruit.

The monsters accidentally perceive the existence of the gate, but it is not easy to pass. Even so, some small-scale influences make the residents of the town tremble.

Then one day, the first victim appeared. A little boy mysteriously disappeared. His friends and family and the town police searched the town but found no clue.

A living person, just disappeared so bizarrely?"