Hollywood legendary director

Robert Iger has a headache.

Because the executives divided into two factions have quarreled together.

Those who support one side think that the failure of "Golden Compass" is purely a problem with the shooting ideas formulated by the high-level new line, and the market positioning is also very embarrassing. What about children's epic Nima's whole joke, young and mature?

And they didn't choose a good director, didn't win over Peter Jackson, and let a director who filmed a youthful comedy take over such a budget production. (Chris Weitz's famous work is the "American Pie" series).

The goal of "The Kingdom of Narnia" has always been very clear. It is a family amusement show. (Parents and children are always the best way for Disney to watch movies. The inevitable production of young children is to make those children can also Understand what the movie is talking about), so there is no risk of loss. At most, the box office is not good enough, but the cost can be recovered.Disney does not rely on box office profits.

But the opposing party believes that, anyway, the audience’s fatigue of watching magical themes is obvious to all. "Golden Compass" was not filmed well, and the positioning was wrong, but it was by no means rotten to the roots. It was the market reaction to get such a box office. Excessive result.

Well, the "Golden Compass" is about to be drawn. The total number of the United States is less than 70 million. The budget of 180 million is indeed too bleak. This movie is really not that bad, not watching the story to see the special effects, and the exquisite picture supports it. , It is because there are too many magical types and the overly excellent Lord of the Rings stood there that caused market resistance.

Neither of the two parties can persuade either. Once the quarrel is fierce, they dare not take responsibility.

You know, Disney is also full of factions, and the shareholders don’t worry about it. One or two love to get in. Who dares to use their status as a guarantee is sure that "The Kingdom of Narnia" will never fail?

Robert Iger was silent, but his eyes kept scanning the crowd.

Gradually, the meeting room became quiet again.

A group of people all looked at Robert, waiting for the executive officer to speak.

This person is still very prestigious within Disney, especially the first thing after taking office is to ease the relationship with Jobs, acquire Pixar, and establish the dominant position of animation.

No one knows how he persuaded that stubborn bull. During Eisner's reign, he fell out with Steve Jobs three times and again, so he had a real PK and staged a full martial arts.

Robert watched the whole speech, and he also had a set of market forecasts. Although he also understood that market fatigue did exist in the opposite party, he seemed to be unwilling to shoot and wasted time.

The series of films, a steady stream of planned releases in order to maximize the value, after four or five years, the entire market will not lose its heat.

Furthermore, there are seven original novels of "The Chronicles of Narnia", namely: "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "Prince Caspian", "Dawnwalker", "Silver Chair", and "The Horse "With Children", "The Magician's Nephew", and "The Last Battle" are filmed at this speed. Can't the protagonist team change two or three rounds?

Then it is impossible to let the main creator grow up with the audience and become a symbol of childhood like in "Harry Potter".

After all, the production idea of ​​"The Kingdom of Narnia" is to learn from the successful experience of the Harry Potter series, and to incorporate Disney's usual family fun.

Robert Iger narrowed his eyes, thought for a while, and made a judgment in his mind.

"Make a project, don't delay the schedule."

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After the meeting ended, Robert turned around to call in the assistant, "Help me make an appointment with Director Andrew and meet in my office."

The assistant was ordered, nodded and called.

Not long after, Andrew Adamson, who was studying the storyboard at home, drove up.

This shoulder-length hair and beard is the director of the first part, and there is no plan to change the second part.

Although this looks rather casual, he is indeed a talent.

Moreover, Andrew Adamson is a New Zealander who knows Peter Jackson as well. He came to Hollywood to mix in when he was young, and soon became a good one. His record is very gorgeous.

His director career began in 2001 with "Shrek" and cooperated with DreamWorks Animation, and his first work won the Oscar for Best Animation.

Three years later, Andrew continued to write brilliantly in "Shrek 2", which was also the director and screenwriter in the film, and won two Oscar nominations for best cartoon and best original song.

And the reason Andrew left DreamWorks and joined Disney’s embrace was because DreamWorks Animation and DreamWorks were separated, and Jeffrey Katzenberg didn’t get involved in live-action movies. It happened that Disney gave him the live-action project he wanted. The masterpiece "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".

Strictly speaking, the animation business of this product is still actively interacting with DreamWorks Animation, while the real-life business is temporarily comfortable with Disney.

In the office.

Robert Iger sits politely with Andrew Adamson.

Because of what just happened, Robert asked mildly: "I don't know, what do you think about the recent failure of "Golden Compass", what do you want to talk about about the shooting of the sequel?"

Although Andrew is dressed up as an artist, he is still not convulsive, and his organization is very clear. "The audience of cartoons and fantasy movies is never just children. The first one has already laid the foundation, and the second one is still about a group of teenagers. The story, but in the transition to maturity, as long as you don’t forcefully render the epic style, it should be recognized by the market. After all, the target audience of the film is there."

Robert slightly turned his head to the side, feeling that it would be impossible to grasp Disney's advantage.After all, Disney’s source of profits and the huge surrounding market rely on pleasing children and paying for parents’ wallets.

Even if it's worse than the first one, the project's profitability is still not difficult.

Thinking about it this way, Robert had a little more confidence, as long as his psychological expectations were lowered, he would not find it difficult to accept.

The rest depends on whether the crew can smoothly execute the plan.

In this regard, Andrew is the guarantee, and you can rest assured-although the salary is high, this guy is awesome.

After 7 years in the industry, I didn't sell a crossover. The total box office has exceeded 2.8 billion. It is acceptable for Disney to give more than 30 million project income.

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Paramount.

Inside the building, between staff exchanges, Spielberg is taking over a mess.

At this point, he also had to make some jokes at George Lucas who was sitting beside him.

The two have repeatedly competed for the annual box office championship, but it did not affect Spielberg and Lucas becoming friends.

After all, there are not many old filmmakers who have maintained their energy to create and have guaranteed performance since the 1980s and 1990s.

No longer worrying about DreamWorks funding issues, in fact, it also liberated Spielberg, at least he doesn't have time to make movies for such trivial matters.

No, after the Transformers, Paramount executives and Lucasfilm established another classic screen series "Indiana Jones".

When receiving the news, even the lead actor Harrison Ford joked to himself that he was already the father of that role at his age, but he still went to the gym at the age of 65 to build muscles for some stunts.

The third part of this series was actually finished in conception, but because of the lack of projects with enough potential, I had to sell it for a wave of feelings.

When people are old, do they miss the past? It would be great if you can make money in this...Look, isn’t "The New King of Comedy" filmed too, for the gambling agreement , The routine of owing a movie ticket is really a failure of the quality of the production, which greatly eroded the patience of the market and the audience and fans, and it is impossible to support it.

Feelings of this thing must be of decent quality.

Paramount understood this concept well, so after Lucas overturned the script several times, he pulled on Spielberg.

And this one gradually became immersed in the production. In 2005, the "Munich Massacre" really became a market tragedy. It was not popular, but it also needed a blockbuster movie to prove that he was not old. Spielberg was actually a businessman. , And refuse to accept defeat or old age.

However, there were a lot of difficulties in creating a series of films that have been in the past 19 years.

For example, how to restore the characteristics of the image at that time and maintain a consistent familiar taste; for example, the issue of actors, after all, is old and can't gather the original team.

But there are more solutions than difficulties, right?This wave of feelings must be brushed.

It is not a smart person not to brush.