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The next day, Lehman launched the project preparation meeting.

At this time, the North American film market is still No. 1 in "Superman for All", winning consecutive two weeks, while "Iron Man", which also won two championships in the summer file, has entered the last week before the next picture, and the number of theaters has been reduced to 200. , As for "Invincible Hulk", it fell to No. 5, with a total of 176 million in North America and 285 million globally.

It was mid-July, and the company's executives had no surprises about the promotion of "Beauty Team" and "Thor". After all, these two works will be promoted by Marvel Studios next year.

Calculating the time, the total of production and post-production is less than 8 months, which seems to be ample, but because it is necessary to communicate with the brand in advance to build momentum and attract sponsorship, it is best to start next year, and it should not be delayed until mid-March at the latest. It is necessary to test and test the film, hold a theater trial screening, and obtain more appropriate resource support from the distributor.

It was about the reunion, and it was a big deal. The producers who could come and several Marvel veterans all sat in the conference room.

And the first question, which is also an important issue in the current progress of the project, is the choice of director.

Lehman didn't take over, and the other directors who worked well with him were too strong—the idea was right, not suitable for Marvel led by Kevin Fitch.

In other words, if you find a director who has the same personality as Edward Norton, Kevin will not be able to bear it, and he must have conflicts, because this product is also very strong on the set, and he has to ask if there is anything that deviates from the shooting outside of his plan. Clearly.

If you can't persuade, you will be "persuaded" by him.

Of course, after generations of Kevin collaborated with so many people, the only one who couldn't help but complained and criticized someone was Edward Norton. This guy usually doesn't say bad things about the co-creator in public. Even if the project is compensated, he can bear it. Responsibility, this is the basic professionalism of a manager who started from film production, regardless of the pot.

Coupled with the fact that Marvel’s works are more script-oriented and the development of filming ideas, Nolan, Wen Ziren and others who rest at home and travel everywhere are indeed inappropriate, and salary is a problem.

As a result, Lehman wanted to find those second- and third-tier directors who were "unsatisfied". Kevin himself firmly believes that cooperating with directors who do not have much qualifications, even if they have character, they have no confidence to show off, and it is not easy to affect the unity of the crew.

After all, what he needs is not such an awesome director, but an obedient director. He doesn't know how to shoot, but he knows the market.Later co-directors can also see his selection criteria.

Around ten o'clock after nine, all the people who should have arrived, Lehman walked in with Kevin at the reminder of Metz.

He sits in the upper position and Kevin is in the first position of his right hand.

Lehman looked at a few executive producers he had trained, and asked them to recommend a few first.

Kevin? He is busy urging the screenwriter to change the script recently. In addition to the minor flaws of the US team, Raytheon Lehman also requested to increase the role of Rocky. Contrary to the US team, this drama needs to add some entertainment effects. It can be said that the market positioning of the first two parts of the Raytheon series has somewhat missed the point.

Why, can you imagine that the Thor series Marvel wanted to be made into a drama with the classic style of Shakespeare?The director of the first film, Kenneth Branagh, started playing Shakespeare, but everyone knows that Thor's first two films were not ideal at the box office—compared with expenditure.

In fact, the first part is 450 million yuan, and the second part has gained 650 million points after time brewing and complex consortium. Passing is definitely passing, but passing for Lehman also means that he can do better.

For example, there is a big gap between the God Realm drama and the Earth drama where everyone is complaining.

Instead, it is the kind of Thor 3 abandoning the classic style, entertainment-oriented, and the box office is very eye-catching.

Times are changing, and the prince's awakening and prince's vengeance routines are too old. You can replace Thor with a certain prince exiled by the king.

Therefore, Lehman’s focus on Thor’s opening work is to increase the drama between Loki and Thor, weaken the extra bloody emotional drama, and set up Thor’s somewhat naive person. Loki brother + wants to get Odin’s approval. A little crooked road, leaving room for the whitewashing behind...

In short, to do subtraction, simple love and hatred-the first prince and the second prince are fighting for the throne, but in fact the second prince only wants his father to admit that he is not worse than his brother, but because he knows the truth, he is special. What is adopted, a little blackened...

Give up torture and flogging humanity, and play SM with the audience's relaxed nerves.

Watching Marvel, it has always been egg surprises and interaction fun, and classical values ​​must be instilled. It seems that if Odin is not entangled, the director is entangled; if Thor is not stupid, the director is stupid; if you don't discuss human nature, the director is inhumane... why bother.

After being singled out for so many areas for improvement, Kevin naturally didn't care about what director's problem...

Coupled with these two projects, Lehman intends to bind the executive producer to the director, which means that the candidate who is selected is passed and who will take up the important position-Firefly has always had the habit of project profit sharing, this time it was actually internal Compete to hold the more lucrative projects.

"I recommend Robert Luktic, who has directed "The Lawful Beauty", "Fun Blackjack", and also served as the producer of "Hollywood Crime Squad". He has rich experience, a variety of styles, and is both serious and humorous. It will be suitable for Thor." Black Cole said first.

He only supervised the second season of "Breaking Bad" this year, and felt that his status in the company was getting lower and lower.

Lehman nodded, but did not make a sound, and just posted the name of the candidate on the large print.

"I think Danny Bauer is suitable for the "American Team" project. This person has filmed "Guessing Train", "Psychedelic Train", "28 Days of Surprise", and has a lot of experience in science fiction and action themes. "The American Team" injects some solemn and serious parts." Garcia, who is younger but has been a producer of major projects for many times, stood up and said.

The one he pushed was still chatting with Nolan during the collaboration with Nolan in "Fatal Magic" and "The Dark Knight." Nolan accidentally revealed the senior director who said he had pulled his film.Well, these two have a good relationship.

Garcia thought that Nolan's optimistic director must have two brushes, plus people have schedules, have made achievements, and bet decisively.

But as soon as he exported, some people worried: "But I remember that Director Bauer just failed the film "The Catastrophe of the Sun." The film Fox Searchlight invested 40 million US dollars. The North American box office only received 3 million, and the overseas box office was less than 28 million. All add up to the cost of shooting."

"The evaluation of this film is very good."

"We need performance more than evaluation." Some people are not polite, but it is a few producers trained by Marvel Pictures themselves-the Hollywood production team often consists of two to five people.

Listening to the quarrel, Lyman put Danny Ball's name on the list of director candidates as if it hadn't happened.

He also knew that Danny Bauer was going to turn over again at the end of this year with "Slumdog Millionaire"-not to be turned over. Bauer was already famous, but some fans were too harsh on him.

This is just like M-Night-Samalan, the appearance is so amazing that every single work will be compared and matched with "Guessing the Train", otherwise he will criticize Jiang Lang.

In addition, Danny Ball's output is not high-the management often makes a lot of demands. Ball himself is unwilling to make the film, making Old Ball cautiously and cautiously. In the past ten years, he only shot three films: Biaoxin, Beach, and 28 days. Works, but it was still scolded to the point.

For example, 28 days, this work can be regarded as a representative of a large-scale infection of zombies. It can be said that Lyman's zombie trilogy can learn some elements from it, but the audience is depressed how director Bauer can shoot this kind of " "Vulgar" works that are not on the stage-a zombie film, of course, it does not describe the good and evil and the growth of human nature.

In the same way, the 2007 "The Catastrophe of the Sun" disappointed senior literary and artistic youths and the Internet suppressing cloud community-what is the story of "The Catastrophe of the Sun"? A science fiction film has such a slow pace, and there are not many passages that question humanity. .

But for ordinary people, the point of complaining is basically that they don’t understand, there are no big stars, the stunts are not as good as Star Wars, the popularity is not as good as Transformers, the moving is not as good as Forrest Gump, and the terrifying place is not as good as Jurassic Park. There is nothing outstanding.

But in fact, this hard science fiction work is really not a bad film objectively. It was made with great sincerity, but the market does not buy it. It is very simple. There is no need to catch Director Bauer madly.

In addition, this person's psychological endurance is not strong, and he always wants to linger between seriousness and the public. "The Catastrophe of the Sun" was scolded and returned to filming "Slums", which is a natural and profound subject. The scope narrows...

It would be much better if he could, like Lehman, refuse to listen to some confessional criticisms.

Anyway, every work that Lehman shoots is also very fierce, but he never takes it seriously. When he is serious, he should be serious, and he should dig deep when he is serious. But if he wants to engage in serious scenes for entertainment, isn't it a brain disease? .