Hollywood Hunter
Chapter 1080: Full force
Daenerys Studios, Los Angeles.
Girl A was holding a folder in her arms, raised her wrist and looked at her watch, and greeted her boss who had just finished the meeting with Pixar's management.
"You still have one year, John, sort out a revised plan as soon as possible, and I will see it after the New Year."
John Lasseter, who had just been trained, followed Simon's side slightly and said: "I promise, Simon, I will be as soon as possible."
Simon finished talking to John Lasseter with a cold face, and went straight to Girl A, and asked, "Next?"
"Everyone has arrived at the movie "Horror Ghost"."
Simon nodded and walked out quickly. Girl A quickly followed.
Returning from the East Coast, Simon has been reviewing Daenerys Entertainment’s film projects for the next two years in the past few days. What he has just discussed with the Pixar team is another 3D animation film Pixar that will be released at the end of next year. team".
Compared with "Toy Story", "Finding Nemo" and other films, "Bugs" in the Pixar animation series, whether it is word-of-mouth or box office, is a low one.
As for why, there are actually many questions.
The most important one, in Simon’s view, is that the main line of the story tends to be the love of two ants. Out of love for Princess Yating, Felic, the protagonist, rose up against the grasshopper army, and finally the lover finally got married. The theme seems too adult, not suitable for all ages. In addition, this is not a real-life fairy tale of the prince and princess, it is difficult to make people feel substituting, so a seemingly inconspicuous problem, to a large extent caused the "Bugs" in the Pixar animation series low.
Look at other things, "Toy Story", the core is friendship, suitable for all ages. "Finding Nemo", which set a box office record, focuses on family affection, which is more suitable for all ages. There is also "The Lion King", which has created a box office miracle from 2D to 3D under the interference of the big butterfly. Although the story is taken from "The Prince's Revenge", the core is growth, which is still suitable for young and old.
There is a simple truth: under the premise of ensuring quality, the film that covers the wider age range of the audience, the higher the box office will definitely be.
Simon raised this question when the project started, but the Pixar team obviously did not implement it strictly. After all, with continuous success, it is inevitable for anyone to be impetuous. Therefore, at the meeting just now, Simon was rarely angry and forced the Pixar team to do this. Modifications were made to dilute the love line between Felic and Princess Yating, focusing on friendship, while adding more lovable and easier to sell surrounding insect circus scenes.
Leaving the Pixar headquarters and returning to a screening room on the third floor of the administrative area, the director Peter Jackson, the actor Ben Stiller and the heroine Mia Sara have all arrived, as well as Dan Ni Morris and several New World Pictures executives who are in charge of project distribution.
Everyone greeted briefly and took their seats soon.
Simon walked to the position with the best view in the middle of the second row and took a memo from the female assistant sitting on the left. After just a few glances, he felt the faint fragrance of a strange woman on the right and turned his head to look. The heroine of "Horror Phantom" Mia Sara sat down next to him and saw Simon look over. This kind of golden age Hong Kong actress temperament is very in line with the aesthetics of the Oriental beauty. The expression is slightly nervous: "Mr. Westeros , Can I sit here?"
Simon just nodded slightly, his gaze returned to the memo in front of him introducing the general situation of "Ghost of Horror", and he quickly read the information.
The lights in the projection room quickly dimmed and the screen lit up.
The first draft of Peter Jackson's "Ghost of Horror" tells the story of Frank, who accidentally obtained psychic abilities, colludes with his ghost friends to defraud money and encounters the murder of evil spirits, and finally the victory of justice over evil.
The original script seemed terrible to Simon.
Speaking of which, Western ghost movies usually have a big flaw. This is the lack of a mature model for humans to fight against ghosts. This has also led to many horror movie protagonists to defeat ghosts often only by accident, or many of them do not understand. Routines and even probation with love are very far-fetched.
Just like the original "Ghost of Horror" script, the protagonist defeated the evil spirit for the first time by relying on two machine guns transformed by the dead sheriff.
Nonsense.
In comparison, Eastern ghost movies, especially Hong Kong movies, have quite convincing and complete routines, such as glutinous rice, ink pipe, magic talisman, dog blood, donkey hoof, and so on.
Daenerys Entertainment has created a ghostly movie universe in recent years. Simon has personally intervened to continuously improve a set of Westernized ghost exorcism models, and the effect is very good. As for this "Ghost of Horror", Simone originally threw a Hong Kong film "Mr. Zombie" to Jackson, and asked him to watch it several times to find inspiration and re-edit the script to replace the original "Horror" which is neither horrible nor comedy. "Phantom" was perfected into a qualified commercial film.
Compared with other directors with strong personalities, Peter Jackson’s biggest advantage is that he is pragmatic, he can listen to other people’s opinions and is willing to cooperate with investors’ requirements to make improvements. The script that finally started filming deleted a large number of redundant story lines in the original version, and removed it from "Mr. Zombie" provided by Simon has taken a lot of inspiration, and it is basically another story.
On the big screen.
The film begins with a farce, a haunted castle, the host family invited the psychic Frank to catch the ghost.
Enough to make people with a little IQ feel like a liar, the male protagonist poses in the castle, and finally expresses to the suspicious-looking host that he is settled and gets paid and leaves.
When Ben Stiller, the actor's actor, appeared, he felt completely different from the original Michael Fox. This comedy star from "Saturday Night Live" comes with a very declining temperament. People can't help but laugh. In contrast, as the actor of the "Back to the Future" series, Michael Fox gives the impression that he is more of a youth film niche than a comedian.
The perfect casting and matching story are just the beginning, and Simon is more certain about the quality of the film.
The movie continues.
Saying goodbye to the host, Frank drove away from the castle. In the carriage, two ghosts suddenly appeared from the back seat and under the car. First of all, let the audience confirm that there are ghosts in the film.
However, when I first saw the two ghosts that people thought were trying to attack the protagonist's evil spirits, they soon proved that they were just joking with the protagonist. They are friends of the protagonist with psychic abilities. The ghost hunting scene just now was also a collaboration between the two parties. scam.
The wedge is here, and the background is basically explained.
The male protagonist is a psychic, has two ghost friends, and lives by deceptive ghost hunting. At the same time, from their conversation, the audience also learned that the so-called haunting of the castle just now was not that they took the initiative to ‘haunt’ themselves, but they didn’t know where the problem was.
In the process of chatting while driving, the plot suddenly changed.
On the tortuous and dark night road, one man and two ghosts were busy discussing how to spend the money they just got. Suddenly another car rushed straight forward. Frank hurriedly avoided. At the last glance, he saw a dark figure from the roof of the oncoming car. It swept up and disappeared in the direction of the castle manor they had just arrived.
Immediately, Frank's car also hit the roadside tree trunk.
The picture went dark with a thud, and the title of "Horror Ghost" and the subsequent opening film appeared.
The five-minute wedge, in addition to the story, satisfies Simon with special effects.
The original version of "Horror Ghost", the ghost special effects are very rough, giving people a strong sense of cheap five hairs, this time it was produced by Daenerys Special Effects Australia branch, which has experienced many large-scale trials. The ghost body in the lens The shape is faint, it seems that the wind may disappear at any time, giving people a look like this is probably the soul after death.
In addition, the special effects company is only doing things after all. Peter Jackson can skillfully use special effects to such an extent, in Simon's view, he can safely hand over the Thor King series to the other party.
Thinking of these things, a close voice came from my ear: "Mr. Westeros, I always wanted to thank you in person for giving me this opportunity."
But it was Mia Sarah who was intersecting at the beginning of the film.
Simon's thoughts were interrupted, but he hummed, slightly raised his head and gestured towards the big screen.
So quiet down.
The feature film began with a funeral. The deceased was a staff member of the town museum. Although Frank was not responsible, he attended the funeral because of what he saw and heard that night and met the deceased’s daughter Lucy, who was Mi Played by Ja Sara.
love at first sight.
In order to get closer to Lucy, Frank introduced his career to Lucy and took the initiative to reveal that her father might not have died of a heart attack, but had been killed by evil spirits.
Of course Lucy didn't believe in such nonsense, and because of that, she had a distaste for Frank.
When he met a girl who was really in love, Frank, who had always been out of business, decided to investigate the truth of the matter, and at the same time pursued Lucy. Two ghost friends were also on the staff, and they were full of laughter.
At the same time, strange deaths similar to Lucy's father's heart attack occurred in the small town.
When it appeared on the big screen that the heroine Lucy was taking a bath in the bathroom and Frank, who was guarding her window for safety reasons, was struggling and hesitating whether to take a peek, Simon in the theater felt that his right thigh was accidentally touched by someone. , I heard Mia Sarah's voice again with a bit of inquisition and obviously different meaning: "Mr. Westeros, how did I act?"
Simon frowned slightly, turned his head and looked at the flattering Mia Sara, raised his hand and stretched it through the girl's smooth hair, caught a slender neck, and exerted a little force.
Mia Sara just resisted slightly instinctively, and quickly softened, leaning over following the strength of the man.
The projection hall is a five-by-five pattern, because the big boss chose the second row, and there are two big beauties sitting on the left and the other. Of course, no one is ignorant of the two places on the edge. Sit in front and back rows.
Danny Morris in the front row was fine, and the few New World Pictures executives in the back row who were fortunate enough to participate in this filming naturally soon discovered that there was suddenly one person next to the big boss, but just happened to be sitting. The two executives in the third row, not only did not dare to have any sense of inquiry, but were a little bit on pins and needles, worried that the big boss might mistake them for peeking. Sit tightly for a while, still feeling wrong, so he moved his body quietly and took the initiative to withdraw to a further position.
The story on the big screen continues.
After some blunders, Lucy finally believed in the existence of the ghost, and suspected the truth of her father's murder, and started an investigation with Frank. At the same time, because Frank was always able to appear around the dead, the town sheriff arrested Frank as a suspect, and the evil spirit also discovered that Frank was tracking him and wanted to kill the psychic.
So another climax of the battle between humans and ghosts appeared in the police station of the small town.
After the police battle, the sheriff also sided with Frank, and the group was getting closer and closer to the truth.
Frank understood that the ghost-catching style he used to deceive people did not work for evil spirits at all. After discussing with his ghost friends, he learned that ghosts were afraid of the sanctified cross in the church and the priest used it to give birth to newborns. The holy water and other items for the baptism began to prepare'professional' tools.
The story soon came to an end.
The truth is actually in the castle where Frank caught the ghost at the beginning. The hostess's daughter Barbara was already dead and was resurrected through an evil witchcraft. However, in order to maintain the state of the living dead, Barbara has to frequently incarnate evil spirits and hunt the souls of living people for sacrifices in order to maintain her'life'.
This also echoes some of the details in the opening wedge.
Then there was a wonderful final battle, justice defeated evil, and lovers finally got married.
At the end of the screening, everyone went to the next meeting room. During this time, Girl A quietly took Mia Sara to leave, and everyone present looked unheard of as usual.
Compared with the previous "Bugs", Simon was more satisfied with "Terrorist Ghost", but made some amendments to the details of the soundtrack, and briefly discussed with the New World Pictures team during Easter next year. When it came to the issue, he turned his attention to Peter Jackson and Ben Stiller.
Both are filmmakers trained by Daenerys Entertainment.
From the initial assistant director of "Batman: Hour of War" to the present, eight years, since it is determined that Peter Jackson has the ability to control the "Lord of the Rings" series, the project can naturally start.
However, because many projects in 1997 and 1998 have been finalized, the first part of "The Lord of the Rings" will not be released until at least 1999. Simon's preliminary date is the end of 1999, so Jackson has three years to produce this middle-earth. Epic series.
Of course, Simon's plan is still a trilogy of back-to-back shooting. Considering the huge amount of work required, three years is actually not too long.
Then there is Ben Stiller.
As one of the core members of the gangster, under Simon’s support, Stiller participated in two projects of Daenerys Entertainment in the second half of this year. He participated back to back in Peter Jackson’s "Horror Ghost" and acted as The director directed Kim Carrey's "Cable TV Repairman".
Next, Simon also plans to let the other party participate in the promotion of Atlantic City's "Hangover."
As long as "The Hangover" can be successful next year, even if it is not as good as it used to be, but the local box office breaks 100 million yuan, the bad boy gang will basically take shape, enough to compete with most of the older generation of Hollywood comedy stars.
Of course, Simon does not intend to cooperate with the Lanzi Gang for too long. After all, the later, the lower the price-performance ratio of these people. Although the box office of the film is guaranteed, most of the profits are divided by the main creator. The factory often just makes hard money, which is completely inconsistent with Simon's philosophy.
I talked to the two, and it was off work time.
Peter Jackson and Ben Stiller are currently leaving, and Simon and Danny Morris discussed the development progress of related film projects for New World Pictures for the next two years for more than an hour.
If this year is only a buffer, from next year, Daenerys Entertainment will make full use of its efforts and no longer leave too much room for other Hollywood studios. The ultimate goal is to reduce the number of major Hollywood studios and form Dany. Lisi Entertainment dominates Hollywood's near-monopoly pattern.
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