Hollywood Road

"In fact, CAA is providing us with managerial services."

Robert Downey Jr. knows this very well. He strongly suggested, “There is really no need to join Michael Ovitz’s artist management company. The see-saw between the two will involve your energy and choices, and will affect Your position in CAA is not good for the resources and treatment you will enjoy in CAA in the future."

Although he is only an actor, he knows the importance of keeping focus on a director. Murphy has been taking care of him, and he doesn't want to see Murphy make the wrong choice.

In Hollywood, sometimes taking a wrong step may lead to an abyss.

"I'm looking for a manager company, don't I want to add more people who share my rewards?" It seems that Murphy did not consider the future of cooperation with CAA, but did not want more people to share his rewards, "I am afraid there will be Ten percent, right? Then I won't do it!"

After speaking, he himself laughed first.

Robert Downey Jr. contemptuously gave him a middle finger, but he was also relieved.

He is also a customer of CAA. If Murphy leaves CAA, it will definitely affect him.

To a large extent, Murphy is not only his friend, but also a kindness to him. He also hopes that the two can continue to cooperate and create a brilliance that belongs to them alone.

"It's almost time." Robert Downey Jr. glanced at his watch and suggested, "If it's okay, go to Depp's bar for a drink?"

Murphy shook his head, "I want to go back early to rest. I have an appointment with Carla Fiss. Tomorrow morning I will go to Twentieth Century Fox for project marketing consultation."

This is crucial to the establishment of the "Deadpool" project, he must maintain sufficient energy.

After leaving the restaurant, and parting with Robert Downey Jr., Murphy drove in his car and drove slowly towards Santa Monica. When passing by Westwood, he made a special call to Gal Gado.

"My dear, what are you doing?"

He had just finished asking, and Gael Gadot's slightly tired voice came from the receiver, "I just cleaned the dormitory thoroughly, and I am going to take a shower."

Thinking of Gail Gadot's slender body, Murphy's heart was hot, "Wait for me to come together?"

"Are you sure you want to come over?" Gal Gadot's words were full of playful abuse. "Men are not allowed to stay in the dormitory. You can't come in at this time."

"Why don't you come out," Murphy suggested. "Come home with me."

"I...I..." Gal Gadot over there was also very tempted, but the education she received from a young age also gave her enough self-control. "Let's wait for the weekend. I just came here. I have to familiarize myself with the environment and classmates. ,and……"

She paused, and still said, "We have been indulging for almost a week, and I have been overly indulging in dark circles. Be restrained."

"All right." Murphy speeds up, "I will pick you up on weekends."

After saying a few more intimate words, he hung up the phone and drove home directly.

Perhaps the indulgence a while ago really consumed too much energy and energy. Murphy slept very nicely at night, and got up late the next day. Because he was going to 20th Century Fox, he didn’t do a routine. Exercise, casually ate some breakfast, and hurried out.

When Kara Feith walked into a conference room with him, the people from the 20th Century Fox Project Review Committee were already waiting here.

This project review committee is composed of nine people, responsible for judging scripts, plans, and preliminary survey data provided by the marketing department. In any large-scale film company in Hollywood, there are almost all similar departments, and any investment reaches a certain scale. If you want to determine the project, you must go through this process, especially after investing tens of millions of dollars, even the CEO does not have the power to decide on a film project alone.

It can be said that the review committee, like the completion guarantee, is a strong guarantee for Hollywood's industrialization.

If you throw out a script, the executives of major Hollywood companies will scramble wildly and rush to invest in filming. It is impossible to appear in major Hollywood companies. Regardless of the script, big Hollywood companies are without exception. It is a shareholding system, which has a relatively complete supervision and power structure and its restrictions. In that case, even the most basic system of a film company cannot be passed.

In the conference room, the nine-member review committee of Twentieth Century Fox reached seven. After seeing Murphy, they did not ask any questions about the art or the depth of the film. That was not what they were concerned about. The problem was directed at the preparation of the film. , Shooting, production and marketing.

"Director Stanton," a black woman asked first, "Are you sure that $60 million can be used to complete a superhero movie?"

Before coming over, Murphy made sufficient preparations, "The film will be limited to a relatively small area. No matter it is the people contacted by Deadpool or the battle scene, there will be no super large scenes, and the selling point of the film. It is also a special effect, and will not use first-line actors, so the two most expensive aspects will be relatively economical."

Another middle-aged man wearing glasses asked, "Don't you think this will make the film lose a lot of its appeal?"

"The point of a movie is not to pile up countless special effects and big-name actors." Murphy sat opposite them and replied calmly, "Deadpool's action scenes will be short and concise, and there is no need for too complicated special effects. ."

The biggest feature of the film is the mouth-cannons and various realistic action scenes with larger scales, which don't require much special effects scenes.

"But what about the scale of an R-rated film?" The old white-haired man in the middle asked the core question, "This will push young audiences out of the theater."

"We have to consider the audience and style of the comics. The film will indeed be very different from the comics, but it is impossible to completely separate from the comics." The comics of "Deadpool" are pornographic and violent. This does not scare the viewer away. He has accumulated a lot of loyal fans, so Murphy said, "The audience I target is mainly 17 to 35 years old. Presumably Fox also has statistics in this area. This age group accounts for North American movies. Fifty-one percent of the audience!"

Although it is far from the PG-level family fun and PG-13 youth movies, such an audience group is enough for the project.

In North America, it is not uncommon for audiences under the age of 17 to watch R-rated films in theaters.

A relatively young person next to the old man suddenly asked about propaganda, "In your plan, you have a propaganda proposal to make Deadpool alive in propaganda?"

"The most talked-about thing about Deadpool, except for its cute character, shape, and invincible mouths, is that it can break the fourth wall."

The so-called breaking the fourth wall is to give Deadpool himself knowing the setting of living in the world of comics or movies, so that he can directly communicate with audiences and even editors. From real characters to other popular films, he can make complaints. These Murphys are written in the plan in detail, "So, I think that if the project is established and the film begins to be promoted, it is necessary to immediately determine the movie style of Deadpool, so that his actor Robert Downey Jr. will die. The image of the waiter really appears in this world."

After saying so much, Murphy felt a little thirsty, took a sip from the water glass in front of him, and then said unhurriedly, "Deadpool appears in the real world in a real image, and actively participates in public activities. The cute way to create easy jokes. We can set up a special official website and blog for Deadpool, and add Fox TV as a platform to promote these content."

Nowadays, online social media is still underdeveloped, but blogs have also had a huge influence since 9/11, and they can always play a certain role.

The most important thing is that a Deadpool who is constantly intersecting with ordinary people and looks stupid and cute is far more likely to resonate with people than the superhero superhero.

"Also, for publicity considerations." Murphy mentioned another point of the plan, "I will make part of the plot of the film overlap with the X-Men."

"Is there an intersection with the X-Men?" The Jewish man sitting at the edge of the seven said in a questioning tone, "If it is an ordinary X-Men character, the popularity and popularity are not enough! A well-known character, an actor The pay is very high. Even if Halle Berry, Ian McLean, and Hugh Jackman are guest appearances, they will ask for a pay for the entire film. Their high pay is beyond the production cost of the film! "

"I didn't talk about letting their characters appear?" Murphy looked at the Jewish man and said in surprise, "Deadpool is best at lip service. I think let him use all kinds of fancy language to attack these famous characters. It’s more appropriate to spit out again. For the two X-Men who really appeared, Ganglishi and the Black Queen, we can use newcomers who are not paid well."

Stanton Studios is coordinating film investment matters with Twentieth Century Foxford. Unless Murphy is crazy, it will let these guys whose pay has soared because of the two "X-Men" that have sold out in succession, appear in their own Inside the project.

However, linking the film with the already popular "X-Men" is a good way to promote marketing.

Therefore, Murphy went on to say, “I think that in the promotion, Deadpool can appear in the iconic images of the X-Men. For example, he can sit on Professor X’s chair and get some Wolverine that fits the personality of Deadpool. Claws or something."

In the following time, the people of the review committee asked Murphy many questions related to the filming and production, and he also answered correspondingly one by one. Compared with the previous Miramax, the 20th Century Fox is larger in scale. , The rules and regulations are also more perfect, plus the possible investment scale of the film is placed here, it is impossible to act cautiously.

In this world, any investment of more than 50 million U.S. dollars will not be easily achieved, let alone a script that is fooled by someone to make a decision.

After dealing with Twentieth Century Fox, Murphy went to San Francisco with Gal Gadot over the weekend and waited patiently for the results of Twentieth Century Fox, not only the film project, but also the investment of Stanton Studios.