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On an ordinary Monday morning, several cars arrived at Wave Manor. The security personnel at the entrance of the manor saw the license plate and the person sitting in the driving seat. They did not go up and asked. They opened the door and let them into the manor. Bentley, Acura, and Lamborghini The four luxury cars with Rolls-Royce, like an appointment in advance, parked in the parking lot in front of the white villa.

Robert Downey Jr. took the lead to get out of the Acura car and walked towards the gate of the villa. Seth Logan, Jonah Hill and James Franco also got out of their cars and followed.

When they came to the door of the villa, Gal Gadot, who had been notified by the guard, was already waiting here.

"Why are you here?" Gail Gadot looked at the four of Robert Downey Jr. in surprise, "Have you had breakfast?"

Robert Downey Jr took off his sunglasses and said, "Not yet."

"The time is right." Jonah Hill said carelessly. "You didn't have breakfast, did you?"

Seeing Gal Gadot nodding, he was not at all polite, "It just happened to have breakfast together."

Gal Gadot turned his head and ordered the butler next to him, and then said to Robert Downey Jr. and others, "Let's go, let's go to the restaurant together."

These people were also welcome, and followed Gal Gadot and walked towards the restaurant.

"Where is Murphy?" James Franco asked curiously, "Is this guy still up?"

Gal Gadot opened the door of the restaurant and waited for the four people to come in, and said, "Sit down. When you came, Murphy was doing morning exercises in the back. Now I'm going to take a shower, and I'll be down soon."

Robert Downey Jr. opened the chair and sat on the left side of the long dining table. "After so many years, Murphy still keeps the habit of getting up early for exercise?"

"It's not as good as before." Gal Gadot picked up the kettle and poured a glass of water for each person. "Now work is not particularly busy. There is still time. When work gets busy..."

She shook her head.

These people here all know that Murphy can have today's achievements, the main reason is that he has this talent, and the hard work of the day after tomorrow is also an important factor that cannot be ignored.

Several people chatted for a while, and some servants brought breakfast one after another. The breakfast had just been delivered, and Murphy also opened the door to enter the restaurant.

"You guys, it's early."

He came to Gal Gadot, pulled out the chair and sat down, first took a sip of milk from the cup, and then asked, "Come here so early, what's the matter?"

"I heard that your breakfast is good." James Franco swallowed the bread in his mouth, "We have an appointment to come over for breakfast."

How could Murphy believe such words, "My breakfast here is mainly vegetarian, would you be interested?"

"Vegetarian food is also good." Seth Logan looked down at his growing belly, "you can lose weight."

Robert Downey Jr. is probably not very hungry, put down his knife and fork, and said seriously, "Murphy, we are here, of course we have something to look for you."

"Let's talk." Murphy didn't look up. "When have you been polite to me."

"Your new project..." Robert Downey Jr. was also polite, "We all want to join your new project."

James Franco also said, "We can all join."

"Are there any funny characters?" Jonah Hill's eyes widened. "This type of character is my exclusive. If you don't give me such a character, how can it work?"

Seth Rogen put his glasses down, "If you don't have a suitable role, I can be your assistant director, and my post-production is almost complete."

"You..." Murphy shook his head and said half-jokingly, "I can't pay you."

The entire project is expected to invest only 25 million U.S. dollars in production funds. If the statistics are based on normal conditions, it is not even enough to pay the four of them.

Robert Downey Jr. looked at Murphy and said seriously, "We've discussed it, and everyone is only paid a symbolic one-hundred-thousand-dollar salary."

Murphy just wanted to say something, but James Franco said first, "We all know that you did not make this film for money, nor for profit, but for friendship and commitment."

The least serious Jonah Hill answered, "We are friends, we are brothers, and we are willing to do this!"

"Have you forgotten?" Seth Logan said in a gruff, "We said at the beginning, all for me, I am for all!"

Hearing these words, Gail Gadot’s eyes were swept over Robert Downey, James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jonah Hill when they were young. The friendship between these people and Murphy , More profound than she thought.

Especially the words between the three musketeers and D'Artagnan, it is impossible for ordinary friends to do it.

Of course, working with your own people is better than those actors who were convened temporarily. Murphy has always been a decisive person and immediately made a decision, "Okay! With you, I am more confident."

"Murphy, I want to play Rose!" Robert Downey Jr. didn't seem to be joking at all. "This is a movie about Rose. The actor who plays Rose needs to know enough about him. In this regard, no one is better than me. more suitable."

Gal Gadot turned his head and glanced at Murphy, who was frowning and thinking.

Indeed, Robert Downey Jr. knows Ross better, and Ross is currently serving his sentence in California State Prison. It is very inconvenient to communicate with actors. It is very risky to find an actor who hardly knows Ross.

In this respect, Robert Downey Jr. is the most suitable.

But Murphy also has doubts. Rose is a typical Latino, and Robert Downey Jr is not; Rose is tall, and Robert Downey Jr is obviously shorter.

But these are nothing to the current film industry, whether it is makeup or shooting techniques, it can be solved.

"I think it can." Murphy turned to Gal Gadot and said, "You can talk to Carla Faith."

Then he said to the butler standing at the back, "Go to my study, and make four copies of the script "Diego Rose" on the first floor of the bookshelf on the left."

Seeing the butler turning around, Murphy turned his head and said, "You each take a copy of the script. Seth, there is no major role for you. You serve as the first deputy director. I will post a project plan later. your mailbox."

"Okay." Seth Logan nodded.

After breakfast, I gave everyone a copy of the script. Murphy explained some precautions one by one. Robert Downey Jr. and others left one after another and began to prepare for this project.

Gal Gadot also drove out and went to Twentieth Century Fox to meet with Carla Firth. Murphy hid in the study. After determining Robert Downey Jr. as the actor and playing their friend Diego Rose, he It is necessary to prepare the information of the role from the perspective of the actor.

Screenwriters can easily simplify the logic of the story, resulting in the design of "Because of A, so B". When actors see the script, they will think and feel the character from more dimensions, and ask questions in detail-the protagonist What kind of family, what hobbies, how you like to talk, what little moves you have, how many times you have been in love, how many friends do you have...

Although Robert Downey Jr. has a certain degree of understanding of Rose, it is far less than Murphy. Murphy will add more detailed basic information about Rose to Robert Downey Jr.'s character script.

These materials have been compiled by Murphy into a simple biography.

The role script can help the actor to completely "enter" the role and experience every nuanced emotion, of course, it is necessary to understand all aspects of the role.

At this time, the character biography can come in handy. Although many details may not be written in the script, it can help the actor perfect the character's imagination.

For example, when many people go to a biographical movie, they pay attention to the inconspicuous actions of the characters——

"Why does he want to lift Erlang's legs?"

"Why is he standing so straight?"

"Why laugh first, and then slap again?"

These are not random additions, but often come from the personal habits of the character prototype.

To get the character biography, Murphy also needs to consider the relationship between the roles. Since the person who plays Rose is Robert Downey Jr., then the relationship between him and Robert Downey Jr. and Rose must be taken out completely, and must not appear in the movie. He did the same before. The script ended with Rose entering prison for the first time, and they didn't know him at the time.

Another point is that Murphy pays special attention to the protagonist's initiative and passivity at each stage of script creation. Passiveness is the protagonist's taboo. If he has been used and turned into a chess piece, it will hurt the character very much.

There is one thing that Murphy himself cannot deny that Rose has suffered a lot of unfair treatment, but in the end he took this path, but it was his own initiative.

At this point, the script is close to the final draft, and Murphy needs to do one last thing. In the plot of the whole script, the choice of characters arranged for the plot needs, whether they are faithful to the character's character.

Including Murphy, the vast majority of Hollywood screenwriters like to calculate the rhythm: here you need the protagonist to misunderstand, where you need to reconcile, and where and where you need to be funny, so the role is so driven by demand Go, cry if you want to cry, laugh if you want to laugh, and lose the coherence of personality and emotions.

This becomes a common Hollywood commercial movie, not a biopic that Murphy wanted.

Finally, Murphy wrote a line of characters on the special script prepared for him-a biopic should be an organic combination of "history" and "art"!

After confirming the final draft of the script, Gal Gadot and Twentieth Century Fox negotiated a series of matters such as investment, preparation, production and distribution. Murphy gathered his team and began to make the final preparations for the filming of this film.

Before that, although Murphy had filmed biographical films such as "The Wolf of Wall Street", Jordan Belfort was different from Rose. At that time, the films he shot were more for commercial considerations, while Rose’s film was commercial. With relatively few elements, Murphy naturally considers more themes and other aspects.

Sometimes, people think too much, they will create problems for themselves.