I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1033: Thinking shackles
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Since I received a call from Firefly Group yesterday evening, Ted. Elliot has been in a state of excitement that is difficult to suppress.
I woke up early in the morning and just confided with my wife that I took care of it in a hurry and drove to a cafe near my house.
Terry. Lucio and their two manager Matt.Jill Sen are already waiting here. Ted. Elliot just walked into the cafe and sat down opposite the two. Matt.Jill Sen said: "Ted , Something has changed. "
Ted. Elliot giggled, but he had n’t had time to show concern, Matt.Jill Sen quickly added: "It ’s not what you want, but I just received the call, Firefly. Notify us that the meeting place has been changed to Culver City, and the time has been pushed back to 11 o'clock in the morning. "
Ted. Elliot breathed a sigh of relief, as long as it was confirmed that it was Eric Williams to see them, not to mention Culver city, even if they were allowed to fly to the east coast.
I did n’t ask why the meeting place was temporarily changed. Ted. Elliot ordered a breakfast to the waiter who came, and then said to the two people in front of him: "Terry, Matt, I carefully considered it last night. All night, I feel that, no matter what, we should strive for this opportunity to cooperate with Eric Williams, rather than just staring at how much the show Basic Instinct sells. "
Terry · Rusio and Matt · Jill Sen are not short-sighted, otherwise, during this time a few people can not resist the Hollywood major Film Studio's money offensive.
Hearing friends say this, Terry Rusio nodded: "Ted, I was just talking about this issue with Matt. Since this script is Eric Williams fancy, then, although I do n’t want to admit it, what about this video? Production, script needs no modification, it is time to pick those Director and Actor, these ideas are in Eric Williams's mind. We sell script to other Film Studio, may be able to make a lot of money immediately, but if the movie finally Box Office performed mediocre, It will not help us in our career. "
Matt · Jill Mori also said: "Also, we'd better ask Eric Williams to personally direct this script, if 《Pirates of the Caribbean》 can become a global Box Office 1 billion USD movie, you two will immediately be promoted to the top level of Hollywood screenwriter. "
The words of the two let Ted Elliot relax, and while nodding, made a joke along the words of Matt · Jill Sen: "You can also become two gold medals screenwriter manager."
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In the first half of the 20th century, two famous ‘Hoover ’s appeared in the United States political arena.
Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of United States, this President is unlucky, and during his tenure, he happened to encounter the most famous era of depression in the history of United States.
John · Edgar · Hoover, the founder of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), compared with Herbert · Clark Hoover, John · Edgar · Hoover's life can be called a thriving event.
The first director of the FBI who founded the FBI for 48 years, during which United States replaced eight Presidents, but due to John · Edgar · Hoover ’s pervasive monitoring of all politicians in North America, out of self There are fears that the privacy of outsiders may be exposed. None of the eight President dared to request the replacement of the position of the other party ’s FBI director. Some people who jumped out against John · Edgar · Hoover, without exception, were in disrepair. Either fall behind bars.
It can be said that using the huge intelligence monitoring network in hand to monitor the entire United States and the world, for 48 years, John · Edgar · Hoover was a powerful uncrowned king in United States.
Until John · Edgar · Hoover died in the position of FBI director in 1972, some people finally dared to say, "A sad and dangerous era has finally left us."
After John · Edgar · Hoover, the United States Congress immediately enacted a bill restricting the FBI director ’s tenure for a maximum of 10 years. Subsequently, the leaders of other United States intelligence agencies were basically limited to this period.
However, despite the death of John · Edgar · Hoover, the uncrowned king, he has left a political legacy for the entire United States political world that makes it difficult for everyone to resist temptation.
John · Edgar · Hoover used the powerful intelligence network built by the FBI to make all subsequent United States political gangsters feel trembling, but also realized that if they have such an intelligence network, if they can monitor competitors or even Every move of the partners will make them absolutely invincible in the political struggle.
So, in the years that followed, we saw ‘Watergate Incident’, ‘zipper door’, and ‘prism door’.
And many more, ordinary people absolutely cannot know the eyes of the whole world peeping in the dark.
Although everyone knows that the federal government is carrying out intelligence monitoring all the time, almost all federal government departments will become oblivious when it comes to related topics. However, Hollywood has no worries about the subject matter in this regard.
Enemy of the State is a movie that explores how United States's pervasive surveillance network affects society.
Robert · Dean, a successful lawyer in Los Angeles, is currently dealing with a gangster blackmail case while preparing for the coming Christmas.
He bought the gang leader's secret videotape from a friend who was also a former lover, and successfully forced the other party to compromise on the case in his hands. However, while buying Christmas presents for his wife, he came across an old friend by accident, who inserted a video cassette into his handbag and then hurried away.
Robert Dean did n’t know the old man ’s small movements, but then saw the old man suddenly die on the road.
However, just after feeling sighed for the dead old friend, Robert Dean found his life suddenly in endless trouble.
The residence was looted by the "thief", and the photos of the meeting with the "ex-lover" were inexplicably exposed by the media, the family was on the verge of collapse, the company was expelled, the credit card was cancelled, and a group of unknown people initiated him. Hunt.
When there was no way to go to the ground, there was even more shock when he found that all the watches, pens, shoes, and even coat buttons he had carried with him were all installed with bugs. Are under the supervision of some people.
All of this stems from the tape that accidentally recorded another shocking assassination scandal.
Eric planned to take a day off at home on Saturday. However, when I learned that the crew of "Enemy of the State" would still be in Culver city shoots today, I temporarily decided to come to the squad and learn about the progress of the shoots film.
"Enemy of the State" is chasing some scenes on shoots, so the crew needs to close the two streets of Culver for three days. Today happens to be the third day. Carrying out shoots on the closed street of Los Angeles is definitely not an easy task. Therefore, despite catching up with Saturday, the crew of "Enemy of the State" still pays high overtime to continue working.
The rest area of the street exit crew, the producer of "Enemy of the State" Jerry · Bruckheimer is introducing the shoots status of the film to Eric: "Now it is probably half done. According to the current shoots progress, this movie will be at the end of October Being able to kill it, plus three months of post-production, although the time is a bit hurry, but it will not delay the Easter period of next year, the post-production and marketing will cross, and the promotion time is enough. "
Because the plan is to be released on Easter next year, "Enemy of the State" is a super green light project of Firefly Group, plus a lot of work has been prepared in advance for several years, and the progress of the film's shoots is also very rapid.
Speaking of that, Eric is not satisfied with this script. There are too many story branches, and some are even more suitable for making TV series, which does not conform to the Hollywood regular blockbuster high-concept movie mode.
However, on the other hand, the story of this script has a very high degree of completion. Although the plot line is a bit messy, it is interlocked, and there are not many redundant details. In Hollywood, there are not many such perfect script. Therefore, Eric agreed to this project at the beginning.
Although it is too expensive to make movies for Jerry · Bruckheimer, the quality is still guaranteed in the case of a large duty.
Eric looked at the scene of shoots in the street ahead. After listening to Bruckheimer's brief introduction, it was said: "Next year's Easter period is an important warm-up for Firefly Group, so if you have any problems, you can always contact I contacted and found Jeffrey. In addition, Jerry, did you watch the pirate film script I sent you? "
"Of course, in fact, I have seen it before you pass it to me." Jerry · Bruckheimer laughed: "It's been so lively recently, how could I not pay attention, just now I want to ask you how this is happening. What happened. However, in my opinion, the risk of such a costume pirate film seems a little high. "
"Don't talk about risk," Eric sat sideways on the back folding chair, looked at Bruckheimer, and said, "Are you not interested in this project?"
Jerry · Bruckheimer did not answer, but instead asked: "Have you got script?"
"Waiting for screenwriter will come later," said Eric: "It is not difficult to get this script, but I want you to take charge of the movie."
Jerry · Bruckheimer has a solemn expression, recalling the script that I have seen, saying: "Although there are some bright spots, on the whole, this script still seems a bit mediocre."
Eric said: "I just pay more attention to the fantasy plot settings. On the script, I will personally be responsible for the overhaul."
Jerry · Bruckheimer tilted his legs and jumped his fingers on his knees for a while, saying: "In this case, what will happen to Michael? If his next project comes together with this movie, I'm worried that there will be too much consideration . "
"It won't be so early," Eric shook his head and said: "This project will take about a year to prepare, and the official start-up will have to wait at least until the next year, the time should be able to be staggered."
Jerry · Bruckheimer nodded with a smile: "Then I will be fine. By the way, Michael is currently discussing an idea with several screenwriters, probably about comets hitting the earth."
Eric knew that this should be Michael · Bei's "Peerless Heaven Tribulation".
After all kinds of heroes, the oil workers of United States are finally going to save the world.
Notice that the expression on Eric's face is a little weird, Jerry · Bruckheimer explained: "I know this idea is somewhat similar to" Deep Impact "of Firefly a few years ago, but Michael said he intends to use some other movie styles and shoots ideas In fact, we have provided Michael with a bunch of script for selection, and he did n’t like it. So, Eric, if you do n’t like this script, he may have to take this project to other Film Studio. "
After "The Day After Tomorrow", Michael · Bei has completed the three film contracts signed with Firefly, and he himself was promoted to Hollywood first-line big Director. At this time, the cooperation between the two sides is basically based on the tacit understanding and inertia brought by the previous films. If Firefly rejects the project in the hands of Michael · Bei, with the momentum brought by several successful commercial films of Michael · Bei, Hollywood's other major Film Studios will definitely compete to take over.
"If script is suitable, then shoot," Eric said after thinking for a moment: "Hollywood is also impossible to have a comet hitting the earth-type disaster film."
"I think so too," Bruckheimer nodded. "And," Deep Impact "has passed five years. For Hollywood, five years is enough to offset the impact of a coincident genre movie. Speaking of, Eric, there is just another thing. Recently, a German Film Studio contacted me to help matchmaking and asked if it is possible to get the production right of the sequel of "The Terminator" series. "
Eric did not immediately refuse, but asked: "Do they have any ideas on script?"
"Not yet," Bruckheimer's: "They may not have any expectations. After all, Cameron has publicly stated that the" The Terminator "series is over, and even if it is restarted, such a project would not come to you Will outsiders be allowed to invest in the market? "
The end of the series is basically a joke for the Hollywood film that Box Office is selling. As long as it is profitable, Hollywood absolutely does not mind making 100 sequels in a row.
However, unless there is a script that can make Eric feel refreshing, otherwise, in a short time, Eric does not have the idea of restarting the "The Terminator" series.
The previous "The Terminator" series, after one or two of the Cameron personally directed, basically fell into a circle of thinking shackles, that is to repeatedly travel through time and space to save people, saved Sarah · Connor to save John · Conner, John who saved his childhood. Conner ran to save the adult John. Conner, the first two of Cameron's personal responsibility were okay. Later sequels continued the Cameron routine, but Director did not have the skill of Cameron Doomed to only become more and more mediocre
At the same time, cost is also a big issue.
In memory, Schwarzenegger ’s fixed pay in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines took 30 million USD, and it is said that there was a subsequent share. The total cost of the film also reached the horrible 200 million USD, and the global Box Office of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines was only 400 million USD The producers are absolutely huge losses on Box Office, and they can only barely recover some costs through the subsequent video tapes and surroundings, which is regarded as a hard money.
It can be said that "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" is completely a typical example of Film Studio being a Hollywood big-name `` part-time job ''.
Firefly's own high-quality projects have not been developed, and Eric is naturally unwilling to do this kind of injustice.