Chapter 151: Deliberation is Complete
Oprah is experienced, and she can see at a glance that William and the three are acting, but this effect makes her very satisfied, and she smiled and said good things: "That's right, this ending is the most perfect, William, if you donate, then of course we hope that Russell and Ridley can win the award, 6 million dollars can help a lot of vulnerable groups, William, I thank you for the Women's Children's Fund, you are a great guy."
William hurriedly stood up and thanked the applauding audience, "Thank you, thank you."
After thanking the audience and waiting for the audience to be quieter, William said to Russell and Ridley: "God, you two really deserve to be great directors and the best actors, you can understand each other's thoughts with one look," William pretended to be helpless and patted his forehead, "Okay, I'm very happy to be able to contribute something to women and children, although I was deceived, but for the sake of the lovely children, I am still very willing, I look forward to the day when you give me a driver, I am very satisfied with this compensation."
Everyone was amused by William's exaggerated tone, Russell smiled and said: "I have no problem, I really want to try what life is like as a driver with 2.5 million dollars a day, thank you, this may be the most special experience in my acting career." ”
After saying that, Ridley and Russell Zhen walked up to William and hugged William, and the audience at the scene was also very happy to see this result and applauded happily.
Today's show can make Oprah very happy, there are too many topics, Oprah believes that the ratings will definitely rise after the launch of this episode.
After the show, William took Ambrosio back to the hotel, changed his clothes, took a bottle of Latour, sat on the Bentley provided by the hotel, and headed to Ridley's home in New York.
Sitting in the car, Ambrosio excitedly hugged William's arm, with an excited look on his face, chattering with William about Ridley's past, saying how great he was and how big he was.
However, William knew that Ridley could only be regarded as a quasi-first-line at best before filming Gladiator, and he was not a big director, because his previous movies did not have much box office.
In the mid-90s, he even stopped filming for several years, and this old guy was good at controlling the big scenes, but no matter how good the director was, he was only a director, and a few years later, the sky was not good at the box office because of the production company, and Ridley was forced to be silent for almost ten years, until the Martian was sought after again.
However, at that time, he was almost 80 years old, and his energy was not as good as before, and Gladiator was definitely Ridley's most glorious time.
William took Ambrosio's hand and came to Ridley's home in New York, which is a middle-class neighborhood, the house and yard are quite large, but it is worth millions of dollars, although Ridley is a big director, but he is not a box office director, he has no money, and his life is not as rich as he imagined.
William and Ridley Russell hugged and walked into Ridley's house, today's party was private, only Russell and Ridley's agent were there.
As soon as they entered the door, the two agents were courteous to William, but William ignored the agents of elite culture, these guys think beautifully, when William doesn't understand anything, and wants to pack a pirate project.
William will only pay attention to their words when he sees it, who doesn't know that the packaging project of elite culture is a big hole, and few of them are successful, and it will not be a good thing to hand them over.
This project will cost at least hundreds of millions of dollars to be successful, if he cooperates with a big Hollywood company and gets less than half of the copyright, William doesn't plan to invest it himself, what is wrong with that money, he just wants to continue Russell and Ridley to quarrel about this project,
I didn't see how miserable Hollywood has pitted those foreign investors, and many investors from Germany and oil-producing countries have been cheated by Hollywood, so he didn't jump into this big pit so stupidly.
After a pleasant dinner, William and Russell and Ridley smoked cigars and drank Latour brought by William for a long time before entering the topic.
Eventually, Russell said anxiously, "William, do you have any ideas for this project?"
William thought for a moment and said: "If I want to invest, unless I can get half of the copyright, the screenwriter's fee and the cost of "He's a Pirate" are counted in the investment, but if you think about it, you know that it is impossible."
Russell and Ridley nodded in agreement after hearing William's words: "It's really unlikely, the film company will definitely not give up the copyright, I think you should take the screenwriter's share, this is easier."
William said helplessly: "I understand this, just look at DreamWorks, forget it, don't think about it, Ridley can be a director, but..."
William said to Russell with some apologies: "I'm sorry, Russell, in the role I envisioned, the protagonist Captain Jack is Depp, and the blacksmith has to find a very handsome young actor with acting skills,
I haven't figured out the heroine yet, Captain Barbossa I fancy Jeffrey what, the protagonist of this movie is not suitable for you, sorry Russell, of course if you can make a cameo I will definitely welcome it."
Russell nodded after listening, "The main role is really not suitable for me, it's no problem to make a cameo, but I hope to be an assistant director and assistant producer of the movie, I'm 40 years old, and when there is no suitable role, it's not bad to try to transform into a director." ”
William looked at Ridley, he was not sure about Russell's transformation into a director, it had to be up to Ridley, he thought it would be okay.
Ridley saw that both of them were looking at him, it was not a big deal to be an assistant director, and there were many kinds of assistant directors, so he smiled and said, "No problem, William, Russell gave me a lot of advice when I was filming gladiators, and Russell doesn't have to be an executive assistant director, just an assistant director who runs errands while studying."
"Haha, I don't dare to think that Russell is an errand runner, then I'm okay with that," William said with a laugh.
Russell was very happy when he heard it, there are many people who are deputy directors of male actors, and everyone who becomes famous wants to try whether they can also be directors, this kind of big investment, and there are few opportunities for big directors.
Russell thanked: "Thank you, I will join with zero pay, rest assured that I know that I am a learner and will not point fingers."
William and Ridley both laughed when they heard it, "If you don't need zero pay, just calculate it according to the normal assistant director's salary, after all, you have to get something for paying, it's just a relationship between more and less, when you are an actor, you are the best one, and when you are a director, you can only count it as a rookie director."
"That's right," Ridley agreed.
"Okay, let's do it by normal standards."
After the three of them agreed on some details, Ridley promised that after William handed him the script tomorrow, he would ask the person in charge of the Hollywood Eight to push the script to try, and if the Eight were interested, then everyone would find a chance to sit down and talk.
After the matter was almost discussed, the three of them returned to the living room and everyone laughed and chatted, everyone saw that William was interested in Hollywood secrets, and Ridley's agent flattered a lot of news, and William and Ambrosio, who listened to it, exclaimed again and again, but they didn't expect that there were really a lot of incomprehensible things.
It was almost 11 o'clock when William and Ambrosio got up to say goodbye, and he had to write the script overnight and go to the Screenwriters Guild early tomorrow morning to submit the script.