Lucasfilm!

At this time, Lucasfilm had not yet moved to San Francisco, and was still in Hollywood, and George Lucas, the founder of Lucasfilm and now the chairman of the company, was watching the company's plans.

With the release of "Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi" in 1983, Lucasfilm has not released a follow-up series, but this does not mean that George Lucas has given up on this series, he has just been thinking about how to continue the series.

Before Phantom Entertainment came out, Lucasfilm was enough to become the largest film production company after the Big Seven with the IP of "Star Wars" in its hands.

"George, just received a document from Phantom Entertainment, they want to invite industrial maniacs to participate in the filming of "Ghost Love" and "Jurassic Park"!"

In today's Hollywood, if the industrial maniac says that he is the second company of special effects, it is estimated that no special effects company dares to say that he is the first!

George Lucas raised his head slightly, looked at his secretary Rey, and asked, "Don't talk about this matter anymore, just refuse directly!"

"But the price offered by Phantom Entertainment is very impressive!" Rey looked at George Lucas with some concern.

George Lucas pondered for a moment and said, "Forget it, after all, I promised Stephen before!"

The relationship between Spielberg and George Lucas, the whole of Hollywood, knows that the two have always been a pair of good friends that people talk about.

In the seventies in Hollywood, there were three major directors, namely Coppola, Spielberg, and Lucas.

And the relationship between the three is still very good, Coppola can be regarded as the big brother of the other two, Coppola is represented by the "Godfather" trilogy, and is also the first of the three to become famous, and the three almost redefined the possibilities of Hollywood movies in the seventies.

From a director to a powerful producer, it is a realm that some Hollywood directors cannot reach in their lifetime.

The new Hollywood directors of that period were less like directors than the "filmmakers" who tried to control everything from screenwriting to post-production.

They understand that cinema is a work of wholeness, and they strive to put their personal stamp into everything they do.

At the same time, they also complement each other, Coppola is the producer in "American Painting" and is the mentor of George Lucas.

Subsequently, Lucas and Spielberg collaborated on several films, most notably Raiders of the Lost Ark.

However, their development paths are different.

With The Godfather, Coppola has proven that he can create a mainstream masterpiece, but he wants to go further and transform Hollywood into a hub for arthouse cinema.

Lucas and Spielberg wanted to modernize the existing Hollywood system, but not disrupt it.

In order to carry out his personal project, Coppola established his own American Diorama Company in 1969.

After years of craving for filming equipment, he bought Universal Studios in 1979 and named it Diora Studios, stating that it would be a center for new technology for feature films, an "electronic cinema" based on satellite-transmitted high-definition video.

He rebuilt the studio and sent out performance directions from his trailer via video.

The main result is "Sweetheart", a gorgeous and dazzling, artificially shaped song and dance drama with excellent pattern effects.

"Sweetheart" influenced the "visual kei cinema" of France in the 1980s, but serious overspending and audience apathy led to a huge failure.

Soon, Coppola was forced to sell his equipment to pay off the debt.

Unlike Coppola, Spielberg and Lucas are becoming more and more courageous, satisfying their creative desires while also taking care of the needs of the audience.

In one respect, Spielberg proved that he was the successor to the studio director; With the right material, he can create a living story that captures the audience.

The cleverly constructed Jaws balances the horror with a skeptical attitude towards the ruling authorities.

Corresponding to the money-grubbing businessman on Emitty Island, the film offers three versions of male heroism: the gray-haired action male Quint, the rationalist scientist Hooper, and the reluctant pragmatist Sheriff Brody.

Each passage is filled with a high degree of emotional tension, and through the clean editing, innovative Panavischen composition, and John Williams' ominous soundtrack, the audience's anxiety grows stronger as the scene progresses.

Similarly, in the "Indiana Jones" series, Spielberg refurbishes the traditions of Raoul Walsh and Jacques Tunar to fit the blockbuster era.

It was this series of behaviors that made Spielberg a trustworthy figure in New Hollywood.

Unlike movie fans Coppola and Spielberg, Lucas enjoyed watching TV, reading comic books, and modding cars as a teenager.

The world of parade and rock 'n' roll is lovingly depicted in American Painting, with a well-choreographed soundtrack and intertwined coming-of-age crises that the studios really crave.

Star Wars offers chivalric mythology to teens in the 1970s, a romantic tale of exploration in which young protagonists find adventure, pure love, and a divine purpose.

Not surprisingly, Star Wars was published as a comic book before its release.

Coppola likes to work with actors, but Lucas tries to avoid talking to them while working, except for the occasional remark: "Hurry up!"

He looks forward to creating his sets digitally, filming actors isolated in front of a blank screen, or creating characters entirely on a computer.

This ultimate dream, which extends from a comic book aesthetic to a cinematic one, was first realized in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, in which Gagaus was the first fully computer-generated character in a mainstream live-action feature film.

Lucas often says he's an independent filmmaker, and in a way he is.

The success of Star Wars allowed him to command any Hollywood studio.

Filming "The Empire Strikes Back" went over budget and schedule, and he had a lot of disagreements with Fox, and he vowed never to compromise again.

Lucas retreats to his own territory, Skywalker Ranch, where he takes charge of a high-tech wonderland based on a legend that controls the imagination of millions of people around the world and gives birth to Star Wars, toys, games, character dolls, and video games.

The crew of Skywalker kept a "Bible" that listed all the ** that happened in Star Wars.

And among the three major directors, George Lucas is the most successful in business, although Spielberg later also founded DreamWorks, but purely in the business field, George Lucas is still stronger than Spielberg.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for such a successful businessman to give up his interests for the sake of friendship, but George Lucas was a Jew before he was a businessman.

As I said before, Jews are a very united group in Hollywood, and it is not uncommon news that they cooperate with each other.

It is precisely because of this that this group has a strong voice in Hollywood.

If the Jewish community is compared to the Beijing circle of Hollywood, then Spielberg and Lucas are like Wang Shuo and Ma Weidu in the earliest days.

How much Spielberg likes "Jurassic Park", no one understands better than Lucas, and now Wu Jianye and Phantom Entertainment have covered the adaptation rights of "Jurassic Park" and not sell it, which naturally makes the entire Hollywood Jewish circle dissatisfied.

If Wu Jianye is a director who has achieved fame in Hollywood, they will not say anything, after all, Jews are powerful in Hollywood, but it does not mean that they can cover the sky with one hand.

And Wu Jianye is just a Chinese director, which is another matter.

The authority of the Jews in Hollywood is not something that anyone can challenge!

Rey nodded and said, "I know, then I'll go and inform the Industrial Light and Magic side now, and let them refuse Phantom Entertainment's request!"

Lucas nodded and let Rey out.

Lucas's decision, Wu Jianye soon knew.

When Linda told Wu Jianye the news, she was also quite helpless, and the boycott of Phantom Entertainment and Wu Jianye in Hollywood's Jewish circle has slowly been revealed, not only in the area of industrial light and magic, but also in the part of actors, which is also a problem.

Several people contacted by Phantom Entertainment, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks and others also refused.

Wu Jianye thought for a moment and asked, "What does James Cameron do?"

Linda said, "He's filming his 'The Abyss' in South Carolina!"

When talking about James Cameron, Linda also complained weakly: "I really don't know why you are so optimistic about this James Cameron, don't talk about burning money, you still have a big temper, and several producers sent by the company in the past don't deal with him, if it weren't for you saying that he is a talent, I don't want to sign him!"

Wu Jianye smiled, James Cameron's temper was famous in later generations, otherwise he would not be called a tyrant on the set, but his ability is beyond doubt.

"Terminator 1, 2", "True Lies", "Titanic", "Avatar" and other movies come out, all of which can shock the global box office market.

"Call him and ask him to come back!" Wu Jianye said.

"What are you doing?" Linda didn't understand what Wu Jianye meant.

"Since we can't find a suitable special effects company, let's set up a special effects company ourselves. Wu Jianye said, in fact, the establishment of a special effects company, even if there is no current matter, Wu Jianye plans to set it up.

When he was in Xiangjiang, Wu Jianye deliberately flew back to China, and began to set up special effects electives at the Yenching Film Academy, and now the best film special effects in the world is naturally Hollywood.

It is impossible for Wu Jianye to wait for domestic talents to grow up, and Hollywood now has ready-made candidates, so it is naturally impossible for Wu Jianye to let go.

In fact, Athena Animation has already involved some special effects production, but it pays more attention to the production of CGI animation rather than the development of pure movie special effects.

And James Cameron is one of the most well-known special effects freaks in Hollywood, and the digital field he later created is a special effects company comparable to industrial light and magic.

And James Cameron's contribution to the development of film special effects even exceeds that of Industrial Light & Magic.

"Do you want James Cameron to set up a special effects company?" Linda understood what Wu Jianye meant.

"That's good!" Wu Jianye nodded.

"The special effects company is a money-burning company, and the rate of return is far worse than that of the movie, and even if you want to set up a special effects company, what about talents, most of the special effects talents in Hollywood are concentrated in industrial light and magic, and there are not many people who want to use it!" Linda expressed her opinion!

Wu Jianye said calmly: "Don't be afraid of burning money, no one is afraid, since Industrial Light and Magic has talents, then dig them!"

For special effects companies, what is the most important, one is rich, the other is someone, Wu Jianye is rich, he doesn't care about spending money on special effects, as for talents, he doesn't care about spending money, so naturally he can dig up the talents he needs!

Linda asked, "Was this special effects company established in the name of Phantom Entertainment, or in your own name?"

Wu Jianye glanced at Linda and understood what Linda was worried about, the extent to which a special effects company burns money is unimaginable to ordinary people, in the long river of Hollywood's development in the next few decades, in addition to industrial light and magic, there have not been new special effects companies, but most of them have not been able to stand strong enough to see the returns.

Now the development of Phantom Entertainment can be said to be smooth, and now it has acquired theaters and publishing houses respectively, it can be said that it is developing in the direction of a large media group, if a money-burning special effects company is established at this time, then it will be a great burden for Phantom Entertainment.

And Linda is not only the general manager of Phantom Entertainment, but also the director of Phantom Entertainment, which is related to her vital interests, she is naturally very concerned!

However, this is one of Wu Jianye's means to check and balance Linda, with Phantom Entertainment joining the Johnson family and Linda's mother as the shareholders of Phantom, although Wu Jianye is still the absolute controlling person of Phantom, accounting for more than 80% of the shares, but he still has to use various means to check and balance Linda's rights.

This is not to say that Wu Jianye does not trust Linda, but as a business leader, he must do it.

So Wu Jianye's decision was naturally "to invest as Phantom Entertainment!"

Linda wanted to say something, but in the end she gave up, she knew better than anyone about Wu Jianye's success, you must know that Shanhai Investment was still in charge of Linda for a period of time at the earliest, so she knew very well how big Wu Jianye's ability was.

also knew that he had no way to change Wu Jianye's mind, so he had to comply!

"Okay, I see!"

After explaining Linda again, Wu Jianye walked out of Phantom Entertainment, and received a phone invitation yesterday, he must go, so he didn't stay in Phantom Entertainment for long today.

It's just that I didn't expect to see Lauren Donner waiting at the door of Phantom Entertainment when I came out!