"Why are you looking at me like that?" said Lindsay Beale to Ronan and sat down across from him.

Ronan pointed to her clothes, "You rarely dressed like this before. ”

Lindsay Beale looked down at her hip skirt and said, "I just went to the last party, I ran out halfway, and I finally don't have to go again." ”

Ronan understood what she meant, and said, "Good work. ”

Lindsay Beale is a more reserved and reserved person, probably this time has been too hard, and rarely boasted: "In order to write this script, I really worked hard." ”

Ronan nodded seriously: "I can see it." He gave Lindsay-Beale a glass of water: "Drink some water first." ”

"Thank you. Lindsay-Beale drank three sips of water in a row before saying, "I can't help but wonder if I have a mental illness or if I'm crazy!"

Ronan comforted, "You can see that you are under a lot of pressure. ”

Lindsay Beale nodded and said, "After returning from New York, I contacted the agent that Kate gave me, but she didn't respond at all, and I had no choice but to pretend to be a woman who wanted to make a profit in that area, so I contacted her." ”

Ronan didn't speak again, but patiently listened to Lindsay Beale.

Lindsay-Beale tried to be as concise as possible: "I disguised myself as that kind of woman, met with that agent, probably I was born with good conditions, she took me to a high-end party, and wanted to use those drunken luxury lives to attract me and control me, and I, a money worshipper, also gained some of her trust and more or less got something out of her mouth." ”

She took another sip of water and continued: "Later, she began to introduce customers to me, and doing high-end business has a bit of a two-way choice, and some men who only have a little capital kneel and lick it well, giving the woman the advantage of raising the price." I met with a few so-called clients, got some words from them, and then made excuses and ran away. ”

Ronan asked, "Lost trust?"

"Hmm. Lindsay-Beale nodded slightly: "The agent doesn't trust me anymore, I had a conversation with her at a party today, and then ran back." ”

Ronan knew she had done a lot on the project, even far more than a screenwriter did, and said again, "Good work, Lindsay. ”

Lindsay Beale smiled and said, "I'm also trying to have real and credible material for the script, so I can't just close my eyes and scribble without even ignoring the basic facts, right?"

Ronan thought for a moment and said, "Enough information has been collected, don't do this kind of dangerous thing again." ”

"Not anymore. Lindsay-Beale seemed a little scared: "Twice, fortunately I was clever, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable." ”

"The next stage is writing the script. Ronan pays attention to the reward for his efforts: "Lindsay, you are the only screenwriter of this project, and you will be the second producer of the future film project." ”

Lindsay Beal's exhaustion disappeared in an instant, and her face was full of surprise: "Ronan, is this true?"

Ronan smiled and said, "This kind of thing, how can I joke." ”

Lindsay Beale immediately said: "Tomorrow is a day off, and the day after tomorrow we will officially start integrating materials and writing scripts." ”

Which boss doesn't like such a motivated employee? Ronan said, "Don't worry, take two more days off." ”

Lindsay Beale stood up: "I'll go home first." ”

Ronan nodded: "Go back and have a good rest." ”

Before Lindsay Beale left, she asked curiously: "Who do you want to invite to be the director of this project?"

Ronan said: "Sofia Coppola is a candidate, after all, it belongs to the female theme. He advised: "This is only our unilateral intention, and it is confidential. ”

"I understand. Lindsay Beale said goodbye and left.

Ronan has not yet approached Sofia Coppola about this project, and Sofia Coppola may not be willing to direct such a project.

Of course, there are a few more directors, and David Fincher is not bad, and the films he directs have a deep dark wind, which complements such a theme.

But David Fincher's dark style is often too heavy to leave no hope, which is not conducive to the film's impact on the Oscars.

With so much time and energy invested, Ronan certainly wants the film to be both famous and rich.

It's best to come back with a heavyweight Oscar.

Ronan thought of another name, Steven Soderbergh.

I remember watching Steven Soderbergh's experimental film about this industry, or specially invited a female artist from the San Fernando Valley to play the heroine, but unfortunately the author's style of the film is too strong for people to watch at all, and I have long forgotten what it says.

As long as you don't make auteur films, Steven Soderbergh is also a good director.

By waiting for Lindsay Beale to finish the script, it would allow for an initial contact with the three directors.

Ronan put the matter aside for a moment, took a copy from the stack of scripts next to him, and read it carefully.

Because of the occasional other work, in the afternoon, Ronan went through five scripts intermittently, and then made relevant annotations.

Even if you only glance at it and read it at a glance, you can also judge that these scripts are basically worthless.

The judgment is based not only on the unfamiliarity of the storyline, but also on the confusion of the script structure and the lack of basic logic.

For example, the judgment of the latter comes from Ronan's ability to operate movies in the past few years.

In fact, looking for a project from the delivery script is similar to hitting the luck.

A veteran producer once said, "Of the thousands of scripts I've read, the vast majority of them don't have even the slightest value." ”

The script is the foundation of a film, and its development is a long and complex process, from the initial story idea, which requires a complex process of writing, market evaluation and revision, and finally to the filming stage.

When a new entrant makes his first film, a lot of people tell him: you need to find a good script.

Don't trust them, because a good script is not enough.

The scripts that Ronan directly rejected were obviously the work of novices, and novice screenwriters often wanted to tell a very complex story with a new perspective and a unique position.

But it's too hard for newbies.

Even the Wachowski brothers (sisters) and brothers (sisters) who started at the peak of their careers are also the pinnacles that only appear after they have practiced their works.

In fact, for newcomers in the screenwriting industry, if they want to write a good script and get the green light from the film company, it is best to have a simple plot and conform to Hollywood routines, and complex and fresh scripts are less likely to be adopted.

A script for a newbie should preferably be like a man and woman in heat, that is, the movements are clear and straight to the point.

Such a script can be operated as a rookie, and it reduces the chance of mistakes due to inexperience.

Then the script is sent out and left to luck.

Ronan judged that the script of unfamiliar content was actually not complicated.

He looks at several factors: a main character, a target that the audience cares about, the main character needs to take a big enough risk, and in the midst of danger, the main character needs to go through at least one, and preferably three, obstacles.

Since he didn't finish reading all the scripts, Ronan simply brought them home when he got off work, planning to work overtime at night.

Back at the manor, give the script to the housekeeper Nikia, and ask her to send it to the study.

Work-related areas of the manor, such as the study and private reception rooms, are only accessible to Ronan and Nikia, the butler.

Nikia has also proven herself to be a good and dedicated housekeeper over the past two years.

After having eaten a dinner prepared by his private chef, Ronan went out for a walk, and when he returned, he did not go upstairs immediately, and Nikia, the butler, summed up the expenses of the estate for March and handed him over.

From garden management to tree pruning and insect control to daily maintenance of basic facilities, plus various expenses such as personnel and vehicles, as well as Ronan's expenses for entertaining guests and calling parties, Future World Manor spent a total of $550,000 in March.

Overall, Ronan doesn't spend much, and according to the rumors circulating within the crew of Pirates of the Caribbean, it is said that it is the norm for Johnny Depp to spend a million dollars a month.

Seeing Ronan sign the slip, the housekeeper Nikia reminded again: "It's tax season soon, and according to the latest property value, the estate needs to pay $740,000 in property tax." ”

Ronan nodded: "I see, you contact Connie tomorrow and ask her to assist you in handling it." ”

You can't mess with the tax office, there is no legal provision for buying a property here, but the annual property tax is an expense that cannot be ignored.

And property taxes are not fixed and rise as house prices rise.

It can only be said that it is worthy of being a country that started with tax resistance.

Fortunately, property taxes in California are not high, and the tax rate in old western residential areas such as Beverly Hills is only 1.1 percent.

Ronan explained some of the daily necessities that Nikia needed to buy recently, and then went upstairs to the study and continued to browse through the scripts that she hadn't read that afternoon.

After reading seven or eight scripts in a row, Ronan was quite disappointed.

This way of finding a project should be divided into days or even a week, and it should be completed in time and done as a work transfer, not as it is now.

To be honest, those who submitted the script were in a bad luck, and he, the one who picked the script, was also in luck.

The former is lucky enough for the script to be selected by the film company.

Ronan, on the other hand, has to be lucky to find the content that has relevant memories from a bunch of scripts submitted by newcomers or unknown screenwriters, or it is not a bad movie......

Just like the films made by Uwe Bauer, the movies are bad to a certain extent, but they will also leave a deeper impression.

From the time he had dinner until it was nearly eleven o'clock, and there were still three scripts left, Ronan drank a glass of water, intending to read it in one sitting tonight.

Maybe it was an explosion of luck, or maybe it was a certain capable but unqualified screenwriter who spread the script all over the place and hit the luck, Ronan saw the third-to-last and found a familiar plot and content.

A comedic story about a wedding.

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