Early Friday morning, walking into the Relativity Building, Kevin Feige walked through the spacious lobby and into the elevator room.

The interior of this brand new office building is busy, with a lot of people coming and going, including some faces that can be named.

For example, Ann Lee, who won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Christian Bale, who starred in "Pirates of the Caribbean", a young Australian actor Heath Ledger, and David Fincher, a dark film director with a serious face, and so on.

Kevin Feige is well aware that these people, unlike him, are certainly not employees of Relativity Entertainment or its subsidiaries, but temporary employees.

They are working on films or other film and television projects with companies owned by Relativity Entertainment.

Today, Relativity Entertainment produces more than 10 films every year, with a total investment of more than $500 million and a total revenue of ......

Kevin Feige only joined Marvel Entertainment, a subsidiary of Relativity Entertainment, this year, and he doesn't know much about it.

Relativity Entertainment is not listed, the composition of shares is simple, and there is no need to disclose operating data to the outside world, so there is speculation from the outside world that the actual profitability of Relativity Entertainment far exceeds the estimates of external institutions.

The possibilities are very high.

It is said that Ronan has just spent a lot of money to turn the famous Manchester United club into his personal plaything.

Ronan, whom Kevin Feige knows, is a very rational person who, if not well-funded, would buy a professional sports club?

The huge "Avengers Project" needs financial support.

Arriving on the top floor of the Relativity Building, Kevin Feige meets Ronan's assistant Connie, greets her, and quickly enters Ronan's office.

"I had two rounds of negotiations with Susan Levine. Kevin Feige knows a little bit about Ronan and gets straight to the point: "I probably figured out their situation as well." ”

Ronan smiled and said, "It's good that you're solely responsible for this." ”

Kevin Feige said naturally: "This is the first time to be an independent producer, and there are some key points that you still need to grasp. ”

Marvel is an old company, but Marvel Entertainment is a new company, if you want to gain a foothold in Marvel Entertainment, and even have a bigger role, the ability is the relationship, and there are some small details that he can't ignore.

Everyone knows that the CEO of Marvel Entertainment is Avi Arad, how many people know him who Kevin Feige is?

Avi Arad is far away in New York and himself in Los Angeles, and being able to meet with Ronan frequently is also an advantage.

An assistant brought coffee in at this time, and Avi Arad thanked him and said: "From Susan Levine's faint attitude, Robert Downey Jr. is very eager for the role of Iron Man." ”

Ronan nodded slightly: "It's hard for him to find a better opportunity in a short period of time." ”

Then again, Robert Downey Jr. has been floating in the sky for so many years, and he will eventually fall to the ground.

Kevin Feige said: "Two rounds of negotiations, mainly involving film contracts and salaries, I offered the first $300,000 salary according to the plan, and the 12 film contracts, the highest salary of $20 million......"

Ronan asked directly, "Susan Levine's conditions?"

"It's currently a six-film contract, with a $1 million salary for the first one. Kevin Feige tried to be as concise as possible: "But in addition to the salary, she invited Robert Downey Jr. to have the power to negotiate a later share based on the box office results of the previous film." ”

Ronan said: "Ten film contracts, which do not involve post-sharing. ”

Kevin Feige said: "Can the salary of the first film be appropriately increased?"

Ronan nodded: "It depends on the situation of the negotiation." ”

In fact, as long as there is a precedent for "Project Avengers", it will be easier to sign long-term contracts with other actors later.

"I'm going to have a third round of talks with Susan Levine in the afternoon, and where I shouldn't give in, I'm not going to give an inch. ”

Kevin Feige came in a hurry and left in a hurry, actually not even fifteen minutes in Ronan's office.

Just sent Kevin Feige away, Ronan received a call from CAA's Brian Lorde, the "Iron Man" crew released a heroine recruitment announcement, and CAA wanted to push its new actresses into the group.

Ronan responded with a few words and asked Brian Lord to transfer the information of several actresses to the "Iron Man" crew, and the specific candidates were still decided by the audition.

Brian Lord moved quickly, and in addition to the "Iron Man" crew, he also sent Ronan's email a copy of the actress's information.

Among them, Ronan sees a familiar name - Winona Ryder.

The ex-girlfriend of Johnny Depp, the unlucky actress, recently signed with CAA, seems to want to borrow CAA's resources and network to reverse her already decadent acting career.

Ronan just took a general look, and it depends on the audition, Winona Ryder's age is more in line with Pepper's setting, but she may not be willing to dye her hair blonde.

There are many female celebrities who are very taboo about blonde hair.

Of course, there are also many actresses who like to dye their hair blonde.

Scarlett Johansson and Charlize Theron, for example, are not born blonde.

Ronan hasn't dealt much with Charlize Theron, and doesn't know much about her original hair color, only that she keeps her hair in the habit of dyeing her hair all year round.

But Scarlett Johansson, blonde hair looks natural, but it is fake, for reasons such as personality, Scarlett Johansson has been taking the route of "old Hollywood blonde" since she became an adult.

Ronan is very sure that Scarlett Johansson's hair color is the type with a darker brown color.

This has been proven in the field.

After all, most people rarely dye in some places.

In the afternoon, a female director, screenwriter and producer that Ronan almost forgot about came to visit.

"Hello, Marianne. When Ronan saw the middle-aged female director, he remembered the meeting after the Oscars, and he was not embarrassed, and said naturally: "It's been a long time." ”

Marianne Del Rio smiled and said, "It's been almost five months since we last met. ”

After this year's Oscars, Marianne Del Rio won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film for "Heart of Chernobyl", and immediately approached him to talk to him about the idea of making a documentary into a TV series.

At that time, Ronan also encouraged a few words, saying that he would let the other party come up with the script first.

The female director has disappeared since then, and Ronan has forgotten all about it, so he didn't expect to appear again today.

Compared to the last time, Marianne Del Rio came prepared this time.

Marianne Del Rio opened the briefcase she was carrying, took out the file bag, placed one of the stacks of papers on the coffee table in front of Ronan, and said, "Mr. Anderson, it took me four months to complete the script for the first two episodes of the series. ”

Ronan picked it up, opened the file bag, and flipped through it.

Seeing Ronan's quick flip through, Marianne Del Rio was a little uneasy, and hurriedly said: "In the past few months, I have gone to Ukraine and met many survivors and witnesses of the events of that year in Kyiv to get more first-hand information. ”

Ronan doesn't doubt Marianne Del Rio's words, because a lot of Hollywood writers and directors are really very dedicated and crazy.

Similar to James Cameron's own shooting in a deep-sea submersible thousands of meters into the sea, there are too many in Hollywood.

Marianne Del Rio's words continue: "I have been infinitely close to the city of Pripyat, I have rented an unmanned aircraft to shoot the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, and the deserted Chernobyl is as quiet as a ghost town, which also strengthened my determination to shoot related film and television works!"

Ronan looked up at Marianne Del Rio and said, "Ma'am, your professionalism and professionalism are admirable. ”

Marianne Del Rio's face was full of sadness: "If you don't know first-hand information, you'll never know how tragic that accident was." The unprecedented and devastating nuclear catastrophe and the power struggle in the intertwined bipolar pattern behind it are enough to go down in history. ”

Ronan put away the script and reminded at the right time: "Madam, what you are going to shoot is a TV series, not a documentary. ”

"This is not a documentary, I promise. Marianne Del Rio hurriedly pointed to the script and said: "The script will not be completely restored in the accident, I added a lot of fictional characters when writing the script, including the protagonist group, I will try to create a reality beyond the documentary, so that everything looks like it happened in real life, the key is to cut into the perspective and grasp the focus of the characters." ”

Ronan nodded, worthy of a Hollywood director.

Marianne del Río must have been prepared to come to Ronan again: "Many years have passed since the incident, and there are still many unsolved mysteries and controversies. What was the cause of the accident? What was the process? How widespread was the damage? The official blame for the accident was shifted to the nuclear power plant operator, a claim that has since been refuted. ”

Ronan put down the script and simply listened to Marianne Del Leo's statement.

Whether these events are true or false depends only on whether they can attract the audience and whether they have the potential to cause a warm response from public opinion.

Because they are directly tied to future business value.

Marianne Del Rio's confidence gradually increased, and her voice was earnest: "Mr. Anderson, my project is from this aspect, in the face of such a terrible accident, the witnesses have no right to know the truth, which will bring a creepy look to the show." ”

Ronan nodded slowly, glanced at the script again, and roughly skimmed through it, he was very sure that this was a very Westernized TV series.

"How many episodes of the series are expected to be filmed?" Ronan knew very well that the series was mainly aimed at Western audiences: "How much budget does it take?"

Marianne Del Rio breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Six episodes, only six hundred...... No, I can do it with just five million dollars. ”

The request is indeed not much, and five million US dollars can only be regarded as a small investment and small production for today's Shahai Entertainment.

But Ronan didn't say yes easily.