Chapter 617: The Screenwriting Department of the Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger

Within two hours, Frank Darabont randomly selected two of the 56 scripts.

One is called "The Millennium", which is a romance film during the Civil War, and the other is called "Florida's Town", which is a crime horror film.

He read the two scripts once, and he was amazed!

Is this level of script really just written by those young screenwriters in the screenwriting department of New Universal?

It's outrageous!

The profundity, ideology, philosophy and storytelling are better than his "Killing with a Knife"!

DreamWorks plans to buy the script of "Murder with a Knife" for $800,000, and then find a screenwriter to rewrite it and make it into a movie.

But what's going on with these two scripts right now?

If "Murder with a Knife" can sell for $800,000, how much can these two scripts sell?

Nothing more, no less!

The so-called literati are inferior to each other.

With Frank Darabont's standards, he inevitably thinks of himself, and he dismisses many of the industry's well-received scripts as garbage.

Only the scripts he created himself are the best.

However, the two scripts created by others that he had just read really shocked him speechless!

It's exciting, it's profound, it's connotative!

The more Frank Darabont thought about it, the more shocked he became!

In the thick stack of 56 scripts, he was convinced that he had just picked two of them at random.

As a result, it was "A Thousand Years of the Past" and "Florida's Town".

Doesn't this mean that the remaining 54 scripts have all reached this level?

It's shocking!

Prior to this, the whole of Hollywood understood that there are many commercial film themes that can create a lot of wealth under Donn's new Universal, such as Marvel's comics, such as the "Spy" series, such as the "Harry Potter" series, such as the "Pirate League" series, and even "National Treasure", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and other films also have the value of renewal.

Don has the golden hand of commercial entertainment blockbusters!

But this experience made Frank Darabont deeply understand Donn's true strength.

Isn't it just entertainment?

He's simply the godfather of cinema!

This result, for Frank Darabont, is even more shocking than "Titanic", directed by an 18-year-old child, which sold $1.88 billion at the global box office!

In his opinion, those 56 amazing movie scripts are Tang En's greatest heritage!

His script "Murder with a Knife" can be sold for $800,000, how much can the 56 scripts with only high quality sell for?

$50 million can't stop it, right?

The intellectual property owned by New Globe cannot be compared even if the whole of Hollywood is combined!

Originally, when Donn said that these scripts were written by the screenwriting department of New Universal, Frank Darabont was unimpressed, and even a little contemptuous.

This kind of thing is really old-fashioned and outdated.

In the past, big Hollywood studios also liked to raise a group of screenwriters in the company, and they only needed to pay a low annual salary every year to get their intellectual property.

This seems much more cost-effective than spending hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to buy a script outside!

However, later, all major studios closed down their screenwriting departments.

Because it's so!

The top big screenwriters are unwilling to be raised, and the small screenwriters at the bottom are willing to go to the film company to receive an annual salary, but their level is really poor and they can't write excellent scripts at all.

After decades of exploration, the "screenwriting department" has completely disappeared in Hollywood.

It wasn't until later that Don Pictures ...... I heard that the screenwriting department has started the trick again.

has also been ridiculed again and again by the industry.

But now it seems that this is not the case at all!

New Universal's screenwriting department...... It's really capable!

Among these 56 scripts, any one of them is enough to cover the expenses of the entire screenwriting department for three or five years.

"Where did Don get this talent?"

Frank Darabont's heart was full of blood, and he felt that this new global group was worthy of being the bull's ear of Hollywood in the new era, and it was indeed a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger!

What's more, these screenwriters who have the potential to be Hollywood's top screenwriters are willing to work hard under Don with an annual salary of 50,000 or 60,000 US dollars?

Is it still Donn's ability to fool too strong?

Or is it because of his charisma?

Frank Darabont suffers from gains and losses, and the restlessness in his heart cannot be calmed for a long time.

He wanted to read all 56 scripts.

But time is limited.

Moreover, after all, this is a confidential document of New Universal, and Tang En is open-minded, but he can't be shameless.

It's enough to look through the two and understand the inside story.

"Have you finished reading the script?"

Donn is working on a personnel appointment, and Barry Diller intends to hire Fernando Bardem, vice president of Lehman Brothers, as vice president of New Globe to assist Brandi Norris in a series of mergers and acquisitions, equity, debt and other financial work.

I almost laughed when I saw Frank Darabont as if he had hit a ghost during the day.

"I watched two copies, one called "A Thousand Years of the Past" and the other called "Florida's Town", and it was really ...... It's incredible. Frank Darabont muttered, as if he hadn't recovered yet.

Don smiled, "So did you agree to shelve the original script of "Killing with a Knife"?"

Frank Darabont let out a long sigh, "Agreed!"

There's no reason not to agree!

Don still has 56 equally profound and philosophical excellent scripts in his hands, and they are scripts supplied in-house, and these projects have not started filming, so what qualifications does "Murder with a Knife" have?

This is called a slap in the face with strength!

In front of dozens of genuine, half-meter-tall scripts, Frank Darabont finally lowered his noble head.

"What about adaptation rights?"

"I want New Universal to be in charge of developing this script!"

By this time, Frank Darabont had long since left DreamWorks behind.

Not to mention DreamWorks, even if Warner Bros., Paramount, Disney, Columbia Pictures, and Twentieth Century Fox are all added together, he will not hesitate to choose New Universal!

In the film market, intellectual property is everything.

The wealth of New World is too abundant!

Don looked at his happy and sincere appearance, and he was a little amused.

He has investigated through the "sunglasses system", Hollywood's top screenwriters, and the ability of "screenwriters" is actually not too high.

The reason why they can stand at the pinnacle of the screenwriting field and become the most popular gold medal screenwriters in the Hollywood industry is mainly because they have a good "screenwriter" attribute and a good "market judgment" attribute.

For example, the famous ace screenwriter Achewa Gosman, whose screenwriting ability is only "85", but his market judgment ability is as high as "88", which is the survival of top screenwriters.

Don is different.

He has a system of sunglasses.

He set up a screenwriting department to plan a group of people with the highest attributes of "screenwriters"; he set up a market analysis department to recruit a group of people with the highest attributes of "market judgment"; and he set up an art analysis department to bring together a group of people with the highest attributes of "literary and artistic aesthetics".

Frank Darabont's screenwriting ability is "92", but the 56 scripts that Donn showed him, behind each script, there is a god-level screenwriter with screenwriting ability values as high as "95", "96", and even "98" and "99".

The script of "Killing by a Knife" is very exciting, but the most important thing that New Universal lacks is a wonderful script!

It's just that resources are limited.

Many movies that have been verified by the market in his previous life have not yet had time to be made, and it is impossible for Don to eagerly start original movies that have not appeared in his previous life, at most it is a small experiment.

Don nodded and said, "Since you want to make the script into a movie so much, then leave it to Universal Pictures to operate." You go and talk to them about the specific cost. ”

"No, I won't ask for anything!"

"Oh?"

Donn's eyes lit up, which made him curious.

This is the United States, and the capital transaction is very practical.

Frank Darabont said: "It's a rare opportunity to direct a big-budget TV series like The Walking Dead, and I'm willing to work with New Universal for a long time. ”

Don glanced at him and said meaningfully: "Frank, the American series of "The Walking Dead" is specially tailored for you. ”

"I know that I will continue to shoot this series. I'd like to say another thing, though. Frank Darabont stopped talking.

"Tell me?"

"If I can remake 'Murder with a Knife' in the future, that is, make a film based on my original script, I hope I can become a director. ”

Frank Darabont had a look of hope on his face.

Since the box office fiasco of the movie "Movie Life" directed by him in 2001, his career as a film director seems to have been broken.

He was very unwilling.

Tang En smiled: "No problem, but I said that if this kind of movie wants to be made, it will take at least ten years!"

Ten years later, it was produced by Netflix.

Then push straight to streaming.

This kind of movie doesn't need a theater box office at all.

There was no box office either.

"No problem, I can wait! Over the years, I can devote myself to the production of The Walking Dead. ”

Frank Darabont is already convinced.

As a man of letters, he was arrogant.

But the young man in front of him made him happy and convinced!

The left hand is wealth status, and the right hand is intellectual property.

How can such a person not dominate Hollywood?

……

Seeing off Frank Darabont, Don couldn't help but smile smugly.

It's good to have a system!

The next thing is to trouble the system again.

"The Departed" is about to start filming, and now, it's time to find a suitable actor to "mirror possession".

Don arrived alone in the second office, locked the door, and put on sunglasses.

Start searching.

Adam Sandler...... Tom hanks...... Edward Norton ...... Matt Damon...... Russell Crow ...... George Clooney...... Whose ability is better?"

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