Although Wang Yang decided to buy the adaptation copyright of "The Devil Wears Prada", especially after passing Jessica's heroine audition, her excitement and happiness made him not allow things to change, even if anyone offered 10 million to compete with him, he would not want to follow, because on the other hand, he also wanted to shoot this story, and it also had the characteristics of a box office hit.

However, he did not reveal the slightest rumor of "Magic Young is going to be filmed", and only asked Flame Films to contact Lauren Weisberger, precisely because he did not want to provoke offers from other film companies, and he also wanted to continue to prepare for "MIT-21-team" and the production of "Prison Break". However, in order to make progress and take over the file as scheduled, he instructed the company not to be verbose and tentative, and directly offered a reasonable high price, just like silently buying the adaptation rights of "Capture of Las Vegas".

When Flame Films made a seven-figure offer to Lauren Weisberg and his publishing house, the shrewd retired demon was delighted but didn't say yes right away, and the news spread all over the industry right away. There are many people who speculate that Wang Yang has taken a fancy to this book, he has always been energetic, except for special effects productions like "District 9", almost half a year a movie, this summer vacation file has "mit-21-team", but the Christmas file is still empty.

Anyway, now as long as it is something that Flame Movie wants to buy, whether it is Magic Young's idea or not, someone will fight for it first. This time, 20th Century Fox, Dimen, Miramax and several other companies stepped in, but those who know the flame style know that if they really want it, they will go bankrupt and follow, and often in the end those big companies will give up, because without Magic Young, who knows what is the use of buying it back?

The New York Times bestseller list has new books almost every week, and many of these books have since been brought to the big screen, some of them are big sellers, some of them lose their pants, and the risk of adaptation is not much lower than writing a brand new screenplay. So even if there is competition, it generally does not raise the price to a very outrageous level.

Negotiations with the retired demon continued, and what shocked the global mass media was the diary of the new Golden Globe Best Director and those photos of lying on the street! What the hell is this? Now Wang Yang's popularity is at an unprecedented new peak, and as soon as those photos of the street came out, the next day they were reprinted by portals, entertainment gossip websites, and so on, and the entertainment print media also published them one after another.

Yahoo Entertainment's headline: "Amazing Jan's Crazy Amazing Move." The Los Angeles Times, which posted a photo of him lying on the trash can, put a big question mark: "What is Amazing Young doing?" "Daily Entertainment" that posted a picture of him lying on the trophy: "He gave us another unexpected chocolate!", "Magical Young self-destructs his image to please his girlfriend." "He's crazy!" ...... "He's trying to develop Jessica's falls into an extreme sport." According to the Chicago Sun-Times report, Wang Yang has recently discussed with the first batch of fans who participated in this new sport on his blog, formulated the rules and names of the sport, and they gave some names for people to vote on, including stumbling, bendover, planking, etc., and the result is that planking (floor) stands out, and the Chinese name is Lying Street.

The rule is to lie on top of various places and objects, and the standard posture is face down, with the whole body in a straight shape. The Chicago Sun-Times concluded: "Can Wonder Young set off a street craze? We don't know, but we see a 22-year-old, real best director, and you can't expect Martin Scorsese to play on the street." 100 years after the birth of cinema, we finally have such an interesting and magical guy. ”

People with extraordinary strength and people-friendly and funny are naturally the most popular, but behind the "funny" and "funny" voices, there are also many people who laugh at him, waiting to see how he makes a fool of himself, this is not a normal makeup played by viral marketing, but what kind of planking, who would be so stupid? Magical Yang wants to play a big game in life? Wait for the dismal ending, and then don't dare to mention it!

But there are many fans who have tried the first crab, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Taiwan...... In just a few days, more than 10,000 people have uploaded photos of themselves on the street, including many celebrities, NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal has been lying on the floor of the arena and locker room, and Golden State Warriors star Gilbert Arenas has even fallen on the floor of the women's restroom...... Acting stars can't mess around with their image, but Michael Pitt responded, Zachary Levy responded, and even middle-aged uncles like Robert Downey Jr. responded...... However, they are also lying on their stomachs beautifully, and they do not choose toilets, washing machines and other objects, but like garden chairs, flower pots, etc.

This "stupid and cool" extreme activity quickly gained a foothold and spread rapidly.

And in these days, the preparation of "mit-21-team" has also made new progress, with the Caesars Palace Hotel agreeing to provide the venue, just like a dam bursting, other hotels and casinos after the crew's re-contact and interest analysis, and then under the "you see the Caesars Hotel agreed", "You see the flamingos have agreed", etc., they know that they were broken one by one, and they all agreed to shoot casually with "grace"!

MIT finally took out the demeanor of a prestigious school, changed its initial idea, and allowed the crew to enter the campus. Spokeswoman Patti Richards said: "We initially refused because we were worried that the film would give everyone a bad impression of MIT that 'she just teaches people how to count cards and gamble', but Wang Yang re-impressed us with the script. The Blackjack group is a real piece of history, and that's why we agreed. ”

The problems of the venue have been solved, and the crew of the film has been formed. The cinematographer is Valey Pfister, who has worked with Wang Yang many times, and the set designer Gordon Sheen, and in the position of costume designer, because the team members in the film are very versatile, this position is very important, Wang Yang finally invited Lindy Hemming ("Tomorrow's Empire", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", "Casino Royale", "Batman" series) to play, which can be said to be a big name enough.

This was invited before he won the Golden Globe for Best Director, but now in addition to "magical", there is also the halo of the Golden Globe Award above his head, and it is undoubtedly easier to attract these Oscar-level people to join. At the same time, he also has his own team, art designer David F. Klaassen, prop master Drew Petrota...... Harry George returned to his role as a deputy, Joshua worked hard as a production assistant...... and the "MIT-21-Team" crew could be assembled for Boston or Las Vegas at any time to begin filming. However, because the Lunar New Year is coming soon, Wang Yang decided to start filming after the Spring Festival, and there is still one problem left that has not been solved, that is, the actor candidate of one of the Chinese girls in the 21 o'clock group.

Since the news was released and CAA and other brokerage companies were contacted, many recommended candidates were sent to Wang Yang's desk, and some actors took the initiative to contact him through various means, such as Zhang Ziyi asked about the possibility of starring her, but the answer was naturally no, her temperament and English level did not match.

In fact, after searching for a long time without success, Wang Yang has already lowered his requirements, there is no need for pure Chinese, mixed-race children can also be, as long as the audience seems to know that she is mixed-race. So there were many mixed-race children in the list, and then he eliminated some girls who didn't have an oriental temperament even if they had black hair and black eyes, and the rest of the candidates had not yet auditioned.

For this supporting role candidate, Wang Yang really scratched his head, this role does not have a single scene, almost all of them are shots during collective action, but she accounts for the most card counting scenes, there are many close-ups and lines, not just a vase. But he spent more time and effort on this than the heroine! Of course, the heroine is just a phone call.

He had already slapped the table violently and issued an ultimatum: "Solve this candidate!" It's just how to solve it, or to go out in person.

However, it is obvious that all work has to be delayed, the Lunar New Year is coming, and an even earlier arrival is January 30, the announcement day of the 55th Directors Guild Awards. The five directors on the nominee list are exactly the same as the Golden Globe Awards, the award ceremony was held at the Kodak Theater, Wang Yang was going to attend in a suit and leather shoes, and Jessica, who was wearing a black knee-length dress, attended as a female companion, and she was looking forward to a truly perfect evening!

As a Golden Globe winner, Wang Yang is naturally the biggest favorite, but the result is extremely disappointing for Jessica, and Wang Yang's fans are also very disappointed, and the union award was finally won by Rob Marshall, the director of "Chicago". As a result, the attribution of the best director at this year's Oscars has become more unclear, because there are only 5 times when he won the Directors Guild Award but did not win the Oscar.

Although the list of Oscar nominees will not be announced until February 11, in the eyes of the media, it is almost certain that Magic Young will be shortlisted, and 5 of the 6 Golden Globe Best Directors aged 30-39 won the Oscar that year, and 7 were nominated. Why is this year's Oscars the only one to reject a young magical director with such a high voice? What's more, if Magical Yang is nominated, the public has no opinion; without nomination, the opinion is very big.

So will there be a 6th director's union & Oscar mismatch this year? Even if there is a 6th, it must be a magical Yang? Now the bookmaker doesn't know how to open the handicap, they made two mistakes in a row, Wang Yang 6 times the odds, upset the prize, 1.5 times the hot odds but did not get, and Rob Marshall is 3 times.

The day after the director award ceremony ended, it was the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, Wang Yang and Jessica went to the airport early in the morning and took an early flight back to San Francisco's Chinatown to celebrate the Spring Festival.

(To be continued)