Chapter 0534 "Star Wars" has joy, Kara's worries
Warm up with Zhang Bingqian in the kitchen for a while, and mention a few words by the way, seeing that the time was not early, Li Wenxing let her continue to cook, and he went into the study to call Tang Shuxuan back.
Tang Shuxuan can call here, then something major must have happened, otherwise she will definitely take the initiative to avoid meeting Zhang Bingqian, and Zhang Bingqian is the same.
The phone was connected, and as expected, something big did happen, Li Wenxing's prophecy came true, Lucas really fell ill and had been taken back to Los Angeles for treatment.
Tang Shuxuan had already booked her plane ticket in the morning, and in five hours, she would board the plane, and she would arrive in Los Angeles at noon tomorrow when she arrived here, and let Li Wenxing arrange a pick-up. "Bingo ......"
Hanging up the phone, Li Wenxing clenched his fists and pounded the table, and couldn't stop being excited, "Star Wars" was finally coming.
Let's speed up the schedule,
At one o'clock at noon on April 29, Li Wenxing successfully picked up Tang Shuxuan at the airport, because he came by first-class cabin, Tang Shuxuan was in good condition and did not have the fatigue of the journey.
So the two of them summed it up and went straight to the USC County Hospital.
After more than two months, when I saw Lucas again, the other party's mental state was very bad, but the condition was not serious, mainly due to overwork and mental overload, and he only needed to recuperate for a while.
Because Lucas had his family by his side, Li Wenxing and Tang Shuxuan didn't chat much with Lucas, just simply cared and greeted, and then left directly.
Of course, Li Wenxing can't just run away and do nothing, he naturally has other purposes.
Running over to send warmth is only one thing, letting Lucas know that he doesn't just care about movies like "Star Wars" that can make money for him, he cares more about the directors who shoot movies,
On the other hand, Li Wenxing privately found Lucas's attending physician, and persuaded and bought off the doctor in the tone of Lucas's relatives and friends, asking him to give Lucas a longer course of recuperation as much as possible.
In these two aspects, Li Wenxing wants to further befriend Lucas while slowing down his discharge from the hospital.
Then, he will let Tang Shuxuan take the opportunity to do Lucas's ideological work, and then directly propose the intention of buying out "Star Wars" to Fox headquarters,
Lucas, as the producer and director of "Star Wars", is now sick in bed, the production plan of the film has been put on hold indefinitely, and there must be instability within Fox.
Originally, there were many people in Fox who opposed the launch of "Star Wars", if it weren't for the new president Alan Ryder Jr. to suppress all the senior executives and persuade shareholders to support the project, then the movie "Star Wars" would not be where it is today.
But at this time, with all kinds of difficulties in the filming process of "Star Wars", the shooting plan was greatly delayed, and now Lucas, the leader of the crew, is even more sick in bed, even if he recovers and is discharged from the hospital, he doesn't know if the state is still good, and the variables are too big.
Not everyone could have predicted that Star Wars would be a big hit in the future, in fact, in previous lives, until the movie was released, everyone didn't look like a children's movie.
If at this time, someone is willing to take over the plate of "Star Wars", thinking about it, there will definitely be many people in Fox who agree to dump the pot.
And Li Wenxing met Lucas when he first came to the United States and revealed his investment intentions, but he has not done anything else, in order to wait for the opportunity in front of him.
This is like a good hunter, who is not in a hurry to act after seeing his prey, and will only kill with one blow when it is critical.
Otherwise, if you contact Fox in advance, it will either make Fox rise up the idea that "Star Wars" is a strange commodity and hold it for sale, or directly open your mouth and bite the fat hard, which is really worth the loss.
In this way, the direction plan was set, and Tang Shuxuan had a good night's rest, and when he got up the next morning, Li Wenxing and Tang Shuxuan began to act separately.
Tang Shuxuan went to Lucas and talked directly, if "Star Wars" was produced under the pressure of such a producer that he had to shoot in a hurry and roughly, then its excitement would be greatly reduced.
Lucas, who thinks that as the father of "Star Wars", must not want his 'child' to be born in this environment, after all, he has a better choice now.
Li Wenxing urgently summoned his secretary Kara, who was on vacation, back, and asked her to formulate a plan to lobby Fox to sell the "Star Wars" project, despite her full resentment.
This kind of thing, relying on Li Wenxing alone, even with Carla, still can't do it, and we must work together to formulate a proper lobbying plan in advance. Otherwise, why should the project that Fox has already set up and started filming to you?
"Star Wars" has been filming for more than two months, not to mention the capital investment in it, just other manpower and material resources, as well as the hidden cost resources that are occupied and mobilized in all aspects.
Even if the project is temporarily stranded, it is not necessarily necessary to sell the stop loss immediately, and even if it is a sale, it must be sold at a good price.
If Superstar Pictures doesn't want to be rejected or slaughtered, it must start from the details and formulate a mature and proper lobbying plan in advance to deal with various sudden and deadlock situations once the two sides are in close proximity.
said that Kara's side, after receiving the task assigned by Li Wenxing, really didn't even have the heart to complain.
Ruined her planned weekend vacation not to mention for the time being, but boss, is it really good for you to be so willful?
Looking through the entire history of Hollywood, do you have a look at the people like you who gamble half of their net worth in one go and plan to shoot four or five big-budget movies at the same time?
"Tomb Raider" invested 12 million, "Erica" invested 8 million, "Rocky" invested 1.2 million, "Charlie's Angel" invested 2.5 million, "Roots" invested 6 million, and "The Man from the Bottom of the Atlantic" invested 1.2 million, which is a total of 31 million US dollars.
There is also a project that is being implemented, "Star Trek", if it can be done, it will cost 10 million to say the least; "Contact of the Third Kind" will cost 10 million at least? Now there is another "Star Wars", it will cost 10 million, so it will be 30 million.
In one year, the investment of 60 million US dollars, according to the exchange rate, should be 300 million Hong Kong dollars.
When I first came to Hollywood, I dared to invest 300 million Hong Kong dollars directly, gamble half of my net worth to make a big production, and didn't worry about losing money at all.
But is this really good? If the investment is profitable, everything is easy to say, but what if the investment is lost? The 300 million Hong Kong dollars is real cash, not bank financing.
If there is really a loss, such a large sum of money will be wiped out overnight, will it really be fine? What if it leads to the rupture of the capital chain of other companies and forms a domino effect?