"Slumdog Millionaire" is a novel by Indian writer Vikas Swaloup. It tells the story of Lam Muhammad Thomas, an orphan who won a huge prize of Rs 1 billion in a TV quiz show and the TV quiz organisers thought he was cheating, and the original book was released in more than 40 languages. The book has won praise and affirmation from major international literary awards, and is a classic that has been affirmed by the literary community and readers.

It received nine Oscar nominations and seven awards after the adaptation, and his box office also reached an astonishing 380 million, such a big piece of fat, Mark naturally will not let go, he has already entrusted ICM's Nancy to fight for him for the adaptation rights.

Born into a family of Indian lawyers, the author of the original book, Vikas Swarup, has loved writing since childhood, and majored in contemporary history, psychology and philosophy at university. He has served in the Ministry of External Affairs of India and has been posted to Turkey, the United States, Ethiopia and the United Kingdom. He is currently the Deputy Ambassador of the Indian Embassy in Pretoria (the capital of South Africa) and has sold nearly 10 million copies of his first novel, Slumdog Millionaire, translated into 36 languages and sold nearly 10 million copies in countries around the world.

This person was born in a family of eunuchs and was not very short of money, so it was especially difficult to impress him, but Nancy lived up to his expectations and finally bought it for Mark, and the adaptation rights were not very expensive.

MM has its own brokerage department, or Meghan personally controlled, but its development is far from meeting the needs of its own development, Mark chose to cooperate with ICM, to help their rich network resources to serve themselves, of course, after successfully becoming MM's largest customer, ICM's business has also grown rapidly, and is now on a par with CAA and Maury Williams.

When choosing the director of "Slumdog Millionaire", Mark was optimistic about Danny Boyle, who was born in Manchester, England in 1956, graduated from Bangor University, British film director, screenwriter and producer, in 1994, Danny Boyle directed his first feature film "Shallow Grave", which won the 48th British Academy of Film and Television Arts Alexander Kodak Award for Best British Film.

In 1996, he won the Seattle Film Festival Best Director Award for the feature film "Trainspotting", in 2000, he directed the adventure film "The Beach", which was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival, and in 2002, he filmed the thriller sci-fi film "28 Days of Shock", which was nominated for Best Director at the 30th Saturn Awards, and in 2007, he directed the space disaster sci-fi film "Solar Havoc".

"Solar Havoc" is the largest budget space disaster theme since Danny Boyle started the film after "28 Days of Shocking Changes", and the film is not only a rare science fiction space theme invested by Twentieth Century Fox, director Danny Boyle started from exploring the astronomy of the sun, carefully produced this "Solar Havoc", and paid special attention to science and details. From the details such as the design of the spaceship to the mission plan, he studied it in detail, and hired British physicist Dr. Brian Cox as a consultant.

The film's hypothesis about the early death of the sun and the gradual weakening of the light may prevent the earth from being frozen in ice, the director stresses that everything has a scientific basis, and although some principles have to be abandoned for the sake of dramatic effect, it is still "as realistic as possible". Danny Boyle went to the United States Space Agency to visit the United States Space Agency for the film, including studying the design of the spacecraft heat shield, and finally built the Icarus 2 spacecraft, which needs to span eight factories at Mills Film Studios in London's East End to fit, Danny Boyle wants to make a space disaster movie with great weight and realism.

Danny Boyle is now playing for Twentieth Century Fox, but after receiving Mark's invitation, he came to Chicago to meet in the evening, and the two sides had a good conversation.

Slumdog Millionaire, also known as Q&A, was written in 2003 in London when Vikas Swarup was posted to the UK on official duty, and was originally inspired by the cheating of British Army Major General Charles Ingham.

After being tried on the 2001 British TV show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and sentenced to 18 months in prison, fined £15,000 and expelled from the military, Vikas Swharup moved the cheating to India, where he knew best, with the intention of telling an interesting thriller story.

In an interview, Vikastein admits that his purpose is not to criticize social realities, that he is not from a poor background, that he has not really studied the living conditions of the vast majority of the poorest strata in India, and that he "does not know if there is really a flower head who blinds the eyes of orphans in order to facilitate begging".

It is true that Vikas Swarup is not a professional writer, and he has no special advantages in his writing style, his language is fluent but straightforward, and his depictions of characters are lively but lacking variety.

The greatest charm of the book lies in the twelve bizarre stories carefully designed by Vikas, each of which is led by a question, almost independent of each other, and the chronological order jumps back and forth, which greatly increases the interest of reading. However, despite the advantage of being easy to read and entertaining, the media criticized the lack of cohesion in many chapters of the Q&A, which is almost "strange" and "strange".

The reader will not find a single word that sums up all the features of the Q&A – if realism, how to explain the fantasy chapter of Haitian voodoo? If serious, what about the protagonist's explosive form after winning a billion rupees? If it is entertainment, what is the focus of the detailed description of India's slums and the poorest people at the bottom of society?

Of course, it's one thing, it's another thing to adapt a movie, and after the adaptation rights were in hand, Mark had the script rewritten.

The adapted "Q&A" is called "Slumdog Millionaire", and the key scenes are all moved to Mumbai, and the parts that simply show the bizarre experience of the protagonist are all cut, and Lamb and Shalim, who were friends in "Q&A", became brothers in the movie, in order to show the dispute between *** religion and Hinduism, the "Lamb Muhammad Thomas" of the three religions was changed to "Gemma" on behalf of *** religion.

Due to the limited length of the film and the high requirements for narrative cohesion, the screenwriter added the heroine Radika, with the love between Gemma and Radika as the main line throughout, making the story more compact, Gemma's role as a defense lawyer was canceled, and it was changed to Gemma being tortured by the sheriff to extract a confession, pointing to his participation in India's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" program video and being forced to confess "cheating details" , The interrogation process and Gemma's upbringing are interspersed, each question is a bizarre chapter in his life, and the original narrative order of the book has been basically restored to the normal order, and the focus of the movie has shifted from the bizarre plot to the depiction of the characters.

Danny Boyle has never been to India, his understanding of India is deeply influenced by his father, and he is greatly shocked by the "fatalism" in Indian culture, people are very small and meaningless in front of fate, everyone has their own world and their own role, and what people need to do before fate is only to follow the will of God rather than do their best.

Danny Boyle is a knowledgeable man who decides to take on the job after reading a twenty-page script, and the clear and powerful theme roars out of the muddy reality, and the two protagonists, who carry the weight of the spirit, evolve from crawling to walking upright, sinking and sublimating go hand in hand. Unlike the outspoken resentment of Vikas Swarup in the first four chapters, the film gives all the critique of reality to the silent cameras, and the protagonists Gemma and Shalim's upbringing is full of childlike translucent brilliance. The humorous details created in the script, such as Gemma jumping into the manure pit to get her beloved celebrity autograph, Gemma and Rajika putting crushed peppers in Shalim's underwear, and Shalim stealing tourists' shoes at the Taj Mahal to sell them for money, etc., have given a new look to the lives of the poor, and this silent criticism of society, lamenting fate and torturing human nature has always been Oscar's favorite.

And it was the top tycoon in Hollywood who sent him an invitation, and the opportunity was very rare, and since the cooperation intention was reached, the two sides talked more happily.

But how can things be as good as they should be? Only three days later, Boyle called back to push off the job, because the special effects production of "Solar Havoc" was delayed and conflicted with the schedule.

The reason Mark heard was that Twentieth Century Fox didn't want Boyle to play for MM, and Boyle was in charge of Fox's billions of productions, eating from the bowl and staring at the pot, which made them very unhappy.

This is also known in Danny Boyle's excuse, he asked for a one-year postponement of the production of this film, which is equivalent to asking the crew to wait for him for two years, and the film will not be released in 09 to participate in the 81st Oscars.

This film is another film that has won the Oscar, Golden Globe Awards, and BAFTA Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Play since "Schindler's List" in 1993.

Mark brought in screenwriter Simon Beufuyi, who had traveled to India three times to collect and travel while writing the script, and Mark discussed with him the choice of director.

Simon said: "I never thought Danny Boyle was the right person, and as much as I love British directors, Danny Boyle is not the only British director. ”

Mark smiled, "So you're a candidate?"

Simon said: "Peter Cardanio, Sam Mendes, Christopher Nolan, there are so many that I don't think this Slumdog Millionaire script is 100% suitable for any one person. ”