"This collection is so special. ”

In the office of Angel Agency, Helen Herman told Matthew, "It's a first-person description of the heroine, and you'd better find a female director." ”

Matthew nodded slightly, "I think so too." ”

For some reason, he's been hiring female directors lately, with Sofia Coppola and Patty Jenkins creating two successful series, "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games," and now he's looking for a female director to take charge of "Fifty Shades of Gray."

Could he really be a friend of women?

Helen Herman also said, "The selling point of the movie should be the hero and heroine, and the hero and heroine must look good enough." ”

Matthew smiled, "I already have the right person for the heroine." ”

Plans for this series are still on paper for the time being, and preparations will not be until next year at the earliest, when all goes well, Amber Heard will be able to play the heroine.

He has also communicated with Amber Heard before, and Amber Heard is not reluctant to appear in this series at all, but is very happy.

Such a super popular heroine does not need the movie to start filming, it is enough to attract the attention of countless people.

Helen Herman flipped through the documents in front of her and said, "I contacted four female directors, and they all turned them down. She rubbed her forehead slightly, "The content is still too sensitive." ”

Matthew also had a little headache, so he could only say, "Calm down, look slowly, you can always find the right person." ”

Like actors, there are many directors waiting for opportunities.

However, the poor reputation of this series is also an undeniable fact.

The "Fifty Shades of Gray" trilogy continues to generate staggering sales every day, but the surge in popularity has been accompanied by overwhelming negative reviews of the quality of the book by the press and the public.

Don't wait or admit it, compared to the wizarding world of "Harry Potter" and the prehistoric continent of "A Song of Ice and Fire", "Fifty Shades of Gray" tells just an ordinary cliché story of a domineering president falling in love with Cinderella.

The press generally scoffed at the book's literary merits, and when "Fifty Shades of Gray" hit the bestseller list, the New York Times published a special review: "The book is poorly written, and in some places it is so badly described, that it simply does not win any awards." If you can put aside the doubts in your heart for a while, and suppress the desire to slap the heroine who is so unloving, then you may also enjoy this book. ”

Even the people who bought the book are very dissatisfied with the plot and the like in addition to imagining certain taboo scenes with those sensitive plot descriptions.

Some netizens claimed: "I have never seen a publication worse than it." In contrast, "Twilight" simply becomes "War and Peace". ”

At the end of this month, when Publishers Weekly selected Fifty Shades of Gray as its "publication of the year," countless media outlets mourned the "end of civilization."

But Hollywood has proven countless times that the world's most extensive ordinary people's needs for popularity are far greater than the elegance of spring and snow.

The hit of "Fifty Shades of Gray" is undoubtedly the best response in this regard.

The reader complains about the tedious prose, but constantly spies into some of the plots, because not only does it dissolve the quirks, and bring the bondage and whipping into the airport bookstores and reading groups around the world, but it also removes the complications of certain sexual acts, and takes them out of the castles, boudoirs, and other high-end French mansions, and plants them in the land of the general public.

Even, "Fifty Shades of Gray" has spawned countless quirky works on the Internet, targeting the unspeakable fantasies in the minds of tens of millions of readers.

This kind of book is designed to make people have fun with it.

Therefore, Matthew also made a certain assumption that future film adaptations should show those sensitive things within the maximum scale allowed by the MPAA.

As for offline products such as DVDs, it would be better to make them into NC-17 directly.

Maybe in addition to the normal advertising, you can also pull in a peculiar sponsor? It's not without big manufacturers that produce those appliances.

Then there is the screenwriter, if you want the movie to be more interesting, the director is the most important, and the screenwriter can't ignore it, if you want to adapt such a series into an interesting script, the screenwriter must definitely find an old driver.

Regardless of whether it is a male driver or a female driver, you must drive a lot, and you must also like the kind that does not take the usual road.

Matthew thought about the few screenwriters he knew, whether it was Aziva Gosman, Chris Morgan, or Sofia Coppola, who were not very suitable.

The first two take the route of high-end commercial films, while the latter is accustomed to screenwriters and directors.

With their status, they will not join this kind of series.

In the end, he asked Helen Herman to keep an eye out for an old driver, preferably a woman.

"You can do it yourself. Helen Herman said directly, "When I went to your house half a year ago, I took a tour on the first floor and saw an interesting games room. ”

Matthew didn't deny it, because at that time there was no intention of keeping it a secret from Helen Herman, otherwise he wouldn't have left the door open for her to see.

Helen Herman continued, "You're experienced, and it's definitely interesting to adapt your actual combat experience into the script. ”

"With my level of writing, can I do it?" Matthew asked rhetorically.

"yes. Helen Herman is saying the basic truth, "Screenwriting is an impossible character for you." ”

Matthew nodded, "My cultural foundation is too poor. ”

It had taken him years of hard work and a lot of time to solve the basic literacy problems, and now he was able to write coherently without the most basic grammatical mistakes, but he was far from writing.

Helen Herman thought for a moment, "You can hire a screenwriter, preferably a female screenwriter, and you dictate it, and then let her rewrite your dictation into a script from a professional point of view." ”

She burst out laughing, "Matthew Horner screenwriter, what a big gimmick." ”

Matthew resisted the urge to roll his eyes and said, "I remember you once said that you tried to write a script when you were in school, right?" Before Helen Herman could speak, he quickly said, "Why don't you be this screenwriter." ”

Helen Herman lifted her glasses, her face was not embarrassed at all, and said calmly, "I am an economic person, and I cannot directly participate in the creation of the film." ”

"You're only a gunslinger. Matthew learned from her tone and said lightly, "Only my name is on the screenwriter, won't this be solved?"

Helen Herman didn't expect the matter to end up on herself, glanced at Matthew, and said, "Let's talk about the screenwriter after the director is confirmed." ”

Matthew nodded, "You find the director first." ”

For commercial films, the director is much more important than the screenwriter, especially for this kind of adaptation, what the screenwriter has to do is a proposition composition.

Matthew then chatted with Helen Herman about the secret planning before leaving her office at noon.

Descending to the second floor and going to the recreation room on the first floor, Matthew found Margot Robbie, who was bored playing games by herself.

"I'm going to see Director Nolan in a moment and I'm going to have lunch with him. Entering the recreation room, Matthew looked at Margot Robbie, "Are you going home?"

Margot Robbie picked up her phone and shook it, "I got a call from my agent to go to Warner Bros. in the afternoon. She continued, "But Helen Herman has asked me to have lunch with me, so you can go first." ”

Matthew nodded, and was about to go to the Warner Building to find Christopher Nolan, but Margot Robbie seemed to remember something and called out to him again.

"By the way, Matthew, your phone is with me. "Margot Robbie gives Matthew a smartphone.

When he got out of the car before, Matthew's mobile phone was left in the car, and he made a special call for Margot Robbie on the first floor to take it out, so that no one could call and not answer.

Matthew took the phone, and Margot Robbie said, "There's a girl named Emma who called you. ”

The names Emma Watson and Emma Roberts immediately popped up in Matthew's head, and apart from these two people, it seems that no other girl knows her personal cell phone number, right?"

Margot Robbie added, "She said something very strange about winter, she was a little cold, and wanted to keep warm. ”

"I see. Matthew didn't explain, and this kind of thing is not easy to explain, so he can only say, "It's still the same things as before." ”

Margot Robbie understood what this meant, and said, "She seems to have a bad temper, I didn't understand, let her say it again, she actually scolded me directly, and I hung up the phone." ”

Matthew sighed secretly and said with relief, "Just ignore her." ”

Margot Robbie nodded and didn't say anything more.

Out of the angel agency, thinking of the cold heating and irritable temper, Matthew naturally knew that it should be Emma Roberts who called, and opened his mobile phone to look, it was an unfamiliar landline number, and he didn't mean to call back, got into the car and said directly to the driver, "Go to the Warner Building." ”

Ten minutes later, Matthew met Christopher Nolan in the newly opened restaurant on the first floor of the Warner Building, and the two met to discuss "Interstellar", and Christopher Nolan gave him a few books, all about astronomy and technology, for him to take time to read them.

This film involves a lot of esoteric scientific principles that are currently more esoteric, and Matthew knows nothing about them, so he can only do his best.

After spending Thanksgiving in Los Angeles, he returned to London to shoot the rest of Fast & Furious 6.