"Vin Diesel's character?"

It also reminded everyone in the room, including Matthew and David Ellison, that they were lost in thought.

After a few seconds, Matthew took the lead in speaking, "The first part of "Fast and Furious" is the most successful one in terms of word-of-mouth and box office, I have been in the crew of "Fast and Furious", and one thing is very clear, originally the absolute actor of this movie was Paul Walker played by police officer Brian, and Vin Diesel played the role of male number two. But Vin Diesel pulled most of the investment in the film, and then changed the script and character settings, which led to the situation of two male leads. ”

He made no secret of the fact that "Vin Diesel is at the heart of the film. Now that we're ready to bring Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster back, the role of Dominic Toretto will definitely have something to say. ”

In any case, the "Fast and Furious" series has a certain audience base, and the rental of videotapes and discs in the past two years has also further expanded the spread of the film, and it is simply a waste to throw it away.

"Let Vin Diesel's character die. David Ellison was clearly not talking angrily, "I just came up with an idea, Vin Diesel's character was killed by someone, so Brian and Mia are back on the mountain to avenge Dominic Toretto." ”

Matthew thought for a moment, "Seems pretty good. ”

The bald CEO wrote it down in his notebook again and said, "This can be included in the scope of the script." ”

"Script creation should do a good job of unified planning of the trilogy. Matthew reminded again.

Now that he has obtained the rights to this series, of course, he must maximize the benefits, and he will be prepared for both project failure and success.

A few years ago, the sequels of most Hollywood movies, like the first and second installments of "Fast and Furious", basically did not have a clear plan, and the sequel was always put on the agenda after the success of the first part.

Most sequel films are just on paper until they are launched, and if one of them loses, then there is no more. Studios are always careful to make sure that the film is a real success at the box office before they can estimate how much the next sequel is likely to make at the box office, and thus decide how much production cost is reasonable.

At the same time, the producers will never deliberately innovate the content of the sequel, and the best strategy is nothing more than to replicate the success of the previous film, and use greater investment and publicity scale to further expand the influence of the series and get more attention from the audience.

All of this really has one purpose: to get more viewers to contribute to the box office and put more money in their pockets.

The "Fast and Furious" series can be said to be a typical of them, two actors who are not enough in the third line and the second line are not enough to add a car that is more expensive than the actor, but it is so inexplicably popular, and the box office and word of mouth are both bumper, so that Universal Pictures didn't understand what was going on, so it hurriedly invested in the development of the sequel, and simply doubled the investment in "Fast and Furious 2", but as a result, the North American box office decreased, but fortunately, it still made money, so he cautiously increased his investment and rushed to shoot the third part, and finally the box office and word of mouth failed.

An unexpectedly successful brand that accidentally screwed up again, and now Matthew and David Ellison are just going to bring it back to life.

"Do you have faith?"

Back in the Angel Agency's car, Helen Herman asked Matthew, "With tens of millions of dollars invested, are you sure you can make a profit?"

Matthew shrugged, "Who can be 100% sure of this?" he said slowly, "I can afford it." ”

Hearing this, Helen Herman thought for a moment and nodded slightly, "You can indeed afford to lose." She sighed, "I really don't know what to say, you're in luck." ”

She heard Amanda say that Matthew has been eating Apple retail stocks in the market in recent years, and now Apple's stock has risen sharply, and the first generation of smartphones developed by Apple will soon go on sale, and everyone inside and outside the industry is optimistic about Apple and Steve Jobs, and Apple's market value is very likely to have a rocket-like rise.

The Apple stock that this guy bought can not only maintain its value, but also estimate that it will at least double his net worth, right?

Helen Herman asked curiously, "You're spending so much money on Apple stock, and you're betting that it's going to go up?"

"I'm not betting on apples. Matthew was full of nonsense, "I'm betting on Steve Jobs." I'm betting that Steve Jobs will bring Apple back to life, just like it did in the eighties. ”

Where is there a 100% chance of winning when buying stocks, even Warren Buffett, the stock god, has times when he misses.

"I'm lucky," he added...... Well, hopefully that good fortune will continue over to the Fast & Furious franchise. ”

"I hope so. Helen Herman was silent for a while, and then suddenly asked, "Actually, there is a question that I have always been curious about. ”

Matthew turned his head to look at her, "Just ask, we're old friends, there's nothing we can't say." ”

Helen Herman was also not polite, and asked directly, "Are you going to win the rights to the "Fast and Furious" series because of Vin Diesel?"

"Why do you think that?" Matthew is by no means unable to say anything.

"If you have an idea about racing and action genre films, with the strength of David Ellison's support for you, you can co-produce a whole new series, why do you have to hold on to the Fast & Furious series?" Helen Herman has a very keen sense of touch, "At the Victoria's Secret show last month, I heard that you and Vin Diesel had another conflict. ”

There is a sentence that is not said later, others may not know, but she knows very well that Matthew has a character of revenge.

Matthew, of course, won't admit it, "You're thinking too much, Helen." Vin Diesel didn't want to return to the set until after New Year's, so I didn't know the prophet? Of course, after he wanted to return, I was really more determined to take the set. ”

Of course, this is nonsense, and cutting off Vin Diesel's path is certainly one of the main reasons, but what he says later is true.

"Helen, although "Tokyo Drift" failed in terms of word-of-mouth and box office, the trilogy was filmed, and it still accumulated a certain audience base. ”

He said seriously, "What if we start from scratch and make a brand new movie? The risks are multiplied, and you don't know that in recent years, original commercial films that are not adaptations or sequels have been in poor shape, and there are very few that can really sell well." ”

Hearing this, Helen Herman nodded slightly, "What you said makes sense, there are too few successful cases of original big-budget commercial films in recent years, and even if there are successful ones, they are basically the works of first-line directors, and it is impossible for this series to invite top directors." ”

Speaking of which, she looked at Matthew, "You have become more mature and think more comprehensively than before. ”

Matthew smiled, "People always grow. ”

Helen Herman then said, "It doesn't make sense for you to get revenge on Vin Diesel in this way, he doesn't have the Fast and Furious series, he can always find another opportunity." ”

"It's possible for you. Matthew agrees with Helen Herman, "Without Fast and Furious, he might have had other action movies." But the opportunity is here, I can't do nothing, this is just the beginning, he also provoked David, and I discussed with David that I must dig a pit and bury Vin Diesel. ”

What Matthew didn't expect was that when he returned to Angel Agency, he saw an opportunity.

Coming to Helen Herman's office, Helen Herman turned on the computer and, according to what the assistant said, went to Yahoo Entertainment and TMZ respectively to look at it, and Vin Diesel attacked Matthew and the picture he quoted was forwarded by the two websites untouched.

In addition to the Internet, the bunch of tabloids that the assistant moved in were also full of related gossip reports, such as "Vin Diesel angrily spewed Matthew Horner is not a man" and other reports emerged one after another.

Subsequently, Matthew and his assistant asked for a laptop, logged on to the Facebook account that he had only applied for in November last year, and then found Vin Diesel, Yahoo Entertainment and TMZ to retweet without problems, Vin Diesel was scolding him for not being a man.

"Elaine recently went on a business trip to Europe. Matthew shook his head as he watched, "Otherwise, we'll get the news this morning." ”

Helen Herman sneered, "Vin Diesel is nothing more than hype. I've checked before, in addition to running the "Fast and Furious" series and starring in "A New Era of Life and Death", he is also competing for the lead actor in a film called "Deadly Driver", and such controversial statements are very useful for him. ”

Matthew nodded, but didn't speak, his head kept thinking because he saw that this was a good opportunity to dig a hole.

"Helen, do you think you can handle it like this?" Matthew leaned closer and muttered to Helen Herman, Helen Herman nodded as she listened, and then said after a while, "Originally, Universal Pictures and Sky Dance Pictures will make relevant announcements in the last two days, and it shouldn't be a big problem for David to come forward, so it shouldn't be a big problem for them to add a few more words, Vin Diesel has no value to Universal Pictures, you have had a happy cooperation with Universal Pictures before, and it is possible to cooperate in the future, it is estimated that it is not a big problem." ”

She smiled rarely, "A tough guy type actor should have a tough guy type character, which makes a lot of sense." By the way, wait for Elaine to come back for the weekend. ”

As soon as he said this, David Ellison's phone called, and he also talked about it, Matthew told him what he had just thought, and David Ellison immediately said that he would call Universal Pictures in person, and it was the honeymoon period on both sides.

The following day, Universal Pictures and Sky Dance Pictures issued separate statements, disclosing the deal and the details of the deal through their respective channels, and highlighted that Vin Diesel was secretly playing tricks after seeing Matthew and David Ellison interested in buying the rights, and Universal Pictures never thought of working with Vin Diesel again.

These are enough to turn Vin Diesel's Facebook posts into nonsense.

But Matthew wants more than that, for the first time in his life, he posted on Facebook, directly @Vin Diesel: Aren't you going to stand up and fight like a man?