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"We have reached an agreement with the New York City Hall. ”

Standing at the front of the conference table in a conference room in Warner Studios' office building, Aziva Gossman said, "We're going to shoot most of the locations in Washington Square and the Brooklyn Bridge, on location in New York." ”

Matthew leaned back in a chair and listened to Aziva Gosman's words as he flipped through the script in his hand, and several places in the script he had in his hand had been marked with a red-colored pen.

In fact, there were not many people in the conference room, just him, David Heyman, Aziva Gosman and Guillermo del Toro to be exact.

The four of them also constitute the top building of this crew.

Matthew's eyes left the script and he happened to see Guillermo del Toro opposite, who was also looking at him, and the two met their eyes and nodded at the same time.

This is not the first time that Matthew and Guillermo del Toro have met, after Guillermo del Toro signed the director's contract, Aziwa Gosman specially approached Matthew and introduced Guillermo del Toro to him.

Aziva Gosman used Guillermo del Toro, mainly because of the director's style considerations, and to a lesser extent, because Guillermo del Toro was recommended by Helen Herman.

Guillermo del Toro is not tall, wears a pair of disc eyes, and does not look like anything out of the ordinary.

Matthew had heard Helen Herman introduce him, Guillermo del Toro was not a client of Angel Agency, the agent was a friend of Helen Herman, and originally had the idea of competing for the director of "I Am Legend", but Aziva Gossman chose Francis Lawrence and could only run another project with regrets.

After Francis Lawrence was out, Guillermo del Toro signed a directing contract with the crew and postponed the film he was preparing.

When Matthew met with Guillermo del Toro before, he heard him say that the first draft of the script for that project was called "Pan's Labyrinth".

In his limited contacts, Guillermo del Toro impressed him, a Mexican director with a bizarre interior, a chaotic mind and an emotional heart.

To put it mildly, this is a film director with an extraordinary taste for dark art.

Aziva Gosman's words continued, "The shooting plan has been adjusted, the latest plan, the shooting time will last from October to February next year, and the location shooting may drag on a little longer. ”

This is also something that can't be helped, the impact of changing the director is not great, the most important thing is that the crew must cooperate with the situation of New York City on location, and it is impossible for New York, an international metropolis, to cooperate with the crew in turn.

"If nothing else. David interjected, "This film will be released in December next year's holiday schedule." ”

Matthew didn't say much, and it was basically useless for him to express his opinion on these things, just listen.

Aziva Gosman looked at him and Gilmour del Toro and asked, "What about you?"

Guillermo del Toro slowly shook his head, signaling that he didn't have anything to say.

Matthew opened the script and said, "Aziva, is this the final draft of the script?"

"It's not. Aziva Gosman glanced at the script in Matthew's hand, "This script, which I have been writing for a few years, has recently incorporated some new ideas. ”

He's not the kind of producer who is very, very strong, otherwise he wouldn't have waited for Francis Lawrence to speak up before he changed directors.

Aziva Gossman added, "Everyone has read the original book, and if you have any ideas, you can also mention them to me." ”

Matthew was also polite and said, "In the script, the actor Robert was forced to kill his only partner Sam out of desperation, will this be a problem?"

Guillermo del Toro looked at this side suspiciously.

"We let the male protagonist openly kill a dog on the movie screen, although it was forced to do so, but ......" Matthew couldn't find the right words for a while, and after thinking for a while, he continued, "Sometimes, some people don't reason with us, they love dogs more than everything, and if there is a protest at that time, it will be troublesome." ”

Guillermo del Toro nodded lightly and said, "Makes sense. ”

"It's not impossible. David also endorses Matthew's words.

None of you here are newcomers who have just entered Hollywood, and they may have ignored it before, but after Matthew's reminder, they immediately woke up.

Aziva Gosman took Matthew's advice, "It really needs to be adjusted here. He then asked, "Matthew, what do you think?"

Matthew shook his head, "I just think this place may cause protests from dog lovers and animal protection organizations, how to adjust it, I'm a layman." ”

It's okay for him to make suggestions based on the actual situation, writing a script is a very professional job, and he has never done it at all, then again, if you are a non-professional, who can write the script of the film after watching a film?

In this regard, it is Aziva Gossman who adjusts it himself.

Aziva Gosman couldn't find a suitable adjustment for a short time, so he simply said, "I'll think about it here." ”

It is indeed difficult to make Sam's death shocking without touching the fragile psychology of dog lovers.

Matthew couldn't figure it out anyway.

Of course, the scenes in the original script may not cause trouble, but none of you here want to take risks, because the Hollywood film industry has developed to the present, and the love of dogs, cats and various protection organizations has brought too much trouble to the filming of the film.

Nowadays, in mainstream Hollywood commercial productions, an unwritten tacit understanding and rules have been formed, and in first-line productions, there are basically no shots of directly killing pets such as dogs or cats, in order to avoid unnecessary risks.

Even, in many big productions, there will be plots such as sacrificing oneself to save dogs when danger comes.

Matthew vaguely remembers that in a Superman movie filmed by Zack Snyder, Superman's father on Earth gave his life for a dog.

This is not to say that there can be no dead dogs in the movie, just like children, many mainstream big-budget movies have plots of dead children, but they will never see the process of death directly in the picture, if you have to arrange a tragic scene of a dog being hacked to death with a knife or a child being divided by five horses, then public opinion will definitely not spare this film.

This is not a principle, as long as the director does not deliberately hope that his film will be attacked, he will not shoot like this.

For example, in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", the heroine's four-year-old brother runs out of hiding, and the villain shoots (no child in the camera), and then the child's body does not appear, and later tells the audience that he is dead. The deaths of the father, mother, and sister who also died have appeared.

"And. Matthew turned the script to the end at this time and asked tentatively, "Wouldn't it be too tragic for the actor to die at the end?"

"I think it's okay. Guillermo del Toro was the first to say, "Loneliness and pathos and shock, ending with death are just right." ”

Aziva Gossman continued, "Actually, I have another version of the ending, which is not written in the script. He thought about it for a moment and said, "Why don't we shoot the end of the two versions at that time, and then make a choice according to the test screening, and the other version can be put on DVD." ”

David nodded in agreement, "That's a good idea. ”

Matthew and Guillermo del Toro have no problem with that, one more version of the ending, and one more option when the time comes.

In fact, Matthew said this because he had watched two endings of this film, one of the endings was that the actor finally researched a serum that could kill the virus, but in order to protect the serum, he died with those infected with the virus, which belongs to the more heroic kind. The serum was eventually delivered to the survivors to save humanity.

This is the ending of the theatrical release version, which is in line with the consistent routine of Hollywood movies, catering to the needs of the public by becoming a hero to become a legend and save all mankind.

The second ending is that the male protagonist releases the captured night demons, and sees the other party as another intelligent creature, and everyone goes back to their own homes and finds their own mothers......

Comparatively speaking, the second ending leaves a more impressive impression.

He didn't see the second ending in the script, so he specially mentioned it today, but he didn't expect Aziva Gossman to think about it a long time ago.

It's normal to think about it, there may be five or six screenwriters who really wrote this script, but only two signed it, and the main plot of the script is actually following the ideas of Aziva Gossman, who won the Oscar for Best Screenplay and is also a very thoughtful producer and screenwriter.

Of course, Matthew just looked at the script and made suggestions, how to do it specifically, he will not point fingers, he has learned a lot over the years, but most of them are related to actors, and the screenwriting has not been involved.

He didn't want to be involved in this industry, he has a low level of education, and after a long time of practice, there is no problem with normal English reading and writing, but professional writing is still not a joke.

Also, the popular movies that he watched were just impressions, and he wrote scripts based on impressions? He didn't have the ability to bring Google or anything like that.

The meeting of the four ended quickly, and after the departure of Aziva Gosman and David Heyman, Matthew communicated with Guillermo del Toro for some more time about the filming of the film.

"I Am Legend" is still in preparation, and Warner Bros., as the producer and distributor, has also begun to release some news outside one after another, as a preliminary promotion, and now "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" is still being screened, and Matthew's news is easy to cause heat.

This can not only arouse the public's audience, but also hook people who are hot.