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Phoenix has a typical tropical desert climate, even in late September, it is still as hot as a hot summer, Stephanie Mayer drove to the café with the publisher, parked the car and took out the makeup mirror to look at it, then took out lipstick and wiped her lips, then pushed the door and got out of the car and walked towards the café.

Because the weather was so hot in the afternoon, she was already sweating on her forehead just a few hundred feet away, but fortunately, the café was fully air-conditioned, and she felt a refreshing feeling when she entered the door.

It was the café she frequented, and a waiter came to greet her, and Stephanie Mayer asked, "Has Miss Christina arrived?"

"This way, please. The waiter hurriedly led the way.

Stephanie Mayer followed the waiter to the far right, and after turning the corner, she saw Christina, the publisher's contact with her, Christina was sitting facing her, as if she was talking to someone, it was a man, sitting with his back to her, his shoulders were broad and strong, and he looked majestic and powerful.

Is this the big star in Hollywood?

She came here today, not for anything else, the publishing house contacted her, saying that the famous Matthew Horner was very interested in "Twilight" and wanted to adapt it into a movie.

It's been her dream to make a movie for a long time, and this dream seems to be within reach when "Twilight," "New Moon" and "Eclipse" continue to hit the New York Times bestseller list, and it's only one step away from Hollywood, but it's that step away from it.

At the earliest, she thought that with her fame and sales, there must be Hollywood companies taking the initiative to come to the door, but the truth is completely different from what she thought, someone did come to the door, but the price was so low that people wanted to blow it away, and they wanted to adapt it into a small-scale romance film, which was not at all the same as she expected.

Later, she found a friend who was a screenwriter from Phoenix, rewrote the script together, and sent it to several Hollywood companies, but there was no feedback for half a year, and the agency contacted Paramount Pictures, the most famous of them, several times, and Paramount Pictures just said that it would consider it, and it would consider it......

After thinking about it for more than half a year, there was no quasi-letter.

Last month, Summit Entertainment, a reliable film company, finally contacted her and her agency, which was the best of all the production companies she had contacted, but the copyright fee was only one million dollars, and the budget for the post-adaptation would not exceed $8 million.

She's still fighting for it, but it's okay to say anything else, if the film investment is too low......

Stephanie Mayer shook her head, at first she thought that without 50 million dollars, she would not be able to make a "Twilight" movie at all, but now her expectations have dropped to a very low level, and about 20 million dollars is okay.

"Hi Stephen. Christina saw her and took the initiative to stand up and greet her.

When Matthew heard this, he stood up and turned to look behind him, and saw a red-haired woman in her thirties walking over, with red hair, a red necklace, and a red dress, as dazzling as the sun in Phoenix.

The housewife writer's outfit is simply terrible.

He thought so, but he wouldn't say it, and the smile on his face was certainly as bright as the sun outside.

When Stephanie Mayer came here, Christina introduced the two sides, "Stephen, you must know this person, Matthew Horner, a big Hollywood star, and also a producer. ”

She goes on to introduce Matthew to Stephanie Meyer, "Matthew, this is Stephanie Meyer, author of Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse. ”

Matthew reached out and said enthusiastically, "Hello, Ms. Mel. It's a pleasure to know you, you've written three very remarkable books. ”

Such a compliment coming from the mouth of a celebrity is absolutely different from the mouth of an ordinary person, and only two years after the Twilight series was published, Stephanie Mayer has not yet completed the transition from a housewife to a well-known author, and at the moment it seems a little excited.

She shook Matthew's hand, "Hello. I...... I'm honored that you love my book. ”

Christina interjected at the right time, "Let's sit down and talk." ”

"Please, Ms. Mel. ”

After Stephanie Mayer sat down across from him, Matthew sat down and said directly, "Ms. Mel, I took the liberty to come here this time mainly to talk to you about the film adaptation of "Twilight". ”

Helen Herman has done a lot of research before, and Stephanie Mayer herself very much hopes to put herself on the big screen, and Summit Entertainment may increase its leverage at some point to get the rights negotiation with Stephanie Mayer.

So he opted for a straightforward strategy.

Before coming to Phoenix, Helen Herman had already secured the publishing house, and as long as the publisher was willing to help Stephanie Mayer, the publisher would receive a large commission when he got the film rights to the series.

In North America, unless you write a specific custom or work under a specific mechanic like Marvel and DC, most of the time, the author basically holds a series of related copyrights to his work.

Like Hollywood, the North American publishing industry has a well-established and regulated business operation system.

Although Christina had mentioned it before she came, Stephanie Mayer was still a little excited when she heard Matthew say it herself, and said in a slightly trembling voice, "Mr. Horner, you ...... Do you really want to adapt mine?"

"Yes!" Matthew turned on the mode again, "I happened to see "Lunar Eclipse" at a friend's place a week ago, and found the world view in it very interesting, and I specifically looked for "Twilight" and "New Moon", and I read through the three books, which are really fascinating. ”

Stephanie Mayer seemed to be discouraged by Hollywood and answered, "But the studios I contacted all said that the film adaptation was of little value, and that my work was just vulgar and cheap high school student love." ”

"Hollywood ......" Matthew couldn't help but shake his head, "I have been working hard in Hollywood, and I know the film industry very well, Hollywood's mechanism is extremely rigid, and the minds of many film company executives are trapped in the inherent success model and are unwilling to come out, they only think about making sequels, shooting action sci-fi movies, shooting comic superhero movies to make money, and now they disdain the once popular romance movies......"

He first sighed, then strengthened his tone, and said to Stephanie Mayer, "In my opinion, yours is not a simple love, and the film adaptation will not be vulgar and cheap high school student love. ”

Stephanie Mayer looked at Matthew, but didn't speak.

Matthew continued, "Your blend of vampire legends, werewolf stories, school life, horror suspense, comedic adventures, and other eye-catching elements, poignant and touching love is the 'strongest emotion' ...... the book"

Of course, these were not something he could sum up, but Helen Herman carefully prepared for him after reading through them.

But the lines prepared in advance must be matched with suitable live performances, Matthew's acting skills are full, "Love is only a small part of the book, but it is the guide of life!"

"Uh......" Stephanie Mayer nodded unconsciously when she heard Matthew quote her idol writer Orson Scott Card, "I ...... That's what I thought, too. ”

This kind of compliment came out of the mouth of the superstar opposite, which was really useful, and she naturally took it all.

Matthew's voice was grim, "Ms. Mel, you look like it's just a high school student's love story, but with the addition of supernatural powers, everything becomes untouching. ”

He is extremely serious, "full of love-hate tension, but elegant and delicate like Jane Austen, reaching a kind of romantic extreme, which I think is going to become a literary phenomenon." ”

Speaking of this, Matthew crossed his hands on the table to strengthen the momentum, "After watching it, I imagined the adaptation of the film, I think that the adaptation of "Twilight" into a movie should have ups and downs, real and fantasy fantasy stories, delicate and sincere emotional descriptions, and touching love themes, even the part about vampires and werewolves is not mainly about violence and gore, but its moral code of advocating elegance and purity, which can provide a different kind of scene for love and dating." ”

"And the heroine. His words continued, "Through the film adaptation, every girl can find her own shadow in the heroine Isabella Swan, she is not a hero, she doesn't know those famous brands, she is not cool, she is just an ordinary person." Bella is a good girl, just what we imagine a teenage girl to look like. We have all been young and know that seventeen or eighteen is a very remarkable time in life, enough to make decisions that affect a lifetime, and enough to fall in love, but at the same time, we are young and cannot think about things and make decisions independently, which also gives a lot of room for film adaptation. ”

Stephanie Mayer listened to Matthew's words and kept nodding her head, appearing to approve of Matthew's words.

She didn't think about a lot of it, but if it could be realized in the movie, it would be really good.

It's clear that Matthew Horner came to her, not on the spur of the moment, but after careful consideration, even with the basic idea of the film adaptation.

On the other hand, Summit Entertainment, which is negotiating with her, does not matter to her as an author herself, but to her work......

Stephanie Mayer shook her head in her heart when she thought of Summit Entertainment, Summit Entertainment never told her how to adapt the movie, what kind of concept to uphold in the adaptation of the movie, and so on.

These works are all her children, and she doesn't feel the importance that Summit Entertainment attaches to her children, at least not now!

Matthew didn't expect such a remark to completely impress Stephanie Mayer, after all, the other party was a person in his thirties with some experience, so he also prepared something more practical.