611 Great Opportunity
"That's right. Leila took a deep breath when she heard the name.
"We've been buying the rights for a long time, and when I asked you why you didn't shoot it, you always said you weren't ready. So you're ready now?" Louise doesn't quite understand what she's thinking. She felt as if she was taking it too seriously, more than all her films over the years combined, otherwise there wouldn't have been the words "not ready" before.
Leila leaned back in her chair with a solemn expression, "I think I should be ready." ”
In the past few years, she has been studying the shooting of large-scale scenes. The Lord of the Rings is an epic work, and it's not easy to shoot well. It's like an ant never knows what the world looks like through an elephant's eyes.
Over the years, she has been learning and honing. Just look at her one more difficult movie than the other, filming the vast sea of "Pirates of the Caribbean", filming the magical background of "Harry Potter", and filming many big scenes and special effects of "Iron Man", she really feels that she is ready.
The original Lord of the Rings took seven years to prepare for the filming of the film, and the three films together were nearly six hours, while the extended version even reached more than seven hours.
Leila didn't plan to spend that much time, she deliberately waited for more than a year to start, firstly, because she had to learn more shooting skills, and secondly, she waited for the special effects technology of the film to be more perfect. It's fair to say that more can be done in a year than before.
Two years! That's the time she set for herself.
It's Christmas time, and she's going to make The Lord of the Rings the most spectacular and epic classic in the hearts of movie fans around the world!
Seeing that she showed excitement that she hadn't seen in a long time, Louise didn't say anything more: "In that case, let's get started, I think we have a lot of things to deal with." There are more than 100 characters with lines on "The Lord of the Rings", I don't know if you have any requirements for actors?"
Every time the actors are auditioned, Louise arranges it, and in the end, it is Leila who makes the decision, and there are so many people to be selected this time, it will definitely be like that. She didn't ask all the actors, but the leading actors, and wondered if she already had a candidate in mind.
A large-scale movie like this, because it requires a lot of actors, is a genre that some newcomers and ordinary actors like very much. Because such films are generally not stingy, it means more money and better production, so the probability of success will be relatively high. If it is really successful, it will also be of great benefit to the future development of being able to mix in it.
The actors are so sought-after, not to mention the leading actors. Being able to play an important role in such a film will become an important qualification for the actor himself. If the movie becomes popular, then it is not just a simple qualification, but also a shining point and a cornerstone of future achievements. Such a good opportunity cannot be given out casually.
Laila had thought about this question for a long time: "I don't have any candidates for the time being, so let's choose in our own company." ”
"I see. Louise replied solemnly.
When she left the office, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have confused the purpose of her visit. She obviously wanted to persuade Leila not to put too much burden on herself at once, why did she have so much more work instead? But thinking that Leila finally listened to her persuasion and stopped insisting on filming "The Female Devil", she was still quite satisfied with this conversation.
When she released the news that Leila wanted to find someone to accept "The Female Devil", many people were moved. First of all, Leila would be the producer and executive producer, and then she wrote the script, and even the actors were chosen. What does this mean?
It means that as long as it's not too wasteful, you can make this movie brilliant with your eyes closed!
For a new director, it's as if Leila has all the expensive parts ready and the rest of the directors assemble them with their own aesthetics. As long as this director does not have a too bizarre aesthetic, then he will contribute an excellent work.
It can be said that this is a very good opportunity for new directors, no one will doubt Leila's ability to write scripts and choose actors, since she has written and set actors, it means that it is definitely the most suitable choice.
So shortly after the news spread, someone came to Lyla's office.
"I wish I could make that movie!"
Coming directly to Leila was Patty Jenkins.
Leila looked at the woman in front of her, who was a few years older than herself, "Give me a reason to convince me." ”
Jenkins took a deep breath: "I'm interested in Erin Warnos's case and have been working on her case. She pulled out a thick stack of documents from her bag: "This is my research material, you can take a look, it's definitely not lying." ”
Leila took the information in her hand, flipped through a few pages casually, and saw that many of the places she marked were densely written in small print, obviously what she said was the truth, and she really studied the case very thoroughly.
"What do you think about the actors?" she said, putting down the profile and looking at her.
"I thought Theron was the perfect fit, and I had seen her perform in 'Devil's Advocate) and I thought she was a perfect fit for the role. If I had chosen her, I would have chosen her!" Jeggins said with certainty.
Maybe others seem to be slapping the boss's ass, but Laila knows that she is telling the truth. Because the original "Devil Girl" is this lady's first work, the reason why she chose Theron is what she said just now, after seeing Theron's outstanding performance in "Devil's Advocate", she thought she would play the best Erin Warnos in her mind!
Since she stood up and hoped to make this movie, Leila was of course happy to see it. In her previous life, she used this film to send Theron to the Oscars, so it must be no problem to hand it over to her now.
"Okay, I'll leave it to you. She nodded cheerfully.
It's just that her cheerfulness almost scared Jenkins, because she felt that she had to spend more effort to sell herself, after all, she had never made a movie before, how many people would be willing to give such an opportunity to herself?
But why did the boss agree to it before she could say anything after she had been preparing all night? If it weren't for the fact that Leila attached great importance to the movie, she would have thought that the boss was not optimistic about the movie.
"Why?" she couldn't help but ask.
Leila smiled slightly, "Because you were the first to come to me." ”
"That's it?" said Jenkins, who couldn't believe what he heard. Is it just because she got up early in the morning that she got such a great opportunity?