Chapter 33: Backup Script
"Do you know the X-Files?"
Louise thought for a moment, and asked with uncertainty, "You mean that sci-fi TV series?"
Leila nodded, "That's right, I want you to buy a spare script inside." It tells the story of a person who foresaw the possibility of a crash before the plane crash, got off the plane at the last moment, and became a lucky survivor with a group of people. ”
"That's fine. Louise, though curious as to how she knew of such a story, carefully recorded her request.
"By the way, there's one more thing. I already have a plan for the second movie, I need a great prop master, the kind who can make the equipment I want. ”
Louise smiled, "That's fine, old Todd's craftsmanship is very good, and our props are usually made by him." ”
"Really great?" "Lyra wondered, the Immortal Bird Company used to shoot B-grade movies with pitiful low costs, and did she expect any tall props there?
The props in the movie Saw are a scary point and the most brilliant part. How can the audience be able to stand tall after watching it, how can the terrifying atmosphere be spread to the screening hall, if there is no real thing in her hand, it is difficult to achieve the result she wants.
And if she is really a very capable prop master, how can she stay in the dying and almost hopeless immortal bird company that has not been poached? Before she came, many people were poached like this.
Louise nodded with great certainty: "Don't worry, I can guarantee old Todd's skills!" In fact, he has been poached many times before, but it seems that he has something to do with Boss Reynolds to stay in the company. ”
Leila said, "Okay, let him come over later." No, forget it, let's wait for now. You go get busy first. ”
"Then I'll go out first. Louise nodded and turned to leave.
After she left, Lyra habitually tapped the table with her pen in her hand.
In her previous life, she knew that the script of the Grim Reaper came from the backup script of the X-Files, and was later favored by director Huang Yiyu, who bought the idea and adapted it, which became a classic movie later.
This kind of outline-like thing shouldn't take much money, she can do it herself to adapt something, and the most important thing now is to write the script of Chainsaw Horror first.
In the previous life, it took only 18 days to shoot this movie, and finally won the global box office of more than 100 million, which can be said to have created a miracle, because its shooting cost was only 1.2 million. Although it does not have the miraculous return on investment of witches, it is still a pretty impressive achievement.
——Iwanttoplayagame. (I want to play a game with you.) )
(Game over.) )
Leila feels that these two sentences are the essence of the whole movie.
Jigsaw, played by Tobin, is not actually a bloodthirsty and cruel man who only knows how to kill, he does not blindly create death, but leaves a glimmer of life every time. It is this trace of vitality that makes the film sublimated somewhere, leaving more places to think about. She wants to add more highlights to it with her own hands, and she doesn't dare to say that it must be several times stronger than the original, and it is definitely not allowed to be too bad.
And while Leila was in retreat to write the script, with the arrival of December, "Blair the Witch" continued to move steadily forward at the global box office. Even though it has been in theaters for a month, it still won more than 16 million again in North America, pressing down a number of newly released films, and staying in the third place at the box office without danger.
At the same time, in dozens of countries where it was screened, the witch's box office shocked many. The global box office reached more than 30 million in a week, and even won the honor of box office champion in some countries.
This stunned many people who didn't look down on this work. They couldn't figure out what the magic of such a dizzying movie was, and how could so many people be willing to go to the cinema for it?
An eighteen-year-old rich girl casually spent tens of thousands of yuan to make a messy movie and won one or two hundred million yuan in the world, and the money for this movie is too easy to make, right?
But what about those movies that have invested a lot of money and haven't even splashed a wave? Is it a problem with the script, or is it a problem with the actors? Or is that director really a genius that has not been seen in a century?
Of all the doubters, Cooper was the most angry. After the witch's latest box office results came out, he dropped his favorite teacup and threw the books in his study to the ground.
Everyone can see that the Immortal Bird Company is really going to be reborn this time. It is conceivable that the next time they release a movie and want to seek screening, those theater owners who are originally very disdainful of them will seriously consider it, and will not dismiss them as bad film companies as before.
This is undoubtedly the worst news for him. What has he been targeting Immortal Bird all these years for? Has he done so much before that a movie has ruined the plan?
"Damn! Damn! There must be some way to deal with her! Why does she have to be from Moran's family!" Cooper pounded the table frantically: "I won't let you go! Reynolds! I will never let you go, even if you die, I must completely destroy everything you left behind!"
Leila is a member of the Moran family, and the surname Moran represents a height that he can never match. In the past, he could deal with the Immortal Bird Company with the media, with film reviews, with money, and with every way he could think of it.
Snatch the script they want, snatch the actors they want, and steal the soundtrack they want when they're making a movie. How good it was! He could have snatched everything out of their hands with a little profit.
But now it is obviously impossible! A film by a director who has created a global box office of one or two hundred million is no longer something that he can impress with a little profit. What actor wouldn't want to star in such a movie? Even if you don't need money, as long as you can get acquainted with it, there are a lot of people who are willing!
As for the script, don't even think about it, the witch's script is said to have been written by the little director himself. If she can continue to write and direct herself, then what else can he do to block their success?
More importantly, with the surname Moran, news mogul Osvid Moran would never sit idly by and watch his granddaughter being attacked by other media. If he had used the media and film critics to lash out at the film, as he had done before, he would have known that the same or even more violent attacks would come at him.
Could it be that he could only watch the immortal bird slowly plump its wings?
No! He will never allow it! As long as he is alive, he will never allow it! Reynolds's death will not be the end, he will kill the future of the immortal bird with his own hands!
Cooper picked up the pen that had fallen on the floor and lay down on the table to write desperately.
The next day, his latest review was published in the News of the World.
"Crazy movie, it brought nothing but the box office. ”
"I was shocked to see the box office charts for the new week, it was a crazy result. A ridiculous movie, it's pale, it's soulless, it doesn't bring anything but screaming, but it's won one incredible box office record after another. ”