"Star Wars? What is that?" asked Lucas, who was stunned by Walter's sudden excitement in the office, with a puzzled expression.

"Your sci-fi script?"

"Science fiction?" Lucas seemed to know something, and then his eyes lit up and said, "Yes, this is a very good name, and it will be called Star Wars in the future." ”

What the heck?

Is it still called Star Wars?

It was all right!

Wait, isn't Lucas ready to shoot Star Wars at this time?

The more you think about it, the more likely it is that although Walter didn't pay much attention to Lucas in his previous life, after all, he didn't particularly like movies, or he liked female stars, not the movie itself.

However, Walter later heard that Lucas didn't seem to be able to attract investment before filming "Star Wars", and even if he hadn't made a movie with an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars, a box office of over 100 million, and an explosion of returns to the extreme, no one might have invested in him at all.

If you think so, then will the script of the movie that Lucas is investing in himself now be the movie that exploded at the box office, if so, then he really made money. In his memory, although he was not interested in old movies, he vaguely remembered that the movie seemed to be about the eve of the Vietnam War, and a group of young people who had just left school faced different life experiences, which was similar to the content of this script.

By the way, it seems that this "American Style Painting" was also the same as "Enter the Dragon" at that time, becoming a box office movie with low investment and high income. If this is the case, it seems that the movie that he promised Basinger has already been settled.

can't help but have a conclusion in Walter's heart, whether this movie will hit the street or whether it will explode at the box office, he will shoot it himself, after all, on the one hand, he can fulfill his promise, and on the other hand, with this layer of help, will Lucas find other people to invest in the first time he shoots "Star Wars"?

"Ahem!" Walter coughed, looked at Lucas and asked, "Hey George, can you show me your sci-fi script?"

"This ...... Mr. Walter, to be honest, I'm still working on a draft of Star Wars, and I can't get it out for the time being. But what do you think of the fact that we're not talking about Star Wars, we're talking about American Painting?"

Sure enough, "Star Wars" was still in the process of creation, and after a little groaning, Walter took the note on the table under Lucas's puzzled gaze, brushed the picture a few times, and then put the note with the number written in front of Lucas and said: "George, this is your shooting fund, if it is not enough, you can talk to me." If you're satisfied, you can go to Molly for specific things, okay?"

Lucas was a little overwhelmed, and this was a success? He didn't find all the Hollywood companies so smoothly, if it wasn't for the sudden call from Disney, he was going to ask his good friend Francis Ford Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, to help, after all, with Coppola's connections, there would definitely be investors interested in making his films.

Later, when Lucas set his eyes on the sticky note, he was even more confused, because at this moment, the sticky note was written with six "0s" neatly written after the number "1" at the beginning, which is a million dollars!

Looking at Lucas's stunned expression in front of him, Walter smiled and asked, "How? Isn't it enough?"

"Enough! Thank you so much, Mr. Water. ”

As if he had received a gift from God, the young Lucas expressed his sincere gratitude to Walter. Then after Walter dialed the landline to give Molly instructions, he said goodbye to Walter with a happy face, went out to find Molly, and took her to other departments of Disney to carry out the formal film project approval process.

Walter knows why Lucas is like this, don't look at the fact that there are many movies that cost millions of dollars to make, but for a drama comedy like "American Painting", the cost of the movie obviously does not require so much investment. Just like the urban romance films and campus romance films in China in later generations, after deducting the salaries of those traffic stars, how much do you think it will cost to produce?

And not counting the star factor, the United States is now due to the continued downturn in the stock market, which has led to a sharp rise in unemployment, a recession in the market, and serious inflation, which has greatly increased the cost of the movie, but obviously the movie "American Painting" does not require much investment at all.

What Walter didn't know was that in the original history, Lucas was able to get a good start for the launch of "Star Wars" with a production cost of only $777,000 and an explosive box office of $115 million.

Although Walter does not remember the specific investment and box office data of Lucas's film, it does not prevent him from decisively choosing to invest after knowing the potential of this film, because it is this kind of small-budget and big-box office movie that is his chance to stand out at Disney, just like he will choose to tolerate Bruce Lee, with the two movies "Enter the Dragon" and "American Painting", Walter does not believe that the board of directors will not look at him differently.

Disney is a large company, naturally has its own set of project production procedures, although the current Disney is far from reaching the later Hollywood acquisition giant model, but it is not comparable to the average small film company. No, it's still a compliment to say that they are small film companies, some of them are leather bag companies in later generations, except for the company address, and the people who maintain the company on a daily basis, they may not even have their own set of independent shooting tools.

This kind of leather bag company may only need a few people to discuss when deciding on the project of the film and during the filming investment period, but this is not possible at Disney. In addition to Disney's own set of film project approval procedures, it is the group of people on the board of directors who really decide, and they can choose to cut the project.

Of course, generally speaking, for a small project of tens of millions of dollars like Walter, as long as it is not a film that has no value at all after shooting, the board will approve it. What's more, Lucas also made THX 1138 with the help of his friend Coppola - five hundred years later, such a film, with this qualification, and with a small investment, the board of directors will definitely consider investing in him.

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