"Actually, I've never worn an English suit, and I've been nervous about whether it would be rude on the way here, and even Henry annoys me. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Sid's slightly self-deprecating ridicule made Joanne Rowling's embarrassment easily resolved, and several people laughed in unison, and the initial tension suddenly dissipated a lot.

"So, Sid, you're trying to bid for the rights to Harry Potter on behalf of Fire Lion Pictures, right?" asked Joanne Rowling with a smile.

"Any cooperation can only be based on trust and mutual benefit, I think so, what do you think? Sid looked directly at Joanne Rowling and said in a loud voice.

"Not bad. Joanne Rowling nodded in agreement.

"So before I show you our design, I'd like to ask you to answer a question from me. Sid paused, "Have you really considered leaving the Harry Potter movie to our Fire Lion Pictures to make it?" Ms. Rowling. ”

Sid's gaze was like two beams of light, straight at Joanne Rowling. The clear and bright demon pupils pointed directly at the bottom of people's hearts, making her and Ritter feel a little embarrassed.

Seeing that Joanne Rowling was unable to speak, Ritter preemptively said: "Of course, we believe in your company's ability, so we are willing to give you a chance to show it......"

"Stop!" Joanne Rowling interrupted Ritter suddenly, her face returning to normal, looking at Sid, "yes, we do want to borrow you to bargain with those big companies. ”

"Joanne!" Ritter shouted in shock and urgency.

Sid laughed silently in his heart, this stupid woman was deceived so easily, no wonder she was played around by Warner's gang.

"OK, I see. Sid laughed.

"What about now? are you going to withdraw from the bid?" asked Joanne Rowling, biting her lip and in a low voice.

Sid nodded to Henry, who immediately took a laptop from his briefcase and handed it over.

Sid put the notebook on the coffee table and said with a smile: "Of course not, I hope you can have a correct opinion of our Fire Lion Pictures after watching the samples." ”

"Sample?" Ritter asked in surprise.

So far, all the companies participating in the bidding have only been competing in order to produce different styles of design drafts. Even Nintendo, the game company like that RB, actually took the full RB style design and wanted to transform "Harry Potter" into a Japanese style similar to Ghibli animation.

Ritter knew that for Joanne Rowling, who loved British style, these RB people who tried to distort the style of the original were no different from being sentenced to death. Joanne Rowling hated them more than the Hollywood studios.

So far, no one has directly come up with a sample film to participate in the bidding, on the one hand, because the negotiation of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is only in the early stage, and no one will invest meaningless money to make a film that can only be used for bidding, using design drawings and other methods to effectively reduce costs.

On the other hand, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is now only available in the United Kingdom, not yet in the United States, and it does not sell much, a total of more than 100,000 copies.

In terms of popularity, it's far from the point where you have to spend a lot of money for it.

"Not bad. Sid smiled and turned the notebook around, and a video opened, and on the top of the screen was a row of flowing gold letters written "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", which looked quaint and without the playfulness and aura of children's literature.

"It seems to be interesting. Ritter whispered.

Sid smiled and handed over the two earphones plugged into the fork, "With the headphones, there will be unexpected surprises." ”

After Joanne Rowling thanked Ritter and put on the headphones, Sid clicked on the video and started playing.

This video is the result of Sid's arrival in the UK and a three-week period of filming with some of the "historical" Harry Potter actors and several famous Harry Potter locations. A full ten minutes of time constitutes three complete short stories.

It not only fully reflects the film style of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", but also shows Sid's tone and ideological setting for this movie.

In order to shoot this video, Sid not only brought in the team of Vie Neal, a top makeup artist, but also contacted the king of special effects in the movie, Industrial Light and Magic, and spent a lot of money to entrust the special effects to the other party.

Because it's only three weeks, and at this point in time, Hollywood hasn't developed a real-time workbench software that can be synchronized by developers around the world. Therefore, in order to carry out special effects operations and exchanges in a timely manner, Sid also spent a lot of money to rent a private satellite to transmit image data, so as to realize the bilateral operation between Britain and San Francisco.

So in just ten minutes of video, it cost a terrifying $5 million, you must know that later, the cost of those big-budget American dramas was only about $1 million, and now the cost of 5 million is all compressed in this short 10 minutes. The effect is amazing.

In terms of actors, in addition to the three old men Ian who interviewed at the beginning, Sid also hired a large number of extras.

Sid showed JK Rowling this short film is not only a sample film, but also a reference to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, three of the most expressive clips of the actors.

When Sid pressed play, dark clouds appeared behind the gilded font of "Harry Potter", and then lightning and thunder rang out. The image then turns white in a flash of lightning, and then slowly returns to darkness. Suddenly, a white owl fluttered its wings and flew across the screen, flying into the distance.

A feather floats down from the sky, and the camera follows the feather downward, through the pale blue sky, and finally to the body of a tall man with scruffy hair and beard. He sneezed and blew off his feathers, and the man's appearance made Joanne Rowling's eyes light up - "Hagrid"!

Tall, honest, and scruffy beard, it is completely a live-action version of Hagrid described by Joanne Rowling in "Harry Potter".

But before she could think about it, Hagrid bowed her head and said, "Welcome to Diagon Alley, Harry. ”

Then the shot cuts to the bottom. A thin, dark-haired boy with round-rimmed glasses had an incredulous expression on his face, and then walked forward with a sharp wink.

This, this, this...... Isn't this who Harry Potter is!?

Joanne Rowling covered her mouth, she couldn't believe that there was anyone in the world who looked exactly like the magical boy she imagined!

Yes, this is Sid's first killer - Daniel Radcliffe, 9 years old this year, Daniel, is still an ordinary boy who has never played any role. But with the information in his head, when Sid started preparing a few months ago, he had already asked Ali to rummage around London in England to find the youngest Harry Potter actor.

If there is one essential soul character in "Harry Potter", it is Daniel Radcliffe, the actor of Harry Potter. can defeat tens of thousands of candidates and finally win, which shows Daniel's fit with "Harry Potter".

Then, as Daniel moves forward, the camera pans to the left, revealing a busy and energetic Diagon Alley. I saw men and women wearing wizard robes and wizard hats, shuttling through the narrow diagon alley. Harry's short body and Hagrid's tall frame create an interesting contrast.

As they walked forward, the energetic music played, and the camera shifted up to look down. A magical diagon alley slowly unfolds, and the white owl in the prologue flies by again.

"You can buy quills and ink here, and it's a place to sell all kinds of magic gadgets. Hagrid introduced Harry as the camera followed the two of them to see all sorts of "magic props" in the window. A couple of witches are still picking up merchandise.

From the side, there are a few southern wizards dressed in Arabs, and the Chinese wizards in the distance are haggling with the shopkeepers, so it is a busy and lively magical world. White owls, gray owls, and brown owls with big eyes appear in turn. There was even a moving bat hanging upside down on a signboard in one storefront.

Then a group of children gathered around the window of a flying broom shop, and one of them exclaimed, "Wow, look! the latest Halo 2000, the fastest model at the moment!" Harry looked enviously at the beautiful flying broom.

In just one minute, dozens of actors, props, and storefront scenes appeared, all of which Vie Neill and the team at ILM rushed to create. Although it is rushed, the exquisite costumes and props are absolutely not the slightest sloppy.

Then Harry said, "I need a wand." ”

Hagrid pointed forward, "Wand, then you're going to Ollivanders, that's the best place." ”

Above a slightly dilapidated storefront, it reads, "Make an excellent wand, 382 AD." ”

"You can go and see for yourself first, I still have something to do, just go and come." Hagrid left, and Harry walked into the wand shop alone, empty inside.

"Hello!" Harry shouted as he looked at the storefront, a little frightened.

An old man with gray hair slid out of a ladder, and Harry was immediately startled.

He smiled and said, "I was wondering when you'd be coming, Mr. Potter." ”

The style of this wand shop owner is also very much in line with the style of the original book, because it was originally the original British actor who was found. "It's like yesterday...... Your father and mother came here to buy their first wand. ”

Then he chose a shallow wooden ** staff with a round handle.