Nov. 9, Los Angeles International Airport. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The time is 1 o'clock at noon.

In a small café near the airport, a foreigner, uh, a white man sits by the window.

Mai's short blonde hair is meticulously combed, and although the light blue pupils are not large, there is a hazy sense of mystery.

Typical British big nose, cleanly shaved beard, neat white shirt, black slacks.

The hairline is slightly back.

Even a leisurely cup of coffee gives a sense of seriousness, and it's clear that this is a man with a more conservative personality.

Ten minutes later, the mobile phone on his body suddenly rang.

Putting down the cup and taking out his mobile phone, the man glanced at the caller ID, then showed a faint smile, pressed the answer button and said, "Shen Lin, have you arrived?"

Although this tone may sound strange to the Chinese, he accurately said Shen Lin's name after all.

"Yes, Jonah, where are you?"

Shen Lin's English is very good, after all, he has been in Hollywood for a long time!

Jonathan directly reported his location, and then Shen Lin on the other end of the phone said, "OK, I'll be there soon." ”

“OK！”

After a while, two people appeared in front of Jonathan, it was Shen Lin and Zhao Liying.

"This is my fiancée, Zhao Liying, you can call her Ying. ”

"That's Jonathan, my good friend. ”

The people who are arranged by the light will not be able to come over until tomorrow.

……

Jonathan Nolan is a well-known screenwriter in Hollywood.

Just mentioning his name, many people may not know much, but his brother Christopher Nolan is estimated to be clear to many people.

Jonathan is a very talented man, and Christopher's masterpiece "Fragments of Memory" is based on his novel "Memento Mori".

Since then, Jonathan has written for Deadly Magic, Batman: The Dark Knight, Suspect Tracking, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises, Superman: Man of Steel, Interstellar, and Westworld.

Many people are enthusiastic about him, saying that he is purely because he has a good brother, otherwise, how could he be allowed to serve as a screenwriter for a big production with an investment of more than 200 million US dollars.

Hehe, but they did succeed!

Several movies, including TV series, have all been well received, "Suspect Tracking" has started filming for the fifth season, the sixth season is being filmed, and "Westworld" has a whopping 8.8 rating!

Don't have the skills to do all of the above?

!

He and Shen Lin met at a party, both of them are engaged in writing, and at the same time there are many differences in the picture.

The two of them hit it off at first sight.

Even the script of "Interstellar", that is, "Interstellar", was put forward by Shen Lin, and then the two worked together to improve it, and finally gave it to Jonathan's brother, Christopher.

(a bit shameless)

Christopher was very interested in the story of "Interstellar", and almost gave up the upcoming "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" to play "Interstellar"

A lot of things happened that caused Nolan to not want to make a movie for the time being.

The main thing is that at least 10 people were killed in a shooting at the premiere of "Batman Prequel 3: The Dark Knight Rises" in Denver, USA!

And the killer also declared himself a 'clown!' on the website.

Nolan blames himself and feels that his movie has caused these things, and he has developed a fear of the movie.

The psychiatrist advised him not to make any films for the time being.

He simply gave up the idea of making a movie.

But Christopher is particularly optimistic about the project "Interstellar", and it is difficult to give up, I heard that Shen Lin intends to shoot "Interstellar", so he recommended Shen Lin to Warner.

In order to reassure Warners, Christopher offered to be the executive producer!

In fact, it is the producer!

Hollywood is producer-centric!

The original producer in the HK industrial system is very close to the concept of the producer in Hollywood today.

If you want to become a Hollywood producer, you must not only know how to create (preferably with your own creative experience), but also understand financial control, commercial operations, and most importantly, he should be the initial initiator of a play as a commercial project.

In Hollywood, people who can serve as producers generally have their own production companies, or have a certain fixed cooperative relationship with the six major studios, and have to personally review and participate in the production and monitoring of many films every year.

It stands to reason that with the support of the Nolan brothers, Warner should give some face and agree to Shen Lin's directing request.

But Warner's CEO, Jeff Bickers, doesn't believe in the theory that a Chinese can make a science fiction film.

Even if Shen Lin is the author of The Hunger Games!

……

"Jonathan, this is your home?"

Jonathan led Shen Lin and his family to a villa in the southern suburbs of Los Angeles.

Jinnima will enjoy!

"Shen Lin, I may be sorry, I guess Warner is not very interested in Interstellar!"

After bringing Shen Lin and the two to the living room, Jonathan said apologetically.

"Why? Aren't they going to listen to me? Don't worry, I'll convince them!"

Shen Lin is full of confidence in himself!

He still wants to fire his first shot in Hollywood!

"Warner Bros. really values this project. Jonathan handed Shen Lin and Ying Bao a cup of coffee each, and then invited the two to sit down.

"They agreed to let you be the director, and they were willing to pay you a total of $5 million, and they agreed with you about being involved in the investment. ”

"Isn't that a good thing?" Shen Lin asked strangely.

"But they have strings attached. Jonathan's face didn't look good.

Apparently he was annoyed by the conditions offered by Warner, "Warner intends to use their tax refund quota on this project, and the tax refund money does not count towards the film revenue, which means you can't share that it will be nearly 30 million dollars." ”

Tax rebate is a long-standing system for American films, but the development in the past two years is somewhat amazing, let's put it this way, the cost of a movie is 100 million US dollars, and you can apply for a 20% tax refund in Maryland, which is 20 million US dollars!

In fact, the cost of the entire movie is only eighty million!

However, there is a limited number of tax refunds available for each company!

For a large studio like Warner, the annual tax rebate quota should be about ten, and now they put one of the quotas on "Interstellar", and they don't bring the largest investor to play!

This is a bit excessive, we account for the majority of the investment cost, and when it comes to the tax rebate link, you want to swallow it alone!

To be honest, Shen Lin had expected this request before, after all, this is Hollywood, and things like this often happen.

So, this is definitely not all, Shen Lin knew Jonathan very well, and made a gesture to continue.

"Warner wants to convert the publicity and distribution costs into the cost of the film..."

Whether it is Hollywood or China, when we calculate the cost of a movie, we rarely add the cost of publicity, and generally speaking, the cost of publicity and distribution is never included in the cost of the film!

The reason why Warner also counts this part of the cost into the cost will definitely increase the proportion of their investment, thereby diluting the benefits on the light side.

But that's not all, "Warner also didn't agree with the involvement of Ray's team of accountants in the film's future overseas distribution..."

"What do they want to do?"

Hearing this, Shen Lin subconsciously asked, "Do you just want to make money?" Then why do you still agree to my directing request?"