"Lucas, you'd better get the three big guys right with Spielberg, I'm already working on the second part of the dinosaur trilogy, and the current technology can't support the production of the whole cartoon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Can't you?" asked West Klein curiously.

Li Mo looked at this black young man, it was a black lawyer he deliberately asked Hollick to hire to sue the BBC for racial discrimination, but he did not have a black man under him, and it was easy to fall into the trap.

"West Klein, if it can't be produced, the production cost will be very high, and the box office of the movie and the derivatives together, I'm afraid they may not be able to recover the cost. ”

Lee was right. Lucas sighed from the side.

"Lucas, don't worry, technology is advancing rapidly, at most a few years, more than ten years, these animations can be put on the big screen one by one. Lucas, tell me, how much does it cost to make it well?"

"Let's go to the technical department. Lucas brought Limer to the Animation Technology Department, and John Lasseter, the head of the department, looked at the drawings with the same reluctance.

"Lasseter, are you sure you'll make it?"

"Li, yes, but if you want to make it well, you have to spend a lot of money, and you have to do it, otherwise you will spoil this great subject. ”

"Lasseter, I understand. ”

"If it's well-made, it's probably going to cost three million dollars. ”

"So much?" the black lad was surprised, thinking about how much it cost to acquire Cisco.

"Si Klein, maybe it's not enough," Li Mo turned his head and said, then took Lasseter's hand and said, "Okay, that's it." We can sign a floating clause, and if it's not enough, we can notify my lawyer that I can add money if it doesn't go up much. ”

"Lee, you are really a reasonable person. Lucas praised from the sidelines.

Li Mo smiled, he knew what the final cost of making these cartoons was, and besides, this was the mid-eighties, and backward technology meant that the cost was higher. But Li Meng thought it was worth it, and when he had more funds in his hands in the future, he was ready to get the beginnings of the dozen cartoons together.

In this way, with the right to the portrait, with the approximate "script", that is, the outline of the story of two or three thousand words, and the beginning of the cartoon, it will be three mountains, and the Da Luo Immortal will come, and he can't turn it over.

He doesn't care about the dividends at the box office of the movie, what he cares about is its various derivatives.

West Klein talks to Lucas' lawyer about the contract.

Of course, neither party A nor party B cares, and this negotiation is very easy.

Lucas took Li Mo and his son to visit Industrial Light and Magic, not to mention, he was really interested in this Li Mo, and Li Guangping was also a little interested, he was in the United States and watched two Star Wars. He couldn't understand what his son was talking to Lucas, but Li Mo translated from time to time and asked him to figure out some of the production process.

After the visit, Lucas invited the father and son to his house.

Looking at Lucas's mansion, Li Guangping said: "This house is extravagant." ”

Is that.

The Chinese-style villa painted by Li Mo in the first draft is far from Lucas's mansion, and Li Mo whispered: "I can afford to build it with the money in my hand now, the key is whether we dare to build it?"

"He's the one who filmed the one who was going to fight in the sky?"

"Dad, it's not in the sky, it's called Star Wars, yes, it's exactly what he filmed. ”

Lucas warmly entertained the father and son, and Li Guangping asked strangely: "Where is his wife?"

"I got divorced a few years ago," Mr. Limo said.

"He is not ugly and rich, why should he get a divorce?" Li Guangping asked even more strangely.

Li Mo smiled, which shows that my father is finally less repulsive to the appearance of Westerners: "Dad, foreigners value privacy and don't care about others." ”

Li Mo didn't know the reason for the divorce, the Hollywood circle was in chaos, and it was exactly the same as the later Chinese noble circle, who could say clearly. However, Lao Lu married a wife in his later years, who was still black, and the two were very affectionate and gave birth to a daughter.

The rest, Li Mo is not clear.

Some are busy.

Lao Si and the people from Universal and Paramount came, and a few people came, who were members of the screenwriting team.

The assets of the two film companies are not small, but they are both fixed assets, and they do not have much liquidity in their hands. Once this high-cost film went to sea, the two companies also went to sea.

The group first talked about the BBC.

The BBC also regrets it now, it's just Li Mo alone, let's sue, see if you can still stab the sky, but they didn't expect the three Hollywood giants to come forward with Bantam Books, which is called riding a tiger.

In fact, in the final analysis, it was they who held their own old empire, and they were of the white race, and they did not take China or Li Mo in their eyes, and they didn't even inquire about how much money Li Mo had in his hands and what kind of contracts he signed with several film companies, so they sent the indictment letter to Hao Like.

Some high-level people in China are also discussing, saying that this kid is really popular, but they didn't think of one word: interest bundling!

The three giants are not afraid of the BBC, and they have carefully studied Limer's new book, which has similarities, but not enough to constitute infringement.

After finishing speaking, they handed the script to Li Mo to read.

Li Mo looked at it for a while and thought: Sure enough.

In the previous life, the original authors Michael Clayton and Lao Si also worried about this script for a long time, and finally it was Clayton's proposal that they wanted to cover the whole story, which was not very realistic, so they could only choose a main line from it and then write the script.

Several of the people who were hired by the two major companies to write the script also made this mistake.

He put down a few scripts and said: "Lucas, Spielberg, generally a movie is best 100 to 140 minutes long, and if it is longer, people will have a sense of visual fatigue, and the production cost will also increase significantly." ”

Not necessarily, such as "Titanic", "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "Avatar", but these super-long movies can sell well, but there are only a few.

Even if "Jurassic Park" becomes an extended version, it will become a snake if it is not done well.

Old Lou nodded with Old Si, and Old Lou's Star Wars trilogy was basically a little over two hours long.

Li Mo handed over an outline, only three or four thousand words, but it was enough.

The first part of the dinosaur has not changed much from the original book, at least the storyline is basically the same, and the first movie is still according to the original.

But Mo has dozens of illustrations in it, and if the outline is full of tens of thousands of words, and the illustrations become hundreds, it will almost become a nanny-style script.

Li Mo doesn't need to do this, there are Lao Si and Lao Lu, all Li Mo has to do is to push the door open.

Lao Si said happily: "Lucas, I know that Lee will come up with a solution. ”

"Lucas, don't be reluctant to give up money when shooting, it's really not enough, I will support it. Li Mo said.

He had just visited Industrial Light & Magic, and estimated the cost of shooting, especially the cost of post-production special effects, and felt that if he wanted to shoot well, he would overspend if he didn't get it right.

But Lao Si is not Cameron, with a budget of 70 million, at least 100 million.

"Li, with your words, I am relieved. Lucas said that he, like Li Mo, does not raise many people, has a few spare money in his hands, and the cost is a little higher, so he doesn't care.

"Lee, let's throw a party. ”

"Lucas, it's okay to throw a party, don't call some female celebrities to come, my dad is still here. Li Mo said worriedly.

"Haha, our Li has also grown up," Lao Si said, staring at the fluffy beard on Li Mo's lips.

still shouted some female stars, but they are all middle-aged female stars, and they are accompanied by their husbands, not only to take care of Li Mo's father and son, Li Mo is underage, and if he doesn't get it right, there will be a scandal, and then several people will not be able to get off the stage.

Except for the young female stars who don't show off their tricks, the rest is there, all kinds of food, wine......

Looking at this kind of drunken life, and watching his son mingle with everyone familiarly, Li Guangping sighed and said, "Xiao Mo, you are really suitable for living in the United States." ”

"Dad, it won't be long, at most ten years, you can see a similar life in China, maybe it will be even more outrageous in the future. ”

"Isn't that the country going to be capitalist?"

"Dad, do you think capitalism and socialism are important? What matters is whether the common people are doing well or not, and whether the country is strong or not. ”

The same cannot be said exactly.

Reagan, for example, was enough to leave a heavy footprint in American history, despite his background as an actor.

In his hands, Japan was pushed from the throne of quasi-3G, and from then on it can only be said to be a first-class country, not a super-first-class country.

The USSR also collapsed because of his policies.

The United States has become the 1G on the planet, and most of the credit goes to Reagan.

And in the decade of his administration, the United States has indeed become richer and more prosperous, including more and more billionaires, but at the same time, more and more people are so poor that they sleep on the streets.

You have to look at it from that point of view, just like the real estate market in China later, there is no house or house slave will hate the real estate policy to the bone, there is a house without any debt, and you don't care about anything if you close your eyes, and if you have more than two houses, you can't hate that the house can rise to one million yuan per square meter, so that you don't have to work for the rest of your life.

Then Li Mo met with a female singer.

In order to find her, Hao Lick spent a lot of effort, but fortunately, she had a little fame at this time, and Hao Lick found her in Canada.

At that moment, Hao Like wanted to shed tears, wondering where did the little boss hear her name?

"Wow, Lee, finally seeing you. The girl ran over quickly and hugged Li Mo tightly, Li Guangping turned his head and didn't look at it, even if he came to the United States several times, the United States still couldn't get used to this kind of hugging and hugging of men and women.

"Hello, Celine Dion. Li Mo shook her hand.

Then he looked at René Angelil, the economist behind Celine Dion, an old man in his forties.

Seeing the real person, and then looking at the age difference between the two, Li Mo felt even more shocked in his heart.

He had a big question mark in his heart, it is rumored that a few years later, that is, when she was the most popular, she married this old uncle and loved each other for a lifetime, without any scandals, even if her husband had cancer. But the question is, is there really no generation gap when you are twenty-six years older?

Or is the uncle really attractive? No wonder the later fairy sister looked for it, but still found a stick uncle......

"Hello, Lee. ”

"Have you seen the score?" Li Mo was really a little worried, Celine Dion at this time was not the later Celine Dion, she was just an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, could she sing this song well?

"I saw it, it's such a beautiful song, Lee, you're really good. ”

"Dion, don't be in a hurry to praise me, let's go to the recording studio together. ”

"Okay. ”

Li Mo took her to a recording studio, the little girl was obviously a little nervous, Li Mo comforted: "You don't have to worry, I sent you this song, and I will let you sing it in the future, I just according to your voice, and then perfect it, including the adjustment of musical instruments, especially bagpipes, you know, we rarely have this kind of instrument in China." ”

Her economist René Angelil also whispered comfort on the side, but Li Mo could see it, and Li Guangping could see it, and the relationship between the two was very unusual.

Li Guangping asked in a low voice: "Xiao Mo, is this man very rich?"

It's a foreigner, the difference between the two is too big, if there is no money, how can this little girl look down on this old man, at least for this little girl, "very old and old", five or six years older than Li Guangping.

Li Mo didn't understand either, he also whispered: "Dad, foreigners are open and attach importance to privacy, we don't care." ”

Several musicians began to accompany, and Celine Dion sang along with the melody, only to start singing out of tune several times due to nervousness. Li Mo didn't speak, but listened carefully. After recording, the record is placed on the record player and played repeatedly.

Then he took out his pen and adjusted several notes. The current Celine Dion is obviously not as good as Celine Dion a few years later, but it is also very close, listening to the "original", Li Mo can detect more problems. Not only did he adjust a few notes, but he also called the bagpipe player over and taught him by hand. It's not that the musician blew it wrong, but that the person Professor Zhu was looking for didn't blow it well. When the recording started again, Xie Fuman couldn't help but whisper on the side: "Li, it's not worth it." ”

Li Mo is not tens of thousands of minutes per minute, it can also be called tens of thousands a day, although this song seems to be really good, if Li Mo does it...... At least from a monetary point of view, it's not worth it. (To be continued.) )