Michael Blake's script was finally finalized, and after the law firm signed the deal, he paid $200,000 in exchange for a future Oscar blockbuster script and the rights to adapt a best-selling novel.

Blake and his "Dances with Wolves" are not famous at all, but they are the simplest of the plans, and the next thing is where the real money will be spent.

The film industry in the United States is quite developed, and you can feel it from every film-related industry, not only the salaries of celebrities are very high, but the costs of photographers, directors, etc. are also terrible, including the film and television adaptation rights of novels are many times higher than those in Hong Kong.

Roderick Thorpe's "Nothing Lasts" cost $400,000, twice as much as Blake's screenplay and novel; Walter Weige's "Fifty-Eight Minutes" adaptation rights also cost more than 300,000 yuan, which is not a small amount. With all this money, you can make a good movie in Hong Kong, but here you can only get an adaptation right, not even a script.

The asking price is more ruthless, is Thomas Harris, this fat guy with glasses, relying on himself to be a best-selling author, and the previous adaptation of "Black Sunday" also performed very well, and actually issued a copyright fee of 600,000 yuan for a novel.

After several bargains, he finally bought the adaptation rights of his two novels, "The Red Dragon" and "The Silence of the Lambs", for $1 million. This guy's greed made Mo Fei very unhappy, originally he had a novel "Hanbani" that would be published in 1999, and then a complete set of "Hanbani" series of stories would be assembled, but now Mo Fei is not ready to give him this opportunity. decided to make the script of that film himself, and if he wanted to write it, he had to pay Mo Fei the copyright fee in turn.

After getting the basic necessary rights to adapt the novel, the work of the trip to the United States is not over. On Chinese New Year's Eve, he and Honggu arrived in New York. After spending an exotic but Chinese New Year in Chinatown, I started a new mission.

For the movie "Bodyguard" to be successful, there is one condition that is indispensable, and the song "IWillAlwaysLoveYou" has added at least two percent of the score to the movie, and the same song has also pushed Whitney Houston, who originally starred in "The Bodyguard", to an unattainable position.

California also has Chinatowns, although not as large as New York's Chinatowns. But to be able to spend a foreign Spring Festival there, the reason why I went to New York was to find Dolly Parton, the author and original singer of the song. Buy the rights to the song from her.

Dolly Parton is just over 1.5 meters and has no Mexican ancestry, which is not at all the height that an American should have. But that doesn't stop her from becoming an excellent singer with a perfect golden voice. and a great talent for music.

Although very low. But Dolly Parton has a big heart, and after learning that Mo Fei was going to use her work as the theme song for the movie, this small woman readily agreed, much more refreshing than Thomas-Harris, who gave Mo Fei a headache and hated before.

The copyright fee of a champion song "IWillAlwaysLoveYou" only cost 20,000 US dollars, and the follow-up copyright dividend ratio is quite reasonable, which makes Mo Fei a little moved.

In Dolly Parton's own words, "Music is just my hobby and interest, and I am sincere and persistent in music." I can make my music known and liked by more people. That's the main purpose. ”

I want Thomas Harris to listen to people, a woman is more generous than him, how can he be embarrassed to ask so much, it is simply a shame for men.

After buying the copyright of the song, Mo Fei directly handed over the song to Honggu and told her when the song could be performed perfectly, and the "Bodyguard" could start filming.

Then the two returned to Los Angeles, and after finishing the last thing, they could return to Hong Kong, but this matter was more troublesome.

Buying the adaptation rights of "Nothing Lasts" and "Fifty-Eight Minutes" is to catch up with the filming of "Die Hard", which is also one of his means to cope with the low tide of the American film market, but he is very entangled in the selection of directors.

Jackson said that the small ebb of the American film market, as a "person who has come over", has long been psychologically prepared, and "Die Hard", a movie with little people and big heroes, is a magic weapon that makes people willing to pay money to enter the movie theater.

Maybe the box office of the first part will not be very popular, but when it comes to the second part, Mo Fei is absolutely confident that it will become a box office hit, and even from the first part, this film may reach a peak.

In the North American film market in 85 years, there were three films with a box office of more than 100 million, "Back to the Future", "First Blood II", and "Rocky IV".

"Back to the Future" uses the story of infinite technology to shuttle between the past and the future, showing the power of American technology, although there are many obscene elements, but it is very suitable for the appetite of ordinary people.

The retired Rocky's return to battle for the sake of friendship and national honor is undoubtedly a testament to individual heroism and the incomparable strength of the American people.

Although Rambo expressed his dissatisfaction with the colonel with the sentence "I hope our country can love us as much as we love him", he went to danger and rescued a large number of prisoners of war, which made the strength of the American military very complete. Coupled with the content of the film, it touched many Vietnam War veterans and family members who lost their sons and fathers, and became their spokespersons, and the box office was objectively inevitable.

But these movies only represent a small number of people, military and scientific and technological people are only a small part, and there are a large number of police officers, secondary police officers, police families, and ordinary people who are closely related to the police in the United States.

"Die Hard" is a movie about a heroic little policeman, if you can put the heroic story of this policeman outside the borders of the United States, and stage a scene of brave fighting violent terrorists, the effect will not necessarily be worse than other films.

Since President Reagan took office, neoconservatism has rekindled the nationalist fervor of the American people, and there are a large number of voices in all industries that are looking forward to the emergence of heroes, hoping that these heroes will be able to show their national prestige with the recovery of the American economy.

Hope can only be hope, and there are very few that eventually become reality, but movies can give people a space for imagination and tell the hero's story to everyone, although it is not true, but it is okay to satisfy the people's obscene mentality.

Mo Fei's plan is to release a "Die Hard" in '85, and wait until another two years to launch the second part of the series, when "First Blood" and "Rocky" all suffer box office waterloos under what Jackson called "economic influence", and the good days of "Die Hard" are about to officially arrive.

The success of this film is already certain, and even better than the original history, but the original director McTyrnan has not yet debuted, whether to choose this rookie who is destined to succeed but has not yet debuted, or choose another experienced director, so that Mo Fei is in a dilemma.

In fact, Mo Fei is very confident that he will hand over this film to Wu Yusen, Wu Yusen's "Changing Face" and "Broken Arrow" and "Mission Impossible" are all very good works, and directing this film should not be a problem.

But Lao Wu has already taken over "Pirates of Malacca", and now he is in intense preparation, and if he stops his work to direct this film, it will delay the preparation time of that film, which is indeed more difficult.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Mo Fei contacted McTiernan, who was engaged in advertising, through Jackson's connections, but this guy actually refused, on the grounds that he had signed a contract with Fox and would not make films for other companies.

Now, Mo Fei has no choice but to use Wu Yusen. The preparation of "Pirates of Malacca" was temporarily fully taken care of by Chen Pu, and after Wu Yusen finished the film, he would take care of the affairs there.

Then Mo Fei found Bruce Willis's agent and contacted Willis, who was filming "Blue Moonlight Detective Agency", to pick up this Hollywood "big leak".

Although Bruce Willis does not have a strong box office appeal, he is nearly ten years younger than the now famous Stallone and Schwarzenegger, and the salaries of Stallone and Schwarzenegger are a little too high, which does not meet Mo Fei's requirements for this film at all.

When the real box office results of the film have not yet been determined, and the follow-up shooting process has been decided, it is undoubtedly quite risky to use such a big-name actor, and if you are not careful, you will lose all your money. Besides, Stallone and Schwarzenegger are not 100% guaranteed at the box office, and they also have times when they fall behind and eat ashes, and the real suitable ones are the best.

Bruce Willis was originally the star of "Die Hard", and in the future, he has successfully surpassed action stars such as Stallone and Schwarzenegger to become the most popular action superstar in film history.

Now Willis has not become popular yet, and he has just been named in the TV series, which is the time when he needs affirmation. I heard that a film company approached him and asked him to play the leading role in an action movie, and he was so happy that he stuttered and immediately committed it again, regardless of whether it was a big production or a small production, it was best to be able to make a movie, so he agreed to go to the meeting place immediately.

After meeting, the agent was about to introduce the two parties, and Bruce Willis recognized Honggu and stammered that he was still a fan of Honggu, and his favorite was "Sky Trap".

The next process is fast and pleasant, this guy is in conflict with the producer of "Blue Moonlight", thinking about what kind of reason to refuse, there are film companies here looking for him to film, and there are millions of salaries to get, at this time, don't you have to consider not being a fool.

(Note: Bruce Willis made a small mistake in his youth, he would stutter when he was nervous, but he couldn't translate when acting, I don't know if this was his real original intention as an actor.) (To be continued......)