After deciding on the investment in "The Phantom of the Opera", Mo Fei remembered another thing, Hong Kong is going to make such a film sooner or later, why don't you take advantage of this opportunity.

Basically, as long as it is a popular musical adaptation movie, the box office and word of mouth will not be too bad, if this "Phantom of the Opera" is introduced to Hong Kong and Taiwan in the appropriate deeds, the movie will definitely be a hit, and the awards will be appropriate, and it will be counted in one fell swoop. And with the cooperation of this musical, wouldn't there be another thing that can also be cooperated.

After returning to the hotel that night, he and Honami were entangled in the cauldron until midnight, and a person sat on the sofa in the living room of the room and kept ringing for a while, and wrote a rough outline on the manuscript paper.

When he went to Weber the next day to sign the contract for "The Phantom of the Opera", Mo Fei proposed to use part of Weber's music in the movie, that is, "Singing in the Middle of the Night" adapted from "The Phantom of the Opera".

Weber even generously signed a letter of authorization directly to Mo Fei, and he didn't mention the money, but Weber was also very honest and bluntly said that Mo Fei's movie has a great chance of winning awards, and if he can win the award, he will make money, not to mention that Mo Fei has invested 50 million US dollars, which is a small meaning that is a discount.

With such a good start, the next negotiations will be smoother, Mo Fei directly said his thoughts: "Andrew, I am also going to invest in a musical, I roughly sorted out the outline last night, now let's talk about whether there is a possibility of cooperation." If you can. I'll come up with the lyrics for the script, and then we'll make music together. I promise this show will be a big hit. ”

"As soon as you say that, I'm already interested, let's talk about it." At the awards ceremony the day before, Weber had seen Mo Fei's methods with his own eyes, and he won all two screenwriting awards, if there was no real thing, who could do it so well.

In fact, not only Weber, but Sarah Brightman was also interested in Mo Fei's proposal. She has watched a lot of Phoenix Culture movies and has a certain understanding of Mo Fei's script, and now she wants to see what the musical made up by Mo Fei will look like.

"The story takes place in Vietnam and tells the love story of an American soldier in Vietnam. Before the U.S. troops retreated from Vietnam, Private John had a somewhat absurd and somewhat romantic relationship with the first-time Vietnamese "Jinv" Kim, and it was not long before that. They fell in love with each other. Unfortunately, the news of the withdrawal soon came, and John had to leave Vietnam with the troops, and the question of how to deal with the relationship between himself and Kim was a headache for John. Before withdrawing, John had already thought of bringing Kim back to the United States. But due to a mistake in judgment and John's hesitation, Kim was unable to leave, and she watched John go further and further away as he called the helicopter and put away the pistol that King had left for her.

The U.S. team eventually left, although John and Kim had a wedding. But he failed to return to the United States with Kim, who remained in Vietnam. Living in the slums, with her and John's children, she has to live for John, because she still believes in their love for each other, and believes that John will come back to save her and take him out of this place. But on the other side of the globe, John is married, and he has a wife named Erin. And in Vietnam, Kim began a career as a fugitive by shooting and killing her cousin, who was obsessed with her, in order to protect her and John's son.

…… John, who was in Atlanta, suddenly woke up from his dream and called Kim's name, he found that he couldn't forget Kim, and he was going back to find her, but would his wife next to him agree. With the help of his comrades, John finally found Kim's whereabouts, and Kim was still convinced that John would take him to the United States.

When it was finally time to meet, Kim wore the dress she wore on her prettiest day, when she and John were married. When she went to John's room, there was only one woman, John's current wife, Alan. Alan tells Kim that they can't take her to the United States, and they can't take his son to the United States, and King's dream of holding on for so long is finally shattered.

…… Helpless and desperate, Kim comes up with a solution, she wants to take a risk, hoping that John will be able to bring her son to the United States. In the room, he told his son Tan that he now has a father, and his father will take him to live in the United States and live a prosperous life, so that Tan will not forget her, and she will take good care of herself. Seeing that John and Alan had arrived in the distance, Kim hugged her son's head and kissed him, then walked behind the curtain and committed suicide with the pistol John had left for her.

John immediately rushed into the room when he heard the gunshot, picked up Kim, who was lying on the ground and was dying, and asked her why she was doing this. Kim said that God led him to find his son, and now she has only one wish, that is, to be able to get John's embrace again before she dies, lying in John's arms, Kim once again said the same thing that the two fell in love said: Why did we change so much overnight. ”

An innocent girl and innocent feelings, she firmly believes that innocent love will always exist, and she insists on it through hardships and even at the risk of her life for an impossible promise. Selfless maternal love makes danger, fatigue, dignity and even life become the wind in her ears, and she can give everything without care. But what about the ending, is it as good as it was at the beginning, no, not at all.

Anyway, this story is really tragic, and even Webb, an old man, was moved to tears. Sarah Brightman on the side has already become a tearful person, and when she looked at Mo Fei with red eyes, she obviously had a deep complaint, how could she make the story so miserable, and she was too inhuman.

After recovering for a while, Weber's emotions finally detached from his sadness, and asked Mo Fei: "Mo, how did you come up with this story, it's too miserable, Shakespeare also has tragedy, and he must have written better than you, but it didn't make me want to cry so much." ”

In fact, there are many institutions in the United States that help children born to American soldiers and Vietnamese women in the Vietnam War to find their fathers, I also heard a little when I was in school in the United States, and then one day I saw a photo of a child being sent into the boarding passage by his mother, although it was just a mother's back, but I bet that I sent my own child, maybe I will never see it again, her face or heart, must be very painful, so I thought of making such a script. And then your musical drove me, and lying in the hotel at night suddenly thought, I need to talk to you, and it turns out that this is the way it is.

"You're really amazing, I think you're a genius screenwriter, no wonder your movies are so popular." Webb was a little incredulous after hearing this, he had to see so much from a back, this guy's eyes were really vicious.

However, he frowned and said: "But, Mo, it will be very difficult to compose such a musical, and there is no guarantee that no audience will like it after the song is completed, can you consider changing the existing masterpieces?" ”

Mo Fei really admires Weber in his heart, he already knows it, but Weber just listens to the story, and he knows how difficult the arrangement here is, he really deserves to be a famous composer, and he is not comparable to himself as a half-ass.

But who let us have the bottom, nodded and said: "I think so too, it's too difficult to compose a new song, and it is likely to ruin the story, so I think how about trying Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", I think it is really a good match, at least with fewer changes to achieve perfection." ”

"That's right, I think so too, it has to be Madama Butterfly, and none of the other songs can express the soul of this story." Webb felt the same way about Mo Fei, and even felt a little sympathetic.

Soon the cooperation of this musical was also successfully reached, and the name of the play was still called "Miss Saigon" according to Mo Fei's memory, Mo Fei's Phoenix Culture and Weber's really good company invested 40 million US dollars and 30 million US dollars respectively, Phoenix Culture accounted for 50% of the shares, really good accounted for 30% of the shares, and the other 10% was reserved for the musical producer team.

As for the film adaptation rights of the play, of course, it is in Mo Fei's hands, and it is impossible to put this together with the musical. As long as this musical can become popular, the remake of the movie will at least be more than 200 million US dollars at the box office, and whoever kills it will give money to people for nothing, no matter how familiar it is.

The influence and income of this musical will not be worse than that of "The Phantom of the Opera", just from the number that it can tour for 16 consecutive years, it is not difficult to see its rate of return, if it is not good, it will be killed a long time ago, how can it have a chance to perform for 16 years.

After the agreement was signed, Mo Fei also put forward his own suggestion, it is best to complete the piece with Weber and half of the music first, and then strive to make this play meet the standard of public performance in eight or eight years.

"Why are you in such a hurry, we have The Phantom of the Opera now, and we can perform it for at least four to five years, and it will not be too late to start preparing for this play in three years." Weber did not understand or agree with Mo Fei's suggestion.

And for this, Mo Fei has absolute experience, Weber doesn't care if he doesn't smoke, he lights himself up and takes two puffs, and says: "Think about it, is "The Phantom of the Opera" going to Broadway, is it going to use Sarah as the heroine, so how do you solve this problem, you should know the rules of Broadway, you must be an American actor." Therefore, we have to prepare this show, and when the time comes, we can use the actor of this show and Broadway to replace people, so that our chances of success will be much greater. ”

At this time, Weber had to admire Mo Fei's thoughtfulness, and calculated all the rules of Broadway in the United States, it was a pleasure to have such a partner, only his major was film, otherwise Weber dared to guarantee that the two would be able to fight all over the world without opponents.

And women and men think differently, Sarah Brightman thinks that although Mo Fei is too ruthless in making up stories, he is quite careful and thoughtful, and he is very good at caring about others, and he feels that this friend is really right, and he is glad that he agreed to sing the theme song of Mo Fei's movie, that choice is really too correct. (Only 9,000 are coded out today, and the 1,000 will be made up tomorrow, I hope you understand!) "Miss Saigon" is worth watching, very touching play, American devil Teterme CD) (to be continued)