Chapter 672: Negotiation
When Lucas had money, he took a fancy to this place and spent a lot of money to create a Skywalker Manor here.
If you drive, it will take at least four or five hours to get here, so Li Ming chose to take a helicopter to his home.
An hour later, Li Ming, who was sitting on the plane, saw a very beautiful manor, and the tall fat man said with a smile: "Boss, see it, this is Skywalker Manor, even now, the post-production of Star Wars is still going on here." ”
Li Ming shouted cool, and after the plane landed, Li Ming saw a middle-aged man with gray hair standing not far from the tarmac, and the reason why he didn't call him an old man was because this person looked very energetic and didn't look old at all.
The tall fat man walked quickly to the other party and began to introduce Li Ming.
In fact, Li Ming only had this intention when he met this time, and he didn't think that the other party would agree immediately, but what Li Ming didn't expect was that Li Ming had just reported to his home, and the other party agreed, and warmly invited Li Ming to come to this manor.
Now seeing Lucas himself, Li Ming stretched out his hand with a smile and said, "I really have admired the name for a long time." ”
Lucas said very happily: "You and I have admired the name for a long time, please come in." ”
For Lucas, he prefers to communicate with powerful people in this world, and you feel comfortable with such people, especially in his opinion, Li Ming is also a powerful biological scientist and a successful businessman.
Although Lucas sees himself as an artist, he knows that he is not a successful businessman.
After all, all he had left was such a manor, but if he continued to work like this, he would not be able to pay his subordinates.
Although his men are grateful to him, they also need food to support their families, so Lucas is very confused now.
Sitting in the middle of the room, the tall fat man originally wanted to be a translator for Li Ming, but seeing that Li Ming had no problem speaking English, he didn't translate again.
In fact, Li Ming rarely speaks English, especially after becoming a world-class billionaire, Li Ming likes to speak his native language, for English, Li Ming is always very annoyed, because this is not his native language, nor is it a noble language, Li Ming feels that there is no need to use him.
But now, in order to express his respect for Lucas, Li Ming still talks directly to Lucas in English.
The two have communicated for a long time, although Li Ming himself is not an artist or a film practitioner, but for movies, especially American blockbusters and science fiction films, Li Ming still likes it very much.
Lucas also knew that Li Ming didn't understand, but Lucas didn't know how to do business either, so he asked Li Ming about the secrets of the lot.
Especially when it comes to this matter, Lucas said depressedly: "Brother, tell me, how should I continue to do business, I feel that I have done my best, but how can I change this situation." ”
Li Ming didn't expect Lucas to ask himself this question, and said with a smile: "The biggest problem is that the movie you shoot is too complicated, if you want to simplify it, maybe it's simple." ”
Lucas immediately shook his head and said: "No, no, brother, you don't know, my pursuit of art is perfect, and I can't accept that what I shoot can't pass my own level and appear in front of the audience, which is an insult to them and an insult to myself." ”
Li Ming said: "Then there is another way, it is better for me to buy your film company, you concentrate on making movies, and I will give you all the money." ”
Lucas was stunned for a moment and said, "Dude, you must know that if you buy my company, I am afraid that you are destined to lose money." ”
According to Lucas's own calculations, he loses $30 million a year, and that's counting the amount of money he loses every two or three years after making a movie to make money, and if you don't count movies, he loses hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
All this is because the production of animated films is really too expensive.
Li Ming patted Lucas on the shoulder with a smile and said: "You are older than me, I call you big brother, for people like us, what I want to do now is to dedicate real art to everyone, so that everyone can see what art is, I like beauty, I like beautiful things, and I like people who create beauty." ”
Seriously, so far, there is not a single person who is willing to buy Lucasfilm, all they need is to prohibit Lucas from continuing to make such films, because, as soon as his films come out, those commercial blockbusters will be compared.
However, they can't prohibit it, so far, the six major Hollywood studios have come to him and are willing to pay for his film company, but there is a precondition that Lucas retire.
Lucas has been thinking about whether he should retire, after all, his movies are always losing money, and he is not very comfortable, but now hearing Li Ming's words, Lucas's heart is a little moved.
Lucas thought and said, "My friend, thank you for your trust in me, so that you can give me a few days to think, and please have a good time in my manor for a few days." ”
Li Ming said with a smile: "Of course, that's really thank you, I also want to see how these props of yours are made." ”
Lucas laughed and said, "Well, I promise you'll be surprised when you know why." ”
Li Ming smiled and said, "Oh, yes, then I want to take a look." ”
Lucas laughed and said, "I'll ask my assistant to show you, and I'll go back and think about your proposal." ”
Lucas used honorific titles for Li Ming, rather than ordinary words between friends, which made Li Ming feel that the matter was half the battle.
Li Ming said: "Of course you can. ”
Lucas's assistant was a handsome middle-aged man with eyes, his name was Bis, he was called in front of Lucas, and after informing him of the requirements, Biss smiled and said to Li Ming and the tall fat man: "Please come with me, two of you." ”
Li Ming nodded and said, "Okay." ”
Li Ming and Gao Fat Man went to the second basement floor under the leadership of Bis, and when they were on the way, Bisi said proudly to Li Ming and Gao Fatzi: "Do you know why we don't have a parking lot here?" ”
Li Ming said with a smile: "I noticed when I came, did you build the parking lot underground?" ”
Bess was stunned and said, "How do you know?" ”