Perhaps Chen Tiandu's recent frequent actions have attracted the attention of DreamWorks.

"Christmas, I heard you've bought a film company again? Congratulations, do you have any plans for a new movie? Jeffrey called to ask.

"Mr. Katzenberg, I was about to tell you. Yes, I have a new film project called The Matrix, and the script has been pitched to the production department of DreamWorks, don't you see? ”

"I saw the script and it seems like a sci-fi film? I do not quite understand. If you have time, stop by DreamWorks, we'd love to hear your story. ”

The scripts of DreamWorks' two most profitable movies this year are both produced by Chen Tiandu. In particular, "The Sixth Sense" allowed DreamWorks to pick up a huge coffer, which was the envy of the whole Hollywood.

Now that Chen Tiandu has released a new script, he can't help but think that DreamWorks doesn't pay attention to it.

Chen Tiandu is already familiar with the door of DreamWorks. It's just that the mood is completely different from the last time I stepped here. He came on behalf of Matrix Studios to talk about the collaboration, not personally. Although the gap between the two is large, at least it is a kind of identity equivalence.

Kong Yiji came with him, and he used to invest in China, but the target he faced was different.

In the conference room, two of the DreamWorks triumvirate were dispatched, only David Geffen did not come, and there was a circle of high-level people sitting under the seat. Even Spielberg was there in person, knowing that he was famous for not attending any of DreamWorks' financial meetings. "I want any meeting I'm in to be over in two minutes," he said. "The reason is simple, Spielberg prefers to be a director rather than a businessman.

This time, even he was present in person, showing that he paid enough attention to Chen Tiandu's new movie.

Kong Yiji was able to talk eloquently with Chen Tiandu in the matrix company last time, but this time he was still a little apprehensive in the face of this scene.

In this kind of scene, you have to count on Chen Tiandu himself.

He was calm, stress-free, and eloquent, "Director David Fincher's movie "Truman's World" released this year tells about a private and imaginary world, which is very classic, and he put the real world into a TV-like box. So I'm going to make a hypothesis here, 'Do you really wake up every morning and the sleepy-eyed person in the mirror is really you?' Do you have an inexplicable sense of emptiness that what you know is true? A qiē will be slowly revealed'"

In 186o, under the imaginative pen strokes of the British writer Lewis Caro, the curious Alice fell leisurely into a magical dream world in the pursuit of rabbits. In "The Matrix", Neo, who suspects that something is wrong with the world, follows a sexy girl with a white rabbit tattoo to an underground Rave-party, and from then on, he is out of control and walks into the real desert. ”

With his introduction, everyone remembered some scenes in the script, and the opening scene suddenly became "The mysterious hacker guided Neo to follow the little white rabbit." ”

"This is where my story begins. Neo, a young cyber hacker living in the Matrix, appears to be in a normal real world, but in fact seems to be controlled by some kind of force, so Neo investigates the matter on the Internet. And the captain of the human resistance organization in real life, Morpheus, has also been looking for the legendary savior in the matrix, and in this way, under the guidance of Trinity, a member of the human resistance organization, the two met. ”

Neo, too, was guided by Morpheus and returned to his true reality, escaping the Matrix. Only then did I learn that he had been living in the virtual world, and the real history was that in 2oxx years, human beings understood aI (artificial intelligence), and then the robot mutinied, and the war broke out with humans, and human beings were defeated one after another, and as a last resort, the entire sky was covered with dark clouds to cut off the energy (solar energy) of the robot. Who knew that the robot has opened a new energy source--- bioenergy, which is to use genetic engineering to artificially create human beings, and then connect them to the matrix, so that they can survive in the virtual world to obtain excess energy, and Neo is one of them. ”

After Neo found out, he also joined the human resistance organization, and under the training of Morpheus, he gradually became a powerful "hacker", and gradually showed his differences from other hackers, making Morpheus more sure that he was the savior......

While telling the story, he used the slide projector at hand to show the paintings of the storyboard scenes to everyone.

"It's a hacker movie, but it's not as simple as sitting in front of a computer and typing on a keyboard. The dream-like switch between the matrix world and the real spaceship will be the main scene, and the martial arts design will be the main attraction, which is also one of the most prominent features of my film. ”

He handed over two more pictures, "Everyone, please take a look at the shape, I designed it." ”

Everyone took a look and couldn't help but wonder, one of them was suddenly the cover photo taken by "Vanity Fair" for Chen Tiandu, and the other was his hand-painted Kate Belsekin's outfit in a black leather coat.

"You've even found the male and female leads, if you're not mistaken, this is the miscellaneous cover of "Vanity Fair", right?" Spielberg laughed.

Chen Tiandu shrugged, "Now I don't even know that the cool cover of Vanity Fair is the look of my next movie." I think it will be interesting when the movie is released. ”

"Everyone is still talking about the script, and you just said that the movie will be released. Are you so confident that DreamWorks will invest in this film? Someone interjected, but unfortunately there was not much response.

Well, the probability of DreamWorks' investment is more than 9o%, even for the sake of "The Sixth Sense's high pay".

"But you directed a horror film before, and this movie is a science fiction film, and a horror film director directs a science fiction film, which is too big. It worries us. Mannie, head of production, said.

Chen Tiandu said: "Yes, I was a rookie who had never made any movies ten months ago. ”

Mannie: "......"

Is this the answer?

Katzenberg said: "Your script is very creative, seeing that you bought a special effects company, and even the heroine's costume is ready, you must have made a lot of preparations." So what do you think is the investment budget for this film? ”

Chen Tiandu raised his eyebrows and slowly reported a number, "Ninety million dollars." ”

“！！！”

The conference room suddenly became a little unsettled, "The investment has soared to three times that of "The Sixth Sense", does this movie need so much money?" "Even if there are mechanical effects, it doesn't seem to be needed. "yes, it's too much, it's not realistic. I think I can come up with a more honest figure after professional calculations. "Guys, is it too early to talk about this, we haven't done a crisis analysis and can't be sure whether to invest in this film. ”……

Katzenberg and Spielberg did not speak, and those who know Chen Tiandu's way of making films will know that the figures he quoted are usually very large, and the final use is certainly not so much, which must include a lot of publicity expenses. But the problem is that Chen Tiandu is not a persuasive character.

In the face of all kinds of doubts, Chen Tiandu spread his hands and only said one sentence, saying: "Gentlemen, ladies, this movie can help everyone make a lot of money, I promise." ”

Everyone was silent, and Mannie questioned more strongly, saying, "Why are you so confident that movies will make money." In Hollywood, no one dares to say that their films are necessarily profitable. ”

Is it really not, Chen Tiandu was about to list a few examples, but was robbed of the conversation by Kong Yiji, "Because he is going to invest all the income he earned in the last movie if he doesn't get investment." I guess that's enough. ”

“……”

Everyone knows that Chen Tiandu has achieved half a billion at the box office in "The Sixth Sense". As a result, the money was all invested in it before it was hot? God, is this Chinese crazy.

Chen Tiandu secretly gave Kong Yiji a thumbs up, and this rebuttal was concise and powerful.

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