In early October, after the start-up funding of Stanton Studios, Sky Movie Fund and Twentieth Century Fox was secured, Murphy's preparatory studio officially began, and the crew's office was temporarily placed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Venice, which has become a temporary soundstage for many small crews due to the continuous filming of several films filmed here. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

A week before Murphy brought people over, there was only a small crew here that had just finished filming and just left.

The crew was small, but the warehouse was remodeled, especially the director's office in the temporary office area.

The original director's office was a temporary construction of a large office in the warehouse, but now it has been separated from it and turned into two office suites, inside and outside, separated by a special glass wall, that is, you can see the outside from the inside, but the outside can only be used as a mirror.

"The director of the previous crew," Paul Wilson said mysteriously as he accompanied Murphy around the remodeled and decorated office, "and I heard that he liked to call actresses into his office and watch the assistant directors outside and give them special instructions." ”

Paul Wilson didn't say anything about these words, and Murphy understood what they were, and pushed open the same glass door on the glass wall, and went in to see that the contents had not been completely removed, as well as a huge desk and high-back swivel chair.

Paul Wilson followed, "I've had the office carefully cleaned, and the back of the chair can be lowered as a folding bed for temporary rest. ”

Murphy took one look and walked out again, "Put all my stuff out here." ”

He had little interest in that kind of boring fetish.

Subsequently, under the leadership of Paul Wilson, he went to the area of the warehouse used for filming, probably because of the increase in the number of crews filming in recent years, this is no longer a warehouse, and under the constant transformation, it has become a huge studio.

In the future, most of the indoor scenes of the film will be filmed here.

The preparations have just begun, and the various departments have only officially put into work a few days ago, and a large number of staff continue to bring in various equipment, and the warehouse is extremely busy.

However, compared to the vigorous publicity that began when "Deadpool" was prepared, the current crew is much quieter, basically without media attention, and Murphy and Carla Firth do not plan to promote it now, for publicity and marketing, they have had in-depth exchanges with Twentieth Century Fox, and at the right time, they will start an extraordinary publicity offensive.

"Hi, Murphy."

A greeting sounded from behind, Murphy turned his head, and David Ellison walked in from the outside with two handbags, his face full of excitement, "I've got the negotiation!" ”

Murphy was a little surprised, "So fast?" ”

"I have reached an agreement with Nokia, and the relevant documents will be sorted out and sent to you tomorrow." David Ellison walked over and stood next to him, "They agreed to be an advertising sponsor for our project. ”

As he spoke, he handed the paper bag he was holding to Murphy, "This is the concept machine of Nokia 6670, with a video recording function that is rare now, and it is said that it can support the recording of a video of more than 10 minutes, and they sent some prototypes." ”

"I don't need to." Murphy shook his head, and was about to say give it to someone else, but David Ellison said, "I didn't say give it to you, this is for Gail." ”

Murphy thought for a moment and took it, "Say thank you to the manufacturer for me." ”

Different from the previous films, "Gone Girl" is temporarily named "G" because of the needs of publicity and marketing, because the background of the film is modern society, it is natural to introduce some advertising sponsorship, and his previous films have been box office hits, and it is not too much effort, so he has found some advertising sponsors with cooperation intentions.

Because of his relationship as a producer, David Ellison also joined the crew and took the initiative to ask Ying to negotiate with the advertising sponsor, and after Murphy and Carla Firth thought about it, they also agreed, anyway, he was not the only one involved in the negotiations, but also Murphy's lawyer Robert and the professionals of Twentieth Century Fox.

Unexpectedly, David Ellison not only performed well in business negotiations, but also quite well, the disadvantage is that he does not have enough experience, but in general, it is quite good, in the earliest negotiations with Volvo, he got the sponsorship of the car at the same time, and also brought in up to three million dollars in advertising sponsorship.

The result of the negotiation with Nokia was also good, and Nokia offered $3.5 million in advertising money to make a number of mobile phones, including the Nokia 6670, appear in the film.

"We got $6.5 million back before we even made our film." David Ellison was very excited to actually participate in the preparation and shooting of a full-fledged film for the first time, "After signing a formal contract with Nokia, I will look for sponsors for alcohol commercials, especially if the heroine uses self-abusing alcohol, and I must negotiate a high price." ”

"Well done, David." Murphy smiled at him and said, "You let go of your hands, Carla and I will support you, and I will save a close-up shot of the heroine using self-masochistic alcohol." ”

David Ellison was born in a family full of business atmosphere, and his thinking is quite active, and he immediately thought of the audition that the crew would hold in the next stage, and couldn't help but say excitedly, "If you can sign an A-list actress to play Amy, I will have more confidence in negotiation." Come to think of it, a bottle of wine that walks through the back door of Oscar-winning actresses like Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, and Charlize Theron is sure to impress audiences. ”

"Great idea!" On the other side, Paul Wilson couldn't help but laugh and exclaimed, "Great idea!" Really very good idea. ”

This guy! Murphy glanced at David Ellison and nodded approvingly, he liked the product placement so much.

However, the actor who plays the heroine may not accept it, it depends on how to talk about it.

According to the list he said, Bill Rothes has sent character scripts and audition invitations to a number of well-known actresses, including Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts, Julia Roberts has declined, she wants to participate in the filming of Steven Soderbergh's Rohan series, and the schedule is conflicting.

Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron have not given a clear answer, and it seems that they are not particularly interested, and they seem to be deliberately hanging the crew.

The former has just entered the Hollywood 20 million club and is a veritable superstar; Although the latter is not a first-line superstar, he has just won the Oscar for Best Actress, and his status is not the same as that of Jessica Alba and Jessica Chastain, whom Murphy has worked with before, and he has enough money to choose the scripts and roles they like.

No matter how it was before, coming to this level, Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron are already extremely scarce resources in the circle, and it is completely different to worry about fighting for roles.

It's no exaggeration to say that the scripts and audition invitations their agents receive every month can be piled up a foot high on their desks.

Of course, Murphy also knows that now these two seem to be hugely famous, prominent, and amazing, but in fact, their future development is extremely unsmooth, especially Nicole Kidman, whose vision of picking scripts and roles is really unflattering, and will slowly become a bad movie queen slightly inferior to Nicolas Cage, and in the end, he even has to rely on constantly mentioning his ex-husband Tom Cruise to brush up his existence.

As for Charlize Theron, since she won the Oscar, her reputation has been very loud, and her fame alone is definitely at the level of a first-line superstar, but looking at the films, roles, box office and salary she can get, it is at most a second-tier Hollywood level, and it was not until ten years after winning the Best Actress that she really carried the box office of a film on her own.

Except for some other factors, these two have a poor vision for choosing films and roles.

In fact, Murphy's favorite object is Charlize Theron, even if South African Meizu won the Oscar, but because there was no masterpiece before, he has never proven himself commercially, and the salary is at the level of one million dollars, on the other hand, Nicole Kidman, who is already a member of the 20 million club, has not made herself stink yet, and without a salary of 15 million US dollars +, I am afraid it will be difficult to impress her.

Murphy invited her to audition before, mainly because Nicole Kidman is also a CAA client, and if the script and role can make her feel very good, it is not impossible to reduce the price to star.

Compared with the already determined actor James Franco, the heroine, Murphy thinks more.

After a busy day, when Gal Gadot was about to get off work, she also came to the warehouse, she greeted the crew members familiarly, and walked all the way into Murphy's office, Murphy was still discussing the cinematography style of the film with Fili Raschel, handed her the mobile phone sent by David Ellison, and motioned for her to wait for a while.

Gal Gadot simply entered the suite inside, sat on an office chair and fiddled with the new phone.

It wasn't until half an hour later that Murphy's voice calling out to her was heard outside, and the sound insulation effect of this set was not good, and the words from the outside could be heard clearly from the inside.

"Can you go?" Gal Gadot asked after going out.

"Let's go." Murphy lifted his briefcase and shook his head, "Let's go home." ”

Gal Gadot came over and grabbed his arm, saying as she walked, "Nate is planning to call a party tomorrow night in the hotel where she is staying, and she wants me to invite you along, and she will call you." ”

As the two walked out of the warehouse, Murphy asked, "I remember you were going to a school event tomorrow night, right?" ”

"yes." Gal Gadot turned on the phone's camera function and pointed it at the sky, "I don't have time to participate. ”

She recorded a short video, looked at it, and said, "The functionality is not bad, better than I expected." ”

"It's a trial money from a sponsor." Murphy walked to the side of the car and helped Gal Gadora open the door first, when his phone suddenly rang and he took out a look at it, it was an unfamiliar number.

Gal Gadot next to him also saw it and said, "This is Nat's number." (To be continued.) )