The day after the engagement party, Murphy cooperated with Twentieth Century Fox to participate in some promotional activities about "Diego Rose", Gal Gadot flew directly to Boston, and Bill Rothes would go to the "Boston Globe" to negotiate licensing, and the next day there was good news that "The Boston Globe" basically agreed to license the film and television adaptation rights of the report that year to Stanton Studios, and the rest was the price and the rights between the two parties. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the start of the new week, "Diego Rose" passed the rating, the MPAA rated the film R without any suspense, and Twentieth Century Fox also increased its publicity and promotion of the film.

However, the total investment of the film is here, and the scale of publicity of Twentieth Century Fox is not large, mainly in print media and Internet promotion.

Then there are Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., as well as Margot Robbie and others, who continue to publish some materials related to the film on their official social networking sites to attract the attention of their respective fans.

By the end of the month, Gal Gadot had negotiated with the Boston Globe and obtained authorization from the other party, and then returned to Los Angeles to begin formal contact with Netflix.

As Murphy had previously investigated, Netflix was eager to break free from the entanglement of competitors, and its desire to produce exclusive content was unusually strong, and Gal Gadot, who represented Stanton Studios, had a smoother engagement with Netflix than negotiations with the Boston Globe.

Even, after only two days of talking, Shuangfa decided to cooperate with the series adapted from Michael Dobbs's novel of the same name as soon as possible, with an investment of 50% each, and the first two seasons enjoy the same proportion of copyright and revenue sharing as the investment, and the sharing will not remove any expenses incurred by Netflix in publicity and distribution.

It can be said that this sharing agreement is equivalent to handing over the film produced by Stanton Studios to Twentieth Century Fox for distribution, and Twentieth Century Fox does the publicity and distribution of the film without charging or deducting any form of publicity and distribution fees.

There is no doubt that Netflix has shown great sincerity in order to attract Murphy cooperation.

The negotiations weren't going to be done immediately, but they were on track, with Gal Gadot negotiating with Netflix on behalf of Studio Stanton, and Murphy putting the adaptation of the political novel on the agenda in addition to his modest publicity work.

At the same time, Murphy asked Stanton Studios to post a job posting for an experienced team of political drama writers.

The script of the TV series is much more troublesome and important than the movie, and after he determines the outline of the story, he will still hand over a clear division of labor to an assembly line team responsible for writing the specific plot content.

But as with the movies, the novel is just the foundation, and Murphy doesn't let the series follow the novel.

Movies and TV series are not literature, the two must be separated, the novel was literature before the adaptation, but once it appears in the form of a script and a video, it will wash away its literary qualities, and it will become a new art form.

In addition, images are more impactful than words, and the production of images should be more considerate of the current socio-political environment than novels.

For example, "Lolita" caused an uproar when it was released in the United States, and in order to make the film pass the review, even a large-scale director like Stanley Kubrick had to change Lolita's age from 12 years old to 14 years old, and at the same time deleted some of the oversized content in the plot, and deliberately increased the proportion of moral criticism and crime plots in the film.

Of course, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the novel is not all to satisfy the original film, but from the perspective of film creation, strictly control the content, delete or add to the content for the sake of artistic expression, and choose his own unique angle to shoot, so that this adaptation of the film with a very personal style is born.

The adaptation of a novel to a film and television work is not a matter of faithfully reproducing the original work, and the adaptation is not a simple conversion from one work to another, but the creation of another new work with its own depth, vitality, and autonomy.

Just as Stanley Kubrick made the necessary changes for the film, Murphy will now make certain changes according to the actual social situation - all the characters are darker, more sinister and more despicable than in the novel.

According to the traditional Hollywood protagonists, the main characters in this series are all downright villains, and there is nothing to be desired.

Sitting in the study, Murphy decided on a good train of thought, and once again picked up Michael Dobbs's novel, and the most conspicuous thing on the cover of the novel is undoubtedly the title of the book.

"" is a fixed expression in English, which literally translates to "a house of cards" in the way of the other side of the Pacific, and by extension, "an unreliable plan", which can also be interpreted as "in danger".

Of course, as Murphy used to call it, "House of Cards" would be more appropriate.

The name of this political novel directly reflects the actual content, the "house" of "House of Cards" refers to the House of Representatives, and "Solitaire" refers to the chips for playing cards, just looking at the title of this pun, you can guess that the male protagonist is playing the game of thrones on the complex and treacherous political table.

"Are you sure there is nothing wrong with such a protagonist?" Gal Gadot walked over from the side and picked up the novel on the table, "What he did was offensive, will the audience further dislike the whole show because they hate the main character?" ”

Murphy has already identified the names of several main characters and some characters, and she has also seen them, and she is not too impressed.

"No, it won't." Murphy seems confident, "Frank Underwood is no worse than the protagonist of Gone Girl, especially the heroine, think about it, dear, how many fans has Charlize Theron won after this movie?" ”

He thought for a while and said, "Times have changed, film noir will be popular, and dark dramas will be the same, and today's audiences have long been tired of watching the protagonists like good old people, and some bad and distinctive characters will also be sought after." ”

Gal Gadot returned to his desk, sat down and opened the novel, quite helpless, the protagonist in Murphy's works is not a good guy in the traditional sense of Hollywood, even Superman Clark Kent, who has been given a dark side by him.

Murphy dug out a bunch of information from the cabinet and said, "Good guys and bad guys are contrasted, and the male protagonist Frank Underwood is no worse than any character, he just dares to admit that he is a bad guy." ”

"Just like you?" Gal Gadot couldn't help but say something.

"My dear ......," Murphy said with an innocent face, "do you think I'm a bad person?" ”

Gal Gadot said unceremoniously, "Not a good guy anyway." ”

"Ouch......" Murphy let out a long sigh, "I hated bad guys when I was younger. ”

"So you're going to be a bad guy?" Gal Gadot opened the book and didn't look at Murphy, "Is that so?" ”

Murphy didn't answer her, but asked, "Honey, do you know what the scariest thing is?" ”

Gal Gadot looked up and looked at Murphy in surprise, "Do you still think it's scary?" ”

"Of course, everyone has it." Murphy rummaged through the information he needed and said, "The scariest thing in life is to grow up and gradually become the person you hated when you were a child. ”

"Alright, you're busy."

There is no need to negotiate today, Gal Gadot is also ready to take a break from reading this novel that is favored by Netflix.

Murphy nodded, and didn't speak anymore, concentrating on reading the information, he just took out some basic explanations about American politics and institutions, the novel "House of Cards" has been written for a long time, and it has been filmed by the BBC miniseries before, and many things are really jokes if they are copied from the novel.

The new series must be in line with the current political environment in the United States, which is the most basic point, although Murphy has watched the series, but he has only seen it, and if he doesn't even know the most basic political system in the United States, he wants to write a good story synopsis......

He's not that stupid.

So, before writing, Murphy asked CAA to send a lot of relevant materials, which are the basis for the adaptation.

The political environment in the East and the West is very different, and he doesn't even know much about the institutions on the other side of the Pacific, let alone the United States.

For example, Frank Underwood's position as the party whip, Murphy was confused before, and it is easy to understand after reading the relevant information that it is the third-in-command of the party (the first is the speaker, and the second-in-command is the majority leader), which is equivalent to the discipline inspection committee that protects the interests of the party.

Frank Underwood is the whip of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, which means that he is second only to the Speaker and the Majority Leader in power, and is a veritable big man.

After reading more information, Murphy learned more about the word whip derived from the English "whipper-in-thefellow", which is a role in managing the hounds during fox hunting in England, and the main job is to persuade party members to vote according to party rules.

It is also necessary to understand the political stance of the Democratic Party.

Of course, Murphy will also borrow some plots from multiple novels, after all, Michael Dobbs, the author of the original novel of "House of Cards", was the deputy chairman of the British Conservative Party, and writing such a political struggle plot is both reasonable and realistic.

Any screenwriter in Hollywood knows that if you want to write about politics, if you don't even understand the most basic system, you will be timid everywhere.

Therefore, for a long time, Murphy did not start writing the story and script outline, and was still in the preparation stage of reading relevant materials.

At the same time, he also set the tone for more of the series.

For example, the show can't be caught up in the "left or right" position choice, or indulge in the facial satire of politicians, but boldly show politicians' transactions in an almost straightforward way, blatantly talk about political skills, maybe the real American political picture will not be so condensed, but the details in the play should make the audience seem to see the shadow of reality when watching.

This shadow doesn't necessarily need to be completely real.