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"Finalized the director?" Murphy flipped through it for a moment and asked, "Is there a script?" ”

"The director is basically determined, it should be Ridley Scott," Carla Firth returned to her desk, rummaged through it for a while, walked over with a script, and handed it to Murphy, "This is the first version of the script, and it hasn't been finalized yet." ”

After she sat down, she raised an eyebrow and asked, "What?" Are you interested in this project? ”

"This can't be your project, is it?" Murphy was not polite, opened the script and looked through it, and many of the clips were basically similar to the impression.

"How could such a project fall on my head?" Carla Firth shook her head, "This is a project that Department Director Dave Scola is pushing through. ”

Murphy roughly flipped through the script and gave it back to Kara Firth, "A Little Blacksmith's Crusader Journey......"

"Do you think there's something wrong with this project?" Carla Firth knows Murphy.

"No one knows if there's a problem," Murphy said, shaking his head, "but don't you think that since the success of the Gladiator and Lord of the Rings series, there have been too many big-budget epics in Hollywood?" Every time Hollywood follows this trend, there is always a group of unlucky people. ”

"Like...... That's true. Carla Firth thought for a moment, "As far as I know, the epic films with an investment of $150 million are "Alexander the Great", "Troy", "King Arthur", and this project, and they are all concentrated in one or two years......

"It's easy to trigger aesthetic fatigue?" Bill Rothes took the call.

"No one can say for sure," Murphy said, spreading his hands, "but judging by Hollywood's past, it's likely." ”

When he saw the material, he had an idea, otherwise he wouldn't have asked Kara Firth, and then said, "I heard that Dave Scola is a guy who really likes to intervene in his own projects?" ”

Carla Firth nodded, "That's right, he's strong. ”

"Even if the director is Ridley Scott, presumably he won't give the final editing rights, right?" Seeing Carla Firth nodding again, Murphy propped up his chin and said, "Kara, it shouldn't be difficult to instigate Dave Scola to intervene in this crew with your means and without a trace, right?" You also know that Ridley Scott is at an inconsistent level, always making a good and a bad one, and if someone intervenes......"

"That's what I thought," Carla Firth laughed, and sure enough, Murphy, who had the most tacit understanding with her, "otherwise why would I be looking for this information." ”

Hearing these words, Bill Rothes looked at Murphy and then at Carla Firth, these two people are simply a dog, especially Carla Firth, who completely disregarded the interests of Twentieth Century Fox and even used a large investment project to seek his own personal gain.

But he didn't say anything, anyone who wants to go higher has to face fierce competition, and in commercial companies, this kind of legitimate competition is all too common.

"Bill," Murphy said suddenly, "remember Mike?" ”

"Huh?" Bill Rothes was a little confused and didn't know what Murphy was doing with him, "Does this have anything to do with Mike?" ”

"This project is not yet in preparation." Murphy said flatly, "You can find a way to pull him in." ”

Carla Firth looked at Murphy, "This Mike has a conflict with you?" ”

"He's looking for a private investigator to investigate me," Murphy said vaguely, "and that's the news I gave you back then, and maybe the one behind the last Director's Guild investigation into Sin City." But we don't have evidence, so we can't do anything about him for the time being. ”

"Want to investigate us?" Kara Firth sneered, "He's too naïve. ”

There are so many things in the media industry that are not visible, definitely only a lot more than Hollywood, but few of them have been poked out, and all companies have a tacit understanding in this regard, and they will guarantee their own secrets, and they will also protect the privacy of news producers, otherwise the work of this industry will not be carried out at all.

"You mean, dragging him into this project," Bill Rothes gradually understood, "and then, we're going to find a way to drag this project down?" ”

"It's not us." Murphy held up a finger and shook it gently, "It's Dave Scola." ”

He believes that Kara Firth has such abilities and means, and knows her unscrupulous way of doing things to achieve her ends.

The three of them discussed it again, and then the conversation got back on track.

"I was ruthlessly rejected by DC Comics and Warner Bros.," Murphy and Kara Firth said without being polite, "so I can only come back to you." ”

"Or Marvel Comics? Do you have a crush on that character? Carla Firth was also direct, "X-Men? Or the Fantastic Four? ”

"X-Men!" Murphy stopped talking nonsense and said, "Didn't I tell you? The X-Men are completely split shot. ”

"You want to shoot Wolverine? Or Magneto? Or Professor X's independent film? "Bill Rothes also doesn't know which superhero Murphy has his eye on.

Murphy shook his head, "No, there's no way Dave Scola can get Carla these A-list roles." All I want is Wade Wilson, Deadpool! ”

Kara Firth thought for a moment before remembering the character, "That chatter? ”

"That's right, the words in the X-Men are naggy and offbeat," Murphy asked Carla Firth, "He can only be counted as a second-tier character in the X-Men now, can you get the rights to his film?" ”

Bill Rothes looked at Murphy, it shouldn't have been a whim, and there was no interference.

Hearing Murphy's question, Carla Firth didn't answer, and muttered for a while before nodding, "Leave the copyright matter to me!" ”

Now, unlike in the past, she had persuaded Murphy to stay in journalism, but after four films, she had enough confidence in his talent and ability in film.

The pair's partnership in journalism has caused turmoil throughout the greater Los Angeles area, and Carla Firth believes they can succeed in the film industry as well.

However, if you want to win the copyright, you can't just rely on one mouth, Kara Firth said, "You always have to give me a script, a plan, to convince the people above." ”

Murphy nodded and said, "Give me ten days." ”

Agreeing on the most important thing, Murphy leaves the Fox Mansion and has Bill Rothes send him back to Stanton Studios in Santa Monica to begin preparing the script and plan that Carla Firth needs.

Due to the relatively short time of its establishment, the popularity of Deadpool now cannot be compared with ten years later, but among the superheroes of Marvel Comics, it is definitely a very unusual and special existence.

His abilities are outrageous, as he has two biggest differences from other heroes.

First of all, he is a very, very talkative character, and if you read the "Deadpool" comics, you will have the illusion that you are not reading a comic book at all, but reading a text-only novel, and he says a lot of things that donkey lips are not right and the horse's mouth is mixed with messy things.

This is because in the setting of Deadpool, he is very fond of nonsense, relying on his ability to die and talking nonsense all day long, which makes many heroes stay away from him, and his poisonous tongue kung fu can be seen.

Another difference is that Deadpool knows that he is in the comic book world, so Deadpool is in a state of "everyone is drunk and I am alone".

Also, Deadpool himself likes to enjoy very much, so he likes money very much, and he always talks about "just give money", with this purpose, he has also become "both good and evil", whoever gives more he works for whoever works - in fact, he has saved mankind many times in his series, but many decent heroes don't want to admit it, and Deadpool himself doesn't care about these - so his reputation is very bad in the whole hero world, but this doesn't affect his nonsense.

If you make a movie, among all the abilities of Deadpool, the most important is actually a mouth cannon.

Therefore, it is very important to find a cannon-type actor to play the lead role of Deadpool, and if the two complement each other, it will greatly increase the charm of the character and the film.

In fact, now is not the best time to make this film, once this alternative superhero movie was able to become popular, and the aesthetic fatigue caused by many routine superhero movies is not unrelated, when the audience is a little tired of the superheroes who appear one after another, "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", a 'the more capable and irresponsible' superheroes, can bring them a different kind of movie-watching excitement.

Nowadays, the only amazing superhero movies that are really popular are "X-Men" and "Spider-Man", and it is not yet the era when Marvel heroes are flying all over the big screen, and Murphy is very clear that the completion of this film now will inevitably be affected to a certain extent.

From the success of "Spider-Man", it can also be seen that the mainstream aesthetics of the current market, Peter Parker himself is also a mouth cannon, and Deadpool is the two major mouth cannons of Marvel Comics and unreliable, but the "Spider-Man" film has become a type of "hatred and bitterness" under the demand of the market, and the concept of "the greater the ability, the less responsible" has been widely spread.

However, Murphy has been in Hollywood for a few years, and he also knows very well that films like "Deadpool", which are noir-style, full of humor and large-scale pictures, have never lacked audiences in North America, perhaps because of time and environment, the film will not be as popular as it once was, but as long as the production quality and publicity and distribution are guaranteed, there are still not too many problems with big sales.

And such a film does not require much investment, and the pressure to return on investment and profitability is relatively small.

After the successive setbacks of Marvel Comics and DC Comics, Murphy wanted to enter the mainstream film industry, and he was able to make a hit, and there were not many options.

In order for Carla Firth to win the rights to the adaptation, it was necessary to have a good enough script and plan, and in the following time, Murphy focused almost all of his energy on this except for talking on the phone with Gal Gadot several times a day.

The script he wanted for Deadpool was anything from a typical movie script, the latter was story-based, while the former was character-centric! (To be continued.) )