"In fact, CAA is providing us with manager services."

Robert Downey Jr. is well aware of this, and he strongly advises, "There is really no need to join Michael Owitz's artist management company, the tug-of-war between the two will involve your energy and choices, and it will affect your position in CAA, and it will not be beneficial to the resources and treatment you will enjoy in CAA in the future." ”

Although he is only an actor, he is well aware of the importance of staying focused as a director, Murphy has always taken care of him, and he doesn't want to see Murphy make the wrong choice.

In Hollywood, sometimes one wrong step can lead to an abyss.

"I'm looking for a manager company, don't I want to add more people who share my pay?" It seems that Murphy is not thinking about the future of working with CAA, but he just doesn't want more people to share his pay, "I'm afraid it's going to be ten percent, right?" Then I won't do it! ”

After saying that, he laughed first.

Robert Downey Jr. gave him a middle finger in disdain, but he was also relieved.

He is also a client of CAA, and if Murphy leaves CAA, it will inevitably affect him as well.

To a large extent, Murphy is not only his friend, but also has a good understanding of him, and he hopes that the two can continue to work together to create their own glory.

"It's almost time." Robert Downey Jr. glanced at his watch and proposed, "If it's okay, let's go to Depp's bar for a drink?" ”

Murphy shook his head, "I'm going back to rest early, I made an appointment with Carla Firth to go to Twentieth Century Fox tomorrow morning to do marketing consulting on the project." ”

This is crucial to whether "Deadpool" can be established, and he must maintain enough energy.

After leaving the restaurant and parting ways with Robert Downey Jr., Murphy got into his car and drove slowly towards Santa Monica, and when he passed by Westwood, he made a special call to Gail Gado.

"What are you doing, my dear?"

As soon as he finished asking, Gal Gadot's slightly tired voice came from the earpiece, "I just cleaned the dormitory thoroughly and was ready to take a shower." ”

Thinking of Gal Gadot's slender and slender body, Murphy's heart was on fire, "Wait for me to come over, right?" ”

"Are you sure you want to come over?" Gal Gadot's words were full of playfulness, "Men are not allowed to stay in the dormitory, you can't come in at this time." ”

"Why don't you come out," Murphy suggested, "come home with me." ”

"I ...... I ......" Gal Gadot over there is also very tempted, but the education she received since childhood has also given her enough self-control, "It's better to wait for the weekend, I just came over, to get familiar with the environment and classmates, and ......"

She paused, but said, "We've been indulging for almost a week, and I'm overindulgent and have dark circles under my eyes, so I need to be in moderation." ”

"Okay then." Murphy sped up, "I'll pick you up over the weekend." ”

After a few more intimate words, he hung up the phone and drove straight home.

Maybe it was because the indulgence some time ago really consumed too much physical strength and energy, Murphy slept very soundly at night, and got up a little late the next day, because he had to rush to Twentieth Century Fox, he didn't do a routine exercise, he had a casual breakfast, and hurried out.

By the time Carla Firth accompanied him into a conference room, someone from the Twentieth Century Fox Project Review Committee was already waiting.

This project review committee is composed of nine people, who are responsible for judging the script, proposal and preliminary investigation data provided by the marketing department, and there are similar departments in almost any of Hollywood's slightly larger film companies, and any work that has reached a certain scale of investment must go through this process if you want to determine the project, especially after investing tens of millions of dollars, even the CEO does not have the power to decide on a film project alone.

It can be said that the review committee, like the completion guarantee, is a strong guarantee for the industrialization of Hollywood.

It is impossible for a situation in which the executives of a large Hollywood company will frantically scramble for a script and rush to invest in filming, regardless of the script, and the large Hollywood companies are all joint-stock without exception, with relatively perfect supervision and power structures and their constraints, and even the most basic system of film companies cannot be passed.

In the conference room, Twentieth Century Fox's nine-member review committee reached seven people, and when they met Murphy, they didn't ask any questions about art or the depth of the film, which were not their concerns, but about the preparation, shooting, production, and marketing of the film.

"Director Stanton," a black woman asked first, "are you sure that $60 million can be used to make a superhero movie?" ”

Before coming over, Murphy made sufficient preparations, "The film will be limited to a relatively small range, whether it is the people Deadpool touches or the battle scenes, there will be no super large scenes, and the selling point of the film is also special effects, and it will not use first-line actors, so the two most expensive aspects will be relatively economical." ”

Another middle-aged man with glasses asked, "Don't you think this will make the film lose a lot of highlights?" ”

"The highlight of a film is not to pile up countless special effects and big-name actors." Murphy sat across from them and replied calmly, "Deadpool's action scenes will be short and sharp, and they won't need too complicated special effects. ”

The biggest feature of the film is the mouth cannon and a variety of large-scale realistic action scenes, which do not require much special effects scenes.

"But what about the scale of R-rated films?" The white-haired old man in the middle asks the central question, "This will push the teenage audience out of the theater." ”

"We have to consider the audience and style of the comics, and the film will indeed be very different from the comics, but it is impossible to completely break away from the comics." The "Deadpool" comic itself is yellow and violent, which did not scare away viewers, and has accumulated a lot of loyal fans, so Murphy has this to say, "The audience I target is mainly 17 to 35 years old, and I think Fox also has statistics in this regard, this age group accounts for 51% of North American movie audiences!" ”

Although it is far from being comparable to PG-rated family fun and PG-13 teen films, such an audience is enough for the project.

Looking at the whole of North America, it is not uncommon for audiences under the age of 17 to run into theaters to watch R-rated films.

A relatively young man next to the old man suddenly asked about publicity, "In your plan, you have a proposal for propaganda to make Deadpool come alive in propaganda?" ”

"The most talked about thing about Deadpool, in addition to his cute personality, shape and invincible mouth cannon, is that he can break the fourth wall."

The so-called breaking the fourth wall is to give Deadpool himself the setting of knowing that he lives in the world of comics or movies, so that he can communicate directly with the audience and even the editor, from the real characters to other popular films, can become the object of his complaints, these Murphy are written in detail into the plan, "Therefore, I think that if the project is established and the film starts to be promoted, it is necessary to immediately determine the movie shape of Deadpool, so that his actor Robert Downey Jr. will appear in this world as the image of Deadpool." ”

After saying so much, Murphy felt a little thirsty, took a sip of the water glass in front of him, and then said unhurriedly, "Deadpool appears in the real world in a real image, actively participates in public activities, and creates light-hearted jokes in a cute way. We can set up a dedicated official website and blog for Deadpool, plus Fox TV as a platform to promote this content. ”

Nowadays, online social media is not developed, but blogs have had a huge impact since 911 and have always played a certain role.

The most important thing is that a seemingly stupid and cute Deadpool who constantly intersects with ordinary people is far more resonant with people than the kind of superhero who is high up.

"Also, for the sake of publicity." Murphy brought up another point in the proposal, "I'm going to make some of the plot of the film intersect with the X-Men. ”

"Cross-section with the X-Men?" The Jew sitting at the very edge of the seven said in a questioning tone, "If it's an ordinary X-Men character, it's not enough popularity and popularity!" For well-known enough roles, the actors' salaries are very high, even if Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, and Hugh Jackman make cameos, they will ask for the salary of a whole film, and their high salaries are beyond the production cost of the film! ”

"I didn't say I would show up for their characters?" Murphy looked at the Jew and said in surprise, "Deadpool is best at mouth cannons, I think it's more appropriate for him to use all kinds of fancy language to spit these well-known characters next to each other, the real appearance of the two X-Men, Colossus and the Black Queen, we can use newcomers who are not well paid." ”

Stanton Studios is coordinating with Twentieth Century Fox to invest in the film, unless Murphy is crazy, he will let these guys who have been outrageously paid because of the two "X-Men" sales in succession appear in their projects.

However, it is a good way to get the film to be linked to the already blockbuster "X-Men".

So, Murphy went on to say, "I think in the publicity, you can have Deadpool appear in the iconic images of the X-Men, like he can sit in Professor X's chair and get some Wolverine paws that match Deadpool's personality. ”

In the ensuing time, the members of the review committee asked Murphy a lot of questions related to the filming and production, and he also answered them one by one, compared to the previous Miramax, Twentieth Century Fox is larger, the rules and regulations are more perfect, and the possible investment scale of the film is placed here, it is impossible not to act cautiously.

In this world, any investment of more than 50 million US dollars will not be easily achieved, let alone see a script being fooled and made a decision with a few words in the head.

After Murphy dealt with Twentieth Century Fox and went around San Francisco with Gal Gadot over the weekend, he patiently waited for the outcome of Twentieth Century Fox, not only for the project, but also for the investment of Stanton Studios. (To be continued.) )