Leaving the Death Star Building where CAA is located, Murphy went to the California Medical School in the afternoon, made a brief inquiry, and went to the ward on the third floor to find his friend, who had just undergone surgery three days ago and only really woke up yesterday, and the doctor gave him extremely limited time to visit. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as he walked into the ward, Murphy was in the living room of the suite and saw a tall woman with blonde curly hair and a female director with long dark brown hair.

The former is of Germanic origin, while the latter is clearly of Italian origin.

Although they didn't deal with them directly, Murphy knew them, Uma Thurman of Germanic origin and Sofia Coppola, daughter of Francis Coppola.

"Hello, Miss Thurman. Hello, Miss Coppola. ”

Murphy greeted them politely, and since he didn't know them too well, he didn't say much, but walked into the ward under their guidance.

"Could this be an ex-girlfriend and a current girlfriend?"

Entering the hospital room and seeing the famous ruffian lying on the hospital bed, Murphy couldn't help but have such a thought in his head.

"Hi, Murphy."

The patient on the hospital bed saw him come in and raised his hand to beckon, and Murphy walked to the side, pulled a chair, and sat down to look at the strange-looking ruffian director.

"How?" Murphy frowned and asked Quentin Tarantino, who was hanging a broken leg, "Why did you hurt so badly?" ”

The person lying on the hospital bed is none other than the famous Quentin Tarantino.

Although Murphy no longer works with the Weinstein brothers, he has always been in touch with Quentin, because they share a lot of common insights about the language of cinema, and their relationship is quite good.

"Don't mention it......" Quentin Tarantino shook his head, "this time I got away with it, and my life was almost gone." ”

He said it briefly, and Murphy also figured it out, this guy joined a flying club under the introduction of Harrison Ford, and also successfully obtained a pilot's license, this time he actually had an accident when he was flying a small plane to take off, and the plane rushed off the runway, resulting in a comminuted fracture of his right thigh.

"Bad luck." This guy lay down and scolded several words starting with 'f' in a row, "The famous Quentin will definitely be laughed at if he broke his leg by a small plane." ”

Murphy reassured, "It'll be fine soon." ”

"It's going to be a year!" Quentin Tarantino held a finger up, "It will take at least a year for me to get back to normal, and even more if I want to work." ”

This kind of accident no one wants to happen to them, but if it happens, it can only be quietly recuperated.

Murphy didn't know how to comfort Quentin Tarantino when he heard that it would take so long to heal, and then again, he wasn't the kind of person who would comfort others.

Of course, the ruffian Quentin doesn't need the sympathy and comfort of others.

"I can't afford to spend such a long time." Quentin Tarantino looked at Murphy thoughtfully, "I signed a film contract with Weinstein Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox, and if I can't complete it on time, I guess I'm going to be unlucky......"

Murphy smiled, and with Quentin Tarantino's relationship with the Weinstein brothers, it was an exaggeration to say that the bad luck was just a bit of trouble at best.

Quentin Tarantino made a point of mentioning this in front of him, and Murphy speculated that Quentin wanted to use the good relationship between him and Twentieth Century Fox to remove the pressure from Twentieth Century Fox as much as possible.

This ruffian director is so miserable now, and Murphy doesn't mind helping him.

But what Murphy didn't expect was that Quentin Tarantino was referring to something else entirely.

"I heard that you don't have a work plan lately and are taking a break?"

Seeing Murphy nodding, Quentin Tarantino said, "The project I signed with Weinstein Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox has completed the script outline......"

"Stop, Quentin!" Murphy understood what he meant, raised his hand to interrupt him, and asked, "You don't want me to fulfill this director's contract for you, do you?" ”

"Not for it!" Quentin Tarantino emphasized, "I recommended you to be the director of this project, all the income related to the director goes to you, and the project has nothing to do with me except for the script." ”

Murphy frowned slightly and asked suspiciously, "What kind of director's contract did you sign?" ”

"I asked for the highest investment I've ever made in the movies." Quentin Tarantino was also a little helpless, "Correspondingly, there are a lot of restrictions on me in the contract, and in the contract signed with Twentieth Century Fox, if I can't complete the project on time, I'm afraid I will pay a lot of liquidated damages." ”

Murphy nodded slightly.

Hollywood is still a business circle after all, and the more you ask for it, the more you need to pay, which can make Quentin Tarantino feel a headache, and presumably this liquidated damages will not be a small amount.

"Twentieth Century Fox would have wanted me to convince Robert Rodriguez to take over the project."

After a pause, waiting for Sofia Coppola to fetch water, Quentin drank it, and then said, "But Robert is preparing "Scimitar Killing", the schedule and time are not suitable, I saw you just now, I think you are the most suitable person to take over." ”

Although the relationship between the two is good, Murphy can't just come down immediately.

Quentin Tarantino continued, "With your relationship with Twentieth Century Fox, they will not disagree, and the two of us have similar styles, so I can rest assured that I will hand over the project to you." ”

"Hey......" Murphy deliberately joked, "you say this like you're saying your last words." ”

The guy on the hospital bed didn't laugh, but said very seriously, "If you don't help me, I really have to give my last words." ”

It's rare to see the ruffian Quentin so serious, Murphy thought for a moment and said, "You have to let me know what this project is, right?" ”

"A story about World War II and Hitler." Quentin Tarantino saw that Murphy's attitude was relaxed, and quickly said, "I have completed the outline of the story, how to write the script, you can watch and figure it out yourself, as long as you can help me fulfill this contract." ”

World War II and Hitler? Murphy looked at Quentin, still thinking about it.

Quentin Tarantino finally caught a suitable candidate, where would he easily let go, "If you don't help me, I can only confess my last words to you." ”

"Let me think about it."

This kind of thing involves all aspects, and Murphy certainly can't agree here.

But Quentin Tarantino didn't give up, and then had his agent find Murphy and Bill Rothes and send him a framework outline of the script.

The main line of the story is not much different from what Murphy remembers, but it is only a few hundred words, and it needs to be written in order to become a qualified script.

After thinking about it for a few days, Murphy agreed, and Bill Rossius, along with Quentin Tarantino's agent, began negotiations with Twentieth Century Fox and Weinstein Pictures, both companies had worked with Murphy and had enough confidence in him, coupled with Murphy and Quentin's relationship with the two companies, the three parties reached an agreement smoothly.

In this project, Quentin Tarantino will not be involved in other aspects of production except for the nominal screenwriter and the outline of the story, and the project will be fully handled by Murphy, as for the remuneration and other treatments, Bill Roses needs to continue to negotiate with the two companies.

But there was a little bit of a problem with the fundraising of the project, and it was not this one project that broke the problem in the industry, and Hollywood seemed to have suddenly encountered a crisis.

Murphy also knows something about this crisis.

On the one hand, the economic crisis has emerged, which has affected the film and television industry, and the large studios, as a traditional force, have been shrinking their fronts.

On the other hand, a series of events have also occurred in the field of investment and financing of film production, and behind these seemingly isolated cases is the emergence and gathering of new capital and forces in the industry, as well as the transformation of the Hollywood industry pattern.

Although the continuous growth of the box office in recent years has largely stabilized the position of the film industry, on the other hand, the traditional business pattern and business model of the film and television industry are gradually being broken.

In addition, the impact of new media has caused existing businesses such as television broadcasting to face transformation.

The old order and pattern are gradually changing.

The first is that the major studios at the top of the food chain have chosen to streamline their military and shrink their fronts, even Disney, which is the most against the market. Due to the huge expenses of a number of large-scale transactions in the past two years, Disney is also currently significantly reducing operating costs and investing in its various companies.

In this case, the status of independent companies that used to be responsible for literary and foreign language films for major studios quickly ********, such as Disney, which pinned its hopes for the future on Pixar, and its once proud Miramax Company became a chicken rib.

In mid-September of this year, Cook Dick and Michael Eisner, who had been in power for many years, stepped down; In October, there was also a high-level change in the world, and the two owners both left; The mired MGM is once again on the verge of bankruptcy, with its debt soaring from $2 billion to $3.7 billion.

These have seriously affected the stability of the circle, and the general strikes that are brewing with the unions in various industries have upset the fragile commercial balance of Hollywood.

The project that Murphy took over from Quentin was also shocked, but Twentieth Century Fox had full confidence in him and promised to follow up on the project as soon as there was a slight improvement in funding and financial situation. (To be continued.) )