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Military uniforms and weapons from World War II, Hitler's styling, Kodak's 35mm film, corresponding photographic equipment...... All these preparations were ready, Helena Espora also rushed to Paris early to set up the studio there, and Murphy took Philip Raschel and Gal Gadot to Paris three times to inspect the filming location. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Over the years, the ability of the whole team has been honed, with tacit understanding and skill, and the entire preparation work is being carried out in an orderly manner.

But some accidents still affected the normal operation of the crew.

This month, Hollywood's writers' strike broke out completely, and many crews had to shut down, but Murphy's script has been finalized, and the preparation of the "Inglourious Basterds" crew continues.

Of course, it is impossible to say that the screenwriters' strike has no impact at all, and some people in the crew are unstable.

Fortunately, the key members of all departments are old people who have followed Murphy for many years, and they are not too affected by the situation in Hollywood for the time being.

However, several screenwriters hired by Stanton Studios naturally joined the strike, and the union provided them with protection, and in turn they had to fight for the union to fight for their own rights.

There was more than one union with the intention of going on strike, but the directors' union and the two major actors' unions quickly reached an agreement with the producers' union, but the demands of the writers' union could not be met.

In fact, this also confirms one thing from the side, the status of screenwriters in the film industry is really not high, and the conditions proposed by the screenwriters' union are far lower than those of the directors' union and the actors' union, and they are still rejected by the producers' union without hesitation, as if the screenwriters are not worth the price at all......

Under Hollywood's industrialized assembly line system, the importance of screenwriters has been reduced to a very low level, and looking at the several strikes in Hollywood in the last two decades, the screenwriters' strikes in 1988 and this year are the loudest.

If this kind of thing is to be resolved, the two sides can only sit down at the negotiating table, but the differences between them are really big.

The strike quickly spread throughout Hollywood, with 12,000 screenwriters taking part and many taking to Hollywood Avenue in protest.

The last time the Writers Guild went on strike was in 1988, lasted 22 weeks, and cost the industry more than $500 million, and this strike is bound to cause even more pain, because the entertainment industry has grown into a giant beast that generates tens of billions of dollars a year, even if you don't count peripheral industries.

If you include peripheral industries, it can account for about 8% of the total economic output of the United States, and the latest statistics obtained by Murphy show that the total salary of Hollywood film and television industry employees last year exceeded 100 billion dollars!

This shows the huge size of this industry and the huge value that can be generated.

Despite the dramatic drama of the Writers Guild, from the perspective of the overall strategy of the future, Hollywood manufacturers, with the six major companies as the main body, will not compromise easily at all, and they appear to be united enough in this regard.

Not to mention the big six companies, even a third-tier production company like Stanton Studios, even if the screenwriters involved in the "Inglourious Basterds" project go on strike, Murphy will not easily make concessions in terms of interests.

It's okay to give a little sweetness, but you can't open the head to make huge concessions, and once it's opened, you can't take it back.

Capital has always been born in pursuit of profit, even for a very small capitalist like Murphy.

As a result, a number of film and television dramas inevitably became temporary victims.

On the day the strike began, all talk shows were immediately suspended, and then "24 Hours" announced that this season was canceled, becoming the first unlucky TV series, the sequel to "The Da Vinci Code" "Angels and Devils" was postponed and became the first unlucky movie, "007: Quantum of Solace" was also temporarily suspended to join the bandwagon, and DreamWorks highlight "The Adventures of Tintin" was also temporarily put on hold......

Negotiation was a must, and as the owner of Stanton Studios, Murphy put aside the preparations at hand for a while, handed over the crew to Carla Firth, and together with representatives from other production companies, formed a negotiation team to negotiate with the writers' union.

In this regard, the interests of all production companies in Hollywood are aligned.

Despite the writers' strike in full swing, the negotiating team showed a tough attitude, and even if they sat back at the negotiating table, they would not give in easily, and the strike continued.

Murphy spends most of his time watching, and with the weight of Stanton's studio, he doesn't have much to say, and he doesn't need to come out, this kind of thing is enough to go with the crowd.

Entering 2008, Hollywood did not have the slightest joyful New Year's spirit, and the shadow of the strike hung over the heads of the whole of North America.

The Golden Globe Awards ceremony was cancelled and replaced with a press conference.

Everyone started to worry about next month's Oscars, and if the Oscars were also canceled, it would not only be a loss in terms of money, but also the face of Hollywood......

Wall Street even issued a warning that if the strike lasted for five months, the economic damage would be as high as $30 billion.

The strike cannot last, this is the consensus of everyone, and although the $30 billion figure is pure Wall Street, if the strike lasts too long, it will definitely affect the interests of all Hollywood companies and practitioners.

Negotiations continued, with Murphy participating in one of the most important negotiations between the Producers Alliance and the Writers Guild in late January, in addition to preparing for Inglourious Basterds.

Of course, Murphy, like the bosses of so many small Hollywood companies, spent most of his time watching the negotiations.

The Producers League side features News Corp. President Peter Schelney, Disney CEO Robert Iger, and Producers League President Nick Conte, with direct confrontation with Writers Guild President Veron, West Coast Writers Guild Executive Director David Young, and Guild Coordinating Committee Head John Bowman.

The strike showed signs of an end.

Unlike the unhurried negotiations between Hollywood's major production companies, the film industry is most worried about the shutdown of the Oscars, which is Hollywood's biggest decorative façade, and no one wants to see the shutdown happen.

To this end, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences canceled the nominee luncheon and changed it to a press conference to announce the nominees.

Previously, many media outlets have campaigned for "Man of Steel", advocating that the superhero film should be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture or Best Director, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has always been stubborn, and the discrimination against superhero movies and science fiction films has not only been formed in recent years.

In the newly announced 80th Academy Awards, "Man of Steel" won five nominations, including Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Effects and Best Sound Editing.

There were a lot of nominations, but all of them were from technical awards, and none of the heavyweight awards were shortlisted.

After the nominations were announced, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was very worried about the shutdown of the Oscars due to the writers' strike, and they were prepared for this, and if the strike continued, the academy would launch an emergency gala.

In addition, the college also sent a special person to intervene in the negotiations, urging the two sides to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

The fragile economic situation in the United States will definitely not be able to withstand the torture of a long strike, and Hollywood has been tied to Wall Street since several years ago, and if there is an accident in Hollywood, not only the entertainment industry will have problems, but it will even exacerbate the turmoil on Wall Street.

Except for the first two times, no one from the Writers' Guild has ever come to Murphy again, everyone knows that he is the owner of Stanton Studios, and it is actually very easy to judge which side the ass will sit on in this kind of incident.

As the strike dragged on for a longer period of time, the impact on Hollywood and its surrounding industries became more and more significant, and even the crew of "Inglourious Basterds", which had been relatively stable before, was panicked, and Murphy simply gave the crew in preparation a week's vacation and waited for the strike to end before returning to work.

The only way to end this strike is to make some concessions on both sides, and there is no other way out.

Murphy knows this, as do the Writers Guild and the Producers' Union.

In order for any industry to function normally, both labor and management must abide by the "rules of the game" of mutual recognition and fairness, and it seems natural that the entire entertainment industry should share a share of the tens of billions of dollars in profits every year to screenwriters.

However, capital is born to pursue profits, and to move the cake of commercial groups is undoubtedly to dig meat from capitalists.

The main point of disagreement between the two parties is that the producers demand that they pay part of the remuneration after recovering the cost of the film and TV show; Screenwriters, on the other hand, demand that the treatment of screenwriters in films, TV dramas and reality shows be increased, and that producers must pay screenwriters a DVD share of up to 3 percent, and that the revenue share of on-demand downloads of programs should also be increased from zero to 4.5 percent.

This condition is absolutely unacceptable to the production company and the producer alliance, and it is tantamount to robbing the interests of investors like Murphy.

In mid-February, the see-saw negotiations between the Producers Union and the Writers Guild finally reached a tentative agreement, with Hollywood's major studios making certain concessions, and the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild signing a temporary three-year contract.

The contract not only increases the basic salary of the screenwriter, but also earns the screenwriter a revenue share of 1.5 percent of the DVD and 3 percent of the revenue share of the online on-demand broadcast, which not only includes the works from now on, but also the previous works can also take a certain percentage from them.

The writers' strike is over for the time being, and the writers' union sent an email to each member, calling on everyone to return to work immediately.

"The strike is over, and tomorrow, the writers will be in their places and everything will be back to normal."

Murphy's crew also returned to normal, and after casting Michael Fassbinder, Christopher Waltz and Margot Robbie through auditions, he flew to Paris with the entire crew and set up on a set in the suburbs to prepare for the start of filming. (To be continued.) )