After Christmas, Gal Gadot left Los Angeles and flew to Israel, where Murphy joined up with Carla Firth to begin a new round of negotiations with George Martin on A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fifth season of this magical series has begun to be filmed, and although George Martin has not hung up, his health is not as good as year by year, and the writing of novels is gradually lagging behind the TV series, but the audience attracted is increasing, especially die-hard fans.

The most important focus of the negotiations between the two sides is undoubtedly the distribution of interests, and for the follow-up copyright, Stanton Studios represented by Murphy and Kara Firth and Twentieth Century Fox made certain concessions to George Martin.

In general, the negotiations went quite smoothly.

In addition to the issue of distribution of benefits, Murphy also discussed with George Martin the development of a A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones spin-off.

"A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" is in its fifth season, and it can be said that it is in the late stages and will end in the next three to four seasons, but this kind of hugely profitable series, whether it is Stanton Studios or Twentieth Century Fox, will certainly not give up easily, and it is bound to squeeze all its oil and water.

Just like a series of movies, the popular TV series will continue to be filmed and produced, the sequel is not started, and there are prequels and prequels to be filmed.

In this series, a series of stories that happened before the first season are mentioned several times, and those past events are also hot topics for fans to discuss, and filming and producing a prequel is undoubtedly feasible.

Murphy talked to George Martin a few times, and after the end of "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones", the intention to start planning the prequel was basically agreed, and the intertwined history of Westeros was preliminarily sorted out, hoping to find a story with potential development.

Of course, it can only be said that things are still in the preliminary negotiation stage, and Murphy and George Martin are only exploring certain periods, and it is impossible to point out a specific period and time, and then make a decision to say "let's do this".

At the same time, Kara Firth will get all the resources available to Twentieth Century Fox and Fox Cable Network, and leave them to the "A Song of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones" crew.

There is no urgency in this kind of thing, Murphy and George Martin have basically reached an agreement, and there will naturally be professionals to follow up, and after he ended his negotiations with George Martin, he accepted the cover interview of Vanity Fair magazine.

Just after the New Year of 2010, Murphy in a suit and leather shoes appeared on the cover and title page of Vanity Fair at the same time.

Being the cover character of the first issue of the new year of "Vanity Fair" will naturally attract a lot of attention, and it also means that Murphy has launched the final sprint to the Oscar nominations that have already opened the voting.

"There were people who were Hollywood darlings, and I never felt like I belonged in that category. I feel like I'm a blue-collar worker, I'm willing to work twice as hard, and I don't have as much room to maneuver compared to other people. ”

This is the words that appear with Murphy's image on the cover character, and it is also Murphy's exact words in the interview.

On the title page behind the cover is an article about Murphy written by Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair.

"Cinema is not only an art, but also a business, and if a film can be well received, of course it is a good thing, but making a film must be commercially successful, and it must be profitable for investors."

At the beginning of the article, she quoted Murphy as saying, "Only by gaining the trust of investors can you keep getting opportunities to make the movies you really want to make." ”

This is followed by Tina Brown's description of what she knows as Murphy.

Born in Los Angeles, Murphy Stanton grew up in the slums and experienced a street gangster boyhood, which made his casualness, confidence and somewhat unruly personality always ingrained in Murphy's personality, and he had a unique charm in him when we interviewed him. And as he grows older, the once rebellious teenager has transformed into humility and determination, two qualities that have been throughout his career as an actor. ”

"When talking about the experience after entering the film industry, 'hard work' and 'perseverance' became the words that Murphy Stanton had on his lips the most."

"Now it seems that the Hollywood director's protracted battle in the film industry is enough to describe as a 'big win', and after years of hard work and perseverance, Murphy Stanton has been promoted to one of the most cost-effective directors in Hollywood."

"Murphy Stanton, who is going on a career as a director, doesn't plan to take a break in the next few years: 'I've never let my guard down, I've always felt like an outsider trying to break into the circle, so I've been trying. The more successful I am, the more motivated I am to keep trying. ’”

After the title page, there is the official page of this issue of Vanity Fair, and among all the pages, the content about Murphy is still at the top.

"Murphy Stanton has given the audience a new possibility, a broad space for movie lovers, a new way for fans to show off their skills, and a new style, logic, and even way of thinking to commercial films!"

For Murphy's interview, "Vanity Fair" does not use the traditional question-and-answer method, but uses a side description, in addition to those that have been reported many times, it also focuses on Murphy's director's ability to discover actors.

"Every rookie actor will shine in the hands of Murphy Stanton."

"Jessica Alba was only twenty years old when she first worked with Murphy Stanton, and before that, she was known as a vase of youth and beauty. Fortunately, Murphy Stanton focused on discovering Jessica Alba, and then created the role of Nancy, which can be called the classic "Sin City", and made Jessica Alba's acting career suddenly open up and became one of the representatives of actresses born in the 80s in Hollywood. ”

"Christopher Waltz was in his fifties when he starred in Inglourious Basterds, but he was still unknown, and Murphy Stanton emphasized one sentence when casting: 'What others don't need, may not be suitable for us!' An Oscar for Best Supporting Actor was born! ”

"For Jessica Alba and Christopher Waltz, Murphy Stanton is not only a director who has made them popular, but also a teacher who teaches them how to be true to themselves."

"Murphy Stanton has a unique pair of eyes, and in the same way, the actors who come out of his films have a pair of moving eyes, either pure or bright. He believes that the two most important principles of acting are relaxation and concentration, and only by being relaxed and focused can he show his true charm when acting, that is, the best state. ”

"Many Hollywood stars admit that it is every actor's dream to be able to participate in the work directed by Murphy Stanton, and they all hope to have the opportunity to participate in the work of director Murphy through their own efforts."

With the release of this issue of Vanity Fair magazine, Murphy appeared in the field of vision of more Oscar judges, and although the production style is destined not to be chosen by everyone to vote for him, as long as more people can think of him when they vote, it will be enough.

Of course, compared to the interviews accepted, there is still a lot of content in "Vanity Fair" that has not been written.

For example, in an interview, Murphy said that actors need to support each other in acting, and stealing the scene is a very bad habit.

Acting is never a simple and easy job, and it is not something that can be done by just pulling an actor, and acting requires mutual support.

Murphy always thinks that the words of actors in PK are a very bad and negative energy, the most typical is that each other should believe in each other and support each other, if one party is too weak, the whole scene will be unbalanced, which will also bring negative effects to themselves.

However, in Hollywood, if a person does not compete, he may never get ahead, this is the reality.

But if you ask Murphy what a good actor is and what a good performing team is, he will not hesitate to say that if there are actors who deliberately steal the scene and suppress the scene, he will talk to him well......

After entering 2010, "The Wolf of Wall Street" continued to be screened in North America, and in order to hit the Oscar nomination list, it also maintained a high number of theaters.

By the end of January, after two long months of screening, the film had grossed more than $226.8 million in North America, making it into the top 10 of the 2009 North American box office charts.

However, there is only one voice in the entire North American and even global film market, and that is "Avatar", and all the other films shown at the same time can only survive in the shadow of this epic monster movie, and without exception, they have been severely impacted, and "The Wolf of Wall Street" is no exception.

Since its release on the Thanksgiving holiday, the film's North American market potential has been exhausted, and Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox speculate that the film's North American box office is unlikely to exceed the $250 million mark, and the final destination may be between $230 million and $240 million.

After the overseas box office of "The Wolf of Wall Street" exceeded 200 million US dollars, it was also suppressed in overseas theaters, and it is still unknown whether the final global box office can exceed the 500 million US dollar mark.

Of course, in Murphy's view, as long as the film can get multiple heavyweight Oscar nominations, driven by the Oscar effect, the global box office of "The Wolf of Wall Street" will have a good chance of exceeding $500 million. (To be continued.) )