In 1998, there was a British director named Guy Ritchie, who wrote and directed his first film, "Two Big Smoking Guns".

Before making this film, Guy Ritchie had made a 20-minute advance version of the short film "The-Hard-Case", which touched the wife of music superstar Sting, and relied on the other party's investment to make the film "Two Big Smoking Guns".

However, as Guy Ritchie prepared for a long time, the other party said that the investment was less and less, from the initial 20 million pounds to the end only 1.6 million pounds. Seeing that the investment would be worth all the money, Guy Ritchie decisively began filming.

The scheduled famous actors ran away because of the long preparation time, so they could only temporarily pull people to act. There were petty traders who were pulled in, retired boxers who were pulled in, and even an actor who had just been released on bail from the police station and who had been arrested for assaulting a neighbor.

In the end, this mixed and shabby £1.6 million cost film was finally made.

As a result, after the filming was completed, the distribution problem ran into trouble again, because the movie said "F-U-C-K" 125 times in different postures and tones, and the plot structure was still loose into a line, and the style was too different. There have been 10 British publishers who refused to release "Two Smoking Guns".

It wasn't until Guy Ritchie showed the film to Tom Cruise that he introduced it to Columbia Pictures for distribution.

After its release, "Two Smoking Guns" rushed to the third highest box office in British film history in one fell swoop, and won nominations and awards for many awards, allowing Hollywood to know Guy Ritchie, a talented director. So Guy Ritchie kept going. filmed a similar style of "Robbery and Abduction".

"Robbery and Abduction" broke the record for the highest box office in British film history, and allowed Guy Ritchie to hook up with Madonna, the first sister in the music industry at the time. Even married.

These two films are known as the masterpieces of multi-line narrative films.

And it is different from classic films such as "Pulp Fiction", which is another kind of multi-line narrative film representative and composed of multiple stories. "Two Big Smoking Guns" and "Robbery and Abduction" are different clues interspersed with a story, creating a new form of multi-line narrative and the pioneer of a new style.

In 2006, multi-line narrative films finally appeared in China, and Ning Hao borrowed (localized, or plagiarized) "Stealing, Robbing, Abduction", and made the shocking and acclaimed "Crazy Stone", which became a shot in the arm for Chinese domestic films that year.

"Crazy Stone" and "Robbery and Abduction" are all stories of several waves of people surrounding a gem, and all kinds of mistakes and jokes happen.

are also low-budget comedies, which eventually won a high reputation and a good box office.

left a strong touch of color in film history.

It can be said that it is a movie with a very high score.

Even though "Crazy Stone" was criticized as a suspected plagiarism movie. It is still a height of domestic comedy, and there are few domestic comedies in the future that can surpass the reputation of "Crazy Stone".

Zhang Tan couldn't put down this kind of cult-style movie in his last life, and he watched it N times repeatedly, so when he wanted to make a movie, his first thought was to make a multi-line narrative movie.

The world became plausible as he was reborn as he read the file.

Guy Ritchie. Unfortunately, Guy Ritchie is gone, "Two Smoking Guns" and "Robbery and Kidnapping" are of course gone, and "Crazy Stone" is unlikely to appear.

Leave a blank slate.

Multi-line narrative film. It will be carried forward in the hands of Zhang Tan.

"There are too many swear words in the big smoking gun, and there are too many gangsters and swear words in stealing, which basically can't be filmed in China. Looks like I can only shoot stones. ”

When Zhang Tan pondered, he actually wanted to shoot the big smoking gun the most.

These three films. Smoking guns and stealing are both strong British black humor, but the smoking guns are a bit cooler. Steal comedy a little more. The stone, on the other hand, is localized, with less black humor and more nonsense.

But if you want to shoot in China, you have to shoot it like a stone.

In the end, Zhang Tan's planned script was to shoot "Crazy Stone", but the name changed him to "Stealing, Robbing and Abduction", because in his previous life, the word crazy was almost used rotten.

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"I'm curious, Detective, why don't you make a martial arts movie?" At the dinner where the contract was signed, Wang Zhujiang, vice president and general manager of Huayi Brothers, picked up the cup and toasted Zhang Tan.

The distribution partner film and television company of "Stealing and Abduction" quickly discussed Huayi Brothers, the largest private entertainment company in the mainland. The cooperation between Huayi Brothers and Zhang Tan has a long history, as early as the first TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", it was a cooperative relationship, because Zhang Dabeard Studio is a studio under Huayi Brothers.

The film copyright of the Condor trilogy was also bought by Huayi Brothers, and in late October this year, the movie "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" has started shooting.

Zhang Tan raised his glass and smiled: "The copyrights of my novels have been sold, and none of them have been kept in my hands." ”

"The copyright is sold, you can think of new stories, you are the best martial arts writer in China, you shoot martial arts, it must be crazy." The king will tout.

"I've been writing martial arts for a few years, and I've written almost every martial arts story I can think of, and now I don't really have much inspiration. But I will definitely make some martial arts films in the future, and I now regret selling the film copyright of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" to Orange Sky Entertainment, I like the story in it, and I should keep it for myself. ”

Hearing this, the king said regretfully: "You should have asked Mr. Li to sell the copyright to our Huayi Brothers, and when you want to shoot it, say it, you will definitely hand over the film to you to shoot it yourself." ”

Li Yan shook her head: "It's not that you don't sell it, it's that you couldn't eat it at that time, Tan Zhang's novel copyright price is the copyright with the highest gold content and value in the current market." ”

"Well, I should have gritted my teeth and raised the price again." The king will be greatly sorry.

The copyright of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" has also been sold, there is nothing to regret, and Zhang Tan doesn't care very much: "Although the copyright was sold to Orange Sky Entertainment, it is only the copyright of the first version, and I will be able to take back the copyright after filming." When the time comes, you can shoot as much as you want. ”

The film and television adaptation rights of Zhang Tan's novels are all one-time copyrights, which means that only one can be made, but the sequel has priority. Of course, the copyright has a protection time, and all of them are set for five years, which means that the copyright held by the other party is unique within five years, and Zhang Tan can resell the copyright after five years.

Five years have passed in a flash, and Zhang Tan can afford to wait.

"That's good, when you shoot "Smiling Proud Jianghu", our Huayi Brothers will definitely be the first to cooperate." The king drank the wine in the cup and ate two peanuts, "Actually, I personally want to participate in the investment of this "Robbery and Abduction", not only responsible for the distribution. ”

Li Yan smiled and declined: "The investment cost of this film is not large, millions of small-budget films, Luying can be produced independently, and the scale of investment will increase in the future, and it is indispensable to cooperate with Huayi Brothers to invest." ”

The king will no longer insist: "This can be said to be good, our Huayi brothers welcome cooperation with the inspector at any time." ”

The issuance contract with Huayi Brothers is generally more beneficial to Luying.

When the total box office is less than 100 million yuan, Luying and Huayi Brothers will split the account 55 percent, and if it exceeds 100 million yuan, Luying and Huayi Brothers will share the account.

The production cost is also the cost of shooting, the current estimate given by Zhang Tan is 5 million yuan, and the distribution cost includes publicity, channels and other expenses, which is much more than the shooting cost, Huayi Brothers promises not less than 15 million publicity and distribution costs, and depending on the box office income in the mainland, to determine the cost of overseas publicity.

After several days of detailed negotiations between the two companies, the issuance contract was finally finalized.

After signing the contract, Zhang Tan made the east and invited Wang Zhujiang and others to have dinner at the five-star Gujing Holiday Hotel in Hexi.

Between pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Zhang Tan roughly planned the filming time of the movie: "Not surprisingly, I will start filming after the year, and the basic framework of the crew has been prepared. Casting and filming can be completed in about half a year, and with post-production, the entire production cycle should take half a year. ”

Lord Wang will nod: "If it takes half a year, it will be just in time for next year's summer file, and the publicity is a little tight, so after the movie is reviewed, we will immediately start to arrange the publicity." ”

Li Yanhui said: "Wang is always an expert in distribution, and we will fully cooperate with Huayi Brothers." ”

So.

"Robbery and Abduction" is all ready, just waiting for the start of filming. (To be continued.) )