Li Tet directly wrote a distrustful expression on his face.

"I've read all the scripts you have registered with the Screenwriters Guild, and there are no spy war works in them at all!"

Jude spread his hands helplessly, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Do you know why the Oscars set two different awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay?" The answer you want is here. ”

This answer was indeed beyond Lee's expectations, he didn't expect Jude to quietly win the copyright of a spy war novel.

"Whose work?"

"Kate!" Jude leaned back and shouted at the gym.

Kate, dressed in a tight black bodybuilding suit, had a sweat towel wrapped around her neck and poked her head out of it.

"What's wrong?"

"Can you go to the study and help me get the novel I bought last week?"

"Last week?" Kate struggled to think about it, "The Identity of Bourne?" ”

"That's right, that's it."

Jude turned his head, only to see Li Tezheng looking at him with an incredulous expression.

"What's wrong?"

"I heard you right, you're talking about the book "The Identity of Bourne" written by Robert Rudrum?"

Jude was pleased with Little's surprised reaction, and couldn't help but show off: "I still have Mr. Rudrum's autograph on the title page." ”

"So you bought the film rights to this novel?"

"To be precise, the film rights to this series of novels, including "Bourne's Identity", "Bourne's Revenge" and "Bourne's Ultimatum". Jude closed the deal for three million dollars, and Robert Rudrum couldn't be happier with it.

"This is the book you wanted."

Kate took the copy of "The Identity of Bourne" from the study and reminded Jude not to touch the bookmark inside. That's her reading progress.

"Thank you!"

Jude leaned his head and kissed Kate on the cheek, turned the title page of the book, and showed Leet, who was sitting across from him, Robert Rudrum's signature. smiled and said, "Now you should believe that I didn't think of making this kind of movie because I didn't have a hot brain, right?" ”

Looking at the copy of "The Identity of Bourne" that Jude pushed in front of him, Leeter hesitated for a moment. Eventually picked it up.

"If you have business to do tomorrow, don't open Rudrum's novels!" Jude looked at Leet, who was about to start flipping through the novel, and joked, "I read this in the newspaper." ”

Robert Rudrum is known as the father of modern thriller spy fiction, and he is known for his rigorous and solid research on the background of international political forces, adventurous intelligence agents, and supernatural espionage operations.

Rudrum's novels usually adopt the structure of "small people meet big conspiracy", which has had a profound influence on later thriller writers, and Dan Brown, the author of "The Da Vinci Code", has publicly stated that he likes "Rudrum's plot layout" the most.

The Identity of Byrne is a 1980 novel by Robert Rudrum, which held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times book sales list for 25 consecutive weeks. This was followed by two sequels, Bourne's Revenge and Bourne's Ultimatum, in 1986 and 1990, which have been translated into 23 languages and published in 37 countries around the world, selling more than 10 million copies.

There is one thing that Leet has never told Jude, that is, he has actually read Robert Rudrum's novels for a long time, and in his first year of studying in the United States, in order to improve his English reading ability, the first novel under the dictionary was Robert Rudrum's "Nazi Files", and "Bourne's Identity" and "Bourne's Revenge" were also on his book list at that time.

There is such a copyright to Robert Rudrum's novel in hand, at least in terms of the content of the adaptation. Jude already has the strength to go toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible".

"I have no problem with adapting "The Identity of Byrne", but who is this Matt Damon?"

Jude pointed to the copy of "The Identity of Bourne" in Leett's hand, "The answer is in your hand, be careful not to touch Kate's bookmark when you turn it." ”

Litte quickly flipped through the novel in his hand. Towards the end of the page, a folded movie poster falls out.

Litte picked up the folded poster and looked at Jude: "That's what you're worth?" ”

At Jude's glance, he opened the poster.

"College Storm?" Litte subconsciously pronounced the name of the movie on the poster. Then he began to say to himself: "I have seen this movie, and I am more impressed by the many students in it. I was arguing to go to Harvard all day long, but I didn't even have the most basic character of being a human being. Of course, I still appreciate the American attitude towards education. ”

"But you wouldn't expect that one of the film's leading actors was actually admitted to Harvard." Jude said, clasping his hands.

"Are you sure you're not kidding me? Well, let me guess who this guy is! Litt picked up the poster again and took a closer look at the four young faces on it.

The one at the top of the list is a little familiar, it should be a person who has acted in some movies but is not famous, otherwise Li Te would definitely be able to call his name directly, so it was excluded first.

The guy in second place has a bit of the creamy feeling of Tom Cruise in his twenties, but this face is very unfamiliar, it should be a newcomer, and he was also excluded by Leete, on the grounds that generally handsome guys don't study very well.

The two actors in third and fourth place both have the kind of boy-next-door feeling, and the person Jude said could only be between these two people, but it was a little unsure of what it would be.

"This!" Jude didn't sell it again, and directly reached out and clicked on the third actor.

"He's the Harvard graduate?" Li Teh picked up the poster and looked at it carefully, this person did look very ordinary, but it was very in line with the image of a good student in his heart.

"Harvard majored in English literature, and after four years of study, there were 12 credits left before I graduated, and then I dropped out directly." Jude smiled and said, "Don't you feel like you've heard of such an experience somewhere?" ”

Leete reacted immediately, isn't this a male version of Kate?

was also admitted to the world's top universities, but finally gave up his studies because of his love for acting, and even the time to drop out of school was only one year apart.

"Wait, aren't we talking about Matt Damon? Why did it go to another person? ”

"Because he's Matt Damon."

Jude's words stunned Leet, and it took him a while before he reacted and said with difficulty: "He's Matt Damon?" Are you going to use a newcomer to play against Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible"? ”

Jude asked with a leisurely expression, "Is there a problem?" ”

Leet covered his forehead with his hand in pain.

"A rookie actor who is not well-known and not attractive enough, do you think you will have a chance of winning against Tom Cruise?"

"Correct your claim!" Jude picked up the poster of "College Scene", pointed to Matt Damon's avatar and said, "I asked him to be the actor of this play, not because he is more handsome than Tom Cruise or more famous than Tom Cruise, but because he looks ordinary enough." ”

"What?" Litter was completely confused by Jude's words.

"I advanced the plan to adapt the movie "The Identity of Bourne", and I was indeed ready to teach Tom Cruise a lesson, but this does not mean that I have to use "Mission Impossible" as a reference when making this movie, the other party is starring Tom Cruise, I should find an actor who is no worse than Tom Cruise in all aspects." Jude spread his hands, "If that's the case, the movie doesn't need to be made at all, just admit defeat!" ”

Litt didn't speak, as if thinking about what Jude had just said.

"The adaptation of "The Identity of Bourne" is not to defeat Tom Cruise's "Mission Impossible", I must first make it clear, it's not that I don't think "Mission Impossible" is not worthy of being my opponent, but I think it's a very stupid thing to position the meaning of this movie on defeating another movie, what I want to do is not to defeat a certain movie, but to defeat all the movies in this genre, and create a new genre of spy movies, which is the real mission of this movie!"

Leet rolled his throat with difficulty, he was really shocked by Jude's arrogant thoughts.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm not crazy! This plan is achievable, but only if you have to make subversive changes in multiple ways, and finding Matt Damon to be the male lead actor in this film is the first step in this plan. ”

After Jude put down the poster of "College Storm", he picked up the novel "Bourne's Identity".

"An important feature of Robert Rudrum's novels is the solid and rigorous research of the data, so the image of the agent in his novel feels very real, unlike the 007 series, where the male protagonist wears a custom suit, drives a sports car, hugs a beautiful woman, and shines like a light bulb in the crowd, such an agent is estimated to have been killed in reality before he even has a chance to appear. A real agent is supposed to be a very low-key person who walks in a crowd and doesn't attract attention at all, and Matt Damon fits that bill perfectly. ”

"So, you're going to make a realistic spy movie?"

Leeter didn't want to hit Jude, but he really wasn't optimistic about the plan.

"Mission Impossible" is a standard Hollywood commercial film configuration, the screenwriter is the famous Robert Downey, the director is the suspense master Brian de Palma, plus Tom Cruise, a big star, and Jude is now thrown out of several streets by opponents in other aspects except for a good adaptation of the story.

One is a popcorn movie with wonderful scenes, and the other is a new genre action movie with cold and realistic realism, and there is no suspense at all about how the audience will choose. (To be continued......)

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