"You can't expect everyone in the audience to have the same level of viewing as the Oscar jurors!"

"Just because you eat the most burgers and fries doesn't mean you don't have the ability to identify what's really delicious!"

The sound of an argument through the wall disturbed Kate, who was doing aerobics along with the TV footage, and she walked out of the room wrapped in a sweat towel and protested with her eyes to the two men who were arguing.

"Don't worry, we're just ...... Discuss the issue! ”

Jude secretly gave Leet a look and asked him to cooperate with him.

Despite his reluctance, Leet didn't want to Kate off.

"That's right, we're just talking about things, we're definitely not arguing."

"Whether you're discussing issues or arguing, please don't be so loud, I don't want to be complained about by the next-door neighbor!"

The next room soon began to play aerobics music again, and Jude and Leeter finally gave up the idea of continuing to argue about the issue after a half-minute silence at each other.

Li Tet put his hands on the dining table, leaned forward and said: "We will not discuss the question of whether the audience can accept it for the time being, first of all, whether there is a film company that will invest in this film, and what budget do you think can make this movie?" ”

Jude roughly estimated the cost of the film and replied, "At least $30 million." ”

"So you only have enough money to make half a movie?"

As Jude's agent, Leeter is well aware of Jude's current asset situation.

"A tenth, to be exact." Jude corrected and explained: "During this time, I bought some stocks through a Wall Street agent, and it probably cost more than $8 million before and after, plus the $3 million spent on the film adaptation rights to 'Byrne's Identity.'" I actually have less than $3 million left in my account right now. ”

"I suddenly miss you before I went to prison!" Li Teh pursed his lips with emotion, "Although your reputation was a little worse at that time. But it hasn't been done yet, and the crazy act of spending tens of millions of dollars in a few months has not been done! ”

Jude didn't want to explain to Leeter how much of the $10 million he had invested now would pay off in the future, and to bring the conversation back to business.

"That's not the point of our discussion. The point is that I didn't plan to invest myself from the beginning, we can do a bundle like "National Treasure", the producer, director, and starring are all our people, and the film company is only responsible for the investment. ”

"But the question is, if we come up with such a plan, who will invest in us?"

It's a realistic question, and one that Litter has wanted to ask for a long time.

"Don't worry, I'm not done yet!" Jude interrupted Lee's complaint, "I bought the film adaptation rights of Robert Rudrum's entire Bourne series, which means that there will be three films in this series. It's too time-consuming to shoot one by one, and it will be very troublesome to just make up the actors' schedules in the future, so I decided to shoot three at once, so as to save money and manpower to the greatest extent. ”

"Byrne's Identity" is also more widely known as "Spy", and one of the unique features of this series is that each sequel is of higher quality than the previous one, while maintaining this trend at the box office.

Jude has always emphasized that he will not regard "Mission Impossible" as an opponent, but he has never underestimated Tom Cruise's famous work, and only the third part of the "Spy" series can barely compete with "Mission Impossible 1" at the box office, but the plot of the "Spy" trilogy is closely linked. The first part can be taken out separately, but the second and third parts must have the previous story as a foreshadowing.

Since one movie can't win Tom Cruise, then three of them will be on together, and that's Jude's plan.

Lunatic!

Have one's head in the clouds!

That was the only thought of Litt after hearing all of Jude's plans.

In Hollywood. Litter has only heard of a box office success where a studio would use back-to-back sequels to shoot back-to-back sequels when confident they would, but this is rare. The reason is that few sequels in Hollywood can surpass their predecessors at the box office, and shooting a sequel in such a situation requires a lot of risk. Not to mention that the two were filmed together.

didn't even have a successful predecessor, so I wanted to shoot three in one go. Such a plan is no different from a fantasy.

Just to make one, with the fame Jude accumulated through three films and the influence of the original novel, Litte still has the confidence to persuade the film to invest in this project.

Three films are filmed together, sorry, are you all fools when you are an executive in a film company?

Li Tee felt that as long as he dared to say this request, he would definitely be treated as a psychopath by the other party.

Looking at Litt with a frenzied expression on his face, Jude suggested very seriously: "The last time we met, Mr. Ovitz said that he would fully support my next film, maybe you can ask his opinion first." ”

If eyes could kill, Jude would have died hundreds of times by now.

"Are you kidding me? How could Mr. Ovitz accept such an outrageous request! Leet stared at Jude with wide eyes.

"Disney can't do it, you can also go to Universal, Warner, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount, MGM, Sony, no, there are independent production companies such as New Line, Searchlight, Miramax, Lionsgate, I believe there will always be people who will be interested in this project."

Leet was so desperate that he could even imagine himself being ridiculed by the top brass of various film companies.

"Three movies in a row, even Spielberg didn't dare to make such a request, who did he think he was?" This was Ovitz's first reaction when he learned about it, and when he made sure that Jude's request was not just for Disney, but for all possible collaborators, he made it clear that it would never succeed.

Littlet then visited Universal, Warner, and Twentieth Century Fox, and at first heard that he had brought Jude's new film plan, and the reception of these three companies was very warm, Warner and Twentieth Century Fox sent a senior vice president and an executive director respectively to be in charge of the reception, and Universal's president Ron Meyer even took the time to meet Leeter in person.

It's a pity that when they heard about Jude's plan to shoot three films in a row, the vice presidents of Warner and Twentieth Century Fox expressed disbelief.

"This is the craziest idea I've ever heard, and I wish you all success!" That's the answer from Warners Senior Vice President Saman Ryan, and Twentieth Century Fork's executive director, James Keynes, said directly that if any company executive accepts the plan, then he must not want to continue in his current position.

Compared with the previous two companies that collapsed as soon as they met, Leete's experience in Universal Company was quite good.

Universal's president, Ron Meyer, one of CAA's five founders, left CAA before Ovitz to take his place in a senior position, after the former president voluntarily resigned due to the box office fiasco of "Waterworld of the Future."

In the first words of the meeting, Meyer mentioned Ovitz.

"I'm curious, since you have Jude's new film plan in hand, why don't you go talk to Ovitz first?"

Li Te explained the reason with a wry smile, and when he heard that Jude was preparing three consecutive shots, Meyer couldn't help frowning.

"Allowing such a plan to appear in front of the top management of the film company, I have to say that your job as an agent has made a major mistake, and you should know that this is a plan that will not work at all!"

"It's because I'm accountable to my employer that I'm in Mr. Meyer's office."

Meyer couldn't help but shake his head after listening to Leeter's explanation, "You should really learn from Ovitz about this, the artist should be a pawn in the hands of the agent, not become an agent and be at the mercy of the artist at will." ”

"I only agree with half of this sentence, if Locke's identity was just an actor, I would definitely try to turn him into a pawn of mine, but he is also a director, I want to say that there are really not many talented directors in Hollywood who are as good-tempered as Spielberg and willing to accept the arrangement of the agency."

Meyer glanced at Leeter with some surprise, "I didn't expect you to have so much confidence in Locke, but don't forget that when he was an actor before, he was defeated in the arrogance and jealousy of others after his career and influence reached its peak, don't you think the current situation is like history repeating itself?" ”

Meyer's meaning is obvious, he thinks that Jude's self-confidence has swelled rapidly after the success of the two films, otherwise he would not have come up with such a completely unacceptable shooting plan.

If he hadn't seen those scripts that Jude registered with the Writers Guild, Littlet would have agreed with Meyer, but that wasn't the case.

Litter knew very well that the hardest part of Jude's plan to shoot the "Spy" trilogy was to convince the film company to invest, and whether the three films could be made well was the least concern for him.

From this point of view, Leeter does have a lot of confidence in Jude.

"I can assure Mr. Meyer that Locke's script is no less wonderful than the original novel, and that it takes a lot of risk to shoot three films together, but the benefits are also huge."

"Your argument convinces me, but not the board, so I can only say I'm sorry." Meyer shrugged his shoulders regretfully.

Leete had been prepared for such an outcome, and prepared to leave in advance with a briefcase.

"Ritter, have you ever thought about persuading Locke to shoot the first part first, as long as the box office results are satisfactory, the second and third parts can be filmed back-to-back, this plan is more feasible to operate."

Meyer's voice came from behind him.

Litt paused as he reached to pull the armrest of the glass door, then turned around and shook his head regretfully.

Although he had already guessed that this would be the outcome, Meyer couldn't help but be disappointed, and he shared the same belief that Jude's plan would not be accepted by any film company at all, and that Littlet was just doing useless work. (To be continued......)

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