Jude's words eventually led to Leeter's decision to talk to Stephen Sommers, but at first he did not intend to use Jude's suggestion, but was prepared to start with Stephen Sommers' family.

The file shows that Stephen Sommers got married in 1993, and his wife Nova gave birth to a baby girl half a year ago, so there has been no news that he will take on a new film after the release of "Little Tarzan", and he himself has spoken out in public, hoping to spend more time with his family.

Therefore, Leeter believes that in order to become Stephen Sommers's agent, he must first have a good relationship with his wife and daughter.

Jude didn't care how Littlet tried to convince Stephen Sommers, all he needed was the final result.

Jude chose Stephen Sommers as the director of "National Treasure" with two considerations: in the long run, Stephen Sommers is a director with more potential, and the future "Mummy" series of movies will send him to the peak of his career; And based on the present, because of the successive success of "Little Devil" and "Little Tarzan", Stephen Sommers is very trusted by Disney executives, and as the director of the film, Ovitz will have less resistance to promoting this film project.

Therefore, the addition of Stephen Sommers will be the key to the smooth execution of the entire film project, and of course Jude did not tell Leeter about the scene, lest he be more stressed.

According to Jude's own analysis, he believes that Stephen Sommers has a high probability of agreeing to direct the script after seeing the script of "National Treasure", in addition to confidence in the quality of the script itself, it is more an intuitive judgment of Stephen Sommers's current situation.

The successes of two children's comedy adventure movies have made Stephen Sommers' directing career smooth sailing, but as a director, Jude can understand the helplessness behind Stephen Sommers' choice to accompany his family at this time.

Just like Anthony Hopkins refused to play the serial killer in "The Seven Deadly Sins" at the beginning, no actor wants to be completely stereotyped, and in the same way, no director will always enjoy making the same kind of movies.

Now Stephen Sommers seems to have a smooth career, but now nine out of ten film projects that ask him to be a director are of the same genre as "Little Devil" and "Little Tarzan", and if he continues to make such movies, it will be even more difficult to transform in the future.

It can be seen from one point that Stephen Sommers is also a director with more ideals and pursuits, and can resist the temptation of success. Confusion, give up immediate interests and pave the way for long-term career planning.

In another time and space, the price Stephen Sommers paid for this was that he could only do some screenwriting and production work for three consecutive years, and no more works came out.

In the end, Disney compromised and supported Sommers to shoot a sci-fi thriller film "Extreme Cold" with a drastic change in style, but unfortunately this big production full of Sommers's transformation ambitions suffered a box office waterloo after its release. At that time, the American audience could not accept Stephen's transformation at once, and the plot of the film also had many loopholes, and the film only got a total of $11.2 million at the box office in North America, which was a desperate box office fiasco for a commercial film that cost tens of millions.

Disney was "pitted" by Sommers once, but Universal benefited from it and hired Sommers to start filming "The Mummy" at a very small price, an adventure movie that combines fantasy, classical, adventure, thriller, comedy and other commercial elements, and finally won an astonishing box office of $415 million worldwide, achieving a new peak in Stephen Sommers' personal career.

In Jude's view, "Extreme Cold" is actually a very good movie, especially in the creation of a terrifying atmosphere, which is quite successful, but it is a pity that the timing of the release is not right and leads to a box office failure, but it is precisely because of the lessons and accumulation of this movie that Sommers's film style is more mature, finding a balance between the two elements of adventure and horror, and then there will be the success of the next two "Mummy" movies.

Stephen Sommers's biggest problem is that he transitioned too much at the beginning, and now Jude has taken out "National Treasure" is an adult adventure movie, which is a step further than Stephen Sommers's previous two children's comedy adventure films, although not much, but it meets the requirements of both Stephen Sommers and Disney - Stephen Sommers wants to transform, and Disney wants Sommers to continue to shoot the themes he is good at and have box office guarantees.

Getting Stephen Sommers done, Jude's "bundle" plan for "National Treasure" is already half successful, and the remaining half naturally falls on the film's starring Nicolas Cage.

Jude himself does not plan to direct the movie "National Treasure", in order to ensure that the box office of the film can be as successful as he remembers, he certainly hopes that the film will maintain the "original appearance" as much as possible, which means that the core actors are better to use the original cast.

But after all, this film was advanced by nearly ten years, and Nicolas Cage was chosen as the leading actor, in addition to maintaining the "original appearance" of the film to the greatest extent, Jude certainly has more important reasons.

Now Nicolas Cage has just made a name for himself in Hollywood, but Jude knows that this time next year, he will win an Oscar for his outstanding performance in the low-budget film "Leaving Las Vegas", and since then he has starred in a number of commercial films with excellent box office, establishing his status as a top actor in Hollywood.

1995 was a very special year for Nicolas Cage, when he had just finished "Leaving Las Vegas", and after a while, he should have received an invitation from the crew of "Death Island", and the time left in this period was just right for the filming of "National Treasure".

By the time the film is completed and released next year, Cage will already be the new Oscar winner, and whether it is Disney, Stephen Sommers, or Little, they will be extremely happy with Jude's decision.

Of course, all of this is based on Leett's ability to convince Nicolas Cage.

Although Nicolas Cage's current situation is somewhat similar to Stephen Sommers, both seeking transformation, the difference is that Cage is preparing to move more from literary films to commercial films, and "National Treasure" fits his requirements perfectly.

But the problem is not so simple, Nicolas Cage's current agency is CAA, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible for Litt to persuade Cage to jump ship to his side, but just in time for Ovitz to leave, CAA is in a turbulent period, and Littlet has a chance to start.

Even so, Nicolas Cage will have to pay millions of dollars in liquidated damages once he terminates his contract with CAA, and Leeter will definitely not be able to come up with that much money at the moment, so in the end, Jude has to help him with it first.