Although Lin Mingyang tried his best to clear up the contradictions with Hillary Duff at the press conference, after the deliberate exaggeration of the Hollywood media, this matter finally evolved into a rumor of discord between Lin Mingyang and Hillary Duff.

"You know, at that time, MGM just had the intention of letting Hillary Duff come and play that movie with me, and I didn't plan to play that script at all, I really don't know if those reporters had a problem with their brains, I said it clearly enough!" In his own ward, Lin Mingyang finally couldn't help but lose his temper.

"You have to understand, that's what entertainment journalists do!" A tacit understanding has been formed between Ackes and Lin Mingyang, when one person is angry, the other person is always used to keeping his senses, "At least one good thing is that everyone is no longer staring at those things between you and Angelina Jolie now." ”

"But I think it's even worse, there can only be called an affair between me and Julie, and now this is basically a scandal!" Lin Mingyang's mood was very low, "Look at what those reporters write in the newspaper, what kind of person have I become in their eyes now, narrow-minded and deliberately retaliatory villains?" ”

"I know you've been stressed a lot lately, but things aren't as bad as you think." When Ex was at Disney before, he had dealt with similar scandal crises, at least he could find a way for Lin Mingyang to solve the problem. "You've got to react to it, but not as negatively as you are now."

"Do you have any good advice?"

"I think the Disney Company should be able to help us resolve this crisis." "Actually, they're more anxious than you are right now, because they're counting on you to make more money for them in the sequels to 'Musical' and 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' so they definitely don't want to see you discredited, at least not now," Ex affirmed. ”

"So what should we do?"

"Hillary Duff is also a popular Disney star, and the most direct way to prove that there is no such contradiction between you as the media says there is is is a cooperation between you, so that all the rumors will be self-defeating." Ex analysis.

Lin Mingyang frowned, "To what extent do you need to cooperate?" ”

"When you co-star in a movie, the best thing to play is that kind of relationship." Ex said with certainty: "Disney has implicitly proposed such an idea to me, in addition to trying to resolve this crisis, it is likely to be affected by the box office of "Cinderella's Glass Phone". The guy who was in charge of negotiating with Brooksheimer is said to have been fired by Disney now. ”

As Exx said, Disney's recent development has indeed been a bit difficult, first in the field of animation from DreamWorks, and now in the field of youth school movies lost to MGM, to their greatest dissatisfaction, "Cinderella's Glass Phone" is a critically acclaimed star from their own star, only to make a wedding dress for someone else.

"But what about the schedule?" Lin Mingyang thought of another very practical question, "After being discharged from the hospital, "Sister and Brother Agent" will definitely continue to be filmed; With the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean and Youth Musical, I don't have time to insert anything else anytime soon. ”

"This film does not need to start filming immediately, the main thing is to make a gesture first to dilute the current pressure of public opinion." Ex had thought about this before.

"Does Disney have the right script?" Lin Mingyang is most concerned about this issue.

"If you don't have a screenwriter like you, do you think Disney would do such a stupid thing to waste talent?"

"I have to write my own script?"

"The problem is that you are willing to act in a script written by someone else?" Ex asked rhetorically, laughing.

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It's not that Lin Mingyang likes to write and act by himself, but now a good script role can't be his turn for the time being. Lin Mingyang does have some good ideas in his head now, but the main purpose of writing this script is to show his sincerity to Hillary Duff, so the whole film should be like "Cinderella's Glass Phone", the plot is dominated by the heroine. Based on such considerations, Lin Mingyang thought of the movie "Football Stunner".

The original plot of this film is already very good, the key is that Lin Mingyang has to act along, and then this problem of playing football makes him feel a little embarrassed.

In the United States, football is not as appealing as it is in other countries. It's a strange phenomenon that Americans don't like to play or watch football. There are many professional sports leagues in the United States, but football is not interested, so the United States is also known as the "football desert".

If you don't write football, Lin Mingyang has a lot of choice, American football, baseball, basketball and even ice hockey, these can all be applied to the plot of the original play, but in a different form of expression.

Lin Mingyang's first consideration must be basketball, because this is his strength, and it is very simple to perform. But from "Youth Musical" to "Cinderella's Glass Phone", the male protagonists in it are basically related to basketball, and if you watch too much, the audience will inevitably be aesthetically fatigued.

The second important consideration is whether the identity of the heroine is easy to be recognized, women disguise themselves as men to play football, in fact, there are already big flaws in logic, teenagers in Europe and the United States develop relatively early, and they are relatively mature early, and they want to use a thin football uniform to cover up their surname, which can only be done in movies. And basketball is not to mention, with less clothing and more direct physical confrontation, girls will definitely not be able to bear it.

American football is purely a physical confrontation, which is naturally excluded, and Lin Mingyang basically knows nothing about ice hockey, so in the end, only baseball remains. This kind of ball game with baseball as the main feature, with strong collective surnames and confrontation surnames, appears even more frequently in various film and television works in the United States than basketball, because baseball itself is more popular than basketball in the United States.

Although both require teamwork, it is clear that basketball is more about individual qualities, while baseball is very about team strategy. Lin Mingyang is not good at the sport, but he is influenced by the people around him and likes to watch baseball games on TV. Because baseball games require protective gear and helmets, it is relatively easier for women to dress as men.

Although baseball is not as popular as football in the world, and even more so in Europe, the more representative of American culture in the era of Hollywood movies sweeping the world, the easier it is to be accepted by overseas audiences.

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"I think your story sounds familiar." Lin Mingyang rewrote the script in more than a week, and after reading it, Exx gave this evaluation: "I didn't see it, it turns out that you are still a big fan of Shakespeare!" ”

"So you've read Shakespeare, too!" Lin Mingyang pretended to be surprised and looked at his agent, he was obviously laughing at the other party when he said this. Who was Shakespeare? In the West, it is believed that even a 3-year-old child can speak the truth. This great Western writer has long become a classic, "Romeo and Juliet", "Othello", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Taming of the Shrew", there are only a handful of Shakespeare's works that have not been remade by Hollywood, and Lin Mingyang's script this time is adapted from Shakespeare's other work "Twelfth Night".

The male protagonist in Lin Mingyang's play, Duke, is called Duke Osinoe in Shakespeare's original book, and he has always been in love with the beautiful Olivia, but Olivia is always indifferent. Viola and her twin brother were separated in a shipwreck and were each washed ashore by the waves. When Viola landed, he met Duke and began working under the pseudonym of Cicero.

In the new script, Viola goes to his school instead of her brother, who secretly went to London to pursue her musical dreams, because the girls' baseball team at her former school was disbanded, and she meets the male protagonist Duke there in order to continue playing baseball.

In the original book, after discovering the fact that Duke is in love with Olivia, Ovira promises Duke that she will definitely help him pursue Olivia. But as a result, Olivia falls in love with Cicero, who proposes to the surrogate, that is, the man Viola is pretending to be.

The story in the script is that Duke, a pitcher on the school baseball team and a handsome guy, treats Ovira as a bosom brother, and Ovilla decides to help Duke pick up girls after learning the news that Duke likes the most beautiful Olivia in school through Duke's friends. But things turn out to her surprise, and Ovira discovers that the big beauty Olivia has fallen in love with herself, who looks a bit nerdy. Bad things happened one after another, and Ovira's brother's ex-girlfriend came out at this time, and he himself returned early.

The final ending of "Twelfth Night" is the reunion of Ovira and her brother Sibassin, who falls in love with Olivia, and Duke is moved by Ovila's appearance and announces his marriage to her.

And the ending arranged by Lin Mingyang for the script is that Ovila's identity is recognized in the game, everyone accepts her, Duke finds out that his roommate is a young and beautiful girl and immediately falls in love with her, and Ovila's brother comes together with the beautiful Olivia.

Although changing the era and changing the scene, attracting a group of childish young people to drum, not to mention the appeal of the Taidou, Shakespeare-level youth films, this theme alone has already made Ex admire it so much.

"Since it's an adaptation, why don't you change the name of the protagonist as well. Copying the original play, if Mr. Shakespeare knows, how can he cry and laugh? ”

"I think it's just a nod to the original play, and if you don't like to read either Shakespeare's classics or his plays, then this is a film that allows everyone to learn about the masterpieces in a relaxed atmosphere."

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"Based on Shakespeare's famous play "Twelfth Night", it is another old-fashioned story!" Hillary Duff's agent, Ms. Himla, doesn't have a high opinion of Lin Mingyang's new drama, but Layton, a representative sent by Disney, doesn't see it that way.

"From "Youth Musical" to "Cinderella's Glass Phone", I think Felix knows how to grasp the hearts of young people very well when creating such youth campus works, which should be related to his age, of course, his talent in screenwriting is recognized by everyone."

"I also find this story very interesting!" Hilary Duff nodded, though she said it with an "elbow outward" effect.

Shimla glared at her gravely, and Hilary Duff playfully stuck out her tongue and stopped talking.

"Is that guy trying to reconcile with us through this?" Himmla's question is somewhat aggressive.

"Is there really a conflict between you?" Leighton has long believed that rumors of a feud between Lin Mingyang and Hillary Duff are a deliberate hype gimmick used by the Hollywood media, and that the real surnames of such reports are generally greatly discounted.

"He came to us when he was filming Cinderella's Glass Phone." When Shimla said this, Hilary Duff nodded very the side, "But I refused, although the film was okay in the end, I don't think it was a wise decision to accept an offer from a sixteen-year-old director." ”

"If you look at Kate Beckinsale now, I'm actually sorry for your decision in the first place." Leighton mentioned Kate because the film "Cinderella's Glass Phone" allowed the British girl who came to Hollywood to seek development to complete the transformation from "Cinderella" to "princess", and American audiences knew the beautiful and temperamental girl overnight.

"Because of this, that guy held a grudge, and then MGM asked him to work with Duff, and this guy actually pushed the other party to change the script, so that Duff finally lost that role." Himmla said indignantly.

"But I don't think the role Angelina Jolie is playing now is suitable for Duff." Leighton said objectively: "As for the so-called retaliation, we think it is purely a smoke bomb thrown by the media to attract attention, and you and I know the real situation very well." ”

"But why did that guy have a scandal and then pull our Duff?" Shimla asked unwillingly.

"Felix was also a victim in the whole incident!" Leighton made a point to emphasise, "This kind of misunderstanding between you is something that Dinis does not want to see, so we single-handedly facilitated this cooperation. Felix has completed the script in the hospital room, and he has shown enough sincerity on this issue, and the company hopes to see a more positive response from your side. ”

"But we have the power to pick the characters in the script!" Shimla picked up the commanding tone of the other's mouth, and she protested.

"Of course, this is clearly written in the contract." Layton looked at the "poor" woman in front of her with some pity, she didn't know that in the eyes of Disney's top management, the chips on Lin Mingyang and Hillary Duff were not in the same heavyweight class at all. If she had to make a choice, Hilary Duff would definitely be given up by Disney without hesitation.

"But if you don't want your client to be hidden until the end of the contract with Disney, then you'd better take the script!"

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