Chapter 402: Looking for Natalie Portman

Natalie took the script and didn't look at him immediately, but put it aside, looked at Zhou Shaoming and said, "I'll talk about the script later, Director Zhou, can you tell me about the filming schedule of this movie first?" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Shaoming thought for a while and said, "It's probably a few months after this, what's wrong, do you have a problem?" ”

After getting the answer, Natalie nodded, and then said to Zhou Shaoming: "Well, I've been busy with things about the Havard Student Newspaper recently. ”

Zhou Shaoming came to his senses at this time, this is still his luck, if it is not good, maybe he will not even be able to see Natalie's face, but fortunately there is a misunderstanding.

Thinking of this, Zhou Shaoming said: "The issue of schedule can be discussed again, you have read the script first, I personally think that you will like this story." ”

“OK。” Natalie opened the script next to her and began to read it seriously.

Originally, Natalie was still reading the script casually, but then she became more and more involved, and read the entire script in one go, and Natalie breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

Thinking of the previous movies made by Zhou Shaoming, almost every one of them was a big hit, if she took over the filming of "V-Word Vendetta", Natalie believes that her fame will definitely sprint to a new height in a short period of time, compared to this, the Haval Student Newspaper no longer seems to be important.

Thinking of this, Natalie couldn't help but be entangled.

Seeing the melancholy in the eyes of the girl in front of him, Zhou Shaoming probably guessed Natalie's thoughts. Then he smiled and said to Natalie, "What's the matter, Natalie, is there anything difficult to decide?" You can say it and let me help you refer to it. ”

"Okay." Natalie smiled helplessly, and then said, "Actually, that's the case. I'm struggling. Student newspaper and this film. ”

Hear Natalie's words. Zhou Shaoming laughed at this, and then smiled at Natalie: "If I'm not mistaken, Natalie, you should study psychology." Compared to the articles in the newspaper that are also about what you have learned in your major, now, you can take the psychology of the characters in this movie as the object of your research, especially V. Don't you think that this man who wears a mask from beginning to end, you can only understand him from his psychology? ”

Listening to Zhou Shaoming's words, Natalie's eyes couldn't help but light up, but as Zhou Shaoming said, there are many depictions of the psychology of the characters in the movie, isn't this a good object for discussion in a paper?

The graduation thesis can be based on the topic of "Discussing the Psychology of Movie Characters and Movies".

With Zhou Shaoming's words, Natalie's last knot in her heart was opened, and she quickly stood up with a smile and said to Zhou Shaoming: "Okay, Director Zhou!" I've decided to make your movie! ”

"I forgot to tell you. There is a scene in the movie where the female lead actor is required to cut off all her hair. Zhou Shaoming slowly told this matter.

"What! Why didn't you say something so important earlier! ”

"Ann, Ann. After making this movie, you will not only be able to graduate successfully, but you will also earn enough popularity and dollars to pave the way for your career after graduation. ”

"Okay, that's pretty much it, let's get something to eat, I'm dying of hunger."

The meeting with Natalie opened with a coincidence and ended with a comedy, in short, Zhou Shaoming successfully completed the task of inviting Natalie.

After talking to Natalie about specific things, Zhou Shaoming stayed in New York for a few more days, and during this time, Natalie also invited Zhou Shaoming to visit her school, but unfortunately, Zhou Shaoming was recognized by some classmates, and even if he recognized it, these gossipy students actually regarded Zhou Shaoming as Natalie's boyfriend!

Zhou Shaoming really doesn't know whether to cry or laugh, he is a director, why is there no one to come to Natalie to make a movie.

Being gossiped about by students is still secondary, and the most important thing is that it also alarmed the media, and these unscrupulous paparazzi once again regarded Natalie as Zhou Shaoming's rumored girlfriend.

"This is my actor!" Zhou Shaoming wanted to cry without tears.

A few days later, Zhou Shaoming returned to California, and at the same time, Benjamin brought the good news that David had joined Supernova.

Zhou Shaoming is still very excited about this news!

The director is very important to the development of a film company, and one more big director is an extra force, just like the current Ben-Tesla, which is indispensable for supernova.

Zhou Shaoming believes that it won't be long before David can become such a big director, and Zhou Shaoming is more confident, and David will definitely be more brilliant than the achievements made in the last time and space with his help.

In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Yang and David talked in the office for an afternoon, from movies to actors, from actors to acting, and then to the future pattern and direction of world cinema.

It has to be said that a young person has a more unique and divergent thinking, more passionate, energetic and innovative thinking.

Through the conversation, Zhou Shaoming could clearly feel David's talent, and he had more expectations for this young director.

After that, Zhou Shaoming took out the script again, the script of "V Word Vendetta", David read it for an hour, during this period, Zhou Shaoming has been waiting quietly on the sidelines, without impatience, because he is also a director and understands the seriousness and persistence of being a director caught in the script.

David stared at the script tightly, his brain was running at high speed, and the plot of "V Vendtle" was presented in his mind little by little.

Although the film is expected to be 120 minutes long, there are actually only five important characters in it.

One is the protagonist V in this book, who doesn't have any name, and some are just a code name, and he doesn't appear from the beginning to the end.

The second is Evie. Hammond, that is, the heroine of this film.

Next is the Great Dictator of the United Kingdom, Head of State, Head of State and Head of Government. Sutler is also the biggest villain in the film.

Then there is Cody, the chairman of the Northern Fire Party, the head of the secret police, and the head of the secret service. He is in charge of surveillance, secret arrests, assassinations, and everything else that a spy should do. The means are cruel. Inhumane.

The last important figure is Finch, the chief of the London Constabulary, a policeman who has gone from turning a blind eye to the darkness of the authorities to gradually regaining his conscience.

As for the rest of the characters. It's basically to promote the plot, one after another, and then one after another to die.

The whole script quickly formed a three-dimensional scene in David's mind!

An hour later, David looked excited and only said one sentence: This is a god script. The ideological connotation is very good!

This reaction was of course within Zhou Shaoming's expectations, and then Zhou Shaoming told him in detail about his opinions and views, and the two directors had an afternoon of communication together, and the two had an understanding and admiration for each other.

Regarding the selection of actors, Natalie has fixed the heroine, and about the choice of the male lead, Zhou Shaoming thought about it for a long time, but in the end he still didn't come up with it, he asked David to go back and think about it, while he continued to sit in the office chair and smoke a cigar. Thinking

V is a masked character, and this character is still the main character.

In other words, this protagonist must be a person with superb acting skills. Especially in terms of body and language, it is necessary to have a lot of experience in acting.

"Jim Carrey !!" Suddenly, a wonderful look flashed in Zhou Shaoming's eyes.

Jim Carrey's acting skills are undoubted, and the most important thing is that Jim Carrey's voice and body language are very distinctive and recognizable!

After all, he used to be a comedian, so it's definitely perfect for playing such a role!

After that, Zhou Shaoming gave the idea to David and asked him to arrange it himself.

During this period of time, from August to November now.

In the past three months, Supernova has developed rapidly, not measured by the amount of funds, but by the breadth of fields involved.

First of all, about the shadow line, a total of more than a dozen theaters have been built on a street around the entire supernova company, all of which are owned by supernova.

In addition, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in the construction of cinemas in China's major cities, and hundreds of cinemas have been built.

And about the side product supernova has also been touched on recently.

Of course, the rapid development of Facebook, which excites Zhou Shaoming the most, has achieved very good results under the leadership of Mark Zalberg after almost a year of development.

It has become the largest social networking site in the United States and even the world, and has a large number of loyal screen names that are willing to pay.

As for online shopping and online chat, Facebook is also a key development, and has achieved a lot of success recently.

Although he made a lot of money, Zhou Shaoming has not let Mark's Facebook department take out the money he earned, and basically all the funds he earned were reinvested with the benefit of Zhou Shaoming, so that the website was expanded again and again.

Now Facebook basically has a large model of the last time and space, and even better in some aspects, Zhou Shaoming can't help but look forward to what kind of strong strength Facebook will have in a few years.

In addition to this, about the two movies "The Incredible Hulk" and "The Fuse".

The two blockbusters have achieved fairly good results in North America, both with a box office score of 600 million, although it is a small decrease compared to the previous one, but overall, it is still a terrifying box office result.

What excites Zhou Shaoming and other supernova employees is that after a series of efforts, these two films have successfully entered the Chinese film market, making the sluggish Chinese film market see a pouting posture.

China, with a population of more than one billion, has always been a consumer market with huge potential, but for movies, Chinese have not been in the habit of going to the theater.

It is undoubtedly anxious and regrettable that such a large population group cannot develop into the largest film market.

Zhou Shaoming wants to develop supernova into a film giant company, and obviously needs to take the lead in the Chinese film market, so under Zhou Shaoming's planning, "Fuse" not only achieved proud box office results in the Chinese film market, but also successfully made Chinese audiences remember Zhou Shaoming as a person, and also have a little habit of spending in movie theaters.

Although for the time being, such results are far from Zhou Shaoming and even supernovas, but I have to say that I have seen hope, is it still far from success?

"Zhou, your eyes are too sharp. Unthinkable. When our Supernova Entertainment Theater completely occupies the film market in the whole of China. How much will it bring us? Zhou, you are such a genius, it's ridiculous that I was strongly opposed before. Jon couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and said to Zhou Shaoming.

Zhou Shaoming smiled at the corner of his mouth. said lightly: "Although the popcorn-shaped movie has been successfully finalized in the Chinese film market, do you think the giants of Warner's film and television companies will let us monopolize the Chinese film market?" ”

Jon said disdainfully, "It's a pity they found out too late." Chinese audiences now only recognize you Smith Zhou, and only know the brand of our Supernova Entertainment Film and Television Company, although those film and television giants have deep pockets, it is not easy to compare with our company's reputation in the Chinese film market. ”

Zhou Shaoming saw that Jon was a little carried away, and couldn't help but shake his head, lit the cigar in his mouth, and took a deep breath.

Jon was a little puzzled and said, "Zhou, am I wrong?" I'm telling the truth. ”

Zhou Shaoming spat out a puff of smoke rings. His eyes lit up, and he said to Jon, "Jon." In its current form, you're not exaggerating, but if you know. In China, interesting things happen every day. For example, those electronic products, when Motorola was still boasting of its dominance in the Chinese mobile phone market, Nokia quietly came in and quickly occupied the Chinese market. ”

Zhou Shaoming exhaled deeply: "In China's unpredictable market, there are new changes every day, and electronic products are like this, and our film industry is updated more frequently and quickly than electronic products, right?" Therefore, in the eyes of the audience, there are only good movies, and there is no film and television company brand that has been enduring all along. ”

Jon frowned and said: "Zhou, but we have begun to improve the plan to build theaters in China, and those third-tier cities will also have our supernova entertainment film and television theaters one after another, at this time we are not afraid of Warner's film and television giants, because in the Chinese film market, we are more stable than them before, at least in the Chinese film market, we have enough strength to compete with them, if according to your previous estimate, the future competition in the film market is in China, then we have reason to believe, Capable of the giant companies. ”

Zhou Shaoming smiled: "That also needs a good movie produced by our film and television company to attract the attention of the audience." ”

Jon nodded: "Zhou, I understand what you mean, but I believe that as long as you are here, I believe that the audience will not be disappointed, plus the hardware equipment of our Supernova Entertainment Company, the share of the Chinese film market has already been a piece of our Supernova Entertainment Film and Television." ”

Jon smiled excitedly and continued: "Zhou, you better have a good rest, wait until next year, our Supernova Entertainment Film and Television Company's theaters will be all over the world, and then cooperate with you and Ben Xin's films, hehe, with the development of the times, after the Asian film market prospers, what will Supernova achieve." ”

Zhou Shaoming shook his head and said: "We have achieved a good reputation and recognition in the early stage of the Chinese film market, so we must continue to expand the scale of our supernova entertainment film and television company non-stop, but unfortunately what our company lacks most now is funds." ”

Jon is now nerve-wracking when it comes to money, and with Supernova Entertainment's plans for theaters, the money invested in the Chinese market and the North American market is all that Supernova Entertainment has at its disposal.

The current Supernova Entertainment Film and Television Company has spent all its energy and financial resources on the construction of theaters, and Zhou Shaoming has always been worried about the promotion of the film, its release, its results after the release and word of mouth, and also supervised the plans completed by the theater kingdom.

In Jon's eyes, Zhou Shaoming was exhausted at this moment and needed to recuperate for a while, and the rest was left to himself.

Zhou Shaoming took a deep breath of his cigar and said lightly: "It seems that you still don't understand what I mean, what I just told you about the Chinese mobile phone market, it seems that I told you in vain, if we take it lightly at this time, then our previous efforts will be in vain, and the film and television giants such as Warner, Columbia, and Fox will take advantage of the situation, don't you understand?" ”

Jon frowned and said with some surprise: "Zhou, do you still want to make another movie this year?" It's too short a time, it's impossible! I thought the idea of a new movie you talked about last time was just an idea, and I won't put it into action for the time being. ”

Jon suddenly realized, as if he understood Zhou Shaoming's intentions, but for this year, it is almost the end of the year, and the golden moment of the end of each year in the Chinese film market is also approaching, but for Supernova Entertainment Film and Television Company, it is no longer possible to catch up with the last train in 2003.

Time simply does not allow, less than two or three months, what can you do? There is simply not enough time for post-production of the film.

Just like this year in the film market, with "The Matrix 2", it has achieved incredible box office results, and it has been popular all over the world for a while.

However, due to Warner's greed, less than half a year later, the rough and rotten "The Matrix 3" was launched, although the company avoided the strong release of "Fuse" in October, but it still couldn't change the decadent box office results, and the audience didn't buy it at all. (To be continued.) )