In fact, although the media has repeatedly added a round of halo to the back of Daniel's head, in real life, no one will really kneel to communicate with Daniel.

How is the work, or how is it.

After filming the cover of the special magazine of "Vanity Fair" in the morning, I went to DD Pictures in the afternoon to watch the trailer of "Transformers" with a group of executives and creators.

Martin. The version that Campbell took out was already a revised one.

Daniel doesn't seem to be much different from the original, to say that it is better, no, for DD Pictures, the first time to operate such a large-scale production, there is still a lack of experience, and it is already a satisfying thing to be able to maintain the standard.

"What do you think?" Daniel is clearly more sympathetic to the quality of the film, which makes it difficult for people including Martin to take advantage of the film. Campbell, Paul. Walker, Megan. Everyone, including Fox, breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, the whole class of creators knows that no matter what Ferguson, Melissa, or even David think, the most important thing is Daniel's opinion, if he says no, then no, if he says yes, even if someone says no, it can be done in the end.

That's Daniel's authority in the company.

Although he is rarely arbitrary, this concept held by the crew of "Transformers" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, based on trust, sometimes blind trust.

Martin. Campbell, "an amazing work." ”

In the beginning, Campbell was not very interested in directing a live-action film with a toy IP change. In his opinion, this is more boring than making a completely animated feature film. It is important to know that animated feature films are not necessarily exclusively for young children. But toys, in general, are not liked by adults - of course, he didn't know that Transformers are also quite popular in the adult world.

Obviously, after such a long process of filming and production. Campbell changed his mind.

"I must admit that I was too narrow-minded. "Transformers" is a touching genre, and it will work. ”

"I'm also looking forward to it succeeding."

"When it comes out in July, I can't wait to see how stunned everyone is by this movie."

Campbell waved his hand exaggeratedly.

Optimism like this, which is becoming more and more frequent at DD Pictures, Daniel has no intention of sobering them up, and under the premise of strict quality control, optimism helps to improve work efficiency, that's for sure. As for whether it will be because of blind optimism. And influencing the judgment of the market - Daniel believes that he can make the management understand this very well.

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The next day, Daniel joined the "Avatar" crew, and although it was still a while away from filming, James asked the actors to join in. Because this is a very different film, it needs to involve a lot of techniques and concepts that are unfamiliar, so the actors need to adapt and cooperate.

It's been a long time since Daniel has been in the group early for training and his time is too tight. Even "Unstoppable", which made him emperor for the third time, did not spend time on training, but just took time to come out during the filming of "Wonderful Night at the Museum".

A vice president of Fox was also present today, although James was puzzled by his presence. Because he's not a producer -- the producers who can be named are three, James. Cameron himself, his old partner Jon. Landau. The third is Daniel. Sandler.

Yes, Daniel's first list of producers will be in "Avatar".

He will provide wisdom for the entire process of production, distribution, and distribution of Avatar. In fact, in many DD Pictures films, he did these things without ever asking for an attribution. He wants to be able to give the outside world a more focused image, after all, he has done enough.

In Hollywood, there's nothing wrong with just retaining the identity of an actor.

Although making an exception with "Avatar", Daniel still has no plans to fully enter the production work, and this is just a special case. Daniel had an impulse for "Avatar" to see how the film could achieve even more amazing results with his full help. Maybe it's just a silent self-validation.

It is impossible for others to know the box office heights that "Avatar" will reach, only Daniel alone knows how much he can improve on this basis, which is the part of Daniel's self-validation.

Pushing a work with a global box office of 2.7 billion to a higher level is not a simple matter of addition and subtraction, and Daniel understands this deeply.

"Walking into your company is like stepping back into the future." Daniel looked at the rather sci-fi studio and said to James.

"Isn't that the case with Weta Digital?"

Weta Digital was a key partner in Avatar, and James was impressed by their excellence in motion capture technology. So the addition of Weta is not the result of Daniel's push, but more of James. Cameron's meaning, in fact, when it comes to core technical issues, investors, whether it is Fox or DD Pictures, have not much say.

"I'm not familiar with Vita either, but you'll see a lot of models there, but there's no office in that style."

"We also have a lot of models, in fact, in 2006, we were making all kinds of models, in the computer and in reality."

Daniel is not ignorant of this, as "Avatar", which opened the era of China's box office market soaring, many Chinese filmmakers and companies have studied it extensively, but after research, they found that the first one has no technology, and the second one has no money - spending two or three billion dollars to make a Chinese movie, unless you really have too much money and burn it in a panic.

Daniel also knew about it, and it took the technician more than a year to create countless models in the computer, from a small insect to a large Tyrannosaurus Wyvern and Lightning Beast, and tens of thousands of models were built and stored in the computer. Along with the models created by Weta Digital, they will be used for motion capture technology - to make everything look more realistic, the technicians even studied some of the skeletons of birds and beasts to determine how they moved.

This kind of meticulous work is obviously an important factor in the success of "Avatar".

"Alright, Daniel, we've got to get to work first. Mark, are you okay? James asked the Fox vice president less ceremoniously.

Apparently, Mark is used to this.

"It's nothing, I'm just meeting with Daniel today, after all, he just got a big buck from Fox."

Mark was talking about "Night at the Museum".

Fox could not have imagined that this film, which invested less than 20 million, finally cut 600 million at the global box office, and also pushed the global box office of DD Pictures and MGM in 2006 to 3 billion, second only to Warner Bros. and Disney, ranking third.

This result is enough to leave everyone stunned. (To be continued.) )

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