"Say goodbye to Hollywood and head to Silicon Valley?"

"Daniel loves money more than movies."

“……”

Daniel put a big torpedo at the media preview of "Pirates", which focused everyone's eyes again.

As the halfway through 2003, the news that Daniel's team rejected all trips after New Year's Day in 2004 has also been reported repeatedly, and everyone's previous speculation that Daniel will break his promise has gradually disappeared.

And Daniel, who wants to go to business, seems to be able to explain their persistence.

So Trick, Kusa, Melissa, and Sally are all getting calls all the time.

Deshar handed Daniel the knife and fork, and Sally was now chattering more and more.

"All the work calls I take now, all of them have people asking you about your next plans, and they are worried that you are going to study in college for 4 years? And then whether it will come back. ”

"I just invested 200 million in DD Pictures, can't it prove my idea?"

"Ten thousand reasons are not as good as your announcement to go to school."

Sally has always been unsupportive of his decision to go to college.

……

DD Pictures has doubled its staff after a period of expansion.

The same goes for Daniel Investments.

It was the first time for the new employees to meet the big boss Daniel. Sandler, the legend, walked into the office and everyone even stood up and applauded.

Daniel and David, as well as Melissa and Ferguson, who accompanied them, were stunned and only reacted after several seconds.

"Such a warm applause, it feels like saying, 'You're so incompetent, boss,' ......, I promise, I'll come more often in the future."

He didn't go to David's office, but to Melissa.

Melissa is a special assistant in Daniel's investment department and the division CEO is Alex Ferguson. There is no doubt that the former leads the latter.

Lane is in the hearts of the staff. It is also quite enviable, this former agent who has accompanied Daniel almost throughout the whole process of his rise, second only to Kusa. Damon is the new senior partner of CAA, although Daniel's side CAA has less and less involvement. But as Cusa's own network of contacts expanded exponentially, so did the benefits he was able to bring to CAA, a trend that was why Ian eventually rose to the rank of partner.

In fact, the relationship between CAA and Daniel has not been warm, especially Kevin. After Gorry left to work for Universal Pictures. Meyer's success has led CAA's partners to see Universal as a good place to go. The reason is very straightforward. Daniel is rarely willing to accept CAA's packaging, whether it is a small package or a full responsibility, he can almost be called disgusted with this mechanism, because limited by the complex human network within CAA, it is almost impossible to form a suitable team, and one aspect needs to be sacrificed more or less.

Daniel, for his part, rejects it all.

That's why Gore. When Verbinski was dismissed, and the CAA wanted him to recommend one of the CAA clients, he categorically refused, and then resolutely chose Rob, who was not well-known at the time. Marshall. As it turned out, it was similar to the "Rwandan Hotel" period of Denzel. Washington, like him, had a visionary eye for the past — and they were all subsequently proven at the Oscars, one as Best Actor and the other as Best Picture, and their value rose dramatically.

But Ian who puts interests first. In the end, Martin didn't put up obstacles when Kusa made the cut.

Daniel. Sandler is a client of CAA, which in itself is a golden sign of CAA, and many people will be attracted to this signboard in terms of attracting well-known actors, directors, producers, and cultivating new talents. Although they don't get any benefit either. But people just have this and that strange assumption -- CAA can produce one Daniel, maybe it can also produce the next one, and the next one may be me.

This is, of course, whimsical.

"Dan. What did Brown say? ”

Once seated, Daniel got to the point as quickly as possible.

The Da Vinci Code, published in March this year. Upon publication, it immediately topped the New York Times bestseller list and has been on the list for three months now.

"There are a lot of interested companies, as far as we know, New Line, Columbia, Universal and Paramount, all have contacts, Lionsgate, Miramax is also very likely."

For this novel. In fact, the movie was not particularly successful, although the box office was not low, but the influence was almost incomparable to the novel. From Daniel's current point of view, this is indeed a major mistake in Colombia's operation of this IP. This book is indeed only so long, the story line is also compact, and there is no huge overhead world, which is extremely difficult to develop well.

But that's definitely not to say it's impossible.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is its best example, and although Tolkien's decades-long influence has given it a huge global following, with the success of the Dar. The further heating up of "The Vinci Code", what Daniel can guarantee is that in terms of influence, the newly baked "Code" will definitely not be much weaker.

He hopes to win this IP and make it into a series of three parts.

This attempt sounds very dangerous, because the scale of the investment is certainly not small, and the future is uncertain. But in fact, it's not that serious, first of all, if Daniel stars in person, the salary is easy to control. And it is said that it is designed according to the trilogy, but in the end, it depends on the results of the first part.

Daniel is still very confident in it.

But Dan. It's doubtful whether Brown will buy it or not. After all, so many large companies have extended olive branches, and Daniel has no experience in operating similar big movies independently.

Dan doesn't seem to be in a hurry to sell, and it's impossible for him not to understand the truth of waiting for the price to sell. What's more, he is not short of money now, the book has been selling for a few months, and the royalty income is already rich enough. Ferguson was annoyed," said Ferguson, who almost shut me up when I came to talk about it. ”

"......" Daniel didn't expect it to be so difficult to get the copyright.

Ferguson had a smug look on his face, letting him know that things should turn around.

"But I, Ferguson, am not one to throw in easily, I went to her mother's choir, we talked to her, and then I 'accidentally' found out that she was Dan's mother, and I told her that I was a big fan of Dan and wanted to meet Dan. So everything fell into place, and Dan was much more kind to his mother. ”

"I should give you a raise, Ferguson." Daniel does appreciate this approach, which of course shows that Ferguson is serious about his new job, "So what does he say? ”

He said he didn't really care about selling for a good price, and he hoped that the film would be made and become a classic. However, in the end, it didn't give me a word of accuracy, which means that I haven't decided yet, and I hope to think about it again. ”

"Okay, Ferguson, you have someone do the project first, and I'll talk to Brown when the time comes."

Putting that aside, Daniel moved on to other projects

Melissa had written a simple story outline of dozens of projects that had passed their preliminary selection, and then sent them to him, and there were indeed many surprises in it.

"Ferguson, that horror movie that Josson handed over, let me see it."

"The jigsaw massacre?"

"Huh?" Daniel was stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted, and now its tentative name is indeed this, "Yes, this is it." ”

Melissa had a copy of the script in her office, and she took it to Daniel for half an hour, and he was sure he was not mistaken.

"Good luck." Daniel muttered to himself.

Since David decided to start filming "Ghost Omen", the number of horror film scripts handed over has increased. Even so, "Saw Horror", which is now "Jigsaw Massacre", almost didn't make it - and Daniel didn't remember the movie either. In the end, he picked up Jossen. One of Zhu's phone calls was the director of the short film Daniel had previously participated in the USC Short Story Competition, and it was because of this short film that he and Ferguson first met.

Jossen's phone mentioned that he had a friend who had written a script and wanted him to read it.

James. Wen - also of Chinese descent.

Jossen said that James actually didn't have the confidence to let him watch it, he originally planned to find some film fund investment, and then get together with him, and if he could have about 300,000, he planned to start filming. However, Jossen thought the script was good, so he recommended it to Daniel.

Daniel inquired carefully, only to know that he had sent it to DD Pictures Daniel Investment.

He asked Ferguson to find it out and showed him the outline - he originally just said to skim it a little, so that when he replied to Jossen, it also seemed to be a little more substantial, he didn't have much research on horror films, and he only knew two or three Chinese directors, Lin Yibin and An Lee, etc., and with an American name, he couldn't tell the difference.

So Jowson said James. When he was warm, he had no impression at all - it had nothing to do with memory, it was that the name had not been left in his cerebral cortex.

But after flipping through this compendium, there is a sense of familiarity.

is no longer familiar with horror movies, he has still seen popular films such as "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "The Shining", and "Chainsaw".

He called Jossen first to ask for James' contact information, saying that DD Pictures had a preliminary intention. The other party thought that he was confined to Qiao Sen's face, and he was quite embarrassed.

James is 77 years old, only seven years older than Daniel.

This script is for him and his good brother Ray. Werner cooperated, so the only request James made was that he would guide and Werner would be the first screenwriter.

This is an unceremonious request, the director and the leading actor are given, presumably the average studio is not willing to take over even if it is a little interesting to the script.

Daniel only said that he would consider it, and then came over today to confirm the script.

Tapping it twice on Melissa's desk, "Shoot this first." (To be continued.) )

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