"Oga, how can you do this?"

Breaking into Shinobu Oga's office all the way, Michael Ovitz sat across from him and asked in a stern tone, "Why did Sony Columbia Pictures cancel preparations for a sequel to Godzilla?" ”

Shinobu Ohga looked at Michael Ovitz with a cold look in his eyes, "Don't you know why, Michael?" ”

He no longer had the smiling face he used to look at Ovitz, but his face was tense.

"Yes, I know that Godzilla is not doing as well as expected at the box office."

Michael Ovitz doesn't know how many times he has faced such a look, and his cheekiness is completely immune, "But I want to remind you that the North American box office of "Godzilla" is close to 100 million US dollars, and it will break 100 million in the past few days, we still have overseas box office and peripherals, and it is not a problem to recover costs or even achieve profitability in the next one to two years." ”

As he spoke, Shinobu Ohga's eyes looked at him from coldness to mockery.

Michael Ovitz turned a blind eye and continued, "Now that the first part of Godzilla has gained some popularity in North America, the possibility of a sequel success will greatly increase, and we should not stop ...... at this time"

Everyone in Hollywood knows that Sony Entertainment has the ambition to make "Godzilla" a series like "Jurassic Park", and it has contracted him Michael Ovitz, if the sequel is interrupted, it will undoubtedly tell everyone in the industry that he has completely failed this package, which is a situation he does not want to see.

After listening to Michael Ovitz's very persuasive words, Oga Shinobu was unmoved, and just asked lightly, "Michael, just tell your purpose directly." ”

"Continue the Godzilla series." Michael Ovitz said in a loud voice, "Go ahead and give it to me!" ”

Ohga Shinobu suddenly smiled, knocked lightly on the desk, and said, "Actually, at the high-level meeting of Sony Entertainment, this project was not completely vetoed, and the chairman's opinion was very clear. ”

"What's the opinion?" Michael Ovitz asked impatiently.

"Michael."

Shinobu Oga stared at him tightly, and said very seriously, "As long as you can hire Duke Rosenberg as the director of the sequel, Sony Entertainment will not only continue the sequel to "Godzilla", but also hand over this project to you to pack!" ”

Go and ask Duke Rosenberg? Michael Ovitz frowned.

There is no need for an agent to be a face-to-face thing, and it is nothing to him to pull down his face and beg Dukra Rosenberg, but who in Hollywood doesn't know that now the other party is preparing for the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, such a huge production and Duke Rosenberg's consistent style will inevitably take a lot of time and energy, how can he take over "Godzilla", or a sequel?

After a turn around, things went back to square one, and the last answer Michael Owitz got turned out to be to find the person who caused him failure to solve the problem.

Do you want to go to New Zealand?

When he left Sony Columbia Pictures, Michael Ovitz thought so.

Regardless of whether Michael Ovitz comes to New Zealand or not, Duke's busyness in New Zealand will not be reduced by half a minute, after returning from North America, he first went to see a villa introduced by a real estate agent, and then bought it, he will be based in New Zealand for the next few years, and staying in a hotel every day will make people crazy.

After settling down, he returned to the set in the suburbs of Wellington, which had been fully contracted by the crew of The Lord of the Rings and Weta Studios, and all kinds of preparations were being carried out in an orderly manner.

For example, the crew will not use Queenstown as the filming base, but will use Wellington as the main filming location, and the filming location will also give priority to the surrounding area of Wellington.

As for more than a year, all the preparations for the Lord of the Rings trilogy will eventually come together in the hands of Charles Rowan and Tina Fey, and Duke will make the final decision.

If you count from the time Duke approached Weta Studios, more than a year has passed since the preparation of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but the huge and complicated work is only halfway through.

When Duke returns to Wellington, the first thing he will do is to identify the main actors of the two projects, especially the members of the Lord of the Rings expedition, Jimmy Carter has hired a Western-style sword master and an archery instructor from Scotland to train Aragorn and Legolas for the next six months or so.

The cast of "The Lord of the Rings" is generally not difficult to determine, there will not be any first-line actors, and group dramas do not need super big names, and the news that Tina Fei gave him, all the actors who sent out audition invitations, all accepted without exception, and will fly to New Zealand to participate in auditions from this week.

Strictly speaking, in addition to Orlando Bloom, these people, including Elijah Wood, a minor actor, all have relatively rich acting experience, and their acting skills are definitely above the level, and Orlando Bloom is from a standard professional class, even if his acting skills are average, he will not be so bad that he is miserable, and what Legolas Green Leaf needs most is to be cool and handsome.

If Tom Cruise carried forward the concept of male vases, then Legolas, played by Orlando Bloom, pushed the pulling effect of male vases to the movie.

After the release of the first part of the film, Peter Jackson specially called the crew members to make up the film, and nearly half of the scenes were Legolas pulling a bow and archery......

Over the course of a week, Duke watched the auditions of the invited people, and finalized Vigo Morteson as Aragorn as soon as possible, Orlando Bloom as Legolas, Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins, and so on.

He then threw the audition to casting director John and assistant director Anna Prinz, who would pick other smaller roles with the other two producers, and he himself auditioned for a new project.

The name of the project has been decided, it is called "100,000 Emergencies", which has a double meaning, one is the emergency situation with the police when the gangsters rob the bank, and the other is the tension between the various characters and family members......

According to Duke's idea, this would be a film that reflects the influence of family on people under the cloak of a robbery.

"Don, if you're a police officer."

In the audition room, Duke asks the black man in front of the camera, "What would you do in the face of two bandits armed with automatic rifles?" ”

"Find a way to protect yourself." Don Chandle said without hesitation, "And call for help." ”

It's not the first time Don Cheadle has worked with him, he starred in "Independence Day" a few years ago, but he is only a soy sauce crowd with only a few frontal shots, and the other party has been up and down in Hollywood in recent years, compared to black comedians such as Will Smith, his acting skills are very good.

Duke nodded to Tina Fey, who was beside him, and the heroine immediately said, "Mr. Cheadle, the audition is here, and we will do our best to inform your agent of the results." ”

After Don Chandle left, Tina Fey lowered her voice and asked, "Is that him?" ”

"Remember to tell Dario to negotiate with his agent." The person Duke was referring to was the production manager assigned by Warner Bros. to the project.

Since the film is a multi-line narrative, it will inevitably be a group scene, and the black policeman will be one of the many protagonists.

In most mainstream Hollywood-style films, black characters are indispensable, and often have a fair share of them.

In fact, it is not difficult to find that in the assembly line factory of Hollywood, the stylization of the crew setting is very prominent, for example, in the commercial blockbuster zuò, there is usually a male protagonist who can't be killed, a female vase with big breasts and a high appearance, one or two little children who will drag their feet, and a black man who always plays a role at critical moments but will not die......

In short, if you don't want to make the film a cult or non-mainstream, some stylized things are hard to avoid.

Later, Duke met Liam Neeson, who came to audition, and talked in detail, the tall actor can be said to be the biggest name in the crew, his acting skills are not a problem at all, and in order to appear in Duke's film, he also agreed to reduce his salary.

Although his reduced salary was still $1.5 million, Duke decided to use him for his most important police role.

"The script will be in your hands soon."

Standing on the set, looking at the Los Angeles branch of Bank of America under construction, Duke talked to Liam Neeson about the collaboration, and the two can be said to be old acquaintances, "Your character is a single father in a family crisis, and he has a daughter who is in a rebellious period."

"And what is my prototype?" Liam Neeson was also aware of the famous robbery.

"I'll give you his information along with the script." Duke thought for a moment and said, "This is just a movie based on the North Hollywood bank robbery, and the characters will inevitably be different from real people, and the information is just a reference." ”

Hollywood has made countless biographies of people or movies based on real events, for their own purposes and to attract audiences, which one really fits the truth?

This type of film can be 50% derived from facts, even if it is very rare.

Even, quite a few of them are completely paraphrased names of people or events, and then remade up according to the rules of Hollywood.

"And, Liam."

When the other party was about to leave, Duke reminded him, "After the contract is confirmed, I want you to return to Wellington as soon as possible, and you need to receive professional police training." ”

Although far away in New Zealand, the Los Angeles County Police Department was enthusiastic about the film and provided professional gunsmiths and trainers with the simple goal of influencing the media, the public and the state government to win the power of equip ordinary police officers with semi-automatic and even automatic weapons.

Most states in the U.S. prohibit the possession of automatic weapons, but in a country where guns are rampant, and the North Hollywood robbery is not the first, and definitely not the last, in a country where guns are rampant, and bandits use automatic fire to suppress dozens of police officers.

As he walked towards the office on set, Duke suddenly thought of something else, "Tina, go back and contact the management of Victoria's Secret, I hope the angels will appear in my film." ”R1152