The special effects production and editing began after the whole movie was completed, Shao Yingying had to come up with a complete movie before the schedule, which was all forced by Cameron's "Avatar", he had to avoid "Avatar", an aircraft carrier-level large-scale production with an investment of up to 237 million, so that his film found a gap in the schedule and became popular first, so the entire post-production process of this movie must be fast, and it must be fast to leave enough time to shine when the movie is released. It must not cause the "Avatar" rear-end incident, otherwise, it will definitely be drowned in a huge wave.

As a result, Shao Yingying finished filming "Or Become a God? After "Die or Die", it completely entered a vacuum period, and every day was the life of the hotel and the RO-FX studio, and I often stayed overnight in the RO-FX studio, and everyone was playing with their lives.

At this time, Harry Sloan was not idle, he rented an LED advertising film in all the box office towns in North America, maybe the billboard he rented was not the largest, but the billboard he rented must be the place with the most concentrated foot traffic, that is, the most eye-catching.

The key point is that the message of this LED billboard is so interesting that Harry Sloan is completely blatantly exploiting the contradiction between Shao Yingying and most of the Hollywood media, and has put this subtitle on the billboard: "Shao Yingying's movie "Become a God?" Die or Die media screening, I'll wait for you'. The poster presented on the LED is Shao Yingying's expression lying on the ground with his hands spread out very happily before he died, and the provocative appearance is simply intolerable.

The subtext is completely: 'If you have the ability, don't come to any of you this time.'" See if MGM can resist'!

This is a film that has been scheduled to premiere at the end of November before filming started and seize the Chinese New Year file, but I didn't expect it to be only a few months after filming. It has already begun to publicize, and a challenge letter has been issued to all the media.

The huge wave of public opinion began to sweep the whole of Hollywood again, and the last battle between Shao Yingying and the media people finally had a bit of gunsmoke.

"Here he is again, here he is again, why is it him every time? Shao, you and your MGM have filled me with anger before I am about to get tired of it. —"Rolling Stone."

"The last battle between Shao Yingying and Hollywood has turned the heat wave up, this time. Shao Yingying will definitely lose. ”——《CAN》。

"Oh, and the showdown with the Hollywood press has made "Either Gods?" "Die or Die" has become the most anticipated movie in Hollywood at the moment except for "Avatar", Shao. I really can't imagine how lonely it would be without you to continue to mess with the entertainment industry. —The Globe and Mail.

The voice of the media began to explode completely around the promotion of the movie, and the happiest time for fans has come, almost everyone is on the street with a newspaper or magazine in their hands to watch the media people's analysis of the movie, and watching the tiger fight has always been a wonderful program dedicated to fans in the entertainment industry. It's been a joy for years.

Half a month later. When Shao Yingying finished all his work and walked out of the studio, he was almost stunned by the public opinion in the media, he was the protagonist on the entertainment news that he had not read for half a month in the hotel, and sometimes when he picked up the next newspaper, he could imagine that he must be in the news headlines, just like Tom and Pete, who came out once every six months to promote the new movie, but he completely relied on the war with the media to have his current popularity.

"Shao, you're red again."

This was a remark that Harry Sloan said to Shao Hero when he had only a few days to free before the promotional period began.

Shao Yingying looked at Harry Sloan and said, "Should I say it...... Thank you? ”

"You're welcome." Harry Sloan shamelessly accepted Shao's thanks. In his opinion, he is MGM's talker. Shao Yingying is the boss, and his relationship with the boss is a friend, which is why he sits together so many times to chat and discuss publicity and other things. When the real job comes, I'm sorry, the publicity part of Harry Sloan that belongs to him is completely up to him, and he does what works best for the publicity, rather than thinking about whether the boss will be happy.

In fact, Shao Yingying has never interfered with what Harry Sloan is good at since coming to MGM, which is why they can get along so far.

"Harry, how did I leave you to make Nolan? I've got time now, and I'm going to enter the publicity period after a while, and I'm afraid that I'll get too busy and forget about it. Shao Yingying reminded and asked.

This time, the movie promotion strategy was greatly changed by 'Harry Sloan', that is, Cheng Long and Fan Yiyi returned to China to promote, and Shao Yingying fought alone in North America, anyway, the object of the entire Hollywood media has always been him, and the significance of the other two people's absence is really not particularly significant. Huaxia is different, Fan and Cheng Long, two superstars who have huge influence in both China and Asia, and if they join the Asia promotion plan, it will play a huge role in promoting the box office.

In this way, Shao Yingying must meet Nolan in a limited few days after the filming, otherwise, he may not be able to spare any time before the movie is released.

"I've already made an appointment for you, and tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, Nolan will come to your hotel room to meet you, and I can't know how you talk."

When Shao Yingying heard Harry Sloan's somewhat pessimistic attitude, he asked, "Why don't I understand what you say?" ”

"Shao, the reason why the "007" series of movies is called a classic is that in that era, special effects movies were not the mainstream, which made the handsome and dashing James Bond an idol. It's different now, from "The Matrix" to "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter", "Source Code" and the upcoming "Avatar", Hollywood has a lot of special effects movie classics, how many people do you think there will be nostalgia for "007"? ”

Harry Sloan has a lot of truth in what he said, the times make classics, and classics are born from trends.

Put "The Matrix" in the 70s and it will become a movie that no one will understand, and this is the effect of the times on movies.

But!

You can score what you say.

Movies like "Broken Blue Bridge" and "Gone with the Wind" can win a good box office as long as they choose the right director and actors, and change the story to a framework that everyone is familiar with, because movies are actually divided into two categories, that is, realistic themes and fantasy themes, and it just so happens that "007" belongs to a realistic theme that is acceptable to anyone at any time, even if there are many unrealistic things here.

"I don't think so." Shao Yingying and Harry Sloan are simply small talk, just like he will not touch the area that Harry Sloan is in charge of, and will never allow Harry Sloan to touch his creations.

"Okay, but don't get your hopes up, after all, Nolan is a director in Hollywood who is not short of shooting funds, and a director who does not lack shooting funds will have a lot of room in the choice of themes and scripts, and whether he will challenge a classic is a question in itself."

"That's the point."

A director who is not short of volunteers is not very willing to be controlled by the company, just like everyone has accepted that geniuses must be different from ordinary people, or unruly, or silent, especially directors who have already achieved fame, for this kind of director, challenging the sequel of the classic series of movies is as difficult as remaking the classic movie, it should be filmed well, and if the film is not good, you are bad and not the movie is bad. At the same time, this is also the same as many big brands would rather create their own series of movie brands than become the next "007", mainly because the classic series of movies leaves too deep an impression on the audience.

On the afternoon of the next day, Shao Yingying met Nolan, the director of "Batman: The Dark Knight", when Nolan appeared in the hotel, he was wearing a black shirt and no jacket, and he came very casually, which was a bit of a formality.

Entering the hotel room, Shao Yingying didn't give Nolan any chance to say hello at all, and said directly: "Director Nolan, how long do you think it will take you to make "007" into a 'Nolan-style' movie?" ”

'Nolan-esque' movies?

When Nolan heard this, he still said the lines he had thought of before he came, if it weren't for Shao Yingying's current status in Hollywood, he would probably refuse directly at today's meeting: "Oh, thank you Mr. Shao, in fact, I didn't plan to become the director of "007"......"

"It's okay, Director Nolan, it doesn't matter if we can't work together, I just want to know one thing, how long it will take for you, a London-born director, to change a series of films positioned by actors to a series of films positioned by directors, we don't have to sign a contract, it's just, let's talk a few words."

Shao Yingying's meaning Nolan understands, because since Pierce Brosnan has become a new generation of James Bond, he has replaced all the actors who have played Bond as a classic symbol, for these audiences who still love the "007" movie, whether it is Sean Connery or Pierce Brosnan on the screen, this movie will always be a trademark with the starring role, not the director. If it is no less difficult to change this format than to challenge the previous dozen or nearly twenty "007" movies, how could this Mr. Shao have such a crazy idea?

"Mr. Shao, you have a big problem for me, I really haven't thought about it, although I think "The Queen's Secret Mission" is a classic movie." After saying this, Nolan really fell into thinking, anyway, he didn't come to sign a contract, if he was just talking about movies, he could talk about his opinions, even if it was a big deal, even if it was a help, even if his idea was used by MGM, wouldn't it be equivalent to a favor? Who wouldn't want to be a big creditor in Hollywood?

"I think ......" (To be continued......

PS: Well, the Wachowski siblings, that's really wrong