Chapter 83 The Right of Adaptation
As early as December, Hollywood Records announced that the first solo album of super genius Ryan Jenkins will be officially released after the New Year, which has attracted widespread attention, "he" is naturally the first single of the album, and on January 1, 1992, the second single "I.Believe.I.can.fly" will begin to promote the chart.
Ryan has also been cooperating with the record company's promotion, and when everyone's attention is focused on music, he has had to devote most of his energy to the film business.
Since a few months ago, Kingsley has been in tug-of-war negotiations with Universal Pictures, naturally for the film adaptation rights of "Jurassic Park".
The negotiation process was very unsmooth, and Ryan's appetite was a little big, and he wanted to cut a large piece of the super big cake and stuff it into his pocket.
Universal Pictures is not stupid either, and they plan to follow Disney's example in "The Lion King" and enjoy the box office and subsequent peripheral sharing of the film as the original author and screenwriter.
If he is willing to invest less than 10 million US dollars, they will also welcome it, this kind of thing that can give up a part of the income and bring the relationship between the two sides closer, why not?
Unexpectedly, the other party's appetite was far greater than they imagined, and they actually threw out a co-production and sharing agreement.
Universal Pictures could tolerate their participation in the investment, but it was unacceptable to take a cut of nearly half of the expected revenue, and eventually the negotiations broke down.
With absolute initiative, Ryan is not in a hurry at all, although he is inclined to cooperate with Universal Pictures, but he also does not mind cooperating with other major film companies, after all, the copyright of "Jurassic Park" is 100% in his own hands, as long as he does not nod, no one can do anything.
Of course, he has not given up the opportunity to work with Universal Pictures for the time being, and in his opinion, Universal Pictures will eventually make concessions.
As the second-oldest of the seven major studios, Universal Pictures has been in poor shape lately, has not released strong productions for several years in a row, and if it does not start to save itself, it will degenerate into MGM and Sony Columbia Pictures.
You must know that in addition to the huge film libraries of MGM and Sony Pictures, the former has been eating the old book of the 007 series, and the latter has not yet figured out how to play in the American entertainment market after being acquired by the Japanese, and is constantly paying tuition fees.
Universal Pictures' turnaround in the previous life was "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List", the former got a global box office of nearly $1 billion, and all kinds of surrounding fires were a mess, and the latter had a huge repercussion and became the big winner of the Oscars.
The person who ordered the termination of the negotiations was the owner of Universal Pictures, Sean Shanenberg, the president of American Music, who was very dissatisfied and wanted to use this way to tell the hairy boy who had the initiative in this negotiation.
However, Ryan? Jenkins isn't the boy he was a year ago anymore, and Tom isn't it anymore? Cruise is a child star who can be questioned in public casually, and with the successive hits of "Sleepless in Seattle", "Terminator 2" and "Bodyguard" this year, he has gradually established his position in this circle in Hollywood, and in the eyes of various film companies, his works are the guarantee of the box office.
"Put the news out, and we can sell it at a good price through multiple competitions." After the negotiations broke down, Ryan had said this to Kinsley.
So, on the day the negotiations broke down, the news spread, and the film industry was suddenly boiling, and they were shocked to realize that Universal Pictures was ahead of the entire Hollywood, and they actually targeted "Jurassic Park".
This is the bestseller book in the United States, which has won the top spot for more than 40 weeks, and according to the news released by the "Alien" publishing house, the book has sold more than 20 million copies, which is ...... in the United Kingdom and the United States No, there are many book fans in Shijie all over the world, and if it is adapted into a movie, as long as it is not made into something that does not know what to say, there is no need to think about profit at all, the only thing to consider is how much money can be made.
Ryan? Jenkins and Universal Pictures are so inauthentic that they are negotiating in secret, and Zuihou has collapsed, which is great.
Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Paramount, and Twentieth Century Fox contacted Kingsley on the same day, and producers such as Tim Burton and Jack Bruckheimer did not do it.
Strictly speaking, this book was changed by Ryan to a young age book, to be exact, a book for all ages, unlike the previous life, the book was listed as early as 86 years ago, and it became the bestseller champion, and as Ryan's fame increased, sales continued to increase, and a large number of book fans were cultivated.
They rejoiced when they heard the news, what could be more enviable than seeing their favorite dinosaur on the big screen?
"We've been looking forward to the day when Ryan is finally going to bring his most important work to the big screen, yes! We're so excited, we love Jurassic Park! ”
This is a book fan club of Ryan, who bought a small page in the newspaper and made his voice heard, hoping to support his idol in this way.
Of course, there are also some concerns, an older book fan, in an interview with the "Los Angeles Times" street survey, worriedly said, "I also hope to see the movie version of "Jurassic Park" one day earlier, especially the giant Tyrannosaurus rex, I am a little worried that the current movie Jishu can't make the dinosaurs come to life, that would be too bad, it would be a disaster." ”
The Los Angeles Times simply set up a questionnaire about whether they wanted to see the movie version of "Jurassic Park", and the questionnaire received nearly 20,000 copies, and more than 90 percent of people supported bringing the book to the big screen.
Ryan has a limited understanding of the situation in the past life of "Jurassic Park", but in this life, even the film adaptation rights have not been sold, and they have been hyped up and attracted a lot of attention.
In fact, everyone is optimistic about the adaptation of this book, not to mention, Ryan Jenkins will write the script himself, and the only worry is the post-production jishu of the movie.
In today's Hollywood, who has the most advanced movie special effects? Of course, it was industrial light and magic, and it didn't take long for a reporter to find George Lucas, after hearing the other party's question, the old man did not hesitate and swore that "with industrial light and magic's jishu, it is completely possible to make lifelike dinosaurs." ”
The old man dared to say this, he must be sure in his heart, coupled with the special effects shown in "Terminator 2", the confidence of various film companies has increased greatly, and one phone call after another has annoyed Jin Sili and her team.
In particular, Warner and Disney, who have worked with Ryan, are more active, with Gerald and Carter Eisner visiting each other to get Ryan to prioritize them.
Ryan didn't want to refuse directly, and only gave one condition, "The director of this film must be Steven Spielberg, which is a prerequisite for negotiation!" ”
The news spread somehow, and now the hatred has been successfully transferred, and the Jewish director has become the top priority of public relations of major companies.
A man who joined Universal Pictures earlier than in his previous life played an important role at this time, and Ron Meyer tried to convince Sean Shaneenberg to restart negotiations with Kingsley, and used the years of cooperation to invite Spielberg to Universal Studios.
How Universal Pictures persuaded Spielberg, few people know for the time being, Ryan heard from Kingsley that Spielberg's face was very ugly when he left Universal Studios, and he kept his face tense in the subsequent negotiations.
Soon, the latest news came out that Universal Pictures would invest $30 million in the filming of Schindler's List. Spielberg would be the director of the film.
Things have developed to this point, Ryan doesn't need to inquire anymore, and he knows that those things in his previous life have happened, the honeymoon period between Universal Pictures and Spielberg is over, and it won't be long before Hollywood will change dramatically and usher in a quasi-giant - DreamWorks!
What is negotiation? To put it bluntly, it is nothing more than asking for a sky-high price and paying back the money on the spot.
Ryan also knew that the conditions he offered were indeed a bit harsh, and he took the initiative to make concessions, and the next negotiations can only be described as speedy, and the two sides reached an agreement and signed the contract in December.
Regarding the film adaptation and investment of "Jurassic Park", Jenkins Pictures and Universal Pictures contributed 20 million and 45 million US dollars respectively as the initial budget, in addition to the distribution and publicity expenses intercepted by Universal Pictures in the future, the copyright and future income will be divided according to the proportion of investment.
Ryan reduced the proportion of investment, after all, the manufacturing and distribution of peripheral products, etc., his side is completely black, and there are many places that rely on Universal Pictures' channels.
As for him personally, in addition to Jenkins Films' income, he can also get $5 million and 3% of the North American box office share as the income of adaptation rights and screenwriters.
It's a good deal, both for Universal Pictures and beyond.
The agreement to share the cake was officially reached, and Ryan ushered in a busy life, he temporarily put aside the unfinished "Killer Leon", and began to rush the draft since December, striving to write the first draft of the script of "Jurassic Park" before the New Year.
He simply extended his vacation and planned to return to school after Christmas, except for occasionally paying attention to the box office of "The Bodyguard", he devoted most of his energy to the compilation of the script.
Fortunately, I have always had a clear movie in my head to compare, and I wrote Ryan Jenkins' version of "Jurassic Park", and it was much smoother to write it again.
Finally, before going to Diana's charity dinner, Ryan wrote the first draft of the script, along with dozens of sketches of dinosaurs, all of which are classic images from movies from previous lives.
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