After sending everyone away, Ryan and Lily following behind her ass? Mo? Xin went to the baby's room, Sandy hadn't woken up yet, he was sleeping soundly, he stood by and watched for a while, and then explained a few words to the nanny, and left satisfied.

Back in the living room of the villa, Nicole just came in through the back door of the villa.

"Lily, you're starting to get naughty too."

Taking the towel from the maid, Nicole wiped her hands, walked over and gently pinched her goddaughter's nose, turned her couch, and sat down on a single sofa, "The garden is full of balloon fragments that you stepped on. ”

"I'm sorry, godmother."

Lily? Mo? Simbi Taylor was much more obedient when she was a child, and she ran over and took Nicole's hand, "We had so much fun." ”

"It's okay." Nicole pulled her to her side, "Elsa has found a cleaning company. ”

Taking the coffee pot from Elsa's hand, Ryan walked over with it, turned over the cups on the coffee table, poured a cup for himself and Nicole, handed it to Nicole, picked up his own cup, and sat on the single sofa opposite.

"Is Sunny still sleeping?" Nicole asked, taking a sip of her coffee.

"I'm sleeping soundly." Ryan took a sip slowly and put down the cup, "The nanny is watching over there, the little guy is probably tired, and he probably won't wake up in a short time." ”

"She didn't take a nap today, so it's better to get some more sleep." Nicole looked at her goddaughter, "Lily, go to the desk in the study and help me get a script." ”

"Is it still the same old place?"

Seeing Nicole nod, Lily took a brisk step and ran to the second floor.

"What script?" Ryan couldn't help but ask curiously.

"You know." Nicole looked at Lily's back disappearing around the corner of the stairs and said, "I went to New York some time ago to negotiate a film contract with a director, and he recently mailed me the first draft of the script for his own adaptation of 'Weakness: The Race Progression,' which I think is pretty good. You can mention some Jianyì. ”

It didn't take long for Lily to run back with a script that was at most 200 pages thick, and very tacitly understood what Nicole meant, handed the script directly to Ryan, and then ran to the entertainment room to entertain herself.

Flipping through the script, Ryan browsed it as quickly as he could, and Nicole introduced some basic information.

"The title of the film is definitely called "Weakness", and the screenwriter and director will be John? Plum? Hancock served. ”

Hearing Nicole's words, Ryan looked up, "Where do I seem to have heard this name?" ”

"This is the person recommended by Julis." Nicole said a few words. "In 2002, John? Plum? Hancock worked with Disney Pictures on "Baseball Rookie", and some time ago on a pie, the old cowboy Clint? Eastwood also recommended him to me. ”

"Me and John? Plum? Hancock has already met Annie? Taussy and Sean? Mr. and Mrs. Taussy. Nicole continued, "Have you seen Michael, the protagonist of the book? Oher, shortly after that meeting, he came up with the first draft of the script. ”

"Sounds ......," Ryan flipped through the script quickly, "what do you think of John?" Plum? Hancock is satisfied? ”

"That's true." Nicole shrugged, "Michael? At the same time as the story of Oher. An in-depth study of the importance of the left tackle to an American football team has also led to the attention of countless sports enthusiasts, especially American footballers. ”

"But the film certainly can't be shot like that."

has been a producer for a long time, and Nicole also has her own experience, "Pure sports inspirational movies." It's just a niche genre that doesn't meet our goals. After discussing with John, we decided to take only one of the main lines of the novel and adapt it to make a mainstream Hollywood film. ”

Keep your head up. Ryan gestured to Nicole to continue.

"We intend to focus on describing how great the family is, and center it on non-traditional mother-child relationships that are not related by blood. Sports, especially American football, drive the whole story, but in fact it has nothing to do with sports. Because Michael? The development of the relationship between the Oher and Tausi families is at the heart of the story. ”

"Found to play Michael? An actor in Oher? Ryan turned to the script again.

"Found it." Nicole rubbed the corners of her forehead, as if this incident had given her a headache, "It took a lot of effort for Pat to find a big black guy with good acting skills, and he is now Michael?" Oher trained on the American football team at the University of Mississippi, his alma mater. ”

Ryan didn't say anything more, but focused on skimming through the script and thinking about it for a while.

"The script is generally fine, but, Nicole, there are too many depictions of black neighborhoods in the script, and the violence and racial antagonism in it will spoil the warm atmosphere of the script, which is better brushed aside."

The nanny walked into the living room with Sunny in her arms, and Nicole hurriedly walked over to pick up her daughter and nodded to this side, "I understand." ”

If you only look at the rich areas and the middle-class areas with better security and location, North America really seems to be a paradise in propaganda, but when you enter the slums and black areas, you will understand why there is always darkness behind the light.

The script is not written in the genre of the so-called elimination of racist discrimination, or even explicitly addresses it at all, and its intention is much more ambitious.

The theme is not white people responding to black pity and charity, but allowing each person to discover his own goodness, dignity, and worth, which is the perfect interpretation of the Declaration of Independence, which says that "all men are created equal."

From another point of view, this is an inspirational story built with family as the core, although it is inspirational, but like Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling", it is not essentially a story about a sparrow turning into a phoenix or an ugly duckling becoming a swan.

The intention of the script is much more positive than that, and fundamentally that Michael? Ohe was originally a phoenix and a swan, but he had strict blind spots, and once these blind spots were eliminated, he was able to show the best side to the world.

Regardless of the realities of North American society, these are extremely much in line with the values propagandized by mainstream society.

This film, like Natalie's "Black Swan", requires a long preparation period, mainly because the black male protagonist in it has to practice some of the basics of American football, and the crew also has to contact several high school and college American football teams, but fortunately, these are not as troublesome as Natalie and Scarlett's ballet training, after all, American football is the number one sport in the United States.

After Sandy's birthday party, Nicole's Kidman Studio officially began preparations for the film, and Disney Studios as a partner also joined in. The two of them served as producers, and the adaptation of "Weakness: The Game Progression" was nothing too much to worry about.

Compared with the movie that Nicole just started preparing, Ryan paid more attention to Natalie's "Black Swan", especially a few days ago, she commissioned Pixar Studios to produce Zuò's special effects, and there were some problems.

Pixar Studios is mainly responsible for the hair rendering of Natalie when she transforms into a black swan in the final climax, and in the use of CGI to generate and render hair, Hollywood can't find better special effects than Pixar, although the two sides had a little disagreement on styling a few days ago, but they quickly reached a consensus.

After the special effects of Pixar Studio are completed, in addition to the soundtrack that needs to be added, the post-production of "Black Swan" is basically completed, and there will be no delay to participate in the Venice Film Festival at the end of August.

Because Natalie and Pixar's all-star team will participate, Ryan made a point to give people a glimpse of what is going on at this year's Venice Film Festival, especially the judges and the opponents in the competition section.

Through the report submitted by Guò's subordinates, Ryan learned that the Venice Film Festival has been blowing the Chinese wind in recent years, and it was a Chinese director who won the Golden Lion Award last year, and the chairman of this year's jury is the director of the opening ceremony of next year's Olympic Games, in addition to seeing the names of Ang Lee and "Lust and Caution" on the list of entrants.

vaguely remembers that in the previous life, "Lust and Caution" seemed to have won a heavyweight award among the three major European film festivals, and now it seems to be the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, in this case......

It seems that he has little to do with Venice in Italy, and it seems that Disney's European and Far East branches should start working early.

As for Ang Lee, don't talk about the Oscar, he also helped him win the Palme d'Or twice, and it's time to return the favor.

He's a smart guy and he must know what to do.

In contrast, the jury, which is purely composed of directors, is a bit difficult to handle.

The chairman of the jury surnamed Zhang from China will not talk about it, there is no friendship between the two sides at all, and the French female director Catherine? Brea, New Zealand female director Jane, who directed "The Piano Lesson"? Campion, Italian director Emmanuel? Criales, Mexican director Alejandro, who directed Babel? Gonzalez? Inaridu, Turkish-born director Fossen? Ozpaert, Dutch director Paul, who directed "Black Book"? Ferhofen these judges.

Among them, there are very few who are really closely connected with Hollywood, and even those few directors from mainland Europe are more hostile to Hollywood films.

Since participating in the competition unit of the film festival, no one wants to go home empty-handed, and in early June, Ryan gave Martin? Scorsese and Francis? Coppola made a phone call, handpicked a media PR team and rushed to Italy ahead of schedule to prepare for the promotion during the Venice Film Festival.

However, Ryan can only do this for the time being, after all, there is still some time before the Venice Film Festival, and the summer season in North America is still strangled in chaos.

Also in this month, Universal Pictures announced the acquisition of Illumination Entertainment Animation, which officially became a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and specialized in producing animated films for the latter.

The Hollywood animation business has completely ushered in an era of great power. (To be continued......)