However, even if major Hollywood companies have come up with plans to shoot sci-fi movies, after all, there are more monks and less porridge, and who knows that sci-fi movies represent high investment.

With the current situation in Hollywood, the eight major film companies have the strength to shoot, and one company can shoot one or two films at most.

As for independent producers and producer companies, let's wash and sleep, and with their strength, they will also play literary films, as for science fiction films! Hehe!

Therefore, there are a lot of sci-fi scripts waiting to be filmed in Hollywood now, just because they can't find investors.

Now I heard that Twentieth Century Fox wanted to invest in a science fiction movie and asked Lucas to review it, and it immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Playwrights, producers, directors, and so on, who were confident in their work for a while, all rushed to the scene with the script, hoping to get investment from Twentieth Century Fox.

Even if Fox doesn't invest, as long as it can enter Lucas's eyes, other film companies will invest, after all, through "Star Wars" Lucas has the title of the father of science fiction movies in Hollywood.

That's why Lucas has so many scripts on his desk.

And more importantly, the scripts that Twentieth Century Fox sends to Lucas are all vetted.

In other words, these scripts have passed the second review of Fox, and it can be said that these scripts all have a synopsis.

After all, it was impossible for Fox to bring the unreviewed script to Lucas, because that would be almost an insult to Lucas.

After all, Lucas is also now one of the owners of Hollywood studios, and there is a partnership between the billionaire, Hollywood power figures and 20th Century Fox.

Of course, if the idea of the script is too classic, it may also skip the previous threshold and send it to Lucas.

Hollywood can be said to attach great importance to scripts, which is completely different from Hong Kong.

A Hollywood movie generally goes through six stages from scratch.

The first stage is the project approval.

Generally, screenwriters, directors or producers or even ordinary people have an idea or concept first, and then find someone to write the synopsis of the story, and after review, they feel that the story is good, and then they will find a professional to write a script according to the synopsis.

And this audit is called the first instance.

In order to make the first instance professional, there is a position called Hollywood Reader in major Hollywood companies, which specializes in reading movie stories from all over the world, and the first trial is not just reviewed once, but sometimes needs to be reviewed many times.

Make sure the story will have a selling point and make money for the company. Because hiring a professional to write the script later also requires an investment of money.

For example, "Star Wars" was not liked by readers at the beginning, but it was actually liked by another reader during the second review and then written into an outline. Then I found Lucas, who was favored by Lucas and wrote the script.

After the first trial, the synopsis of the story is handed over to the screenwriter to expand into a script, and then the script is reviewed to ensure that it is a very good script.

The next step is to find the right director, actors, etc., and prepare to start the filming preparation stage.

The process of reviewing the script is called the second trial, and the second trial is more rigorous than the first trial. A script often has to be revised by many people, and there is a great possibility that the script that has undergone many revisions will be completely different from the first version of the script, not to mention the original story synopsis.

After the second trial, the film began to be officially prepared. Begin to select directors and actors, actors need to be interviewed one by one, auditioned for the roles one by one, and then determined whether they are suitable to play according to their performance.

And the director you are looking for should also put forward your own shooting plan, how to make the story better, more storytelling, and more selling......

Subsequently, the list of directors and actors will be submitted for a third review.

This review is mainly to see whether the director is qualified, whether the actors are suitable, etc., and the process is also relatively painful and long. Actors often pass this interview and are eliminated in the next interview.

or have already signed a contract, but a more suitable actor comes out temporarily, and they can only be forced to terminate the contract to give way, and the actor who was originally in contact said that they were not interested, and they changed their minds after a few months......

And the director also needs to come up with a shooting plan many times. Revise over and over again to try to meet all the needs of the company...... Similarly, directors sometimes encounter the same troubles as actors, and they may be fired if they sign a contract; The director who was not interested in taking on the film before may suddenly be interested in it again.

Of course, because Hollywood attaches great importance to contractual relationships, generally speaking, as long as the contract is signed, the contract will not be terminated, because in the United States, it is very troublesome to terminate the contract for no reason, and you need to pay a large amount of liquidated damages.

After the third review is passed, the fourth trial will be held immediately, and the fourth trial is actually the last step before the start of filming. The main thing is to calculate the cost of the movie. Through the shooting plan submitted by the director, and the list of actors and crew, the approximate investment cost can be calculated.

After the fourth review, it is filming, and after a long shooting, the film will be in the late production stage after it is completed, and then it will be released. That's a total of six steps.

The scripts that are now sent to Lucas have basically passed the second trial, and it can be said that as long as Lucas likes it, he can enter the third trial.

And if Lucas is willing to shoot it himself, it is estimated that the four trials will be omitted, and Lucas will be fully responsible, which is also the status that Lucas got after Star Wars.

Of course, it also has something to do with the fact that Lucas is now a billionaire, because if Lucas himself wants to, he can invest in movies by himself, like the later Star Wars series, almost all of which Lucas invested himself.

Because Lucas and Spielberg are very serious people, they will not throw away the script after reading it at the beginning like some screenwriters in Hong Kong, and both of them decided whether to give up after reading the content.

There were even some scripts that couldn't be decided, and the two of them put them aside for the time being, and finally discussed them.

As a result, the speed of flipping through the script was naturally much slower, so that in the following days, Lucas and Spielberg stayed in the office to read the script, looking for more suitable film investment projects.

Although most of these scripts have plot synopsis, which brings convenience to the two of them to read quickly, but to read such thousands of scripts, it still makes the two people dizzy to the point of hallucination.

So many scripts are not in the inventory of major film companies, and they are all science fiction scripts written after the popularity of "Star Wars".

It can also be seen that Hollywood has a strong foundation, and it can come up with so many scripts in just a few months.

Let's not talk about the quality of these scripts, but the quantity is enough to be proud of the world.

At the rate at which Hollywood produces hundreds of films a year, it will take at least several years to complete these films, and these are just science fiction scripts, and there are many more other kinds of scripts.

So when Hollywood is making a film, it can sift through these countless scripts to its heart's content.

Over and over again, over and over again, try to screen out the best scripts to achieve the most consistent box office revenue.

Relatively speaking, the foundation of Hong Kong films is not so strong.

They are known for not paying attention to script creation, and often they don't even have a script when filming, they just have a story synopsis, and then the screenwriter makes up the story on the spot.

Pieces of paper with lines and stories flying between the screenwriter, the director, and the actors, so they are also called flying notes.

Such a phenomenon is the result of not paying attention to the script, which will inevitably lead to loopholes in the movie, and sometimes there will be inconsistent plots in a movie, such as the classic "The True Color of Heroes" in the minds of Hong Kong people.

When such a classic movie was screened in Europe and the United States, it was criticized by the audience, thinking that there were too many loopholes in it.

As for other movies, not to mention, they don't pay attention to the script anyway, which leads to countless bad movies in Hong Kong, and the phenomenon of following the trend is serious, and finally the Hong Kong movies are exaggerated.

"Hey, how is that possible?" Spielberg's voice rang out in the room: "This story is so fantastic, it's simply what I've dreamed of the most." I decided that I was going to make this film. ”