Chapter 157: The Present Situation

Of course, Roland is not in a hurry about the script.

Although he is different from Pei Qian Pei, he doesn't have that open mouth, and he doesn't have a group of Dihua subordinates, but which of the big guys around him can't write scripts? Oh no, George Lucas wouldn't have written a screenplay!

But except for him, the other guys are very clear about business routines!

Even if it is really difficult to give birth in the end, you can invite those guys to come over and brainstorm, although it is impossible to hold the script out in a week like the screenwriter of "Transformers", but it can also avoid the strange situation of resurrecting Han in "Fast and Furious 9"!

And there are a bunch of villains in the "Spider-Man" comics, so don't worry, Xiao's brother will appear, Tang's brother will appear, and then there will be some aunt, second sister-in-law, and brother-in-law!

In terms of time, there is actually a lot of time.

"True Lies" will not be completed until the end of March of '94 at least, and after coming back, the truck driver will be able to cut a film on them, and he can leave it to others to do in the later stage.

At this point in time, it happened to collide with the node of the end of the "Lion King" project.

In other words, while the truck driver is busy, all of Roland's work will also be over, and at that time, the two of them can do whatever they want, even if Chi Guoguo fights, it's no problem!

It took two or three months to get the script out, and it was only in the middle of the year, after getting the character design draft, Industrial Light & Magic could immediately do CGI for them, and the movie prop model was naturally in charge of Stan Weston, who made the close-up dinosaur model of "Jurassic Park"! As a good friend of the truck driver, leading the digital field to smash out Spider-Man's suit and the villain's close-up model for half a year, isn't that just a matter of words?

The boss wants to make a movie, so all other messy projects have to be sidelined!

In this way, after hearing Ang Lee say that he had been thinking about Yuan He for a long time, Roland almost didn't shed tears of joy, "Okay, after the script on my side is completed, I'll call you." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll contact the boss when I get back, I'm sure they'll be very happy......"

Nonsense, Hollywood dignitaries, it's strange if those guys are unhappy!

You must know that Zhang Jiazhen entered Hollywood in eight or nine years, peddling Wu Baige's "Bloody Heroes" to various distribution companies, and it took until ninety-two years to help the other party get "The Ultimate Target" from Universal!

But it's a pity that Wu Baige's temper is too stinky and he doesn't get along with the photography of "The Ultimate Target", otherwise the movie wouldn't be inexplicable.

Why do you mention photography?

Because the cinematography of "The Ultimate Target" is Russell Carpenter, "True Lies", "Titanic", ......

He did it all by himself.

Later, when filming "Mission Impossible 2", Tom Cruise 'discovered' that the filming was not good, and Wu Baige, who had been watching the monitor, felt that there was nothing wrong, so he watched with joy that the other party fired the guy named Andrew Lesne.

And then - they became Peter Jackson's royal photographers, filming the Lord of the Rings trilogy, "I Am Legend", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", "The Hobbit" trilogy......

With this kind of vision, it's no wonder that he wrote "Meng Meng, stand up".

Cheng Long even participated in the 'Westward Expansion Plan' of Zou Wenhuai, the boss of Golden Harvest, in 80, and shouted 60 million US dollars, six movies, and the slogan that Hollywood movie stars would match Cheng Long.

The first movie invited Robert Goloss, who once filmed "Enter the Dragon" and "Game of Death" for Bruce Lee, Oscar-winning actor Jose Ferrer, and the heroine of the infantry version of "Alice in Wonderland" Christine Debell.

It's a pity that this movie, known as "Killer Trench", died violently, and the "Westward Expansion Plan" also cast a shadow.

In this situation of racking his brains to enter Hollywood, Roland wants to pull someone, it is easier than drinking water!

And what he lacks has always been an excuse!

After solving the problem he was most concerned about, Roland, who was in a state of satisfaction, chatted with the two for another half an hour.

When he learned that James Shams had come out of Berkeley, he was even more in awe.

This is true, Roland has always felt that the guy who was admitted to a prestigious school with his own ability has been very successful in itself.

Because no matter what line you do, you will find that continuous learning is the core of a person's success.

Spielberg's cultural lessons are indeed bad, but everything about movies is not brought out of the womb; Truck drivers can't understand the boring mathematical formulas, but people can force out the skills of the editing machine without understanding the language; Ang Lee graduated from New York University, but the so-called blending and conflict of Eastern and Western cultures is also that people first write a Chinese script, then translate it into English in the common context of America, and finally translate it back in English to Chinese; They don't know anything about computers, but they don't reject them......

CGI, IMax-3D, 120 frames, glasses-free 3D...... They are full of curiosity about things that others have never used, and these old men learn these strange things faster than anyone else.

Studying the things they love is the foundation of their success, which is why Roland is not ashamed to ask.

Those guys with a lot of money have never stopped their steps, he is half a bucket of water, and he is still shaking a fart!

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Of course, when Roland and the two were chatting happily, in the headquarters of Sony Pictures Entertainment in Hollywood, there were phone calls at all levels, and since they received the news from Mike McDavoy, they learned that Roland wanted to win "The Wedding Banquet", and they didn't say a word, and directly stopped the project of Sony's classic "Lover of Four Thousand Gold" in the branch!

"The Lover of Four Thousand Gold" is indeed their award-winning movie this year!

But the problem is, an award is a fart compared to a box office project at your fingertips!

In fact, after seeing "Jurassic Park" break through the one billion yuan box office mark, Sony regretted it!

I knew that this kind of CGI movie could really break one billion, and I couldn't just invest in three "Spider-Man" in the first place!

They should have six!

No!

Roland: If they shoot a few films, they will cast a few films!

That's right, although Roland's side reported a trilogy, Sony didn't believe his at all!

"Superman" on the bad film Hua's side casually made a trilogy, and "Batman" started with five films during the planning period!

What's more, even if this kind of IP movie is bad, it can be refrigerated and restarted, so that a steady stream of money can be fished out of your pocket? But they—

Well, Sony admits that it's okay to bully and bully a young kid who has just entered the industry, and if you want to talk about this in front of the Jewish gang, you're dreaming! However, it is an indisputable fact that the Jewish gang rarely uses their own funds to make movies, and this is also the space they can operate and use, and now, didn't Roland send the opportunity to the door?

Why did Roland push "The Wedding Banquet"?

Sony doesn't know!

They don't feel like they need to know!

Roland wants to push! Then help him push!

We are now helping him without reservation, and we can renegotiate when the contract is finally signed!

Don't talk about sustainability, talk about one or two more, or raise the investment ceiling of 50% up, this is okay!

After all, in addition to the meaning of brushing style, the most fundamental purpose of them is to make money!

And in the case that you can make money by tying Roland, it doesn't matter if you want this kind of thing!

It's like Microsoft hired Indians and tripled its market value without relying on Windows, causing a bunch of Internet companies in Silicon Valley to target executives of Indian origin!

Whether it's a prize film or a commercial film, Sony doesn't care at all!

As long as you can make money in the film field, I don't care what movies you make!

Because of this, what they are most concerned about now is actually whether the "Wedding Banquet" is not to the taste of the judges!

And the results of the market research made them happy.

"This year should be the best year for same-sex films."

"The Philadelphia Story is Hollywood's first war on AIDS, and it's another war on discrimination."

"This movie is based on a true story, the prototypes of the two male protagonists were both lawyers during their lifetimes, and they were both fired because of homosexuality and AIDS, and the reason why they moved the story to Philadelphia is because Philadelphia means brotherly love in Greek, and Philadelphia is the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence, and the idea that the whole movie conveys to the world is 'all men are created equal'."

"But it's a pity that the judges won't choose it for the best picture, even if you want to go to war, you have to test the water with a small award first."

"This may be the opportunity for "The Wedding Banquet"!"

"The Wedding Banquet is not as big as The Philadelphia Story, and the core of the ideas it spreads is limited to the family, but we can still recommend this film to the judges with tolerance and race, and in the case of not being able to choose The Philadelphia Story, the judges may be more willing to choose an excellent foreign film with a same-sex theme, because this is also a manifestation of the direction of the wind, whether it is internal propaganda or external communication, it can play a good role in promoting it."

"Of course, the most important thing is that Miramax doesn't promote "Farewell My Concubine", and "The Wedding Banquet" has a good box office."

"The identity of the director is also the advantage of "The Wedding Banquet"!"

"We might be able to help Roland win an Oscar, and while a foreign language film isn't worth much, we can use that to ask Steven for a price when we sign a contract in a few months......"

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Sony's behavior of racking his brains to be a 'Kaizi', if it is known by other peers, it will definitely be envious.

But it can't be helped! Who has made Roland's commercial value surpass Harrison Ford and sit at the top of the list of male stars?

Instead of envy, jealousy, and hatred, these guys should work hard and strive to have a daydream that satisfies them!

In this way, they can also experience how boring and boring Roland's life is now!

Of course, Sony's reaction was actually exactly what Roland expected.

Because in addition to "Spider-Man", "Jurassic Park", which will be the first to log in to PlayStation, has also been put on the research and development agenda, and when the contract was signed, the other party hinted to Spielberg many times that when the console officially goes on sale, they hope that the two can go to Japan to help promote it, and the cost is negotiable.

For Sony's proposal, the two of them naturally agreed at the time, and then turned around and didn't take it seriously!

At the end of 94, I went to Japan to give you a game console platform?

You're thinking a lot!

Although Akihabara in this year is not a holy place for the second dimension.,What maid lady.、showgirl、Coser、The 530,000 combat power councilors who want to decode the R18 book are the same.,It's still an electrical street.,Sony doesn't know what otaku like at all.,But-

They really don't have time!

Spielberg can push all the film projects and specialize in tinkering with his own company, so how can he have the effort to give Sony a platform? It's not like you're full and have nothing to do!

And Roland—

It's too late to sell your own games!

In the schedule given to him by Mike Mohami, it clearly marked the completion date of Humans and Orcs!

That's right, after Roland bought them a license, this group of guys ate, drank, and played out "Warcraft", which is a 10-point fantasy of 9.1+0.9 on MC in the future!

All right......

I can't hold it back......

Drafted Blizzard, Lao Tzu returned the reset version!

At the beginning of a legendary IP, Roland voted for Mohami and they went for this thing, and now, since those guys told him that "Humans and Orcs" could be completed in the summer of '94 and expected to be released in November, then he ......

How could it be possible to give Sony a platform!

It's too late for him to push his own games, where is the time to tinker with Sony's game consoles?

What's more, after "Humans and Orcs" is released, it is when the ACT game "Spider-Man" is on the agenda, and Roland hopes that the game and the movie will be a big hit together, in this case, what will "Jurassic Park" look like when Sony's own team hires its own team to develop? Roland didn't know, and he wasn't interested in knowing.

Because of this, after separating from Ang Lee and James Shams, Roland became the shopkeeper again.

He doesn't have to worry about the Olympics of "The Wedding Banquet", the dubbing and action direction of "The Lion King" have to wait for him to come back from playing, and a series of things like what script and game release can be postponed to the middle of ninety-four......

It's no exaggeration to say that you can't go out for a month like a husky!

Even if you're out there for March, it doesn't matter!

Thus leaving all his work behind and preparing for his holiday, Roland called George Lucas, borrowed a private jet from the local man, and flew to London on the night of his birthday on January 1, '94.

And just as he finished telling the story to the little lolis and coaxed them to sleep in the cabin, he didn't know that there was a group of guys waiting for him in England, located on the island of Great Britain......