"Hello Mr. Jia!" Jon Landau looked at the young man in front of him carefully several times, and couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, is this young man really capable of taking over the 135 million investment as Director Chen said?

At the same time, Director Chen Da, who was following behind, also looked at Boss Jia nervously, he only hoped that when Boss Jia refused, he would be able to give himself a little face, and at the same time find a suitable reason, not to make himself too ugly, let alone let his cowhide blow up.

"Hello Mr. Landau!" Boss Jia also listened and shook hands with Jon Landau, this big guy Boss Jia knows, he is the producer of the Titanic in history, I didn't expect Director Chen to get acquainted with him, and he really did a good thing.

"Here's the thing!" Jon Landau gave a general introduction to the situation of "Titanic".

In fact, the movie Titanic is not the movie that 20th Century Fox wanted to make, in fact, 20th Century Fox never considered making a shipwreck movie.

This movie is the film that the former truck driver, James Cameron, offered to make.

James Cameron used to be a truck driver, and after watching the Star Wars series in the cinema, he realized that truck driving was a profession with no future at all (and he didn't realize it until this time), and making movies is the greatest.

So James Cameron declared himself a film director without any professional film education.

Not to mention, after a period of scrambling in Hollywood, James Cameron actually became a director.

First, the filming of "Piranha 2" gained a certain fame and capital

In 1984, he raised a fund to write and direct a film called Terminator.

This movie is certainly no stranger to everyone, it became popular with Governor Schwarzenegger, and by the way, it won 68 million at the global box office at a cost of $6.5 million.

After that, Cameron wrote and directed the movie "Alien 2", which is also a movie that everyone is no stranger to, winning 120 million at the global box office and 7 Oscar nominations.

And then there is "Terminator 2", the sequel film that really pushed the Terminator series to glory, winning 200 million in North America and 500 million in the global box office.

Anyway, this director's achievements are simply a monster in Hollywood, a movie is higher than the other, and each one can achieve amazing achievements, when such a director once again proposes to write and direct a new movie, naturally no film company will refuse.

At the beginning, after Cameron released the news of the new movie, all the six major Hollywood studios turned into licking dogs and wanted to invest in Cameron's new movie.

But when Cameron came up with the script for the new movie, the six major studios all backed down.

The reason is simple, the investment in the film is too large, and the subject matter is too niche.

What Cameron took out was naturally the script of the Titanic, but at this time the whole script was still very rough, with only a simple outline.

When the six major film companies read the script and found out that Cameron was planning to make a disaster movie about a historical shipwreck, they all immediately retreated.

This movie is so niche that the audience in the United States has never been used to watching this kind of movie. And the only shipwreck movie in history, that also made the investment company lose money at that time, and the investment of millions of dollars only got hundreds of thousands of dollars at the box office, which was a mess.

What's more, the film company can't see what a shipwreck movie can sell.

Among them, there is neither the horror of the alien series, nor the fierce fighting of the Terminator series, and more importantly, looking at the script of this movie, it is actually the main love, and most of the pages of this shipwreck movie are actually describing love.

What's even worse is that the actor died in the end.

To be reasonable, in 1993, you put together such a shipwreck + love + abuse factor to make a movie, and you also asked for an investment of $135 million in one go, and a fool would believe that this movie could become popular.

Anyway, if such a story is published at the starting point, it will definitely be scolded by countless Shennong for being extremely poisonous, and then the author is deliberate, I am going to abandon the pit.

Because viewers who like to watch romance movies and disaster movies are not on the same channel at all, this kind of movie does not have any level of excitement at all.

It may be okay to engage in literary films, but if you want to become a commercial blockbuster with an investment of $135 million, such a theme and script is simply impossible.

In fact, the idea of Hollywood's six major film companies is not wrong, and later Huaxia also invested in the filming of two episodes of the movie, called Taiping Lun, invited the well-known Chinese director John Woo, and a series of international first-line movie stars such as Zhang Ziyi , Takeshi Kaneshiro, etc., with an investment of up to 40 million US dollars.

Anyway, a series of settings, plots, and casting, all of which are for the Titanic.

As a result, the two films together have a global box office of less than 300 million...... Brackets...... RMB, a mess of losses.

In fact, the quality of this movie is still quite good, although there are shortcomings such as procrastination of the plot and insufficient special effects, but overall, the quality is 90% of domestic movies in seconds.

But the box office was a fiasco, and the audience was not interested, which perfectly met the expectations of all Hollywood studios for the Titanic in 1993.

Therefore, don't blame these Hollywood film companies for looking down on people and having no vision, they can only say that Cameron is too awesome, and the dollar is really fragrant, and the most important thing is that the node where the movie was born coincided with the era of the full explosion of computer special effects, allowing the audience to see unprecedented special effects scenes in the movie, which is the most important thing.

But only Boss Jia knows these things, and the six major Hollywood film companies don't know it!

So the box office of 135 million plus the script of the Titanic instantly dissuaded 5 of the six major film companies, and only 20th Century Fox was still hesitating.

Because the CEO of 20th Century Fox happens to be a CEO who likes to invest in special effects blockbusters, and he also has a soft spot for special effects blockbusters, he hesitated.

And Cameron took the opportunity to post it, depicting countless bright futures to 20th Century Fox, such as being sure to make a lot of money, and finally really fooled 20th Century Fox, and the two sides signed a contract for investment and shooting.

But the problem is that the contract has been signed, and 20th Century Fox regrets it, this is a $135 million investment, you must know that at that time, 20th Century Fox only had $80 million on its books.

Of course, if 20th Century Fox had made up his mind to invest in filming even if he had borrowed money from a bank, it would have been easy to come up with $135 million.

But the board of directors of 20th Century Fox insisted on objecting, and the members of the board of directors after reading the movie script, like other film companies, felt that this movie was definitely a loss of money, and the audience in the United States would not be interested in such a movie with special effects + love + shipwreck + dead male protagonist, and they would never approve Fox to rely on borrowing money to invest.

This made 20th Century Fox very painful, and historically, they delayed for a full year, delaying until Cameron's movie "True Lies" was finished, and they did not get the scheduled funds in place.

In the end, Jon Landau went to the behind-the-scenes boss of 20th Century Fox, that is, the president of News Corporation, and the son-in-law familiar to the Chinese people, Mr. Murdoch, for some sincere communication, and finally Murdoch nodded and agreed, approved the investment plan, and let 20th Century Fox borrow a loan, so that 135 million US dollars was enough to start filming the Titanic.

At this time, when the Titanic had just been established, Jon Landau had not been forced to the point of going to Murdoch, and now he was just frantically looking for partners who were willing to invest and co-invest in the filming of this movie.

In this way, the risk does not have to be borne by 20th Century Fox alone.

But at this time, the name of the Titanic has spread throughout the Hollywood investment circle, and when the five major film companies all rejected it, and the board of directors of 20th Century Fox also rejected it, none of these investors were optimistic about the future of the Titanic.

Just when he was a little desperate, he happened to meet Director Chen Da at a business party and heard him boast about his story of "Farewell My Concubine".

Especially in that part, he rushed into the investor's office alone, and spent 5 hours convincing the discerning investor to invest in his "Farewell My Concubine", and finally succeeded in the legendary story.

And this investor is still very rich, with assets of hundreds of millions of dollars or something.

Then Boss Jia was targeted by Jon Landau.