The West Coast tour continues, and Gulfstream 4 flies to Silicon Valley.

Song Ya couldn't let go of the volume, and soon found that it was very fun to read these versions of the script, which spanned more than ten years, and it was not difficult to get a glimpse of the mental journey of each adaptation rights owner and screenwriter from the state of the script and the direction of adaptation.

For example, the first owner, Johnny Carson, was at the peak of his personal talk show hosting career when he bought the adaptation rights in 80, and the same is true for self-confidence and arrogance, and he is also a cultural person who must be repaid, for example, in the same year, he was cut off by a local rich man when he wanted to buy a casino in Las Vegas, and then immediately in front of the national audience in the show, he made up jokes without swearing and insulted each other, this character is also well reflected in the cat and mouse game script in 80-82.

He learned about the existence of the book "Catch Me with Ability" when the author Abagnell participated in his own show, and at that time, he had not yet suffered a personal investment failure, and generously won the adaptation rights at a high premium, and then immediately began to save the script with two screenwriters and producers. He is an excellent screenwriter himself, with a high creative passion, and his personal imprint can be seen everywhere in the first version of the script, he seems to have substituted himself into the legendary liar, so he focused on portraying the protagonist's various exciting lives and fraud in the first half of his life, and also added a lot of plots that were not in the original book, and the protagonist's character was changed to a high-end social occasion, personable, and charismatic 'Ya Thief'.

But soon, he himself realized that something was off the rails, and it didn't seem good to make a movie that touted the 'flawless' fraudster, so he began to revise it again to add the plot of the crook after he was imprisoned.

In the two versions of '81, it is clear that his passion has subsided, and the specific work is handed over to the other two, but he is extremely controlling, and often expresses dissatisfaction with other people's modifications, and even Song Ya found that there are several paragraphs behind the content of his complaints against his companions, handwritten, such as 'The protagonist won't do this, won't say that!' This is not what a prudent liar should do!! Or, 'What's reasonable in this amendment?' Well? Moviegoers will laugh at the screenwriter when they see this, that is, me, not obscurity! ’

Things changed in '82, when the DMC car company he invested in went bankrupt and fell into financial crisis, leaving the scripts apparently forgotten, and after the last crude rewrite, the scripts were packaged and sold to the next Columbia Pictures.

Columbia Pictures didn't take the script seriously at all, but it still spent some resources to continue the adaptation, and after a version that leaned in the direction of a cop thriller, it felt too risky to shoot it, and threw it into their vast library of scripts, and then bought it by an in-house producer.

The producer named Bartlett was the most attentive to the script, he hired a screenwriter to sneak up on revisions, provided the most historical versions, and the last version in his hands was also the most complete and closest to the original film of the Apocalypse, which began to improve the status of the main character's opposite police officer, enriching the plot of the police and bandits.

It's a pity that Bartlett died before he made it to the film, and his heirs were not interested in this kind of thing at all, and the script seemed to have been used for a while to pad the table, and there were a lot of wine stains on the cover, and the adaptation rights passed through Disney and finally fell into the hands of Hollywood Studios.

Hollywood Pictures' main job was to reduce the cost of Bartlett's version, so it removed the very rich characters and era background portrayals in the original script, and rationalized the plot on this premise.

has gone through more than ten years of repeated entanglement experience of his predecessors, and has the original version of the Apocalypse in hand, so now Song Ya's heart is very bright.

There are three charms of this movie, one is naturally the super acting skills of several leading actors, if you want to reproduce it perfectly in the current era, the investment in actors' salaries alone will not be small.

The second is the golden age of the great economic development of the United States, the panoramic depiction of the fifties and sixties, which can please those film critics and film award judges, the old men are very obsessed with and nostalgic for that era, probably second only to the golden age of Hollywood, the thirties.

The third is the ups and downs of the plot, the protagonist's wonderful deception, super high IQ and ability to adapt to emergencies, of course, his flirting with various styles of beautiful white girls also adds a lot to the whole film.

So how much money will it cost to make a movie of the same quality with actors' acting skills, era background, and beautiful faces in this year? 20 million is absolutely unstoppable. Not to mention that the original film of this movie is more than two hours long, and without the appeal of super directors and large companies, it will be impossible to pass the level of cinema scheduling.

And the drama of the 60s was basically insulated from black people, and at that time racial discrimination was still very serious, this must be an all-white movie.

Budget? Maybe you can save a little money by shooting landscapes in the fifties and sixties now than in the original film ten years later......

Super director? Now there are only a few Hollywood studios, A+ film studios that have made one movie, and those that focus on small-budget films, Hollywood Studios, which have repeatedly failed, are not attractive to big directors.

In terms of starring, it seems that the protagonist Xiao Li Zi is definitely irreplaceable, his father, that is, the male number three Christopher Walken, and the male second Tom Hanks can be replaced by cheap old drama bones.

Beautiful white girls are rich in resources, but good acting skills are scarce resources in Hollywood.

"Boss."

While he was deep in thought, the plane was already firmly established at the San Jose airport, and Jimmy and Delay, who came to pick him up, didn't wait for him to get down, and simply ran into the cabin.

"Oh, I'll be fine right away."

Song Ya asked Linda to put away the script spread out on the table, "Let Yeremov find this person." He pointed to the script closest to the original film, the last version of the producer Bartlett, who had hired a writer with the name on the cover of the script.

"Kunes? And then what? Linda asked.

"Hiring him to continue as a screenwriter for the cat-and-mouse game project, I'm too lazy to find a gunman."

If you want to use it, use the most suitable person, since that person exists, Song Ya doesn't want to take a long detour, "In short, let's get the script out as soon as possible, and then negotiate with Hollywood Studios." "If the script has life, this fresh life will continue in my own hands.

Follow Jimmy, DeLay and the others to 3DFX's office in San Jose, "So small? Are we making chips here? He asked the three founders of the other party.

"The chips are handed over to large companies to produce." Ross, the lead founder, replied, "We're only responsible for design. ”

"Okay."

Jimmy had already negotiated the venture capital conditions with the other party with the help of Delay, and he could only get 20% of the equity for five million dollars, which was finally grabbed in the competition of various 'heroes', and Jimmy also used gray means for this, of course, Song Ya didn't plan to ask what it was.

Although the excitement and cunning gazes of the three founders hidden under their glasses made them feel uncomfortable, since Tianqi revealed the direction of the industry, Song Ya didn't mind these details, and signed a venture capital agreement with each other very happily.

"I wish your products to be launched as soon as possible." He shook hands with each other.

"Don't worry, Mr. AP, we won't let you down."

Leaving San Jose in a hurry, he rushed to nearby Sunnyvale, where Mosaic Browser had been on the market for more than ten days, and although it was only a beta version of 0.9, the response from the outside world was very enthusiastic, and he went there to experience it in person accompanied by Jim Clark and Mark Anderson.

Familiar with the road in the address bar to enter the domain name of American music, a detailed content, basically composed of all text music website appeared in front of several people's eyes.

"Classical music sites?" Jim Clark couldn't help but smile when he saw it, "How many visits?" ”

"Very little, basically no one pays attention."

Song Ya tried the browser, and the operation was very smooth and smooth, much better than the previous original version of UIUC, and the heart fell. Click on a piece of news casually, about the recent concert of the Chicago Orchestra, Yan Hong is responsible for the article comment function has been launched, he pulled to the end of the article, there are more than a dozen messages in the comment area, no registration is required, the commenters are anonymous, only the IP address is displayed.

Followers of classical music like to write long articles, with more than a dozen comments longer than the article itself, and two different IPs debated the artistic route of the Chicago Orchestra's two former conductors and music directors, Solti and Barenboy, in a very professional and advanced content.

'Barenboy! Is it me!? ’

With the last message, the argument came to an abrupt end.

"The completion of the website is very high." Mark Anderson complimented him casually, but his expression betrayed him, this kind of technology master must not look down on the small website that Delay made in order to hoard land.

"I heard you've been sued by UIUC?" Song Ya closed the page and revealed the true purpose of his trip.

"Yes, but don't worry."

Jim Clark smiled firmly: "When we use the name of Mosaic Browser to absorb the first batch of users, we will replace the company and browser names, and then reconcile with each other." I've already written the script. ”

"Will this work?" Song Ya asked.

"We didn't use any of the other party's original code, don't worry about AP, we'll change it next month."

"What's the new name?"

"Netscape."