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Mr. Pierce was able to ask this question, and he must have guessed the real purpose of DreamWorks' acquisition of Pixar. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoI hope you can trust the sincerity of our cooperation. Attached to Disney, Pixar will always be just a tool, even if it is done well, it is only a more valuable tool in the eyes of Disney's top management. But at DreamWorks, you are your own masters. At Disney, Pierce could only continue to write myths; But at DreamWorks, what Pierce needs to do is go beyond, and the kind is more challenging, and I don't need to say more about the answer! ”
"Animated films are a vast market, although compared with other film markets, animated films are mainly aimed at minors, and the income of the film is limited, but in the long-term influence, it has an incomparable advantage. A person's childhood is the period when they are most susceptible to external influences, and a classic animation work often becomes the most classic memory of a generation. In this regard, Disney's success is the best example of this. Lin Mu said this objectively, no matter how many other Hollywood studios are surging, if there is no Disney little mouse, the "Golden Age" will be incomplete. Disney, it represents a genre of cartoons that no one can ignore. It can be said that in the earliest ninety years of cinema, Disney was another synonym for cartoons.
"Since Xylonn mentioned Disney first, then he should know that in the field of animation, Disney is an opponent that cannot be bypassed. Competing with Disney in the cartoon world, failures abound. Since the 90s, Disney's animated image is no longer just old faces such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but has established many new animated images, and all major competitions can only look at it. Pierce reminded Lin that he was not going to face an easy opponent.
"It is the strength that makes the challenge more thoughtful!" It may be difficult for others to shake the foundation of Disney, but Lin Mu is different, and the memories from later generations have allowed him to easily turn many classic Disney movies into DreamWorks works. "Pirates of the Caribbean" he has already pried the corner of Disney in the future, and the acquisition of Pixar is even more stealing from Disney, but this is just the beginning, Lin Mu has the idea of another Disney work, and the script of this film is now lying in his briefcase.
Under the "coercion and temptation" of Lin Mu, Les finally agreed to the merger plan. If Pierce was still worried about whether DreamWorks would be able to compete with Disney, Lin Mu's subsequent script from his briefcase completely dispelled his doubts.
The script, called "Toy Story", is signed with the name of X-*** Screenwriter Studio, and Lin Mu had the idea to create this script as early as when the decision was made to acquire Pierce Animation Studio. This is the famous work of Pierce Animation Studios and Disney cooperation, but now it has become the most powerful weapon for Lin Mu to convince Pierce.
This story about being born between a toy cowboy and an astronaut immediately attracted Pierce, he carefully read the entire script, I have to say that the scripts that Lin Mu took out are all high-quality, but to meet the requirements of the script, just the full computer production is a lot of investment. He raised his doubts to Lin Mu, but Lin Mu answered in the affirmative.
"I have fully considered the production cost of this film when I wrote the script, so the budget cost of this film will be more than 100 million US dollars!" Lin Mu's words revealed to Pierce the importance that Dream Workers attached to this film, and even in Pierce's opinion, it was somewhat bloodless.
On the budget of this film, Lin Mu communicated with Geffen and Spielberg in advance, and his confidence comes from his confidence in the box office of this film, which has the same good box office results in the history of this animated film with a production cost of more than 100 million yuan, and more importantly, this film is revolutionary in many aspects such as theme, technology, and processing, and its pioneering value has an immeasurable role in establishing a brand for a newly established film company like DreamWorks.
Along with Toy Story, there is another script that Lin Mu has not forgotten about his promise to Nicolas Cage in the Napa Valley. After he returned to Los Angeles, he sorted out the general plot of the script and handed it to X-***D, and the members of the screenwriting studio, who had formed a tacit cooperation, wrote the script in the shortest possible time.
After Nicolas Cage read the script, he was satisfied with the role that Lin Mu had prepared for him, but Lin Mu encountered some trouble with the choice of director. Historically, the film was directed by Michael Bay, and now Michael Bay should be directing "Jedi Men", his first official commercial film, starring black actors Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, which can be considered a big-budget film. But history played a big joke with Lin Mu, and the assistant consulted the information and told Lin Mu a helpless result, Hollywood now does not have a film director named Michael Bay, and Will Smith is now starring in another movie, which is definitely not the "Jedi Men" in Lin Mu's impression.
History has shifted to the point where Lin Mu feels lost, and he struggles to recall information about Michael Bay, who was born in Los Angeles and graduated from Wesleyan University in the United States. In his twenties, Michael worked primarily on commercials and music videos, and after graduating from film school, he worked on video tapes. His music videos have been recognized and he has been nominated for a series of MTV Awards. In fact, Lin Mu's deepest impression of Michael Bay is the "Transformers" co-directed by him and Spielberg, but according to the clues provided by his memory, the results are that there is no such person, and it seems that there has never been a person like Michael Bay in history.
But Lin Mu was not willing to finally find Michael Bay's clues through Wesleyan University archives, but when his assistant returned, he brought him extremely disappointed news, the Michael Bay Lin Mu was looking for was now just a down-and-out music video producer, and all his colleagues commented on this person as ambitious and talented, and his mind was full of some unrealistic ideas.
Lin Mu wasn't sure that this was what he was looking for, and judging from the assistant's report, this Michael Bay was a small producer who was a mess, and Lin Mu decided to meet this big director in person, who was extremely inconsistent with his impression. He always felt that something was wrong, and if it was because of his appearance that made Michael Bay unknown, Lin Mu would feel very guilty. It was with this in mind that Lin Mu decided to take a trip to New York in person.
It is because of the emergence of woodlands. It was a huge turning point in Michael Beydy's life. After graduating from university. Michael Bay walked into society with confidence. He felt that he was on his own. I will definitely be able to make a career of my own. But something unfortunate happened to him. He made his way into a record label. Produced as an MV venue. But soon the company announced its collapse. And that's not all. As a young man, he immediately found a job in Xindi. Working as a cinematographer for a film company. But on his first day at work, he was taken to the hospital in a sudden car accident. In the hospital he was lying
Trimester. Naturally, I also lost the job that I had just arrived. Then he was very unstable. In this way, he reached the age of thirty in a blur. Still nothing. He put it all down to his own unlucky luck.
But in a few days, the opportunity to run the ground seemed to be just around the corner. The chairman of Paramount Pictures asked to see him by name. This left Michael Bay overjoyed. He hurriedly tidied up his messy floor in the bathroom. Looking in the mirror, there is a little sloppy face. Michael Bay regretted why he didn't shave those damn beards this morning. Now he doesn't have time to put his looks in order. At this time, Lin Mu was waiting for him in the manager's office.
"Mr. Xylon. This is the Mr. Michael Bay you are looking for! "Michael Bay's company happens to be a subsidiary of MTVV. The manager of the company didn't understand that Lin Mu had traveled all the way from Los Angeles to New York. Just to meet a little producer. Although there are doubts. But he still called Michael Bay to his office at the request of the woodland.
At MTV, he'd heard of the name of the woodland. Now MTV Ground Chairman Shirley Lansing is Paramount Land Chair. I heard that she left Paramount because of the woods. But anyway. The woodland style is notoriously eclectic at Viacom. So he had a hunch. Michael Bay is really lucky this time!
looked at the down-and-out middle-aged man in front of him. It is difficult for Lin Mu to associate him with the proud Hollywood director in his impression. He suddenly didn't know how to speak. Because he had no idea that the man in front of him would still be the Michael Bay he remembered. Meet Michael Bay. Lin Mu began to hesitate.
His hesitation made Michael Bay, who was sitting across from him, wonder, the young Paramount chairman, who was staring at him without saying a word as soon as he entered the office.
"Mr. Xylonn!" Michael Bay asked in a whisper, and Lin Mu's appearance was obviously distracted.
Lin Mu, just then came back to his senses, and he asked thoughtlessly. "Oh, it's Mr. Michael Bay!"
"There shouldn't be a second person in this room who can Michael Bay, right?" Michael Bay looked at Lin Mu in confusion, he didn't know why the young president of Paramount would ask such a strange question.
"I beg your pardon, I was a little distracted just now when I suddenly thought about something important!" Lin Mu didn't want Michael Bay to see what he really thought, so he casually made an excuse, "Do you know why I found you?" ”
"You've seen the music videos I made?"
Lin Mu shook his head, he had never seen Michael's work.
"You heard about me from someone else?"
Lin Mu still shook his head, and Michael Beynow didn't seem to have any friends who could have a relationship with someone like Lin Mu.
"You've been looking at me since I walked into this office, do you think there's a movie role for me?" Michael Bay uttered the most daring guess in his mind.
In fact, Lin Mu himself was also very embarrassed, he didn't know how to explain to Michael Bay why he found him, did he want Lin Mu to tell Michael Bay that he would be a big director in the future, and Paramount was ready to work with him. If Lin Mu said this, he would feel ridiculous. After thinking about it, in the end, he simply didn't explain anything, but directly handed the prepared script to Michael Bay, "This is a new script from Paramount, I'm looking for a director, now you have an hour, read this script, and then come up with a shooting plan that can convince me!" ”
"Are you sure you're asking me to direct this film?" Happiness came so suddenly, Michael Bay was a little carried away with excitement, and he even ignored how Lin Mu thought of such an important question for him.
"You still have to read the script carefully, I am indeed looking for a director, but this person is not necessarily you, your plan must be convinced to me, you will have a chance!" The woods reminded Michael Bay.
Michael Bay quickly calmed down, he knew that this was a good opportunity to make a name for himself, but Lin Mu's words also clearly told him that the opportunity could be given to him, but he had to have this ability. He began to read the script seriously, Lin Mu sat next to him and did not speak, he continued to observe Michael Bay, he read the script is focused look so that Lin Mu finally saw a little bit of the demeanor of a famous director. The whole script was not very long, but Michael Bay watched it for fifty minutes, and Lin Mu also sat in the office with him for fifty minutes.
Seeing that Michael Bay finally closed the script, Lin Mu looked at his watch, "You still have ten minutes!" ”
Lin Mu's ten minutes to Michael Bay completely changed his fate, and the legendary little producer described a huge shooting plan to Lin Mu, especially in the handling of many thrilling plots, Michael Bay even proposed to use the method of real shooting. When Michael Bay talked about his shooting plan, he was like the previous submissive little producer, and his passionate speech and unique perspective left a deep impression on Lin Mu, which was what he was looking for.
Lin Mu did not hesitate to sign a contract with Michael Bay, and as soon as the news broke, it immediately caused a sensation in the media. (To be continued.) )