"The youngest chairman of Pyra, the legendary Hollywood director who has won the Oscar four times in history!" Ken Marshall reported a long list of names in one breath, and he didn't expect to meet Lin Mu at James Cameron's house. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Ken Marshall, a professor of history at the University of Chicago, who has a deep study of the history of ocean shipwrecks, got a lot of helpful advice from him for the ghost ship shape of Pirates of the Caribbean!" James Cameron introduced to Lin Mu.

"Mr. Marshall is very interested in shipwrecks?" Lin Mu asked suddenly.

"Not only is he interested, but he has even personally participated in many expeditions about shipwrecks!" In James Cameron's eyes, Ken Marshall is a crazier guy than him.

"Mr. Xylonn is also interested in this topic?" Ken Marshall, however, wondered why Lin Mu would ask that.

"It's not just interested!" Lin Mu glanced at James Cameron, "In fact, I just finished a script about the story of a shipwreck!" ”

"Script? You don't mean that, do you? James Cameron reacted at once, he found the gift box that he had placed on the sofa, "The Christmas gift you are referring to is that script, and this is the surprise you are talking about?" ”

"Whether it's a surprise or not, you have to see it to find out!" Lin Mu motioned for him to open the gift box, "It just so happens that Mr. Marshall is also an expert in this area, I hope you can give me some suggestions for modifications!" ”

James Cameron opened the script, he only read a few pages hastily, then raised his head and looked at Lin Mu in astonishment, "You are going to adapt the story of the Titanic into a movie?" ”

"Actually, I've already done it!" Lin Mu nodded, he knew that "Titanic" was a film written and directed by James Cameron, especially Ken Marshall, who was familiar with the history of the shipwreck, appeared next to James Cameron, which made Lin Mu know everything. But that's just history, and history has been changed by the woods.

Historically, James Cameron did not take over the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean", so he had enough time to conceive and write the script for "Titanic", but in fact, for nearly a year, James Cameron has been filming the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" in the Caribbean, and it is impossible to create "Titanic" again. Even if James Cameron had this idea, he didn't have the time, which was why Lin Mu dared to show him the script.

"Xylon, this is a complete surprise, you actually have the same idea as me!" James Cameron excitedly took the script in his hand, "Marshall participated in an underwater expedition to the sinking Titanic not long ago, and I just watched the photos he took back a few days ago.

The wreckage of the Titanic gave me the idea of adapting this nautical saga into a heart-wrenching love story, but I didn't expect you to finish the job before me! ”

"It turns out that Mr. Marshall was also involved in that expedition!" Lin Mu himself suddenly thought of creating "Titanic" because he saw a news on TV three months ago about the formation of a Titanic shipwreck investigation team, when James Cameron was still on a small island in the Caribbean Sea.

The Titanic was built by the British White Star Line at the beginning of the world, and it was also the largest luxury cruise ship in the world at that time. It is known as the 'unsinkable' and 'dream ship'.

In 1912, the Titanic set sail from Southampton, England to New York, beginning the maiden voyage of this legendary giant ship. On one night, the Titanic capsized when it hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic, killing 1,500 people at the bottom of the sea, causing one of the worst navigation accidents in peacetime at that time, and the most famous shipwreck to date. ”

At the Christmas Eve dinner table, Ken Marshall told the history of the Titanic like a treasure, and he did not rush to express his opinion after reading the script that Lin Mu came up with. "Mr. Xylon, can you talk about your thoughts when you first wrote this script?"

"After seeing the news, I looked up a lot of information about Titanic, and I drew up the outline of this script, but the specific plot was done by X-TMDD Studios. My personal thoughts on creating this script are that the Titanic was a product of the peak of humanity's beautiful dreams, reflecting the strong self-confidence of humanity in mastering the world. Its sinking showed humanity the mysterious power of nature, as well as the unpredictability of fate. ”

"Until the day the Titanic sank, the Western world had enjoyed 1 year of stability and peace. Science and technology are developing steadily, industry is rapidly becoming stronger, and people are full of confidence in the future. But the sinking of the Titanic woke up all this, as the largest steel structure product of mankind after the Eiffel Tower, the Titanic represents the great achievements of the industrial age, because of the carelessness and indifference to nature, so it suffered a tragic misfortune in the maiden voyage. The sinking of the Titanic will make mankind forever remember the heavy price paid for pride and self-confidence! These are actually Lin Mu's later generations' understanding of the film "Titanic", and he integrated this understanding into the creation of the script, which has become the core concept throughout the play.

"Your script basically follows the original historical trajectory of the Titanic, and to complete such a film, it requires not only funds and technology, but also a lot of historical research and precise and rigorous planning, which will be an incomparably vast and long project!" In response to Lin Mu's creative concept, Marshall analyzed the feasibility of the script.

"So what does Mr. Marshall think is the most crucial aspect of this film?" Ken Marshall had a deep study of the entire Titanic, and Lin Mu wanted to know some more specific operational issues.

"Of course, it is the process of sinking the Tinic, because no one knows how it sank, all this is just people's conjecture and speculation, to truly restore this process, it takes a very professional person to be competent!" Ken Marshall points out the biggest technical challenge with the script.

"I think the most professional people are right in front of me." Lin Mu looked at Ken Marshall, "Aren't you the best candidate?" ”

"If I were to shoot the script, Marr would be the most suitable person, but what I'm most concerned about now is how much budget the film can get!" James Cameron, who had been silent since reading the script, suddenly asked.

Lin Mu gave the play to James Cameron as a Christmas present, naturally hoping that he could direct the film himself. James Cameron naturally understands Lin Mudi's thoughts. His first concern is the film's input.

"Two hundred million dollars!" Lin Mu's words made Ken Marshall and Linda Hamilton, who were also sitting at the table, gasp. But for James Cameron, who makes hundreds of millions of films. $200 million is just a big number.

"Are you sure it's $200 million?" James Cameron asked again.

Lin Mu told James Cameron with certainty. "If the dollar does not depreciate or if there is no serious inflation in the country. I don't think that number will change much! ”

“xylonn。 I love your Christmas present! Lin Mudi replied, so that James Cameron, who had just finished filming "Pirates of the Caribbean", once again had a burning light in his eyes, and there was always a premonition. It's going to be a miracle film!

In the previous life, this film was completed by a collaboration between Paramount and Universal. However, the emergence of woodland has greatly changed the business situation of Paramount Land. Several films have been released in succession, and they have been very profitable. The high-investment, high-return commercial film investment model has greatly stimulated the top management of Paramount Land. This gives them the confidence and confidence to complete this masterpiece independently.

Lin Mu was disappointed with his cooperation with Universal before his attitude of co-investment and independent completion wavered, which led him to abstain from voting in the final board vote. In the end, the board of directors voted 9 in favor and 1 abstention to pass the resolution that Paramount should independently invest $200 million to shoot the film "Titanic". The filming plan of "Titanic" was officially included in Paramount's work schedule.

This was Paramount Pictures' first board resolution of 1996, and on the day it was passed, there was no suspense than the simultaneous release of Pirates: Coffin of the Soul, a Hollywood blockbuster that once again topped the box office charts around the world for a long time. The film was released for a whole day, and the box office exceeded $1.3 billion again, but it also ended there. The film broke the global box office record set by the first film with a box office of $1.36 billion, and only raised the record by $20 million.

There is even a rumor in Hollywood that the box office of 1.3 billion is already the limit of the world movie box office, and there will be no movie that can surpass this record, which shows the huge impact of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series on Hollywood.

The film's huge success brought several of the main creators into the media spotlight again, but reporters were surprised to find that the film's director, James Cameron, had disappeared from the public eye for a long time. Since his appearance at the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Coffin", James Cameron has disappeared out of thin air!

James Cameron, naturally, will not really disappear, he was appointed by Paramount as the general director of the film "Titanic", and Ken Marshall was invited as a special consultant to direct the filming and production of the film throughout the process. In fact, as early as after the New Year, James Cameron's crew began to prepare for the film. In order to truly restore the furnishings inside the Titanic, the crew specially invited Peter Ramon, a production designer who has been nominated for three Oscars.

After carefully studying a lot of information about the Titanic, Ramon found that the carpet manufacturer used in the Titanic's deck dining room and parlor was still alive, and the company still kept the carpet style and could remake the fuel at that time. After learning the news, the producers immediately began to order from this company.

He also obtained a copy of the design drawings from the Hanand Elf shipyard and a notebook from chief designer Thomas Andrew on the design features of the Titanic, all of which Paramount had been approved for the first time after painstaking negotiations.

Because the Titanic sank in the middle of the voyage, and the interior decoration was all completed at that time, and there were few photos. Through thorough research and Ken Marshall's help, Ramon led the production team to accurately recreate the first-class dining room, meeting room, first-class smoking room, walking area, afternoon tea area and multiple staterooms based on the few remaining photos of the Titanic interior, as well as the photos of its sister Olympic space.

It took a long time for James Caron and Ken Marshall to finalize the true size of the Titanic, according to their calculations, the real Titanic was 880 feet long and actually weighed nearly 60,000 tons, like a monster of huge size.

In order to give the audience the real feeling that the Titani is sailing at sea, the sets and tanks of the Titanic's hull are built along the coastline, facing the endless sea level.

Setting up such a large-scale set by the sea cannot hide from the eyes of the media. Paramount's plan to invest $200 million to remake the story of the sinking of the Titanic was quickly exposed by the media, and everyone was shocked by Paramount's generous handwriting. The speculation and quality of this film occupied a large number of pages in American entertainment newspapers for a long time, and some topics about the Titanic have also begun to be re-concerned.

One of the most bizarre is that before the sinking of the Titanic, the British writer Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called "In Vain" in 1898. The novel writes about a luxury ship called the Titan, which claims to be unsinkable, and sails from Britain to the United States on the other side of the ocean. The novel depicts the Titan as the largest and most luxurious passenger ship ever seen in the history of human navigation, equipped with all the luxurious facilities available at the time, and full of rich and wealthy people, who enjoyed themselves on this huge ship. However, on its first voyage, the giant ship hit an iceberg on its way and sank tragically, leaving many passengers at the bottom of the sea.

No one expected that the story in this novel would become an unfortunate fact fourteen years later. On the night of 15 November 1912, the Titanic, the largest luxury cruise ship at the time, sank due to a navigation error and hit an iceberg. Someone compared the news of the sinking of the "Titanic" published in the New York Times and found that its plot and process were strikingly similar to Robertson's novels. It can even be said that the story in the novel is a portrayal of the sinking of the Titanic, which appeared fourteen years earlier. (To be continued.) )