At the Four Seasons Hotel, Louise followed Martin into the suite, and the floor was littered with scrap paper, and the walls were covered with horrific and weird pictures, which made people feel uneasy.

The main character in some portraits is obviously not human, and has tentacles and other things.

One of them, as if it were a self-portrait of Martin.

Martin's level of painting is very limited.

I cut out a poster of the leader of the Cult of Coke, used the poster's avatar as the person's head, and drew a picture like graffiti.

The body of the portrait is smoky and disorganized, making people dizzy and confused.

"There's no time to clean up." Martin has been studying the character for more than a month, and he is used to speaking in a strange tone: "It's a little messy, but I look very pleasing to the eye." ”

Hearing this voice, and looking at the surrounding images, Louise shuddered unconsciously, and always felt eerie.

Hurriedly came to the floor-to-ceiling window and opened the curtains.

The bright sunlight shone in, but it couldn't dispel the gloom in Louise's heart.

She turned her head to look at Martin, and understood where this feeling came from, as long as this person was here, he was using his gloomy and crazy temperament to influence the people around him.

Louise lifted her black-rimmed glasses and reminded, "Be careful, don't fall too deep and can't get out." ”

Martin smiled: "No, the disguise can be retrieved at any time." ”

Louise didn't quite hear the words: "What do you mean?" ”

Martin put it another way: "False pretense can be discarded at any time." ”

Louise saw a thick notebook on the coffee table with "Joker's Observations" written on the cover, and asked, "Can I read it?" ”

Martin didn't care: "Whatever." ”

Louise opened it and looked through it, and found that it was full of Martin's recorded character experiences and experiences, as well as many crazy ideas, such as forming an army of beautiful women, going to Washington to attack the White House, forcing the Commander to plant mushrooms on American soil, and let the flower of fire bloom on the North American continent.

She couldn't help but laugh: "What a strange idea you have. ”

Martin was on the sofa, patted the position next to him, and said: "I don't like to read comics, I don't understand the clown in the comics, I think about the characters more based on the script of the Nolan brothers, combined with my own characteristics, many ideas unconsciously pop out, I wrote it down, maybe I can really use it one day." ”

After Louise sat down, she leaned on Martin and joked, "If you want to grow mushrooms to play, let's go and be the commander first." ”

"I'm sure I'll be able to play this country out!" Martin laughed, "There will be a lot of people who will come and assassinate me." ”

Louise went through her notebook and said, "I thought you were hiding in the hotel to play, but I didn't expect you to be preparing." ”

Martin pinched Louise's chin: "What?" Don't believe I'm a dedicated actor? Without waiting for Louise to reply, he said, "I must punish you for not believing me!" ”

In the early days, Louise had a natural psychological advantage over Martin, but now, there is not much left.

"Wait, I'll call someone else." Louise is not afraid of Martin, but feels that there is madness hidden in today's Martin's gloom, and is worried that one person will not be able to bear it: "Kelly is going to take the crew to Atlanta for filming, and she also came to Los Angeles. ”

Martin sneered, "Hurry up and call Kelly over!" Also, turn on your phone on hands-free so that she can listen to it on the road. ”

Louise turned on her phone, dialed Kelly's number, took off her black-rimmed glasses and replaced them with gold-rimmed glasses, and said, "You can think of me as Harley Quinn." ”

Just as the Joker vs. Harley Quinga was Catwoman Atlanta, Thomas began difficult negotiations with the crew of The Dark Knight.

Including insurance, food, clothing, housing and transportation, Hollywood crews have mature mechanisms, and it is not difficult to talk about it.

Martin's extra clauses weren't much for either, with Bruce joining the crew as a gunsmith and the crew providing the full salary of two bodyguards.

The main difference between the two sides is still in the salary.

The crew didn't want to further raise the production budget and increase the risk, so they proposed a model of basic remuneration plus net profit sharing.

Martin is not opposed to similar payment methods, but later sharing requires a more guaranteed payment method.

The next morning, after hearing what Martin had to say, Louise said, "Just as you can't trust the ethics of Hollywood stars, don't trust the discipline of Hollywood studios." ”

Kelly said: "North American box office net profit share? ”

Martin Leng Sensen said: "The North American box office is first divided with the theater side, and the remaining part of the distribution company deducts no less than 25% of the distribution fee, deducts the publicity fee and management costs, and then goes to the producer, and the producer deducts various expenses, which is the net profit, how much can be left?" ”

Kelly continued: "North American box office losses. ”

Martin asked Louise, "What do you think?" ”

At other times, Louise, as one of the investors, would definitely not sit on Martin's side.

But at this moment, Louise's ass was under Martin's control, and she naturally said: "Nolan said, the role of the clown must be yours." ”

She gasped for a moment and reminded: "Don't go too far, when it comes to DC superheroes, Warner's executives sometimes have head cramps." ”

Martin agreed, asking, "What is Warner's box office expectations?" ”

Louise was a traitor at this time: "Warner Bros. is the most optimistic estimate, the North American box office is 300 million US dollars, the global box office is 750 million US dollars, after all, the global box office of the first part is 370 million US dollars." ”

During the break, Martin called Thomas: "My bottom line is either $14 million in salary, or $5 million plus a benchmark point or more in box office shares." ”

Now that Nolan has recognized him, the negotiations will not easily fall apart.

Martin already has four films with a North American box office of more than 100 million as capital, and he is also qualified to shout such an asking price.

In addition to the salary, Thomas also has to negotiate with the crew on the sharing of the surrounding of the film product after the personal portrait license, which also involves the copyright of Lily's statue.

A typical example of this is Johnny Depp, who won tens of millions of dollars for the role of Jack Sparrow for his portrait scores in figures and toys alone.

Of course, Depp's 45% portrait rights sharing clause in the sequel to the pirate series, Martin doesn't have to think about it at this stage, it's impossible.

Martin has a vague impression that in the reports he has seen in his previous life, it is said that Johnny Depp netted $300 million through the pirate series, a large part of which came from the portrait licensing share.

This part of the negotiation is also difficult.

Lily's agent also joined in, and in addition to the normal salary, it was also a victory to be able to fight for Lily, a newcomer, by 1 percentage point.

The actor negotiations were not yet complete, and Nolan couldn't wait to meet Martin privately and talk about the role.

When Martin walked into the café, he found Nolan looking at him.

Nolan felt that Martin's every move was like the clown he had set up.

Then, the idea was dismissed, because the person opposite was the clown!

"Except for the paint on your face, you're no different from when you auditioned," Nolan said. ”

Martin smiled strangely and said in a strange tone: "There is still a difference, at least I don't have crazy thoughts now." ”

Nolan knows that there are some great actors who will stay in the groove all the time, and immediately get down to business: "This character, I don't just want him to be a nightmare for Gotham, I want him to bring nightmares to everyone." ”

Martin slapped the table and laughed, "I like it!" What I like the most, and I'm the best at doing whatever I want......"

"Do whatever you want?" Nolan nodded: "That's right! ”

Martin continued with his words: "Bad people always need reasons and motives to do bad things, but I don't, I don't have any purpose, I don't have any motives, I don't want money or power, I just like chaos and want to turn the world into a happy place." ”

Nolan thought for a moment and asked, "You have a unique insight into the character, it's good!" How do you plan to play a duel with Batman? ”

Martin said: "The self-proclaimed righteous Batman always uses violent means against people, I am different, I will not be as vulgar and boring as Batman, I will reason with people, reason well, and give people the right to choose......"

This is exactly in line with Nolan's line of thought: "Batman maintains order with violence, and the Joker pushes chaos with reason!" ”

"Director, you're a genius." Martin invited: "One day, let's go to Buckingham Palace together to set off fireworks?" ”

Looking at the real evil smile on Martin's face, Nolan's eyelids suddenly jumped and said, "When the film is a big hit, we can put it together in the square in front of Buckingham Palace." ”

Martin asked, "Can you invite the old lady to play with you?" By the way, is there a crown prince in the world for 50 years? ”

Nolan decisively ended the meeting and said: "You go back and continue to prepare, ensure that you are in good shape, and the crew will soon go to Atlanta to shoot." ”

Martin staggered to his feet: "Goodbye, director." ”

Nolan is a little worried, is Martin Davis too deep into the play?

He thought about it, this is a good thing, a real-life version of a clown!

As for the actor's mental problems, how can his works be important.

Martin's entry into the crew was a certainty.

Soon, Thomas negotiated Martin's salary with the crew.

When the celebrity coffee position is enough, and the performance of the previous works is good enough, it is natural to have the confidence to negotiate with the new crew.

The salary is made up of a base salary of $5 million, plus a tiered split of the North American box office.

The base line is $250 million.

In the future, as long as the North American box office of the film can reach $250 million, Martin will get a 2% base share.

Starting at $250 million, the box office increased by $50 million, and Martin automatically received 1% of the increase, and the increase of $100 million increased to 2%, and 150 million 3%......

And so on, with a maximum cap of no more than 6%.

The risk is shared with the crew, and the better the commercial performance of the film, the higher the income of the leading actor.

In addition, Thomas also negotiated a share of offline DVDs, which, like Christian Bale, is 2% of North American DVD profits.

Hollywood's remuneration and box office sharing are too complicated, which also involves project bonus, distribution bonus, net profit sharing, gross profit sharing, etc., the simplest one I wrote, has such a meaning.

(End of chapter)