"OK, I admit that you moved me, to tell you the truth, your idea coincides with mine, and I like this IP very much, we can work together, but only if you can't interfere with my creation." Nolan said.

He heard that the favorite thing for Chinese investors is to interfere with the creation of the crew, and he had to explain this in advance, in fact, investors in any country like to point fingers.

It's just that after Nolan became famous in Hollywood, capital respected him more.

"Of course, but I hope that my suggestion, if it is useful to the crew, you can take it." Xu Jia said.

With their own participation, the filming progress of this movie will be accelerated a lot, which will also save the other party from detours.

"Based on your performance just now, I will listen carefully to your suggestions."

For a moment, Nolan felt that Xu Jia had specifically investigated himself, so he would know so much about his own mind.

But after thinking about it, no matter how much I know about it, I can't guess what I just thought, I can only say that the two really coincide in terms of creative concepts.

"First of all, for the role of Oppenheimer, I recommend an actor, Cillian Murphy, but you should be familiar with it." Xu Jia said slowly.

This guy is the starring actor in the British drama "Bloody Gangsters", but he has also worked with Nolan a few times, and has starred in "Inception" and "Dunkirk".

Hearing Xu Jia's recommendation, Nolan originally looked a little disliked, and when he came up, he recommended the actor, isn't this meddling?

Just hearing the name Murphy, he was stunned, what this actor had to say was actually his descendant, and he also knew very well that Murphy had nothing to do with Xu Jia, so he ruled out the entanglement of interests, so let's think carefully about the compatibility between Murphy and Oppenheimer.

Nolan was surprised to find that the melancholy temperament on Murphy really overlapped with Oppenheimer in his mind, and once he had this setting in his mind, it was difficult to change it.

He hesitated for a moment and said: "Okay, this is an alternative for the time being, what about the role of Lewis, in addition to Oppenheimer, Lewis is an extremely important supporting role, and many plots will not be effective at all if this role is not suitable." ”

said that it was an alternative, but in fact, it was just his arrogance as a director, but in fact, after having Murphy's image of Oppenheimer in his mind, he had already settled here.

"How is Robert Downey Jr.? Although the most popular role is Iron Man, his acting skills are obvious to all. Xu Jia proposed a person who surprised the other party.

You must know that in the eyes of most people today, Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man, and Marvel has too much influence on the former.

But if you think about it carefully, the other party was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 92 with "Chaplin", and later his acting resume was also very rich, if he hadn't been imprisoned, he wouldn't have been able to star in a Marvel movie at all.

That's right, in Hollywood, starring in Marvel movies is a way out for those young actors, and actors who are really expected to be superstars are very taboo to be limited by a role.

"It seems to be quite suitable, oh my God, Xu, how much actor information do you have in your head, it's a pity that you don't be a casting director, if any movie crew has you, how much trouble and time will be saved." Nolan held his head in his hands, and he had to admit that this candidate was also in line with his heart.

From this time, he realized that what Xu Jia said before that he could help himself in filming was not a joke and a sign of arrogance, this Chinese man is simply a god in casting, omnipotent!

You must know that casting is the top priority of the preliminary preparation for a crew, and if this link is completed, the basic preparation cycle will be saved, and the actor and the role have a high degree of fit, which will also benefit a lot from the subsequent shooting.

"Hehe, I also want to specialize in this aspect, but this track is too small to accommodate my talent." Xu Jia smiled, without the slightest hint of modesty, in front of these Hollywood filmmakers, modesty will only be regarded as a sign of weakness, on the contrary, self-confidence is a strong performance in their eyes.

Seeing that Nolan was impressed by his performance, Xu Jia knew that the purpose of his trip had basically been achieved, so he no longer hid it, and continued: "Leslie asked Matt Damon to play, Catherine can find Emily Blunt, Edward can find Ben Safferty, Kenneth will find Dane DeHaan to play, this main role is live, and the rest of the filming needs I think with your strength should be no problem, the preliminary work is almost that, when do you think you are going to start shooting?" I don't think it's necessary for the press conference for the time being, and it will be better if we wait until the day when we make a large-scale appearance and publicity. ”

"For this project, I expect the production cost to be 100 million US dollars, and the publicity and distribution cost to be 80 million, that is, the overall control is within 200 million US dollars."

For a biopic, the production cost of 100 million is already a big production, and there is even an overflow.

Xu Jia doesn't care about the cost, he only asks that the project can achieve his goal, which is to occupy a certain share of the North American film market, telling Disney and other entertainment giants that he is coming.

The battlefield is not only set in the Chinese film market, he also wants to burn the flames of war to the other party's North American local film market, so that the other party knows that Kou can go to me too!

"Although the speed of preparation is amazing, there is really no difficulty in the preparation, if the film is started, it will be about a month later, but the completion time is uncertain, I can only tell you that if the quality of the film is up to standard, I will try to speed up the shooting." Nolan said.

Of course, this is completely perfunctory for investors, but when all big directors who come out of the mix shoot their own works, they are mainly based on perfection.

Directors like Lao Mouzi who are willing to change the shooting plan for the return of investors, or even specially customized, are simply rare.

"Okay, the news of our cooperation between the two of us is still confidential, if Warner knows, I'm worried that their reaction will be too big, you can understand this." The corners of Xu Jia's mouth rose.

He seemed to see Kevin's jumping feet, and he poached Nolan to film for himself, and Warner's side was equivalent to one less project, after all, under normal circumstances, Nolan's next movie "Creed" was made for the other party.

If this cooperation and the two sides feel good, Xu Jia is sure to dig Nolan to his side.

As long as you keep providing projects that the other party is interested in, I don't believe that this ghost director will not be moved.

(End of chapter)