Just when Gu Siwei was ready to rush to Lucasfilm (George Lucas established his own film company in 71, the name was Lucasfilm).

The place is not far away, also in San Francisco, Gu Siwei takes Guan Youpeng, and the new general manager of Legendary Films, that is, the deputy manager of the original film company, a white male named Dave McCollum.

Why is it the deputy manager, it must be that the manager is not doing it, so what else can it be, Gu Siwei didn't stay here, and if he didn't do it, someone else would naturally do it. So the assistant manager turned around and became the manager of the new legendary film company.

The original employees who wanted to stay accepted Gu Siwei, and as for those who didn't want to stay, they didn't stay, the employees were almost there, but some people left in the middle level, and in general, the company could still maintain normal operation.

Dave McCollum is a white man, in his forties, not tall, 1.75 meters, but he weighs very much, almost 200 pounds, he is a fat man, not only fat but also a little bald.

However, Gu Siwei didn't come to the beauty pageant, there is no problem whether he is fat or bald, as long as he does a good job and satisfies Gu Siwei, then this Dave McCollum is the general manager of the legendary film company.

Gu Siwei's principle of finding a manager is two: obedient and easy to use!

I don't know if Dave is like that, but it will take a while to conclude that it is not.

With two people, three people and a car, Dave drove them to Lucasfilm together. Because the current Lucas has not soared, and he is not the Lucas who filmed "Star Wars", so what does Lucas Film say at the moment, just like that.

Lucas was already waiting for Gu Siwei and his party in the company.

It's not just Lucas who is waiting for Gu Siwei, but also the people of Universal, who are involved in the entry of new investors, how can the people of Universalbe not come.

Everyone sat down and began to discuss investment.

"Now if we can have another $400,000 in post-production, it will be perfect."

The one who spoke was called Coppola, but unfortunately Gu Siwei didn't know who this was, judging from the time he was born, it was good to know Lucas or something, as for Coppola, who filmed the godfather, Gu Siwei hadn't even heard of his name, so he was defined as an ordinary director by Gu Siwei when he met.

It's not that he hasn't seen the Godfather, it's that he doesn't know that the Godfather was filmed by Coppola, it's as simple as that.

"No problem".

Gu Siwei set his tone first, since he wants to hold the big tree of Lucas, what is 400,000 US dollars, even if this movie he knows is killing the street, and "Star Wars", isn't it?

However, Gu Siwei thought about it for a while, and felt that with this kind of big director's means, he might not know how many 400,000 US dollars were waiting for him in the future, and the movie was not just filmed, but there had to be publicity, which was where the money was spent.

So Gu Siwei thought for a while and proposed: "Why don't I pull another company in for 400,000 US dollars?" ”

As soon as Lucas heard that there was a door for 400,000 yuan, he didn't care how many companies came in to invest money, as long as there was money, it was a good thing.

"No problem!" Lucas was crisp.

As for Universal, a film with an investment of only $600,000 or a rookie director, will they care? To tell the truth, in the words of later generations, I am around the world for hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute, and you asked me to send someone to stare at a rookie director and invest $600,000 in a movie?

If it weren't for Coppola's "The Godfather", which earned back $300 million at the box office, Coppola became the producer of the film, which made Universal feel that investing 600,000 would not lose much even if it was a loss.

Maybe Universal still thinks that if this film loses, it will be better, because it can make Coppola lose a favor to Universal, so with Coppola's current popularity, I don't know if I can make back a few hundred thousand yuan by making a blockbuster movie.

Who is Gu Siwei going to pull?

Naturally, he brought in his old friend film company.

Although it is said that Laoyou Film Company has his shares, it is not his own son, DreamWorks and Legendary Film Company are his own sons, and Laoyou Film Company is at most a godson.

The most important thing is that Gu Siwei doesn't know whether this film is a profit or a loss, thinking that the name of the bird "American Style Painting" doesn't look like a money-making master, Lucas, who shoots science fiction, can he really make money by filming this kind of thing?

At this moment, I don't know if it's a bad brain, or if it was a whim, I decided to bring my old friend in the movie.

If you make a profit, you have shares anyway, if you lose it, it will be a loss together, and it just so happens that Lao Gu himself will lose a little less.

A new company has joined in, so the contract will naturally not be talked about today, although Gu Siwei is the president of Laoyou Film Company, but his shares are not said to be able to say anything.

But overall, the meeting was quite friendly, and anyway, it was a completely good thing for Lucas, because Gu Siwei promised that if the company didn't invest, he would also invest the $400,000.

In other words, the movie "American Painting" is no longer an investment of $600,000, but an investment of $1 million.

For Lucas, who has too many ideas for movies, life can finally be a little easier, and what was not possible in the past can be realized now.

After leaving Lucasfilm, Gu Siwei returned to the hotel and felt that the time was almost up, and it was time for this kid to get up, so he hung up the phone to Yu Wei.

Yu Wei was sitting at the dining table at home at the moment, eating bread and drinking milk, reading the newspaper, and receiving a call from Gu Si Bowei made him feel a little strange.

You must know that Gu Siwei almost never calls him.

"Investing in American films?"

When Yu Wei heard Gu Siwei's thoughts, he suddenly felt a little confused.

"Why do you suddenly want to pitch an American movie, mixing Hollywood is a technical job."

Yu Wei now defines himself as a filmmaker, as a filmmaker, then Hollywood is the place of dreams, even if he dreams Yu Wei wants to go to Hollywood.

But Yu Wei is also realistic, he deeply understands that Hollywood is the scenery of standing in the spotlight, and the other is the scenery when he comes back from the coffin board for a big funeral.

He heard that these two kinds of scenery are the latter at most, and many Asian filmmakers want to enter Hollywood so far, there are few to make money.

"When you wake up in the morning, you told me that you want to cast a new director?"

Yu Wei felt that Gu Siwei might have come to amuse him.

Gu Siwei didn't bother to say more to him: "Let your old friend give 100,000 US dollars, do you have the courage to make a gamble?" ”

"Don't provoke me, now I'm investing 100,000 yuan, waiting for the movie to be released and publicized or something, don't you need money? When we get there, our eyes will be black, and when the time comes, they will give you a poster for 500 dollars, do you pay this money or not?

I said that you don't know the strength of our old friends now, we have a hard time carrying the Shaw Brothers here in Hong Kong City, what are you going to do to provoke the turtle grandsons in Hollywood," Yu Wei said.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you that I acquired an American film company, now called Legendary Pictures, and it is responsible for this investment, and they are very good at cost control," Gu Siwei and Yu Wei explained.

"Then what else is there to say, I have no objection to my old friend's investment this time!"

"Well, how did it change so quickly?" Gu Siwei smiled.

Yu Wei said: "You can buy a film company in order to invest in a film, what can't you vote for, the key is that your luck is always stronger than others, and now you are so confident, wouldn't it be stupid if I didn't vote!" ”

Belch!

Gu Siwei really didn't expect Yu Wei to think so.

"Is it just 100,000, can it be more?" Yu Wei asked again.

Gu Siwei was speechless: "100,000 is still disliked? Otherwise, I decided to invest a total of 400,000 yuan, or you will come 300,000? ”

"Then forget it, 100,000 is 100,000."

Yu Wei actually wanted to know how much Gu Siwei had invested, if Gu Siwei had invested more, he would add a little bit here, and now it would be a total of 400,000, he felt that it was better to be safe and invest less money.

As for how much he could earn, Yu Wei really didn't dare to think about it, he just thought that it would be good to have a little surplus when he didn't lose.

In this case, why did Yu Wei vote again, it's not because it's Hollywood, as a filmmaker, you go there to swim in a circle, even if you drown half to death, when you come back, I am also a person who has been to Hollywood.

Lost?

Who doesn't lose money, Lao Tzu is going to save experience.

In short, invest 100,000 yuan to brush some coins, Yu Wei is not stupid, how can he not go, if it is a black and white smear, Lao Yu really wants to shake it.

But now that Gu Siwei is buying a film company in the United States, what else does he have to hesitate.

So Lao Yu finished talking to Gu Siwei on the phone, didn't even eat, and threw the newspaper on the table in front of him.

"Lao Yan, call Lao Yan, Lao Tzu is going to kill Hollywood this time!"

Good guy, what Yu Wei said was murderous, and he had the majesty of cutting off the heads of thousands of generals.

Buying the nearest plane, Yu Wei appeared at the San Francisco airport with his old friend from the film company. Naturally, it was Lao Gu who picked up people, and there was nothing polite to be polite about the two, so everyone went to Lucasfilm together.

When they were on the way, Gu Siwei and Yu Wei briefly introduced the content of the movie and how far it has progressed.

Yu Wei's side heard that Coppola was the producer, and his eyes instantly lit up.

"I ...... It's worth the money."

Well?!

Gu Siwei looked at Yu Wei.

Yu Wei said: "Coppola! Coppola! ”

Seeing that Gu Siwei was still confused, Yu Wei said: "The Godfather"! ”

"I'm! I'll just say how to look at the eyebrows, it turned out to be him! ”

Only then did Gu Siwei understand that the guy he saw last time was this great god. Originally, I thought it was like that, but now I think about it, it's really long.

Gu Siwei felt a little pity that he didn't catch the Godfather's bus, so that Coppola, the old boy, escaped the past, otherwise the Godfather's box office would have to share his own profits.

I regret it a little, but when I think about "Star Wars" and then "Titanic", Gu Siwei is in a better mood again.

(End of chapter)