After a few days, the negotiation process was still at an impasse with Twentieth Century Fox.

Almost at the same time, the news spread throughout Hollywood.

As for whether someone deliberately released the news, I'm afraid only God knows.

In the office building of Touchstone Pictures, Carter Eisner's office welcomed an unexpected person, Don Simpson, a famous Hollywood gold producer, who once made Tom Cruise popular in "Top Gun".

He doesn't have a lot of work with Touchstone, but recently it seems that he and Disney want to prepare a large-scale commercial action movie, and the investment will be as high as more than 70 million US dollars, a very staggering number.

In the previous life, Nicolas Cage really became a Hollywood A-list star in "Death Island", the producer in the film is Don Simpson.

"Hi Carter, did you hear that?"

"It seems that the negotiations between Twentieth Century Fox and Ryan Gosling are not going well, and it seems that Twentieth Century Fox is not willing to pay up to $35 million in investment. Don Simpson said hello and went straight to the point.

Carter-Eisner instructed the secretary to bring over a cup of coffee, and asked a little puzzled, "Don, what, are you interested in that script?"

"You know, that's a whopping $35 million investment, and even Disney needs to go through a rigorous review to determine the risk and commercial value of the script. ”

In fact, the script of "Truman's World" has been placed in front of Disney's senior management for many days, and Carter Eisner has also read it once, and it is indeed a very creative script.

However, sitcom films like this have very high requirements for directors to shoot, and Disney executives do not think that a director who can only shoot horror movies can take charge of such a large project.

Disney and Twentieth Century Fox, both have very similar views, and neither thinks Ryan is capable of making such a film.

"A very interesting script, which I was naturally intrigued by. ”

"We could have bought the script and shot it with another director. ”

Don Simpson took a sip of his coffee in front of him, and said confidently, "I can personally promote this project, and it's definitely a really good film." ”

As a Hollywood gold producer, although Don Simpson is good at action commercial films, it doesn't mean that he can't see the quality of a script.

In his eyes, "Truman's World" can be described as amazing, as long as there is a director who is good at shooting sitcoms, it must be a surprising film.

In terms of artistry, it is completely comparable to "Fangfang" released this year, but it is more commercial.

If "Fang Fang" is suitable for the taste of French movie fans, then "Truman's World" is suitable for the taste of North American movie fans.

Buy it!

Carter Eisner shook his head regretfully and said, "I'm sorry, Disney's plan to buy the script has been rejected by the other party, I'm afraid there is nothing I can do." ”

"Don, though, if you can convince Ryan Gosling to sell the script, I can apply to Disney executives for investment. ”

As far as he knows, Ryan Gosling is not short of money at the moment, and even if he does not have the film company to invest, he will not sell the script, and it is very likely that he will continue to invest in the name of the studio.

A director who constantly invests in himself is somewhat speechless, he doesn't shoot in case the film hits the street at the box office, and in the end he has nothing, and even has to face bankruptcy.

Of course, if Don Simpson can really buy the script, he can make people re-analyze the commercial value of "Truman's World".

"Okay. ”

"I can try to get in touch with it. Don Simpson could only shrug his shoulders and say he could try.

Maybe it's just trying, but he doesn't want to give up easily, he wants to try some, even if it doesn't work out in the end, there is nothing to lose for him.

After all, he's pushing another big project.

Looking at Don Simpson leaving, Carter Eisner pondered, the most surprising thing this summer seems to be related to Ryan Gosling, first the "Blair Witch" was a big hit, with a global box office of nearly $300 million, making Twentieth Century Fox a lot of money.

Just a few months later, Ryan Gosling has once again created a surprising horror film, and "Chainsaw" has once again grossed over 100 million dollars worldwide.

Let Twentieth Century Fox, an independent film distribution company that has just been established, Fox Searchlight Pictures make a perfect debut.

In less than half a year, Twentieth Century Fox seemed to have dug a gold mine in Ryan Gosling.

"The two works have exceeded 100 million yuan in the world one after another, how many directors can Hollywood find?"

Carter Eisner muttered to himself, as if trying to convince himself, "In this way, among the new generation of directors, Ryan Gosling is the most potential at the moment." ”

"Maybe "Truman's World" is a good opportunity. ”

For Twentieth Century Fox, Ryan's intention to take half of the investment was hard to accept.

But for the litmus test, it is not something difficult to accept.

It's hard to invest tens of millions of dollars at once unless it's backed by parent company Disney.

However, Disney's situation is not so good, on the one hand, it needs to prepare a large amount of money for the acquisition plan, on the other hand, it also needs to invest in Pixar animation studios, and prepare for the production of the next hand-drawn animated feature film, which will take a certain amount of time to recoup the funds.

So for Ryan's funding ratio, the touchstone can fully agree.

Whether it is at the same level as Twentieth Century Fox, the seven major Hollywood studios, or similar touchstones, such second-tier film companies are all interested in the script of "Truman's World".

At the same time, he doubted Ryan's directing ability, and hoped to buy the script and change to another director to shoot.

Over the course of several days, Ryan was faced with almost all similar requests, and even Twentieth Century Fox, who had been working with him for the longest time, expressed the same idea.

At the same time, Ryan is also in frequent contact with Marvel Comics, trying to buy the rights to a number of superhero characters.

Ronald Perelman, the head of Marvel Comics, does not refuse to sell the rights to superhero characters, or that as long as he can make money, he doesn't care what he sells.

The first contact went very well.

The only difficulty is that Ryan wants to buy the copyrights of these superhero characters in perpetuity, including the characters in the derivative comics, and even the characters that have been sold in the Marvel Comics, as long as he can buy them back, he must also add terms and change them to perpetual copyrights.

In this way, give Marvel Comics or Ronald Perelman, the lion a chance to open his mouth.

These days, Swift leads a negotiating team and almost lives in Marvel Comics.

In fact, Ronald Perelman didn't really want to sell the last legacy of Marvel Comics, but since 1993, Marvel Comics sales have fallen by 70 percent, and the company's stock price has plummeted.

In desperation, Ronald Perelman wanted to enter the film and television industry, but he encountered very big resistance, and almost all shareholders of the company resolutely resisted, believing that entering the film and television industry would only empty the already small cash flow.

At this time, Ryan suddenly extended an olive branch and wanted to buy the copyright of a number of superhero characters in Marvel Comics.

For a while, both Ronald Perelman, who wanted to raise the stock price, and the shareholders of the company, who lacked funds, were very happy to sell the rights to these superhero characters in exchange for more money.

It's just that in terms of price, the two are very consistent, and they have opened a high selling price, wanting to squeeze out the most valuable assets of Marvel Comics.