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Chapter 397 Truman's New Movie (Earth)
Truman's "collection" for the new movie lasted about one and a half months.

So when the Oscars were presented, Truman was not in Los Angeles at all, waiting for the media to finish chasing Xiao Li, who had won two Oscars for Best Actor and took another step towards the legend. The movie is planned as a war theme.

Speaking of war-themed movies, Hollywood can count countless classics, such as "Saving Private Ryan", "Schindler's List", "Black Hawk Down", "Pearl Harbor", "Apocalypse of Modern Warfare" and so on. In 2000, the theme of war was regarded as the movie closest to the Oscar statuette.

Great directors such as Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola have become legends from this theme.

But it is also true that the theme of war has declined in recent years.

The reason may be four words, the wisdom of the people is gradually opening up.

After World War II, out of the need of the government and the public to whitewash the war, a large number of films that reflected the spirit of American democracy and freedom and criticized fascism or the Soviet Union were produced, such as "Saving Private Ryan", "Schindler's List", etc., so those few Classics have emerged in ten years.

After 2000, almost everyone realized that those wars were not just. Even the Second World War, which was fought against the Nazis, was nothing but the distribution of interests among various countries.

Since the war is no longer just, the viewing experience will not be good. If you shoot an anti-war reflection film like "Apocalypse of Modern Warfare", it is very likely to face a huge failure at the box office. There are no directors to do it, and no manufacturers to invest.

The most important thing is that the investment in war movies is huge, but the box office results are mediocre. Taking "Black Hawk Down" (2001) as an example, the investment reached 9000 million, which is equivalent to about 8 million U.S. dollars today, but the box office was only 1.73 million U.S. dollars that year. Such a classic is still losing money, which makes other directors who want to make war blockbusters think about it.

Making a blockbuster superhero movie is easy and fast, so why not do it?

"So which war does CH want to film? Vietnam? Iraq? Afghanistan?"

Facing the communication emails thrown by various manufacturers in private.

Adam replied uniformly, "Korean War (Korean War)."

There is no shortage of movies on this theme in the United States. The "Glory of War" released in 1989 was nominated for Oscar for Best Cinematography and Best Editing, and Denzel Washington won the "Best Supporting Actor" for this reason.

For the subject that Truman is going to shoot, major film producers have different reactions, but generally speaking, they are still interested.

If "Shang Qi 2" and "Spawn" proved Truman's ability to control and commercial sense of superhero movies, then some of the war scenes in "He Came From Heaven" also proved that Truman also has a certain control over war scenes force.

More importantly, as far as the previous two business cases are concerned, Truman seems to have a kind of magical power. The movies he made will definitely be popular, and "Spawn" suffered such a catastrophic accident. He took out a copy of "He Came from Heaven" to save everything.

Disney and Cullen House have used their own cases to prove that Truman should be trusted.

Therefore, major manufacturers approached Adam cautiously, asking if they could take a look at the script.

Adam compiled the material of Truman's "collection" in South Korea and North Korea during this period into a simple script and sent it over. The production directors of several major manufacturers read the outline of the script overnight.

First of all, the first page of the script reads "This film is adapted from real events and characters".

Obviously, putting such words on the script will attract the attention of the manufacturers, and putting them on the movie screen will make the audience interested. Next, after reading the short 10-page script, several executives were greatly shocked.

"It's impossible!" Tang Jun, a Disney executive and an old acquaintance, emailed Adam, "CH is making up an outrageous story. I have never heard of such combat deeds in the Korean War. That's better than 'Captain America.' 'It is even more exaggerated, 34 people attacked a position of 1000 people, killed more than 200 enemy troops, only sacrificed 2 people, injured 2 people, CH is going to make a superhero movie, right?"

Seeing this email, Adam replied: "TANG, this is a fact. CH is investigating this battle in South Korea and North Korea. Numerous records from the two countries can prove that it is true. More than 200 'enemy troops' were killed. It's the [-]st U.S. Marine Division."

Tang Jun was silent for a while, and then sent an email: "Wait, you said that the protagonist of the movie CH is going to make is...?"

Adam replied: "A continental combat hero, Shen Tugen."

Tang Jun's silence at the moment was deafening.

Adam can understand.

But not every Hollywood war movie features GIs, like... um, Soldiers Under the Wall?
Not every villain in a war movie is not an American, for example... this is really rare, Adam couldn't think of it for a while.

Hearing that the war theme that Truman was going to shoot was a mainland battle hero, Adam was also stunned for a long time. He thought it was wrong at the time, but he didn't want to understand what was wrong.

Later, I finally figured it out. War movies were a tool used by Hollywood to brainwash the world in the past, so it is very, very rare to see movies with the United States as the villain. Therefore, Truman’s idea is completely against common sense and anti-Hollywood tradition.

But Adam convinced himself that this kind of movie is not impossible to make, nor is it impossible to make money. Since the political correctness popular in Hollywood is not popular all over the world, at least in mainland China, then turn it around and talk about the political mistakes of the United States. Is it a new way to make money?
As for national honors, what does that have to do with Hollywood film businessmen?We only need to add a few blacks and whites to the movie, add Truman, the "multi-gender treasure", and add an anti-war background to the movie. After that, who dares to talk about national honor?
You use politics to interfere with me, don't you want to be free?No more democracy?
Adam was thinking about how to use this set of "fallacies" to persuade Disney.

Tang Jun's email has already been replied: "Disney is interested, we need to have a good talk."

This attitude really surprised Adam. Obviously, Tang Jun, a senior Disney film and television executive, realized the vacancy and scarcity of this type of subject matter, as well as the commercial possibility.

Not only Disney, Time Warner and Universal have expressed interest in Adam's proposal, and several other film studios that have not cooperated with Truman did not directly refuse, but expressed that they can further contact.

Waiting for Truman to return to Hollywood from the mainland in late March, Adam has had several rounds of contact with Disney, Time Warner and Universal who are most interested, and has initially finalized that once the script is mature and the budget estimate is completed, more substantive work can be carried out. Business negotiations.

It was still Adam who drove Truman and Ting Jun back from the airport.

Adam in the car reported the situation excitedly, and said at the same time: "When I estimated this project at the beginning, I forgot one factor, that is, the two Korean War movies starring Jason Wu achieved such brilliant box office in mainland China. , obviously, they figured it out."

(End of this chapter)