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Chapter 399 Big Investment (Earth)

With the approval of Truman, who didn't care what he was doing, Adam gave Time Warner and Disney the script that was considered crap.

After receiving the script, Time Warner and Disney also had the same opinion as Adam, which is great.

Then the negotiations begin.

Time Warner demanded all rights such as script adaptation rights, cast selection rights, final review rights, distribution rights, etc., and decided to invest 3 million U.S. dollars.

After all, Disney has cooperated with Truman in "Shang Qi 2", so they hope to continue to use the previous cooperation model, but they need a lot of rights such as script adaptation, actor decision-making, and final review.

This is the way Hollywood majors do things. Although sometimes they don't understand how to make a good movie, they must obtain the rights they want, otherwise it will be a mistake in commercial control.

As for taking these rights over and ruining the film in his own hands, the responsibility will be shared by the entire group system.

Throughout May, Adam was busy repeatedly arguing with the two major manufacturers, while Truman and Feng Zikai were pondering a new script, and they didn't know anything about Adam fooling the two major manufacturers with a "fake script".

By the end of May, things finally took shape.

Relying on Vice President Henry Brogi, a fish-eating fan and "insider", Time Warner successfully won the 3 million investment plus script review rights, some actor recommendation rights, final review rights and distribution rights as conditions. This cooperation.

Disney, because of the "Shang-Chi 2" case, required Truman to strictly follow the script, and even proposed that a staff member would check whether Truman's work was consistent with the script every day, but Adam vetoed it.

Disney was smart, Adam thought.

At the beginning of June, Time Warner and Truman Film Studio (Truman, Lin Yuhang, Xing Shuwen, Zhang Xingyun, Lu Linlang, etc. as shareholders) officially issued a statement, the film is called "Bloody Battle of Griffin Peak" (Bloody Battle of Griffin Peak) )" war movie project officially approved.

As soon as the news came out, it immediately attracted the attention of the whole Hollywood.

A large investment of 4 million U.S. dollars is rare in Hollywood. The last film that received this kind of investment was James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water".

Everyone knows that as the investment in a movie increases, the cost of the movie will become more and more staggering. A movie with an investment of 4 million US dollars only needs a box office of 13 billion to 14 billion US dollars to recover the cost even if the profit is flat.

That means it would have to end up in seventh or sixth place on the global box office charts.

As for the investment cost of "Blood on the Eagle Peak" announced so far, Time Warner is US$3 million and Truman Studios is US$1 million. This is a huge gamble for both parties.

THR commented on this, "It was the drama version of "Joker" that brought CH into Hollywood, but the subsequent box office miracles created by CH have nothing to do with Time Warner. Time Warner is like a young boy who lost his first love. Pursue CH, don’t you know that once youth is gone, it’s hard to get back, and the ones you chase after are all middle-aged women whose body and beauty have lost their shape.”

THR's mouth is a bit poisonous.

But Time Warner's decision is also a bit irrational.

After all, there has never been a case to prove that Truman made a good war movie.

Moreover, war movies, after 2020, there is no war movie produced by Hollywood that can cause waves in the whole world.

The Hollywood vane believes: "Time Warner is clearly targeting the Chinese mainland market. "Blood War on the Eagle Peak" is based on the Korean War. Currently, in that land, movies with this theme are in the hottest era. CH and that market It’s a great relationship, one of Hollywood’s connections, and of course, it’s a very risky investment anyway.”

There are reasons for all business decisions. Why did Time Warner spend a large sum of dollars to treat Truman like James Cameron? After a little analysis, the answer lies in the question.

As for whether Time Warner's adventure will pay off, only God knows.

Although Truman has created many miracles, they are not enough to establish an "invincible" image. Perhaps we will not know until the results of this whimsical "Blood Battle on the Eagle Peak" come to fruition.

This may be Truman's battle of conferring the gods, or it may be the battle of Waterloo.

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Now that the shooting plan has been formulated.

The release time is also preliminarily estimated.

The shooting of a war movie often takes a long time.

Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse of Modern Warfare" took 16 months to shoot, and "Saving Private Ryan" took 13 months to shoot. "Blood on the Eagle Peak" is expected to be released in October next year. That is to say, a 10-month shooting plus post-production cycle is reserved.

Time Warner believes that this time is enough.

At the same time, "Blood Battle on the Eagle Peak" made Truman's film salary officially reach 2000 million, and he was officially promoted to Hollywood A cafe and joined the "2000 million dollar club".

There is currently a not-so-long list of members of this club.

That included fewer than 10 women, and about 30 men, including Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Hopkins, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Wiley Smith, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio and others.

Of course it also includes Jet Li and Big Brother. Truman is the third Asian and the second Chinese on the list.

To this end, the Hollywood Historic Trust (Hollywood Historic Trust) invited Truman to leave his handprints on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, "As long as you pay $15000, you can engrave your name in Hollywood history."

When she received this email, Ting Jun, who was deeply educated by domestic anti-fraud propaganda, directly threw it into the trash can, because she was educated that anyone who asks for money is a liar.

After Adam knew about it, he didn't care. He knew that the Hollywood Historic Trust was not a liar. It was indeed the operator and maintainer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But now Truman no longer needs to get his handprint on the Walk of Fame to express his reputation in Hollywood. sense of presence.

The most important job at present is still about the casting of the script.

After Adam used the "first version of the script" to lure Time Warner's investment, about half a month later, he saw the "second version of the script".

This version of the script, how should I put it, inherits Truman's consistent impression of the script before and after filming:

"I can't tell what's different, maybe it's different in every place?"

Adam knew that there would be some differences between the two versions of the script, but he didn't expect the differences to be so outrageous.

At this moment, Time Warner has already started casting according to the old script. In the contract, Time Warner has the right to recommend all the characters and decide some supporting roles. Adjust the content of the script.

"At least make the number of characters consistent, so that the characters selected by Time Warner can still be used, otherwise the contract will be breached."

"Yes." Truman nodded understandingly, "Just a few more named cannon fodder."

(End of this chapter)