The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 258 Disney Was Shocked
"WTF!"

In the California Disney headquarters building, the president's office, the 86-year-old president Eisner threw a cup of coffee out.

The coffee was spilled on the ground, it was yellow, thick and sticky, and although it was delicious, it looked disgusting.

Eisner looked at the creators of "Pirates of the Caribbean" with disgust.

"You copycats, you've ruined our reputation, you're shit."

Not long ago, they received a protest from their partner China Film, saying that their new movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" plagiarized their script. This matter must be given an explanation, otherwise Disney's products will never enter China in the future.

This incident made Disney feel very confused, they did not plagiarize.

What about this matter?

However, they then arranged for people to investigate, and soon discovered that two years ago, a screenwriter named Li Shengyao had indeed registered a series of movie scripts with the Copyright Office of the United States, and the movie was called "Pirates of the Caribbean".

It's not just the same name, I learned from the Copyright Office that the script of this movie is indeed exactly the same as the one produced in "Pirates of the Caribbean".

And people not only wrote one, but also wrote several.

Disney only had a plan to shoot "Pirates of the Caribbean" at the end of last year. It is absolutely impossible for others to copy Disney. The only explanation is that the main creator of "Pirates of the Caribbean" on Disney's side, someone read the script, and then moved it secretly.

If you are a beautiful Chinese, give hundreds of thousands of dollars to suppress the matter.

But he is from Huaxia, and he is still a great director of Huaxia, so he joined China Film.

Is this difficult?
Could it be that Disney's movies will not enter China in the future?

Of course it is impossible. Although the Chinese film market has not exploded, it has huge potential. This year, several Hollywood films have box office of tens of millions.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" may also be able to engage in tens of millions.

Eisner can only think on the bright side, "Sign a contract with China Film Group quickly, and we will buy the copyright."

"President, they want the box office revenue of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series in Mainland China."

A high-level person tremblingly followed.

"'WTF!"

Eisner was 86, and he really doubted that he would collapse and not be able to sleep.

If this "Pirates of the Caribbean" performs well, it will earn tens of millions of dollars, millions of dollars.

But I am at a loss here, what can I do?

Disney is very ambitious, they not only have a big move into the film market, they also want to buy Marvel, they also want to shoot a lot of superhero movies.

Is it because of a "Pirates of the Caribbean" that it lost the mainland market?
"Tell them we can give them dividends all over the world."

If they give dividends to the whole world, they can make false accounts and give 200 million at that time, which is very interesting.

"President, if they don't want it, they want the income from the mainland."

"WTF!"

Eisner fell down, and it took him a long time to calm down. He slumped on the chair, stretched out his fingers, and glanced resentfully at the members of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" writing team, "Everyone get out of Disney, you disgusting people Scum."

The screenwriters of "Pirates of the Caribbean" were aggrieved and sad, but they dared not refute.

Facts have proved that some of them did "plagiarize".

Eisner calmed down, "Immediately arrange for people to sign a contract with China Film, we can give them the profits of the mainland movies, but they will sell us all the scripts of the next few movies, and this matter cannot be publicized. "

"Yes."

Two days later, still in Disney's headquarters building, Eisner nodded with satisfaction while holding the script of "Pirates of the Caribbean" in his hand.

These scripts are well written, fantastic and full of suspense, and the stories are fascinating.

With the special interpretation of Captain Jack, maybe it will be very funny.

It can be said that these scripts were tailor-made for Depp.

It can be used to shoot directly. If these few movies sell well, they will make some money.

The box office in mainland China is only tens of millions.

Thinking about it this way, they don't seem to be at a loss.

In addition, he is now 100% sure that someone in his company has peeked at the script, otherwise it would be impossible for someone to write it two years in advance.

"Who is this Li?"

Such a talented screenwriter should come to Disney.

"President, he is a TV drama director in Huaxia. He is said to be very talented. The ratings of the TV dramas he directed are very good, and they are very popular in Asia."

"Wow, it turned out to be the director. You can ask someone if he wants to come to Hollywood to develop. As long as the story is good, we can let him join."

He only said to join, but he didn't mention the director.

Hollywood doesn't believe in Huaxia director's ability.

Brother Kaizi has been to Hollywood, but he is not acclimatized, and the movies he made were silent.

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There is nothing new in Hollywood, what happened to Disney, even though it was not reported by the media.

But it soon spread to Lionsgate.

At the same time, Lionsgate Pictures received a fax from China Film, stating that they are paying close attention to the situation of "Saw", and hope that Lionsgate Pictures will earnestly fulfill the contract.

Lionsgate executives also attach great importance to it.

Wen Ziren soon heard about this incident, and he was a little surprised that Li Shengyao was able to bring China Film in.

Having been in the beautiful country for a few years, he has become more mature than before, and he knows how shameless the Hollywood company is in the face of interests.

If Li Shengyao was alone, alone and alone, maybe Lionsgate would not take care of him at all.

Now that there is one more China Film Group, if Lionsgate does not want to completely give up the Chinese market.

That really has to be weighed and weighed, how can I share some broth with others.

Thinking of Li Shengyao's gain, Wen Ziren's guilt slightly eased.

He actually wanted to ask Li Shengyao about his next creative ideas, but he was worried that Lionsgate would steal his money, so he was too embarrassed.

Hearing the news at this time, I felt a little relieved.

As for "Chain Saw", although the outside world is not too optimistic, I think this small-budget street movie is not interesting.

But the creative team, as well as Lionsgate, value it very much.

There has never been a similar movie in Hollywood before. As an industry insider, Wen Ziren is confident that this movie will be a hit.

There should be a box office of 1000 million dollars.

At this moment, partner Werner came back, "Lionsgate asked about Li."

"Oh, what's the matter?"

It turned out that Li Shengyao wrote several "Pirates of the Caribbean" scripts and passed them on to Lionsgate Films. Thinking that Li Shengyao had been optimistic about "Chain Saw" early on, everyone in Lionsgate Films thought that Li Shengyao might be a good filmmaker.

They wanted to try to bring Lee Seung Yew to Hollywood and give them jobs to make money.

Wen Ziren chuckled, "He doesn't want to come over."

They had already asked about this matter, and Li Shengyao was unwilling to go there.

Wallner tilted his head, "What if he directs a movie?"

Wen Ziren was taken aback, a little uncertain, after all, this is directing a Hollywood movie.

How many big-name directors from other countries are tirelessly demanding to be able to show their talents in Hollywood.

(End of this chapter)