Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 117 Who should I choose?
The most important of them are the director and screenwriter.

"What the hell, no time? Okay, I get it, Mike, I'll think about it and see if there are any other candidates."

On the messy big bed, Wayne, who had just had a fierce battle with Monica Bellucci, frowned and hung up the phone in his hand.

Among the next three movies, although "The Notebook" is a project starring him and Jessica, the most important one is undoubtedly "Taken".

After all, if this movie is well made, it could at least be developed into a trilogy.

In his previous life, even though his reputation had seriously declined by the time of the third film, he still achieved a global box office of US$4800 million with a production cost of US$3.26 million.

No matter how you look at it, it is a qualified commercial blockbuster.

It's just that the screenwriter and producer of the original "Taken" was the famous French director Luc Besson, and the director was Pierre who was a cameraman in Luc Besson's team and didn't start directing until 04. Morel.

Obviously, today's Pierre Morel is definitely not capable of directing "Taken" well, so he targeted Luc Besson from the beginning.

I just contacted the other party's agent through Mike to support him. Now Luc Besson is filming the action movie "Kiss of the Dragon" starring Jet Li, and he will be busy until the end of June. At that time, it is obvious that daylilies are all gone. It's cold.

Although Wayne was a little regretful about this, he didn't take it seriously at first. After all, there are still many capable action film directors in Hollywood.

For example, the Wachowski brothers, who are responsible for directing the "Matrix" series under Joel Silver, have directed many popular action movies such as "Bruce Lee", "Fast and Furious 1", and "Xxx1". Rob Cohen, as well as Michael Bay, who is already wary of Hollywood's first-line directors because of his directing "Bad Boys" and "Unfortunately", etc.

But what left him speechless was that these people either insisted on sharing the box office share in the later period and did not agree to only receive a fixed salary, or they were directing other films and had no schedule.

As a result, more than a week has passed, and the director's choice is still not confirmed.

The screenwriting aspect is similar. Although Luc Besson said that he could take time to write a script, it would take two months and the asking price would be US$300 million.

He was so angry that he almost crushed his phone.

Although he is generous, he is not a fool, okay?

300?An action movie script?Do you think you are writing a best-selling novel?Why would he find Luc Besson with those 300 million? Can't he write it himself?

So after asking the system, he learned that because he had participated in the screenwriting work of "Admission Notice", "Happy Death Day" and "Girl Genius", the current screenwriting fee limit had been increased to 200 million, and he did not want to lose the money. He decisively chose himself to be the screenwriter of "The Rescue".

"Haney, did you encounter any trouble in the preparation of the new film?" Monica Bellucci couldn't help but ask with concern.

After all, this is her important chance to make a comeback, and she must be very concerned about it.

"It's nothing, it's just that we don't have any candidates for the director at the moment." Wayne didn't hide anything from her, and said calmly: "My agent has already contacted me, and basically none of the well-known action film directors have suitable schedules."

Action movies are undoubtedly one of the most popular types of Hollywood movies, and because the production costs of this type of movies are usually relatively high and the shooting is relatively difficult, capital is chasing those big directors who have already succeeded, which has resulted in The schedules of these big directors are really tight.Monica Bellucci, an insider, also understands this.

"Can you tell me who you have contacted?"

"Of course, Luc Besson, Michael Bay, the Wachowski Brothers." Wayne said more than ten names in one breath, basically including all the top action film directors in Hollywood today.

However, after listening to this, Monica Bellucci only thought for a moment and asked with some confusion: "Where is that John Woo?"

"Who?" Wayne was stunned for a moment, and then realized, isn't John Woo the English name of John Woo.

Sure enough, Monica Bellucci said a little strangely: "It's John Woo, the director of "Mission: Impossible 2", which was the global box office champion last year!"

In her opinion, John Woo can obviously be regarded as a 'famous action film director' because he can direct an action blockbuster that has topped the global box office of the year.

But after hearing this, Wayne couldn't help but frown.

Yes, John Woo, a great director who was born in Hong Kong Island, has indeed produced many classic action movies.

执导的《变脸》以8000万美金制作成本拿下2.46亿美金全球票房这个就不说了，2000年上映的《碟中谍2》更是以5.46亿美金的全球票房拿下了年度票房冠军的宝座，在一般人看来绝对是当之无愧的好莱坞一线动作片大导演。

But according to the trajectory of his previous life, he began to decline after the peak of "Mission: Impossible 2".

The next two films he directed, "Windtalkers" starring Nicolas Cage and costing US$1.15 million to produce, only achieved a global box office of US$7760 million."Memory" starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, with a production cost of US$6000 million, only achieved a global box office of US$1.17 million.All blood loss.

In order to keep the two Hollywood superstars Nicolas Cage and Ben Affleck, it is obvious that the only one who takes the blame is director John Woo.

At this point, John Woo was directly abandoned by Hollywood capital and kicked out of Hollywood.

It is worth mentioning that the production and distribution company of "Windtalker" is MGM. The huge losses on "Windtalker" also fueled the sell-off of MGM.

Later, "Red Cliff" directed by John Woo also suffered a small loss at the box office, and "Peace Wheel" even suffered a heavy loss at the box office.

How could he go to John Woo to direct "Taken" under these circumstances?Do you think it's not difficult enough? Do you want to increase the difficulty of "Hurricane Rescue"?

But he obviously couldn't tell Monica Bellucci this, so he could only use another reason to say: "The success of "Mission: Impossible" is entirely because of Tom Cruise."

"The first one took in a global box office of 4.57 million four years ago, and the production cost was only 8000 million US dollars."

"Now the cost of this second film has increased to 1.25 million US dollars, but it only achieved a global box office of 5.46 million US dollars. This is actually a failure in the eyes of the producer."

(End of this chapter)