Coquettish Rebirth

After talking with the old man on the phone, Jia Hongjian's funds will definitely arrive in his account, and what he should do is to contact the actors or something. ''The first actor Jia Hongjian wanted to contact was Tom Cruise.This handsome Uncle Tang has made relatively few movies in the past two years, basically one movie a year.In 03, he went to Japan to shoot "The Last Samurai".Then in the first half of 04, he just made a film called "Murder with a Borrowing Knife".Although such a film has not been screened yet, Jia Hongjian knows the whole plot of such a film—it is about a playwright in Los Angeles who writes comedies, but his script has never been recognized by others, and no one has ever heard of it. In order to support himself, he had no choice but to drive a taxi.As a result, when I took a guest on such a day, the guest was a handsome guy and a big talker.This handsome guy said that he was going to kill five people, as if these five people were actually five witnesses who could testify against the boss of a certain gangster.

Such a handsome guy—actually Shuai Tang, he told all these things in a cool manner, and then seeing the driver’s surprised look, Shuai Tang was even surprised—"Why? You know that a few years ago, Rwanda How many people died every day during the massacre? Were you surprised at the time?" Then he said that Japanese whaling is also very serious now, why is the driver not surprised at all?The driver is not surprised that so many innocent people and animals die every day in the world, why would the driver make such a fuss about someone killing an insignificant fat man?From a certain point of view, the filming of this film still has the meaning of going a little deeper.But do not know how.Anyway, it’s a bit of a taste before it stops, and there is no such a deepened theme.So such a film should be pretty good overall, but it’s just not bad, and it’s absolutely not worth mentioning that it’s a good film.

The investment in this film is 500 million. Anyway, according to Katzenberg and Spielberg's feelings, the final result of this film is to hit the box office of [-] million yuan, and it can reach the box office of [-] million yuan. Even if he made money... Wait, why does Jia Hongjian know these things so clearly?The reason is simple, because this film was produced and distributed by DreamWorks!Such a film.It was such a film that director Michael Mann himself was both a producer and a director.After he thought of such an idea.Then I came to DreamWorks, and then I got the investment to make such a film.Then, after watching such a film, Uncle Spielberg praised Tom's acting skills very much.So in fact, if Jia Hongjian didn't say that he wanted to find Ah Tang to make a movie.Then, Mr. Spielberg is going to contact Ah Tang.Let's see if we can collaborate on a film next year.

Even the old man has already thought up the general idea of ​​next year's cooperation film - such a story as "Martians Invasion of Earth" by Herbert George Wells, a sci-fi master in the early 20th century!God Wells, at the beginning of the 2002th century, he really wrote a lot of well-known science fiction novels.Like The Invisible Man, for example.Jia Hongjian has even read such a novel, but because of the different times, Jia Hongjian finds such a novel difficult to swallow.Then a novel like "The Time Machine" was also written by the great god Wells. For example, the movie "Time Machine" released in Hollywood in 1895 is a remake of such a novel by the great god Wells.Jia Hongjian also saw it in his previous life, that is to say, a scientist who was around 8027 developed a time machine and started various travels. In the end, he ran to [-]xx for some unknown reason, and found that the earth civilization had been destroyed at that time, and human beings They have evolved into two races, one is the race on the ground and the other is the race below the ground...

As for the story "The Martian Invasion of the Earth", Jia Hongjian also knows, isn't that the "War of the Worlds" that Spielberg and Ah Tang worked together in history?Isn’t it just that out of nowhere, aliens drove huge octopus-like robots to invade the earth, and even captured humans for food?Jia Hongjian has seen such a movie, and the ending seems to be similar-the Martians invaded the earth all the way smoothly, beating the earthlings in a hurry, but in the end the Martians did not adapt to the earth's environment and were overwhelmed by the earth's germs. The area was infected, and the Martians had to retreat by themselves!

Of course, having said that, after knowing that Spielberg was interested in asking Ah Tang to make such a movie, Jia Hongjian immediately felt that it was amazing!Why do you say that?Because he knew that in history, Spielberg found Ah Tang to shoot such a "World War". Apart from the accident that he chose Ah Tang like Jia Hongjian, he also set a film that was very similar to Jia Hongjian's. place like.That is, at the beginning, Ah Tang was useless, or full of troubles!In Spielberg's initial setting, this Tom is a dock worker, and then he likes racing and idles all day long.Then the wife who gave birth to him a son and a daughter finally couldn't bear this kind of idle husband, and finally chose to part ways.Then after being dumped by his wife, Ah Tang only knew how to blame others at the beginning, but he was still idle and irresponsible.But after the impact of the aliens, his sense of responsibility was revealed little by little, and he became a qualified father in the process of protecting his children, and in such a process, this Ah Tang gradually became handsome, man Full of flavor!

Isn't this very similar to Jia Hongjian's setting?In Jia Hongjian's setting, the protagonist was troubled at the beginning, because the children did not respect him, and because the wife looked down on him.As a result, after coming to the war zone, he became handsome, but he gradually won the love of the whole family and became the pillar of the family!Isn't this a coincidence?At the same time, on the other hand, in "The War of the Worlds", Spielberg did not focus on the military or any political power.It also didn't allow the protagonist to transform into a powerful fighter and participate deeply in the great cause of countering aliens.Instead, let the protagonist run around with a pair of children, which is to show the panic and self-protection of a family when facing a huge disaster!Isn't this very similar to the theme that Jia Hongjian wants to express?

From such a perspective, it is true that heroes see the same thing!After the old man Spielberg knew that Jia Hongjian wanted to find Tom Cruise, he directly chose to step aside—his plan for the "War of the Worlds" movie chose to be put aside for a while, so that Jia Hongjian There will be one less competitor to invite Tom Cruise.Of course, Jia Hongjian was very grateful for the old man's kindness.But to be honest, without an old man, the competition will not be reduced much.Because Tom Cruise has such a handsome face and such a reputation, his market appeal is very strong.So in fact, this Uncle Tom keeps making film appointments every year, which is entirely because he chooses movies instead of looking for him!

For example, it is estimated that there are ten movie scripts in Uncle Tom's hand!This is still the situation where people's stories probably got Ah Tang's nod and they were able to hand in the script. If you count the stories that were rejected immediately after hearing the story, there would be even more!So in fact, Jia Hongjian and his films are still facing fierce competition, especially Uncle Tom's films have been shot in the past two years, so it can be said that the chance of success is only 10%!Can Jia Hongjian and the others successfully get Ah Tang to nod?This is simply a must!Don't forget, in terms of Tom's choice in history, he chose Spielberg's "War of the Worlds".From such a perspective, it is obvious that Spielberg's film is the best compared to other books that Ah Tang has received in history, so it is possible that Ah Tang chose such a film in history. Right?Then after Spielberg learned of Jia Hongjian's idea, he chose to give way, that is, Spielberg believed that Jia Hongjian's idea for such a film was more important than his "World War" idea. Excellent, right?

In theory, of course, Jia Hongjian's films should be more competitive than others' films, right?So it should be natural to attract Ah Tang's attention!The fact is that it is more or less the case. In such an era, there are not many films that can find Tom that can actually become popular.As a top Hollywood star, Ah Tang also has his own pursuit.For Ah Tang, salary is naturally important, but what is more important is whether he can get something by shooting a certain movie.For example, like filming "The Last Samurai", what did such a film give Tom?money!Because such a film is a movie produced by Ah Tang himself!Although the production company is Warner Bros., Ah Tang is like a contractor. He came to find a team to shoot such a film. In the end, in order to save money, even a big star like him who played the leading role in the film did not receive a contract. Instead of paying the salary, he chose to take the share in the end!So from such a point of view, Ah Tang is starting to go from the perspective of the behind-the-scenes personnel and the boss!

And it is said that Ah Tang took over Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" in history. It is said that he also came in as a partner, and he did not get a penny of advance payment, but directly chose to take the final share!From such a point of view, Ah Tang is holding back his energy and wants to develop in the direction of a movie boss!So if Jia Hongjian asks for a price here, it needs to be a bit tricky, doesn't it? "How about we invest 2.5 million U.S. dollars, a record-breaking large investment, and then give Tom a maximum of 20% of the after-tax profit share?" Spielberg thought for a while, and gave such a reference.

"20%? Are you going crazy?" Who knew that Jia Hongjian would not be happy right away! "If your sister's 20% of the world's profit is not [-]%, he will earn over [-] million US dollars at once? Why? Just because he acted in this movie? His acting skills are worth [-] million US dollars? Nonsense!" Jia Hong Jian originally valued Ah Tang so much, but when he heard Spielberg's offer, he immediately became unhappy, and suddenly seemed to think that Ah Tang was dispensable, not irreplaceable! (To be continued..)