Six Hundred and Thirtieth Chapters Just Missed the Door

"Mr. Evans, do you have a good chance of persuading the senior management of your company to choose Mr. Ridley Scott after you know him?"

"I dare not say 100%, but I am sure!"

Evans didn't dare to guarantee it completely, but in his vision, as long as the director candidate proposed by the young man in front of him, the company's senior management must definitely consider it carefully. This is exactly what Gao Ming who signed the cooperation agreement originally place.

Assuming that if the "Lord of the Rings" series explodes globally, Universal Pictures will have to carefully handle the cooperation relationship between itself and Li Chungang from now on, because in addition to the film copyright and peripheral business authorization of "The Lord of the Rings", The remaining series of derivative copyrights are still in the hands of the other party.

In other words, if Universal wants to further upgrade the series of classic movies into a certain movie universe, the key to open this door is in the hands of the author Li Chungang!

That's why Evans dared to have the certainty of being "quite sure", and dared to try to recruit the other party after the company had already selected three director candidates, and wanted to choose a more suitable director candidate in his opinion——Ridley S. Mr. Cotter.

Knock Knock——

First there was a knock on the door, and then the door of Evans' office was pushed open from the outside to the inside. A blond girl held a large stack of documents on her chest, leaned out half of her body and reminded:

"Mr. Evans, President Ashley asked me to inform you that Alfonso Cuaron and his agent have arrived at the company. I hope you can go there as soon as possible."

Li Chungang, who was looking for comments on Ridley Scott in his mind, felt someone shaking his body, so he had to pause for a moment to talk about it. At this time, the benefits of being rich and well-stocked were reflected. As long as there are books about "Ridley Scott", he can unlock them again, including but not limited to personal autobiography, other people's evaluations, etc...

Anyway, like this kind of books with slightly low literary value, it won't waste a lot of money to unlock them.

There are more than one hundred thousand, and there are even six or seven thousand, that is, there may be only a few dozen sentences in the six thousand books, and the effect is better than nothing!

The reason why it took so much time is mainly to extract useful information from a bunch of messy content.

No matter how top-level literary writers are, as long as it comes to the income of manuscript fees, there will be more or less word counts. It's just that a good writer can make no trace of it, and a poor reader can see through it at a glance.

No, as far as the content he is seeing now is serious, he can finish it in a few minutes, but now he has wasted more than ten minutes and hasn't finished it.

Fortunately, the "information" collected so far is enough to make a judgment.

Li Chungang opened his eyes and said with a smile: "Is director Alfonso Cuarón here? It just so happens that we can get in touch with him and hear his ideas, but what do we need to do now?"

"It's simple, meet with them, and then listen to the specifics. As far as I know, Alfonso may not want to take on the Lord of the Rings project. He is keen on filming the Olympic film recently, and he is likely to be an agent. Forced to come here."

While talking, another staff member knocked on the door and came in to remind them that they could go to the conference room.

Now Li Chungang is very accurate in positioning himself, that is, the melon-eaters who come to watch the excitement. Universal is definitely not willing to stretch out his hand to do it for him, even if Evans now wants to use his name to influence the top management.

In the conference room, the Oscar-best director looked fatter and calmer than the photos on the Internet. His gray hair, which was ironed, made him look a little bit vicissitudes. This director, who is never messy in film style, was In terms of shape, it deliberately pursues the artist's rough appearance.

"Good morning, gentlemen!" After shaking hands with Alfonso Cuarón and others, Evans pointed to Li Chungang and said, "Two, let me solemnly introduce you, this is the book "The Lord of the Rings" The author of the book, Mr. Li Chungang, is also one of the producers of our film, and will participate in our project discussion together today."

Li Chungang shook hands with Alfonso and his agent Tony Jackson and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm not afraid of making jokes when I say it. I'm still a fan of director Alfonso."

Everyone carried the bridal sedan chair, wearing it for thousands of times, but not wearing it. Regardless of whether Alfonso was filming the Lord of the Rings in the end, it would never hurt to be polite to the other party.

"This is a very remarkable work. I don't think Middle-earth is a fantasy at all. It feels like you watched the whole journey of the Fellowship of the Ring from the perspective of God." Alfonso praised, " Just imagining it in my mind is very shocking.”

In the face of Oscar director's praise, Li Chungang will not be inflated by a few compliments, because he is the only one who knows that these compliments are actually addressed to Tolkien from another plane, and cannot be attributed to him. At most it is a "porter".

Tony Jackson's complexion didn't look very good over there. This was not aimed at Li Chungang, but purely because of the director under him.

After winning the Oscar for Best Director, there are of course countless projects coming to him. He will inevitably choose from here and there, but in the end, there is no one that looks good.

Fortunately, at this time, Universal Pictures is secretly recruiting directors for the "Lord of the Rings" series of movies. It is said to be a secret, but it is actually well known in the industry!

What the agent considers is earning power, and the salary for a literary film may be three to five million dollars at most, but if you are directing a commercial blockbuster, tens of millions of dollars is only the starting price, and there must be an additional clause of global box office dividends.

Finally, the competition here came to an end, but Alfonso Cuaron had another idea at the last moment.

Feng Fengguang won the Oscar for Best Director, of course he has to return home!

So after 20 years in Hollywood, I decided to go back to my hometown of Mexico to make a movie, to make a movie like a personal memoir.

Tony couldn't stop it at all, but he and Universal Pictures had already talked about the final stage. Even if he wanted to give up, he had to come face to face, lest the entire agency be blocked by Universal Pictures, the impact would be too bad up!

When Alfonso Cuarón told Evans about the situation himself, there was no sound in the conference room, and everyone was frightened by the brash operation. The reason was rather weird, but it gave enough face.

Anyway, the top director came to apologize in person, not just an email or a phone call.

Li Chungang almost took the previous greetings seriously, but in the end, he was just being polite. He probably didn't want to make a "Lord of the Rings" movie at all!

It is true that all directors know that as long as the filming of "Lord of the Rings" is not made by the producer, it is almost impossible to make money at the box office. The only remaining suspense is the question of how much money will be made, but not all Most directors pursue money first, and many people want to pursue ideals and art.

And Alfonso Cuarón is one of the latter. He who has achieved great success dares to say that he will not be short of money for the rest of his life. The final pursuit of ideals and art.

"This is very good. It directly helps us reduce the obstacles by one-third, so that we have a reason to add Ridley Scott to the list of candidate directors."

Evans didn't know what to say. He shook his head and said, "It can only be said that everyone has his own aspirations. No one can guess what an artist thinks."

"Maybe our film will be able to enter the Olympic Games, and it will be able to operate at that time."

The "Lord of the Rings" on another plane is a frequent visitor to the Oscars, especially "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" was exaggeratedly crushed with 11 nominations for 11 awards, and won all the awards!

Now Evans is quite surprised by Li Chungang's self-confidence. The difficulty of an Oscar is extraordinary, especially in the form of a commercial film. It is even more difficult to win an Oscar. Even if there are technologies such as visuals or editing, sound effects, and soundtracks at best Prizes have a chance.

It is not a good omen to open the door badly.

Now that they have already arrived in the conference room, everyone has no intention of moving back to the office. Anyway, the remaining two directors who have not met and communicated will still come over later, so they simply take this opportunity to share the remaining information about Reid. After reading Leigh Scott's comments, you will have a more intuitive understanding of Ridley Scott.

At the same time, Li Chungang had just found an opportunity to quietly send Lin Meng a message on WeChat. The content was roughly to let the other party collect all the information about "Ridley Scott" in the shortest possible time. Whether it is good or bad, it will be more foolproof if the evaluations between the two planes are compared with each other.

"Lord of the Rings" is still very different from the "Gladiator" movie shot by the other party, and they cannot be completely confused, but from some of them, we can still see Lei Lao's strength and foundation.

There is no doubt that "Gladiator" is a magnificent epic movie, which is well-produced and almost reproduces the glory and prosperity of the Roman Empire. It does not entangle too much in historical details and religious topics.

The majestic arena, the magnificent war, and the brave and skilled heroes all have a different charm and sense of gravity under his lens.

In the movie, whether it is the battle of the army in the forest or the fierce gladiatorial scenes, they are very realistic.

When there was a war between the Germanic tribes and the Roman legion, the roaring Roman cavalry, the black armored infantry, the sky rockets shot by bows and arrows, and the burning forest, these pictures are very visually impactful!

If it is applied to the epic battle between the major races in "The Lord of the Rings", it is actually similar, except that the warring parties need to be turned into fantasy races, which are also scenes of cold weapon wars.

If Li Chungang is a big hit on video site editing, then he can edit the scenes of the two movies together without too much sense of disobedience!

Ridley Scott is also very strong in action scenes, presenting the competition of the cold weapon war with light and shadow in all aspects.

It is precisely because of the combination of these factors that Li Chungang decided to give up Peter Jackson and choose to support Lei Lao. Maybe when this series of movies ends, he can also help him realize his dream of Oscar and get the little gold medal for best director. people.

"If this project starts, Mr. Lei probably won't have the time to do other projects in the past few years. His films are really missing one after another, so we must cherish them!"

Evans didn't know that Li Chungang's personal tendency had changed so much in such a short period of time. If he really knew, it is estimated that at this time he would not need to frantically conceive in his mind how to continue to lobby Li Chungang to agree with his plan.

Maybe it's "heroes see the same thing"...

The reason why Evans is so interested in Mr. Ridley Scott being able to become the director of the "Lord of the Rings" series of movies is also because of the movie "Gladiator".

Because as long as you watch the movie "Gladiator" and the book "Lord of the Rings" at the same time, you will definitely be able to find a lot of similar "brilliant points".

Of course, it cannot be said that there is a problem with the thinking of the executives of Universal Pictures, because their starting point is "stability" and "caution". On the way, Ridley Scott had something to say. If the winter melon tofu cannot continue to be filmed, the loss will not be a little bit. This will undoubtedly increase the input cost of the entire project.

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Next in this conference room.

Li Chungang and Evans successively met the remaining two well-known Hollywood directors Zack Schneider and Lin Yibin on the shortlist.

Generally speaking, the communication with the two great directors can be described as "a very happy conversation". The two of them can gain such achievements and reputations in Hollywood, so naturally they are not some people who are in vain. Sit down After that, he put forward his own unique views on the filming of the "Lord of the Rings" series of movies.

It's just that these shooting opinions sounded to Li Chungang as a feeling that is not bad, but a fly in the ointment.

Strictly speaking, there is nothing special that can impress them, and it is more about the shooting techniques and techniques, but the content of this aspect does not need to be explained by the director himself. From the film works they have shot before It can be roughly seen.

Maybe it was influenced by the presence of Ridley Scott Jewel...

After meeting the three directors on the shortlist, except for Alfonso who made it clear that he would not shoot the movie "The Lord of the Rings", the other two were quite satisfactory, which made him more determined to let Mr. Lei come out and shoot it himself. determination.

It's just that this determination is still short of the final touch.

And this last kick may have to meet Mr. Lei in person, and have a real conversation with the other party before he can be kicked out completely!