Chapter 149 New ideas and internal trial screening

Although Adrian threatened to cancel the original male lead who allowed Dennis to play on the Oscar red carpet because of his dissatisfaction, that was just a joke.

You know, Dennis has experienced the first time with him. Such qualifications are not comparable to others, not to mention that he is a real unknown person picked up by Adrian, and he is always loyal to him. No one will give up on Adrian.

However, Adrian was indeed joking at that time. Although he had the intention to let Dennis play in some different works, his role was too single during this period.

But he didn't think it completely when the award ceremony was held, so he just said it casually, basically used to threaten Dennis.

But because he found a script from Miramax, and then because of the subtle competition between Gwyneth and Blanchett, he came up with an interesting idea, and he found a suitable and English-style character for him.

suitable?God Ah, although I only read some of his works, I also know that it is difficult to show that...the temperament of an artist.

Dennis continued to say depressedly, I don’t know what kind of information to look for. Many historians also question whether Shakespeare exists, and many Americans actually think Shakespeare is the greatest playwright in the United States.

Yeah?If Hemingway knew, he would definitely cry in heaven.Adrian shook his head with a tsk, but Dennis almost spitted out his next sentence: Who is Hemingway?

OK, I'm kidding.Seeing that his face became less beautiful, Dennis immediately raised his hand.

OK, Dan, this character is not complicated.

Adrian shook his head and pulled the topic back. Do you still remember what I told you?The story takes place in Shakespeare's youth, when his main work was still comedy. He didn't have that much experience, he was still very lively and naive. In a sense, he was still a liar at that time, and he was very similar to you now, right?

Young and talented, he is also a romantic slut.Dennis read it a few times, then looked at him with interest, and frankly, I think you are more suitable for this role, Ed.

Ah?Adrian raised his eyebrows and didn't react for a while.

Isn't it?Compared to me, you are more in line with these items, and you have also made guest appearances in some movies, which is also a bit of experience. How about considering yourself directing and acting?

Dennis deliberately pretended to be serious.

Come on, Dan, don't joke.Adrian shook his head funny.

OK, no joke, but my sure I am not suitable.

Dennis looked aloof and sighed. If I could, I would still want to act in some action movies, of course, it would be even better if I could have Bruce, Arnold or Siegel as supporting roles for me.

Why don't you just call them all in a movie?Adrian rolled his eyes.

This is also a good idea. Anyway, you can invest 200 million in a movie.Dennis continued to beat haha, trying to muddle the water.

You thought I was really... Adrian was about to refute, but suddenly he was stunned when he thought of something.

What's wrong?Dennis asked quickly when he noticed his abnormality.

It's nothing, don't worry, let me think about it, let me think about it carefully.Adrian reached out and tapped his head lightly, then turned around in circles.

Dennis's words reminded him of a movie, which was "The Expendables" produced by Siegel Stallone more than ten years later, and was unwilling to be lonely and gathered a group of old guys.

Of course, Adrian didn't have much interest in such a movie that relies on nostalgia to make money. Although nostalgia is also the only way to make money, Stallone immediately made another episode after making a good box office. However, Adrian has more movies that can make money in his hands, and he doesn't care about such a little shrimp. Besides, he has to wait until decades before he gets old before he has a chance.

But Dennis reminded him, what would happen if they gathered a bunch of big-name action stars to perform in the same movie before they were out of breath now?

Cost is not a big problem. Generally speaking, if several big brands play in the same movie, as long as one person gives in to reduce the pay, others will also give in. Anyone will have a competitive mentality, let alone transfer the pay to dividends.

Of course, this has to be based on two conditions. First, the value between them cannot be much different; secondly, the prospects of this movie are very good.

Needless to say, as long as you can talk to their agents, it will not be a problem. As for the second, with the signature of director Miracle, how many people will question the prospects of the movie?

This can also affect the first point. What is the point of receiving less pay for director Miracle himself?

What's more, Bruce Willis's agent has switched to his agency company, which is really simple.

This is definitely a potential brand.Adrian, who stopped, pinched his chin and muttered to himself with some excitement.

What he was interested in was not the box office of "The Expendables", what he wanted was to build "The Expendables" into a movie brand.

Just like Real Madrid collects superstars in football, real fans never look down on the saying that those who can serve in Real Madrid, but those fake fans are very effective. This is how many people who don’t watch football know Real Madrid.

So it's not just Willis, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Adrian also plans to compete with actors such as Nicholas Cage, John Travolta, Russell Clowe, and future Rock Johnson and Vin Diesel, who may even be involved in action stars.

Think about it, if one day Hollywood appears in the future, do you say you are a famous Hollywood action star?So have you ever played a role in "The Expendables"?No?How interesting it would be to be.

It doesn't need to be in place at once. You can slowly increase your investment and continue to shoot one episode by one by one by one in the way of telling a certain mercenary group. As for the plot, the main focus of this kind of movie is not on this, but on the gathering of stars and the joyful fighting and destruction. It also allows Yuan Heping to participate in action design, find a balance between boxing and kung fu, and show different fighting methods. If Jet Lee joins, it will be better. Jack achievement is forgot. His humorous fighting style is not suitable for such a movie.

Therefore, as long as the story conforms to the basic logic, it is not particularly difficult for the screenwriters who were trained by Adrian in that harsh way.

If you do well enough, you can also make a comic version. Anyway, Marvel Company is in your hands, and even celebrities can authorize them to draw characters according to their faces.

Of course, it is not easy to do this. There are all aspects to consider. It takes a lot of time to build a specific plan alone, not to mention that you have to study the market, write scripts, negotiate with several big names, etc.

Even so, Adrian still wanted to try it. Although the best way to achieve his great cause is to maintain inertia as much as possible and make profits from it, it is always interesting to be a person in two lives. Just like Dennis, Adrian never thought he would be so outstanding at the beginning. Besides, the price of losing the last hand is still affordable, so why not do it?

What's wrong?After coming out of his own thoughts, Adrian realized that Dennis had called him several times.

Well...you agreed to say so?Dennis asked carefully, something flashing in his eyes.

Haha, that's right... He chuckled suddenly, a little meaningful, and wanted to get through while he was thinking about the problem?It's simply impossible!

I have to admit that you are my lucky star, Dan, because of your proposal, I came up with a very interesting idea.

Adrian patted his shoulder hard, and said that your performance in "Broken Arrow" is barely considered an action star, so I will let you play a role in it, but

After Dennis showed relief, Adrian's words immediately changed and his smile became much more cunning: But it's not now, so you should keep trying to figure out Shakespeare honestly.

continue?Dennis immediately twitched and covered his forehead with the corner of his mouth.

I remember you have British descent, don't you?In "Two Big Blows", you said your London accent well, believe in yourself.Adrian said with some sarcasm.

Having British descent and playing a famous British writer are different things.Dennis sighed.

Try it, Dan, don't doubt my eyes.

Although he kept shirking, Adrian wasn't angry either. I don't think you would like to be positioned as an action star all the time, right?In addition to fame and money, honor is indispensable.

Dennis was slightly stunned. This sentence finally made him think of something else, so he moved his lips but stopped making a sound.

I will find someone to give you special tutoring. Anyway, you must consult many scholars when shooting such historical movies, and the script needs to be revised. I will let the screenwriter hand over the complete script to you as soon as possible.Just like that, don't let me down, Dan, I'm going to go back to the studio, it's almost time to continue working.

Adrian said as he patted his shoulder again, then strode towards the set.

It was not a whim to let Dennis star in Shakespeare in "The Love History of Shakespeare". Adrian is still optimistic about him, and he is not the kind of person who ignores objective reality in order to support his own people.

Thanks to his keen observation and his working life, Dennis' temperament was very fickle. As Adrian said before, Shakespeare in "The Love History of Shakespeare" was still very young, not the literary master of the future, and was not much different from ordinary talented young people.

Dennis, who has experienced several years of hardship and has had a passionate triangular scandal with Winona and Aniston, is no longer the talented but still very immature young man. As long as he is willing to study hard, he will definitely be able to grasp the key points of the characters after the complete script is released.

Thinking of this, another thought popped up from Adrian's mind like a prank. It would be better to let Dennis play a role in another movie.

Another movie of course refers to the "Elizabeth" that was given to Blanchett. It was precisely because of his outstanding performance of Elizabeth I, and a movie later, that was named Queen by movie fans.

Interestingly, Joseph Fiennes, the younger brother of Ralph Fiennes, who played the lead role in "Shapes Love History", also played an important role in "Elizabeth".

Since that's the case, it's better to let Dennis have both, so Adrian can better control the situation.

Well, let’s not talk about this. Even if these two films are about to start filming, they have to wait until the first part of "The Matrix" is over, so let’s put it aside for the time being.

The filming of "The Matrix" does not require much worry at the moment. The intense fighting scene will begin until the plot in the hovercraft is almost done, so Adrian chose to hold the long-awaited internal preview at this time.

After the ethereal and beautiful singing ended, the applause started to sound without waiting for the subtitles to be completely finished. Although it was a bit monotonous, the enthusiasm of the applause could be heard.

Under his guidance, others also applauded, but because there were not many people involved, the few people were not as powerful as the one who applauded and changed it.

I'm very satisfied, James, I'm telling the truth, don't think I'm comforting you.

After the lights in the screening room were on, Adrian said this to Cameron, then turned to look at a lady not far away: Your singing is really moving, Ms. Celine, like the sound of nature.

As the singer of the theme song, Celine Dion is the only non-production team to participate, and she took the initiative to participate because she liked the song very much and wanted to know the effect of the music with the movie.

Adrian has no reason to disagree, after all, her singing voice has also added a lot of color to the movie.

Thank you for your compliment, Mr. Adrian.

Celine Dion smiled and nodded, then held her boyfriend who was almost in his fifties sitting beside her. If Rainy hadn't insisted, maybe I would have missed this touching song.

At least you don't have to regret it now, don't you?Adrian smiled and started talking to Cameron again.

At the beginning, he also thought about trying this pretty good woman. The high notes were so good, and the deep throat felt the same.

However, this idea was gone after just a few moments of twisting in my mind. In my previous life, I knew a lot of things because of my love for "Titanic" and the theme song. Celine Dion had long been developed by her man.

Rennie Angelil, Dion's agent, is now 57 years old. As early as 19 years ago, he met Dion, who was only 12 years old, 19 years ago. Then he became her agent and made her famous and gave her various suggestions. Although the relationship was revealed in 1993, everyone knows that they have been together long ago.

I have to say that Mr. Angelill is really capable and patient, and he holds Dion firmly in his hands. Even if he is not good, he can still use in vitro fertilization to make Dion willingly pregnant.

Adrian learned some of his practices, but he controlled enough resources so he had a bigger appetite.

I used the brand new CG technology, so many scenes look more realistic... Cameron talked endlessly about some technical things.

It must be admitted that with nearly 20 million yuan in investment, the whole movie does look more refined. For example, when the close-up shot of the captain and the first mate standing outside the cabin when setting sail, the pictures in the horizon were all made in CG. Now this version is clearer and more delicate than the pictures in Adrian's memory.

There are many places like this, so it is still worth it.

However, Cameron, a crazy guy, still has to complain a few times: There are still some places that are not perfect, almost thirty, if the time is long enough, I can do it more meticulously.

What do you think, Mr. Clayden?Adrian smiled and shook his head secretly, then looked at one of the executives of 20th Century Fox.

Personally, I feel... not bad.

Clayden Cox shrugged, as if he was a little disapproving of the disaster romance, but he did not show it particularly clearly and quickly changed the subject: I have no objection, Mr. Adrian, let us leave the release.

He would hand over the movie to Fox instead of choosing his own film company. First, for Cameron's sake, he had a happy cooperation with Fox before Adrian intervened. The original "Titanic" was also invested by Fox. Now Adrian has poached people in disguise, and it should be compensated as much as it should be; second, it is for the MPAA rating. This movie could sweep the box office in North America and even the world. In addition to a series of factors such as story and special effects, being rated as PG-13 is also one of the factors. If it is rated as R, half of the loss is possible. Adrian will never allow this situation to happen. Of course, let Fox get on board. The effort Warner spent on the rating of "The Eye Opening Ring" before is vivid in his mind.

It is precisely because of this that Adrian feels more and more how important it is to have a position in MPAA, but fortunately, if the plan goes well, this problem will soon be no problem.

This is the movie you invested 2.4 billion.Just as Adrian was thinking about his plan, Claude's voice suddenly rang in his ears.

How do you feel?Adrian shrugged as he looked at Claude's slightly teasing smile.

Not bad, but if you want to save costs by relying on box office, you have to have at least 500 million yuan in the world, and this must be in an ideal state and the publicity cost has not been counted.

Claude smacked his lips and asked for 500 million.

You'll see miracles, Crow, I promise.Adrian was too lazy to talk to him. If he had any uncertainty before, he had completely relieved after watching the sample.

I miss you, you must have more than that, right?He changed the subject.

But you insisted on pulling me to participate in the preview first... Claude complained, OK, you can't refuse this year, right?

What?

White House dinner.