novelraw Chapter 167
Chapter 167
sucks-
It all just... fucking sucks.
Edward drooped his shoulders, shook his head slightly with a slumped face, and suddenly sighed almost helplessly, but did not push away the woman in his arms.
"Why are you doing this?" Jack asked.
"It's cheaper to come here than to watch a movie." Mara's eyes stayed on the cigarette in her right hand, and her tone was taken for granted, "Besides, there's free coffee here."
Jack's voice is serious: "Listen, this is very important to me. This is my support group. I've been here for more than a year."
"One year? How do you prove it?" Mara asked deliberately.
"How to prove it?" Jack sneered and pulled the corners of his mouth, his eyes became more gloomy. "No one can prove it. Because they are all dead."
—— How many good lives are there for those with testicular and testicular cancer?
Mara seemed to believe Jack's random reasoning, and became interested in him, and continued to ask: "What about you——why are you here?"
"I don't know." Jack emptied himself expressionlessly, under his severely swollen eyes, there were dark circles like smoky makeup, his tone was indifferent and calm, as if talking about things that had nothing to do with him, " People will listen to your words carefully when they think you are about to die, instead of..."
"Instead of turning a deaf ear and just waiting for myself to speak." Mara said lightly.
Jack was a little surprised, looked down at Mara, his eyes flickered slightly, "Yes, that's right."
He obviously didn't make any movements, but from the whole picture, he seemed to be subconsciously approaching this strange woman, and there was a wave of waves on his expressionless face.
It was as if... an invisible wall quietly cracked a gap.
"Don't go on," Jack warned. "It's going to get you hooked, and I can't cry over a liar, so you better spend your time somewhere else."
As he spoke, he leaned back and pushed Mara away from his arms.
However, Mara smiled instead of anger, sipped her cigarette calmly, and said sarcastically, "Then why don't you go to the cancer ward as a volunteer—besides, it's none of my business whether you cry or not?"
Mara stepped out of the room, Jack thought about it, and chased after her.
When the actors left the camera, David Fincher in front of the monitor slowly called out: "CUT."
He looked dissatisfied at first glance, even though most people thought that the nearly 2-minute continuous shot just now was very exciting, but it is clear that what David Fincher wants is not just exciting, but sparks flying around.
"I hope that the special atmosphere between you is stronger." David Fincher said to the two actors, "You seem to be opposed to each other, but in fact you are attracted to each other, but it's not exactly the romantic relationship, More like two similar souls colliding - love at first sight between two freaks. Get it?"
Josie and Edward glanced at each other, nodded slightly at almost the same time, but also said nothing.
David Finch habitually NGed a dozen more, and then he let everyone go with satisfaction. Before Josie went to the trailer to remove her makeup, he quickly handed over the matter at hand to his deputy, and he followed on her footsteps.
Josie took the phone from Kelly, mouthed to David Fincher, and put on a smile, "Hi, Keanu, have you returned from Australia?"
"Yes, I just got off the plane. How's your 'Wall Street' going?" Keanu's smiling voice came from the phone, and the LAX airport ground radio announced.
——The "Wall Street" he mentioned not only refers to the movie directed by Oliver Stone, but also implies that Josie's series of actions in the Wall Street stock market have attracted the attention of many people.
"Not bad." Josie smiled deeper, and instead of delving into the topic, she asked instead, "How about you, how does it feel to have spent a whole year filming an action movie?"
Before the filming started, Keanu spent nearly five months receiving various trainings, and the filming cycle of "The Matrix" was 25 weeks, plus the time for the project in the early stage, it can be said that he has spent a whole year in the past It's all spent on this movie.
But obviously for "The Matrix", such time is absolutely valuable, although Keanu himself could not foresee the global wave it brought before the film was officially released.
Keanu replied jokingly: "It feels great, but I may need to rent a wheelchair." - Not everyone can be an action star, at least hard work and injuries are the common characteristics of every action star.
As he spoke, he smiled lightly and resumed a slightly formal tone, "Warner is very satisfied with the samples that have been sent back. The Wachowski brothers have already started preparing the script for the next episode, which will be a complete three-part series." part project."
"That sounds awesome!" Josie was genuinely happy for Keanu. "Be sure to call me for the premiere, or I'll be really mad."
The Matrix series is the beginning of his career back to its peak, and it is precisely because of its existence that Keanu has truly become a worldwide Hollywood superstar.
"Okay, okay, I will definitely deliver the invitation letter to you personally." Keanu walked out of the airport lobby and got into a taxi, "Go to Beverly Hills, thank you."
'Wow!You are Keanu Reeves, can you sign me?My wife and daughter are all fans of your movie. '——The taxi driver in the car spoke a mouthful of curry-flavored colloquial language.
"No problem, buddy!" Keanu readily agreed, "but I suggest we put our signature on the taxi ticket, it's a nice keepsake...Hi Mary, I've just met a Friend, let's get in touch later, okay?"
He made up a false name casually, apparently using Mary Ann Lomax, the heroine of "The Devil's Advocate".
Josie couldn't help but replied, "Goodbye, Kevin."
After finishing the phone call, she turned around and asked David Finch, "David, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"It's the meditation cave scene that will be filmed." David Fincher observed Josie's face, "I think we can make it more realistic, such as transporting some dry ice... Well, I just want to be real. ice."
"You want to build a real ice cave in the studio? No, no, it's impossible." Upon hearing David Fincher's request, Josie refused without thinking.
David Finch persevered, and continued to persuade: "Think about it, the effect of doing that will be great, it is the cave in Jack's meditation, you are wearing today's clothes, sitting on a huge ice block and smoking—— "
"You still want me to sit on a piece of ice and smoke?" Josie laughed angrily, "It's no way, David, this is not a necessary scene, we can use computer special effects to post-synthesis."
"But……"
"No but." Josie interrupted David Fincher, hitting the nail on the head, "and the computer special effects allow you to control the shape and texture of each piece of ice, and let them do what you want in peace, Isn't that good?"
David Finch's face was slightly shaken, "But... I still want to try the real scene..."
"Are you sure? What's the temperature in Los Angeles recently?" Josie entered the trailer and sat in front of the dressing table. "And the talking penguin you want has to be done with computer special effects."
"But I remember Pixar turned us down for some reason?" David Fincher asked.
Josie closed her eyes and asked Michelle to remove her makeup, and said indifferently: "Yes, but then we found another Blue Sky studio."
Blue Sky Studio was introduced by James Cameron. This animation studio is not as famous and large as DreamWorks or Pixar. At the beginning of its establishment, it could only do some insignificant opening special effects. Critically acclaimed animated short.
However, since the 90s, Blue Sky Studios began to provide some technical support for live-action movies, and part of the scenes of "Titanic" were produced by it.
And the studio turned out to be cheaper than Pixar!
After hearing about this, Josie decisively asked Archie Dano to take charge of the long-term cooperation plan with Blue Sky Studio.
Recently, this Mr. CEO is very busy, because a certain project that Josie told him to pay attention to a long time ago has finally changed. Bob Weinstein of Miramax released the wind and plans to transfer this project.
It is a common phenomenon in Hollywood that projects change hands between major film companies. The reason was removed to the hands of the producer.
When Josie came home from work, Archie had arrived ahead of schedule. While drinking Dorota's coffee on the sofa in the living room, he pointed to the pile of materials on the coffee table, his face tired but excited.
"I just finished talking with Peter Jackson in the afternoon." Archie said, "Leaving aside the fact that the budget of this project is more than 1.5 million U.S. dollars - Harvey's transfer conditions are too harsh, we must pay 24 and 1000 million U.S. dollars within 5 hours dollars, after which the Weinstein brothers will take the title of executive producer, and Miramax and Disney will share [-]% of the film's global box office revenue."
Generally speaking, the common transfer payment is to pay a 10% deposit first, and the balance will be paid after the film is completed. 24 hours is obviously not a suitable deadline.
The issue is--
The name of this project is "The Lord of the Rings", a trilogy series that goes down in movie history.
As early as the beginning of last year, Harvey Weinstein of Miramax obtained this giant special effects project led by Peter Jackson, and decided to make this series of films with back-to-back shooting and a budget of 7000 million US dollars.
Then "The Lord of the Rings" began eighteen months of pre-production, and the problem of insufficient budget became more and more obvious, so another Weinstein-Bob Weinstein refused to support this project because of his soaring budget. As early as the beginning of this year, the Miramax project has released news of seeking project transfer from time to time.
But Harvey Weinstein is still full of confidence in "The Lord of the Rings". He uses another way that Peter Jackson does not want to accept, castrating characters and scenes to control the budget-such as writing to death one or even several hobbits ——to reduce the cost required for the entire project.
The final straw came from Miramax parent company Disney.
Neither Disney's head of production, Joe Ross, nor the current head of Disney, Michael Eisner, are very optimistic about this large-scale project.
The Disney CEO not only categorically rejected Miramax's request for additional investment in this project, but even more strongly stated that the budget limit of this project is only 500 million US dollars, and Disney will not pay even a penny more for this.
Harvey instead asked Peter Jackson to turn the project into a two-hour movie. After being angrily rejected, he planned to replace the disobedient New Zealand director.
Finally, after mediation by some people, Miramax agreed with Peter Jackson to take the entire project to seek resale, but the conditions were very harsh: in addition to the above terms, Harvey not only restricted Peter Jackson to find the next owner within a few weeks. home, and Miramax won't help with that at all.
But what was surprising was that Peter Jackson, who was frowning, had just driven home from Harvey's office, and Archie Dano, the CEO of Tianji Films, was already waiting at his door.
Well, the question now is just—
Can Tianji Films accept Harvey's conditions?
And, does this small company, which has not even officially opened, really have the money to support the operation of this special effects project-rather than playing too big and going bankrupt?