[US Entertainment] Superstar

Chapter 250

Frankly speaking, Eve was a little excited right now, but she wasn't 100% excited to win the script.

"Brokeback Mountain" is definitely a good story, but it is still unknown whether I can shoot it well after buying it at a high price.

The behind-the-scenes team and the actors may have a big change, and it may not even be possible to find Ang Lee to direct, and it is difficult to gather several protagonists.

What's more, there is a more realistic problem. The mainstream audience is actually not ready to see two men appearing as a couple in the movie theater.

Before that, Eve had hardly seen first-line actors play gay roles in movies released in theaters. Many male actors were actually quite scared, or a little uncomfortable.

The last time an impressive same-sex movie was probably "The Uninhibited Sky" starring River Phoenix and Keanu. The movie "Mulholland Drive" that I starred in this year also had a same-sex plot, and it was criticized very much for this awful.

Hollywood and the audience have always been more tolerant and accepting of love between women, and "Mulholland Drive" did not focus on this aspect, and the main promotion did not mention the relationship between the two protagonists. love.

Society in 2000 was very conservative, especially when the two protagonists of "Brokeback Mountain" were still cowboys.

This identity is more difficult to accept than other professions, because in the impression of the general public, all cowboys are brave, strong, and strong heterosexuals, and they are the most masculine group of people!

However, since the birth of cowboys, male love has always existed among this group of mighty western cowboys, but it has always been covered up, and no one dares to expose it.

Fear, prejudice, and resistance will definitely accompany the film along the way, and it will be resisted by those conservative groups.

Eve is in a mess right now, and she emotionally wants to make this movie, and "Brokeback Mountain" will definitely be the first shot for Eternal Pictures.But Rational told her that if she chooses such a movie, she will encounter too many obstacles. At that time, not only the careers of the director and the leading actors will be hurt, but she may also be implicated as a producer. in.

Reason and emotion are constantly entangled, and I don't know how to deal with it for a while.

"Miss Campbell, are you okay?" Liz asked with concern, seeing the boss holding the script list and changing his expression, he didn't know what happened.

Eve shook her head, she thought about it and said, "I'm fine. When you contact there, ask how much the right of first refusal is. If the rest is suitable, you can consider it."

Just at that moment, a thought came to my mind.

I want to give this script to Ang Lee for a look. If he is willing to make this story, then Eternal Pictures will buy the script.If you don't want to shoot, you don't have any loss, it's just a fee for the right of first refusal.

To be honest, Eve doesn't have any lofty goals. She just wants the movie to be released earlier. If it can arouse people's thinking and discussion, then even if it has social value, the movie will be considered a lot of success.

Anyway, this year Ang Lee is going to run awards season public relations with the crew of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and he will definitely meet him on various occasions, so I don't have to worry about not having the opportunity to get in touch.

After making up her mind, Eve continued to look down.

She no longer expects to find any good movies from it, and it is a miracle to have a "Brokeback Mountain".

I believe that she is not the only one who knows the excellence of this script, but the major studios and independent studios are scared away by the subject matter of the film, as well as the price of the script.

The script alone costs 300 million US dollars, so what about the remuneration of the director and actors?

What about the cost of shooting and post-production?

Who dares to spend $2000 million rashly on a movie about two cowboys falling in love.

In fact, Eve doesn't know what the commercial prospects of "Brokeback Mountain" are. She just thinks that it should not lose money. After all, it triggered discussions on homosexuality in North America and other parts of the world, and decades later Still a classic.

The feature films that participated in the awards season will basically not lose money.

It would be great to find one of so many bad scripts, and it would be a pleasant surprise if there are still familiar scripts.

Eve browsed gradually, and suddenly saw a familiar name among the many unfamiliar titles——Little Miss Sunshine!

Her heart skipped a beat. This movie should be regarded as a family comedy, not just for children, but also a dream movie for adults.

After watching it, it can make people feel inexplicable. Success and failure are not too important. Life must go on. It is very close to the lives of the audience and can open their hearts.

Compared with "Brokeback Mountain", "Little Miss Sunshine" is completely a safe card, and the script price is much, much cheaper, only 25 US dollars.

This is the screenwriter's first movie script, and it has been on the copyright registration department for more than a year and has not been sold.

Eve drew a circle on it with a pen, "You can also take this script and take a look, it looks interesting."

In order not to reveal that she knew the plot of the story, Eve didn't directly say buy it, buy it, buy it, but wanted to take a look after getting the script.

The story of "Little Miss Sunshine" is relatively relaxed and does not require much personal style from the director, so it is more operable.

For this kind of cheap and easy-to-use script, Eve plans to let the company buy it after reading the script after a while, instead of taking the right of first refusal.

"By the way, we don't seem to have a suitable script analyst yet."

If you are a pure actor, you may never have access to what is a script analyst and what is a script doctor.The reason why she knew these things was entirely because of her role as a producer.

The script of "Mulholland Drive" was written by David Lynch himself. Of course, he didn't need the help of a script analyst, but he still found a script doctor for testing.

The so-called script analyst is actually the person who wrote the first script in each film studio.

After the screenwriters write the script, they will not sit still, but will send it out and send it to various film companies, hoping to impress those producers and be bought.

Producers have received so many submitted scripts, of course they don’t have time to review them one by one. At this time, they need to find script analysts to analyze and summarize, extract the stories and core selling points in the scripts with their own simple words, and then Assess whether there is value in continuing the discussion.

It is necessary to list the advantages and disadvantages of the script in a short period of time. At the same time, it is necessary to evaluate where the screenwriter has its strengths and weaknesses, or to say that the script is similar to which films, so that the producers can refer to it.

This method completely tests the appreciation ability of script analysts. Some good scripts just miss the production company and become fish that slip through the net.

Eve believes that "Little Miss Sunshine" must have been voted by the screenwriter to many, many film companies, but most of the time it was shot by the script analyst, otherwise the right of first refusal must have been sold, so that she would miss it .

"Brokeback Mountain" doesn't have any leaks. Everyone knows that this story is actually quite interesting, but there are so many interesting scripts. Who would risk losing money to make a movie? No investor would be that stupid.

What Leeds is doing now is a bit like a junior script analyst, but it is not so professional and accurate, and at the same time, the efficiency will be much lower.

Professional script analysts have to read nearly ten scripts a week, so they don’t have time to carefully taste and appreciate the deep connection between character dialogues, and they don’t have enough energy to analyze the subtle connection between structure and plot.

Experienced screenwriters will write out the advantages of the script in advance, and let analysts confirm these things instead of waiting for them to discover them themselves.

Layer by layer selection, continuous elimination, even if it is so, it may not be able to meet the audience.

The script doctor is easy to understand, it is the kind of person who sees a doctor for the script.

There are more or less certain problems in the script, and there will be conflicts with the ideas of the director and producer, so the script doctor must hurry up and revise.

Many movies are still changing scripts before and after filming, so that the script can be reincarnated.

There will be various diseases in the human body, and the script is the same. There are countless problems of all kinds. Sometimes there is only one problem, but sometimes it is all problems.

Character design, story background, dialogue, structure, specific scenes, logical relationships, etc. all need to be modified.

Eternal Pictures doesn't have a script doctor for the time being, and Eve hasn't decided which movie to invest in yet, and the script hasn't been finalized yet.

What's more, this thing is too expensive. As long as there is a little more time, I will choose to let the screenwriter modify it by himself, or add a few screenwriters to assist, and each handles the part they are good at.

It is already the autumn of 2000, and the film preparations are still at the original one. It may take a year to start shooting, and even longer to release. The first film will not be released until 2002 at the earliest.

The film production cycle is relatively long. It does not mean that a film proposed here can be shot immediately and put in the cinema.

After finding two potential scripts at once, Eve is in a very good mood now, proving that her choice was not wrong.

After discovering two grains of gold in the existing script, her expectations for bestsellers are much higher. Maybe she can also meet suitable and undiscovered masterpieces, how great it would be!

But the reality will not let her go too well, it is impossible for Ou Huang to remain in love forever.

In the bibliographies and introductions of the Barnes & Noble Bookstore and the New York Times bestseller list provided by Karl, Eve did see many familiar works, but without exception, they were all very famous ones, which directly sold millions of copies. How can the film adaptation rights of such a best-selling book still exist?

Even if it is still there, the price is not affordable for a newly established film company.

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One more chapter tonight!