Best Movie Star

Watching Natalie Portman leave, Brad Pitt went back to the desk and sat down, leaning back on the back of the wide chair, considering what Natalie Portman had just said.

"Andrew Stanton wants to direct a live-action movie." He tapped his fingers slowly on the desk and thought intently, "Or a top-notch production with an investment of more than 200 million US dollars?"

No wonder Matthew Horner regrets "Cloud Atlas", but there is no action to compete in the follow-up. It turned out that he wanted to run such a big project, but such a super production can be handled by Matthew Horner and David Ellison Is it right? The two of them may be able to raise money, but the top Hollywood productions are not easy to play with money.

The speed of his fingers tapping on the desk is getting slower and slower, ""Princess of Mars" seems to be the work of the author of "Tarzan of the Apes". It is said that many big productions in the circle have learned from it. From this aspect alone, "Princess of Mars" is very worthy of an adaptation.

Moreover, Andrew Stanton is a very thoughtful person in terms of movies. Several Pixar animated films as producers and screenwriters have been successful without exception. The "Finding Nemo" directed has become a hit at both the box office and word of mouth.

Andrew Stanton is a very successful man by any measure.

Such people's projects have a relatively high chance of success.

Natalie Portman is worthy of being one of the most scheming women in the Hollywood circle. She inadvertently got a lot of useful information from Matthew Horner. Unfortunately, she is less famous than Angelina Jolie. Otherwise, you can kick Julie away and get another girlfriend.

Brad Pitt sat in the office and asked his assistant to temporarily block all calls, thinking about it for half an hour, and then called the director of the project investment department of Plan B over.

This is his absolute confidant.

"Franco..." he said to the director of project investment, "there is a project at Walt Disney, Andrew Stanton from Pixar Studios, who wants to direct a movie called "Mars Princess" or "Alien Battlefield." The project is still in the early planning stage, you can find someone to know about it, and don’t have direct contact with Disney and Andrew Stanton for the time being.”

The director named Franco nodded seriously and said, "I'll find someone to do it."

As he was about to stand up and leave, Brad Pitt said, "Wait."

He then explained the specific situation again, and told Franco that his actions must be kept secret.

Such a huge project is still in the early planning stage, and the budget limit determines that there is still a long way to go before the preliminary preparations. Brad Pitt is very patient and not in a hurry.

Matthew is also very patient. In addition to being busy with work and fitness routine, he is enjoying the freshness and excitement brought by "rhythmic gymnastics" every night.

The charm of a beautiful girl who has just left the professional gymnastics world for a few years is really amazing.

Nina Dobrev also opened his eyes.

Of course, Matthew is a very work ethic and has already spoken to Bearded Jack and Justin Lin to reserve a less important female role.

"In the past few days, I went to Paramount Pictures to inquire."

In the reception room of Horner Manor, Helen Herman sat on the sofa and said casually, "I also contacted the publisher of the "Twilight" trilogy and learned some basic information."

Matthew walked back and forth in the reception room and said, "Tell me more about it."

"This series is currently published in "Twilight", "New Moon" and "Lunar Eclipse", but it is not a traditional trilogy, and it is not over." Helen-Hellman's tone is still as steady as ever, "According to News from the publisher, author Stephanie Meyer is working on a fourth volume."

She took a sip from her teacup and continued, "The author, Stephanie Meyer, is thirty-four years old. She was originally a full-time housewife with three children and had no writing experience. It was a success, and Twilight remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 56 weeks, five of which were number one, from its launch in 2005."

Matthew nodded and asked with concern, "What about the copyright? Is the copyright still there?"

This is what he is most concerned about. Recently, he has also learned that there are many books that occupy the top of the best-selling list in New York, and the film rights have not been sold yet, so he still holds out a glimmer of hope.

"Regarding copyright..." Helen Herman said deliberately, "there is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

"Miss Herman." Matthew turned to look at her, "Isn't this your usual style?"

Helen Herman didn't go down the banter route, but simply said, "Let's talk about the good news first. The rights to this series are still in the hands of Stephanie Meier, according to the reliable information I have obtained, Stephanie Meier She had a lot of ideas for a movie adaptation, she hired a screenwriter to adapt Twilight with her, and sent the script to a lot of studios, Paramount Pictures was the only one of the big six in Hollywood that was interested."

She shrugged slightly, "But a best-selling book is not the same as a successful movie. The draft of Stephanie Meyer's and the script was on the desks of several executives of Paramount Pictures earlier this year, and it has been more than half a year now. , the manuscript is still lying in the script library of Paramount Pictures, waiting to fall."

Matthew was first relieved, which meant he still had a chance, and then asked, "Why?"

"It's very simple, Stephanie Meier has not been in contact with the film industry, and the screenwriters hired are also very peripheral. Her current agency is also inconspicuous in the book publishing industry and lacks practical experience." Helen-Hellman He adjusted his glasses, "So, what Stephanie Meyer's agency delivered to the film company was only the script manuscript, not even the most basic plan. Very few such scripts can be seen by the film company."

She continued, "Also, several executives with decision-making power in Paramount Pictures think that vampire and werewolf love is very stupid, and this kind of movie should be an action movie, not a teenage romance movie. "

Matthew nodded lightly, if it wasn't for Nina Dobrev's memories that had been forgotten by chance, judging by the successful experience of Hollywood in the past, there are werewolves and vampires movies, of course, fantasy action movies, vampires What kind of thing is love and so on, there will be a sense of substitution?

Helen Herman continued, "It is now recognized in the circle that the era of big-selling love movies has passed. In the past five or six years, big-selling love movies are extremely rare, even the former queen of love movies, Julia Roberts. How can the film company have confidence if it can't drive this series?"

Having said that, she tilted her head to look at Matthew, "Are you sure you want to fight for the copyright of this series? What I just said is not only the problem faced by Paramount Pictures, but the objective conditions."

Matthew didn't talk nonsense and didn't explain much, and said directly, "As long as it is possible, I will do my best to win the film adaptation rights."

"That's good." Helen Herman, as always, didn't get to the bottom of it, "Now I have bad news."

Hearing this, Matthew raised his eyebrows in dissatisfaction with her.

Helen Herman didn't seem to see it, and said, "Stephanie Meyer and her agency have not waited, and have been actively seeking the possibility of film adaptation. In July, they contacted Summit Entertainment. Moon Summit Entertainment gave an exact reply, expressing interest in this series and willing to buy the copyright to invest in the adaptation of "Twilight"."

Matthew chimed in and asked, "It didn't work out?"

"Given the objective conditions I said." Helen Herman said calmly, "Peace Entertainment does not want to invest too much money. You have worked with Summit Entertainment, and you know that they are only a lower-middle production company. They invested 1 A huge $10 million bet on Katherine Bigelow's The Hurt Locker."

"Just the director's ex-wife of James Cameron?" Matthew gestured, "The one stronger than me?"

He met this female director once in the early 2000s~www.wuxiaspot.com~Charlize Theron has a very large skeleton among women, but compared with Katherine Bigelow, she is not in the mainstream.

Katherine Bigelow is six feet tall and has a wider skeleton than 90% of men. It's not enough to describe it. James Cameron's aesthetics simply cut through the universe.

Helen Herman nodded, not dwelling on the issue, saying, "For a company of the size of Summit Entertainment, the $100 million-plus The Hurt Locker plus the concurrent "Dancing Out of My Life 2" " and "Never Back Down" and other small projects, the funding has reached its limit."

There is no doubt about this. When working with Summit Entertainment on "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" before, Matthew heard Akiva Goldsman say that the assets of the entire Summit Entertainment company are only two or three billion US dollars.

Summit Entertainment invested in these projects, and it must have reached the limit of financing and pre-sale.

Helen Herman took another sip from the teacup, moistened her throat, and then said, "Top Entertainment only offered a copyright fee of 1 million US dollars for "Twilight", and the film adaptation budget was about 8 million US dollars. The gap between Stephanie Mayer's expectations is too great, and the negotiations between the two sides have dragged on from July to now, and there is no result."

"Isn't this good news for us?" Matthew asked.

Helen Herman shook his head slowly, "Because of the lack of interest from other film companies, Stephanie Meyer has a tendency to compromise under the persuasion of the agency."

Matthew turned his head immediately, looked at Helen Herman and said, "You ask Stephanie Meyer to meet for me!"

(The draft and script of "Twilight" lied in Paramount Pictures for half a year and no one cared about it. It happened.)

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