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Phoenix has a typical tropical desert climate. Even in late September, it's still as hot as a hot summer. Stephanie Meyer drove to the coffee shop she made with the publisher, parked the car and took out her vanity mirror. After taking a look, he took out the lipstick and wiped his lips, then pushed the door and got out of the car, and walked towards the cafe.

Because the weather was too hot in the afternoon, sweat was already on her forehead just a few hundred feet away. Fortunately, the cafe was fully air-conditioned, and after entering the door, she felt a refreshing refreshment.

This was her frequent café, and when a waiter came to greet her, Stephanie Meyer asked, "Is Miss Christina here?"

"This way, please." The waiter hurriedly led the way.

Stephanie Meyer followed the waiter to the far right. After turning the corner, she saw the publishing house and her contact Christina. Christina sat facing her and seemed to be talking to someone. It was a man with his back. Sitting against her, with broad shoulders and strong body, looks majestic and powerful.

Is this the big Hollywood star?

She came here specially today, not for anything else. The publishing house contacted her and said that the famous Matthew Horner was very interested in "Twilight" and wanted to adapt it into a movie.

It's her long-standing dream to make her own into a movie, and it's looking within reach with "Twilight," "New Moon," and "Eclipse" hitting the New York Times bestseller list in a row. And, it is only one step away from Hollywood, but it is this step that has been delayed until now.

In the earliest days, she thought that with her fame and sales, Hollywood companies would definitely come to her door, but the truth was completely different from what she thought. Someone did come to her door, but the price was so low that it made people want to directly bombard her. Go, and the romance they wanted to make into a small production was also not at all what she expected.

Later, she found a friend who was a screenwriter from Phoenix, rewrote the script together, and delivered it to several Hollywood companies. There was no feedback for half a year. The brokerage company contacted the most famous Paramount Pictures several times. Ramon Pictures just said that they would consider it, they would consider...

After thinking about it for more than half a year, there is no letter of approval.

Last month, a reliable film company, Summit Entertainment, finally contacted her and her agency. This was the one with the best offer among all the production companies she had contacted with, but the copyright fee was only 100 yuan. The budget for later adaptations will not exceed $8 million.

She is still fighting for it here, and the other thing is to say, if the investment in the film is too low...

Stephanie Meyer shook her head. At first, she felt that without fifty million dollars, she could not make the "Twilight" movie at all. Now her expectations have dropped to a very low level, about twenty million dollars.

"Hi, Stephen." Christina saw her and stood up to greet her.

Hearing this, Matthew stood up and turned to look back, and saw a red-haired woman in her thirties approaching, with red hair, a red necklace, and a red dress, as dazzling as the sun in Phoenix.

The Housewives writer's outfits are horribly bad.

He thought so in his heart, but he wouldn't say it, the smile on his face was of course as bright as the sun outside.

When Stephanie Meyer came here, Christina introduced the two parties, "Stephen, you must know this, Matthew Horner, a big Hollywood star and a producer at the same time."

She went on to introduce Stephanie Mayer to Matthew, "Matthew, this is Stephanie Mayer, author of Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse."

Matthew stretched out his hand and said enthusiastically, "Hello, Ms. Mel. It's a pleasure to meet you. You've written three amazing books."

Such compliments coming from the mouth of a celebrity are definitely different from those of ordinary people. The Twilight Saga series has only been published for two years, and Stephanie Meyer has not completed the transition from a housewife to a famous author. The change seemed a little excited at the moment.

She shook Matthew's hand, "Hello. I...I'm honored that you like my book."

Christina interjected at the right moment, "Let's sit down and talk."

"You go first, Ms. Meyer."

After Stephanie Meier sat opposite, Matthew sat down and said directly, "Ms Meier, I took the liberty to come here this time, mainly to talk to you about the movie adaptation of "Twilight". "

Helen Herman has done a lot of research before, Stephanie Meier herself very much hopes to put her own on the big screen, and Summit Entertainment may increase their chips at some point and get a deal with Stephanie Meier. Copyright negotiations.

So he opted for a straightforward strategy.

Before coming to Phoenix, Helen Herman had already secured the publishing house. As long as the publishing house was willing to help deal with Stephanie Meyer, when he got the film rights for the series, the publishing house would receive a large commission. .

On the North American side, unless you write special customizations or work under a specific mechanism like Marvel and DC, most of the time, authors basically hold a series of related copyrights for their own works.

Like Hollywood, the North American publishing industry also has a mature and standardized business operation system.

Although Christina mentioned it before she came, Stephanie Mayer was still a little excited when she heard Matthew say it herself, and said with a slightly trembling voice, "Mr. Horner, you...you really want to adapt mine. ?"

"Yes!" Matthew turned on the nonsense mode again, "I happened to see "Lunar Eclipse" at a friend's place a week ago, and found the world view in it to be very interesting, so I specifically looked for "Twilight" and "New Moon", the three I I read it through and it's really fascinating."

Stephanie Mayer seemed to be discouraged by Hollywood, and continued, "But the film companies I contacted all said that the value of adapting movies is not great, and that my works are just vulgar and cheap high school love."

"Hollywood..." Matthew couldn't help shaking his head, "I have been working hard in Hollywood, and I know the film industry very well. Hollywood's mechanism is extremely rigid. Many film company executives are stuck in the inherent success model and do not want to come out. They I just want to make a sequel, an action sci-fi movie, and a comic-book superhero movie to make money, and I don’t care about the once-popular romance movie now…”

He sighed first, then strengthened his tone, and said to Stephanie Mayer, "In my opinion, yours is not a simple love, and the adaptation of the movie will not be a vulgar and cheap high school love."

Stephanie Meyer looked at Matthew but didn't speak.

Matthew continued, "Yours combines various eye-catching elements such as vampire legends, werewolf stories, school life, horror suspense, comedy adventures, etc. The poignant and touching love is the 'strongest emotion' in the whole book..."

Of course, these are not what he can sum up, but Helen Herman carefully prepared them for him after reading them through.

But the lines prepared in advance must be matched with suitable live performances. Matthew's acting skills are fully utilized. "Love is only a small part of the book, but it is the guide of life!"

"Uh..." Stephanie Meyer nodded involuntarily when she heard Matthew quote her idol writer Orson Scott Carder, "I...I think so too."

This kind of compliment came out of the mouth of the superstar on the opposite side, which was really helpful, and she naturally took it all over.

Matthew said, "Ms. Mel, yours looks like a high school love story, but with the supernatural background, everything becomes soul-stirring."

He seems extremely serious, "full of love-hate tension, yet elegant and refined like Jane Austen, reaching a romantic extreme, I think this will become a literary phenomenon."

Speaking of which, Matthew folded his hands on the table to strengthen his aura, "After reading it, I have imagined the adaptation of the film. I think that the adaptation of "Twilight" into a film should have a fantasy story with ups and downs, both true and fantasy. , delicate and sincere emotional descriptions, and moving love themes, even the part about vampires and werewolves~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is not mainly about violence and blood, but its advocating elegant and clean moral code, they It can provide a different kind of situation for dating."

"And the heroine." He continued, "Through the film adaptation, every girl can find her own shadow in the heroine Isabella Swan, she is not a hero, she does not know those famous brands, no Cool, just a normal person. Bella is a good girl, just what we imagine a teenage girl to look like. We've all been young before, and we all know that seventeen or eighteen is a very impressive time in life, enough to make a life-changing impact Decisions, and enough to fall in love, but being young at the same time not being able to think about things and make decisions on their own, also gave the movie a lot of room for adaptation."

Stephanie Meyer kept nodding while listening to Matthew's words, and seemed to agree with Matthew's words.

There are many things in it that she hadn't thought about. If it can be realized in the movie, it would be really good.

Obviously, Matthew Horner came to her not on impulse, but after careful consideration, and even had the basic idea of ​​the film adaptation.

On the other hand, the peak entertainment that is negotiating with her is not important to her as an author herself, but to her works...

Stephanie Meier thought of Summit Entertainment and shook her head in her heart. Summit Entertainment had never told her how to adapt the movie, what kind of philosophy it should adhere to, and so on.

These works are all her children, and she doesn't feel that Summit Entertainment attaches great importance to her children, at least not now!

Matthew didn't expect such remarks to completely impress Stephanie Mayer. After all, the other party was someone in their thirties with some experience, so he prepared more practical things.

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