Chapter 801： The Lobster Man Attacks

night.

In the study room of Rust Manor.

Lyman wrote and painted, let go of the trivial things of the past, and immersed himself in the creation. He was full of hand-painted storyboards that he was not satisfied with, crumpled up and looked a little messy.

"I Am a Hero" is still running smoothly, but he has a heart for a script.

Different from the limitations of the self-castration of Marvel's superhero movies, and different from the continuously advancing and layered plot of the zombie series, this is a shooting direction that he rarely touches.

"Boom boom boom..."

"Crack, squeak." - referring to the sound of the door being pushed open.

A little goblin who was wearing a vest and half-draped silk nightgown, just after taking a shower, with a flush of warm water on his face, walked in, fiddling with his hair restlessly.

"Aren't you going to sleep yet?"

After completing the "Twilight" project, the little goblin has been a little more leisurely, but on weekdays, she will also discuss with the screenwriters about the adaptation of the second part, or perform several endorsement platform tasks on her body. As for the role, the more picky, the pick not enough.

"Finish this section, right now."

The little goblin came over, glanced at random, and fixed his eyes on a composition.

It was a giant aircraft-like thing lying quietly in a ruin. Outside was a heavily armed army, and inside was a peculiarly shaped lobster monster. The two sides confronted each other, and the monsters showed fear and confusion;

In the next scene, the lobster monsters are locked in cages, their ugly bodies are curled up into a ball, and they are visited and directed, just like those rare species in the zoo that attract tourists...

Eva rarely sees a man in his family care so much about a script, but as long as he cares about it, he must strive for perfection as he is now. This is a director's insistence on the film.

Just like an actor constantly speculating about a certain role and constantly building a more three-dimensional character image in his mind, it is a performance requirement for himself.

Eva became interested and asked softly, "Is there a script?"

"It's not finalized yet, it only exists in my head, and I want to finish the storyboard first. Oh, by the way, is there a character of yours?"

"how is it like."

"Well, a villain? In short, it's not a positive character. The contrast is quite big. The role of this character is to highlight the crueler point of the story... Well, you are a female researcher."

"..."

There was silence for a while, and Eva happened to see a sub-draft of a disgusting dismembered juvenile shrimp man, and subconsciously took a breath, "Why does it feel cruel, you drew this...how did you think of shooting this kind of thing? theme?"

"Have you seen Kafka's "Metamorphosis"? I think the idea of ​​the swap is very dramatic. Maybe I didn't enjoy it a while ago. "Iron Man" is the most boring movie I've ever made. I want to make something fun ."

This one is a more stylized release, at least that's what Lyman thinks.

So there is always a sense of joy in the creative process.

"Okay, go to sleep."

It was late at night, and Lehman, who was a little weak in energy, slowly fell asleep.

......

In the next few days, Lehman devoted most of his energy to the new work. After finding Ryan, Lehman provided ideas, and Ryan was responsible for implementing, optimizing the structure and character dialogue.

Of course, he has also been paying attention to the situation in the film market.

At noon yesterday, Liam also reported that "I Am a Hero" has broken 370 million and has been the box office champion for three consecutive weeks.

And he also inquired that because of the audience market for zombie themes, some film and television companies have been looking for corresponding ideas and projects in an attempt to replicate the success of "I Am a Hero".

A similar thing happened when "Row to New York" was a hit.

But the facts will prove that zombies are a niche theme and can't be overturned by one or two explosive works. If the plot is not innovative enough and the scenes are not exciting enough, the upper limit of this type of theme is really not high.

For example, "Shaun of Zombies" is already a cost-effective work, with a cost of 4 million, 12.89 million in North America, and 15.5 million in the world, but because of the low budget, it seems to be a lot of work, what is left of "Zombie Juan", "Zombie Paradise", etc. The messy follow-up did not even show up, and the theater line toured for seven days.

In other words, original projects are still too risky, especially if zombie movies want to produce better results, the investment must not be low, but the market risks brought by high budgets also cannot be ignored.

Therefore, none of the leading studios has the urge to shoot zombie themes urgently, but many third-rate companies want to try and make money while it is still hot.

But what is the competitiveness of the works produced with such an idea?

Disney Studios Building.

Robert Iger walked slowly into the conference room and sat in the top seat.

Today is the usual morning meeting of the company. The difference is that Disney has some different opinions on a certain project and needs to discuss it.

After everyone came, the quiet atmosphere was quickly broken.

Robert Iger nodded, and the department executives under him naturally hurriedly reported their work or asked questions.

This is actually the new line.

Its operation was fiercer than tigers. At first glance, its record was 0 bar and 5, but it poured a large pot of cold water on the hot magic theme market, which instantly made some Disney executives worried.

Why, the preparations for "Kingdom of Narnia" have begun again.

The first "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" produced in 2005 won a global box office of 100 million with a budget of 180 million. Although the film's reputation did not meet expectations, it made a lot of money, and then planned to produce a sequel in 2008. At this time, Even the script has been written, just wait for the main creator to be in place, and the project is established to form a team.

Originally, Disney had great confidence. As a result, a "Dragon Knight" did not fare well at the box office, and a "Golden Compass" killed the producers of The Lord of the Rings, which made people think more.

Before this, the theme of magic was so hot. Everyone was rushing to buy and sell the copyright of magic novel adaptations, so that the price was quite high, and the film and television value of the copyright of the novel was refreshed many times. On this basis, the Tolkien Foundation called out the world The 20 split made a group of studios dismiss the idea of ​​winning The Hobbit.

In addition, the more you analyze the failure of "Golden Compass", the more you will find that the audience market is somewhat visually fatigued by the magic theme, and the blind special effects and exquisite pictures can no longer meet the needs of the audience.

Not to mention watching how the "Golden Compass" was boycotted by the audience and its box office performance was slumping, some Disney executives couldn't help but remember that during the screening of the first part of their own magic series, they were also compared to the Lord of the Rings. Then was sprayed too childish.

This year's audience is not easy to bring, and more and more people have high vision.

Then look at the second final draft of "Kingdom of Narnia", which tells that Prince Caspian is also taking the younger route in Disney's vision, and the casting standards are all underage actors. How does this feel? I mean, it's bad.

So this became a project that Disney had been arguing about for a few days and couldn't really decide.

To shoot or not to shoot, or to see market changes, this is indeed a question.

Similar things related to Disney's ace project, of course, can't be decided by one person - Robert is a qualified manager But he didn't start from the grassroots level on the set, and it's not too much. Intervening in the production of the project, but the vision is very poisonous. He acquired most of the production business of Pixar Studio, Lucasfilm, Marvel Entertainment, Fox, established the Disneyland in the magic capital, and launched Disney's own streaming media Disney+. Dominate with one hand.

In fact, Disney is not yet the leader in the entertainment and media field. At best, it shows some signs of future hegemony. For example, this year, Disney’s live-action production business rarely surpassed Universal, becoming the third (after Warner, Pyra, etc.) Mongolia), the animation production still maintains the first momentum.

Furthermore, one of the biggest power sources, Marvel, was taken away by Lehmann, and Disney’s most powerful peripheral channel market has lost this gold mine. Can the operation mode that really set foot on the top of the mountain be able to explore a new one? an unknown.

Disney executives are even more eager to maintain the production of live-action film and television, and then go back after a year, which is a little bit of a joke about the establishment of the sequel to "Kingdom of Narnia".

Because anyone can think that if this series really suffers from a cold market next year and loses money, then don't think about how good the performance of live-action film and television is.

Paramount's slump in 2005, to the second place this year, is just the excellent production ability of DreamWorks + a Transformers, the basic profit space of commercial blockbuster movies can be imagined.