Chapter 803： The spinning top, the **** who pulls friends

2007 has passed and 2008 has come.

The New Line studio, which was bought not long ago, has now become a construction site.

In addition to renovating the interior and exterior, building a new building complex, and expanding the warehouse for storing filming equipment, some required interior scenes are being laid at the same time.

Because the first crew received by the studio was "The Incredible Hulk", the scenes of the laboratory and some street scenes will be filmed here, so they were arranged in advance.

Lehmann looked at all this with some relief, and felt a kind of busy labor charm. After all, this was their future industry.

When I was immersed in myself, a phone call came, it was a spinning top.

After this guy finished filming "Pan's Labyrinth", he finally had enough rest. The reason for the call was for the movie.

Knowing this, Lehmann drove back to the Firefly Building, feeling very good.

At this stage, increasing the production output is of great benefit to the company's development. Does one more project add more strength?

Lehman's expectation for the company this year is to release at least 10 films, but the number is still difficult.

He went to the front door to greet him with a smile. Laiman did not expect that besides the top, there was a man with small eyes and a wide forehead standing beside him.

"Who is this?"

The man was a little cautious, but the top introduced: "His name is Juan Antonio Bayana, and he is a director."

"Just call me Juan, Mr. Rust," said Juan.

Lehman greeted the two enthusiastically, and Lehmann understood a little when he saw the situation.

A director, especially a director who is not yet famous is always short of investment.

Sure enough, after a few people met and chatted for a while, some things were raised euphemistically.

Top has known Juan since 1993, but at that time he was still a journalist and had some passion for movies. In his spare time, he would go to an art school to study.

Later, when "Pan's Labyrinth" was filming in other places, he went to Spain, and the two got together more often.

At this time, Juan had graduated from the film academy, and he usually worked on advertisements and music videos, but in the process, he met a lot of friends in the circle. One of them, a screenwriter named Sanchez, had a hot chat with him. He handed over a new script he wrote, "Spiritual Orphanage" to Juan.

Although Hu An became a director who became a monk halfway through his career, he has a certain market vision and felt that the script was a bit tricky, so he wanted to film it and put it on the big screen.

But Juan's family conditions are just average, he has enough food and clothing, but he can't talk about being rich, and he has no spare money, so he can't really sell his house to fight for his directorial dream.

No, no, no, his parents would hack to death his unfilial son.

Cough cough, back to the point.

Even if you don't hire high-paid actors, "Spiritual Orphanage" will cost 3 million US dollars just for the cost of filming.

What should I do if I don't have so much money on hand? Find the gold master.

But he is just a newcomer. After asking around, the local film and television company in Spain ignored him at all. When he happened to be talking about this with the top, the top took it, because the character of this guy is like this, and he is willing to talk about it. Friends do their best.

But after thinking about it carefully, the Spanish market has no future, and if he wants to release it, he must first ask Lehmann to see if he is willing to invest, so he asked Juan to write the script in English and put it on Hollywood. , to make some minor adjustments according to the market over there.

Juan is very excited, and yearns for the unfamiliar Hollywood. No one led the way before, but now he is willing to spend his time when he encounters it.

The script was replaced with a version, and Sanchez explained that Juan contacted the top, and then rested at his house for a few days, and came over until he was almost ready.

As for the top, in addition to serving as the producer of "Spiritual Orphanage", the new work chose Hellboy's second "Golden Legion".

Under Juan's expectant gaze, Lyman took over the script.

After flipping through it for a while, he fixedly looked at the spinning top.

What kind of vision is this?

After watching the plot, Lehmann realized that this Nima is not "The Thriller of the Lonely Castle", which created the box office myth of Spanish movies that sell well in the world. Department of small cost dark horse.

The "Wooden Man" game set in the script is hard to forget after watching it.

Because this film has always maintained an indescribable sense of mystery from the beginning to the end, a series of unimaginable strange things happened in the Lonely Castle always kept the audience a kind of peeping curiosity in the uneasy and uneasy. of death.

Especially in the famous scene, the little boy walking slowly in the corridor with a hood, and the game "One, Two, Three, Wooden Man" recruiting ghosts, a few of them played very well.

At this moment, Lehmann also understood why this piece of clothing is so textured, and it must be inseparable from the top.

Thinking in his heart, Juan, who was sitting across from Lehman, has been quietly watching the situation.

But it seems that this well-known director doesn't seem to have any other emotional fluctuations, and the speed of reading the script is very fast. Could it be that he can't read it?

I can't blame Juan for thinking too much. He has seen too many similar scenes. Some people see it as a horror theme and an old castle type. It's not good whether he can make a profit, and he is a newcomer who is unwilling to transfer the project. After a few hesitations, he still did not vote.

Lehman was still thinking about something, but Juan became more and more nervous, for fear of getting another rejection.

But how is it possible.

Even if it wasn't a dark horse movie that broke through in the previous life - "A Story of Lonely Castle" was first released in Spain, it earned 8.3 million in four days, and almost won the local annual championship, and then entered the attention of many overseas distributors, adding subtitles, The dubbing was made into an English version and sold all over the world.

The investment of several million is just sprinkled, and this amount of money is really not a big deal for the fireflies at this time.

The Spanish market is too far-reaching, and there is no capital at all, so the local studios are crazy superstitious about big directors and rarely support newcomers. If Juan doesn't know Gyro, but has some connections in Hollywood, he can use this script. Pull to invest.

Not to mention, Lionsgate is a specialist in horror films. With this theme, Lionsgate can invest in it. As long as it is not too bad, it is basically successful.

In fact, it is a matter of poor cognition and information channels. After all, Juan has never been in Hollywood.

"Director Bayana, it's like this, I have cast this project as Firefly."

"Huh? Ah, sir, just call me by my name." After speaking, Juan looked at the top.

I knew from the face of the spinning top that it would be like this.

But before he came, Gyro was full of confidence and assured that he would definitely get the investment, because Lehman is a straightforward person with a good vision, and it is impossible not to see the project market - if it is too bad, Gyro will let the screenwriter change it~www .novelhall.com~ This product is a combination of editing, beauty and directing. It is a real director and a genius, and it has a lot of personality.

The original time and space, this guy also refused the invitation of the director of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", insisting on exploring his personal image style.

"Then, Juan, you make a shooting plan. After the project is approved, Firefly will be responsible for the funding, production, and distribution. You can prepare the crew with peace of mind. As for the actors, I propose to choose one or two Hollywood actors to promote the future release. There will be benefits."

In the previous life, the cast of all-Spanish actors in "The Lonely Castle" actually limited the distribution of the film a little. At least in the United States, the film market here is very exclusive, and in terms of cultural inclusiveness, there are basically no films from other countries that are particularly dazzling after entering. .

They say freedom, but in reality it is closed.

Of course, Juan was already very tempting to get the filming funds, and his own goal was to break into Hollywood. He listened to Lehman's words very seriously and nodded repeatedly.

Lehman was also happy when the matter was settled.

This project is undoubtedly very valuable. It is also a horror movie. The viewing group is relatively small, and there is not much pressure on the publicity. Blue Butterfly Pictures can fully afford it. As for overseas, it will naturally be handed over to Lionsgate.

After Juan got the promise, his body felt fluttering.

Next to him, Tuo saw that the story of "A Frightening Story in the Lonely Castle" was settled, and he also mentioned the project "Golden Legion" that he was going to shoot.

This guy still hasn't forgotten his Hellboy. Although the first movie has a small profit margin in terms of revenue, but with his unique aesthetic, he likes this strange character - with long horns on his head and red all over his body. The product of the system of serving Huadao.

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