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- As soon as Gale returned to the office of the production department, his colleagues started asking curious questions: "Gale, what did he say after reading the script?", "Can he really read the script?"
A wealthy Asian high school student who knows something about movies is interested in buying the "Little Miss Sunshine" project. This matter has become an office legend today.
¡°I don¡¯t know, it looks decent, it¡¯s weird.¡±
Gale was really unsure and spread his hands helplessly: "Anyway, the Weiduo image and "The Wedding Is Coming" he mentioned do exist, with a production cost of 2 million and a box office of more than $1,000 on the opening weekend. So they still want I can¡¯t think of any other reasonable possibility to make a second movie except that I have too much money to spend. Anyway, I finally got a buyer, let¡¯s give it a try.¡±
Everyone nodded, otherwise what else could we do now?
Gale walked to the manager¡¯s table by the window of the building and sat down, pressed his forehead, thinking about the cause and effect, and let out a mocking laugh.
The "Little Miss Sunshine" project is not a treasure, it is just a hot potato.
Two years ago, before the five companies merged, Ben Anderson, the director of American Film Company, spent 300,000 to buy the original script of "Little Miss Sunshine".
Anderson¡¯s original plan was to rewrite the script around the male protagonist ¡°Richard Hoover¡± and write it into a story about midlife crisis and family pressure, rather than a family road movie about a large family of six main characters.
But things didn¡¯t go smoothly. First, the original author Mike Arndt strongly opposed this change, saying that this was just an ensemble story, and changing it would be equivalent to losing the soul
People who write stories are always so self-righteous. Touching one of his lines is like touching his lifeblood. Who cares, there are many screenwriters! Soon, Miket-Arndt was fired, and American Films hired another chief screenwriter to replace him and rewrite the script.
However, after the new screenwriter wrote a few drafts, the five companies merged. After reading it, the two co-CEOs of the new company, David Lind and James Shams, criticized the new script for being mediocre and getting worse with more changes! So the new script was abandoned, and only some scenes were retained in the old script.
??Start again based on the modification of the old script.
At the beginning of this year, things changed again. Ben Anderson was fired due to poor production performance, and Robert Harmon became the new head of production.
Not long after Harmon took office, he invited Arndt back, plus several new screenwriters, and worked together to rewrite a script based on the old script, and then revised it draft by draft spent time in " The money in "Little Miss Sunshine" just adds up, one after another, but there is no end in sight.
Up to now, 30 drafts have been revised in two years, and everyone has lost their judgment. No one dares to say "no need to revise anymore", and no one wants to say "revise one more draft".
continue? Or give up?
What he said about office politics was not entirely false. This was a mess left by Ben Anderson. When Robert Harmon took office, it would be very embarrassing how to deal with it.
If you can get everything done with just a few tricks, it will certainly be a great achievement, but now there is a tendency to make things worse and make Anderson's mistakes again, so Harmon chose to give up, which also resulted in the loss of two co-CEOs. With your approval, this project is for sale! It is best to recover the cost, and make a small loss as a profit.
Last month, the company finally announced the sale of the Little Miss Sunshine project, but no one took notice
This is one of the quandaries of successful studios. If you rarely make mistakes, why should anyone take the chance that you are wrong this time?
Linde and Shamus were both willing to give up on the literary project, which was equivalent to saying "this script has terminal cancer", so there was no way to find a buyer.
But there is still one, and that is the two producers of "Little Miss Sunshine" Ron Jexa and Albert Berger. When Arndt was looking for a producer, they were the first people to take a fancy to the script. , and then they found Mark Tetotu, who then found Anderson.
After Focus took over, they continued to employ the two of them as producers until the project was shelved.
They are struggling whether to buy back the script. When the two originally sold the script to Tetotu, it was 250,000, and Tetotu sold it to American Films for 300,000. Now the repurchase price is 400,000. They quit. It¡¯s not that you don¡¯t have money, it¡¯s just that you don¡¯t have enough confidence, and no one is buying it anyway, so you can bargain slowly.
Suddenly today, a strange young man named Ye Wei appeared. This was the situation.
Thinking about this, Gale picked up the landline and dialed a button to call Robert Harmon who was outside to report the latest news.
¡°Robert, I gave him the script and he seemed to appreciate it.¡±
"That's gooddoes he really understand movies?"
"Yes, I can see that he has studied or at least understands some screenwriting techniques. Maybe he has read a few screenwriting books, such as Syd Field and Robert McKee. Maybe he just understands some theories. He His vision is really not that good.¡±
"Well, after he reads the script, if he feels it's not good, you make him feel good; if he feels it's good, you make him feel better. Convince him, confuse him, and control him."
"Haha, don't worry, I know what to do. With this little guy, Ron Yexa and the others should be anxious. This is really a good thing for us."
"So, we must let this Weige confirm the purchase. Is it called Weige?"
"Yes, Wei Ge-yeah, interesting name. If he wants to buy it, how much should we ask for it?"
"A spoiled, rich high school studenthe's worth at least 100,000 to 80,000 yuan. If I give him 500,000 yuan, it won't be a penny less."
Good guy! Gale couldn't help but admire that Harmon was not merciless at all! If it can be sold for 500,000, this project will not end up losing money, so the supervisor has credit, and so does he, the manager. He smiled into the microphone and said: "Okay, got it, let's see if our little guy is really rich."
"It's best for him. The shit of "Little Miss Sunshine" has annoyed us for long enough. We should get rid of it as soon as possible so that we can sleep peacefully at night."
"Who says it's not?"
After making the call and taking a break, Gale saw that the time was almost up and came to the reception room again. He saw that Ye Wei was still reading the script attentively, but his excited and fascinated look was obviously saying " I want it, I want this script!¡±
Very good, very good. Gale laughed in his heart, walked up and asked, "Wei, have you finished reading it? How do you feel?"
"Shhh!" Ye Weizheng saw the climax of the story and how could he tolerate the interruption of others. He shushed almost angrily. He continued to read, his eyes became brighter and brighter. When he turned another page, he suddenly laughed. Out: "Genius! Genius's idea, everything exploded"
Just this climax scene is enough to make it a classic, compensation? Go to hell! It¡¯s catharsis, it¡¯s redemption, it¡¯s transcendence, it¡¯s a spectacle!
¡º129 Exterior scene, rest stop, daytime
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Frank grabbed a bottle of soda.
Frank: Dedicate this to grandpa.
Everyone: Dedicate this to grandpa.
They clinked the bottles and drank. Richard nodded towards a nearby fast food restaurant.
Richard: Ohwho wants ice cream?
The camera cuts to black.
(Complete the play)¡»
When he read the rest of the script in one go, all 120 pages, he praised it repeatedly and did not come back to his senses for a long time. It was great!
Six characters with distinct settings, including old age, middle age, youth and childhood, form a strange family with various social problems. Because of a children's beauty pageant called "Little Miss Sunshine", the family drives a car The old station wagon embarks on the road to pursue dreams.
Along the way, dreams and reality, success and failure, individuals and society are constantly colliding. Everything goes wrong and everyone becomes a loser. When they drive home in a broken car, they all have their own problems. A new attitude towards life.
A Hollywood ending? That's an insult to this script!
"Gail" Ye Wei looked at Gale sitting opposite, suppressing his true feelings, and really wanted to say, "This script is great, it has not been changed badly, and all the proportions are very good. If it is changed a few more times, The draft might have been bad, but now it¡¯s close to perfect.¡±
Coupled with the sense of contact with the future, he knew that this was definitely an Oscar-nominated script for Best Original Screenplay!
It¡¯s really incomprehensible, what are the Focus people doing? Such a good script has to be abandoned.
But from his personal standpoint, he fully supports Focal Point¡¯s foolish behavior because it gave him the opportunity to own ¡°Little Miss Sunshine.¡±
"How is it?" Gale smiled.
"Cool." Ye Wei shrugged, knowing that the other party could see his attitude, so he admitted openly, "It's a cool road story, it's much better than "The Wedding Is Coming"."
"Yeah, like I said, it's actually ready for shooting. It's really a pity that we gave it up." Gale sighed. It seemed that there was no need to be too wordy. This is the best.
Sure enough, I heard Ye Wei say: "I'm interested in buying it."
Welcome, welcome! A script that would be thrown into the trash can actually has people buying it. Gale also suppressed the excitement in his heart and said sincerely: "Wei, there is a situation that I need to remind you about the project.The original producers are also doing buy-backs, and they have the right of first refusal. "
"OK." Ye Wei had already been mentally prepared for this, nodded, and asked with a smile: "Just tell me, how much does it cost? How much do I need to pay to get it?"
Looking at Ye Wei's playful smile, Gale's heart suddenly lurked. The little guy seemed to know the real situation?
¡° Whatever, money doesn¡¯t lie. He still looked sincere and said: "I just asked our director Robert Harmon, and he offered a price slightly higher than the repurchase price, starting at US$500,000. However, the time we spent on this script and The hard work is far more than 500,000, which is actually a bargain!¡±
"It's just cheap? No, this is the Golden Fleece." Ye Wei said with a smile, rubbing the words on the script with his thumb.
His strategy worked, but it also made the other party think he was a member of the Rothschild family, but it was better than the other party knowing his true situation and kicking him out.
500,000, right? He first thought of his family's bank account, no! That money must not be touched, not even a dollar or a penny, not even the family's money.
There is one ironclad basic dogma in film production financing: Never, ever use your own savings to make a movie and share the risk with others.
This is cheap, but it can prevent the producer from ending the game just because of one failure.
If he really had tens of millions, Ye Wei wouldn't mind investing 500,000, but now 500,000! How to raise these 500,000?
"Wei, maybe you think it's a bit expensive, but this is the big shot's decision." Gale looked apologetic, "Sorry, I can't help you with anything."
"I know, big shots are always so ignorant of the sufferings of the world, go to hell." Ye Wei scolded with a smile.
Gale laughed and continued: "And 500,000 is not necessarily the final price. It depends on the reaction of the repurchase party. So if you really want to buy it, you'd better prepare more money; besides, it doesn't matter whether you buy it within a week or not. Get back to us as soon as possible and stay in touch.¡±
"Okay, if you have any new news, please inform me as soon as possible. This is my number"
When Ye Wei walked out of the Global City headquarters building, it was already dusk. He looked at the orange-red sky and exhaled. His new goal: raise US$500,000 within a week! - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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