Chatty Hollywood

In the end, Charlotte studied for a long time and finally decided to keep the setting of the teenage version of Chas in the original "Hell Detective".

On the one hand, this is because according to the plot setting of the original "Hell Detective", there are too few funny characters.

As a time traveler, Charlotte, who has experienced the baptism of superhero movies for the next twenty years, knows that it is not enough for superhero movies to be blindly heavy.

You know, even the oldest version of "Spider-Man" has always advocated "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility". From time to time, it will be miserably sold, but there are also many relaxing plots.

At least, as the protagonist, Tobey Maguire has to be funny from time to time.

And in the movies of the Marvel Universe, superheroes have even more funny sides.

It can be said that the Avengers is simply a "funny alliance". Except for Captain America and Black Widow, who are responsible for selling their figures, the other heroes are only funny and more funny.

The nearly 20 years of the movie market in the 21st century have fully made Charlotte realize that blindly heavy superhero movies are seeking death.

Audience gentlemen need to be amused.

"Hell Detective" is adapted from "Constantine" and is essentially a superhero movie, so the demand for this aspect is naturally indispensable.

Charlotte is now ready to leave that job to Chas' character.

In this case, it is naturally more appropriate to position the character as a teenager than as an adult.

In fact, Chas, played by Shia LaBeouf in the original version, also had such a role.

However, Shia LaBeouf's own somewhat crazy personal temperament, which is both good and evil, weakens the degree of comedy to a certain extent.

In addition, the script itself does not give this character much room to develop...

Now, Charlotte has decided to expand the role.

——At least in terms of being funny.

Moreover, Charlotte knew the actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

You know, this guy in the future will be nicknamed "Jon Joseph".

Although this young man is actually good-looking, his natural face shape that resembles the word "囧" always gives people a very happy feeling.

Charlotte thought it would be a good fit for him, who is currently underage, to play the role of a tease in "Hell Detective."

Even if the facial features of "Joseph" as a teenager are not that obvious at present, as a director, Charlotte can deliberately make him strengthen in one direction...

This is arguably Charlotte's main reason for keeping the teenage version of Chas.

On the other hand, from Charlotte's point of view, there is actually no big problem with the storyline of the original "Hell Detective".

The reason for the mediocre performance is largely due to the poor narrative skills of the director and the imbalance in overall rhythm control.

——Charlotte feels that she can solve this problem by adjusting the narrative structure of the script.

As for the average acting skills of the actors, Keanu Reeves did not show the evil spirit of the comic version of Constantine at all...

This is indeed a problem.

Although Reeves' version of Constantine is also very handsome, it is too far from the comic image and will eventually lose the support of many fans of the original work.

You know, as a comic book movie, these people are actually the base of the movie's box office.

Charlotte felt that although he had to use Keanu Reeves because of the "First Love" curse, he was not prepared to use Keanu Reeves' image in the movie as he did in the original "Hell Detective."

He wanted to make Keanu Reeves' handsome face as recognizable as possible while trying to make this handsome guy look as good as possible.

This is closer to the image of Constantine in the comic version!

In fact, Keanu Reeves has similar images in his subsequent works.

For example, in "John Wick", he adopted the unshaven appearance of vicissitudes of life...

Charlotte didn't think it would be very difficult to solve this problem.

In addition to Keanu Reeves, other actors have undergone major changes compared to the original version.

Thinking about acting talents such as Jodie Foster and Al Pacino, Charlotte didn't think there would be any problems with the actor's acting skills in her version of "Hell Detective."

As for special effects technology, there is also post-production, and he also has his own exclusive magic effects that can be used...

Anyway, Charlotte is still very confident about how to adapt the originally unsuccessful "Hell Detective" into a successful work.

As he completed the second version of the script and used the human skin book he had previously obtained from the evil god to create a simple demonstration animation, this confidence was also passed on to others.

"This feels really good now!"

Akiva Goldsman doesn’t know how Charlotte Booth’s Spectre studio prepared the story demo animation so quickly, but looking at the animation, he does feel good.

As a screenwriter for Warner Bros. Pictures, Goldsman's current qualifications are actually not very advanced.

He has only worked on a few movies so far, and was a member of the writing team of last year's "Batman Forever."

However, the box office results of "Batman Forever" were not ideal, which affected Akiva Goldsman's future within Warner.

In fact, he was able to be sent to follow up on the "Hell Detective" project, thanks to luck.

Originally, the person on Warner's side to follow up on this project was Barry Mendel, who had previously collaborated with Charlotte Booth on "The Sixth Sense."

However, before Hellraiser, Mendel took on the production work of another project, which made him busy.

Therefore, this power was relatively small and more of a coordination task, and it fell on the shoulders of Akiva Gaussman out of thin air.

In fact, if it weren't for Charlotte's 100% directing success rate, Warner would have little confidence in the "Hell Detective" project.

There is no way, who made "Batman Forever", which Warner invested a lot of money, have such a terrible box office performance?

Although there are too many uncertain factors in the success or failure of a movie, from the perspective of a senior executive of a production company, these are not considered.

The bosses of Warner and DC will simply feel that since even superstars like Bruce Wayne can't call the shots, what can little Constantine do?

To a certain extent, this is also the reason why Warner will happily allow Charlotte to adapt the comic "Constantine" into the movie "Hell Detective"——

They actually wanted Charlotte to explore the road and navigate minefields for them.

After all, Charlotte's credibility accumulated through the previous four movies still made them feel that this guy's ability could be trusted.

For this, they even paid a small portion of the film rights.

——Just consider it the price of the experiment!

It should be said that although Warner's executives are often confused, once they make up their minds, they are still very generous in spending money.

——Even if it is a path-finding movie.

This is probably the glory of the rich!