Hollywood Road

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This point, Robert Downey Jr. is very clear, he strongly suggested, "There is really no need to join Michael Ovitz's artist management company, the see-saw between the two will involve your energy and choices, and will affect Your status in CAA is not beneficial to the resources and treatment you will enjoy in CAA in the future."

Although he is just an actor, he is very aware of the importance of staying focused for a director. Murphy has been taking care of him, and he doesn't want to see Murphy make a wrong choice.

In Hollywood, sometimes one wrong step can lead to an abyss.

"I'm looking for a manager company, isn't it to add more people who will share my remuneration?" It seems that Murphy didn't think about the future of cooperating with CAA, but just didn't want more people to share his remuneration, "I'm afraid there will be Ten percent? Then I won’t do it!”

After speaking, he laughed himself first.

Robert Downey Jr. contemptuously gave him a middle finger, but he also breathed a sigh of relief.

He is also a client of CAA now, if Murphy leaves CAA, it will definitely affect himself.

To a large extent, Murphy is not only his friend, but also a kindness to him. He also hopes that the two can continue to cooperate and create their own brilliance.

"It's almost time." Robert Downey Jr. glanced at his watch and suggested, "If you're okay, let's go to Depp's bar for a drink together?"

Murphy shook his head, "I'm going back early to rest. I have an appointment with Kara Firth, and I will go to 20th Century Fox tomorrow morning to do market consultation on the project."

This is crucial to whether the "Deadpool" project can be established, and he must maintain enough energy.

After leaving the restaurant and saying goodbye to Robert Downey Jr., Murphy got into his car and drove slowly towards Santa Monica. When passing by the Westwood District, he made a special call to Gal Gadot.

"Honey, what are you doing?"

As soon as he finished asking, Gal Gadot's slightly tired voice came from the receiver, "I just cleaned the dormitory thoroughly, and I'm going to take a shower."

Thinking of Gal Gadot's slender and slender body, Murphy's heart was full of fire, "Wait for me to go there together?"

"Are you sure you want to come?" Gal Gadot's words were full of teasing,

"Men are not allowed to stay in the dormitory. You can't come in at this time."

"Why don't you come out," Murphy suggested, "come home with me."

"I...I..." Gal Gadot over there was also very tempted, but the education she received since she was a child also gave her enough self-control, "Let's wait for the weekend, I just came here, and I need to get familiar with the environment and classmates ,and……"

She paused, then said, "We have indulged for almost a week, and I have dark circles under my eyes, so I have to be restrained."

"Alright then." Murphy speeded up the car, "I'll pick you up on weekends."

After saying a few more intimate words, he hung up the phone and drove home directly.

Perhaps the indulgence some time ago really consumed too much physical strength and energy. Murphy slept very soundly this night, and woke up a little late the next day. Since he was rushing to 20th Century Fox, he did not perform the routine After exercising, I ate some breakfast casually, and then hurried out the door.

By the time Kara Feith accompanied him into a conference room, people from the 20th Century Fox Project Review Committee were already waiting here.

This project review committee is composed of nine people, and is responsible for judging scripts, proposals, and preliminary investigation data provided by the marketing department. In any relatively large film company in Hollywood, there is almost a similar department. Any investment that reaches a certain scale If you want to confirm the approval of a project, you must go through this process, especially after investing tens of millions of dollars, even the CEO does not have the right to independently decide the approval of a film project.

It can be said that the audit committee, like the completion guarantee, is a powerful guarantee for the industrialization of Hollywood.

A situation like the one where when a script is thrown out, the executives of major Hollywood companies will scramble for it and rush to invest in filming, it is impossible for major Hollywood companies to appear, regardless of the script, all major Hollywood companies are without exception. It is a shareholding system with a relatively complete supervision and power structure and its constraints. In that case, even the most basic system of a film company cannot pass.

In the conference room, seven members of the 20th Century Fox review committee consisted of nine people. After they met Murphy, they didn't ask any questions about the art or the depth of the film. That was not their concern. The problem was directed at the preparation of the film. , shoot, produce and market.

"Director Stanton," a black woman asked first, "Are you sure you can complete a superhero movie with $6000,000?"

Before coming over, Murphy made sufficient preparations, "The film will be limited to a relatively small range, whether it is the people Deadpool contacts or the fighting scenes, there will be no super big scenes, and the selling point of the film is It is also special effects, and will not use first-line actors, so the two aspects that consume the most money will be relatively economical."

Another middle-aged man wearing glasses asks, "Don't you think this will take away a lot of the film's interest?"

"The point of view of a movie is not to pile up countless special effects and big-name actors." Sitting opposite them, Murphy replied calmly, "Deadpool's action scenes will be short and powerful, and don't require too complicated special effects .”

The biggest feature of the film is the mouth cannon and various large-scale realistic action scenes, which do not require much special effects scenes.

"But what about the scale of R-rated movies?" The white old man in the middle asked the core question, "This will push young audiences out of the theater."

"We must consider the audience and style of the comics. The film will indeed be very different from the comics, but it is impossible to completely break away from the comics." The "Deadpool" comics themselves are pornographic and violent. I have accumulated a lot of loyal fans, which is why Murphy said, "The audience I target is mainly 17 to 35 years old. Presumably Fox also has statistics in this regard. The audience of this age group accounts for the majority of North American movies. Fifty-one percent of the audience!"

Although it is far from being able to compare with pg-level family carnival and pg-13 teenager movies, such an audience group is enough for the project.

Throughout North America, it is not uncommon for audiences under the age of 17 to go to theaters to watch R-rated movies.

A relatively young man next to the old man suddenly asked about the publicity, "In your plan, do you have a publicity proposal to make Deadpool come alive in the publicity?"

"The most talked about thing about Deadpool, apart from his cheap and cute character, appearance and invincible talk, is that he can break the fourth wall."

The so-called breaking the fourth wall is to give Deadpool himself the setting of knowing that he lives in the world of comics or movies, so that he can directly communicate with the audience and even editors, from real characters to other popular movies, all of which can become his complaints. These Murphys have been written into the plan in detail, "So, I think that when the project is approved and the film starts to be promoted, it is necessary to immediately determine the movie appearance of Deadpool, so that his actor Robert Downey Jr. can die The image of the waiter really appears in this world."

After talking so much, Murphy felt a little thirsty, took a sip of the water glass in front of him, and then said unhurriedly, "Deadpool appears in the real world with a real image, actively participates in public activities, and uses cheap We can create a light-hearted joke in a cute way. We can set up a dedicated official website and blog for Deadpool, and use Fox TV as a platform to promote these contents.”

Today's online social media is still underdeveloped, but blogs have also had a huge influence since 9/11, and they can always play a certain role.

The most important thing is that a deadpool who is constantly intersecting with ordinary life and looks stupid and cute is far more likely to resonate with people than a high-ranking super hero.

"Also, for the sake of publicity." Murphy mentioned another point of the plan, "I will make some plots of the film overlap with the X-Men."

"Is there an intersection with the X-Men?" The Jewish man sitting on the far side among the seven said in a questioning tone, "If it is an ordinary X-Men character, the popularity and popularity are not enough! A character with a high enough reputation, an actor Even if Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, and Hugh Jackman are guest stars, they will ask for a whole movie salary. Their high salary is beyond the production cost of the movie! "

"I didn't say to let their characters appear?" Murphy looked at the Jewish man and said in surprise, "Deadpool is best at talking, I think let him use all kinds of fancy language to beat these well-known characters." It is more appropriate to make complaints about it, the two X-Men, Colossus and Black Queen, who really appeared, we can use newcomers with low salaries."

Stanton Studios is coordinating film investment with 20th Century Fox. Unless Murphy is crazy, he will let these guys who have had ridiculous salary increases due to the success of the two "X-Men" appear in their inside the project.

However, linking the film with the already-best-selling "X-Men" is a good way to promote and market.

Therefore, Murphy went on to say, "I think that in the promotion, Deadpool can appear in the iconic images of the X-Men. For example, he can sit on Professor X's chair and get some Wolverine that fits Deadpool's character. Claws or something."

In the following time, the members of the review committee asked Murphy many questions related to the filming and production, and he also gave corresponding answers one by one. Compared with the previous Miramax, 20th Century Fox has a larger scale. , the rules and regulations are more complete, and the possible investment scale of the film is placed here, so it is impossible to act cautiously.

In this world, any investment of more than 50 million US dollars will not be easily achieved, let alone a script that will be fooled into a few words and make a decision.

Murphy finished dealing with 20th Century Fox, and after going to San Francisco with Gal Gadot on the weekend, he waited patiently for the results of 20th Century Fox, not only the approval of the film project, but also the investment of Stanton Studios. (To be continued.)