I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 698
[Chapter 692 I don’t buy insurance]
“The outline of the script is that a pair of detective partners with very different personalities, when investigating a case, accidentally switched their identities in front of important witnesses. Story.”
Jerry Bruckheimer didn’t notice the subtle changes in Eric’s expression, and compared to David Weisberg, who introduced Daredevil, Bruckheimer expertly The story is summed up simply and clearly with the principles of high-concept movies, and the simple details also show the huge gap between the gold producer and the ordinary screenwriter.
“It’s a good idea, and the dual detective model has proven to be very successful in both ‘Lethal Weapon’ and ‘Beverly Hills Detective’. The identity swap also adds to the story. Innovative elements, Jerry, have you chosen a director?”
Hearing Eric’s words, Bruckheimer sat up straight and asked, “Eric, you won’t be interested in this story, will you?
” In time and space, “Jedi Men” became popular. Later, two Hollywood heavyweights, Michael Bay and Will Smith, although it was only a low-cost crime film, it was enough to prove its excellence. Of course, Eric Unable to let go, he nodded and said: “Why not, this story is very attractive, and the cost is not high, and it may be able to achieve unexpected results.”
Bruckheimer put away the expression that he just planned to chat, and became serious , answered Eric’s question just now: “You know, the “Jurassic Park 2″ project has just been completed, and I have only recently freed up time to prepare for the next stage of work. I got this script last year, I also showed it to Firefly Studios. They felt that too many similar films had been filmed, so they did not pass. I did not intend to pass this kind of book to you. The contact with Colombia only took place. At the beginning, except for budget data, there are no directors, actors, etc.”
Firefly’s film business is still mainly in charge of its major studios.
In addition to a few key films every year, Eric will personally compose and supervise the production, other low-cost films.
Eric didn’t pay too much attention.
Hearing that the script had been eliminated by Firefly, Eric did not have any dissatisfaction with the production department, and Bruckheimer did not accuse the Firefly production department of being blind.
In Hollywood, everyone knows very well that the director of the studio has to select a dozen or 20 films from a large number of scripts every year for shooting. It is impossible to be 100% sure about the potential of all the scripts. There are many in Hollywood. The rough-and-tumble production of the film that turned out to be a big hit was basically passed around in the hands of all the studios in the early stages.
And, if not for the memory of past lives.
Eric is also likely to find the script too cliché.
Not to mention those submerged in the obscure follower, even the two most famous similar series “Lethal Weapon” and “Beverly Hills Detective” have made a lot of sequels.
“Well, let’s not cooperate with Colombia, I think this project can be carefully thought about,
put it at the end of this year, Firefly has only confirmed a Christmas file “101 Dalmatians”, maybe this film can be used On Thanksgiving.”
“Eric, you’re not kidding around Thanksgiving, are you?” said Bruckheimer in surprise.
He originally expected that such a low-budget crime action film would be good enough to get an Easter slot.
Even if it is placed in the deserted autumn file, it will not be surprising, and the summer and new year files have not been considered at all.
“Of course not,” Eric said: “However, I haven’t seen the script yet, so this is just a preliminary idea. Ultimately, we need to see the quality of the film after it’s made. If the idea is good but it turns out to be a bad film, The Thanksgiving file is definitely gone.”
Bruckheimer said: “I’ll call someone to send the script over.”
Eric looked at his watch.
Dao: “That’s fine, but I still have things to do next. The script is sent, I can only watch it at night.”
Bruckheimer is not in a hurry: “Of course. You can watch slowly, I will prepare “Brave” first. “Life Island”, let’s talk about it when we have time.”
After sending Bruckheimer away, Eric was still thinking about this matter. The “Brave to the Dead Island” and “Jedi Men” that he encountered today were both directed by Michael Bay in the original time and space. Time to turn Bombshell into Hollywood.
In the original time and space, although Michael Bay has always been ridiculed as a bombshell, and is also one of the most hated bad film directors by film critics, in fact, Michael Bay is the ‘darling’ of Hollywood studios. Because Michael Bay has never played deeply and is dedicated to shooting commercial films, not only most of the films can bring profits to the filmmakers, but what is even more rare is that the production budget and shooting cycle have never been overrun or overdue, giving people a feeling like An alternative Hollywood office worker.
Thinking of Michael Bay, the mind naturally cannot escape from “Transformers”.
Eric suddenly realized that the copyright of this super blockbuster series with unlimited potential has not been obtained.
However, the fame of “Transformers” is too great, and it will definitely take some twists and turns to get the copyright.
Just after writing these things down in the work memo, Eric heard a knock on the door of the office, and then Emily came in: “Eric, it’s been several days, you won’t this time. Are you going to let me dove again?”
Eric put away the memo, got up and smiled at Emily who was standing at the door: “You don’t have to be so ruthless, you have to use the trick of blocking the door.”
“How dare you Talk to me! Just ask you to help watch the commercial, you can delay it for so long.”
Eric and Emily walked out together and said, “For your sake, I pushed all the appointments this afternoon. It’s gone, but there are always situations that can’t be avoided. It’s not like you don’t know how busy I am recently, except for death postcards and rattlesnakes, I am completely the same as the male protagonist in Robert Altman’s “Big Game” these days, 135 calls a day, 50,000 if you stick to it for a year.”
Emily obviously hadn’t watched “Big Game” and pouted, “How can there be so many.”
Eric looked at Emily and smiled: “If you just help you watch the Victoria’s Secret commercials and bring the videotape to my office, you insist on letting me go to the post-production studio, do you have any other plans? Recruit in advance. Otherwise, I will never cooperate.”
Emily flashed a guilty expression, but she quickly said confidently: “Shouldn’t a smart man pretend to be confused at the right time? “Is it?”
“This is an obligation that Chris should undertake, and I can’t control it.”
“I didn’t expect much from you.” Emily said: “That’s it, we have found a preparation for this year’s Victoria’s Secret show. Choose a director. He is excellent in commercials and MTV production, and he has won some professional awards. We just collaborated on a commercial. When it was not finalized whether to hand over the Victoria’s Secret show to him, I thought Let me take a look.”
Eric shook his head and smiled: “No, I think the truth should be like this, he wants to switch to making movies. But there is no way in Hollywood, you want him to make Victoria’s Secret. Show, so I sold it.”
Emily looked helpless: “Okay, okay, I admit that you are a little bit smarter than Chris, okay?”
Eric stopped joking and turned serious. Said: “Let’s talk first, just meet, I don’t guarantee anything, if you promise something in advance, then solve it yourself.”
“I’m not a fool. How can I promise in advance. And, create a relationship with you. The chance to get in touch is already the dream of many people, and he won’t be stupid enough to ask for anything more.”
“Oh. It seems so, I’m a big man now,” Eric shrugged and asked: “That guy What’s your name?”
“Michael Bay.”
“Oh… ah?” Eric just nodded, but subconsciously raised his tone, his tone full of surprise that could not be concealed.
“Michael Bay, what’s the matter?”
“Nothing, I seem to have heard of it somewhere.” Eric defended, but felt emotional.
Is today bomb day?
In the original time and space, Michael Bay was the director of Victoria’s Secret commercials.
The heroine of “Transformers 3” was born in Victoria’s Secret Angel.
After Emily’s introduction, Eric learned that Michael Bay was already well-known in the mtv and advertising circles at this time, and won a series of mtv and advertising awards.
However, even if the director of MTV or commercials is made to the extreme, the industry status is far less than that of film directors, and even the status of TV drama directors is not as good.
Just like stage actors and TV actors will sharpen their heads and enter the big screen, there are not many mtv or commercial directors who do not want to switch to film directors. The most successful ones in Hollywood are Michael Bay and David. Finch.
The post-production center of Firefly Studios.
Eric saw Michael Bay’s commercials for the first time in the studio. With his long-term training in the mtv and commercial film industries, Michael Bay has formed a strong sense of color control, fast mirror movement and lens editing. his personal style, and, as long as you’ve seen a Michael Bay movie, you know he’s very good at showing the curvaceous beauty of the female body, and the “Transformers” scene of Megan Fox leaning over the hood of Bumblebee is almost all male The scenes that the audience talked about with relish, and the cooperation with Wei Mi to shoot Neiyi commercials is simply a match made in heaven.
After watching the one-minute and thirty-second commercial, Eric did not find any dissatisfaction except for the mediocre creativity.
And ad creative isn’t Michael Bay’s responsibility either.
The lights came on, and Emily, who was sitting next to Eric, was most concerned about the problems of Wei Mi itself, and couldn’t wait to ask: “Eric, what do you think?
” At the same time, Millie looked over at Michael Bay, who was listening intently, and nodded: “The color, editing, and soundtrack are all excellent. If it’s just a five-minute TV commercial, this movie is enough, but this commercial is very good. The overall lack of creativity, the one-and-a-half-minute commercial is just a blunt accumulation of a series of surname elements, and I can’t find any focus at all.”
Emily said: “We just planned to intercept the TV commercial, but Ai Rick, do you have any ideas?”
“This,” Eric shrugged and said, “You can find an advertising company to choose slowly, I don’t have more time to help you with this, but, think about those long-lasting big-name commercials, you can You know how important creativity is, so you better pay attention to it.”
Emily was a little unwilling, but she also knew that it was impossible to ask for too much.
Eric has already created a hugely influential Victoria’s Secret show advertisement for Victoria’s Secret. It is impossible to waste too much energy on this, so he leaned back.
The official introduction: “Eric, this is Michael Bay.”
Michael Bay quickly got up.
He stretched out his hand to Eric and said, “Mr. Williams, it’s nice to meet you.”
Eric got up and shook hands with Michael Bay, and said with a smile, “The lens movement in the commercial just now is great, Emily Said that you will take over this year’s Victoria’s Secret show, and I hope you can make an impressive Neiyi show again.”
“I will try my best, Mr. Williams.”
Saying this, everyone got up and left .
In the viewing room, I walked through the long corridor and planned to go to the conference room on the other side.
Michael Bay followed the crowd.
Looking at Eric who was whispering with Emily and Edward Razek in front of him, he was a little disappointed, thinking that this opportunity had just passed.
But after a while, he saw Eric turn his head and wave to him, so he walked forward quickly.
“We don’t have anything to do next, come with me,” Eric said. Instead of following Emily and the others to the conference room, he turned to the stairs and walked directly downstairs.
Michael Bay was a little confused about the situation for a while.
He was stunned for a moment, until Edward Razek patted him on the shoulder with envy in his eyes, and then he woke up.
In addition to the surprise, the footsteps followed without hesitation.
After several years of development, in addition to the overly large studio area, office areas such as the digital field studio, the studio administrative area and the post-production center have been surrounded by green trees.
Eric left the post-production center with Michael Bay, and walked leisurely along the boulevard toward the administrative area, nodding to the staff who greeted him from time to time.
Michael Bay staggered slightly and followed Eric’s side. He didn’t know anything about Eric’s character. Although he wanted to show it, Eric didn’t take the initiative to speak.
He didn’t dare to say anything out of the blue, and just stared at the young people who had suddenly risen in Hollywood in recent years.
Although he is a few years younger than himself, Michael Bay can clearly feel the calmness in Eric that is completely inappropriate for his age.
He knew that this was definitely not an illusion, but he couldn’t find any reason to explain it. It could only be attributed to the natural aura brought by power and wealth.
The Hollywood director who was unattainable in his previous life is now behind him like his younger brother. After so many years, the impetuous atmosphere when he first rose has disappeared, but Eric has not produced too much shallowness. The sense of vanity is just a little inexplicable.
Approaching the administrative building, Eric finally said to Michael Bay: “Emily said that you have won a lot of awards in music mtv and commercial production. I also watched your commercial just now, very attentive, so, do you want to If you want to make a movie, you must have enough skills.”
Michael Bay didn’t expect everything to be so easy, and almost jumped up with excitement, but he immediately realized that Eric’s words were not finished, so he gathered his mind and continued to make Listening.
Eric smiled and said, “You must be waiting for ‘but’, right?”
Michael Bay grinned in agreement.
Eric said: “There is nothing but one point. Last year’s Victoria’s Secret show, I spent more than half a year planning it myself, which is my hard work. The foundation has been laid, so this year’s Victoria’s Secret show is produced. It’ll be a lot easier, but I hope you’ll spend at least three months on it.”
“Mr. Williams, I promise, you won’t be disappointed.”
“Call me Eric, listen to you guys. It always feels a little strange for someone older than me to address me seriously.”
Walking into the administration building and outside his office, Eric’s office secretary in the studio saw him coming back and brought a portfolio over to him. Said: “Mr. Williams, this is just sent by Mr. Bruckheimer.”
Eric took the portfolio and pushed the door into the office, but instead of walking to the desk, he sat down on the sofa in the reception area, motioned Michael Bay to be casual, and said, “Whatever you want to drink, let Gina get it. ”
Coffee, just coffee,” Michael Bay just sat down, saw the office secretary looking over, got up slightly and said politely.
The female secretary nodded and walked out without asking Eric, apparently she already knew something about his personal habits.
Eric opened the portfolio, which contained the two scripts of “Breaking the Dead Island” and “Jedi Boys”, and handed the “Jedi Boys” script to Michael Bay, Eric opened it on his own. The script of “Brave to the Dead Island” was read.
Michael Bay didn’t know what Eric meant.
But I still opened the script and read it carefully.
After more than ten minutes, Eric read the script of “Brave Island” and glanced at Michael Bay.
If the big production script in hand can be delayed by a year.
It’s good to leave the original director Michael Bay, but to fill next summer’s slot.
This plan can only be temporarily abandoned.
Feeling Eric stop, Michael Bay also raised his head in time, sorted out the content of the script he just saw, and planned to deal with Eric’s possible problems.
Eric pressed the script of “Brave Dead Island” on his knees and asked Michael Bay on the opposite side, “What do you think of this story?”
Michael Bay thought that Eric was also watching “Jedi Men”. He nodded and said, “It combines the criminal elements of “Lethal Weapon” with the comedy style of “Beverly Hills Detective”, which is very exciting, and it must be a very good film.
” Gina will give you a copy of this script, take it back and study it carefully, and I will have someone contact you in two days to discuss setting up a crew.”
When Michael Bay heard these words, his mind buzzed, confirming I heard it right, but I still asked in disbelief: “W… Eric, are you saying, let me direct this film?”
“Yeah, or. Do you think you need to continue to practice in the advertising industry ?”
a bit?”
Michael Bay hurriedly shook his head and subconsciously clenched the script in his hand: “No, no, no. Eric, I don’t need any more… experience, I can take over this job.”
Although he felt that Eric made this The decision was a bit hasty, but Michael Bay would never take the initiative to question anything, but resolutely agreed.
Eric smiled and said: “That’s it, but I have two points to remind you, first. As I just said, you need to make three months for the Victoria’s Secret show. So, this You need to fully complete the film by August.”
There are still seven months left.
Michael Bay recalled the plot of the script he just saw. There were not too many big scenes, and no special effects were involved, so he nodded and said, “No problem.”
“You will definitely feel that my decision is a bit hasty or even chaotic. Come on, right?”
“No, absolutely not.”
“It doesn’t matter if you really think so, but the second point, you have to remember that as long as the quality of the film is good after the film is finished, the schedule of this film will be placed on gratitude. Festival. In addition, me and Jerry will be personally named producers. We all love face, if you mess up, you have to go back and shoot commercials.”
Michael Bay froze in his heart, just now The excitement cooled down completely.
He originally thought that Eric’s decision was a bit of a joke, but after hearing this, he realized that the script in his hand is definitely a project that Firefly attaches great importance to, otherwise Eric and Jerry Bruckheimer A big name wouldn’t personally name a producer, nor would a film be scheduled for the popular Thanksgiving.
If the movie messes up, the media will only rush criticism to the two big-name producers, but he, a rookie film director, will not be able to hang around in Hollywood anymore.
Eric looked at Michael Bay, whose expression changed, and said, “How about you, do you still dare to take this job?”
Michael Bay wanted to think about it for a few days, but he realized that this hesitation would only make The young Hollywood tycoon in front of him was disappointed, but after hesitating for a moment, he nodded decisively and said, “Eric, I’m next.”
“Very good, UU reading www.sonicmtl.com” Eric nodded with satisfaction, and added: “One more thing, you can rest assured that if there is a problem with the film in the future, but the responsibility is not on you, Jerry and I I won’t anger you, so you just need to do your best.”
This endorsement made Michael Bay, whose heartstrings were tense, relieved a lot, and nodded quickly.
Half an hour later, Michael Bay left the administrative building of the studio and walked on the boulevard of the studio. He felt the movie script in his hand, and the excitement of the sudden opportunity came to his mind again. The more he thought about it, the happier he became.
For a while, Michael Bay completely ignored the increasing number of pedestrians on the road nearing the end of work. He clenched his fists and made a few noises. He took a few steps and jumped up and made a shot. He couldn’t help but grin, so Leaving the main road and rushing to the lawn in the cinema, he took out the Motorola mobile phone at his waist, completely disregarding who was on the other side, he picked a number in the address book and dialed it out. Hey man can you guess what happened to me just now, I got the script, the movie script, I’m about to make the movie, the script handed to me by Eric Williams himself, Eric K Williams, the one from Jurassic Park, lol, I’m going to… um, ah, sorry, so sorry, no, I don’t buy insurance, no no, I don’t buy auto insurance either… …” (To be continued.)
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