Chapter 20 Negotiation

  Jerry Zach waved his hands excitedly and yelled loudly. His waving hand swept across Gail's nose. Her nose hurt so badly that she began to cry. She squatted on the ground and covered her face with her hands.

  Jim didn't see what was going on and thought Jerry hit Gale. Accelerated out from the inside, pushed Jerry away, and then went to help Gail.

  The one in the trio who looks like brother Jerry, saw his brother being pushed down, rushed up to beat Jim...

Ronald stepped forward, grabbed the shoulders of the man who wanted to hit Jim, put one foot between his legs, hooked one ankle, and gently moved back, turning his upper body along the trend, The man fell to the ground.

Immediately, Ronald took a glance from the corner of the eye, quickly turned his head and squatted down, dodged Jerry Zack's fist from behind, turned his head and stretched out his hands to clamp his shoulders, pinned Jerry's waist with his crotch, and put his hands on his shoulders. Take it lightly...Jerry is also put.

   Ronald stepped forward to pull Jim up, and then shouted:

   "Everyone stop! It's all a misunderstanding!"

   At this time, Roger Coleman also left the office, and other employees who worked overtime in the office also gathered outside the boss's administrative office to watch the excitement, forming a large circle.

   Ronald explained to everyone: "This is a misunderstanding, everyone calm down, no one was hurt."

  The third of the trio, helped Brother Zach off the ground and patted the ashes off them. Said: "We didn't come to fight, we just wanted to talk to Mr. Coleman."

  He saw that Ronald had put water on his hands, and the two just fell to the ground without any pain.

   As he spoke, he stretched out his hand: "Hello, we have no malicious intentions"

  Ronald shook his hand: "I'm Ronald Lee, you can talk to Mr. Coleman first, I'll go see Gail."

   Gail recovered, and Jim helped her to the bathroom to deal with.

  Roger Coleman waved to everyone, "Go back to work, it's okay." After thinking for a while, he picked up the phone and connected to the front desk:

   "This is Roger. Are Julie and Joe Dante still in the conference room? Yes, please come up to my office."

   Then Roger raised his hand and asked the trio to come into the office to talk. The three of them went in and chose three seats near the window of the conference table, and sat down side by side.

   After a while, the proprietress Julie Coleman and the co-director Joe Dante also came, and the two sides were equal in number and sat opposite each other.

   Ronald saw that Gail hadn't come back, so he went to make 6 cups of coffee, sent them in, and was about to close the door and leave.

   "You also stay and listen to it, you can learn a little bit."

  Roger Coleman looked at the number of people here, it was not dominant, and there was a woman. Still, he stopped Ronald, who was showing off his might just now.

   Ronald closed the door, pulled out the chair closest to the door, sat down and listened.

  It turned out that Jerry Zucker, his brother, and a good friend from high school, three people, are a long-term trio. They wrote a comedy movie about airplanes and wanted Roger to cast it.

  But Roger felt that the script was not good, it was all jokes, there was no storyline at all, and various fake advertisements were interspersed in the middle to satirize. No one paid for the fake advertisements. It's also unheard of for a low-budget movie to have no story at all, even though the story isn't important.

   In addition, Roger Coleman has rarely made comedy movies in recent years, so he is unwilling to invest money.

   Although Jerry Zach is the youngest of the three, he is the most talented and is the leader of the trio. He joined "Rock High School" as the second group director, hoping to use his talent to impress Roger Coleman to reconsider investment.

What the trio didn't expect was that a woman they had previously approached to pull the investment, had lunch with Paramount's chief operating officer (COO) Michael Eisner last week, and recommended the trio to Ace accept.

   After hearing this, Eisner expressed his interest in this subject, and ordered his general Katzenberg to handle the matter.

   Katzenberg has read the script, and his point of view is the same as that of Roger Coleman. The script is not formed, but just a collection of jokes. The trio was asked to spend two weeks working with Paramount's screenwriter doctor to restart the stove and rewrite a draft of the script. He was satisfied and then gave the green light to release the project, with an estimated total investment of $3.5 million.

  The trio was overjoyed, but Jerry had a problem negotiating with Roger Coleman. "Rock High School" here, Jerry still has 5 days of filming time to complete. So Jerry pestered Roger for a day today, wanting Roger to give up the last 5 days of the contract.

  The two sides are deadlocked on this point.

  Jerry Zach proposed that the salary paid in the early stage could be refunded, and Roger would find someone to complete the remaining 5 days, and let them go to Paramount to write the script wholeheartedly.

  Roger Coleman felt that he could not find a suitable replacement in a short period of time, and asked them to stay and finish the filming.

   During the ten minutes of the two sides' arguing, Ronald listened carefully and heard two meanings.

   The trio of Jerry must go to Paramount. If Roger doesn't agree, they won't come to work at all. There will be legal disputes in the future, and there will be ways to remedy them in the future. And Paramount's $3.5 million big cake fell on the head. If you lose this opportunity, you don't know when the next one will fall.

  Roger Coleman's attitude is also very clear, you can't leave the crew and run away.

  The second group of directors generally refers to the second group of filming personnel who act separately from the crew. There are also directors and photographers. The second group mainly shoots some exterior scenes without protagonists, empty shots to explain the environment, scenes between supporting actors, and so on. The purpose of setting up the second group is to shorten the shooting cycle. The shooting stage costs money like water, and if you can save a few days, it is also a lot of money.

  But Roger is an iron cock, and the employer has to exploit it until it runs out of oil.

  This has created the second group of directors of New World Productions, who not only have the above tasks, but also shoot a lot of plot content in parallel with the crew. If the filming of the crew is not completed one day, Roger Coleman will tear the rest of the scenes from the script, hand over the re-shoots to the second group for shooting, and throw the re-shoots into the trash can.

  This kind of filming method means that the second group also becomes half a crew, and the workload is not small.

  So the director of the second group of "Rock High School" must be familiar with the filming situation of the crew. If he changes someone rashly, it may be better to wait for Allen to finish shooting the shots of the main group, and then come back to shoot the content of the second group.

  …

   "This is unacceptable!" Jerry Zucker was a little angry. Roger disagreed today, which was something he hadn't expected at all.

   "Why not let Joe Dante come to shoot? He is familiar with the crew and can also act as the director, and it only takes a few days, without delaying his other work. He was originally on the crew with Allen to help the director."

"Alan needs Joe. If Joe is not here, it will be a great bruise and unfair to him. Because when filming 'Piranha' last year, Alan was also helping on the crew and helping Joe complete the first film. The director works, and he reciprocates," replied Roger Corman.

   This is of course part of the reason. But Ronald feels that the real key is that Joe Dante has escaped from the sea of ​​suffering by directing last year's "Piranha" and obtained the highest membership of the directors' union. He came to help Alan Aikush as a favor, but he had no obligation to help Roger Coleman solve his troubles.

Of course Jerry Zucker knew this, and he immediately argued: "This is total bullshit. Allen is not bad. Why does Joe have to be a co-director on the crew? This is not the federal government of America, there is a The commander-in-chief needs a backup of the deputy commander-in-chief."

   The two sides were about to quarrel again. At this time, the third person in the trio who shook hands with Ronald suddenly interrupted:

   "I heard from Jerry that your sample film yesterday was filmed by a crew assistant. Why didn't you ask him to replace Jerry?"

  Jerry Zucker, Joe Dante, and Roger's wife Julie, all looked at Ronald in unison.

  (end of this chapter)