The Greatest Showman (Big Play Bone)
Chapter 566: Sequel ambition
"Congratulations." Neil H-Moritz said to Andy with a smile on his face. This is to congratulate Renly on his first commercial film for such outstanding results. This is true for the newcomer actors who are born in independent art films. Rarely, it can be said to have taken an important step.
Andy sat on the sofa contentedly and relaxed all over, because the air-conditioning in this office is enough, which is really refreshing, and even with it, the tone is also a lot easier, "Congratulations."
This is to congratulate the "speed and excitement/love 5" at the box office. Lan Li is only gaining fame, but Universal Pictures has gained fame and fortune. As the lead producer, Neil has made a lot of money. Plenty.
Andy's gaze then fell on Michael Fordray, adding, "Congratulations." This made Michael smile and close his jaw.
"We just ended the'Speed and Excitement/Emotion 5'meeting." Neil didn't go on politely anymore and directly provoked the topic. After all, nominally, Andy will have to pick up people at the airport for a while. Ten minutes, not to mention, all the politeness and temptation have been completed just now, and now there is no need to continue to play tricks.
"In my mind and Van Diesel's mind, the sequel exists." Neal said a fact that the entire Hollywood knows. "But how to unfold this story is an extremely difficult thing. On the one hand, We hope to be able to replicate the story frame of the fifth part; on the other hand, we don’t want to repeat ourselves, and even more want to take the movie to a larger and more exciting realm. For this goal, we talked a lot At this time, Fan put forward many positive and useful suggestions."
Andy raised his chin slightly and nodded meaningfully, "It seems that during the propaganda period, some people did not relax."
Previously, because of the successive tit-for-tat events within the crew, under Andy's intentional promotion, he shocked the CEO of Universal Pictures, Ron Meyer, and gave orders directly from the highest level, which made Fan be honest. But now it seems that the cooperative relationship between Fan and Universal Pictures has not been substantially shaken. In the negotiation of the sequel, Fan still played an important role. Does this mean
In the fifth installment, Dominic's role in playing handsome/forced and racing alone will continue into the sequel? Correspondingly, is it difficult for Hobbes' role to be substantially improved? After all, even Brian, played by Paul Walker, almost became a background board.
These two sentences by Neal seem to be meaningful and point-to-point, and there is a lot of information. Andy understood, and Michael understood.
Michael did not wink or change his face. He just took the conversation calmly, "We hope that the sequel will bring more surprises, not only with faster speeds, bigger scenes, but also with more exciting stories and Fighting. In other words, in the sequel, the racing scenes will be more ambitious and exciting than the previous works."
Andy remained calm and smiled and said a polite remark, "That's really exciting. I can't imagine what a more exciting car is like."
Michael nodded with satisfaction, "In our opinion, the fifth is just a transitional work, and the bigger story is still to come. Even Lang has expressed high expectations for the sequel, and he hopes that we can take this one. The film was made into a work comparable to the'Italian Mission' and the'French Drug Network'."
Both are classic crime movies and contain a lot of racing scenes. The former was released in 1969 and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Later in 2003, "Spread the Day" was a remake; the latter was released in 1971, including the following year's Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor , Best Adapted Screenplay and other five Little Golden Men. In 2014, there was a remake of the same name.
Andy's smile bloomed, and he exaggerated, "This is an incomparable benchmark."
Comparing the "Speed and Excitement/Emotion" series with these two parts, in Andy's view, it is more like overweight, and the expansion of ambition seems a bit too much. But is this a real idea or a strategic impact? What Universal Pictures thinks about the sequel is unpredictable.
Michael didn’t seem to hear the ridicule in Andy’s words, but instead nodded in affirmation, “Lang hopes that there will be pure car culture in this movie, and that this culture can be brought into pure action movies. And let the culture and spirit represented by this series become a model for later generations of movies."
"Wow." Andy didn't make any comments, just sighs, but this sigh was enough, containing all kinds of rich information, as for how to interpret it, it's Michael and Neal's business.
In the brief opening remarks of Michael and Neal, the two people revealed the same message: the sequel will be more magnificent, but the two people’s focus is different. Michael’s focus is on "movies", and Neal’s focus is on It's "Van Diesel".
what does that mean? There can be different interpretations, but in Andy’s view, it is a signal from Universal Pictures. In the sequel, drag racing is the absolute protagonist, and everyone else is a supporting role, which means that they will not give blue gifts. A more important position, at least not in terms of remuneration. Neal’s hint shows that Fan still played an important role in this project. Obviously, the situation where Fan and Lan Li are facing each other is not good news.
Of course, this is just breathing in the blink of an eye, and Andy's first-time information processing may be deviated. The specific situation still needs to be investigated, deliberated, and discussed after returning. Just like Dawn Johnson's tug-of-war at the time, the promotion of the salary level was not accomplished overnight.
But obviously, Universal Pictures has already begun to preemptively. This is not surprising, the posture of the six major Hollywood studios is obvious.
In response to Andy’s reaction, Michael nodded slightly, seemingly satisfied, then turned his head to look at Neil, showing a smile, Neil took the conversation and continued, "This past time, We have been discussing stories, starting from the framework, and then to the context of the story, this is not an easy task, we need more people's wisdom."
"Gary-sott-thpson (gary-sott-thpson) who has been cooperating since the first part, Chris-Morgan (chris-) who joined us from the third part, and two new ones this time The famous producers Clayton Townsend, Alexander Dostal, Justin Lin, Van Diesel, and me. We have been communicating, trying to write a more reasonable It's also a more ambitious script."
Neal’s words are very long and fragmented, with huge amounts of information. Andy keenly noticed one of the messages: Van Diesel. This is the second time Neal has emphasized Fan's role, which is really interesting. Not because of Neal's repeated emphasis, but because of Neal's repeated emphasis in front of Michael.
If Neal just wanted to warn Andy, then he could mention it when communicating privately; but he chose when Michael was there and still communicating the grand plan of the whole movie, which is intriguing. Up. It seems that between Neal and Michael, there seems to be something inside that can be digging up slowly.
The larger the crew, the more complicated the interpersonal relationship. Not to mention the famous film history "Future Water World", a very important part of the failure is that the internal relations of the crew failed to coordinate and succeed; even the internal disputes of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series are constant, Jerry-Brukheimer (jerry-brukheimer) )'S rampant dominance has really brought a lot of problems.
"I believe Michael's words now, this time the racing scene will be beyond imagination." Andy still remained calm, said a polite remark, and continued to listen carefully.
Neil couldn't help but chuckle, and then nodded in affirmation, "Yes, we will have more roaring vehicles, more characters, and the relationship between the characters will be reorganized. This is an unimaginable situation. A huge project. Then, we discovered that a movie simply cannot hold so much content. Now that it is just a frame, we have conceived a script of at least 150 to 200 pages."
According to the convention of Hollywood genre films, one page of script is equivalent to one minute of the finished movie, so this is the idea of one hundred and fifty minutes to two hundred minutes. Although there is a clear difference between the concept and the finished product, this aspect shows the strong ambition of Universal Pictures.
"So, we started thinking, should we divide this sequel into two parts?" Neal's words made Andy's eyes light up.
Warner Bros. divided the finale of "Harry Potter" into two parts, and achieved unimaginable success. Summit Entertainment also plans to divide the fourth part of "Twilight" into two parts. This trend is on the rise. For film critics, this is a disaster; but for commercial box office ~lightnovelpub.net~ this is a way to make money.
As expected, Universal Pictures is coming on fiercely. If it doesn't start, it will start with two sequels together. It is conceivable that the stormy waves that "speed and excitement/love 5" set off within Universal Pictures, 300 million in North America plus a series of works, this gave them more confidence, exerted more imagination, and couldn't wait to want it. Create your own ace project.
"In other words, the sixth and seventh episodes are actually a story. We plan to complete the shooting of these two films in a back-to-back manner. The racing culture, character stories, and vehicle modifications in the film will definitely be refreshing. "Neil continued to add.
Michael immediately took over and said, "In these two works, the role of Luke Hobbs occupies an important position, and we are very optimistic about the prospects of Lan Li."
Such a long and trivial foreshadowing, now the focus is finally here. It’s just that Michael’s sincere words don’t have any weight in Andy’s eyes. He chuckled lightly, “It’s a very pleasant process to appear in this work. The film has achieved such outstanding results, and Lan Li enjoys it very much. It’s even more interesting to be able to participate in the creation of the sequel."
The skin laughed but didn't laugh, opened his eyes and said nonsense.