Rebirth In Hollywood

After sending everyone away, Ryan went to the baby room with Lily Mo Xin who was following behind. Sandy hadn't woken up yet and was sleeping soundly. He stood by and watched for a while, and then told the babysitter a few words. Satisfied and left.

Back in the living room of the villa, Nicole just came in through the back door of the villa.

"Lily, you're starting to be naughty too."

Taking the towel from the servant, Nicole wiped her hands, walked over and gently pinched the goddaughter's nose, turned around the couch, and sat on a single sofa. Exploding balloon fragments."

"Sorry, godmother."

Lily Mo Sim was more obedient than Taylor when she was a child. She ran over and took Nicole's hand, "We had so much fun."

"It's okay." Nicole pulled her to her side, "Elsa has already found a cleaning company."

Taking the coffee pot from Elsa, Ryan walked over with it, turned over the cups on the coffee table, poured a cup for himself and Nicole, handed it to Nicole, picked up his cup, sat down on the single sofa opposite.

"Is Sonny still sleeping?" Nicole asked after taking a sip of coffee.

"Sleeping soundly." Ryan took a slow sip and put down the cup. "The nanny is watching over there. The little guy is probably tired and probably won't wake up in a short time."

"She didn't take a nap today, she needs to sleep a little longer." Nicole looked at the goddaughter, "Lily, go to the desk in the study and bring me a script."

"Is it still the same place?"

Seeing Nicole nodding, Lily took brisk steps and ran to the second floor.

"What script?" Ryan asked curiously.

"You know." Nicole said, watching Lily's back disappearing at the corner of the stairs, "I went to New York some time ago to discuss a film contract with a director, who recently adapted his own adaptation of "Weakness: Game Progress" The first draft of the script was mailed to me, and I think it's fine. You can make some suggestions."

It didn't take long for Lily to run back with a script that was at most 200 pages thick, and understood Nicole's meaning very tacitly, handed the script directly to Ryan, and then ran to the entertainment room to entertain herself. .

Opening the script, Ryan browsed at the fastest speed, while Nicole introduced some basic situations.

"The title of the film is definitely called "Weakness\

,"The writer and director will be John Lee Hancock. "

Hearing Nicole's words, Ryan raised his head, "Where do I seem to have heard this name?"

"This is the candidate recommended by Julius." Nicole said roughly. "John Lee Hancock worked with Disney on Rookie Baseball in 2002, and old cowboy Clint Eastwood recommended him to me at a party some time ago."

"John Lee Hancock and I have met Anne and Sean Tucci," Nicole continued, "and Michael Oher, the protagonist in the book, shortly after that meeting. , he took out the first draft of the script."

"Sounds..." Ryan flipped through the script quickly, "Are you satisfied with John Lee Hancock?"

"Indeed." Nicole shrugged, "Weakness: The Progress of the Game, while introducing Michael Oher's story. It also explains how important the left tackle is to an American football team. In-depth research, therefore, "Weakness: Game Progress" has attracted the attention of countless people who love sports, especially American football."

"But the film certainly couldn't be shot that way."

As a producer for a long time, Nicole also has her own experience, "Simple sports inspirational movie. It is only a niche genre, which does not meet our goals. After discussing with John, I decided to intercept only one of the novels. The main line is adapted to make a mainstream Hollywood film."

Head up. Ryan made a continued gesture to Nicole.

"We're going to focus on how great the family is, and center on the unconventional mother-son relationship that doesn't have blood. Sports, and American football in particular, drive the whole story, but the fact that it has nothing to do with sports. Because Michael O. The development of the relationship between the Hek and Tausi families is at the heart of the story."

"Have you found the actor who played Michael Oher?" Ryan turned to the script again.

"I found it." Nicole rubbed her forehead, it seemed that this incident had given her a headache, "It took a lot of effort for Pat to find a big black man with good acting skills, and he is now in Michael Oher's house. Training with the American football team at his alma mater, Mississippi State University."

Ryan didn't say anything, but concentrated on scanning the script and thinking for a while.

"There is generally no problem with the script. However, Nicole, there are too many depictions of black areas in the script. The violence and racial confrontation in it will destroy the warm atmosphere of the script. It is best to ignore these."

The nanny walked into the living room with Sunny in her arms. Nicole hurried over to pick up her daughter and nodded, "I understand."

If you only look at the rich areas and the middle-class areas with better security and location, North America really seems to be a paradise in the propaganda, but when you enter the slums and black areas, you will understand why there is always darkness behind the light. Such a movie A typical American theme film that doesn't need too many racial elements.

This script is not written in the type of so-called elimination of racism, or even explicitly touches on this aspect, its intention is much higher than this.

The theme is not that the white people should deal with the mercy and charity of the black people, but that everyone can discover the beauty, dignity and value in themselves.

From another point of view, this is an inspirational story built with family as the core. Although it is inspirational, like Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling", it is not essentially a story about a sparrow becoming a phoenix or an ugly duckling becoming a swan.

The intent of the script is much more positive than that. It basically believes that Michael Oher is a phoenix and a swan, but he has serious blind spots. Once these blind spots are eliminated, he can show his best side to the world. .

Regardless of the realities of North American society, these are very much in line with the values ​​of mainstream social propaganda.

This film, like Natalie's "Black Swan", requires a long preparation period. The main reason is that the black male protagonist needs to practice some basics of American football, and the crew also needs to contact several high school and college American football teams. , Fortunately, these are not as troublesome as Natalie and Scarlett's ballet training, after all, American football is the number one sport in the United States.

After Sandy's birthday party, Nicole's Kidman studio officially began preparations for the film, and Disney Studios as a partner also joined it, with Nicole and Julius Stewart serving as producers. There's nothing too worrying about the adaptation of Weakness: Game Progress.

Ryan paid more attention to Natalie's "Black Swan" than the movie Nicole just started to prepare. Especially a few days ago, the special effects she commissioned from Pixar Studios had some problems.

Pixar Studio is mainly responsible for the hair rendering when Natalie turns into a black swan in the final scene. In the generation and rendering of hair, Hollywood can't find better special effects than Pixar, although the two sides were in a few days ago. There was a little disagreement on the shape, but a consensus was quickly reached.

After the special effects of Pixar Studio are completed, except for the soundtrack that needs to be added, the post-production of "Black Swan" is basically completed, and there will be no delay to participate in the Venice Film Festival at the end of August.

Because Natalie and the Pixar Studios All-Star team will be participating, Ryan went out of his way to let people know what's going on at this year's Venice Film Festival, especially the judges and rivals in competition.

Only through the reports submitted by his subordinates did Ryan know that the Venice Film Festival has been blowing China's style in recent years. Last year, a Chinese director won the Golden Lion Award. This year, the chairman of the jury is the director of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games next year. I saw the names of Ang Lee and Lust Caution on the entry list.

I vaguely remember that in the previous life, Lust and Caution seemed to have won a heavyweight award in the three major European film festivals. Now it seems that it is probably the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. If so...

It seems that I have little relationship with Venice in Italy, and it seems that I should let Disney Europe and Far East start work ahead of schedule.

As for Ang Lee, not to mention Oscar, he also helped him win the Palme d'Or twice, and it's time to pay back his favor.

He's a smart guy, and he must know what to do.

In contrast, the jury composed purely of directors is a bit more difficult to handle.

The chairman of the jury surnamed Zhang from China will not talk about it. There is no friendship between the two sides. There are also French female director Catherine Brea, New Zealand female director Jane Campion who directed "Piano Lesson", Italian female director Catherine Brea Director Emmanuel Criales, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inaridu, who directed "Babel", Turkish-born director Fossen Ozpeit, Zeng "Black Book" Dutch director Paul? Verhofen these judges.

Few of them are really closely related to Hollywood, and even those directors from continental Europe are more hostile to Hollywood movies.

Since participating in the competition section of the film festival, no one wants to go home empty-handed. At the beginning of June, Ryan called Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola respectively, and carefully selected a media and public relations team. Rush to Italy to get ready for the promotion during the Venice Film Festival.

However, Ryan can only do this for the time being. After all, there is still some time before the Venice Film Festival, and the summer season in North America is still strangling in chaos.

Also this month, Universal Pictures announced the annexation of Illumination Entertainment Animation, which officially became a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and specializes in producing animated films for the latter.

The Hollywood animation business has ushered in an era of co-existence. (To be continued..) ()