Hollywood Starts with Animation

In the following days, Zhu Ke stayed on the farm for up to 7 days.

Every day, I ride horses in the endless pastures, and I change horses to ride;

At noon, in the forest with countless rare animals and plants, they will build a forest cabin with everyone in a leisurely manner, take a shotgun, and hunt happily;

Of course, rowing a boat on the vast lake is the most enjoyable activity for Zucker.

However, since it is November, even though the freshwater lake in the farm is connected to the sea and no ice formation is formed, it is still too cold, minus 16 degrees.

God, this makes Zucker very helpless.

Of course, it wasn't without the upside that it snowed in the Great Lakes region on day 5 of our stay on the farm!

This is the first snow in the United States since the winter of 1998.

It's snowing, what are you doing?

Of course happy Sahuan!

Since crossing, Zucker has been busy working.

Well, even though Zucker is lazy and has a lot of free time, he has never experienced it in the wild. This trip to the farm fulfilled all of Zucker's fantasies.

this evening.

"Lasseter, I heard you on the phone this morning. Did Jobs urge you to go back to Los Angeles?" Zucker sat by the burning fireplace and took a sip of hot cocoa.

"That's right. After all, the premiere of "A Bug's Life" is less than 3 days away." Lasseter drank the mug of beer in his hand.

Lasseter drinks a surprising amount, but beer has always been a favorite, even in winter.

Zhu Ke nodded: "Speaking of the animated film "A Bug's Life", you seem to be quite low-key this time! Even the main members of the entire crew went to your company's talk show on ABC TV last month, but you The director didn't go, why?"

Lasseter laughed: "A Bug's Life is an animated film co-directed by Andrew and I. A few years ago, I was already in the limelight with Toy Story. Anyway, this time, Andrew should be the guy. Out of the limelight."

Zhu Ke couldn't help laughing and scolding: "The relationship between the five Pixar generals is so good?"

"You bastard!" Lasseter was speechless.

In fact, the relationship between the five generals of Pixar animation, as everyone in the outside world has seen, is very good, and they are commensurate with brothers.

Of course, a good relationship is a good relationship, and everyone is not willing to be submissive to each other.

Lasseter is the leader of the Five Tigers and the first person under Jobs. Although everyone is very convinced of him, it does not mean that they are willing to give up success. They are holding back their temper and can't wait to make more moves!

On A Bug's Life, Andrew Stanton really wants to fight!

"Hey~~!"

Having said this, Zhu Ke sighed: "I don't know what luck Jobs has had to have five amazing guys, you, Andrew, Brad, Docter, and Unkrich, even if only One person joins my water world animation and I absolutely welcome it with both hands up."

Prying corners, everywhere.

For any one of the Pixar Five,

Zuko was extremely greedy.

"Dude, don't be too greedy. David Messer is a very good young man. He is one of the few people in Pixar who can resist the Great Ding. Didn't you also poach him?" Said angrily.

"Ha ha!"

Hearing this, Zu Ke laughed immediately.

Digging up David Messer is indeed Zucker's proud work!

David Messer will be the first person to propose the idea of ​​"Marvel Cinematic Universe" and realize it in the future; at the same time, he is also the producer of the animated film of the same name of the game "Angry Birds".

It is no exaggeration to say that without David Messer, there would be no Iron Man movie, and no Marvel follow-up series of brilliant performances.

November 23.

On this day, Zucker ended his farm trip and returned to Los Angeles with Lasseter and others.

"Lasseter, next time you go to my farm, I'll take you on my billion-dollar private jet, which is definitely more comfortable than this kind of public flight."

When parting, Zucker said to Lasseter.

"Man, you'll enjoy it, Jobs doesn't have a private jet right now." Lasseter played his taste.

"Of course, what would he enjoy with that bad old Steve Jobs?" Zucker couldn't help but pouted.

......

That night.

After Zucker had finished his dinner, he suddenly received a sound from the system.

"what?"

"The system news came so quickly this time?"

No wonder Zucker wasn't curious.

The system "disappeared" for more than half a year and never appeared. However, as soon as it appeared more than ten days ago, it provided itself with news of the "Linkin Park" rock group. I don't want to now, after such a short time, it has appeared again.

"Ding dong!"

[Congratulations to the host, you have obtained relevant information on "Fast and Furious" and "Pirates of the Caribbean". 】

Seeing the system message, Zu Ke couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

At this moment, Zhu Ke's mood is as if he drank a glass of ice water in the desert in the middle of summer, which is extremely comfortable!

After all, these two films are both series of films, and they have won a large number of stars with strong global influence.

The box office performance is even more insane!

Of course, even the performance of the offline DVD and video tape market and the peripheral licensing market is terrifying!

At this moment, Zhu Ke, who has won these two gold mines, is in a very happy mood, not to mention how happy he is.

However.......

When Zu Ke read these two system messages, his whole mood was not so beautiful!

The script for "Fast and Furious 1" came out as early as 1995, and was bought by Universal Pictures from the script creator in the first half of 1996 for $45,000.

Moreover, Zucker also learned from the system news that an executive of Universal Pictures has started planning to convert the script of "The Fast and the Furious" into a movie.

"Damn!"

"Cut the Hu. I want to cut the Hu!"

Zucker was very unwilling.

In fact, the script of "Speed ​​​​and Passion 1" can't be said to be excellent, it is nothing more than a plot of police and gangsters, beautiful women, and heat fights.

"Traditional plot setting, formulaic film, top-notch production."

This sentence can fully explain the first three movies of "Fast and the Furious". It was not until the fourth part of the series that the core setting of "family" and "friendship" was officially established. Since then, it has taken off and became famous.

The first three films in the series are really average.

However, this does not mean that Zucker has to give up. After all, as of 2020, the global box office of the entire series can add up to a total of 6.5 billion US dollars.

Who will give up?

Give up, you are a fool!

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, according to the news of the system, is not so smooth.

Zucker is a very chicken thief!

As early as 1996, after getting to know "Captain Jack" John Nidepp, Zucker went full steam ahead and wrote a pseudo "Pirates of the Caribbean" script and the outline of the main story with his few memories. and filed a copyright application.

This means that "Pirates of the Caribbean" belongs to Zucker's copyright.

However, the system prompted a message, which made Zuke have to cheer up.

On November 3, 1998, Hollywood gold medal producer Jerry Bruckheimer asked the federal copyright department to provide the relevant settings for "Pirates of the Caribbean".

The two are the same, no, it's basically the same setting!

After all, as a traveler, Zucker is basically plagiarizing Jerry Bruckheimer.

Of course, as for copyright, whoever registers first counts.

However, is this no problem?

Do not!

Never overestimate the integrity of Hollywood!

Infringement is infringing, and big Hollywood companies are afraid of lawsuits? !

They want to grab or skip your copyright, and there are ways. Even if they slightly modify the setting and script, they can legally shoot the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. At that time, Zucker will have nothing to do.

"The situation is not very good!" Zu Ke frowned.