Rebirth In Hollywood

"This is the playbook for investing $150 million?"

The crisp voice pulled Ryan's eyes back from the machine window. Nicole threw the "Transformers" script on the table and held up her cup, "It's too simple and too thin, isn't it?"

"Honey." Ryan picked up the script and put it aside, "This is just a popcorn movie, everything is in the service of the war between Transformers."

"Including you, the hero?" Nicole tried the water temperature, it was probably a little cold, and put down the cup, Ryan hurriedly emptied the water in the cup and replaced it with water with a suitable temperature, "Yes, I also It's just a supporting role for Optimus Prime."

"I didn't see you like Transformers when I was young."

Maybe you can tell others what you like, but Nicole is different, Ryan immediately defended, "This is a kind of spiritual liking, not the pursuit of material possessions."

He couldn't tell Nicole that this complex came from a previous life, right?

"You always have a lot of fallacies."

After drinking the water in the cup, Nicole stood up, "I'm going to rest in the back, remember to call me when I get to Hawaii."

Watching Nicole walk into the back of the Boeing plane, Ryan's eyes fell on the "Transformers" script.

After years of running-in, the screenwriting team of Jenkins Pictures can always understand his intentions very well. The original script frame is a story about a boring high school student and his car, and the previous plot In addition to the cosmic background that must be explained, A considerable degree of simplification has also been made.

But after he agreed to play the leading role, such an image was definitely not suitable. The script was sent back to Jenkins Pictures by Michael Bay for necessary revisions. Although it was still a story of a man following a car, it had changed a lot. Almost completely overturned the original hero and heroine identity settings.

To be exact, it would be a story between a young man and a sexy used car businesswoman with a Chevrolet.

In addition to generally retaining the plot of the Pentagon's first line, the actor line has eliminated quite a few unnecessary characters. In order to reduce a lot of tedious preparations for being funny and funny in the early stage, and speed up the time of Optimus Prime's appearance.

The audience sees it as Transformers, and fast-paced movies are also in line with the trend of social development.

Of course, Ryan has never acted in a comedy. Even an actor like him can't do all types of roles. The funny things in the film can only be left to others.

Funny robots like Confused and Bumblebee.

The plane landed at the Hawaii International Airport on Oahu Island. Ryan and others changed to the helicopter that had been waiting here for a long time and flew directly to Lanai Island.

Today's Lanai is Ryan's private domain. But except for a few areas, visitors are not prohibited from entering and leaving, and after his and Nicole's transformation, it is also one of the most famous tourist attractions in Hawaii.

You must know that there are more than 2,000 residents on the island, and they must have a source of income. Tourism and pineapple gardens are the main industries of Lanai.

The helicopter landed directly on the tarmac of a Hawaiian-style manor. Nicole briefly explained to Ryan and her housekeeper Elsa, and went to the bedroom to rest. Ryan switched to an off-road vehicle and ran to the location of the "Jurassic Park 3" crew.

From late October, Spielberg led the crew to the rainforest on the southeast side of the island, and began a two-and-a-half-month location shoot. In addition to the main creative staff, there are also two special effects teams from Industrial Light and Magic, which temporarily set up a special effects studio on the island to cooperate with the filming of the crew.

The off-road vehicle was parked outside the crew. Spielberg was holding a microphone and loudly coordinating the filming as Ryan walked past. A Tyrannosaurus Rex model that is basically close to the real scale and another Spinosaurus model that is also close to the real scale are suspended by several huge cranes, fighting each other between advancing and retreating.

Although the model is very realistic, the action is very stiff. After all, this is just a model. If you want to become a living dinosaur, you need to modify it with later technology.

The difficulty of shooting is relatively high, and it is often necessary to readjust the position of the crane after a short shot of more than ten seconds.

"Hi Ryan."

A little blond girl's voice sounded crisply, and Ryan shook it gently on her outstretched hand, "Long time no see, Hannah, you seem to be growing taller again."

"That's because I live with dinosaurs."

The little girl is young, but very smart. She pointed to the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Spinosaurus that were still fighting, "These prehistoric monsters are so big, just looking at them makes me feel taller."

"They can eat people." Ryan laughed.

Dakota Fanning has once again been favored by Spielberg after "War of the Worlds", and will play a little girl who lives alone on Dinosaur Island and survives in the film.

This girl has experienced "The Hunger Games" and "War of the Worlds", and is definitely the hottest and most spiritual girl star in Hollywood at the moment. Her smile and big eyes have conquered countless movie audiences.

pity……

Ryan shook his head, after all, it was difficult to get rid of the child star curse.

"Hi, Stephen."

The previous filming came to an end temporarily, and Ryan strode over, "It looks like everything is going well."

Spielberg handed the microphone to his assistant and shook hands with Ryan. "It's faster than expected, and I'm confident that the location filming on Lanai will be finished before Christmas."

"The most difficult thing is to shoot the imax scene." The old man helped his glasses and pointed to several huge cameras hanging on the crane. "The imax3d equipment is too bulky, and every adjustment takes a lot of time."

"Trust me, Stephen." Ryan looked at the cameras. "It's all worth it."

All in all, there are about 20 kinds of shots in the film that will use imax3d technology. For this era, this is already a huge investment and a technological breakthrough. The previous life of "Transformers 3" was purely shot using imax technology. But only twenty minutes.

It was a long break, and after Spielberg was done with the work in hand, Ryan heard him talk about a lot of things during the shooting, and briefly exchanged some opinions.

Like "Jurassic Park 1", except for a few episodes that take place at night, most of the footage will be in the daytime, and even at night, it will be a very clear picture.

Those thick fogs that can save most of the post-production special effects production costs, but are hated by the audience, will never be blocked in front of the camera unless necessary. The main selling point of the movie is the real dinosaurs. If you can't see the dinosaurs clearly, then Will the film still attract audiences to the theater?

Ryan and Spielberg, both veterans of commercial films, understand this.

Some expenses can be saved, some can't be saved, otherwise after the film is released, don't complain that the audience doesn't buy it.

After staying here for too long, Ryan left. With Katherine Kennedy and Spielberg in charge of the crew, there is nothing to worry about. The filming and special effects production are all smooth. If nothing else happens, it should be in time for next year. of summer.

All that remains is for Disney and Universal to step up their publicity efforts.

According to the agreement reached more than a decade ago, the film Ryan once again accepted the investment of Universal Pictures, in this regard, his credit has always been very good.

Today's Universal Pictures is no longer the troubled Universal Pictures after it was acquired by Vivendi. Last year, it officially merged with the National Broadcasting Corporation of the United States to form the Universal Group. The largest shareholder behind it is General Electric. This old-fashioned group holds 80 percent of the shares.

General Electric, when it comes to market value, is not the first in the world, but the real influence on the United States, Microsoft and other companies can not compare with it.

Perhaps the saying that when GE is gone, and America is also gone, is a bit exaggerated, but it always reflects the importance of this company to the United States.

In other words, Hollywood has also completely entered the era of giant competition. The box office of the film industry may be less than 10 billion US dollars, but the derivative market is extremely large.

Before Ryan left Los Angeles, there was also a large-scale acquisition involving Hollywood. DreamWorks finally reached an agreement with Viacom, and Paramount Pictures officially acquired DreamWorks skg for $1.6 billion. Although this acquisition did not involve the long-established DreamWorks Animation Studio, it announced that another company that challenged the traditional power of Hollywood ended in failure.

After years of hard work, even a combination as powerful as David Geffen, Jereph Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg is powerless to break the rules of the game dominated by traditional Hollywood giants.

When he returned to the manor and walked into the living room, Ryan saw Nicole in home clothes walking around, showing Mo Min's wonderful little temper. Except for the housekeeper Elsa, everyone else stayed far away from her. of.

"Hey, dear." Ryan walked over quickly, pulled her to sit on the sofa, "what happened?"

"Where have you been?" Nicole's goal shifted to him instantly, "Why did I wake up and didn't see you."

"Didn't I tell you?"

The pregnant woman's temper is fickle, so Ryan had to patiently say, "I went to Stephen's crew in the south to visit, and the "Jurassic Park 3" we invested in is shooting there."

"Is there?" Nicole frowned suspiciously, "I seem to have forgotten."

"What's going on?" Ryan turned to look at Elsa.

Nicole was never a good-natured person, especially when she was pregnant, but tantrums were rarely directed at the servants.

"The servants here don't know that Nicole is pregnant." Elsa leaned into Ryan's ear and whispered, "Nicole wants to eat fruit salad, they added some hawthorn in it."

"Hawthorn?" Ryan was even more puzzled.

"Hawthorn can accelerate uterine contractions..." Elsa quickly explained, "Eating too much may lead to miscarriage."

"It's all our people here."

It's not just Elsa who came to Hawaii on the same plane, but also those who take care of Nicole, "the people in the original manor, let them take care of the work outside." (To be continued..) ()