Chapter 523

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Warner Brothers has officially confirmed that a director, Walter brofsky, will direct the latest superhero film, the suicide squad.

The election was announced at this time. According to Murphy's own conjecture, Warner brothers may not have shown a strong attitude, but it has no effect on him. After all, he does not have to get the guide tube of wonder woman.

When he got home, he went to the social networking site and saw that Walter brovsky was a very strange name.

However, Murphy didn't find it strange that he didn't know many Hollywood directors, such as Jon fereau, who was once a fat director. If it wasn't for iron man, I believe that not only he but also quite a few fans would not know him.

There are many directors in Hollywood who are not well-known. Before directing well-known productions, they have been engaged in directing for many years in independent film circles or other smaller film circles and advertising circles.

It is said that the investment of "suicide team" may be as high as 150 million US dollars. Even if there is a little conflict with Warner Brothers, Murphy also believes that they are not crazy and must have their own reasons.

In Hollywood, it's not uncommon for small directors with enough qualifications to direct big projects.

In the eyes of people outside the circle, these directors must be geniuses. They can win the trust and appreciation of big companies when they are new, and they can get the guide tube of big productions costing hundreds of millions of dollars

But no one in the circle would think that way.

In fact, these so-called novice directors without fame are all veteran directors, but they have never been directors of commercial blockbusters. Now the Hollywood commercial film system is perfect, and the producer system can ensure that the film quality will not become a complete disaster due to the director's great loss of standard, and these directors will not have the final editing right.

Similar to this situation, it must be supported and recommended by heavyweights, which plays a key role.

On the other hand, most of the artisan directors in Hollywood are good at more than one similar type, and can deal with many types of films, except for some special types, such as song and dance films and black films. Therefore, as long as we carefully investigate, there is no so-called unsuitable situation in the selection of directors.

For example, it's not bad to find Redley Scott to direct a pure love movie, but the director's interest is not here.

In addition, producers, artistic directors and experienced editors are the guarantee of the project. Most of the ordinary directors of Hollywood popcorn commercial films are just people who string up the whole project, sometimes even just live performance guidance.

In the typical commercial operation of Hollywood, the director's importance has been weakened too much in those homogenized popcorn commercial films.

Let's take the restart version of X-Men: the first war that Carla Firth is working on. The actors Michael faspin and James McAvoy who have been finalized are the candidates for the production of Carla Firth. The script was written early by the screenwriter, and Matthew Vaughn, as the director, has no final editing right.

Don't say it's him. In another alien series that Carla Firth restarted, which has been named Prometheus, the big director Ridley Scott doesn't have the final editing right. Is it hard to imagine?

Redley Scott is undoubtedly a front-line director in Hollywood, but his power in the crew has been reduced to the limit, because his last film suffered a terrible loss. In the commercial film circle where box office results speak, everything is so realistic.

In these ordinary large-scale commercial productions, for the production company, the director just comes to work and is not obedient. The producer has the right to change the director.

In fact, this kind of high investment commercial production in Hollywood is extremely rigid in terms of creation. It's afraid that it will lose money because of the audience's taboo when it comes to innovation. Therefore, I can always feel that the current blockbusters are almost the same in terms of starting and ending.

Most of the time, the producers of this kind of ordinary popcorn commercial masterpiece don't want to find a director like Murphy who demands great power, because they have ideas and have the final editing right. However, this is a production of hundreds of millions of dollars, which can't allow a person to show his creativity like this.

The other side of this logic is, is a director like Murphy willing to be angry?

In fact, not only in the big production, the director often does not know, and the actors often do not know, or they can recognize, but they are not famous enough to cause screams.

Because in fact, most of the budget of such movies is spent on special effects. Of course, the fewer directors and actors, the better. Big name directors and actors not only get paid, but also score at the box office. Even if the production companies make money, they are not happy.

Of course, the directors that the audience has never heard of must have been strictly considered by the production company. Although the reputation is relatively poor, there is no problem with live shooting. There are a lot of advertising, photographers and B-level film backgrounds. In Hollywood's past experience, many directors also come from here, so the production company is also willing to choose people from these fields. These are the most important reasons It's a bottom-up selection channel for Hollywood directors.

Take a look at Hollywood today. Why are more and more directors with advertising background now undertaking A-level production? It's because directors with advertising background are very good at visual effects. Although stories are often told poorly and they have a lot of advertising thinking, it's back to the original problem. Most of the audience go to the cinema to see scenes and effects.Therefore, more and more big Directors now give the producer part-time when they make movies with high budget, or give the producer to someone closer to them. For example, Murphy is cultivating Gail gado in order to give himself more autonomy and get more profits.

Strictly speaking, the risk of big director + big star + high investment mode is the highest. There are too many cases in Hollywood history in which a company fails because of the box office slump of this mode. If there is not enough guarantee, the production company will not be so confident to make a film of this mode.

If you want to do this kind of project, you have to see enough profit prospects. For example, directors like Murphy and Spielberg have a lot of super successful resumes. Even if the project can't recover its capital from the box office, it can also make profits through later revenue.

It is said that Hollywood film is an industrial system. What is industry? That is, standardized process and risk control are implemented in every aspect.

Let's just say that the typical combination of popcorn high-cost movies and unfamiliar directors, which is made by six major companies, can produce similar visual effects, and can be made by those carefully selected unknown directors. Under the strict control of the producers, it won't be any worse.

In these films, if the director is really talented, it is icing on the cake for this film. If the director has problems, this film will not be completely destroyed.

During the economic crisis in 2008, Murphy invested in a series of films of this type, such as transformers 2. These films are basically of this type, with popcorn characteristics and relatively small risks.

Of course, in a few commercial films, production companies will become cautious and will not easily make investment decisions. Such films must be accompanied by famous editors and directors.

This kind of film is generally original film, which is very risky.

Everything, in fact, is the control of risk cost.

Hollywood is strict in risk control. It's hard for people outside the circle to imagine that even Murphy's current projects can't get the green light from investors. The necessary audit procedures must go.

Even those projects that look very impressive and different at first sight will also be controlled by the risk cost.

The matrix is a typical example.

When the wodrowski brothers and sisters were wodrowski brothers, the two brothers went to various producers with the script of the matrix. After the producers saw it, they didn't like it at all. They thought that making this kind of inexplicable thing into a movie would only make a mess of compensation. After Hollywood hit a wall in succession, the wodrowski brothers had no way to increase the persuasiveness of the script and plan , specially found a cartoonist friend to help them create a cartoon based on matrix for many producers to see - that is, the widely acclaimed animated version of matrix later - after many producers tossed around, one of them took the cartoon to Warner Brothers' senior management suspiciously to see, but Warner's senior management didn't match at first, saying that the story was both religious and cultural The integration of philosophy and business actions is a complete nonsense. I don't want to invest at all.

Later, the wodrowski brothers had no choice but to borrow money from many parties to make a whole set of short films at their own expense, which moved Warner Brothers' senior management.

To put it simply, the first point is that the market evaluation and prediction risk of the script is too high. The film companies are not fools, and they can't be shocked by such nonsense. They are not fools. The second point is that the reputation of the director and screenwriter is not enough. If the script is not the wozhuosky brothers, it will definitely be another effect to replace the current Murphy or Spielberg.

For Hollywood's first-line directors and new directors, this is totally different.

Concerned about the selection of the next Warner Bros. director, Murphy continued to polish his script and plan in the following time. As long as there is no big accident, this will be his new project.

Los Angeles is like New York. It looks very prosperous on the surface, but in any world, where there is light, there is always darkness.

However, in this era, the darkness is always hidden in the depths, easily not exposed in front of the public.

In an ordinary warehouse in old Chinatown, several people gathered to check the guns and make the final preparations for the next action. On the wall in front of them, there was an image of a man with several scars on his face and strong facial lines. At first glance, he was determined.

"Watch it!" The leader said in awkward English, "that's what we're going to kill!" (to be continued). )