Chapter 285： Nolan annoyance

Evan-Bell stayed in Los Angeles for more than half a month, mainly because of his "fatal status". As a producer, Evan Bell knew what a tossing thing this is, especially for independent film producers, big and small things must be done by hand.

To put it simply, building a photo studio is definitely not as easy as imagined. The arrangement of a furniture and the application of a prop are all exquisite.

Evan Bell had to communicate carefully with screenwriter Michael Coney and director James Kaufman. Therefore, for the past half month, Evan Bell has been running to the No. 27 location of Warner Bros. almost every day.

Most films have more than fifty scenes, but "Deadly Identity" has only one: a hotel in the desert. So, the set designer had to work hard to lay out this single scene in multiple layers. In the end, David Greenblatt successfully leased Warner Bros.'s second-largest set, Studio 27. The set designers built the set according to a real desert hotel in California.

Due to the need for a stormy effect in the film, the floor of the set must be waterproof,

Drainage can also be drained. Before the construction of this large hotel and desert scene, a waterproof floor made of rubber must be built on the bottom layer, and the hotel uses the material for building the swimming pool, pressure shotcrete.

While busy, Evan-Bell has learned a lot, and Hua has thoroughly understood that no career is easy and easy. Shooting a movie is not as easy as it is described in the novel. Whether it is a screenwriter, director, actors, or other staff members, it is necessary to accumulate experience and hard work, and of course, there are indispensable talents, in order to produce excellent s work.

If coupled with the use of spare time to review basic psychology and learn German and French, Evan-Bell's days in Los Angeles are very fulfilling.

After more than half of May, summer in Los Angeles has come, the annual movie summer program is about to sound the alarm, and the North American film market in May has also begun to warm up for the summer program. Among these prelude films, "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" was a little underwhelming, but because the names of Evan Bell and Robin Williams were on the starring list, it won a lot of money. focus on.

The U.S. distributor of "The White Night" is Warner Bros., the film company that has released "The Matrix", "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, ... in the past three years, and is now gaining momentum in North America. This time , Warner Bros. defined "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night, ... as Christopher Nolan's first test of the water in the commercial film field, so it paid enough attention during the publicity period.

On May 24, the premiere of "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night" on Friday brought together more than 60 reporters and more than 300 fans to observe the scene, making the red carpet lively. Evan Bell has already experienced the release of "Death Illusion", the convening of the Grammy Awards,

The premiere of "Ice Age" is no stranger to the red carpet.

The only difference should be that there seemed to be more heart-wrenching shouts at the scene, and the support cards on both sides of "Damn perfect...," "Handsome guy without dead ends" completely occupied the line of sight. It seems that this In the past two months, Evan Bell's popularity has risen a lot.

When they got backstage, Evan-Bell saw Christopher-Nolan whom he had not seen for a long time, and the two embraced politely. Conservative English gentlemen can't help but feel a little uncomfortable. However, after the two released, Christopher Nolan saw a mischievous smile on Evan Bell's face.

In normal times, although Christopher Nolan would not react to the prank, at least his expression would be relieved, but today he just twitched the corners of his mouth. Not only did his expression not brighten, but his brows moved slightly in the middle. This surprised Evan Bell.

"Chris, did you just quarrel with a reporter outside? I don't think your expression is very good." Evan Yibel smiled a little, but still asked in a mocking tone, "Today is "White Night Chasing the Murderer, premiere" In the days of , if you show reporters such an expression on your face, it is estimated that the news of discord within the crew will be flying again. …,

Hearing this sentence, Christopher Nolan finally had some smiles on his face.

"If the relationship between the director and the actor is not good, then the media will be lively." Christopher Nolan said something, obviously he was talking about the "white night chase..., the inside story of the casting, if it is revealed at this time that the director has a relationship with the actor. The problem, then the Al Pacino incident will definitely become a hot spot for the media to chase.

Evan Yibell spread his hands, thinking with a look on his face, "Then should we fight directly here? It's more direct. "At the premiere, the conflict between the director and the male protagonist broke out" What a hot title."…

With such an interruption by Evan Bell, Christopher Nolan's expression was obviously much better. He took out his right hand from his pocket and waved it in front of him, as if he was waving the emotions just now... , I'm just thinking about something. After saying this, Evan-Bell thought it was over, and didn't want Christopher-Nolan to go on, "Before the premiere today, Warner Bros. offered me a deal."

Looking at Christopher Nolan's expression, it seems that he wants to communicate with Evan Bell. Looking around, his wife Emma Thomas is not there, she should be busy with other things. So, Evan-Bell complied with "What deal?"

Christopher Nolan is indeed lacking a person to communicate with, and he doesn't necessarily need opinions, but he is just thinking "Warner Bros. would like to sign a contract with me for three commercial films, the script will be provided by them, but they are willing to let me let go of the funds do it."

Evan Bell opened his mouth in surprise. He knew exactly what this deal from Warner Bros. meant. They were optimistic about the potential of Christopher Nolan and wanted to tie him to Warner Bros. before he became famous. The deal was simple, the script and requirements were provided by Warner Bros., and Christopher Nolan filmed it, and what the budding director got was ample funding and absolute filming initiative.

This reminds Evan-Bell of Warner Bros.'s wealth when Christopher-Nolan was filming "Deadly Magic Little" Batman: The Dark Knight and other films: relatively speaking, Christopher-Nolan was shooting "Inception" "At the time, Warner Bros. was not optimistic at first, but because the two sides reached an agreement, Warner Bros. still gave itself the greatest support.

Evan Bell did not expect that Warner Bros. would show confidence in Christopher Nolan so early. Generally speaking, big film companies are stubborn iron roosters who can't afford to do nothing. At present, Christopher Nolan has only shown excessive talent in film construction, but he has not made outstanding achievements in commercial films. So, Warner Bros. is a bit premature in proposing such a deal.

"This is a good deal, what are you thinking about?" Evan Bell had a lot of thoughts in his mind, but he still took the conversation.

"Evan, are you serious?" Christopher Nolan glanced at Evan Bell with dissatisfaction on his face.

Evan Yibell was stunned for a while, but he quickly reacted and smiled embarrassedly, 1 "Sorry, I was surprised that Warner Bros. proposed this deal just now. I was surprised." The thought went around in his mind, Evan and Bell understood, and the reason why Christopher Nolan would ask "Are you serious?"

"Man, I know what you're worrying about. Warner Bros. offered such a deal, limiting your ideas from the start of the script, and it's bound to fail to realize your own ideas for a movie, like "Memento,". "Evan Bell knew that if Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. had reached an agreement, an astonishing movie like "Memento" would definitely not appear. This is the key to Christopher Nolan's thinking just now.

This is actually the same as when Universal and Warner wanted to sign Evan-Bell. Evan-Bell was worried that he would lose himself because of signing with a large record company, and finally chose to work **** his own. This situation is very similar to Christopher Nolan now. No wonder, Christopher Nolan would ask "Are you serious?" Because Evan Bell refused the invitation of Universal and Warner.

"You and I are in the same situation, but also different." Evan Bell said seriously, "I can only say that just do it according to your own ideas. In layman's terms, follow yourself heart." Many times, truth is contained in the most ordinary moments in life and the words "follow your heart" as simple as a sentence, but not everyone can do it. "If you're worried that your idea for a movie won't come to fruition, but you're tempted by the Warner Bros. deal.

You can make a **** and then negotiate with Warner Bros., for example, if you shoot three movies according to Warner Bros.'s wishes, then Warner Bros. will shoot one movie according to your wishes. "

Evan Bell's words made Christopher Nolan's eyes suddenly light up, which was indeed a good idea. What Evan Bell knew was that the later Christopher Nolan and Warner Huangdi reached such an agreement, and "Inception" was the product of Warner Brothers' compromise with Christopher Nolan, but it created a box office miracle.

"Of course, you can make a **** and then "consider" and wait until the box office results of "Bai Ye Chasing the Murderer" come out, and then talk to Warner Bros. "Evan Bell's smile seems scheming, and now Warner Bros. has put forward the idea of ​​a deal, so if the box office performance is not good, the impact will not be too big, otherwise, if the box office performance is good, then Christopher Nolan's weight will be lost. It's heavy.

Christopher Nolan looked at Evan Bell and finally smiled. ! .