Chapter 1084： Whitewashing

Although I heard the news of the loss of sales around Hasbro Star Wars and the idea of ​​acquiring Hasbro, Eric did not mean to take it out privately. Kasenberg is obviously just mentioning it.

Because doing so is completely unnecessary.

As a listed company, Hasbro needs to disclose business data to investors on a regular basis. Coupled with the recent high attention to the Star Wars brand, I believe that it will not be long before this event will be excavated by the pervasive media.

At that time, the fireflies only need to watch the fun next to them, and then choose the right time to shoot.

However, think about the huge losses that Hasbro may face this year, Eric said to Kasenberg: "Fireflies will certainly make more films with peripheral development potential in the future. This is also a very good thing for us. In the case of a good negative, you let the Consumer Products Department follow up in real time and come up with a detailed analysis of why Hasbro has failed in this peripheral operation."

Kasenberg also only received news yesterday, and he has not had time to think so much.

When he heard Eric, he immediately responded, nodded, and carefully took out the memo that he carried with him and took note of it.

With the gradual cooling of the star wars, the long-awaited release of the MGM movie cosmic derivative series "Speed ​​and Passion" is also approaching.

On December 29th, the time is Tuesday.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the Hollywood Chinese Grand Theatre was surrounded by fanatic fans.

The release date of "Speed ​​and Passion" is January 1st, and MGM officially premiered in Los Angeles three days in advance.

Because of work, Eric did not participate in the red carpet ceremony, until nearly seven o'clock, he quietly entered the auditorium. A costumed gimmick saw Eric appeared, and did not ask much. Just waiting for the man to sit down and then kissed it down. The two men looked at the film master who was interacting with the media and the audience on the stage.

In addition to the two heroine substitutions, Eric basically used the film's former team, the two male characters are Van Diesel and Paul Walker, the director is also the original version of Robert Cohen.

Robert Cohen, who is about 50 years old, is also a veteran director in Hollywood. He debuted in the 1970s and is good at directing action movies. He has been with the old action stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Cooperation, also filmed "Brucelet Lee".

However, outside the main creative team, the entire film is beyond recognition.

Eric’s original intention was to follow the development sequence of “Speed ​​and Passion”. However, since it is to be a derivative of the MGM movie universe, the script definitely needs to be modified. Finally, the original version of the script is adjusted repeatedly. It was completely overthrown and formed a new story. In the process, the story structure of the entire series has been improved, and MGM has even come up with the outlines of the second and third parts.

At the same time as the script changed, the budget of the film was no longer the $30 million originally envisioned by Eric, but it was doubled to 60 million, almost at the A-level production level.

However, under the stimulation of the successful cooperation between the "Jiaojiaowa" series and Buick, although it is only the first one, although hesitating to the rookie actor in the production company, the major car companies have generously donated their advertising costs and props. Sports car sponsorship directly offset the estimated cost of $20 million.

In the publicity process in recent months, the joint publicity budget of these car companies has reached 30 million US dollars. Together with the investment of MGM itself, the scale of "speed and passion" is no less than one. Invested billions of blockbuster movies.

On the stage, after some interaction, the main creation stepped down, the lights were dark, and the movie on the big screen officially began to play.

After the head of MGM, the sound of the roaring sports car came directly from the sound of the auditorium. The picture was lit and four cool sports cars were driving fast on the highway in the night.

After several flashes, four sports cars easily surrounded a heavy truck in the center.

In the doubtful eyes of the audience, a man wearing a motorcycle helmet was found in a sports car in front of the heavy truck. He armed with a modified shotgun aimed at the truck co-pilot, slamming, the heavy-duty windshield was fired by the fish gun. The barb penetrated, and then the sports car pushed forward, and the heavy-duty windshield was pulled down.

The sports car that completed the mission skillfully changed position, and another sports car came to the front of the heavy truck, and a person wearing a motorcycle helmet appeared again in the compartment.

The heavy truck was attacked, and the truck driver would naturally not sit still and start the shifting lane in an attempt to open his own sports car.

As a result, as the heavy trucks flashed on the road, the scene immediately became nervous.

Whether the heavy truck accelerates or crashes into obstacles, the four sports cars follow closely. After experiencing the thrilling action of extremely difficult corner drift, precise parallelism and even encountering obstacles, the four sports cars remain. Tightly wrapped around the heavy card, like four bloodthirsty sharks around a clumsy whale.

With ample budget and the help of the Royal Action Design team of the Charlie's Baby series, this group of carefully crafted carjacking lenses is far more exciting than the original.

In the auditorium, the film began less than two minutes. Most of the audience had involuntarily substituted themselves into the driver roles of the four sports cars. Many people even started to feel irritated, hoping to drive in Los Angeles after the film screening. The city is flying.

When the four sports cars finally cooperated with the heavy-duty trucks to drop off the car, with their own 'trophy' in the more exciting film soundtrack, some viewers have already produced a feeling of returning the fare.

As for the film critics who participated in the premiere, most of them have already put down the pen and paper that they intend to record, just looking at the amazing beginning of this scene, they have already determined that this will be a pure The popcorn movie is also a very successful popcorn movie.

At the end of the film, after a muffled sound, the camera zoomed out. It turned out that Paul Walker played Brian O'Donnell and closed the door and turned to a fast food restaurant on the side of the road.

After experiencing the initial stimuli, what the audience most want to know at this time is undoubtedly the identity of the gang of robbers. Therefore, this suggestive lens suddenly brought the audience's curiosity to Brian O'Donnell's identity.

After finishing the ‘work’, drive to the roadside fast food restaurant to eat something, and take a look at the beautiful boss in the restaurant.

How familiar is the routine.

right?

Then I was defamed.

After some conflict, Brian drove away in a wolfsome way, was stopped by a police car halfway, and people were brought into the police station.

When many viewers were surprised that this was what it was, the film did not continue to sell, and Brian’s identity was quickly revealed.

In the Los Angeles area, a number of container trucks were robbed. The FBI targeted the suspects to a group of squadrons headed by Dominique Torreto, and sent the best Brian in the police station to go undercover.

However, after a week in a row, Brian did not make any progress, but fell in love with Dominic's sister Mia at first sight.

Under the pressure of the boss, Brian had to speed up the progress of the Dominica team. In the evening, he rushed to participate in the underground car race organized by Dominica. Although he lost the game during the race, he was rescued after the accident. Dominic, who was chased by the police car, was approved by the other party and was taken back to his residence.

In the days that followed, Brian gradually became acquainted with the other people in the group.

Dominic's sister Mia Toledo, the other's girlfriend Riley Ortiz, the character's impulsive Vince Benal, has excellent car modification talent but suffers from attention deficit Jesse Fee Mann, and another Asian gang who is also an enemy of the Dominica team, Jonny Chen.

Not only did Brian really talk to Mia about love, but also unconsciously influenced by the charm of Dominique's personality, and began to truly integrate into this small group.

However, the truck robbery continued to happen, and Brian’s other identity also forced him to continue investigating the matter.

In the process of getting along, Brian inadvertently got an important clue from Jesse's mouth.

Jesse's father is about to be released from prison. He has a desire to have a sum of money after his father is released from prison, and then take his mother out of California to start living again. When Jesse talked about this, he always had a sense of excitement as if he was about to save enough money.

Brian is very clear that the main source of income for this small group of Dominica is to organize underground racing competitions and earn bonuses. Although this is enough for a group of people to live a life of worry-free life, there is still room to continue their car hobby, but it is impossible to give Jessie parents a large sum of money to leave California to live again.

Since I thought it was confirmed that Dominic had robbed the truck, Brian began to look at it, but found that things were not as simple as I thought.

It turned out that Jesse did participate in the truck robbery, but Dominic did not know what his brother had done. Instead, Jesse and Vince collaborated with Jonny Chen privately.

As the FBI's investigation into the robbery of the trucks increased, Jonny Chen, who felt the pressure, decided to make another vote and then launched the Dominica gang as a scapegoat.

Knowing the ins and outs of all this, Brian, who got the final goal of Jonny Chen, finally confessed to Dominic after some struggle.

Although Dominic was very angry, he realized that his brother had fallen into the trap of Jonny Chen, and he still rushed to rescue with his girlfriend Riley.

However, it was a late step.

In the fierce road chase, Jonny Chen, the Dominica team and the rebellious truck driver were in a mixed battle. Jesse accidentally died, Vince was seriously injured, and Jonny Chen fled. At the same time, the Dominica team also had a bad time. Wrongly succeeded by Jonny Chen, he was locked by the FBI as a suspect in a truck robbery.

In a hurry to settle down his brother, Dominic immediately launched a revenge on Jonny Chen, who also followed Dominic under Mia's request.

In the final battle of the car, Jonny Chen broke the bones in a violent explosion. The successful Dominican car was destroyed. At the same time, he heard the sirens coming around, so he did not intend to escape. He only hoped that he could help the two brothers. Resist the blame.

This time, Brian did not hesitate any more, handed over his car key and took the initiative to put Dominic away.

The original version of "Speed ​​and Passion" is basically a low-cost B-level filmed car movie, so there is no need to care about the value of the film. Dominic is a group of pure car party and robbers.

However, although Westerners advocate freedom, this does not mean that they will reverse the concept of right and wrong without principle.

Hollywood, which follows the political correctness, understands this as well. Therefore, in the original series, as the series gradually became promoted to A-level production, the Dominica team gradually began to be whitewashed, the characters became more and more positive, and eventually even began to save. world.

At this time, although it was only a start, but because of the aura of the agent's film universe derivative series, "Speed ​​and Passion" from the beginning of attention is far from being comparable to the original. In this case, if Eric adheres to the original settings, it will definitely be subject to criticism.

Therefore, Eric simply whitewashed the Dominica team from the beginning, while adding to the description of the brotherhood between the small team and Dominic's super car party attribute. In this version, in order to pave the way for the future flying family to save the world, Eric has greatly increased Dominique's military value, and has shaped him into one of the top drivers hidden between the city.

In the auditorium, when the film was over and the subtitles rose, Eric swept his eyes around, and the audience basically showed a satisfactory look to the film.

Moreover, everyone is very patient and continues to wait.

By convention, the film of the agent's film universe must have an ending egg.

Although MGM has stated that the "Speed ​​and Passion" series will not join the main story of the agent movie universe, but there will be some crossovers with the world setting, but the fans are still looking forward to it.

In the auditorium, although I have already felt that "Speed ​​and Passion" is a film that is completely different from the three series of special effects of the movie universe, everyone expects it after the glorious movie watching process in the past 120 minutes. Such a **** car movie can intersect with the three series.

The film did not disappoint the audience.

When the ending caption is fixed, the screen lights up again.

The black Porsche made a beautiful iris on a corner, stopping precisely next to another orange-red Lamborghini.

Brian O'Donnell, who plays Paul Walker, is a little proud of the underground car, looking to the opposite side.

A petite little girl who was not scared by the Porsche tail-end emergency stop sat carelessly on the Lamborghini hood and shook her head in disappointment: "No, I need a better driver."

Brian dissatisfiedly retorted: "I am the best driver in Los Angeles."

The girl shook her finger and said: "No, you are not."

Brian and the girl looked at each other for a moment, their eyes lit up, and the corner of their mouth evoked a meaningful smile. They nodded: "Really, I am not."