Chapter 764： If you want to win, you must prepare in advance

After sending everyone away, Ryan went to the nursery with Lily Moshen who was following her ass. Sandy was still asleep and he was asleep. He stood by and watched for a while, and then confessed a few words to the nanny. Satisfied and left.

Back in the living room of the villa, Nicole just came in through the back door of the villa.

"Lily, you have also become naughty."

Taking the towel from the servant, Nicole wiped her hands, walked over and gently pinched the goddaughter’s nose, turned the couch, and sat on a single sofa, “You’re stepping everywhere in the garden. The bursting balloon fragments."

"Sorry, godmother."

Lily Mo Sim was much more obedient than Taylor when she was a child, she ran over and took Nicole's hand, "We were so happy to play."

"It's okay." Nicole pulled her to her side, "Elsa has already found a cleaning company."

Taking the coffee pot from Elsa, Ryan walked over with it, flipped over the cup on the coffee table, poured a cup for herself and Nicole, and after handing it to Nicole, he picked up his cup and sat down. On the single sofa opposite.

"Is Sunny still sleeping?" Nicole asked after taking a sip of coffee.

"It's sleeping right." Ryan took a sip and put down the cup. "The babysitter is watching over there. The little guy is probably tired too, and probably won't wake up in a short time.

"She didn't have a nap today, so she should take a little longer." Nicole looked at the goddaughter, "Lily, go to the desk in the study and bring me a script."

"Still the same place?"

Seeing Nicole nodding, Lily took a brisk pace and ran to the second floor.

"What script?" Ryan couldn't help asking curiously.

"You know." Nicole said, looking at Lily's back disappearing at the corner of the stairs, "I went to New York some time ago to negotiate a film contract with a director. Recently, he adapted the "Weakness: The Progress of the Game" by himself. The first draft of the script was mailed to me, and I think it’s not bad. You can make some suggestions."

Before long, Lily ran back with a script that was at most two hundred pages thick, and understood Nicole's meaning very tacitly, and passed the script directly to Ryan, and then ran to the entertainment room to entertain herself. Up.

Turning over the script, Ryan browsed it as quickly as possible, while Nicole introduced some basic information.

"The title of the film is definitely called "Weakness." John Lee Hancock will be the screenwriter and director."

Hearing Nicole's words, Ryan raised his head, "Where did I hear this name?"

"This is the person recommended by Julius." Nicole said roughly. "In 2002, John Lee Hancock worked with Disney Pictures on "Rookie Baseball". At a party some time ago, the old cowboy Clint Eastwood also recommended him to me."

"John Lee Hancock and I have already met Anne Tauchy and Sean Tauchy." Nicole continued, "I also met the protagonist Michael Och in the book, shortly after that meeting. , He took out the first draft of the script."

"It sounds..." Ryan flipped through the script quickly. "Are you satisfied with John Lee Hancock?"

"It's true." Nicole shrugged. "The book "Weakness: The Progress of the Game" introduces the story of Michael Och. It also explains the importance of a left tackle to an American football team. In-depth research, so "Weakness: Game Progress" has attracted the attention of countless people who love sports, especially American football."

"But the film must not be shot like this."

As a producer for a long time, Nicole also has her own experience, "A pure sports inspirational movie. It is just a niche subject, which does not meet our goals. After discussing with John, I decided to only intercept one of the novels. The main line was adapted to produce a mainstream Hollywood film."

Raise your head. Ryan gestured to Nicole to continue.

"We intend to focus on describing how great the family is, and focus on the non-traditional mother-child relationship with no blood relationship. Sports, especially American football, promoted the development of the whole story, but in fact it has nothing to do with sports. Because Michael Ou The development of the relationship between He and Tao Xi's family is the core of the whole story."

"Have you found an actor who played Michael Och?" Ryan turned over the script again.

"Found it." Nicole rubbed her forehead. It seemed that this had caused her a headache. "It took a lot of effort for Pat to find a **** guy who has passed acting skills. He is now working on Michael Och's. He was trained in the American football team of the University of Mississippi, his alma mater."

Ryan didn't say anything, but concentrated on going through the script roughly and thinking about it for a while.

"The script is generally okay. However, Nicole, there are too many depictions of the black area in the script. The violence and racial opposition in the script will destroy the warm atmosphere of the script. It is best to take them away."

The nanny walked into the living room holding Sonny at this moment, Nicole hurried over to take her daughter, and nodded to this side, "I understand."

If you only look at the rich areas and the middle-class areas with better public security and location, North America seems to be a paradise in propaganda. But when you enter the slums and black areas, you will understand why the light is always filled with darkness. A typical American theme film does not require too many ethnic elements.

This script is not written as a type of so-called elimination of racism and discrimination, and it does not even obviously involve this aspect at all. Its intention is much higher than this.

The theme is not that white people should deal with black people's mercy and charity, but let everyone discover the beauty, dignity and value in themselves. This is the beautiful interpretation of the so-called "manifesto" that "everyone is created equal".

From another perspective, this is an inspirational story built with family as the core. Although it is inspirational, like Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling", it is essentially not a story about a sparrow becoming a phoenix and an ugly duckling becoming a swan.

The intention of the script is much more positive than this. Fundamentally, Michael Och is considered to be a phoenix and a swan, but he has serious blind spots. Once these blind spots are eliminated, he can show the best side to the world. .

Regardless of the reality of North American society, these are extremely consistent with the values ​​propagated by mainstream society.

This film, like Natalie’s "Black Swan", requires a longer preparation period. The main reason is that the black male protagonist has to practice some basics of American football, and the crew has to contact several high school and university American football teams. Fortunately, these are not as troublesome as the ballet training of Natalie and Scarlett. After all, American football is the number one sport in the United States.

After Sandy’s birthday party, Nicole’s Kidman studio officially started preparing for the film, and Disney Pictures as a partner also joined it, with Nicole and Jules Stewart acting as producers. The adaptation of "Weakness: Progress of the Game" is also too worrying.

Ryan paid more attention to Natalie's "Black Swan" than the film that Nicole had just started preparing. Especially a few days ago, the special effects she commissioned by Pixar Studios had some problems.

Pixar Studio is mainly responsible for the hair rendering when Natalie turned into a black swan in the last **** scene. In terms of generating and rendering hair, Hollywood can't find a better special effect than Pixar, although the two sides had a few days ago. There was a little disagreement on the styling, but a consensus was quickly reached.

After the special effects of Pixar Studios are completed, in addition to the need to add the soundtrack, the post-production of "Black Swan" is basically completed, and there will be no delay in attending the Venice Film Festival at the end of August.

Because of the relationship between Natalie and the All-Star team of Pixar Studios, Ryan deliberately let people know the situation of this year's Venice Film Festival, especially the situation of the judges and rivals in the competition unit.

Through the reports submitted by his subordinates, Ryan knew that the Venice Film Festival was blowing Chinese style in recent years. Last year, it was a Chinese director who won the Golden Lion Award. The chairman of this year’s jury is the director who will be the director of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games next year. I saw the names of Ang Lee and "Lust Caution" on the entry list.

I vaguely remember that the previous life "Lust and Caution" seemed to have won a heavyweight award in the three major European film festivals. Now it seems to be the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. In this case...

It seems that I don't have much relationship between Italy and Venice, and it seems that Disney Europe and Far East branches should start work in advance.

As for Ang Lee, not to mention the Oscars, he helped him get Palme d'Or twice, and it was time to pay back the favor.

He is a smart man, and he must also know what to do.

In contrast, the jury composed solely of directors is somewhat difficult to deal with.

The chairman of the jury from China with the surname Zhang will not say anything. There is no friendship between the two sides There are also French female director Catherine Brea, and New Zealand female director Jane who has directed "Piano Lesson". Campion, Italian director Emmanuel Crisales, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inalido, who directed "Sky Tower", and Turkish director Folsom Ou Judges such as Zpeit and the Dutch director Paul Verhofen who had directed the "Black Book".

Few of them are really closely related to Hollywood, and even those continental directors are relatively hostile to Hollywood movies.

Since participating in the competition unit of the film festival, no one wants to go home empty-handed. At the beginning of June, Ryan called Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola separately, and carefully selected a media public relations team, in advance Hurry to Italy to prepare for the publicity during the Venice Film Festival.

However, Ryan can only do this for the time being, after all, there is still some time before the Venice Film Festival, and the summer vacation in North America is still strangling in chaos.

Also in this month, Universal Pictures announced the annexation of Illumination Entertainment Animation Company, Illumination Entertainment officially became a subsidiary of Universal Pictures Company, and specialized in the production of animation films for the latter.

The Hollywood animation business has completely ushered in the era of coexistence. (To be continued...) ()