Chatty Hollywood

"So, James, you hope that Spectre Studios can invest in your movie?"

After reading the script, Charlotte looked up at the fat, yellow-skinned man opposite.

"Yes."

The other party's face was obviously nervous.

"You have already approached several companies including New Line and Lions Gate before, right? They didn't agree to you!?"

"this……"

James Huang's face turned slightly red, and he finally explained,

"There are still many people who are more optimistic about my movies, but because my ideas are relatively fresh, so..."

"For most Hollywood companies, innovation means danger!"

Charlotte nodded,

"Of course, resting on one's laurels without innovation also means slow death, but most people don't care about this - because large and medium-sized companies have enough capital to wait for innovators to finish the mines and then follow up in time."

"this……"

Charlotte said it so straightforwardly that James Huang didn't know what to say.

Fortunately, Charlotte didn't want James Huang to answer - he would say this, firstly to deceive the other party, but also because he felt it was strange.

Because this script by James Huang is very similar to a movie called "Death Is Coming" that Charlotte watched in the original time and space.

But according to Charlotte's memory, "Death Is Coming" should have been released in 2000. Why did James Wong come to invest in her now?

Charlotte recalled it carefully and found that the movie "Death is Coming" has indeed never been heard of in this world...

"Could it be that the butterfly effect caused by my appearance not only caused certain movies or events to be advanced, but also caused other movies to be delayed?"

Charlotte thought to herself.

But he didn't know that to some extent, the delay or difficulty in delivering "Death is Coming" was indeed related to him——

You know, because of Charlotte's appearance, starting from 1994, Hollywood's film output will be higher than the same period in his original time and space.

Of course, in terms of pure quantity, the increase may not be much, mainly just a few movies shot by Charlotte that were not originally of this era.

However, starting from "Sleepy Hollow", none of Charlotte's movies has a small investment——

One big production he produces every year is enough to squeeze out the investment of many originally small-budget films.

After all, there is only so much money that can be circulated in Hollywood. Even if Charlotte's success has led to more capital investment in Hollywood, it is the nature of capital to chase the rise and kill the fall——

Compared with Charlotte's original time and space, the additional investment that poured into Hollywood was basically swallowed up by Charlotte's Specter Studio and the Hollywood Seven.

Even, based on the head effect, they also absorbed some additional investment that originally belonged to low-cost movies.

This has led to the boom era of Hollywood blockbusters being slightly ahead of schedule, but the living conditions of small-budget movies have actually become worse.

James Wong's "Death Comes" is a victim of this effect——

Indeed, according to Charlotte's original time and space trends, the film should have been released by New Line in 2000.

But in this time and space, New Line does not have this ability.

First of all, because Lao Qiang and the others were almost cheated by New Line, the relationship between Spectre Studio and New Line was not good.

After the rise of Spectre Studio, many of their partners were also relatively indifferent to New Line.

——This directly caused New Line to receive a lot of investment, and the number of movies it can produce and distribute each year has also been reduced.

Secondly, this is also the impact of Mr. Westwood’s change of job from New Line——

Mr. Producer, who often takes medicine for heart disease, is not a high-ranking figure in New Line, but he is still a senior veteran.

His job-hopping not only caused "The Lord of the Rings", a movie that almost launched New Line's rise, to miss out on New Line, it also led to the resignation of many middle- and low-level employees.

New Line has naturally tried to prevent this, but unlike senior executives who are generally restricted by various agreements and must carefully study job changes, middle- and low-level employees generally come and go freely.

——They were fired for good, whether they fired the boss or not, it was just a matter of words.

However, such middle and lower levels, especially the middle level, are the core and foundation of a company's true business capabilities.

Their instability under the leadership of Mr. Westwood has directly led to a significant decline in New Line's business level in the past three years. It has struggled to operate and has invested in and produced many fewer good films.

And James Wong's "Death Comes" is one of the ones that has been missed.

——Who makes James Huang, as the name suggests, a yellow man or a Chinese?

In the United States, Chinese Americans are more likely to be discriminated against than black people.

In terms of work, if several applicants have the same ability, the chance of a Chinese person getting a job is 80% the smallest.

That is to say, based on the Chinese tradition of attaching great importance to education, many Chinese people, especially the second generation, generally have good education levels, so that they can do well in the United States.

But in an industry like the movie, where success often does not depend on science and academic qualifications, but a heavy component of luck, the educational level of Chinese Americans is not of much help.

Especially when a film director is preparing for his first film, because he has no past performance to support him, it really fits that sentence——

If you say you can do it, then you can do it, and if you don’t, it’s okay;

If you say no, it won’t work, and if you say yes, it won’t work.

——Anyway, due to factors other than these abilities, James Wong's movie "Death Comes", which was supposed to be released in 2000, is still just a script.

Of course, this does not mean that James Huang has done nothing in the past two years——

In fact, he became a film director.

——Although the script of "Death is Coming" was rejected, perhaps it was his previous qualifications as a TV drama director that impressed some people.

——Of course, it is more likely that someone is taking advantage of him.

Anyway, he became the director of "Dragon Ball" in early 2000.

That's right, the one who can summon the dragon by gathering seven of them!

Ordinarily, this is considered a big IP, but unfortunately, the investor Fox’s purpose of making this movie is not to make money——

You know, according to Hollywood rules, the copyright of purchased comics often has an expiration date.

After the validity period has passed and it has not been adapted into a film or television work, the copyright will automatically revert to the original author.

Fox also signed a similar agreement with Akira Toriyama, the author of "Dragon Ball", and the signing period was not long.

Now, in order to retain the rights, Fox must make a "Dragon Ball", just like the shoddy version of "Fantastic Four" in 2015.

In this case, one can naturally imagine the level of investment in the film and the seriousness of the producer.

It's just a pity that James Huang, who didn't know the inside story, was very excited when he received the job and worked hard during the filming, but after all, not every brave young man can create miracles——

Anyway, "Dragon Ball" failed as Fox expected, and James Wong, who was brought in to take the blame, also became a scapegoat. For a while, no film company was willing to find him to direct a movie...