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Warner Bros. has officially confirmed that a director named Walter Brofsky will helm the latest DC Comics superhero movie "Suicide Squad."

It was chosen to be announced at this time period. Murphy himself guessed that Warner Bros. may not have shown a tough attitude, but this did not have any effect on him. After all, he did not have to get the guide tube of "Wonder Woman".

When he got home, he logged on to the social networking site to check again. Walter Brovsky was a very strange name.

However, Murphy didn't find it strange. There are many directors in Hollywood that he doesn't know, such as the former Jon Favreau. If it wasn't for the film "Iron Man", I believe not only him, but quite a few movie fans would not know him. The fat director.

Hollywood is full of lesser-known directors who spent years directing in the independent or other smaller film and commercial circles before directing big-name productions.

It is rumored that the investment of "Suicide Squad" may be as high as 150 million U.S. dollars. Even if there is a small conflict with Warner Bros., Murphy believes that they are definitely not crazy and must have their own reasons. .

In Hollywood, it is not uncommon for such small directors with sufficient qualifications to direct big projects.

From the perspective of people outside the circle, these directors must be geniuses. They can gain the trust and appreciation of big companies when they make their debuts, and they can get the guide tubes of big productions with a production cost of hundreds of millions of dollars...

But no one in the circle sees it that way.

These so-called unknown novice directors are actually veterans, but they have never been directors of commercial blockbusters. The current Hollywood commercial film system is perfect, and the producer system can ensure that the quality of the film will not be completely lost due to the director's lack of standards. Disaster, not to mention that these directors will not have the final editing rights at all.

In a situation like this, there must be the support and recommendation of heavyweights, and this aspect is quite critical.

On the other hand, most craftsman-level directors in Hollywood tend to be good at more than one genre, and can deal with multiple genres, except for some special genres—such as musicals and film noirs—so, as long as you carefully examine, the finalized director There is basically no so-called unsuitable situation.

For example, if you find Ridley Scott to direct a pure romance film, it won't be too bad, but the director's interest is not there.

In addition, producers, art directors, and experienced editors are the guarantee of the project. Most ordinary directors of Hollywood popcorn commercial films are just people who string together the entire project, and sometimes they are even just live performance directors.

Under the reminder of Hollywood's typical commercial operations, the importance of directors has been weakened too much in those popcorn commercial films with serious homogeneity.

Take Kara Firth's X-Men reboot "X-Men: First Class" as an example. The actors Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy who have been finalized are Kara Firth. The producer was chosen, and the script was written by the screenwriter early on. As the director, Matthew Vaughan did not have the final editing rights.

Not to mention him, another "Alien" series restarted by Kara Firth, which has been named "Prometheus", the great director Ridley Scott does not have the final editing rights, it is hard to imagine ?

Ridley Scott is undoubtedly a first-line director in Hollywood, but his power in the crew has been suppressed to the limit, because his last film lost a lot of money. In the commercial film circle that speaks by box office results, everything is like this Reality.

In these ordinary commercial productions, for the production company, the director came here to work. If he is not obedient, the producer has the right to change the director.

This kind of high-investment commercial production is actually extremely rigid in terms of creation in Hollywood, because they are afraid of losing money because of innovation and accidentally meeting the taboos of the audience.

Many times, this general popcorn commercial masterpiece,

The production team also didn't want to find a director like Murphy who demanded a lot of power, because directors like them have ideas and have the final editing rights.

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

In fact, not only in big productions, the director often doesn’t know each other, but the actors also often don’t know each other, or they just recognize them but are not particularly famous enough to cause screams.

Because in fact, this kind of movie spends most of its budget 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. happy.

Of course, these directors that the audience has never heard of must have been strictly considered by the production company. Although the reputation is relatively lacking, there must be no problem with on-site shooting. In past experience, many directors also come from here, so production companies are also willing to select talents from these fields. These are actually the bottom-up selection channels for Hollywood directors.

Looking at Hollywood today, why are more and more directors with advertising background taking on A-level productions? It is because directors with advertising background are very good at visual effects, although the stories are often poorly told and have a heavy advertising mindset. , but this goes back to the original question. Most of the audience go to the cinema to watch the scenes and effects.

Therefore, more and more major directors now give the producer concurrently when making movies with relatively high budgets, or the producer is someone who is closer to him. For example, Murphy is training Gal Gadot, just to Let yourself have more autonomy and get more benefits.

Strictly speaking, the model of big director + big star + high investment has the highest risk. In the history of Hollywood, there are too many cases where a company failed because of this model. With enough guarantee, the production company will not be so confident to make a movie of this model.

If you want to do this kind of project, you must be able to see enough profit prospects. For example, directors like Murphy and Spielberg have a lot of super successful resumes. The later income realized profit.

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

Let me put it this way, the production of the typical combination of high-cost popcorn movies + unfamiliar directors, handed over to the six major companies to shoot, almost all of them can produce similar visual effects, handed over to those carefully selected Unknown directors go to shoot, under the strict control of the producer, there will be no difference.

In these films, if the director is really talented, it will be the icing on the cake for this film. If there is a problem with the director, this film will not be completely ruined.

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

Of course, in a very small number of commercial films, the production company will become cautious and will not make investment decisions lightly. Such films must be escorted by famous editors and famous directors.

These kinds of movies are generally original movies, and the risks are high.

Everything, in the final analysis, is the control of risk costs.

Hollywood's strict control of risk control is unimaginable to people outside the circle. Even Murphy's current project cannot be given the green light from investors, and the necessary review procedures must go through.

Even those projects that look very impressive and unique at first glance will also be controlled by risk costs.

"The Matrix" is a typical example.

When the Wachowskis were still the Wachowski brothers, the two brothers took the script of "The Matrix" to various producers. After reading it, the producers didn't care about them at all, thinking that this kind of inexplicable thing Making it into a movie will only lead to a huge loss. After hitting a wall in Hollywood, the Wachowski brothers had no choice. In order to increase the persuasiveness of the script and plan, they specially found a cartoonist friend to help them create a cartoon based on the matrix It was shown to many producers—that is, the animated version of Matrix, which was later widely praised—and after passing through the hands of many producers, one of them showed the cartoon to Warner Bros. executives suspiciously, but Warner Bros. executives initially I don't agree at all. To say that this story combines religion with philosophy and business actions is completely nonsense, and I don't want to invest at all.

Later, the Wachowski Brothers had no choice but to borrow money from various parties to shoot a whole set of short films at their own expense, which impressed the top management of Warner Bros.

To put it simply, the first point is that the market assessment and prediction risk of the script is too high. The film company is not a fool. The screenwriter's reputation is not enough. If the script is not the Wachowski brothers, it will definitely have another effect if it is replaced by the current Murphy or Spielberg.

For Hollywood's first-line directors and newcomer directors, these are completely different things.

Concerned about the selection of directors by Warner Bros., Murphy continued to polish his script and plan in the following time. As long as there are no major accidents, this will be his new project.

Los Angeles is like New York, on the surface it looks extremely prosperous and glamorous, but in any world, where there is only light, there will always be darkness.

But in this era, darkness is always hidden in the depths, and it will not be easily revealed to the public.

In a very ordinary warehouse in Old China Town, several people gathered together to check their guns and make final preparations for the next action. On the wall directly in front of them, there was an image of a man with a mask on his face. With a few scars and tough facial lines, he looks like a man with a firm will.

"Look out!" said the person at the head in awkward English, "This is the target we want to kill!" (To be continued.)

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