Hollywood Starts with Animation

Two more days passed.

"Juno, a very interesting movie, to my taste." Richard Linklater said with the script in his hand.

Hearing this, Zu Ke couldn't help but say with joy, "You mean, accept our invitation."

"Yes, I took it." Richard Linklater smiled.

This is no small man.

He's not new to Hollywood.

Back in 1995, Richard Linklater was crowned Best Director at the 45th Berlin Film Festival. In the 21st century, he is known as the most successful independent filmmaker in American cinema today.

He is a classic case of self-taught. He has no college background, and he is not from an acting family, which is even more admirable.

Although the movies he shot are relatively small, such as "Urban Ronin", "Youth and Madness", "Boyhood", etc., Zhu Ke has not seen any of them.

However, Zucker understands his coaching style.

He is the kind of young man who is particularly good at focusing on rebelliousness. He uses humor, vivid language, poetic lenses and ethereal music to show people's perception and thinking about love in the process of growing up, and give rare sympathy and sympathy. understand.

"Juno", a school comedy about underage women getting pregnant before marriage, is not the type that Richard Linklater is good at.

Of course, his director's salary is also relatively high. In order not to let him be involved in the box office share, Zucker reluctantly paid a director's salary of 1.2 million US dollars. Well, he's worth the price too.

In this regard, the three films "Fatal Bend 1", "Hard Candy" and "Juno" have all entered the preparatory period for filming.

Instead of directing, Zucker chose to be a producer on three films.

......

Another few days passed.

Zucker came to Wald Pictures again, and talked to CEO Victor about the idea of ​​copying popular movies.

But.

But Victor refuted: "Boss, your idea is very good, but have you considered a problem."

"What's the problem?" Zucker asked curiously.

Is it a good thing to be able to make money?

"Boss, if you just want to make money through Wald Pictures, then there is no problem with making copycat movies, and the result will be as you imagined, without losing money. However, this move is bound to be wrong. A huge blow to the company, which is the loss of originality and creativity!"

"In addition, the company will also lose a large number of young people who are interested in developing in Hollywood. Under the last bad cycle, Wald Pictures will always be the bottom group of companies in Hollywood."

"Furthermore, even if the copycat films we make can make money, they will certainly offend a large number of people, especially big companies!"

As he spoke, Victor's face was sinking like water, and he couldn't speak at all.

"Uh......"

For a moment, Zu Ke was also dumbfounded.

What the hell!

I almost did something stupid!

Making a copycat movie will disgust big companies. In this regard, Zucker is not afraid at all. As long as he can make money, he is someone who doesn't care about the bottom line at all.

Isn't it just hard hitting!

After a few years, I will be rich,

Not sure who is tougher.

However, Victor is right, the company is not formed by one person. Young aspiring people in Hollywood are bound to be unwilling to live in a small company that specializes in making copycat movies. There is absolutely no room for improvement! As a result, Wald Pictures will lose its momentum and will always be the lowest-level film company in Hollywood.

There is no talent, but also a fart!

For one thing, Zucker is completely unacceptable.

"Okay, Victor, I apologize to you."

Zucker sincerely apologized to Victor, and thanked him for the reminder on the spot, and also said that he would not mention any copycat movies in the future.

"Copyright movies won't work, but I'm a traveler! It's always okay to steal movies they haven't made yet and take the hot copyrights of Hollywood's future first."

I have to say, Zhu Ke is a chicken thief.

........

a few days later.

Zucker put down the chores at hand and devoted himself to the preparation of the three movies.

Among the three films in preparation, "Deadly Bend" needs to inspect the shooting location and prepare a lot of murder props; "Juno" has the highest shooting cost, and director Richard Linklater has high requirements. Now Even the script has not yet been finalized.

Therefore, Zhu Ke's current main work is "Hard Fruit".

Today is precisely the casting of the cast of Hard Candy. Zucker, CEO Victor, and director Zach Snyder form the casting director team and are responsible for today's casting.

And it's the male and female lead roles.

"Introduce yourself." Victor said, looking at a girl in front of him.

"Okay, sir."

The first little girl who came to interview the heroine was only 16 years old, but she seemed a little nervous and her performance was appalling. She was rejected by the three of them on the spot.

The first interviewee, failed;

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen young actors who had interviewed for the heroine were all rejected.

"I'm sorry, I can't see the slightest aura from you at all."

"You are a little old, too mature."

"Sorry, you don't meet our requirements."

"Oh~ little girl, you are too young, can you come back in a few years?"

........

The continuous failure of interviews made Zu Ke and the three of them upset.

""Fruit Hard Candy" tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood's fight against the perverted wolf. The actress must be no more than 16 years old, and she must be full of aura. There are too few such actresses." Zach Snyder sighed road.

In fact, there are such actresses, and there are quite a few.

But they all came out very early to shoot commercials, TV dramas and movies, and the price was too high, which did not meet the low-cost concept of "Hard Fruit".

Zach's first film director, the film's actors and actresses are very demanding. Because once the film failed, he could only go back to filming the song MV.

"Next!" Victor said.

The next person who came in was also a little girl, blond and beautiful.

"Hello everyone, my name is Jessica Alba, I'm 15 years old, I have acted in "Camp Crazy", "Venus Uprising" and many other movies, and..."

However, before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Victor: "We all have information on your resume."

"what?"

Zu Ke, who was still bored at first, suddenly saw a familiar face and became interested.

"Jessica Alba, isn't she the one who will play the invisible woman Susan in Fantastic Four in the future." Zucker couldn't help but move in his heart.

For a while, Zucker was looking forward to it.

But.

She completely disappointed Zucker in her next performance.

The heroine Haili in "Hard Candy" is a little girl who looks harmless, sweet and delicious, but in the process of "castrating" the big bad wolf, she can make people feel Chilling temperament.

Obviously, Jessica Alba doesn't fit the bill for a female role. She is simply a silly and sweet image, how to play Hailey with high IQ.

veto!

No surprises!

Can't make money for Zucker, she can't even be Audrey Hepburn!

........

Although there were many difficulties in the casting at the beginning, in the end, a satisfactory candidate was selected by the end of the day.

Actress Hayley: played by Scarlett Johansson;

Actor Jeff: Played by Mark Ruffalo.

"That's kind of interesting."

Seeing the final list, Zucker couldn't help laughing.

I also feel the strangeness of fate.

Scarlett Johansson, who is 13 years old this year, is not the later Marvel Black Widow; at the same time, Mark Ruffalo, who plays the leading role of Jeff, will also serve as the "Avengers" series in the future. The Green Giant.