Legendary Hollywood Director

A director has a subtle sense of seeing an actor right in the eye.

If it happens to be a married man and woman, maybe there is a love story that can be told for three days and three nights.

Unfortunately, Christian Bale is a man.

Then there is simply only fit.

Perhaps in Nolan's mind, he already had a preliminary, self-defined image of Bruce Wayne, and it just so happened that meeting an actor was just right.

And in this play, the most important thing is the male protagonist.

In this way, the situation of mixing with sand is not so serious.

In other words, the weight of the role is too heavy, and even the people at Warners dare not accept favors and push an actor into the final audition.

They are measured and cautious.

They also know that ordinary supporting roles will be given if they are given. If the conditions are similar, or if there is no difference in the choice, it is okay to trade the power of casting for some benefits.

Warner is very powerful, but that doesn't mean they need Warner very much.

If they were, they wouldn't be in the entire crew and work hard.

Precisely because they know their own position very clearly, they have a lot of concerns about casting such as Batman.

Therefore, everyone who can leave a place in a company of Warner's size is a talented person.

So they pushed an Irish film and television actor named Cillian Murphy in the casting of the Scarecrow, but in the casting of Bruce Wayne, they didn't pay attention, acting like a businessman.

Christian Bale came in second in the audition, competing with Ashton Kutcher, David Boreanaz and Hugh Dancy.

The former is the male protagonist of "The Butterfly Effect", and is also the most popular actor voted by the American youth audience this year (similar to the kind at the University Film Festival). He is tall and has a tough face. He is a traditional American handsome guy; David is also American. As a film and television actor, his achievements in TV series are stronger than those in movies. The only reason why he can audition is that he is also handsome.

Bruce Wayne has to be charismatic, as he should.

Besides temperament, looking at the face must be the audience's first impression.

The last Hugh Dancy is also a similar handsome, but in fact they have their own characteristics.

It stands to reason that it is difficult to choose a more attractive person from a group of handsome people.

However, there were not too many twists and turns during the audition.

When Christian Bale dressed up and walked into the audition room, Nolan fell in love with him right away. Compared to handsome, he must be slightly inferior to the others, at least Ashton Kutcher may be too good-looking. But when it comes to the temperament that fits the character, the others have to step back a little, they are all younger brothers.

But Nolan silently watched all the performances of the four people, and then recommended Christian Bale as Batman for the first time.

At this time, whoever had the right idea actually became a prominent point.

Lehman naturally supported Nolan's choice. The other three were a little hesitant, but promised to put Christian Bale's name first when submitting the audition results and video to Warner executives to show their selection tendency.

After all, in the next few months, they still have to work together, there is no need to make the relationship too tense.

Careful thinking is careful thinking, in the face of the whole general situation, it is still possible to distinguish the importance of it.

For a time, everyone reached a tacit understanding.

Then, the producers of Warner Bros. submitted the audition results.

Then, Warner executives will find out that the casting of the cast is still very particular, and it is well-founded and convincing.

Sure enough, those executives respected the casting results of the audition and informed them to sign a performance contract with the actor as soon as possible.

At this point, everyone in the crew has their own income.

Lehman and Nolan won the two most important roles in the play; the three producers got the most supporting roles, almost more roles than the drama, and the characters who could show their faces were "donated" by them as a favor. ;Warner also got a perfect lineup of old dramas, popular actors to drive fans, traffic flow, and acting skills.

It can be said that everyone is happy.

As for signing a contract, no actor will give up the opportunity to star in a first-line masterpiece, or the popular theme "Batman".

In this passive state of mind, although there were twists and turns in the negotiation on salary, they all quickly reached a consensus.

And the continuous collection contract was also signed.

It is impossible for Warner to allow people to sit down and raise prices.

In other words, if the film is successful, the salary increase is okay, but it should not be excessive, and it must be within a certain range.

Capitalists, plan ahead.

And in many people's hearts, they don't want to replicate the big market release of "Spider-Man" - everyone is a superhero movie, and Batman's audience is not much better than Spider-Man's.

As for the failed copy of "Hulk", it was ignored subconsciously.

"President Lehman, look."

Blake Cole handed him the detailed contract signed by Christian Bale.

The two were fairly familiar with each other, and after carefully reading the contract, they nodded slightly.

Roughly as he expected.

Christian Bale has no shortage of qualifications, and has been honed for a long time in the independent and niche literary film circle.

When he acted in "New York Row"~www.wuxiaspot.com~, the salary was about 3 million US dollars, plus a part of the box office incentives.

As for now, the salary has risen to 7 million US dollars, and if the North American box office can exceed 300 million, he will automatically receive a 2 million box office bonus; if it exceeds 400 million, he can get almost 3.5 million. 500 million capped.

The reason for getting so much is naturally because of the three-film contract.

Otherwise, if you can win five million, you will be in the sky.

But because he has signed three contracts in a row, there is not much room for growth in each contract. Fortunately, his agent insisted on taking a little more on the basic salary.

This is also normal. For sequel movies, the growth rate of remuneration is the fastest among all types of movies.

Nor can they be divided according to general market calculation rules.

For example, "Pirates of the Caribbean", Captain Depp's high salary, if you put other movies, he can't touch it at all.

Here, another question of demand is involved.

After all, sequel movies generally rarely change the starring lineup, and the employers also dare not bear the loss of audiences and the film market that they have finally created due to the replacement of actors.

In this way, the actors also have nothing to fear, so if you don't take advantage of this time to get a little more money, when will you get it?

Standing in their respective positions, aren't they all for profit?

Since this is the case, it is not just by means.

Warner still thinks more.

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