You don't understand the happiness of the director

Los Angeles International Airport.

When Gadot and Wang Keying arrived together, Wang Quan had already been here for an hour.

"Why did you come so early?" Gadot hugged Wang Quan without hesitation and placed her palms on her boyfriend's hips.

Wang Quan, "Just sent my dad away."

Also sent away were contracts signed with Paramount and IMAX.

Lao Wang finally spent US$500,000 to win the mainland rights to "10 Cloverfield Lane" on the condition that it must be released half a month later than in North America.

Although it is still difficult to make back the money by relying on the box office, once the picture is drawn, it can be sold to movie channels and released on DVD. In the future, it will also have online copyrights. If you add up a little bit of mosquito meat, you may still make some money.

"Ah, uncle is coming to Los Angeles!" After hearing the news, Gadot felt complicated. Didn't she tell others about this?

Wang Quan guessed what she was thinking and said with a smile, "There is no need to rush. Don't you want to go to China during the summer? We can see you then."

Yes, I can see you then, but you won’t be around.

After a while, the secret room team gathered together, and there was also a boss, Hussein Hou, accompanying them.

This time we are going to the Escape Room Silicon Valley store in San Francisco, where the group of six will experience a real escape room, the kind where no one can die.

At the same time, Wang Quan will hire a local film crew to film six people's real store visit experiences, and then arrange for six of them to open accounts on YouTube, and plan to upload store visit videos that have been edited by professionals in a planned and rhythmic manner. In order to achieve the best results, If necessary, he will also write scripts, which is also an important part of film promotion.

Of course, the design of the secret rooms they explored this time also had to be modified to prevent spoilers for players.

Because Wang Quan has a good relationship with Youtube, it can ensure that they get recommendation resources that are simply not available from outside, so they don’t have to worry about lack of traffic.

When they arrive in San Francisco, Wang Quan will also stay in a hotel. His room is right next to Gadot and Wang Keying. Then Gadot can sleep with whomever he wants.

When he was alone at night, Wang Quan thought that the Hong Kong Film Awards should be handed out, so he checked on the Internet, and sure enough, it had come out. Johnnie To's "Black Club" became the biggest winner, best film, best director, best actor Chief, best screenwriter.

But what caught Wang Quan's attention the most was that Zhou Xun, who had just left Rong Xinda, won the Best Actress for "If Love". Last year, it seemed that it was Zhang Ziyi.

The Academy Award has awarded Best Actress to Mainland actresses for two consecutive years. It seems that the lack of female stars in Hong Kong has become very serious. Among the younger generation, only Zhang Bozhi can win.

Just as Wang Quan was about to search Zhang Bozhi's future works, there was a knock on the door. As expected, Gadot was going to sleep with him tonight.

After arriving in San Francisco, Wang Quan could not help but think of Senior Sister Yu Feihong, so he tried to call her the next day, only to learn that Senior Sister had finished her work and returned to China a week ago.

But she has good news, "I'm going to Los Angeles soon to study filmmaking in the advanced class at Chapman University's Dodge Film School."

Dodge College is very close to Hollywood. Wang Quan said with a smile, "This is a good choice. Dodge College is famous for its professionalism and attaches great importance to practice. Many students directly enter the top six Hollywood schools after graduation. Our company has an employee who came from Dodge. If senior sister wants to If you want an internship, you can come to us, the door is always open for you.”

"Then it's time to trouble Brother Quan. I don't need any money, as long as it allows me to quickly understand the work of film production."

"No problem. Let's make an appointment when you come to Los Angeles."

A week later, Wang Quan led the team back to Los Angeles and invested in the post-production of "Escape Room".

At the same time, he will continue to improve the script of "Juno", and he promised Dorothy to hand over the script before the end of April.

In the midst of his busy schedule, Spielberg sent him an invitation to visit DreamWorks Animation for guidance. Unexpectedly, he still remembered this.

Wang Quan thought about it and decided to call Julie and Lily. Not only did he visit the production of 3D animation, but he also didn’t delay in observing the pregnant woman. By the way, he could also enhance his relationship with Lily. Perfect!

However, Julie said, "I don't have time, I have to take prenatal education classes."

"I'm really surprised that you are so attentive to the baby. Then I'll go with Lily."

Julie laughed, "I won't even go, you think Lily will go with you."

Lily, "I'm going, Julie, I can't help you with the prenatal education class, so why don't you go alone."

So when Wang Quan drove away with Lily Collins, Julie felt betrayed for the first time. Creatures like best friends are not very reliable. Hum, don't even think about drinking my milk in the future!

DreamWorks Animation is located in Glendale, not far from Los Angeles.

When people think of DreamWorks Animation, the first thing that comes to mind is "Shrek" and the logo of sitting on a crescent moon fishing for dreams.

Nowadays, in addition to Shrek, DreamWorks has another masterpiece "Madagascar". Lily likes this movie very much, and it is mainly for this reason that she is willing to leave her best friends and go alone with Wang Quan.

In the end, Mr. King David, what did you tell me?

"Lily, have you ever thought about what you would do if you were pregnant at this age?"

Lily glanced at Wang Quan warily, "Mr. Director, do you want to sleep with me?"

I didn't expect that the little girl who looked so well-behaved could speak so sharply.

Wang Quan replied calmly, "I don't have this idea at the moment. I just want to have a deeper understanding of the attitude of American teenagers towards early pregnancy."

"I think I should abort it, unless that boy loves me very, very much, but there is not so much unforgettable love, it is nothing more than temporary passion under the influence of hormones."

"I didn't expect you to see it so clearly."

"I'm 17 years old."

Wang Quan smiled and said, "Yes, he is no longer considered a minor."

Lily gave him a strange look, he just wanted to sleep with me!

I don't know if it was because she didn't have the company of her best friend, but in order to embolden herself, Lily seemed a little strong and outgoing, which made Wang Quan see another possibility of this good girl, which was good and good, and he liked her more and more.

When they arrived at DreamWorks Animation, an Asian man came out to greet them. He wore glasses, was short, probably only 1.6 meters tall, spoke Mandarin with a slight Hong Kong accent, and seemed to have a very gentle personality.

"Hello David, I am Xu Chengcheng. You can also call me Laman. Mr. Spielberg specially asked me to receive you. We are both Chinese and it is easier to communicate."

Wang Quan asked, "Hello Raman, are you the director of the "Kung Fu Panda" crew?"

"Oh no no, actually I am the director of "Shrek 3" and have nothing to do with the Kung Fu Panda crew." He pushed up his glasses.

While they were talking, the three of them had already entered. Elements of the characters in the movie could be seen everywhere in the company. The Shreks were the well-deserved main characters, as well as their friends Talking Donkey and Puss in Boots.

The four African animal friends from Madagascar and a few penguin gangsters have also occupied a place in the company since the fire last year. In addition, there are some characters from second-tier movies such as Chicken Run and Shark Tale.

With Lily by his side, Wang Quan freed up his hands and gave her the task of taking pictures. She could just copy the photos when the time came. However, this girl had long been thinking about other people's various toys and figures, and poked at Wang Quan from time to time. Let him ask for it for him when the time comes.

At this moment, Wang Quan is more curious about Xu Chengcheng than "Kung Fu Panda". A Chinese is serving as the director in the sequel to DreamWorks' Ace Animation. There is something about this guy.

During the conversation, Wang Quan learned that Xu Chengyi was born in Xiangjiang. In order to close the distance, he also revealed that he and Chen Kexin, now a famous Chinese director, were kindergarten classmates.

Wang Quan smiled and said, "Director Xu is now holding a heavyweight project like "Shrek 3" and is also a famous director."

He waved his hands hurriedly, "This is also the first time for me to lead such a large project. How can I be worthy of being a famous director?"

Xu Chengcheng joined DreamWorks almost when it was founded and worked for nearly twenty years. He was the character designer for the first part of "Shrek". Most of those classic characters were created by him. , the second part was the animation director, and in the third part he was finally promoted to one of the co-directors. The performance of this film is quite important to him and cannot be missed.

"It's much more difficult for us to start Kung Fu Panda from scratch. Our two crews started the project at the same time. "Shrek 3" will be released next year, and "Kung Fu Panda" may have to wait until the year after that."

Wang Quan nodded. One of the advantages of 3D animation is that it saves time and effort when making a sequel. As long as there are not a large number of new characters appearing, everything will be easy.

Xu Chengyi then introduced Mark Osborne, the director of Kung Fu Panda, to Wang Quan. Mark immediately asked Wang Quan what he thought of the image of Po, and by the way, he complained about Xu Chengyi, a Chinese who has never been to Chengdu and watched Wuyangwu. Central giant panda.

Wang Quan's face suddenly turned red, "Ma Dan, I haven't been there either!"

As for the image of Po, Wang Quan definitely believes that any virtual panda image made by humans is not as lively and cute as a real panda. However, the staff of DreamWorks obviously also conducted in-depth observations of giant pandas, and created the Ah Bao image. Bao combines cuteness, authenticity and personality.

If animal cartoon characters look exactly like real animals, it will be a failure because they are easy to be pirated. Only animal characters with distinctive and unique images are the trump card for derivative business.

And he quietly asked Xu Chengcheng whether Shrek earns more from buying toys or from box office. This question is not confidential. He answered directly and readily, "The box office is definitely not as good as Shrek's toys, our toys." It’s a good buy.”

Wang Quan was dumbfounded after hearing this. The derivative value of a popular animated film far exceeds that of a live-action film. Moreover, because of its cartoon image, animated films can ignore differences in race and even species, making it more conducive to global dissemination.

Oh, it’s great to make animated movies! When I go back, I can write an animation script myself, or even draw a comic.

This time Wang Quan and Lily returned home with a full load. When they returned, the back seat of the car was filled with various cartoon dolls. Lily said that there was also a piece of Julie in it.

After sending Lily to Julie's house and seeing her excitedly holding the toy, Wang Quan said, "Lily, actually you can consider auditioning for the role of Juno."

"ah?"

Wang Quan, "I mean, you are one of my alternatives. Although you are not the most promising one. Lindsay Lohan and Emma Watson, who are about the same age as you, are all eyeing my book, but you You really might as well give it a try.”

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He also kept part of the toy King Power that he got from DreamWorks, and he planned to give it to Gadot, but he didn't know if his girl who wields swords and guns would like it.

"I like it very much. Oscar, the little fish in Shark Gang, this face is so similar to Will Smith."

Wang Quan said with a smile, "This is what he plays. He designed this image after deciding on his role."

"No wonder, hey, what are you drawing? Is this a capsule?"

Wang Quan laughed, "I'm thinking about whether I can make money from comics. By the way, how about we go surfing in Santa Monica tomorrow."

"Do you know?"

"No, this doesn't belong to you," Wang Quan sniffed the fragrance of Gadot's hair, "I want to go through all the things you usually do, and I will ask you to take me rock climbing in the future, but what are you more? Do you like rock climbing or surfing more?"

Gadot leaned into Wang Quan's arms, "It's hard to say, is this issue important?"

"Of course, this is related to what theme I want to write a script for you~"

Before the end of the month, Wang Quan put the script on Dorothy's desk, "Boss Tao, please inspect the goods."

Dorothy frowned, "Why is it so thick?"

Then she was surprised to find, "Why are there three scripts!"

Wang Quan put away the thinnest one, "I'm sorry, this is an exclusive script written for Gadot. It's not finished yet. These two are the ones for "Juno."

"Two Juno?"

"Yes, one is "Juno" that I imagined Americans would like, and was completed by me independently. The other is "Juno" that was completed according to my own ideas with the assistance of Ma Ling."

Dorothy weighed the script and said, "You are really fast. I thought it would be great to finish one script by the end of the month, but I didn't expect it would be two!"

It's nothing, the other one is just copying, it doesn't take much time.

Dorothy, "But why would you write two of the same story!"

"The characters are different. This one's Juno is tougher, this one is softer, but Xin'er is tough. Because of the different personalities, different laughter points are set up, and some plots are also different. The key is the difference in the final ending. ," Wang Quan suggested, "You might as well turn to the ending directly."

It was the first time to make such a big change to the original work, and Wang Quan didn't feel confident, so he simply wrote two and let the producers make the decision.

Dorothy turned to the ending of one of the scripts in confusion, "I might need some time to read."

Wang Quan, "Okay, I'll go outside... Oh, I have a phone call, go outside and pick it up."

Outside the door, Wang Quan spoke to the phone, "Uh-huh, sorry, I...well, this Saturday, I'll try my best to go back, but please don't publicize it in advance, or I may not be able to go back then. It would be bad if you break your trust, huh huh~"