to eight million.

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"Mr. Hackman..." Finally, Ronald had time to meet Gene Hackman, who wanted to sell the production rights to the movie "The Silence of the Lambs."

"Ronald, I remember the last time you came to Santa Fe, you were very interested in the movie at that time..." Hackman still has the airs of an older generation star.

"Yes, that was your old friend, Robert Duvall..." Ronald had a general impression of this guy. His acting skills were superb, but his understanding of the production industry was very superficial.

"How should I put it, I want to sell the production rights of this movie. I have done a lot of deep thinking recently. I should not be stereotyped in this type of psychopathic bad guy. I need to make some breakthroughs..."

"Haha..." Ronald knew clearly in his heart that this old guy was shrinking from the battle and said that he didn't want to be stereotyped. You have already been stereotyped. He didn't even see Luthor, the psychologically twisted comic book villain of Superman.

They all approached you immediately to act.

"I have many choices, but I just want to sell it to you. I don't want to sell it to a Jew, or a puppet controlled by Ovitz to take over the movie. After all, the quality of the novel itself is very high, and I don't want to sell it to you."

A huge amount of money was invested in adapting the script..."

"Careful...", Ronald heard that the other party meant to recover all the investment. Of course, this was not a problem. In order to get this movie that appeared in his dream, Ronald did not care about the small money.

"Who was the screenwriter who changed the script?" Ronald asked.

"Ted Tully, I hired him at the end of fucking '87, Orion and myself, to split the pre-production effort, and that's when he started working..."

Ronald smiled and patiently listened to the other party's nagging. Finally, he agreed to pay all Hackman's initial investment, as well as half of the copyright fee, plus a top-up fee, and received it from Gene Hackman.

Got half of the production rights and investment share.

The production rights of this film have a long history. Originally, the production rights of the novel "Silence of the Lambs" were in the hands of the Neapolitan Dino De Laurentiis. He was the one who used Hannibal as the protagonist in the early stage.

Producer of another movie "Red Dragon".

"Red Dragon" failed at the box office, and he was severely damaged in the stock market crash. The company was facing bankruptcy, so it exchanged the distribution rights of their previous films in Italy with Orion Pictures, and exchanged the production rights of the sequel to Orion for free.

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But Orion itself was also suffering from financial difficulties. They did not have enough investment. It happened that Hackman liked the script and wanted to direct and star in it, so he sold half of the power and investment amount to Hackman.

Both parties need to find external investors to fill the investment quota for this movie...the total amount is expected to be US$1,600 to US$18 million - the medium-sized production that Orion is best at.

After learning about this transfer, one of the founders of Orion, Mike Medavoy, also made an appointment with Ronald. It is great news that such a successful director of commercial films has bought the copyright. It seems that Ronald
Chapter completed!