Lance knew that Cole was telling the truth. Frank Miller has always protected the comic "City of Sin" strictly, just like raising an adult child himself. Even if Cole convinced everyone around Frank, Frank would not let it go easily. Unless there is a clear and complete proposal full of wisdom and talent, it can truly impress Frank, just like convincing Tom to join "kill with a knife".

Therefore, the final move to persuade Frank to let go of the adaptation rights must be completed by the director or producer.

But the problem is that Lance is now focused on the filming work of "killing with a knife". Under the pressure of the four positions, he has no energy to take care of other tasks - even sleeping time has become extremely precious. Lance is not a superman who can work continuously without sleep. Not to mention writing the script of "City of Sin", not to mention meeting Frank himself, even the time to conceive the idea of ​​creating a movie, Lance may not be able to squeeze out.

The lack of clones is the biggest problem facing Lance. At the same time, Lance also has to face the strong competition between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Even if it is not a matter of time, it is urgent.

This made Lance have a problem. Did he be too hasty? Before the filming of "killing someone with a knife" was completed, he couldn't wait to think about "City of Sin". Too much to eat is likely to lead to an empty-handed ending, especially Chaos Pictures does not have such ability now.

The thumb of the left hand gently rubbed the belly of the index finger, slowly, slowly... Lance realized that this might be an important turning point since the establishment of Chaos Pictures.

First of all, the cost issue is the first to be affected. Although Lance has not calculated in detail, the production cost of "City of Sin" is at least 30 million. Perhaps it is not impossible to exceed 40 million. The main reason is that the visual effects requirements of the movie are too high, and almost the entire movie must be processed by computers. Therefore, cost control will become very difficult. At present, all the profits of Chaos Pictures have been invested in "killing people with a knife". It is a completely desperate bet, and there is no extra money to invest in the production of "City of Sin".

Secondly. Assuming that the funding problem has been solved, and assuming that Lance successfully won the adaptation rights of "City of Sin" according to the expected goals. However, the shooting of "Killing with a Knife" has not been completed yet. Even if the filming is completed, it must be devoted to the intense post-production. Even if the crew is quickly assembled and then invested in the shooting of "City of Sin", it is obviously not an easy work to shoot, and a little carelessness may lead to the filming and ruining this work - worse, the later stage of "Killing with a Knife" is also ignorant, resulting in the quality of the finished product being unsatisfactory.

If you end up in a mess and lose both ends, it will be a real loss for Chaos Pictures.

When I first proposed this plan, Lance still lacked consideration - this is also his shortcomings, and these important issues were not seriously considered. In the past, at Diorama Film, Ryan would hold him behind him and control the company's development rhythm, but now Ian still lacks understanding of the film industry, so he came to this intersection.

So, what should I do now? The wisest choice is undoubtedly to give up "City of Sin". Control the development of Chaos Pictures, or seek another suitable project. After all, this is Hollywood, and hundreds of brand new projects appear almost every day.

But, just give up easily?

Cole saw Lance raise his eyes, frowning slightly, his thoughts were complicated, and his azure blue eyes appeared in his sight without any obstruction. He tried to explore clues from the brilliance. But he failed, the unpredictable halo was intricate. It was always difficult to understand, but the motionless eyes revealed a hint of firmness and stubbornness.

Cole savored it in his mind. Several different solutions were circling around the tip of his tongue. Finally, his teeth were closed gently, and a faint smell of blood came from the tip of his tongue. As if he had made up his mind, he said, "Lance, I mean, you should at least give me something, a reason to convince Frank, at least an excuse to delay time, or a reason to convince Frank to make a decision after meeting you."

Cole is an agent. Even though he is very proud of the lotus, he cannot do this work on behalf of Lance in the film professional content. But from Cole's simple sentence, he can tell that no matter what Lance decides, he still hopes to carry out this matter to the end, showing the courage of a road to Huashan.

Cole's words are actually equivalent to saying: He will buy as much time as possible.

Lance raised his eyebrows slightly, regardless of whether Chaos Film can finally get the adaptation rights of "City of Sin" or whether "City of Sin" will make Chaos Film lose one's attention, these are things that have not happened yet. In his opinion, after getting the adaptation rights first, then slowly consider whether they want to shoot the movie. Just like the sudden audition of Shirley Lansing and others at that time, they will first take the role and then decide whether to star. Lance is used to holding the right to "reject" in his own hands.

"The reason why I think of the comics of "City of Sin" is actually derived from the concept of "City of God." Lance explained, "In the work of "City of God", it tells the story of a sin city in the real world, which is already shrouded in darkness, but people think it is a fictional world, or a world that is very far away from themselves. People read the bleak reality of crimes and then continue to enjoy their own supper."

Lance's words attracted Cole firmly, not only because this was very meaningful, but also because it was the key to his persuasion of Frank. "When the work of 'killing with a knife', this cruel and bloody thought had evolved into the reality around him. People treated the crimes in social life indifferently, and even turned a blind eye, because everyone only cared about their own interests, did not hesitate to achieve this with crimes, and used high-sounding reasons to conceal their crimes. The darkness from the City of God was spreading little by little."

Just like an old woman in "Rashomon", she pulled away the hair of a young woman's body, but explained that she just wanted to make a living with her hair as a hood.

"After continuing to develop, it evolved into a 'city of sin'. In this city, sin has penetrated into the bone marrow. The Bishop, the Senate, the police, and other groups that should maintain justice have become the root of sin, making the entire city rot. What's more sad is that justice has almost been destroyed. In order to protect oneself, everyone can only succumb to the oppression of sin. The crumbling light of hope seems to be extinguished at any time."

​​Lance's words made Cole fall into deep thought. He had to say that Lance's ambition shocked him again. Lance actually used three completely different stories, three completely different movies, telling a core of thought that was inherited and truly completed the so-called sin trilogy. The huge ideological system is even no less than "The Lord of the Ring" or "Star Wars".

What is even more profound is that the story is actually advancing bit by bit. "City of God" tells the story from the 1960s to the 1980s, "Killing with a knife" tells the story of the modern present, while "City of Sin" depicts a world in the future imagination. Three periods of isolated eras tell the magnificent eulogy of social degeneration and fall.

Looking up, Cole looked at Lance in front of him seriously. The calm blue eyes seemed to be unable to see any ambition, but it was this calmness and indifference that shocked Cole. "People see the bleak reality of crimes, and then continue to enjoy their own supper?" This sentence is undoubtedly what left the deepest impression on Cole, and it is also the culprit who step by step to retreat the real society into the abyss.

Inexplicably, Cole remembered the madness of the anonymous in the "Seven Deadly Sins" - he hoped to use bloody and brutal shock education to awaken the conscience of the entire society, so he set up the seven victims of the Seven Deadly Sins; while the trilogy constructed by Lance was to allow * and darkness to gradually devour all hope and justice, and witness the fragmentation of society.

Cole knew that Lance had a very strong personality and never concealed his enterprising ambitions and ambitions. In Hollywood, people without ambitions could not reach the peak. But today, Cole saw the tip of the iceberg again, and he believed that this was just a small part of Lance's magnificent blueprint for his career, and just a corner of such a corner was enough to make Cole admire him again.

Perhaps, the end of Lance's career was far farther than he had imagined.

Lance closed his jaw, which was his idea of ​​conceiving the trilogy of sin, but if he wanted to convince Frank, Lance knew that this was far from enough. Because what Frank was worried about was that the adaptation of the script would lose the essence of the original comic and then become unrecognizable. If Frank nodded, the most direct way was to write the script or shoot a sample to show the essence of the "City of Sin" comics and arouse Frank's resonance.

However, whether it is a script or a sample, it takes time, and it is really difficult to deal with without any empty talk.

"So, can you give Frank a glimpse of the entire blueprint?" Lance's question was very clever. He was not saying whether Cole understood, but whether Cole could make Frank understand. This was the real problem.

Cole did not answer immediately, but paused and pondered for a while, and then said loudly, "Can you give me the script of 'City of God' and 'Killing with a knife'? I will find a way to let Frank finish reading the script." Cole smiled and raised his right hand and made a swearing statement, "Of course, I promise that the script of 'Killing with a knife' will not leak."

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