The two sequels of "Pirates of the Caribbean" are long and boring, and they can't finish the big end, and even so, they still make a small profit; "Return of the People" both suffered a blow to the reputation and box office, which delayed a series of follow-up plans of Warner Bros. Therefore, if Lance wants to take over these two works, it must make traumatic modifications to ensure that they can revitalize new vitality in their own hands, which also caused Lance to encounter major resistance, and in the end both works missed.

But "Transformers" and "7th vs. Casino Royale" are completely different, and these two works have achieved great success in their previous life.

"Transformers" cost 150 million yuan. Although the professional media has a bad reputation and can even be said to have hit the bottom repeatedly, it has become another box office bomb in the new century. It first swept 320 million US dollars in North America, and then swallowed 390 million US dollars in overseas markets. In the end, the global box office was nearly 720 million yuan, which made Paramount overjoyed and began a decade-long history of a series of works dominating the big screen.

The same is true for "7th vs. Casino Royale". The cost of 150 million and the new James Bond's appointment was full of uncertainty, but this work successfully gave the tricky professional media acclaim. The media's comprehensive review of 80 is a new high for the series. At the same time, the box office also delivered a satisfactory answer, with 167 million North America and 431 million overseas. Although the box office in North America was not able to be very popular, the excellent performance in the overseas market ensured the global revenue of 599 million yuan, making the golden sign 7 restore its brightness again.

From this perspective, you can't be wrong to choose any work. One is to lose reputation and win the box office, and the other is to have a huge reputation and meet the box office standards. Both works have successfully opened up the glory of the series. As a commercial film, both works are better than "the day after tomorrow" and are more worth shooting.

But now it is not two years ago, and the perspective of Lance's selection of works has naturally changed. On the one hand, with more choices, he has more room to think about his preferences. As a director and an actor, he can truly complete his creation according to his own ideas; on the other hand, he must consider Chaos Pictures' position. Now Chaos Pictures's burden of making money is still on his shoulders, especially considering that they will start shorting next time, they need more liquidity.

"Transformers" is undoubtedly profitable, which is undoubtedly urgent for Chaos Pictures, but the adaptation rights of "Transformers" are in the hands of DreamWorks. This work is the beginning of the cooperation with Paramount after DreamWorks was split and acquired. This also means that it is almost impossible to give Chaos Pictures a share of the pie. Rumors say that this time Steven Spielberg will personally serve as the producer of "Transformers", which shows the importance of this work to the failure of the capital chain to the forced split DreamWorks.

Taking a step back, although this work made two new generation actors, Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, everyone knew clearly that the real star of this work was Michael Bay, who stood behind it. Not only because of the iron Transformers and the cast of flowing cast, human works are very small in the movie script; but also because the biggest factor in the success of the movie is Michael Bay.

Michael is not an excellent director. Even as a commercial film director, he always has only three tricks, many explosions, wide-angle pictures, and slow motion. It seems that he has no other ability except such skills. The tricks won him a lot of praise at the beginning of his career, especially the use of slow motion to show intense action scenes, which is amazing. But ten years later, this has become a common gameplay in the industry. Michael still has no innovation and is not enterprising; but he likes to show off his skills and is always keen to dazzle his three tricks. In order to satisfy his show off mentality, he is unwilling to delete it, which makes the movie time always unable to be shortened.

But it is undeniable that Michael is a successful commercial director. His three tricks are perfect, with beautiful pictures, frequent explosions, compact rhythms, and continuous climaxes. The adrenaline-burning simple enjoyment during the movie is always happy to see the audience.

It can be said that Michael's third-partner critics criticized was precisely the core reason for the success of the "Transformers" series. In addition, some people later counted the revenue ratio of the "Transformers" series. People have found that Michael is a calculated director. He even used the use of the waste shots in "Pearl Harbor" directly into "Transformers". Later, some of the shots that "escape from the Cloned Island" were also recycled and used in "Transformers 3". The simple budget style has become the favorite of major producers. Among the works that obtain the same box office data, Michael's cost budget is the lowest; among the works that have the same cost budget, Michael's average box office is the highest.

Therefore, after the crushing defeat of "Pearl Harbor", Michael's works were almost impossible to produce, but the "Transformers" series allowed the thorny director to firmly occupy a place in Hollywood.

If Lance takes over the "Transformers" project, neither the actor nor the script will be able to play, and the producer will not have any room for use because of Steven's existence. In other words, the director is Lance's only choice - this is also Paramount's promise to Lance. Although Paramount also intends to let Lance and Steven become co-producers, Lance's prestige has no power to compete with Steven. You can imagine the crew's side.

So, as a director, can Lance give the magic power of "Transformers"? The explosion of various tricks, the passionate pursuit, the visual effect of blood, the fragrant/beautiful girl, and the rhythm of relaxation. It sounds simple, but in fact it is very difficult. The reason why Michael Bay "sells copies" is definitely not bragging about it.

When it comes to playing explosions, Lance's current experience is "zero" - the scene of the car accident explosion in "Borrowing a knife to kill". After accurate calculations by the stunt personnel, he drove the car and actually knocked it over. All of them were real shots. Compared to Michael, Lance was a thousand miles away.

Even though Lance wanted to shoot "Transformers" based on the memory of his previous life, the problem was... he didn't remember it all. A movie like "Transformers" felt very popular during the viewing process, and the adrenaline was completely exploded, but after watching it, I recalled it carefully, but I didn't remember anything - it was not accurate to say this. The scene where Meghan repaired the car has become a classic, and there is indeed no memory.

If Chaos Film was involved in Paramount and DreamWorks' cooperative shooting, and Lance was not directed by Lance, the cooperation proposal was completely feasible, but Paramount obviously had such a plan, so when Brad talked about this proposal, Lance finally decided to give up the project after careful consideration.

"7th vs. Casino Royale" is another situation.

Sony Pictures hopes that Lance will play James Bond, which is indeed an accident. However, Lance himself is not very interested, not that this character has no acting challenges - although this is one of the reasons, the main reason is that it is because of playing this role, which means that he will be entangled with this work in the next ten years, like a quagmire, and it is difficult to have his own space.

Take Daniel Craig as an example. He was officially confirmed as the candidate for the new 7 at the end of 25 years. In the next ten years, he filmed four 7 movies. In addition, he also filmed works such as "Golden Compass", "Rebel Army", "Girl with Dragon Tattoo", "Cowboys and Aliens", and "Adventures of Tintin", and most of them are starring as the first male lead. However, except for "Girl with Dragon Tattoo", almost no one realizes that this "James Bond" actually has other works. Even among "Girl with Dragon Tattoo", people remember Rooney Mara.

Not only him, among his previous 7s, except for the first actor Sean Connery, no other actor was able to get rid of the big hat of "7". It was like the shadow of his career and could not escape.

Lance once talked about this topic with Jessica Alba and Emma Stone. If such an opportunity arises, even if he knows that this role is likely to become a constraint throughout his career, should he accept it? Lance gave the answer at that time, yes, but now, it is Lance's turn, but he refuses.

However, Lance himself couldn't tell whether it was because he was still unwilling to give up his dream of becoming an excellent actor, and like Emma, ​​he was unwilling to be bound by a fixed role in his acting career; or because he had already won great success with his identity as a director and screenwriter, and he did not need a halo like "7" to continue to add glory to himself.

Just think it is the latter.

However, Lance didn't mind becoming the director of "7th vs. Casino Royale", and then further cooperated with Sony Pictures from Chaos Pictures' standpoint.

In the last life, this work was directed by Martin Campbell. The director relied on "Zorro's Mask" and "vertical limit" to open up the situation in the international market. Although he was very unstable as a director, and his masterpieces and bad movies flew together, he was the real savior of the "7" series. In 1995, the 7 series in the trough restarted after six years, Pierce became the new James Bond. Martin was ordered to deliver a perfect answer in the end. In 25 years, it was like a cycle of reincarnation. The 7 series changed hands and restarted after the change of ownership. The new James Bond took over the last moment. The ending was the same. Martin once again lived up to his trust and completed his mission.

Now, Sony Pictures has not determined the candidate in the director position. Michael Leighton also clearly put the conditions on the table during the conversation - if Lance is willing to take over the guide, then he is the first candidate.

Compared to "Transformers", although the box office results of "7: Vs Royal Casino" are not that popular, overall, not only are they more in line with Lance's conception, but also in line with the interests of Chaos Pictures! 8
Chapter completed!