Chapter 10 Remuneration
It was a day in early August. I took the phone from Nicole and Ryan scratched his head. He couldn't think of what could the fat man have to do with him. Could it be that Miramax is so idle? Or Harvey Weinstein's head cramps, and he wants to talk to him, the little devil, about the future?
"Hello, Harvey." Miramax is not as confident as he did later. Although this pair of brothers is philanthropist, they still maintain the right closeness to those who can create value for themselves. "Yes, Pat has come and the contract has been taken. The conditions? Of course, I am satisfied, there is no problem."
"What? No, no, no, Harvey, I don't want to interfere with your decision. I grew up in Los Angeles, but Philadelphia is one of the oldest cities in North America, right? Don't you think it would be more convincing to put the movie's location in Philadelphia?"
When he heard Harvey Weinstein say he wanted to change the location in Los Angeles, even though he knew that his people were slight, Ryan could not help but object. Fortunately, Harvey Weinstein had not yet begun to expand and quickly gave up that idea.
"Okay, that's it. Wait, Harvey, I want to ask, have the director and the male lead confirmed?" Listening to the name coming from the microphone, Ryan subconsciously scratched his face, "David Finch? Is the one who made the MV for Madonna Siconi?"
After receiving a positive answer, Ryan hung up the phone, okay! Another Hollywood celebrity was slapped by his big butterfly and his life trajectory was skewed.
"Ryan, what does it feel like to star in the script I wrote?" Ms. Jinsley asked with a smile on her coffee.
Ryan rolled his eyes very big, as if he was saying you were a fool, "Pate, the movie has not started shooting yet, how could I know what it feels like?"
"Ryan, come here." Nicole spoke at this time, pointing to the two contracts on the table in front of her, "This is a script contract and your actor contract. I have signed it on it, it's yours for the rest."
Jinsley, who was sitting on the other side, explained, "In terms of the script, there are no changes in the 50,000 US dollars, but there are some minor flaws in the script that need to be modified."
"I see."
"Actors, Harvey should have spoken with you just now. This movie will not start until the end of next month. Although you are one of the three most important roles, you are a newcomer who has no works. Miramax has reduced the price in terms of pay, only 150,000 US dollars."
"What else?" Ryan still remembered the things he had ordered to the female economic man.
"Of course, the reason why the pay was so low was mainly because of the conditions you proposed." The female economic man sighed. She really couldn't understand Ryan's whimsical thinking. "The contract already stated that if the movie's North American box office could exceed $250 million, you and Nicole would share one percent of the box office each."
"Wow~" Ryan shouted excitedly. He could imagine Harvey Weinstein's appearance vomiting blood after the movie was released.
"Don't be too happy too early, because Nicole is only paid $1.5 million for the same reason."
The female agent poured a basin of cold water directly. She knew very well that Miramaxken added such terms to the contract, which was because she believed that the box office of the movie would definitely not reach this astronomical figure, and because she lowered her film pay and saved a considerable amount of expenses for the tight finances.
In the eyes of those senior filmmakers, "The Sixth Sense" is indeed a very excellent story and script. If it is well operated, it is possible to achieve a North American box office of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars. But what is the concept of a North American box office of 250 million US dollars? Only Star Wars and Great White Sharks have done this in history. Could it be that such a family ethics film with a thriller guise can achieve such results? Don't joke.
It is precisely based on immediate interests that Miramax has made this contract seem generous.
Of course, Ms. Jinslie also played a crucial role. Although this seems to reduce her income, as a smart person, she took it for granted that Ryan's value lies more in writing, which is the top priority of her income.
The story of "The Sixth Sense" has come to an end temporarily. Unlike Nicole, who wants to study the script and the characters, he is the author of the script. He has watched the original movie more than a dozen times in his previous life. Thanks to his super memory in this life, those pictures seem to be engraved in his mind, and there is no need to study them at all.
It is a bit wrong to say this. After dinner, as well as during routine exercises and walks every day, he will also discuss the script with Nicole, especially the interaction between the two characters. He has a lot more feelings and understanding of the movie. Some views will naturally affect Nicole, which will be of some help in future shooting.
Just as Nicole once complained, Ryan had almost no friends. As a person who had experienced the Internet baptism in his previous life, he had some homesome attributes. Compared to the Australian beauties who liked liveliness and sociality, he now had much quieter and regular life.
Every morning and evening, he and Nicole are routine exercise times. After breakfast, they read and write. Every afternoon, they take some time to practice musical instruments while writing. Sometimes when inspiration comes, they will compose a simple piece of music, fill in some English lyrics, and use their tender voices to inconsistently harm Miss Nicole Kidman and the neighbors who live in the same building.
After dinner, I would watch TV and news for a while, and often argue with Nicole about certain current affairs. I used more than 20 years of experience to argue the cold and beautiful girl speechless. When I was occasionally refuted, I would act coquettishly and use privileges of his age until Nicole surrendered.
I have to say that Nicole was a little too slap in him, making Ryan more and more lawless in front of her.
Of course, most of the night is still spent in writing. Since "The Sixth Sense" has found its next home and is preparing for the future, Ryan naturally has to prepare for the next step or even further. With the experience of writing the script "The Sixth Sense", he has gained some experience.
For Ryan, who has a clear picture in his mind, after having enough experience, it is easier and faster to construct scripts than adapt novels. The scripts rarely require the gorgeous rhetoric and complex language descriptions of novels, which make him more comfortable. Besides, creativity suitable for his age was occupied by him early on. If those film companies still want to make these movies, they are embarrassed, so they can only go to Ms. Jinsli to talk about it slowly.
Although he doesn't mind others treating himself as a little monster, Ryan doesn't want to be too shocking. In his current thinking, as long as the movies with good reputation and high box office are from him every year, it can not only make a lot of money, but also put a halo on himself.
The one he in his previous life was just an ordinary little person. If it were something special, it was because of his career and hobbies that he had seen far more movies than ordinary people. At the beginning of this life, he was a helpless orphan. Even though he wanted to realize his delusions, he was sometimes a little greedy, but he did not have the huge ambitions of the legendary reborn person.
What he wants is actually very simple, to realize his dreams in his past and present lives, and to help those he likes and loves deeply.
Unless the end of the world, or the Red Empire, which is about to end, pulls the whole world to grow mushrooms and play, Nicole will knock on the door and remind him to sleep within a few minutes after 10:30 every day, and even, in the year when he first adopted him, Nicole will often be with him at night.
This is a portrayal of Ryan's daily life for several years, even when he was in school. He is famous for only doing what he wants to do in class. At the beginning, the school also found Nicole for this, but after all the grades were awarded, the school gradually shut up.
For Ryan, who had experienced cruel education in his previous life, the knowledge taught by Western primary schools is simply too pediatric. Of course, it is not useless. For example, they will not educate their children to love so-called so-called when they first enter school. The first thing they need to learn to learn is safety rules and how to protect themselves, which are also the top priority in daily teaching.
The hot August passed like this. At the end of the month, Nicole contacted Ryan again. As a transfer student, she also conducted a test before entering the school and finally successfully divided it into third grade. Fortunately, Ryan has always been dispensable about going to school and doesn't care much. If he hadn't dropped out of school, Nicole would have violated the law, how could he go to this damn American elementary school?
Of course, he just needs to survive the forced education age group. If there is no accident, he will not waste time going to college.
In a month, Ryan sorted out the outline and main line of the scripts of the two movies and drew some setting drafts. Although he wrote some content and plots, music and other things distracted a lot of energy. Otherwise, these two scripts would not have only a framework.
Since most of the previous life starring Nicole was an art film, except for a limited number of movies, the other ones were not deeply impressed. Among the two scripts, one of them belonged to the romantic comedy category that was popular in the 1990s. This was specially prepared by Ryan for her. However, such a love movie was written by a ten-year-old child, which was a bit absurd.
Forget it, let’s wait for a while and wait until the release of "The Sixth Sense" is about to say that I was one year older at that time, which could add a little bit of persuasion. Even if someone would whine, then let them go.
Chapter completed!