Chapter 678 Another Goddaughter
The rising sun hangs in the east, spreading the golden yellow all over the ground through sparse palm trees. In front of the villa with lawns and stone slabs, a custom-made Rolls-Royce Phantom has been activated, with a slight motor sound, as if welcoming the owner.
The sound of crisp high heels falling on the stone slab sounded, and Nicole, wearing a professional dress, was bright and charming. She had obviously just been moistened. She strode out of the villa, and waited for the bodyguard to open the rear door and get into the car first.
Then, Ryan walked out of the villa with his file bag and briefcase in his arms. After he got into the same car, a convoy of three cars drove out of Nicole's manor in Beverly Hills.
"What did John deliver early in the morning?" Nicole looked at the file bag Ryan was holding curiously, "What's the urgent matter?"
"It's not very important." Ryan casually opened the file bag, "some information related to "Transformers."
"Didn't we sign with Michael Bay?"
Speaking of this, Nicole still had some questions, "Are you sure he wouldn't turn this series into an inappropriate work like "Escape from the Clones"?"
"Of course!" Ryan nodded, "After experiencing this serious failure, Michael will understand what he is good at and what the audience likes."
Just two days ago, after more than a week of consideration and reflection, Michael Bay and Disney reached a preliminary agreement on the filming of the Transformers series. The golden combination of him and Jerry Brookheimer will start preliminary preparations as soon as possible.
After taking out the not-too-thick stack of information from the file bag, Ryan roughly looked through it. Not to mention the text introduction, just a dozen photos were enough to attract people.
"What's this?"
Looking at the hot swimsuit photos in Ryan's hand, Nicole's brow frowned slightly, "When were you interested in underwear models?"
She is extremely familiar with the fashion industry. After just taking a few glances, she found that the photos were the makeup photos of Victoria's Secret's most popular angels.
"This is a candidate sent by Victoria's Secret." Ryan handed Nicole both the photos and information. Nicole took it and asked in confusion, "Does ct still want to enter the underwear industry? Her ambitions and steps are a bit too big."
"Hey, my dear, don't get me wrong." Ryan leaned over and took out a few brief introductions from Nicole, pointing to her, "I asked someone to contact Victoria's Secret management some time ago. I reached a consensus on cooperation with them and would choose one of their angels to play the leading actress."
"So..." Nicole's brows gradually loosened.
"They are one of the film's sponsors," Ryan continued, "and will pay for part of the film's expenses."
This is just part of the implanted advertisement. After the project was officially announced, countless auto manufacturers found Disney and asked to become one of the Autobots. Various negotiations are still in progress, but the direct planner and producer of the movie is Ryan, even the most conservative estimate. The implanted advertisement alone will recover 60 million US dollars.
"Which one do you like?" Nicole flipped the photos of the angels, "Adeliana Lima Miranda Kerr Giselle Bonchen Alessandra Ambrosho?"
"The heroine in the script is a high school student, and the actor must not be too old." Ryan took the information returned by Nicole and took back the file bag. "Disney wants Zach Efron to play the male lead. He is the youth idol that Disney is currently building, and the candidates for the heroine must also be matched with him."
"Well... I'll leave this kind of thing to Michael Bay." Ryan shook his head, "It's just a few supporting roles of robots."
The male and female protagonists in this kind of movie are completely a foil. There is only one real protagonist, and that is Optimus Prime!
Disney's preparations have long been ahead. Not only did it reach a toy sharing agreement with Hasbro on the side of the film, but it also found Peter Coulon to dub Optimus Prime, who was also the one who dubbed Optimus Prime in the American cartoon.
In short, Ryan and Disney are ready to gather all the factors that are beneficial and nostalgic to the film, and evoke the memories of Transformers in the hearts of a generation.
Of course, in the hearts of hardcore fans, the live-action movie version will definitely become a typical example of ruining childhood.
In fact, the release of various childhood works in recent years and in the next few years is all destroying childhood memories. However, it is not unreasonable to shoot the film like this. Not only are the times changing, but the audiences changing, but the psychology of the fans in the past is also changing. The movie will definitely undergo changes that match it, otherwise it will be destined to be eliminated by the times.
No matter how good the movie is, it is deeply influenced by time, region, culture and social environment. Not all good works will be praised worldwide, and even Hollywood commercial films that seem to have swept the world are difficult to do this.
The most typical example is "The Hunger Games". The movie received a box office of US$425.61 million in less than two months after it was released in North America. The praise rate of Rotten Tomatoes is as high as 85%. Even ImDB, which has always discriminated against commercial films, has a rating of 7.6 points, but what about it overseas?
This film has been released in all major overseas markets, including mainland China, and its overseas box office has not reached 200 million US dollars. Except for the five English friends, most overseas markets have identified it as a so-called bad movie. According to the predictions of several professional institutions on Wall Street, the final overseas box office will be around 270 million US dollars. For a commercial masterpiece, such overseas box office can only be said to be average.
You should know that since the end of the last century, the overseas box office of Hollywood's commercial masterpieces has completely crushed the North American box office. Most of the big-selling movies can even be close to twice the box office of North America. It is rare for commercial blockbusters like "The Hunger Games" to be super popular in North America but ordinary overseas responses are rare.
It can be said that different cultural backgrounds, social openness and the development of the feminist movement determine the huge differences between this film in North America and overseas.
The black Rolls-Royce Phantom drove all the way into Malibu and finally stopped in front of a beach villa. This was one of Ryan's few properties. He liked to buy land everywhere. He only had a few properties in his hand. Even Lanai Island, Hawaii, was originally purchased for Nicole, but later it was hanged by Nicole in his name.
Perhaps Nicole likes to buy land everywhere, but is he inheriting the tradition of the Kidman family?
Also, Ryan reminded Nicole that she was also transferring most of the properties she had, and then through the foundation under her name, Scott invested in the IT industry that was developing faster and faster in the future.
This villa, with beaches and gardens, covers an area of twelve acres. It may not be the most luxurious villa in Malibu, but it is definitely one of the most luxurious villas, and this is Tony Stark's mansion in the movie.
That's right, "Iron Man" borrowed Ryan's mansion to shoot the outdoor scene. The film only has some lifelike scenes left, and most of the other shots were shot in the studio.
Walking into the villa, you can see the busy crew everywhere, in the spacious first-floor lobby, Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays Pepper Coots and Robert Downey Jr., who plays Tony Stark, walks around the camera, occasionally showing some intimate or disputed expressions.
Of course, as a marvelous superhero movie full of black technology, green screen is inevitable when filming.
"I heard that Robert Downey Jr. has successfully rehabilitated drugs?"
After the crew called for a stop, Nicole asked in a low voice with Ryan in his arms, "His mental state looks much better than when filming "Argo."
"Who knows."
Ryan doesn't care whether the other party has quit drugs, as long as he doesn't affect the filming of the movie. Moreover, the contract signed by Jingqi and him, like Ryan when he was filming "Argo", has extremely strict restrictions on this aspect.
Besides, how many stars in Hollywood secretly absorb drugs or drugs addiction? I'm afraid it's a very terrifying number.
Even he and Nicole occasionally try big and mahjong, of course, not addiction or relaxation, but as a condition of love and love.
After they reconciled, they would always have two to three times a year to have a holiday for everyone in Nicole's house, and then they would sip a few sips of mist, using the entire villa as the battlefield. Hu Tiantian was so dark that he was exhausted until he no longer had the strength.
No different from others, love will always endure with time. In order to maintain this relationship, in addition to the inseparable entanglements between each other, it also needs to maintain sufficient freshness. Ryan and Nicole understand this, and sometimes they are looking for some different stimulation.
"Hi Ryan, Nicole."
"Hi, Gwyne."
Gwyneth Paltrow, who was holding his daughter, came over. Both sides were old friends. Ryan and Nicole were not polite, and walked over and teased the baby who blinked curious eyes.
"Aipol, do you still remember me?" Nicole took the girl in Gwyneth Paltrow's hands.
The little girl didn't even accept her child's life. She grabbed Nicole's clothes with her little hands and bent her lips.
"Your scene is over?" Ryan looked at Nicole, his eyes turned to Gwyneth, who had taken off her makeup.
"Today's scene is over." Gwyneth pointed to the crew resting in the distance, "The rest is Robert's one-man show."
Just now, Ryan also talked with Jon Favreau for a few words. The film will end the filming at the end of this month and move into more cumbersome post-production. If there is no accident, the first part of "Iron Man" will be completely in line with next year's summer schedule.
"Ryan, can you make a request?"
Friends from both sides for more than ten years, Gwyneth Paltrow is not polite to say, "Can you ** Poole's Godfather?" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!