After seeing everyone off, Ryan and Lily Mo Xin, who was following behind her butt, went to the nursery room. Sandy was not awake yet and was sleeping soundly. He stood by and watched for a while, then told the nanny a few words, and left with satisfaction.

Back in the living room of the villa, Nicole happened to come in through the back door of the villa.

"Lily, you're also starting to become naughty."

After taking the towel from the servant, Nicole wiped her hands, walked over and gently pinched the god girl's nose, turned over the couch, and sat on a single sofa, "The garden is full of balloon fragments you stomped on."

"Sorry, Godmother."

Lily Mossin was much more obedient than Taylor when she was a child. She ran over and grabbed Nicole's hand, "We were so happy."

"It's okay." Nicole pulled her to her side, "Elsa has found a cleaning company."

Taking the coffee pot from Elsa, Ryan walked over, flipped over the cup on the coffee table, poured a cup for himself and Nicole, handed it to Nicole, picked up his cup and sat on the single sofa opposite.

"Is Sunny still sleeping?" Nicole asked after taking a sip of coffee.

"It's so good to sleep." Ryan took a sip and put down the cup. "The nanny is watching over there. The little guy is probably tired, and he probably won't wake up in a short time."

"She didn't take a nap today, so she'll get a little longer." Nicole looked at the goddaughter, "Lily, go to the desk in the study and help me get a script."

"Is it still an old place?"

Seeing Nicole nodding, Lily moved her brisk steps and ran to the second floor.

"What script?" Ryan couldn't help asking curiously.

"You know." Nicole said as Lily disappeared from the corner of the stairs, "I went to New York some time ago to discuss a movie contract with a director. Recently, he mailed me the first draft of the script adaptation of "Weakness: The Competition Process" by himself. I think it's pretty good. You can give me some suggestions."

Not long after, Lily ran back with a script that was at most 200 pages thick, and she understood Nicole's meaning very tacitly, handed the script to Ryan directly, and then went to the entertainment room to entertain herself.

After opening the script, Ryan browsed as fast as possible, while Nicole introduced some basic situations.

"The title of the film is definitely called "Weakness", and the screenwriter and director will be John Lee Hancock."

Hearing Nicole's words, Ryan looked up and said, "I seem to have heard this name somewhere?"

"This is the person recommended by Julius." Nicole said a few words. "In 2002, John Lee Hancock collaborated with Disney Pictures on "Baseball Rookie". At a party some time ago, the old cowboy Clint Eastwood also recommended him to me."

"I have met Anne Taosi and Sean Taosi and John Lee Hancock," Nicole continued, "and I have also met Michael Ohh, the protagonist in the book. Shortly after that meeting, he took out the first draft of the script."

"It sounds..." Ryan flipped the script quickly, "Are you satisfied with John Lee Hancock?"

"It's true." Nicole shrugged, "Wife: Game Progress" is an introduction to the story of Michael Ohh. It also conducts in-depth research on how the left tackle is important to an American football team. Therefore, "Wife: Game Progress" has attracted the attention of countless people who love sports, especially American football."

"But the video can't be shot like this."

Nicole also has her own experience as a producer for a long time, "A simple sports inspirational film is just a niche theme and does not meet our goals. After discussing with John, I decided to only intercept one of the main lines in the novel and adapt it to make a mainstream Hollywood film."

He raised his head. Ryan made a continued gesture to Nicole.

"We intend to focus on how great a family is, and centered on a non-traditional mother-son relationship without blood. Sports, especially American football, drives the development of the whole story, but in fact it has nothing to do with sports. Because the development of the relationship between Michael Ohh and the Taosi family is the core of the story."

"Have you found the actor who played Michael Ohh?" Ryan turned the script again.

"Finished." Nicole rubbed her forehead, as if this incident had caused her headache. "Patt took a lot of effort to find a big black guy who had a good acting skills. He is now training in the American football team at the University of Mississippi, Michael Oh's alma mater."

Ryan didn't say anything else, but focused on browsing the script roughly and thinking for a while.

"The script is basically no problem, but Nicole, there are too many depictions of the black area in the script, and the violence and racial opposition inside will destroy the warm atmosphere of the script, which is best mentioned in one stroke."

The nanny walked into the living room with Sunny in her arms. Nicole quickly walked over and took her daughter, nodded to this side, "I understand."

If you only look at the rich areas and the middle-class areas with better security and locations, North America seems to be a paradise in publicity, but when you enter the slums and black areas, you will understand why there is always darkness behind the light. Such a typical American main theme film does not require too much racial elements.

This script was not written as the so-called elimination of racist discrimination, and it even had no obvious content on this aspect at all. Its intention was much higher than this.

The theme is not that whites deal with black mercy and alms, but that they let everyone discover their own goodness, dignity and value. This is exactly the beautiful interpretation of the so-called "everyone is created and equal" in the Manifesto.

From another perspective, this is an inspirational story built with family as the core. Although it is inspirational, just like Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling", it is not essentially a story about a sparrow turning into a phoenix and an ugly duck turning into a swan.

The purpose of the script is much more positive than this. It is fundamentally believed that Michael Ohh was originally a phoenix and a swan, but there are serious blind spots. Once these blind spots are eliminated, he can show the best side to the world.

Regardless of the reality of North American society, these are extremely in line with the values ​​promoted by mainstream society.

This film, like Natalie's "Black Swan", requires a long preparation period. The main reason is that the black male protagonists have to practice some basic American football, and the crew also has to contact several American football teams in high school and college. Fortunately, these are not as troublesome as Natalie and Scarlett's ballet training. After all, American football is the number one sport in the United States.

After Sandy's birthday party, Nicole's Kidman Studio officially began preparing for the film, and Disney Pictures, as its partner, also joined in, with Nicole and Julius Stewart as producers. The adaptation of "Weakness: The Competition Process" was also too worried.

Compared to the movie that Nicole has just started preparing, Ryan pays more attention to Natalie's "Black Swan", especially the special effects she commissioned Pixar Studio to produce a few days ago, and some problems have occurred.

Pixar Studio is mainly responsible for the hair rendering when Natalie transformed into a black swan in the last scene. In terms of using CG to generate and render hair, Hollywood cannot find any special effects better than Pixar. Although the two sides had a little disagreement in their styling a few days ago, they quickly reached a consensus.

After the special effects of Pixar Studio are completed, in addition to the soundtrack that needs to be added, the post-production of "Black Swan" will be basically announced and will not delay attending the Venetian Film Festival at the end of August.

Because Natalie and Pixar Studios' All-Star team will participate, Ryan deliberately let people know about the situation of this year's Venice Film Festival, especially the situation of the judges and rivals in the competition unit.

Through the report submitted by his subordinates, Ryan learned that the Venice Film Festival has been booming Chinese style in recent years. The one who won the Golden Lion Award last year was a Chinese director. The chairman of this year's jury is the director at the opening ceremony of next year's Olympic Games. In addition, he also saw the names of Ang Lee and "Lust and Caution" on the list of participants.

I vaguely remember that "Lust and Caution" in his previous life seemed to have won a heavyweight award among the three major European film festivals. Now it seems that it is probably the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. In this case...

It seems that I have little to do with Venice in Italy, and it seems that Disney's European Branch and Far East Branch should start work in advance.

As for Ang Lee, if you don’t talk about Oscars, you have also helped him get the Palme d’Or twice. It’s time to repay the favor.

He is a smart person and must know what to do.

In contrast, the jury, which is purely composed of directors, is a bit difficult to deal with.

The chairman of the jury named Zhang from China will not say that there is no friendship between the two sides. There are also French female director Catherine Breya, New Zealand female director Jane Campion who once directed "Piano Lesson", Italian director Emmanuel Criares, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inalido, Turkish director Ferson Ozpatt, Dutch director Paul Ferhofen, Dutch director Paul Ferhofen, who once directed "Black Book".

There are not many who are really close to Hollywood, and even those directors from mainland Europe are more hostile to Hollywood movies.

Since he participated in the competition unit of the film festival, no one wanted to return empty-handed. In early June, Ryan called Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola respectively, and carefully selected a media public relations team to rush to Italy in advance to prepare for the promotion during the Venice Film Festival.

However, Ryan can only do this for the time being. After all, there is still some time before the Venice Film Festival, and the summer season in North America is still strangled in chaos.

Also this month, Universal Pictures announced the acquisition of Lighting Entertainment Animation Company, which officially became a subsidiary of Universal Pictures Company and specialized in producing animated films for the latter.

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