You Made Me a Superstar - Chapter 402

   Chapter 402 Hannibal

   “When Mr. Christian received the public script of “Infernal Affairs”, he was sure that the film would not be too popular in Europe and America…”

   “Mr. Zheng Jun, who happened to finish watching “Infernal Affairs”, also had the idea of ​​remaking “Infernal Affairs”, and tried to write an American version of “Infernal Affairs” script.”

   “I don’t know what happened later. On the one hand, he asked me to shoot “Lamb”, and on the other hand, he took another group of people from the “Lamb” crew to follow Mr. Zheng Jun to shoot “The Departed”…”

   “So, how do I shoot Lamb?”

   “I have no choice!”

“Since “The Chainsaw”, all the content in Christian’s mouth has been “commercial value”. He thinks that “Lamb” will have very high artistic value when it is shot, but it lacks commercial value. At least this film Movies are unlikely to be blockbusters…”

  “…”

  Christian has been preparing for Lamb for almost ten years.

   Originally thought that he would be very interested in this film, and even treated this film as his other half of life…

   No matter how harsh it is, it can be understood.

   But the truth is…

Since the SKY company gradually emerged in Hollywood through the film “The Chainsaw”, and let him see the hope of the rise of the SKY company, Christian seems to have changed. Not only does he seem to be less religious than before, it seems In my heart, I prefer to push SKY to the “commercial” goal of the ninth largest film company in Hollywood.

   His inflated ambition made him not want to be just a respected director, but wanted to move in the direction of “capital”…

   So “Lamb” was halfway through, leaving Rhodey with a head-scratching mess!

  In the office.

   Rhodey was heartbroken, and there was an indescribable sense of despair in his voice.

   It is really a headache to meet such a director!

   “He wasn’t like this before!”

   “Or, in the first half of last year, he was not like this…”

   “It wasn’t right until I met Olsen!”

  “…”

   Luo Di looked at Zhou Yang as if he saw a savior. At that moment, Zhou Yang felt that the assistant director Luo Di was like an abandoned little daughter-in-law, and he could feel his resentment from a few meters away.

   Zhou Yang listened without saying a word, but glanced outside the house…

   Outside the house was a group of noisy actors.

   These actors were very angry and felt that they had been deceived. They even had to tear down the entire office. They must let Christian come out and give them an explanation.

   How could Christian come out?

   Even now he may not be in Los Angeles…

   Zhou Yang retracted his gaze and looked at the struggling Roddy, he also showed a bit of a wry smile.

  No one knows that for no reason, this thing will turn out like this…

  Roddy took out a stack of “Lamb” materials.

   Looking at this thick stack of materials, Zhou Yang was a little intimidated.

“This is a plan that Mr. Christian shot, it looks like a lot, but in fact, I have read the plan very seriously these days and found that the plan is only half… He seems to have no idea of ​​shooting the other half from the beginning, Or…he didn’t have time to make the other half’s plan…”

   “Actually, the script of “Lamb” has been changed all the time. It has been changed over and over again, and each time it has a different ending. I follow him, and I don’t know how many endings he has made!”

   “Wait, it doesn’t seem to start with Saw, it seems that last year, when the film “April on Earth” won the Palme d’Or, Mr. Christian started to get weird…”

   Zhou Yang opened the thick filming materials of “Lamb”, especially when he turned to the shooting manual, he couldn’t help being shocked by the detailed shooting content in the manual.

  Accurate to every shooting line, every lighting, every sentence has a detailed explanation, for fear that others will not understand.

   However, there is only half of the plot, and that half of the plot, Christian has completely finished filming.

   Zhou Yang opened the script of “Lamb” again.

It is different from the “Lamb” script I saw at first. The plot direction has changed. From the original crime theme to more artistic, the whole vaguely began to carry some streams of consciousness that Zhou Yang could not understand. Looking down, I found that the “Lamb” script has no ending.

“The ending of the original version was denied by Mr. Christian. Well, it was the ending when you and Mr. Christian met for the first time, Mr. Zhou Yang…” After seeing Zhou Yang’s stunned expression, Rody began to explain seriously up.

   “Mr. Roddy, so… what is Mr. Christian going to do?” Zhou Yang took a deep breath and put the script aside, only feeling that his mind was in a mess.

“When Mr. Christian was filming the film “April in the World”, two months after the film was finished, the editing felt wrong, the actors were found again, and they were all re-shot with a completely different ending… At that time He was opposed by investors, including everyone on the crew, and even some filmmakers got the news and began to have doubts. If it wasn’t for the almost sweeping award at Cannes, the film “April in the World” wouldn’t even make much money… Roddy hesitated for a while, and finally replied.

   “Mr. Roddy, go and calm down the emotions of these actors first, and let me be a little quiet by myself.” Zhou Yang finally shook his head after hearing that the noise outside the room was getting louder.

   “Okay, Mr. Zhou Yang.”

   About a few minutes after Roddy left the office, the clamor from outside finally stopped.

   Zhou Yang silently took out “Lamb” and watched it again.

  There will always be many unexplainable bad things in this world.

   Zhou Yang met a lot of…

   But this time the bad thing is very speechless.

  Who would have thought that Christian, such a famous director in Europe and America, would have such an unreliable side?

   He picked up the script of “Lamb” and read it again.

   The more he read the script of “Lamb”, the more Zhou Yang’s head hurt. After reading it for half an hour, he barely understood what kind of concept Christian wanted to express through “Lamb”.

   That is human nature…

   The script of “The Lamb” is actually very good, there are a lot of thoughtful plots in it, but unfortunately there is no ending.

   Zhou Yang remembered the scene when he first met Christian. At that time in Cannes, France, Christian told him a story about “The Lamb” and showed him the script of “The Lamb”.

   Carefully recalling the ending of “Lamb”, Zhou Yang suddenly felt very vague, and he couldn’t even think of the specific ending.

   He came to the computer, turned on the computer, and played the first half of “Lamb”. After watching it for a long time, there was a wry smile on his face.

   “Let me continue to shoot here, how do I shoot?”

   “Is it possible that Christian didn’t know how to shoot himself, so he just let me take over the mess?”

After reading    several times, Zhou Yang only felt that his head was getting bigger.

   “Dong Dong Dong!”

  There is a knock on the door in the office…

“Come in.”

   “Mr. Zhou Yang, can you take a picture?”

   “Can’t shoot…”

   “Oh!” Roddy nodded, not disappointed.

   The mess that Christian left behind was not Zhou Yang, even if some famous Hollywood directors came to film it, it couldn’t be filmed.

After hesitating for a while, he raised his head and looked at Zhou Yang with questioning eyes, his expression became a little embarrassed: “Mr. Zhou Yang, or… can you help remake a movie under the name of “Lamb”? Whatever movie you make, as long as you can make a little bit of money back… Otherwise, the remuneration of dozens of actors in the crew will add up to nearly 20 million US dollars…”

   “How much? How much do you say?”

“More than 20 million US dollars… Investors saw Christian’s appearance and all withdrew their funds, so in addition to Mr. Christian’s own pocket, the investment in “Lamb” also included a part of SKY’s liquidity, and of course my money, I put The villa, the car and the house are all mortgaged, and they are all invested in “Lamb”… If “Lamb” can’t be filmed, I will lose a lot…” Luo Di looked at Zhou Yang, his face became even more bitter.

   A year ago, he joined the Lamb movie in high spirits with millions of dollars, thinking that the Lamb would make him a lot of money.

   A year later, he feels like a dog…

Zhou Yang was stunned, then embarrassed, and finally sat in the chair and opened the investment schedule of “Lamb” in the document. When he saw that the part of the working capital of SKY Company belonging to Christian was all invested in this film, Zhou Yang was speechless and complicated.

   However, Christian still speaks morally, and did not use the investment of 20% of the shares belonging to Zhou Yang.

   But when he saw Roddy’s aggrieved expression, he finally couldn’t help sighing in his heart.

   This guy is really unlucky…

   “Let’s see if I can come up with a script. If I can come up with a script outline, I can try it…” Zhou Yang thought for a while, and when a movie name came to his mind, he finally responded.

   “Okay!” Roddy nodded hurriedly, and finally there was a little more smile on his already bitter expression.

   Then, he saw Zhou Yang lowered his head and took out a blank draft of the script. After thinking for a while, he wrote a group of names on the script.

  Clarice Starling.

   Bison Bill.

  Hannibal Lecter…

  …………

   China.

  The morning of August 18th.

   A new round of “Infernal Affairs” box office came out.

   “Superman 2” fifty million.

   “Infernal Affairs” grossed 13 million at the box office.

  The huge disparity seems to be telling all the Chinese filmmakers about the dominance of Hollywood blockbusters…

   Django looked at his “Night Walker” at the box office of 15 million, 2 million higher than “Infernal Affairs”, but he didn’t have any happy emotions in his heart, and even had a sense of panic and unease from the heart.

   That is a guilty conscience, but also a shame.

   He picked up the phone and finally made a call.

   “Once some things start, you can’t go back, don’t worry, there will be no problems!”

   The other party was comforting him.

   He bowed his head.

   “Dong Dong Dong!”

   The knock on the door in the office startled him, and he jumped up from his chair almost at once.

“Come in!”

   After seeing that the person who came was his assistant, he was inexplicably relieved.

   “Director Jiang, The Departed is a hit in America!”

“Um?”

   “This is news from the United States… It is estimated that there will be news from China soon.”

  “…”

  Django took over the phone, and then saw a series of news.

  【”The Departed”, the US version of “The Departed” is a big hit at the box office in Europe and the United States! 】

  【”The Departed” $8 million at the box office! Superman 2 is only $15 million! 】

   [US Congressman Olson: The real superheroes are actually around us. They have no extraordinary strength, they have no body of steel, they are ordinary, but they are very strong! 】

   (end of this chapter)