Chapter 036 (1/2)

Simon looked at the situation in front of him and wondered why the first production meeting of butterfly effect fell into such an awkward situation of tit for tat.

However, considering the attitude of David giller and Brian De Palma, Simon is not too worried about the progress of things. These two Hollywood celebrities, who have no lack of voice, obviously share the same position with themselves.

To confirm this, Simon was relieved and began to analyze the situation.

Hollywood also has a very complex power structure. But usually, it's very simple to determine a person's authority in Hollywood. It only depends on his subordinate relationship, that is, to which class of Hollywood the person is responsible.

From what David giller just said, Simon realized that the other party should be directly responsible to Ronald Goldberg, the president of fox pictures, and not under the control of Peter Sanders, the vice president of fox.

Even from the momentum of their communication, Simon noticed that David giller had the upper hand.

Since we are going to cooperate in the butterfly effect project, Simon naturally did some homework in advance.

David giller, who is in his fifties this year, is the producer of fox's ”alien 2”, which Simon knows very well. So, combined with the deliberate contrast in David giller's words, Simon realizes that Peter Sanders is probably related to Fox's ”space station” project, which failed in the summer box office.

With a budget of 18 million US dollars and the best time in early June, the box office is only over 9 million, which is not a big drop.

It was as Simon expected.

With David giller's last words, Peter Sanders's face was a little ugly, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. Then he said, ”David, I'm only responsible for the company's $10 million investment, and I don't mean to target anyone.”

David giller felt Peter Sanders' momentum softened, and he stopped chasing and beating, saying, ”of course, it's your responsibility. But, Peter, what you need to make sure is that the film investment is used in the right place, not in the right direction. It's my job and Brian's

Peter Sanders felt David giller's uncompromising voice, hesitated for a moment, then shrugged: ”well, I hope you don't screw up this movie.”

Failure to seize power.

Simon came to such a conclusion in his heart. He took another look at Peter sanders and realized that he was a very good bully.

Peter Sanders' attempt to take the lead in the creation of the butterfly effect was blocked by David giller, and the following meeting was obviously much more normal.

However, even so, David giller and Brian De Palma still put forward a lot of opinions on the revision of the script.

David giller's comments mainly focus on the title of the film and the ending of the story, which is similar to what he just wrote in the memo.

As a producer who needs to consider the film's future business prospects, David giller also hopes that the film can have a more popular name. At the same time, David also hopes Simon can rewrite a more gentle ending, rather than ending with the hero strangling himself in the womb.

This is no doubt back to the original ending.

Bryan De Palma's opinion is that he hopes to reduce the protagonist's childhood scenes to less than 20 minutes, so as to avoid too much preparation.

Compared with the original memo, they both had very professional opinions at this time. Although Simon could not fully agree with it, he also dealt with it very seriously.

Peter Sanders, who had been left to one side, still stayed in the conference room and occasionally got in a few words. So it wasn't until lunchtime that Peter Sanders got up to leave and said he had other work in the afternoon and would not come back.

In the internal restaurant of Fox Studios, after several contacts, David giller and Brian De Palma are very fond of Simon, a promising young man. After ordering lunch, David giller also took the initiative to reveal some secrets to Simon.

It turns out that the space station, which failed at the box office in the summer, is a project that Peter Sanders has teamed up with. Fox has not only given the film a high-level production budget of 18 million US dollars, but also the best film schedule. Ronald Goldberg, President of fox pictures, has also personally become the executive producer.

It's all because the heroine of space station, Kate Capshaw, is Steven Spielberg's fiancee.

Hearing this, Simon immediately understood what fox had done.

In the original time and space, it is no exaggeration to say that in the last 30 years of the 20th century, Hollywood was almost Spielberg's world.

With the great success of ”great white shark”, ”et”, ”Raider”, ”Jurassic Park” and other films, Spielberg is a Hollywood star. Although Spielberg belongs to Warner, universal and Paramount's direct directors, other than the three, every other company is trying to have a relationship with Spielberg.In addition to the space station, Simon recently saw on Hollywood Reporter that Disney has just approved an animated live action movie called ”Who Framed Roger the rabbit” in collaboration with Spielberg's amberlin pictures.