Chapter 109 (1/2)

Beverly Hills.

In a cafe near wma headquarters in Camino street, Simon and Jonathan sat down after seeing off the other two.

Looking at the novel ”dancing with Wolves” in front of him again, Simon looked at the figure of the paparazzi shaking outside the glass window and said with a smile to Jonathan, ”ICM must be nervous. You just signed Robert De Niro, and you're going to attack their stars again.”

ICM (innovation international management company) is Hollywood's talent agency after wma and CAA. It has Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eddie Murphy and other famous stars, and its strength can not be underestimated.

The two people who left just now are Michael Blake, the author of dancing with wolves in Simon's hands, and Kevin Costner.

Before Simon's rebirth, most people's impression of Kevin Costner was probably the role of Jonathan Kent, the adoptive father of Superman in Superman: the body of steel. But in fact, Kevin Costner is one of the hottest superstars in Hollywood in the 1990s with a series of blockbusters such as dancing with wolves and bodyguards.

Kevin Costner is now a customer of ICM. Although he is not as famous as later, he has a small reputation.

Jonathan Friedman has successfully signed with Robert De Niro last week. Hearing Simon say this, he shook his head and said with a smile: ”Kevin and Bob are both introverted actors. I'm not as greedy as CAA. Just sign one. Simon, with dancing with wolves, you've already bought eight copyrights. Do you want to continue

Simon felt the dissuasion in Jonathan's voice, but said: ”if there is something positive, of course it will continue.”

Even so, Simon felt helpless.

Among the eight novels, remakes or original scripts that Simon has acquired, only two are in his favor, dancing with the wolf and Forrest Gump. The rest are just random collections for making smoke bombs.

Due to technical limitations, ”Forrest Gump”, which won the best special effects Oscar, will not be shooting in a short time.

Forrest Gump was published only last year, and its author, Winston glum, is well-known in the industry. However, compared with the author's other works, the sales of Forrest Gump can only be described as a failure.

Since last year, Forrest Gump has sold less than 10000 copies.

After Jonathon's contact with each other, Winston glum initially put forward various conditions. But when Simon raised the price to $200000, westero won the film adaptation right of the novel within 10 years.

As for dancing with wolves.

In the original time and space, the film not only made a huge box office of more than 400 million US dollars in the world with a production cost of 22 million US dollars, but also won a series of heavyweight awards such as best picture, best director and so on.

Dancing with the wolf does not have the technical threshold of Forrest Gump.

Simon, however, was also unable to jump start the project.

Danylis film has no operational strength to support a global $400 million box office blockbuster, and Simon can no longer transfer the distribution rights of this project to other film companies.

During this time, Jonathan was mainly negotiating with Michael Blake, the author of dance with the wolf, about the copyright term.

Michael Blake was encouraged by his good friend Kevin Costner to write the novel. For this reason, the other side insisted that Kevin Costner be the hero, and even stressed that the clause should be written in the contract.

In addition, if the copyright is sold to westero, Michael Blake and Kevin Costner naturally hope that ”dancing with Wolves” can be shot as soon as possible.

That's not what Simon can say.

After several weeks of negotiation, the two sides barely reached an agreement. Danielis pictures bought the three-year adaptation right of dance with the wolf for $100000. In terms of copyright price, Michael Blake doesn't have a lion's mouth. However, if daenerys pictures can't start the project according to the agreed terms within three years, it will need to pay Michael Blake $500000 after the contract expires.

Besides Forrest Gump and dancing with the wolf, many other movie copyrights in Simon's memory can't be obtained or found.

What's more.

Simon can't do it too much, he can only eat it a little bit slowly.

Eight copyrights actually cost Simon more than $1 million. Jonathan's mind flashed over the tens of millions of dollars that the young man had accumulated at this time. Seeing that he didn't listen to his advice, he stopped saying anything and said, ”Simon, I'm thinking, since Sally can't give it to Sean, can she try the role of Mary, Sally's good friend ？”

Jonathan's Sean is obviously ”Rachel” Sean young in ”Blade Runner”.

Some time ago, Simon just decided to make ”when Harry meets Sally”, Jonathan recommended Sean young.Simon had a face saving talk with Sean young, and had an affair with him. However, Simon has already had his own plan, and Sean Young's impression on Simon is not good, so the matter is not over.

At this point, Simon said: ”Joe, isn't she joining Oliver Stone's” Wall Street ”crew?”

Oliver Stone won the Oscar for best director in March for ”platoon.” last month, he started filming another new film, Wall Street, a commercial film invested by Fox pictures.

Jonathan nodded with a wry smile and said, ”Sean plays Michael Douglas's wife in the movie. However, both Oliver and Michael don't like her very much. Originally, she was just a small role with less than 10 minutes. In the future, the scenes in the film will be cut even shorter. ”

”Sean is too pretty for Mary. What's more, Joe, you don't think she'll be able to get on well with everyone in when Harry meets Sally, do you Simon could only shake his head and refuse. After thinking about it, he said, ”in fact, sandy, Liz and Nicole all have great potential. Joe, Sean's mean and perverse personality is not suitable for this circle at all. You don't have to spend too much time on her. ”

Seeing that Simon didn't mention Courtney Cox, whom he first met, Jonathan could not help but feel some emotion, but explained: ”Sean's father, Donald young, was a TV producer. I was a good friend with him when I was still working in New York, and Donald helped me more than once.”

Human feelings are exhausting.

Simon thought so, but he couldn't let go and put in a character who might make the whole crew uneasy.

After chatting for a while, Simon and Jonathan said goodbye and rushed to the headquarters of de Laurentiis entertainment company, which is also located in Beverly city.

Today is May 13.

Wednesday.

After more than a month of intense late, ”blood corpse night” officially completed the final cut, Catherine called yesterday to invite Simon to see the film.

Simon wanted to do something for Katherine in the later part of blood dead night. However, after he broke up with Janet, the woman seems to have done something bad. During this period, she has been politely refusing Simon's help, but occasionally she will contact him by phone with some problems.

So.

Simon hasn't seen each other in this period of time or the two most familiar women in this era.

Less than five minutes after leaving Camino street, Neil Bennett parked the Chevrolet SUV under a three story office building in Alden street.

Before Simon got out of the car, he noticed another wine red range rover parked in front of his car.

Compared with its own Chevrolet SUV, the range rover, which is known as the British Royal field vehicle, is definitely several grades higher. The bright wine red body is likely to be customized.

Most important.

It would be a failure if Simon couldn't find out Janet's preference for wine red.

Sure enough.

After getting out of the car, Simon steps forward to find Ken Dixon, who is sitting in the driver's cab reading a newspaper. This is the bodyguard Simon and Janet left behind after they ”shared their property” last month.

Noticing Simon's presence, Ken Dixon pushed the door to get out of the car and said, ”Mr. westrow.”