Chapter 1080 (1/2)

Danelis studios, Los Angeles.

Holding a folder in her arms, girl a looks up at her watch and greets her boss who has just finished her meeting with Pixar management.

”You still have a year, John, to work out a revised plan as soon as possible. I'll see it after the new year.”

John lassett, who had just been trained, leaned slightly beside Simon and said, ”I promise, Simon, I'll do it as soon as possible.”

Simon's face is still cold and John lassett said, straight to a girl, asked: ”next?”

”We've all arrived for the movie meeting of ghost of terror.”

Simon nodded and walked out quickly. Girl a quickly followed.

Returning from the east coast, Simon has spent the last few days sorting out the film projects of Denise entertainment in the next two years. What he just discussed with Pixar team is another Pixar 3D animated film ”the insect agents”, which will be released at the end of next year.

Compared with ”Toy Story”, ”Nemo” and other films, ”insect agents” in Pixar Animation Series, whether it is word-of-mouth or box office, is a low one.

As for why, there are many questions.

The most important one, in Simon's view, is that the main line of the story is the love between two ants. The hero, felick, out of love for Princess Yating, rises up against the grasshopper army, and finally a lover gets married. This theme is too adult and not suitable for young and old people. In addition, this is not a real fairy tale of the prince and princess, which makes it difficult for people to have a sense of substitution. Therefore, a seemingly insignificant problem has largely caused the low ebb of ”insect agents” in the Pixar Animation Series.

Let's look at the rest, toy story. The core is friendship, suitable for all ages. Undersea story, which has set a box office record, focuses on family affection, which is more suitable for young and old people. In addition, Simon, a big butterfly, has changed from 2D to 3D and still created a box office miracle. Although the story is taken from vengeance of the prince, the core is growth, which is still suitable for all ages.

The simple truth is: on the premise of ensuring the quality, the wider the audience, the higher the box office.

Simon raised this question at the beginning of the project, but the Pixar team obviously did not strictly implement it. After all, under the continuous success, anyone would inevitably be impetuous. Therefore, at the meeting just now, Simon was rarely angry and forced the Pixar team to modify it, playing down the love line between Felix and Princess Yating, focusing on friendship and sharing with her It's more pleasant and easier to sell the insect circus around.

After leaving Pixar headquarters and returning to a screening room on the third floor of the administrative district, the directors of ”ghost of terror” such as Peter Jackson, actor Ben Stiller and heroine MIA Sara have all arrived. In addition, there are several new world film executives responsible for project distribution, such as Denny Morris.

I'll take a seat soon.

Simon goes to the best position in the middle of the second row and takes a note from the female assistant who sits on the left. He just glances at it and feels the faint fragrance of a strange woman on the right. He turns to see MIA Sara, the heroine of the ghost of terror, sitting beside him. When he meets Simon, she has a golden age Hong Kong actress temperament, which is very in line with the Oriental aesthetic ”Mr. westrow, can I sit here?” she said

Simon just nodded slightly, his eyes fell back on the memo that introduced the general situation of ghost of terror, and quickly read the information.

The light in the projection room soon dimmed and the screen lit up.

Peter Jackson's first draft of ”ghost of terror” tells the story of frank, who accidentally obtains psychic ability, colludes with ghost friends to defraud money, and finally meets the murders of evil spirits, and justice defeats evil.

In Simon's opinion, the original script was extremely bad.

Generally speaking, there is a big defect in Western ghost movies, that is, the lack of a mature mode of human fighting against ghosts, which also leads to many horror movie protagonists beating ghosts only by chance, or a lot of completely unintelligible routines, and even the influence of love, which is very far fetched.

Just like the original version of ”ghost of terror”, the protagonist's first victory over the evil spirit is actually based on the two machine guns that the dead Sheriff conjures up.

Bullshit.

In contrast, Oriental ghost films, especially Hong Kong films, have quite convincing and complete routines, such as glutinous rice, ink fight, spirit charm, dog blood, donkey hoof and so on.

In the wake of the movie universe created by danielis entertainment in recent years, Simon personally intervened and constantly improved a set of westernized exorcism mode, and the effect was very good. As for this ”ghost of terror”, Simon specially gave Jackson a Hong Kong film ”Mr. zombie” at the beginning, so that the other party could watch it several times for inspiration, revise the script again, and perfect the original ”ghost of terror”, which is neither horror nor comedy, into a qualified commercial film.

Compared with other directors with strong personality, Peter Jackson's biggest advantage is that he is pragmatic, listens to other people's opinions and is willing to cooperate with investors to improve. At last, the script that started shooting deleted a lot of redundant story branches in the original version, and drew a lot of inspiration from Simon's Mr. zombie, which is basically another story.On the big screen.

The film begins with a farce, a castle haunted, the master invited a psychic Frank ghost.

It's enough to make people with a little intelligence feel like a liar. The hero puts on airs in the castle. Finally, he tells the suspicious owner that he's done and gets paid to leave.

As soon as the actor Ben Stiller appeared on the stage, he felt completely different from the original Michael fox. The comedian who was born on ”Saturday night live” had a very bad temperament and made people laugh. In contrast, as the hero of the ”back to the future” series, Michael fox is more impressed by the youth film Xiaosheng than the comedian.

The perfect casting and the matching story are just the beginning, which makes Simon more certain about the quality of the film.

The movie goes on.

Taking leave of the host's house, Frank drives away from the castle. In the car, two ghosts suddenly sneak out from the back seat and under the car. First, let the audience confirm that there are ghosts in the movie.

However, the two ghosts that people initially thought were trying to attack the evil spirits of the protagonist soon proved that they were only joking with the protagonist. They were friends of the protagonist who had psychic ability. The ghost hunt just now was also a scam of cooperation between the two sides.

Wedge here, the background is basically explained.

The hero is a psychic. He has two ghost friends and makes a living by deceptive ghost hunting. At the same time, from their conversation, the audience also learned that the so-called ”haunted” castle just now was not ”haunted” on their own initiative, but they did not know what the problem was.

In the process of chatting, the plot suddenly changes.

On the winding dark road at night, one person and two ghosts were busy discussing how to spend the money they just got. Suddenly another car came straight in front of him. Frank ran away in a hurry. At the last sight, he saw a dark shadow rising from the top of the car and disappearing in the direction of the castle manor they had just passed.

Then Frank's car hit a tree trunk on the side of the road.

With a thump, the title of ghost of terror and the following titles appear.