screenwriter mystery

Chapter 164 Shooting a New Movie

Look at what is displayed on the system.

Zhao Yuan finally understood why the head of the circus looked so reluctant when he handed the stack of cards to him.

Although the level of these cards is generally not high, and there is a limit on the number of times.

However, for the head of the circus, sending out so many cards at once is also a very painful thing.

If it wasn't for Zhao Yuan's halo of being a script creator, he would never have had the chance to get this gift or apologize.

Sweeping through the cards in his hand, Zhao Yuan's eyes stopped for a moment when he saw the last card with [Swedish Nightingale] printed on it.

Among the circus performances, if he is most impressed, it is naturally the beautiful singing of this [Swedish Nightingale].

However, considering that this [Swedish Nightingale] card can only be used once, Zhao Yuan does not plan to use it impatiently now.

Looking at the stack of cards in his hand, a vague thought emerged in his mind.

Purely as combat power, these circus characters in his hands are obviously not outstanding.

But it would be a lot of fun to bring them together for a circus-related movie.

In particular, as an actual audience of the entire circus performance, he personally experienced the wonderful performance of the entire circus. In the end, the singing of [Swedish Nightingale] still lingered in Zhao Yuan's heart even after he had left the circus.

Filming the experience of the circus into a movie was Zhao Yuan's idea as a superficial Hollywood screenwriter out of professional instinct.

But, it's just an idea.

Not to mention, a movie, especially a movie related to the circus genre, is not a mainstream movie theme in Hollywood, and the adaptation involved is even more mind-boggling.

And, once the characters were put into the film, he had to explain the provenance of the circus troupe.

Therefore, after the idea of ​​shooting a circus movie flashed in Zhao Yuan's mind, he quickly suppressed the idea again.

At least for now, this idea is just a wild idea.

Instead of thinking about it, it's better to focus on more realistic things.

For example, the shooting of the new movie, "Spirit: Ghost Story".

……

early February.

The Writers Guild and the Motion Picture and Television Producers Union voted to pass a tentative agreement.

It means that this time the mighty general strike led by the Hollywood Screenwriters Union has finally ushered in the final moment of end.

With the end of the strike, these screenwriters who had been away from work for several months returned to their jobs, and the TV series and talk shows that were close to being suspended also returned to the TV screen.

At the same time, a house was selected in the outskirts of Los Angeles, and the movie "Spirit: Ghost Story" also started filming in a low-key manner.

From the perspective of filming, "Spirit: Ghost Story" is a more relaxed movie than "The Blair Witch".

The latter, during the entire shooting process, also needs to walk around in the forest to take some shots of witches that seem real and fake.

Then "Spiritual: Ghost Story" is purely a film that takes the 'pseudo-documentary' style to the limit.

The entire shooting scene is limited to one house, and even most of the plots are concentrated on the bedroom bed.

If it is not clearly stated in Zhao Yuan's script, this is a horror movie.

Actors who came to audition thought they were in a different genre.

With the director experience of "The Blair Witch" before, and "Spirit: Ghost Story" is the same type of "pseudo-documentary" film.

Universal, without too much hesitation, agreed to Zhao Yuan's proposal to continue directing.

In fact, for a film like "Spiritual: Ghost Story", the role of the director in the whole work is very small, so instead of having a dispute with Zhao Yuan on the issue of the film director, it is better to let this position Give it to him in exchange for negotiating terms for the rights to the sequel to The Blair Witch.

That's right, after Global's assessment.

Although participated in the investment filming of "Spirit: Ghost Story".

But more emphasis is placed on the copyright for the development of the sequel to "The Blair Witch".

After all, compared with a new movie that has not passed any market test, "The Blair Witch", as a dark horse movie whose previous work has earned 5000 million US dollars, can see the gap between the two at a glance.

But judging from the movie data, there is nothing wrong with Universal's decision.

It's just that they didn't expect that the word-of-mouth overdraft of "The Blair Witch" would be so serious that it wouldn't even be able to support the sequel's box office.

Universal wanted to buy the copyright of "The Blair Witch" to shoot a sequel, so Zhao Yuan naturally wouldn't pour cold water on them and make trouble for himself.

They are all mature film production companies that have worked in Hollywood for many years. He doesn't think that Universal will not know about the issue of "The Blair Witch".

It's just that the box office of the previous film's 5000 million US dollars is too dazzling, even if the sequel can't reach this level, even if it is only half of it, it will be a big profit for Universal.

……

"cut!"

Los Angeles, "The Ghost Story" filming location.

Zhao Yuan looked at the two actors playing the couple in the room, addressed them unnaturally, couldn't help but frowned and shouted "Ka".

Although "Spirituality: Ghost Story" is a "pseudo-documentary" film, it does not have too many requirements for acting skills.

But the most basic nature is the key to the documentary.

In order to conform to the natural setting in the script, like "The Blair Witch", Zhao Yuan did not invite any famous actors in the casting of "Spirit: Ghost Story", but deliberately chose a couple who are not in reality. Famous couple actors, come to play couples in the movie.

There is no doubt that his choice is very correct.

The appearance of this real couple in the DV camera meets the requirements set by the movie.

However, when the supernatural scene appeared during the performance, the two obviously couldn't achieve what Zhao Yuan had in mind.

According to the original plot of "Smart: Ghost Story", this kind of supernatural phenomenon is not outstanding.

Just rely on some limited, pretentiously mysterious shots to create a sense of horror and supernaturalness.

That's because the director of the original world never thought about the possibility of shooting a sequel when he was filming "Spirit: Ghost Story", and he didn't even have the idea of ​​entering the theater at first. The reason for the different ending of the line version.

　Thanks for the reward of 1500 starting coins for reading travel, and the reward of 100 starting coins for Dugu Leixing.

　　
　
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