The Best Entertainment Era

The sun is shining and the road is full of people.

James Huang carried a briefcase, glanced at the office building in front of him, saw the name of Shahai Entertainment from a pile of nameplates, made sure that he was not wrong, and quickly walked in.

After finding the corresponding office, he knocked on the door and was greeted by a girl with freckles. After he indicated his intention, the girl asked him to wait for a while, and then went to notify the people in the other office.

Sitting on the chair, looking at the few seven or eight people in the office, James Huang is not surprised. Since the 1980s, he and his friend Glenn Morgan have been working hard in the film and television industry. for this small production company.

The broker mentioned this company and project a few days ago. He also understood that the investment of 11 million US dollars is really a big gimmick.

It doesn't matter to him, there are too many cases where Hollywood falsely reports production costs, which involves a lot of messy situations such as publicity, marketing and entanglement of interests.

In fact, it wasn't his only optional item.

People from Dimen Pictures had contacted him and wanted him to direct the parody version of Scream, Scream.

He did not respond for the time being, because one of the conditions proposed was categorically rejected by Dimen Pictures.

Thinking of the script with Glenn Morgan, James Huang frowned, did he really want to give up?

He has been in the industry for more than ten years and has been a screenwriter for more than ten years. He knows very well that this is a good idea.

The problem is that there are too many good ideas in the industry, and there are too many people waiting for their own good ideas to be turned into movies. When will it be his turn?

As for the separate sale of the script or the outline of the story, it is not considered.

From the mid-1980s to 1993, he has been working as a screenwriter. After numerous rejections, he wrote a youth comedy book called The Boy Next Door, which was finally bought by a production company. He and his friend Glenn Morgan participated in the writing of commercial films and dramas such as The Demon World Dancer and Dragon Tiger Youth Team.

Sadly, in 1993, as a senior screenwriter, because the screenwriting industry was not taken seriously, his income was even difficult to maintain personal expenses, so he could only find a way to transform.

Therefore, James Huang is very clear that the script cannot be sold for a few dollars at all.

James Huang can only think of one way at this stage to sell with himself.

After all, he is not an unknown person. He has served as the director and executive producer of The X-Files, and has also worked as a co-producer on the Out of the Universe and Millennium Hunt projects.

Director Huang. The freckled girl came over at this time to inform: Mr. Anderson, please come over.

James Huang nodded and followed the girl into an office where his agent Edward was already inside.

James, this is Ronan Anderson, president of Sand Sea Entertainment.

Ronan, this is Director Huang I mentioned to you.

Seeing black hair and yellow skin, Ronan immediately determined that it should be of Chinese descent, shook hands with him and greeted him, and asked, Director Huang is Chinese?

James Wong replied: I was born in Red Hole.

Ronan turned to the main topic: Have you worked on the X-Files crew?

This is a very successful TV series on Fox TV. After learning the director's name, he specially looked for it, especially the episodes that James Huang participated in deeply.

Judging by the quality of the TV episodes, James Wong did a pretty good job.

From the first season to the fourth season, I have been on the X-Files crew. James Huang said more plainly: In the first and second seasons, Glenn Morgan and I mainly adjusted the outline and Correction work, I started as Chris Carter's assistant director for the second half of the second season, and through the third and fourth seasons, I directed a few episodes alone...

After James Huang finished speaking, his agent Edward added: A lot of the plot and content of The X-Files involves the genre of thriller and horror.

Huang is very familiar with this aspect.

Ronan nodded. Among the directors who have actually interviewed, James Huang has the best resume, and he is also the one who has actually participated in directing well-known projects.

More importantly, Ronan always felt that this person's name was a bit familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, but couldn't remember it for a while.

He is not Google, and what Hollywood can remember him is definitely not an unknown person, and he must have made considerable achievements.

The two sides talked about James Huang's resume again. Ronan took out the script and pushed it to James Huang: You read the script first, and we will talk after reading it.

James Huang took the script, which is not too thick. It looks like more than 80 pages. The cover is marked Human Removal Project, and the name of Ronan Anderson is written on the back of the playwright.

He knew this before he came, and he didn't pay much attention to it. He opened the script and read it.

After watching it for a while, James Huang has a general judgment. The background of the script is good, but it is still the set of traditional American horror movies. It is full of violence, killing and blood. It can be classified into the category of plasma films.

As far as horror is concerned, it's just so-so.

In his eyes, that which cannot be seen or touched is truly terrifying.

James Huang made a subconscious comparison. The horror movie script he wrote with Glenn was much better than this.

But thinking about it carefully, in addition to the elements of terror and violence, this script seems to also have social realities in the United States, which is expected to resonate with Americans.

Seeing the back, James Huang scratched his head a little, how did the Arabs become heroes? Although there is a corresponding foreshadowing of the Arabs in the front, it does not conform to the usual Hollywood routine.

When did Arabs have a positive image in Hollywood movies? It seems that there are not many Arabs in the American movie audience, right? Written like this, it is better to change the Chinese audience to a wider range.

It took a long time for James Huang to read the script.

Ronan saw James Huang close the script, poured him a glass of water, and asked, What are your thoughts?

Because of the possibility of taking over the project, James Huang said directly: There is a problem with the role of the Arabs.

Ronan smiled: The investment comes from Abu Dhabi.

James Huang has been in the circle for many years, how can he not understand the meaning of this? The rich are the uncles.

The setting is good. He stopped mentioning Arabs and said slowly: This story should resonate with many people living in the United States.

Ronan turned back behind the desk: Tell me about it.

James Huang had a personal experience: I have been following the crew for several years, and have been in France and Canada for a while. Watching those news reports on TV, I feel very strange, because the news in these two countries is very different. The same. In France, I saw all kinds of reports about Europe. In Canada, the news was almost nothing serious, and it was reported on trivial things. Later, when I came back to the United States, there was violence in the news every day The incident happened.

He suddenly smiled: I'm an outsider. In the few years I first came here, my biggest feeling was that in the United States, I seemed to be living in violence every day.

Yeah. Ronan nodded lightly: The law and order in America is really bad.

Edward suddenly interjected: There are so many violent incidents, why don't people feel disgusted when they see violent movies?

James Huang answered: A movie against violence, there must be violence!

Hearing this, Ronan was a little impressed with James Huang. I have to say that directors are people who like to open their minds.

Director Huang. He simply asked, If you were the director, how would you like to make this film?

I will make it an anti-violence film with a lot of violent scenes. James Huang read the script, his thoughts gradually became clear: You wrote a good story, although the film takes place in the future, this is not a film In apocalyptic movies, people will live well in the future, but violence is still a lingering shadow. That is to say, violence not only exists in poverty, but also exists in wealth. This is something worth thinking about. Everyone feels like they're part of the violence.

This brain hole! Ronan was speechless.

After watching the drama directed by James Huang, verifying his resume, and knowing his thoughts on the film, Ronan gradually felt that Director Huang was a good choice.

He tentatively said, Huang, join my project.

James Huang looked at Edward, Edward showed a simple and honest smile: Before you came, I discussed the salary issue with Ronan, $300,000, paid twice.

When Ronan is satisfied with James Huang, Edward will raise his salary, otherwise it will be meaningless.

The negotiation of this kind of independent small project is not so particular at all. As long as the two parties have no opinions, they do not care too much about some too rigid regulations in the industry.

Well... James Huang pondered for a while, then suddenly said, Edward, I want to talk to Ronan alone.

Edward immediately thought of Dimen Pictures, stood up and said, You want to...

James Huang interrupted him: I know it.

Edward shook his head and went straight out of the office.