Chapter 106 Return to the Crew (Please subscribe and read)
Robert Downey Jr.'s face turned dark. After "Chaplin" was released, many people helped him promote it, but it was still crushed by that damn "Buried" at the box office. This is his shame and also a scar.
But that damn woman Julia Roberts actually mentioned it to her face.
"Robert, don't bother with her. She has only been to school for a few days, has little knowledge, and can't speak. It's not worth getting angry about what she says."
Kiefer Sutherland persuaded.
“Humph, yes, you guys are highly educated and look down on this and that all day long, but in fact, from childhood to adulthood, you probably haven’t even finished reading a book with a thickness of more than 100 pages, let alone writing a book.
No matter how useless Link was, he had written several high-quality scripts, directed two films that went down in film history, and sold 700,000 science fiction novels in three weeks, winning praise from a large number of professors.
Besides drinking, taking drugs, and being jealous of Link, have you done anything meaningful to brag about? Nothing, not a single thing. I really don't understand how people like you dare to look down on Link. "
"Get out! Julia, get out!"
Kiefer Sutherland swore.
"Just go ahead. I don't even want to drink coffee with you guys."
Julia Roberts left without looking back, carrying her small bag.
Robert Downey Jr. cursed, kicked over a chair, overturned the coffee table, and walked out of the cafe with an angry face.
Kiefer Sutherland shrugged his shoulders and left everyone unhappily.
After the third week sales of "Interstellar" were released, in addition to receiving everyone's congratulations, Link also received calls from many film companies and famous producers.
The film company hopes to buy the film and television rights to several "Interstellar" works, including three medium-length and long novel adaptation rights, with the offer reaching US$10 million.
Link didn’t relent, but he didn’t completely reject the idea either, and expressed interest in working with several major film studios on several film projects in the future.
In the book publishing industry, although publicity and book signing events can also increase novel sales, the best way to increase novel sales is to remake the novel into a movie or TV series, and make the novel a globally renowned IP through film and television series.
For example, the Harry Potter series, the Hunger Games series, the Twilight series, and Fifty Shades of Grey have all become global bestsellers due to their successful film adaptations.
You can make double the money by adapting a novel into a movie.
Link naturally wouldn't refuse.
It’s just that the level of special effects technology is not high at this stage, and many scenes in the book cannot be filmed.
Those film companies may not necessarily start filming immediately after purchasing the adaptation rights, or they may make a rubbish movie first to grab the copyright.
This wouldn't do much to promote Interstellar.
Link plans to stay for a few years, wait for Guess What Pictures to grow bigger, and then cooperate with other film companies to shoot such big productions.
"Interstellar" sold well, and publishers and book companies were overjoyed and decided to invest more money to promote the book.
Link's schedule has also become tighter, flying to at least five cities a week and doing more than ten book signing events.
After running around for more than twenty days and attending more than forty book signing events, Link returned to Los Angeles at the end of the month and joined the "Blair Witch" crew to check on the filming of the movie.
After traveling around the United States for almost four weeks, the crew of "The Blair Witch Project" still hadn't finished filming.
The main reason is that Sofia Coppola is a person with her own ideas.
Originally, according to his script, the filming could be completed in ten days.
After just two days of filming, Sofia called and said that she found that the final film she shot according to the script he gave her was ugly. Not only was the camera shaky and the composition lacked aesthetic appeal, but the plot design was also very thin.
Looks like a rubbish movie anyway.
Sofia didn't want to make a bad movie and proposed to revise the script.
The character of Blair Witch is to be added to the new script. Through description, the audience will know that Blair is an unfortunate woman. Because of the misfortunes she encountered in the past, her personality has become distorted and she has begun to take revenge on others, especially men.
Sofia also has to revise the ending of the script.
The original ending was that all three college students were killed by Blair. Afterwards, the handheld camera was found and, after being edited by the film company, it became this documentary-style movie.
The version that Sophia revised was that Blair killed the two male supporting characters in a strange way, but was finally dealt with by the heroine, who hit her with a camera.
Before the witch died, she suddenly woke up and told the heroine about her experience:
'Blair was originally a photographer. She came to the small town of Wilton with her boyfriend for adventure. Later, due to a conflict, her boyfriend was killed by local residents, Blair was raped, and then thrown into a bottomless cave, where she almost died.
Blair woke up and started to take revenge.'
Hearing this, Link immediately called a halt.
The more I listened to this story, the more familiar it sounded. After thinking about it carefully, I realized that the plot is very similar to "I Spit on Your Grave", one of the top ten banned films in the world.
"I Spit on Your Grave" was released in 1978. It was written, directed and self-published by Meir Zage. It tells the story of a female writer who was insulted by four men while traveling and killed them brutally after waking up.
The film was remade in 2010, with the bloodiness and brutality reduced a lot, and it was changed from a banned film to an ordinary R-rated movie.
Link rejected Sofia's proposal. If the movie was shot according to her modification method, it would be completely unrecognizable. In addition, the budget of this movie was 50,000 US dollars, and if it was shot according to her method, it would not be able to be made even with 1 million US dollars.
He asked Sofia to shoot according to the original settings. If she was unwilling, he would give the directing job to assistant director Ed Merrick. This movie was very simple and could be shot by anyone who knew how to use a camera.
Sophia agreed reluctantly.
In the subsequent filming, according to Daniel DeVito's report, although Sofia shot according to the movie script, she had extremely high requirements for the camera, the actors' acting skills, and the set layout, which also led to a slow progress in the filming.
Link asked Daniel why he didn't stop it.
Daniel claims that if the film is shot according to Sofia's ideas, the quality of the film will be higher and the box office performance will be guaranteed.
Link almost fainted from anger after hearing this.
If he had known that handing the film over to other people would cause so many complications, he would have said that he would wait until the film was finished before attending the book signing event.
Also because the filming of "The Blair Witch Project" was progressing slowly and the crew's expenses had seriously exceeded the budget, he had to suspend his overseas book signing events and return to the crew to clean up the mess.
"Link, look, isn't my shot better than your design?"
In front of the director's monitor, Sofia played the filmed footage and asked him to comment.
Link looked at it for a while, and the blood vessels in his forehead began to throb.
(End of this chapter)
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