Chatty Hollywood

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Charlotte knows that in Hollywood, there is actually a script delivery chain——

After the specific age and role image positioning of the male and female protagonists of many movies are determined, they are often selected from stars of the same age and gradually passed down from top to bottom according to their level of achievement.

——This is actually a script selection chain

For example, currently, Julia Roberts occupies the top spot in the script selection chain among the female stars born in the 1960s in Hollywood.

It can be said that only movies that she doesn't like or have no time to act in will be passed on to other actresses behind her.

As a director, Charlotte actually knows this sequence chain quite well.

——Although he has basically never referred to this sequence chain since his debut.

In the early days, it was because he lacked fame and did not invest much in movies, such as "The Turn" and "Happy Death Day."

In this case, there is no point in extending invitations to well-known celebrities - you can't afford them anyway - it is better to choose the cheapest and most suitable ones, such as Charlize;

Later, after Charlotte was promoted to a first-line commercial film director through "Sleepy Hollow", he began to take control of the production rights.

He has future memories and is too lazy to wait for the selection of actors from scratch like many producers.

He often directly chooses the actors he feels are most suitable based on his own memory.

——In this way, the script selection chain still has no meaning to him.

However, this does not mean that he is unaware of the existence of this sequence chain.

In fact, much of the competition between actors of the same age group in Hollywood is for position in this pecking order chain.

After all, life is not a fair race.

Many times, those who stand in front will indeed have more opportunities.

As long as they don't make the wrong choice, a positive cycle will be formed, gradually widening the gap between them and those behind them.

The gap between the rich and the poor in society is widened in this way, and the status gap between Hollywood stars is also widened in this way.

However, although Charlotte knew that there was such an invisible pecking order chain among actors, he never realized that there was actually a similar pecking order chain among Hollywood directors.

After all, unlike actors, many directors write their own scripts.

Even directors who do not write their own scripts often have several familiar screenwriters write them.

Like the future Christopher Nolan, this is the case - his royal screenwriter is his brother.

And Charlotte is about the same.

——Although, the source of his script, whether it is written by himself or it comes from a special source, is quite strange.

In short, due to the nature of the director's work, most directors do not often need strangers to provide movie scripts, so Charlotte has never thought that such a script relationship also exists among Hollywood directors. Sequence chain.

"Actually, it's not even a ranking chain!"

Jodie Foster explained,

"New emerging young directors like you often have many ideas of their own in their minds, and generally do not often use scripts provided by others."

"But some of the materials are relatively old. Directors who have made many movies often have the stories in their minds that have been filmed. At that time, they will use other people's stories."

Speaking of this, the actress also gave an example:

"Like Spielberg, you wouldn't think that he has made so many movies and he wrote them all by himself, right?"

"You're right!"

Charlotte nodded.

Comparing it with veteran Hollywood directors such as Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott, Charlotte will understand what the actress means.

"Judy, you're not saying that if I'm willing to use other people's scripts to make a movie now, there will be a lot of scripts flying over for me to choose from, right?"

"Roughly the same!"

Jodie Foster shrugged;

"But it's limited to horror, supernatural, and fantasy themes - after all, your achievements in this area are obvious to all."

At this point, the movie queen sighed,

"Actually, the original top spot in the fantasy genre belonged to Spielberg. But since "Schindler's List", the old man has begun to shift to realistic themes, and he is getting older - And people like Tim Burton are too personal and have unstable business results, so it’s your turn to take over.”

"I see!"

Charlotte understood somewhat,

"Judy, is this the reason why you agreed to my terms so simply just now?"

"That's not true."

Jodie Foster shook her head;

"I have cooperated with you several times, and I believe in your ability - this is why I agreed to you. As for the reason I just mentioned, it is the reason why I think Universal will agree to your conditions."

"……All right."

Although limited to the actress's acting skills, Charlotte didn't know whether the touching words the other party said were true or false.

However, Charlotte still chose to take it seriously.

——It doesn’t hurt anyway.

But he is still a little hesitant about whether to take over the job of directing "The Mummy" because of this——

"Judy, you know, from a producer's point of view, I don't think it's a good idea to wait until I've finished filming Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone before starting to prepare this movie about mummies. That would make the producers The cost of the film has increased a lot——"

"I know."

Jodie Foster interrupted Charlotte,

"You are right, so we are not planning to wait for you to finish filming "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" before starting preparations for the movie."

"You mean-"

"Charlotte, you should try to learn from Spielberg now."

Jodie Foster smiled and said,

"When the old man was at his peak, he could operate on two fronts - maintaining the speed of preparing one film and shooting another at the same time, so as to achieve a very fast production speed."

“But won’t this degrade the quality of the movie?”

"At his peak, Spielberg managed to keep the quality of his movies from declining, and I believe you can do the same!"

"..."

Being encouraged by a beautiful blonde who said "I admire you so much", Charlotte couldn't resist.

In addition, he had a vague guess about the mysterious Lord of Hell. Using the movie "The Mummy", it seemed that he could test it out.

——After all, mummies are a representative object of the understanding of the afterlife in ancient Egyptian culture...

In short, after pretentiously reading the script, which was far from the later version, Charlotte agreed to Jodie Foster's request——

He will serve as the producer and director of the "Mummy" project initiated by Universal Pictures, and will also guide the screenwriter part-time. During the filming of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", he will simultaneously carry out the preparations for "The Mummy"...

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