Legendary Hollywood Producer - Chapter 151

Companies and individuals are two completely different types of business. Paramount Pictures is responsible for the production and distribution of “Mission: Impossible 3”, which is a corporate act, while Roman’s role as a producer is a personal act, and Paramount certainly has to pay for it. .

Therefore, after friendly communication between the two parties, Roman and Paramount Pictures signed a producer hiring agreement.

Because Hollywood is a producer-centric system, everyone takes this job very seriously. Coupled with Roman’s past success, Paramount generously paid $6 million.

According to the agreement, Paramount has paid half of the money, and the rest will be paid after the filming is completed.

This value is certainly not as good as the industry’s most famous producer Jerry Bruckheimer, but it is also the top handful.

Moreover, a producer like Jerry Bruckheimer usually operates as a team and does not personally participate in project production. Instead, he acts as a project initiator, such as the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series and “Pearls”. He created many box-office movies such as “Hong Kong”, “High Aspirations”, “Prison in the Air” and “Black Hawk Project”. His value is also the highest in the field of producers.

Of course, Paramount spent so much money to invite Roman, of course, to see his value.

Therefore, as soon as the negotiations were over, Roman began the preparation of the crew for “Mission Impossible 3”.

Lohman, the producer, must deal with matters such as determining the venue, inspecting the photographic equipment, and familiarizing the actors with the script. He also specially called all actors with lines to gather for two small meetings. It was not a shooting arrangement, but simply let These people will get acquainted as soon as possible.

Later, his work was much easier.

As soon as the crew preparations were completed, Paramount Pictures also began to look for suitable director candidates.

In this part of the work, what Paramount executives need more is Roman’s affirmation.

Because of the release of “Mission Impossible 2” directed by Wu Yusen, the film’s reputation in the audience’s mind has dropped rapidly, which also forced Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures to tear their faces.

For Tom Cruise, the proportion of this series of films in his mind is far more important than Paramount Pictures.

Moreover, the core of the entire story of “Mission Impossible 2” has gone wrong with the movie style previously shaped by “Mission Impossible 1”.

Brian de Palma’s treacherous dark temperament has directly become a confrontation between pigeons flying around and Hong Kong film’s favorite two guns?

What is this operation?

By the way, director Wu Yusen really likes pigeons, and even Hollywood spy movies have to take pigeon shots, so you can just shoot a pigeon movie directly.

Therefore, the director of this film must choose carefully.

The previous life “Mission Impossible 3” is the bottom of the box office and the bottom of the word of mouth in the entire series. If you don’t save it, the profit of this movie will be quite small, and it is not the original intention of Roman joining.

He wants to make “Mission Impossible 3” shine, and the power and trust given by Paramount Pictures can’t be lost, otherwise, the cooperation will not go so smoothly in the future. The ancestor’s interpretation is very correct.

“Tell me your director candidate?”

In the Paramount Pictures office, Roman asked George.

This is the nth time the two have met. Because of being the producer of “Mission Impossible 3”, the communication between Paramount Pictures and the film crew is usually the responsibility of Roman.

“This is the list, you can take a look, you can also try to contact, in short, you agree to the candidate, Paramount will start the negotiation of the director contract.”

George handed a document containing suitable candidates to direct the film collected by Paramount Pictures for the filming of “Mission: Impossible 3”.

“J-J-Abrams, Ted Kotchev, Michael Man.” Roman murmured softly, no matter how action-oriented directors are.

Does Paramount want to make the “Mission Impossible” series a popular action movie?

It seems that there is this kind of thinking. Whether it is the cool action scenes or the difficult scenes of the next few movies, aren’t they all moving closer to this aspect?

It’s as if Tom Cruise has become a template for “Uncle Dragon”, “The scene is not terrifying to death”?

“Climbing Burj Khalifa with bare hands”, “Extreme motorcycle chasing in sandstorms”, “Parkour on the roof”, “Aircraft with bare hands”…

Isn’t this the kind of desperate style of “Uncle Long” in the early years?

It seems that the image of the agent Ethan Hunt created by “Mission Impossible 1” has been completely left behind by Paramount Pictures. How can such a lackluster design be full of the shadow of Hollywood action movies? It’s an agent type movie.

In comparison, the first to third of “The Bourne” can be said to be more outstanding in this respect, at least shaping the screen image of a classic agent, rather than specious and uncreative.

The more Romain looked at this list, the more dissatisfied.

Who is J-J-Abrams? It is the man who made “Mission Impossible 3” a reputation and a double bottom at the box office. He is a TV drama director who has adapted to the composition of the TV screen. How can he make a good spy movie? The lens language style is centered on the director. His partial documentary style derived from TV dramas looks very bluff, but in reality it will only be a mess. He is not as good as Wu Yusen. At least there are pigeons in the pictures. Elegant and calm temperament.

Take a look at “Mission Impossible 3” from his hand. The impatient and messy plot is controlled by the clash of characters. Come on, it’s really filming the TV series “Spy Girl”. The first candidate was directly eliminated by Roman, and it is impossible for the loser to trust him again. He is really not suitable for this type of film series.

And Ted Kotchev and Michael Mann both started making action movies, the former is the “First Blood” starring Stallone, and the latter is the action classic “The Wire”.

Of course, these two candidates were also rejected by Roman, and the “Mission Impossible” series does not need to be too strong in action film style.

Scene shooting can be dangerous, but the style of the movie must reflect the mind and incredible imagination of the agents.

Roman has always felt that the first three in the “Bourne Shadow” series are the best created among the genres of secret agents.

Whether it is the veteran “007” series, or the “Mission Impossible” series, it’s not so interesting in it.

Therefore, in Roman’s vision, this movie will retry to continue the quirky and changeable plot design created by “Mission Impossible 1”. To be honest, the plot design of the later series of movies is very thin, lacking the charm of the special agent movie, at most it is Tom Cruise’s personal show, thinking from the overall perspective of the movie, it is undoubtedly a failure.