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Chapter 523 The target to kill

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Warner Bros. has officially confirmed that a director named Walter Brovsky will direct the latest D-comic superhero movie "Suicide Squad".

After choosing to announce this time period, Murphy's own speculation may not be that Warner Bros. may not be in a tough position, but this has no effect on him. After all, he does not have to get the director of "Wonder Woman".

When he got home, he logged into the social networking website and took a look. Walter Brovsky was a very strange name.

However, Murphy didn't find it strange. There are many directors in Hollywood who don't know, such as Jon Favreau, who hadn't been the film "Iron Man", I believe that not only him, but quite a lot of movie fans wouldn't know this fat director.

There are many directors in Hollywood who have not been famous. Before directing well-known productions, they have been working as directors in independent film circles or other smaller film circles and advertising circles for many years.

It is rumored that the investment of "Suicide Squad" may be as high as $150 million. Even if there is a little conflict with Warner Bros., Murphy believes that they are definitely not crazy and must have their own reasons.

In Hollywood, it is not uncommon for such small directors with sufficient qualifications to direct big projects.

In the opinion of people outside the circle, these directors must be geniuses. They can gain the trust and appreciation of large companies when they debut, and get the big production guides with a production cost of over 100 million US dollars...

But no one in the circle would think so.

These so-called unfamous novices are actually veterans, but they have never been directors of commercial blockbusters. The current Hollywood commercial film system is perfect and the producer system can ensure that the quality of the film will not become a complete disaster due to a director's failure, and not to mention that these directors will not have the final editing rights at all.

In this case, there must be strong support and recommendations from heavyweights, and this role is quite critical.

On the other hand, most craftsman-level directors in Hollywood are often good at more than one similar one, and can deal with multi-clock films. In addition to some special types, such as musical and dance films, and noir films, so as long as you carefully examine and finalize the candidates for directors, there is basically no so-called unsuitable situation.

For example, if you find Ridley Scott to direct a pure romance film, it won’t be much worse, but the director’s interest is not here.

Also, producers, artistic directors and experienced editors are all guarantees of the project. Most ordinary directors of Hollywood popcorn commercial films are just people who link the entire project, sometimes even just live performance guides.

Under the reminder of typical Hollywood business operations, the importance of directors has been weakened too much by those highly homogeneous popcorn commercial films.

Take the restart version of "Men: First Battle" of Kara Fiss, which is operating in the Men. The actor Michael Fassbender who has been finalized and James McAvoy is the producer of Kara Fiss. The script was written early on by the screenwriter. Matthew Vaughan, as the director, does not have the final editing rights.

Not to mention him, it is hard to imagine that in another "Alien" series that Carla Fis restarted, the great director Ridley Scott has no final editing rights in the project that has been named "Prometheus".

Ridley Scott is undoubtedly a Hollywood first-line director, but his power in the crew has been reduced to the limit because his last film lost a lot. In the commercial film industry, which speaks at box office results, everything is so realistic.

Among these ordinary commercial productions, for production companies, the director is here to work and is disobedient. The producer has the power to change the director.

This kind of high-investment commercial production is actually extremely rigid in Hollywood in creation, because it is because it is afraid of losing money by accidentally encountering the audience's taboos when innovating. Therefore, you can always feel that the beginning, ending, turning and ending of blockbusters are almost the same in the filming.

Many times, the producers of this kind of general popcorn commercial masterpiece do not want to find directors like Murphy who demand great power, because directors like them have ideas and final editing rights, but this is a production worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which cannot tolerate a person to be so creative.

The other side of this logic is, are directors like Murphy willing to be angry with this?

In fact, not only are directors often not recognized in big productions, but actors often do not recognize them, or they can recognize them, but they are not particularly famous and can cause screams.

Because in fact, this type of movie has put most of the budget into special effects. Of course, the fewer the directors and actors, the better. Big-name directors and actors not only get salaries but also get box office points, and even if the production company makes money, it will not be happy.

Of course, these directors that audiences have never heard of must have been strictly considered by the production companies. Although they have relatively lacked reputation, there is definitely no problem with live shooting. There are a lot of advertisements, photographers, and B-level films. In Hollywood's past experience, many directors also came out from here, so production companies are also happy to select people from these fields. These are actually bottom-up selection channels among Hollywood directors.

Look at Hollywood today, why more and more directors from advertising have taken on A-level productions nowadays? It is because directors from advertising have a good visual effect. Although stories are often told poorly and have a strong advertising mindset, this goes back to the initial question. Most of the audiences who go to the cinema to watch scenes and effects.

Therefore, more and more directors now give producers a part-time film when shooting movies with higher budgets, or give producers a person closer to them. For example, Murphy is cultivating Gal Gadot in order to give himself more autonomy and gain more benefits.

Strictly speaking, the risk of a model with a big director + big star + high investment is the highest. There are too many cases in Hollywood history where a company can't do it because of the box office of this model. If it weren't for the fact that there was enough guarantee, the production company wouldn't be so confident to make a movie with this model.

If you want to do such a project, you must see enough profit prospects. For example, directors such as Murphy and Spielberg have a lot of super successful experiences. Even if the project cannot recover from the box office, it can still make profits through later revenue.

It is said that Hollywood movies are an industrial system, what is industry? It means that standardized processes and risk control are implemented in every aspect.

Let's just say that, the production of a typical high-cost popcorn movie + an unfamiliar director is left to six major companies to shoot, and can almost produce similar visual effects and to those carefully selected unknown directors to shoot. Under the strict control of the producer, it will not be much worse.

In these films, if the director is really talented, it will be the icing on the cake for this film. If the director has any problems, the film will not be completely ruined.

During the economic crisis in 2008, Murphy invested in a series of movies of this type, such as "Transformers 2", etc. These movies are basically this type of movies, with popcorn characteristics and relatively small risks.

Of course, among the very few commercial films, production companies will become cautious and will not make investment decisions easily. Such films must be equipped with famous editors and famous directors to protect them.

This type of movie is generally original movie, which is very risky.

Everything is actually the control of risk costs.

Hollywood's strict control over risk control is hard for people outside the circle to imagine that even Murphy's current project cannot be taken out and the investor's green light will be obtained. The necessary review procedures must be gone.

Even those projects that look very awesome and look unique will be controlled by risk costs.

"The Matrix" is a typical example.

When Wachowski brothers were still Wachowski brothers, the two brothers took the script of "The Matrix" to find various producers. After reading it, the producers didn't miss them. They thought that such inexplicable things would only lose money if they made a movie. After hitting walls in Hollywood, the Wachowski brothers had no choice. In order to increase the persuasiveness of the script and plan, they specially found a comic book friend to help them create a comic for many producers based on mat Day. That is, after the anime version of mat Day, which was later widely praised, one of them took the comic to the senior management of Warner Brothers in a skeptical way. But Warner's senior management was at first disliked and said that this story combines religion and philosophy and commercial actions, and was completely a random thing and did not want to invest.

Later, the Wachowski brothers had no choice but to make a complete set of short films at their own expenses, which moved Warner Brothers' senior executives.

To put it simply, the first point is that the market evaluation and prediction of the script is too high. Film companies are not fools. It is impossible to be shocked when they see such a troll. They are not fools. The second point is that the director and screenwriter have insufficient reputation. If the script is not the Wachowski brothers, it would definitely be another effect if it is Murphy or Spielberg now.

For Hollywood's first-line directors and new directors, this is completely different.

After caring about Warner Bros.'s selection of directors, Murphy continued to polish his scripts and plans in the following time. As long as there is no big surprise, this will be his new project.

Los Angeles is like New York. It looks extremely prosperous and glamorous on the surface, but in any world, there is only a place with light, there will always be darkness.

But in this era, darkness is always hidden deep and will not easily be revealed before the public.

In the old Chinatown, in a very ordinary warehouse, several people gathered together to check the guns and make final preparations for the next action. On the wall directly in front of them, an image of a man was hung. There were several scars on the man's face and his facial lines were strong. At first glance, he was a person with a firm will.
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