Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 649 Mythical Universe
Facts have proved that Jimmy's repeated instructions are justified.

On the way here, Jimmy told Yu Dong that Michael Eisner is a person who knows how to save costs, but Yu Dong didn't take it seriously. Later, he found out that Jimmy's evaluation of Eisner was quite conservative.

After reading the script, Eisner didn't show much expression.

He first flattered Yu Dong lightly.

"Sure enough, it's YU, which is loved by hundreds of millions of readers. It's different if you play it. I'm still quite optimistic about this script."

When this kind of praise is only part of Eisner's rhetoric.

He affirmed the value of the script first, but did not praise it too much, and then picked out some of the script's flaws, such as Captain Jack's character design.

In fact, it’s not right to say that it’s fault-finding. Eisner doesn’t think there is a big problem with Captain Jack. He just told Yu Dong and the others that other companies will definitely not be able to shoot the role of Captain Jack. Only by cooperating with them can Disney show it. Highlights, play value.

After a set of speech skills, Yu Dong also understood that this guy just wanted to convey a point of view to him and Jimmy: this script works very well with Disney, but it will not be as good without Disney.

Jimmy looked at Michael Eisner, who was eloquent and eloquent, and laughed secretly. He is a thousand-year-old fox, and Michael is still here to play Liaozhai for him.

Michael must have taken a fancy to the script written by Yu Dong, and he should attach great importance to it.But Michael wanted to lower the price, or in other words, wanted to fully grasp the initiative on Disney's side, so he came up with such a set of words.

While Eisner was analyzing the script, Jimmy touched his ears, turned sideways, and began pointing his toes out the door.

Of course Eisner noticed his actions.

So Eisner cut himself short to ask Jimmy, "Jimmy, what do you think?"

Jimmy said with a smile, "I don't have any ideas, you go ahead, Michael. We came here today just to hear your opinion."

Michael returned a smile, but Jimmy's rock-solid attitude made him feel a little difficult, so he looked at Yu Dong again, "YU, what about you, what's your opinion?"

Yu Dong also shook his head, "My thoughts are all in the script."

Michael nodded: "Then let me talk about my thoughts. I really like this script very much, but if I want to make it, I need to consider a lot of issues... By the way, Yu, you are from Shanghai and now live in Jinling Right? In fact, we have thought about building an amusement park in Shanghai or Jinling, and we have been doing research on this matter recently. Maybe you can really see our park in your hometown in the future, and you will definitely appear in the pirate park. name."

Wealth does not return to one's hometown, like a night walk in brocade clothes. Although Michael has never heard of these two old sayings, he understands this truth and the Chinese people's mentality of returning home in brocade clothes, so he specifically told Yu Dong about it.

But Yu Dong didn't believe it at all.

The current conditions in Shanghai are insufficient in all aspects. It is impossible for Disney to consider building an amusement park there, and it is even more nonsense in Jinling.Besides, even if Disney really wanted to build parks in these two cities, it would not affect Yu Dong's decision on this matter.

Yu Dong's decision-making is very simple, that is, to hand over the decision-making power to Jimmy.

"This is a very good thing. I think the people of Shanghai and Jinling must also welcome your playground to land in their place."

Michael could hear the perfunctory in Yu Dong's tone. He rolled his eyes and asked again: "YU, after you came to the United States, did you go to the cinema? "Mulan" hasn't finished painting yet, have you gone to see it?" ?”

Yu Dong nodded: "Look, I heard that the box office of this movie is pretty good?"

"Very good. As an animated film introducing oriental culture, it has surpassed our expectations with a box office of more than 3000 million U.S. dollars in the United States."

Michael played tricks. He described "Mulan" as a movie introducing oriental culture, as if they were Disney ambassadors for Chinese culture.

The animated film "Mulan" has not yet been released in China, but Yu Dong can predict what will happen to it in China.

An animated film that is popular all over the world, but it is cold in the "hometown" of the protagonist, perhaps Disney did not expect it.

Most Chinese audiences think that Disney's Mulan is too ugly and does not conform to Chinese aesthetics, including Yu Dong himself, who also thinks Disney's Mulan is not good-looking.

To say that the movie is introducing Chinese culture is not necessarily the case. Rather than saying that Disney is introducing Chinese culture, it is better to say that it uses the skin of Chinese culture to attract audiences.

However, Yu Dong still believes that this movie is of positive significance to the dissemination of Chinese culture. After the movie was released, many foreign audiences felt that it is very good that China has the role of Hua Mulan. Even though this image is different from the original story, the audience accepted The message about China is still positive.

Yu Dong knew that Michael mentioned "Mulan" to play the emotional card, so he took advantage of the situation and said: "In fact, there are still many traditional stories in China that can be explored. For example, a recent essay call for deep space China is related to this aspect. Maybe Our two companies can cooperate on this to create more themes. In addition, we have been digging and sorting out those myths and stories in China. We have already sorted out some. If Disney is interested, we can talk to them later. You share and share."

Jimmy and Yu Dong are old partners. As soon as Yu Dong opened his mouth, Jimmy knew what he was going to do. After Dong finished speaking, Jimmy followed up and said: "There is no need to rush this matter. I have sorted out and sorted out the stories. Find someone to translate, I believe readers in the United States will be able to see it in a short time. At that time, what Disney wants to shoot, just come and tell us. Didn’t Spielberg read a little bit before, he was quite interested, Said that if given the opportunity, he would like to make a beginning for the Chinese mythology universe.”

As soon as Jimmy said that, Michael became interested, "Chinese mythology universe?"

Jimmy smiled and nodded: "Chinese mythology has a huge system, and there are a lot of things to dig out. Our idea is, after sorting out this system, we will make these stories into movies to form a mythological universe. "

Jimmy only said half of what he said here. The mythology of China is indeed huge, but there is no clear system, so this sorting out of the deep space will change many things, and some of them are even completely different from the original mythology.

But in Michael's opinion, China's mythology system is complete and has a lot to do.

The most important thing is that Jimmy also pulled Spielberg's tiger skin, which made Michael have to be tempted.

"When will these stories be translated into English?" Markle asked.

Jimmy thought for a while and said, "I'm planning to start a translation team in October, and I can start translating in November and February. If the speed is fast, the first volume will be translated in June and July next year."

"It will take so long?" Michael smiled and waved his hands, "Jimmy, this is not your style of doing things. Since the story already exists, you should speed up. Especially this kind of fairy tale, if you don't make it first, say Maybe someone else will do it, I suggest that you start to form a translation team now, and then speed up, and the English version will be released by the end of the year."

Jimmy shook his head, picked up the teacup and was about to drink it, when the cup just touched his lips, he put it down again, he sighed a long time, "Michael, do you think I don't want to hurry up? But you also know, we The development of the company has been too fast, and it has been unable to keep up in all aspects, especially in the area of ​​talent reserve. To tell you the truth, I can’t guarantee whether this translation team can be successfully established.”

Michael raised his eyebrows and said, "Why do you say that?"

"Oh, because there are not enough translation talents. If you want to translate into a systematic fairy tale, ordinary translation is not enough. Moreover, our company now has a lot of translation tasks, and almost all Chinese translation talents have been hired by us. And , After the work is translated, it is always necessary to publicize it, but we have too many projects on hand now, it is difficult to focus on this project. "Butterfly Effect" will be released next week, "Pounding Heart" and "Mars "Rescue" is about to start filming, and..."

Once Jimmy opened his mouth, he couldn't stop.

He didn't deliberately promote the Chinese mythological universe to Michael, but he did the opposite, as if he was too busy to take care of it.But just like that, it made Michael a little commotion.

In fact, Michael also knew that Jimmy said this on purpose, but he was really interested in what Jimmy said.

After pondering for a while, Michael suddenly said: "Jimmy, can you give an English introduction to this Chinese mythology universe, and then show it to me? If possible, maybe Disney can assist you in developing this project."

"That's okay." Jimmy nodded, "But it may have to wait until September, because recently we have cooperated with Amazon and Flash Printing Company to work on the ancient Chinese poetry project."

"Ancient Chinese poetry?"

"Don't you know?" Jimmy smiled. "It seems that you don't pay much attention to Amazon. Now in Amazon, ancient Chinese poetry is very popular."

Michael nodded. Jimmy had revealed too much information to him at this moment, and he needed a little time to digest and verify it.

As soon as he lowered his head, he saw the "Pirates of the Caribbean" script plan on his lap, and suddenly remembered that there was still business to discuss.

Just now, he originally wanted to use "Mulan" to play a hand of emotional cards, so as to gain an advantage in the negotiation, but he didn't expect that YU and Jimmy would take the topic away lightly.

And it's not as simple as taking it away, they also promoted the deep space business by the way, and he is quite interested in these businesses.

Well now, if you mention "Mulan" again, not only will you not be able to play the emotional card, but it will also be easy to talk about the business just now.

After thinking about it, Michael didn't go around with Yu Dong and the others again.

"YU, Jimmy, let me be straightforward. We want this script from Disney. Let's talk about the way of cooperation later. I can see that you don't just want the screenwriting fee. But I'm telling you the truth. , the characters in the movie will enter the amusement park in the future, so I can't give you too much, we must control this copyright."

Jimmy laughed and said, "It's easy to handle. We don't want other copyrights. We can just talk about film and television copyrights."

"Yes, but I can't talk about specific things today. On the one hand, I haven't finished reading all the scripts, and on the other hand, the company has other things to do today. Either you pick a time, and we can meet."

Jimmy thought for a while and said, "Next Monday, I'll bring someone over to talk to you."

"no problem."

……

After talking about the matter, Michael stayed with them for dinner, but they declined.

After Yu Dong left, Michael first called Spielberg.

For Michael's call, Spielberg was quite surprised, "Michael, why did you call me suddenly?"

Michael smiled and said, "Steven, I have something I want to ask you. Do you know the mythology system in deep space?"

Spielberg raised his eyebrows and knew what Michael was going to ask. He said with a smile: "Of course I know, I'm quite interested, but their mythology system hasn't been fully completed yet, and I have too many questions on hand now." Lots of plans. You should know how busy I am right now, "Saving Private Ryan" hasn't been released for long, and I still have a few movies on hand."

"Do you think they have any hope of doing it?"

"Of course, although I didn't read the stories in detail, I had some general chats with YU, and those stories are very distinctive." Speaking of this, Spielberg paused, and then continued: "And you also know that China has With so many people, the market has great potential. When you filmed "Mulan", you must have thought about entering the Chinese market."

"It can be regarded as one of the purposes."

"By the way, how do you know this? Is deep space going to start these plans? But I told Jimmy, if you want to start it, you must tell me, no, I will call Jimmy now, Ask what's going on, Michael, and we'll talk later."

After Spielberg finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly.

Michael looked at the phone, lost in thought.

Jimmy didn't brag to him. Judging from Spielberg's reaction, this guy is really optimistic about the mythical universe in deep space, and it seems that he should also pay attention to it.

By the way, there is also the matter of ancient Chinese poetry.

Michael made another phone call: "Harquil, check Amazon's latest ancient Chinese poetry and report to me in the afternoon."

……

On this side, after Spielberg hung up Michael's phone, he did call Jimmy, but he didn't ask him about the launch of the mythical universe, but just told Jimmy about Michael calling him.

Spielberg is indeed interested in the mythical universe, but not as urgently as he appears.

And the reason why he was so urgent to Michael was also to help Deep Space.

Now that Lucas, Spielberg, and Deep Space are so good they can wear a pair of pants, it's only natural for Spielberg to say something nice about Deep Space.

Some other people know about their tripartite relationship, while others don't.

In addition to film cooperation, the three parties also have many business contacts, such as IMAX, and film approval.

"Okay, I see. I'll treat you to dinner later."

After hanging up the phone, Jimmy smiled and said to Dong, "Look, Michael called Spielberg. I guess he will check Amazon's affairs. He will definitely understand everything we said today."

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(End of this chapter)