Witness of the film and television world

Chapter 110 Tolkien

"Elizabeth, I have a suitable play here, do you want to try it?"

Elizabeth was a little surprised: "What play?"

Payton's play is enough to make people look forward to.

Whether it is the previous "The Poet's Secret" or "A Beautiful Life", it gives people full expectations.

Peyton: "The Sound of Music is a very tender movie. At the same time, the role of the heroine is very important, more important than the hero."

"Different from the previous beautiful life, in this story, you are the core character."

The corner of Elizabeth's mouth twitched, there are not many dramas about the heroine now.

In Life Is Beautiful, she doesn't play many heroine roles, and more often she plays the role of a vase.

"Then I'll try, but my current salary is not low."

Gently touching Taylor's eyebrows, Peyton smiled: "Don't worry, this time we will use the highest configuration in the market."

"What's the highest pay you get outside?"

"80, of course, this is too high a price, half of it is my current real salary."

"Okay, then I will give you 80."

With an investment of 800 million, Payton will not buckle soso, he has never fought this kind of wealth battle.

In the film market, there are many directors and producers who rely on investment to make money and buy villas.

As the initiator and person in charge of the project, there is no problem at all to increase the salary of my big baby!

"By the way, do you want to invite Monty?"

Peyton shook his head: "Forget it, the heroine of this show is mainly on the heroine. As for the heroine, the role is not important. I just go to Broadway to find a few newcomers."

……

Time passed slowly, and Payton started to build the crew as quickly as possible, with the support of a complete production company, and his efficiency was very fast.

In less than ten days, all the preparatory work was ready.

Producer: Peyton
The director is an old man in the production company. He has rich experience. I can't say how good his ability is, but he is still qualified.

Peyton has seen his previous works, and the degree of completion is not low.

The heroine is Elizabeth Taylor, and the hero is a newcomer from Broadway. He has excellent looks and acting skills and was signed by Peyton.

The script, under the premise of the hard work of the screenwriter team and Payton's grasp of the general strategy, was completed smoothly.

The only thing that is more difficult is the songs in it, which is the core charm of this film.

For this, Peyton can only continue to ask professionals to run in and get the sound he wants.

……

"Boss, the original sin series, Random House is asking again."

Peyton, whose head was getting bigger from the soundtrack, shook his head.

"I'm so busy these days, how can I have time to write a book, tell them there's no rush."

"By the way, how is the situation at our publishing house?"

Ivoni Bernard said respectfully: "At your command, some time ago, we won the copyright of Mr. Tolkien's works in the Federation and the right to operate all related products. The newly launched Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Everyone has achieved good sales.”

"Especially the Lord of the Rings. At present, 40 sets have been sold in the Federation."

Peyton nodded: "If you can use the resources of Random House, don't waste it. They also have 40% of the publishing house's shares."

"Yes."

After hanging up the phone, Peyton gently massaged his temples.

Works such as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are completely leaked.

Some time ago, when Payton communicated with Roald and others, they talked about these works and how dove their author, Mr. Tolkien.

At that time, Peyton discovered that no one in the Federation had published such a magical masterpiece.

That's right, a novel has been written for more than ten years, and has been revised for four or five years. It is indeed difficult for a publisher to have such patience.

In Britain, publishers were also tortured by Tolkien.

But I can only ask this master to write faster.

After all, Tolkien himself is a professor at the School of Linguistics at Oxford University. He is a master of linguistics. He is not short of status and even money, and he has no helplessness for other poor authors.

After some communication, Peyton quickly got the relevant copyrights and handed them over to his own publishing house for publication. Not surprisingly, there will be no more pirated copies of the Lord of the Rings for sale in the Federation in the future.

Regarding his own publishing house, Peyton's original idea was to use the resources of Random House to re-establish a publishing house that was entirely his own.

But as time went on, this idea was gradually eliminated by Payton.

One cannot be too alone, nor can one person take all the benefits.

Under the premise of not affecting core interests, sharing is not unacceptable.

The publishing house is not the focus of Payton's attention!

Random House should not be his enemy, the 40% stake in the hub is a natural ally

Even in retrospect, Random House and Mr. Bennett are indeed his bole, although this bole has made a lot of money from him, but there is no grievance.

Of course, having said that, in the Original Sin series, Peyton is still doing it again and again.

First of all, Payton is really busy.

Second, Payton is still hesitating.

After the peak of power, he couldn't think of a more legendary figure.

The originally designed international arms dealers, black gold overlords, independent party warlords... suddenly feel that these are a bit trivial.

President Chris was designed to be too inflated!
Peyton really didn't have any good ideas.

The first Money Empire, the second Biography of Drug Lords, and the third Peak of Power, the three are connected in series to form a special world view, basically everything has been written once.

"Oh, what a headache."

"Otherwise, the original sin series will be put on hold for a while, and I will write a black gold next year to see the response."

Feeling upset, Payton made a call.

bell bell~
"Hey, Raymond!"

"Hey, Peyton, you've become famous recently. Even the little nurse in my medical hospital often pulls me to ask questions."

Raymond's familiar voice sounded.

Peyton smiled: "Don't mention it, I'm very distressed now."

Raymond joked: "What's the matter? What can bother a billionaire, are you broke?"

"No kidding, I seem to have encountered a creative bottleneck period, and I don't know what to write at all."

Raymond laughed: "You actually have a creative bottleneck period? Seeing that you guys write more manuscripts in one year than I have in ten years, I didn't say anything about the bottleneck period."

Payton smiled helplessly. At the beginning, Payton wrote a full-length novel a year, which surpassed Raymond's ten-year wasteful career.

"Okay, let's talk, let my senior enlighten you."

"After the peak of power, I couldn't find someone to write. I wrote several outlines, which were arms traders who could control a region and more than ten countries, or black gold overlords who controlled black oil and set global trade rules. Or the assassination of the independent party warlord who started..."

Saying that, Payton shook his head: "But to be honest, I'm not very satisfied."

Raymond was silent for a moment, and said, "Peyton, I probably understand your concerns."

"After reaching the peak ahead of time, you have to face the coming loss."

"Just like me, after writing the long farewell, I also felt empty in my heart, and felt that nothing I wrote could escape the shadow of farewell."

"Your problem is that the peak of power appeared too early."

"It should have been a general outline, governing the entire series, supplementing the entire world view, and it should be placed in the last one."

"After you write about arms dealers, independent warlords, and black gold overlords, integrate your worldview."

Peyton nodded: "What you said makes sense. Now that we are at the peak of power, writing these things will inevitably cause a psychological gap among the audience."

"What's your opinion, Raymond?"

Raymond shook his head: "I don't have a good opinion. I used time to heal and absorb new nutrition."

Suddenly thought of something, Raymond joked: "Otherwise, you will settle down and wait for a few years, and then throw out the last three parts of the original sin at one time, and directly complement the world view."

"No matter how big the psychological gap is, the three parts are enough to fill it up."

Peyton's eyes widened: "I think what you said makes sense."

"Oh, don't, don't! I'm just kidding, you don't want to be hunted down by readers, so don't be so tempting."

"No, I also delayed the peak of power for seven months before, and you know Tolkien, right?"

"Well, I'm reading his Lord of the Rings. Really, I am astonished. His logic and system are too rich, and his language system has really shaped a world and a myth system."

"If Roald hadn't recommended it to me, I wouldn't even know."

"Isn't this better than those third-rate writers who won the Nobel Prize?"

Peyton smiled: "Then you must not know how much time he spent on this book."

"how long?"

Peyton does not hide: "Since he was in middle school, he has had the idea of ​​creating a mythology system, and often made up mythological stories and told his classmates that he didn't start writing formally until middle age, and the writing stage was almost over. 15 years, before and after, there should be three to 40 years."

"The classmate who went to middle school with him and heard him make up fairy tales didn't wait for the publication of this book until his death."

"Hey, it's understandable that such an epic masterpiece would take a little longer." Raymond sighed inwardly.

I am sighing again, fortunately I am not Tolkien's classmate, at least I have the honor to read such an epic masterpiece.

(End of this chapter)