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Chapter 245 Winning the film and television rights of "The Hunger Games" (please subscribe!)
"Boss, besides us, there are two other film and television companies that are also contacting Susan. She may still want to wait for a price."

Chen Dong came to Hollywood this time. In addition to sending "Interstellar" to complete the last few post-production special effects, his other purpose was to buy the film and television rights to her "The Hunger Games" from author Susan Collins.

"What are the strengths of our competitors?"

"They are all independent film and television companies like us..."

After listening to Alice's introduction to the two competitors, Chen Dong felt that there was little threat.

So he confirmed again: "Are you sure Susan just wants to wait for a price?"

"Yes boss, I'm sure."

"That's easy to handle!"

It was just more money. Chen Dong was afraid that the other party wouldn't want the money, so he continued: "Help me make an appointment with the other party. I want to meet her."

"no problem……"

Before meeting Susan, Chen Dong first came to Warner Bros. with a copy of "Interstellar."

The person in charge of special effects that Warner sent to contact Chen Dong was named David. After listening to Chen Dong's request, the other party calculated that the production time would be about ten days.

During this period, Chen Dong didn't need to keep an eye on it all the time. He just needed to take time every day to see the effect.

On the third day, he received a call from Alice, who arranged an appointment for him and Susan to meet tomorrow.

On a sunny afternoon, Chen Dong took Alice into a cafe and met Susan Collins, the author of "The Hunger Games" for the first time. She looked like she was in her thirties, with blond hair and blue eyes. , is a beautiful author.

What surprised Chen Dong was that the other party was actually a fan of his wife.

However, this fan's appetite is a bit big, and he actually wants to imitate Chen Dongzhan's box office profits.

Chen Dong could only tell the other party one thing with emotion and reason: Girl, the water here is very deep and you can't control it.

Finally, under his "sincere words", Susan gave up the box office cake, but raised the price of her film and television rights from 100 million knives to 300 million knives.

After some bargaining, Chen Dong spent 250 million to win the film and television rights to the three novels of "The Hunger Games" from the other party.

The next day, after signing the contract in the presence of lawyers from both parties, Susan stood up and stretched out her hand to Chen Dong, smiling and saying: "Chen, it's a pleasure to cooperate with you. I hope I can meet your wife next time. Oh, she is really the best I have ever seen." The most beautiful oriental girl.”

"It's a pleasure to cooperate... Miss Susan can travel to China when she is free. I can introduce you to my wife. Maybe you will become good friends."

"I'm really moved by what you said. Okay, thank you for your suggestion. I will seriously consider it. Goodbye."

After seeing Susan off, Alice walked into the office and saw Chen Dong typing something on the computer. She asked, "Boss, are you planning to make "The Hunger Games" for your next movie?"

"I have no plans for my next movie..." Chen Dong was typing the script of the first part of "The Hunger Games" at the moment. His fingers were flying and he answered without raising his head.

Alice bent down and picked up the book "The Hunger Games" from the coffee table, flipped through two pages, and said to herself: "This movie should not pass the review in your country, boss."

Hearing this, Chen Dong looked up at her, remained silent for a moment, and said, "Alice, if you have anything to say, please speak directly. You know I don't like to guess riddles."

At this time, Alice stopped being pretentious and said bluntly: "Boss, I think Future Pictures already has mature film production capabilities."

At this moment, Chen Dong understood Alice's thoughts, stopped the movement of his hands, and looked at the other party calmly. He did not question the other party's words, but asked: "Do you want to control "The Hunger Games"? Are you sure? "

Alice nodded confidently: "Yes, I think 'Future' has the strength."

Originally, Chen Dong bought the film and television adaptation rights of "The Hunger Games" to create this series, but not now. His plan was to do it in two years. But since Alice took the initiative to apply, he actually started the project now. That's not a bad idea either.

After promising Alice to hand over the project to her, Chen Dong also typed out the first script of "The Hunger Games" that day.

If the completion degree of this project is set to "1", this script alone will help Alice complete 30% of the task progress.

"By the way, didn't you say before that someone wanted to buy the copyright to "Shutter Island"? Didn't there be any movement later?"

Alice nodded: "It's Martin Scorsese. The other person is an independent filmmaker. Maybe he thought our offer was too high and not sincere, so he didn't ask again later."

Chen Dong didn't feel sorry after hearing this, he just suddenly thought of it and asked about it.

The post-production of "Interstellar" doesn't require Chen Dong to keep an eye on it all the time, but he can't be away all the time, so Chen Dong returned to Warner's post-production editing room.

Nolan is also here today. This guy went to France before and planned to come back until the end of the month. I heard that Chen Dong’s "Interstellar" will be completed in the later stage. The picture is particularly shocking, so I bought a ticket to go back in advance. The country. At the moment, he was editing the film in the editing room, and exclamations came from his mouth from time to time, and he also gave Chen Dong a thumbs up from time to time.

"Wonderful."

"Wow!"

"This shot is amazing."

"Genius idea."

"God, Jack Cheng's fighting scenes are so clean. It reminds me of one of your Chinese idioms - things will fall into place when conditions arise."

"The scenes with Crystal and Annie are both very beautiful."

"..."

The special effects that took ten days were actually completed in eight days.

Once completed, "Interstellar" will hold a screening inside Warner Bros.

It was said to be an internal screening, but in fact it was not only people from Warner, but also other Hollywood investors of the film, as well as the actors who participated.

Only Leonardo came in by accident.

And he had other purposes for coming here this time.

"What? Leon, you want to buy the rights to "Shutter Island"?"

"Yes, I was introduced to it by a friend, so I went to read this script of yours and found that it was more in line with my taste. So Chen, if you don't plan to film it, how about selling it to me?"

"Wait, wait a minute, I want to ask first, Leon, who is your friend?"

"His name is Martin Scorsese."

"It turned out to be him..."

"Do you know?"

"This person wanted to buy the copyright of "Shutter Island" from me before, but the price he offered was not sincere, so I didn't agree."

Chen Dong asked: "He didn't tell you?"

Leonardo shrugged: "Maybe Martin didn't think that I would come to you too."

Immediately afterwards, Leon asked: "So if I want to buy "Shutter Island", how much money do I need to pay?"

Chen Dong shook his head: "No money."

"No money?" Leonardo frowned.

Just listen to Chen Dong continue: "We can cooperate."

"How to cooperate? Do you want to shoot it yourself?"

"I don't want to shoot." Chen Dong looked at Nolan, who was stunned for a moment, put away his stern expression, and thought for a moment: "Should I shoot? I need to read the script first."

After Nolan read the script of "Shutter Island", he didn't take the job. It wasn't because he looked down upon it, but because the style was so different that he felt he couldn't handle it well.

After hearing Nolan's reason for rejection, Chen Dong slapped his forehead and almost forgot that Wen Ziren had this hexagram.

As a result, the "Shutter Island" project changed from a project by Chen Dong and Leonardo to a project with Lionsgate Pictures.

The investment ratio of the three companies is 3:3:4.
While discussing the "Shutter Island" project, Chen Dong was also invited by Spielberg to visit DreamWorks to see the production progress of "Coco", which is more than halfway through and is expected to be released by the end of 2010.

Originally, Chen Dong's trip to Hollywood could be completed in about two weeks, but because of the extra project "Shutter Island", his return date was pushed to the last month.

On December 12, Chen Dong took off from Los Angeles. This flight went directly to the capital...

(End of this chapter)