Entertainment: God-level director

Chapter 176

A small company with only a few dozen people, the so-called management actually doesn’t have many people

“Please introduce yourself.”

Lin Ran sat at the top and looked at a few people and said

“Boss, I am John Braden. I was Randall’s deputy before and was mainly responsible for the daily work of the company.”

A middle-aged man from Mediterranean Publishing was the first to speak.

Lin Ran nodded to him.

“Boss, I’m James, responsible for the company’s finances”

“Boss, I’m Winnie, I’m in charge of the company’s administration……”

After several people introduced each other one after another, Lin Ran had a general impression in his mind and said in a deep voice:

“Your positions will remain unchanged for the time being. I will give you half a year to prove your abilities. By then, those with outstanding abilities will be retained, and those who are unqualified will be dismissed!”

After hearing Lin Ran’s words, several people’s faces became serious, and they all felt a lot of pressure in their hearts.

“Does the company have any ongoing projects now? Lin

Ran asked

“No, the company has not launched any new projects since October last year.”

John Bryden shook his head.

Lin Ran took out the script he had already written from his briefcase.

“Make a few copies of this script.”

Winnie, who was in charge of administration, quickly took the script and made a few copies, and then gave one copy to everyone.

“《”The Return of the Clown”? Is this a horror movie?”

John Brydon opened the script and first looked at the name of the movie. He saw that it was a horror movie, which was not a big surprise.

Horror movies have a huge market in the United States, and they have always been a model of small things that make a big difference.

So , Both large and small companies often target the category of horror films.

However, over the years, major film companies have basically exhausted all horror films.

The audience has seen too many weird horror plots. It will be much more difficult for new horror films to gain audience recognition.

This is not the time more than 20 years ago when you could rely on Internet marketing to win by surprise!

If the quality is not good, no matter how much marketing is done, it is impossible for”Ghost” to appear again. The Miracles of”Film Record” and”Blair Witch”.

Yes, Lin Ran’s first movie to enter Hollywood was the horror film”The Return of the Clown”. In his previous life, the cost of this movie was only 35 million US dollars. , but the total box office reached 700 million, becoming the most profitable movie of the year.

No other movie is more suitable to start the first battle to establish a foothold in Hollywood.

《”The Return of the Clown” tells the story of the fictional Maine town of Derry, which has been shrouded in strange and terrifying events for hundreds of years due to the mysterious disappearance of children.

The story begins with the mysterious disappearance of the protagonist’s brother, George Dunblow. What is strange is not the disappearance of the child, but the dismembered corpses left behind. George’s arms were torn off, and the remains of some victims were even scattered everywhere.……

“hiss!”

Just a few opening scenes made John Brydon’s hair stand on end.

With his eyes closed, he realized the scenes in the script in the form of a film, which made him feel even more horrified.

But John Brydon was not frightened.

As a senior filmmaker, he knew very well how much profit a good horror film could create! So

, John Brydon took a sip of coffee and couldn’t wait to read the following content. The more I look at him, the brighter his eyes become.

“call!”

I don’t know how long it took, but John Bryden read the entire script.

When he closed the script, he took a long breath and wiped his forehead with a tissue.

When he was reading the script just now, he was very focused, and every scene The words were automatically transformed into movie scenes in my mind, and cold sweat broke out on my palms and forehead without realizing it.

This was because I was scared!

Not only him, but also several other people had the same expression.

“Boss, did you write this script? What a great experience!

I believe that if it is filmed, it will definitely do well at the box office!”

John Bryden said with some excitement.

“Yes, I wrote it.”

Lin Ran nodded without any embarrassment.

To make the company’s employees return home, he, the boss, must have prestige.

“Boss, you are so awesome, you deserve to be a great director!” John Brydon immediately started flattering

“Yes, yes, I was so scared just now”

“The concept of this script is so novel that it will definitely be successful after it is launched.”

Several other people were not behind and started flattering one after another.

Lin Ran couldn’t help but smile and thought to himself, who said Americans can’t flatter?

Damn, this flattery is no more subtle than that of Chinese people.

Lin Ran waved his hand and said, He stopped everyone’s praise and said:”Since everyone thinks the script is very good, let’s start the project.”

“OK, boss!”

John Brydon nodded quickly, and no one else objected.

Lin Ran couldn’t help but be very satisfied.

As far as he knew, all larger film companies in Hollywood have a green light system. The so-called green light system, in fact, It is the script review system.

Only after passing multiple strict reviews, the script will be approved by the management and then be approved for production.

Although there are many stupid movies in Hollywood, in general, they take scripts more seriously than in China. Many.

A script often needs to be polished repeatedly for many years before it can pass the green light system.

In China, many times it is the director who suddenly thinks of a story in his mind, or even dares to directly initiate the project with only one scene.

For example, Lao Mouzi’s”House of Flying Daggers””, that is, I first thought of a few interesting scenes, and then used these scenes to expand the plot. The same is true for Kaizi’s”Day Meteor”, which is why the rocket returns to the scene in the movie, and two people actually An unreasonable plot like a little kid helping an astronaut.

It can only be said that the domestic film industry is not mature enough and the status of screenwriters is too low. Even if the screenwriter has written the script, the director can change it at any time if he is not satisfied.

Even if it is a big name Actors from all over the world dare to change the script and ask for more roles and better characters.

Unlike Hollywood, if the screenwriter is offended, the actor’s character may be written directly to death.

This is the company that is about to go bankrupt. The management is afraid of offending the new boss, otherwise they will probably only agree to the project after going through the green light system.

“By the way, the company name will be changed to Fantasy Pictures in the future.”

After talking about the business, Lin Ran said again

“ok boss”

“Then let’s get busy.”

Lin Ran was not in a hurry to leave the company, but occupied Randall’s original office.

“Ziwen, please arrange for a capable executive to come over as soon as possible and let the original management take control of the company. I’m not worried.”

“Don’t worry, I’ve already made arrangements”

“That’s good. Lin

Ran nodded, feeling relieved.