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When I got in the car and asked the bodyguard to drive to the Fox TV studio in Burbank, Murphy was still considering the issue of the adaptation of "Fifty Shades of Gray", although it was early enough, Stanton Studio There is no such thing as Universal Pictures that cost a huge price to get the right to adapt, but you can't just waste this theme.

Although the previous film caused a huge topic, it couldn't be said to be very successful in business. Except for the large-scale drama as a gimmick, the ordinary structure of the overbearing president and Mary Su is really not good.

As for the reputation of the film, it can be said that it is rotten to a certain level.

Frankly speaking, after Murphy watched the movie, except for the shocking R-rated rating, the rest was boring, so it's better to watch the trailer.

To put it bluntly, this is a love story between Mary Su and the overbearing president, but the president is a little habitual. This was originally a simple love story, with some adult elements added, which is more suitable for adult women to watch.

Nowadays, it’s hard to make a difference in this type of film. Romantic comedies are no longer a type of film that can be sold easily in North America. Looking at the sharp decline of Julia Roberts since the new century, you can also understand romantic comedies. Development trend.

Among the romantic comedies, the most important genre is the love of Cinderella and the prince, which is commonly known as the Mary Su movie.

Of course, no matter how the novel is adapted, it is always a Mary Su movie, and this cannot be changed.

What Murphy considers is how to make this Marie Su movie a little more advanced and more suitable for the current era.

After just thinking for a while, Murphy had his own thoughts, and determined the most basic point, which is also indispensable for today's commercial movies-throw money!

A good Mary Su must have an excellent packaging, whether it is beautiful or sexy, it must be seductive in general. Whether it is viewed by male or female audiences, it must be considered beautiful and delicious.

Therefore, whether it is art production or visual special effects, it will always be as "beautiful" as Mary Su Ru's love story.

The beauty and seductiveness of Mary Su depends not only on the actor's natural capital, but also on the effect of the acquired money.

As a director, Murphy naturally understands the reason that beautiful actors need packaging.

In this regard, the "Princess Diaries" series is undoubtedly a model. In order to highlight the effect, the royal costumes are all real. The Burmese ruby ​​necklace worn by Julie Andrews, who plays the queen, weighs 74 grams and the earrings are set with 104 carats. The luxurious diamond, this dazzling costume burned up to 2 million US dollars. The wedding ring used by Anne Hathaway in the film is also very real, directly putting millions of dollars on her fingers.

Not to mention the jewellery, a cut scene in the series was used as a decorative flower arrangement, and they were all changed to real at the strong request of Julie Andrews, so there was another task of "cleaning up dead flowers" during the shooting. .

And these, even for leasing, also need a lot of real dollar bills.

In the past, Murphy also watched many new-generation "Mary Su" movies that fit the modern social situation, especially the successful series created by Disney, which is a model in this respect. These successful films without exception have aroused worldwide The trend.

If Mary Su wants to lead the world, she is destined to make this kind of movie without burning money.

Murphy, who was too old, only had a general impression, but because of the cooperation with Warner Bros. at the time, he saw how Warner’s HBO produced Marie Su’s work in the movie version of "Sex and the City" released in 2008. .

Preparations for this film have been in progress since 2004. In order to achieve a realistic effect, the crew brought more than 300 precious jewels from H-Stern Jewelry Company. A large bouquet of wreaths in the film was bought for 50,000 U.S. dollars. Don't mention the wedding dress designed by Vivienne Westwood on the heroine, and the bridesmaid dress is the masterpiece of designer Zach Person.

When the costumes and props are authentic, the heroine Sarah Jessica Parker once wanted to take one of the red belts as an existing one, but because of the high value, the costume designer of the crew had to bite the bullet Take it back.

The successful Marie Su movies in recent years have proved that in order to make high-quality Marie Su movies, you have to make your dreams realistic and realistic, and you will not be stingy if you can use money to balance the effects. Don’t think that only fantasy blockbusters are used. When it comes to high-tech and heavy blood, Marisu’s movies are not at all ambiguous, and they directly confuse people visually, so that the audience can indulge in this fabricated wind and snow.

On this basis, adaptations such as best-selling books or TV series will become another insurance for the success of Marie Su's film.

Therefore, regardless of how EL-James urged, Murphy has always been pushing forward according to the established plan. First, through marketing and promotion, the novel will become popular on the Internet, and then enter the physical book market, as much as possible to let "Grey's Fifty Shadows" be in Before the adaptation, it became a best-selling novel and has a certain reader base.

Currently, the electronic version of this novel is selling pretty well on Amazon, with an average of one electronic version being sold every two seconds.

Stanton Studio also signed a contract with Bantam Books Publishing House, preparing to enter the physical book market.

Previously, the copyright of the physical book "The Lost Lovers" directed by Murphy, Stanton Studios has been licensed to Bantam Press with a base copyright of 6 million US dollars plus royalties. This is also what the film can bring. One of many late incomes.

As a man, Murphy didn’t quite understand it, but she summed up some experiences from the women around her. The best-selling Mary Su novels are like gods’ help, with a strong mass foundation, and women of different ages in the middle ages and old women’s inner feelings about "Mary Su". His obsessions have determined its film market potential.

And in this day and age, movies made for women are not bad at the box office.

Finally, and most importantly, we must play the gimmick of heavy flavors.

"Marie Su" focuses on appearance and love scenes, if you add the appropriate "heavy taste", it will be even better

There is no doubt that how to show the super heavy plot in "Fifty Shadows of Gray" within the scope of R grade is something that must be considered in the adaptation.

Murphy believes that "Mary Su + heavy taste" is almost the general direction of the development of Mari Su in the film circle. The pure male concubine is obviously not dreamy enough, and some dark seasonings are necessary to complete it. This determines that the film should not only choose high An actor with a face value needs to spend money to produce good visual effects, so that "Mary Su"'s artistic status is rising steadily.

As two practitioners of'heavy tastes', Murphy remembers Gal Gadot's words-the whip and iron chain serve the “heavy taste” Marie Su, the magical nature of “seeing the gods and killing the gods” makes women's love The romantic storm in my brain couldn't stop at all.

By spending money to build a reader base and adding a strong taste, Murphy has basically considered the production concept of this film. In the next few months, he can spare time to complete the script outline first, recruit suitable screenwriters at the right time to perfect the script, and then Make preparations according to the specific situation.

Is it a trilogy, or is one filmed? He needs to consider this point.

When Murphy rushed to the Fox TV studio, his public relations agent Grace was already waiting in the studio. What he wanted to be on was Fox News’s trump card talk show "True Stories", this show It's not a live broadcast, it's recorded first and then broadcasted.

"The host of this show is Gretchen Carlson, a stabbed woman."

Sitting in the dressing room and putting on makeup, Murphy listened patiently to Grace’s final instructions, "But don’t worry, the senior executives of Fox TV have already greeted her, limiting the scope of questions, and all questions will be limited. On your recent movies."

This is the purpose of Murphy and Twentieth Century Fox preparing for this talk show. When the awards season is about to begin, it is necessary to increase the exposure.

However, increasing exposure is not something that you can participate in any show. Well-known talk shows are fortunate to say that Hollywood superstars or directors who have reached a certain position will not easily participate in variety shows, especially those whose careers are on the rise. Some untuned variety shows will seriously degrade one's own style.

Facing the awards season, increase your exposure, especially when you appear on TV, preferably high-end talk shows or talk shows.

Murphy had just changed his suit and the door of the dressing room was knocked. After he said please come in, a blond woman wearing a red deep V suit pushed the door and walked in.

This woman has a capable face, but she seems to be very old. Even the thick makeup can't hide the crow's feet in the corners of her eyes. Murphy guessed that she would be at least fifty years old.

"Hello, Director Stanton."

The woman came over to say hello and introduced herself, "I'm Gretchen Carlson, the host of "True Stories."

Murphy nodded and said with a smile, "Hello, I'm glad to work with you."

"How are you preparing?" Gretchen Carlson tilted his head and looked at Murphy. "We will start recording in fifteen minutes."

"No problem." Murphy shrugged slightly. "I'm ready."

Grace has provided him with detailed information before. This woman named Gretchen Carlson is not simple. She is not only the host of the show, but also the producer. Before she switched to the host industry, she also won the 1989 "United States Miss'.

According to the information provided by Grace, this woman seems to be a vase-like host, but in fact it is not easy to deal with.

Murphy is not worried about this. Even without the help of Twentieth Century Fox, he will not have much trouble dealing with reporters. After all, he has been in Hollywood for so many years and has experienced enough things.

Fifteen minutes passed quickly, and interview recording started on time.