Made in Hollywood

Although Duke and Warner Bros have never officially announced the filming of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, he has received media attention as a first-line director. There are so many second- and third-line actors in and out of New Zealand last year. Some of them I also got the role script, which is destined for the project to spread.

The media's reaction was rather calm. After all, Hollywood's investment in filming such a film is not a rare occurrence, it is just a routine report.

However, there is a group that has not been calm after receiving relevant news.

"He will ruin this magical world! He will ruin this masterpiece!"

While whispering, Brad Miller walked into the study, sat behind the desk and turned on the computer, but the brown brows were always frowning, as if he had encountered an unsolvable problem.

Waiting for win98 to start, his eyes left the monitor and turned to the three thick tome on the desk. It was Tolkien's magical masterpiece-"The Lord of the Rings" that had passed away.

Although he is not yet fifty years old, he is a **** Lord of the Rings fan. Since reading this series when he was a teenager, he has been deeply attracted by the Middle-earth world depicted by Tolkien. Every race in it, every A place name, every battle, he is very familiar, even the least described Lego 3 in the Lord of the Rings Expedition, Lars, he can say everything he has done.

Now, this series is about to be put on the big screen...

When the news came, Brad Miller was not happy, even if the director of the adaptation was a top director who had created several brilliant achievements.

The reason is very simple. All the literary works adapted into movies are completely unrecognizable in the end. They have a 50% to 60% fit with the original content. Hollywood is very conscientious, and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy It's too long. There is too much content that can't be shown in a short movie.

Many of them will inevitably be discarded. According to Hollywood's usual style, "The Lord of the Rings" will definitely be adapted beyond recognition. Is that Lord of the Rings still the Lord of the Rings? Rather than seeing such a movie that does not conform to the original work, he would rather not.

If you don’t want to see the movie version of The Lord of the Rings. Maybe others will choose to ignore it, but Brad Miller is different. As a **** fan of the original, he feels that he has an obligation to maintain the authority of this masterpiece and stop Hollywood from destroying a classic book.

Therefore, since the news of the movie version of "The Lord of the Rings" first appeared, he was protesting, and not only protesting himself, over the past two decades. Brad Miller participated in many "Lord of the Rings" book fan exchanges all over the United States, and met many people who had the same ideas.

After the computer started, Brad Miller began to send and receive emails, and one by one with agitating emails was sent to all directions on the Internet.

"We can't just sit back and watch this happen. We should unite and do something for this masterpiece. We should call on more people to go to New Zealand to protest this adaptation!"

Every time Hollywood has adapted a classic masterpiece. Will trigger protests from some **** book fans, the status of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Although not as high as those handed down literary masterpieces, popular literature has a wider audience, not to mention that this is the foundation of Western magic.

It takes a lot of time for these hard-core book fans to join the number of people who can attract attention.

It takes time for the **** fans of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy to protest together, but Caa and the famous Hollywood brokerage giants have no time.

The caa partner meeting is being held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. The partners who own the shares in caa and the company have become tired of business stagnation and successive problems with packaged projects.

They hope that there is a more powerful leader who can sit on the throne of the master of caa, lead them to gain more market share and earn more profits.

Martin Bob sat in his seat, his calm face was green. But it can't prevent Ino Martin, who has the right to speak, from speaking normally.

"Everyone, the total revenue of caa in 1998 was $165 million!"

Caa’s partners looked ugly, but Eno Martin didn’t mean to stop. “Compared with the $163.5 million in 1997, Caa has not made any progress in the past year.”

Standing in the center of the conference room, Ino Martin's sharp eyes swept over everyone, "As the pay of our customers generally increases, our revenue has stagnated. Why? Because caa's most important revenue point , The all-in-one package service is failing continuously!"

"The focus of our service last year was DreamWorks' big production "World Clash"." He was unhappy, but there was no room for anyone to interrupt. "But so far, this film is at a loss and Caa can't get anything from it. Rake!"

His eyes turned to Martin Bob, "I think someone must be responsible for this!"

"I will take the responsibility that I should bear." Martin Bob slowly said, "In the past five years, the packaging projects I have done have indeed experienced various problems, which have brought some bad effects to the company, but I Having secured the opportunity to cooperate with Walt Disney, they are ready to..."

"Sorry, Mr. Bob."

Another big partner suddenly interrupted him, "Now is not the time to discuss the business. I think CAA has reached the time when it must change."

"Yes."

"Caa really should be reformed."

"We need people with outstanding abilities to lead caa forward."

Several consecutive partners who hold more than 5% of the shares in their hands have spoken, and Martin Bob's face is even more ugly.

He is the largest shareholder of caa, yes, but caa implements a partnership system, and his shares are less than 25%. If these partners vote of no confidence in him in subsequent proposals , He has only one way to step down sadly.

"I think everyone has overlooked a little bit."

Pat Kingsley, who had been silent all the time, stood up suddenly, her gaze directed at Martin Bob, "I want to remind everyone, don't forget the most serious decision-making mistake in the history of caa."

"Yeah, we shouldn't give up Duke Rosenberg."

A partner immediately agreed.

"If Caa had Duke Rosenberg in, it would definitely be a different situation."

"Think about the profitability of Duke's films. If he belongs to caa, our packaging policy can take 10% of it!"

Hearing this, Martin? Bob had a sneer on his face. Why didn't Caa sign back to Duke? Packaging policy? If caa's agent dared to find Duke to promote the packaging policy, he would be driven away immediately...

But he didn't want to say anything, because even if he said it, he couldn't change the current situation. Instead of making unnecessary verbal arguments, he might as well retain the last bit of dignity.

Even if he left caa, he might not have the chance to rise again.

The partnership meeting continued. One proposal was thrown out. Ino Martin was very energetic. After waiting for so many years, he finally waited for the best opportunity.

The final result was not beyond his expectations. A partner representing 65 percent of the shares voted Martin Bob's vote of no confidence, and Martin Bob could only step down sadly.

When he walked out of the Four Seasons Hotel, Martin Bob sighed and stood at the door of the hotel, waiting for his car to come over. From then on, he will be like Michael Ovitz as a passer-by of caa. In the past, it seemed that the wind and the rain Getting away from him.

In Hollywood, everyone's trend is up and down, but how many people continue to be brilliant?

Although depression was inevitable before, he was able to make timely adjustments after all the wind and rain, at least looking calm from the outside.

As the car drove over, Martin Bob got into the car and told the driver, "Go home and go to North Hollywood."

Just finished speaking, the phone rang before the car hit the avenue. Martin Bob took out his cell phone, glanced at the number displayed, and frowned.

What did he call for? Laugh at yourself? Congratulations on becoming a dingy step-down like him?

Pressing the answer button, the phone rang an unusually familiar voice, his old friend and partner.

"Martin, the meeting is over?"

Michael Ovitz’s voice was as loud as those in the past, "Is there a plan? Do you want to retire?"

Martin Bob was not surprised to hear of Ovitz’s stepping down so quickly, but said lightly, “I never thought about retirement.”

"Are you interested in coming to an artist to manage a brokerage company?" Michael Ovitz's voice sounded from the earpiece again, "We joined hands in establishing caa back then, and we could grab half of the entertainment brokerage market share from Hollywood. Now we can do it again. !"

Do it again?

Martin Bob frowned, but didn't answer immediately. After thinking for a few seconds, he said, "Michael, I need to think about it."

Cars have entered the scope of Hollywood, and Martin Bob is still considering Michael Ovitz’s suggestion. Perhaps this is really an opportunity to rise again?

Laurel Valley Avenue was still as crowded as before. When the car was approaching the Bank of America’s Los Angeles branch, it had to stop because of a traffic jam. Martin Bob looked out through the car window and was carried by the team near the Bank of America. The camera and the person holding the microphone caught the eye, and there seemed to be a media event.

"This is a commemorative event sponsored by Warner Bros."

The assistant sitting in the co-pilot promptly said a few words, "Today is the second anniversary of the North Hollywood robbery. Warner Bros., Bank of America and the Los Angeles County Police Department jointly convened this memorial ceremony."

He pointed to the large poster hanging in front of the Bank of America for Martin Bob, "Warner Bros. participated to promote their new movie. Duke Rosenberg adapted a movie based on the North Hollywood incident..."

Looking at the large poster, several actors and policemen surrounded by reporters, Martin Bob sighed secretly, and the new film that pushed him into a difficult opponent is about to be released again! (To be continued...)