"In addition to the filming and dancing of the sequel of my life next year, our A+ film studio only plans to invest in one more movie, this cat and mouse game."
Song Ya also knew that it was unrealistic to get the original cast and it was too risky, so he lowered his expectations, first signed a half-and-half investment with Hollywood Pictures, with a budget of about 20 million dollars, and then paid another two. With a security deposit of $150,000, he got all the historical scripts of Cat and Mouse from their copyright library. Of course, he only got hands-on research and research. The investment intention alone was not enough to get him the right to adapt.
"Hollywood Pictures is not Abelin Entertainment. An investment of tens of millions of dollars can be considered a big gamble for us." Linton held Song Ya's hand tightly when he sent someone out, "I hope you can bring me Good luck."
"Don't worry, I haven't missed my hand in Hollywood yet." Song Ya jokingly boasted.
Linton laughed again.
"Kasenberg left Disney, and now Linton has a good relationship with his new bosses, and his internal reforms to the Hollywood film industry are also very effective..."
Yeremov asked worriedly: "But Linton and Katzenberg's relationship is still very bad, although Katzenberg has failed and left, and we..."
"Don't worry, since those guys don't play with me, they have nothing to say if I expand and expand my Hollywood contacts."
Song Ya reassures him, "You can't hang on a tree in the world, right? What will happen after their parent company changes next year is unpredictable."
Hollywood movie giants have no shortage of buyers. I heard that many powerful wealthy and large companies have begun to contact Panasonic. By then, it will definitely be a shocking deal worth billions of dollars.
"Yes."
The two returned to the small office rented by the A+ film studio in Hollywood. Yeremov just added a few clerks, and it is still a basically empty film company.
The bodyguards put a few dusty cardboard boxes on their desks. Inside are the scripts of the cat and mouse game. From a film company in the early 1980s, they received the right to adapt the novel from the legendary liar Abagnell. In the beginning, the right of adaptation changed hands several times, and all the companies that owned him spent some effort on this. Before and after, no less than 20 screenwriters were found to adapt, so there are many versions ~www.mtlnovel.com~Song Ya and Yeremov Take out a bag of neatly labeled document bags, find the most recent version, and open it and browse it roughly.
"What about the second man?"
He quickly discovered the biggest problem. Compared with the original movie in his mind, the role of the original anti-fraud detective played by Tom Hanks has hardly appeared. The overall script is still based on Abagnell’s self-boasting. I told a story about how a liar can be self-confident. Although the subsequent result is still full of negligence and without omission, the intention is much worse than the original movie in the future.
"Ok……"
Song Ya took the file bag and checked it. There was a warning seal such as the Hollywood Pictures logo and not to be circulated privately, and the screenwriter’s name and the date of sealing at the bottom. The sealing date was at the beginning of 1994. It seems that they have not completely abandoned this No wonder Linton refused to let go of the project.
He turned out the first version of the script, which belonged to another small, unknown film company. He saw the name of the famous talk show host Johnny Carson in the screenwriter column. He also participated in his Tonight Show. Although at that time it was already Jay Leno's acting host.
Johnny Carson bought the adaptation rights when Abagnell was on his own show, and then...
Song Ya closed the script that had been turned over and looked for it in chronological order. Johnny Carson sold the adaptation rights to Columbia Pictures, and then Columbia Pictures to a producer, and the producer died. The post-heritage inheritor sold the adaptation rights to Disney. Disney's production department judged that the production cost of the film was not high, and internally transferred it to Hollywood Pictures, which is responsible for low-cost movies.
But all the scripts are far from ‘finished’.
"It seems that you are going to help me find the gunman again, Yeremov." Song Ya said while studying until late at night, rubbing some sore eyes.
Chicago 1990 Chapter 584: 1st life of the script
The trip to the west coast continued, and Gulfstream 4 flew to Silicon Valley.
Song Ya did not release the scrolls, and soon discovered that it was very interesting to read through these scripts for a novel that spanned more than ten years. It is not difficult to understand the mentality of each adaptation right owner and screenwriter. Get a glimpse of the direction of the adaptation.
For example, the first owner, Johnny Carson, was at the peak of his personal talk show hosting career when he bought the right to adapt the novel in 80 years. The same is true for his self-confidence and arrogance. When a casino in Vegas was cut off by a local wealthy man, he immediately made up insults in front of the national audience in the show without swearing. This kind of personality is also very good in the cat and mouse game script of the 80-82 years. The embodiment.
He learned about the existence of the novel'Have the ability to catch me always' when the novel author Abagnell participated in his own program. At that time, he had not suffered a personal investment failure, and he generously won the right to adapt at a high premium. Then immediately started building scripts with the two screenwriters and producers. He is an excellent screenwriter and has a high creative passion. He can see his personal mark everywhere in the first version of the script. He seems to have substituted himself into the legendary liar, so he focused on portraying the protagonist’s first half of his life. This is a scene of exciting life and fraud, and a lot of plots that are not in the original work have been added. The protagonist's character has been changed to a personable and charming'elegant thief' who goes to high-end social occasions.
But soon, he himself also found that he seemed to have deviated from the direction. It seemed not very good to make a film touting the scammer who was too "perfect", so he began to revise it back to increase the plot of the scammer after he was in prison. .
In the two editions in 1981, it is obvious that his passion has faded, and the specific work is handed over to the other two. However, he has a strong desire to control and often expresses dissatisfaction with other people's modifications. Even Song Ya also found a few sections. At the end of the paragraph, there are his spit words aimed at his companions, handwritten, such as'The protagonist won't do this, won't say that! This is not what a cautious liar should do! ! ’Or ‘Where is the rationality after this modification? Ok? Movie audiences will laugh at the screenwriter when they see this, that is, me, not the unknown you! ’
In 1982, the situation changed again. The DMC automobile company he invested in went bankrupt and his personal financial crisis was in financial crisis. The scripts were obviously forgotten. After the last rough rewrite version, these scripts were packaged and sold to the next Colombian. Film industry.
Columbia Pictures didn’t pay much attention to this kind of script, but it still spent some resources to continue adapting it. After going through a version that leans towards the police thriller, it felt that the risk of shooting was too great, and it was nothing to lose in their huge script library. Regardless, it was bought by an in-house producer.
The producer named Bartlett is the most attentive to the script. He hired a screenwriter to revise it stealthily, providing the most historical versions. The last version in his hands is also the most complete and the closest to the original Apocalypse. Yes, began to enhance the status of the protagonist's opposing police officer, enriching the plot of the police and bandit fighting wisdom.