Hollywood: Great Directors Starting with Saw

Warner Meeting Room.

One side is Steve Kevin, a major shareholder of MGM, the owner of Sunrise Films, and a famous Hollywood director.

On the other side, there are many senior leaders of Warner.

The two sides, on Kevin's proposed Batman Dark Knight series, are fiercely discussed.

"Director Kevin, what you said, cut Batman from other superheroes, I don't agree!"

A high-level took the lead, and Batman before that had a strong comic book style.

But the plan proposed by Steve Kevin is to thoroughly realize, moving Gotham City, a city in the comics, directly to the real New York City.

And Batman's superhero identity was also stripped away from him by Kevin.

What is presented in front of Warner's top management is less like Batman, but more like a realistic crime action movie.

This made several of Warner's senior executives suspicious.

If it weren't for the fact that this project was proposed by Kevin, a big director who has become famous, it would have been swept away by Warner.

Even so, Kevin's project was still strongly resisted by Warner's top management.

Batman, who should be the Batman in the Batman comics, is a superhero in the minds of Americans.

And not an ordinary person in Kevin's plan.

Kevin just calmly looked at the rebuttals of several high-level officials, and the whole person looked very calm.

He could understand these rebuttals.

This is like a journey to the west, in people's cognition, Sun Wukong should be the monkey king, not a person, let alone fall in love.

In the journey to the west, people's cognition was completely broken, and Sun Wukong not only talked about love.

Or multiple romances.

This is undoubtedly a surprise, and it also creates an unsatisfactory box office.

The top officials who have opposing views basically think this way.

But it's not them who really make the decisions, but Warner's president, Robinoff.

In the memory of the previous life, Robinoff seems to have left after the Dark Knight, and I don't know if it is because of the successive failures of the DC universe.

caused.

But, apparently, Nolan's Dark Knight impressed Robinoff.

So today...

..

Robinov, who was stared at by everyone, was very hesitant.

In terms of personal feelings and viewing preferences, he is not opposed to this Batman Dark Knight, but other executives are also right.

Can the audience accept such an unprecedented Batman?

You know, this is hundreds of millions of investments, once lost, even if he is the president, he cannot afford the consequences of this loss.

So far, Robinoff is very grateful for the idea of Rakevin's investment of 30%.

This greatly reduces Warner's risk.

After hesitating, Robinoff glanced at the executives present and suddenly said:

"Since everyone does not agree on the same opinion, let's raise your hands and vote!"

"Raise your hand for those who agree with this plan of Steve Kevin!"

While speaking, Robinov was the first to raise his hand.

In terms of movies, although you are the president of Warner Bros., after all, he is not a director and producer, in fact, he is still a layman.

And as a layman, he only knows one thing, laymen do not lead insiders.

He just has to look at the grades.

And Steve Kevin, as a rookie director, has already proven his strength with the box office success of four consecutive films.

At the same time, look at the law of directing in Hollywood.

Steve Kevin is undoubtedly at the peak of a director's creative period at this time, and the possibility of his next movie failing at the box office is infinitely tending to 0.

When he understood this, Robinoff resolutely chose to support Steve Kevin's new film project.

Ten Warner executives were present, and after Robinoff raised his hand, seven more raised their hands.

Obviously, they have more film trust in Steve Kevin than the risks.

At this point, Warner agreed with Steve Kevin's film project.

The production cost of the Dark Knight two-part series is as high as 200 million US dollars.

This also means that Kevin needs to invest 60 million US dollars, but with the salary of the script producer and director, Kevin Kevin only needs to pay 40 million US dollars to get 30% of the share of these two films.

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After some talk to Warner Bros. executives, Kevin left Warner with a plan.

Came to Sunrise Film Company.

As soon as he entered the door, Kevin heard the sweet shouts of the Alexander sisters.

"Boss, you're here!"

Helen and Emma immediately ran out of the front desk and took the initiative to hold Kevin's hands.

In just one year, Steve Kevin's status in Hollywood is simply a direct triple jump, which makes the two of them admire.

It's just that there are usually not many opportunities to contact Kevin, and I finally caught Kevin today.

The second daughter immediately came over very affectionately.

Kevin stared intently, looking like a decent gentleman, and dragged the sisters to Dawson's office.

"Boss, here you are."

With a fawning smile, Dawson stood up to welcome Kevin's arrival, and as for his two nieces, he was entangled with Kevin like this, and he should not be able to see it.