Legendary Hollywood Director

A director has a subtle sense of seeing an actor right in the eye.

If it happens to be a married man and a woman, maybe there is a love story that can be told for three days and three nights.

Unfortunately, Christian Bale is a man.

It's just that it's just fit.

Perhaps in Nolan's mind he already had a preliminary, self-defined image of Bruce Wayne, and it just so happened that meeting an actor was just right.

In this play, the most important thing is the male lead.

In this way, the situation of mixing with sand is not so serious.

In other words, the weight of the role is so heavy that even the people at Warners dare not accept favors and push an actor into the final audition.

They are measured and cautious.

They also know that the general supporting role is given, and in the case of similar conditions, or in the case of no difference in choice, it is okay to trade the power of casting for some benefits.

Warner is very powerful, but that doesn't mean they need Warner very much.

If they were, they wouldn't be on the crew the whole time, too busy working.

Precisely because they know their position very clearly and can hold their own position clearly, they have more concerns about casting such as Batman.

Therefore, everyone who can leave a place in a company of Warner's size is a talented person.

So they pushed an Irish film and television actor named Cillian Murphy in the casting of the Scarecrow, but in the casting of Bruce Wayne, they did not pay attention, and looked like a businessman.

Christian Bale was second in the audition, competing with Ashton Kutcher, David Boreanaz and Hugh Dancy.

The former is the male protagonist of The Butterfly Effect, and is also the most popular actor voted by the American youth audience this year (similar to the one at the University Film Festival). He is tall and has a tough face. He is a traditional American handsome guy; David is also American. As a film and television actor, his achievements in TV series are stronger than those in movies. The only reason why he can audition is that he is also handsome.

Bruce Wayne has to be charismatic, as he should.

In addition to temperament, looking at the face must be the first impression of the audience.

The last Hugh Dancy is also a similar handsome, but in fact, several of them have their own characteristics.

It stands to reason that choosing a more attractive person from a group of handsome people is difficult.

However, there were not too many twists and turns during the audition.

When Christian Bale dressed up and walked into the audition room, Nolan caught his eye. Compared to handsome, he must be slightly inferior to the others, at least Ashton Kutcher may be too good-looking. But when it comes to the temperament that fits the character, the others have to step back a little, they are all younger brothers.

But Nolan silently watched all the performances of the four people before he recommended Christian Bale as Batman for the first time.

At this time, whoever's idea is right, has become a prominent point.

Lehman naturally supported Nolan's choice. The other three were slightly hesitant, but promised to put Christian Bale's name first when submitting the audition results and video to Warner executives to show their selection tendency.

After all, they will have to work together for many months to come,

There is no need to make the relationship too stiff.

Careful thinking is careful thinking, and in the face of the whole general situation, it is still possible to distinguish the importance of it.

For a time, everyone reached a tacit understanding.

Then, it is up to the Warner producer to submit the audition results.

Then, Warner's executives will find that the casting of the crew is still very particular, and it is well-founded and convincing.

Sure enough, those executives respected the casting results of the audition and informed them to sign a performance contract with the actor as soon as possible.

At this point, everyone in the crew has something to gain.

Lehman and Nolan won the two most important roles in the play; the three producers got the most supporting roles, almost more scenes than the drama, and the characters who could show their faces were donated by them as a favor. ;Warner also got a perfect lineup of old dramas, popular actors to drive fans, traffic flow, and acting skills.

It can be said that everyone is happy.

As for the signing, no actor will give up the opportunity to star in the first-line masterpiece, or the popular theme Batman.

In this passive state of mind, although there were twists and turns in the negotiation on salary, they all quickly reached a unity.

And the continuous collection contract is also signed.

It is impossible for Warner to allow people to sit down and raise prices.

In other words, if the film is successful, the salary increase is okay, but it should not be excessive, and it must be within a limited range.

Capitalists, plan ahead.

And in many people's hearts, they don't want to copy the big market release of Spider-Man-everyone is a superhero movie, and Batman's audience is no less than Spider-Man's.

As for the failed copy of Hulk, it was ignored subconsciously.

President Lyman, look.

Blake Cole handed him the detailed contract signed by Christian Bale.

The two were fairly familiar with each other, and after carefully reading the contract, he nodded slightly.

Pretty much as he expected.

Christian Bale has no shortage of qualifications, and has been honed for a long time in the independent and niche literary film circle.

When he acted in New York Row, the salary was about three million US dollars, plus a part of the box office incentives.

As for now, the salary has risen to 7 million US dollars, plus the North American box office can exceed 300 million, and automatically get 2 million box office bonus; if it exceeds 400 million, it can get almost 3.5 million. 500 million capped.

To be able to get so much, it is naturally because of the three film contracts signed.

Otherwise, if you can win five million, you will be in the sky.

However, because of the signing of three consecutive movie contracts, there is not much room for growth in each movie contract. Fortunately, his agent insisted on taking a little more on the basic salary.

This is normal, sequel movies, the growth rate of remuneration is the fastest among all types of movies.

It cannot be divided according to the general market calculation rules.

For example, Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Depp's high salary, you can play other movies, he can't touch it at all.

Here, there is another question of demand.

After all, sequel movies generally rarely change the starring lineup, and the employers also dare not bear the loss of audiences and the film market that they have finally created due to the replacement of actors.

In this way, the actors are also confident, so if you don't take advantage of this time to get a little more pay, when will you get it?

Standing in their respective positions, aren't they all for profit?

In this case, it is not just by means.

Warner still thinks more.

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