Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

When Jed posted a blog to mock Oscar, he was already in London with John. He came to the UK this time to prepare for the first book in the "Harry Potter" series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" ".In later generations, the Harry Potter series of movies can be said to have given Harry fans a dream, but also left many regrets.

Aside from the major changes in the image of the protagonists in the later stage, some plots were forced to be cut due to the length limit of the film, which also made many fans of the original work criticize the film version for castrating the original work.Jade came to London in addition to setting up exterior locations and inspecting actors, and also had another purpose, hoping to reach a production agreement with the BBC.

Jed hopes that the BBC can help produce a six-episode Harry Potter TV series every year.The reason why Jed didn't do it himself was that he really couldn't operate the TV version while operating the film version, and he was worried about the American production company because American companies really couldn't make that kind of well-made TV series.

As the world's first TV station, BBC still has its own background in TV drama production. Many bbc TV series can almost be called movie-level productions, and Harry Potter's strong British style can only be produced by bbc people.This trick, Jed, still learns from Warner’s practice of filming the Marvel Heroes series of movies, launching movies for each hero every year, and then using "Avengers" to bring everyone together, and finally using the TV series version of "SHIELD" Agent" to maintain the popularity of the movie.This is almost perfect, but there are still many problems.

For example, how is copyright divided? The BBC will certainly not be satisfied with just being a production company, and Jed is also unwilling to make the copyright relationship too complicated.The second is how to distribute the actors. Several adult actors who play supporting roles can start shooting TV and movies at the same time, but what about the young actors?Britain and the United States have stricter protections for underage actors, not to mention that certain themes and content are not allowed to be filmed, even the content that can be filmed normally has a time limit.It is normal for adult actors to shoot eight hours a day, but according to British and American laws, high school actors are only allowed to shoot for six hours a day, middle school actors are allowed four hours, and elementary school actors are even shorter.As for overtime shooting on weekends and holidays, don’t even think about it.So Jed had to make a decision that the TV version and the movie version of "Harry Potter" might not be the same person.

This plan makes the distribution company headed by Meribo extremely inconsistent. For those who do distribution, the more unified your external image is, the lower the cost of publicity will be.If the film version of Harry Potter is one person, and the TV series version of Harry Potter is another person, then the cost of publicity will naturally double.And the most important thing is that the audience will be preconceived, which will inevitably lead to the actor's own fans and fans of some works are extremely dissatisfied with the practice of double actors in the movie version and TV series version.Jade had to come to England to meet Rowling, hoping to get her support.

No one expected that a book about a teenage wizard at a magical school written by a single mother in England would become the best-selling novel of the new century, but "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" After Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban became popular around the world, countless publishing houses and film and television companies approached Rowling with checks.They either persuaded Rowling to give up their original contract to join their publishing house, or hoped that Rowling would authorize them to adapt Harry Potter.

But they soon discovered that Rowling had signed a contract with a copyright agency company registered in the United States, and there were actually only two authors represented by this company, one was Rowling who wrote "Harry Potter", and the other It was Jed Sherman, who wrote Resident Evil, Halo, and Tomb Raider.So everyone gave up, because everyone knew that this company was registered by Jed to manage his own copyright. Now that Rowling was signed, it must be signed with a huge profit when they were not yet developed.You won't easily jump to another house because of emotion and reason. As for the right to adapt, does Jade still lack a film and television company?

On July 2000, 7, when Rowling released "Harlem Potter and the Goblet of Fire" globally, she was very happy to announce to Harry fans, "Yes, Mr. Sherman assured me that by next summer at the latest We will be able to see the first Harry Potter movie. I am very excited about it. If Mr. Sherman hadn't met me in a coffee shop, maybe there would be no Harry Potter movie in this world. Lipott is a little wizard."

"Why two Harry Potters?" Rowling was actually a little puzzled by Jed's plan to make a double version of "Harry Potter". "Actually, I think it would be good for us to shoot a movie version, otherwise it would be too exhausting."

"Ms. Rowling, the standard length of a movie is 90 minutes. Although we can stretch it to 180 minutes, do you think the plot of only three hours can accommodate the next "Harry Potter" novel?" Jay De explained, "As the screenwriter of the film, I can only keep the most dramatic conflicts, such as the plot of Potter receiving the acceptance letter, the conflict between Potter and Malfoy when they first met, Potter and Hermione. The conflict at the time of acquaintance, the Quidditch match, and the final Sorcerer's Stone puzzle... Look, there are at least five conflict climaxes here, and some other conflict climaxes in the novel. Since the movie version Riser If there are not so many plots, then we simply throw away some secondary plots and focus on the main plots in the movies, and put the secondary plots in the TV version. In this way, we must have two Harry Potter actors It will work, maybe apart from those supporting roles, the protagonists have to prepare TV and movie actors. More importantly, I don't want people to think that "Harry Potter" is the actor so-and-so, which will affect our follow-up The development of Harry Potter is very unfavorable. Because we cannot have the portrait rights of a certain person for a long time, there are two Harry Potters so that the audience will not be too concentrated on the image of Harry Potter.”

The reason why Jed gave the latter reason is that he once heard on the Internet in later generations that Rowling has a unique possessive desire for the characters in his works. She certainly does not want the audience to think that Harry Potter is who he is. so and so.

Jed realized that he had guessed right, Rowling frowned, and then said: "If the time schedule cannot be arranged, I also think there is no problem with using different actors for the movie version and the TV version. After all, my Harry Potter is just a fictional character, as long as the two actors' images are not too far apart, it doesn't matter who plays me."

With Rowling's support, Jed's casting pressure will be much less.The reason why Jed took this precaution is that in case the appearance of the actors such as Harry or Ron no longer meets the needs in the future, he has a follow-up trick to replace the actors.Since the audience can accept two versions of Harry Potter, it is not difficult to accept the third version of Harry Potter.After all, the actors we are looking for are all similar in appearance and temperament, and then we use makeup to make them closer to each other.

After putting aside the problem of actors for a while, Jed began to worry about the location.Although many details can be shot through setting, for example, Jed has found someone to build the common room of the four colleges and the offices of some professors in a studio in the suburbs of London, but the periphery of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, King's Cross Stations, auditoriums, Quidditch pitches, etc. all needed to be filmed on location.King's Cross Station is not troublesome, anyway, King's Cross Station in downtown London still meets the needs of Jade and others.

In order to avoid the situation of being chased by fans during post-shooting, Jed built the nine and three-quarter platform and the Hogwarts Express in the studio very generously.As for the auditorium and classrooms of the magic school, someone recommended the historic Oxford University to Jed.Soon Jed took a fancy to the auditorium of Christian College, Oxford University, which was very in line with Jed's conception of the auditorium of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.Soon he found a location suitable for the classroom at Warren College.The rest is the location of Hogwarts Castle in Harry Potter.

In order to find a suitable castle, Jed found people from the Royal Historical and Geographical Society to help search for suitable castles, and also commissioned some traveler magazines to send him some photos of ancient castles.Fortunately, Jed's efforts were not in vain. The Aniko Castle in northern England allowed Jed to finally find his destined Hogwarts school.Both the owner of the castle, the Duke of Northumberland, and the local government where the castle is located have welcomed Jed's arrival. Don't think that the castle is such a remarkable building. The additional taxes and maintenance costs on it are enough to make modern The little rich go bankrupt.And the British nobles have not had the privilege of being exempt from customs. If the Duke of Northumberland could not afford to lose face, I am afraid that he would have sold this second largest castle in the UK after the Royal Windsor Castle.

British aristocrats are all pragmatists, and the Duke of Northumberland certainly knows the benefits of letting Jade shoot.With the first crew, there will be a second and third crew.In the future, I will be free for the big crew, and a symbolic fee for the small crew. The real charge will be the tourists who will come here in the future.For the local government, the food, clothing, housing and transportation of these tourists is the place where they make money.

By the time Harry Potter had found all the actors and was ready to start filming, Jed finally finalized the last location, which was Gloucester Cathedral.This will be the location of the corridor where Harry and others walk.After all the location locations are selected, it is natural for people from Industrial Light & Magic to design the virtual scene.After all, in addition to the large number of people who are not easy to deal with, those locations are also historical places in the UK. If you really destroy any historical relics during filming, it will be troublesome.Fortunately, the powerful computer virtual technology has allowed the prop masters to only create a few scenes with small details, and the rest are realized with green screen imaging technology.

In 2001, on the night before the Academy Awards, Jade released the first version of the Harry Potter promotional video in a big way.But there is only the scene of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry having a dinner with thousands of people, and the subtitles are slowly rolled out at the end, "The TV version is produced by BBC and We TV Network, and the movie version is produced by Galaxy Films. They will be released together in the summer of 2001!"

What?Jed filmed Harry Potter?Is this strange?Not unusual!But they made a TV series and a movie at one time, and they plan to release it sympathetically!I think Mr. Jed Sherman must have lost his head!