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The next morning, Ronan met the person recommended by Joss Whedon in the office. He was no stranger to the director Alfonso Cuarón from Mexico, who had previously served as the director of Harry Potter and Azkaban. The director of Prisoner.

Once upon a time, he was also one of the famous Mexican three masters in the circle of Hollywood directors.

It was Alfonso Cuarón, who had a hard sci-fi project that required a huge investment.

Ronan was flipping through the script. As Joss Whedon said, the script is very thin, and the story is so simple that it makes people feel that there is not a big difference between whether there is a script or not.

For new directors and screenwriters, this is the kind of film company that throws it into the script library and doesn't want to deal with it for ten years.

That is, Alfonso Cuaron has a lot of fame.

With dozens of pages of the script, Ronan quickly turned to the last page. The story told in the script is very simple. An astronaut encounters an accident on the space station and tries to return to Earth from space.

Ronan closed the script and asked, I heard from Joss Whedon that you recommended this project to Warner Bros.

Yes, but they rejected it. Alfonso Cuarón said simply: Jonas and I, my son, completed the script in 2006, when we were filming and producing Harry Potter and Harry Potter. Prisoner of Zkaban soon after I approached Warner Bros. to pitch the project.

He was a little helpless: Warner Bros. is not very optimistic. They have more opinions on hard sci-fi genres and simple scripts. In the end, they didn't reach an agreement with me.

Ronan has seen this film, and his impression is quite deep. It seems that this project was repeatedly tossed and tossed by Warner Bros. before it was finally approved and filmed.

It's like a space version of Cast Away, Ronan said.

Alfonso Cuaron said: Basically, the theme of this project is actually human beings' resistance to the impossible. Space movies have also been in Hollywood for decades, and space travel has been somewhat eclipsed. Part of the reason may be that movies Let's not be surprised.

He thought for a while, and then said: In order to make the audience as immersive as possible, during the script creation, I checked a lot of astronauts' information and communicated with them.

Relativity Entertainment just promoted the The Martian project some time ago, and Ronan is very clear that if these hard science fiction films are to be made well, they must not be based on imagination alone, but must conform to scientific reality, at least they must look like that.

Ronan asked directly: How much budget do you need.

There is no need to lie in this regard. Alfonso Cuarón said truthfully: The film needs full green screen shooting and CG production. I want to use 3D and IMAX technology, and it needs about 150 million US dollars.

Ronan can roughly guess why Warner Bros. is unwilling to take over the project of Alfonso Cuaron. The big investment in hard science fiction is still an original film. By Hollywood's standards, the risk is too great.

Alfonso Cuarón glanced at Ronan: Mr. Anderson, my project...

To be honest, he and his son were blown away by Warner Bros. If it wasn't for his good friend Joss Whedon's recommendation to try Relativity Entertainment, he would have been ready to shoot other movies.

Relativity Entertainment invested in a hard sci-fi project some time ago. Ronan took a picture of the script next to him: I'm more interested in this kind of realistic sci-fi movies.

What he heard was not rejection, Alfonso Cuarón felt a little more relieved. He had also heard about the hard science fiction project that Ronan mentioned, and it seemed to be about Mars exploration.

This is also an important reason why he is willing to come to Relativity Entertainment for a try. After all, Relativity Entertainment has a precedent for investment recently.

In today's Hollywood, companies that are willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in original realistic hard science fiction projects are not only unique, but also very few.

Ronan said: After reading the script, I have a suggestion.

Alfonso Cuaron looked at Ronan. After all, Ronan's reputation is here, so it's hard for people not to pay attention to the so-called suggestion.

Ronan didn't go around in circles, and said directly: I suggest changing the male lead to a female.

Replace with a woman? Alfonso Cuarón frowned slightly.

Ronan simply explained: Men and women represent completely different meanings on the big screen. Men are born to be synonymous with toughness and strength in the film, while women represent weakness and the object of protection. If this project The first protagonist is a male, and the shock of self-help will definitely not be as powerful as that of a female.

Alfonso Cuarón seriously thought about Ronan's words. Such a one-man show would be more attractive if the protagonist is a man. After all, in the concept of traditional Hollywood companies, men's films are far more popular than women's films.

He considered this when he was writing the script. The project has no originality in the plot. It is not too much to say that there is no plot. The film mainly relies on two points to generate its appeal, one is the excellent special effects, and the other is the performance of the actors.

I need to think about it. Alfonso Cuarón didn't immediately make a decision.

Ronan nodded and said, No problem. He knew that the project was Gravity, so he quickly made a decision: Director Cuaron, Relativity Entertainment can invest in your project. Specifically, Sand Sea Entertainment will cooperate with you. You talk.

Alfonso Cuarón said with a smile: Thank you, I also very much hope to cooperate with Relativity Entertainment.

This result can be said to be very ideal.

Ronan left the script and asked Connie to find someone to bring Alfonso Cuarón and Shahai Entertainment below to have a preliminary consultation with the person in charge of the production of the film project.

The filming of The Martian directed by Ridley Scott has already begun. This project is closely cooperated with NASA, and adding another Gravity will not have any difficulty.

After all, Gravity is not a sci-fi movie like Transformers or Star Wars. Being able to get their support, from preparation to shooting to post-production, will definitely reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles.

Ronan carefully recalled the movie again, but he couldn't remember the specific box office figures, but the movie was undoubtedly a success, because he still had memories of two related things.

One is that Alfonso Cuarón won the Oscar for Best Director with Gravity, and then there is the saying of the three Mexican heroes. On the other hand, Sandra Bullock, who played the heroine, won Gravity topped the list of Hollywood actresses with the highest income. According to news circulating on the Internet, Sandra Bullock earned more than 70 million U.S. dollars including basic salary plus post-production share for this movie alone. .

If Alfonso Cuarón follows the advice and changes the leading actor to a leading actress, the cast is already available.

Ronan remembered that when Jessica Felton found Sandra Bullock to star in Hot Girl, she directly asked Sandra Entertainment to sign her a three-movie contract, with Lasandra Bullock playing the lead actress, Basically no difficulty.

The biggest selling point of the film is the special effects and the heroine's self-help. Sandra Bullock holds this role, so it's not a big problem.

Of course, the more critical is the special effects.

It is no exaggeration to say that space is the ultimate dream of all mankind, and even for the dream-making machine of movies, it is no easy task to create real space on the screen.

Alfonso Cuarón quickly reached a cooperation agreement with Shahai Entertainment, and also made some adjustments to the script, the biggest adjustment being the replacement of the male lead with the female lead.

With the formal signing of the two parties, Ronan also had more exchanges with Alfonso Cuaron on this project, especially in terms of special effects.

When the space environment of Gravity is presented on the IMAX screen, it is no less than an interstellar journey for the audience wearing 3D glasses sitting in the dark. The whole film only has most of the scenes inside the space station. Shooting in the built set, and the realistic feeling of outer space actually needs to rely on CG to achieve, all space shots are synthesized by CG.

In addition, under the communication of Relativity Entertainment, NASA also provided a lot of first-hand information to Alfonso Cuarón.

It will take time for this project to enter the field preparations, and Alfonso Cuaron has a lot of preliminary work to do.

For example, to interview astronauts of the space agency, read and watch various actual materials and videos about space, study thousands of photos taken in space, and learn about space.

Since it is a hard sci-fi genre of realism, a lot of attention must be paid to the details. As Alfonso Cuarón himself said, in the future, it is necessary to ensure that the pictures in each shot are based on reality.

Gravity is undoubtedly a very complex project, and the integration of virtual and live images in a very creative way has further increased its complexity.

If this project wants to be released, it will not be until 2010 at the earliest.

Hard science fiction projects are time-consuming and labor-intensive in comparison.

Superhero movies are far better, with Joss Whedon's The Avengers wrapping up all shots ahead of August and moving to post-production soon.

However, the Avengers cast won't have much of a vacation, as a slew of Marvel projects await them.

Braised eggs, Agent Hill and the village head of Novice Village will later appear in the drama Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Jon Favreau has already started preparations for Iron Man 3, and Robert Downey Jr. will devote himself to the filming of this movie after a short vacation.

The rest of Thor 2 and Captain America 2 have also started script writing and early planning.

The latter will be a very important part. The reputation of Hydra's S.H.I.E.L.D. branch was once spread all over the world through Captain America 2.

In Avengers 4 that year, Captain America said Long live Hydra, and I don't know how many people directly climaxed in the theater.

There is also Galaxy Funny Team, Marvel Entertainment is also being formed, and will use some Fast and Furious actors.

For example, the international superstar Gianna, who was covered by the Korean media, has been confirmed to play the green-skinned girl Gamora.

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