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In the press room of the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel, dozens of reporters gathered together, all cameras or guns in their hands pointed at the huge poster in front.

It was a raging sea, and a pirate ship with a skull flag cut through the wind and waves.

Above the pirate ship, a line of large characters stands out—Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

It turned out to be a pirate theme!

Pirates with a production budget of $120 million!

The journalists' discussions have never stopped, but anyone who knows Hollywood movies knows what pirate-themed movies mean these years.

This is crazy! Someone still invests so much money to make a pirate movie!

Isn't Shahai Entertainment afraid of failure?

Ronan Anderson was inflated, thinking that after successfully producing a few small and medium-budget films, he would be able to play a big pirate-themed production!

None of the reporters present was optimistic about this project, the theme of pirates was too scary.

Under the huge poster, Ronan and Johnny Depp sat firmly at a table. Many of these discussions were passed on, and the two seemed to have not heard it.

Johnny Depp doesn't care what the outside world says.

Ronan knew what kind of glory Pirates of the Caribbean had achieved.

Regardless of what the reporter reported, the two signed their names on the contract with a pen each, and then stood up to exchange the contract, completing the signing ceremony.

Scattered applause erupted at the scene, and it took several seconds for the reporters to react, and politely gave a loud but not very warm applause.

Ronan stood beneath Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, shook hands with Johnny Depp, and let reporters frantically take pictures.

Remember this pair of losers.

When the movie comes out, they won't be smiling so brightly.

A doomed film.

What time is it? There are still people making pirate movies. Don't you remember Carlock Films?

These words came over and over again,

Ronan acted as if he had never heard of it, just smiled and shook hands with Johnny Depp.

The signing ceremony did not arrange an interview session, but George Clint announced the total investment and release time of the film.

After the ceremony, Ronan and Johnny Depp returned to the lounge behind the press hall.

Tracy Jacobs came up to greet him, first whispered a few words to Johnny Depp, and then came to Ronan and said, I hope this is a successful cooperation.

Ronan shook hands with her and said, It will definitely succeed.

I hope so. Tracy - Jacobs obvious lack of confidence.

Johnny Depp turned his head, looked at Ronan, and said, You wrote the script, right? I like the role of Captain Jack very much.

Ronan smiled: Just like it, so our cooperation will be smoother.

Johnny Depp said: After reading the character script and the full version of the script, I had some ideas. I will try on makeup in a few days. Can we talk about the role of Captain Jack?

No problem. Ronan said immediately: Of course, I will participate in your makeup trial.

The script's setting for Jack Sparrow is only the appearance of the sketch and the description in words. If you really want to make the character come alive, you still have to look at Johnny Depp's interpretation.

I vaguely remember that it was Johnny Depp who took the initiative to turn Captain Jack into that sissy look, which also caused Disney chairman Michael Eisner to scold him, but it turned out that Johnny Depp's interpretation was a great success.

Ronan shakes Johnny Depp's hand and sees him and Tracy Jacobs out of the lounge.

Neither Ronan nor Johnny Depp was interviewed by reporters. Now is not the time to make efforts to promote it.

Get Johnny Depp, this project can give Ronan a little relief, anyway, Jack Sparrow is the soul of this series.

Johnny Depp finally signed a trilogy contract, and the remuneration was the previously agreed figure without any post-production sharing.

And under the persuasion of Tracy Jacobs, Johnny Depp also signed a supplementary clause not to drink alcohol and use other prohibited drugs during filming workdays.

Of course, the agent hopes that its star clients can have better development.

In fact, Johnny Depp is already on the verge of being blacklisted by many insurance companies. The investment in Pirates of the Caribbean is so huge. If Johnny Depp does not sign such restrictive clauses, it will be difficult for Ronan to get the insurance company. Third-party completion guarantee.

After all, for an alcoholic and one-time famous drug addict, the odds of having an accident or other mishap are much higher than normal.

Johnny Depp's best friend died outside his bar.

Dominant in the main link, Ronan also made appropriate concessions to Johnny Depp in some side issues.

For example, Johnny Depp can bring his pet dog into the filming crew. The crew provides Johnny Depp with a total of no less than 15 people to visit the crew. Personal assistants pay a total of $2,000 a week and more.

But at the same time, Ronan also strongly rejected many unreasonable requests.

For example, providing food and accommodation for Johnny Depp’s three friends and their family members, providing all-round life care and a separate hotel room for Johnny Depp’s pet dog, and keeping Johnny Depp’s dog The piano was transported to the filming location, a private jet was provided for Johnny Depp, a separate parking lot was rented for Johnny Depp's luxury car, and so on.

Hollywood star actors are sometimes really difficult to serve, and they can make the well-informed producers of the crew dumbfounded by playing with various demands from big names.

Johnny Depp is one of the very difficult types. Maybe some of them are not intentional, but caused by other personal habits. But for Ronan, those who should refuse unreasonable requests will never hesitate .

Now Johnny Depp doesn't have much capital to make very excessive demands.

It is impossible for a normal crew to agree to requests such as providing expenses for friends.

Most Hollywood stars have close friends, who are responsible for their food, clothing, housing and transportation. These people may have helped the stars, or were responsible for eating, drinking and having fun with the stars, but they are actually blood-sucking worms that live on the stars.

For example, Charlize Theron, her wardrobe is always open for friends.

The lives of celebrities often cannot be viewed with common sense.

Ronan secured Johnny Depp's contract, and later met with Gore Verbinski and reached a verbal agreement. The director and Captain Jack Sparrow basically settled.

Since Gore Verbinski will not be able to join the crew until early next year at the earliest, a lot of preparatory work has to go ahead.

The first is the restoration of the Middle Ages.

Although Pirates of the Caribbean tells a fantasy story, Ronan did not dare to be sloppy about the relevant historical background, and specially invited Peter Twist, a famous historian who studies the Middle Ages, as a consultant.

Twist has a lot of research on the history from the 16th to the 20th century. He can impart relevant historical knowledge to the crew, from the customs and details of clothing at that time to daily life, navigation and military conditions, etc.

Then there is the collection of various materials related to the pirates of that period.

Pirates are people who break the law and commit crimes on the high seas, so pirate is a very broad term, as long as the behavior of stealing and destroying property in open waters can be defined as pirates.

Initially, piracy was individual behavior, casual and untrained, and later piracy gradually became more complex.

For example, during the war, the government licensed some people to attack the enemy's shipping, and then shared the proceeds with the sailors. This behavior was legal at the time. Many ship owners and sailors recognized this way of survival, and they continued to act in this way after the war, and became pirates.

Although the pirates in the script do not have real character prototypes, they are a collection of the actions of many real pirates.

The small islands in the Caribbean Sea are ideal places for pirates, because there is a steady stream of merchant ships carrying treasure and goods passing by.

However, pirate treasures have always been just rumors, and in fact there is no evidence to check.

Ronan found from historical records that typical pirates would spend as much as possible after looting their property, and it was impossible to have anything left.

At the suggestion of Peter Twist, Ronan chose the time between 1720 and 1750 as the setting for the story, which was at the end of the heyday of piracy.

In addition, Ronan also hired a master swordsman to train Johnny Depp and the actors who joined later.

In order to make the film look more believable, all the actors who played the pirates and the British navy had to undergo a long period of professional training.

At the same time, a deputy manager of Sandhai Entertainment's production department has secured casting negotiations with Miss A Keira Knightley, who signed on the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy contract. Under his own name, will star in the heroine Elizabeth - Swan.

Keira Knightley's pay is very low, only $100,000.

In fact, this negotiation was very easy. For the female lead in a top-level big production, the young actors all wished for it.

Compared with Keira Knightley, the negotiations between Sandsea Entertainment and Orlando Bloom have hardly progressed. The agent of the elf prince is very smart. Success, Orlando Bloom's worth more than doubled.

It's totally worth dragging on for months.

Ronan has already put people in touch with other actors, so he doesn't have to spend all his time with Orlando Bloom.

Someone recommended Jason Statham to Ronan, and Ronan was also considering the possibility of casting such a British hunk as the little blacksmith.

Others recommended the famous British balloon man actor Christian Bale.

Ronan planned to hold an audition for the role before deciding on the specific candidate for the little blacksmith.