The Best Entertainment Era

In the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York, the crew of The Departed is busy filming.

After a morning of filming, after lunch, Martin Scorsese sat on a high chair by the window of the restaurant, basking in the rare afternoon sunshine in New York, feeling quite good.

The filming went smoothly, and the acting skills of Tom Cruise and Will Smith, who have always been despised by their director circle, are not bad at all.

Although it is a notch lower than the peak of old buddies Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, it is not lower than the average level of these two people in recent years.

Since the beginning of the new century, the two old friends really dare to take on any bad movies and bad roles. They seem to want to make money and retire, and their performance is not even as good as Tom Cruise and Will- smith.

The filming went well, and Relativity Entertainment also came up with plans for future awards later on. Old Martin was naturally in a good mood.

Director. The assistant came over with a letter at this moment, I have your letter.

Martin Scorsese took it, the envelope had nothing but his name on it, and asked, Where did you get it?

A staff member of Sand Sea Entertainment asked me to pass it on to you. The assistant replied.

Martin Scorsese waved his hand, indicating that he understood, unhurriedly opened the envelope, and read it.

The letter was signed by Sandsea chief executive George Clint and Relativity boss Ronan Anderson.

Seeing this, Martin Scorsese paid great attention to it and read it carefully.

So it was to recommend scripts. He understood the intention of the letter, Relativity Entertainment, which has hit movies one after another, is also constantly looking for new projects.

Martin Scorsese thought about it. He has been busy with the filming of The Departed recently. In fact, he has not read a few scripts, but if he recommends it, it is a trivial matter.

After all, he only needs to say what interesting script he has read recently, and he doesn't care about other things.

Martin Scorsese asked for paper and pen, quickly finished writing a letter, called his assistant over, Find an envelope, seal it, and give it to the production manager of Relativity Entertainment, and ask him to pass it to George Clint. Or Ronan Anderson.

In his letter he was referring to a script he had seen with a producer in New York,

It is said to have been linked with Hollywood stars including Leonardo and Brad Pitt.

Martin Scorsese is actually not interested in purely commercial scripts, but he thinks that the production style of relativity entertainment may find this script valuable.

Martin Scorsese didn't take this trivial matter to heart. After writing the recommendation letter, he devoted himself to the filming of The Departed.

In Los Angeles, California, Matthew Leonetti, a director of photography on both Dawn of the Dead and 300 Spartans, received an email.

This is an email from Relativity Entertainment, with the joint signatures of Ronan Anderson and George Clint.

Matthew Leonetti read the email and thought about it.

Because he had filmed the zombie film Dawn of the Dead, someone had approached him with the script of a zombie film to help sell it.

But Matthew Leonetti was too busy some time ago and didn't pay much attention.

Now that I saw the email, I couldn't help but think about it. It seems that the script of the zombie movie is also very interesting. Unlike Dawn of the Dead, you can feel the joyful atmosphere inside just by looking at the content of the script.

Matthew Leonetti thought about it carefully, found a copy of the script from the file cabinet, and mailed all of them to Shahai Entertainment by letter.

The income of a photography director is not as high as that of a director, and if it is adopted by Shahai Entertainment, it will also be an additional bonus income.

Although he is not well-known in the industry, Matthew Leonetti has been engaged in commercials and TV and film shooting for many years, and he also has some vision.

He believes that Relativity Entertainment has recently sold zombie films one after another, and may continue to choose such themes.

John Wilson is a screenwriter and producer from the UK. He came to Hollywood in the mid-1990s to work hard. His career has been tepid until he joined the Prison Break crew as an executive producer a few years ago. Life finally ushered in a turning point.

By the time Prison Break 2 was preparing to shoot, he was already the production manager of the crew.

The two cooperation with Relativity Entertainment can be said to be the starting point of the career of screenwriter and producer, and John Wilson's career has taken a big step forward.

But a producer who has never been the first producer in charge of the crew has never been a qualified producer.

John Wilson hopes to have a production project that really belongs to him, and he has been actively looking for it since the filming and production of Prison Break 2 ended.

Valuable projects in Hollywood are not easy to find.

There are a lot of new scripts for rookies, but John Wilson doesn't want to make fun of his hard-won career.

Until some time ago, when he returned to the UK for vacation, he saw a comedy directed by director Paul Albert, and suddenly felt that it would be more appropriate for a film with this kind of content to be set in the United States.

So, an idea popped up, maybe it can be adapted into an American drama based on this British drama?

Such an idea is good, but the copyright is a problem. John Wilson has no ability to buy the copyright, so he can only suppress his thoughts temporarily. After buying the related TV series DVD, he returned to North America.

As soon as he arrived in Los Angeles, John Wilson received an email from Relativity Entertainment.

This is undoubtedly a good opportunity for him, an opportunity to directly send his ideas to the most powerful person in Relativity Entertainment.

With great anticipation, John Wilson wrote a letter eloquently, packed it together with the DVD of the TV series, and sent it to Relativity Entertainment.

Although he did not meet Ronan Anderson immediately, the person who received the mail made it clear that these letters of recommendation would eventually be sent to Ronan Anderson himself.

Since the Blacklist Project was issued, in just one week, Relativity Entertainment received more than 20 recommendations from many past collaborators, including Martin Scorsese and David Fincher. Email replies from famous people within.

All of these were gathered on Ronan's desk.

Compared with those scripts delivered to Shahai Entertainment and spontaneous door-to-door sales, the scripts or projects recommended by professionals in these circles are undoubtedly a hundred times more reliable.

Ronan temporarily gave up other work at hand and set aside a day to screen the recommended information.

Those who can enter the eyes of professionals, make them feel interesting, and at least leave an impression, the script and project will not be particularly bad.

In view of the relationship between personal reputation and shooting type, Ronan first read David Fincher's email.

In addition to the letter, David Fincher also mailed a script directly to Ronan.

This is the script that David Fincher received this year, and it was sent to him by Samuel Hadidah, the producer of the Resident Evil series.

After the success of the second part of Resident Evil, Samuel Hadida had irreconcilable conflicts with Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich due to issues such as profit distribution and creative ideas. Ronan and Theory of Relativity Entertainment sided with Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich, and Samuel Hadida dropped out of the series.

Samuel Hadidah invited David Fincher to be the director, also in order to attract investment for new projects.

After all, David Fincher's reputation is quite useful in Hollywood.

But David - Fincher is filming girls, the schedule is not suitable.

The screenplay is based on the famous unsolved case of the Black Dahlia in 1947.

More precisely, it's based on the 1987 novel The True Story of the Black Dahlia Avenger by James Allory.

The Black Dahlia tragedy that year caused a huge sensation in Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles police launched the largest investigation and hunt in history for this case, but this murderer disappeared without a trace like Jack the Ripper.

Ronan vaguely remembered that there was such a movie, but he basically forgot the details. The only thing he remembered was that Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank played roles in it.

In the email sent by David Fincher, he said that he once wanted to direct this film, hoping to shoot a 3-hour black-and-white film...

This kind of thinking, let alone David Fincher's schedule is not suitable, even if the schedule is suitable, he will probably be rejected by the film company.

Ronan shook his head slightly, this is a novel adaptation project, even the script is available, the copyright...

He sent an email to Connie on the company's internal system, asking Connie to check the relevant information.

But a few minutes later, Connie's reply arrived. The film copyright of The True Story of the Black Dahlia Avenger was sold as early as when the novel was first released, and the company that purchased the film copyright was Universal Pictures.

It has been almost twenty years since Universal Pictures put the film adaptation on the agenda, and Ronan didn't know what to say.

But such a situation is not uncommon in Hollywood.

The script recommended by David Fincher was naturally rejected. Universal Pictures has already started operating this project, and of course it will not transfer the copyright to other companies.

Ronan also noticed a problem. With such a recommendation, there may be a situation where scripts and projects that can really impress people in the industry may already have a home.

I have already found the next project, and the high-quality rate must be higher.

The recommender only leaves a certain impression of the script or project, and he doesn't care much about whether it is owned by an individual or a company.

Later, Ronan encountered such a situation again.

The horror script recommended by Gore Verbinski has been bought out by Warner Bros., and The Insider recommended by Will Smith is a Universal Pictures project.

This situation cannot be avoided.

On the other hand, it just reflects the reliability of the blacklist plan recommendation.

Ronan, having seen a dozen projects that didn't make sense for Relativity Entertainment, set his sights on Martin Scorsese's letter.

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