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141 Syed's Screenwriting Team

“Yes, comedy, Charlie…

Yes, the heroine...

What letter?

Throw it out!

I'll wait for your news...

When will you go back to Los Angeles?

OK, goodbye..."

Bai Quinn, who was working in his vice president's office for the first time, hung up the phone and tried to stretch his waist, but heard the whine of the rotating chair and jumped up quickly, for fear of breaking it.

The office furniture I brought when buying an office building is indeed unreliable!

Charlize Theron just went to Africa, and it seemed to be something like Uganda. In order to shoot a gorilla, the protagonist is a gorilla, but does not need a real gorilla, but instead relies entirely on motion capture and CGI technology to generate gorilla movie "The Giant Gorilla Qiao Yang".

It was a big production invested by Disney, with live and digital synthetic characters performing together, and it is said that the production cost is as high as 90 million US dollars.

However, like "Giant Ghost Qiao Yang" and "Star Fleet", this type of film invested most of the money in CGI animation production, so the character selection is the same as "Star Fleet", adhering to the principle of being cheap and useful.

When signing this film, Charlize Theron had just finished filming "Last Summer". Both movies starring as the main character were still released, so her pay was very low.

Therefore, Charlize Theron is looking forward to a comedy movie that may be starring himself.

Shortly before Bai Quinn's call, she had just received a letter from Woody Allen.

At the beginning, she met Woody Allen who came to watch on the New York set of "The Devil's Spokesperson". Unexpectedly, this little talkative chatterbox would invite her to star in her next movie on the spot.

At that time, Charlize Theron agreed casually. He thought he was polite to each other, but unexpectedly, after more than half a year, Woody Allen really contacted his agent JJ ​​Harris.

Even if he didn't meet Bai Quinn, working with Woody Allen was not a good choice. His intentions were obvious, and Charlize had seen such a man.

Moreover, Woody Allen's reputation is not even as good as Harvey Weinstein. Charlize is unwilling to get involved with Harvey, let alone Woody Allen.

So he rejected Woody Allen on the grounds that he didn't want to cut his hair short and didn't want to play a model.

Unexpectedly, this director with a strong artist temperament also wrote a sincere letter to the crew in the Uganda jungle.

Instead of making a satellite phone call like Bai Quinn, she was a passionate handwritten letter, inviting her to participate in an artistic creation event, which would be a retro black and white film, returning to the artistic style of the golden age of Hollywood, and using spicy brushwork to satirize the hypocritical upper class.

All the words are very ordinary to pick them up separately, but they become inexplicably seduced when they are strung together.

Charlize Theron, who was just in his early twenties, almost agreed. Anyway, it was just a movie. As an actress, isn’t it just a movie?

Just be careful not to take advantage of it...

But a call from the man came, and the balance in Charlize Theron's heart immediately turned tilted, he took out the letter from his vest pocket, and threw it into the campfire.

Bai Quinn on the other side of the earth naturally didn't know that Charlize Theron really threw away Woody Allen's invitation letter as he said casually. After hanging up the phone, he was busy arranging Lena to change the chair in his office.

If you have to come to work frequently in the future, the chairs will naturally be more stable.

There was no place to sit in his office. When Bai Quinn heard that Sayed was working on the second floor, he wandered around to find his Arab brothers.

Sayed had long transferred the Blockbuster branch on 122nd Street, and he was not interested in the videotape rental business of a playable ticket.

Now he has graduated from the Tish School of Arts at New York University, an investor of the well-known film review website "Rotten Tomatoes", a screenwriter of two box office movies, has also been nominated for an Oscar, and has become an official member of the screenwriters' union, from the West Coast!

Didn’t the East Coast Screenwriters Union delay my application review? I went to the West Coast Screenwriters Union!

Although the two families are in the same mood, and they are united in advance and retreat, and they all strike together when it is time to strike, His Highness the Prince just can't stand the idleness of the East Coast Screenwriters Union!

Said now has a screenwriter team to assist him. At the peak of the number, there were eight people, and now there are four people working in Wademark Image.

The adaptation of "The Walker of the Infinite Side" was initially inspired by the creativity and draft provided by Bai Quinn, and then Sayed personally wrote the first version of the script, but in the later stage, a total of eight screenwriters contributed to the script.

Maybe it was because I was influenced by it since I was a child, or maybe it was because I was born good at management and exploitation.

Said precisely controls the contribution share of each screenwriter in the entire script, so as to strictly control the right to sign.

He needs to ensure that if "The Walker of the Infinite" wins the award, only he and Bai Quinn are qualified to come on stage to receive the award, and there will be no troublesome lawsuits afterwards.

From March to now, for half a year, Sayed is still worried about "The Legend of the Wicked" losing to the Coen brothers in the Oscar for Best Original Script Award.

I heard that Sayed's Crown Prince Abdullah watched the broadcast personally, and afterwards he called Sayed to comfort Sayed and encouraged him. Sayed, who had always been unknown, finally showed his face in the royal family, but unfortunately the result was not the best.

At this time, Said's team was busy with the script of "Rush Hour".

The plot and dialogue originally designed for Chris Tucker basically need to be adjusted.

The character and background setting of Los Angeles detective "Officer Carter" refers to Eddie Murphy's role as Axo in "Detective Beverly". He is a typical black man with a likable personality and a very fast speech. There are many small highlights in his lines. This is suitable for Chris Tucker, a crosstalk actor. However, Bai Quinn finds it difficult to imitate the black language style. Even if he barely snores a long line, it is difficult to answer the funny effect.

Jackson's English proficiency is average. He can only meet the tone of a comedy movie in action design, and can provide a lot of help in language. At most, he can only contribute a few humorous dialogues like a cold-faced laughter.

So the screenwriter team led by Said could only make a fuss about Bai Quinn's role, referring to the style of the particularly popular comedy series "Police School" in the 1980s, and designed Bai Quinn's Los Angeles police detective as a young policeman who likes to complain and does things roughly.

The "Police School" series was filmed 7 consecutive times. The humorous style of the male protagonist Mahani is worth learning from. It not only relies on language amusement, but also humorous complaints and funny actions to complete the creation of comedy scenes.

To create such a scene, the screenwriter's writing skills are very demanding. Bai Quinn came to see what kind of "talents" Syed won over because she was worried.

"This is Thomas Lennon and Carey Kenny, both of them are my classmates at NYU. By the way, Thomas and the others have also set up a comedy club called The NewG Meat P, which is very popular in the bars on the Upper West Side of New York!"

Said first introduced his two chief screenwriters. At this time, the screenwriter team was discussing the plot while eating takeaway.

"I forgot to say that Thomas and the others are also one of the screenwriters of Friends for the next season. I can only help until early September... This is Craig, a newcomer... QB, why don't you say it in advance today? I didn't have time to call your pizza!

Brothers, do you know?

QB can eat two 12-inch pizza at a time, two!"

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became joyful.

Bai Quinn noticed that there was a fat man in the corner, and Said seemed to have forgotten the existence of that person.

"Who is that?"

Bai Quinn gestured to Said with his eyes, and he also missed someone.

Said made a sudden realization and said, "Oh, I forgot, our Jack... QB, this is Jack Black, I have acted in the movie. By the way, our Jack is also a singer, and he has performed in the Snake House... It's the bar in Depp, you still remember, QB, the hot girls inside looked Tang Sen and the others straight..."

Obviously Said and this Jack Black were a little out of touch, and soon got off the topic.

The staff of the screenwriter team were decided by Sayed. Since he didn't like this person, he didn't drive him away, it means that this guy named Jack Black has either a deep background or is indeed talented.

Bai Quinn was sure that it was the latter, and Said couldn't stand this person, but had to use his talent.
Chapter completed!
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