The next morning, Ronan met the person recommended by Jos Whedon in his office. He was not unfamiliar with the director Alfonso Caron from Mexico. He had previously served as the director of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".

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

It was Alfonso Caron who had a hard science fiction project that required huge investment.

Ronan was flipping through the script. As Jos Whedon said, the script was very thin, and the story was so simple that it was outrageous, making people feel that there was or not, and the difference was not very big.

For new directors and screenwriters, this is the type of film companies that have been thrown into the script library and have not wanted to deal with them for ten years.

That is, Alfonso Caron has a considerable reputation.

With dozens of pages of the script, Ronan quickly turned to the last page. The story told by the script is very simple. An astronaut encountered an accident on the space station and found a way to return to Earth from space.

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

"Yes, but they rejected it." Alfonso Caron said simply: "Jonas and I, my son, completed the script in 2006. Shortly after filming and producing "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", I found Warner Bros. to promote this project."

He was a little helpless: "Warner Brothers is not very optimistic. He has a big opinion on hard science fiction genre and simple scripts, and in the end he did not reach an agreement with me."

Ronan has watched this video and is quite impressed. It seems that this project was repeatedly tossed with Warner Bros. before it finally came out.

"This is like the space version of "The Rest of the Desert Island"," Ronan said.

Alfonso Caron said: "It's almost the same. The theme of this project is actually human resistance to the impossible. Space movies have been around for decades in Hollywood, and space travel has been a bit overshadowed, part of the reason maybe it's because the movies make us familiar with it."

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

Relativity Entertainment just promoted the "Martian Rescue" project some time ago. Ronan knew very well that if you want to make these hard science fiction films well, they should not rely solely on imagination. They must conform to scientific reality, and at least they should look like that.

Ronan asked directly: "What is the budget you need."

There is no need to fake this aspect, Alfonso Caron told the truth: "The video requires full green screen shooting and CG production. I want to use 3D and IMAX technology, which costs about 150 million US dollars."

Ronan can roughly guess why Warner Bros. is unwilling to take over the project Alfonso Caron. It is a big investment in hard science fiction and an original movie. According to Hollywood's measurement standards, the risk is too great.

Alfonso Caron glanced at Ronan: "Mr. Anderson, my project..."

To be honest, he and his son were hit by Warner Bros. If it weren't for his friend Jos Whedon's recommendation to try it out, he would have been preparing to shoot other movies.

"Relativity Entertainment invested in a hard science fiction project some time ago." Ronan filmed the script next to it: "I am more interested in this kind of realistic science fiction movie."

What I heard was not rejection. Alfonso Caron was a little bit more focused. He had also heard people talk about the hard science fiction project that Ronan mentioned, which seemed to be about Mars adventures.

This is also an important reason why he is willing to try Relativity Entertainment. After all, there are precedents of investment in Relativity Entertainment recently.

Today, Hollywood is unique, but there are also very few companies that are willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on original real-life hard science fiction projects.

Ronan said: "I have read the script, I have a suggestion."

Alfonso Caron looked at Ronan. After all, Ronan's fame is here, and it is difficult for people to ignore the so-called suggestions.

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

"Switch to a woman?" Alfonso Caron frowned slightly.

Ronan briefly explained: "The meanings of men and women on the big screen are completely different. Men are born to be synonymous with toughness and strength in the film, while women represent weakness and are protected objects. If the first protagonist of this project is a man, the shock power brought by self-rescue will definitely not be as powerful as women."

Alfonso Caron thought seriously about Ronan's words. Such a film similar to a one-man show would be more attractive. After all, in the concepts of traditional Hollywood companies, male movies are far more popular than female movies.

He considered this when he created the script. The project had no creativity in the plot, and it was not too much to say that there was no plot. The film mainly relied on two points to create attractiveness, one was excellent special effects, and the other was the performance of the actors.

"I need to think about it seriously." Alfonso Caron did not make a decision immediately.

Ronan nodded and said, "No problem." He knew that this project was "Gravity", so he quickly made a decision: "Director Caron, Relativity Entertainment can invest in your project, and the specific Shahai Entertainment will talk to you."

Alfonso Caron said with a smile: "Thank you, I also really hope to cooperate with Relativity Entertainment."

This result can be said to be very ideal.

Ronan left a script and asked Connie to find someone to lead Alfonso Caron to conduct preliminary consultations with Shahai Entertainment below with the person in charge of the production of the film project.

"The Mars Rescue" directed by Ridley Scott has begun filming. This project has worked closely with Nasa, and adding another "Gravity" will not be difficult.

After all, "Georgeous" is not a science fiction movie like "Transformers" or "Star Wars". It must reduce the places that do not meet the actual situation. NASA is undoubtedly the most authoritative organization. If they can get their support, it will definitely reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble from preparation to shooting and post-production.

Ronan carefully recalled the movie. He couldn't remember the specific box office situation, but the movie undoubtedly succeeded because he still had the impression of the two related things.

One is that Alfonso Caron won the Oscar for Best Director Xiao Jinren with "Grain" and then the three Mexican masters came to the idea. On the other hand, Sandra Brock, who played the heroine, ranked first in the Hollywood actress revenue list with "Grain" and news circulated on the Internet, in this movie alone, Sandra Brock earned more than 70 million US dollars in revenue in the basic salary and later share of the money.

If Alfonso Caron follows the advice and changes the male lead to the heroine, there will be a candidate for the actor.

Ronan remembers that when Jessica Filton found Sandra Brock to star in "The Poor Police Flower", she directly asked Shahai Entertainment to sign three movie contracts with her, and La Sandra Brock played the heroine, which was basically no difficulty.

The biggest selling point of the film is the special effects and the heroine's self-rescue. Sandra Brock holds this character, and there is no big problem.

Of course, the more important thing is the special effects.

It is no exaggeration to say that space can be regarded as the ultimate dream of all mankind, and even for the movie, the dream-making machine, it is not easy to create real space on the screen.

Alfonso Caron soon reached a cooperation agreement with Shahai Entertainment and made certain adjustments to the script. The biggest adjustment was to replace the male lead with the heroine.

With the official signing of the two sides, Ronan and Alfonso Caron had more exchanges on this project, especially in terms of special effects.

When the space environment of "Georgement" is presented on the IMAX screen, for viewers sitting in the dark wearing 3D glasses, it is no less than an interstellar journey. Only most of the scenes inside the space station are shot in the set set, and the realistic outer space actually needs to be realized by CG, and all space shots are synthesized from CG.

In addition, under the communication and exchanges between Relativity Entertainment, NASA also provided Alfonso Caron with a lot of first-hand information.

It will take time to start preparing for this project on the spot, and Alfonso Caron has a lot of preliminary work to do.

For example, I went to interview astronauts from the Space Administration, read and watch various actual materials and videos about space, studied thousands of photos taken in space, and learned about space.

Since it is a realist hard science fiction type, you must spend a lot of thought on details. As Alfonso Caron himself said, in the future, you need to ensure that the pictures in each shot are based on reality.

"Gravity" is undoubtedly a very complex project. It needs to integrate virtual and real-life images in a very creative way, which further increases its complexity.

If this project wants to be released, it will be until 2010 as soon as possible.

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

Superhero movies are much better, and before August, Jos Weden's "Avengers" ended all shots and will soon be transferred to post-production.

However, the actors who star in Avengers won't have too long holidays as a series of Marvel projects are waiting for them.

Healing eggs, Agent Hill and the village chief of the novice village, will then star in the series "Agents of SHIELD".

Jon Favreau has begun to prepare for "Iron Man 3". 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 begun script creation and early planning.

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

In "Avengers 4", Captain America's words "Long live Hydra" were made, and I don't know how many people directly climaxed in the theater.

There is also "Galaxy Funny Team", which is also being formed and will use some actors from "Fast and Furious".
Chapter completed!