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Chapter 869 Shameless

Ronan still attaches great importance to Martin Scorsese's recommendation. After opening the envelope and taking out the letter, he looked at it carefully.

Martin Scorsese just read the script roughly at that time, because the genre did not meet his requirements, so he did not leave a copy of the script at all, so he could only describe it in a general way.

The script is called "Super Storm".

Just looking at the name is a disaster film, and so is what Martin Scorsese describes.

The protagonist is a meteorologist who is worried that global warming will trigger a storm and destroy the entire east coast of the United States. Finally one day, a storm will stop on the volcano for a period of time before it arrives in the United States. The volcano will erupt toxic dust into the air and poison humans. The protagonist must stop all this.

Although it is just a brief description of the content, it is not difficult for those who are familiar with Hollywood movies to see that this is the most commonly used routine in Hollywood movies.

The disaster that destroys the whole world, the salvation of the world full of personal heroism, and a typical Hollywood theme.

It's a bit cliché, but Hollywood movies have always been like this. The main line of most commercial movies is actually the same.

However, only Martin Scorsese's simple description was made, and Ronan could not make a judgment. Martin Scorsese also stated in the letter that he did not think the script was interesting, but that relativity entertainment might be interested in such topics.

It is very obvious that Martin Scorsese believes that relativistic entertainment prefers commercial-type subjects.

The script title is "Super Storm", and it is not very difficult to find.

Ronan immediately sent an email to Connie, asking her to send someone to find the script, and the rest would have to wait until he had read the full version of the script.

After initially processing these, Ronan read the letters specially sent by Tom Cruise, and the script copies came with the letters.

The new film project written by Brian Singer, who has just finished filming "Return of Superman", is about to launch, a theme of World War II. It tells the entire process of the initial plan of the "Valkyrie" operation on July 20, 1944 until the final failure.

The name of the script, Ronan, once paid attention to "The Target of Action" Hitler.

Ronan called Tom Cruise directly. Tom Cruise said that he was discussing with Brian Singer and the specific matter was not yet determined. If Relativity Entertainment is interested in "Action Target Hitler", he can match the two sides.

"Why are you interested in this character?" Ronan was a little surprised.

He once discussed with Tom Cruise and Will Smith that although "Brothers" has achieved great success, the market response of war-themed films in recent years has not been very good, and World War II is no exception.

Tom Cruise gave a very powerful reason: "The reason why I was attracted to this project and the hero Stauffenberg was because after I looked at the photos of Stauffenberg, he found that he looked very similar to me."

He asked on the other side of the phone: "Are you interested in this project?"

Ronan said the truth: "I have doubts about the theme of World War II."

It seems that this film is a very inconspicuous among all Tom Cruise's works.

Tom Cruise and Ronan have been together for a long time and are greatly influenced by Ronan. He said, "Then I'll think about it carefully, it seems that this project has some problems."

Ronan didn't say more: "Let's do it, Tom, let's talk about it someday."

This subject looks good, and the assassination of Hitler is also very politically correct, but it is an indisputable fact that the themes of World War II and war have been sluggish in recent years.

Even this film is easy to cause controversy, because in the mainstream Western viewpoint, Stauffenberg's assassination of Hitler was a typical "dog biting dog".

Churchill, a big fat British man, even publicly promoted this view more than once.

The script of "Action Target Hitler" was placed in the ranks of direct denial by Ronan.

The next email comes from the photographer Matthew Leonetti, Dawn of the Living Dead and The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta, with the script attached to the letter.

Ronan looked at the name of the attached script and knew that it was the theme "Zombie Paradise".

Judging from the name, it is not the type of "Dawn of the Living Dead", but it is possible that it is a typical zombie comedy route like "Zombie Sean".

The background story setting of the script is almost the same as that of most zombie films.

A strange virus has appeared across the United States. As long as humans are infected with this virus, they will become zombies. Then the zombies become carriers of the virus, and continue to rampantly infect humans who don’t know the truth.

The difference is that the hero is already the end of the world when he appears, and there are not many survivors left in the world.

Of course, this is not "The Walking Dead" selling dog meat with the help of sheep. The villain in the film is the zombie.

The setting of the male protagonist is also quite innovative. The male protagonist is not a type of killing all directions, but a timid person as a mouse, and has summarized a set of effective rules of survival in the end of the world.

For example, "fire a shot" to ensure that the zombies are completely dead, and "get in the car and check the back seat" to ensure that they will not be attacked by zombies.

It is this set of rules that allow the protagonist to survive in the crisis-ridden doomsday world.

The script has four protagonists, in addition to the timid male protagonist, there is also the second male protagonist who is so strong that he can do it, and a pair of liar sisters.

There is no complex human struggle, nor does it have a psychological struggle back and forth. In this world full of Liao Wuren and zombies, they can only rely on each other.

After seeing the script, Ronan even felt like he wanted to laugh.

Because the whole script is too zombie movie.

There is no separation from life and death, no flesh and blood flying, zombies and the playground are integrated, and the protagonists seem to be playing an adventure game, which is relaxed and exciting, and very happy.

In addition, many subtle and natural jokes that make people laugh, some of them can see the shadow of "Zombie Sean" after the Americanization.

The script is quite interesting.

More importantly, the survival rules of the male protagonist, the settings of the four protagonists, and especially the liar sisters, all evoke Ronan's memory.

He has seen this movie!

If you remember correctly, the male lead is the one who played Zuckerberg in "Social Network", the second male lead is Woody Harrison, and the female lead is Emma Stone who had not yet played Gwen Stacey at that time, which is commonly known as "Sister Stone" across the Pacific.

The second female lead is an inconspicuous little brat, and Ronan doesn't remember it.

It seems that the second sequel was filmed later.

Ronan flips to the end of the script, and there are related introductions and contact information from the two screenwriters.

There are two screenwriters, Little Reese and Paul Venic, who are newcomers in the film industry, and they are also the first time they are trying to write scripts.

But the two have certain qualifications in the entertainment media industry. Previously, they worked as a screenwriter who had no signature rights for two years in a reality show on CBS.

In other words, "Zombie Paradise" is actually a new script for new people, and the copyright of the script is very likely to be in the hands of the two screenwriters.

Ronan has roughly had an impression that he once saw this video around 2010, and he can't remember it any time.

This script is indicated that the two screenwriters started writing last year and completed it at the beginning of this year. Ronan speculated that it is very likely that they were created after watching "Zombie Sean". After all, there are some places in the script that can see the shadow of "Zombie Sean".

Ronan directly informed Connie and asked her to contact the two screenwriters as soon as possible to ask if the copyright is still there.

The biggest problem with this way of collecting movie scripts and subject matter is copyright.

Interesting scripts that professionals in the circle have read may have been copyrighted.

But it is worthwhile to be able to find one from dozens of projects.

After Ronan passed several more scripts, Connie's assistant received news feedback. The copyright of "Zombie Paradise" was still in the hands of Little Reese and Paul Venic. The two agreed to come to the Relativity Building tomorrow morning to negotiate.

Both screenwriters have recently promoted scripts in Hollywood. Like all new screenwriters who have entered the film industry, they are basically in a state of being hitting walls everywhere.

But in Ronan's eyes, Little Rees and Paul Venic are not pure newcomers. The experience of working in CBS will also allow them to make some empirical judgments in contact with relativity entertainment.

Therefore, Ronan would not come forward and asked the copyright department to send someone to receive Lieutenant Reese and Paul Venic and buy out the copyright of the script directly from them.

For now, Little Rees and Paul Venic will not have a better choice.

Ronan was soon attracted by a project recommended by a TV series producer.

This producer, John Wilson, once served as producer manager on the crew of "Prison Break 2", was the kind that grew up with Relativity Entertainment.

In the letter, John Wilson strongly recommended a TV series that was launched in the UK last year, and specially sent DVD discs for all the TV series' first season.

Of course, Ronan didn't have time to watch the disc one episode after another. He just watched the title of the TV series on the disc, and asked Connie to inform John Wilson to come to Relativity Entertainment to meet him tomorrow.

The name of this British TV series is "Shameless". According to the content introduction, it is almost a British copy of a popular American drama.

But the British version of this drama is in front of you. Ronan doesn't need to guess that the former American drama is probably a remake from the British version.

Ronan is not surprising. After all, remakes of British works by American TV series or Hollywood movies are routine operations in Hollywood.

Once on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Ronan watched the first season. Although he hadn't finished watching it, he had some impression of the family.

This British drama also reminded him a little bit. It seems that the American drama has been filmed for about eight or nine seasons, right? It seems that the ratings have always been very high.
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