"Giggle..." Diane smiled happily, then smoothed her hair and gave Ronald a wink. Her whole person was so charming that Ronald was stunned.
"Honey, how do I look?" Diane put down the script and resumed her appearance as a good wife and mother. She was preparing her lines and waiting for Gregory Peck to come to the set for the next script reading.
Another accident happened to the crew. Because of his old age, Gregory Peck occasionally felt unwell and coughed violently. He went to the hospital to check that he had some lung problems and needed to recover. Therefore, all the affairs of "Other People's Money" were postponed.
Two weeks.
The participation of elderly stars has both advantages and disadvantages. Ronald found a retired doctor who had worked as a studio resident doctor at an old Hollywood studio and learned a lot about the precautions for making movies with elderly stars.
In order to avoid filming delays as much as possible due to Gregory Peck's health, he renovated the crew's trailer and lounge, added oxygen equipment for Peck, and a nurse and masseur to take care of the old man's body throughout the process.
.He also improved the sound insulation of the trailer so that the actors can rest well at any time.
Therefore, Diane and Tom Hanks had some extra time to familiarize themselves with the script and figure out the psychology of the characters. From this perspective, it was more beneficial to their performances.
"Well, actually Kate Sullivan is a smart and hard-working woman who made it out of a small town on her own. Such a person has a good career in Manhattan and won't get dizzy immediately after seeing Garfield's pursuit. She may appreciate this
The pursuit of a successful person, but I don’t want to lose my job immediately and go all out to catch this Jewish rich man..."
"Huh? That makes sense..." Diane thought for a while and changed her expression. Now she looked like an elite like Catherine from "Working Girl". She seemed to have made a "How annoying, if not" to the phone.
If you want to help Jorgensen solve the problem, I will not deal with you." Then his expression changed again, looking a little proud... as if to say, such a billionaire is pursuing me, it seems that I am still very charming.
Not bad.
"Very good..." Ronald took a look and realized that this was right. An elite female lawyer on Wall Street must have that kind of style. She can be cute behind others, but she must be taut in front of others.
"Giggle..." Diane kept laughing again.
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay, it's okay, I just thought of Tom Hanks's expression eating the sugar-free donuts you ordered..." Diane changed the topic. She suddenly thought that at that time, she wanted to marry Luo Luo.
Brother Ni, I don’t care about my career as an actor.
"I'll pack your suitcase for you..." Diane put down the script and went to drag out Ronald's suitcase. She did this kind of thing herself and never relied on others.
"Thank you, dear." Ronald kissed his wife on the cheek. The postponement came at the right time. Yesterday, he received a call from Mario Casal, the president of Carloco Pictures, the director of "Terminator 2"
There was another big problem with the budget. After Cameron's storyboards were released, the estimated cost of the special effects shots would break Hollywood records. So he convened a meeting with all parties to decide on the amount and share of the capital increase.
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"Jim..."
After getting off the private plane, Ronald directly saw Cameron who came to pick him up.
"Ronald..." Cameron hugged him, "Mario Casal is at the hotel, let's go together... the investors are all here..."
"Why did it cost so much more?" Ronald asked Cameron after getting in the car. Sixty million is already the top investment in Hollywood, and last year's box office legend "Batman" only had this much.
"I made all the storyboard scripts, and then calculated them based on the hours of work for the stunt shots. It's just about the same..."
Cameron handed Ronald a thick form, which listed a detailed analysis of more than 800 shots that involved special effects personnel or required post-processing, including the working hours of stuntmen and the production costs of special effects models.
And the machine time cost of post-production computer special effects.
Ronald took a closer look at the lights in the car and understood. The expensive special effects were all on the lens related to the T-1000 liquid metal robot.
For example, he can change into other people at will. Such a shot requires a lot of computer CPU time to render. Also, his hands can turn into metal weapons, or turn into liquid, passing through the gaps in the fence door, and then
Return to being a human being.
For the software required for these shots, Cameron experimented with seawater human-shaped lenses in "The Abyss". Now he is sure that it can be made, and he can estimate how much it will cost more accurately.
And for some scenes, even Cameron was not sure how much time and money it would take to shoot them. He had to estimate a number first, and then write it in parentheses, which may be increased at any time...
For example, the shot of the T-1000 liquid metal robot being frozen by liquid nitrogen leaking from a truck on the road, and then broken into pieces. What is needed here is the dynamic picture of the human body turning into liquid, then into solid, and finally broken into pieces.
long shoot.
The cost of the special effects here is hard to estimate because no one has done anything similar before.
For example, the T-1000 also transformed into Sarah Connor, played by the heroine Linda Hamilton, and her foster family members, John Connor Jr., had many two identical people appearing in one scene.
lens inside.
Whether it is to use two shots of film and post-superimposition like Ronald's "The Ghost Story", or to use special effects makeup to create two Sarah Connors to shoot long shots, are still being experimented.
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"Mr. Casal, Arnold, Gale,...Hello...Hello..."
When they arrived at the hotel suite, Mario Casal was already sitting there with many investors. Ronald shook hands and hugged them one by one. This is how Hollywood talks about etiquette, even if everyone has to talk about money and hurt feelings later.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, were all present.
"Today we are mainly going to talk about the amount of capital increase and how to allocate it to everyone..." After everyone took their seats, Mario Casal set the theme of today's meeting in his opening remarks.
For a time, investors, especially the second-round investors, began to complain. They all wanted to get the money from the first-round investors, such as Ronald, Gale Hurd, and the main creators such as Cameron and Schwarzenegger.
After a round of profits, you can then take money from the remaining profits.
The greater the capital increase, the greater the risk. The first round of investors will not have any impact, but the corresponding remaining profits for the second round of distribution will undoubtedly decrease. They are the least likely to pay more and receive less money.
satisfied.
The copyright owner Gale Hurd, the star Schwarzenegger who has continued from the first film, does not want to pay more, but still wants to maintain his own distribution ratio. Their reason is also very simple, without them,
This movie can't be made. Gale holds a quarter of the copyright, and Schwarzenegger is the absolute center of the script...
No one wants to spend money, but the special effects of the movie without money are worrying, so to spend more money, first-round investors like Mario Casal and Ronald will take the lead in funding.
"We at Carocco are planning to increase investment by 10 million..." Mario Casal first said the number, and then looked at Ronald.
"I'll add five million more..." Ronald didn't hesitate. Anyway, this movie will definitely be a hit. My good friend Cameron let it go and let it go. How can it be made? To be honest, he was also very curious.
Hollywood should support such directors and let them expand the boundaries of genre films. As for whether they make more or less, that is secondary.
But the other two parties didn't say anything. Their most ideal solution was for Ronald and Mario Casal to round up the increased investment, and we would just take a free ride.
"Then the meeting will be adjourned now..." Mario Casal still felt that it was not possible, so he stopped the meeting and asked Ronald and Cameron to discuss it.
The budget has now increased to 75 million, but the cost on paper is more than 80 million. And according to Cameron's experience in filming "The Abyss", the money is not very safe, and there must be 10% to 20%
Reserve funds, ready for accidents at any time (accidents will almost certainly occur with this kind of pioneering special effects).
"What should we do now? Can the special effects be reduced?" Mario Casal asked Cameron.
Cameron slowly shook his head. The current combination of special effects is the most economical. If the special effects in certain scenes are reduced, the audience's experience will be greatly reduced, which will have a great impact on the box office.
"Can we do it differently?" Ronald said, referring to the way Kevin Costner invested all his salary and director's salary into "Dances with Wolves" as a budget.
Mario Casal slowly shook his head. Schwarzenegger is different from Costner. He is the most popular action movie star now. He is also the first two stars whose salary exceeded 10 million (the other one is Stallone).
It is impossible for his agent to let him make such a compromise. If he compromises on the salary of a commercial film, the salary of the next film will fall accordingly. Who told you to lower the price, so can you also lower the price of our movie?
And Schwarzenegger also said that this sequel was the one I proposed first. If I hadn’t been in the middle, how could I have found Cameron as the director? How could I have found Ronald to mediate between Cameron and his ex-wife Gale?
Conflicts, resolve copyright?
Schwarzenegger's salary of 12 million, plus a conditional bonus of 3 million, is well deserved. Anything less than this amount is disrespectful to the movie itself.
For a while, the negotiations reached a deadlock. Ronald and Cameron simply left temporarily and went to the office to rest and let these people calm down.
"Arnold... Linda..." In the office, the main creators were all there. Ronald met many old friends from the first film and shook hands with them one by one.
“How come the actor of John Connor didn’t see it?”
"I haven't found it yet..."
"Well..." Ronald thought to himself that Cameron's method of making movies is much more exciting and exciting than his own. I really have no experience with such a large investment. On the one hand, the money is not available, and on the other hand, the special effects are not available yet.
It’s been developed but it’s less than a month before production starts, and even the second male lead has not been finalized.
However, such a large-scale production that breaks the existing boundaries may require such drastic methods, and only a bold director can make it happen.
"Linda, what are you doing?" Ronald was sighing when he saw the heroine Linda Hamilton over there, taking a pin to pick the lock of a pair of handcuffs.
"Bang..." Linda Hamilton pried open the handcuffs and threw them over.
"Oh my God, your crew's line reading session was really special." Ronald looked at the pair of handcuffs, which were indeed genuine stainless steel.
"I've been practicing for a few weeks..." Linda Hamilton came over, took the handcuffs back and cuffed them, and then put the pin in to practice.
"Hey..." Ronald was still convinced by Cameron. These big stars under him could do whatever they asked. Schwarzenegger was practicing reloading bullets from a shotgun with one hand. This action was very impressive.
It's cool, but it's also difficult to practice. Before he could do it twice, his fingers were pinched twice by the gun, and he almost cried out in pain.
"Such a crew is really rare..." Ronald is still envious. He has never made a movie that relies on special effects on such a large scale. If there is no money left, he can make up part of it himself. For a movie like this
, with such dedicated actors and creators, it would be a shame if the movie was not made.
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"Linda..."
While he was thinking about something, Ronald heard a female voice outside the door, calling the protagonist Linda Hamilton.
"Huh?" Ronald opened his mouth. It was an actress who looked exactly like Linda Hamilton. Is Cameron's makeup skills already so good?
"This is my twin sister, Leslie..." Linda Hamilton obviously knew that Ronald had misunderstood, and came over to explain to him, "She is also an actor."
"Haha, I'm actually a nurse, living in New Jersey." Leslie explained that the so-called actors are just sisters who put money on their faces. Cameron invited her to come over for an audition to see if she could be cast in T
-1000 attached lens, this can save a lot of money.
"It's perfect..." Cameron saw the scene of the two of them together. Although Leslie Hamilton is not an actor, she is very similar to Linda, so just one scene is not a big deal.
"It's a pity that not all actors have identical twins." Cameron shook his head. The budget can be reduced a little, but it cannot be extended to all actors transformed by T-1000.
"You can find actors with twins to audition. If there are no twins, then you can just find twins to play the role."
"Huh?" Cameron glanced at Ronald, this method...well, why didn't he think of it?
"Do you remember when you worked as a special effects engineer for Roger Corman and you were able to build the interior of a spaceship using McDonald's plates and trash cans? You won't forget how to shoot movies like Guerrilla
Right?" Ronald joked and said to Cameron.
There are so many movies with sufficient budgets made in big studios. Sometimes, you may forget where you came from.
"Just do it like this...I think about it, the scene where the T-1000 is frozen with liquid nitrogen can also be done like this..."
Cameron restored the street smarts he had developed as a truck driver, making do with the simplest and using whatever tricks were convenient for filming. The shot where the T-1000 was frozen by liquid nitrogen and collapsed into pieces was made of real metal.
Small pieces, and then use editing to solve them.
"It's the shot of the T-1000 standing up from the pile of frozen metal fragments..." Cameron drew two strokes on the drawing board. Using traditional special effects methods, it is difficult to create a person with mutilated limbs.
Shot of standing up from the ground.
"You find a disabled actor...and then use the Photoshop software on your computer to make a mask similar to the plastic scenery in the past..." Ronald took the pencil and drew a schematic diagram on the drawing board.
The shooting method of the airport scene in "Die Hard 2" can also be used here. Use a green screen to wrap the legs of actor Robert Patrick in the T-1000 to achieve the mid-range shot. A disabled actor's legs are used for the close-up shot.
I shot the legs and then edited them together.
Cameron looked at it and felt that as long as the effect on the computer can reach the standard, he can achieve the effect he is satisfied with, so he asked Ronald, "Can anyone do this method you mentioned?"
"Of course, I'll give you Van Fleet's phone number."
I made up my mind, there is a cheap way to shoot (in fact, it is not cheap at all, the budget of this movie may break Hollywood records). Cameron, Ronald and others went back to the hotel together, and met Mario Casa
I told you my plan.
"Very well, everyone, I have good news to announce. The director has come up with a better way to save the budget for special effects. Now we only need to increase the capital by 25 million, no, 20 million will be enough... Now it's still
There’s a shortfall of five million.”
When those second-round investors saw that the situation had changed, they looked at each other twice. These people were not stupid. It seemed that the main investors wanted to get rid of them and solve most of the financial problems themselves, which shows that they have great confidence in the film.
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Then they immediately rushed to speak out, saying that they could invest the remaining shares. Those who did not grab it were very dissatisfied, and jointly demanded that the 25 million capital increase share must be restored...