Oprah has rich experience and can tell at a glance that William and the others are acting. However, she is very satisfied with the effect. She cooperates with a smile and says: Yes, this ending is the most perfect. William, if you follow the donation,
Of course we hope that Russell and Ridley will win the award. 6 million US dollars can help a lot of disadvantaged groups. William, I want to thank you on behalf of the Women's and Children's Foundation. You are a great guy.
William quickly stood up and thanked the applauding audience, thank you, thank you.
After thanking him and waiting for the audience to quiet down, William said to Russell and Ridley: God, you two are truly great directors and the best actors. You can understand each other's thoughts with just one look. William pretended to be helpless.
She patted her forehead, "Well, I am very happy to make some contribution to women and children. Although I was cheated, I am still willing for the sake of the lovely children. I look forward to your contribution."
The day I became a driver, I felt very satisfied with the compensation.
Everyone laughed at William's exaggerated tone. Russell smiled and said: No problem for me. I really want to try what it's like to live as a driver earning 2.5 million US dollars a day. Thank you. This may be the best moment in my acting career.
A special experience.
After speaking, Ridley and Russell actually walked up to William and hugged him. The audience was also very happy to see this result and clapped happily.
Today's program makes Oprah extremely happy. There are so many topics. Oprah believes that the ratings of this program will definitely increase greatly after it is released.
After the show, William took Ambrosio back to the hotel to change clothes, then took the Bentley provided by the hotel with a bottle of Latour and headed for Ridley's home in New York.
Sitting in the car, Ambrosio held William's arm excitedly, with an excited look on his face. He chattered to William about Ridley's past and how great and famous he was.
However, William knew that Ridley could only be regarded as a semi-A-lister before filming Gladiator, and was not considered a great director, because none of his previous films had box office success.
In the mid-1990s, he even stopped acting for several years. What this old guy was good at was controlling big scenes, but no matter how good a director is, he is just a director. A few years later, Heavenly Kingdom had poor box office performance due to the production company. Lei Lei
Deli was forced to remain silent for almost ten years, and it was not until The Martian that he became popular again.
But at that time, he was almost 80 years old, and his energy was not as good as before. Gladiator was definitely Ridley's most glorious time.
William took Ambrosio's hand and came to Ridley's home in New York. This was a middle-class community. The house and yard were quite big, but they were only worth a few million dollars. Although Ridley was a
A great director, but he is not a great box-office director, he has little money, and his life is not as rich as he imagined.
William and Ridley Russell walked into Ridley's house after hugging each other. Today's party was private, with only Russell and Ridley's agents present.
As soon as he entered the door, the two agents were courteous to William, but William ignored the elite culture agents. These guys thought so well. Do they think William didn't understand anything? They also wanted to package the pirate project.
William would only pay attention to what they said. Who doesn't know that the package project of elite culture is a big trap. There are not many successful ones, so it will be no good if you have to deal with them.
This project would have cost at least hundreds of millions of dollars to make. If William couldn't get half of the copyright when cooperating with a major Hollywood company, he had no intention of investing it himself. He just wanted to do something with the money. He just wanted to continue Russell and Ray
The two of them in Deli were arguing about this project.
He didn’t see how badly Hollywood deceived foreign investors. Many investors from Germany and oil-producing countries had already been deceived by Hollywood, so he was not so foolish as to jump into this big pit.
After everyone had a pleasant dinner, William and Russell Ridley smoked cigars and drank the Latour brought by William and chatted for a long time before getting to the topic.
Finally, Russell said anxiously: William, do you have any ideas on this project that you can tell us?
After thinking for a while, William said: If I want to invest, unless I can get half of the copyright, the screenwriting fee and the cost of "He is a Pirate" are included in the investment, but thinking about it, I know it is impossible.
Russell and Ridley nodded in agreement after hearing William's words: It's really unlikely. The film company will definitely not give up the copyright. I think you should get the screenwriter's share. This is easier.
William said helplessly: I understand this. Just look at DreamWorks. Forget it, Ridley can be the director, but
William said to Russell apologetically: Sorry, Russell, in the role I imagined, the protagonist Captain Jack is Depp. The blacksmith has to find a very handsome young actor with acting skills.
I haven't decided on the heroine yet. Captain Barbossa, I'm interested in Geoffrey. The leading role in this movie is not suitable for you. I'm sorry Russell. Of course, if you can make a cameo, I will definitely welcome it.
Russell nodded after listening. The main role is indeed not suitable for me. A cameo is no problem, but I hope to be the assistant director and assistant producer of the movie. I am 40 years old. If there is no suitable role, I can try to transform into a director.
good.
William looked at Ridley. He was not sure about Russell's transformation into a director. It would depend on Ridley, what he thought would work.
When Ridley saw both of them looking at him, it was no big deal that he was just an assistant director. There were many kinds of assistant directors. He smiled and said, "It's no problem. William, Russell gave me a lot of advice when he was filming Gladiator."
Me, besides, Russell doesn’t necessarily have to be an executive assistant director, he’s just an assistant director who studies and runs errands at the same time.
Haha, I don’t dare to think that Russell is an errand boy, so that’s fine with me, William said with a smile.
Russell was very happy when he heard that. There are many male actors who work as directors. After becoming famous, all actors want to try whether they can be directors. With such a big investment, there are not many opportunities with big directors.
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Russell thanked him and said: Thank you, I will join for free. Don’t worry, I know that I am just a learner and I won’t tell you what to do.
William and Ridley both burst into laughter after hearing this. There is no need for zero pay, just the normal assistant director’s pay. After all, you have to get something for your efforts. It’s just a matter of more and less. As an actor, you are the best.
A few, when you become a director, you can only be regarded as a new director.
Yes, Ridley agreed.
Okay, let’s calculate it according to normal standards.
After the three of them agreed on some details, Ridley promised that after William handed over the script to him tomorrow, he would ask the person in charge of the Eight Hollywood Groups to push the script for a try. If anyone from the Eight Groups is interested, then everyone would find a chance to sit down.
Chat.
After the matter was almost settled, the three returned to the living room and chatted with each other. Everyone saw that William was interested in Hollywood secrets. Ridley was pleased with his agent and revealed a lot of big news. William and Ambrosio listened.
The two people exclaimed repeatedly, but they didn't expect that there were really many things that people couldn't understand.
After chatting until almost 11 o'clock, William and Ambrosio stood up to say goodbye. He had to write the script overnight and submit it to the Screenwriters Guild early tomorrow morning.