Chapter 292: A Story of Friendship (Part 3!)
Hearing Yin Jun's words, Spielberg turned around and sat down, "You say." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
If Spielberg still has some doubts about Yin Jun's vision and impulse to invest in films, but after knowing Yin Jun's achievements in screenwriting and sweeping across Asia, Spielberg will not ignore Yin Jun's every word in terms of script creativity.
"I once had a dream about a man walking on the moon. Yin Jun said, "So based on this dream, I conceived a story, a story about life from the extraterrestrial world and a child on Earth who became good friends." β
Spielberg's eyes widened, and he managed to resist the thought of talking.
Then he listened more to God.
Yin Jun carefully told him the story of an ugly-looking, but very gentle and kind botanist from an alien who became friends with a lonely child and returned home with the help of the child.
And that's not all.
But when Spielberg was intoxicated by Yin Jun's description, Yin Jun pulled out a stack of papers from his bag.
Spielberg could see at a glance that on the first piece of paper, on a large full moon, a child was riding a small bicycle, and in the front basket of the bicycle sat a drawing of a creature.
"Oh my God!"
Spielberg exclaimed unconsciously, he snatched Yin Jun's drawings and flipped through them one by one.
The second was an elongated, thin, exaggeratedly human-looking palm, and a clearly child's palm, both with one finger outstretched and then touched, and a bright point of light bloomed at this point.
And then the third one is the shape of the alien, although it looks ugly, a little like a frog or a fly, but the big eyes and expression are full of tenderness.
The fourth is a portrait of a young boy with blond hair and a small but innocent smile.
Fifth ......
Sixth ......
After reading it excitedly, Spielberg ignored Lucas's surprised expression, held the drawings tightly, and grabbed Yin Jun with his other hand: "Jun, listen to me...... I don't know what to say...... God, I can't think of anyone like me...... You know, what do we have...... Oh, the story is mine, right?...... You want me to shoot it, don't you?...... I do!
All right.
If it weren't for here, Yin Jun would have thought that what he heard was the testimonial of a happy woman who accepted her boyfriend's marriage.
A group of people who were drafting the contract not far away all looked at Spielberg when they saw this, and they didn't know what was going on, which made him so excited.
Lucas was also a little demented, he had never seen Spielberg lose his temper like this.
He didn't think there was anything special about the story Yin Jun was telling, and he didn't even think Spielberg would like it - Spielberg had prepared a movie about the abduction of earthlings by evil aliens last year.
Yin Jun's idea is obviously contrary to him!
However, in this world, only Yin Jun knows why Spielberg is so excited and excited.
Because this dream was originally Spielberg's, and this idea was also Spielberg's, but he has not yet formed a complete system.
It will not be until he goes to Europe next year to shoot the location of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" that he will string these fragmentary memories and fantasies together, and then hand them over to the screenwriter he is familiar with to write a complete story.
The name of the story
Called
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This childlike film, which made Spielberg receive worldwide acclaim for the first time, is also a super popular movie.
After the filming of "e.t.", the global box office reached 800 million US dollars!!
Even in 2016, this result was ranked 60th in the history of film in the world!!
And that's $800 million in '82!
If you count inflation, it's at least $3 billion in 2020!
This is still the United States, and if it were placed in China, it would have already exceeded the purchase value of more than 10 billion US dollars!
The record of "e.t." was not broken until almost a decade later by another Spielberg classic, Jurassic Park, which grossed a huge $1 billion!
This is just a box office record, "e.t." has made a lot of money in various peripheral derivative products, and it is a trickle of money to make money, and the accumulation is 2 billion US dollars!
Yin Jun didn't really want to give "e.t." to someone else to do, he wanted to make this classic movie himself.
But it's too late.
Spielberg will be stringing together his memories next year at the latest, and then he will plan it.
Although Yin Jun can use his own copyright registration to make Spielberg unable to make this movie, what good is this for Yin Jun?
The reason why a classic is a classic is that it appeared at the right time, at the right time, and where it should be.
"E.T." should also be directed by Spielberg, a talented director, in order to become a classic.
Therefore, Yin Jun simply took the lead in proposing this idea and asked Spielberg to cooperate with him.
Yesterday afternoon, it took him five or six hours to draw the portraits and write a brief script.
As usual, in the morning, Tang Shuxuan spent three hours translating Yin Jun's script of more than 20,000 words into English.
As for the question of whether he will cooperate with Yin Jun......
Hehe.
You can see Spielberg's excited expression now that he wants to.
After Spielberg calmed down a little, Yin Jun took out the script, "Stephen, I'm glad you like this story...... In fact, it also proves that you are the one with a childlike heart. I didn't misread you, in your thinking, there is always childlike fun and innocence. Here's a brief script I've written, it's a bit more detailed than I said, you can take a look at it first, and then we'll talk about cooperation. β
Spielberg took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and took a serious look at Yin Jun's script with the name "e.t." written on it.
Seeing this, Lucas gave Yin Jun a kick under the table, and whispered: "How did you do it? He still has to be at the helm of our movie, if he wants to make your movie, your 20 million is ready to be wasted?"
Spielberg would absolutely ignore everything in the outside world when he read the script, so Lucas wouldn't worry about him hearing it.
Yin Jun also lowered his voice: "I just showed him, and I didn't let him shoot it right away." I'm not looking for a chance to show him the script now, he's such a big director, the film appointments must be one after another, can I grab the others?"
Lucas was speechless, made a gesture that you are very good, and simply looked at the drawing book that Yin Jun gave Spielberg just now.
For someone like Lucas, who is good at doing "space opera", he actually has a strong childlike innocence, otherwise how did the two living treasure robots in "Star Wars" come from?
After watching it for a while, Lucas also saw the strong friendship contained in it, as well as the overflowing childlike innocence.
Before he could speak, Spielberg had already finished reading the script, looked up and asked directly: "Jun, what conditions do you need to ensure that I have full control of this movie?"
Spielberg is not the kind of frivolous person, and he will naturally not slack off when he reads the script, but in this script, there are too many things that he has pondered, and it can even be said that he can understand it at a glance and form a movie picture in his mind.
So he saw quickly, but he was more attentive than before.
After reading the script, Spielberg knew that Yin Jun did not write the script biased, and the story was still the story he had just heard, which was very good-looking, very childlike, and very attractive.
In that case, that's enough.
He needed to direct a film like this.
This film can't be given to a second person to make, this is his film!
"I don't have any conditions, as long as you make this movie as good as you can. Yin Jun said, "Don't worry about the funds, we follow the rules for all contracts...... Oh, by the way, this movie, I want you to finish Raiders of the Lost Ark before you start planning. β
Obviously, Lucas gave Yin Jun another kick just now, signaling him not to forget the agreement just now.
Spielberg is also very satisfied with Yin Jun's simplicity.
But he doesn't care much about the treatment that Yin Jun said, anyway, he likes this story, it can be said that this story is his dream, and if he doesn't complete it, he will have a huge regret.
Of course, he also believes that Yin Jun is not so stupid and will really give himself a very harsh condition.
In contrast, Spielberg prefers what Yin Jun said, not to worry about the promise of funds.
What director doesn't like investors talking like that?
Thinking of this "e.t." script, Spielberg was a little itchy, "By the way, George, how about we put together a team next month? You're pretty much ready anyway...... I agree to Harrison Ford, right?"
George Lucas is more of a businessman than a film director.
When he heard this, he nodded, if he could start work early, make a movie earlier, and release it early, it's all money!
"Okay, I agree with you and go to Europe to shoot locations. Lucas reciprocated, "I will also contact you as soon as possible with your cooperation team, rest assured, I will equip you with the most suitable for you, not afraid of more money." β
Seeing the two singing and harmonizing over there, Yin Jun was a little speechless.
It's with my money, but can you restrain a little bit?
Fortunately, you are not a wasteful king like a truck driver, otherwise my little family fund is really not enough for you to toss!(To be continued.) )