Vol 2 Chapter 700: Fury Road

If you want to enter the ranks of the first line, it is not enough to rely on the Marvel series alone. Scarlett Johansson also needs to prove himself in the work that is the leader.
Duke knows this very well, and he also filed a script with the Screenwriters Association early. This will be a film with a completely female perspective. Almost only the heroine will perform in the whole story. The actress needs excellent acting skills. And strong personal charm, support the whole film.
Frankly speaking, Scarlett's acting skills are not a problem, but she has insufficient personal aura and charm.
Therefore, Duke is waiting for the right time after filing.
"The dinner I had with Jamie Johnson yesterday..."
After drinking a glass of water, Nancy Josephson took the initiative to change the subject, "He asked me to ask you, do you have any specific plans for the next "Dark Knight" and the "Transformers" sequel?"
What Hollywood studios like most is to make sequels of big-selling movies. Warner Bros. is no exception. Both "The Dark Knight" and "Transformers" have achieved great success. If the sequels of the two films are not on the agenda, Warner Bros. Brother is definitely not a Hollywood company.
"The next installment of "The Dark Knight" will take a few more years."
Although people who like this movie like it terribly, and those who don’t like it very disgusting, no one can deny its success and influence. Duke understands this. Movies like "The Dark Knight" have a double reputation and a good box office. The sequel is not easy to make. "Wait for a while, the influence of "The Dark Knight" will weaken a little, and the market's expectations will rise.
Obviously, the management of Warner Bros. knew that they could not change Duke's plan, so they had to inform and remind him through Nancy Josephson, so that he should not forget those big-selling series.
Duke thought for a while, and then said, "As for "Transformers"...I think it is more appropriate to launch one in two to three years."
"Find someone to take over?" Nancy Josephson had already guessed what Duke meant.
"Yes." Duke nodded, resting his left hand on the arm of the chair to support his chin. Said, "I remember you have signed Michael Bay, and I will recommend Michael Bay to Warner Bros. to take over this series."
At this point, Duke frowned. "How to convince Michael Bay is your job, Nancy."
"He has no choice now." Nancy Josephson seemed extremely confident.
In fact, Michael Bay's position in the industry has declined sharply after he flew into the street from "Escape from the Island". Few big production crews were willing to invite him to lead the tube, but when Nancy hired him, his situation improved slightly, but the market response of an action movie he produced was average, and there are not many options for him now.
Even if it is to accept the procedure set film, he is unlikely to refuse.
Not only the next part of "The Dark Knight" and the sequel to "Transformers", the entire Time Warner has already targeted Duke's big-selling works, and plans to be exhibited into a series of movies, such as the sequel to "Hurricane Rescue". On the schedule, a sequel to " Day" is also being planned, and restarting the "Matrix" series is also one of the future plans.
When the three people were chatting. Tina Fei received a call, she left the terrace briefly, and walked back a few minutes later.
"Good news..." Tina Fei sat back in her seat and said to Duke, "Charles Rowan has reached an agreement with Pat Kinsley, and Tom Cruise is basically done."
Duke nodded slightly, and Charlize Theron, who had already been settled, had all the heroes and heroines of the new project.
"Also," Tina Fey continued, "Warner Bros. also got the sequel rights to the "Mad Max" trilogy you wanted from Twentieth Century Fox."
She was a little puzzled. "What do you want the copyright of these b-level films?"
Tina Fei thought that Duke wanted to target Mel Gibson again. After all, there was news in the circle recently that Mel Gibson may return to Hollywood from Australia. Her employer has never been a generous person in this regard.
"Nothing." Duke shook his head. "Just in case."
His next film to be shot is tentatively titled "Furious Road", which is an upgraded version of the "Mad Max" trilogy. This film only borrows Max’s name and the content is the same as the first three The ministry is actually almost irrelevant.
The former "Mad Max" was a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller. Adapted from an original script by James McCorsland, starring Mel Gibson. It was the best-selling Australian film that year and held the Guinness record of the most profitable film for decades, which definitely opened up the international market for Australian New Wave films. The sequel "Mad Max 2" was released in 1981, and the third "Mad Max 3" was released in 1985. A year later, George Miller re-filmed the fourth "Mad Max: Fury Road".
The "Mad Max: Fury Road" once left an extremely profound impact on Duke. It took two hours to go all the way to the end. It is no exaggeration to say that several scenes have reached the state of gods like no other. If you have to say what the style of the film is, it can barely be said to be a combination of the racing version of Terry Gilliam punk version of James Cameron. In addition to the admirable photography, the director-controlled story rhythm and the storytelling control, this film is also full of steampunk, wasteland aesthetics, apocalyptic future, feminism, hybrid power, heavy rock... these elements.
Although he was going to use Fury Road, Duke didn't want to get too involved with "Mad Max", so he took enough precautions.
Not only did he get the rights to the sequel to the "Mad Max" trilogy from Twentieth Century Fox, he also asked someone to go to George Miller to investigate. After all, in the previous publicity hype, the other party was This film has been prepared for more than ten years, but the results of the investigation show that this is just a publicity hype. George Miller has never considered making a sequel. In the past few years, he has been carefully preparing and producing "Happy Feet". , Has entered the state of retirement in the past two years.
If not, Duke would not choose this work.
Undoubtedly, this is a film with an extremely strong personal style. To some extent, it is also a cult-like type that is not in line with his production style.
Duke is not good at this style. He intends to make a series of changes to the film to reduce some non-mainstream factors as much as possible while remaining cool enough.
Moreover, the theme that the film promotes in his hands is very mainstream, even if it is a doomsday wasteland world where society and order collapse, it cannot stop people's desire for freedom.
The world in this film has suffered a nuclear disaster and the environment has been permanently destroyed. Under such circumstances, what is the most precious resource? In addition to freedom, Duke's script also puts its perspective on human life that has not been contaminated. The existence of the five wives in the film and their fertility are the most precious resources of the end.
As George Miller himself once said, "Furious Road" is not "Mad Max 4", not a sequel to the previous trilogy, but a new chapter of the , these movies have no timeline connection Sex.
The name Max will not appear in the film produced by Duke.
In the previous film, the women became the absolute protagonists. Compared with Charlize Theron's Commander Firosa, Tom Hardy's role was relegated to second place, although there are many scenes of stimulating male hormones in the movie. It's an action scene, but Ferrosa, who has a strong ability and a strong personality, is the support point to promote the plot exhibition.
Now that Duke has hired Tom Cruise as the leading actor, he will inevitably adjust the role of the leading actor and actress.
In Duke's conception, "Furstery Road" is a movie whose whole is greater than the sum of its parts. It will never be full of fearless spirit and unlimited vitality like the "Mad Max" trilogy, but it is more Mature, more refined, more like a modern movie than a b-rated film.
Duke proposed to Warner Bros. that the estimated production cost would be as high as US$100 million, and it would cost US$100 million to make a B-rated film. Not to mention that Warner Bros. will go crazy, he will also go crazy.
What's more, the previous film was not a b-rated film by any means, and there were very few cult elements in it. From the theme to the production, the film was almost a standard mainstream commercial film model.
This is also an important reason Duke chose it.
In Hollywood and the whole world, the film industry and the fan community basically have a consensus. Duke redefines action movies with "Life and Death", "Break into the Dead Island" and "The Matrix", leading the new action movie Trend, isn't it more interesting to come to a subversive action movie in the sense of a genre?
The most important thing is that Duke now has enough capital to do so, and he has two superstars, Charlize Theron and Tom Cruise, with him.
Duke submitted the script and related plans to Warner Bros. as early as the first half of the year. The review committee completed the review in July, but Warner Bros. still has some opinions on this.
"They strongly request that you use 3D technology to make movies," Nancy Josephson relayed some of Warner's thoughts. "3D can raise the box office numbers of movies to a new level."
After thinking about it for about five minutes, Duke nodded slightly, "I will use ima3d technology to produce. You inform Warner Bros. that in terms of production costs, I request an additional $120 million."
In the original plan, the most expensive was the remuneration of Duke, Charlize Theron, and Tom Cruise. Although Warner Bros. used the usual basic remuneration and post-partition method in the circle to reduce the funds brought by the initial investment Pressure, but the basic salary of the three people still accounts for nearly half of the original cost of 100 million US dollars.
To complete an excellent film, sufficient funds are always one of the basic conditions. (To be continued.)
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