Chapter 17: Right of adaptation

The reason why Venice is called a water city is because it is located on the water. It is full of large and small water alleys in the city, the Venetian pinnacles called Gondola, and more than 400 bridges, which constitute a unique scenery. And attract tourists from all over the world.
The specific location of the film festival is on the slender Lido Island, which traverses the southeast of Venice. It is a famous holiday destination with Liberia in France, Miami in the United States, and Hawaii. There are both private beaches and public baths. Casinos, restaurants, night clubs, theaters and other entertainment facilities are also available. It is perfect to host a film festival here.
The opening ceremony was on August 27. Adrian and his team arrived in Venice one day in advance. As for the team, there are actually only himself, Catherine, Dennis, and two assistants. As for other things such as declaration of entry, Lafferne personally flew over from the United States a week ago to take up this responsibility.
Adrian was still a bit worried, because the deadline was tight, the first edition edited did not achieve the best results in his mind, but under the operation of La Verne, it passed smoothly. I have to say that his The ability is excellent. If you think about it, Paramount's CEO 7 years ago is now Dineese CEO Michael Eisner. As one of the powerful characters who can develop Dinese to this day, Lafferne should not be underestimated. This is why Adrian originally bought Bosworth Films when he clearly had the choice of more affordable and beautiful.
After arriving at the hotel where he was staying, Adrian took a break and found La Verne to talk. Although he has been following his own film company, Los Angeles and London, after all, are separated by the Atlantic Ocean and the American Continent. Now, bulky mobile phones do not support global communications. trouble. Moreover, most of his energy was spent in the post-shooting period, and a small part of his energy was spent in Catherine, so this opportunity to talk face to face and ask about the specific situation is very necessary.
"Eddy Black in the planning department, and Clarice Sandor in the editorial department." After a few words, Adrian got to the topic. "Although I assured them, no employee will be fired within six months. , But I also said that they will be inspected during this time. Frankly speaking, the performance of these two is not satisfactory to me. "
"I think there must be some misunderstanding in between," Laverne said after flipping through some of the materials Adrian mentioned. "Eddie and Clarice are not the best employees, but they are also due diligence."
"But it's always true that something went wrong, isn't it?" Adrian smiled, and then raised his hand before Lafferne spoke. "Well, Laffer, I'm just giving my opinion and. Since I will leave the company to you during this time, then I will certainly trust you and respect your opinions. "
谢谢 "Thank you, Mr. Cowell," Lafferne said after a few seconds of silence.
"Call me Ed-just talk about the festival issues now." Adrian changed the subject.
"Okay, Ed, the organizing committee has accepted" Two Great Smoke Guns "to participate in the name of an independent film." Laffern said that he had handed the documents to Adrian.
"Very well, so that we can save a little." Adrian nodded and looked.
关键 The key to giving up the name of a film company to participate in a film festival as an independent film is that the United States has legal regulations that film production companies must not take into account the production and distribution of the same film. In other words, if a movie company makes a movie and wants to distribute it, it must be handed over to another movie company to operate, which is an extension of antitrust legal power.
For those groups in Hollywood that have several film companies, this law is nothing more than a piece of paper. The replacement distribution is only handed from left to right-you know, even if the antitrust law expressly stipulates that film companies must not own theater lines, these Large groups are still trying to find loopholes in the law, indirectly controlling the theater line-and small and medium-sized film companies have to comply with this law.
In fact, this is nothing. Hollywood has a perfect hairstyle channel. Don't worry about someone stopping in the middle, but Adrian doesn't want to waste that distribution fee. Starting a career, all the money should be spent on the blade, so why not participate in a film festival in the name of an independent film and give it to your own film company for distribution? Anyway, from investment to production, he did it all alone-well, there are people from the company to help, but this is not a problem, is it?
"Have you seen the demo? What do you think?" Adrian asked at this moment, seeing Lafferne hesitant and added: "It doesn't matter, I just want to hear your opinion."
"Well ... it should be very interesting, but I'm not sure how many people will like this British-style cut, and it's basically impossible to be below the R level, which will greatly affect the number of people watching." Fern said carefully.
Adrien originally wanted to say a few words, but gave up the plan after thinking about it. Laffern only analyzed from the perspective of the US market, so it can't be wrong.
"How is the screening time arranged?" Adrian asked again.
"On the 31st, the Wright Theatre," Lafferne replied briefly.
那么 "Then wait until it's released," Adrian smiled, and shifted the subject again, "how about the right to adapt those novels? I heard some trouble before?"
"Mr. Stephen King has agreed to sell us the adaptation of the novel, and may have signed a contract now; Mr. Michael Clayton's novel is still under negotiation, and the possibility of getting it is still very large according to the current situation; the main problem From Mr. Winston Glum, he insisted that he must be involved in the adaptation of the script. "Laffern explained.
Adrian's eyebrows suddenly frowned, and he opened his mouth after thinking about it for a long time: "It is best to get Clayton's novel adaptation right as soon as possible, and if necessary, make some concessions, and even allow him to participate in the adaptation- —Glum doesn't work ... does he mean anything to loosen? "
"Yes, Mr. Glum said it was a necessary condition." Lafferne sighed.
Adrian was silent for a few seconds: "I can understand what he thinks, a work is equivalent to his own child, no one would want others to dress up their child at will, but the problem is ... his work It is a political satirical novel, and I want to adapt it to an inspirational movie. If he participates in the adaptation, it will inevitably lead us to conflict-which is why I emphasize that this book must be fully adapted. "
I'm really troublesome guy, maybe Paramount would be forced to do that, right? He squeezed his fingers and thought again before he said, "This way, Laffer, you can agree to this condition, but at the same time prepare a special contract, to ensure that conflicts occur during the adaptation and we cannot reconcile, we can The first time without obstacles kicked him to produce alone. "
Paula Fern raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, but then nodded and said nothing. The conversation between the two ended, and Adrian returned to the room and took a good rest.
The next day, the film festival officially opened in front of countless reporters' cameras and cameras. The opening film is a work in Italy. After walking the red carpet, which was not a red carpet, after attending the opening ceremony and listening to the host's speech, Adrian led Catherine to the streets of Venice.
He doesn't have much interest in communicating with European directors, his goal is not here, and he is just a new director. Of course, there are still a few heavyweights in the United States. Martin Scorsic intended to take his new work "The Good Guy" to the film festival. He was originally Italian-American, and naturally he was independent of the Venice Film Festival. Be in love. Even the themes of his films are often the identity of Italian-Americans, sin and salvation in the Catholic sense, and the problem of violence in American society. This is probably one of the reasons why Oscar has not left him for more than a decade.
Now that Scorsese is here, Robert De Niro, who has worked closely with him since the 1980s and is also one of the protagonists of this "good guy", will naturally not fall behind. UU reads www.uukanshu.com Adrian doesn't feel much about Scorsese, but he likes De Niro's performance, but just as he said before, he is just a newcomer director, even if he meets the most, he is not salty. Nonsense conversation, so why should he go to make fun of this?
In addition, everything about the movie has been handed over to La Verne, and the holiday was also part of the film festival, so he felt comfortable with Catherine in Venice.
The Governor's Palace, the Bridge of Sighs, the Rezonico Palace, Piazza San Marco, and the Church of San Marco are naturally indispensable to take a look. It is also one of the must-do things to go through the cobweb-lined alley with Gondola. The two even deliberately went to the library where the original filming of Indiana Jones 3 was taken. In three days, they had visited Venice for most of it.
"Venice is so beautiful, I like this place!" Catherine couldn't help but praise when she came out of the water alley and looked at the undulating seagulls above Gondola.
"If you like it, we will have time to travel once a year in the future." Adrian said with a smile around her waist.
Catherine didn't speak, with a slight smile, and looked at Adrian with bright eyes, and then wrapped his neck around his neck and kissed his mouth. Adrian took advantage of the situation and kissed Catherine in her arms. The two entangled enthusiastically and disregarded the surrounding scenery, just like those loving couples.
I saw this, and the boater sitting at the end of the paddle sang a song. Although he used Italian, the sweet taste of the song was really good. Perhaps because of this love song, the two people who kissed became more enthusiastic.
(Finally, I do n’t know where this chapter is sensitive ... the next chapter is finally pushed ...)