Chapter 123

When I heard that the series script Martin had filed was a pirate type.

Alan Horn, who was extremely excited just a second ago, felt cold and sat back.

"A pirate movie? Sure?"

"OK, the script is called"Pirates of the Caribbean"》"

"Damn it, how could Martin make such a mistake, shouldn't he? With his market acumen, how could he get involved in pirate movies, a genre that has been ruined by Hollywood? Alan

Horn rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then waved to the manager,"You go out first, I'll think about it later.""

"What about Martin?"

"Don't contact me yet"

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That night, Paramount's Shirley Lansing also received news that Martin had filed a new script.

Immediately asked the assistant to work overtime to get the script content

"Pirates movie?"

Like Alan Horn, Shirley Lansing hesitated

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The next day, more film companies received the news. The content of Martin's new script appeared on the desks of many industry bosses.

But almost everyone has doubts about the content of this series of scripts. 03

Harvey Weinstein even mocked in front of his younger brother:"This kid Martin must be crazy. He dares to write a pirate-themed script or a series. Who does he think he is? God? Even if God comes to save Not this series, I said so!"

Bob Weinstein also shook his head and said:"Martin must be crazy."

Why doesn't everyone like pirate-themed movies?

This is about a movie released in 1995——《Cutthroat Island".

This work is famous in Hollywood because it single-handedly ended a genre of movies - pirate movies.

The most profitable movie in Hollywood history, it was even listed in the Guinness Book of World Records because it lost so much money.

The entire film invested US$92 million, but only received US$9.5 million at the box office, which directly led to the bankruptcy of the production company, Carlock Pictures. The distributor, MGM, was also dragged down, and its stock price plummeted.

Don't think that Carlock Pictures is an unknown small film company. In fact, before the filming of"Cutthroat Island", this company was the industry leader among independent Hollywood production companies, and Miramax was the leader in the industry. A younger brother.

This company has successively produced"Terminator 2""、"Extremely majestic"、"total recall"、""Basic Instinct" and other box-office successes and good reputations.

However,"success" is sometimes really a cup of poison. The overall confidence within Carlock Films was catalyzed by these victories and began to get involved in super blockbusters.

And it was the same as before. Unlike"Terminator 2", this time they planned to invest solely.

So"Cutthroat Island", a movie that was recorded in film history because of its loss of money, was born. The initial budget of this work actually exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars, which is 90 100 million U.S. dollars in the early 1990s.

Carlock Pictures planned to create a box office giant that would surpass"Terminator 2". The pirate ship that appeared in the movie alone cost 5 million U.S. dollars to create!

And before the special effects were mature, Under the circumstances, the crew all used real-life shooting on the water, just to create a better picture effect, and all the actors personally went into battle to complete the thrilling scenes. The result... well, the result was that the total box office revenue of"Cutthroat Island" did not even exceed one thousand. Wan, so that Carlock Pictures completely lost itself. After declaring bankruptcy, it was fully acquired by MGM, which was angry because the stock price was dragged down.

Since then, major Hollywood film companies have invariably sealed the genre of pirate-themed films. So far no one has dared to set foot in it.

For a moment,"Martin drifted away""、"Martin is exhausted"、"Comments such as"Martin is arrogant" began to spread in the circle.

Among them, the most vocal critic was Harvey, the fat guy.

And the one who gloated the most was Tom Cruise. Now he can finally relax a little and doesn't have to keep going. The old woman Shirley Lansing ran away, and this woman temporarily shelved her cooperation plan with Martin.

But not everyone is not interested in Martin's script.

For example, Disney's Dictator and Tyrant-Michael Eisner

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Disney meeting room.

Michael Eisner knocked on the table and said:"Have you all read the synopsis of Martin's script?"

Seeing everyone nodding, he continued:"What do you think? Should we cooperate with Martin on this series?" ?"

An executive said:"After all, it is a pirate-themed movie, so you need to be cautious."

Michael Eisner sneered in his heart and sneered at"incompetent conservatives."

But this executive is not the only one who has similar opinions. Almost most of the executives in the conference room are not optimistic about restarting pirate movies now.

But who is Michael Eisner? His nickname of"dictator" is not for nothing. Doing things according to his own preferences is one of his characteristics.

Of course, this person's vision rarely makes mistakes, otherwise it would be impossible to bring Disney, which has fallen into a trough, back to its peak.

In fact, Michael Eisner had thought about having someone write a script and make a movie based on Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction as early as 1990.

So he did.

Michael Eisner invited Hollywood's then-famous family movie screenwriter, Jay Walpert, to write a script based on the 820 Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, and then invited famous producer Jerry Bruckheimer to supervise the film.

But Jerry Bruckheimer rejected the script after reading it because he felt it was"an ordinary pirate movie", full of childish and boring jokes, with no potential to be a hit.

So the"Pirates of the Caribbean" project was shelved.

But Michael Eisner didn't give up on the idea; he was a stubborn man.

In fact, before Martin wrote the script for"Pirates of the Caribbean", he had already contacted Stuart Beattie, who was more familiar with the pirate theme, to rewrite the script, and was preparing to invite playwrights Terry Lucio and Ted Elliott Fill the script with childlike and fantasy content.

However, Martin suddenly filed a script that made him give up his previous idea.

After reading Martin's script, he had only one thought in his mind,"This is what I want, this is what Disney wants!"

Therefore, although most Disney executives at the meeting were opposed to starting the"Pirates of the Caribbean" project , but Michael Eisner still made a completely different decision.

He said decisively:

"This series of movies was made by Disney!"

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