Facts have proved that Jimmy's repeated instructions are justified.
On the way here, Jimmy told Yu Dong that Michael Eisner was a man who knew how to save costs. Yu Dong didn't take it seriously, but later he discovered that Jimmy's evaluation of Eisner was quite conservative.
After reading the script, Eisner didn't show much expression.
He first gave Yu Dong a gentle slap on the back.
"As expected, YU is loved by hundreds of millions of readers. Your approach is different. I am quite optimistic about this script."
When this kind of praise is just part of Eisner's rhetoric.
He first affirmed the value of the script, but did not praise it too much, and then pointed out some shortcomings of the script that he thought were there, such as the character design of Captain Jack Sparrow.
In fact, it's not wrong to say that it's a fault. Eisner didn't think there was a big problem with Captain Jack's character. He just told Yu Dong and others that the character of Captain Jack would definitely not work if other companies filmed it, so Disney could only show it if they cooperated with them.
Highlights and value.
After a set of words, Yu Dong also understood that this guy just wanted to convey a point of view to him and Jimmy: this script would be very good if it works with their Disney, but it will be much inferior if it is separated from Disney.
Jimmy looked at Michael Eisner, who was talking eloquently, and laughed to himself. They are all foxes for thousands of years, and Michael is still here to act as a fairy tale for him.
Michael must have taken a fancy to this script written by Yu Dong, and he should attach great importance to it. But Michael wanted to lower the price, or in other words, wanted to completely seize the initiative on Disney's side, so he came up with such a set of words.
While Eisner was analyzing the script, Jimmy touched his ears, turned sideways, and started to point his toes toward the door.
Of course Eisner noticed what he was doing.
So Eisner cut himself off and asked Jimmy, "Jimmy, what do you think?"
Jimmy said with a smile, "I don't have any ideas, just keep talking, Michael. We came here today just to hear your opinion."
Michael smiled back, but Jimmy's steady attitude made him feel a little difficult. He looked at Yu Dong again, "YU, what about you, what do you think?"
Yu Dong also shook his head, "My ideas are all in the script."
Michael nodded: "Then let me tell you my thoughts. I personally really like this script, but if you want to film it, you need to consider many issues... By the way, YU, you are from Shanghai and now live in Jinling.
Right? In fact, we have thought about building an amusement park in Shanghai or Jinling. We have been doing research on this matter recently. Maybe you can really see our amusement park in your hometown in the future, and you will definitely appear in the pirate park.
name."
Wealth does not return to its hometown, but it is like walking in brocade at night. Although Michael has never heard of these two ancient sayings, he understands this truth and the Chinese mentality of returning to his hometown in brocade, so he specifically told Yu Dong about it.
But Yu Dong didn't believe it at all.
The current conditions in Shanghai and Shanghai are insufficient in all aspects. It is impossible for Disney to consider building an amusement park there, and it is even more ridiculous to build an amusement park in Jinling. Besides, even if Disney really wants to build amusement parks in these two cities, it will not do so in this case.
It affects Yu Dong's decision-making.
Yu Dong's decision was very simple, that is, to hand over the decision-making power to Jimmy.
"This is a very good thing. I think the people of Shanghai and Jinling will also welcome your playground to be located there."
Michael could hear the perfunctory tone in Yu Dong's tone. He rolled his eyes and asked again: "YU, after coming to the United States, have you gone to the cinema? "Mulan" hasn't been released yet, have you gone to see it?
?”
Yu Dong nodded: "I saw it. I heard that the box office of this movie was pretty good?"
"It's very good. As an animated film that introduces Eastern culture, it has received more than 130 million U.S. dollars in box office in the United States, which has exceeded our expectations."
Michael played a trick. He described "Mulan" as a movie introducing Eastern culture, as if Disney was the ambassador of Chinese culture.
The animated film "Mulan" has not yet been released in China, but Dudong can predict its encounter in China.
An animated film that has become popular all over the world has been met with failure in the "hometown" of the protagonist. Disney probably did not expect it.
Most Chinese viewers feel that Disney's Mulan is too ugly and does not conform to Chinese aesthetics. Yu Dong himself also feels that Disney's Mulan is not good-looking.
To say that the movie is introducing Chinese culture is not necessarily true. Rather than saying that Disney is introducing Chinese culture, it is better to say that it is using the skin of Chinese culture to attract audiences.
However, Yu Dong still believes that this movie has positive significance for the spread of Chinese culture. After the movie was released, many foreign audiences felt that it was very good for China to have the character of Hua Mulan. Even though this image is different from the original story, the audience accepted it
The information about China is still positive.
Yu Dong knew that Michael mentioned "Mulan" to play the emotional card, so he took advantage of the situation and said: "Actually, there are many traditional stories in China that can be explored. For example, a recent essay competition conducted by Deep Space China is related to this aspect. Maybe it is related to this aspect.
Our two companies can cooperate on this and create more themes. Also, we have been digging and sorting out those Chinese myths and stories, and we have sorted out some. If Disney is interested, we can go back and follow up.
You share share.”
Jimmy and Yu Dong are old partners. As soon as Yu Dong opened his mouth, Jimmy knew what he was going to do. As soon as Dong finished speaking, Jimmy followed up and said: "There is no need to rush this matter. I have sorted out and sorted out the stories.
Find someone to translate it, and I believe it won’t be long before American readers can see it. When Disney wants to film it, just come and tell us. Didn’t Spielberg read it a little before? He was quite interested.
He said that if given the chance, he would like to make a beginning for the Chinese mythological universe."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! As soon as Jimmy said this, Michael became interested, "Chinese mythological universe?"
Jimmy smiled and nodded: "Chinese mythology has a huge system, and there are a lot of things that can be explored. Our idea is that after sorting out this system, we will make these stories into movies to form a mythological universe.
"
Jimmy only said half of what he said here. Chinese mythology is indeed huge, but it does not have a clear system, so this sorting out of deep space will change a lot of things, and some are even completely different from the original mythology.
But to Michael's ears, China's mythology system is complete and has great potential.
The most important thing is that Jimmy also pulled Spielberg's tiger skin, which made Michael have to be tempted.
"When will these stories be translated into English?" Markle asked.
Jimmy thought for a while and said, "I am planning to start setting up a translation team in October. I will be able to start translating in November or February. If the speed is fast, the first volume will be translated in June or July next year."
"Will it take so long?" Michael smiled and waved his hand, "Jimmy, this is not your style of doing things. Now that the story is already there, you should speed up. Especially this kind of mythical story, if you don't make it first, you can't say
Maybe someone else will do it, but I suggest you start setting up a translation team now and speed up the process so that the English version will be out by the end of the year."
Jimmy shook his head, picked up the tea cup and was about to drink it. As soon as the cup touched his lips, he put it down again. He let out a long sigh, "Michael, do you think I don't want to hurry up? But you also know that we are in deep space.
The year is developing so fast that we can’t keep up in all aspects, especially in terms of talent pool. To tell you the truth, I can’t guarantee whether this translation team can be successfully established.”
Michael raised his eyebrows and said, "Why do you say that?"
"Oh, because there are not enough translation talents. If you want to translate fairy tales into a systematic one, ordinary translation is not possible. Moreover, our company now has many translation tasks, and we have hired almost all Chinese translation talents. Also
, after the work is translated, it must be promoted, but we have too many projects on hand now, and it is difficult to focus on this project. "The Butterfly Effect" will be released next week, "Pumping Heart" and "Mars"
"Rescue" is about to start filming, and..."
Once Jimmy opened his mouth, he couldn't stop.
He did not deliberately promote the Chinese mythological universe to Michael, but did the opposite, acting as if he was too busy to take care of it. But just like this, it made Michael a little commotion.
In fact, Michael also knew that Jimmy said that on purpose, but he was really interested in what Jimmy said.
After pondering for a while, Michael suddenly said: "Jimmy, can you make an English promotion for this Chinese mythological universe and show it to me? If possible, maybe Disney can assist you in developing this project."
"That's okay." Jimmy nodded, "But we may have to wait until September, because we have recently cooperated with Amazon and Flash Printing Company to develop an ancient Chinese poetry project."
"Ancient Chinese poetry?"
"Don't you know?" Jimmy smiled, "It seems you don't pay much attention to Amazon. Now on Amazon, ancient Chinese poetry is so popular."
Michael nodded. Jimmy had revealed too much information to him at this moment. He needed some time to digest and verify it.
As soon as he lowered his head, he saw the "Pirates of the Caribbean" script plan on his lap, and suddenly remembered that there was still something serious to discuss.
Just now, he originally wanted to use "Mulan" to play the emotional card and gain an advantage in the negotiation. Unexpectedly, YU and Jimmy took the topic away easily.
And it wasn't just as simple as taking them away, they also promoted the deep space business, which he was quite interested in.
Now, if you mention "Mulan" again, not only will you not be able to play the emotional card, but it will also be easy to talk about the business matters just now.
After thinking about it, Michael stopped following Yu Dong and the others in detours.
"YU, Jimmy, let me be more direct. Disney wants this script. Let's talk about cooperation later. I can see that you don't just want the screenwriter's fee. But let me tell you the truth.
, the characters in the movie will enter the amusement park in the future, so I can’t give you too much, we must control this copyright.”
Jimmy smiled and said: "This is easy to handle. We don't want other copyrights, so we can just negotiate on the film and television rights."
"Okay, but we can't talk about specific things today. On the one hand, I haven't read all the scripts, and the company has other things to do today. Either you can pick a time and we can meet."
Jimmy thought for a while and said: "Next Monday, I will bring someone over to talk to you."
"no problem."
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After the matter was discussed, Michael stayed with Yudong and the others for dinner, but they declined.
After Yu Dong left, Michael first called Spielberg.
Spielberg was quite surprised by Michael's call, "Michael, why did you call me all of a sudden?"
Michael smiled and said: "Steven, I have something to ask you. Do you know the myth system in Deep Space?"
Spielberg raised his eyebrows and knew what Michael was going to ask. He said with a smile: "Of course I know, I'm quite interested, but their mythology system is not completely ready yet, and I have too many people on hand now."
Lots of plans. You should also know how busy I am right now. "Saving Private Ryan" has just been released not long ago, and I still have a few movies on hand."
"Do you think there's any hope they can do it?"
"Of course, although I didn't read the stories in detail, I talked with YU about some general stories, and those stories are very distinctive." At this point, Spielberg paused, and then continued: "And you also know that China has
There are so many people, and the market has great potential. When you filmed "Mulan," you must have thought about entering the Chinese market."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "It can be regarded as one of the purposes."
"By the way, how do you know this? Are these plans going to be launched in deep space? But I told Jimmy that if he wants to start them, he must tell me. No, I will call Jimmy now.
Ask what's going on, Michael, and we'll talk about it later."
After Spielberg finished speaking, he hung up the phone immediately.
Michael looked at the phone, thoughtful.
Jimmy didn't brag to him. Judging from Spielberg's reaction, this guy was indeed very optimistic about the mythical universe of Deep Space. It seemed that he had to pay attention to it.
By the way, there is also the matter of ancient Chinese poetry.
Michael made another call: "Haquier, please check the recent status of ancient Chinese poetry on Amazon and report to me in the afternoon."
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On this side, after Spielberg hung up the phone with Michael, he did call Jimmy, but he didn't ask him about the launch of the Mythical Universe. He just told Jimmy about Michael calling him.
Spielberg is indeed interested in the mythical universe, but not as urgently as he lets on.
And the reason why he showed such urgency to Michael was also to help Shen Kong.
Nowadays, Lucas, Spielberg and Deep Space are so good that they can wear a pair of pants, so it is normal for Spielberg to say a few good words for Deep Space.
Some other people know about their three-way relationship, and some others don't know.
In addition to film cooperation, the three parties also have many business contacts, such as IMAX and film approval.
"Okay, I understand. I'll treat you to dinner later."
Chapter completed!