Of course, the remaining calls did not find Christopher Nolan, because the two brothers were still in the theme building at this time.
The Nolan brothers, who had just watched a short film, were walking down the aisle of the movie theme pavilion. Looking at the bustling theme pavilion, Jonathan Nolan said: "You should let Emma come with you, he, she
I will definitely enjoy this scene.”
Christopher Nolan shook his head and said, "She needs to rest."
The Emma in Jonathan's mouth is Christopher's wife Emma Thomas. The two are not only husband and wife, but also very tacit partners. Emma Thomas participated in the production of Christopher's first feature film "Following".
It's just that Emma Thomas just gave birth not long ago, and it is not convenient for her to travel long distances to China now.
In fact, Christopher still hopes that his wife can come with him. As Jonathan said, Emma will definitely like the atmosphere of the Deep Space Movie Theme Museum.
They just went to the huge movie theater in the theme museum. Because there were too many people, they had to stand in the last row to watch the movie.
But even so, the movie viewing effect is not comparable to that of ordinary movie theaters.
To be honest, the large IMAX theater in the theme hall shocked Christopher Nolan. He even felt that the quality of "The Pianist" was holding back the theater. If IMAX technology could be used to shoot an opera-like movie
The movie will completely show the temperament of the theater.
Maybe one day he will have the opportunity to shoot this kind of movie.
…
The two brothers spent a day wandering around the theme pavilion and saw almost all the entries.
By the time they returned to the hotel, they were exhausted.
After returning to the room, Jonathan Nolan went to bed and breathed a long sigh of relief, "It only takes one day for me to fall in love with this bed. No one can drag me out of this bed now."
"
Christopher Nolan sat on the sofa and said with a smile: "Actually, we can spend more time in other venues. After all, the entire Deep Space Short Film Competition will last for a week, and we have plenty of time to watch the participating films.
"
Jonathan smiled and said: "I want to see other participating short films early so that I can determine whether your "Antfly" can win the award."
"So what do you think now?"
"If I were a judge, I would definitely award the International Award to "Antfly". Among the other nine shortlisted foreign language short films, none of them are eye-catching."
Christopher spread his hands and said: "It's a pity that you are not a judge."
"Even if I'm not a judge, I still think..."
Before Jonathan could finish speaking, the landline phone in the room rang. He glanced at the phone and said to his brother: "It might be the front desk clerk. You answer it."
Christopher sat on the sofa without moving, "You are closer."
"I said no one can drag me out of bed."
"You don't even have to get out of bed."
Seeing that Christopher remained motionless, Jonathan could only turn sideways and pick up the phone, "Hello."
"Hello, is this Mr. Nolan?" A calm male voice came from the other side of the phone, speaking fluent English.
Jonathan raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Excuse me, which Mr. Nolan are you looking for?"
"Which...what I'm looking for is Christopher Nolan."
"Hold on."
Jonathan shook the phone towards Christopher, "You have to get up from that leather couch under your butt now."
"who?"
Christopher scratched his head, stood up and came over to answer the phone, "Hello, I'm Christopher Nolan."
"Hello, Mr. Nolan, I am the general manager of Deep Space China."
Jonathan next to him heard the voice on the phone, sat up suddenly, opened his eyes wide and asked: "Who did he say he was?"
Christopher was also excited. He made a silent gesture to his brother, then adjusted his mood and said, "Hello, sir, do you have anything to do with me?"
The person on the other end of the phone smiled and said, "That's right, Mr. Nolan, we have seen your short film "Antfly" and thought it was very good, so we hope to buy the copyright of this short film."
Christopher Nolan wondered, "But the review won't start until tomorrow."
"Yes, the review will only start tomorrow, but our purchase of the copyright for "Antfly" has nothing to do with the short film competition itself, and will not affect the subsequent review." Yuliang smiled: "The decision is up to you whether to sell or not.
You, if you agree to sell, you won’t get the award because of it, and if you don’t agree to sell, you won’t lose the award because of it.”
Christopher looked at Jonathan. He missed his wife Emma Thomas. Emma was doing these things before.
After hesitating for a moment, Christopher asked, "Can I think about it?"
The other end of the phone paused for a moment, then asked, "Mr. Nolan, can I ask what your concerns are? If you have any demands, you can raise them directly and we can discuss them."
Christopher did not hide it and told the truth, "Generally, my wife is responsible for this kind of thing."
Yuliang raised his eyebrows. He heard two important messages from Nolan's words.
First, Nolan is not a newbie, he has encountered this kind of thing before.
Second, his wife is helping with work-related matters, and his wife is probably his agent.
"Is your wife your agent?" Yu Liang asked.
"That's not true, she is a producer."
"So that's it. If it's convenient, could you give me her contact information and I can chat with her."
Christopher didn't hesitate at all, "Of course, the phone number is..."
…
It was broad daylight in the UK at this time, and Emma Thomas was very happy when she learned that Deep Space Company was going to buy the copyright of "Antfly". She also participated in the production of this short film.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! During the phone call, Emma Thomas expressed her admiration for Deep Space Company, and at the same time, she kept praising her husband Christopher Nolan.
Talent.
Through Emma Thomas, Yuliu finally learned that Christopher Nolan is indeed not a newbie. His feature film "Following" was released in April. Although the box office was not good, the response was pretty good.
After all, this is a movie that cost only 6,000 US dollars, and its performance is already very good.
As Emma Thomas kept boasting, Yu Suliang took advantage of the situation and expressed the hope of signing an agency contract with Christopher Nolan.
Emma Thomas didn't hesitate at all when it came to the olive branch from Deep Space Company. She stretched out her hand to catch it, and by the way, she also sold one of their film production plans to Yuliang.
"Actually, several companies have been contacting us, hoping to invest in Christopher's next movie, but we have been hesitant because we hope to obtain a sum of funds without being subject to too many constraints that will affect the movie.
The production of.”
Yu Liang smiled and said: "Our Deep Space Company is very good at doing this kind of thing. Many people think that Deep Space likes to chase the box office and the market when investing in movies. But in fact, the market has never been our primary goal, otherwise we would not
We will not invest in groundbreaking films such as "I Live for Ten Thousand Years" or "Two Smoking Barrels," but we are lucky and these films have done well at the box office."
"In addition, we have also invested in several films in China that were not competitive at the box office, such as "Mountain, Man, Dog" and "Little Tiger". You can learn about these by yourself."
Emma Thomas laughed and said, "Let me tell you the truth, Christopher's next film is adapted from an unpublished novel by his brother Jonathan. The genre is thriller and suspense. The funding required is about three million US dollars."
Between nine million dollars.”
After listening to Emma Thomas's words, Yuliang nodded, "The cost is not high, but we must see the script first. Did Mr. Nolan bring the script with him?"
"have."
Yuliang smiled. He carried the script with him all the way. It seemed that Christopher had the idea to invest in deep space.
An investment of US$3 million to US$9 million can only be regarded as a small project for Deep Space. The idle funds of Deep Space Company have increased a lot recently.
A lot of the box office share of previous movies was recovered. In addition, a lot of cash was borrowed from Amazon's stocks, and not much money was spent on the operation of Deep Space Tribe.
"Do you think this will work? Tomorrow I invite Mr. Christopher to go to the Deep Space Building to meet with our boss YU. Let the boss take a look at his script, and he will decide whether to shoot it."
"YU?!" Emma Thomas sounded a little surprised, "Will he personally take care of such a small project?"
Unknowingly, Deep Space has become a behemoth in the entertainment industry, and as Yu Dong is the soul of Deep Space Company, Emma Thomas takes it for granted that he will not interfere with such a small project with an investment of only a few million.
Although he boasted about her husband Christopher in front of Yuliang, she knew in her heart that Christopher was just a newcomer and did not have the capital to attract YU.
Therefore, she was a little surprised when she heard that Yu Lili wanted YU to read the script in person.
However, what Yiliang said next made her even more surprised.
"In fact, it was our boss's idea to buy the rights to "Antfly" and sign Mr. Nolan. After watching "Antfly", he admired the movie very much."
Emma Thomas on the other end of the phone couldn't help but clenched her fists. She had always firmly believed that her husband was a very talented filmmaker. However, she believed that it was completely different from YU's recognition.
That's YU, a man whose name alone is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Emma Thomas also read an article in the newspaper a few days ago. The well-known film critic Romero said when referring to YU: Any Hollywood movie, as long as YU's name appears in the screenwriter list, the box office will be at least 1%.
billion dollars.
Of course, this is just an exaggeration, because the screenwriter of last year's "I Lived for Tens of Thousand Years" was YU, but the box office did not reach hundreds of millions.
Romero just wanted to express that YU has extraordinary box office appeal and market insight.
Anyway, no matter what, it is a very happy thing that Christopher can be appreciated by YU.
Moreover, the Nolan brothers themselves are loyal readers of YU. If Christopher knew that YU liked a movie, he would definitely be very happy.
"Okay, Mr. Yuliang, I will contact you tomorrow."
"Okay, I will take Mr. Nolan to see our boss tomorrow morning, and then wait until the afternoon, when it is dawn over there, and we will talk on the phone again."
…
Christopher Nolan is a typical British handsome guy, about the same height as Yu Dong, and a bit burlier than Yu Dong.
Maybe it’s because the Nolans he saw on TV before were all in their forties or fifties, so when he saw the 29-year-old Nolan in front of him, Yu Dong’s first reaction was: He’s really young.
Nolan's first reaction when he saw Yu Dong was similar.
Although he had seen photos of YU, when he actually saw her in person, he realized how young YU was.
YU is two years older than him, but it seems that YU is only in his early twenties. It seems that Chinese men are not prone to aging.
Yu Dong looked at Nolan for a moment, then smiled and said, "I heard that you have a new movie plan?"
Nolan nodded, opened the briefcase he carried with him, and took out a stack of script manuscripts, "This is a script adapted from the novel "Death Warning" by my brother Jonathan."
"Death warning?" Yu Dong took over the script, "Has the novel been published?"
"not yet."
Yu Dong asked again, "Does the movie title follow the name of the novel?"
"No, the movie is called Memento."
Yu Dong looked up at Nolan, a smile flashed in his eyes. He didn't expect that what Nolan brought was "Memory Fragments".
"Memento" should be the real starting point for Nolan to start his career as a great director. This film directly made him a director that attracted much attention in the industry.
Yu Dong has not paid attention to the box office of this movie, but with the reputation of this movie, if it can be completed within 9 million US dollars, it will definitely not lose money.
Seeing Yu Dong looking at him, Nolan asked curiously, "Is there any problem? YU."
Yu Dong smiled and shook his head, "It's nothing, I was just thinking that your family is quite interesting. I heard that your wife served as the producer of your movie, and now your brother is the original author and screenwriter. In this way
, you and your family can make a movie."
"My wife and I met through movies."
"Yeah." Yu Dong responded, and then started to read the script of "Memento".
After watching it for a while, Yu Dong found that the script of "Memento" was more laborious than the movie. The scenes switched too quickly and there was no background introduction, which made people confused.
If Yu Dong had not seen the original film, I am afraid it would have taken a lot of effort to understand what the story was about.
Chapter completed!