Chapter 144

The bright sun fell in the garden, sitting at a small table under the palm tree, Tom Hanks closed the script in his hand and looked at the opposite Eno Martin, although according to the CAA's regulations, the opponent was just his One of the co-management agents, but in Hanks's mind, only Eno Martin can be called his agent.

"Eno, what do you think of this audition invitation?"

There are conflicts and frictions between Duke Rosenberg and CAA, which is not a secret in Hollywood circles.

"Worry I have an idea?" Ino Martin laughed, "Tom, I have never met Duke Rosenberg, nor indirectly contacted, and there is no conflict of interest. There is no conflict between me and him. The conflict with Duke Rosenberg is not the entire caa, but the interest group represented by Martin Bob."

In fact, Tom Hanks also knows that, like all large companies, CAA is far from monolithic. In particular, the competition triggered by Michael Ovitz's departure has intensified the contradictions within the company. Martin is Martin Bob's biggest competitor, but now he can only look at the other party in charge of caa.

"Tom, a successful director needs an excellent actor, and an excellent actor also needs a successful director." Ino Martin@, it seems that there is no objection, "Now you have academic performance awards, which is appropriate for business. There is no harm, Duke Rosenberg proved that he is one of Hollywood's best commercial film directors, and he is more likely to succeed in cooperation with him."

"Martin? Bob won't make things difficult for you?"

After all, the two have worked together for many years and have friendship with each other. Tom Hanks is still a little worried. "He once hinted that he would try not to cooperate with Duke Rosenberg."

"Tom, none of this is a problem for you and me." Ino Martin shook his head slightly, "You are the Oscar winner. The latest North American box office has exceeded 300 million U.S. dollars, and caa is just a service tool for you. Don't forget, there are many people who support Martin Bob, but there are also many people who support me inside caa."

Tom Hanks thought about it for a while, "Accept the audition invitation. Eno, I want you to help me win a big contract. 1+2 or 2+1!"

As a professional, Eno Martin naturally understood what Hanks meant, nodded, got up and left.

Regardless of whether it is a basic salary of US$10 million plus a 20% revenue share or a US$20 million film salary plus a 10% revenue share, Hollywood is a super contract.

The news of Tom Hanks' acceptance of the audition invitation spread to Ireland as soon as possible. Although it was a bit surprised that Tom Hanks agreed so easily, Duke generally understood the status of the other party in Hollywood. For a star like Hanks, it is impossible for Caa to control everything like the information he once saw on the Internet.

It can be said that the caa information he has seen on the Internet is not reliable at all. According to those descriptions, caa is simply the master of Hollywood, and can be easily manipulated such as Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Stie Vin Spielberg's future and destiny, throw a project casually. With its own mental aura, it can kill the six major Hollywood companies in seconds.

Actually?

Anyone who is a little clear-headed will understand. This is simply impossible, otherwise Michael Ovitz, who is known as the emperor of caa, would not throw away his painstakingly founded career, and tried his best to get into Walt Disney.

What was also passed to Duke's ears was the intentional payment that Tom Hanks' agent called out, a 2+1 super contract.

In general, Duke did not participate in the investment. No matter how high Tom Hanks' pay is, it will not touch his interests, but the troubles of the producer.

However, the film's production budget is only 80 million U.S. dollars, Hanks' 20 million U.S. dollars in remuneration plus Duke's own basic remuneration of 10 million U.S. dollars. It has to be calculated in the production costs, as well as the costs and expenses of other cast members. In the end, how much budget can be left for him as a director?

You know, the production cost is not enough to supplement the budget is a very, very troublesome thing. Will the film crew have no money in the future and want him as the director to cut the film remuneration out of his own pocket?

Hollywood has a famous saying about directors—Never use your own money to make a directed film—although it does not apply to people with strange experiences like Duke, it fits the current situation.

Regardless of how the co-producers reacted, Duke definitely disagreed with the contract of intent that Tom Hanks called out.

Inviting Tom Hanks to audition is one thing, and the other party and him indirectly collide with him. It's another entirely.

Fortunately, this is only a contract of intent, and there is still room for negotiation between the two parties. The specific negotiation has to wait until Tom Hanks' audition is over. If the other party refuses to give in, Duke can only say sorry.

"You propose to invite Tom Hanks to audition."

Standing on the open space on the set, Sophia Coppola's monotonous nasal voice was full of mockery, "but I was worried that the other party's high pay would squeeze your shooting costs. Duke, are you staying with Scarlett? Being together for too long, IQ is deteriorating?"

"I thought Hanks' agent would call for an intentional contract with a low salary and a high share." Duke got used to Sophia's tone and shook his head. "The headaches are Warner Bros., Walt Disney, and the 20th Century. Fox is, it has nothing to do with us."

"You continue to have headaches." Sophia turned away, "I still have work to do."

The detailed preparations are all done by professionals such as Sofia Coppola. Duke is more in overall planning. The crew has been in Dublin for a few days and chose a large-scale studio in the suburbs as the shooting location.

This is a set. In fact, apart from a few dilapidated studios, most of them are wastelands. After all, Ireland is not a regular location for Hollywood filming. Very few crews come here to film.

However, this previously empty studio is now extremely busy. It is not only the check-in of the crew of "Saving Private Ryan", but also a Hollywood crew that chose the main shooting location here.

Duke's first day on the set. I figured out the composition of the crew. I don't know if it is lucky or unfortunate. The other party is the project that Caa packaged for Paramount Pictures-"Brave Heart" directed by Mel Gibson!

I heard that his old acquaintance Sean Connery is also in the crew...

But when I think about it, Duke doesn't feel strange about this famous film. He has a little memory, it seems that most of the shots were shot in Ireland. The Irish military seems to provide Mel Gibson with the army to help with the shooting, and if time is counted, "Brave Heart" should be at least preparatory.

It should be that he hurried over with a large group of people and bumped into the "Brave Heart" crew who had come here long ago.

Of course, Duke did not have any plans to change the shooting location, and the replacement of the location will inevitably incur large expenses, and he has no reason and need to avoid caa's packaging project. He was a winner in the previous two competitions.

If you want to hide, it should be the opponent avoiding him!

This is just Duke's idea. "Brave Heart" will definitely not change the location. After all, not far from here, many medieval scenes have been built.

The shooting locations of the two sides are separated by some distance. As long as the conflict is not deliberately provoked, the possibility of conflict is extremely small.

Moreover. The schedule for "Saving Private Ryan" is extremely tight, and Duke has no leisure time to deal with the people of Caa.

Stand here and watch for a while. Set designer Hannah Serena is leading people to step on the field not far away, preparing to use a drainage channel that passes through the set to lay out a small town destroyed by the war. The workload of such a set is huge, and they are in the preliminary preparations. Priority level.

According to Serena's plan, when the film started. This small town used to film the ending battle is very difficult to complete, and the filming has to be relatively late.

In addition to this, the setting team has a lot of work to do, after Duke led people to view several beaches on the west coast of Ireland. They also want to arrange one of the beaches as similar to Omaha Beach as possible so that the crew can shoot the film for the opening landing battle.

In the next few days, actors from the United States and the United Kingdom successively rushed to the studio to participate in the first audition of the crew. Duke did not participate in the first audition. The minor role was completely handed over to the casting director, an important role. There is still a second audition to attend, and Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio, who were invited by his name, will not be able to come over in a few days.

In addition to the preparatory work for the overall review, Duke also hung up the phone with Lieutenant Colonel Lenjo at the Pentagon, hoping to get the support of the Marine Corps. The two sides have had two happy cooperations, and the crew will pay due compensation. , The Pentagon quickly agreed that it will not only send active-duty officers to train actors, but also send several amphibious warfare experts to guide the crew to film the beach landing battle.

This is not a science fiction movie or other types of military action movies, but a war movie with a distinctly realistic nature. The participation of the military is very necessary.

This is also an important reason why Duke chose to shoot in Ireland. The Irish government promised to send about 800 soldiers to participate in the shooting.

The tax incentives proposed by the Irish government and other policies are not attractive to Duke. The main actors can reflect military sentiment through a certain period of military training, but such a large number of extras cannot. The cost, just the large number of blasting scenes at that time, will cause some extras to cause a series of problems because of stage fright.

It is actually the best choice to let professional soldiers serve as extras.

People looking for tiger tanks also came to Ireland and did not find a suitable tiger tank. The few remaining are treasures of military museums, and it is too difficult to borrow them.

According to Duke's statement, the executive producer went directly to Russia, and bought three old Soviet T34 tanks at extremely low prices from the bureaucrats who wished to sell the entire country. (To be continued...)