Chapter 84 Universal Studios
This was the last day of 1991. The black Audi sedan was sailing towards Universal Studios. Ryan was sitting in the back seat, with a little tired between his eyebrows. Nicole gently rubbed his forehead, and the feeling of heartache on his face was extremely obvious.
The script of "Jurassic Park" was handed over to Universal Pictures and Spielberg after Christmas. In the past few days, the three parties have spoken on dozens of phone calls and have been constantly exchanging views on the script.
Naturally, the script will no longer start from the perspective of a little boy, and the male and female protagonists will be restored to Dr. Grant and Dr. Setler.
Because Ryan used a director's editing version from his previous life, Spielberg was generally satisfied after giving a few suggestions.
Despite many conflicts between the two sides, Universal Pictures granted Spielberg the greatest authority for the success of the film. Not only did it invite his best partner, Katherine Kennedy, as the producer manager, but it also followed his opinions on selecting actors.
Spielberg also showed super high efficiency. It took only a few days to confirm the first major actor. To Ryan's expectation, it turned out to be Nicole Kidman, who played Dr. Ellie Setler. Because this is Ryan's work, Nicole agreed without thinking.
To be honest, Ryan does not want Nicole to take on this film contract. Whether it is the male lead or the female lead, they have to stand aside in the movie. There is only one protagonist in "Jurassic Park", the fierce Tyrannosaurus Rex. If you count it later, it will be the velociraptor, and then it will be the actor's turn.
However, since Nicole made the decision, he had no intention of interfering. Besides, this movie could add a rather brilliant resume to her.
Perhaps it was because he was used to it, or perhaps because he missed the warmth of childhood, before he knew it, Ryan got into Nicole's arms. The Australian girl frowned, but said nothing, and still rubbed her forehead for him.
"Ryan, you should give me a raise." Jinsley sat in the passenger seat, with obvious fatigue.
"Well, Pat, I'm very generous with a hundred dollars a month, right?" Ryan put on a heavy bleeding expression.
Pie Kinsley smiled brightly, and her salary increase was naturally a joke. As a member of the 10% queue, even though she only has two people under her name, who doesn't know that she is already one of the highest-paid agents in Hollywood.
"Thank you, Pat, after the New Year, you can go on vacation."
Ryan knew very well that Jinsley hadn't had much rest in the past six months. It is said that because she was too busy with work, she even parted ways with her boyfriend who was dating.
Her ability is indeed unspeakable. In September, she flew to Taiwan in person, borrowed Warner's relationship there, and successfully won the film adaptation rights of Wang Dulu's novel. Then she ran with the entire team in North America, making every effort to publicize the novels on Ryan's list, and won the adaptation rights of many of them, especially those designated by Ryan.
Needless to say, "Borne's Identity", "Night Visit to Vampire" and "Get to Catch Me: The Real Legend of the Most Extraordinary Liar", while getting the right to adapt the movie "Forrest Gump", she also set a trap in the contract to kick the original author Winston Grum aside and adapted it by Ryan alone.
This is just in line with Ryan's wishes. In his previous life, during the script writing of "Forrest Gump", Winston Grum had a lot of complaints and insisted on making the movie into a political satire. Ryan didn't want to deal with him.
Audi car drove into the Universal Studios office area. Under the guidance of Kingsley, Ryan and his friends soon arrived at a reception room. They were late. When they entered, Spielberg, George Lucas and Ron Meyer were discussing something.
The crew preparation and filming of the film are solely responsible for Katherine Kennedy and Spielberg, and the special effects production is handed over to Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic. The actor has only finalized Nicole Kidman.
"The protagonist in the movie is dinosaurs, and all the plots are mainly based on them, so I only intercepted less than 20% of the content in the novel. What the audience wants to see is not the origin of dinosaurs and what cloning technology is. What they want to see is the conflict between humans and these prehistoric monsters." The speaker was Ryan, who once again emphasized the main line of the script. You must know that when the movie was expanded into a novel, he added a lot of content, and the script naturally had to squeeze out all the moisture.
"I agree with Ryan." Spielberg closed the script, held his eyes and said, "If the dinosaur effect is not achieved, no matter how outstanding the plot of this movie is, there is only one way to fail."
George Lucas flipped through the setting drafts and suddenly said, "Ryan, the appearance of the velociraptor seems to be somewhat different from that of archaeologists who restored it?"
"Yes." Ryan nodded and simply stood up from the chair. "In fact, the Vogue is much smaller than the one in the setting draft. In order to increase the visual effect, I borrowed more from the Dinosaur in its appearance."
After pausing, he said, "What the audience wants to see is a lifelike dinosaur. As for whether it conforms to scientific theory, no one cares. We are shooting science fiction movies, not popular science education movies."
"Well, I have no objection," George Lucas said after thinking for a while. "Stan Winston and Phil Tippy will be responsible for the electronic dinosaurs and dynamic dinosaurs in the long-range image, respectively. Industrial Light and Magic will use the latest movie special effects technology in this film."
"George, give a suggestion." Ryan pinched his chin. "Although I have drawn some of the settings, my understanding of dinosaurs is limited after all. It is best to ask a paleontology expert to supervise the design of dinosaurs."
The rest nodded, after all, they were going to create prehistoric giant beasts, not monsters like aliens.
"We are currently negotiating with several manufacturers, and there will be several implanted advertisements in the film. If the negotiation is completed, the script may require minor modifications." Ron Mayer looked at Ryan.
"I have no problem." Ryan nodded, these are all the details.
The other two had no objections, and advertising implantation has long become a part of the film culture.
"Kate will hurry up and prepare for the crew. The location will be selected after the New Year. It is expected that the preliminary preparations for the movie will take 20-30 weeks." Obviously, Spielberg and Lucas have exchanged views and the timetable given is also very tight.
His words seemed to have no intention. After frowned, he still spoke, "Ron, I still hope to take Schindler's list first. Some of my teams have been to Krakow and have done a lot of preparatory work. Twenty weeks are enough for me. After completion, I can transfer to the shooting work in Jurassic Park."
"Stephen..." Ron Mayer showed a look of embarrassment on his face. There were many people present now. He wanted to give the other party some face and shook his head slightly.
Ryan doesn't want to get involved in these things at this stage. Seeing the topic change, he just found an excuse and walked out with Nicole and Jinslie.
"I'll go to the bathroom." Waving to the two, Ryan turned around and walked into the bathroom.
After leaving the men's bathroom, after washing hands by the pool, Ryan lowered his head and flipped away a piece of paper scraps on his clothes. At the same time, he turned around and prepared to leave. Who knew that he had hit something soft, and then heard the girl's "Oh" scream from the opposite side.
"I'm sorry, I didn't see you!" After all, it was his fault, not to mention that he knew where he bumped into someone else's place. Before he could look up and see who the other party was, he said the words of apologizing.
"Hey, it's you!"
"Do you know him?" another female voice asked.
"Ryan Jenkins! Gwyne, don't tell me you don't know him."
The girl who spoke had a likable baby face with a slightly baby fat, and was slightly taller than him. She looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, but her figure was very hot. As for the other one, although she had never seen it in this life, she had seen it countless times in her previous life.
But Ryan never thought that he would meet Spielberg's god-sister with a random collision.
"Hello, Miss Barrymore, and Miss Paltrow! If nothing happens, I will say goodbye." Ryan didn't want to bother them, and the other one was fine, Drew's reputation was really bad.
"Hey, I just want to leave after hitting my chest. How could it be so cheap? Gwyne, help me stop him!" Drew stood in front of him.
Ryan couldn't help frowning, feeling that he was possessed by the gods. Not only did he stop Lindsay Rohan and Paris Hilton, but now he was stopped by Drew Barrymore. Could it be that the fallen girl in Hollywood is so destined to be with him?
"Little handsome guy, he's pretty good. If he's older, he can charm a girl." Drew smiled, stretched out a finger and pointed it at his chin with a frivolous look.
"Miss Barrymore, please respect yourself!" Ryan warned faintly.
"Okay, Drew, don't go too far!" Gwyneth Paltrow on the other side persuaded.
"Gwyne, don't worry, I'm responsible."
As he said that, Drew Barrymore came over with some aggressiveness. Ryan had no choice but to slowly retreat and retreated to the edge of the pool, and there was no way out.
Drew Barrymore showed a somewhat evil and frivolous smile, "Little handsome guy, have you ever taken the kiss? Do you want to try it?"
As he said that, the pair of bright red lips were printed.
Ryan didn't want to give the first kiss of this coquettish girl. He stretched out one hand and pushed the baby face back without hesitation, but Drew seemed to be addicted to playing, and actually pressed one hand on his chest and slid downwards.
Seeing that the hand was about to grab his vital point, Ryan cursed quietly and wanted to push her away again, but this guy actually grabbed his belt and skillfully touched the belt buckle.
What's going on? Ryan was so angry that he was a human being for two years and had never been teased. In desperation, he grabbed Drew's arm with one hand, and exerted force with the other hand, subconsciously using the big back throw that George taught him.
"Crash" "Bang"
Drew Barrymore was thrown directly by him on the ground by the pool. Fortunately, Ryan didn't exert too much force, but even so, the pain made the other party cry.
"Ah~" Gwyneth Paltrow screamed.
Her scream was not a big deal, and it completely broke the peace in the building. Several people in the nearby offices thought something extraordinary had happened and rushed out.
Chapter completed!