November 9, Los Angeles International Airport.

The time is 1 noon.

In a small cafe near the airport, a foreigner, um, a white man was sitting by the window.

The short McGolden color is meticulously combed, and although the light blue pupils are not big, they have a hazy sense of mystery.

A typical English-style big nose, clean shaved beard, wearing a neat white shirt and black casual pants.

The line is slightly behind.

Even drinking coffee leisurely gives people a feeling of taking it seriously. It is obvious that this is a more conservative man.

More than ten minutes later, his cell phone suddenly rang.

Putting down the cup and taking out the cell phone, the man glanced at the caller ID, then showed a faint smile, pressed the answer button and said, "Chen Lin, have you arrived?"

Although this tone may sound a bit weird for the Chinese, he accurately said Chen Lin's name after all.

"Yes, Jonasson, where are you?"

Chen Lin's English is very good, after all, he has been in Hollywood for a long time!

Jonathan directly reported his position, and then Chen Lin on the other end of the phone said, "Okay, I'll arrive soon."

"Ok!"

After a while, two people appeared in front of Jonathan, Chen Lin and Zhao Liying.

"This is my fiancée, Zhao Liying, you can call her Ying."

"Jonathan, my good friend."

Those who have arranged light will not come until tomorrow.

...

Jonathan Nolan, a famous Hollywood screenwriter.

Many people may not know his name just by mentioning it, but many people will know it if their elder brother Christopher Nolan is understood.

Jonathan is a very talented person. Christopher's masterpiece "Memory Fragments" is adapted from his novel "memento                                             �

Since then, Jonathan has served as the screenwriter of "The Deadly Magic", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Secretary Track", "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", "Man: Man of Steel", "Interstellar" and "Westworld".

Many people jealous of him and said that he was purely because of a good brother. Otherwise, how could he be the screenwriter of a large production with an investment of over 200 million US dollars?

Hehe, but he did succeed!

Several movies, including TV series, have received high praise. "Suspect Tracking" has started filming the fifth season, and the sixth season is underway. As for "Westworld", it has a rating of 8.8 points!

Don't have some skills to do the above?

Let’s talk nonsense!

He and Chen Lin met at the same party. Both of them were writing, and there were many differences in the picture.

The two of them could be called a hit on the spot.

Even the script "Interste11ar" and "Interstellar" were proposed by Shen Lin, and then the two improved it together, and finally gave it to Jonathan's brother, Christopher for reading it.

(A little shameless)

Christopher was very interested in the story of "Interstellar". He almost gave up the upcoming "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" and turned around to tinker with "Interstellar"

Later, many things happened, which led to Nolan not wanting to shoot a movie for the time being.

The most important thing is that "Batman Prequel 3: The Dark Knight Rises" was shot at the screening in Denver, USA, killing at least 10 people!

And the murderer also claimed on the website that he was a 'clown!'

Nolan blamed himself, thinking that it was because of his movie that caused these things and became afraid of the movie.

The psychologist advised him not to shoot any movies for the time being.

He simply gave up on the idea of ​​filming a movie.

However, Christopher is particularly optimistic about the project "Interstellar" and it is difficult to give up. He heard that Chen Lin is interested in filming "Interstellar", so he recommended Chen Lin to Warner.

In order to reassure Warner people, Christopher proposed to serve as the producer himself!

Actually, it's the producer!

Hollywood implements a producer-centric system!

The original producer that exists in the hk industrial system is very close to the current Hollywood producer concept.

If you want to become a Hollywood producer, you must not only know how to create (it is better to have creative experience), but also know how to control and operate business. The most important thing is that he should be the first starter of a play as the starter of the business project.

In Hollywood, people who can serve as producers generally have their own production companies or have certain fixed cooperative relationships with the six major studios. They have to personally review and participate in the production and monitoring of many films every year. In the field of commercial production, that is, blockbusters who judge heroes by box office, the power of real big-name producers is second only to the chairman of the studio, and far greater than that of most directors and actors.

Logically speaking, with the support of the Nolan brothers, Warner should give some face and agree to Chen Lin's directorial request.

But Jeff Bicks, Warner's CEO, didn't believe in the theory that a Chinese could shoot science fiction films at all.

Even Chen Lin is the author of "The Hunger Games"!

...

"Jonathan, is this your home?"

Jonathan led the Shen Lin and his wife to a villa area in the southern suburbs of Los Angeles.

Really, I will enjoy it!

"Chen Lin, I may be sorry. I guess Warner is not very interested in Interstellar!"

After taking Chen Lin and the others to the living room, Jonathan said apologetically.

"Why? Aren't they going to listen to my speech? Don't worry, I will convince them!"

Chen Lin is full of confidence in himself!

He was also thinking about firing his first shot in Hollywood!

"Warner Brothers really value this project." Jonathan handed Chen Lin and Ying Bao a cup of coffee each, and then invited the two to sit down.

"They agreed to let you serve as director and were willing to pay a total of $50,000, and agreed to what you said about participating in the investment."

"Isn't this a good thing?" Chen Lin asked strangely.

"But they have conditions attached." Jonathan's face became less beautiful.

Obviously, the conditions offered by Warner were somewhat annoyed him, "Warner intends to use their tax refunds on this project, and the refund money is not included in the movie's income, which means you can't share the nearly 30 million dollars."

Tax refunds are a long-standing system for American movies, but the exhibitions in the past two years are a bit amazing. Let’s put it this way, the cost of a movie is 100 million US dollars, and you can apply for a 20% tax refund in Maryland, which is 20 million US dollars!

In fact, the cost of the entire movie is only 80 million!

But each company has limited tax refund options!

Large studios like Warner should have about ten tax refunds per year. Now they have placed one of them on "Interstellar", and they are not going to play with the largest investors!

This is a bit too much. We account for the majority of the investment cost. When it comes to the tax refund process, you want to take it alone!

To be honest, Chen Lin had already expected this request before. After all, this is Hollywood, and things like this often happen.

So, this is definitely not all. Chen Lin knew Jonathan very well and made a continued gesture.

"Warner wants to convert the promotional expenses into the film's cost..."

Whether it is Hollywood or China, when we calculate the cost of a movie, we rarely add the promotional cost. Generally speaking, the promotional cost will never be included in the cost of the movie!

The reason why Warner counts this part of the expenses as well as cost will definitely increase their investment ratio and thus dilute the benefits of the light side.

But this is not over yet, "Warner also disagrees with Light's accountant team to participate in the film's future overseas tour..."

"What do they want to do?"
Chapter completed!