MTL - After Buying Marvel, I Became the King of Hollywood-Chapter 57

The protagonist of this film seems to be Batman, but the most outstanding is undoubtedly the Joker, a demon who plays with people's hearts, a lunatic, and a king of criminals.

In the same way, he is a marginal figure in society, a clown who is ridiculed by others, and a pitiful creature with a poor background.

This is a very three-dimensional character setting, which must be very colorful.

And such a brilliant role is exactly what he wanted.

But the biggest question is, can he, a professional comedian, be able to play such a role?

This, even Jim Carrey, has no absolute confidence.

However, he was unwilling to give up this role, and spoke resolutely.

Kevin smiled lightly.

"Please act like a clown, let me see if you can act out the feeling I want."

Although I have seen Jim Carrey's god-level acting skills in the past life, but after all, I have not seen it now, and a preliminary assessment is still required.

Jim Carrey nodded, looked down at the script, and chose a passage that he just remembered deeply.

Break the lines into pieces and keep them in mind.

Then the whole person lowered his head and raised his head.

A crazy clown suddenly appeared in front of Kevin.

Unlike Heath Ledger and other excellent clown actors, they need to use makeup to express the identity of the role of the clown and the characteristics of the character.

Jim Carrey, just from his eyes, from his facial expressions, conveyed to Kevin that he was the Joker, the crazy king of Gotham City.

"I'm a clown. In the eyes of others, maybe they will like me, or maybe they will hate me."

"But no one really knows me, no one knows my past, my grief."

"Those who are frustrated, just care if I am enough to save them from being unhappy."

This line was said by the clown when he was still sober before he really became a clown.

This kind of state of going crazy, not yet crazy, or a little crazy, was completely shown in front of Kevin by Jim Carrey.

Then, just a change in the details of the face.

Jim Carrey controlled the corners of his mouth and opened them exaggeratedly to both sides, forming a very exaggerated smile.

But from Jim Carrey's face, what Kevin can feel is a feeling called "smile but not smile", which is an extremely precise facial control ability.

In the previous life, Kevin only knew that there were only three people who could do it.

Mr. You, who played the old version of Jigong, was half smiling and half crying when Jigong set fire to his house.

God-level acting like crying and laughing.

Zhou Xingxing changed 7 expressions in just ten seconds after discovering the real body of the monster with the mirror.

All that's left is Jim Carrey.

These three people are the existences whose acting skills have reached the peak in Kevin's heart. They don't need overly exaggerated movements, a look in their eyes, and a subtle facial expression change.

It can convey to others the psychological changes of the character.

Jim Carrey continued to speak.

"In their eyes, you're just a freak, just like me."

"They need you now, but when they don't, they'll kick you out like a leper. Their ethics, their code, are a joke."

"When you get into trouble, just throw it all aside."

"I'll let you see that in a pinch, these so-called 'civilized people' will devour each other."

"And you'll see, I'm not a monster, I'm just a visionary."

Immediately afterwards, Jim Carrey let out a few frantic laughter from his mouth.

A real clown just appeared in front of Kevin.

Kevin applauded, breaking Jim Carrey's role.

"Wonderful, very wonderful."

"I can't imagine that there are more clowns in Hollywood than you."

"You can take the script away first, but I don't want any news of this script to leak out. I hope you pay attention."

Kevin's words undoubtedly handed the role of the Joker directly to Jim Carrey.

Facing Kevin's words, Jim Carrey smiled like a child.

It looks very innocent.

"Thank you, thank you, Kevin!"

Thanks Jim Carrey, Kevin just sounds comfortable.

The tone was full of sincerity.

"No thanks, I feel your potential from you."

"In my opinion, you have what it takes to be the greatest actor in Hollywood."

After some exchanges, Jim Carrey immediately regarded Kevin as his best confidant.

After chatting for a while, Kevin watched Jim Carrey leave.

Now that the most important Joker is in place, after he goes to Warner to discuss specific investment matters, he can start work immediately after finding a good actor.

After calculating the funds and time, after the money for the two dark knights is recovered, Kevin will be able to start with Marvel.

With this thought in mind, Kevin got into the car and headed for Warner.

Chapter 93 Make a Plan

Warner Conference Room.

On one side is Steve Kevin, the major shareholder of MGM, the owner of the Dawn Film Company, and a famous Hollywood director.

On the other side, there are many senior leaders of Warner.

The two sides, on the Batman Dark Knight series proposed by Kevin, are having heated discussions.

"Director Kevin, what you said is to separate Batman from other superheroes, I don't agree!"

A high-level leader took the lead in attacking, and Batman before this had a strong comic style.

But the plan proposed by Steve Kevin is a complete realism, which directly transfers Gotham City, the city in the comics, into the real New York City.

And Batman's superhero identity was also stripped from him by Kevin.

Presented in front of Warner executives, it is less like Batman, and more like a realistic crime action movie.

This made several high-level officials of Warners panic.

If it weren't for the fact that this project was proposed by Kevin, a well-known director, it would have been swept away by Warner Bros.

Even so, Kevin's project was still strongly resisted by Warner's executives.

Batman, it should be the Batman in the Batman comics, is the superhero in the minds of Americans.

Not an ordinary person in Kevin's plan.

Kevin just calmly watched the rebuttals from several high-level executives, and the whole person looked very calm.

He can understand these objections.

This is like a big talk about Journey to the West. In people's cognition, Sun Wukong should be the Monkey King, not a human being, and it is even more impossible to fall in love.

But the big talk about Journey to the West completely broke people's cognition, and Sun Wukong not only talked about love.

Still a lot of love.

This is undoubtedly surprising, and it also created an unsatisfactory box office.

The high-level people who hold opposing opinions basically have this kind of thinking.

But the real decision-making is not them, but the president of Warner, Robinoff.

In the memory of the previous life, Robinov seems to have left after the Dark Knight, and I don't know if it is because of the successive failures of the DC universe.

caused by.

But, apparently, Nolan's Dark Knight moved Robinoff.

So today...

..

Robinov, who was stared at by everyone, was very hesitant.

In terms of personal feelings and movie viewing preferences, he is actually not against the Batman Dark Knight, but other executives are also right.

Can the audience accept such an unprecedented Batman?

You must know that this is an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. Once it is lost, even if he is the president, he cannot afford the consequences of this loss.

So far, Robinoff is very grateful for the idea of ​​La Kevin investing 30%.

This greatly reduces Warner's risk.

After hesitating for a while, Robinov glanced at the executives present and said suddenly:

"Since everyone disagrees, let's raise our hands to vote!"

"Hands up for those who approve of Steve Kevin's plan!"

While speaking, Robinov was the first to raise his hand.

In terms of movies, although he is the president of Warner Bros., he is not a director and producer after all. To a certain extent, he is actually a layman.

As a layman, he only knows one thing: a layman should not lead an expert.

All he needs to do is look at the grades.

And Steve Kevin, as a rookie director, has already proven his strength with four consecutive box office hits.

At the same time, according to the director law in Hollywood.

Steve Kevin is undoubtedly at the peak of a director's creative period at this time, and the possibility of his next movie failing at the box office is infinitely close to zero.

After realizing this, Robinoff resolutely chose to support Steve Kevin's new movie project.

There were ten Warner executives present, and after Robinoff raised his hand, seven more executives raised their hands.

Obviously, they have more cinematic trust in Steve Kevin than risk.

At this point, Warners agreed with Steve Kevin's film project.

The production cost of the Dark Knight two films is as high as 200 million US dollars.

This also means that Kevin needs to invest 60 million US dollars, but with the remuneration of the script producer and director, the knight Kevin only needs to spend 40 million US dollars to get these two movies 30% share.

....

After some feuding with Warner Bros. executives, Kevin left Warner with a plan.

Came to the morning light film company.

As soon as he entered the door, Kevin heard the sweet shouts of the Alexander sisters.

"Boss, you're here!"

Helen and Emma immediately ran out of the front desk and hugged Kevin's hands very actively.

In just one year, Steve Kevin's status in Hollywood was a direct triple jump, which made the two of them admire him.

It's just that I don't usually have many opportunities to get in touch with Kevin, so I finally caught Kevin today.

The two girls immediately came over very affectionately.

Kevin kept his eyes fixed and looked like a gentleman, and dragged the sisters to Dawson's office.

"Boss, you're here."

Dawson stood up to welcome Kevin with a flattering smile. As for his two nieces, they were entangled in Kevin like this, and he couldn't see them at all.