Disaster Artist

For actors and directors, a work is a work, and the most important thing is the work itself. How to create an excellent work is the core idea.

For film companies, works are commodities, and the most important thing is commercial value. How to create more value through commodities is the top priority.

Sometimes, these two ideas can achieve a high degree of unity, but more often, not - this is also the reality that every director must face, "how to find a balance between business and art".

However, the reality is that what the film company is striving for is not "balance", but interests, which are just interests from beginning to end and from beginning to end.

"The Mutant Team", that's it.

Although Lions Films has agreed that Deadpool will be on the big screen, they still have many concerns. Because of the character's own attributes, it is likely to affect the target audience classification of the movie. Therefore, senior management directly intervenes in script creation and conducts research on Deadpool. A sweeping full-scale adaptation:

Magic change.

The final version can't even be said to be Deadpool, because the movie completely eliminated all the characteristics of Deadpool.

Without a battle suit, it was adapted into a bald head shape. Deadpool, who was already "ugly" because of his disfigurement, broke the "ugly" ceiling.

The original Deadpool's strongest ability is the undead body, and all other abilities are auxiliary, but the adaptation adds a series of mutant abilities to the character, but it has no own characteristics. The final product is like a hodgepodge, submerged in Among the countless characters in the mutant team.

The most important and terrifying point is that Deadpool should be a chatterbox, the king of mouths, the superhero's spit and poisonous tongue are the most impressive highlights, both yellow and violent; however, the adaptation of the character directly Deadpool's mouth was sewn, and he couldn't say a word.

dumb.

Deadpool is actually dumb?

In order to prevent Deadpool from saying those vulgar, violent, and pornographic words, Lion Pictures directly cut off the root cause, but at the same time cut off the vitality of the characters.

It is conceivable that after the movie was released, such a version of Deadpool encountered how many bad reviews, and the overwhelming swearing was enough to drown Lion Pictures.

In fact, Reynolds knew when he saw the script that Lions was going to create a "dumb" Deadpool.

But Renault still chose to take over the play.

In an interview later, Reno also confessed that his wife likes the role of Deadpool, and he doesn't want others to play the role of Deadpool first. Even if the role has been changed by magic, it is still Deadpool after all, so he also Can only bite the bullet.

No matter what, let's take up the ditch first.

For a long time, Deadpool has an unparalleled popularity in the original comics, and Lions Pictures also clearly sees the result of their meddling and manipulation. It can be said that they are shooting themselves in the foot. Only then did they realize that if If you want Deadpool to succeed, you must follow the original form.

So, the personal movie of "Deadpool" started again.

However, the piled-up problems have not been resolved. In fact, not only have they not been resolved, but a whole new series of problems have emerged.

First of all, the role of Deadpool is really too personal and too special. How should the script and director's style be positioned? Who in Lanchuan can do it?

Second, "The Mutant Team Gaiden" has already explained the origin of Deadpool, so should the independent film explain it again? Or overthrow and start over?

Third, should "Deadpool" be part of the "Mutant Squad" series? Should we learn to share the worldview of superheroes like Fantastic Pictures? Do you need other mutant team members to appear? Should a large cosmic interaction be formed? Or is it because of the particularity of Deadpool that makes him a completely independent series?

Fourth, how should "Deadpool" be graded? If it becomes R-rated, how will the box office be? How should the investment be?

Etc., etc.

Questions, one after another, there are also many opinions within Lions Pictures, and they have not been able to sort out a clear idea. Every meeting has different opinions and it is difficult to unify, which also causes the project to progress more slowly than the snail.

The writers keep changing.

Director, no one wants to take it.

That is to say, apart from Renault's determination as the male lead, nothing has been determined, and it's another two years.

Finally, Lion Pictures finally found a director, Mi Chun.

Mi Chun is an animation director with a background in visual effects. He is a big man in the computer effects industry. However, he has never directed a live-action movie before. His second work was nominated for the Golden Book Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Obviously, Lions Films is already desperate, because no director is willing to accept this project, they have to find another way.

Lion Pictures hopes to take a risk on Michun.

But, again "but" -

At this time, a blockbuster came, Reynolds, and gave up.

In fact, after the release of "The Mutant Team", Deadpool encountered overwhelming negative reviews, and Lion Films did not say anything, and Renault was also heartbroken. He thought that Deadpool could not develop here in Lions Films; moreover, even if Deadpool's single-player movie can make it, and it is difficult for Reno to win the love of the general public because of the limited-level positioning.

Under the hard-hearted persuasion of his agent, Reynolds filmed "Green Lantern".

"Green Lantern" belongs to the detective comics, Marvel's deadly rival, that is to say, Renault "defected".

Lion Films was furious when they left the ground. The only "male protagonist" they could be sure of actually escaped, and he was betrayed to the ranks of the enemy camp!

Of course, in the shopping mall, there are no absolute enemies, only absolute interests~www.readwn.com~ But the superhero who starred in detective comics and then the superhero in Marvel comics is obviously easy to disrupt the audience's sense of substitution. The situation where an actor plays two superheroes at the same time is not suitable for commercial promotion.

Lions Pictures is indeed furious.

From Renault's point of view, it is understandable, because Deadpool has been dragging on for more than five years, and there is no hope in audience word-of-mouth and production plans, so he hopes to seize the opportunity of "Green Lantern" to change his own. career, it's a completely understandable choice.

However, no one thought that things could be more complicated.

The failure of "Green Lantern" caused Liuguang Pictures to lose more than 900 million, and directly suffered internal injuries. Not only did all the adaptations of Liuguang Pictures' superhero comics temporarily stop, but they needed to sort out their thinking and re-formulate their plans; and It also made Lions Pictures feel the impact directly.

On the one hand, this is a good thing, because the failure of "Green Lantern" means that the superhero has not been able to make an impression in the minds of the audience, so it will not be a problem to continue to use Reynolds as Deadpool.

But on the other hand, this is a bad thing, because the losses of "Green Lantern" are so staggering that Lion Pictures was so frightened that his heart almost jumped out of his throat, and then they were timid again.