Heads Up Hollywood

People who put down their face to make money often live at the bottom, just like Hollywood actresses, despite their glamorous appearance, even Monroe has to take off her clothes in front of real powerful producers.

Of course, the actors are gradually growing. With the growth of fame and the accumulation of funds, they participated in the production of movies, using money, fame and hard work to save their face and dignity step by step.

And this is only the second stage.

Now Tang En has entered the third stage of his life, he can use his face to make money!

After successively making movies with a global box office of over 1 billion US dollars, Twain's fame grew day by day, but he was still only in the second stage.

What really makes him a big man in awe of everyone is his entry into the Forbes rich list, as well as the continuous deflation of Fox and Disney.

Tang En personally invited Tim Burton to be the director of "The Pirate Captain: The Curse of the Black Pearl". To put it bluntly, he wanted to use face to make money, and Tim Burton did not refuse.

After that, Tang En personally went to the Staples Center to meet Mr. Jack Nicholson, hoping that he would change his mind and play the role of "Captain Barbossa".

It's a supporting role, and it's a villain!

But only two days later, Dunn Films received a reply from the old man's agent that Jack Nicholson was willing to cooperate!

Although Tang En is young, he already has the attitude of a big boss in Hollywood.

Even the veteran movie star Jack Nicholson will give him face!

That's not to mention, Tim Burton's director contract has not even been discussed for the first time. This Hollywood director who is famous for being weird and difficult for the producers to control has already appeared in Dunn Films many times in a row. The writers exchange ideas.

When Tim Burton appeared again, Tang En invited him to his office and said with a smile, "Tim, I have good news for you. Jack Nicholson has agreed!"

Tim Burton was a little dazed in surprise, "Really?"

"Of course! Huh?" Tang En noticed something was wrong, "You seem surprised?"

Tim Burton smiled awkwardly, "Hey, it would be best for him to play Captain Barbossa. If he really doesn't want to, there are quite a lot of good actors in Hollywood."

It turned out that I had already planned to find a spare tire!

Tang En said angrily: "Okay, anyway, I have already fulfilled your request, the movie is entrusted to you, don't mess it up for me!"

Tim Burton shook his head, a little embarrassed, "Twain, are you sure you want to make "Pirate Captain" into a big series, right?"

"certainly!"

Tang En gave him a strange look, "Didn't you read the outline of the story? It is a huge pirate world full of fantasy, and there must be many development elements. Let's put it this way, even if this movie fails at the box office, It will not change my determination to make a sequel and continue to develop this series!"

"That's good." Tim Burton nodded, and slowly muttered, "Twain, I think...we need to spend some time to fully build this pirate world."

"Build a complete pirate world?"

A look of surprise flashed in Tang En's eyes.

There are many series of movies in Hollywood, but so far, the only series that has completely built a movie world is Star Wars!

Since "Star Wars" became popular in the United States in the 1980s, various themes have emerged successively, perfecting the Star Wars world, including animation, comics, TV series, movies, and fan fiction...

Could it be that Tim Burton wants to imitate the sci-fi Star Wars world and create a fantasy pirate world?

decided……

very good!

Tim Burton nodded and said: "That's right, only when the background of the story is rich and complete, the clearer the framework and the richer the details, will the film produced be more realistic and logical. I just received the 20th Century An offer from Fox, they wanted to remake the "Planet of the Apes" series, but I declined. Remaking an old story is far less attractive than creating a new world."

Tang En applauded, "Tim, congratulations on making a wise decision! Trust me, you will definitely be proud of your choice today!"

Tim Burton looked at him with a smile, "So you agreed?"

"Create a pirate world?" Tang En smiled heartily, "Of course I agree! As I said, I am full of expectations for this series. The story outline I gave you is only a small part of my construction of this series. Since you want to start Create a complete pirate world, and then make a movie... Then I will talk about my thinking."

Tim Burton quickly sat upright and listened attentively.

Tang En cleared his throat, and said slowly: "This is a story that happened in the 17th century. For specific customs, details of dress, specific life, navigation and military conditions, we can hire history experts, ocean experts, and humanities experts to help us. consultant."

"The general structure is like this. At that time, there were nine major pirates in the world, commanding all the oceans on the earth. In addition to the Caribbean pirates, there were South Sea pirates, Indian Ocean pirates, Black Sea pirates, Mediterranean pirates, Pacific pirates, and Adriatic pirates. Pirates, Atlantic pirates, and Caspian pirates."

"Pirates are a special class. They are the overlords of the sea. The nine pirates will have contact with each other. The so-called pirates have their own way. Although they are all vicious villains, in order to safeguard the common interests of the sea, they formed formed a pirate alliance to fight against the navies of various countries. In order to lead this pirate alliance, they introduced a leader, known as the 'Pirate King'!"

Tim Burton's eyes lit up, "Pirate Alliance? That's a good idea! I even think that the name of this series should be called "Pirate Alliance" directly. The layout of "Pirate Captain" is too small! It's like "Pirates The Great War has a big name, if it is called "Jedi Knight Wars", it will seriously restrict the construction of the Star Wars world."

""Pirate Alliance"?"

Tang En blinked and thought for a while, but he didn't make an arbitrary decision, "This is a good suggestion. We can communicate with the production department, marketing department, and screenwriting department."

Tim Burton added: "Also, there are nine factions of pirates. They live in different countries and sea areas, and they need to have a unique set of means of communication. They belong to the pirate class and are unknown to outsiders. You can ask Linguistics home, to create a set of pirate languages.”

Tang En was pleasantly surprised at first, then frowned, "The language setting is too complicated, it will bring obstacles to the audience."

Tim Burton thought about it and said: "So although the pirate world is very big, the protagonists of the movies are always pirates from English-speaking countries, such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates of the Atlantic, etc. Pirates in different regions can communicate using pirate languages , at least to add some mystery."

Tang En waved his hand, "Let's put this idea on hold for now. Anyway, the first pioneering work only talks about a small part of the Caribbean Sea, and it won't involve too much. The main language is English. After all, it is the 17th century, and Britain has already slowed down. It slowly became the largest empire, with influence all over the world."

Language is a major difficulty for movies. If there are too many languages, the audience will be confused when watching the movie.

Especially audiences in North America have never had the habit of watching subtitles.

On the same day, Tang En and Tim Burton talked in detail for more than two hours, and built the basic framework of the "Pirate Alliance" world.

Then, Tim Burton invited 3 of his friends, who were his queen screenwriters, and Dunn Film Production Department produced 6 more screenwriters, a total of 9 screenwriters, each responsible for one, writing every story of the Pirate King background.

This project team is personally in charge of Andrew O'Hare, the chief market analysis officer of Dunn Films, with Tim Burton and Jonathan Nolan as creative directors.

The story structure of the entire "Pirate Alliance" world, from outline, to writing, to modification, will take at least 3 months.

Then Tim Burton adapted the script of the first pirate movie based on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" part.

According to the current progress, the official approval of the film project will really have to wait until next spring.

Tim Burton, though, is clearly interested and can afford to wait.

This is a huge job, full of fantasy and horror, and more importantly, once it is successful, it will be famous in history!

Just like the Star Wars series!

Even if the copyright belongs to Tang En Pictures, it is an honor for Tim Burton to be able to participate in this brand new story construction.

Even if he gets tired of it in the future and doesn't want to make pirate movies anymore, Tang En will definitely not forget him as the producer.

And the name of this series, after the suggestions of Bill McNick, Nina Jacobson, Jonathan Nolan, Andrew O'Hare and others, has finally been determined-"Pirate Alliance"!

First film, title changed: "Pirate League: The Curse of the Black Pearl".

Originally named Pirate Captain, the layout is too small. I am really sorry for Tang En Pictures' spending millions of dollars and inviting many professionals such as screenwriters, historians, writers, and oceanographers.

Tang En was both helpless and funny.

Originally named "Pirates of the Caribbean", in his hands, the world has undergone tremendous changes.

"Pirate Alliance" is undoubtedly a huge world, and even because of language and cultural reasons, it is impossible to express it all through movies.

If this series becomes popular in the future, it is very likely that there will be American dramas, describing some pirates in other regions, or it will be a prequel or a spinoff.

In short, this theme has unlimited room for expansion.

"Hey, I wanted to create a Hasbro alliance, but I didn't expect it to be self-defeating, and a pirate alliance appeared first..."

Sitting in the office, Tang En crossed his legs. Although he sighed, there was always a bit of complacency on his face that couldn't be concealed.

His appearance, in the end, has brought earth-shaking changes to Hollywood!

These changes are all because of one name—Dawn Walker!

He doesn't want to repeat, he wants to create his own era!