Chapter 1014： Busy

At present, Relativity Entertainment still has musicals in preparation, and it is a key project of first-line production. Ronan also paid attention to the specific progress.

The fairy tale live-action movie project has been steadily advancing. Robert Zemeckis’s "Alice in Wonderland" is undergoing post-production, and "Beauty and the Beast" has already been on the preparation schedule of Shahai Entertainment.

This former Disney classic animated feature film is a typical song and dance genre. After being adapted into a live-action movie, it will also be a song and dance film.

At the 64th Academy Awards in 1992, "Beauty and the Beast" not only won the best picture nomination as an animated film, but also won two awards for best soundtrack and best original song.

As the first live-action adaptation of a Disney cartoon, Ronan attaches great importance to "Beauty and the Beast".

The live-action version is produced by Andrew, the director of the production department of Shahai Entertainment, with a production budget of up to 150 million US dollars. Industrial Light and Magic is responsible for the design and production of special effects.

In terms of music and singing and dancing, which are the most important, Shahai Entertainment invited Alan Maijian and Havard Ashman who created the scores and songs for the cartoons to participate in the distribution of the live-action film.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the life of "Beauty and the Beast" is endowed by music.

Since Shahai Entertainment has obtained the right to use the classic soundtracks and songs of the animated cartoons, it will naturally not let it go.

"Our goal is very clear!"

In the meeting room of Shahai Entertainment, Ronan emphasized: "This live-action movie strives to be authentic and can evoke the memories and feelings of movie fans."

Linda Wolfton, who is in charge of the screenwriter, said: "We have obtained the script that Disney originally created for this film and adapted it based on it."

This female screenwriter was also specially dug by Ronan.

Linda Wolfton has been working at Disney before and is one of the writers of the animated version of "Beauty and the Beast", and later participated in Disney's "The Lion King", "Pocahontas" and "Mulan" Co-writer.

Inviting her over is to let the script creation act conservatively and stay away from the evil way of innovation.

As one of the most precious works of Disney Pictures, "Beauty and the Beast" was born in the second golden age of animated films.

Works of the same period also include "The Little Mermaid", "The Lion King" and "Aladdin" and so on.

"Beauty and the Beast" caused a sensation once it was released and was regarded as a masterpiece of the generation.

In the film, romanticism and comedy are beautifully combined, telling an unforgettable story about love and friendship, allowing the audience to experience this magical world where goodness finally defeats evil.

It is no exaggeration to say that innovation is terrible for the live-action adaptations of these Disney classics.

Innovations and the like do not exist in the live-action version of "Beauty and the Beast". Although the animated feature film is adapted from a live-action film, many changes are inevitable, but from the main plot to the scene design to the character modeling and line music, All strive to reproduce the glorious scene of the year.

This is the safest way of production, and innovation will only bring huge risks.

Andrew said at this time: "In the past ten years, the advancement of film technology has caught up with the expressiveness of animated films of the year. For example, we are now fully able to create a tea set with realistic details and talking in a real photographic environment. ."

Glenn Pratt, the person in charge of Industrial Light & Magic on the project, said: "I have had many discussions with Andrew, and I have watched the original animation repeatedly. It is not a problem to reproduce the technology."

"Okay!" Ronan was generally satisfied with the preliminary work, but still emphasized: "There are many remakes of movies, either completely reinterpreting the original work, or interpreting the story from the perspective of another character. "Beauty and the Beast" does not need to be like this. What we have to do is to integrate this story more into reality instead of creating a new story."

Several others responded: "Yes."

Ronan's past successful resume can easily suppress different opinions.

"How about the current preparation progress?" Ronan asked.

Linda Wolfton and Glenn Pratt stopped talking. Questions in this regard can only be answered by the producer, Andrew.

"The crew is still being formed, and there are many candidates for the director." Andrew asked his assistant to hand over the information to Ronan and said: "Our first potential choice is the British female director Philida Lloyd. She has quite Rich experience in directing musicals, and directed Shahai Entertainment's "Mamma Mia" two years ago."

This potential candidate was recognized by Ronan: "Make initial contact with her, and don't give up other alternate candidates for now."

To say a thousand words and ten thousand, for commercial film projects, to distinguish whether a director is suitable, one is whether there is the same type of directing experience in the past, and the other is the market performance achieved.

Andrew answered: "I have contacted Felida Lloyd in private, and she is very interested in directing "Beauty and the Beast."

Ronan nodded slightly: "Specifically, you are responsible for discussing with her. As a director, she must abide by our creative philosophy, otherwise she will be eliminated."

Andrew solemnly said: "I understand." He turned to say: "As for the actor, we are looking for actors who have signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Shahai Entertainment. James Franco, who appeared in "Teddy Bear", has a strong intention to cooperate. I also want to try motion capture as a special way of shooting."

Casting director Lucy Bell answered at this time: "We had our first audition. Since the special effects model has not yet been completed, we only conducted preliminary motion capture performance experiments in the industrial light and magic studio, and James Franco performed well. "

Ronan said: "As long as the pay is right, James Franco can be used."

Most famous actors are rarely willing to take on the role of motion capture. The prince in "Beauty and the Beast" basically has few real scenes from beginning to end. Ninety-nine percent of the scenes are in the face of beasts. Shiren, from this point alone, it is difficult to attract actors with a certain appeal.

But James Franco is different. This man is a famous Hollywood freak, and the choices made are sometimes hard to understand.

For example, after comedians become famous, whenever they have the opportunity, they want to get out of the ranks of **** and **** as much as possible, so as to enhance their own style.

But James Franco, the weird guy, did the opposite. He obviously didn't have a background in making comedy movies, but after he became famous he plunged into the pool of **** and shit, as if he never wanted to come out again.

Andrew continued: "As for the heroine, we have conducted preliminary auditions within a certain range. At present, there are two actors that we think are suitable, Amanda Seyfried and Emma Watson."

"I watched the audition video of the heroine." Ronan said directly: "Emma Watson is not suitable, she is too young, she has no experience singing songs in the past, and she has a big problem now. It looks like any role in any role. It's Hermione Granger."

He has already made a decision: "Use Amanda Seyfried. Amanda has collaborated with Shahai Entertainment many times and has also appeared in musicals and performed very well in "Mamma Mia".

For now, Emma Watson, who has been seriously fixed by Hermione Granger, is hardly comparable to Amanda Seyfried in any respect.

And Ronan once watched Emma Watson's several films when he just left the "Harry Potter" series. His acting skills were not generally anxious, and they were almost indistinguishable from the newcomers.

There are many actors suitable for a clever, clever, and adventurous little village girl.

Ronan’s first choice is the one he feels most assured of. Compared to strange actors, Amanda Seyfried, who has worked with him many times, is undoubtedly more suitable.

Preparations for "Beauty and the Beast" are progressing smoothly. If nothing else, the film can be released in the 2008 holiday season.

After this small meeting, Ronan went to the TV drama production department again. There was also a musical project there.

"Hannah Montana" producer Steven Portman plans to make a special film version of "Hannah Montana" after the new season is launched on Netflix.

Since "Hannah Montana" was launched on the Netflix streaming media, it has cultivated a large number of fans, mainly teenagers. Together with the great influence brought by Taylor Swift after the release of the record, the movie version "Hannah- "Montana" already has a good audience base.

Ronan approved Steven Portman's film plan, and after the new season of "Hannah Montana" went live, he will continue to be the producer and be responsible for planning the film version.

Taylor Swift has a long-term contract with the crew, and starring in a movie is not a problem at all.

Such a youth music idol movie will not lack an audience. As long as it works well, the original soundtrack alone can pay back.

As for whether Taylor Swift will become a buzzword all over the world in order to transform various blogs and make "camel toe integrity" a buzzword all over the world, like the old wheat.

Taylor Swift's road is much wider than the old wheat.

Besides, Taylor can get a lot of ex-boyfriends out of trouble.

Once Taylor Swift was the goddess of many people, and some people felt comfortable refuting the so-called "ex-boyfriends" did not exist.

For celebrities and fans this is a normal situation.

After all, people generally only want to see what they want.

Even if some tree-lined trails are already busy, it is not a problem, because even if it becomes a black hole, it is a place that I want to explore in my life.

At the same time, Ronan also turned down a song and dance film project that actively promoted door-to-door sales.

The famous stage producer Andrew Webb took the initiative to find Ronan to promote his popular musical "Cat" in the United Kingdom and the United States, and wanted to adapt this classic musical into a movie.

But Ronan declined Andrew Weber, because only the film copyright, Andrew Weber offered 60 million US dollars, or an equivalent amount, to buy shares in future film projects.

This would bring huge risks to the film, Ronan did not consider it for too long before turning it off.

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