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Chapter 32 Beauty and the Beast

Listening to Zhang Yangtao's endless and passionate speech, most Disney people were infected.

"Okay, my friend, but more than $1 million is still too much, and you know your countrymen brought down a company,"

"Is that much? My five films have brought you a profit of [-] million U.S. dollars! Isn't my future worth your investment?"

Several people were making eye contact. Robert was the most direct and energetic, "Okay, we agreed. Who are you going to find as the actor?"

"Chris Pratt, he is an unknown actor now, but it doesn't matter, as long as his eyes can make people feel involved. He wears a hood in most of his scenes, doesn't he?"

So in the next period of time, Zhang Yang had more meetings and found Chris Pratt who was idle.

Chris was a little confused when he was found. Disney wanted me to play the male lead in a princess series?Is this pie in the sky?Thank you Jesus.

So he came to Disney, and after signing the contract, he was brought into the special effects company. What greeted him was a huge monster hood, which he had to wear in 90% of his scenes.

Zhang Yangze and Disney staff worked together to make the final budget for all scenes.

"Oh my God, you're so crazy."

"How come, don't your other blockbusters have the same budget? Can the movie have any special plot? If you can't do everything to the extreme, otherwise how will you keep the audience in the cinema? And Robert, we need to immediately an agreement"

Zhang Yang took the agreement compiled in advance from his assistant and gave it to Robert.

Robert looked at the contents of the agreement and was also frightened by Zhang Yang's boldness, "Zhang Yang, you know, our current acquisition of Pixar has failed. We don't have so many special effects personnel to carry out it, and your box office predictions are too bold."

"So why not sign it? If it can't be achieved, it's just a piece of waste paper. If it's achieved, what's the budget?"

The Hollywood film industry is indeed strong. After that, more than 8700 candles were used as background decorations, and a total of 104400 inches of wax were burned.

The ballroom floor in the Beast Castle is made of 12000 square feet of artificial marble, and its design was inspired by the ceiling of the Wooden Benedictine Abbey in Braunau, Germany.

There are 10 large glass chandeliers hanging in the hall, all designed based on the real chandeliers of the Palace of Versailles.

At the same time, the film crew also planted or purchased 1500 red roses for filming and decoration.Belle's yellow gown, in particular, took approximately 180 feet of feather-light satin organza, sewn with 3000 feet of silk thread, and took 12000 hours to sew.

Doesn’t it look scary? In fact, Disney has been doing this for a long time. However, as long as the movie is not approved, these things are carefully stored in categories.

After some time, Disney held a press conference to announce the launch of the Beauty and the Beast project directed by Zhang Yang. Robert also attended the press conference.

Hollywood was in an uproar for a while, and there were all kinds of problems.
"Excuse me, Mr. Robert, why did you suddenly start this project?"

"This project was initiated at Zhang Yang's request. He has been studying this project for a long time and is very confident in it."

"Mr. Zhang Yang, how long have you been studying this project and what goals you want to achieve. As we all know, you have never directed a commercial film before." "I started thinking about this project when I decided to stop shooting artistic films and enter commercial films. Disney has been working together for a long time, and there is full trust between us. What I want is to make a film that the world will love, and what could be more suitable than a Disney princess?"

"Why was there no public selection of roles this time, but all the roles were decided by default? Did you choose Scarlett just to please her?"

"If you know about it, you know that I have never chosen a role in the five previous movies, unless I can't find the right person. As for why I chose Scarlett, she is of course the right one."

What follows is some back-and-forth banter.

Hollywood in the United States hyped Zhang Yang's Disney Princess series, and the news spread back to China within a few days, but it was so slow!Ten years later, it would probably be spread back to China in less than an hour.

Domestic media reported again, among which Poet Chen’s interview response was the most interesting, “Zhang Yang made a fantasy romance film just like me. It seems that we have the same idea!”

It means that Zhang Yang is not in the country, otherwise he would have sprayed a mouthful of old blood on him if he heard Wuji side by side.

After this day, Beauty and the Beast, which invested 1.1 million U.S. dollars, was officially launched. It was particularly cheap because it was starring a newcomer. The male lead was 200 million U.S. dollars, and the female lead was 300 million U.S. dollars. Zhang Yang, as the director and project initiator, asked for 500 million U.S. dollars, plus 10% of the global box office share also helped China Film get 5% of the investment, and also participated in the global box office share.

The day after China Film signed the contract, it was widely reported that it had received 650% of the investment in Beauty and the Beast for US$5 million. This also let the industry know that this film is expected to have a good schedule.

The entire crew of Beauty and the Beast moved to London to start filming. The story of the entire movie is very simple. A proud prince lives alone in a magnificent castle. Because he refused to stay with an ugly old woman, he was cursed and turned into a beast.

Even the prince's servants have turned into various pieces of furniture. To lift the curse, the prince who has turned into a beast must learn to treat others sincerely.

Belle, a beautiful and kind-hearted girl, is forced to live in an old castle with a beast in order to save her father.After a few rounds, they developed unimaginable feelings.The villain Gaston is a handsome and strong man. Every woman in town is in love with him. He has been pursuing Belle, but Belle has always looked down on him. In order to blackmail Belle into marrying him, he even colluded with the lunatic asylum. The dean wants to send Belle's father to a lunatic asylum.

However, the big bad Gaston suddenly came to the castle and attacked the Beast, seriously injuring him. Belle did not wait for an opportunity to escape, and defeated Gaston together with the Beast.

I have watched the plot and animation, and it has been 15 years now. What I want to bring to the audience is the ultimate visual enjoyment, so all the props must be refined.

Three months passed by in a flash, and Beauty and the Beast was successfully completed, but for Zhang Yang, the difficult part really began.

After returning to the United States, he said goodbye to many actors. When he arrived at Disney, he began to set a tone for the special effects, and then stared at them every day. After a week, Zhang Yang went to the special effects department and asked how long it would take to complete all the special effects. The result was: More than two years.

Afterwards, Zhang Yang went to find Robert and said, "Robert, this time is really too slow. More than two years have been too torturous."

"There's no way, but that's the reality."

"If I can advance this time significantly, can I save money on special effects?"

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