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"Vin Diesel's role?"

This remark also reminded everyone present, including Matthew and David Ellison, to fall into thinking.

After a few seconds, Matthew took the lead and said, "The first film of "The Fast and the Furious" is the most successful film by word of mouth and box office. I have been on the crew of "The Fast and the Furious", and one thing is very clear. The film's absolute male lead is Paul Walker's police officer Brian, and Vin Diesel's role is the second male lead. But Vin Diesel took most of the money for the film, then changed the script and Character setting, this is the situation of two male protagonists."

He made no secret, "Vin Diesel is the core of this film. Now that we're going to have Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster back, the role of Dominic Toretto will definitely have something to do with it."

In any case, the "Fast and Furious" series has a certain audience base. The rental of videotapes and discs in the past two years has also further expanded the spread of the film. If it is not used, it is a waste.

"Let Vin Diesel's character die." David Ellison was obviously not talking angrily, "I just came up with an idea, Vin Diesel's character was killed because he was killed. So Brian and Mia are back, ready to avenge Dominic Toretto."

Matthew thought for a while, "It seems not bad."

The bald CEO wrote it down in the notebook again and said, "This can be considered in the script."

"The script creation needs to make a unified plan for the trilogy." Matthew reminded again.

Now that he has obtained the copyright of this series, of course, he must maximize the benefits. He will not only prepare for the failure of the project, but also prepare for success.

A few years ago, the sequels of most Hollywood movies were like the first and second films of "Fast and the Furious". There was basically no clear plan. The sequel was always put on the list after the first one was successful. schedule.

Most of the sequel films just stay on paper until they are released. If a certain film loses, then there is no more. Studios are always careful to determine how much the next sequel is likely to make in order to determine how much production costs are reasonable after confirming that the film is a real success at the box office.

At the same time, the producers will never deliberately innovate the content of the sequel. The best strategy is to copy the success of the previous film intact, and use larger investment and publicity scale to further expand the influence of the series. Get the attention of more viewers.

All of these really serve one purpose: to get more viewers to contribute to the box office and to put more money into their pockets.

The "Speed ​​​​and Passion" series can be said to be a typical one. Two male actors who are not in the third and second tiers and the cars are more expensive than the actors. However, it is so inexplicably popular, and the box office and word of mouth are both good, so much that Universal Pictures I didn't understand what was going on at all, so I hurriedly invested in the development of the sequel, and simply doubled the investment in "Fast and Furious 2", but the North American box office decreased, but fortunately I still made money, so I increased it cautiously. With a little investment, I quickly went on to make a third film, and in the end, the box office and word of mouth were all lost.

An unexpectedly successful brand that was accidentally smashed, and now Matthew and David Ellison are trying to bring it back to life.

"Are you confident?"

Returning to the car of the Angel Agency, Helen Herman asked Matthew, "Are you sure you can make a profit after investing tens of millions of dollars?"

Matthew shrugged, "Who can be 100% sure about this kind of thing?" he said slowly, "I can afford it."

Hearing this, Helen Herman thought for a moment and nodded lightly, "You really can afford it." She sighed, "I really don't know what to say, you are so lucky."

She heard from Amanda that Matthew has been taking in Apple's scattered shares in the market in recent years. Now that Apple's stock has soared, the first-generation smartphone developed by Apple will soon be on sale. All inside and outside the industry are optimistic about Apple and Steve Jobs, Apple's market value is very likely to have a rocket-like rise.

The Apple stock that this guy bought will not only preserve its value, but also at least double its net worth, right?

Helen Herman asked curiously, "You put that much money into Apple stock? Bet it will go up?"

"I'm not betting on Apple," Matthew said nonsense. "I'm betting on Steve Jobs. I'm betting Steve Jobs will make Apple look like it did in the '80s."

Where there is a 100% win in buying stocks, even Warren Buffett, the stock god, misses.

He added, "I've had a lot of luck...well, hopefully that kind of luck will carry over to the Fast and Furious franchise."

"Hopefully." After Helen Herman said this, he was silent for a while, and suddenly asked, "Actually, there is a question that I have always been curious about."

Matthew turned his head and glanced at her, "Ask, we are old friends, there is nothing we can't say."

Helen Herman was also polite and asked directly, "Did you win the copyright of the "Fast and Furious" series because of Vin Diesel?"

"Why do you think so?" Matthew is by no means impossible to say.

"If you have ideas for racing and action genre films, with David Ellison's support for you, you can co-produce a whole new series, why do you have to hold on to the "Fast and Furious" series?" Helen Herman's sense of touch is very keen, "I heard you and Vin Diesel clashed again at the Victoria's Secret show last month."

There was something she didn't say later, and others might not know it, but she knew very well that Matthew's character had a vengeance.

Of course Matthew wouldn't admit, "You're thinking too much, Helen. Vin Diesel didn't want to return to the series until after the new year, am I not sure? Of course, after he wanted to return, I was determined to take the series. It's really bigger."

This is of course nonsense, and cutting off Vin Diesel's path is of course one of the main reasons, but what he said behind is the real idea.

"Helen, although "Tokyo Drift" failed both in word of mouth and at the box office, the trilogy was filmed, and it still accumulated a certain audience base. It is also very famous among special audience groups. We won the copyright and then made the first film. Four, the risk will be much smaller.”

He said seriously, "What if we start from scratch to make a brand new movie? The risks are multiplied, and you don't know that in recent years, original commercial movies that are not adaptations and non-sequels have not been doing well, and they can really sell well. There are very few.”

Hearing this, Helen Herman nodded slightly, "You are right, there have been too few successful cases of original large-scale commercial films in recent years, and even if there are successful ones, they are basically the works of top first-tier directors. , this series can't have a top director."

Having said that, she looked at Matthew, "You have become more mature, and you are more comprehensive than before."

Matthew smiled, "People always grow."

Helen Herman then said, "It doesn't make sense for you to retaliate against Vin Diesel in this way. He doesn't have the "Fast and Furious" series and can always find other opportunities."

"It's possible what you said." Matthew agreed with Helen Herman. "Without 'Fast and the Furious', he might have other action movies. But the opportunity is here, I can't do nothing, this At the beginning, he also provokes David, and I discussed with David that we must dig a hole to bury Vin Diesel."

What Matthew didn't expect was that when he returned to the Angel Agency, he saw an opportunity.

When I came to Helen Herman's office, Helen Herman turned on the computer and went to Yahoo Entertainment and TMZ according to what the assistant said. Vin Diesel's words attacking Matthew and the picture quoted, Both sites were reposted intact.

In addition to the Internet, a bunch of tabloids moved by the assistant are also full of related gossip reports, such as "Vin Diesel rants that Matthew Horner is not a man" and other reports emerge one after another.

Afterwards, Matthew and his assistant asked for a laptop, logged on to the Facebook account he applied for in November last year, and found Vin Diesel, Yahoo Entertainment and TMZ had no problem forwarding them. Vin Diesel was the Calling him not a man.

"Elaine went on a business trip to Europe recently." Matthew shook his head as he watched, "Otherwise we could get the news this morning."

Helen Herman sneered, "Vin Diesel is just hype. I checked before, in addition to running the "Fast and Furious" series and starring in "Life and Death" ~www.readwn.com~ is still competing for a movie The protagonist of a film called Deadly Rider, such an argumentative statement, was very useful to him."

Matthew nodded, but did not speak, his head kept thinking, because he found that this was a good opportunity to dig a hole.

"Helen, do you think you can handle it this way?" Matthew leaned closer and whispered to Helen Herman, Helen Herman nodded while listening, and then said after a while, "Originally, Universal Pictures recently In two days, I will release relevant announcements with Sky Dance Pictures. It should not be a big problem if David comes forward and asks them to add a few more words. Vin Diesel is of no value to Universal Pictures. You have had a relationship with Universal Pictures before. Pleasant cooperation and possible cooperation in the future, it is estimated that the problem is not a big deal.”

She smiled rarely, "A tough guy type actor should have a tough guy type character. This makes sense. By the way, wait for Elaine to come back this weekend."

As soon as he finished speaking, David Ellison called and talked about it. Matthew told him what he had just thought again, and David Ellison immediately said that he would give it to Universal in person. The film industry called, and the two sides are now in the honeymoon period.

In the following day, Universal Pictures and Sky Dance Pictures issued separate statements, publicizing the transaction and the details of the transaction through their respective channels, and highlighted that Vin Diesel was seeing Matthew and David. - Ellison deliberately bought the copyright, and then secretly made a fool of himself. Universal Pictures never thought of working with Vin Diesel again.

These are enough to make all the Facebook posts posted by Vin Diesel become nonsense.

But Matthew wants more than this. For the first time in his life, he posted on Facebook, directly @Van Diesel: Aren't you going to stand up and fight like a man? it is good! We're settling this dispute as a man in the middle of the Century City Mall plaza at 3pm on Sunday!