Chapter 11 Pretty Woman
In the evening, after Nicole Kidman attended the preview of Over the Horizon, she went to the bar with Aaron to have fun.
"See, you look much more comfortable to me now," Aaron looked at her. Without the ramen hair, she was indeed much more beautiful.
Nicole smiled, "Well, I think it's good now too. What do you think of my movie Over the Horizon?"
Aaron thought for a while, "It's a thriller and erotic work. The selling point is nothing more than your body;"
"Don't think about how high the box office will be. Just show up in an independent movie!"
Nicole took a sip of wine, "Nowadays, new actresses can only get roles in such large-scale independent movies. There's nothing we can do."
Aaron nodded, "Don't worry, the movie will be released at the beginning of next month. Take your time. I'll help you get that Disney script!"
"Where's the script at home?" Nicole Kidman has been thinking about Ghost.
"Let's talk about it in the second half of the year and see if we can find an investor," Aaron said he would contact European film companies when he went to Cannes.
In the following days, Aaron went directly to Disney to meet Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Disney's film industry.
After running for three consecutive days, he finally managed to get 15 minutes at noon one day!
Jeffrey Katzenberg, 39 years old, is currently the third in command of Disney, in charge of Disney's film and television production business, animation, live-action movies, television, etc.
Since leaving Paramount to join Disney with Michael Eisner, he has saved the declining Disney and made it one of the six major Hollywood studios. Moreover, he has made an indelible contribution to Disney's booming performance in recent years. "Workaholic" Jeffrey Katzenberg also has a high status in Disney, and there is a suspicion that he is a threat to the top boss Michael Eisner!
"Good afternoon, sir," Aaron Anderson came to Jeffrey Katzenberg.
"Have a seat, Aaron Anderson, you sold Sex, Lies, and Videotape to Miramax for $1.2 million," Jeffrey Katzenberg said with a smile.
"Why do you want to see me?"
Aaron sat down directly without wasting any time. He took out an execution plan from his bag and handed it to the other party. "I made some changes to the 3000 project. Please take a look!"
After the other party took it, Aaron began to speak directly. "I changed the name of the script to Pretty Woman, and all the dark parts of the script will be deleted;"
"The main plot is the romantic week that the rich man and the street prostitute spent in the hotel. Although some bad misunderstandings occurred, the street prostitute's change finally won back the rich man's heart;"
"This should be a fairy-tale romantic love comedy movie, which is in line with Disney's long-standing positioning..."
It was originally only 15 minutes, but the two talked for two hours unknowingly. Jeffrey Katzenberg specially asked Aaron to accompany him for dinner!
"Besides, this movie is very simple, we don't need big stars, and the budget is much lower than Disney's other movie Dick Tracy."
Aaron knew that the gangster movie Dick Tracy that Disney was preparing was led by Michael Eisner, who was also a long-time friend of Michael Ovitz and even lived next door to him.
And this movie Pretty Woman was led by Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Michael Eisner didn't pay much attention to it. As long as Jeffrey Katzenberg is convinced, the project can be developed directly.
Jeffrey Katzenberg looked at the young man in front of him, "Actually, I don't like your agency's package deal at all!"
Aaron also laughed, "Indeed, I don't like it very much either. It's too much about piling up stars."
CAA's package deal is to put several big names in a movie, so as to win high pay for clients, or directly participate in the back-end dividends of the movie, "Rain Man", "Dick Tracy" and so on are all such cases!
Jeffrey Katzenberg nodded, "Your opinion is very good, but this movie has a budget of only 15 million US dollars at most;"
"Go back and discuss it with your boss, and then we will discuss this project together."
A few days later, Disney officially found someone to start the script adaptation according to Aaron's opinion, and the "Pretty Woman" project was officially launched!
At the CAA headquarters, Aaron came to Michael Ovitz's office.
"You are really a surprise. Jeffrey has been ambiguous before. I didn't expect that you could convince him to agree," Michael Ovitz smiled.
Aaron nodded, "Is the director confirmed?"
"Gary Marshall, the director of the romantic comedy, and the male and female protagonists are still under consideration," Michael Ovitz said and looked at Aaron,
"I know you have a newly signed Australian girl, but she is too transparent. Disney has to consider commercial matters, and the probability of her being selected is too low!"
Aaron shook his head, "Will big stars take on a story like this where a rich man falls in love with a prostitute?"
"When the time comes, there will definitely be an audition, and I'll let Nicole try."
"Of course," Michael Ovitz was actually not very optimistic about the script. It was too simple, too dreamy and fairy-tale-like.
After Aaron left, Ronald Meyer came to Michael Ovitz's office, "Does this young man Aaron Anderson want to be a producer?"
Michael Ovitz nodded, "He has the talent and ambition. I heard that he has bought a script, but no one supports him."
Ronald Meyer laughed, "Maybe, soon, we CAA will have the youngest producer client in Hollywood history!"
"Yes," Michael Ovitz knew too well that as long as "Pretty Woman" was successfully released and achieved success, Aaron Anderson would be transformed into a film producer on the spot.
But, can it succeed? It is easy to get lost in Hollywood.
With the arrival of late March, the annual Oscars ceremony was held at the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles;
"Rain Man" won the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, and the Best Original Screenplay Award was the biggest winner!
However, the prosperity of the Oscars must have nothing to do with Aaron, because Aaron participated in the preparation of the movie "Pretty Woman" under the order of Jeffrey Katzenberg.
However, the casting of "Pretty Woman" was not going well, especially because the heroine was a prostitute, many female stars with some fame stayed away from it, and the hero had no expressiveness and had little appeal to big-name stars!
It's already the end of March, I can test the box office swallowing function of the system, it's just two more months.
END OF THE CHAPTER....