The Greatest Showman - Chapter 2506

[Two thousand four hundred and sixty-eight solved]

In the recent period of time, the public news has been calm, and the news of the New York Film Festival has occupied the main line of sight; among the senior agents, there has been a turbulent storm, hidden under the surface, making people smell the “mountain rain is coming.” The swaying and chaotic atmosphere of “Full House” is completely different.

The whole thing involved three productions from three companies: Warner Bros.’ “Focus,” Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” and Sisyphus Pictures’ “La La Land.”

There is no need to introduce the relationship between the three companies in depth. Obviously, they are all connected because of Renly, but there is a competitive relationship.

As for the three works, all have great backgrounds.

Warner Bros. “Focus,” directed and written by duo Glenn-Ficarra and John-Requa, who have teamed up to write and direct “I Love You Maurice” and “Crazy Stupid Love” two comedy works, which were highly acclaimed – and later the widely acclaimed American drama “This Is Us” was also produced by them, and their talents and abilities were affirmed a lot, which made Warner Bros. ” Focus” project green light.

The investment cost of the whole project is about 50 million US dollars.

Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” continues the line of “Cinderella” from an animation adaptation to a live-action film. This is another move by Disney after Marvel Studios, Pixar, and Lucasfilm to mine the copyright in its own hands. Treasure House, looking forward to forming a new territory for the development of the film industry, the director selected Bill-Condon (Bill-Condon) of “Dreamgirls” and “Twilight: Breaking Dawn”, who is also the screenwriter of “Chicago”.

The investment cost of the entire project is about 160 million US dollars.

And finally, Sisyphus Pictures’ La La Land.

In terms of budget cost, 30 million US dollars is basically a small game, but the names of Renly and Damien make the project full of infinite possibilities.

But how did the three independent works seem to have no relationship or even any competition?

The thing, is this.

The “Focus” of the first project, Glenn Fikara and John Requa hope that Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone can play, and their previous cooperation experience with “Crazy Stupid Love” has made them praise the two actors. , looking forward to continuing the cooperation, and Ryan and Emma are also very happy to join.

However, both “Beauty and the Beast” and “La La Land” made two-way invitations from Ryan Gosling, while “Focus” came out with rumors of approaching Kristen Stewart, because Warner Bros. Emma lacked charm and did not fit the role, which led Ryan to negotiate. He still hoped to work with Emma again,

but he did not expect that the crew nodded in agreement on the surface, but turned around and began to approach Will Smith.

As a result, Ryan and Emma’s negotiations with the “Focus” project collapsed one after another, and the crew officially announced the exit of the two actors without hesitation.

In this way, Ryan and Emma are both out.

But “Focus” still couldn’t find an actor smoothly. After Will Smith nodded smoothly, Kristin expressed that he was worried that Will’s partner in acting as a couple might have too much age gap, because the two sides were twenty-two years apart. Then Christine also turned to leave.

The “Focus” crew began to talk to Will Smith and Ben Affleck respectively, and finally decided on Will; while the heroine had a difficult birth, including Michelle Williams, Jessica Biel, Rose All actors such as Si-Byrne participated in the audition, but they were still not sure.

The crew later auditioned for Margot-Robbie, who was on vacation with her family on an island in Croatia when she was called to audition. She flew from Paris to New York that day and arrived on time for the audition. location, but when he arrived at the audition site, Will Smith was late.

“Will is coming from Queens.”

After learning about the situation from the staff, Margot couldn’t help but retorted, “I came from a small island in Croatia and I wasn’t late.”

Margot got the part — and she’s actually three months younger than Kristen Stewart.

At the same time, the “Focus” crew also sparked controversy, with comedian Artie-Lang turning down the role and tweeting openly criticizing Will Smith and the racism of the script, and he was asked to star in a “Five-hundred-pound Persian” named “Fat Man Farhad”.

Two other actors later turned down the role because they were both required to gain “three hundred pounds.”

The crew declined to comment.

On the other hand, the casting of the cast of “Beauty and the Beast” and “La La Land” also unfolded in an orderly manner.

“Beauty and the Beast” chose Ryan Gosling as the male lead.

“La La Land” chose Emma Watson as the heroine.

As a result, both actors declined the invitation to the project and opted for another.

Emma Watson chose “Beauty and the Beast”.

Ryan Gosling chose La La Land.

The two works exchanged the protagonists – although not the same role, but the transfer was indeed completed, and then their respective partners were also determined.

In “Beauty and the Beast”, Dan – Stevens (Dan-Stevens) took over the role of Ryan – Gosling.

In “La La Land”, Emma Stone takes over the role of Emma Watson.

Among them, judging from the internal rumors of the senior agent, a small interesting incident happened. Ryan Gosling chose “La La Land” because of Renly’s invitation. Otherwise, his original schedule had already been determined. “; and after Ryan entered the “La La Land” crew, he recommended Emma Stone to Damien, and Renly also expressed his reconsideration, which made Emma Stone beat the other five competitors. , successfully got the role.

In addition, the number one candidate for the male lead of “Beauty and the Beast” was originally Renly Hall, not Ryan Gosling, nor Dan Stevens, but the core role of this film is the heroine Bell, who uses blue Eli’s role as the Beast seems to be overkill – because the real face of the Beast is not seen 80% of the time in the movie; and, after Emma Watson was cast as Bell, she expressed rejection of Renly’s role as the Beast , so Disney accepted her opinion, and this happened later.

Of course, rumours are just rumours, not to mention that making Renly the Beast more likely is just the wishful thinking of some producers, not to mention Emma Watson’s attitude, convincing Renly is the biggest obstacle to the whole plan, these rumours The authenticity of the book is also greatly reduced, and it is more just gossip after a meal. It is up to oneself to judge how credible it is.

The point is not the rumors, but the tension behind the rumors.

Going around in circles, the three works of the three companies are intertwined and intertwined, making people faintly smell the unusual.

Objectively speaking, the flow and transfer of actors between many Hollywood projects is really normal, and it is not something worth making a fuss about. Actors are entangled, and if it’s a coincidence, it’s too coincidental.

What’s more, the relationship between Warner Bros., Disney and Sisyphus Pictures is already full of intricate connections.

For now, people are still unable to spy on the truth of the matter, and it is impossible to clarify what the flow of these actors means, and it is impossible to predict what the prospects of the three works will be and what impact they will have. Decision thinking is indeed changing.

Between the turbulent dark tides, the turmoil of the mountains and the wind filling the building quietly spreads out, and all kinds of guesses and speculations have never been interrupted.

However, the casts of at least three works have been determined, among which “Focus” and “Beauty and the Beast” started shooting early, and “La La Land” has also started pre-rehearsal work, and those disturbing rumors also Just for a while.

The line of sight finally returned to the “La La Land”.

The expected “Renly VS Ryan” will not be staged. Ryan Gosling replaces Renly as the male lead, and it is a personal invitation from Renly, which is also surprising – to be sure, Dami En wouldn’t like the outcome, so why did Renly quit?

Although Renly will not star in “La La Land”, he still serves as a producer and works with Justin Hurwitz to create the original soundtrack for the film; at the same time, in addition to the two leading actors, Renly also recommended another A friend starred, John Legend.

Renly and John were not very close friends, but they had a very pleasant meeting several times before and after, and they could resonate a lot with each other. John received a call from Renly, and after a moment of hesitation, he nodded and agreed–

This is not the first time he has appeared in a movie. He has also made a cameo appearance in a few movies before agreeing to the invitation of his friends, but the role of “La La Land” is different and can be regarded as important. John will also take on more roles.

This still made him a little worried.

However, at Renly’s invitation, he agreed.

John-Legend will not only appear in “La La Land”, but will also work with Renly and Justin to complete the original music production for the film, and will also appear on the stage of the Pioneer Village Music Festival as a special guest.

“I must stress that when Renly was on the Grammys stage to receive Album of the Year, I was the presenter and I was right there on the stage to witness that iconic moment that I can’t forget. It is undoubtedly an honor for me to cooperate with Lily.”

In an interview with “US Weekly”, John said this, and for the “La La Land” performance, anticipation and nervousness made him have to cheer up Come on, go all out, “I hope I don’t smash Renly’s signboard, at least it doesn’t look too awkward in the movie.”

In this way, “La La Land” has also been completely determined, and the rehearsal work has officially started. .

The Sisyphus Films train is still moving at high speed.

For Hollywood, the rise of Sisyphus Pictures is inevitable, and what is more important next is how they should view this opponent, DreamWorks?

Lionsgate?

Or one of the thousands of independent film companies?

Otherwise, are there other possibilities?

[End of this Chapter]