Hollywood What If Chapter 76
The two arrived at the meeting pce, Terry Semel's office. Kazir saw only three people in the room. They were Terry Semel, his secretary, and Enrico Pusi.
"Good to see you, Terry, Enrico."
"Kazir, Salvatore, please sit down."
Kazir and Salvatore fous.
"So Kazir, I read your proposals and some of them are much more eous than st time. Your dition for The Hangover is a 10% share. But this time you want 15% North Ameri box office share? And you want to i at least 30% in this Taken movie of yours?"
"That's right, Terry. There's a reason I want to i in this movie."
"Let's see... It's writtehat you want approval rights if we start a sequel to the movie. To be ho, I'm not sure if this movie will even have a sequel. This is different from your usual style."
"What do you think, Terry?"
Kazir kept his smile.
"If you ask me. The plot is very stupid."
"Yeah, I thought so too. But a lot of movies have stupid plots." Kazir agreed.
"..."
The atmosphere in the office was a bit awkward. Both sides had clear motives.
"Kazir, I reend that you tio make edies instead. Warner Bros will not hesitate to i in Teddy Bear if you want, heck, we are ready to spend money on a better puter graphics. We will also give you 15% of the North Ameri box office. As for The Hangover Part 2, we will even pay you 8 million plus 15% of the North Ameri box office if you are ied."
Warner Bros would never hesitate to pay Kazir a good amount of money just to make sure that The Hangover sequel would be successful. Kazir Grey has already proven his ability. He could make successful edies.
Terry Semel tried to persuade Kazir. He felt that Kazir was wasting his talent by doing something stupid.
'Why bother to make an aovie when his talent lies in edy?'
"I'll think about it."
"..."
Terry Semel sighed. He knew he didn't have the ability to vince him.
'If I had known this was going to happen, I would have vinced Kazir to sign two more movie deals. Now I uand Tom Rothman.' Terry Semel thought.
"Anyway, what's the plot of this movie? A man who rescues his daughter from human traffickers seems reasonable. But why do you have these ninjas, curving bullets, and Baba Yaga? What the hell is Baba Yaga?"
Terry Semel frowned as he read the words. The plot of the movie was fine, but some of the ingredients didn't add up. He wondered why Kazir added these unnecessary things.
"Terry, I have a reason. Here."
Kazir repared. He pulled out another script. He only showed this script to Terry Semel because of their retionship.
Terry Semel raised his eyebrows as he read the title.
"John Wiever heard of that name."
Terry Semel began to read the script. It was only five pages of script, it was not polished. He turhe st page and stared at Kazir.
"Now I know why you want the rights to the sequel. These two movies are ected. You want to make sure you have authority over these projects."
"That's right." Kazir didn't have to lie. It was obvious anyway.
"I call it the tial ematiiverse," Kazir added.
"ematiiverse? Iing..." Terry Semel's eyes twinkled. Kazir's idea was iing.
However, he had the feeling that this ematiiverse of Kazir's would flop.
'So he's trying to make ected movies like Quentin Tarantino? Kazir, I'm so disappointed in you. You do better.'
There was only one man that Terry Semel knew who made movies that were in the same universe. It was Quentin Tarantino.
'If I'm not mistaken, Reservs and Pulp Fi are ected.'
At that time, in 1996, Quentin Tarantino had only made three movies. Only Pulp Fi did well at the box offibsp;
So Terry Semel felt that this whole ematiiverse was not going to be successful. If it was not successful, Warner Bros would not touch a project like this.
"The ema Alliance has already given us our share, we will send you the 10% on your at ter".
"I'm gd to hear that. Thank you, Terry."
The two shook hands. Both sides uood that the meeting had failed. Warner Bros was not ied in his projebsp;
As Kazir and Salvatore left the office, Terry shook his head in disapproval. In his opinion, Kazir should stick to what he was good at. Experimenting could lead him to destru.
"Sir..."
Enrico Pusi started to speak, but Terry Semel signaled him.
"Enrico, try to find a director to make The Hangover Part 2. And make sure Kazir is involved in writing the sequel. Make him aive producer if you have to."
"Sir, I will do my best."
Enrico Pusi nodded.
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"Looks like we o tact the other panies," Kazir muttered.
"Paramount and 20th tury Fox have expressed their willio work with you."
"What about Sony-bia?"
"Kazir, you know that Sony-bia has been trying to make safe movies i years. They haven't had mufluence... but yes, they want to work with you, but with Teddy Bear. I heard that they know a brand of teddy bear stuffed toys in Japan that would be happy to use their brand for the movie."
"Let's look into it."
The script about Teddy Bear was still on the market. Many panies wao buy the script and Kazir was still waiting for better ditions. Besides, the movie was just for baiting. He khat CGI teology was still in initial stage and Kazir have no iion of direg it. Let the Big Six spend more money, hehe.