Although Hugo did not nod and agreed to take on the work, Rick knew that before seeing the script, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were not named enough.

However, this was the second time after "Mission Impossible", Hugo expressed a positive response to a big-investment commercial movie, which was the first step to success for Rick. Rick knew that Hugo had adopted his opinion, which was a good thing. So Rick was also praying in his heart that this project, currently named "The End of the World", was best worth Kevin's efforts to plan.

Although Sergio said that he could arrange a meeting between Roland, Dean and Hugo, in Rick's opinion, they were not worth enough and did not need Hugo to come forward in person. He would have to talk to him first. If necessary, it would not be too late to arrange for them to meet after the script was reviewed by Hugo.

After seeing off Rick, Hugo suddenly remembered that "Independence Day" can be regarded as Will Smith's top work. The "Jedi Men" in 1995 made Will successfully enter the big screen from a small screen. After that, "Independence Day", "Man in Black" made him the first truly black box office superstar, and then started his ten-year career as a top box office superstar. He was known as "Shihuang", and together with Denzel Washington, he supported the sky of a black Hollywood actor.

Steven and Hugo talked twice about the "Man in Black" project, and later the script was directly re-written. There is no news yet. The "Independence Day" project has changed its trajectory. Twentieth Century Fox locked in Hugo's role as the male lead from the beginning, of course, the premise is that what Rick called "apocalypse" and what Hugo believed to be "Independence Day" are the same project.

In fact, "Independence Day" chose a black man like Will as the male lead, and there was no so-called political correctness, because the foothold of this movie was to fight against aliens, to be more precise, Americans were to fight against aliens. Hugo remembered that at the beginning of the preparation of this project, the male lead was decided to be a white man, but before the official actor was selected, Will came into sight, so they chose Will, who was rising rapidly.

However, as a black actor, Will plays the leading role in "Independence Day", which still has a huge appeal to black audiences. Especially the great cause of blacks and whites to work together to save the earth, which made American audiences even more excited. This also provides a bargaining for "Independence Day" to create box office results. Although it is not certain how much the black factor is.

If Hugo plays "Independence Day", Hugo's powerful appeal faces Will's appeal to save the earth as a black person. I don't know what changes will happen to the box office results of "Independence Day" at that time, whether it will rise or fall.

What is even more curious is that if Will has not been able to play "Independence Day", will his future achievements have an impact? Hugo previously replaced Tom Hanks as "Sleeping in Seattle" and Keanu Reeves as "Life and Death Speed". In the end, the wheel of history returned to the track in another way. Both Tom and Keanu still achieved great success. But Will is different. It is not that easy for black actors to make a fortune in Hollywood.

But these are just speculations. Nothing has been confirmed now. Let’s talk about it first after Rick goes to meet with Roland.

Hugo originally thought that he would not take on new works until at least this year's Oscars ended, but now it seems that Hollywood has opportunities almost every day, and things often develop beyond the plan. But if you think about it carefully, Hugo has been resting for more than three months this time. He originally wanted to spend this time thinking about the third album of Glory to Death, but unfortunately the progress is still not big, and the music bottleneck is still stuck. If there is really a suitable work, it is not impossible to work again.

Thinking of this, Hugo looked down at the big box left by Rick on the ground, let out a long breath, hesitated for a moment, sat cross-legged, and began to flip it around in the box.

Since Hugo is alone at home today, he seems much more casual in flipping scripts. He doesn't need to make a flipping script in front of others. He still has an impression of most scripts when reading scripts. Therefore, if he knows the pros and cons of these works, he can make a judgment directly.

As Rick said, in fact, the scripts handed over to Hugo now have a variety of scripts, almost all the themes and production scales, and almost all the characters are sent to Hugo. Although this shows the current trust and affirmation of Hollywood in Hugo, at least after Hugo filmed the "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Death-infernal Affairs" and other murderers, they still affirmed Hugo's diversity and absolute abilities, but this still made Hugo a little amused.

Warner Bros.'s "Four Brothers of Love" script is in it. It is obvious that Hugo can work with Barry Levinson again, and with the cast lineup of Kevin Bacon and Robert De Niro, the cooperation intention is very firm.

In fact, this work is not famous, but Hugo knows it. Of course, it is not because the protagonist is Brad Pitt, but because this work has a profound discussion on morality and society. The plot is similar to the revenge story of "Count of Monte Cristo", but the style is closer to the reflection of the darkness of the society by the combination of "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Sea of ​​Righteousness" and the discussion of the law that is not sympathetic and the law is also sympathetic.

Objectively speaking, the script of "Four Brothers of Love" is very outstanding, and the story is profound enough, even more profound than "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Yihai Heroes", and the depth of excavation is more thought-provoking. But unfortunately, Barry's technique lacks novelty, and the lack of outlines of details has led to a greatly reduced quality of the finished product, which has also missed many highlights in the plot, and directly restricted the actor's space to play. It is really a pity.

Although I don’t want to admit it, the fact is that after Barry’s “Rain Man”, his inspiration and touch gradually disappeared.

However, the reason why Hugo put the script in the part that he didn't want to take on was not because of Barry, but because the theme of "Four Brothers of Love" is similar to "Seven Deadly Sins", and it is even heavier. Moreover, the protagonist is a lawyer, Hugo does not want to take on such works for the time being.

In addition, Warner Bros. actually handed over the draft script of "Batman and Robin" and said it was a draft, but it was actually just a plot outline. The script was not released at all, which made Hugo feel very interesting.

"Batman and Robin" proposed a super high cost of $125 million in the draft stage, obviously trying to create a box office giant. Unfortunately, things went against their expectations. This work became the worst one in the Batman series. Not only did it have a bad reputation, it was a shame, and it almost became a shame record, but the box office was even a disaster. Although the book cost was not lost, it actually made Warner Bros. almost faint. The direct result was that Warner Bros. put the Batman series on the shelf and waited until ten years later, the emergence of Christopher Nolan made Batman live again.

However, Warner Brothers handed Hugo the script "Batman and Robin", which is actually a signal. Since the "007" series and "Mission Impossible" have successively had "scandals" with Hugo, Hollywood is now connecting Hugo with superheroes step by step, including this time on "Independence Day". They are trying to borrow Hugo's good image and detonate a more heavyweight bomb.

After the 21st century, after the "Spider-Man" series became a magic weapon to attract money, the works of the two comic giants, Marvel and DC, became the most powerful box office money tree in the next decade. I wonder if the emergence of Hugo would make this history happen ahead of schedule?

Maybe Hugo will know the result by starring in "Batman and Robin". Unfortunately, Hugo does not have this plan, at least not yet.

In addition, Warner Bros.'s script is not very good, including romantic comedy like "tin.cup", action movies like "executive.deci on", and thriller comedy like "mars.attacks" and so on. The themes are very diverse, but Hugo is not very interested.

Columbia Pictures is a little tired or a little tired of Hugo's pickyness. They submitted eight scripts, but the quality is very average. There are even works such as "Double-sided mirrors (the. Mistakes.has.two.faces)" that have no highlights. Apart from the great Barbara Streisand directed and acted by himself, this work is useless, and the role is not suitable for Hugo to let Hugo and Barbara have a love relationship? This age gap is unreasonable.

However, Columbia Pictures still has a heavyweight work, which shows that they still attach importance to Hugo. Apart from quantity, the quality has not completely lost its standard.

"Mr. Sweetheart" can definitely be called a famous one. This work can be said to be one of the representatives of the high quality of films in the 1990s. Like "Forrest Gump", this work has a bumper box office and awards. This situation is not often seen after entering the 21st century. Oscars seem to be allergic to commercial films. Works with too outstanding box office are difficult to achieve excellent results in the eyes of old scholars in the college.

"Mr. Sweetheart" not only continued the situation of Tom Cruise's rapid progress in box office, but also made him the first in film history to have a box office of over 100 million in five consecutive movies. Now he should be the second in film history, but also allowed Tom to get his second nomination for the best actor for the Oscar. Although he was unable to win the award in the end, "Mr. Sweetheart" has become another masterpiece recognized by Tom, who has achieved success in commercial films, who has been recognized by the Academy.

However, except for "Mr. Sweetheart", there seems to be some works that can reach Hugo's eyes. I just don't know whether the quality of the works has declined or Hugo's vision has become more picky.
Chapter completed!