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"In the Cloud" is a novel by Walter Ken, a contributor of "gq". This novel actually sold very mediocrely. It was not a popular novel, nor had it been on the best-selling list. It was not a classic reading material, and there were very few people who followed it. Evan Bell accidentally discovered this novel at the airport, but unexpectedly fell in love with the story.

The background of the whole story "In the Cloud" is actually the contemporary society. Under the economic collapse, there are many layoffs, and the interpersonal relationships that are becoming increasingly unfamiliar in the context of the Internet society. However, everyone becomes a duli individual in society. This is not a positive meaning, but an individual with no more life circles and networks. This also makes people in modern society more and more lonely, and the diversification of entertainment methods cannot save the soul and the loneliness of the gods.

The male protagonist Ryan is a product that was born in contemporary society. He is an expert in layoffs. This job requires him to spend most of the year on a plane, arrive in various cities and companies, and lay off employees in a numb and even ruthless manner. At the same time, Ryan is about to become the sixth member in the history of American Airlines to fly to 10 million miles, which makes him feel satisfied.

Ryan is very satisfied with his current life state - an unrestrained life, a estranged relationship with his relatives, no friends, and no girlfriend. His apartment is not like home, but rather a hotel on the road. All this did not begin to change until he met Alex. Alex was Ryan's colleague. Faced with a lifestyle that was almost the same, Ryan suppressed his affection for Alex and used his unstable life as an excuse to escape, just maintaining a marriage relationship with Alex.

The reason why Ryan likes his current life is that this job allows him to give some inspirational speeches from time to time, and he can use sè language skills to soothe those depressed hearts. In contrast to Ryan, the new worker Natalie represents an increasingly alienated interpersonal relationship. The online video conferencing system she has enabled makes layoffs more cold and ruthless. Ryan’s new task is to lead Natalie to familiarize herself with the work environment. This has also caused many ideological contradictions between them.

The novel "In the Cloud" was published in 2001. The author Walter Ken actually wanted to find a production company to adapt it into a movie and put it on the screen. He also wrote a script for the novel. However, no production company was willing to pay for it to shoot a work that finally most of the scenes took place in the cabin, and Walter Ken also became his adaptation of the script was very bad - even terrible. Therefore, "In the Cloud" was forgotten on the bookshelf and no one cared about it.

Until the end of last year, "in the cloud" seemed to suddenly become popular, but in fact, the so-called popularity is because Evan Bell and George Clooney hope to adapt this novel into a movie to put it on the big screen. This is a completely unknown thing about how much direct connection is with the outbreak of the financial crisis. But Walter Ken is indeed facing a sweet trouble. Should he choose Evan Bell or George Clooney?

George Clooney found Paramount Pictures investment for the script "In the Cloud". While he was the starring actor, he also had a cost of 50 million yuan. Evan Bell provided the condition to be the director himself and an investment of 30 million yuan.

From the perspective of an actor, George Clooney is obviously more suitable for the male lead Ryan. George Clooney is 48 years old this year. This is the golden age of a middle-aged man. His appearance is handsome and strong acting skills, which gives George Clooney a natural advantage in playing Ryan, who is facing a midlife crisis. Paramount after Brad Gray took office, also paid more attention to Duli movies, let alone the investment cost of 50 million yuan.

Evan Bell, who is not yet twenty-seven years old, is going to perform the life crisis of a middle-aged man, which seems not very appropriate. However, Evan Bell has proved his ability many times in the position of director. Putting aside those awards, the high-level and high-quality works directed by Evan Bell are also recognized by the audience, and his ability to inspire and inspire the works is even more amazing. Although the Eleventh Studio only provides a budget of 30 million, will there be fewer excellent works "produced by Evan Bell" in Hollywood in recent years?

With such a measure, it is no wonder that Walter Kan hesitated and entangled.

But in the end, Walter Ken chose Evan Bale, and unexpectedly, the first condition for his nod was that Evan Bale himself starred in this work. This was very surprising.

"In the cloud" is a very special script. First of all, its story itself is very interesting, but it has limitations. It is difficult to get happy - after all, no matter how you express it in a happy way, you cannot get rid of the pressure of life, let alone the story itself is about discussing the current situation of society. But the problem is that the male protagonist Ryan is such a layoff expert. This is a very annoying character. He works for the interests of the company. He must be cold-blooded and indifferent. For those who are laid off, it may very likely mean the complete collapse of life. Therefore, whether Ryan's character can be likable, to be precise, does not arouse the audience's disgust, and it has become the core of the entire script.

Going deeper, "in the clouds" and "perfume", "blood is coming", and "Juno" are all similar. When a special protagonist is placed in an ordinary story, the protagonist maintains the emotions of all the audience, and these protagonists are people walking on the mainstream track of society - including "Wild Survival" to some extent. Therefore, whether the protagonist's excellence occupies half of the responsibility of success or failure of the film - the remaining half is the director's responsibility; and whether the protagonist's performance is colorful or not becomes a decisive factor for whether the movie is dull or radiant.

In this case, the actor selection of the male protagonist Ryan must be cautious and cautious. Although Walter Ken knows that the choice of actors is the producer and director, and as long as he sells the adaptation copyright, he will have no say, he still hopes to see his works present the most perfect appearance on the big screen.

So, should we choose George Clooney, the first candidate in the actors, or Evan Bell, who has a natural advantage in directors?

After struggling, Walter Ken suddenly remembered that Evan Bell is also an actor who is outstanding. To be precise, Evan Bell is a genius actor. Look at Evan Bell's resume, "Sniper Phone Booth" is a man in a mid-life crisis, "Brokeback Mountain" is a man who is overwhelmed by life from youth to middle age, "Pirates of the Caribbean" is also a charming and chic middle-aged man, not to mention the experienced jing official in "White Night Chasing" and the "Adapted Screen" who is very impressed by the middle-aged hooligan. When Evan Bell first came into contact with the actor, it was he who made him a big hit by the shackles of age, breaking the barriers of age, showing his superior acting skills, and winning countless media exclamations.

Therefore, age is actually not a difficult thing for Evan Bell. In the clouds, Ryan's character, in Evan Bell's hands, can definitely show a style that is not inferior to George Clooney, and Walter Ken is more willing to believe that if Evan Bell directs and acts by himself, then his works will even be more colorful than George Clooney.

So the result was very simple. Walter Ken made his own choice, and Evan Bell nodded and agreed to this request, "in the cloud" became Evan Bell's next job.

After obtaining the adaptation rights, Evan Bell couldn't wait to start writing the script, which also made Walter Ken more determined to make his choice.

After Evan Bell completed the script preparation work, he began to choose the actors on the one hand, and on the other hand, he devoted himself to the post-production of "Inception" with Christopher Nolan.

In fact, while writing the script, Evan Bell had a preliminary idea of ​​each character. After the script was completed, his ideas were basically determined. What needs to be done now is not to go to the American Actors Union to recruit actors, but to contact the agents of these actors, hand the script to them, and ask them for their performance suggestions.

In the current situation in Hollywood, director Evan Bell's works have almost attracted more than half of the actors. They are willing to connect with Evan Bell through any connections in order to appear in the cast of Evan Bell's works. This is the same as Leonardo DiCaprio's continuous change of agents in order to star in Martin Scorsese's works.

But unfortunately, looking at Evan Bell's actions after "Juno" last year, "One Day" is the entire British cast, and "Inception" is completely designated a fixed team. Although Evan Bell did not use a fixed team this time, he also directly found the actors and made a request for cooperation, which disappointed other second- and third-tier actors.

But just a few days later, Studio 11 put out the latest advertisement on Ridou Avenue in Los Angeles, but it easily attracted everyone's attention. Even the film festival that was about to kick off in Venice could not attract more attention. This is not only the first time Studio 11 has actively advertised - for a movie and music production company, advertising seems to have no direct connection with them; it is also a very rare move in Hollywood history, because Studio 11 has launched an advertisement for recruiting actors! It is like publishing job application advertisements, recruiting actors!

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