Chapter 125: Chapter 125 Countdown to Publicity
Looking at the protesters in chaos, Nanaya shook his head helplessly.
He didn't stay for long but walked straight into the building. He didn't care about the protesters anyway, so as long as they didn't drive a car into the gate, nothing else mattered.
You know, Nanaya is very busy right now, so it's better to let Washimine send someone to deal with this kind of trivial matter.
Nanaya's main purpose of coming to the United States this time was to promote the movie. Although he himself had to attend a press conference, he was more interested in educating Washimine and Lin Bao on how to promote the movie.
Although he proposed the method of hunger marketing, the promotion team did not really understand how to do it specifically, so Nanaya needed to provide training.
Fortunately, perhaps because of the support of the two big bosses Kiritsugu and Shion, Nanaya did not encounter too much difficulty when training those employees.
However, this was the first time in Nanaya's two lives that he gave a lecture. Although he had experience in directing and explaining plays, he had never given a lecture to so many people before.
However, at Shion's request, Nanaya still went ahead and told the story.
The training lasted for three days in total. The veterans in the publicity and promotion department raised many questions that Nanaya had never thought of before. The angles of some questions were so tricky that Nanaya, who had almost no practical experience, was almost unable to answer them.
In order to answer these questions, Nanaya often had to secretly improve his knowledge.
After three days, Nanaya was so confused that he felt dizzy. But fortunately, he completed the training without making any mistakes.
The experiences of the past few days made Nanaya feel that even if he could not be a director in the future, he might be able to make a living by running a training course for publicity and promotion personnel.
Of course, Nanaya was just thinking about this kind of thing. If he really had to give up such a promising career as a director to become a trainer, it was estimated that Nanaya would really not be able to make it by then.
Nanaya had heard a joke in his previous life that a trainer is an unsuccessful person who teaches a group of unsuccessful people how to succeed. If you believe it, you lose.
Because truly successful people have already put it into practice, and only failed losers have time to talk nonsense with you.
After the training, Nanaya attended another press conference for "Goblin Slayer". All the main creative staff of the crew joined in this press conference, not only Nanaya, but also Rin, Luvia and others.
Fortunately, because of his previous training experience, Nanaya was not timid when facing so many reporters' questions. Instead, he talked to everyone and introduced his various ideas for creating "Goblin Slayer", occasionally inserting a few jokes to liven up the atmosphere.
The press conference went smoothly overall, and the reporters did not ask too many difficult questions. Of course, this was probably because these media were invited by Washimine, so they did not deliberately sabotage the press conference.
Related reports after the press conference were mostly positive. Although they did not hype "Goblin Slayer" to be as great as "The Lord of the Rings", they all agreed that it would be a good movie.
However, Nanaya was also very clear that if his work failed, these people would definitely find ways to belittle him, and all the words that had praised him before would be selectively forgotten by them, as if they had never said anything.
Nanaya knew very well that these reporters always did things like adding icing on the cake and taking advantage of others' misfortunes, but they would never do things like providing timely assistance.
What Nanaya can do is to make "Goblin Slayer" as better as possible. After all, the director must speak with his own works.
After hastily ending his trip to the United States, Nanaya flew to New Zealand under the guidance of Washimine's plane and resumed his editing work.
"Hey, Kiryu, I'm really sorry about what happened last time."
As soon as Nanaya walked into Weta Workshop, he saw the fat man Peter Jackson.
The other party lowered his head and apologized to Nanaya, but Nanaya noticed the smug look on the fat man's face.
It's no wonder that as "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" began to be released around the world, Peter Jackson can be said to have reached the peak of his career.
The opening film of the trilogy received countless praises, and all media outlets regarded the film as a new wave of epic movies.
And everyone knows that "The Fellowship of the Ring" is only the beginning of the story, and there is still a long way to go.
Judging from the current box office performance of "The Fellowship of the Ring", the last two films will surely be successful as long as they don't fail.
But will the last two parts collapse?
Nanaya believed that it would definitely not collapse because he had already watched those two movies.
As far as Nanaya can remember, there are almost no other film series that can make the trilogy progress step by step and have a proper rhythm, except for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The later "Avengers" series may be considered as such, but that was achieved through the accumulation of more than twenty films, and the quality of those films has been fluctuating, so it is difficult to describe it as gradual.
The next three years can be said to be the era of Peter Jackson, with The Lord of the Rings trilogy stealing the show.
"Hi, Peter. Congratulations. The first part of the trilogy is very successful. I believe the next two parts will be better than the previous one. I have seen the movie. It is really a great work."
Nanaya smiled, shook hands with the other person, and patted his arm.
"Haha, I'm grateful for your words."
Fatty Peter is indeed in high spirits now. He is in high spirits when things are going well. This sentence is probably the best description of Peter Jackson now.
"Kiryu, I have already taken the first step with The Lord of the Rings, and you should also work hard on Goblin Slayer."
I have to say that Fat Peter is quite righteous and he cares a lot about his partner Nanaya.
"Look, I'm back to do the post-production of the movie. How are the production of the last two parts going?"
Nanaya laughed, he was really envious of this fat man.
Peter smiled and replied, "It's OK. Because of the success of the first part, New Line finally agreed to make additional investments. Although the new accountant is very annoying, the funding chain is finally connected anyway."
After seeing the success of The Lord of the Rings, the stingy New Line finally decided to spend money. In order to allow Peter Jackson to successfully complete the next two films, New Line finally began to make additional investments.
However, New Line's stingy nature still exists. They sent an accountant to monitor the whereabouts of the additional funds, for fear that Peter Jackson would embezzle them.
However, Nanaya feels that the ones who really need supervision are New Line themselves, after all, this is what New Line has done in the past.
"Peter... I'm going to do the post-production of Goblin Slayer now. Bye."
"Haha, then I won't bother you anymore. We can have a good chat when you're done."
Peter Jackson laughed and walked down the corridor.
"You seemed to want to say something else just now?"
Peter Jackson didn't notice Nanaya's micro-expressions, but Shion did.
"Um."
Nanaya nodded. He originally wanted to remind Peter Jackson to pay attention to New Line, but considering that Fatty and New Line are still in the honeymoon period, he decided not to do anything to sabotage them.
However, when Peter Jackson and New Line fall out in the future, Washimine can provide legal assistance to Fatty.
Director Peter, do you know about the strongest legal department?
Although Fatty Peter's peak was in The Lord of the Rings series, as a well-known director, making friends with him is definitely a worthwhile investment.
"Shion, have your people in North America keep an eye on the new line, especially the relationship between them and Peter."
Nanaya decided to let Washimine take charge of this matter.
"What did you know?" Shion's eyes lit up. Nanaya often said such seemingly irrelevant words, but every time he would get unexpected results.
"Well, let's make some extra preparations. After all, the reputation of the New Line has never been very good."
"That's true, but it shouldn't happen to Peter Jackson, right? After all, he is now the signature of New Line Entertainment." Shion felt that New Line would unlikely fail in negotiations with Fatty Peter, as any leader would do something like attracting talent.
"Just in case."
Nanaya didn't want to say more. After all, this matter sounded a bit mysterious.
Normal companies know how to use generous agreements to attract the best salespeople under their company, but some idiots just don't do that.
Unfortunately, New Line is one of the few idiots, and the most famous one.
Peter Jackson brought billions of dollars in profits to New Line with "The Lord of the Rings", but the other party just kept dragging its feet and refused to pay the fat man's director's salary.
Who would believe such an ugly way of eating?
You should know that in online novels after 2015, such idiotic villains will no longer appear.
I can only say that sometimes reality is stranger than fiction.
"Hey, Senior, do you know something?"
Rin poked Nanaya's waist with her elbow, her face full of gossipy curiosity.
"Stop talking nonsense and get to work! If you delay the post-production, I'll make you pay!"
Nanaya didn't say much, he just dragged Lin away.
This girl was brought to New Zealand by Nanaya specially because she needed to do post-dubbing. Unlike other people who only needed partial dubbing in post-production, Rin needed to re-dub all the lines of the elf archer she played.
In order to reduce the burden on this girl, Nanaya had to cancel her accent training. Now it is time for this girl to pay back the debt.
"No~"
Rin's complaining voice immediately spread throughout the corridor.
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When people focus on one thing, time always flies fast. When Nanaya was in New Zealand making a movie, the passage of time did not stop.
In the blink of an eye, January 2002 has passed.
With the arrival of February, the large-scale promotion of "Goblin Slayer" has officially begun.
The first shot was fired at halftime of the Super Bowl.