"FZ is very successful. I think everyone has put a lot of effort and hard work into this project..."
In the conference room, Nanaya was talking nonstop, but the people sitting at the bottom of the conference room were not interested.
"Wait a minute, Nanaya. You brought us all the way here just to listen to your nonsense?"
Mark Ruffalo directly interrupted Nanaya's speech.
Uncle Mark just returned from Australia after completing the filming of "The Incredible Hulk".
As a result, he was summoned here by Nanaya before he had been reunited with his family for a few days, which naturally made him a little unhappy.
"Tsk tsk, Uncle Mark."
Nanaya made a clicking sound, "I thought only young people would be impatient, but I didn't expect that a father like you would be so impatient."
"That's because what you said is complete nonsense. Your FZ's credit has nothing to do with our FSN crew."
The person who stepped forward to sabotage this time was Rin.
Thanks to the advancement of technology, Rin and Sakura, who are working as idols in Japan, were also able to participate in the meeting via video.
"Yes, Nanaya."
Sakura, who was on the same side as Lin, responded: "Stop doing this useless stuff and just tell us when we can see you in person."
"…"
Nanaya turned his head away guiltily. He seemed to be able to sense the resentful looks of Rin and Sakura shooting through him through the screen.
Just like Shion said before, she gave Rin and Sakura very heavy work.
It's not that Shion doesn't even give Sakura and Rin time to rest, but their rest time will definitely not coincide with Nanaya's.
So women should be careful...
"What's going on? Why did you call everyone here?"
Lily secretly asked Ori who was beside her.
If anyone knows what tricks Nanaya is playing, the junior brother who has been following him is the one who has the most say.
"What else? Of course I'm just trying to show off." Ori answered in a low voice, but his words were full of disdain for Nanaya.
"Why?"
"This guy wants to trouble everyone, but he can't speak directly, so he did this." Ori whispered in Lily's ear, "He speaks very righteously, but in fact he is full of evil intentions."
"Hey hey?"
"So, Lily, you have to be careful not to fall into this man's circle..."
Pop.
Nanaya hit Lily on the head with a slap.
"Don't go around slandering people!"
"So, Nanaya." Rin's fingers tapped on his elbow impatiently, "Can you tell me why you called all of us here? If I remember correctly, haven't most of the HF shots been shot?"
"Well…"
Nanaya scratched his cheek with his fingers and replied a little embarrassedly: "We need to reshoot a few more shots."
"This is a complete reshoot! Are you planning to go straight to the new drama?"
Ori complained loudly, ruthlessly exposing Nanaya's lies.
"Uh...weave."
Nanaya laughed dryly twice: "Is it fun for you to expose me like this? At least let everyone continue to live in the dream."
"Forget it, since you can't speak for yourself, I'll tell you."
Ori took the initiative to stand up and said to the old people of FSN: "It's like this, the crew currently has an extra budget. Since we can't return it to the investors, we need to spend it directly."
"Oh?"
Sugiyama rested his elbows on the table and covered his mouth with his folded hands.
This guy was clearly not wearing glasses, but his eyes reflected a bright light when he looked up.
"Teacher, are you planning to shoot the Fate line?"
"No." Nanaya directly rejected Sugiyama's guess, "We already have UBW and HF. If we launch the Fate line in the short term, it will squeeze the potential value of this series' IP."
"And we don't have that much budget."
Ori then said the second half of the sentence directly.
"Really? That's a pity..."
"There will be opportunities in the future, don't rush."
Nanaya pointed his index finger at the area under his nose and said in a sincere tone, "I hope to shoot a daily drama with FSN characters as the core, and use the relationships between the characters to tell some short daily stories."
Sakura raised her lips: "Interesting, is this the love story between Matou Sakura and Matou Shinji?"
"Uh... that's not the case at all."
Nanaya clicked the mouse, and a short play plan appeared on the projection screen in the conference room.
"Emiya's meal?"
Rin read out the title slowly.
"Oh, this is good."
Ishida Junichi rubbed his cousin's head and laughed, "You finally became a cook. Are you going to become a top chef? I want to see you boil an egg with your bare hands."
Sugiyama said with a frown on his face: "Brother Junichi, that's not cooking at all, it's magic, don't think that a chef can ignore the laws of nature."
"Okay, you guys stop making trouble."
Nanaya took out a teaching stick that he had borrowed from somewhere.
He pointed at the PPT with a pointer and told everyone what to pay attention to.
"In short, in this film, 'Emiya Family's Meal', our main theme is warm and daily life. If the Holy Grail War did not exist, what kind of stories would happen to these people? This is the main theme I will focus on this time."
Nanaya told everyone the significance of filming this extra series: "We all know that both FZ and HF are stories that tend to be 'depressing', and the audience will definitely feel bad after watching them, and this warm-hearted "Emiya Family Meal" is to heal their hearts."
[Since you know that the audience will be "depressed", you shouldn't have filmed it in the first place! ]*N
Many people present complained about Nanaya in their hearts, but no one said it out loud.
We all make a living from Fate, so naturally we have to maintain the reputation of this series.
In fact, Nanaya wanted to shoot the farce "Fantasy Carnival" more, but after calculating the cost of shooting, he found that if he wanted to achieve the effect he wanted, then 9 million US dollars would probably only be enough to shoot two and a half episodes.
In addition, in this world, I haven't created "Tsukihime" yet.
So Nanaya finally shelved the "Fantasy Carnival" plan and chose the relatively lower-cost "Emiya Family's Meal" instead.
After all, the sets for Emiya Residence and Einzbern Castle are ready-made, and even though the set for the commercial street had been dismantled long ago, it wouldn't cost too much to rebuild one.
Food animation does not need any big-scale special effects, and it can be said that it is very suitable in all aspects.
Moreover, this series will be produced by Ori. Ori, who has produced several seasons of "The Solitary Gourmet", will definitely be able to grasp the balance between food and daily life.
Now, there is only one problem.
"I want to ask you something."
Sure enough, after listening to Nanaya's explanation, Scarlett Johansson raised her hand.
"What?"
"How is the pay calculated?"
"That's the problem."
Nanaya became shy again.
"According to my calculations, the extra budget is more than enough for filming and post-production, but for labor..."
"That means there wasn't much pay, right?" Uncle Mark concluded, "That's why you said it was a reshoot..."
If it is directly in the name of a new project, a new contract must be signed according to Hollywood's requirements.
As a result, the issue of film remuneration is an obstacle that cannot be avoided.
Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, and even Lily and Junichi Ishida, are all registered members of the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood.
According to the requirements of the union, actors of different levels will have different levels of pay requirements, which, like the minimum wage standard, is a guarantee that the union gives to its members.
But the problem is that Nanaya only has a budget of $9 million.
It's not that Nanaya can't come up with more money, it's just that this extra episode was originally intended to use the Fate IP to earn traffic.
This is already a losing business, and adding more money to it would be putting the cart before the horse.
"I see."
Although Uncle Mark only became famous for the role of Hercules in the past two years, he has spent much more time in Hollywood than Nanaya.
"I will act this time." Mark Ruffalo took the initiative to accept the job. "Anyway, it seems that I won't have many scenes. Just treat it as a friendly guest appearance this time."
"Me too."
Scarlett Johansson also responded to her partner, saying that she could accept low pay.
Whether it is Medusa in her previous Fate series, or Natasha in "The Incredible Hulk" now.
His two most important commercial film roles so far were both under Washimine.
At present, Nanaya is the largest individual shareholder besides the head of Washimine.
Scarlett is not stupid, of course she will do the math.
This is different from the previous situation when she was hesitant about whether to undergo HF.
On the one hand, Washimine has already established a firm foothold in Hollywood.
On the other hand, his business career had just begun to pick up slightly, and this was the critical stage at which he needed to establish a good relationship with the famous director Nanaya.
"Of course, that's fine with me. Anyway, as long as it's arranged by my brother-in-law, I can accept it."
Lily raised her hands happily and cheered.
"The plan looks interesting, I'll take part in it too." Ishida Junichi said, hugging his cousin's arm, "Sasuke, you will come to help too."
Sugiyama crossed his arms and smiled confidently, "Isn't this nonsense? The title of the film is 'Emiya Family's Meal'. If I don't appear, then there won't be a protagonist."
"Well, anyway, it's all right, right?" Uncle Mark said to Nanaya, "But you owe us a big favor this time. Favors are the hardest to repay."
Looking at Uncle Mark's expression, you can tell that this guy is just joking.
But Nanaya replied very seriously: "Okay, then how about I let you star in the number one box office movie in film history as repayment for your debt?"