Chapter 662 Amazing Speed!

The cartoon "The Lion King" not only has an extremely important position in the history of Disney's film production, but also one of the most prestigious masterpieces in the history of animated films!

And its soundtrack... Of course, for filmmakers and musicians all over the world, it is a textbook-level classic! In another time and space, the original soundtrack of "The Lion King" was one of Li Qian's collections, and he had listened to it countless times.

But for the time being, this is not too important!

The important thing is that after Sun Meimei rejected the other party's invitation on her own behalf, Disney actually quickly poached these two friends who are few in Hollywood! And quickly pulled them over from their respective work in progress, and ran to Liao Liao's house to be a lobbyist for them!

Hearing the intention of the two of them, Li Qian subconsciously sighed in his heart: Hollywood's top seven, it deserves to be the top seven!

They have so many tentacles and secrets, they have a deep control over the entire entertainment industry, and their influence on all kinds of people in the entire American entertainment industry is really extremely powerful!

As far as Li Qian knows, although John Days has moved to many production companies over the years, he should have never had any specific cooperation with Disney before.

Although Margaery Tyrell claims to be "America's Sweetheart", in fact, she has sold relatively well-known films. So far, there is only one famous film "100 Days of First Love", and that is the independent film company Lionsgate. Film industry works. In addition, she has also made a commercial production with a mediocre box office and has nothing to do with Disney. The other low-budget works are more independent films and have nothing to do with Disney.

But, Disney needs them to be lobbyists, so here they are!

Of course, the two of them made it very clear that they were just here for a visit, whether to accept this invitation or not depends on Li Qian's intentions - they will not be so stupid as to endorse Disney even though Li Qian has already refused!

Of course, they don't have to give their face, but Li Qian hesitated for a while, and agreed to meet with the vice president of Disney, Michael Dawn.

As a result, the missions of John Dice and Margaery Tyrell were successfully completed, and they were overjoyed—this face was definitely given to them by Li Qian.

Don't worry about whether the final thing can be done or not, they have already completed their tasks as liaisons and lobbyists, then Disney and Michael Dawn have to accept this account, and owe them both a favor.

Such a favor will come in handy at a critical moment.

Of course, looking at it the other way around, Li Qian gave face so much, he had already refused before, and he agreed to meet Michael Dawn again for the sake of the two of them. This is also a favor, but this time, they owed Li Qian. If there is no possibility of anything happening in the future, it needs to be repaid with other favors.

After a sumptuous Chinese dinner, the two said their farewells and left.

On the second day, Li Qian met the senior vice president of Disney, Michael Dawn.

The other party is very sincere.

Maybe it's because Li Qian once won the Oscar for the best soundtrack for the soundtrack of "Titanic", or maybe it's because of the legends circulating on the parties of various entertainment stars in Los Angeles these days, in short, he is indeed Acted very sincerely.

And when Li Qian asked to see the first-cut film after reading the synopsis, the other party readily agreed, and personally accompanied Li Qian to the Disney headquarters to watch the film, which currently has no soundtrack at all. Well, it's basically a silent film, but the first cut has been done.

In the following commercial contract negotiations, he showed considerable sincerity to Sun Meimei!

One million dollars in remuneration for the work, both parties share the copyright of the original soundtrack, equally share the sales profits of the original soundtrack, and for the songs that appear in the soundtrack, Li Qian enjoys complete copyright and free use rights for non-movie content and non-original soundtracks— — That is to say, this treatment is even better than the treatment of "Titanic" offered by John Dess on behalf of Fox.

For example, the simplest point is that according to this contract, if it is signed, Li Qian can give the song "Can-You-Feel-The-Love-Tonight" produced for Liao Liao even before the movie is released. It should be listed first, and there is no need to restrict the listing of Liao Liao's album including the song "My-heart-will-go-on" like the original "Titanic". It must be released after the original soundtrack !

In short, everything fits well!

It's just the same problem, time is a little tight!

Michael Dawn revealed that the film is indeed planned to be released during the summer vacation of 2001, and it will be released in mid-July. Movies had to be made from the ground up!

But after thinking about it, Li Qian finally nodded and agreed.

However, the remuneration will continue to be discussed.

And Disney didn't know whether it was full of confidence in Li Qian, or it was facing the pressure of the movie schedule.

In the end, Sun Meimei won a reward of 1.5 million US dollars for Li Qian, and also won 500,000 US dollars for Li Qian's working team, which is actually Xie Mingyuan!

What's more, Disney even agreed that if Li Qian's soundtrack proposal was not accepted, they would still pay 40% of the remuneration for Li Qian's soundtrack work, and the copyright of the abandoned soundtrack still belonged to Li Qian!

This salary, even in the United States, is enough to make one or even two low-cost movies! Now it is used by Disney for the soundtrack of "The Lion King", which shows its urgency, and also shows its high expectations for Li Qian!

It's just that an extra job made Li Qian's trip to the United States even more urgent!

Fortunately, in the past few years, he has already adapted to it!

The song is easy to write, and the song is also easy to write. While Liao Liao was practicing the new song, Li Qian and Xie Mingyuan went to the Disney headquarters and sat there for a day, watching the silent version of "The Lion King" over and over again. After returning, Li Qian spent more than four hours writing a song and five pieces of soundtrack.

Woke up the next morning, made some revisions and polishes, and then took another two hours to complete the composition of the arrangement. Then, while Xie Mingyuan was stunned, he threw the song and the five pieces of soundtrack to him.

Li Qian continued to record Liao Liao's new song, and Xie Mingyuan was in charge of leading people to contact Disney, and borrowed some contacts from Rolling Stone to start recording the demos of these soundtracks.

Fortunately, whether it is Li Qian, Liao Liao, Xie Mingyuan, Rolling Stone Records, or Disney, they all attach great importance to each other's cooperation, so they have shown extremely high efficiency in cooperating with each other.

Finally, it was not even the end of January, when Li Qian finished all six English songs for Liao Liao, the producers of "The Lion King" also unanimously approved the soundtrack demo.

So, when Li Qian and Liao Liao boarded the plane to China together, Xie Mingyuan was sadly left in the United States again - he was responsible for completing the band recording and post-editing processing for these soundtracks!

But the good news is that Qi Jie seems to be very caring. After confirming that he will definitely stay in the United States for the Spring Festival, Qi Jie took the initiative to contact and send the sons and daughters of Mr. Xie's family and Xie Mingyuan to Los Angeles.

In other words, although this Spring Festival will be celebrated in the United States, at least relatives will be by my side.

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The first update!

There was a big joke yesterday, and the theme song of "The Lion King" was wrong, and it has been revised!

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