As early as February, Nanaya gave the relevant script content to the bearded man who regarded the oil field as a birthday present.
But at that time it was just a rough outline. This time Nanaya finally handed over the specific scenes related to Hassan to see if he could fool him...
No, it's about raising funds.
After reading the script, the bearded man named Nayef Nayan still thought that what Nanaya wrote was a bit conservative.
Although Nanaya is not as dark as some of his Hollywood counterparts, his portrayal of the two Hassans is more neutral.
However, as weak and quickly exiting non-protagonist characters, both Hundred Face and Cursed Arm have a feeling of being there to support the show.
Not to mention the setting of the masked man in black tights, which gives people the feeling of a murderer in a horror movie.
Because Nanaya took into account the need to let the actors show their faces, he modified the setting of Hassan and others as faceless men, but even so, Hassan and others still had to wear white skull masks most of the time.
So no matter what the plot is, Hassan and others' personalities, who don't look like good people at all, still make Nayef Nayan feel a little uncomfortable.
"Mr. Nayef Nayan, you have to know that the roles played by Hassans are different from those played by Arabs in traditional Hollywood movies. In other movies, Hassans would only be portrayed as perverted murderers."
Nanaya had long since mastered the skill of speaking differently to different people.
He used his eloquence, which was no less than that of an insurance salesman, to deceive the bearded man: "In the Holy Grail War, the dreams of the Servants are completely different from those of the Masters.
"Masters are living people in reality, and they have very clear desires. But servants are different. As heroes in history, their wishes are more positive, and their images are not completely evil. It is more of a dispute over ideas."
This is also Type-Moon's consistent attitude towards Heroic Spirits. Except for a few Heroic Spirits, Type-Moon always tries to describe historical heroes from a positive perspective as much as possible.
Especially those anti-heroes with dark histories, in Type-Moon's writing, they did those things either out of necessity or for good reasons.
In a nutshell, the heroes are washed clean and then used to cheat people into spending money.
This commercial approach is essentially the same as Marvel's family-friendly style.
It is precisely because of this that Nanaya has enough reasons to deceive wealthy investors into investing.
"In that case, why not make an Arab hero like Alexander the Great? We have countless great emperors like him in Arab history."
The bearded man's answer stunned Nanaya for a moment. He tried hard to recall the Middle Eastern kings he was familiar with.
With Nanaya's poor brain, he couldn't remember any other king except the one in One Thousand and One Nights.
But Nanaya would definitely not say this in front of the big moneybags. After thinking for a while, he replied, "Mr. Nayan, we can't change the world's view of you all at once. If I use your hero in the role of Rider, it is very likely to have the opposite effect. At that time, investors other than you may directly withdraw from the project, and Washimine may also stop me.
"So, use a less important character like Hassan to establish your positive image first, and use subtle methods to change the world's view of you. This will obviously be safer. There is an old saying in China that more haste makes waste. Mr. Nayan, you are impatient."
Nayef Nayan was no fool, he certainly saw that this was just Nanaya's excuse.
After the last communication with Nanaya in London, England, Nayef asked someone to collect information about Nanaya.
According to the information he knew, Nanaya Kiryu was like the Sith Emperor in the "Star Wars" series in the Fate project.
Of course, Nayef Nayyan could just walk away, but if he did so, the cooperation between the two parties would probably end there.
Who knows if Kiryu Nanaya will hold a grudge and slander people from Arab countries in future movies.
You know, given the particularity of the fate theme, it is too easy to achieve this level.
Even if Kiryu Nanaya doesn't look like that kind of person, who would dare to bet on such a one in a thousand chance?
What's more, if the two parties continue to cooperate, there may be opportunities to gain a more positive image in the future.
"Okay, I understand." Nayef Nayan nodded, "I can invest 50 million US dollars, of which 35 million will be used for the movie FZ, and the remaining 15 million will be the production cost of the TV series HF."
"Of course, the investment terms must state that Director Kiryu's version of Hassan must be shot according to this script. If there are any differences, Director Kiryu must pay a high amount of compensation. Is that ok?"
Perhaps because he was afraid that Nanaya would take the money but not do the job, or that he was just selling something under the guise of selling something, Nayef Nayan emphasized it again.
"Of course there is no problem with that." Nanaya replied with a smile, "But during the actual filming process, there will definitely be changes to the script, but for the scenes with Hassan, we will confirm with you every time we make a change."
"It's settled then."
Nayef Nayan also knew that Hollywood movies would go through many changes from the script to the final film, but as long as Nanaya did not overturn the entire character settings of Curse-Wrist and Hundred Faces, it would be within Nayef's acceptable range.
Even though it was a deal he negotiated himself, Nanaya still had to sigh that the dog owners in the Middle East were really rich.
Originally, he thought that he could get at most 10 or 20 million US dollars, and even a few million US dollars would not be unacceptable.
But Nanaya never expected that he could get so much money. You know, according to Nanaya's estimate, the funds needed for FZ is 150 million US dollars, and the funds needed for the HF series of TV series is 50 million US dollars.
I didn't expect that the other party would directly take over a quarter of the total cost. It can only be said that these oil guys are the richest.
After receiving investment from big dog owner, Nanaya began the final preparations for the new Fate project and the promotion of UBW.
There are less than two months left until UBW is released in May, which means the film has entered a critical period of promotion and marketing.
For this reason, even Lily and Gawain, who were training as action directors for the FZ project, had to temporarily suspend their training and began traveling around the world to build momentum for UBW.
Not to mention the brothers Sugiyama and Ishida. As the absolute protagonists of the later period of UBW, they were the most cared for during the promotion and marketing stage.
In order to confuse the plot, the Fate crew used the method of grafting when promoting the drama.
They highlighted the iconic fight between Shirou and Red A, but didn't give the why and wherefore of it.
This misled many viewers into thinking that Red A, who betrayed Rin, was fighting Shirou under Medea's instructions.
Although many people believe, especially Red A's fans, that the production team is deliberately discrediting Red A, most people believe that Red A will definitely be the final winner of this battle.
Nanaya has already implanted in the audience's mind the concept that Servants are not something that humans can defeat through the series Fate, so no one would think that Shirou could defeat this invincible opponent.
Combined with this, there are new clips of Lancer fighting Red A in other trailer clips.
From this, the audience speculated what they thought the UBW plot was:
The opening should be the duel between Gilgamesh and Uncle B. It is hard to say who will win or lose in this war, but Uncle B definitely did not win.
After all, Gilgamesh is set up to be the final boss, so it would be too funny if he lost right at the beginning.
However, no matter what the outcome of the battle is, Shirou and Rin will definitely not be able to form an alliance with Illya because of this battle.
So when Medea sent Red A to hunt down the two, Shirou was forced to fight on his own.
When Shirou is about to be defeated and killed, Lancer shows up to save the situation, and because the Caster group and Gilgamesh are too powerful, he temporarily forms an alliance with the protagonist group.
With the help of Lancer, the protagonist team took back Saber from Medea and then defeated the Caster team.
In the end, it was a decisive battle between the many parties and Gilgamesh, but Gilgamesh was too powerful, and even Saber and Lancer could not defeat him.
At the critical moment, Archer came to his senses and rejoined the protagonist group, relying on the inherent barrier called UBW to defeat the Hero King.
After winning the battle, the protagonists obtained the Holy Grail, and the movie ended with everyone happy.
Although many details in this plot speculation cannot be completed, people on the Internet are very convinced of this prediction.
Even many Japanese netizens, after seeing this speculation circulating in North America, started to make a fuss on 2ch in the name of spoilers for the second half of Fate.
First of all, Fate's publicity team immediately clarified that the speculation circulating on the Internet was not a script at all, indicating that this was just netizens' speculation about UBW.
The actual plot of the movie will be different from this speculation, but the Fate crew has stated that it will be a very unique story.
As for how much of this speculation is correct, the crew said:
Hehe.
Then, countless fans raised their middle fingers to the spokesperson named William.
Such an official answer certainly cannot satisfy the fans, but they also know that the officials themselves cannot reveal too much information.
After all, the plot was completely revealed before the movie was shown, so there was no novelty when it was shown.
However, the psychology of the audience, especially the die-hard fans, is very contradictory. On the one hand, they hope to know the plot of their favorite movie as soon as possible, but on the other hand, they feel that being spoiled will make the movie lose its freshness.
This contradictory mood will give rise to the mentality of fans to buy tickets to watch the movie as soon as possible, even at the midnight show.
Of course, fans can also obtain plot content through other means, such as looking for breakthroughs from the actors.
Because compared to professional publicity and promotion staff, those actors often unconsciously let slip some information, and inferring key plots through this information is also an inherent skill of many fans.
This also means that producers sometimes have to mislead some loud-mouthed actors, making them think that they know the truth of the matter, but in fact they don't.
However, Nanaya did not do this in UBW. He just gave a strict order not to let the actors reveal the real names of the servants.
Therefore, during an interview, Sugiyama confirmed to the outside world when answering questions from reporters that Shirou Emiya is the core of the second half of the movie.