Firstly, our production had no budget so to the viewer, our opening title sequence Target, would seem to have been made by a small, independent British company. However, we believe our product and our idea has the potential to have a blockbuster budget and could be made by a huge Hollywood company because the story involves many key themes and ideas that would take a likeness to big films around today.
I did some research into spy/political thrillers to see what sort of production company would fund our idea of a massive oil baron being murdered by a spy activist. I looked into these types of films and discovered that the Bourne series showed a likeness to our genre of movie. These films were produced by multiple big name companies such as Universal Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Hypnotic, Kallima Productions and Stillking Films. These companies would suit our film as our story has the potential to be a franchise, like the Bourne series which has four films. A common occurrence in the US is a multiple of production companies working on one film, whereas in Britain, most films are made using one company, like Monsters that was made by Vertigo Films.
However, our story also has the potential to be made by a British independent company such as the BBC who created the TV mini-series State of Play on a fairly low budget but was still successful. Our idea is suited to this also because our production might appeal more to a British audience, as it might not sell to the big budget American audience. In contradiction to this, State of Play was bought out by the American companies Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Working Title Films, Relativity Media and Andell Entertainment. This film contained big budget stars such as Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck, showing us that big American conglomerates do not like downgrading products, only making them bigger. This shows that our film could mould between the two areas of film distribution, depending on whichever type of film we chose to make. If we were to make our film with a British, independent company, it would most likely turn out as a TV mini-series as that is what sells in this environment.
After doing some more research, I found a film that is very similar to our concept that was made by Warner Bros. This film is called Syriana and stars George Clooney in a film about political war over oil and fuels. This shows us that our film definitely does have the potential to be a Hollywood as Syriana proves it. This film also includes an assassination, which is normally something that only happens in big budget films. This film is directed by Stephen Gaghan who is someone we would like to direct our film as he has experience in this genre of film. A quote from him says: "When 9/11 happened, it suddenly was a war on terror, which I think of as a war on emotions. It all started to click for me". This is a concept that we wholly agree with, as Gaghan focuses on the American reliance on foreign oil, which is a big theme in our film.
Overall, many different types of company, from British independent to Hollywood conglomerate, I believe would be interested in distributing our idea because the concept is so malleable to different audiences. Our story has a relevance to various countries and societies, even places where the oil comes from would be interested in our film. Our movie has the potential to be an international political/spy thriller due to the potential complexity of our idea and it's general storyline being impactful for audiences who do not know about the problems with foreign oil everywhere. In order to make this film the best it can be, we would have to do more research into facts and figures of our potential audiences and companies.
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