Sid Ganis

Sid Ganis is a minor character in the novel "狩猎好莱坞" inspired by the celebrity persona of Sid Ganis.

Background
During his career, he has worked as a marketing and publicity professional in the crews of super-hit films such as The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

In 1985, he joined Paramount Pictures before eventually becoming the studio's President where he oversaw the production of hit films such as Top Gun and Fatal Attraction.

Volume 1 (1986)
Like the rest of the Big Six, he also got a copy of the script of The Butterfly Effect and became impressed with its quality and creativity, however, when he learned that William Morris Agency (W.M.A.) was planning to turn the script into a packaged project like Creative Artists Agency (C.A.A.), he didn't hesitate to find ways to make the project implode, just like his counterparts at the rest of the Big Six. The studios knew that if W.M.A, the largest talent agency, succeeded in creating packaged project like C.A.A. then soon the cost of film production would skyrocket and the power held by studios in film production would dwindle.

As a result, he attempted to cause infighting between Jonathan Friedman, the project initiator, and Norman Brokaw, W.M.A's President, by cutting the pay of Jonathan's clients, Brian De Palma and Simon Westeros, by more than half while giving Norman's client, Matthew Broderick, a super-high pay of $5 million.