Chicago 1990

In the latter part of his career, Johnny Carson particularly liked to use acrimonious remarks to ridicule political and business celebrities, or compose paragraphs for private revenge, offending many people, so when he left the TV screen, he was immediately dug out a lot of black material.

What he talks about most by the outside world is his poor business ability. As a well-known and popular talk show host, he can make a lot of money, but driven by his arrogant personality, his investment is extremely irrational.

In the 1970s, he was fooled by DeLorean, GM's youngest executive at the time, to invest in DMC cars. When the local American auto giants were all wailed by their books, he, DeLorean and another friend A total of 80 million dollars was raised. In 1975, the company opened up against the market. In 1978, it received a subsidy of 120 million dollars from the British government to build a factory in Northern Ireland where Republican Army activities were rampant. More than 200 million dollars, only more than 9,000 cars have been produced...

He also invested in a large fast food chain, which ended in bankruptcy.

After failing to compete with gambling tycoon Wayne Newton in Las Vegas in the 1980s, he was angrily composing paragraphs on his own show and disgusting each other. Fortunately, he is a very well-known public figure, otherwise he would have been abandoned. Somewhere in the Nevada desert.

In his own media industry, he once owned two television stations, one is the predecessor of the current FOX5 station, which was sold in 1985 for poor management and the other in 86, but was able to retain a small amount of shares.There are also some radio stations that are currently selling at odds and ends.

Other small, unsuccessful investments such as buying the rights to adapt the cat and mouse game novels are even more. The only project that made money is his own clothing brand of the same name, specializing in turtleneck sweaters, but that is also because he has been on the show for a long time. Wearing clothes with goods, relying on personal influence to drive the American people to follow suit.

"I'm in good health."

Of course, a character of his character would not come to Song Ya for "respect and noble", but instead made a call and asked Song Ya to visit his mansion in Banbury, California.

"It's just that everyone can't stand me anymore, including NBC."

He could see clearly. At the other end of the long dining table, the handsome old white guy with a smile on his face was a bit self-aware. He laughed at himself while dealing with the steak on the plate. "The reason for my health is just a decent thing they gave me. This will save a lot of trouble."

"I remember nine...92? I was so excited that I couldn't sleep when I first learned that I was going to participate in your program." Song Ya complimented.

"I have worked with you?" Johnny Carson was almost 70 years old after all, with a dazed look on Johnny Carson's face.

"I'm very unlucky, Jay Leno replaced you at that time." Song Ya said.

"Oh……"

The two chatted for a few words, and he asked Song Ya to ask for the latest version of the cat and mouse game script and put on reading glasses and looked at it at the dinner table.

"Could you take the liberty to ask, how did you know that I wanted to restart this project?" Song Ya took the opportunity to inquire.

"A friend told me."

He did not recruit sources. "The young actor’s agents all think this is an opportunity. Abagnell’s experience is legendary. It will be very beneficial to their career development to get such a high IQ single male lead role. , Huh? You changed him to a double hero?"

"It's not enough, it has greatly improved the role of the FBI agent's second man. High-IQ liars also need high-IQ opponents, don't they?" Song Ya asked back.

"It's okay, I still prefer the first version of the script I just got the right to adapt."

He showed a look of remembrance, "I was very passionate about creation at the time, and stayed up all night and all night just to write a good story about a legendary liar..."

Nagged and said a lot, "But it's okay. After all, it's not very good to show a perfect liar character in the movie. Have you gotten that Abagnell?"

"I haven't contacted him yet." Song Ya replied.

"Ha, that guy will definitely take another sum of money from you.

"I am mentally prepared."

Song Ya knows that this is unavoidable. Although the right to adapt the novel is owned by Hollywood Pictures, it would not be nice for the original author to jump out and cause trouble when the movie is announced. After all, like Forrest Gump, he still gets the right to fall out with the original author. High-selling projects are rare. In Hollywood, it is more often the case that the crew is caught in a scolding war with the original author, and then the wind is biased and the box office suffers losses.

"Well, that guy knows the art of trading, and he won't ruin you too much." Johnny Carson closed the script, "I want to invest in this drama."

"Welcome." Song Ya smiled.

"Uh……"

The old man seemed to have expected Song Ya to agree so readily, "You don't really think that I am the kind of blind investor in the outside world, do you? If you want to pit my money, then I have to say you made the wrong idea..."

"Me? Haha, I'm just a newbie who just entered Hollywood."

Song Ya smiled and said, "I'm afraid I don't know you about Hollywood yet. Yeremov said that your personal relationship with Mr. Roy Disney is very good, right?"

"Of course, I have helped the Disney family a lot." The old man replied triumphantly.

To his level, it’s hard to go bankrupt. After all, he’s just a mess of investment, but his method is not radical. Even if he loses, he can obediently leave the market and never engage in the kind of high loan and leverage.

Before coming to Banburke, Song Ya had done some understanding. Even though this old man had almost lost hundreds of millions of dollars, the royalties from his early book publications were still sufficiently free. There was still a three-point nail in the rotten ship, and he was not very poor in life. Very extravagant, at least still a multi-millionaire.As one of the TV show hosts with the highest ratings in the 1970s and 1980s, he was even able to influence the hearts and minds of the American people at that time. This is bound to be accompanied by various political and commercial forces' public relations activities all year round. Needless to say, although it is meaningless to offend many people because of his big mouth.

"I want the right to modify the script."

But the old man might be satisfied with Song Ya's respectful attitude and immediately began to be a demon.

"Uh, I will properly consider your amendments." Song Ya declined.

"Play word games with me? Boy... I was just... before you appeared in this world..."

"Mr. Carson, I am good at investing, you can trust me." Song Ya interrupted him with a smile.

"Ha! Is that the pig on the tuyere?"

The old man was a little embarrassed by his gaze. When it comes to investing, it is a pain in his heart forever, "Go and sit there."

The two ended the issue just now by leaving the dining table.

"Pay attention to your body, the doctor tells you not to read for a long time."

His fourth wife came over and snatched the script from his hand and put it on the table with a bad attitude.Because of the previous divorce lawsuit, he now has to pay an ex-wife's monthly living expenses of 6,000 dollars, and another ex-wife took away 20 million dollars of divorce compensation from him. I heard that this person has been strictly prohibited. He took the money and then went out to invest indiscriminately, otherwise the inheritance would not be much left.

"It's okay honey, I don't watch, you continue to talk about APLUS."

"What I worry about is distribution. You know, Hollywood publishers hate it."

Song Yala's main purpose for joining the game is to take advantage of his personal relationship with Roy Disney and his remaining influence in the media. It is rare to overlap with this kind of old media person who has begun to retire. This opportunity must be grasped. live.

"I know, I know, I will talk to Roy about this." He nodded.

The two fell silent, and when his wife left, he asked again: "I can still compose jokes. After retirement, I have saved a lot and can add it to the script."

"Jan... well, I have no opinion in principle, as long as the joke is good enough." Song Ya knew that he had fallen into nostalgia and unwillingness to host his career, and did not refuse again.

Then the two stopped talking.

The old man thought for a while, and then suddenly asked: "APLUS, how did you get 100 million from Dow?"

"Just...sell the factory under my name to them..."

Song Ya was a little uncomfortable with the bright eyes of the old man's thief, "Actually, I don't necessarily make money. Do you know the popular light stick support method over the book? This is a big market."

"Did Dow use any method against you?" the old man asked.

"Uh, of course, I used some."

"I knew it, I knew it!" The old man thumped the armrest of the sofa, "They are not honest, very dishonest, when the Agent Orange incident..."

Halfway through, he stopped in time, and then he was speechless.

"About how much you will vote in the cat and mouse game project." Song Ya broke the silence.

"I have not decided yet."

The old man carefully glanced at the direction of his wife's departure, "You can talk to my lawyer. We will keep in touch through him."