King of Hollywood

Chapter 25 Preparation of the Big Ship

“What are you laughing at, Ed?” Standing next to Adrian and Jerry? Brookheimer, jiāo talking about Don? Simpson took the lead in finding his smile and then looked in the direction he was looking at.

“Nothing,” Adrian turned around, smiling on his face, “I bet, Michael? Bei must be thinking at this time: stare, sooner or later I will surpass you. ”

“Want more than James? It wasn't easy," Simpson shrugged over there, "Mike was a very talented director, but he was a long way off compared to James. He has some shocking images of mi-love, always trying to make the movie look cooler and more impactful, thus neglecting to drive the drama forward. ”

Gotta admit, Simpson talked about Michael? Belle's soft ribs, the problem persisted until a few years later and strained him.

“It's always good for a young man to make a move, even with such flaws, as long as he realizes nature, he'll find a way to correct it. Didn't Jerry grow up under your guidance?” Adrian said that, although deep down in his heart he didn't think Michael? Bay will really make adjustments, but who knows he'll follow his memory in the future?

“Yes,” Simpson nodded, sounding and looking at him. "Wait, you seem to belong to a young man too, Ed? Not to mention Jerry, Mike seems two years older than you, doesn't he? ”

“What, you and Jerry are allowed to sell old, and I'm not allowed to do that?” Adrian asked jokingly.

“Hey, I didn't say anything.” Involved somehow, Jerry? Brookheimer busily raised his hands.

The three of them laughed together and Adrian took two steps and said, "I'm sure this is going to be a selling movie, Dom, so are you interested in working together again? ”

Simpson looked at Adrian lu and said, "What's the good idea, Ed? ”

“Yes, a very pungent, hot and shocking story, and the producer and director I've chosen.” Adrian looked in the eye, Brookheimer looked in the eye again, and he was still talking to Cameron jiāo, Michael? Bei, it's clear, “Even I've got three stars, and I'm sure if we continue to work together, this will be another movie for sale. ”

“Can you give me a rough idea?” Simpson came to interest.

“Now? Let's wait until after the premiere of the Jedi War Police, and I'll sort this out in a systematic way so I can better explain to you," Adrian smiles and turns away, "excuse me. ”

Simpson shrugged his shoulders, some regrets but didn't care. Adrian said so, so wait for him to come up with a concrete idea, and the young man has proved with many facts that his words are never false.

“Oh, sorry, my boyfriend's here.” Before Adrian walked to the bar and found his tracks of long hair less nv, he left the man who was talking to himself and came over, grabbing his arm and lu smiling sweetly.

Adrian was a little surprised, but didn't show up on her face, smiling and looking at her: "Am I disturbing you? ”

“You never told me you already had a boyfriend.” The seemingly handsome man, aged between 20 and 30, was somewhat disappointed and somewhat unhappy with the god sè, and completely ignored Adrian's existence.

“Didn't I?” Don't think about it, then smile, "I'm sorry, I may have forgotten. ”

“What brings you here, Liv? I've been looking all over for you.” At this point, how could Adrian not understand what was going on? Ask in a friendly tone, and at the same time wěn on her beautiful face.

“I thought you were having a good time, didn't want to interrupt, so I went around alone.” Liv shrugged.

“I'm sorry, honey, I let you down, give me a chance to apologize, okay?” Adrian said in a sincere tone, Liv took a quick glance at the man, pretending to think and laugh playfully: “Okay. ”

Adrian then took her elsewhere and smiled politely at the man, who, although a little blind, could not do so. The other party immediately raised his hands, scolded what he had said and left in the opposite direction.

“Is this your date? Not at all interesting.” Adrian had just retracted his gaze and Liv asked dissatisfied.

“What's the matter? Is there anything annoying about the premiere of the movie?” Adrian asked inexplicably.

“No, but like a party, I thought I could see something else.” Liv said with his mouth shut, "I've been at the party since I was born. That's enough. Can there be anything else in life besides the party? ”

She paused here for a moment before she looked around and said, “Of course, I admit this premiere is different from the party, but... I just had my birthday party a few days ago, so..."

Liv made a gesture and stopped talking, but kept her mouth shut, which made her more cute.

“It's a shame I didn't make it on July 1st, otherwise it would definitely make the whole party feel better," Adrian said with a smile. “I hope you enjoy my birthday present. ”

“Not bad, but you're paying me to give you a chance, Ed," Liv said suddenly, shaking off his arm and looking at him with his hands and hips, "I haven't said anything since I promised, and I can ignore the two previous dates, but if that's still the case, I'll have to say goodbye to you. ”

Funny girl. Looking at the slightly dissatisfied blue eyes of the nv child, Adrian's eyes squinted slightly and smiled: “Well, tomorrow or the day after, I'll take you to a beautiful place and you'll love it. ”

“Really?” Liv blinked, flashing unexpectedly.

Amazed that Adrian was about to say something, Cameron's voice suddenly came up: "Hey, Ed, there you are. No wonder I couldn't find you there. ”

“Looks like you finally got rid of them.” Adrian smiled and shook his hand.

“Fortunately, where did you find such a new director? That xibyo has a lot of ideas about special effects.” Cameron talked a lot before realizing Liv was standing next to Adrian, "who is this? ”

“There's always a lot of people looking for you, so I won't bother you, Ed. I'm waiting for our date.” Liv immediately dressed up as a ghost and didn't wait for Adrian's opening to fly away.

“Liv? Tyler, me and Tim? Burton collaborated on the film's nv lead.” Adrian explains it this way.

Cameron was profound, and he seemed to want to say something about it, but when he looked at Adrian's question, it was the first one: "What now? ”

Though the question was mindless, Adrian knew what he cared about, and Cameron's place would come to the premiere of the Jedi War Police, and in addition to being invited by Adrian, there was also a reason that True Lies was already nearly $100 million bi in North America's box office.

The Arab Anti-Discrimination Commission still affects the next movie box office to some extent, but it does not stop the "true lies" from coming to light, as almost everyone knows, and after the third week, the North American box office breaks a hundred million is a positive thing. Overseas box offices, because the unanimous ban in the Arab countries could lose part of it, but cost recovery was no longer an issue in the film itself, and now there was nothing left to earn more, so Cameron could not wait to find Adrian again.

“Good," Adrian laughed and talked about another topic, "How was your half year, James? ”

“Good. What's wrong?” Cameron didn't understand why he was asking, but he had to wait for Xing to answer.

“I mean, is there something interesting going on? Like traveling or something.” Adrian continued to ask with a gesture.

“Of course, Linda and I went on a vacation to Hawaii early last month, and we went all the way to a deeper dive, and the world beneath the ocean was so beautiful.” Cameron recalled.

“That's not true," Adrian lu smiled, "deeper, pitifully few creatures, like the place where the world's largest ship sank decades ago. ”

“The largest ship in the world at the time?” Cameron stunned, his eyes lit up, and since Jiāo's conversation, he has been wondering why Adrian said these words to him, how could he not react now?

“You want to make a movie about the Titanic?” His tone brought excitement.

“As you know, last weekend, Tornado, as a catastrophe film, simply took Real Lies to the top of the North American list of box offices, so I wanted to make - or find you to make and direct - a catastrophe film about the Titanic,” Adrian said frankly, "not entirely a catastrophe, of course, but also a touching love story, such as Poor Xiyako and Rich NV. More importantly...”

He made a long pause and saw Cameron's appetite hung before continuing: "I personally invested 200 million dollars to shoot. I don't care how you squander it, you can hire a submarine to go to the bottom of the ocean and look closely at the wreckage, you can make a mega-model boat to shoot, you can even make it on Huā for three to four years, I just need to see a mega-manufacture that can shock and amaze the whole world -- don't tell me you can't."

“200 million dollars? Are you sure?” Even a madman like Cameron couldn't help but swallow his mouth spit when he heard the condition. His eyes stared closely at Adrian, afraid he would tell him it was just a joke.

“Yes, 200 million dollars, at your disposal.” Adrian, put your hands together, "this is definitely not a joke, James. I told you to do a miracle with you, and you can definitely do it. ”

Then he added, "Of course, only 200 million dollars."

Although Adrian remembers that the unprecedented final cost of production was 240 million, he gave only a budget of 200 million. Once Cameron burns the money, don't say 200 million dollars, even if he doubles it, he won't hesitate to squander it. Even if Adrian knows what the benefits of the film are, it doesn't mean he can tolerate Cameron's uncontrolled burning of the money, you know it's entirely his own.

So Adrian simply put out 200 million dollars directly, so that Cameron could burn more money, and even if he finally wanted to invest more, the debt would naturally be even bigger.

Cameron didn't hesitate, he promised. How many people in Hollywood could have that kind of courage? Can you give me 200 million dollars to make a movie? If he misses it, that's stupid.

Frankly, it's not that Adrian didn't want to direct the film himself, it's the Titanic that broke the record of the global box office for countless people to worship, and even centuries later, he'll have a place in film history. However, after repeated reflections, he abandoned this intention because he really did not have time to make such a huge film that would require a huge amount of huā jing power. Not to mention the difficulties in the shooting, just those details are enough for a headache, Adrian can't do the kind of thing that Cameron wants to jing for every detail.

He remembered where he saw the anecdote about Cameron's production of the Titanic, when he filmed the scenes of the banquet, because he found that the tableware used did not bear the lettering of Titanic, and Cameron directly announced that the previous shooting had been cancelled until he contacted the British tableware factory to reorder the tableware before shooting from scratch, which made it almost a hundred thousand huā thousand, and that's how the money was burned when the previous shooting was cancelled.

That's not to say that Adrian couldn't make it, had Cameron's original as a reference, and that he had “re-shot” a lot of films, so he didn't have to huā for a year and a half to prepare like Cameron, and huā for another year and a half to shoot. But even so, he made a slight estimation in his mind that even if he didn't build the model, he might still have to huā for almost two years.

It's too long, and it takes up most of its jing power, and Adrian doesn't mind putting himself on top of the halo, but that's not his main purpose after all. Besides, he already has another plan to increase the director's halo, and the impact will never be less than that of the Titanic, so give Cameron the responsibility for this work, which is both honor and pressure, so as to fully demonstrate his vision and energy for people and for the movie.

Adrian made such a surprising commitment that the two of them did not continue to talk about it, but the story was just a concept and not even an outline. Cameron, while surprised and thrilled by this commitment, also felt the pressure of not seeing Xiao, and naturally had to go back and think about how to prepare.

The Jedi War Police was finally released, relieving the major movie companies concerned. Although the number of exhibitors was similar to Tornado, the first week the box office was only about 17 million. Although it was in the North American box office rankings, it was ranked among the last few, with no previous momentum of True Lies and Tornado. No wonder one of Paraméng's executives si 'd be proud to say to his assistant that big investments make a lot of money, so they have to be involved in the end.

They forget, however, that the Jedi War Police's first week box office, although less expensive than the previous two, cost only about 20,000, a quarter of Tornado and a fifth of True Lies. Moreover, all three films on the North American list were produced by the Bosworth Film Industry, and Fox and Warner were only involved in investment and distribution.

And when it got to Adrian's ears, he just paid one laugh, and they had this idea, and it was in his heart. Although after the media acquired TBS, all major film companies knew that it would be unlikely to comprehensively suppress the Bosworth Film Industry, they had not given up their intention to make the trip, after all, the Bosworth Film Industry had been a little too bright for the past three years.

Fortunately, the early establishment of the Dream Factory attracted a lot of attention, as Adrian had anticipated, and with the ambitious power that other new companies did not possess through financing, Carsenberg was ambitious to create a Dream Factory in parallel with the seven biggest film companies, while simultaneously extending contact angles into multiple fields, movies, music, animation, and so on.

How can such a big pen not attract attention? Some people think it's Jeffrey? Carsenberg, Steven? Spielberg and David? Griffin's Dream Factory will be another new force in Hollywood that can't be seen, and some people think it's hard to tell how far the Dream Factory can go. Executives of major film companies have also begun to observe how much impact the establishment of dream factories will have in the industry, naturally with much less attention being paid to the Bosworth film industry.

Now with this attitude, let alone worry, and now there are new lines and Miramax under AC Media, even if there's really something else going on.

Anyway, all three movie deals are a certainty, while two black actors from Jedi Warrior Martin? Lawrence and Will? Smith's popularity has also begun to rise dramatically - unfortunately, Tornado is the main character of Tornado, so even if Kate is very popular, her popularity has risen less rapidly than the two bad xibyos.

At Adrian's suggestion, the broker company will soon have Will? Smith, come here. Martin? Lawrence goes with it. It's not his eccentricity, Lawrence comes from a black neighborhood, so he often opens his mouth to a xing, and Smith grew up in a middle-class family, ideologically closer to the mainstream American society. So the former is troublesome, and the latter has gained more admiration, and Adrian has prepared a new film for him, a very jing-colored science fiction film, for which the broker of the film director was in service long before the broker company was acquired by AC Media.

Until then, of course, Adrian has an appointment to take care of.