Ace Hollywood

Since May 2008, although all matters of Plutos Investment Company and DD Films are quite smooth, whether in the financial market or in Hollywood, Daniel's influence is still increasing day by day, a young man who is still 30 years old. , and gradually became one of the most powerful figures of this era.

But Daniel himself became more and more irritable.

"What's this? Pirates of the Caribbean 3? Is this more important than the Marvel acquisition? Sally, you're not my assistant on the first day, don't you still know your priorities? I don't want mine The assistant is in a daze all day long and needs to mention everything, so what's the use of my assistant?"

A "familiar" voice came from Daniel's office in DD Pictures.

Since May, Sally has been scolded more and more often - often for little inexplicable things. For example, in today's incident, Daniel is very energetic. If things are not particularly intensive, Sally will not do the sorting. Anyway, there is no obvious priority for four or five things. It is the same to deal with it first. of.

Daniel had never been angry about this before, or even noticed such a thing.

But recently, because of these trivial things, he has sent fire to Sally many times, and of course, he has also apologized many times.

"Sorry, Sally, I—"

"Boss, I don't care about being scolded, really, I've seen bosses who are much more cranky than you are now, and it's nothing at all, whether it's Wall Street or Hollywood, there are countless people with eccentric temperaments. But you should look for Some problems, really, although you don't want to say it, you must have encountered some problems, I think you have to face it, at least deal with it. Whether it is to temporarily let go or solve it now. "

Daniel nodded slowly.

"You're right, I know, but—huh. Forget it, Pirates of the Caribbean 3? Disney wants to start filming this year?"

Sally sighed and continued to work.

"Yeah, they want to open later this year, maybe around September. Start filming and then come out next summer."

The plan for "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" has been proposed by Disney many times, but Daniel has been delaying it on the excuse of too much work, and has not continued to do it. For Disney, a film with potential in the top five levels of film history is of great significance. , but the most important thing for DD Films at present is to launch a batch of profitable works to stabilize its position and operating mechanism. As for the box office blockbusters such as "Pirates", "Museum" and "Transformers", if there are too many. It is really possible to turn the team into pigs - so that when faced with wind and waves, there is no resistance.

Daniel must maintain his box office appeal, so he is also considering DD Films in a sense to cut production. Of course, this is not the main reason. After staying in Hollywood for so many years, Daniel has acted in many types of movies, but it is impossible to say that he has acted in everything. Not to mention that the actors of the same age are still dedicating themselves, that is, many actors of the same age, There are far more types of attempts than him. but. Daniel is too limited, either the box office has potential, or the awards have potential, from Daniel's point of view. He has come to this point, acting is definitely not a hobby or a career pursuit for him, he must be concerned about his entire film career—that is, the development of DD Films.

In many films, he was destined to not be able to act.

This is a rather controversial point.

Hollywood has a considerable number of independent directors and even so-called independent actors. They seek to use movies to teach the world, or put too many things on movies—love, worldview, outlook on life, and so on. Pursuing box office or awards, in their opinion, should never become a mainstream pursuit. The most important thing for a movie is, of course, to practice social, historical and philosophical significance. The gang's attack on Daniel was quite violent.

After all, since his debut, Daniel has never acted in a pure literary film with a small cost. Even "The Pianist" was a movie with an investment of 35 million and a super cast like Roman Polanski. As for those romantic comedies, they're completely trash-movie-level.

"In addition to 'absolutely standard' good movies, Daniel is only a money-making junk movie."

This is their definition of Daniel.

As for whether it is a good time to promote "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", Daniel sighed, the timing is second, Disney's attitude must be taken into account, this time if he continues to refuse, I am afraid the pressure from Robert's side will directly It's being imposed - it's not that Daniel doesn't push, they really don't do anything.

Changing actors and shooting independently are all things that Disney can do, although the degree of risk is very high. Changing actors could ruin the entire series, and independents would face legal battles, although they can claim that Daniel refused to fulfill his obligations to cooperate, which is why they did so, and the lawsuit is not necessarily lost. But these two big troubles, for a movie, can't be easily caused.

However, having said that, Daniel has been procrastinating. For Disney, it is also certain that he is determined to give it a try-a large company with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, it is impossible for Daniel to be restricted because of his starring. step. It just needs a little determination, and neither Robert Iger nor Disney's board of directors lacks decisive people.

"This year, or early next year? What do you think?"

"It's better this year. You only have one "Museum" this year. It would be more reasonable to have one film in line."

Daniel nodded, "Then you can communicate with David and Melissa again to see if the team here is suitable. Inform Kusa and let him contact the script first. The third part of the series is shot. If the script is However, it is impossible for me to agree. Let Cusa pass it on to Disney, if it is time - let me think about it again, will you go out for a while?"

Sally closed the door, and Lola, Daniel's work assistant outside, twitched the corner of her mouth. She was also trained many times by Daniel.

"The boss is in a bad mood, you pay attention."

"Yes."

…

Daniel was in a bad mood, but no one could guess the reason. It's not a matter of Plutos' tens of billions of dollars, nor is it a matter of DD Pictures and MGM. It's something that happened in China far away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. On May 12, 2008, a shocking event occurred in China.

Great earthquake!

Tens of thousands of people have died or gone missing, and hundreds of thousands of people have been injured, which no Chinese person may be able to forget.

Daniel felt he should do something. But he is really powerless - he can't get the Chinese government to move the residents of the earthquake zone away, and no one will pay attention to him. He is even less likely to stand up and say that there will be a magnitude 8 earthquake in China, and people will only think that he is a lunatic. Even a handful of zealots who believed he would be an "oracle". And definitely not in China.

For many days, this feeling of powerlessness has made Daniel feel physically and mentally exhausted, and he has become more and more irritable and irritable.

Today is May 5th, and there is only one week left until the 12th.

"Boss. Have a cup of tea."

Lola came in with the hot tea unafraid to die.

Daniel took the cup and took a sip. The aroma of tea reminded him more of China—he could already consider himself an American, but he couldn't ignore the casualties of hundreds of thousands of Chinese people.

But what can he do?

"Lola, what would you normally do if you were powerless to do one thing?"

Daniel asked suddenly.

"I can't do it, because I can't do it, or I don't think I can do it so I don't do it?"

"the latter."

Lola smiled. "Then I'll do it. I know the odds may be slim, but even if it fails, I want to fail in the way of doing it, not the beginning—that's so sad, it doesn't even have a beginning. One thing , the beginning, the process, and the ending are all equally important. If I do it, then I have an opening, and I also have a process that is not complete, and this is my harvest, and it is very rich. We can't guarantee every Everything can be successful. Then even things that are very unlikely should be tried.”

Lola said a lot, and she felt it.

Come to Plutoth, for her. may not be the most suitable option. But her purpose here is not for an internship, but for something more important - love.

Yes, she loves Daniel Sandler, but she also knows that the gap between the two is too great. Bigger than Cinderella and the Prince - at least Cinderella still has a glass slipper and a chance to go to the ball. But Lola's behavior proved that he didn't intend to give up, she came to Plutos, and she got the opportunity to become Daniel's work assistant by accident, facing each other every day.

She sometimes even feels that even if she doesn't confess, having such an experience is enough for her to commemorate this feeling.

Daniel could hear the sincerity in Lola's words, but he couldn't hear the affection - who made him focus on the earthquake now.

"But what if you don't even know how to start doing it?"

"Impossible, as long as you understand what you want to do, even if it is a little closer to a goal, it is also an effort."

There were no exaggerated flashes of inspiration or epiphany-like situations, but Lola's answer did clear some cognitive hurdles for Daniel - allowing him to finally decide what to do.

…

Daniel temporarily increased his visit to China, which shocked and surprised many people, both inside and outside the team.

Whether it's Raymond or DD Films, Daniel's affairs have piled up a lot. At this time, it is incomprehensible to take nearly a week to go to China. But Daniel is the boss, and even if they have any ideas, they must keep silent. Not so on the outside.

Daniel declined to sing the song "Welcome to the Capital" and did not attend the special party that counted down to 100 days.

This confirmed public opinion that Daniel did not particularly want to become China's foreign propaganda tool, and this kind of argument prevailed for a while. So, when Daniel suddenly decided to leave Los Angeles for China, the media's surprise was even more intense.

For example, The New York Times bluntly speculated, "Daniel may regret not participating in the 100-day countdown to the Beijing Olympics, so he temporarily decided to go to the other side of the Pacific Ocean to explain his previous decision. You know, Pulu Toth has almost all contracted investment in developed countries, but has greatly expanded its investment scale in China, which is a place where Daniel cannot afford to lose."

The domestic media in China is equally bizarre.

NEW Wave Entertainment, as a media that is very close to Daniel, is also confused, "I don't know the itinerary of Daniel's visit to China this time. But it should have something to do with the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, Daniel declined to sing "Beijing City" before. Welcome", so this time his dynamic has attracted attention - the biggest guess now. Perhaps it is the opening ceremony performance. Although Director Zhang wants to create an opening ceremony with a Chinese classical style, as an international event, he invites some It's not surprising that celebrities of high international influence are in attendance. Of course. This is all speculation, and no one knows what Daniel is here for."

After Daniel arrived in China, DD China did not publish the itinerary as usual. He flew directly to the Rongcheng Giant Panda Breeding Research Base.

This is what he could find, the most direct connection between him and the earthquake.

"Technology Benefiting All Living Beings" has previously stationed a research team here and has been engaged in research on the ecological environment of giant pandas. It is the foundation's first attempt to enter the ecological field. This team has achieved a lot of results. The protection, observation and timely rescue of pandas are of great significance.

Chinese scientist Zhang Meng is the leader of the team. He submitted a report to Daniel and then began to report these things orally.

"We believe…"

While listening, Daniel flipped through the report at will, until the last two pages, his eyes suddenly fixed on one of them.

"We have noticed that some forecasters believe that the base may face the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes in a short time in the future."

This situation was put at the end-obviously, even the "Technology Benefiting All Living Beings" team did not take this assertion so seriously.

Daniel almost rudely interrupted Zhang Meng's report.

"The earthquake part, do you know who predicted it?"

Zhang Meng's work is quite solid. He just paused and said it.

"There should be several geologists and meteorologists, and of course some amateurs. Some observation sites have found rock stress fields, such as China's state-owned oil companies, etc. A more important issue is that the geomagnetic perpendicularity was found in Rongcheng. The daily variation amplitude of the component is significantly reduced, and the abnormal variation of the variation amplitude is 10-20 nt. This is not necessarily a problem of earthquakes, there are other possibilities, such as Sun Yao and the like. The most important basis. It is also introduced in the report. The main reason is that a committee under the Chinese Physical Society believes that there is an earthquake risk in this area for the coming year, and submitted it to the State Earthquake Administration. This kind of prediction is useless, because it is impossible for China to give an early warning within a year. a whole year."

Zhang Meng slowly said one reason after another.

Daniel's brows frowned and relaxed, relaxed and tight. He found that he had an entry point. Since there was a precursor, he found that he could use the theme to play, but in China, it was useless to play on the theme. As long as the government was stubborn, Daniel did not think that what he said would make sense.

"You, what do you feel?"

Zhang Meng is an American through and through, a second-generation Chinese, but his family's Chinese education is relatively comprehensive, which added a lot of leverage to his final selection as the project leader. However, as a person who has been working in the United States, he still knows his boss very well. Whether it is 911 or Katrina, the boss seems to have had some mysterious prophecies.

Could it be that this time his prophecy came to China?

Daniel glanced at him, didn't answer him, just paused and made up his mind, "Zhang Meng, you guys will make an earthquake text right now, I will make it next year, I can make it whatever I can, I know. Is it?"

Although he was ignorant, Zhang Meng's good professionalism made Zhang Meng nod his head quite quickly, and went to operate.

Daniel began to look for some people who really have the right to speak through his personal network in China. A blank face suddenly appeared in his mind. Last year, he had a meeting with him in Shanghai, and he did have the contact information of his secretary in his hand. But looking for it so rashly, I am afraid no one will believe it.

"Never mind."

Daniel put down his mobile phone and started to contact the leaders of Sichuan Province through the Rongcheng area.

Next is busy, busy, busy, Zhang Meng, the team, Daniel, and a layer-by-layer relationship - Daniel finally contacted the top leader of Sichuan Province, which is him, and no Hollywood star except him can have it. This face.

However, when he took the report that Zhang Meng drove out and had a sincere conversation with him, he didn't get the desired response.

The leader was quite sincere in front of him, and UU reading www.uukanshu.com did not speak too much Mandarin.

"Mr. Sandler, to be honest, if we can, of course we are willing to remind the people in order to avoid possible disasters. However, social panic, production disorder, etc., are also things we must consider..."

One reason after another, one unquestionable reason, made Daniel's efforts fail.

He was unable to persuade the leaders of Sichuan Province to do something, and in the end he could only return in disappointment.

…

When Daniel sat in the hotel and looked at this fairly detailed report, he was speechless.

Is there really no way?

Can you just watch things unfold?

Even though Daniel has always been a rather lonely person, thinking of this still shudders. (To be continued.)

PS: There are no eunuchs, how can there be eunuchs, they have written to this point