King of Hollywood

"...Black tea?" After a long while, Catherine finally spit out a word again, staring at the coffee pot in Adrian's hand with a dumb look on her face, as if she didn't know what the word meant.

Adrian raised his hand helplessly, poured the black tea from the pot into the cup in his hand, and raised it: "Black tea."

After speaking, he brought the cup to his mouth and opened it to take a sip. At this moment, he suddenly noticed something, carefully observed it, smelled it with his nose, and threw the cup out.

"Damn it! Damn it!" Adrian shouted to dodge the liquid splashed from the cup, and the coffee pot in his hand followed his movements for a while, as if the "black tea" was about to overflow from it. .

Adrian threw the coffee pot out without a second thought, and continued to scream angrily while avoiding the spilled liquid from the coffee pot. It was really embarrassing and weird.

Catherine stared at what was happening in front of her in a stunned manner, and when she understood, she immediately burst out laughing.

"What's so funny?!" Adrian patted her clothes and glared at her. Unexpectedly, Catherine laughed even louder, and finally climbed on the wall and laughed out loud, as if she hadn't been so happy for a long time.

Adrian raised his hands to say something, but in the end he could only look at her with his hands on his hips with an annoyed expression.

"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I just..." Catherine managed to control her emotions, but after glancing at Adrian, she couldn't help laughing again, but the eyes she had just cried were still red. It sounds really weird.

"Okay, okay, I'm okay." Seeing Adrian's face turning cold, Catherine finally restrained herself.

At this moment, Adrian looked at Catherine and then looked at the coffee pot and cup that had fallen on the ground, and a feeling of depression poured out of his heart, and he would even get the wrong coffee pot! It's so... heck!

He pursed his lips and stopped talking. If he didn't speak, Catherine wouldn't speak. The room suddenly fell silent. The two of them just stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and a strange atmosphere permeated.

After a long time, Adrian coughed softly: "Okay, let's even out - this time it's serious."

Catherine tilted her head and looked at him for a long time: "Okay, then it's even."

I don't know if she remembered Adrian's previous embarrassment again, her eyes were bent again and she reached out to cover her mouth. Of course, taking into account Adrian's mood, she tilted her head slightly, but she still leaked a few chuckles from time to time.

Adrian wasn't angry, just stared at the girl's face. At the moment, Catherine looks like a special flavor. Her facial features are very delicate, her eyebrows are beautiful, and she is a fusion of Western and Eastern characteristics. She should be a mixed race. If it is not for the movie to make her look sloppy, she only needs to put on a little makeup. She will be a very beautiful and temperamental girl. Although the light coming in from the window was not bright, it shrouded her face, revealing a kind of youthful beauty.

"What are you looking at?" Catherine noticed Adrian's eyes, and her face turned red.

"You are beautiful, Miss Bechenza." Adrian did not hide his opinion.

"Well...Thank you." Catherine reached out and scratched her face, seemingly embarrassed.

"I'm serious," Adrian continued, looking at her. "If you put on some light makeup and dress up a little bit, you're sure to captivate a lot of people."

"Hey, I said, don't you want to soak me?" Catherine suddenly put her hands on her waist and looked at him with her head tilted.

Adrian didn't speak, folded his arms and stared at her for a few minutes, until Catherine showed a dissatisfied look before shrugging: "Okay, we should go back, the rest time is over, and the shooting has to continue. ."

After he finished speaking, he took the lead and walked to the door, Catherine was a little baffled, but then followed behind.

It's her, I want her! After walking out of the room, Adrian glanced at the shadow behind him, and said this to himself in his heart.

The filming of "Two Smoking Guns" is coming to an end very quickly. Adrian made the right decision to save those fragmentary shots in the room for the last shooting. The actors who already have a little tacit understanding are basically also in cooperation. No problem, so it's no different from other times. Of course, there are still some changes. For example, the director's attitude towards the girl who acts as an extra is much better. But no one asks why, it doesn't care about their own business anyway, right?

"Do you know why I want you to do this?" Adrian walked over to Catherine after the call, who was still wearing a floral bohemian dress with fluffy hair, but with an extra or Talk about a machine gun!

"Well...you want...to form a contrast." Catherine replied after thinking about it.

"That's right, the girl who had been so thin and was so easily overlooked suddenly stood up, raised her machine gun and fired a burst of rapid fire. This strong contrast is both impactful and very joyful," Adrian said. He explained patiently, "In the later stage, I will process this part into slow motion. You wouldn't like to see yourself hesitating, would you?"

"Oh, of course," Catherine said quickly. "I see what you mean, and I promise not to have the same problem again."

"Very well, in short, you don't think about it so much, just pull the trigger with the machine gun like venting." Adrian nodded, and turned to say hello to continue shooting.

An assistant came over at this time: "Mr. Adrian, a gentleman is looking for you."

"Find me?"

"Yes, he said he was..." The assistant looked around, leaned over and whispered a few words.

Adrian nodded, then changed his mind: "Now rest for 20 minutes."

After he finished speaking, he followed the assistant and hurried out of the crowd, and soon came to the director's resting place, he stretched out his hand to the person who had already been waiting there, "Hello, Mr. Berrant. , it's a pleasure to meet you here."

"I'm also very happy to see you again, Mr. Adrian." Berrant Erwin of Universal Pictures' editorial department smiled and shook hands with him, "Frankly, you are not easy to find here, why not What about shooting in London?"

"The location of the story is in East London. I think you may know that the security situation there has never been very good." Adrian explained briefly. In fact, this is not the main reason, the main reason is that the suburbs are cheaper! From this point of view, Adrian has racked his brains to keep the cost under $200,000.

Of course, this kind of reason is impossible to come up with, so after saying a few words such as "it's in the suburbs of London anyway" and "it can be counted as a story that happened in London", the two of them sat at the small table. Come down and talk about business.

"So, how are you thinking?" Adrian picked up the coffee pot and poured a cup of coffee for himself and Bertrand. He glanced at the distance after thinking of something, and Catherine in the crowd also cast his gaze over, Seeing him like this, he immediately rolled his eyes in annoyance.

Adrian chuckled lightly and handed the cup to Bertrand.

"We carefully considered that the price of 500,000 for two scripts is acceptable, but we also hope that Mr. Adrian can guarantee the creation of the sequel." Berrant opened the briefcase he was carrying and took out the grass.

"You guys are thinking about a sequel so soon?" Adrian turned over the contract and was slightly surprised.

"We all believe this was the right decision." Bertrand shrugged.

"Maybe..." Adrian frowned slightly and added. Generally speaking, according to Hollywood's rules, deciding whether to make a sequel or not will not be discussed until the box office comes out in the first week after its release. Time is like gambling, whether it is a loss or a gain will only be revealed at the last moment, and it will be invalid if it is unreasonable.

He obviously forgot how surprising his approach was. It’s true that making a movie is like a gamble, but the producers of the film company will first make an assessment based on the content of the story after they get the script, which may lose money and which may make money. Making big money will be very clear. Although the judgment is not 100% correct, it is still around 70% to 80%. Otherwise, at the production rate of hundreds of films a year in Hollywood - not including those independent films - you will have lost everything.

And now, a young man comes up with four scripts at the same time, and according to the evaluation, the possibility of making money from these four scripts is very high, especially the "Bodyguard" that fell into the hands of Warner, not to mention that there are two other A better script.

Needless to say "American Pie", although it belongs to that kind of shitty comedy, it is very real. For those teenagers in the United States who have the same experience, this is definitely a very happy movie; "Scream", the idea of ​​discussing horror movies in horror movies and talking about the rules of survival is really very subtle, and at the same time, it also points out the impact of horror movies on teenagers. It is very possible that both Win the box office and win word of mouth.

In this way, no film company will despise Adrian who came up with these six scripts. This is also one of the rules of Hollywood - pragmatism.

As long as you show your value, as long as you can bring benefits to them, they will appreciate you, win you over, and please you. Of course, once you lose your value, you will be kicked away by them without hesitation.

Although Adrian didn't think of this for a while, he would understand sooner or later, after all, his goal was the whole of Hollywood. Now, he saw another problem from the grass contract.

"The script of the sequel has the right of first refusal and the price remains unchanged. After the decision is made, it will be released within a limited time..." Adrian put the contract on the table and smiled at Berrant, "This deal is not very cost-effective. Well, Mr Berrant!"