Ace Hollywood

Since May 2008, although everything about Plutos Investment Company and DD Films has been going smoothly, whether in the financial market or in Hollywood, Daniel's influence is still increasing day by day. A 30-year-old young man , gradually becoming one of the most powerful figures of this era.

But Daniel himself is getting more and more irritable.

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

A "familiar" voice came from Daniel's office at DD Films.

Since May, Sally has been scolded more and more often—often for inexplicable little things. For example, today’s matter, Daniel is very energetic. If the matter is not particularly intensive, Sally will not sort it out. Anyway, there is no obvious priority for four or five things. It is the same to deal with them first and then deal with them. of.

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

But recently, he has lashed out at Sally many times because of these trivial matters, and of course, he has also apologized many times.

"Sorry, Sally, I—"

"Boss, I don't care about being scolded. Really, I have seen bosses who are much more irritable than you are now. This is nothing at all. Whether it is Wall Street or Hollywood, there are countless people with bad tempers. However, you should look for Some problems, really, although you don’t want to say it, but you must have encountered some problems, I think, you have to face it, at least deal with it. Whether it is to put it down temporarily, or solve it now.”

Daniel nodded slowly.

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

Sally sighed and got on with her work.

"Yes, they hope to open later this year, probably around September. Start filming, and then release next summer vacation."

Disney has proposed the plan of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" many times, but Daniel has been procrastinating on the excuse of too much work and has not continued to do it. Important, but the most important thing for DD Films at present is to release a batch of profitable works to stabilize its position and operating mechanism. As for "Pirate", "Museum", and "Transformers", if there are too many box office blockbusters.

It is really possible to turn the team into a pig-so that there is no resistance in the face of wind and waves.

Daniel has to maintain his box office appeal, so in a sense, his production cut is also considered for DD Films. 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. Don’t say that he is still dedicating himself to actors who are in their 70s and 80s, but there are many actors of the same age. , tried much more types than him. but. Daniel is too restricted, either the box office has potential, or the awards have potential, from Daniel's point of view. He has come to this point. For him, acting is definitely not a hobby or a career pursuit. He has to be concerned about his entire film career—that is, the development of DD Films.

He is destined not to be able to act in many films.

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 educate the world, or they place too many things on movies-love, world outlook, outlook on life, and so on. The pursuit of box office or awards, in their view, should never become a mainstream pursuit. The most important thing for a movie is of course to practice social, historical, and philosophical significance. The group'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" is a movie with a super cast like Roman Polanski with an investment of 35 million. As for those romantic comedies, they are completely at the level of garbage movies.

"Daniel has nothing but 'absolutely standard' good movies, but rubbish movies that make money."

This is their definition of Daniel.

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

Changing actors and making independent films are all things Disney can do, although the degree of risk is high. A cast change would have ruined the series, and an indie would have faced legal disputes, although they could argue that Daniel refused to fulfill their co-op obligations and that's why they did it. But these two big troubles cannot be easily provoked by a movie.

However, having said that, Daniel has been procrastinating. For Disney, it is certain to make up its mind to give it a try-a large company with a market value of tens of billions cannot really dare not go beyond Daniel's performance restrictions. Lei Chi took a step. It just needs a little determination. Whether Robert Iger or Disney's board of directors, there is no shortage of decisive people.

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

"It's best this year. You only have "Museum" this year. It would be more reasonable to arrange a film."

Daniel nodded, "Then you can communicate with David and Melissa again to see if the team here is suitable. Inform Kusa and ask him to contact the script first. The third part of the series is filmed. If the script But off, it is impossible for me to agree. This point, let Kusa pass it on to Disney, if there is time——Let me think about it again, can you go out first?"

When Sally closed the door, Lola, Daniel's work assistant outside, twitched her mouth. She was also scolded by Daniel many times.

"The boss is not in a good mood, please pay attention."

"Yes."

...

Daniel was in a bad mood, but no one could guess the reason. It is neither a matter of Plutos' tens of billions of dollars, nor is it a matter of DD Pictures and MGM. It is something that happened in China far away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. On May 12, 2008, a shocking event happened in China.

Big earthquake!

Tens of thousands of people died or disappeared, and hundreds of thousands of people were injured. No Chinese may forget it.

Daniel felt he should do something. But he is really powerless - he can't get the Chinese government to move the residents away from the quake zone, no one will pay attention to him. It is even more impossible for him to stand up and say that there will be a magnitude 8 earthquake in China, and people will only think he is a lunatic. Even if there is a small group of fanatics who believe that he will be an "oracle". And definitely not in China.

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

Today is May 5th, only one week away from the 12th.

"Boss. Have a cup of tea."

Lola came in with hot tea without fear of death.

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

But what can he do?

"Lola, if you can't do something, what do you usually do?"

Daniel asked suddenly.

"If you are unable to do it, is it because you can't do it, or because you feel that you can't do it, so you don't do it?"

"the latter."

Lola smiled. "Then I will do it. I know the possibility may be slim, but even if it fails, I want to fail on the way to do this, not the starting point-that is too sad, there is not even a beginning. One piece For things, the beginning, the process, and the ending are all equally important. If I do it, then I have an opening and a less complete process. This is my harvest, and it is very rich. We cannot guarantee that every One thing can be successful. So even if the possibility is very small, you should try it.”

Lola said a lot, and she felt it.

Come to Plutos, for her. It may not be the most suitable choice. But the purpose of her coming 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 the glass slipper and the chance to go to the ball. But Lola's behavior proved that he did not intend to give up. She came to Plutos, and got the chance to become Daniel's work assistant by accident, and she faced each other day and night.

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

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?"

"Impossible, as long as you understand what you want to do, even getting closer to any goal is still an effort."

There was no exaggerated flash of inspiration, and no epiphany-like situation, but Lola's answer did clear some cognitive obstacles 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's side or DD Films' side, Daniel's affairs are piled up. It's incomprehensible to take nearly a week to go to China at this time. But Daniel is the boss, even if they have any thoughts, they must keep silent. Not so externally.

Daniel declined the singing of the song "Welcome to the Capital" before, and did not participate in the special party for the 100-day countdown.

This allowed public opinion to confirm that Daniel did not particularly want to become China's foreign propaganda tool, and this kind of argument was popular for a while. Therefore, when Daniel suddenly decided to leave Los Angeles for China, the media was even more surprised.

For example, the "New York Times" speculated unceremoniously, "Daniel may regret not participating in the 100-day countdown to the Beijing Olympic Games, so he temporarily decided to go to the other side of the Pacific Ocean to explain his previous decision. You know, Pulu Toth has reduced the pace of investment in almost all developed countries, but has expanded the scale of investment in China, which is a place that cannot be missed for Daniel.”

China's domestic media is also one of the strange.

NEW Wave Entertainment, as a media that is quite close to Daniel, is also at a loss, "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 "Welcome", so this time his dynamics are attracting attention—the biggest guess right 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, invite some It is not surprising that celebrities with high international influence are present. Of course. These are still speculations, and no one knows what Daniel is here for."

After Daniel arrived in China, DD China did not release the itinerary as usual, and he flew directly to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

This was the place and reason he could find the most direct connection between him and the earthquake.

"Technology for the benefit of all living beings" previously stationed a research team here and has been engaged in research on the ecological environment of giant pandas. This is the foundation's first attempt to enter the field of ecology. This team has achieved many results. The protection, observation, and timely rescue of pandas have all produced important significance.

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

"We believe that……"

While listening, Daniel flipped through the report at random, 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 period of time in the future."

This situation is put at the end - obviously, even the "Technology Benefits All Beings" team does not attach much importance to this assertion.

Daniel interrupted Zhang Meng's report almost roughly.

"Do you know who predicted the earthquake?"

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

"It should be a few geologists and meteorologists, and of course some amateurs. Some observation points have found a rock stress field, such as China's state-owned oil company and so on. A more important issue is that geomagnetic sag was found in Chengdu. The daily variation of the component is significantly reduced, and the abnormal variation with a variation of 10-20 nits is not necessarily a problem of earthquakes, there are other possibilities, such as the sun and the like. The most important basis is also introduced in the report The main reason is that a committee under the Chinese Physics Association believes that this area is at risk of earthquakes for the coming year and has submitted it to the National Seismological Bureau. This kind of prediction is useless, because it is impossible for China to warn in one year A whole year."

Zhang Meng slowly said one reason after another.

Daniel's brow furrows and relaxes, relaxes and furrows. He found that he had an entry point. Since there were signs, he found that he could make use of the topic, but in China, it is useless to make use of the topic. As long as the government is stubborn, Daniel does not think that what he said will be meaningful.

"You, what do you feel?"

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

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

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

Despite being ignorant, Zhang Meng nodded his head quite quickly due to his good professionalism, and proceeded to operate.

Daniel began to use his network in China to find some people who really have the right to speak. A blank face suddenly appeared in his mind. Last year, besides meeting him in Shanghai, he did have his secretary's contact information in his hand. But if you look for it so rashly, no one will believe it.

"Forget it."

Daniel put down his phone and started contacting the leaders of Sichuan Province through Rongcheng.

The next step is busy, busy, busy, Zhang Meng, the team, Daniel, and layers of relationships-Daniel finally contacted the top leader of Sichuan Province, this is him, and it is impossible for any Hollywood star other than him I have this face.

However, when he took the report that Zhang Meng had driven 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 didn't speak too much official language.

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

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

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

...

When Daniel sat in the hotel, looking at this fairly informative report, he was speechless.

Is there really no other way?

Can you just watch things unfold?

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

PS: If there is no eunuch, how can there be a eunuch? It has been written to this point