Chatty Hollywood

Chapter 254 Devil’s Advocate

"Is this the newly refined human skin book?"

Charlize asked curiously in the newly rented office building of Spectre Studio.

——While in London, Charlotte told her and Alexis about their plans after getting the rights to adapt the "Harry Potter" series.

Charlize was naturally very curious about the new version of the human skin book, which played a big role in it. But now, in her opinion——

"This can't be considered a "book" anymore, can it?"

Looking at what looked like a big iron cabinet in front of her, the girl could only complain like this.

"Because after I refined the human skin book and the Saturn trophy together, in order to facilitate image processing, I specially integrated an image workstation and a server!"

"Is that why it's like this?"

"Yeah! We call it "Kaleidoscope" now."

"..."

Charlize suddenly felt that maybe the previous human skin book was better - at least, it looked a bit fantasy.

However, the girl also knows that this is just her own prejudice.

"What can this thing do?"

——This is the most important thing.

"What can be done?"

Charlotte scratched her head,

"How to explain... Let's do this!"

Charlotte operated the keyboard and showed Charlize two sets of art resources on the "Kaleidoscope" screen——

It was a simple interior scene;

and an exploded view of a little boy with glasses and a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead.

"This is a concept sketch for Harry Potter by a newly recruited artist working on Spectre."

Charlotte explained,

"Now--"

He hit the Enter key with his hand.

The room suddenly became dark, then returned to normal.

"call!"

Charlotte exhaled,

"Look!"

On the screen, a little boy was standing in the room, waving a slender stick. The next moment, a cloud of white smoke emerged from the wooden stick, and gradually turned into a translucent stag——

"Call the gods to protect you!"

Charlotte muttered quietly.

"What did you say?"

Charlize didn't hear what Charlotte said.

"nothing."

Charlotte shook her head;

"This is the ability of "Kaleidoscope". As long as you have character design and scenes, you can directly derive high-quality animation with the help of scripts, and you don't need to consider the complicated process in the middle."

"It looks good!"

Looking at this magical automatic derivative animation, Charlize also forgot about the huge size of "Kaleidoscope" that did not conform to her aesthetics.

"But, you created the animation directly with mana, right? Are the studio employees okay with seeing it?"

"They won't see it."

Charlotte's tone was very sure;

"The animation production department of Spectre Studio operates independently. I told the artists who drew the original paintings and scenes that we outsource the specific production of animation."

"Outsourcing!?"

"This is it!"

Charlotte pointed at the "kaleidoscope" in front of her.

"All right!"

Charlize was a little weak;

"So, just like the special effects outsourcing in "Sleepy Hollow", you have played the left-hand and right-hand trick again?"

"It's not impossible for you to understand it this way."

Charlotte shrugged.

And Charlize was even more helpless.

"You're going to attract the IRS sooner or later!"

"That's not the case. The accountant I hired is very good. He prepared tax certificates for all my employees, including Alexis. Not to mention——"

Charlotte smiled slightly,

"The physical registration location of Spectre Studio is actually the Cayman Islands. The same is true for those outsourcing companies."

"Cayman Islands!?"

Charlize didn't understand, so Charlotte had to explain,

“The Cayman Islands obtained a royal decree in 1978 which provided for permanent exemption from the Cayman Islands’ tax obligations.”

“Therefore, there are no direct taxes at all in the Cayman Islands, whether on individuals, companies or the trust industry.”

"So, this place is both a tax haven and the home of many leather goods companies."

Seeing the "I see" expression on Charlize's face, Charlotte felt that this girl must be taking the opportunity to complain that her outsourcing company was all a leather company.

Charlotte had no objection to this.

——That’s how it is!

Moreover, he has many ways to "punish" this bold girlfriend...

"Speaking of which, Sally, after Pat Kingsley talked to you last time, did she recommend any good scripts to you?"

Charlotte changed the subject and wanted to know how the girl was doing.

Although they can see each other in the dream world every night, maybe because they don’t spend much time together in reality, once the two of them are in the dream, they will always interact unconsciously...

In addition, there are no outsiders to disturb the dream world, and there are almost no physical limitations in reality...

What's more, as her magic power increased, Charlotte designed several more scenes for the dream world - such as secluded mountains and forests, comfortable hot springs, etc...

In short, the two people's behavior in the dream world recently can be basically summarized as play, frolic and "exercise".

Anyway, we didn’t talk much about work.

It wasn't until today, when Charlize had some free time and came to visit the Spectre studio out of curiosity, that Charlotte remembered that he hadn't learned about the girl's recent work.

"She actually recommended to me a project that is still in the preparation stage, "The Devil's Advocate". Have you heard of it?"

"The Devil's Advocate!?"

Charlotte was stunned for a moment,

"Who is the director?"

"Tyler Hackford, who also serves as producer."

"Hackford!?"

Charlotte thought for a while,

"Is "Scars of Tears" released in the first half of this year his work?"

"Yes. You even watched it with me at that time."

Charlize looked a little excited,

"The director has quite a lot of experience, and the script is also very good. It should be a good work."

"Have you read the script? Did the crew send you an audition invitation?"

Charlotte was a little surprised.

Ordinarily, for a movie like this that is still in the preparation stage, the script will not be leaked casually.

In particular, it is not easy for ordinary second- and third-tier stars like Charlize to see the script in advance. Unless the crew issues an audition invitation, a brief synopsis will be included.

But Charlize shook his head,

"That's not true. It was Pat who used the power of CAA to find out the information."

"I see."

Charlotte nodded,

"It seems that after "Sleepy Hollow" became a hit, Pat Kingsley really paid attention to you!"

"yes!"

Charlize also smiled,

"However, it can also be seen from this that CAA's network power is indeed very powerful!"

"I won't deny that."

Charlotte shrugged.

"But, Sally, it's not okay to not trust your agents, but it's also very dangerous to rely entirely on them!"

"I understand that!"