Hollywood Road

"It's good to see you again, Father Costello."

In the reception room of the villa, Murphy saw the religious figure whom he had seen at the wedding of James Franco and Lily Collins.

Gal Gadot also greeted Father Marquez Costello very politely, and then asked someone to bring tea.

Father Marquez Costello sat on the sofa next to Murphy and said with a smile, "I came to Beverly Hills this morning to meet an old friend. I didn't expect him to be busy and happened to pass by your house. I remembered that time It was a pleasure meeting you in the Caribbean, so I came here to see you."

"It's our honor." Murphy exchanged glances with Gal Gadot indiscriminately.

Those who believe in such nonsense may believe it, but they just listen to it. This Father Marquez Costello is the regional archbishop of the Catholic Church in Southern California. He is busy with religious affairs. It is said that as soon as his term of office comes, It is very likely that he will return to the Vatican to be promoted to the cardinal. How can he pass by the Wave Manor in leisure?

"I walked all the way from the gate of the manor..." Father Marquez Costello always showed a warm smile, "I didn't see any signs related to religion."

"Huh?" Murphy thought for a while, and said, "The manor was renovated by an outside company, maybe they ignored it."

In fact, the decoration of the Wave Manor was completely done according to Gal Gadot's intentions. Gal Gadot believed in Judaism, but she knew that Murphy didn't believe in religion and other illusory things at all, so there was no Put any facilities or decorations related to Judaism in the manor.

Father Marquez Costello raised his mouth slightly and said, "Mr. Stanton, if this house can be bathed in the Lord's..."

"Ahem!" Gal Gadot coughed suddenly, and then said, "Sorry, I may have caught a cold recently."

Murphy remained calm, looked at the teacup on the coffee table next to Father Marquez Costello's sofa, and made a gesture of invitation, "Father, this is the top-quality Longjing tea imported from the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Not even a pound, I entrusted a lot of connections to get it."

Hearing what Murphy said, Father Marquez Costello had no choice but to pick up the teacup, take a sip, and then nodded in approval, "It really is good tea."

"It's a pity that there are too few available." Murphy deliberately changed the topic, "If the priest is interested, you can take some home and drink slowly."

Father Marquez Costello quickly raised his hand and shook it, "I'm still more used to drinking black tea."

While speaking, his brows were slightly frowned, just like the previous meeting, the big director opposite was obviously not interested in talking about religious beliefs, and it seemed that he was not very interested in believing in Catholicism.

But he didn't come here for religious belief.

Taking another sip from his teacup, Father Marquez Costello asked tentatively, "I heard that Mr. Stanton's new film will be released soon?"

"Yes." Murphy immediately raised his vigilance, "From next month, it will be screened in a few theaters in Los Angeles and New York."

Father Marquez Costello nodded slightly, "I recently heard a few friends in Hollywood mention that your film contains Catholic content?"

Although the film has not been fully produced and no outsiders have seen it, it is impossible to keep it completely secret, not to mention that the crew had filmed exterior scenes in an abandoned Catholic church at that time.

Murphy believed that Father Marquez Costello might have received some uncertain or speculative news and wanted to come over to make a stand, otherwise he would not be so polite.

"There is a part of the content of Catholicism in downtown Los Angeles in the 1980s." Murphy said the truth, "There is not much content, and the theme of the film is not religion, but crime."

Hearing these words, Father Marquez Costello glanced at Murphy, thinking that what Murphy said should be the truth, his smile was more warm,

"Mr. Stanton, if you take photos related to Catholicism in the future, you can say hello to the church, and we will do our best to assist you."

"Oh?" Murphy didn't seem to believe it.

Father Marquez Costello added, "We are also happy to cooperate with a great director like you."

Murphy nodded, "I will notify the priest if there are more related subjects to be filmed."

"I will definitely do my best." Father Marquez Costello relieved himself and stood up to leave, "

Oh, I'll check with my old friend again, he should be back. "

"Then I won't keep it." Murphy didn't say any hypocritical polite words.

He also stood up and walked out of the villa with Gal Gadot and Father Marquez Costello. Anyway, these are guests, and the two of them still have basic etiquette.

As for what Father Marquez Costello said about greeting the Catholic Church, he naturally threw it aside. Even if he was filming such religious subjects, he would not bother these people. Wouldn’t it be nice to say hello to them? Did you add a pair of big scissors to your head?

At the entrance of the villa, Father Marquez Costello's driver had already driven the car over. He walked out of the villa and was about to get in the car when it suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Father Marquez Costello stop, Gal Gadot, who was following Murphy, walked up to him, stopped, frowned slightly, and said in a low voice, "Is there anything else for him?"

Murphy shook his head, "Who knows."

After all, Father Marquez Costello is the regional archbishop. If he doesn't leave, Murphy, as the master, can't throw him out, right?

"Mr. Stanton." Father Marquez Costello turned around, looked at Murphy, and asked, "Do you believe in heaven?"

Although he didn't know what Father Marquez Costello's intentions were, Murphy said honestly, "I don't believe in heaven."

Father Marquez Costello froze for a moment and asked, "Why?"

"Because my current life is a hundred times better than heaven." Murphy looked to the side, "For me, a place with Gail is heaven."

He spread his hands, "I'm living in a real paradise now, why should I believe in a illusory paradise?"

Gal Gadot quietly stretched out her right hand and firmly grasped Murphy's left hand.

His eyes moved slightly, and Father Marquez Costello glanced at Gal Gadot, as if he couldn't believe that a Hollywood director would be so infatuated with a woman.

Father Márquez-Costello paused, then asked, "Do you believe in God?"

"It doesn't matter whether we believe in God or not..." Murphy said unabashedly, "Because God never believes in us."

Hearing what Murphy said, Father Marquez Costello gradually understood something, knowing that the possibility that he wanted to develop this Hollywood director into a Catholic believer might be very low.

This is simply a typical atheist.

Father Marquez Costello stopped staying and turned around to get in the car. Under the watchful eyes of Murphy and Gal Gadot, the car bypassed the fountain and drove out of Waves Manor along the road facing the villa.

"He seems to have heard something." Gal Gadot looked away and said, "It's just that I don't know the specific content."

"Don't worry about him." Murphy knew that after the film was released, it would definitely attract a lot of criticism like the original "Suspected Child Abuse", and the criticism and the voice of the Catholic Church might be even louder. John Patrick Stanley was too old, he turned back to the villa first, and said to Gal Gadot who followed, "Hollywood has the freedom to make films, this is the most basic rule in the circle, if the voice of the Catholic Church It's good for me too."

Are there still few very controversial films that have been shot in Hollywood? There are not one or two stories about the Catholic scandal. If the Catholic Church really attacks him, then he will definitely become the object of support from the entire Hollywood circle.

This is America, this is California, not the Northeastern United States and European countries such as Italy.

After returning to the room and changing clothes, Murphy and Gal Gadot drove to the Fox Building and Stanton Studio respectively. Murphy had handed over the daily affairs of the Stanton Studio to Gal Gadot, so that he I can spare most of my energy to focus on film shooting and production.

If a director is involved in too many things, it will definitely affect the quality of the work.

Murphy mainly deals with dubbing synthesis. After all the dialogues and selected music are completed, the sound effect editor is asked to add various sound effects to the film. So far, the sound part of "Diego Ross" has all the elements After the preparation is complete, there is another process behind, which is to add the front and rear subtitles to the film.

After completing these, Murphy made two copies of the final edited version of the film, one is a digital copy, which is used for post-production DVD compression, on-demand downloads on online platforms, and TV broadcasts, etc.; the other is a film copy. After being in the hands of Twentieth Century Fox, it was immediately sent to a printing factory to prepare copies for theater screenings.

By Sunday night, all the post-production of the film "Diego Ross" was completed, and Murphy completed the planned work on time. Although the middle process was a bit rushed and the pressure was relatively high, he did not miss the original Scheduled for screening in December.

Before screening, the film has to be sent to the MPAA for grading. There is basically no problem with this film being rated R. Twentieth Century Fox itself has enough influence within the MPAA, and the overall scale of the film is not particularly large. Not on Murphy's previous "The Wolf of Wall Street".

In this way, the rest of Murphy is to cooperate with 20th Century Fox to promote the film, and then wait for the screening to start before Christmas.

The weekend before Thanksgiving has just passed, and "The End of the World" has also delivered a good answer.