King of Hollywood

Chapter 154 Is this your surprise? !

"Father, yes, the villain." The little guy waved his arms and gave a quick performance, waving his arms and screaming every word, as if he was worried that others would not understand.

Although Adrian was very dissatisfied, he could only stare at her helplessly, at most he could nibble on that pink face: "Yes, yes, Dad is a villain."

Monica next to her couldn't help laughing, and Lily, who was attracted, immediately raised her hands to her, screaming happily to be hugged by her. Adrian naturally wouldn't go against his daughter's wishes, Monica quickly took the little guy over and hugged her for a while, both Lily and she seemed very happy.

Kate had no time to bring the baby with her because she needed to catch up on the final scene of "The Killing Hour", so Adrian ran around with the little guy, although it was not his turn according to the agreement. He has always disapproved of the nanny taking over the care of the children, but he may not return to Kate's house every day. Out of consideration for the children, he finally asked Lily to run around with her mother or father every once in a while. Kate definitely can't compete with him in this regard, so she took the little guy to appear on the set of "Time to Kill". The crew members quickly accepted the little guy after the initial surprise. Although there are not many young mothers, but Not less.

Adrian also took the little guy to his office. The new office, the media headquarters building in Burbank, can basically be upgraded to a group company. Naturally, he must have his own office building. Claude sold a large piece of land around and built the company's park to a fairly large scale, but due to various reasons, he didn't move in until the end of last year. TB also almost completely moved over from Atlanta. Although Ted Turner was not very happy, he was helpless, but considering his mood, Adrian and Claude kept the branch in Atlanta.

Therefore, Adrian also had to say goodbye to the office in Bosworth, although he was very reluctant to be here, except that many movies were decided here, and he had a passionate moment with many women here. But he is the chairman of the media after all. Even if Claude is in charge of most of the affairs, he still has to sit here to declare his power, not to mention that he has other plans for the structure of the film company.

At the same time, Laverne came with him. The CE of Bosworth was also promoted to the head office. If Adrian didn't need him to cooperate in film production, Laverne wouldn't have arrived so late. head office.

With the support of her father, she has often visited the offices of several high-level executives in the company. Her lively and unafraid personality also makes many people like her. Because Adrian deliberately avoided appearing with Kate and her daughter at the same time on the set of "Time to Kill" and in the company building, although some people guessed who Lily's father and mother were, they didn't think too much about it.

However, it was the first time that he was brought to other women's homes like this. The women around him basically knew that he had a child, but they had seen him except Charlize and Nakama Yukie who was currently working part-time as a maid. It's just Sarah. But Adrian doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. Let the children get in touch with it from an early age, and they will accept the reality when they grow up, don't they? Besides, Monica is not that kind of overbearing woman, and Lily's affinity also made her fall in love with her quickly.

"Ducks are, ducks" sitting in Monica's arms, the little guy read aloud while holding a children's picture book.

"That's right, Duck, Lily is really smart." Monica ěn her head, with a doting smile, this scene looked so warm that Adrian, who was leaning on the side, couldn't bear to disturb her .

But he came over after all: "Lily, it's time to sleep."

"The book is called?" Lily blinked her eyes, and it took a while to react, then shook her head like a drum: "Not good."

The pronunciation of the latter word was not known to be much more correct than the former one, and after she finished speaking, she yawned greatly.

"That's not okay, baby, a good child must sleep." Adrian coaxed her, "If you don't sleep, Dad is no longer a villain, but you are a villain."

As a result, Lily was stunned for a while, and then suddenly cried out happily: "I'm a bad guy, I'm a bad guy!"

Adrian rolled his eyes when he heard that, but fortunately Monica came in and took the album away from the little guy: "It's time to rest, Lily, if you rest now, I promise to teach you more words tomorrow, okay?"

The little guy looked at his father and then at his aunt, and finally nodded in agreement: "Okay."

After washing his daughter, he hugged and coaxed her for a while and sang half a lullaby before Adrian and Monica left her bedroom together.

"Fortunately, you're here, otherwise I might have to spend a lot of effort to coax her out, after which he took her by the arm and said.

"It's just a little more work. To be honest, it's the first time I've seen a man like you who is so patient with children." Monica replied with a smile.

That's true, when she was serving Emma, ​​she was no worse than Lily. Adrian said this in his heart, and then he noticed the loss between Monica's brows. After thinking about it for a while, Adrian shrugged and leaned into her ear: "Don't worry, my promise will be fulfilled."

Monica raised her head abruptly, and looked at him with indescribable eyes, surprised, unbelievable, terrified, and so on.

"I still have this little credit," Adrian smiled and touched her mouth. At the end of next year at most, I will definitely let you realize your wish. "

After staring at him for a while, Monica sighed long, but threw her whole body into his arms. Holding Adrian so tightly, she leaned her head on his shoulder for a long time before she opened her mouth: "Sometimes I can't help but think, if I hadn't sold my soul to the devil, what would happen now Case."

"Why, do I look like a devil?" Adrian asked jokingly holding her.

"Yes, you are a devil, Ed." Monica closed her eyes, "You are good at grasping a woman's weakness, and then do what she likes; you can read a woman's mind, let them do it for you You are fascinated; you like to play them in the palm of your hand, watching them dance to your rhythm, you are full of greed and possession, you are an out-and-out devil."

"Hehe, so you already know all of this, so what should I do now?" Adrian still had that joking tone.

Monica didn't answer, and she raised her head after a while, stared into his eyes again, and then smiled slightly: "Actually, it's not a bad thing to buy a soul hún to the devil, even if..."

"Even if it's a devil, it's trustworthy." Adrian immediately continued, also smiled slightly, and then leaned forward holding her face.

"I'm yours, Ed, I'm completely yours." Monica murmured while looking at him, and immediately became warm with him.

What Monica said was right, the devil is also trustworthy, and it doesn't take any tricks to get other people's souls, just like what he is doing now.

"Tell me frankly, what do you think? Don't worry, this is just an idea." Adrian looked at Bruce Willis in front of him and asked seriously.

"Well, to be honest, there must be a market for this. If the few of us appear in the same movie, some people will definitely want to watch it," Willis gestured, "It's just that I promised is not enough —Of course, if you are the one who sent the invitation, that’s another matter—and there are still many things to consider, and the script has become a secondary thing, although we can chat a few words when we meet each other, but……"

He smiled and didn't go on, but the rest of the words can be roughly guessed. But Willis spoke very seriously and sincerely. Obviously, he did treat Adrian as a friend.

"Don't worry, it's just an idea now, let's finalize the general framework first." Adrian said with a smile, and they are naturally talking about the idea of ​​"The Expendables".

Adrian has already discussed this topic with the heads of three film companies, and the answers he got were different. Although the Weinstein brothers claim that there is nothing they dare not shoot, they are conservative in this regard. After all, it takes a lot of money just to invite several big names to appear on the scene at the same time, not to mention that there are many things that need to be dealt with; while Robert? Yi cautiously expressed optimism. If everything can be taken care of, and if the cost is well controlled, it can be shot; but Bosworth, brought out by Adrian and Laverne, is more professional in this regard. , they neither affirmed nor denied, but indicated that more information was needed.

Of course, this situation has something to do with Adrian not telling them to make this movie a brand. After all, this plan is a bit too huge, and he has to combine a lot of information to make a judgment. For example, the feedback given by Marvel is that there is no answer to whether it can be made into a comic, at least before the movie is released.

So now he is just laying the groundwork in advance like meeting Schwarzenegger in the White House, but he has the best relationship with Willis, so he has more things to say.

"Sorry, I'm late." The lounge was finally pushed away at this moment, and Liv, who was wearing a windbreaker, broke in, and stuck out her tongue embarrassingly.

"You know you're late too? See for yourself how long you've been late." Adrian pointed to the clock on the wall.

"I'm sorry, I forgot to drive the car radio today, and I got stuck in a traffic jam on Highway 122." Liv stuck out her tongue again, she had a ponytail and a thick brow on her forehead. With this action, she looked green in cuteness ūn beautiful.

"It's okay, it's only been ten minutes, we'll just try to make up for it later." Willis smoothed things over.

"Okay, prepare quickly, call Jacques and the others and start." Adrian also stood up smoothly.

"Thank you, Ed." Liv jumped over with a smile, took his arm and kissed him on the face, not caring that Willis was right in front of her eyes.

Willis shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't see it. Anyway, it wasn't once or twice. He also knew that Adrian's affair was enough to write a novel. Apart from envy, he could only envy him. Even the woman at home Sometimes it doesn't work out.

After Jacques and others came over, the group immediately went to the dubbing room. There was actually no big deal today, which was to do post-dubbing for "The End of the World". Adrian has already seen the film uā, and Michael Bay still handles his specialty, the explosion scene and the long zoom shot, very well, even if it is still rough, the impact is still very good.

Adrian only needs to know these things. After all, these post-productions are handled by Michael and Bruckheimer, and there is no need to come over to supervise them at all. However, Adrian came here today because of other things.

"Great work, guys, it only took two hours to complete." After waiting for the dubbing, Adrian immediately called them together, "By the way, the band singing the theme song is also in another They auditioned in a recording studio, they wrote a song about father and daughter just for this movie, maybe you can hang out with them."

Since it was proposed by him, and the dubbing work went smoothly, and it was almost completed, everyone had no objections, but Liv ōu Kong came to him and asked in a low voice: "Why do we have to meet them?"

"Because it's necessary." Adrian replied with a smile.

"Really?" Liv narrowed her eyes and looked at him, "Can I not go?"

"Of course not, haven't you been pestering me for surprises? You'll find out soon." Adrian immediately rejected her proposal.

Ever since he said that he would surprise her in the next movie, Liv kept pestering him to ask what it was, and even though it had been almost a year now, she still couldn't forget it.

"There's always a bad feeling." Liv murmured, but didn't say anything more although she was dubious.

Although she feels like she doesn't care about anything, her intuition as a woman is still very keen. So Adrian quickly whispered a few words to Willis and Jacques, asking them to pay attention and come out to smooth things over later when needed. Although they both agreed, they didn't understand what happened. thing.

The mystery was soon revealed.

"Let me introduce, this is the home of the Aerosmith Orchestra, Mr. Steven Taylor, these are his band members." In another lounge, Adrian put a long-haired , a middle-aged man who looked dry and thin and obviously sang rock and roll was introduced to several actors.

"Hi, I'm Steven Tyler." The middle-aged man immediately shook hands with them, but when he reached out to Liv, the young girl who was still smiling before entering had already sullenly stared at Taylor for a while She didn't move or speak, until Adrian rolled his eyes several times and coughed lightly, then she stretched out her hand reluctantly and shook hands with him, said "Hello" coldly and then went Shut up. Taylor smiled awkwardly and didn't say much.

Even the dullest person should have seen something was wrong by this point, but since neither Adrian nor Tyler said anything, they had to keep the problem to themselves.

"I invite everyone to come here because the lead singer of Smith specially wrote a theme song about father and daughter for the movie, but he couldn't grasp the emotions in it for a while, so I hope to interpret it through ā sharing and synthesizing your views. Emotions that should be in the song." Adrian took the lead in making the opening remarks.

"Okay, let me talk about my feelings first..." Bruce Willis looked around, coughed dryly and opened his mouth first. Who made him the tragic first protagonist and was told by Adrian.

After he finished speaking, Jacques Phoenix immediately took over the topic. His character is the lover of the hero's daughter, so he naturally has the right to speak. After he passed, it was Steve Buscemi and others.

"Then what we can be sure of is that, first of all, this daughter is a bit rebellious. She feels that her father is unfair to her, so she always opposes him; secondly, she should be a very sensitive person..." Taylor thought for a while and then After considering the words and sentences, he opened his mouth. Although some words seemed to be criticizing his daughter, they were actually compliments and pity in disguise, and his eyes always glanced at Liv intentionally or unintentionally, so anyone could guess He had pointed it out, and for a moment, the atmosphere in the room became a little weird.

"... Even so, the daughter still loves her father very much, just like the last goodbye, she finally chose to forgive her father, I believe that if she did it again at that time..." When Taylor said this, she always Liv, who remained silent with a sullen face, suddenly stood up, and strode out without saying a word.

"Sorry, you guys continue." Adrian stood up, cast a glance at Willis and made a gesture to Steven Tyler to be calm, and then chased him out.

"Liv, wait, don't be so impulsive, okay?" He walked behind Liv two or three times after leaving, and grabbed her hand.

"Let me go!" Liv threw off his hand angrily, and wanted to continue to rush forward. Adrian hugged her immediately, ignored her kicking and pushing, looked around and then led her into the room. into the bathroom.

Fortunately, there was no one else inside. In order to prevent eavesdropping, he purposely looked past the cubicle, and then put the cleaning sign outside. After doing all this, Adrian looked at Liv again. Although the young girl leaned against the bathroom and did not leave, she still looked angry with her head turned away.

"Calm down, Liv, take a deep breath, do it a few more times, and let's talk after your emotions calm down?" Adrian said in a gentle tone.

Although very angry and unhappy, Liv subconsciously followed his words and took a deep breath. When she realized that the boiling emotions had calmed down a lot, she could only continue doing it no matter how unhappy she was.

"Is it better now?" Adrian, who saw her changes in his eyes, asked immediately.

"This is your surprise?" Liv stared at him and asked stiffly.

"Yes, Steven Tyler is your father anyway, isn't he?" F@.