King of Hollywood

"Aren't there too few shots in this episode? These undead warriors are rebellious guys. Even if Aragorn is the heir to the royal family and holds the holy sword, it is not easy to recruit them. And if the content of pirates is deleted, later Don't you think it's a little sudden for Aragorn to appear in White City with an army of undead?" Jackson asked, his tone a little hasty.

"Yes, I admit that what you said is very reasonable, Peter, but we must think about it holistically." Adrian was not dissatisfied. This kind of dialogue has happened countless times between the two, and Jackson did not Not the kind of person with low emotional intelligence, but he really likes Tolkien's novel—otherwise he wouldn't have left his job and wanted to come here shamelessly—and he's just a director now, so he doesn't need to stand at all Look at the problem from the producer's point of view.

"The "Lord of the Rings" has three novels, and it has built a huge world. It is indeed a very fulfilling thing to show this world one by one, but a movie is only three hours at most, and I am not David. Reiffes, I am not filming "Party Fighting Different", it is impossible for the audience to go to the cinema with water glasses, toothbrushes and quilts, so the necessary trade-offs are necessary." Adrian said unhurriedly, "I know Well, when I decided to put "The Lord of the Rings" on the big screen, someone once suggested that the investment is too large, it is better to compress the three books into one, Rohan and Gondor become one country, Boromir and Farah Mel became a man, Éowyn became Aragorn's sister, and Galadriel was played by King Elrond."

"Really?" Jackson showed a look of surprise, unable to accept it.

"Yes." Adrian smiled, of course it is true, these are indeed the difficulties faced by "once" Peter Jackson.

"I didn't agree. It's too bad. If I do this, the essence of the whole book will be completely lost, and it will be a complete failure." He continued, and then won Jackson's approval Gaze, "But what should be cut should still be cut. After all, we can't shoot all the content. And in the third part, there are three most important highlights, the Battle of White City, the Battle of Black Gate and the Battle of Doomsday Volcano." brigade, all three hours of the movie will serve these three places, so there is absolutely no need to do too many descriptions of the undead army and pirates.”

"...That's true." To the surprise of the people listening around, it should be argued that Jackson didn't stick to his opinion, and nodded after scratching his head.

But this did not surprise Adrian. I said before that such arguments have happened many times between the two. I also said that although he is a few years younger than Jackson, no matter how many contrary opinions The other party will always do what he asks, and it will be done very well. Peter Jackson, who has not experienced great success and is not immersed in unprecedented joy, is more agile in thinking, knows how to examine moderation and flexibility, and is naturally more malleable.

So Adrian has always taken good care of him. Apart from squeezing the labor force, he really wants to guide him to another path. Therefore, appropriate encouragement is still necessary.

"However, your opinion is also worth considering. In the future, we can release the director's cut version of the videotape or DVD. At that time, we can add these judgments that we have to reluctantly give up because of the length of the movie." Adrian then said, " So, give me an opinion piece on this episode, Peter, concise and with trade-offs."

"No problem!" Jackson beamed, then hesitated, then lowered his voice: "By the way, Ed, I have a plan..."

The appearance of Ai Ai in the period of time appeared on that hairy and fat face, which looked quite funny, but Adrian didn't care, and raised his chin to signal him to listen.

"What do you think of the movie "King Kong"?" After hesitating for a while, he finally asked.

"A good sci-fi movie, it's quite remarkable to be able to achieve that level in the 1930s, and it has influenced many people, so there will be several remakes and sequels later." Adrian raised his eyebrows. I understood what the other party wanted to say, "Why, you plan to remake it again?"

"Yes." Jackson nodded affirmatively, he looked a little excited, "As you said, it is a very remarkable thing to be able to produce that kind of effect in the 1930s, but technology is always improving , from silent to sound, from black and white to color, and now, the special effects produced by CG are more real and better, why can’t we enrich the more brilliant colors of the original movie and make it more spectacular and real?!”

"It sounds like you are already prepared?" Adrian asked with interest, rubbing his chin.

"Yes, I had this plan when I was making "Scary Ghost", and I also talked to many investors. There were already some film companies who were interested, but there were other movies about monsters that were being shot at that time, so After a little contact with Universal, he was rejected by the other party," Jackson sighed, a little depressed, but immediately looked at Adrian with hopeful eyes, "I think, maybe you will..."

He is not a fool, and he also knows that Adrian has been very optimistic about him since he was promoted to be the team leader, coupled with various rumors about the director of Miracle, that's why he worked so hard, and then tried to make a request at this time. Of course, more importantly, Adrian owns various copyrights of "King Kong".

That's right, Universal Films has King Kong's name and use rights, and Turner Broadcasting acquired RKO's film library in the 1980s, thus obtaining the remake and sequel rights of "King Kong". The two companies also fought a lawsuit over the copyright of "King Kong". Now, after the media has acquired them respectively, they no longer need to quarrel on this issue.

Therefore, if Jackson wants to remake, as long as Adrian agrees, everything will be fine.

"I'll think about it," Adrian said after thinking for a while, "I promise, after "The Lord of the Rings" is closed, we will find time to talk in detail."

"Thank you." Jackson smiled again. He believed that since Adrian said so, he would definitely consider it.

In fact, Adrian also wanted to see what kind of King Kong could be filmed by Peter Jackson, who had not gone through the expansion of "Lord of the Rings" and was instilled in him with a lot of special effects to serve the concept of the story. At the same time, Naomi's pretty face flashed in her ears, and the heroine would still be hers.

The production of "Lord of the Rings" is still going on, and with the addition of Peter Fatty, the already good efficiency has also improved a little, which made Adrian's thoughts of finishing shooting in October become more active. Of course, it’s not enough now. With the arrival of winter in the southern hemisphere, he has begun to reduce the frequency of activities in the deep forest park.

So in the next month, most of the shots will basically be completed in the studio in Queenstown, and at the same time, it will also give the actors more rest time. Although Adrian arranged the filming phase very well, each actor could go home to rest in turn, for example, the three heroines left the crew again, but because the trilogy needs to be filmed at one time, the few actors who are concentrated in the scene ——Mortensen, Wood, Davis and Silver, their tasks are still very heavy, so they are very happy about this hard-won rest time.

But new problems also came along. It just so happened that in these scenes, Gandalf had a lot of scenes, so McKellen was also on the set, so the old man had to complain a few words during the break. It's very simple, he goes to gay bars, but apart from him, almost no one in the crew goes to gay bars, so he's a little bored there by himself.

Although he can also go to ordinary bars with everyone, in the eyes of the old man, ordinary bars are also boring and not open enough, so he often encourages everyone to go to gay bars with him. Adrian was also invited by him, although he had been flirting with several women in the past two months, which was enough to tell everyone that he was not gay.

Surprisingly, a group of people actually went with the old man several times, and Adrian also participated once. In fact, gay bars are not as mysterious and chaotic as ordinary people imagine, and there will be no men dressed in women's clothing. They are no different from ordinary bars, so there is no need to make a fuss. Even so, after seeing Wood and Silver dancing together on the dance floor, Adrian still almost didn't spit. They are the most... beautiful men in the crew-if men can be described as beautiful- — Standing together does seem to sound a good match.

Adrian came here just once, not because he was the director and person in charge of the crew and had to ask a lot of things, but because he also had to receive many guests who came to New Zealand for vacation, such as the Lavigne family.

"It's totally different here than Canada, isn't it?" Adrian asked John Lavigne after leading them around the volcano in Tongariro National Park.

"Yes, it's very beautiful. It's somewhat similar to Canada, but it has a completely different style." John nodded, and then waved to Judy who was greeting the three siblings not far away.

"Emotionally, you invited us to come here for vacation." He then said to Adrian.

"It's nothing, it's winter here, and the shooting progress is going to be a lot slower, so I invited a lot of friends over for vacation." Adrian explained a little, "Honestly speaking, your daughter is really good, she has made great progress. Soon, maybe by the end of next year, we can consider releasing a single."

"Of course, she has always been very talented in music." John looked very happy at the three siblings who were fighting, and seemed to be proud of his daughter.

But Adrian shook his head subtly. In all fairness, John has fulfilled the responsibility of an ordinary father to Avril. At least he bought a stereo for her and allowed her to go to the market to sing. But it is only the responsibility of an ordinary father, and Avril Lavigne did not miss the taste of "sandwich biscuits". But now it has improved a lot, especially after getting the autographed records of two popular idols from M Records for Matthew and Michelle, she is very proud of holding her head up in front of her brothers and sisters. As for the source of the improvement...

The Lavigne family didn't stay in New Zealand for too long. They were just on vacation. They didn't need to stay for ten days and half a month. Avril Lavigne was very lively and happy from the beginning to the end. After all, it was because of her that Adrian invited her family. However, Adrian didn't talk to her too much during the period. Instead, he talked a lot with John who had watched "Lord of the Rings". No matter what he thought, it shouldn't be now.

Then, the men in the crew began to groan and sigh again, because the next time they came to visit the crew in New Zealand were women, and women who had flirted with Adrian, even though they were two Asian women.

Yes, Asian women, I really didn't expect this playboy to like all kinds of tastes. Fortunately, they didn't come together, otherwise the men in the crew would have how many gossips would come out of their mouths like women.

It was Yukie Nakama who came first. She promised Adrian before leaving Los Angeles last time. They spent a few days in a good two-person world. The hot springs in Oakland also made Yukie miss Hokkaido and her hometown. matter.

"There will be a chance. I will go back to Japan with you. After such a long time, I also miss it." In the hot spring, Adrian promised so, and then in exchange for Yuki Hui's more gentle service.

The next one was of course Lin Chiling. She didn't have many roles in the movie version of "Resident Evil". What's more, the filming has already ended, and now she is in the post-production stage and is going to be released at the end of the year, so she is still receiving performance training.

"There will be a good role soon, in the second half of the year, so you have to work harder." When Adrian was talking to Lin Chiling in this way, the beautiful woman was half-body, with her hands on the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel suite On the ground, one leg was raised high, and the big split was placed on the man's shoulder, trying to cater to him, and worked even harder after the sentence "work harder".

For a woman like her, straightforwardness is always the best way to do it, not to mention that she is still of Chinese descent, and she can only rely on him if she wants to get ahead in Hollywood.

If Yu Jihui and Lin Chiling's successive arrival touched the nerves of the men of the crew a little bit, the women who came to New Zealand next were enough to make them hit the wall.

"Your movies have a kind of magic, it seems that they can always show the beautiful and independent side of women." Mortensen said, looking at the girl in front of him.

"That's right, whether it's "Pretty Woman", "Four Weddings and a Funeral" or "My Best Friend's Wedding", I have watched it several times." Austin immediately nodded, and many people followed suit.

"Thank you, I'm glad to hear your compliments," Julia, who was sitting in the middle, nodded reservedly, her legs were crossed, her body was slightly tilted, and her iconic big mouth was slightly turned up, making her look very There is charm, "The scripts of these movies are very good, especially the character image fits me very well, right?"

The last word was said to Adrian next to him, with a hint of sarcasm, Adrian smiled as if he didn't notice: "Of course, these characters are specially designed for you, Dear Julie."

Suddenly there were a few muffled low sighs, and a few quick-minded people had already figured out the reason why Julia added sarcasm to her tone. Julia played various independent female characters in romantic movies. Is there anything more ironic than a big star in real life who keeps getting involved with a playboy?

This is also the reason why the men in the crew want to hit the wall. Everyone knows that Julia is the first Wonder Girl and the only Wonder Girl who has been photographed having intimate scenes with Adrian, so although she has never worked with Adrian , but everyone knows that she is indeed worthy of this title, so it is absolutely impossible for her not to have slept with Adrian.

But here is the problem. If two people only dated for a short period of time, or simply had a one-night stand, that is also a normal thing. But looking at today's situation, Julia should obviously know that Adrian has other women, but she still has intimate looks with him from time to time, which is too...

People who are troubled by these thoughts even suspect that the little Emma introduced to everyone is the daughter of Adrian and Julia. The so-called irresponsible brother and girlfriend of Julia don’t care about it after they have a child. an excuse.

"I have to say, Adrian is really... admirable, he is the man I admire the most!" Davis, who always likes to summarize things about directors of miracles, concluded again.

Although only Julia, Blanchett, and Gwyneth have appeared so far, there is no doubt that every miracle girl is very likely to be the same, such charm and ability... really no one else Compare.

But some people don't think so.

"Tell me, how many women have been here before me?" When traveling under the crimson Ayers Rock, wearing sunglasses and a scarf with her hair tied up, exuding the charm of a mature woman Julia asked.

That's right, they went to Australia instead of New Zealand. Anyway, the two countries are not far apart, and private jets are always on call. More importantly, the scenery of New Zealand is all in the South Island, and Adrian has almost traveled all over the South Island in the past few months, not to mention that the media under the media have begun to prepare for further disclosure of "Lord of the Rings" as planned In order to prevent large-scale reporters from rushing to the filming location, it is also good to go to Australia to visit.

"Not much—do you need to worry about it?" Adrian smiled, holding her waist.

"Of course, this will help me understand your heart and your opinion of me." Julia snorted softly, with a little imperceptible helplessness and confusion at the same time.

Adrian promised that he would make her the first actress in the 21st century, but there has been no movement until now. Although it is within the scope of the promise to produce in 2000 and then participate in the 73rd Oscar, why not earlier? He is not lacking in strength. Look at the beginning of this year, he won both Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate and Blanchett as nominees, and let Kate Blanchett win the crown! It's really... I don't know how to describe it. \u003c/p\u003e