Rebirth In Hollywood

"Ryan, have you come to New York?"

After Mrs. Shelly opened the door, she looked at Ryan walking behind Natalie, a little surprised.

"Mrs. Shelly, long time no see."

Saying hello, Ryan walked into the living room and said to the middle-aged man sitting on the sofa, "Hello, Mr. Avner."

"Ryan, sit wherever you want."

"No, Dad, Ryan and I are going upstairs." Natalie pulled Ryan and walked up to the second floor.

Avner Hershler watched the two figures disappear on the stairs, frowning, Mrs. Shelly sighed slightly, and said, "Don't worry, Nat and Ryan are both measured people."

"The problem is they've grown up!" Mr. Avner was a little displeased.

Walking into Natalie's bedroom, it was still the same as it was a few years ago, and it seemed that nothing had changed. Ryan looked around, pulled a chair, and sat in front of the desk.

"Need something to drink?" Natalie gestured to Ryan with two boxes of juice.

"I always like what you bring, isn't it, Nate?" Ryan took the juice and put it on the desk, "think about the first time I entered your room? So many years have passed."

"Ryan?" Natalie's brows furrowed, and she looked at him up and down. "Such emotion shouldn't come from a 16-year-old, right?"

"Remind you, Nat, I'm seventeen."

Ryan waved his hand casually and looked at the photo frames in the room one by one. Except for the group photo of the Hershler family, it was the photo of himself and Natalie.

"Ryan, haven't you considered moving out?" Natalie sat by the bed and suddenly changed the subject.

"Moving out?" Ryan never thought about it.

"Yeah, you are seventeen years old." Natalie said naturally. "A lot of people moved out of their homes at the age of sixteen."

Ryan knows this, although the laws of most states in the United States stipulate that eighteen years old are considered adults, and sixteen years old still need a guardian. But many of the early adulthood will be after the age of sixteen. Just move out of the house and try to live the life you want.

certainly,

The advantages and disadvantages of this are not small.

"I... I haven't thought about it yet." Ryan could only scratch his head.

"Why don't you buy a manor of your own?" Natalie looked casual, "You're not short of money."

"This... Let's talk about it later." Ryan suddenly thought that he should have a house of his own. "Do you have any ideas?"

"Hmm~"

Sitting opposite is her best friend, and Natalie has no intention of hiding it. "In a few months, I will entrust my mother to find a suitable apartment and move out after the sixteenth birthday."

"Why move out?" despite knowing that Natalie was getting more and more sexual as she got older. Ryan was still curious.

Natalie didn't answer, just curled her lips and looked down the stairs through the door panel.

Seeing Natalie's expression, Ryan can roughly guess some, presumably Natalie has been in the past few years. It is not very pleasant to get along with an overly conservative father.

"Dad saw me eating meat," Natalie said suddenly. "We had an argument."

"Oh, God!" Ryan suddenly covered his forehead and asked tentatively, "Has he asked you why you eat meat?"

"Of course." Natalie pursed her lips. Wrinkling his nose, he said, "I told Dad that some guy lied to me, and that's what happened..."

"Come on, Nat." Ryan wouldn't believe her words. If it was true as Natalie said, Mr. Avner would never give himself a good look, and might even shoot him out.

"Stand up, Nat!" Ryan suddenly thought of another question.

"Stand up?" Natalie stood beside Ryan's chair despite her questioning.

"Wow~"

Ryan stood beside Natalie, then gestured at the size of the two of them and made an excited voice, "Nate, are you over five feet five inches?"

"Yeah." Natalie rolled her eyes, "Is it a pleasure to be so much shorter than you?"

"No, no, no." Ryan said boldly, "You know, Nate, you should thank me for being so tall."

"Thank you? Humph~"

Seeing Natalie's puzzled eyes, Ryan closed his mouth, he couldn't tell her, you are already taller than your previous life, right? Hmm...that's still skinny.

The knock on the door suddenly sounded, and when Natalie opened the door, Mrs. Shelly walked in with a cookie, "I made the dessert, Ryan, you're welcome."

"Mmm~ it tastes great!" Ryan picked up a piece and threw it into his mouth.

"It suits your taste."

When Mrs. Shelly left, she deliberately turned her eyes around the two of them and closed the door after finding that there was nothing abnormal.

"I heard you dropped two movies in a row, Nat?" Ryan threw another cookie into his mouth.

"To be exact, I rejected "Lolita", and the crew of "Romeo and Juliet" looked down on me." Natalie touched her neck subconsciously, the bottom of the turtleneck was silver white Sun pendant.

"That's their loss." In general, Ryan's audience? Kingsley mentioned, "Don't forget the audition at the end of February, but I really want to partner with you."

"Come on, Ryan, do you think Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala have room for us?"

"Please don't forget, Nate." Ryan reminded, "Box office is also a kind of qualifications."

"but……"

"Stop! Nat."

As he grew older, Ryan had long since let go of that quarrel. Anyway, his future achievements are enough to explain everything.

When it got dark, Ryan declined Mrs. Shelly's invitation to dinner and was about to leave and return to the hotel.

"Are you still going to the theatre tomorrow?" Natalie asked as Ryan was dropped out of the house.

"There shouldn't be time, I'm going to be surprised tomorrow." Ryan reached out and brushed her long wind-swept hair. "Now is an important moment for public relations. After dealing with the surprise, I'm leaving New York, Nate. , I'm waiting for you in Los Angeles."

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After last year's shareholding change, under the operation of the new Avi Arad, Marvel Comics has restructured, not only forming five major industrial structures of film, copyright licensing, toys, Internet and comic publishing, but is also preparing to build a separate company in Burbank. A film production company that specializes in making Marvel superhero movies.

Within a year, Marvel Comics used various means to recover the copyrights of most comic characters. Even so, the recovery work is still in full swing.

At the same time, the traditional comics industry continued to slide into the abyss. Marvel Comics' losses last year reached a considerable amount. If it wasn't for Ryan's golden signboard, I am afraid that the bank would have come to collect debts.

Of course, this situation is bound to be unsustainable, and turning losses into profits is the primary issue facing the top management of surprise.

"In the past year, we have successively taken back the copyright of the most popular comic characters such as X-Men, Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, Captain America, Blade Warrior, etc. The film production department in Burbank is under preparation. , I think Marvel now has what it takes to bring its own superhero to the big screen."

In the conference room, Avi Allard was talking eloquently. Although he still lost money last year, he used this precious time to complete the integration and optimization of the surprise interior.

"Now we should think about which superhero to put on the big screen first." The speaker was Stan Lee, and the old man was staring at Ryan, who was silent, "How about Spider-Man? "

"No, Stan."

Even though he was sitting, Ryan's body was still standing like a javelin, "I think you should make a long-term plan, there are more than 5,000 comic characters in Marvel, dozens of them are popular, we should do Come up with a shooting plan for ten, twenty, or even thirty years!"

His words made several high-level people of surprise look at each other. Superheroes have always been popular on the big screen, and the characters of surprise have not yet experienced the test of the film market.

"Ryan, what do you mean?" The eyes behind Stan Lee's lenses radiated a fine light.

"Create a unique worldview that belongs to wonder, and put most of the superheroes in the same parallel universe, such as Iron Man, Captain America and others."

Ryan has read the comics of this world, and the parallel universe of surprise is a mess, and the worldview is far less clear than in the previous life movies.

"You mean..." Stan Lee had realized something.

"That's right, Stan." Ryan tapped slowly on the arm of the chair. "The Avengers is one of our ultimate plans."

Then, he reached out his hand to stop what the other party wanted to say, "However, it will take ten or even twenty years."

"Ryan, we need a shot in the arm to change the company's current revenue status." Avi Arad said.

"Then start with the Blades."

Relatively speaking, Ryan's approach is somewhat conservative, but such an inconsequential and limited investment comic image is very suitable as a test product for Marvel Studios.

"How about you write the script yourself, Ryan?"

"Stan, you are the one who knows them best." Ryan shook his head firmly, "You and your team are the most suitable candidates."

Ryan isn't being humble, like he said, who better to be a screenwriter than the people who created these superheroes?

For the whole day, Ryan stayed in amazement. He had no intention of intervening in the specific operation. He only discussed future development plans with several senior management, and put forward many suggestions on film shooting, such as the mutual visits of superheroes in the future. Easter eggs and more.

In the early evening, after a phone call with Natalie, Ryan flew back to Los Angeles, the Oscar nominations were about to be announced, and it was now a critical moment! ()