Rebirth In Hollywood

"Destroy the Earth?" Roland Emmerich frowned, as if thinking about the specific meaning of this sentence.

A secretary knocked on the door and walked in and brought freshly brewed black tea to Roland Emmerich. After Ryan gestured to him, he continued, "Roland, you've heard of the Mayans. Calendar?"

"Of course." Roland Emmerich nodded. "The last day of their calendar is December 21, and they think that after that, the world will enter a new era."

"But in the various legends of Western religions, 2012 is the year of disaster." Ryan folded his hands and put them on the desk, "It is also the rumored end of the world."

"You mean to make a disaster movie about this?" Roland Emmerich roughly understood what he meant.

"That's right."

Ryan said unhurriedly, "We can completely use the prophecies of the Mayans and religions to destroy the earth on December 21, 2012."

After thinking about it, he continued, "For example, there is a problem with the core of the earth, the plate has moved significantly, a new mountain building movement has begun, volcanoes have erupted in various places, and the tsunami caused by the global earthquake has engulfed all the land. want to survive..."

"It can only be like the legend." Roland Emmerich's brows gradually loosened, and he directly took Ryan's words, "Build Noah's Ark that can rival the flood."

"That's it." Ryan smiled.

"It's a good idea, it's a good idea." Roland Emmerich clenched his right fist and smashed his palm. After thinking for a few minutes, he said, "But I think it's better to postpone it for a few years, after all, it's a little bit far from 2012. Far."

"I think so too." Ryan tapped on the desk again, "I will let the screenwriting team of Jenkins Films complete the script as soon as possible, Roland, I suggest you do some preparations in advance. Get familiar with the 3D production technology, Think about it, what kind of shock will it bring when the whole world collapses in front of the audience?"

"Ryan, if the script is completed, please mail it to me as soon as possible." The man was completely attracted by the idea of ​​even more crazy destruction, and he didn't think about prehistoric movies for the time being, "I think this will be my work in The most perfect ending to a disaster film genre."

When it came to this, the matter was basically finalized, and Roland Emmerich then left. He will also return to New York to start a long promotional tour with the "The Day After Tomorrow" crew.

After lunch, Ryan sat in the office chair, still thinking about the morning.

In the past life, as long as Roland Emmerich left the disaster theme, the box office performance was a complete mess, but the director wanted to switch to other types of movies, and vaguely remembered that the action movie that destroyed the White House had a poor box office. A comparison with "10,000 Years Before History".

Although most directors claim to be able to shoot any type and style of film, most directors are only good at one or two aspects. Even James? Cameron and Steven? Spielberg will not touch those subjects they are not good at.

After a light knock on the door, Nicole, who was wearing a dress, pushed the door and walked in. Taylor, who was also dressed up behind, was carrying several men's clothing bags.

"It's almost time. It's time for us to change our dresses." Nicole reminded after sitting opposite.

"Come on!" Tyler threw the clothing bag on the desk, almost hitting the LCD monitor. "It's very rude for the master to be late."

"Give me ten minutes. I'll be fine in a minute."

After taking the clothing bag, Ryan walked into the office suite, and Taylor looked at the closed door. He smiled and said to Nicole, "Aren't you going in to help him?"

Nicole glared at her, Taylor shrugged playfully, sat in Ryan's seat, turned around, and said, "So this is how the chairman of Disney feels."

"When you're eighteen." Ni can use gestures to remind her to pay attention to the dress, "You can ask Ryan to give you this position."

"What position?"

While arranging his bow tie, Ryan pushed the door and walked out, just hearing Nicole's last words, "What position does Alison want?"

"Chairman of Disney." Taylor winked at him deliberately, "Is that okay, my dear brother Ryan?"

"As long as the other directors have no opinion."

While joking, the three of them left the office and took the elevator down to the bottom floor of the Disney building. The motorcade was already waiting in front of the building. After they sat down, they drove directly to Harvey Weinstein's private club in Malibu.

Today, this private clubhouse, which was never open to the media, opened its doors. The flattest lawn was set up as a temporary venue. Hundreds of reporters gathered in front of the podium with long guns and short cannons. The dozen or so rows of white chairs behind them were full of celebrities from Hollywood.

In addition, there are hundreds of enlarged pictures on the exhibition racks around the venue, all of which are starving children taken by photographers from Africa. Although they are of different ages and genders, they are all skinny and their tops are particularly conspicuous. The big head looks very miserable.

"So what George said was true."

After the speech of the famous journalist who often travels to the impoverished areas of Africa on stage, Taylor, who was sitting next to him, muttered in a low voice, "There are still such poor children in the world."

"Honey, that's all we can do."

The deep-seated reasons in it are by no means clear in a few words. Ryan patted her arm lightly, "So, don't think about going to Africa with Scarlett."

"She's a traitor again!"

After muttering this sentence, Taylor's head dropped.

"The following is Mr. Ryan Jenkins, the founder of the foundation!"

After waiting for the host on the stage to issue an invitation, Ryan slightly tidied up his dress. Under the illumination of countless flashes, he got up and strode over to the podium.

Today is the day one of his charitable foundations was established.

Ryan took all of his "Star Wars" pay -- probably a little more than $100 million -- to set up the charitable foundation to rescue poor children in Africa, as well as accept donations from Hollywood celebrities.

Of course, this is not a foundation established for tax avoidance. Ryan will let people strictly supervise its operations and disclose all accounts. It is absolutely not allowed to break out all kinds of scandals like the Red Cross in North America.

"ladies and gentlemen."

Standing in front of the podium, Ryan raised his hand slightly, and the reporters who were a little noisy in front of him immediately returned to their quiet state. He did not prepare the speech. For him, impromptu speech was not a problem at all.

"My purpose in setting up this foundation is simple, to eradicate the threat posed by poverty and to rescue hungry children on the land of Africa."

"Since this year, a severe drought that has not been seen in 60 years has spread in the 'Horn of Africa'. After more than ten years of war, Somalia has fallen into the 'worst food crisis in African history'. According to the official statistics of the United Nations..."

Ryan stretched out his hand to introduce the leftmost position in the lower front row, and three officials from the United Nations relief organization stood up and waved to the surroundings.

He continued, "There are currently 640,000 children in Somalia who are severely malnourished, most of them at risk of death. The UN estimates that without immediate action, such as the provision of emergency food, drinking water and shelter, the number of affected persons could increase further. An increase of 125 percent, or even more than one million."

“It is easy to denounce poverty and hunger, but it is difficult to defeat them. African children who suffer from hunger, deprivation and humiliation need more than words of sympathy, they need concrete support.”

"Across the continent, millions of children still live in poverty, denied access to food, education and health care. We must help them and reach out to them."

There was warm applause from the audience, and after the applause subsided, Ryan continued the following words.

"Hunger is a disaster faced by all mankind. We should help each other regardless of national borders. While enjoying the peace and prosperity of America, we should not forget that there are children on the other side of the world waiting for our care. I appeal More caring people, join the ranks of helping the hungry children in Africa, and give necessary assistance to the African children who are caught in the humanitarian disaster!"

There was warm applause from the audience again, and Ryan raised his hand to applaud slowly.

"I will put a one-time $110 million into this charitable foundation, and I would like to thank Mr. Bill Gates and Mr. Warren Buffett, who didn't show up, but each donated $20 million, and also Thank you Mr. David Geffen, Mr. Steven Spielberg, Mr. James Cameron, Miss Nicole Kidman, Miss Julia Roberts..."

Ryan thanked everyone who made donations one by one, and finally emphasized, "The accounts of the foundation will be fully disclosed, and I will ask PricewaterhouseCoopers to supervise all accounts, and all expenses will be listed on the official website, and the media are also welcome. Friends in the world supervise.”

After speaking, he walked off the podium and returned to his seat, followed by speeches from United Nations officials.

What Ryan is doing is just what most of the richest people in the world are doing. On the one hand, he squeezes profits from all over the world, and on the other hand, he spends some of the money to earn a good name for himself.

This is also related to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who each donated $20 million.

Not long ago, these two super-rich, who ranked in the top two on the Forbes Rich List, sent a charity invitation to Ryan at the same time, with the theme of helping the poor all over the world. Ryan made a public response at the first time, and then established this foundation.

After a brief foundation inauguration ceremony, all the reporters were invited out, followed by a routine reception. (To be continued..) ()