novelraw Chapter 123
Chapter 123
He didn't know how they should continue to get along after meeting.
Is it a repeat of the same mistakes, or has something changed?
Oh, if anyone was going to be changed, it would most likely be him.
Because Josie was always so determined that it made him feel unimportant and easy to worry about gains and losses - that's not like him.
So run away for now.
As always, he was still able to hear from her and contact her, maintaining a tacit understanding until one of them left early, or fell completely.
However, will Josie do what he wants?
Early the next morning, Edward's manager Alan Parker knocked on the door of his house.
Allen took out the prepared script outline and character biography from his briefcase, and started talking about the business right after entering the door: "Take a look, I think you will like it."
Edward reached out to take it, with a serious expression on his face: ""Fight Club"? It's a good name, which company's project?"
"Tianji Films." Allen glanced at his client.
Just like what his publicist Robin described, the girl was holding an invisible silk thread on the little finger of her right hand. As long as she was willing to hook her fingers a little, he would have to go back to her sooner or later.
Should I remind him?
In terms of professional ethics, the answer is yes.
But for the sake of David Fincher and Brad Pitt, it is better to let this reminder time be moved back a little bit-preferably after the role is won, that would be great.
"Oh, it's a small company. So far, the role setting is very interesting." Edward looked down and quickly flipped through, his dark long eyelashes cast two shadows under his eyes, looking very focused, "You know, I prefer I also love the style of the story for the dramatic characters, which is good."
I don't know if it was because he met his favorite script and character, or because he was pleased with the half-year preparation time—probably both. Eager to try.
"The director and the other leading actors are temporarily set to be David Fincher and Brad Pitt. As for whether we can negotiate, it depends on whether their asking price is within the normal acceptable range of the producer. "Alan looked away before continuing: "That should be a very difficult negotiation process, so the time for role auditions will not be so fast, and you have plenty of time to read the original novel."
As a former MTV and commercial director, David Fincher has officially established himself in Hollywood with his debut film "Alien 3" and the highly acclaimed "Seven Deadly Sins". The third film "Psychological Games" cooperation The targets are first-line actors such as Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, who are already among the current popular directors.
It is said that when David Fincher was approached by "Psychological Games", his agent offered a sky-high asking price of 500 million US dollars plus the film's share.
As for Brad Pitt, the recent works of this Hollywood first-line literary niche are both well-received and well-received. His salary in the last movie "Seven Years in Tibet" has reached 1000 million U.S. dollars - which makes both him and the director He was banned from entering the country on the other side of the ocean-according to the current situation of his frequent releases, the next one may reach 500 million US dollars.
Tianji Films thinks that they are a bit expensive, and will definitely try to find a way to lower the price.
"It's okay, keep my schedule for now, I have a hunch this is a good movie." Edward was so excited that he couldn't help but immerse himself in the new role.
On the other side, in an apartment also located in Soho, Josh looked at the yellowed letter paper in front of him, wondering where his thoughts were going.
Mark, who was about to pour water in the living room, saw this scene inadvertently, knocked on the door symbolically, and asked, "Josh, are you okay?"
Josh's eyes fell on Mark's typical Jewish face, and he frowned subconsciously. He had already put the few pages of letter paper back into an iron box in his hand.
"It's fine, I'm fine." He replied quickly.
Mark leaned against the door and took a sip of the cold water in his hand, then said after a pause: "I didn't know you kept this all the time."
Josh felt a little guilty, opened his mouth, but couldn't speak.
Mark didn't know what to say for a moment.
Those two thin sheets of paper are all too familiar, because they represent Josh Jones' most failed and despicable prank in his youth. He wrote a love letter in imitation of his friend's handwriting, but read the girl's reply aloud , and trampled on the girl's sincerity.
—Well, that's pretty daft.
In the end, Mark still sighed and said, "You are all my friends, Josh. I can only say that Josie has never been someone who would get carried away by love, and she is very stubborn."
"I know." Josh withdrew his gaze, and whispered close to a whisper, "I have missed so many ways that I couldn't walk to the girl who made my heart beat again, but it doesn't matter, I will control it all Not to the point of being annoying, until the day I can give it up."
"..." Mark was silent for a few seconds, and then said in a more humorous and relaxed tone: "I thought you were just starting to write love songs, but I didn't expect you to be a lover, buddy?"
Josh just smiled wryly, and shook his fist with his friend helplessly.
A few days later, Josie moved into the apartment opposite them and lived with her assistant Kelly. She usually focused on filming "The Devil's Advocate", and occasionally came to listen to the two musicians write songs.
The most exciting time was undoubtedly when MJ came here without warning, led by Sean Lennon, during the break of the concert tour. The king of pop even happily talked to Josie.
"I've seen your movie, it's amazing." There is tenderness in his voice and eyes, with a kind of childlike devotion.
"This is my greatest honor, Mr. Jackson." Josie really became a star-chaser from the bottom of her heart this time. Her pretty face was flushed, and even the corners of her eyes and brows were full of longing.
"You can call me by my name, Joe." MJ laughed, "Also, would you like to send me a ticket to the premiere of "Titanic"? I'm really looking forward to this movie. "
Josie paused for a moment, and before she could answer, she was interrupted by a man who looked like an assistant next to MJ: "Mike, you are still on tour, we can ask the film company to send a copy to Neverland."
MJ visibly purses his lips, not quite willingly accepting the offer.
Then he had a one-on-one talk with Josh, it seemed, about the latter's hit single, coming and going in a hurry, leaving only the young people in the two apartments, each of whom didn't make it that night. fall asleep.
Even Josie is the same.
Early the next morning, she and Kelly went to the set with the same dark circles under their eyes.
Keanu Reeves, who was walking towards him, noticed it immediately, and teased with a smile: "Last night wasn't the drawing day, right? Why do you seem to have won 500 million?"
"This is more exciting than 500 million." Josie blinked, without revealing the little secret about MJ, "Go to make up first, I feel that my condition is surprisingly good today, Keanu, I hope you can also do your best Go all out."
Keanu nodded amusedly.
They were filming the scene of Mary's suicide at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan today. This is one of the most important scenes for the heroine of the movie, and it is also the easiest scene to show her acting skills.
Perhaps it was the passion scene that opened a certain valve, or maybe it was the sense of accomplishment brought by MJ himself watching the movie he starred in. Today's Josie seems to be possessed by Al Pacino, with emotions, rhythm, Micro expressions...every link is impeccable, there is no such thing as NG.
Considering the variety of materials, this shot was amazingly shot in three shots. Taylor Hackford was more worried about which one to use for the feature film, so he waved this shot to pass.
Josie was sitting on a chair, consciously letting the special effects make-up artist of the film crew deal with the artificial plasma on her neck and face, her face was raised up obediently, and she seemed to be humming a song.
Keanu couldn't help laughing again.
However, as soon as the next filming started, he couldn't laugh anymore.
"No, give me a little more pain."
"No, you tried too hard this time."
"No, you feel less guilty."
"Eyes, eyes, watch your eyes! Oh, your wife is dead, not a dog!"
Josie, who served as a shooting prop throughout the whole process—a dead body—couldn't hold back a giggle, watched Keanu NG six times, and finally completed the shooting of the scene by substituting the subject.
The days that followed became routine.
After the filming of "The Devil's Advocate" ended, Josie's college life also began.
The courses of the freshman year are basically fixed, and there are usually ten classes a week. The homework is relatively easy, but there are times when there are a lot of homework, not to mention that Josie also crosses majors to take major classes in the film department.
Fortunately, she has an assistant by her side, which solved many unnecessary troubles for her and significantly improved her learning efficiency.
The role-playing game with "Miss Robin" is over, but on the road in Soho, Josie will meet Edward Norton from time to time, because this business district is actually not big, and it has both safety and security. High-end apartments are also almost concentrated in palm-sized places.
——However, do they meet too many times?
However, Josie didn't have the extra energy to think about him, because the boiling international financial market and the acquisition problem faced by TT involved all her energy except for her studies.
The reason was that America Online failed to make the first acquisition, and directly approached a middleman to say harsh words, saying that they could choose ICQ or other software for acquisition, and then spend a lot of money to promote and "learn" TT's success in turn.
In this way, Josie looked down on the mere 200 million acquisition price offered by America Online.
She directly called and told El Kaiser, who is currently her spokesperson at SkyEye Network, that she was ready to launch the next round of TT updates ahead of schedule at any time in order to deal with fierce competitors.
Yes, El didn't choose to be an assistant, but voluntarily chose to stay in Josie's team.
This former assistant is also a college student who graduated from a prestigious school, and has adapted to CAA's cruel mail room training. Compared with those managers recommended by headhunting companies, he is more worthy of Josie's trust.
In addition, Ernest Dawson also returned to New York with his new script, and the pre-promotion of "Titanic" has also started one after another, so Josie is busier and often wonders if she will lose her hair because of this.
During the period, Leonardo came to visit Josie once, just in time for a group of people to celebrate Josh's birthday, and the scene was once very embarrassing.
The newly-promoted Berlin actor mainly came to New York to visit the great Hollywood director Martin Scorsese, and dropped by his friend Josie, who he hadn't seen for a long time.
——Well, he admitted that this friend was a little bit special to him.
Before coming here, he deliberately didn't call Josie, he just wanted to go directly to Josie's house to surprise her.
And when Leonardo stood in front of this apartment that was being arranged as a birthday party scene, he seemed to recall why when he entered the door just now, the Hispanic girl had a subtle sympathy on her face ...