Chapter 1259 I Still Have to Make the Decision

"Of course I would!"

Unexpectedly, Jennifer Connelly agreed, "I like the role of Ruby (the second female) very much. She is braver, stronger and independent than the heroine, isn't she?"

Both Yeremov and Xue Linfen were amused by her deliberately used, vivid southern white accent, "Haha, you are from New York, Jennifer?" Xue Linfen also showed off.

Accent kung fu is almost a compulsory course for American actors, and if you imitate it in an unauthentic manner, you will lose points. If you are embarrassed in a big-production drama with a southern style like Leng Shan, it will cause catastrophic damage to your career.

In the Pythias of Python starring Mira, the supporting actor Jon Voight was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award because of his crappy fake accent. You won't get any problems watching Jon Voight perform.

"Yeah, growing up in Brooklyn," Jennifer Connelly replied.

Early opportunities in her career, such as the role in the instant fame Once Upon a Time in America, came from the resources of the Italian Gang, because most of the influential Italian-Americans in Hollywood at the time were from Brooklyn's Little Italy neighborhood.

Song Ya also laughed for a while, "But the second female role needs to be ugly, rude, gain weight, and stand...for example, as a green leaf beside Nicole Kidman, are you okay? I remember you You haven't taken any roles other than the female lead, have you?"

No matter how the production cost is, whether the box office is profitable, whether Nicole Kidman is popular now, or has a lot of resources, after she became famous, she should not have taken on roles other than the heroine. "At that time, the media will probably say that you are If you are too angry, the sacrifice may be great."

"It's okay, if it's for Cold Mountain, then I won't care about it!" Jennifer Connelly replied firmly: "I return to the film industry to play more breakthrough roles."

It seems that Leng Shan’s allure to American actors is indeed great. The world line is very noisy. In the original film of Apocalypse, the first female Nicole Kidman, the second female Renee Zellweger and the third female Nata Li Portman is very popular now. Natalie Portman, who became famous by "That Killer Is Not So Cold", has already received the much-anticipated return of the Star Wars series: "The Phantom Menace" heroine.

"Um."

With Yeremov and Xue Linfen around, Song Ya sized her up with normal eyes and pondered, why is she wearing a gauze scarf, "Then it's decided for the time being?"

"Yes." Yeremov nodded.

"Thank you APLUS!" Jennifer Connelly was still very happy to get the second female lead.

"Uh...Of course I can't guarantee that this is the end result."

Song Ya also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, so the only thing left was how to persuade Daniel to accept the hero without Leto. He scratched his head with his ring finger in distress, "Bring Daniel here."

"I send you."

Xue Linfen, who was in charge of quietly pulling people from the banquet hall, got up.

"Okay, S." Jennifer Connelly said goodbye.

"Yeah." Song Ya squeezed a smile at her, and raised her palm as a farewell.

I almost chatted with Yeremov about several projects under my banner, except for Leng Shan, who was stuck in the final casting stage, the Miracle that had already started filming, and the Blade Runner project that David Geffen sold the distribution rights to Warner Pictures. The boot kicked in, and director Zack Snyder finally got re-employment.

"Is the money okay?"

"No problem, the first share of the Titanic will come in the next year." Yeremov replied.

"Keep an eye on 20th Century Fox, they're playing tricks and going to court."

"Yes, I understand."

Daniel was quickly led in by Xue Linfen, "Okay, let's talk alone." Song Ya sent her and Yeremov away.

"APLUS, you must support me today, as we agreed before."

In the past few months when he went abroad, Daniel has been working hard in Hollywood. He worked very hard to promote his singer Leto as the male lead, but the effect seems to be not very good. Now he has been reduced to the third choice at most, "It's not that troublesome, You give Yeremov an order, he listens to you, and A+ Film Studio is the biggest investor after all. You can solve the problem with one sentence, let that beautiful soup go to hell!"

Director Tony Scott kept his true thoughts well hidden. Daniel didn't know that he actually wanted to adopt dark horse James Caviezel, and his lover, Liang Tang, might also be kept in the dark.

Otherwise, Liang Tang would still be trying to squeeze out Leto, the main enemy in his mind, and concentrate on fighting against Daniel behind Leto, and conflicting with the original author Charles Fraser who hates him.

While Charles Fraser and the Atlantic Monthly, Grove Publishing House behind him, and Touchstone Films have quietly turned to support James Caviezel, the last director Tony Scott is only one step away from laughing to the end. away.

The multi-party game until now, the situation has become very clear. During the last two rounds of auditions, because there were still hopes for several other blockbuster movie stars, I heard that the tearing was even more tragic, otherwise they would not have frequently sent hot topics to the gossip tabloids.

Song Ya didn't bother to look back on the previous things. When people are abroad, it doesn't matter to him whether he knows or not, but now there is a problem in front of him, "The key is that I can't say this, Daniel, you know …I can’t be caught out that I’m meddling in a Civil War-era Southern perspective movie.”

"Just let Yeremov say it. Haven't you always been like this? Let him say things that are inconvenient for you! And the investors and the main creators don't know that you are actually interfering!"

It’s already a matter of face to make things like this, Daniel was very excited from the moment he entered the door, “I want my first project in Hollywood to end up being ridiculed by the tabloids!?”

"It's true that I can't hide it from the insiders, but as soon as I returned to Los Angeles, Yeremov changed his attitude. What a coincidence?"

Song Ya also raised her volume, pointed to the door and said, "Charles Fraser spent eight years of starvation writing his debut novel, which topped the bestseller list in one fell swoop. The power of the screenwriter, he is now... is now at an unprecedented glorious moment in his life. He is so inflated. As you saw just now, he doesn't even care about good soup, and confronts him in public. Once that kind of southern cultural elite gets upset What should I do? He is not the third-rate fraud screenwriter Kunes who was sent to prison by me!"

"He won't. What he dislikes the most is Liang Tang. He is very happy to see Leto as the male lead."

Daniel replied: "Of course, in terms of the heroine, the Jennifer Connelly you asked me to push may have to back down a bit."

"Ha! You were fooled by them Daniel, Charles Fraser, Tony Scott and Touchstone Films are now all supporting James Caviezel, Nicole Kidman is the first woman, and Jennifer Connelly is the second woman."

I didn't have much time to waste, and Song Ya didn't help to hide the truth from the fact that I was about to settle the matter in Los Angeles, and uncovered the mystery.

"Oh SHXT!"

It was only then that Daniel suddenly realized that he put his hands around his head and walked to the window for a long time before he calmed down, "Those bastards... It's still your fault APLUS, you won't have so much trouble if you let Yeremov be tougher."

"I invested the most money, and I also want to see the most suitable actor to play the role. This is a business, not a dispute over Daniel." Song Ya persuaded: "I also feel that Caviezel is indeed more suitable."

"S!"

Daniel was really anxious, and started cursing: "Don't forget that I asked Doug Morris to secretly fix Disney not long ago, otherwise Eisner would not accept you, you know?"

"Doug Morris? What can he secretly do for me?"

"He deliberately brought his boss Bronfman Jr. to meet with Eisner, and the two narrow-minded emperors froze on the spot."

Doug Morris has revealed the 'credit' to Daniel. Song Ya thinks it seems that this is the case. Sloan's judgment will not be a problem. She said at the time that Eisner rejected it, but was later rejected by Eisner. His decision was a slap in the face, something must have happened in the middle, it turns out...

"Is this how you repay me?!" Daniel demanded, "Let me be humiliated in Hollywood?"

Song Ya didn't quarrel again, and closed her eyes to quickly go through the original film of Leng Shan's apocalypse. The beard is still not as good as Caviezel's audition photos are so tragic and touching.

"Well, I'll make it up to Leto, you know Tom Hanks is in the final stages of casting 'The Art of Stealing' for his second directorial feature, which was originally written by Abag of Cat and Mouse Ernie, it's almost a sequel to the game of cat and mouse, and I figured out a way to insert Leto in as the male lead of that play."

Song Ya made an offer.

"Leto thinks that kind of role is not groundbreaking, and he can get it with a high probability if he goes to the audition. Do you think he gave up the opportunity there for Leng Shan?" Daniel shook his head: "And don't think you can do it. The film is distributed by Paramount Pictures, and the president of Paramount, Shirley Lansing, has a bad relationship with you, and I don't know that!"

Just when he mentioned Shirley Lansing...

Song Ya's mind turned around, and she decided to take this opportunity to suppress him. She kicked her nose and face and harassed him to death. She stretched her hand over the microphone of the landline and thought for ten seconds before picking it up and dialing a number.

"I'm looking for Mr. Lei Shidong. I don't have an appointment. I'm APLUS." He pressed the speakerphone when he announced his home, put the microphone on and waited silently, and Daniel stopped talking.

"What's the matter so late?"

Lei Shidong's voice came over.

"It's still Shirley Lansing's business. This is already the last month of 1998." Song Ya deliberately omitted the greetings, and said in an impolite tone.

Redstone has already decided to fire Shirley Lansing. Not long ago, he began to direct the media to report that Shirley Lansing used power for personal gain, making Paramount Pictures pay unreasonably high salaries to the director's husband for a long time, because the media tycoon and old man He wanted to force Shirley Lansing to choose to resign voluntarily, so as to save a large amount of termination fee.

"Be patient boy, what I promised will be done, and the results should be seen in the next few days."

Lei Shidong hung up the phone impatiently.

Song Ya pressed the hands-free button again, turned off the beeping busy tone of the phone, then shrugged and spread her hands to the dumbfounded Daniel.

Daniel blinked his eyes a few times, and then withdrew his straight gaze from the phone, "Then your compensation is not equal, 'The Art of Stealing' is not as good as Cold Mountain in terms of box office or award prospects, Tom Hanks Just because he is the top movie star does not mean that his directing ability is also top-notch, let's see how his debut film 'The Unstoppable Miracle' turned out?"

It seems to be calmed down? "Okay for other compensation later? I won't treat your Daniel badly. Now let's settle the matter of Leng Shan."

"Okay, okay, don't forget your words again." Daniel agreed.

Sure enough, Song Ya called Yeremov and others again, and also called David Geffen and Tom Hanks on the way, and helped Daniel negotiate Leto's way easily. Originally, Tom Hanks liked Leto to continue to star in the sequel of the game of cat and mouse. He could see it when chatting at the Venice Film Festival, and it was a message to Daniel who didn't know.

"Then it's decided like this, James Caviezel, the first male, Nicole Kidman, the first female, Jennifer Connelly, the second female, and Natasha Kinski, the third female?"

In front of a room full of investors, producers, director Tony Scott, and chief screenwriter Charles Fraser, Song Ya used an inquiring tone, which was actually tantamount to announcing the final result, "Do you have any opinions?"

"OK."

"OK."

Everyone looked at each other and nodded in acceptance, but Daniel remained silent.

Charles Fraser asked with a smile on his face: "Although we drove away Liangtang, what if Nicole Kidman was forced to give up acting due to his pressure? The heroine has a revealing scene... "

"At that time, you can discuss it yourself. I don't have that much time in the United States... Uh, Hua Guoshi followed up and asked about this matter."

After cutting the mess with a quick knife and a few words, Song Ya waved away people. Charles Fraser This is because the guy who wrote the divorce may really have coveted Nicole Kidman, no matter what, it's none of his business anyway.

"starving."

It was only after people were gone that I remembered that I hadn't eaten yet. Song Ya went out feeling her stomach. She just moved in, so now she can only go to the cold dining table in the banquet hall downstairs to solve the problem.

But when he walked to Old Mike at the end of the corridor again, he saw Melissa Georgie, who was dressed up and seductive, had just arrived at the entrance of the hall.

With the help of the girl next door and the role of Xiao Lizi, she quickly became popular. Now she is another rising sexy actress in Hollywood. The media even praised her as Sharon Stone's successor.

The Liangtang couple were already going out, ready to leave, and they might have just been notified of the final casting results. Nicole Kidman wanted to hold her husband's arm, but was called away by Liangtang's impatient arm.

The manager sent Kingsley to follow them, but Fergie was gone.

And Natasha Kinski is celebrating like a little girl with her arms around Xuelin Fen happily. Speaking of which, Natasha Kinski is more suitable to play the third female than Natalie Portman in the original film of Apocalypse. After all, the role It is a young woman with a child, and Natalie Portman looks a little young in the play.

In fact, Xue Linfen also found a role for herself, a cameo role of a playful nature, and she was also one of the women the hero met on the way to escape.

Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Connelly, Natasha Kinski, Sherilyn Fern...

Lead actor James Caviezel.

Speaking of which, it is a good thing for the project to have an investor who controls the appearance of yourself, right? Regardless of the box office, at least the overall appearance of the film is absolutely online.

In the end, I have to make a decision! Song Ya thought proudly.

He continued to observe that Daniel was talking to Leto and was supposed to be comforting him, with Jennifer Connelly, the 'Gossip Girl' for publicity, helping him.

Mira is still very jerky about playing the role of hostess. She only greeted new guests after Harley reminded her. Shang is not used to Hollywood’s top parties. Outside, Melissa Georgie, who was looking for an opportunity to insert into the conversation, met.

"well!"

I can afford what the women below want, but...

Song Ya couldn't help thinking of his ex-wife, Amy and Shakira, and suddenly he was in a bad mood again. He scratched his head in distress and asked the old Mike, "Am I being too sentimental? Mike."

The old man looked him up and down with narrowed eyes, and asked, "So what answer do you want?"

"But I shouldn't be considered a bad man in the strict sense, right?"

"What answer do you want?"

"..."