NOVEL WEB i am legend
Chapter 22 Earth-Sized Pies
Chapter 22 Earth-Sized Pies
Cole looked hesitantly at Bruce who was slowly opening the folder, subconsciously left the sofa, away from a zone he thought was safe, and then looked at him nervously!
With a trembling right hand, Bruce turned over a page of American Pie. When he carefully saw the content on the page, he still exclaimed in a little surprise: "God, is this "Slim Girl"??"
"That's right!" Cole looked at him with some puzzlement. In his opinion, this guy must go crazy again for no reason, but now it seems that's not the case at all!
"Is this the BUG-level skill that the master specially gave me the halo of the protagonist?" Bruce was completely speechless. It earned nearly 1000 million US dollars in North American box office revenue. At that time, this film was one of the industry's largest box office for small productions!
Feeling no longer fluctuating violently as before, Bruce casually talked to Cole a little numbly, and then opened the following information!
"Shua, Shua, Shua!" Bruce flipped through the pages quickly, and one by one, familiar or unfamiliar names appeared in his eyes, until a competitive script called "I am a Legend" appeared, and this It caught his attention.
After carefully reading the general content of the script, he shook his head amusedly. This is the funniest vulgar script he has ever seen that uses time travel as a gimmick.
Randomly flipping through, when Bruce turned to the last page, the pupils of his eyes instantly condensed to the size of a pinpoint, gasping for air in a "hiss", pointing at the content on it in disbelief and some horror, stammered Baba said: "Witch Boo Blair???"
"What? Is there a problem?" Cole, who had gotten used to it a little bit, looked at Bruce with a distorted face in surprise, as if he had seen something horrific, the corners of his mouth twitched constantly, and his face was ashen!
"This "film" is just a simple film shot on DV by a few frustrated directors using their own unique creativity!" Cole was a little angry when talking about this "film": "Since they come up with such a work Asking us for nearly 50 US dollars, these guys are crazy!! It's as good as that guy from New Zealand!!"
"FK!!" Bruce finally spit out the words in his mouth, and looked at the angry Cole in disbelief. If he knew that the price of this book was so low that it created the momentum to sweep the world next year, I wonder if he would not would be so angry!
"Cole, promise them!" Bruce took a deep breath, and now he felt a little numb, even when he wanted to open a film company, he just wanted to get Rowling's treasure, but now Cole unexpectedly The unexpected blow completely left him speechless, leaving only gratitude to that omnipotent "God" in his heart!
"What? Are you crazy?" Cole looked at Bruce in disbelief, and he didn't intend to let him watch this "video" worth only $7000. When he watched it, he just felt this shooting method It's just funny, but now Bruce's words instantly aroused his rebellious psychology!
"Yes! Dude, you heard me right!" Bruce became more serious, and now is not the time to explain. Only when it is released next year can the potential of this film be revealed to the world!
"Dude, are you serious?" Cole hugged his head in disbelief, was silent for a while, and said with a gloomy face: "Bruce, although the company basically comes from your investment, you don't have the right to make such an arbitrary decision !!"
Bruce knows Cole's mood now, but he must win this alternative box office miracle as soon as possible, looked at Cole with a tangled face, and said: "Cole, I told you when I was in the Warriors, please You give me a time to make mistakes, I only need one year, just one year, okay??"
Cole looked at him silently, and the feeling of powerlessness lingered in his heart all the time. He felt bewildered and at a loss, and also felt something called "disagreement".
After a moment of silence, Cole's brotherly love for Bruce finally overcame his inner thoughts, shrugged helplessly, like a defeated prisoner, and said weakly: "You won!"
"I'm sorry, Cole!" Bruce, who understood Cole's mood, really had a plan to give up buying for a while, but with the goal of building the Warriors into a dynasty team, he still held back his impulse. The Dynasty can’t succeed just relying on the memory of the previous life to draft and trade a few cheap but practical guys. Even if those big names lost part of the amount in this labor negotiation, Bruce is very clear about those who held 2000 million US dollars in the previous life. Many superstars!
Just like the Los Angeles Lakers, the owner who is extremely merciless, just relying on the dollar and geography to enlist batch after batch of superstars to join, Bruce also wants to wave the checkbook without any scruples, and sign big-name stars without any distress , but he has only more than 8000 million US dollars left after purchasing the Warriors, and he still has a deep worry. He must invest a part of the funds every season, even the league's share is at the end of the season.
Could it be that he has been lingering complacently on the annual profits of several million at most tens of millions?Bruce, who had a new life, couldn't do it, and he couldn't do it with great ambitions.
So, now he is trying his best to increase his chips by relying on his foresight advantage. Who doesn't like the trophy that symbolizes the highest honor?And who doesn't love that wonderful string of zeros in deposits?
Bruce sent Cole away with an apologetic face, and some bad moods were instantly entangled together. For a while, he really didn't know how to face Cole's compromises again and again, even if he made a decision that would definitely be rewarded handsomely. treatment, but he was still a little worried about Cole's mood!
For the next half day, Bruce led the mother and daughter Rowling to visit various attractions in San Francisco with great energy.
When he sent Rowling's mother and daughter to the airport a little tired, Rowling, who had already noticed that he was abnormal, said softly out of the concern of his friends: "Little Bruce, no matter what unhappy things happen to you, you just need to Just think about your ideals and happy things! There is really no need to put such inexplicable pressure on yourself!"
"Thank you!" Bruce smiled apologetically, and the depression in his heart improved a lot. He chatted with Rowling's mother and daughter for a while, and then turned to himself muttering to himself Walking to the residence: "Yes! For the dream!"
In the next few days, under Cole's serious expression, the preparations for the film "She Is My Everything" began. It was not until the budget was drawn up that Cole, who had always been serious, regained a little smile.
"Dude, I've been thinking about some things these days too!" Cole smiled and looked at Bruce seriously, seeing him looking at him in surprise, Cole smiled helplessly and said, "Since you can make This kind of thing regardless of my opinion, then let me shock your heart!"
"Okay!" Bruce finally saw the hippie smiling Cole, the cloud in his heart dissipated in an instant, and hurriedly asked: "What can shock a boy who was once confused?"
"Remember the New Zealanders I told you about last time?" Cole sat solemnly across from Bruce, nodded when he saw him thinking, and then said bluntly: "We made some evaluations, the script in his hand Definitely going to be a classic series!"
"Wait! Movie??" Bruce interrupted Cole's speech in confusion, carefully recalling the last conversation, but this New Zealander had nothing about movies at all!
"Yes! Listen to me!" Cole rubbed his swollen head, organized his words, and said solemnly: "This guy is looking for a new job in Hollywood because of a breakdown in negotiations with Miramax. partners, and the investment he needs has taken those bigwigs by surprise!"
"What movie can scare those "big guys"?" Bruce became more and more curious about this person and this movie. Even a movie with an investment of hundreds of millions is nothing in the eyes of those Big Macs, but now Listening to Cole's statement is a bit difficult to understand!
"This guy can't be said to be bold!" Cole immediately told the whole story!
The New Zealander named Peter Jackson, because he is about to shoot John Ronald Riel Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" book, spent up to several years to conceive this book adaptation film matters.
This year, because of the negotiation with Miramax, I got the promise from the other party, and it took three years to complete the script and budget. After getting the promise from Miramax, the budget for the complicated and huge plot was a bit overrun. The background of the whole story plot makes Peter Jackson extremely embarrassed, because the huge construction of the plot requires a lot of funds and continuous shooting to perfectly bring this classic to the big screen!
And the original author of this book is not in favor of putting it on the big screen. From Peter Jackson scratching his head and yelling "this is an impossible task", it really reflects the original author's worry. Therefore, After hearing the news, Miramax owner Walt Disney announced the suspension of this giant production after a short evaluation. Peter Jackson, who was not reconciled, took the first recorded sample and ran to Hollywood to find a new one. with his own patron!
Bruce showed a shocked expression when he heard the New Zealander's name, and then he was shocked to the extreme when he heard Cole's dignified explanation!
"Co... Cole, are you telling the truth?" Bruce couldn't believe that this earth-sized pie would hit his head, and judging from Cole's solemn nod, it was really not a funny thing comedy!
"Hiss!!" Bruce sucked in a breath of air, and no one knew how powerful the "Lord of the Rings" was like him before, and now this huge wave comparable to a solar storm rushed over. It still made him almost faint!
"He... How much sponsorship does he want!!" Bruce asked with difficulty after his mind roared for a while.
"At least 2 million U.S. dollars!" Cole hesitated, and then quoted this shocking price to Bruce. In his opinion, he would definitely have a dispute with him. Although he was also a little hesitant, the film's After watching the samples, he had a strong voice in his heart, crazily telling him not to give up!
"Hiss!!" Although Bruce knew that this film was a hit in his previous life, he didn't know that a film required an investment of nearly 3 million U.S. dollars. This huge investment frightened him into a fool!
"One movie costs 3 million US dollars, so will it cost nearly 10 billion to finish filming all of this series?" Bruce asked stupidly.
"Uh... Blame me for not making it clear!" Cole scratched his head in embarrassment, and said with a smile, "It's the three series that cost so much dollars!!"
"Three films cost so little?" Bruce exclaimed in surprise. Even in 98, there are many films that cost a lot of money, especially last year's "Titanic", which swept the world. A huge investment of 1 million was made, so hearing Cole's explanation suddenly shattered Bruce's original idea!
"What does it mean to spend so little?" Cole looked at Bruce with a little madness. This guy really doesn't know how desperate a big production worth hundreds of millions of dollars is for those independent production companies!
"Contact Peter as soon as possible and tell him that I will provide him with at least [-] million US dollars in funding for each work. Hurry up, and you must win it when others are interested!" Bruce confessed solemnly. Knowing that it was Time Warner's New Line Film Company that released the film, now he is very eager to tear off a fat piece of meat from that giant!
"Are you crazy?" Cole looked at Bruce with a serious and dignified face in shock. After the previous two "dictatorship" incidents, he had already understood the unknown side of this friend very well, but now facing him For the 3 million US dollars matter, he still had the attitude that he must win, and he still felt a sense of absurdity!
"Man, you just need to contact him as soon as possible, and use our remaining 5000 million US dollars as proof of investment!" Bruce eagerly held Cole's shoulders with both hands, and showed a look on his face as if he had experienced a life-and-death disaster. Feel.
Bruce was afraid that his statement was still lacking, so he begged helplessly: "Please! Cole, if he really doesn't believe in our ability, you immediately take out the original documents related to the Warriors. I don't care what method you use. Must get it within 7 days!!"
Cole stared at him blankly. He had never seen this look of death on his face before, so he nodded in a daze. After Bruce cheered excitedly, he replied: "God , What the hell did I do, an idiot?"
No matter how much Cole regrets his stupidity now, Bruce bounced all the way to his room, ignoring the resentful Cole behind him!
(End of this chapter)
Cole looked hesitantly at Bruce who was slowly opening the folder, subconsciously left the sofa, away from a zone he thought was safe, and then looked at him nervously!
With a trembling right hand, Bruce turned over a page of American Pie. When he carefully saw the content on the page, he still exclaimed in a little surprise: "God, is this "Slim Girl"??"
"That's right!" Cole looked at him with some puzzlement. In his opinion, this guy must go crazy again for no reason, but now it seems that's not the case at all!
"Is this the BUG-level skill that the master specially gave me the halo of the protagonist?" Bruce was completely speechless. It earned nearly 1000 million US dollars in North American box office revenue. At that time, this film was one of the industry's largest box office for small productions!
Feeling no longer fluctuating violently as before, Bruce casually talked to Cole a little numbly, and then opened the following information!
"Shua, Shua, Shua!" Bruce flipped through the pages quickly, and one by one, familiar or unfamiliar names appeared in his eyes, until a competitive script called "I am a Legend" appeared, and this It caught his attention.
After carefully reading the general content of the script, he shook his head amusedly. This is the funniest vulgar script he has ever seen that uses time travel as a gimmick.
Randomly flipping through, when Bruce turned to the last page, the pupils of his eyes instantly condensed to the size of a pinpoint, gasping for air in a "hiss", pointing at the content on it in disbelief and some horror, stammered Baba said: "Witch Boo Blair???"
"What? Is there a problem?" Cole, who had gotten used to it a little bit, looked at Bruce with a distorted face in surprise, as if he had seen something horrific, the corners of his mouth twitched constantly, and his face was ashen!
"This "film" is just a simple film shot on DV by a few frustrated directors using their own unique creativity!" Cole was a little angry when talking about this "film": "Since they come up with such a work Asking us for nearly 50 US dollars, these guys are crazy!! It's as good as that guy from New Zealand!!"
"FK!!" Bruce finally spit out the words in his mouth, and looked at the angry Cole in disbelief. If he knew that the price of this book was so low that it created the momentum to sweep the world next year, I wonder if he would not would be so angry!
"Cole, promise them!" Bruce took a deep breath, and now he felt a little numb, even when he wanted to open a film company, he just wanted to get Rowling's treasure, but now Cole unexpectedly The unexpected blow completely left him speechless, leaving only gratitude to that omnipotent "God" in his heart!
"What? Are you crazy?" Cole looked at Bruce in disbelief, and he didn't intend to let him watch this "video" worth only $7000. When he watched it, he just felt this shooting method It's just funny, but now Bruce's words instantly aroused his rebellious psychology!
"Yes! Dude, you heard me right!" Bruce became more serious, and now is not the time to explain. Only when it is released next year can the potential of this film be revealed to the world!
"Dude, are you serious?" Cole hugged his head in disbelief, was silent for a while, and said with a gloomy face: "Bruce, although the company basically comes from your investment, you don't have the right to make such an arbitrary decision !!"
Bruce knows Cole's mood now, but he must win this alternative box office miracle as soon as possible, looked at Cole with a tangled face, and said: "Cole, I told you when I was in the Warriors, please You give me a time to make mistakes, I only need one year, just one year, okay??"
Cole looked at him silently, and the feeling of powerlessness lingered in his heart all the time. He felt bewildered and at a loss, and also felt something called "disagreement".
After a moment of silence, Cole's brotherly love for Bruce finally overcame his inner thoughts, shrugged helplessly, like a defeated prisoner, and said weakly: "You won!"
"I'm sorry, Cole!" Bruce, who understood Cole's mood, really had a plan to give up buying for a while, but with the goal of building the Warriors into a dynasty team, he still held back his impulse. The Dynasty can’t succeed just relying on the memory of the previous life to draft and trade a few cheap but practical guys. Even if those big names lost part of the amount in this labor negotiation, Bruce is very clear about those who held 2000 million US dollars in the previous life. Many superstars!
Just like the Los Angeles Lakers, the owner who is extremely merciless, just relying on the dollar and geography to enlist batch after batch of superstars to join, Bruce also wants to wave the checkbook without any scruples, and sign big-name stars without any distress , but he has only more than 8000 million US dollars left after purchasing the Warriors, and he still has a deep worry. He must invest a part of the funds every season, even the league's share is at the end of the season.
Could it be that he has been lingering complacently on the annual profits of several million at most tens of millions?Bruce, who had a new life, couldn't do it, and he couldn't do it with great ambitions.
So, now he is trying his best to increase his chips by relying on his foresight advantage. Who doesn't like the trophy that symbolizes the highest honor?And who doesn't love that wonderful string of zeros in deposits?
Bruce sent Cole away with an apologetic face, and some bad moods were instantly entangled together. For a while, he really didn't know how to face Cole's compromises again and again, even if he made a decision that would definitely be rewarded handsomely. treatment, but he was still a little worried about Cole's mood!
For the next half day, Bruce led the mother and daughter Rowling to visit various attractions in San Francisco with great energy.
When he sent Rowling's mother and daughter to the airport a little tired, Rowling, who had already noticed that he was abnormal, said softly out of the concern of his friends: "Little Bruce, no matter what unhappy things happen to you, you just need to Just think about your ideals and happy things! There is really no need to put such inexplicable pressure on yourself!"
"Thank you!" Bruce smiled apologetically, and the depression in his heart improved a lot. He chatted with Rowling's mother and daughter for a while, and then turned to himself muttering to himself Walking to the residence: "Yes! For the dream!"
In the next few days, under Cole's serious expression, the preparations for the film "She Is My Everything" began. It was not until the budget was drawn up that Cole, who had always been serious, regained a little smile.
"Dude, I've been thinking about some things these days too!" Cole smiled and looked at Bruce seriously, seeing him looking at him in surprise, Cole smiled helplessly and said, "Since you can make This kind of thing regardless of my opinion, then let me shock your heart!"
"Okay!" Bruce finally saw the hippie smiling Cole, the cloud in his heart dissipated in an instant, and hurriedly asked: "What can shock a boy who was once confused?"
"Remember the New Zealanders I told you about last time?" Cole sat solemnly across from Bruce, nodded when he saw him thinking, and then said bluntly: "We made some evaluations, the script in his hand Definitely going to be a classic series!"
"Wait! Movie??" Bruce interrupted Cole's speech in confusion, carefully recalling the last conversation, but this New Zealander had nothing about movies at all!
"Yes! Listen to me!" Cole rubbed his swollen head, organized his words, and said solemnly: "This guy is looking for a new job in Hollywood because of a breakdown in negotiations with Miramax. partners, and the investment he needs has taken those bigwigs by surprise!"
"What movie can scare those "big guys"?" Bruce became more and more curious about this person and this movie. Even a movie with an investment of hundreds of millions is nothing in the eyes of those Big Macs, but now Listening to Cole's statement is a bit difficult to understand!
"This guy can't be said to be bold!" Cole immediately told the whole story!
The New Zealander named Peter Jackson, because he is about to shoot John Ronald Riel Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" book, spent up to several years to conceive this book adaptation film matters.
This year, because of the negotiation with Miramax, I got the promise from the other party, and it took three years to complete the script and budget. After getting the promise from Miramax, the budget for the complicated and huge plot was a bit overrun. The background of the whole story plot makes Peter Jackson extremely embarrassed, because the huge construction of the plot requires a lot of funds and continuous shooting to perfectly bring this classic to the big screen!
And the original author of this book is not in favor of putting it on the big screen. From Peter Jackson scratching his head and yelling "this is an impossible task", it really reflects the original author's worry. Therefore, After hearing the news, Miramax owner Walt Disney announced the suspension of this giant production after a short evaluation. Peter Jackson, who was not reconciled, took the first recorded sample and ran to Hollywood to find a new one. with his own patron!
Bruce showed a shocked expression when he heard the New Zealander's name, and then he was shocked to the extreme when he heard Cole's dignified explanation!
"Co... Cole, are you telling the truth?" Bruce couldn't believe that this earth-sized pie would hit his head, and judging from Cole's solemn nod, it was really not a funny thing comedy!
"Hiss!!" Bruce sucked in a breath of air, and no one knew how powerful the "Lord of the Rings" was like him before, and now this huge wave comparable to a solar storm rushed over. It still made him almost faint!
"He... How much sponsorship does he want!!" Bruce asked with difficulty after his mind roared for a while.
"At least 2 million U.S. dollars!" Cole hesitated, and then quoted this shocking price to Bruce. In his opinion, he would definitely have a dispute with him. Although he was also a little hesitant, the film's After watching the samples, he had a strong voice in his heart, crazily telling him not to give up!
"Hiss!!" Although Bruce knew that this film was a hit in his previous life, he didn't know that a film required an investment of nearly 3 million U.S. dollars. This huge investment frightened him into a fool!
"One movie costs 3 million US dollars, so will it cost nearly 10 billion to finish filming all of this series?" Bruce asked stupidly.
"Uh... Blame me for not making it clear!" Cole scratched his head in embarrassment, and said with a smile, "It's the three series that cost so much dollars!!"
"Three films cost so little?" Bruce exclaimed in surprise. Even in 98, there are many films that cost a lot of money, especially last year's "Titanic", which swept the world. A huge investment of 1 million was made, so hearing Cole's explanation suddenly shattered Bruce's original idea!
"What does it mean to spend so little?" Cole looked at Bruce with a little madness. This guy really doesn't know how desperate a big production worth hundreds of millions of dollars is for those independent production companies!
"Contact Peter as soon as possible and tell him that I will provide him with at least [-] million US dollars in funding for each work. Hurry up, and you must win it when others are interested!" Bruce confessed solemnly. Knowing that it was Time Warner's New Line Film Company that released the film, now he is very eager to tear off a fat piece of meat from that giant!
"Are you crazy?" Cole looked at Bruce with a serious and dignified face in shock. After the previous two "dictatorship" incidents, he had already understood the unknown side of this friend very well, but now facing him For the 3 million US dollars matter, he still had the attitude that he must win, and he still felt a sense of absurdity!
"Man, you just need to contact him as soon as possible, and use our remaining 5000 million US dollars as proof of investment!" Bruce eagerly held Cole's shoulders with both hands, and showed a look on his face as if he had experienced a life-and-death disaster. Feel.
Bruce was afraid that his statement was still lacking, so he begged helplessly: "Please! Cole, if he really doesn't believe in our ability, you immediately take out the original documents related to the Warriors. I don't care what method you use. Must get it within 7 days!!"
Cole stared at him blankly. He had never seen this look of death on his face before, so he nodded in a daze. After Bruce cheered excitedly, he replied: "God , What the hell did I do, an idiot?"
No matter how much Cole regrets his stupidity now, Bruce bounced all the way to his room, ignoring the resentful Cole behind him!
(End of this chapter)
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