King of Hollywood

Chapter 208 is the same as last time?

When Adrian went to Japan, although the main purpose was to relax, he also did a lot of things, such as abducting Nakama Yukie back, or getting a movie adaptation of a certain novel. Yes, it is the horror movie "Midnight Ring" that set off a new horror trend in Japan and rarely caught the attention of Hollywood.

After buying the film adaptation rights from Suzuki Koji, Adrian threw it aside and never put it on the agenda. Anyway, it's a buyout, so how to deal with it is entirely his business. Although there is a ten-year deadline, he actually just wants to moles the Japanese, so why should he care too much about it?

However, after meeting Naomi, when Adrian searched for her information in his head, he found that she seemed to have served as the heroine of the American version of "Midnight Ring". This couldn't be better. He quickly found the novel "Midnight Ring" from the pile of old papers. Although it hasn't been handed over to the screenwriters yet, the shooting is already a certainty.

In my memory, there was only one big-budget commercial film that Naomi took in the route of art and horror, and this film was also in jeopardy because of Adrian's intervention, so he prepared several other routes for her. However, he does not intend to give up the original one, and it is easier to grasp with ready-made examples as reference.

But the movie prepared for Nakama Yukie is not this one, although Yukie did appear in the Japanese version of the "Midnight Ring" series in memory. Do you still remember what Adrian said to Suzuki Koji and Sugi Takuya who were present after he got the film copyright of "Midnight Ring"? I have an idea, and I hope to find a Japanese writer to complete it.

This idea is "The Grudge". Since the Japanese are to be teased, "The Ring" alone is not enough. Naturally, "The Grudge", which has also attracted attention from Hollywood, cannot escape. At the beginning, Sugi Takuya took the idea and found a few screenwriters who were pretty good in Japan to write the script. Just like in Hollywood, after completing the outline according to the outline, Adrian picked out the mistakes and asked them to rewrite it.

Because I was not in a hurry like those scripts, and I also had the idea of ​​procrastination, it took a lot of time to finalize the first draft, and then it took a long time to complete it. Of course, this matter spread quickly in the Japanese entertainment circle, so there is no need to worry about the possibility of "similar" works. Up to now, the director is still soliciting test shots. If it is not for the thought of "Midnight Ring" that has been left aside, this may have dragged on for a long time.

Although Adrian told Sugi Takuya that he would consider "The Grudge" after filming "Midnight Ring" and testing the waters in Hollywood, but Naomi had to film some plots after completing "Mulholland Drive" Movies only consider "Midnight Ring". It is not a good thing to release multiple horror movies in a short period of time, so it is not a big deal for "The Grudge" to be earlier.

Besides, the director already has a suitable candidate. After starting to think about "The Grudge", Adrian took out the videotapes for soliciting trial shots and re-watched them. Many Japanese directors participated. This is a rare opportunity. Nobody wants to work with Hollywood. In addition to Hideo Nakata, who was supposed to direct "Midnight Ring", there are also many unknown newcomers, such as a guy in his twenties with a beard who made a good job, Adrian It was difficult to translate his name into Chinese: Qingshui Chong.

Although there is no "Midnight Ring" movie, Takashi Shimizu's life trajectory has changed a little, at least he did not become Hideo Nakata's assistant, but his trial footage is still the closest to Adrian's memory. That being the case, let him be the director. As long as Adrian is also the producer, there is no need to worry about deviating from the original track.

It’s just that if Yuki Hui wants to play the heroine, the script has to be slightly revised. The plot of the American version of “The Grudge” in my memory is almost the same as the Japanese version, but the heroine is Sarah Michelle Gellar . Now with Adrian's care and arrangements, Sarah doesn't have to waste time in horror movies at all, and can just hand it over to Yukie who doesn't have too many suitable roles for the time being.

In Hollywood, there are very few roles with oriental faces. In the past two years, there are not a few Hong Kong actors who have been exposed to Hollywood. It is possible that the remaining ones are action actors, such as Jack Chen, Jeter Lee or Michelle Yang, etc. Wait. And when the novelty of the dizzying movements of the Americans wears off, their status will inevitably decline.

Therefore, Yuki Hui has been in Hollywood for more than two years, but she only played some ordinary roles in many TV dramas. It was the first time to appear in a movie, but for her to join, Adrian took a lot of effort. In fact, he also has a few characters suitable for Yukie, but that will have to wait until 2000. Whether some plots and characters will be popular depends on the social environment.

"The Grudge" is a Japanese-style horror movie. Using a Japanese heroine is also suitable for Japanese tastes. As for American tastes, it can be set that the heroine was adopted by an American family at birth. She has an American boyfriend and grew up. Later, I went to Japan to study in order to come back to find my roots. This will not only bring out the sister who is played entirely by Westerners in the second film, but also highlight some cultural conflicts and make the film more thought-provoking-this is what film critics like to do, isn't it?

"This Japanese-style horror movie was conceived a long time ago, and it was recently decided to officially put it on the agenda. I think you are very suitable. Would you like it?" Adrian asked again immediately.

"Of course I am willing." The look of surprise flashed from Yukie's face, and then she bowed again: "As long as Ed thinks I am suitable, then I am willing."

"Okay, okay," Adrian smiled and walked over to hug her. "Then it's decided. The movies are basically shot in Japan. You can go home and watch more."

"Thank you, Ed, thank you." Yuki Hui said gratefully, stood on tiptoe and kissed him heavily on the face.

After watching Yukie leave with a smile, Adrian scratched his head and let out a long sigh. In these two movies and a few games, I have successfully achieved my goal, but in other aspects it is a mess. Remember his original plan? Acquired several small comic studios in Japan, and after integration, the three major migrant comics will be the first to come out.

Everything went smoothly, it was acquired, integrated, and produced, but... not even one-third of the enthusiasm in Adrian's memory. You have seen someone who has to yell N many times "can't escape" before he can amplify his move Naruto? Have you ever seen a muscular guy like Fang Swastika who owes him millions? Have you ever seen Luffy who is beautiful and girlish? Even though Adrian only knew about these comics in his previous life, he almost vomited blood after getting the character design and some serializations.

Although this has a lot to do with his throwing out the plan, those two movies and the "Resident Evil" game at least have to be asked from time to time, and these comic projects are completely herding sheep. But the author I found was too idiotic, the one in charge of Naruto is "EVA", right? Is the one in charge of Shinigami the one who draws gangster comics? Those in charge of pirates... oh my god, they actually found a female author to draw...

Well, well, the Japanese branch of the media should also bear a lot of responsibility. After all, the high-level executives are all Americans, and they are completely unfamiliar with the Japanese market, and Adrian told them before that these are just for experiments. , don't take it too seriously, so it became like this. Naruto involves ninjas, and Shinigami has the style of the Edo period. Some people still read these two manga. As for pirates, they are completely empty, with inexplicable characters and female authors. If this is popular, it will be a ghost.

In short, disgraced is the best description, and the only gain is to see the exclusivity of the Japanese again. After all, the domestic manga market in Japan is dominated by a few assembly companies. It is not so easy to get their support. You must know that the media can intervene in Ai Hui. First, no one has discovered Ai Hui's potential. Second, Yahoo Japan Financing in exchange. And in this regard, they will not easily let outsiders intervene, just like Hollywood rejects orientals. In fact, many people were waiting to see the media's jokes, and they also saw it.

Forget it, at least the goal has been achieved. Adrian comforted himself in this way. Anyway, he made these for fun at the beginning, so don’t take this loss to heart. You might as well wait and see what kind of manga the Japanese can produce after entering the 21st century without the three major migrant manga.

After finishing the daily business, it was almost time for dinner. After that, I naturally went to Yukie's bedroom and played video games with them. As usual, in the fighting game, Yuki Hui abused Ayumi Hamasaki and Adrian, and other games had their own winners and losers, but Ayumi Hamasaki did not learn some stupid things from Adrian, such as horizontal cooperation Break through the game to kill the opponent and so on.

"How can you do this, Ayu is so bad" Yukie yelled, and Ayumi responded with giggles. If she wanted to fix it, she would hide in Adrian go behind.

The relationship between the two is obviously very good, although Ayumi Hamasaki took advantage of it at first, after all, this is the United States, and there are not many familiar fellow countrymen beside each other. Adrian is also happy to see them like this, and sometimes adds to the flames.

"You really went too far, Ayu, so I won't help you this time."

"You can't run away now, Ayu, just suffer your death obediently"

"It's too cunning, Ed, how can you be like this, oh, help!"

It is precisely because of this that Ayumi Hamasaki was alone in Adrian's bed that night.

Intense panting and hoarse moaning rang out in the room, the petite body folded over, the legs placed on the opponent's shoulders were pressed against the chest, and both hands tightly grasped the edge of the bed to withstand the violent impact. Her head rested on the edge and twisted wildly, until another high-pitched sound erupted from her mouth, and her body trembled violently.

After sensing her situation, the other party didn't move any more. He just hugged her tightly for a long while. After she relaxed, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then kissed the other party in response.

"How many times is this?" Adrian rang in his ear with a playful voice.

"The... the third time..." Ayumi Hamasaki, who came back to his senses, replied shyly, his face was flushed, his skin was stained with a layer of rose color, his head was covered with sweat, and the hair on his temples was sticking to it. A pleading look appeared in his eyes.

With a chuckle, Adrian picked her up and sat on the head of the bed: "Isn't this a deep impression on you?"

"Yes... yes..." Ayumi Hamasaki, who was soft in his arms, replied panting.

Usually, whenever Ayumi Hamasaki comes here, she and Yukie serve on the bed together. Even so, she can't fully withstand Adrian's whipping, let alone her alone now.

"Then what should we do now?" Adrian blew softly in her ear.

Ayumi Hamasaki gave him a charming look, twisted her body and slid down. After laying on her buttocks high, she skillfully opened the raincoat with her mouth, and then swallowed it even more skillfully. Adrian let out a long breath. To be honest, he really felt a little reluctant now. It was really great to "ravage" such a petite woman under him at will.

But Adrian is Adrian after all. Although he is indulgent, he is very rational, so when he wakes up the next day, he forgets that bit of reluctance. There are so many petite women, one more Ayumi, one less It's a lot of steps, if she wants to go back, she can go back, anyway, that's where she develops.

The current energy is still on the filming of "Mulholland Drive". Because the scale of the production is not large, many scenes are completed in the studio, so the progress has been very fast. The only trouble is that it takes some time to deal with Nicole and Naomi’s full-body appearances at the same time. This is not because they are always probing and confronting words. They still have professionalism. to work, so the problem is height.

As we all know, Nicole is almost 6 feet tall (m), while Naomi is a little shorter than Cruise, so it is obvious who is taller and who is lower when standing together. Adrian wanted the two to cooperate in the movie at the beginning, but didn't think about it—or selectively ignored it—and ended up with such a problem.

But it's not a big deal. Cruise was still as tall as Nicole in the camera on "Eyes Wide Shut." This did not have much impact on the progress of the film, so before the Oscars ceremony came, the filming came to an end smoothly, leaving only the most important scenes.

"Okay, I don't need to repeat the next scene, do you have any opinions?" Adrian asked the two naked women wrapped in scarves sitting beside the bed.

It was a small airtight room with a big bed in the middle, covered with red spreads, some furniture around it, and the lights were a bit dim. There was no one else except Adrian, Nicole, and Naomi. The two women sitting by the bed looked at each other strangely after hearing this, then turned their heads away without saying a word, and the appearance that they had sworn to say that there was no problem before had disappeared.

"Then there is no problem?" Adrian shrugged after waiting for a long time, then checked the camera and various equipment before standing behind the camera, "Then get ready to start."

Nicole and Naomi dawdled for a while, took a deep breath and climbed onto the bed, and followed Adrian to start the countdown: "Okay, get ready...to start"

After a pause of about five seconds, Naomi kissed Nicole first, and then put her arms around her waist. Nicole subconsciously stepped back, and was about to muster up the courage to meet, when Adrian yelled : "Cut"

He scratched his head a little annoyed, and looked at the two women on the bed who didn't know what to say. They were all lying on the bed in a curled up position, their fragrant shoulders and most of their skin were exposed, and the scarves couldn't stop them. Graceful curves, but Adrian completely ignored them at this moment.

"I said that even though the script says Betty kisses Rita first, I just asked Rita to kiss Betty first. What are you doing, Nicole?" He stared at Nicole, frowning .

"Sorry." Nicole admitted her mistake honestly, "I just...need a little time to get used to it."

"Okay, let's come again, be natural, just pretend that I don't exist." Adrian said after sighing.

With a wave, he stepped behind the camera again to announce the start. This time Nicole took the initiative to kiss Naomi, but Adrian stopped her again after less than two kisses.

"Look at your appearance, Nicole, how blunt, relax, it's not difficult," he said emphatically.

Nicole still didn't say much, just nodded to show that she understood, but in the next shooting, she was always stopped within a few minutes, and the best time was not when she just pinched Naomi's softness.

"You have emphasized countless times to be natural, Ed, how much do you want me to be natural?" Nicole finally couldn't help crying.

"Calm down, Nicole, I know this is a bit weird, but don't get so excited, it will be fine after a few more tries, just like in school before..." Naomi wanted to comfort her, but she didn't say anything. After finishing speaking, he was interrupted: "Shut up, Nami, you don't know anything"

"I..." Naomi looked at Nicole angrily after being blocked, then turned her head and stopped talking, leaving the trouble to Adrian.

"Calm down, Nicole, excitement won't solve the problem." Adrian said patiently, frowning.

"Then how do I solve the problem? I just forgot that you were watching when I was kissing and stroking Nami, but you interrupted me." Nicole said irritably, grabbing her hair.

"As I said, you can pretend that I don't exist, relax a little, and be natural. This is not a particularly difficult performance." Adrian sighed.

"Ha, when you don't exist? Relax? Be natural?" Nicole said sarcastically, "To what extent? Is it the same as last time?"

As soon as the words fell, her expression froze on her face, and Naomi turned around with a little bit of surprise and thoughtfulness, and Adrian raised his eyebrows: "Is this the reason?". ..