Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 193
In addition to these inside stories, people also read other gossips in the newspapers.

For example, Michael Ovitz, president of CAA, was the leader. He brought big stars like Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, and Dustin Hoffman, but they still failed to defeat Link. During the bet, Link was filming in New York and did not participate in the promotion of "Final Destination", but he still won the bet and was called the "God of Gamblers". The reason why Link clashed with Richard Gere and Tom Cruise was that Link molested their wives.
and many more.

Some of this news was true and some was false. It was hyped in the media for more than half a month before the heat gradually subsided.

Influenced by this incident, the box office of "Final Destination" increased instead of decreased, earning 16 million US dollars in the 851th week and 17 million US dollars in the 566th week, with the cumulative North American box office reaching 2.23 million US dollars.

Overseas regions were also affected, with a slight increase in box office revenue. After more than ten weeks of release, the cumulative box office revenue reached 1.35 million US dollars.

"Complete Movie" magazine predicts that "Bleach" will gross more than $4 million worldwide, and Link will earn more than $ million from the project. Link's ranking will continue to rise in the next Forbes rich list.

The magazine said that due to the recent news, Link's reputation will become relatively positive.

The reason is that through these news reports, everyone knows that most of the news criticizing Link and "Final Destination" in the past were fabricated by Robert Downey Jr., Richard Gere and others to suppress the box office of "Final Destination".

Despite constant suppression, "Final Destination" still earned more than 2 million yuan at the box office after its release. This shows that the quality of this movie is very high and it is worth watching in the cinema.

In addition, in this bet, Link fought alone against several big stars under CAA, and even Michael Ovitz, the number one powerful man in Hollywood, and finally won.

Total Cinema magazine said that Link would become the new 'king' of the Hollywood film industry.

In the morning, when Link was filming on the set, he received a call from Robert Downey Jr.'s lawyer.

It is said that Robert Downey Jr. wanted to make a deal with him. Robert Downey Jr. knew who had asked the truck driver to park the truck across the road on the night River Phoenix died, delaying River's rescue time.

Robert Downey Jr. is willing to come forward and identify the culprit and tell the media who the insiders are in exchange for $300 million.

Link said he was not interested, because Rui Fan had already passed away, and whether he died of drug overdose or was murdered by someone, it had nothing to do with him.

He didn't want to spend money on this matter, even though he had no shortage of money.

If Robert Jr. wants to make money with this secret, he might as well make a deal with the real murderer.

After hanging up the phone, Link continued filming on the set.

After more than three months of filming, the filming of "Seven Deadly Sins" has reached more than 90% completion rate, and all shots can be completed in about three weeks.

"We're back."

In the 14th District Police Lobby, Detective Mills shouted to several police officers behind the counter.

"Well done."

A policeman said excitedly.

"Your wife calls you, you need to buy a pager too."

A female police officer said while holding the phone.

"Detective!"

As Old William and Detective Mills went upstairs, the killer walked into the hall and shouted after them.

Detective Mills and Old William were talking about catching the murderer and didn't hear it at all.

"Detective!!!"

screamed the murderer John Doe.

In an instant, dozens of policemen in the police hall looked at John Doe in the middle of the hall. He was wearing a white short-sleeved T-shirt, brown casual pants, his shirt was stained with a lot of splattered blood, his hands were covered in blood, and his ten fingers were wrapped with white tape.

Detective Mills and Old William were also on the steps, looking back at him.

"I heard you are looking for me?"

The murderer John Doe spread his hands and asked expressionlessly.

"Hey, damn it, don't move."

Detective Mills pulled out his pistol and pointed it at the murderer, then quickly walked down the steps.

"Don't get close to him."

Old William had seen the portrait of the murderer and saw that John Doe was the murderer of five murders. "Get down on the ground quickly."

"I know you."

John Doe stared at Detective Mills nervously.

"Get down! Get down quickly! Face the floor!"

Detective Mills shouted, holding his gun in both hands.

Other policemen also surrounded John Doe from all directions, pointed their guns at him and asked him to lie on the ground.

John Doe knelt down expressionlessly, stretched out his hands and slowly lay on the ground.

"Hurry up, do as I say, get down completely, bastard, get down, hurry up, hurry up!"

Detective Mills pointed his gun at John Doe's forehead. His tone and expression seemed a little excited because he caught the murderer in front of all his colleagues in the police hall. "God! What are these?"

A policeman handcuffed John Doe and his hands were stained with a lot of blood.

"I need to talk to my lawyer."

John Doe said calmly as he lay on the ground.

"Shut up, you piece of shit."

Detective Mills cursed.

"cut!"

Link reviewed the footage, picked out a few problematic areas, and talked to Morgan Freeman, Ben Affleck, and Kevin Spacey, giving them some suggestions and asking them to make some minor adjustments.

He is the director, the first audience of this movie, and also the quality inspector of this movie.

When filming, he needs to draw a standard for the actors based on his own aesthetic standards, and ask the actors to try their best to reach and exceed this standard.

As for how to surpass him, the actors need to rely on their own abilities to accomplish it.

He will not give a pass if the actors fail to reach this standard. He will continue to instruct the actors during filming, forcing them to find ways to improve their acting skills and performance abilities.

However, compared with the starring lineup of "Final Destination", the leading actors in "Seven" are all good.

Morgan Freeman is a veteran actor who has played many roles and his acting skills are above 90 points.

Jennifer Connelly's acting skills were over 70 points, and after his guidance, her level in this play reached over 80 points.

Kevin Spacey is not very famous at present and is considered a second-tier actor in the circle, but his acting skills are solid and he is very spiritual. In addition, his image is quite consistent with the murderer John Doe, and his performance in this play is no worse than Morgan Freeman.

The only actor who was a little inferior was Ben Affleck. However, under his ruthless criticism and guidance, as well as the guidance of the three leading actors, Ben Affleck's acting skills in this play were also above 70 points.

This scene took three days to shoot, and was successfully completed in which John Doe surrenders himself and makes his request to the police.

"Link, do you think my acting skills have improved a lot recently?"

During a break in filming, Ben Affleck treated everyone to coffee.

"A little bit."

Link nodded as he looked at the newspaper.

Ben Affleck grinned excitedly, "I was also surprised. Before filming this role, I never thought that I would have such great potential in acting. I performed too well in many scenes. If I were to perform again, it would be difficult for me to perform at that level. If my acting skills were 60 points before, now they are at least 90 points, or even 92 points. Is that right?"

Sophia glanced at him, "92? Out of 1000? How dare you give yourself a score."

Ben Affleck was not convinced, "Did I not act well?"

"My acting skills are not sure, but your attitude is good, keep it up."

Sofia teased, nudging Link's arm, "What are you looking at? Why are you so engrossed?"

"Little Robert said that Rui Fan was murdered."

Link handed the newspaper to Sofia.

During the filming, another big news broke out in the media.

According to Robert Downey Jr., he, Richard Gere and others were also at the Viper House bar when River Phoenix got into trouble.

After seeing River in shock, Richard Gere came up with an idea. He asked them to arrange a truck to stop the ambulance. As long as River died, Joaquin would not be able to continue the tour, and the box office of "Final Destination" would definitely be affected. They might be able to turn defeat into victory and win the bet.

And then they did that.

The reporter asked whether that incident was caused by the truck driver deliberately crashing into other vehicles to block the ambulance’s path.

Robert Downey Jr. said 'yes'.

The reporter asked who they were referring to? Who else but him and Richard Gere?

Robert Downey Jr. did not answer the question.

However, some media reported that Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Kiefer Sutherland, David Duchovny and others were also at the Viper House bar that day.

The 'they' that Robert Downey Jr. mentioned is most likely referring to them.

A stone stirred up a thousand waves.

After this news broke, the news that Richard Gere and Robert Downey Jr. had teamed up to kill River made headlines in major media outlets.

There are news reports that among these people is the big star Tom Cruise.

(End of this chapter)