Hollywood starts with an agent

Chapter 68 Are You Tease Me?
On the outskirts of Los Angeles, John Levine and Jack Wells burned all their clothes and other belongings together!

"Will those two gangs really fall for this kind of scapegoating?"

Jack Wells was a little confused. Although Lor was from the Blood Gang and Cripple Juan was from the Crip Gang, they were both just small-time gang leaders!

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, the two gangs have always been fighting each other. As long as no one has come to your crew to cause trouble recently, it will be fine."

"You should behave yourself now, right? Didn't your friend say he wants to invest in you to start a security company?"

Soon, the two pistols were dismantled into parts and thrown into different places, and all traces were erased.

"Yes, he supported me in opening a security company. He's very smart and capable, and he became a multi-millionaire at the age of 20!"

John Levine suggested, "This is actually a good idea. You can just quit CAA and hire a few people to go to the set to be responsible for the crew's safety;"

“Once your friends see your abilities, they will come to support you.”

Jack Wells thought for a moment and said, "You make a lot of sense. CAA isn't a promising job anyway. I can earn more by working for my friend!"

"Well, let's go back..."

Since securing Lorre, the filming of "Boyz on the Hood" has been on track, and Aaron's focus is of course on "Ghost".

Jack Wills takes Boyz N the Hood safety very seriously!

As for the deaths of a few gangsters, no one cared or paid attention to them.

In South-Central Los Angeles, on West 70th Street, John Singleton was filming a street fight. Jack Wells, standing nearby, looked gravely, "John, do you have to make such a big deal out of this? That's a real gang fight!"

John Singleton nodded. "I only need a few scenes. They're rare. Besides, real gang fights are more realistic."

After a while, Jack Wells hurriedly took John Singleton, Quentin Tarantino and others away from the fighting block.

"Don't worry, Jack. It's just a small fight between the Bloods and the Crips. It's okay."

"It seems that Lor and his crew who had previously come to our set to cause trouble were murdered during a break-in. Their bodies were found last night."

"This kind of thing happens every day!"

John Singleton patted Jack Wells on the shoulder to comfort him. This was a producer Aaron specially arranged to be in charge of safety on the crew.

Jack Wells' eyes widened. Lor was dead for a week before being discovered?
Did the few Crip signs left there that night help?

Jack Wells shook his head. The most important thing right now was filming Boyz n the Hood. "Don't do that again, John. Street fights could easily drag us into it."

"Don't worry, I have a lot of materials. I will go back and edit them carefully. There are many things I can use;"

"Next, we're going to shoot in Compton, a street that belongs to the Crips. There shouldn't be any troublemakers coming here!"

John Singleton just wanted to make a good movie called "Boyz n the Hood" and he didn't bother to think about anything else.

Quentin Tarantino, who was standing by, was also a little excited as he carried his camera, "This is realism!"

Jack Wells suddenly felt that these filmmakers were no less capable than himself. Meanwhile, on the set of Ghost.

Aaron is talking to the leading actor Kevin Costner about each other's "Dances with Wolves".

“My edit was four hours long, but unfortunately Orion thought the length was too horrible and ended up cutting it down to three hours!”

Aaron smiled and said, "It's four hours long, so the cinema isn't too willing to show it."

Kevin Costner was somewhat helpless. "Orion is in financial crisis, and they want to win awards for Dances with Wolves, a Western epic."

"Yeah, it's an epic Western. I'm also looking forward to the release of Dances with Wolves!"

"It's almost time. 'Dances with Wolves' will be having a preview..."

Aaron was chatting with Kevin Costner, but he wasn't really interested in "Dances with Wolves". It wasn't his own work, so why would he be interested in it?
It’s just that Orion is currently filming another work, “The Silence of the Lambs”, and Aaron is very interested in this.

In the evening, at the Wilshire Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Aaron met with Jennifer Connelly's agent Nancy Josephson!
"Hey Aaron, I didn't expect you to ask me out?"

Nancy Josephson was puzzled.

Aaron smiled and said, "Sit down, I want to ask something."

Nancy Josephson looked at Aaron and said, "I'll only tell you what I can."

"Of course, I mainly want to know about the thriller 'The Silence of the Lambs' that Orion is currently filming. The leading actress, Jodie Foster, and the person in charge of promoting the project, Mike Medver, are both your clients, right?"

Nancy Josephson nodded, "It's no secret that Judy is indeed our signed artist;"

"We also recommended Mr. Mike Medvedev to be the president of TriStar. This "Silence of the Lambs" was the last film that Mr. Medvedev developed for Orion, and it encountered many obstacles.

"You should know the reason!"

Aaron certainly knew that "The Silence of the Lambs" was a thriller horror film. Although the original novel was very popular, the author's prequel "Red Dragon" was adapted into "The Night of the Dead" a few years ago, but it was a disastrous failure.
The director of "The Silence of the Lambs" is Jonathan Demme, a third-rate director who shoots comedies, and the script is adapted by a new screenwriter. The British actor Anthony Hopkins who plays Hannibal can no longer make it in Hollywood, and except for the heroine Jodie Foster, the others are hard to describe.

But Mike Medvedev withstood the pressure and raised $1900 million to shoot "The Silence of the Lambs";
The budget was the same as Dances with Wolves, except Dances with Wolves went over budget.

"I heard that Orion is planning to release 'The Silence of the Lambs' directly to the video market in order to recoup its funds as quickly as possible."

Nancy Josephson blinked. "These kinds of things are decided by the film companies. ICM is just an agency."

“And ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ was not a packaged project for ICM.”

Jodie Foster is an Oscar-winning actress, and her salary of $150 million for "The Silence of the Lambs" was also a partial reduction. Who could blame her for loving the novel so much?
"What if someone wants to buy the rights to The Silence of the Lambs?"

Nancy Josephson pursed her lips. "Although The Silence of the Lambs has lost its international distribution rights, the adaptation rights and North American distribution rights are still there. The price won't be cheap!"

Aaron looked at Nancy Josephson and said, "Shuguang is interested in The Silence of the Lambs, but I don't have any cash on hand right now."

Nancy Josephson picked up the coffee and took a sip speechlessly. Orion is just short of money, and you say you don’t have cash?
Make fun of me!

　The previous chapter has been greatly changed. This kind of self-indulgence is unacceptable!
　　I listened to advice a lot. I caught a cold yesterday and felt groggy all day. It was an accident. The temperature in Guangzhou dropped sharply and many people were affected!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)