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"I want to see Susan's video tapes for those two videos!" Nicholas Cage picked up the clown's script and fantasized about what it would be if Arthur was played by himself.

As long as he brought himself into this role, he felt a trembling all over his body. The character Arthur was designed so well, he was simply the representative of the artistic nature in Nicholas Cage's heart.

Such a neurotic and crazy contradictory character, from being a kind child or a "clown" to the end, the analysis of the character Arthur is simply impeccable.

"This screenwriter is a genius!" Nicholas Cage closed his eyes and sighed softly.

"Wayne Greenberg." Susan suddenly answered his words to himself.

"What?"

"I said that this screenwriter is also Wayne Greenberg! The projects he produces always writes scripts himself, directs himself, and even serves as the producer of the work. This is a genius."

Seeing that he was interested, Susan continued, "This is your opportunity, Nikola. As long as you can participate in this film, it will not only have the artistic nature you like, but will also be recognized by mainstream audiences. The films of this director are not low at the box office."

Gently rubbing the script in his hand, Nicholas Cage thought of the call he received a few days ago. His cousin Sofia Coppola told him that old Coppola had won him a very good project.

Nicholas Cage is not interested in these things. His standard for taking films is to like them and have enough artistic quality. He never takes care of the rotten commercial blockbusters.

However, the agent's introduction, Amway and the weight of the script in his hand, changed his mind.

"I want to get this role, Susan!" Nicholas Cage's thin face flashed with an excited look. "Help me contact Warner Brothers and ask them when the audition is done, and I will attend on time!"

"Okay, no problem." Agent Susan breathed a sigh of relief. "Nicolas, after you have business achievements, your status in the circle will become different. Then you can choose any video you like."

As long as she has the opportunity, she will definitely instill these things in her clients. An actor without commercial achievements can only be called an actor, and only with commercial achievements can she be called a star. The difference is simply impossible to calculate.

"Ok, I understand." Nicholas Cage picked up the script and walked to the second floor. He really didn't want to continue listening to his agent's comments, especially when he kept chanting the same passage every time, which was inconsistent with his ideals.

"I'll prepare for the audition. If that director has the vision, he will give me this role." He waved the script in his hand and walked to the study on the second floor. "Remember to rent a video tape for me!"

Seeing that he left impatiently, Susan was ready to leave his house and contact Warner Bros. She believed that the old Coppola was worthy of her face. As long as Nicholas Cage did not perform particularly badly, she would have a high chance of getting this role.

She never worried about her client's acting skills, she only worried about whether he would be kicked out of the audition because of his personality problems. She could only pray that Nicholas Cage would never play with personality at critical moments.

As for his private life issues, Susan didn't take it seriously as an agent. Are there many actors in Hollywood who don't take drugs and smoke Ye Zi cigarettes? It's not just his own customers.

In her eyes, literary celebrities have always been with women and poisonous drugs, and the mainstream business circle is not much better. This is a bad circle.

Not only Nicholas Cage was thinking about this role, but others were also invited to audition.

As a veteran clown in Warner Bros. movie "Batman", Jack Nicholson was also full of surprises after receiving the audition invitation. In his opinion, he was a natural candidate for the role of Joker.

In the 1989 film "Batman" released, the Joker he played was widely praised. His completely illogical performance style is indeed quite consistent with the character of the Joker Arthur.

Jack Nicholson's clown is chaotic and illogical. There is only one principle of doing things, that is, "fun"!

He called the agent and asked the agent to reply to Warner's invitation, and he would attend the leading actor audition on time.

No matter how the outside media reported it or how many people's attention it attracted, Wayne completely blocked the information around him and was immersed in his work.

After stretching his waist and relieved his fatigue of sitting for a while, Wayne looked at the manuscript of a storyboard just after he finished drawing. He had a natural advantage in this thing, and the picture and camera arrangement were naturally placed in his mind.

In fact, this could have been handed over to the assistant director who assisted in filming, and many directors have been doing this all the time, but Wayne did not choose to be lazy. Since he has this advantage, he must make use of it for the smooth shooting of the film.

Not far from him was sitting at the little assistant Nina. As long as he was working, Nina would never be too far away from him to prevent Wayne from suddenly remembering something and needed her as an assistant to do it.

A trailer for a movie is being played on TV. Nina is afraid of affecting her boss, so she makes a very small voice and can vaguely hear Sylvester Stallone's roar.

This is the movie that ordinary movie fans like her, popular action movies and action superstars are the best way to attract popular movie fans like her.

"The Legend of the Wind of Jueling?"

Nina heard the boss's voice coming from behind her, and turned around and found that Wayne was also staring at the TV.

"Roll up the voice, Nina!" Wayne only saw the end of the trailer for fifteen seconds, but he recognized the superstar with a facial paralysis at a glance. "Well, it's a car crash..."

That's right, the new film of action superstar Sylvester Stallone, "The Legend of the Wind" is also scheduled to be launched in mid-May 1993, with the trailer clearly ending.

This may be the only movie that this facial paralysis action superstar is not scolded by movie fans. Wayne did not expect that he would have a car collision with the other party so coincidentally.

"Boss, they started publicity so early. Should we also notify Warner Brothers and start promoting on TV?" After all, Nina is from her boss now. When she thought she would crash with her own video, she immediately abandoned her favorite stars.

"No, they started to promote it in advance because the film was filmed early, so we just need to follow our plans."

It is definitely not enough to start large-scale publicity from now on the Warner Bros.

Hollywood has long had its own promotional rules. Normal commercial films will release news from time to time during shooting, and will only start a large-scale bombardment when it is about to be released.

Stallone's film is an exception. Because the shooting was completed much earlier, commercials appeared on TV from time to time.

Wayne was stunning at the TV. From this point of view, next year's main competitor will be "The Legend of the Wind" led by this action superstar.

He doesn't remember the box office performance of this film. The only thing that has an impression is that it is called Stallone's only movie that is not scolded.

"By the way!" He slapped the sofa in front of him. "Help me call John and said I have something to look for him."

Although he had adapted to Wayne's appearance at work, Conina was still helpless by his surprise.

She took out the notebook that recorded the phone number and called John.

"Boss, OK!"

Wayne took the phone and confirmed that John could hear it, and directly expressed his thoughts.

"Do you think you can ask Warner Bros. to add some publicity budget? I have come up with a good idea to allow more than 30 million people in the United States to see our videos in a short time."

"Wayne, we should consider the promotional matters. Our task is to make a good video!" John opposite him was much calmer than him. He knew very well that he and Wayne were not qualified to interfere in the Warner Brothers' promotional project.

It is best not to even have suggestions. Warner Bros. is an old distribution company with the world's top video distribution capabilities. If you rashly interfere in this matter, it will only cause dissatisfaction from the distribution department.

The production department and the distribution department, as the two most important departments of this film giant, have never had a very harmonious relationship.

"Listen, John, you can try to communicate with the company and put our trailer into the Super Bowl midfield ad." Wayne explained to him patiently.

"Super Bowl..." John also thought of the meaning of doing this. This is the highest-rated program in North America, and the number of viewers per year will not be less than 30 million.