hollywood draw

In the penthouse suite of Four Seasons Hotel Boston, Wayne stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, with the night view under his feet brightly lit and bustling. It is different from the glitz and bustle of Los Angeles, and has a more modern atmosphere.

Ever since the assistant lady said that she felt something was wrong, he fell into silence and stood alone in front of the window all night until it was completely dark and the ashtray at hand was filled with cigarette butts.

Many things cannot be found out by guessing clues. However, from the current situation, they cannot cause any trouble for him. This is the most confusing thing.

It's just a few photos, so what if I publicly admit that it is the father of the child in Naomi Watts's belly?

According to the usual public opinion trend, this will only cause the public to discuss for a while, and perhaps most people will also give their blessings. Then the media is following up and hyping up a wave of golden boy and jade girl characters, which is in line with the normal fermentation of things.

But the former agent who was fired by Naomi Watts suddenly appeared and was willing to offend him and pointed out the child in the media, which made Wayne smell a little unusual.

"Someone gave her greater temptation and benefits..."

He murmured softly, the only thing he could think of was this, but even so, he still couldn't guess what these meant.

"Nina."

Wayne swung out the cigarette in his hand again, turned around and called the assistant lady. "Tomorrow morning, please contact Anthony Pelicano and ask him to investigate. Whose first photo was leaked from."

Nina nodded. "Okay, boss."

If anyone is the best information collector in the Hollywood circle, it must be the Hollywood Eye Anthony Pelicano. In the past two years, the assistant lady has always had contact with the other party. As long as someone collects information about Wayne, they will know it right away.

Compared with his charging standards far beyond well-known private detectives, his work efficiency is far beyond ordinary people. In Wayne's mind, this person is like a data analysis master, and he can always find the information he wants to know from clues.

"This is done in advance, at least I can't see clearly what harm it will do to me." He shook his head at the assistant lady, and walked to the bedroom without having dinner.

No matter what happened, the top priority in front of him is the filming of the film. As for other issues, Wayne could only wait passively to see what was wrong with it.

Early the next morning, the crew approached nearly 150 people in front and behind the scenes, walked out of the hotel in an orderly manner in the hustle and bustle of the morning, forming a long convoy, and soon arrived at the shooting location prepared in advance.

A building here was rented out. Outside the crew isolation belt downstairs, dozens of local movie fans and media reporters gathered. Because there were too many people on the scene, Wayne had to ask Nina to notify Actor Henry and ask him to contact the local police department to maintain order.

Before everything was clear, he would not accept any media interviews. Even if some of the onlookers came to him, he had no intention of stopping to sign and say hello. After the car stopped, he directly lowered his head and entered the building.

Since the morning, staff have congratulated him constantly. Today, the news has spread completely. Almost everyone knows that he is going to be a father. This is a good thing in the normal people's minds.

Originally, the film had a lot of media watching as soon as it started shooting. This was mixed. Although it lost the quiet shooting environment, excessive media attention would slow down the work, but at the same time it could also gain more attention for the film and play a role in advance publicity.

When this suitable opportunity arises, what Wayne should do the most is to accept interviews to create more eye-catching topics and provide free publicity to the film.

Without the revelations from Naomi Watts' former agent, he wouldn't have hesitated to do this at all.

Although his films have achieved great success in the box office, if you think about it carefully, the first two films are mostly flawed, while the latter films are adapted and are naturally well-known and topical, which allows the film to create a high box office with a good foundation.

To be honest, this "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs" can be regarded as an original script. No matter how good the reputation is after it is filmed, it cannot escape the limitations of non-sequel adaptations. Not to mention him, no one can break this circle in another twenty years.

Movies still have to make money after all, not to mention that Greenberg Studio still accounts for 50% of the investment, so he is even less likely to let his money waste. Oscars are not that expensive to be a little golden man.

"Or I'll organize the reporters and ask Brad Pitt and Chris to be interviewed and promote the film?" Actor Henry walked to Wayne and looked at the crowd through the window with him.

Faced with such a good promotion opportunity, as the second producer, he was also moved. This was simply a channel for early promotion that costs money.

"No, these people are not in the film, we focus on shooting." Wayne shook his head, finally glanced at the gathering crowd, turned around and walked towards the elevator with his assistant and others.

Gilmore, Schwartz and others have been going up for a while. They are coordinating various departments to arrange shooting scenes, as well as laying out camera positions and adjusting lighting in advance.

According to Wayne's idea, although this film has commercial attributes, its production method is more similar to an independent film. There is no clear release date, so it naturally leaves enough time for the shooting, as long as it can be completed before April and May next year.

It is early December. As long as everything does not happen, next year, it will be pre-screened or officially released in Los Angeles before the summer season. The film will inevitably be screened for a long time to get tickets for the 1997 awards season.

This kind of non-sequel adaptation of realistic gangster films, which are the eighteen-forbidden types, naturally cannot have an excessive market and cannot be compared with science fiction or action movies, so awards season is his good place.

Even the co-investor Warner Brothers knows that Wayne's new film will have no choice but to achieve a North American box office of over $300 million even if God comes. The natural audience determines the box office limit of the film.

The camera and lighting adjustments have been completed on the roof. Christian Bale and Brad Pitt took advantage of the gap to keep talking about the lines. They have already practiced the specific performance. Only when the first scene was filmed at the end of the film was unexpected, which made the two people who were not familiar with him face greater challenges.

After coming to the main camera, Wayne checked it one by one again and confirmed his work with Robert, Steve and others before the official shooting, so as not to be negligent, and problems arise after the official shooting begins.

Even though many films have been filmed, every new project is the beginning of a new challenge for the director. Any negligence in work may waste the work hard work of dozens or hundreds of people in the crew.

So, no matter how many successes you have had, every new filming will be a journey of resolving difficulties for the director.

After confirming that these were fine, Wayne walked back to the reserved monitor, picked up his director's record book and compared the on-site arrangements. The director prepared sufficiently in advance, which determined the shooting efficiency in the future. He never liked to play any inspiration pouring in and playing on the spot.

This is Hollywood. Even if it is the type of film in this target awards season, he has not been required to produce it for a tight time, and he cannot be like Mr. Xu, who will take a film for several years.

The image transmitted to the monitor through the camera, Wayne picked up the loudspeaker on the desk and shouted at Steve Wilson: "The lights are harder, but now they are softer. Yes, it's darker. I need to show a cold effect."

As the lighting group was quickly adjusting, he pointed to the background wall on the side of the roof. "Wicks, the old paint bucket under the wall adjusted the position, and now they can't show it from behind the camera."

"It's going to be done soon." Wix Hart nodded quickly and ran over with two prop group assistants.

"What else is wrong?" Gilmo, as the deputy director, came to him and asked nervously. "I mean about the set or other preparations."

All of this was coordinated and arranged in advance by the assistant director. Since he worked with Wayne for the first time, he hoped to learn more about the other party’s shooting habits.

"Just some fine tuning, don't be nervous." Wayne understood his idea and pointed at the monitor. "The scene construction of a film is never tolerated, and it must be perfect. It depends on the story that happened before the camera, the live shooting and the crucial post-production."

While the staff were adjusting, Gilmore immediately raised his spirits when he heard Wayne's words. He knew that these were all the work experience accumulated by the other party and it was quite rare for him.

"Just like the lights mentioned just now, if we want to change the tone according to our needs, the easiest way to achieve the effect you want is the lights. The lights obtained through post-production adjustments are far less than the correct lights on site..."

Wayne kept saying casually that doing so would allow him to get into work as soon as possible, forget the media reporters around the set downstairs, forget the child he was about to be born in Los Angeles, forget everything else that had nothing to do with, and concentrate on what he was best at.

"Lights OK!"

“There is no problem with the set!”

"The camera is ready, too!"

The crew members retreated out of the camera. After everything was ready, Brad Pitt, who played Billy and Christian Bale, who played Colin, walked into the camera together. Everyone looked at the director position and waited for Wayne to start officially shooting the first scene.