Los Angeles, Malibu Daenerys Studios.

Jett Lee and his agent, Jeremy, rushed to the No. 1 office building in the Borough of the Studios, where two other Hollywood filmmakers, Doug Liman and Tony Gilroy, had arrived and were waiting in the lounge outside Simon's office.

It was Thursday afternoon, July 25th.

The crowd will have 30 minutes to meet with Simon Westeros at 5 o'clock.

It's already time to get off work at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, but Simon Westeros can arrange his work at this time, and the others naturally have no opinion.

Seeing Jett Lee arrive, several people greeted him warmly, and seeing that there were still a few minutes before the meeting time, they discussed a project that was being negotiated recently, and the idea proposed by a young tycoon himself, the name had been finalized in advance, and the English name was simply "Taken".

If translated into the name in Simon's memory later, it can be described as a big name, "Hurricane Rescue".

Simon was very dissatisfied with the several ideas provided by the New World Pictures team around Jett Lee some time ago, so he decided to do it himself again, but now of course, he doesn't have time to write the script himself, and still only provides a general idea, just a few days ago, Vivendi-controlled Disney announced several of his own blockbusters, among which "The Fifth Element" cooperated with Luc Besson, which reminded Simon of the blockbuster Luc Besson screenwriting action film "Hurricane Rescue" starring Liam Neeson.

Luc Besson, known as the French 'Spielberg', has two classic tendencies in his personal works, and the films he directed are quite thoughtful, such as "Blue Sea and Blue Sky", "The Fifth Element", "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", etc., and the screenwriting works are often Luc Besson-style assembly lines, "Taxi Express", "Death Express" and "Hurricane Rescue" and the like.

Of course, occasionally the two aspects will coincide, and there are cases of success and failure, such as "Super Body" and "Anna".

Among them, "Hurricane Rescue" is definitely the most successful series on the Fat Pine assembly line, since you think about it, then take it casually, after all, it is an assembly line, and it is not inconsistent at all to change it slightly.

Speaking of which, Luc Besson and Jett Lee also collaborated, that is, "Dragon's Kiss". It's just that the commercial performance of this movie is very average, so it is not in Simon's consideration.

In the lounge, several people who arrived early communicated, Danny Morris, president of New World Pictures, arrived at the time point, and Girl A also came to inform them, and everyone came to Simon's office together.

Returning from Ukraine on Tuesday, Simon immediately threw himself into the never-ending work that the Westeros system could never finish as long as it wanted.

Just concluded a conference call with AOL about the findings of AOL's $3 billion corporate bond a few days ago.

The financing went very smoothly.

The $3 billion corporate bond, split equally between 10 and 20 years, has been recently sold out by investors around the world, despite interest rates below the industry average for the same period. Moreover, in the whole process, AOL only paid 1.3% of the financing amount equivalent to $39 million in commission costs, which is also far below the industry standard.

This is the result of the major investment bank underwriters scrambling to give the best concessions in order to secure the Westeros system, a large customer.

After all, in addition to a few large bond issuances and Verizon IPO operations that have been finalized in the second half of the year, the entire Westeros system, various small-scale financing operations, are numerous. No investment bank, whether it is Wall Street in the United States or the City of London, will not do its best to attract such large potential customers.

In the final analysis, the current wave of new technology is too hot.

Some time ago, the market value of Igrete exceeded 400 billion, becoming the first company with a market value of 400 billion US dollars, and everyone found that the NASDAQ market not only did not show signs of peaking, but still rose strongly, and it seems that there is really a momentum to directly create one or even several trillion-dollar market value giants.

With history so much changed, it is now impossible for even Simon to judge how high the Nasdaq will ultimately go.

Seeing Jett Lee and others enter the door, Simon also got up, shook hands with everyone one by one, and then sat down in the reception area.

Simon personally finalized the three main creators of the new version of "Hurricane Rescue", in addition to Jett Lee, the other two Doug Liman and Tony Gilroy are also familiar to Hollywood fans in the original time and space, both of them are the main creators of the "Spy" series, one is the director of the first series, and also directed "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", and the other is the screenwriter of the entire series of "Spy".

However, the current three of them can only be regarded as emerging in Hollywood, so they can be screwed together by Simon.

Simon provided the idea and instructed the trio to work together on the script, of course, with Tony Gilroy as the main director, Doug Liman as the director, and Jett Lee as the actor and action director.

Since the main creator has been replaced, it is naturally impossible for the plot to follow the original version, in fact, the changes are very large.

And, inevitably, to compensate for Jett Lee's lack of Asian popularity, the story naturally transitions into a sibling film model, similar to "Beverly Detective," "Lethal Weapon," and "Rush Hour" with Jack Cheng and Chris Tucker.

The trio even initially discussed a three-protagonist mode.

Reception area, without much nonsense to get straight to the point.

Simon said to the trio on the couch next to him: "I've seen the script outline and some drafts, and your three main characters are very good creative, because there are three types of people involved, and the baggage about race is also wonderful, but if we use this story framework, we will only end up with another three-person "Rush Hour", I don't know if the audience will buy it, I definitely won't, and it also deviates from the core of my creativity." I needed an R-rated action movie that was crisp and clean to the end, and the three main characters would definitely slow down the pace of the story. In fact, even if it is a double male lead, I need to take Jett's kung fu as the core. For the rest of the full script writing, I want you to take what I just said, is there a problem?"

After Simon finished speaking, Jett Lee and the three of them looked at each other and nodded slightly.

Speaking of which, if the model of black, white and yellow male protagonists is adopted, Jett Lee's role will definitely be compressed, but Jett Lee did not object during the discussion of the script, after all, he does not have enough confidence in his Hollywood debut, so it is inevitable to seek stability.

Simon roughly understood Jett Lee's thoughts, but he didn't agree, and when the three of them nodded, he said, "Then, let's brainstorm next, and you can also talk about your own thoughts." ”

The black character storyline was deleted, and after some discussion, a new script framework quickly took shape.

Zhao Qiang, who immigrated to the United States in his early years and got married and had children, opened a Chinese restaurant by the way, ushered in his sister Zhao Min, who came to the United States to study and pursue another American dream.

In addition, Zhao Min was abducted because Zhao Qiang, a white American friend, Jack, took the girl to a nightclub, out of guilt, Jack followed Zhao Qiang all the way to find Zhao Min, and then stared at Zhao Qiang under Zhao Qiang's violent behavior.

The story ends happily.

There is also a foreshadowing of a possible sequel.

Regarding Zhao Qiang's happy family of three, if the film is successful and a sequel is developed, Zhao Qiang's daughter can be kidnapped again.

All right.

Capitalists have no bottom line.

Half an hour is not too long, Simon directly fixed the framework of the story, and Jett Lee discussed the action style and shooting techniques respectively, and the 30 minutes passed quickly.

Leaving Simon's office and separating from Danny Morris, Doug Liman spoke first, inviting the other two to a party in the circle tonight, and they have become very acquainted recently, and several other people have also agreed, in addition to continuing to discuss the script, probably understanding that this is Doug Liman wants to introduce some people to the project.

It's also interesting to say, the three main creators, Tony Gilroy is a customer of CAA, Jett Lee is signed under WMA, and Doug Liman belongs to ICM.

Noticing this, it's sometimes inevitable to wonder if this is someone's way of balancing.

Simon has always paid attention to the balance between the three major Hollywood agencies, including the second-tier agencies, and will not be left out in the cold, this time it is a complete coincidence, mainly because the three of them are considered to be Simon's special attention objects, and they are very suitable for the project "Hurricane Rescue", just like Doug Liman, although he has only completed one "Full-time Prodigal Son", but this filmmaker is actually the same as Quentin, he is also a fan of kung fu movies, and he likes Hong Kong films very much.

Tony Gilroy is Simon's preparation for the "Spy" series.

Doug Liman invited the other two to bring in friends from his circle to join "Hurricane Rescue", after all, Simon Westeros personally provided creative projects, even if it was just a supporting role, it was enough for Hollywood stars eager to break through. Doug Liman wanted to recommend his friend Jon Favreau or Sam Rockwell as the leading actor this time.

It's just that these two names, put them later, expand them, and they are a large number. For example, Robert Downey Jr., who was still addicted to drugs at this time, was also under ICM, and was already familiar with Jon Favreau, and Downey, as a famous second-generation star in Hollywood, and Jodie Foster, who was also a second-generation star, could be called a dead friend, and Jodie Foster was surrounded by a dead friend like Mel Gibson, and later Gibson was banned, Jodie Foster has been trying his best to help each other, and when Downey was addicted to drugs and couldn't extricate himself, it was these friends who forcibly sent each other to drug rehab.

Hollywood is a circle.

Of course, for the project "Hurricane Rescue", both CAA and WMA are also keeping an eye on it.

Simon didn't care much about these private Hollywood connections, he just needed to get the right actors, send the "Hurricane Rescue" team away, and continue to be busy until seven o'clock, and then go home from work.

Janet has been a little depressed lately.

His own man ran out and fooled around for more than a week, and another Jennifer also accompanied the Raybould family to Atlanta to watch the Olympics, and only returned this afternoon.

Fortunately, I finally came back.

Otherwise, she would simply leave a few little annoying people at home and run away from home, watching children is a great horror in the world.

When Simon got home, he saw the female assistant who had returned directly to home life and Janet who finally relaxed and collapsed on the sofa by the glass curtain wall to watch the sunset, and greeted Jennifer who was holding Little Snow, and came to the curtain wall, Janet immediately looked like she wanted to hug.

Simon reached out to pick up the woman, but Janetra fell on the sofa, and under him was a soft woman and a soft cry, kissed Janet on the lips, and said, "Okay, isn't Jenny back?"

Janet poked her head and bit Simon's lip and grinded her teeth a few times, and then reached out to hug Simon's body, preventing him from getting up, feeling the heavy oppression of the man, humming very comfortably, and said, "Dad still wants me to have two more children, I don't want it, children are really terrifying." ”

Simon wanted to turn sideways so as not to fall on Janet, but was stopped by the woman, so he had to maintain his posture and smiled: "Then don't give birth, don't listen to the old man." ”

Janet hmmed a few times, then opened her eyes and stared at Simon, "However, I know that Jenny actually wants to have children, and she only has little Nick." ”

"Are you misremembering something?"

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

"Uh-huh, Cill is so smart, of course I was born. ”

"Alright," Janet shook her head triumphantly, and continued, "I mean, we're going to Australia for a holiday in a few days, and you and Jenny can try to have another one." ”

"Actually, I also think it's troublesome to have more children. ”

Janet pouted with disdain: "You haven't even taken care of it, what's the trouble?"

There is a reason why women complain.

In fact, with so many servants in the house, if Janet didn't want to be tired herself, she wouldn't have to do anything in the past few days. Although the woman complained, in fact, the female assistant was not there, and she was still very dedicated to the children, otherwise she would not be so thunderous.

Simon, it was.

This is the standard hands-off shopkeeper.

Completely irrefutable, Simon just smiled.

Janet glanced at him and said, "Actually, I know you just lied." ”

"Huh?"

"You want more children too. Janet said, adding, "You don't need to raise it anyway." ”

"I was wronged. ”

"How can a guy who admires the theory of genetic instinct not want his genes to spread to the maximum," Janet said, holding Simon's face and looking at each other, "Am I right, little bastard?"

Simon gestured and opened his mouth to bite Janet's little hand, but Janet was not afraid and firmly hugged Simon's head to prevent him from changing the subject.

This question, of course, cannot be answered at all.

After a moment of froze, Janet suddenly smiled wickedly, "Little bastard, you can do this if you want." ”