The filming of "Forrest Gump" went well, and the time came to November, and after Savannah's scene was over, the crew was ready to move back to Los Angeles to shoot indoor footage.

As the assistant director and executive producer of the set, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola rushed back to Los Angeles with the set designer and props crew to do the preliminary work on the same day after filming, while John stayed behind to finish the work.

The finishing work is very simple, that is, the sorting out of some shooting equipment, and the dismantling of the set, which can be completed in two days, so John is not in a hurry, after the filming of the day, in order to thank the crew members for their work during this time, he invited everyone to eat in the hotel, but just when everyone was happy, a theater attendant suddenly ran in from outside and ran towards John, shouting while running.

“boss！”

“boss！”

"Oh no......"

The shouts of the drama attracted everyone's attention, and the lively celebration atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

"What's going on?" John looked at the panting drama.

"Warehouse...... Warehouse...... There was a fire......"

John stood up, pulled out his chair and ran out of his legs, and the rest of the crew members also dropped the cutlery and wine glasses in their hands when they heard this, and ran after John.

The crew's warehouse is a place where photographic equipment and film are stacked, and once the consequences of a fire are unimaginable, if the contents are burned, the crew's achievements in a month will be all in vain, and they will have to start all over again.

John and the crew rushed to the warehouse as fast as they could, and by this time the fire had been extinguished by the fire fighting that had arrived, and only some smoke had risen from the burned warehouse in the air.

John looked at the collapsed warehouse, and knew in his heart that this month's work was done in vain, and the money was still a small problem, mainly because it was too troublesome to make up for the filming, and it was okay to make up one or two shots, if it was too much, it would be difficult, not only to sign a new contract with the actors, but also to wait for the actors' schedules, actors like Tom Hanks and Winona Ryder, their schedules are very full, and it is difficult to find time to make up for the filming in a short time, unless John is willing to pay a large sum of money to pay them liquidated damages.

Just as John was frowning and thinking about how to solve the matter of reshooting, another drama crew member who guarded the warehouse came over with a sheriff.

"That's our director, Director John Chris Deng. The drama told the sheriff.

"Hello Director Chris Deng!" said the sheriff, looking at John. "I'm Sheriff Duke, the person in charge here. ”

"Hello! Sheriff Duke. John nodded.

"The fire has been extinguished, the cause of the fire is still under investigation, and we will let you know as soon as the results are available. "Sheriff Duke looks like he's doing business.

"Okay...... Thank you. John nodded, asking. "Sheriff Duke, is the warehouse badly burned, and what's left in it?"

Although he knew that it would be difficult for the contents of the warehouse to survive such a large fire, John still had some expectations, hoping to leave something for him.

"I'm sorry!" Sheriff Duke said helplessly. "Due to the size of the fire, only the skeleton of some equipment is left in the warehouse. ”

This time the fire was so big that everything that could be burned was burned to ashes, and if it weren't for the quick firefighting, even the iron equipment skeleton would have been melted away.

When John heard that there was nothing left, he was in a very bad mood, and Sergeant Duke was very discerning, knowing that he was inconvenient to stay for a long time, and went to busy himself after saying goodbye. The crew members around them saw the warehouse burned to ruins, and they were all silent, and a month's hard work was turned into ashes, and no one was in the mood to talk at this time.

Just when everyone was in a low mood and silent, Sophia came to the scene, and after she put Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola and others on the plane, she returned to the hotel and heard the staff talk about the warehouse fire, so she hurried over.

"Boss, how are you?" asked Sophia as she approached John.

"I'm fine. John waved his hand, then sighed as he looked at the burnt warehouse. "It was this fire that destroyed all the film, and our work for the month was in vain. ”

"Film?" Sophia looked at John suspiciously. "Didn't I take all the film we shot?"

"You took the film?" John's voice suddenly rose a few points, and he looked at Sophia incredulously, his eyes wide as if they could fly out of his sockets at any moment.

"yes! I did the shipping myself. Sophia nodded. "Didn't my father tell you when he left that he was going to take the film to Los Angeles to be developed?

John was reminded by Sophia, and remembered that Francis Ford Coppola had indeed looked for him when he was leaving in the afternoon.

It's just that he was on the phone at the time, and he didn't hear much about what Francis Ford Coppola said, so he just nodded vigorously, and now that he thinks about it, Francis Ford Coppola seems to have said that it was indeed about film.

John was relieved to learn that the film had been taken to Los Angeles for processing, and he was glad that as long as the film hadn't been burned, everything else was a minor problem.

People are like this, sometimes when losses are inevitable, as long as you can keep important things, secondary losses are bearable, just like playing chess, it is also a kind of luck to lose the car to protect the handsome.

The work efficiency of the police station is very high, mainly because the fire victims are film crews, unlike ordinary people's cases, the government does not want this incident to affect the image of the city, and at the same time hopes that "Forrest Gump" can bring tourists to Savannah, so whether it is for the sake of image or for the sake of urban tourism, the government will put pressure on the police department, and the efficiency is naturally high.

Finally, after police investigation and evidence collection, it was confirmed that the fire was arson, and the murderer has no clues, after all, this time is not the era when there is surveillance everywhere.

And John's whole face turned black after learning that someone had set fire to his warehouse, and in his previous life, when browsing the web, he could occasionally see the news of a fire on the set of a Hollywood crew, but he didn't expect this kind of thing to fall on him one day.

As for who set the fire, he knew that people at his level no longer needed evidence, as long as they doubted it in their hearts.

Then John handed over the finishing work to Zack Schneider and Sophia, and he rushed back to Los Angeles to deal with the matter first, since the other party had already made a move, he must also return the salute, otherwise any cat or dog would dare to stretch out their paws to him in the future.