As for Brown's thank-you phone call and the first day of sales of the new book, Alice only learned about it when she took the initiative to talk to her home. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 As for herself, she was filming DreamWorks' first film, "Ghost Record," at her own expense, in the small city of Huron in central California.

"Jack, you have to hold on, you have to take selfies with such a big camera on your own for the whole movie, and you can't eat more hamburgers. ”

"Don't worry, boss, I'm the captain of the school's football team, a camera is nothing, I've carried three cheerleading girls at the same time!"

Green lawns, white stone pavement, and a secluded street in Huron City, where houses spread from one end to the other. More than a dozen young people were staying in front of one of the houses, and if someone carefully collected the nearest newspaper, they would find that it was actually the house where the bodies of three high school students had been found.

As the filming site of "Ghost Shadow", a young man in his mid-teens or sixteens was waving his arms majestically at the door, chatting loudly with other students. He is the rookie actor of the male lead in this movie, the captain of the rugby team of UCLA doctoral students, and he is strong and powerful, which is very much in line with Alice's adapted script.

After all, the actor should be able to take a selfie with a camera in a reasonable way!

This is not the era when DV cameras have been introduced, and the weight of the camera is also quite expensive, and the original plot must be modified.

"Actually, now it seems that this protagonist Mick is really an idiot. ”

As an assistant director, David looked at the house with his arms crossed, and said with a smile: "I guess at the beginning of the movie, the audience should say, why does this idiot want to carry a camera and take a selfie, isn't he tired?"

"Yes, yes, there must be a complaint. ”

Alice laughed and said: "No matter how much we rationalize the plot, the audience will not bypass the actor himself, so let's just shoot Mick to death and make him a fool, and the more stupid the better, the audience will definitely like it." ”

"So, Alice, why do I always feel that the atmosphere is a little wrong?"

David touched his chin and said, "Although your script is indeed very well written, and it is indeed a good thriller movie, but listening to your analysis all day long, I always feel that we are making a ...... Funny. ”

Alice touched her nose and said nothing more. There's no way, I really developed this habit, the Internet in later generations is so developed, what movie must not be hacked into scum by the audience. Especially like those thriller movies and ghost horror movies, of course, netizens did their best to make them humorous.

Therefore, Alice is not sure whether this movie will be a thriller or a comedy film after it comes out, after all, this is also the first time she has reversed the movie as a script. As the saying goes, everyone has a first time, long live understanding.

There is no doubt that the filming location is the scene of the crime, from the discovery of the bodies of three high school students to the arrival of the UCLA & DreamWorks joint crew. In the meantime, the police have collected all possible clues, otherwise they would not have had a chance to come.

Of course, Alice is very good at distancing herself from relationships, and at that time, she personally went to the Los Angeles police station to tell Sergei, who had been her bodyguard, her plan.

"Uncle~ I heard that the three bad boys who beat my brother are hanging there, after a while, people want to go to the scene of the crime to make a movie and have fun, can you watch it~"

With this kind of preemptive rhetoric, although the police will definitely be quite big, they will definitely not suspect anything on themselves~

After all, those three high school students...... Ahem.

The whole movie is less than 100 minutes long, and most of the plot just takes place in the house, just a couple's daily selfie, plus an incompetent priest and the heroine's best friend. In just a week, more than 80% of the plot of the entire film was completed, and Alice pinched her fingers, even if it included the editing after the finale, it would be all done in two weeks.

Well, it's a fight with the filming cycle of "Chainsaw".

So as the cliché goes, in order to accumulate funds for himself to develop the mainland clothing market, in order to make this movie achieve a huge box office, DreamWorks has spent a lot of publicity money. Mr. Grant relied on deposits, loans, and loans to raise a total of 12 million dollars, and then with the channels he had accumulated over the years, he began to make public opinion.

In fact, this whole publicity plan was written by Alice herself, and it began long before the filming of the film began.

One day at noon, when the sun shines vertically on the sky.

"Ahh

As an otaku, Harry, who is not a geek, walked out of the house, walked out of the "geek house" full of the smell of instant noodles, undershirts, and stinky feet, and came to the corridor of a high-rise apartment building on an inconspicuous street in Queens, New York City. Then, because of the sudden cold weather and the special physical fitness of being an otaku and a geek, he sneezed without any suspense.

"Unlucky, just woke up and sneezed, what a bad luck!"

Rubbing the dark circles under his eyes, rubbing his thatched hair, and stepping on his slippers, Harry walked with his head down, easily to the elevator, then followed the creaking elevator to the ground, and then walked out of the apartment building with his head down, staring straight at the ground with his eyes on the ground, and walking deftly into the street.

Then, he looked up blankly.

"Uh...... Where's the kiosk?"

Gathering news had been Harry's hobby for years, but after struggling to find the newsstand, he was dismayed to find that newspapers like The New York Times and Spotlight This Morning were gone.

"I said Tom, you always have a lot of stock here, how can such an important newspaper as 'Current Affairs Watch' be out of stock!?"

Tom, a little old man in a blue striped checkered shirt and an American flag-patterned baseball cap, was holding a retro pipe in his mouth and said impatiently, "Stinky little devil, don't you see what time it is? I'm the only newsstand on the street, are you questioning my income!?"

Harry didn't dare to quarrel with this old man, after all, people actually lived upstairs in his own building, and he couldn't look up and see him, so how could he easily offend?

Of course, he wouldn't admit that he was afraid of the shotgun on the wall of Tom's restaurant.

"No, no, the ones you usually watch are gone, just a "Hunting Surprise", I think you kid can buy a copy in about a month, so it's better to leave it at that!"

Seeing the cover of the newspaper, Harry was a little dissatisfied. Although "Strange Story" sells a lot of money, and it is a well-known print media among tabloids, and the sales in New York alone can be tens of thousands, Harry usually watches it as an amateur pastime. Now, I haven't read the serious "Washington Post" or anything, and I just look at the pastime first, isn't it putting the cart before the horse?

“…… What kind of eyes, just your panda eyes, do you think you're scary? Oh yes, I'm afraid you don't know what a panda is, right? Little ghost, it's okay to go to the zoo...... Oh, just buy it, get out!"

Harry swore he wouldn't quarrel with the old man, it was just because he forgot to drink coffee and was not energetic, and the shotgun or something wasn't the reason!

Even in New York in November, the midday sun was scorching enough, and Harry looked disappretently at the sunny sky around him, found the corner of a café, and opened the second page of the newspaper.

Then, he couldn't take his eyes off for a moment.

“…… Until now, the police are still helpless about the murder of Huron's high school student, and have not been able to find any valid clues. After many investigations, the reporter of this newspaper believes that it seems more useful to pay attention to the scene of the crime than the clues of the case itself. ”

"Huron is a small town, but its founding dates back to the beginning of this century, and the street where the crime took place is more than 50 years old. According to the reporter's investigation, in the past 50 years, 11 Walker Street has been resold 95 times, the most recent one occurred three years ago. In other words, on average, one new person is welcomed every two quarters. ”

"What is the reason that an ordinary residential household has to move every quarter on average, and that a residential house has to be replaced every two quarters? Why, the latest batch of households can persist for three years? Why, the current family only has one mother with reduced mobility and Alzheimer's disease living here, and the buyers have not come to visit their relatives in the last six months?"

"The reporter of this newspaper will inevitably have a lot of suspicions, and he will inevitably move closer to the supernatural incident. It stands to reason that compared to the history of the East Coast, which is often two or three hundred years old, the West Coast should not be a place for ghosts and ghosts, but that is just the subjective imagination of human beings, at most it is only reflected as a setting in the movie. If this kind of event really happens, presumably the ghosts won't care about historical factors, right?"

"When the three high school students who were revealed to have gone missing in May were found in late October, the autopsy was about three months after the date of death, and the coroner found no trace of formalin. There is a tearing wound on the neck, which is not caused by a beast, and the blood loss of the whole body is more than 80%...... Yes, the first thing that came to my mind, naturally, was a vampire......"