Chapter 506: Negotiation Broker
Gu Xiaofan felt inexplicable, and immediately turned on the computer, and at this time, Liu Shishi also came over and said, "That guy named Jason said that he was stuck in traffic, come over immediately." [No pop-up novel network]"
At this time, after Gu Xiaofan's laptop was connected to the wireless network, he logged in to Sohu's news page, and the two of them went to the news page to publish a big photo.
On April 6, that is, today, in Paris, France, tens of thousands of French protesters and Chinese students and overseas Chinese broke out fierce clashes during the torch relay.
In one of the most thrilling moments, a radical shouted slogans and rushed at a disabled female torchbearer in an attempt to snatch the Olympic torch from her hands......
Liu Shishi looked at it, couldn't help clenching his fists fiercely, and scolded in a low voice: "These foreign bastards ......"
"How could something like this happen?" Gu Xiaofan couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable in his heart, the Olympics were originally a declaration of peace, why would these so-called civilized Europeans do such a barbaric thing.
Gu Xiaofan has always had some longing for Hollywood in his heart, and also for this scene of American and European civilization, but today he faintly felt that things were not the same as he imagined.
Will this be the case at the torch relay three days later? Gu Xiaofan couldn't help but turn his head to look at Liu Shishi with some worry and said, "Sister Shi, you better not go to this torch relay, just say that you are sick, I can go alone." "It only takes one person to promote a film.
"Why don't you let me go?" Liu Shishi patted Gu Xiaofan's shoulder dissatisfiedly when she listened: "If you don't go, you shouldn't go, don't you think I can't protect myself?" ”
Saying that, Liu Shishi raised his Qianxiu's arm, showed his "force value" and shouted: "I'm not the little girl named Jin Jing, if someone dares to snatch my torch, I will tear him on the spot!" ”
Gu Xiaofan looked at Liu Shishi's appearance as an eldest sister, and couldn't help but think that when she was a child in the compound, she helped herself beat up the bear children who bullied her...... The expression was exactly the same as it is now.
She is not rare to run the honor of passing the torch, she is worried about me...... Rather take this risk himself, Gu Xiaofan couldn't help but be a little moved in his heart, and held Liu Shishi's hand and said:
"Okay, you run, I run, let's run together, I don't believe that those old beauties dare to touch me."
Liu Shishi was amused by Gu Xiaofan's heroic appearance, and couldn't help patting his head:
"If you run, I will run, do you think we are playing the Titanic? Let's go, let's go to Warner, haven't they already promised to talk to us about cooperation? ”
Gu Xiaofan nodded, his mood was excited when he thought of this, and the matter of the torch relay was also left behind.
Before coming, he contacted Warner in the name of NB and said that he wanted to talk to them about the cooperation of "The Dark Knight", and the other party agreed immediately.
also made an appointment in a private villa, not an office, obviously the other party values himself, or maybe he values the scripts in the hands of NB.
Anyway, this time Gu Xiaofan finally had a little confidence.
Just thinking about it, I saw a thin white middle-aged man holding a sign that read "Warmly welcome Mr. Gu and Miss Liu", the man was about forty years old in a suit, but his hair was already gray, and he had been wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Hello, are you Professor Jason?" Gu Xiaofan waved his hand loudly.
"Hello ~ Hello ~ Mr. Gu, I am the Jason of 'Optimal Communication', and 'Optimal Communication' will give you the best lobbying service throughout the whole process~" The skinny white man is a typical American look, much like the father in "Growing Pains", but he speaks with a somewhat strange Taiwanese Chinese accent.
"You're that Ang Lee's classmate in the directing department at New York University?" Liu Shishi looked at this skinny white man with some surprise, thinking that he was good at Chinese.
"Yes, I am Ang Lee, and all Chinese call me that, so much so that sometimes, I feel like I'm called Jason Ang Lee." Professor Jason laughed self-deprecatingly.
"Now what's our next schedule? Professor Jason. Gu Xiaofan asked.
Before he arrived, he hired a lobbying firm in the United States, specifically asking for someone who could get in touch with Warners, preferably someone with a directorial background.
The lobbying company gave them a list, and Gu Xiaofan finally chose this Jason, who was once a classmate of Ang Lee, who now teaches third-rate actors in a small acting school, was born in the directing department, and is very good at Chinese, which is very suitable for acting as an intermediary to contact Warner.
And Gu Xiaofan also needs him to serve as his other identity, pretending to be the identity of the legendary screenwriter "NB", otherwise if the negotiation opponent knows that he is NB and knows nothing about Hollywood, the situation will be very unfavorable.
"NB" is just a screen name, it can be anyone, and the other party suspects that as long as there is legal authorization for the script on their side, Warner can't say anything.
"Let's get in the car first, we'll talk while walking, there are still two hours before the time we made an appointment, and the car is just right to arrive." Professor Jason took them to the airport parking lot and got into his car.
As soon as the car started, Jason smiled and introduced: "Mr. Gu, don't be too nervous, we are just visiting Abel Warner for the first time, and we may have to go many times, you know that Abel Warner has to meet many representatives of foreign film companies like us every day." ”
"Isn't Warner's current president Calvin Candy?" Liu Shishi asked strangely.
"Ha, the CEO is just a high-level worker for the film company, although they have a lot of power, but in fact, they are just implementing the policy of the board of directors." Jason smiled, his forehead was full of railroad track-like wrinkles, and he had the charm of a mature man.
"Then we want to meet this Abel Warner, who is actually Warner's largest shareholder?" Gu Xiaofan also asked curiously.
"No, he's one of the shareholders, but the majority shareholders are his uncles and uncles, and he's too old to speak, and he's the most powerful one with the Warner surname who can speak."
Jason looked at the two and shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly: "You know, those bullshit Jewish families in Hollywood, Warner Bros., Disney, Universal, Fox, Chaplin...... Jews rule the American media, entertainment, they are the bosses, others just do the work for them......"
"You mean, as long as we get this Abel Warner, the Dark Knight can be filmed for us?"
Gu Xiaofan finally understood, and his mood became relaxed, he was still afraid that some company would review all kinds of complicated systems, and it would be much simpler to be directly person-to-person.
"Yes, if Hollywood is the White House, Abel Warner is Obama, he has the final say." Jason said here, but he kindly reminded him:
"But Director Gu, I want to remind you that even if I play the legendary screenwriter NB, I'm afraid we may not be able to get all the ...... you want"
All? Gu Xiaofan silently muttered in his heart, I don't need everything, how much can I fight for, and the most important thing is that I want to get the role of a clown......