Watching the rapid increase in the number of posts on the page, Daniel knew that he had made another leap in popularity, and he didn't need to worry about losing too much of it, because there were three of the Lord of the Rings, which was more than enough to solidify his popularity, not to mention the "Hobbit" series.

"Did you anticipate this outcome when you decided to get this role?"

As Kusa looked at the posts of the crazy young fans, he couldn't help but have some strange thoughts about Daniel's choice.

He still remembers what Daniel said to him when he won the role. Yes, Legolas had already given them such a big surprise before it came out.

As Fred's information continued to flow to Daniel and Cusa, Trickor, now a full-fledged member of Daniel's team, received a lot of feedback from the media network.

"It was an unexpected explosion."

Triver placed the thick material on the coffee table, "Despite the attention that 'The Fellowship of the Ring', Legolas is really a less important character. Before, I thought that your current value for a supporting role in a movie with no big stars was a bit too cheap. ”

Triver didn't just talk about it, since he officially took over Daniel's PR business, he did ask Kusa and Daniel, and they approached Peter Jackson to see if they could discard Daniel's material and choose a new Legolas - it was a critical time for Daniel. If he is dedicated to playing only the leading role, then he is stepping on the Oscars and becoming a first-class character as a matter of course. But this insignificant role in "The Fellowship of the Ring" may affect the establishment of his professional impression.

Of course, both Daniel and Kusa refused, and the reasons for both men were the same.

Daniel didn't think about it in terms of the sheer amount of attention that the elven prince might receive, and both he and Cusa agreed that it would be more cost-effective to go with the flow than to have Peter re-select the people to shoot, and the potential for an image crisis.

However, when the current situation arises, no one will think that the role is not worth it.

The popularity of the so-called "nothingness" is definitely one of the most important things in Hollywood, and it is not on par with the Oscars - the most obvious representative is Leonardo, and the global popularity brought to him by the big ship is enough to eat the old book for a lifetime.

How Daniel manages this popularity next will require additional work from the team.

"Jerry wants to invite you to Hawaii for the premiere of 'Pearl Harbor.'"

Yes, Jerry Bruckheimer's war blockbuster and Michael Bay's war masterpiece - it is indeed huge, with an investment of more than 150 million, and it is about to be released soon, and Disney will hold a huge premiere for it.

"To be honest, Kusa, I think everyone's expectations of Michael Bay are too high, whether it is James Cameron in "Titanic" or Steven in "Saving Private Ryan", they are far from Michael's comparison. If you look at the current media, and even Disney's own promotional caliber, they are comparing these two works, which is a bit whimsical. ”

"You're so dismissive of Pearl Harbor?" Kusa raised his eyebrows in surprise, and suddenly thought of something, "Do you think this film might take Michael Eisner down?" ”

This is a bold conjecture.

Michael Eisner, the CEO of Walt Disney, and his deputy, Robert Iger, are both big names in Hollywood, and it's no surprise that the former is now far more popular than the latter. However, Mr. Cusa remembers that Daniel seemed to be a little more attentive to Robert, and that shift seemed to come at a time when "Pearl Harbor" was beginning to show its direction.

Daniel didn't answer him that Robert Iger would replace Michael Eisner, and it wasn't long before he didn't know if it was because of "Pearl Harbor," but the process wasn't that important, the outcome was important.

"So you're going to reject Jerry?"

"No, tell him clearly, I'm not very optimistic about "Pearl Harbor", and if I don't look at it, I can still say a few good words."

"So direct?"

"Yes, you don't like direct? Isn't Jones direct? ”

Kusa rolled his eyes, he and Jones had been getting a little close lately, and the two of them seemed to be really about to give birth to the fire of Eros.

……

"Oh my God." Andy patted his frightened chest, "It's scary." ”

Daniel was attending a public event at Burberry today, which was the duty of the spokesperson, but the number of people gathered at the scene was much larger than the security staff expected, and even though the local police temporarily deployed nearly 100 police officers to maintain order, the thousands of people crowded at the event made everyone break out in a cold sweat.

The police chief communicated with Burberry and asked to cancel the event.

Burberry actually doesn't have much opinion, their goal has basically been achieved, is there any more hot publicity than the current situation? Secondly, of course, they are also afraid of public accidents such as stampedes.

But when Burberry announced that the event needed to be canceled due to an overcrowding situation, there were signs of a commotion in the crowd. They had to change their minds on the fly and ask Daniel to come to power and call for order.

When most of the people were sweating, Daniel came to the stage, smiled gently, and humbly asked everyone to pay attention to safety.

Of course, the event was much faster than expected, and the event, which was supposed to be nearly an hour, ended up lasting only twenty minutes.

When Andy got back to the car, his heart was still pounding.

"That's crazy popularity, and I have no doubt that if Daniel were to walk into the crowd right now, there would never be a hair left." Melissa said.

Andy nodded in agreement, and the crazy look she saw in the eyes of those young girls made a deep impression on her, Daniel has always been a popular star, but such a scene is also unprecedented. They almost wanted to swallow him.

"Danny, maybe that's going to be the norm in the future. Come to think of it, MGM is really going crazy with joy. ”

"Pretty Woman" has entered the publicity period, and Daniel's skyrocketing popularity this time is almost equal to millions of publicity costs for "Pretty Woman", because most of the reports will mention Daniel's latest work, that is, "Legally Blonde".

"Anyway, I have to get a 5% share, otherwise it will be a big loss."

Of course, now that five percent is no longer enough for Daniel to give anything more.

Jerry Bruckheimer has replied to Cusa, so Daniel doesn't have to go to Hawaii, Jerry is not unhappy, in his eyes, what is the level of this movie, I'm afraid that it may not be necessary to wait until the film critics collectively attack, but the market is full of wonderful chemical effects, and bad movies are not necessarily without box office, not to mention, with Disney's operational capabilities, the number of openings of this movie is at least more than 3,200 screens, 20 million on the first day, and more than 60 million on the first weekend There should be no problem, Although this prediction is lower than the current general forecast of more than 100 million in four days, it is not bad, after all, movies such as "Shrek" and "Return of the Mummy" are still reaping the box office, and it is not without opponents.

So after Daniel had a meeting with the post-production team of "My Grand Greek Wedding" to determine the idea, he was going to Paris to make up the filming of "Spy", and Doug Liman got a year around the world, but he was making things hard, and Daniel had to arrange time to do some reshoots. In addition, Peter Jackson had already called, and Legolas needed a lot of reshoots, which shows that they had made a decision to play Legolas's card, rather than suppressing Daniel's Legolas in order to highlight the special effects and story of the entire movie.

And that's a good thing -- because the new line side will pay a lot of money, a million.

Of course, this is inseparable from Kusa's work, and in fact, the contract that Daniel signed in the first place does seem too anachronistic now. 70,000, this is the price of those unknown characters in the Screen Actors Guild who have a few lines, and it has almost nothing to do with the current Daniel.

This time, Xinxian and Peter decided to shoot a lot of shots, and Kusa certainly had a way to get the other party to come up with a new contract on his own.

One million is not the price of a reshoot, but a new compromise contract for all of Daniel's performances in The Lord of the Rings.

By the time he completes the reshoots of these two films, it will almost be July, and according to the contract, he needs to officially enter the publicity work of "Pretty Woman" until it is released in mid-July.

Looking through his itinerary in the car, Daniel patted his forehead, "What about my vacation, I remember that I had a vacation arranged before." ”

Melissa and Andy looked at each other and remained silent.

"Maybe after "Pretty Woman", I can go and escape the summer or something."

Daniel could only comfort himself with this.

At the end of May, "Pearl Harbor" was officially released, and the box office of 75.17 million in the first week was still quite eye-catching, but the media evaluation was almost one-sided negative, and the thin plot of the film and the actors' shallow acting skills became the biggest attack point. The next box office trend still needs to look at the word-of-mouth given by the first wave of audiences, and from IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, of course, it has nothing to look forward to.

At this time, Daniel began to fly to Europe to reshoot "The Spy", and by the way, he also needed to talk to Polanski about "The Pianist", and he needed to start dieting at least a few months in advance to fit the figure of a pianist who fell out of World War II, in addition, piano and history training also needed to be done.

It is definitely not an exaggeration to describe Daniel as non-stop, after staying in Paris for more than half a month, he flew directly to New Zealand to meet Peter, and some old friends who had rival scenes also flew back, which finally relieved Daniel's irritable feelings - non-stop work, non-stop travel, it is indeed easy to make people disgusted.