Chapter 414: Identity Change
Hollywood never stops making noise, there is always enough eye-catching news, so many entertainment media need to eat, they need to expand their influence, and they will always continue to discover content that makes people just interested.
Daniel, as a frequent visitor to entertainment media headlines since the new century, has been unfazed by being at the center of public opinion.
starts work in the crew every day, and he has long been familiar with it.
It's just that the staff who came from the United States are becoming more and more polite to him, and the gaze at him is becoming more and more unusual.
"In their minds, you're no different from a pile of dollar bills, a walking money printing machine, or maybe a bank is more accurate."
In between shoots, Greengrass would occasionally "taunt" Daniel once.
Greengrass, who was the insider who had the most contact with Daniel at the height of the storm, received a lot of phone calls, hoping that if he could behave somewhat, as long as he said a word or two such as "not in good spirits", "gloomy expression", and "in a sluggish state", it would immediately become a high-profile report on the other side of the Atlantic.
However, Greengrass gave the ground back under the pretext that he was shooting at full strength - but it also gave him a very deep understanding of Daniel's environment at the time, and it may be a bit bloody to describe it as a thousand arrows through the heart, but Greengrass thought it was not far off.
However, even at that time, Daniel's performance and work have been maintained at a high level, and the filming has not been affected by the distractions of the outside world in the slightest, which makes Greengrass have to sigh when chatting with his friends. Sandler's strong self-control and dedicated professionalism.
Of course, he didn't know that Daniel had a bottom in his heart, and in Greengrass's opinion, it was indeed a real counterattack - it was indeed a real counterattack, but for Daniel, it was not a suspense.
Importantly, the spread of nostalgia is not under his control. The current results are not what he expected, and he did not plan for the film to have a box office of more than 119 million for the original film - but now it seems that it is almost destined to exceed that number.
It can only be said that the encounter between accident and fate gave Daniel a surprise beyond imagination.
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At the end of November, when the crew moved to the train station in Waterloo, France, Daniel returned to Los Angeles.
This time, he felt the difference.
Reporters no longer seem to treat him as a mere actor, and almost all reporters ask him questions in the same tone as interviewing the studio owner, although not politely. The Hollywood Reporter will not be polite to anyone, but it is indeed different.
""Unstoppable" is approaching 100 million at the box office, and "Casino Royale" is also more than 170 million, are you satisfied with this?"
What a silly question, if not in this one.
But he did ask it at this moment, so it caught everyone's attention.
In the whole turmoil of "Unstoppable", Daniel's selfie MB update on November 20 can be said to be a landmark event that pushed the bearish public opinion to a peak - his refusal to admit defeat "angered" public opinion, so that most of the media decided to tell him "this is life", and he later updated the box office reverse growth figure. There was also a lot of discussion about him being too early and saying that he was angry.
So Daniel has not actually stayed away from the topic, but has been a key promoter of public opinion.
But he did not accept any interviews during the incident. Never made any public statements - words that came out of the mouth, whether face-to-face, or on the phone, or anything like that.
This made the media desperate to learn. What does he think of the box office of "Unstoppable"? Is he satisfied? Was he pleasantly surprised? Is he complacent?
Daniel only answered this one question during the entire process of leaving the airport.
"I have faith in it. It has always been so. ”
The reporters were left behind to watch his car go away, but they kept thinking about his answer.
Have faith, always!
I have to say that this is a response full of strong power.
No matter what you say, no matter what you think, I've always thought that Unstoppable would be a success. In more radical terms, it can be roughly described as, you are all a bunch of monkeys jumping up and down, I don't speak, quietly watch you become stupid B.
For Daniel, there are not many such domineering responses, and he usually has a mild attitude.
But the reporters didn't feel too uncomfortable either.
……
"What are you looking at?"
Daniel took a short break, and Cusa stayed at his villa to work, while he seemed to be checking his mail.
"JF didn't see ...... What is it? Information? ”
Kusa nodded, "Sometimes I get some messages, and most of them want a good price. ”
"Oh?" Daniel is a little interested, there is commercial espionage between the major studios, this is an open secret, it just depends on the level of the means of each party, "What is he talking about?" ”
Said Jeff. Robinov was optimistic about a project, but then because "Youth Musical" was a hit, he temporarily released the pigeons of the producer and director - the two were very unhappy. ”
"What kind of information is this?" Daniel had some doubts.
"If we're going to buy this news, he's going to give us the name of the director of that project, a project that Jeff was favored before, and that makes sense to us, doesn't it?"
"Grab it?"
"If we can see it."
Kusa began to email him to negotiate the price, "Generally speaking, this kind of news is not too expensive, it is a good deal. ”
Daniel watched as Kusa offered the other party a price of 1,200 yuan, followed by a parenthesis with a "NO"!.
"That's what it means not to bargain."
Soon, a new email was sent, followed by an account, and Kusa flipped through a name in the email.
"Danny. Boyle! ”
Kusa thought for a moment, "The director of 'The Beach'? Leonardo made it to the 20 million club. ”
Daniel nodded, but his mind didn't go to Leonardo, he remembered this point in time, Danny. Boyle should have been preparing for that film.
I took a deep breath.
"Cusa, ask him to meet and hear about his project."
"You want to see him?"
"Yes, have you seen his Trainspotting? A very talented director, but his performance has not been good in recent years, but it is worth seeing. ”
"......" Kusa looked at him suspiciously, but nodded anyway, "Okay, tomorrow?" (To be continued.) )
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