The cumbersome action scenes are very expensive to film, and the actors inevitably bump into each other, Martin himself is fine, and several stunt doubles have many bruises.

This is common in the crew, and the stuntmen are used to it.

After another action scene was filmed, Martin was nothing, and the stand-ins were tired and out of breath.

Ah Jia's voice was hoarse, and he said to the assistant, "Let them rest for an hour." ”

Three stuntmen of similar size to Martin, and two stuntmen who had evolved into shapes, came to the rest area and sat down, all of them not wanting to move anymore.

Martin went and got Gatorade himself, gave everyone a bottle, and said, "Guys, refuel." ”

"You shoot no less than us, rest quickly." The stand-in Buck practiced a good body, but at the age of twenty-five, he had already lost his head, and said: "Martin, your physical strength is really good." ”

Martin sat down in a chair, deliberately bent his arms, pointed to the bulging muscles and said, "Forgot? I'm the best guy in the crew. ”

Men get together and chat, how can they not brag: "Have you ever seen my machine gun dance?" Endurance is also the best. ”

Special actor Lord said: "I watched the live broadcast of the Saturn Awards with my wife, and when my wife saw her dancing, she laughed at me, saying that compared to that man, you are a soft egg. At that time, I thought that seeing him must blow up his brother. ”

Martin looked frightened: "Man, you can't hit my brother if you hit me in the face, because your hand will be broken!" ”

Lewis, who is also Martin's stand-in, said: "Martin, I admit that you have the best physical strength and the best ability to play in the entire crew, but what you really rank first is your cheekiness." ”

The others laughed.

Martin said seriously, "Do you know what Atlanta's most widely circulated saying is?" Everybody is jealous of Martin, everybody wants to be Martin. ”

He coughed, "Good news for you, this weekend, we're doing a beach party with the crew next door." ”

Lord became excited: "Really. ”

"It's all pretty chicks next door," Buck said. ”

Martin proposed, "How about we form a pickle group?" ”

"No, I'm going to stay away from you." Lewis has already recognized the reality: "Follow you, the pretty girl is all going to find you, and we can only pick up the remaining ugly girls." ”

A few people laughed for a while, and Bruce came over and said that Sophia was looking for him.

Sophia took Scott on a trip, and Martin thought she would go straight back to Atlanta, but she didn't expect to come back.

Martin dragged Bruce along: "Don't worry, with me, she won't dare to do anything to you." ”

Bruce's ass was clamped, his legs were shaking, but his mouth was very hard: "You're worried about what she will do to you!" ”

Two big men with weak hearts saw Sophia at the door of the studio.

The female King Kong was wearing a vest and shorts, revealing a muscular pimple: "I'm ready to go back to Atlanta." ”

Bruce clamped his legs, unconsciously relaxed.

"On the crew's side, you two are optimistic, don't make trouble." Sophia suddenly remembered the fat man who grabbed investment in Los Angeles: "If that is called something, it is that ugly fat man, and he dares to make trouble, call me, and I will personally go to Los Angeles to clean him up!" ”

"No problem." Martin has some confidence, and if Weinstein is looking for trouble, he will directly summon Sophia.

Sophia's gaze swept over Bruce's face, and Bruce grabbed Martin's arm, suddenly remembering that this stinky shit was unreliable, and maybe he sold himself.

Martin said, "Goodbye." ”

"Gone." Sophia greeted Scott and walked out of the studio.

Scott followed behind with a figure-eight step that he didn't recognize.

Martin and Bruce walked back, past the drinks section, where the two theater agents were packing up.

They spoke in a somewhat high voice: "Did you just see it, the Martin action scenes of our crew are very powerful, and he is the best in the crew." ”

"There's a better one over there." The other is from the crew next door: "His last film was a Texas chainsaw massacre, do you know what the director said?" If he goes to war, the Iraqi enemy will have only one way to escape. ”

The previous drama has a meaning: "Anyone can brag." ”

The person next door said: "You don't know, before he became an actor, he practiced boxing professionally, and when he first entered the industry, he once took a shower in the collective bathroom of the studio...... He was a very beautiful boy, and he was foaming all over his body, and a few bastards came to have some fun, and he saw them in the mirror, and then ...... Bang bang bang, those bastards are all down. ”

The drama manager asked, "Really? ”

"A lot of people on my side know about it."

Martin and Bruce kept walking in.

When they were far away, the two turned their heads to look, and the drama manager said, "He must have heard it, the final payment." ”

Rick from the next group took out a rolled-up small denomination of dollars and stuffed them into his hand: "Promote it more in the crew." ”

The drama took the money: "It's a little meaning." ”

Arriving at the resting place, Martin found a place where no one was around, sat down, closed his eyes, and rested.

Bruce sat next to him, glancing over the drinks area.

Martin asked, "Who are they talking about?" What do you want to do? In such a stupid way? ”

Bruce thought for a moment: "Provoke you to fight someone?" Are you bragging in the crew, making people misunderstand that you are a fair and decent person who likes to be positive? ”

Martin was not happy: "Am I not bright enough?" Not decent enough? ”

Bruce reasoned with facts: "Give examples of when and where you confronted people head-on. ”

Martin didn't answer at all, and turned back: "Left enough information that you want me to come to the door and fight him?" This kind of rotten means is not as good as Adrian. ”

He shook his head, "Lily's idiot is better than him." ”

Bruce said, "First ask who it is. ”

Martin took out his phone, called Blake Lively, asked a few questions, hung up again, and said, "Mike Vogel, it's not a surprise at all. ”

Bruce said, "WMA, that actor with a similar style to you? No wonder, you're in the way, what a shit circle. ”

Martin pointed to the side: "He's in the crew next door, do you want to provoke me to fight with him?" He recalls several encounters with the other party: "He is not like such a brainless person. ”

Bruce proposed: "It's better to do this, you continue to brag on the crew, I'll put the news out, spend some money to get Dalot to help, and see what happens." ”

Martin laughed: "Bragging, I'm the best at it." ”

When the break was up and the makeup was touched-up, Martin and the stuntmen were back on set.

Perhaps spurred on by the news of the weekend party, the stuntmen regained their energy.

…………

Los Angeles, Pacific Pictures.

In the office, Louise, who wears black-rimmed glasses, is shrewd and capable, and she is not half profligate.

Assistant Nikki knocked on the door and came in, placing the latest report on her desk.

Louise took it and sighed, "Even Jerry Bruckheimer can't create a counterattack miracle." ”

Touchstone Pictures' co-production with Bruckheimer Pictures failed miserably.

With an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, the North American box office only had $15 million in the first weekend, and now three weekends later, the North American box office is only a pitiful $45 million, and the film schedule has plummeted from more than 3,000 theaters to less than 2,000.

Huge losses are inevitable.

"Troy" failed to meet expectations, "King Arthur" failed at the box office, and what about "Alexander the Great" of the same genre?

Louise's career as a producer for many years gave her a feeling that the market was tired of the genre?

The success of the Gladiator and Lord of the Rings franchises led to the idea that North America was about to usher in an era of epic and fantasy.

Judgment accepted in the industry may have errors.

Louise took the bottle next to her, poured a glass of wine, drank it all, picked up the phone and dialed the number of Warner CEO Barry Meyer, suggesting that the release of "Alexander the Great" be postponed.

Barry Meyer refused, the platter project involved all kinds of money, and no one wanted to wait more.

Louise called Warner President Alan Horn again, who also did not think that postponing the release was a good idea, the market would not change in the short term, and the platter's funds could not be pressed on the project for a long time, and if the release failed at the end of the year, the postponement for half a year would not change the result.

Hanging up the phone, Louise had another drink, got up and walked to the window, looking at the Warner Studios not far away, and was extremely stressed for a while.

She took off her glasses, pulled out the sticky note book Martin had given her in her bag, tore off one of the pages, and called her assistant Nikki: "Call Esquire and the Bartenders Guild and tell them that Master Bartender Louise Meyer has made a brand new cocktail." ”

…………

The jeans crew is stationed, the crew is making final preparations for the official shooting, and the actors are busy rehearsing their respective scenes.

Ten days later, Mike Vogel will be filming in Greece with Team B.

Drama agent Rick quietly found Vogel and said: "I've been going every day for the past few days, and I'm completely sure that Martin Davis likes to brag and is extremely arrogant, and everyone in that crew is holding him." ”

Vogel arranges his dark brown hair in the mirror: "Anything else?" ”

"He likes to drink, and every day at the end of work, he goes for a drink with the cast and crew." Rick inquired a lot from there: "As long as you drink a little more, you can boast even more, claiming to be the most talented person in Georgia, once drinking too much and boasting about a shootout with gangsters and traffickers, and one shot exploded the dealer's chrysanthemum, and when you hear it, you know it's fake." ”

Vogel nodded, a typical over-drinker who didn't know who he was.

Judging that Martin Davis is arrogant and likes to brag in front of people, he deliberately released the news just to stimulate Martin's competitiveness, and then combine it with alcohol......

Vogel asked, "Are you sure the crew is going to party?" ”

Rick replied, "This Saturday, all day. ”

Vogel stood in front of the mirror and thought for a few minutes: "Rick, you're Mexican, can you get a rattlesnake or some other venomous snake?" ”

"What do you want to do? Put a viper in his room? Although Rick is from Tijuana, he doesn't want to make a murder case for Americans: "I don't do this kind of thing, the hotel is monitored everywhere, and I can't avoid it at all!" Man, I advise you not to mess around. ”

Vogel's father, who used to work on a snake farm, knew something about poisonous snakes: "How could I do such a thing? Are you kidding me. ”

Rick asked, "Are you sure you don't mess around?" ”

"Find someone to get a snake, and the venom of the venom sac will be emptied for most of it." Vogel whispered a few more words, emphasizing: "I'll add money." ”

Rick responded, "Well, there's no shortage of this stuff in Mexico." ”

Two more today.

(End of chapter)