Birth of an actor

But how can Lance say these words?On the surface, he just paused for a moment, and then continued: "I realized that I also have a romantic side. In short, under her initiative, everything that should have happened happened to us. I think I really liked her a little bit at that time. Until later, by chance, I discovered that she was carrying a mobile phone with her, and had a regular contact with someone behind my back. According to her description of the ordinary family background and her frugal living habits, mobile phones such as Luxury is not something that should appear on her, I couldn't help my suspicion, so I investigated her, and found out that she was not some college student in Columbia who was keen on charity, but my father hired to approach her. My liar, and every time she refuses a gift from me, my father makes it up to her with double the price of the gift."

"Tyler Roderick! How could he do that!" William suddenly felt a burst of anger, and a trace of hatred for Taylor Roderick that he had never had before, not only because the other party had no one at all. The way a dad should be, and because Tyler Roderick ruined his best friend's first love!

William really wanted to take revenge on this elder who was becoming more and more hateful in his heart, but he really didn't know how to do it, because the gap between him and Taylor Roderick was too big now, almost the size of the earth The distance to the moon is so far... But since the earthlings have already successfully landed on the moon, maybe one day, he can really make Tyler Roderick fall hard?

'Oh Will stop your childish thinking! 'William kept talking to himself in his heart, trying to persuade himself to dispel that tempting thought:'You are an adult now, you can't keep thinking about spitting into Tyler Roderick's coffee!Don't give him laxatives either! '

Lance continued as if he was talking about others, and said calmly and sarcastically: "One, he wants me to be immune to beauty tricks, and a boy who has never been in a relationship is the easiest to get mad at a beautiful woman [-]. He wanted me to know that no matter the women who approached me actively or the women I approached, they only looked at the money and power of the Roderick family. There is no real Cinderella in the world, even if there is, It's also a dark version. So, my first time was actually with a woman I bought, which is ridiculous, isn't it?"

' I don't know if Taylor will regret it. Lance thought in his mind, "If he knew that because of his actions, the sole heir of the Roderick family became a homosexual." '

William didn't know what to say at all, his green eyes showed a trace of sadness, and he closed his mouth silently.

"I didn't want to share my story with you, because it would be too embarrassing." After a while, William took the initiative: "But now that I think about it, you are still a little more miserable than me, so I also put me and Isa Tell Bella's story and make you happy."

Lance turned his blue eyes around with a face, and his eyelashes flickered like the wings of a butterfly.

"Isabella, if you remember, black-haired, dark-eyed, honey-complexioned, a pretty girl of Latin blood, and as passionate as any South American—"

"Of course I remember your first love girlfriend." Lance's eyebrows raised a little bit: "That girl who always speaks with a Brazilian accent. So her name is Isabella?"

"Okay." William said vigorously: "I have to say that although I have been in love with Isabella for a while, we actually did nothing but kiss until those tragic things happened dramatically. Delin decided to move to LA, I dropped out of Calgate, told Isabella we were breaking up, and you threw me a farewell party for New York, Isabella heard this from nowhere News, she came and brought a large group of friends to Xingshi to inquire about the crime, I said sorry to her, her friends took turns to get me drunk, and then Isabella pushed me on the bed in the guest room... I was so drunk I didn't really realize what was going on. So." William shrugged awkwardly. "That just happened, my first time."

Every time William said a word, Lance's face became more gloomy.He remembered that on the day of the farewell party, he was also present, but the group had an emergency meeting to discuss an order with the US Department of Defense, so he left to attend the meeting, and when he returned to the party, it was already three Hours later, the garden near the swimming pool was full of crazy crowds, but William had disappeared. Later, the maid came to report that William had fallen asleep in the guest room and he didn't care. So it was that night? !

There was fire in Lance's blue eyes, and he opened his mouth, uttering a short but intense word.

Originally, William felt that something was wrong with the extremely ugly face of the other party, but now, he froze for a second, touched his ear, sure, sure and sure, Lance just cursed.

God, this is simply a discovery that changes the worldview.

"Lance, did you just—"

"Am I going to be grateful to Isabella?" Lance glanced at William angrily: "When I knew she had ridden at my farewell party, in my house, without my consent my best friend?"

William almost thought there was a hint of hatred in Lance's words, but he quickly told himself that he probably thought too much.

William sighed a little inwardly—how could other people imagine it?In the eyes of ordinary people, the heirs of the Roderick family and the upstarts in Hollywood movies must be dissolute and unrepentant guys who have played with the feelings of many kind girls, but the fact is that both Lance and William have been played by girls. .

My childhood sweethearts really have similar fates, William thought so, and couldn't help thinking: "I had a different feeling about Jude Law before, maybe it was also influenced by Isabella, The shadow brought by the woman is really too big, I wonder if Lance also...'

Thinking of Jude Law, William remembered that he would go to the premiere of "Gait Shot" in a few days, and he would probably participate in at least two or three promotional activities with Jude Law.If until then, he can still feel the attraction from Jude Law, will it prove that he has indeed become a crook?

"Will, what are you thinking?" Lance noticed William's strange expression.

"Uh, I—"

There was a knock on the door suddenly, and then a female secretary in a professional skirt walked in: "Mr. Bradley, Mr. Roderick, Ms. Melissa Rosenberg is here."

William was shocked: "Ask her to come in."

"Yes, Mr. Bradley."

Lance looked at William: "Melissa Rosenberg, is that Hollywood screenwriter?"

"That's right." William replied, "Ms. Rosenberg should have finished the script. God bless her, she did a good job."

Melissa Rosenberg used to be a writer, but now she is a professional screenwriter in Hollywood. Although she is only 35 years old this year, she has been in the industry for seven or eight years. She made her name by writing sitcoms for ABC TV station. Now I am working as a screenwriter for movies and TV dramas at the same time. In the past three years, I have written two movie scripts, both of which are low-budget romance movies. Because the box office reputation is not good, they have not caused any waves in Hollywood.

While William and Lance were preparing to register Willlott Independent Production Company in Los Angeles, William had found the contact information of Melissa Rosenberg through the help of agent Amon Goffman, and asked the other party for help. Willot wrote the script for his first film. William had creative themes and almost a complete outline of the story. He only needed to find a screenwriter to write it out, polish the story, and change the structure to make it more reasonable and easy to shoot.

The reason why he chose an ordinary screenwriter like Melissa Rosenberg who has caught a lot in Hollywood is due to William's own considerations. First of all, all well-known screenwriters have a bit of self-confidence Ordinary screenwriters are different if they refuse to ghostwrite for others. As long as the salary is good, they don’t care about writing scripts according to other people’s ideas; Commercial films and brain-burning films that don’t have big scenes, on the contrary, are good at relaxing love or family stories, and Hollywood studios actually value commercial scripts and literary scripts written by screenwriters the most, because these two can be exchanged for big box office. Kind of an Oscar for a romantic movie or a family comedy?It's just an essential popcorn movie that audiences love; last but not least, if William remembers correctly, Melissa Rosenberg is the star of Lionsgate's "Twilight" series. Film screenwriter, the box office success of the "Twilight" series proves that Melissa Rosenberg is still very good at adapting scripts, and what William needs is such a person who can write the outline he thought into. Screenwriter of the detailed script.

During the conversation, Melissa Rosenberg quickly walked in under the leadership of the secretary. She was a stylishly dressed blonde with a bit of nervousness on her expression.

"Hi, Mr. Bradley, Mr. Roderick, good morning." Melissa Rosenberg's character is probably the more outgoing one, since she waved casually with William at the beginning , but immediately realized that the occasion was more serious, so he immediately became serious and behaved accordingly.

"Afternoon, Melissa."

"Good afternoon, Ms. Rosenberg."

William raised his eyebrows and glanced at Lance, and made a mental note that after Melissa Rosenberg left, he would tell Lance not to greet people in such a serious way in Los Angeles in the future, sometimes it would scare the other party (see May Lisa Rosenberg moved restlessly on the chair!), after all, the West Coast is different from the East Coast, and the United States is different from the United Kingdom. Hollywood people are actually very casual in their daily lives. For example, William sometimes walks on the street , Countless people he knew and didn't know greeted him, and they all called "Will" directly.

"I've already written the script." Melissa Rosenberg put the script in front of William anxiously and anxiously: "I hope it meets your requirements, Will."

"Mind if I read it first?" William asked the other two. After seeing Lance and Melissa Rosenberg shaking their heads, they opened the script and read it intently.

The secretary came over to take away the cold cups in front of William and Lance, and brought up two cups of coffee and one cup of tea. The tea was of course for Lance. During the whole process of William reading the script, Lance did not speak, but kept talking. Sitting contemplatively, she glanced at William from time to time. Although Melissa Rosenberg was a warm and cheerful person, for some reason she couldn't speak a word from her throat, so the conference room was damn quiet.

Halfway through, William closed the script and made a sound similar to an exclamation.

Melissa Rosenberg was shocked, and immediately looked at William expectantly.

Only then did William realize that he had just spoken, he cleared his throat, and said to Melissa Rosenberg: "Your script is a surprise to me, and I am very happy to see how you have written the story. So good."

William was surprised, really.

Using a small-budget film as the first film produced by Willot Films was an idea he had long ago. One reason for not making "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was that the timing was not ripe—he still wanted to be an actor. Generally, the cast in memory continues. Of course, the possibility that some character choices will change is not ruled out; the second is because the newly established production companies in Hollywood, almost without exception, started with small-budget films.

If Willot Films stood up at this time and yelled, "We just started our boss is a billionaire and our first film is a big investment of hundreds of millions of dollars", then this seems too maverick in Hollywood Attractive, and likely to receive special treatment from other major studios—Hollywood is already crowded with the Big Seven and countless other small and medium-sized studios, and suddenly another billionaire ( One of the bosses is a new company opened by the famous Lance Roderick), and he is ambitiously preparing a blockbuster plan. Hollywood, which has raised its guard and fear, will not welcome such a newcomer. On the contrary, They will probably join forces to crowd out new companies from shooting to distribution to release.

Therefore, considering various considerations, William still believes that it is a relatively safe plan to start with a small-budget movie and establish a firm foothold in Hollywood by first establishing the company's reputation. , if the speed is fast enough, it can be done in about half a year. It is not too late to start filming "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" next year or even the year after, and the company will already have experience in making movies by then, so let's do it again It's also easier to get started.

However, William hesitated for a long time on the choice of the subject of the first film. He once thought about whether to learn from Lionsgate and start shooting horror films, and also considered whether to be like the Weinstein Brothers Miramax, from Literary and romantic films started, until he suddenly remembered "Twilight", "The Devil Wears Prada", "The Hunger Games" and "Fifty Shades of Grey", and the inspiration came immediately - to make a film featuring white-collar women , or even a romance movie with girls as the audience, but not so ChickFlick (with the heroine as the complete center), seems to be a good choice.At least as far as William knows, youth romance movies are the least difficult to shoot, and one of the least popular themes at the box office.

So William racked his brains to think through the most popular plots in this theme of movies, and after conceiving for a while, he found Melissa Rosenberg and told her a story about a vampire and a human girl in love.

William swears that the story he told Melissa Rosenberg is definitely different from the "Twilight" series. Although the story also happened on a high school campus, the setting of the story, the character of the characters, and the direction of the plot are all different. is completely different.

But Melissa Rosenberg actually reprocessed the story after listening to William's simple outline. The script before William is like a movie that abandoned "Twilight" Most of the important settings of "Twilight" are even a little more romantic.William really couldn't help being surprised.

"Yay! That's great!" Melissa Rosenberg couldn't help but let out a small cheer.

"The script is generally qualified, but before the official shooting, I think you still need to polish it, some details need to be changed, and the current story content is still not enough for a feature film." William opened the script and told Melissa Rosenberg his changes one by one.

On the other hand, Melissa Rosenberg directly took out a pen and a shorthand notebook, and quickly recorded while listening, and occasionally put forward her own opinions.

After about 10 minutes, the two finished talking, and Melissa Rosenberg quickly said goodbye. She couldn't wait to get back to her typewriter and start working-seriously, she was a little spontaneous now. I admire William Bradley, a man who is almost 15 years younger than me. She is a professional screenwriter, but William Bradley is just an actor, but when he conceived the plot for this dangerous and romantic love story , the other party is actually better than her, and the gap is not 01:30 points!God, fortunately William Bradley was too busy to write the script by herself, otherwise she really wouldn't be able to get this well-paid and incredibly easy job (because the most difficult outline idea has already been done for her)!

"Goodbye, Melissa."

"Goodbye, Will." Melissa Rosenberg shook William's hand for a full minute before she was willing to let go.

Before getting up to go out, Melissa Rosenberg managed to squeeze out a sentence: "Goodbye, Mr. Roderick." Then she quickly turned and left—oh my god, although the beauty is too much, the heir of the Roderick family is a real Terrible!He looks like he could literally kill anyone!

Lance picked up the script on the table and flipped through a few pages: "A vampire who has lived for 300 years falls in love with a 17-year-old girl, and the background still takes place in a high school campus? This is really a vulgar, boring, illogical and stupid script." Story. Please, Will, don't tell me you're going to do it yourself."