Chapter 266: 266

"Nick, still not off work?" Nicholas McLen glanced back, it was Sophie Pierce, a colleague in the office, who was walking in her direction with a lot of documents in her hand.

Nicholas stretched his waist, "There is another piece of news, which was sent to the printing house at night."

Sophie shouted out in surprise, "Are you crazy? There's... two hours to print, and you haven't written it yet." Immediately, Sophie remembered the first draft sent to typesetting today, "Entertainment The blank space at the top of the board is for you!"

Nicholas didn't make the fuss as Sophie, and laughed with ease, "Yes, that's the one."

Sophie sat down next to Nicholas's desk with the documents in her arms, looking at the messy documents on his desk and the blank sheets of paper on the typewriter, "So you're writing that Hugo manuscript! I thought you had long ago It's written, it's not big news this time, why did it take so long?" Sophie saw the headlines of other competing newspapers on Nicholas's desk, for example, the headline of the "New York Times" was "Self-exiled Hugo - Lancaster".

"It should have been written yesterday, but unfortunately I missed today's release." Nicholas twitched the corners of his mouth.

"That's why you were scolded today?" Sophie suddenly realized that Nicholas was called to the editor-in-chief's office in the morning and scolded severely, and the editor-in-chief's roar could be heard on the entire floor.

Nicholas nodded and gave confirmation. It was really bad to be one step behind in the direct competition with his competitors, and Nicholas did not have exclusive information in his hands, so it was difficult to get back one city. No wonder the editor-in-chief would be angry.

"It's just Hugo picking up a new movie, it's not a big revelation, why did you write it for so long and didn't write it?" Sophie knew that the news Nicholas was writing was about Hugo becoming "Sleepless in Seattle" "The news of the male lead, the news was confirmed yesterday, and it was officially announced today, which caused quite a stir.

Nicholas replied, "Because I have been considering my attitude towards this matter, for or against."

"You're really crazy." Sophie left Nicholas' desk with the documents in her hand, walked towards the reference room, and when she reached the door, she turned back to Nicholas and said, "You're crazy, no one is optimistic about Hugo this choice.”

"Yeah, I'm crazy." Nicholas stretched again, muttered to himself, and landed on the tabletop with the headline chosen by the contender's newspaper.

The New York Times headlined "Self-exiled Hugo-Lancaster," the San Francisco Chronicle reported "Desperate Hugo," and "Premiere" headlined " From Power to Idol", not to mention the gloating "National Enquirer" with "The Beginning of the Fall", and Entertainment Weekly's ironic headline "Hugo finally knows how to take advantage of him." ...

Even the most authoritative "Variety" and "The Hollywood Reporter" in the industry are no exception. "Variety" wrote earnestly, "Once again wrong choice, how much talent Hugo can waste"; "The Hollywood Reporter" is based on "Stupid Choice" expresses his hatred of not turning iron into steel.

Yesterday at 5 p.m., Samsung Pictures, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, officially announced that the romantic movie "Sleepless in Seattle", written and directed by Nora Ephron, has confirmed the protagonist, and the male protagonist is Hugo Lancaster. , the heroine is Meg Ryan, and the film will be officially put into shooting next week.

At the same time, Samsung Pictures also released the outline of the story about "Sleepless in Seattle", with only one sentence, "A widowed father and an engaged female reporter were connected by radio waves, resulting in A story of love."

After the news was announced, the media and professionals were in an uproar.

The reason for the uproar is that no one is optimistic about the theme of "Sleepless in Seattle". In the preparation process of Nora, major film companies thought so, two strangers who had never met because the radio station knew each other. , resulting in love, which is simply an incredible thing. This is equivalent to the consternation of people when online dating was born in the 21st century. It is simply unrealistic to connect two strangers through radio waves to produce a chemical reaction. What's more, it is even more absurd that such a subject matter is made into a movie. No audience wants to see two people shouting to the radio in the air, I am afraid that the whole story will be so boring that people will leave the scene in anger.

Obviously, the media and professionals also think so, so when people learned that Hugo actually filmed "Sleepless in Seattle", the representatives of the above major media responded.

At present, Hugo is in a whirlwind of storms. Although the big-name suspicions have not continued to be rendered for the time being, the negative impact still exists, so it can be seen that Hugo is in a period of relaxation in his career. Under such circumstances, Hugo chose the script "Sleepless in Seattle", and almost everyone thought that Hugo was ruining his career as an actor who was just getting better.

More importantly, Hugo regained the spotlight with his acting skills not long ago, and now he actually took up a chick movie. What is a chick movie? That's a romantic comedy. To put it bluntly, it's a movie that is exclusively for female audiences to satisfy their fantasy of love. Such movies don't have much acting content, and even a classic like "Roman Holiday", Gregory Peck has been overlooked. Hugo can't compare to when Gregory was filming "Roman Holiday", let alone "Sleepless in Seattle" can't be "Roman Holiday".

Therefore, "Variety" and "Hollywood Reporter" both believe that Hugo is squandering his acting talent, once again making the mistake of choosing "Deadly Moment" after "Dead Poets Society", and this time even more stupid. At the beginning, "Deadly Moment" was at least a promising big production during the preparation period, but this time, "Sleepless in Seattle" has no bright spots worthy of Hugo's filming from any point of view.

As a result, almost all the media thought that Hugo was cornered and was driven to a dead end by the so-called big-name suspicions, and chose the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" in a panic. People in the circle even sighed that a good agent is too important for an actor to plan in the early stage of his career, and the gap between Joseph and Lang is particularly obvious.

In fact, it is not only the media and professional film critics, but also the attitudes of people in the circle are almost the same.

When Brad Pitt learned that Hugo actually got a new work ahead of him, his first reaction was to ask his agent Martin Baum, "Why!"

Martin actually also felt a headache. He originally thought that the "sugar-coated trap" was a certainty. After planning for so long, it fell short at the last moment, but after all, Martin went through a lot of wind and waves, so he quickly recovered, "Because I disdain to take that for you. A romantic movie with no performance value, you know?"

Brad looked at Martin's serious expression, and although he was still walking around the office irritably, he did not continue to get angry, but began to listen to Martin's explanation, "Listen to me, this movie will definitely fail, absolutely You can see from the reaction of the media, no one is willing to accept such a movie, Hugo is desperate, so he chose a movie in a panic, let's wait and see his jokes."

Brad scratched his head hard, and he gradually came around the corner, thinking carefully that a script like "Sleepless in Seattle" was really not worth taking, but he was still a little unwilling, "but he at least It's time for a new script, what about me? I still don't have a job!"

Martin calmly took out a script from the drawer, "Joseph and I are not agents of the same level. What I have prepared for you is the best."

Brad walked over with a skeptical attitude, looked at the script on the desktop, and saw "Kalifornia" written on the cover of the script.

Compared with the dialogue between Brad and Martin, Tracy and Lang were much calmer. Lang looked at Tracy with a dignified face and comforted, "Don't worry, this work is really rubbish. , it's not worth mentioning at all, don't worry, I think Hugo has no choice now, and he made such a decision as a last resort."

Tracy shook her head, looking at the gradually dimming night outside the window, "You wouldn't want him to seize the opportunity again. The situation of 'smell the fragrance and know a woman' and 'righteous sea's wind' must never happen again." Tracy felt a little flustered for some reason. She always felt that Hugo had a reason for making such a decision, but she couldn't tell why, which made her very uneasy.

However, Lang shook his head with a smile, "Tracy, think about those classic chick movies, 'When Harry Met Sally', 'Pretty Woman', 'Roman Holiday'...Which one is a success? The male lead?" Long's words caused Tracy to ponder, "and most importantly, 'Sleepless in Seattle' couldn't have succeeded at all, maybe just another bad romance movie on the assembly line."

Looking at Tracy, who was still worried, Lang secretly complained: Women are troubles, it is estimated that the menstrual period is coming, and he has to talk about a woman's sixth sense. But Lang didn't show it on the surface, and continued to comfort him, "Tracy, Hugo is only twenty-five years old, and Joseph has only been in the industry for more than a year. They didn't have the wisdom to choose such an excellent script. Otherwise, so many actors would not have rejected the invitation to this script before."

"What about Meg?" Tracy thought Lang had a point. The script for "Sleepless in Seattle" had at least four male actors, and even more actresses. There should be more than seven, so many before and after. The agent and the actor have read it, but they all rejected it in the end, which is enough to show the "badness" of this script.

Lang pointed to The Hollywood Reporter on the table, "Didn't you read the report? Meg hasn't had any good work for three years, so she's back on the 'When Harry Met Sally' line, which is What do you mean, you should know better than me."

"Desperate," Tracy said softly.

"What's more, the 'Los Angeles Times' simply didn't report it this time. Can't you feel the information in it?" Lang added the last chip. Tracy did not speak, but the emotion was obviously calmed down.

"Hugo, this time you have to turn over again, but it's not that easy." Tracy said secretly in her heart, she finally dug such a big hole and pushed Hugo down, she hadn't seen enough of Hugo yet. How could it be possible to stop the tragic situation, "Oh, just enjoy the taste of being at the bottom of the valley."