Chapter 928 I'm Not So Worried

Kunes is annoying, yes, very annoying.

Blame the stingy Linton and APLUS, the meager salary of the screenwriter of the cat and mouse game was spent by myself last year, Hollywood opportunities are everywhere, and it is really a big seller. At that time, Johnny Carson frequently invited himself and two other screenwriters to Banberke's home. The old man looked forward to the awards season with great enthusiasm, as if he was the one who contributed the most.

And my attention is all on the other party's manor mansion, extravagant life and young fourth wife...

Suddenly, a thought, a tribute to two idols, the legendary trickster Abagnale and Clifford Irwin, grew wildly in his mind.

Just do it, he quickly formulated a plan to imitate Hughes' autobiographical scam, the target is Johnny Carson, who will not live long like Hughes back then, and is also famous enough, and he can feel that this old man is clearly worried The fact that it didn't contribute much to the cat and mouse game adaptation came out before awards season, which is a good point.

Johnny Carson's signature? The cover of the early adaptation of the cat and mouse game from 1980 to 1982 is on the cover, and his own notes and complaints are everywhere beside the script. As a person with an acting personality and determined to be a legendary liar, The 'beginner' skill of imitating handwriting is learned early.

As for the others, it is easier to handle. Johnny Carson has lived in the spotlight for most of his life. Going to the library to find news materials from the year can make up a very detailed life, and then on some key events, such as his DMC car The mental journey of the company from its establishment to its closure, I guess he has already been summed up by the media to deduce and make up his character completely.

Soon, I tinkered with a memoir outline and a more careful plan. If I want to cheat, I have to cheat the top publishers like Clifford Irwin.

He has indeed received very high-level hospitality at several targets. Those editor-in-chiefs and high-level executives of big publishing companies who were rare when he was a third-rate screenwriter in the past are all enthusiastic now, which makes him more determined to play. A big handful of confidence.

That’s right, regardless of those publishing companies’ annual sales of hundreds of millions or billions, in fact, most of them are supported by the accumulation of historical copyrights and the rigid demand for children’s books, reference books, etc., and every company can’t operate for a year with new best-selling books. A few books, the autobiography of the talk show king, known for his venomous tongue and daring to scold, have great potential to sell well in their eyes, so they are naturally rare.

The only difficulty is that everyone is very cautious, which shows his foresight again. As early as when he was writing the script for the game of cat and mouse, he secretly set up a miniature camera to record and bring back all the adapted scripts he could come into contact with. home.

After selectively throwing out the evidence related to Johnny Carson, the sincerity of Simon & Schuster Publishing House suddenly increased. In the middle of the process, he even used the best deception method of the admissions level to predict the time when they would call for verification. ,

He took the initiative to visit Johnny Carson's house, stopped him halfway, and used various misunderstandings between the two parties to convince Simon & Schuster's people from now on.

but! Who would have thought that Cat and Mouse Game was actually nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, and finally won it! ?

The moment he got the statuette, he regretted it. With this qualification, he was instantly promoted to Hollywood's first-line screenwriter, and the invitations kept coming. Money? It's not so urgent anymore!

However, Simon & Schuster was inspired by this, and chased even harder. When he was about to confess and stop, something prompted him to make a final decision.

Abagnell sold the right to adapt the cat and mouse game sequel "The Art of Stealing" to Tom Hanks, Spielberg and others, and those Hollywood superstars handed over the pre-production of the project to the well-known producer Gary Gao Ziman. When he excitedly wanted to follow his idol to join the new screenwriting team, he was told by the other party that he didn't have a role for himself! And the other two screenwriters have received invitations!

He was burning with anger, and he couldn't help feeling jealous of his idol Abagnell, who had just set a record of selling the adaptation rights for four million dollars, but suddenly turned indifferent to him. The best way to get revenge was to borrow Johnny Carson's mouth' to humiliate him.

The seniors will fall in the hands of the younger ones one day, idols are used to surpass, yes, that's it!

Impulsively, he immediately agreed to the suitor Simon & Schuster Publishing House. Of course, before signing the publishing contract, he did not forget to ask for a very generous deposit in addition to submitting more detailed materials at hand.

There is no way out!

But never expected that Simon Schuster turned around and played a trick on himself. He also violated the confidentiality agreement and released news through the media for final verification. Johnny Carson was not the lonely Howard Hughes after all. The old man immediately called the police.

Now... everything is messed up, completely different from the original plan...

'Boom boom boom. ’ There was a knock on the bedroom door.

"Wait!" He yelled outside, extinguished Marlboro in a full ashtray, and woke up the woman beside him, "You should go."

"Sleep a little longer." The woman yawned coquettishly.

"Put on your clothes and get out!" Impatiently, he took out his wallet from his pocket, took out a large bill and threw it into the air, then another, and another...

The woman immediately got up, screamed and cheered, grabbed the money, then picked up the scattered clothes on the ground with great professionalism, and left as quickly as possible.

"What's the matter?" he asked the middle-aged man who had just knocked on the door, his new lawyer.

"It's time to do something, you don't have much time." The lawyer pointed at his watch coldly, even if he was kept in the dark by himself at first, he should be aware of it now, but so what? And it's not like I have to keep it a secret, and I can afford a lawyer!

"You're aware of Simon Schuster's insinuations, right?" the lawyer asked.

"A group of cultural hooligans pretending to be stupid!"

Of course he knows that Simon & Schuster's executives have read the cat and mouse game screenwriting document provided by him, and they also know that Johnny Carson seems to have something to catch, so now there is a possibility that the road to success is to force Johnny Carson to make a deal !

But it's all up to you, and the well-dressed guys at Simon & Schuster are happy with that outcome, but they're never going to say it, let alone take personal legal risks for the company's business.

"Let's make another trip to Simon & Schuster."

He can only take one step at a time. As a competent liar, he has already made a new plan in response to the situation, put on a cigarette again, grabbed his coat, mobile phone and car keys and strode out.

Um? A brand new Chevrolet was parked on the side of the road opposite the residence. A tall black man was standing beside the car, staring down at a colorful map. In Los Angeles at the end of April, this guy was only wearing a tight vest, revealing Strong big flower arms, and tattoos all over the neck, face and even forehead.

"Hey! Do you know him? Is it one of yours!?"

He walked behind his car and slapped the hood of another car rudely.

"Hey, how come?"

The two white men sitting in the car, the co-pilot and the co-pilot, replied with hippie smiles.

Damn! He gave each other the middle finger, and then got into his car with the lawyer. After driving on the road, the car behind swaggered to keep up. The two white men were private detectives hired by Simon Schuster. Kunes glanced at the rearview mirror , the tattooed blacks still stay where they are and look at the map.

Hehe, I'm still too nervous, it's not good to be suspicious...

He drove all the way to the headquarters of Simon & Schuster, and walked into the meeting room on the top floor with the lawyer.

"In any case, we will keep your information confidential, Mr. Kunes."

After a big quarrel with the opposing team about the results of the handwriting identification, the editor-in-chief tapped the pile of documents in front of him with his spectacle legs, "If you have anything to add or change, it's still too late."

Still implying that he is cooperating with Johnny Carson, Kunes can hear it, so I can only feel sorry for APLUS, if the news is not about Johnny Carson, it must be him, and it is involved in the still hot Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. These two are the most famous.

Little golden man...I also have little golden man...how did this happen?

"Yes, I recall some mistakes and omissions, the matter is a little serious, I will go to Bambork in a moment," he replied.

"Very good." The editor-in-chief put on his reading glasses and ignored him.

"They're all fucking hypocrites!"

He cursed in the elevator, and when he got down to the parking lot, the garish Chevrolet came into view again, and this time he noticed the other's Illinois license plate.

"Hey! Hey!" How could it be such a coincidence, he was furious, strode over, and was dozing off in the driver's seat, and it turned out to be the tattooed black man, who slammed his fist on the car window to wake him up, "Who sent You came here? Who are you working for!? M-fxxk don't try to scare me, I'm not afraid of this!"

The tattooed black man shrugged blankly across the glass, spreading his hands.

"This is not a place for people like you! Security! Security!"

He yelled to the security guard in the parking lot, "Check this man! He's following me! And... threatening him!"

"It's inconvenient for us..." The security saw clearly the ferocious appearance of the black man, and said evasive words, but still cautiously touched his waist, and leaned over to ask.

"Then call the police!"

Kunes left a sentence, and drove to Bambork with the lawyer.

Halfway through the trip, the lingering Chevrolet appeared in the rearview mirror again.

"What the hell..."

Kunes shuddered when he thought of the urban legends related to APLUS.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

At the same time, in the studio, a man covered in fire kept twisting his body and limbs, screaming miserably. In the flames and thick smoke, he slowly slid and sat on the ground against the tiled wall.

Song Ya in front of him held a prop shotgun and stared coldly at the scene.

"Card! Card!"

With the yelling of the head of the stunt team, a group of people rushed up with fire extinguishers, and put out the fire in a few seconds, revealing the blackened fireproof clothing.

"Are you okay?" The crowd dragged him away and helped to take off the thick fireproof hood.

"It's okay, little fun."

His head was not sweat, but fireproof oil. The white guy didn't care. He was the stunt double of the crew, and soon chatted and laughed with the stunt crew colleagues and Chinese martial artists who were concerned about him, and took the mineral water bottle swig.

"Yo, good job."

This is really hard work. Song Ya knows that it is not easy for them, so the group of the same crew has a very good relationship with each other, and they went to smile and punched him to encourage them.

"Thanks." The Caucasian guy smiled with all his white teeth.

"How was your chat with Johnny Carson yesterday?"

After a day, this kind of thing can't be hidden from the well-informed Catherine. As a producer, if the stunt double is injured in this important scene, the crew will increase a lot of expenses, so she has been on the sidelines just now.

"Uh, I don't know."

Song Ya returned the prop gun to the staff, "Johnny has been blaming me and Linton for not managing the scriptwriters of the crew well, the non-disclosure agreement is useless, and so on..."

"That's a bit of a problem, why don't I postpone the follow-up shooting plan, and you can concentrate on dealing with the matter there first."

Anyway, the cat and mouse game made all the money it should have earned, and its own character design collapsed. Instead, the new project of Blade Warrior was more affected, and Catherine was very concerned about it.

"No, didn't you say that if these scenes are postponed, it will cause great confusion to the special effects progress of Industrial Light and Magic?" Song Ya waved his hand indifferently.

"Don't take it seriously, the king of talk shows and the African-American hip-hop singer..." Catherine was also worried about this. Johnny Carson and himself insisted on their own opinions, and many people would not take the evidence seriously.

"Honestly, Catherine, I'm not really worried."

Song Ya winked playfully at her.

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