Chapter 873 The New Generation Is More Open

In the office, Ari Emmanuel yawned, rubbed his dark circles and said, "Last night, Raymond and Dwayne Johnson called me more than a dozen times, and I almost didn't sleep all night."

Martin was very energetic, but very serious: "I stayed in the hospital all night and didn't sleep."

Ari asked, "Is Jack seriously injured?"

Martin looked heavy: "Jack was dizzy and couldn't stand up. Not to mention me and Leo, Jack didn't even recognize his daughter Lorraine."

Ari knew that the bastard trio was known as the iron triangle, and Jack Nicholson was hurt in front of Martin, which might be troublesome.

Thomas said at this time: "Jack wanted to stop Johnson from harassing Alexandra, a client of the company."

"The company will take the appropriate attitude." Ali expressed his position.

Is it necessary to choose between Martin and Dwayne Johnson? He looked at his watch: "The two sides should be almost done talking."

This morning, Lorraine and the lawyer represented Nicholson and Johnson and his party who invited them to discuss the follow-up matters at WMA.

Dwayne Johnson is under tremendous pressure from public opinion.

Martin said, "Ali, let's leave it at that for now. I won't interfere with the outcome of the discussion between Lorraine and Johnson, but Johnson must publicly apologize to Alexandra."

Ali nodded, "I will urge Johnson."

If he doesn't apologize publicly, the female boxers alone can make Johnson doubt his life.

Martin received a message, said something to Ali, and came to Thomas' office after leaving the reception room.

Lorraine and the lawyer were waiting here.

Martin pointed to the office, "Let's go in and talk."

Lorraine and Thomas went into the office together.

Martin asked directly, "How did the discussion go?"

Lorraine smiled, "Public apology, medical expenses, and a large amount of mental compensation."

The two chatted for a few words, and Lorraine said goodbye and left.

Martin kept seeing her out.

The two came to the first floor, and Lorraine whispered: "Jack is fine, do what you are told to do, don't visit him often."

Martin said: "I will go there again in the afternoon."

Lorraine waved and got in the car.

When Martin went there in the afternoon, Nicholson was watching the live broadcast on the Internet. WMA convened a press conference for Dwayne Johnson. Dwayne Johnson formally apologized to Jack Nicholson and Alexandra Daddario in front of the Internet crowd.

Nicholson's side is easy to talk about, but it is not easy to calm down the female boxing side.

As we all know, American XXN is also difficult to deal with. It is not so easy to take back the fist after it is thrown out.

The organized MiTu did not participate, but the wild female boxing was even more unreasonable.

"Call for judicial intervention. If harassing women is just a matter of apologizing, how will women's rights be protected in the future?"

"Sisters, who knows where Johnson's home is? Let's go harass him!"

"Call for a boycott of Johnson!"

Pandora's box has been opened. In this era, female boxing is not only rampant, but in left-leaning places like Los Angeles and Hollywood, one punch will kill a kid.

Even a big guy like Johnson can't stand it.

After the press conference, Johnson just returned to the lounge, and his agent Raymond informed him: "Sony Columbia called me. They are planning a remake of "Jumanji" and rejected our cooperation intention."

Johnson's face was very ugly: "Because of those women's rights?"

"Yes, the direct reason is women's rights." Raymond emphasized: "Those women's boxing are not just women's boxing. LGBTQ organizations are closely connected. Provoking one will often lead to the disgust of many."

Johnson understood what he meant. Sony Columbia Pictures did not want to lose the support of this group after the film was shot and produced.

He sat back on the sofa, closed his eyes, his face full of fatigue, and said, "Then quit."

Sony Columbia had already refused, and there was no other way but to quit.

Raymond suggested: "Let's keep a low profile for a while and wait for the public opinion to pass."

Johnson said: "You and Garcia will discuss the details."

Raymond went to his manager Garcia again to discuss how to quell the controversy.

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In the hospital ward, the doctor examined Nicholson again, told the family to let the patient pay attention to rest, and left the ward.

When the door of the ward was closed, Martin reached out: "Get up."

Nicholson grabbed Martin's hand and was pulled up by him.

Leonardo asked, "The play is almost over. When do you plan to leave the hospital?"

Nicholson said, "I will start to recover tomorrow." He has the professional qualities of an actor: "Since I have taken on this role, I must perform according to the internal logic. The disease will not be cured in one go. Recovery always takes a process."

"Did you see it?" Martin patted Leonardo on the shoulder and said, "Jack is teaching you how to act. Pay more attention."

Leonardo said, "Such a simple principle does not need him to teach."

Nicholson's blow came immediately: "So the performance you are best at in your life is frowning, glaring and roaring."

Leonardo was angry: "You two bastards, stop laughing at me! When I get four Oscars, I will let you count 300 times a day!"

Martin said: "Count 20 seconds each time."

Leonardo scratched his hair: "I'm 30 seconds now, okay!"

"Let's go." Martin put away his phone, walked out, and said to Nicholson: "The discharge time is confirmed, call me, so that I can find some media friends to come and see you off."

Nicholson raised his middle finger to Martin.

After leaving the ward, Thomas, who came with him, just came back after making a phone call. Martin called him downstairs and got on the Escalade driven by Bruce.

After the car got rid of the reporters and paparazzi, Thomas said, "I just received feedback from the company that Sony Columbia Pictures is going to remake "Jumanji". Johnson was originally interested in the male lead, but was rejected by Sony Columbia."

Martin had seen the project's plan, script outline and the character design of the protagonist team in the WMA database last time, and asked, "Does Sony Columbia still plan to cooperate with WMA?"

Thomas nodded, "They asked about your schedule."

Martin was not interested in the four-person group project: "Tell them that I don't have any free time in the past two years." He pondered for a moment: "Among the four protagonists, there is an African American and a busty girl? Recommend Mene and Alexandra."

Mene and the agent had already joined WMA, and Thomas responded, "I will ask the company to recommend them."

Martin remembered that the remake of "Jumanji" had a sequel, and the film should be guaranteed commercially.

As for Johnson, in fact, the box office is average, and the number of his movies that failed as the absolute protagonist is no less than the number of successful ones.

Martin received a call from Alexandra before he arrived in Beverly Hills.

"I'm at the Ritz-Carlton." Alexandra said deliberately: "Catherine is here too."

No normal man can refuse the invitation of this pair of sisters. Martin said: "I'll go right over."

He left Thomas in Century City and rushed to the Ritz-Carlton.

In the long-term private room on the top floor, Martin met Alexandra and Catherine.

These two days, he was nervous because of Nicholson's performance, so he could use facial cleanser to cheer himself up.

In just one night, Martin recovered from fatigue, temporarily put Leonardo and Nicholson aside, and interviewed Scott Frank with Louise.

This director, who was born as a screenwriter, has been in the industry for more than 20 years. He has successively worked as an actor, screenwriter, director and producer. In addition to his job in Hollywood, he is also an amateur chess player. He has entered the quarterfinals in three non-professional competitions across the United States.

In addition to discussing the creative concept of "The Queen's Gambit", Martin also asked the hired chess master to play a game with Scott Frank.

It turns out that Scott Frank is a very good chess player, almost at the professional level.

He is also very familiar with the novel "The Queen's Gambit" and had a deep understanding of the prototype characters of the novel in the 1980s and 1990s.

Although the heroine Beth Harmon is fictional, Walter Tevis drew on the experience of the famous world chess champion Bobby Fischer in his creation.

From the end of World War II to the 1970s, there were a total of five world champions in chess, all of whom were former Soviet players.

It was not until 1972 that Bobby Fischer defeated the former Soviet chess king Boris Spassky, breaking the former Soviet monopoly on the world chess champion.

This had a very special meaning during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Walter Tevis also created "The Queen's Gambit" after watching this game, but he changed the male protagonist to the female protagonist.

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The project was unpopular, and the absolute protagonist was still a woman, which was the main reason why the adaptation never took place.

But times have changed, and movies or TV series with female protagonists may have ushered in the most popular time period.

After two days of interviews and chess games, Martin and Louise agreed that Scott Frank was very suitable for adapting and directing the project "The Queen's Gambit".

The crew immediately registered a studio and signed a contract with Scott Frank, who would be responsible for adapting the movie script into a TV script of about 8 episodes and serve as the director of the project.

After confirming the screenwriter and director, Martin turned his attention to preparing for the next role.

He went to the mental therapy center to visit those patients with schizophrenia.

The preparations for "Split" are about to be completed and filming can start on time in early November.

Martin communicates directly with David Fincher every day, not only about the role, but also about the director's work.

"Joker" is also a dark antisocial film.

Originally, Martin wanted to invite Nolan or David Fincher to direct "Joker", but Nolan announced that superhero movies were over for him. David Fincher had already signed a contract with Netflix and would go to make "House of Cards 2" after filming "Split".

If he can't find a suitable director, Martin plans to try it himself.

"Split" is not difficult for a director like David Fincher who is good at darkness and mental problems. The real difficulty of the film lies in Martin's performance.

In order to play this role well, although Martin did not lock himself in a hotel for more than a month like he did when he played the Joker, he kept two large notebooks of relevant notes and had field contact with more than 30 patients with split personality.

David Fincher is not Nolan, and he doesn't have so many tricks in publicity and marketing.

However, David Fincher also gave Martin some suggestions on the role.

"The main attraction of this film is the personality transformation."

In the office, David Fincher said to Martin: "If you can't easily shape different personalities, I can guarantee that both of us will become the favorites for the Golden Raspberry Awards."

Martin laughed: "My goal is to win the Oscar for Best Actor, and become the Golden Raspberry Worst Actor. This turn will shock movie fans all over the world. In order to protect them, I will do my best to play this role."

David Fincher said: "Although thrillers are slightly weak in the Oscar race, many people have won the Best Actor with thrillers in the past. With your operational ability, as long as the role is good, at least there will be no problem with the nomination."

He thought for a while: "I will give you more shots and space to show your expression of personality changes on the basis of ensuring the smooth story of the film."

Martin is confident in himself and said: "There is no problem on my side."

David Fincher asked another point: "Does the end of the film need to leave enough suspense for the sequel?"

"No." Martin said: "It's enough for the male protagonist to run away."

The first one was successful, and it's not too late to talk about the sequel.

Of course, whether there is a sequel or not, this is a realistic dark thriller, not a superpower type.

The two discussed for more than half an hour, and Martin left the office and prepared to go home after get off work.

He left the office building next to the studio and was about to get in the car when someone came out of the main entrance of the studio.

Anya Taylor-Joy, wearing a slim sportswear, walked over quickly and greeted, "Hello, Martin."

Martin smiled and nodded, and asked, "Have you joined the crew?"

Anya's bulging eyes looked like goldfish eyes: "I'm rehearsing in advance, and some of them involve acting with you. Can I ask about the rehearsal time? I can adjust it here."

Martin thought for a while: "I will go to the mental therapy center every day in the next few days to experience life on the spot. Rehearsing with your role may be arranged next week."

"Experience life on the spot?" Anya hesitated and asked tentatively: "Can I go with you?"

She picked up the role script in her hand and shook it: "This is me The role interacts with you a lot, and you also need to understand patients with split personality. "

This is not a big deal, Martin agreed: "We will meet in Century City tomorrow."

Anya smiled and said: "Thank you for your help."

Martin said: "Even if you don't mention it, the crew has unified arrangements."

"I...not only thank you for this." Anya said generously: "Thank you for choosing me to play this role."

Martin saw Bruce driving a four-wheeled electric car over and said: "The main thing is that you are suitable."

He invited: "Get in the car and go to the parking lot together."

Of course Anya would not refuse, and followed Martin on the electric car and left Disney Studios together.

Before leaving, she asked for Martin's mobile phone number on the grounds that it would be convenient to contact tomorrow.

The new generation of Hollywood actresses is not more conservative than the old generation, and is even more open.