Chapter 109 How Can It Be Normal

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Beverly Hills.

In a cafe near the WMA headquarters on Camino Street, the other two were sent off, and Simon and Jonathan sat down again.

Once again, he flipped through the novel called "Dancing With Wolves" for which the copyright of the adaptation had just been negotiated. Simon glanced at the figure of the paparazzi shaking outside the glass window and said to Jonathan: "icm must be nervous, you just signed it. Get Robert De Niro and get their star."

ICM (Innovative International Management Company) is a talent agency in Hollywood after wma and caa. It has big stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Eddie Murphy, and its strength should not be underestimated.

The two people who left just now are Michael Blake, the author of "Dances with Wolves" in Simon's hands, and Kevin Costner.

In the years before Simon's rebirth, most people's impression of Kevin Costner may only be the role of Superman's adoptive father Jonathan Kent in "Superman: Man of Steel". But in fact, with "Dances with Wolves", "Bodyguard" and other big-selling works, Kevin Costner can be said to be one of the hottest big-name male stars in Hollywood in the 1990s.

Kevin Costner is now a client of icm. Although it is not as big as it was later, it is also considered a little famous.

Jonathan Friedman had successfully signed a contract with Robert De Niro last week. Hearing what Simon said, he shook his head and smiled: "Kevin and Bob are both introverted actors, I'm not as good as caa. Greedy, it's enough to sign one. Speaking of which, Simon, including "Dancing With Wolves", you have already bought eight copyrights in this period of time, do you want to continue?"

Simon felt the dissuasion in Jonathan's tone, but said: "If there is something promising, of course it will continue."

Even so, Simon felt a little helpless.

Among the eight novels, remakes or original script copyrights that have been obtained, Simon is only interested in two, "Dances with Wolves" and "Forrest Gump", the others are just randomly collected to make smoke bombs of.

Due to technical limitations, "Forrest Gump", which once won the Oscar for best special effects, will definitely not be able to start filming in the short term.

"Forrest Gump" was just published last year, and the author of the novel, Winston Groom, is also well-known in the industry. However, compared to the author's other works, the sales of "Forrest Gump" can only be described as failure.

From last year to the present, "Forrest Gump" has sold less than 10,000 copies in total.

After Jonathan made contact with the other party, Winston Groom initially offered various strings attached. But when Simon raised the price to $200,000, Westeros successfully won the film and television rights to the novel for 10 years.

As for "Dances with Wolves".

In the original time and space, the film not only achieved a global box office of more than 400 million US dollars with a production cost of 22 million US dollars, but also won a series of heavyweight awards such as the Oscar for best picture and best director.

This movie does not have the technical threshold of "Forrest Gump".

However, Simon also couldn't rush the project.

Daenerys Pictures does not have the operational strength to support a $400 million global box office blockbuster now, and it is impossible for Simon to transfer the various distribution rights of this project to other film companies.

During this time, Jonathan was mainly negotiating the copyright term with Michael Blake, the author of "Dances with Wolves".

Michael Blake was encouraged by his friend Kevin Costner to write the novel. For this reason, the other party insisted on Kevin Costner as the male lead, and even emphasized that this clause should be written in the contract inside.

In addition, if the rights are sold to Westeros, Michael Blake and Kevin Costner naturally hope that "Dances with Wolves" can start shooting sooner.

This is not what Simon can promise.

After weeks of negotiation, the two sides reluctantly negotiated terms, and Daenerys Pictures bought the three-year adaptation rights of "Dances with Wolves" for $100,000. In terms of copyright price, Michael Blake does not have a big opening. However, if within three years Daenerys is unable to start the project under the terms of the contract, Daenerys will have to pay Michael Blake $500,000.

In addition to "Forrest Gump" and "Dancing With Wolves", many other movie copyrights in Simon's memory are either unavailable or unavailable.

Moreover, it is impossible for Simon to do this thing too much, and he can only eat it slowly and secretly.

In fact, the eight copyrights only cost Simon more than one million dollars. Jonathan's mind flashed across the tens of millions of dollars that the young man had accumulated at this time. Seeing that he did not obey his dissuasion, he stopped saying anything. He turned to: "Simon, I'm thinking, since 'Sally' can't be given to Sean, can you let her try the role of Sally's friend Mary?"

The Sean in Jonathan's mouth is obviously "Rachel" Sean Young in "Blade Runner".

Some time ago, Simon just decided to make "When Harry Met Sally", and Jonathan recommended Sean Young.

Simon had a special talk with Sean Young for Jonathan's face, which also caused some scandals. It's just that Simon already had his own plans, and Sean Yang's impression on Simon was not very good, so this matter was left behind.

Hearing the words at this time, Simon said, "Joe, didn't she join Oliver Stone's "Wall Street" crew?"

Oliver

Stone won the Best Director Oscar for "Field Platoon" in March, and he started shooting his own new film last month, "Wall Street", a business war movie invested by Fox Pictures.

Jonathan nodded with a wry smile and said, "Sean played Michael Douglas's wife in the movie. However, neither Oliver nor Michael liked her very much. Originally, it was just a small role of less than ten minutes. It will be cut shorter."

"Sean is too beautiful for the role of Mary. And, Joe, you don't think she can get along with everyone on the set of "When Harry Met Sally"?" Simon could only shake his head. Rejected, thought about it and said: "Actually, Sandra, Liz, and Nicole are all very potential. Joe, Sean's mean and perverse character is not suitable for this circle at all, you don't need to be in this circle. She put too much thought into it."

Seeing that Simon didn't mention Courteney Cox, who he first knew, Jonathan couldn't help feeling a little emotional, but explained: "Sean's father, Donald Young, was a TV producer, and I was still working in New York. I've been good friends with him, and Donald has helped me more than once."

Humanity is exhausting.

Simon thought so in his heart, but he couldn't let go rashly and put a character that might make the whole crew uneasy.

After chatting for a while, Simon and Jonathan said goodbye, and then rushed to the headquarters of De Laurentiis Entertainment, also located in downtown Beverly.

Today is Wednesday, May 13th.

After more than a month of intense post-production, "Bloody Night" officially completed the final cut. Catherine called yesterday to invite Simon to watch the finished film.

Speaking of which, Simon originally wanted to do something Catherine as much as possible in the later stages of "Blood Night". However, after he broke up with Janet, the woman also seemed to have done something wrong. During this period of time, Simon had been refusing to come to help, but occasionally he would be contacted by phone with some questions.

then.

During this time, Simon and the two women he was most familiar with after returning to this era never saw each other again.

Leaving Camino Street and driving for less than five minutes, Neil Bennett parked his Chevrolet SUV under a three-story office building on nearby Alden Street.

Before Simon got out of the car, he noticed another burgundy Range Rover parked in front of his car.

Compared with its own Chevrolet SUV, the Land Rover Range Rover, which is known as the special vehicle for British royal field activities, is definitely several grades higher, and the bright wine red body is likely to be customized.

the most important.

After getting along for so long, it would be a failure if Simon couldn't discover Janet's preference for wine red.

really.

After getting out of the car, Simon took a few steps forward and found Ken Dixon sitting leisurely in the cab reading the newspaper. This is the bodyguard who stayed by the woman's side after Simon and Janet "divided the property" last month.

Noticing Simon's appearance, Ken Dixon hurriedly pushed the door and got out of the car, saying hello, "Mr. Westeros."

Simon nodded to the other party and asked, "Where's Jenny?"

Ken Dixon pointed to the office building on the side of the road and said, "Miss has already entered."

As the two said this, the paparazzi who had clearly discovered the 'major situation' had gathered around and slapped Simon who was talking to Ken Dixon. Neil Bennett stepped forward in time to ask questions. The paparazzi were separated, and Ken Dixon was equally adept at blocking Simon's side.

Ignoring all kinds of messy questions in the photo booth of a group of paparazzi, Simon walked quickly into the office building of De Laurentiis Entertainment, but he couldn't help thinking, he won't be able to get rid of these guys forever, right?

Simon entered the office building, and Edward Feldman, the producer of "Bloody Night", and another tall blond woman in her thirties had already greeted him. After an introduction, Simon learns that the blonde woman is Martha Schumacher, president of De Laurentiis Entertainment.

After a simple greeting, Edward Feldman noticed Simon's inquiring eyes and took the initiative to explain: "Catherine was there just now, but she was pulled in by Miss Johnston. Simon, let's go upstairs."

Simon nodded and followed the two upstairs.

In a spacious office on the third floor, Janet and Catherine were sitting on the sofa in the reception area chatting in a low voice. When they saw Simon walk in, the two women immediately stood up.

Edward Feldman smiled and said that he was going to prepare for the broadcast of the demo, and left with Martha Schumacher. Catherine stepped forward and hugged Simon, and also found a reason to leave.

Soon only Simon and Janet were left in the office.

After everyone left, Simon looked at Janet, who was still standing there. The woman had permed big wavy hair, and had long bangs on her forehead. She was wearing a wide plaid blue long-hem shirt and white slacks. Wearing high-heeled sandals.

After being scrutinized by Simon for a while, Janet finally couldn't stand it. She took two steps forward, raised her chin slightly and reached out to Simon, and said, "Hello."

Simon glanced at the beautiful little hand that was stretched out, raised it to take it, but held it directly on Janet's white wrist.

Suddenly, Simon didn't catch his wrist. Although the man didn't exert any force at all, a feeling that was almost carved into the depths of his bones came to his mind instantly. Janet's whole body was a little weak, her face became crimson, and her eyes were full of water. Staring at Simon lethally, he said softly, "Little bastard, you bully me."

Simon originally just wanted to scare Janet, but she felt that the woman was going to be so soft.

He also knocked the sandals on his feet off the ground.

Simon supported Janet's soft body, feeling the woman's delicate face buried in his neck and rubbing, with a strong entanglement, and finally nibbled on his neck like a mouse a few times, as if confirm anything.

So he said softly, "Are you still breaking up?"

Janet didn't answer the question, her voice was still soft, and she murmured, "Little bastard."

Simon carried the woman to the sofa and wanted to put her down, but Janet's hands and feet wrapped around Simon immediately tightened, and she didn't intend to separate from Simon at all. Simon had no choice but to turn around, sit on the sofa himself, put his hands around her waist, try the feel, and said with a smile, "I'm fat, it seems that I don't miss me at all during this time."

Janet changed her posture to stick to Simon, with a little dissatisfaction: "Don't think about you, the little bastard who does bad things all day."

Simon argued: "I didn't do a single thing, really."

Janet's little head drilled into Simon's neck, and said with a poisonous tongue: "Well, it's really useless."

Simon could only smile, smelling the good scent of the woman, and said, "Go to my place tonight?"

Janet twisted her body slightly and said, "Palisade."

Simon nodded: "Okay."

After hugging each other so quietly for a moment, Janet took the initiative to find a topic: "What do you think of Noah?"

Simon shook his head honestly: "Unfamiliar. Where is he?"

Janet said: "When you met last week, he called me and said you were very difficult to get along with."

Simon turned his head and put a sticker on Janet's face, and said, "I don't know what happened, but I just feel like I can't get along with him."

Janet paused for a moment, then laughed out loud, grabbed Simon with her little hand, and said, "Lion."

Simon puzzled: "Huh?"

Janet lifted her face from Simon's neck, and looked at him with bright eyes, with a thick smile on her face, but her voice was still soft, and said, "Lion, an adult male lion can accept the people around him. A lot of females will never tolerate another adult male in their territory."

Simon said helplessly: "Well, it sounds quite reasonable."

Janet still smiled, and buried her face back between Simon's neck, enjoying the feeling of rubbing her ears, and said, "Noah called me again this morning, little bastard, you have really bought 3,700 S&P 500 positions. La?"

Simon nodded: "Yes."

Janet said, "Noah said you were crazy."

Since last week, the S&P 500 has been largely held between 270 and 275 during this time, and Simon has been instructing Noah Scott in recent days to continue buying S&P 500 futures September long contract.

Now.

With a total of 3,700 contracts, Simon has consumed more than $50 million based on a margin of around $13,600 per contract. If you don't count the $20 million loan that is still in his personal account as a backup, Simon's current position is as high as 67%.

The contracts of stock index futures are divided into March, June, September and December. Simon did not buy the latest June contract, but the September contract four months later, just for the long-term.

Noah Scott apparently saw this too.

Most stock index futures speculators tend to keep their long-term position ratio within 30% cautiously. Simon directly increased their position to 67%. Such a high position ratio is definitely easy to lose everything.

No wonder he is considered a lunatic.

Thinking of this, he patted Janet gently, and Simon said, "Then do you think I'm crazy?"

Janet nodded: "Hmm."

"Well, it looks like I'm really crazy."

"Haha," Janet chuckled lightly, wrapping her arms around Simon with undisguised certainty, and said, "You are my boyfriend. Janet Johnston's boyfriend, how can it be normal."

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