Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 502 Olympic Gold Medal

While looking for a script, he found a relatively familiar script called "Breaking Drummer" in Palm Beach Pictures' script library.

It tells the story of a music school student who dreams of becoming a legendary drummer. To this end, he joins a famous music team in the school and accepts the guidance of a devil mentor. However, he cannot stand the mentor's crazy PUA and chooses to break with the devil mentor, eventually going to court.

The movie mainly talks about the hardships and difficulties encountered by artists on the road to fame.

The script was written by Damien Chazelle, a director, amateur musician, and screenwriter of the future film "La La Land," which won Emma Stone the Oscar for Best Actress.

This script also includes the author's shooting plan, which is expected to cost only three million U.S. dollars.

After watching it, Link felt good. The movie seemed to have won an Oscar, and with a cost of three million, it also had some potential at the box office.

He called Catherine and said the script was available.

When looking at recently released best-selling novels, he also found a relatively familiar work, "America's First Sniper".

This novel is the autobiography of the famous American sniper Chris Kyle.

Chris Kyle was a US Navy SEAL sniper who went to Iraq four times to participate in the war. From 1999 to 2009, he successfully sniped 255 people, of which 166 were recognized by the US Pentagon. He was called the media's "most deadly god". Shooter".

Kyle's most famous achievement was killing an enemy with a single bullet from a distance of 1,920 meters in 2008.

He retired in 2009 and released his autobiographical novel "America's First Sniper" last year, which is currently selling well.

Link remembers a movie based on this novel.

The director is Clint Eastwood and the starring role is Bradley Cooper. It later received multiple Oscar nominations. The box office performance seems to be good, with more than 500 million U.S. dollars. It is considered to be the best documentary war genre. One of the better movies, similar to Chinese Wolf Warriors.

This movie also has investment value.

Link called the production department of Lionsgate Pictures and asked them to contact Chris Kyle to see if the film and television adaptation rights of the novel were still there, and it would be best if they could get it.

If there is time, he is ready to play the leading role himself.

"Ahhhh~"

While he was reading the script, a crisp cry broke the peace of the room. Link put down the book and walked to the small bed to take a look. Little Margarita woke up and cried with her mouth open. When she saw him coming over, she cried. He paused twice and then stopped his voice. His short legs kept moving.

Link smiled softly and looked at the urine line on the diaper. It was obvious that the little guy peed again.

He took out a new diaper and put it on the little one skillfully. This was something he had learned while taking care of Alexander and Cynthia. Even though the nanny was there, he would sometimes help put it on when he saw it.

"Margarita is awake?"

Ivaca asked as she came down the spiral staircase in a blue dress.

"Yes, the baby just woke up."

After giving birth to the little one, Evaka has been working out, recovering and maintaining her figure during this period. Judging from the current situation, her figure has recovered very well, with a slim waist, long legs, and concave and convex, and the curves of her hips and chest are better than before. A little rounder.

"Let me see, it's time for the margarita to nurse."

Ivaca took the little guy, held it in her arms and patted it.

The little guy looked at the two of them with bright eyes. He had soft blond hair, a straight tip of his nose, and chubby cheeks. He was very cute.

Link took the heated bottle from the nanny, tested the temperature, and put it into the little guy's mouth.

The little guy held the bottle and started drinking. His appetite was particularly good.

Ivaca smiled slightly and tapped the tip of the little guy's nose.

"Wow, it smells so good. Can you let me take a bite?"

Selena leaned on Ivaca's shoulder and said to the little guy.

"Go! You scared Margarita. Aren't you filming a movie? Why do you have time to come over?"

Link pushed Selina away who almost put her face on the bottle.

"Is it time to start dinner? I'm here to eat. Oh, don't fight. Something really happened."

Selena covered her forehead, rolled her eyes at him, took out a script and handed it to him, "I received a new script. The filming location is in Miami. The male lead is very suitable for you. Do you want to read it?"

"Is it spring break?"

Link took it and took a look. Sure enough, it was "Spring Breakers".

The movie tells the story of four female college students who jointly robbed a fast food restaurant in order to go to Florida for spring break. After the robbery failed, all four girls were arrested and later rescued by the drug dealer hero, who wanted to use them to kill his enemies. .

The actor's scenes are based on the life of Miami underground rapper Dangeruss.

The overall plot is not bad, but this movie is a literary and artistic film, and the cost will not be too high. For him to star in it, the budget will have to be doubled from the original basis, and there is no guarantee of box office after the movie is released.

"How did you know it was spring break if you didn't read the script just now?"

Selina pressed her chin on his shoulder and said curiously.

"Meghan Ellison told me and I said no."

Link handed the script to Selena. This movie is one of Megan Ellison's new projects. Megan mentioned it when we talked about the movie last time, but he declined.

"Okay, this script is a literary film. Do you think there is a chance of winning an Oscar after it is finished?" Selena asked.

"You want to win an Oscar too?"

"No way, my acting skills are also very good."

Selena said with red cheeks

"Of course you can. As long as you perform well, you will have a chance to win an Oscar."

Link smiled.

Selina's arrival happened to happen at the right time, so she happened to meet Link and Ivaca having lunch, and she was allowed to have another meal.

Tiffany was a bit unlucky. They had just finished eating when they arrived, so Link had to ask the kitchen to make another one.

Tiffany is currently studying at the University of Southern California. She has a wide range of hobbies and is also a very lively little girl. Every time she meets Selena, the two of them make more noise than ten people.

Link and Iwaka had to tell them to stay away from Margarita and not to disturb the little one's rest.

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In the afternoon, the Ellison brothers and sisters came to visit the villa to discuss film cooperation.

Currently, filming of "The Hunt for Bin Laden" has been completed, and Megan Ellison is preparing for a new film project. The script she brought is "American Hustle," which is also a new film project directed by David Russell and is expected to be produced. The cost is US$40 million.

Megan Ellison had two purposes for chatting with him. One was to prepare to continue cooperating with him, and the other was to ask his help to see if this movie had any investment value.

Compared with Palm Beach Pictures and Lionsgate Pictures, Annapurna Pictures under Megan Ellison's business situation is relatively average. There are two or three movies a year, some with small losses and some with small profits. Nothing has happened yet. A hit movie.

That’s why Megan Ellison wanted to hear his opinion.

Link read the script and felt it was pretty good. The cost was not high and it had investment value. He agreed to continue cooperating with Annapurna Pictures.

In addition, he also mentioned several new film projects from Lionsgate Pictures and Palm Beach Pictures, and Megan Ellison can participate in investment if she is interested.

Megan Ellison said yes.

What David Ellison brings is a commercial blockbuster, "World War of the Dead", with a production cost of 220 million. The film companies involved in the production include David Ellison's Skydance Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Brad Pitt's Plan B.

David Ellison serves as the film's producer.

The project investment is too large and the risks are relatively high, so it is necessary to find several more companies to share the risks.

There is still a lack of investment of 50 million.

Link remembers that the movie did well at the box office and was the highest-grossing movie starring Brad Pitt.

After thinking about it, he agreed to hand over the project to the production department for review. If there was still extra funds, he could consider investing.

Next to her, Tiffany saw that there were zombies in the script and asked when the casting would take place. She likes to play scary characters.

Link smiled softly and promised to notify her when the movie started filming, and promised to let her play a zombie with a lot of scenes.

Tiffany shouted happily.

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During the period after Margarita was born, in addition to reading scripts and raising children, Link also practiced swimming skills under the guidance of professional coaches to prepare for the upcoming London Olympics.

After intensive training for more than a month, Link followed the US swimming team to London, England to participate in the 30th Olympic Games in mid-July.

There are more swimming events in the Olympics than at the World Championships and University Games, including six freestyle events.

During the Olympic Games, Link relied on his super physical strength and super speed to win the championship in six men's freestyle events: 50m/100m/200m/400m/800m/1500m, and created world records in six events. record.

In addition, he cooperated with Phelps and others in the freestyle relay 4x100 meters and 4x200 meters to win two more gold medals.

In the medley 4x100m competition, he won another gold medal with the American team members.

This brings his number of gold medals to an astonishing 9 in this Olympics, surpassing the record set by Phelps in the 2008 Olympics, and becoming the athlete with the most gold medals in a single Olympics.

But this is not over yet. In the men's 10,000-meter open water race, he set a new world record in 1 minute and 32 seconds, exceeding the original record by 18 seconds. Media around the world called it incredible.

Link's number of gold medals in this Olympic Games has also reached 10.

In the individual medley 4x100m and 4x200m events, he defeated Phelps, Marchand and others, winning one gold and one silver. The gold medal in the 4x100m event was won by Sun Yang.

In the 200m and 400m backstroke events, he once again won one gold and one silver.

In the 200-meter and 400-meter breaststroke events, he won one silver and one bronze.

He did not sign up for other competitions due to unavailable schedules.

In the end, the number of prizes he won at this Olympic Games was 12 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze.

Shocking the world in one fell swoop.

Counting the boxing gold medal he won at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, he has a total of 13 gold medals. He is also the second athlete to win Olympic gold medals in different sports.

He was therefore named the greatest athlete in Olympic history by the Olympic Organizing Committee.

(End of chapter)