Birth of an actor

Two days after Christmas, Lance went to London to deal with some European industry matters and attend the New Year's party of his grandparents Waddington family by the way. Meet with the producer to help her negotiate prices and review contracts.

An animation studio in New York took a fancy to a series of picture books published by Madeleine a few years ago and wanted to adapt them into animations. Coincidentally, the picture books were created based on William’s childhood life, so Madeleine believed that William was also qualified to make a decision , has been pulling him to meet with the person in charge of the studio, and handed over the dominance to him, letting him decide whether to sell the copyright - judging from this completely letting go attitude, she must think that negotiating the contract is too much Trouble, only to pull William to the front.

To be honest, Madeleine is a very talented artist. Perhaps because of her rich experience in life and changes in her thoughts, her paintings have made new breakthroughs in recent years, and her reputation has been rising. Several galleries in New York have always wanted to hold an exhibition for her. .But she is indeed not good at management, and she is not sensitive to money, otherwise she would not have lived their lives in poverty for a time.

William could have negotiated the copyright contract beautifully with a few lawyers, but because this is Madeleine's work and the content is very special, he still participated in the whole process.There is nothing wrong with the animation studio. In fact, this studio is very famous. Its work has won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.There is nothing wrong with the contract. The most famous entertainment lawyer in Hollywood is overkill when it comes to a contract for an animation adaptation of a picture book. No loopholes can escape their eyes.

On the day the contract was signed, although there were only two of them, William and Madeleine still had a little celebration. They even opened a bottle of 90-year-old Latour, and Madeleine couldn't resist drinking three glasses with red wine Ate two slices of cheese.

When Madeleine got a little drunk, she looked at William in a very strange way, which was the same strange way when William was found secretly washing underwear and sheets in the bathroom at five o'clock in the morning when he was 15 years old. The look of "I know your little secret" made people feel embarrassed from head to toe.

So William knew she knew.He didn't show any discomfort under Madeleine's gaze, and even took the initiative to face each other calmly: "Did you see me and Lance at Christmas?"

"Being seen through, it seems that my acting skills are not good. Yes, I saw your sweet little moves." Madeleine winked at William: "But I knew about it a long time ago, otherwise you would think Who hung up the mistletoe?"

William was really surprised this time. He thought the branch of mistletoe was just a gift for buying a Christmas tree, but he didn't expect it to be specially decorated by Madeleine.Although he never thought of keeping Madeleine from it, the speed at which she discovered the secret was too amazing—God knows it's only been two months since he and Lance completed the transition from friend to boyfriend— He couldn't help but ask out.

Madeleine generously answered: "Remember when Thanksgiving, at the wedding, my phone ran out of battery, do you want to use your phone?"

"Yes," William replied.

At the same time, a bad premonition rose in his heart, because Madeleine's smile became very narrow.

"I got off the phone and was about to return your phone when a text popped up. 'I miss you, Cookie' that said." Madeleine's smile grew wider: "I gotta say I was really shocked at the time, didn't you notice that my face was a bit wrong when I returned to the table? During the whole wedding process, my mind was blank, and I didn't pay attention to what others said. "

William thought back and remembered that Madeleine was unusually silent in the second half of the wedding, but he didn't notice the abnormality at the time, and thought she had a bad stomach. "So, you found out that Lance and I were dating by checking your phone."

"What? No, I didn't sneak a peek at your phone - except for that text message, which popped up on its own - but that's all, I didn't see who sent it, and I didn't go through the inbox Box, I don’t want to invade too much of your privacy. As for why I know it’s Lance, I guessed it.” Madeleine told her reasoning process: “First of all, it’s definitely not the person who calls you ‘cookie’. A girl with the wrong tone. And if you'd date a boy, I can only think of Lance."

After a pause, she couldn't hide her curiosity and asked: "He called you Cookie, what would you call him, Little Cake? Little Cheese? Little Pudding?"

"Can you stop calling me by that name—" William rubbed his brows with a headache, "I swear we're just joking around, really, it's definitely not this nasty at ordinary times."

Cookies, yes, but also cupcakes, petit fours, mini puddings, all in their texts, but as William said, it was a nasty game that was played - William and Lance It was discussed whether they should do something to adapt to the change of identity, such as changing the other party's note to boyfriend or something, but it was just a few words of discussion, and their relationship does not need to be changed by changing a note name in the address book to increase the ceremony feel.

But on one occasion, William was flying to Toronto, and Lance was flying back from Melbourne, and the time at home between the two was perfectly staggered.William knew that Lance rarely ate during the flight, and it was a long journey from Melbourne to New York, so he decided to make something for Lance before leaving.When he finished using the oven and texted Lance that cupcakes would be served as soon as he got home, Lance responded with two exclamation points, which showed that he was already excited, and the text ended with "I love you, little cake".

This reply successfully made the usually calm William's ears turn pink. After hesitating for a while, he replied "Love you too, Pudding"-well, it didn't take long for William to know that Lance actually wrote "I love you." Your little cake", just mistyped the letters and punctuation - but after knowing that this was a small misunderstanding, the two upgraded it to a more disgusting (nasty) game of who can call each other. A lot of pet names are used, besides small cakes, puddings, and small cheeses, there are also honey, sweethearts, small cucumbers, small puffs, small pumpkins, and small cookies. Originally, this game only lasted for a few weeks. The vocabulary bank was emptied out, and it was unexpected that Madeleine saw it.

For William's explanation, Madeleine refused to believe it all, and she still smiled very narrowly: "So, love period, huh? You are really a pair of cute boys. Don't feel embarrassed, Will, I was young too, there is It’s a gluey relationship that makes people sticky.”

William had no choice but to change the subject: "You guessed Lance first before you said why, what if my boyfriend is not Lance, but a guy named Zach or Chris?"

Madeleine looked like you were teasing me: "Of course it's because I've seen you look at him, and I've seen him look at you."

"What does it look like?"

"It's like looking at a miracle as if there is nothing better in this world."

"Is it obvious?" William was quiet for a while: "Maybe we should control it."

"You guys have to rein it in, you and Lance," Madeleine said. "Sometimes you look at each other in a different way, as if you're wondering what the other person looks like without clothes, and no one around you exists." .”

William felt a little embarrassed, but he still emphasized: "I've seen him without clothes."

After he finished speaking, he felt even more embarrassed, and so did Madeleine.Whether it's a gay son or a straight son, it's too weird to discuss sex with his mother.

"Don't tell me what you do when you're alone." Madeleine emphasized, "I don't want to know at all." Now it's her turn to change the subject stiffly: "Does your agent and publicist know?"

"I haven't told them yet."

"You need to confess to them, Will." Madeleine sighed: "I have some friends who are only well-known in their respective fields, but when they chose to come out, they all encountered a lot... unfair Treat, there were tough times. You're a movie star and Lance is a public figure, and I can't expect everyone to be blessed when your relationship is accidentally revealed. So you need to be prepared, Mr. Goffman and Miss Wilson is a professional, they can certainly help - I hear there are not many gays in Hollywood, is there?"

"There is a saying that one out of every four people in Hollywood is gay." William said: "But I haven't seen that many, I'm not really an insider."

"I believe you. You know how to hide "Attic" and "Playboy" under the bed when you were 12-" Seeing William's dumbfounded expression, Madeleine smiled: "Look at your surprised expression, Will, really Cute. In fact, not only do I know how many magazines you stash, but you get bored and get rid of them before too long. Do you really think that if something happens in my house, I'll have nothing Know? And the girls you used to date, that Latin beauty named Isabella? When we came to Santa Monica, it was Claire the blonde. So, you weren't born gay, theoretically , you're bisexual. I guess if it wasn't for Lance, you'd probably still be dating girls."

William showed a guilty expression, and held Madeleine's hand: "Do you feel sorry? Maybe there won't be a group of black-haired troublemakers around you calling you grandmother."

"How can I regret it? Didn't I earn a son-in-law for nothing?" Madeleine pinched his shoulder and comforted him: "Besides, I never thought I would be a cool grandmother—can I make a statement first?" , if you and Lance decide to adopt children in the future, don't choose all black-haired ones, I'm really tired of seeing them."

"...that hurts, Mom."

"Sorry, son. But don't be all brunettes."

……

Although Madeleine promised to tell Armon Goffman and Barbara Wilson about the progress of her relationship, by the time William found the right time, several months had passed, and the second part of "Meet Your Father-in-Law" It's over.

"Meet the Father-in-Law" was filmed four years ago. During these four years, many things have happened. The biggest change occurred in William. He starred in a series of movies with good reputation at the box office, and his salary rose from several million dollars to the highest in Hollywood. Salary, also won several heavyweight trophies, including Oscars.Except for him, most of the other leading actors’ careers remained the same, and Jennifer Aniston was probably the most promising one. In addition to continuing to film "Friends", she starred in three films in succession, including comedy and non-comedy, and Starring with Jim Carrey and Marco Wahlberg.

However, Jennifer Aniston also has something unsatisfactory. The ratings of "Friends" have continued to slump in recent years. The last season has recovered because the screenwriter resorted to Rachel's big move to conceive and give birth to a daughter. This season because of the protagonists There is no new breakthrough in the relationship, the story is still the same old routine, and the ratings have started to lukewarm again, and the results are much worse than the previous season-the episode where William cameo has achieved the highest ratings of the year. He played a famous actor in the guest episode. The actor and director of the film is about to have a stage play on Broadway. Joey went to audition for his play and made a lot of jokes.Although the broadcast time of this episode is not after the Super Bowl, the ratings are still against the sky. The number of viewers of a single episode is the most throughout the year. The number of viewers is also the highest when it is replayed every day.

In terms of movies, "Fake God" co-operated with Jim Carrey has not yet been released, and the box office reputation of other movies is mediocre, so it seems that "Meet Your Father-in-Law" is like a career peak for Jennifer Aniston. Since then, Her career curve is gradually declining.Therefore, Jennifer Aniston is the most active in promoting the launch of the film sequel project.

It’s also interesting to say that William has collaborated with both Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston in movies. His relationship with the former has always been lukewarm, sometimes even a bit disgusting, but he hit it off with the latter. Get along very well - there used to be a second-rate entertainment magazine that edited the "triangle relationship" between William, Pitt and Aniston, and even used movie stills as "evidence", which were sold last month before being exposed Double magazine sales.

Universal has long wanted to cast a sequel to "Meet Your Father-in-Law". It probably came up with this idea before the film was released in North America. To finalize the contract and schedule, Robert De Niro and Bryce Danner signed the contract first, then Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt also agreed to continue the cameo, but Amon Goffman He didn't nod all the time. At that time, he felt that William had acted in enough commercial films, and he was very likely to hit the Oscars. Of course, the statuette should be the focus.

It was not until William really won the Oscar statuette that the negotiations between Amon Goffman and Universal made progress, but also because of this trophy, Universal was in a completely passive position, so they approached Jennifer Annis Dundang lobbyists played the friendship card, and Universal persuaded Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand to join, so William had no reason to refuse-God, that was Dustin Hoff Man! "Rain Man" is still being watched and pondered by him repeatedly to draw nourishment from it.

The original cast of the first film remains unchanged, and the sequel invites Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand to play the parents in William's movie, oh yes, and Penelope Cruz also Will play William's sexy nanny when he was a teenager in the film. The cast of "Meet Your Father-in-Law 2" can be described as more luxurious than the first one, which makes the production cost of the film soar to [-] million US dollars.

For a comedy movie, this production cost is really amazing, even a crime action comedy movie starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and others The cost of "Ocean's Eleven" is not so expensive!However, it also reflects how confident Universal is in the future box office of the film.

Think about it, "Meet the Father-in-Law" has earned more than 40 million US dollars at the box office worldwide. The original cast of the sequel is gathered together, the script is even better, and Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand have met for the first time in more than [-] years. The selling point of the film, and there should be no publicity stunt for the third part, it's no wonder the movie won't be a blockbuster.

Before filming started, the sequel movie had been named "Meet the Fockers", which was in stark contrast to the first title "Meet the Parents".The first part tells the story of the stupid son-in-law Gaylord Fark visiting the former CIA agent father-in-law, who was repeatedly disliked and tortured by the father-in-law because of his name and nurse work. In the second part, the audience will know what kind of parents will name their children Gaylord. Focker is such a weird name-Dustin Hoffman, who plays William's father, is a former lawyer who is willing to be a housewife, and Barbra Streisand is a sex therapist who specializes in serving middle-aged and elderly people. The traditional family formed by Robert De Niro, who plays Jennifer Aniston's parents, and Bryce Danner are simply out of place. It is conceivable what kind of sparks the two in-laws will collide with when they meet.

The main actors are all well-known celebrities. A commercial film that is mainly pursuing box office sales will not put much pressure on them to shoot. The script is very interesting, and the filming process is also very relaxed and happy. The location is in Miami, and the leading actors, including William, almost treat work as a vacation.

When Brad Pitt joined the team, the joy became double-of course, this is probably just William's feeling, and Pitt himself is likely to have the exact opposite opinion.

In fact, Brad Pitt is not only not as happy as everyone else, but his mood fluctuates, his attitude fluctuates hot and cold, as if possessed by a character in a movie, always wishing William to hurry up The appearance of an unlucky rival in love.William felt very puzzled by this, and he swore that he and Jennifer Aniston kept the distance between friends completely, and didn't even have any excessive fights.

Until a tea break, when William complained to Aniston that Pete was as angry as a puffer fish in an enemy every time he saw him, Aniston laughed happily for a long time, and then explained to William: "Do you think it's the same as a blowfish?" Didn't you see it? Brad was just mad at himself and a little bit jealous."

"envy?"

"Of course I'm jealous. Now there are three Oscar winners and one Oscar queen in the crew, and Ms. Danner's daughter is also a queen—do you know how much pressure Brad and I are under?" Jennifer Aniston revealed A helpless expression: "Actually, I'm about to die of jealousy, but the role of Rachel and I will probably be inseparable for the rest of our lives, and I'm the least likely to win an Oscar. I know this very well, but it's easier to think about it."

As a comedy movie, the lineup of "Meet the Father-in-law 2" is indeed a bit against the sky: In [-], Robert De Niro won the Oscar for Best Actor with "Raging Bull", eight years later "Rain Man" "Helped Dustin Hoffman win the statuette, and Barbra Streisand was the Oscar queen as early as [-]. In that year's Oscar, the actress "Double Yolk", Catherine Hepburn shared the award with Streisand for The Lion in Winter.William also won the title of emperor with "A Beautiful Mind" last year, as well as Bryce Danner's daughter and Brad Pitt's ex-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Surrounded - it's no wonder that Pete's mood is unstable. In terms of fame and commercial value, he is one of the best in the crew. If he is tied up with Aniston, even William can't match their popularity, but in terms of honor, he is the bottom. Yes, there is only one dwarf invisibly.

Although Brad Pitt is not as obsessed with Oscar as other actors, it does not mean that he has no pursuit, especially a few years ago when he and William were filming David Fincher's movie together, in a blink of an eye, the other party seemed to be on a rocket It seems to have risen in a straight line, and he even took off the hat of a commercial star that he couldn't take off. It would be too hypocritical to say that he didn't feel sour in his heart.

"My fault." William said guiltily: "I shouldn't be so good, and made Pete feel inferior."

"It's too perfunctory, Will, at least hide the smirk at the corner of your mouth." Jennifer Aniston was annoyed and funny: "It's a good thing Brad isn't here, otherwise if he heard this sentence, you'd have to say it again." It’s going to be like choking on Fight Club.”

"He told you those things?"

"Of course. I know you guys didn't like each other in the past, and you took advantage of the filming opportunity to beat each other black and blue. Brad also gave me a detailed description of how you picked his hidden parts and killed him. ——Actually, I never told you, because of this incident, I almost rejected the film."

"What? Pete is such a vengeful cheapskate."

"Hey, don't say that about my husband!" Although Jennifer Aniston doesn't mind teasing and complaining about her husband's minor problems with friends, such as sulking and jealousy, if someone really blames Pitt, she Still immediately jumped out to defend: "At that time, I was ready to refuse without even reading the script, because I didn't want to work with people that Brad hated, but Brad insisted on persuading me to accept it, and he didn't want me to give up such a good opportunity. , and praised you a lot!"

"What did he praise me for?" William asked curiously.

"Praise you for your dedication, hard work, high savvy, self-cleaning, and no eccentricities. Although you are a bit of a jerk to him, you are a gentleman to everyone else." Jennifer Aniston said without changing her face. I don't know if words such as "There is not only one face to see" and "more European than American" are compliments, and other words that seem to be compliments but more like complaints, she will never say.If you ask her, Brad and William, two grown men, are sometimes like two childish ghosts.

"He beat me a lot back then, but he never scolded him behind his back. He should speak well of me." Seeing Aniston defending Pete, William touched his nose, The witty ones are no longer fanning the flames.

But Brad Pitt's bad mood didn't last long, and soon he became cloudy and even ecstatic because Jennifer Aniston was pregnant.

A few weeks after the filming started, a lot of local seafood was provided in the crew’s dinner buffet. Jennifer Aniston felt very uncomfortable after eating a few more bites, and asked for leave from the crew the next day. Brad Pitt accompanied her Went to the hospital.When they came back, more than one member of the crew saw that Pete's feet were floating when he walked, and he looked like he was dreaming and hadn't woken up. Aniston's expression was also very complicated, as if it was a mixture of joy, anxiety and nervousness.

On the same day, Aniston told the director and several main actors about her pregnancy, which cannot be concealed, because if the actors are pregnant, many shots will have to be redesigned, and if there are unavoidable dangerous actions, they must be redesigned. Hire a stand-in.Fortunately, the movie didn't have much action and Aniston's pregnancy was still young, so the crew didn't have to speed up the shooting process and didn't have too much trouble to do.

In the next few days, agents and publicists of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt came in and out of the crew, busy discussing countermeasures and signing various agreements.

The child was not in their plan for this year. The two of them had a full work schedule for the next two to three years. Now that the little life came unexpectedly, many jobs had to be changed, postponed or cancelled.Let’s just talk about the work of Aniston’s "Friends", because she will inevitably get pregnant next time, the remaining few episodes of this season, including the shooting time of the next season, if it cannot be avoided, the script may have to be revised .

Moreover, although most of the crew knew that Aniston was pregnant, Pete and she were not going to announce the news now, which required some insiders to sign a non-disclosure agreement, in case they turned around and sold the news Go out, and entertainment reporters from all over North America may crowd the beaches of Miami.

Originally, the script of "Meet the Father-in-Law 2" also arranged for Jennifer Aniston's character to be pregnant. Now she is more involved in the role. The filming process was not delayed at all, but went smoothly.William took good care of Aniston on the set because of the most scenes with the opponent. If there were many people or props around, he would subconsciously protect the other party. At least two or three times, he avoided Aniston from being hit by the rash staff on the set. Another time blocked a plank that fell from the sky for her.

Aniston was so moved that even Brad Pitt no longer always looked at William with a mocking face—however, Aniston was half joking and half serious proposing to let William be her child When he was the godfather, Pete immediately put on a disapproving expression and rolled his eyes.

Brad Pitt still made a cameo appearance in "Meet the Father-in-Law 2" and had very few scenes. He finished shooting all the shots in two weeks, but he didn't leave the crew after a few days like when he was filming the first part. I turned down a few irrelevant jobs and stayed on the crew wholeheartedly to take care of Aniston.

Pete is now dizzy with happiness every day. He is so excited to become a father at the age of 40. For Hollywood actors, the age of 40 is just a watershed for maturity and complete maturity. It is the best age to stop playing and return to the family.Although Aniston is also happy, but probably because Rachel has become a mother in the last season of "Friends", she can still control her excitement-Peter even wants to finish filming "Twelve" After "Arhat", I took a long vacation and concentrated on learning how to be a dad at home.

The decision was made by Pete during a lunch meeting, when he checked the doctor's list to get Aniston's food and complained about his decision, which made his agent furious.Of course, no matter how anxious the manager was, he couldn't shake his determination.

William has never heard of Pete and his agent mentioning "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", and he probably won't take this movie, not only because of Pete's own plan, he didn't have time to take this movie at all, but also because The script for Mr. and Mrs. Smith is now lying in Amon Goffman's office.I heard that the leading actress is contacting Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cate Blanchett and Gwen Stefani are all candidates, as for the leading actor, if William does not play, the producer will prepare Please Ben Affleck.

……

William has no plans to make "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", even though Summit Entertainment has already offered a sky-high remuneration of US$2000 million plus 20.00% of the studio's income.

This is an unprecedented top-level clause in Hollywood. A fixed remuneration of 2000 million US dollars is not uncommon, but with the addition of 20.00% of the studio’s income, it is enough to be jaw-dropping-the film’s income is not a deceitful box office profit share, nor is it box office revenue Instead, it takes a share of all proceeds, including worldwide box office, home video, TV shows and other offline channels.

It's not an unusual situation, and Hollywood production companies generally don't offer such terms.

When the 600 version of "Batman" found Jack Nicholson to play the clown, the latter already had an Oscar for Best Actor and Supporting Actor for "Leap Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Mother and Daughter" In hand, he is also one of the most Oscar-nominated actors, and he is blessed with such a masterpiece as "The Shining".And Warner only wanted to invite Jack Nicholson out of the mountain with only 4 million US dollars in salary, which was naturally not enough, so there was an additional clause in the contract that year, that is, Jack Nicholson could get a share from the box office and film studio revenue , Later, "Batman" sold more than 6000 million U.S. dollars at the global box office. In addition to other production value sharing, Nicholson's income from this movie has accumulated to nearly [-] million U.S. dollars. Until now, more than ten years later, There are also sporadic dividends recorded every year.

In other words, if William accepts the film contract of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", as long as the film's global box office exceeds [-] million US dollars, his income will reach [-] million US dollars, creating an unprecedented record in Hollywood.

Even Amon Goffman, who founded his own brokerage company, has dozens of A-list and B-list star contracts, and is already at the top of the Hollywood brokerage industry, is heartbroken—once this contract is negotiated, , His final rake can reach eight figures!Still in US dollars!

But William was too unimpressed with Mr. and Mrs. Smith's script.It’s not that the script is too bad, in fact, it’s still a qualified popcorn commercial script with a lot of bright spots—only in the first half of the script, and the second half is anticlimactic and routine—"Mrs. ", "The Bourne", "Men in Black" and other special agent series movies are another interpretation of the killer agent profession after the fire, and the marriage relationship is packaged as an action movie, even a bit feminist, and it is easy for the heroine to choose the right actor. , relatively speaking, the character of the male protagonist is much plainer, he is a handsome and cool masked character that is very common in Hollywood, and if he is not careful, he will become a male version of the vase to set off the existence of the heroine.

All in all, William couldn't find a reason to make this film, except for the money, which he wasn't short of.

Amon Goffman didn't sleep well for several nights because of the eight-figure dollars that flew away out of thin air. He couldn't help it. He is Jewish and has a natural love for money.But when William said that he was not interested in the script, he did not try his best to persuade William to make this movie-making a lot of popcorn movies for money is the fastest way to destroy an actor's professional reputation, until they are forever tied to commercial bad movies, Never get any awards again.Napoleon said that hen should not be killed for the golden eggs.There are the "Harry Potter" series, "Meet Your Father-in-Law 2" which has just been filmed, and "The Lord of the Rings", which is essentially a commercial film. William will make a few more independent films next, and get a few more. Nomination, don't fall into the vicious circle of Oscar winners and queens flopping fast.

In addition to "Meet the Father-in-law 2", Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's second cooperation "The Aviator" is about to start.

By the way, they really found William an annoying cameo role, lest he would not agree, Leonardo also personally sent the script to his home, and William received a call from Leonardo after signing for it , warned him not to let himself go—William only got a part of the script about his role, because the higher the level of production, the higher the level of secrecy of the script. Currently, the only actor who has a complete movie script is Leonardo—— However, it can also be inferred from William's own lines that Martin Scorsese wants to shoot this time, a Howard Hughes with a high degree of cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Legendary characters, dramatic events, and life-ruining character flaws are the norm for an Oscar-winning film, revealing the stark differences between Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese. ambition.

No wonder William seldom sees Leonardo’s brightly lit all-night parties these days. On the contrary, Leonardo often goes in and out with a pile of books. William even met him in a second-hand bookstore in West Hollywood. When I searched for books, I found books related to Howard Hughes, or biographies of Hollywood movie stars in the golden age, such as Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Bette Davis, etc., which can be said to be Very hard work - even when he was filming for the extremely demanding James Cameron before, William never saw Leonardo so serious, I just hope he doesn't get too tense before the filming starts , There is no benefit in that way, but it is easy to fall into an endless loop of excessive force.

Affected by him, William also bought a few biographies that he was interested in, and used them as reading materials in his spare time, which can be regarded as doing homework for Willot. story.

Just at this time, Willot actually had the opportunity to buy back the copyright of the "Hulk" series.

……

Long before William acquired Marvel shares, Fox had already purchased the "X-Men" series from Marvel, and Universal had taken the "Hulk" series.

After Fox's "X-Men" achieved outstanding results, Willlot and Universal launched the "Spider-Man" and "Hulk" projects successively, but perhaps for the sake of waiting and watching, the preparation process of "Hulk" has been procrastinated.Until "Spider-Man" made a lot of money, Universal immediately accelerated its preparations. Because "Spider-Man" successfully explored the complex psychology of superheroes, it also hired Ang Lee, who is good at portraying delicate emotional dramas, as the director. Unearth evocative traits from the Hulk.

"Hulk" was filmed last summer and was originally scheduled to be released in May this year. In the past few weeks, Universal has held several internal, media and fan previews, but the film has encountered collective negative reviews—— Professional applicants generally report that the film is too long and serious, with profound themes but lacks entertainment. Ordinary movie fans think that there are too few action scenes, lack of excitement when watching the movie, and even make people drowsy. The comic circle is even more angry because of the plot of the movie. right