Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Although Jed has been discharged from the hospital, he is still in the recovery period after all, so Jed will go home in the first half of the day.After returning home, there will naturally be a special family doctor to examine Jed's body and urge Jed to do some rehabilitation exercises.On the way home, Jed made a special call to the president of Warner Bros. Film Company to ask if he could transfer the title of "Independence Day".

Now that Galaxy is in the honeymoon period with Warner, the president of Warner Bros. naturally agreed, and the rest is some legal procedures.After Jed hung up the phone, he began to draw some settings of the movie on the draft book.It’s interesting to say that many film directors in the United States are good at drawing, because they need to make storyboard drafts or set drawings for relevant professionals, and Jed is drawing the scene of aliens destroying the earth at this time.

In "21 Monkeys", Jed made the whole world feel terrified of "doomsday" with the design sense of the earth without humans.And Jed also won the "Saturn Award" for Best Screenplay and Best Picture with this breakthrough screen idea.Many film critics believe that perhaps Mr. Jed Sherman is the person who can see the "end of the world" best among Hollywood directors.

Now that he bears the reputation of not knowing whether it is infamy or praise, Jed has more designs for the new doomsday.Aliens use high-tech to destroy everything that the earth people are proud of, such as the Empire State Building in New York, the White House in Washington, the Federal Bank Building in Los Angeles, the Willis Tower in Chicago and the JP Building in Houston. The JPMorgan Chase Building... Except for the White House in Washington DC, Jade chose the tallest skyscrapers in the area.Skyscrapers are actually a symbol of human wisdom challenging nature, and lightly destroying them with alien weapons is a mockery of alien technology for human technology.

After Jed finished drawing these sketches, he suddenly had a headache.This is not only a matter of Industrial Light and Magic, Jed also needs to contact physicists, architects and weapon scientists to analyze how to destroy these buildings to meet Jed's needs.

"Jia Fei, help me contact the professors of the School of Architecture and Engineering of USC, and see if any professor is interested in helping me research a topic. That is, after a vertical strike, what kind of damage will the skyscraper suffer and how will it affect the surrounding buildings? destruction.” Jed called Jafei and asked him to invite professors from USC to participate in the research on this topic.

Because of the natural hostility, even though Jed was treated at the medical center affiliated to UCLA School of Medicine, Jed did not publicly express his gratitude to UCLA.This caused dissatisfaction at UCLA, but at the same time it also received support from USC alumni.

In the words of a USC grad radio host, "USC will never thank UCLA! I'm glad Mr. Sherman remembers that."

Of course, although Jed did not express his gratitude to UCLA, he still donated a sum of money to UCLA Medical Center.This move has not been criticized by USC. After all, it is one thing to be dissatisfied with UCLA, but UCLA Medical Center is a public medical institution in Los Angeles. Donating to a public medical institution is a manifestation of a responsible citizen.Although USC competes with UCLA in all aspects, it can't be tough in medicine.Fortunately, USC's trophies in various sports events rank second in the United States, stabilizing UCLA, but it allows USC students and alumni to selectively ignore some things.

"Sir, here is an invitation." Old Bell handed an invitation to Jed.Old Bell's actions surprised Jed a little. You must know that Jed's invitations will be filtered by Old Bell.The invitations that did not conform to the Sherman family's style and position naturally all went to the shredder, and a few invitations would be placed on Sherman's desk, and Jed would decide whether to participate.But this was the first time that Old Bell personally handed Jed an invitation.

Therefore, Jed felt that the invitation was not simple, but when he opened it, it turned out to be an invitation from Warren Buffett to invite him to lunch.Jed was a little surprised why this stock god would invite himself to lunch.You must know that when Buffett raised funds for charities in later generations, he auctioned off his lunch invitations, which were worth millions of dollars.Although Buffett at this time has not been deified by later generations, he is already a very remarkable person.

"Answer them, and I will be on time for the appointment." Jed was not arrogant enough to ignore the invitation.

"One more thing. Mr. John Colombo will return to Los Angeles tonight. He hopes to interview you around ten o'clock."

"No problem." Jed agreed, "By the way, two guest rooms in the room are specially allocated for John and Shannette, and the decoration style is also according to their preferences. Don't arrange other people to stay in the room in the future." .”

"As you wish." Sherman's Beverly Hills mansion had at least ten rooms, so there was nothing wrong with splitting two.Anyway, Jed is not very interested in holding a banquet now, so there is no need to use the guest room to accommodate some guests.

At ten o'clock in the evening, John showed up at Jed's door on time.The old Bell directly led John to Jed's study. At this time, John was still drawing some scenes and character settings of "Independence Day".After seeing John coming in, he quickly put some received manuscripts aside, stretched out his hand, "Welcome back!"

"I heard that you have ended your cooperation with the mafia in Los Angeles? Very good choice!" John sat opposite Jed, "Although our cooperation with the Department of Justice is quite harmonious this time, the Ministry of Finance has already I have been eyeing you and are arranging the IRS to conduct a secret investigation on you, hoping to find some evidence about your tax evasion or money laundering, but I think they will waste their efforts this time. I heard about the plan to buy land, although yes Your future finances will cause some pressure, but I think it is a good investment. In the end, all the clues to investigate the Black Dragon Society were interrupted, allowing them to escape."

"There will always be an opportunity." Perhaps Jed's mentality has become a little more peaceful after walking through the juncture of life and death. "I decided to make a movie. The script was provided by someone else, but it was very interesting. In the movie, I will blow up the White House."

After the two exchanged pleasantries for a while, John showed obvious fatigue, so Jed had to arrange for Old Bell to take John back to his room to rest, while he continued to think about actors in his study.First of all, Jed must find a heroic president, and the one who meets the American people's definition of a heroic president is probably President Kennedy.Young, handsome, and moderately tough.

Jed began to think about the actors in his mind. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly remembered Bill Pullman who played Walter in the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" he wrote.However, Jed felt that he seemed a little too young.But he stood up and pulled out a thick folder from the bookcase. Here was a collection of posters and stills clippings of movies that Jed thought were good.Bill Pullman starred in a series of love movies after "Sleepless in Seattle", especially Jack Callahan in last year's movie "Goodbye Love".But the problem is that the entire Hollywood regards Bill as a young boy, so it is too weak to suddenly let him play the role of the president?However, Jed recalled the script and found that the screenwriter positioned the president as a "person who is weak on the outside but very persistent on the inside."So Pullman's appearance doesn't pose too many obstacles.

After the president is selected, the next step is to cast two key figures, one is officer Hill, and the other is radio expert Levison.When finalizing the two actors, Jed suddenly remembered that he had received a euphemistic reminder from the actors union some time ago, which meant that the positive characters in his films rarely used actors of ethnic minorities, such as African or Latino. American actor.Thinking of this, Jed had to smile wryly.Hollywood crews sometimes use some ethnic minority actors in order to avoid some risks related to "racial discrimination".So Jed planned to make Hill African-American and Levison Jewish.

Hill's actor, Jed, directly chose Will Smith. After all, there are not many acting African-American actors available in Hollywood, and Jed still needs a young one.Last year, Michael Bay's "Jedi Boys" pulled Will Smith out of many African-American actors. Otherwise, Will Smith at this time might still be acting in various boring comedies like most African-American actors. .Jed believes that with Michael Bay's persuasion, Will Smith will definitely star in his own movie.

Levison's actor, Jed, decided to choose from actors he knew well. Although Jed didn't start a brokerage company, after several years of film and TV production, Jed has his own catalog of actors.Jed thought about it and decided to cast Jeff Goldblum, who had worked with him on "Will and Grace" and "Jurassic Park".

After a few main roles have been selected, the casting director is left to worry about the remaining roles.Jed thought about it, and noted on the paper that when choosing girlfriends for several protagonists, please try to choose actors of Latin or African descent.In order not to let himself bear the label of "racism", Jed also had to compromise.

On the second day, Jed did not go to work in Burbank, but drove to a private wine estate.

Although the wines are best known from France and Italy, so-called New World wines are also becoming popular, especially from the United States and Argentina.Therefore, there are many more wineries around Los Angeles. Because the climate of Los Angeles is quite favorable for grape growing and wine making, Los Angeles has become like Bordeaux.

Jed knew that this winery was the private property of a director of Wells Fargo, and Wells Fargo was one of Buffett's investments, so there was nothing wrong with hosting Jed here.But when Jed arrived, he found that besides Buffett himself, there were four or five old men waiting for him, which made Jed feel like he had entered some special organization.

"Welcome, our little friend." Buffett welcomed Jed with a smile, "Welcome to Rose Valley Manor!"

For an existence like Buffett, Jed naturally bowed his head to express his humility. "Thank you very much for inviting me here."

"You deserve it." Buffett smiled and introduced those old people to Jed. Except for those from Wells Fargo Bank, the others were representatives of the so-called Los Angeles Group.

Among the top ten consortiums in the United States is the California Consortium, which is divided into the Bank of America Group, the San Francisco Group and the Los Angeles Group.It's a pity that within the California consortium, the weekly banking group and the San Francisco group have always been fighting each other, while the Los Angeles group is a spectator.But what does this have to do with Jed?