screenwriter mystery

Chapter 377 Creating a New Play
"Hope I didn't bother you."

Holding the wine glass, he walked over and showed a sunny smile to Zhao Yuan.

Tom Cruise looked at the back of Ron Meyer leaving, and said with a smile.

Withdrawing his gaze from the vice president of Universal, Zhao Yuan turned to look at Tom Cruise beside him.

Speaking of which, even Zhao Yuan himself was a little surprised that Tom Cruise would come to this housewarming party.

After all, the relationship between him and this person is not that deep, and the only intersection that can be called an intersection is at the Oscar ceremony not long ago.

Therefore, Tom Cruise is willing to come to the party, obviously there are other purposes.

Making eye contact with Zhao Yuan, Tom Cruise still had his trademark smile on his face: "Perhaps, you have heard a lot of rumors about me and Scientology in Hollywood, but about this point, Director Zhao You don't need to worry too much, because the purpose of my coming to the party this time is not to persuade you to join Scientology."

Tom Cruise obviously also knew the rumors about himself, so he mentioned it in a more self-deprecating way to ease the awkward atmosphere in front of him.

A person who can become a superstar in Hollywood obviously cannot be a fool.

Especially a figure like Tom Cruise who has been popular for decades, if he didn't have a little brain, he would have been swallowed up by the huge Vanity Fair of Hollywood, and he wouldn't be in the same place as he is now. The circle is full of chaos.

In fact, the relationship between Tom Cruise and Scientology was not as mysterious as the outside world said.

Simply put, the relationship between the two is more like a mutually beneficial existence.

Scientology needs his fame to start the church to gain more faith and capital, while Tom Cruise uses the resources provided by Scientology to protect his acting career.

In the United States, an open 'economic profit-making organization' cannot do without the support of capital politics, and all of this is exactly what Tom Cruise needs. What's more, Scientology also has many loyal believers in Hollywood. Young directors and stars also believe in it, but Tom Cruise is the most conspicuous one of them.

As Tom Cruise said, the purpose of his coming to Zhao Yuan was certainly not to recruit followers for Scientology.

Not many celebrities in Hollywood believe in Scientology, but there are definitely many.

The purpose of Tom Cruise's coming to Zhao Yuan was actually to invite a director for his United Artists.

In addition to his status as a Hollywood superstar, in fact Tom Cruise has also invested a lot of energy in the producer,

In 2006, Tom Cruise and his partners bought United Artists from MGM.Since then, I have been trying to develop movies independently.

It's just that Hollywood is full of giants right now.

They may welcome Tom Cruise as a Hollywood superstar, but not necessarily for United Artists.

Even the great director Spielberg's DreamWorks was strangled by major film companies, and finally ended in tragedy.

Hollywood film giants may compete with each other, but they tacitly adopt a suppressive stance in the face of those film production companies that want to stand out.

I had a brief conversation with Tom Cruise and expressed my thoughts on not joining United Artists.

Tom Cruise didn't show too much displeasure, or for him, Zhao Yuan is not the first director who refused the invitation after he acquired United Artists.

Smiling and leaving a sentence to reserve the opportunity for cooperation, Tom Cruise walked towards the guests in the party with the empty wine glass in his hand.

And the direction he was heading to happened to be where Wen Ziren was.

……

Day two at the Beverly Hills mansion.

The party and carnival atmosphere gradually dissipated, leaving only a house full of garbage.

However, as a well-known rich area, Beverly Hills has a complete housekeeping system.

Zhao Yuan didn't need to do anything, just a phone call, and a dedicated housekeeping staff would come to clean up for him.

In the afternoon, when Zhao Yuan came back with the [Voodoo Doll], the house was completely new, and there was no trace of the party revelry last night.

In the next few days, I fully enjoyed the 'degenerate' life in capitalist society.

It was only then that Zhao Yuan remembered his other identity, found out [Clockwork], randomly chose a room in the mansion, and entered the 'Clockwork Space'.

With the existence of the 'clockwork' space, he basically doesn't have to worry about being interrupted when he is writing the script.

In this room of ever-turning cogs and clockwork, a new script begins.

……

Script 13: "Falling the Evil"

Plot summary: The events of the Haitian voodoo festival, though ultimately ended with the success of the BSI team.

However, all of this is just the tip of the iceberg. The power of darkness has never gone away. On the contrary, it has reached the edge of rising. Everything is only delaying its steps, but it cannot completely prevent its rise.

Thailand, Bangkok.

The "Chinatown" in the west of the urban area is one of the most prosperous commercial districts in the urban area. Its scale and prosperity rank among the Chinatowns in Southeast Asia.This veritable "China Town" full of Chinese style is about 2 kilometers long. It stands in the west of the Thai capital and is formed by many streets and alleys.It is one of the neighborhoods of old Bangkok with a history of nearly 200 years.Most of the houses here are relatively old, but the business is extremely prosperous, and the operators are almost all Chinese and overseas Chinese.

It is said that many promising Chinese have moved out of here, and many people have entered the mainstream society of Thailand.

Taoist Lin Jiuying came to Thailand's Chinatown after receiving news from a friend she hadn't seen for decades.

However, what greeted him was...

……

Thailand, Bangkok.

It was the location that Zhao Yuan randomly arrived at using the [Random Evolution Land Card]. He has been thinking about how to integrate this location into the new script for a while.

Occasionally, when I flipped through the system inventory, I discovered that there were many character cards that I had left before.

For example, the character card of [Lin Jiuying] has not been used since it was drawn.

Speaking of which, Zhao Yuan cannot be blamed for this.

After all, the script "London Zombie" has been full of experimental meaning since its creation. At that time, Zhao Yuan deliberately made up such a mixed-style script to test the [World Evolution Rate]. Among them, due to the problem of the evolution location, [Lin Jiuying] never had the chance to appear on the stage. He didn't think of [Lin Jiuying] until the [Random Evolution Card] came to Thailand in Southeast Asia.

(End of this chapter)