Middle Age: A Leisurely Life in the Entertainment Industry.

Chapter 504 Hollywood director wants to make "The Wandering Earth"

It's November now, and it's still warm, sunny, blue skies in Los Angeles,
Christopher was sitting on the balcony on the second floor of his villa, drinking coffee and enjoying the leisurely summer time.

The villa is located in Palisades, Los Angeles. It has beautiful scenery, facing the beautiful Pacific Coast and the Santa Monica Mountains in the background. Many Hollywood celebrities have purchased properties here to make their homes.

Christopher is no exception.

After filming "Silver Star Empire 5", Christopher took a long vacation for himself and announced to the outside world that the "Silver Star Empire" series will no longer have sequels. A series has been filmed intermittently for more than ten years. As a director, he I am also tired and annoyed.

If I were to make a science fiction film again, I would naturally have to change my taste.

Of course, that’s for the future, now it’s time to enjoy life.

Sitting on a beach chair, Christopher swiped his phone and listened to a new song.

This rock song called "Hotel California" is a song sung by the famous rock band Gehrmann in China. Once the song was released, it became popular all over the United States and topped the Billboard music chart for four consecutive weeks.

This was originally the theme song for the movie "The Road Warrior", but it ended up being a promotional song for the movie, and the effect was very good.

"This William really knows how to do business." Christopher couldn't help shaking his head.

Of course he knew the producer and director of the film, especially the producer William was his good friend.

But what he didn't expect was that this song was actually written by a Chinese, and it was said that he was also a good director.

This made him secretly puzzled.

But anyway, the song is nice.

Let him, an old man who is over fifty years old and who rarely listens to new songs, also like this song.

They gathered for the feast
(They gather before the feast)
They stab it with their steely knives .
(wields a steel knife)

But they just can't kill the beast
(but can't kill the demon in my heart)
Kristoff hummed the song to the rhythm and scrolled through his phone.

He really likes to hang out on the Fantasy Magazine forum, which is a very interesting science fiction forum, and there are some posts and articles that have inspired him during the filming process.

Including the world-famous "Silver Star Empire" series, which was originally inspired by a post on this forum. After being conceived and expanded by the screenwriter, the current series was formed.

Of course, this kind of thing can happen but not ask for.

Christopher looked at the post slowly, and was quickly attracted by a topic on the forum: "Why did the Americans leave the earth when they saved mankind, and the Chinese took the earth with them?"

There are a lot of posts below.

collectivism
Individualism
politics, values
Christopher is not very interested in these, he is looking for that novel, what happened to make the forum so noisy?
Finally, he saw the English translation of this novel.

The first sentence shocked him deeply:
I have never seen the night, I have never seen the stars, I have never seen spring, autumn, or winter.
(I have not seen the night, I have not seen the stars, I have not seen spring, autumn and winter.)
I was born at the end of the braking era, when the Earth had just stopped
(I was born at the end of the Brake Age, when the Earth had just stopped spinning.)
At this moment, he forgot to listen to music, and devoted himself to reading articles until the sun was about to set.

"Dear Christopher, what are you looking at, so serious? It's getting dark, you'd better go back to the mortal world." An old white woman walked onto the rooftop, it was his wife Isabella. "

Christopher woke up from reading and looked at his wife: "Dear Isabella, I just read a great science fiction novel called "The Wandering Earth" and I want to make it into a movie."

"Christopher, didn't you say that you are going to take a break from acting for a while and take a long vacation for yourself?" His wife was surprised when she heard that.

"No, no, I think I've had enough rest, and I want to work now." Christopher said excitedly.

Of course, to adapt it into a movie, the author of the novel must be contacted to obtain the right to adapt it. It is impossible for Christopher to go to China to find someone, but his assistant quickly found the translator of the novel—the one from Caltech. Li Li, an international student, expressed his thoughts.

Of course, Yu Dongqing didn't know about these messy things on the Internet. People of his age seldom visit various forums now.

Time is flowing slowly, and it will be December in a blink of an eye, and winter in Yanjing has come.

During this period of time, Yu Dongqing's life is very leisurely, drinking tea, fishing with old friends, or just staying at home with Mingmei and taking care of the children. As before, except for filming or occasionally attending some film festivals, Yu Dongqing is in a state of seclusion.

Today I went to Minghui Tea House with Li Wan to drink tea.Now, in addition to drinking tea at home with a few old friends, there is also Li Wan, who likes to go to Minghui Tea House.

In Li Wan's words, it's still free to run around here.

There are relatively few people in the tea house in winter, and it snowed yesterday, and everything is covered with snow, and everything is completely silent.

"I said Li Wan, you are a very busy person, and you still have time to drink tea here with me, an idler?" Yu Dongqing added hot tea to Li Wan's teacup and said.

Now Li Wan has become a well-known producer in the industry, and his studio has just been upgraded to a production company. He has recruited several professional producers. He has been upgraded to a boss, but he is even busier.

Now after listening to Yu Dongqing's words, he smiled and said, "It's a sneak peek."

Of course, Yu Dongqing didn't believe what this guy said. His new company had just been established and he was busy like a dog.

"Come on, what's the matter?" Yu Dongqing leaned back to make herself more comfortable.

"You man, can't you just drink tea without thinking about anything?" Li Wan said something, then suddenly changed the subject:
"Holly, did you write a science fiction novel called "The Wandering Earth"?"

"How do you know?" Yu Dongqing was taken aback.

After writing this novel, except for sending it to her daughter Yu Tongtong, saying that some girls in the dormitory wanted to read it, Yu Dongqing didn't show it to anyone, including her three old friends.

And Li Wanjia is a son who has gone to college and doesn't know Yu Tongtong.Could it be that this kid found a girlfriend who is a certain girl in Tongtong's dormitory?

This possibility is extremely small.

Because his son is studying at the California Institute of Technology, it is impossible to know these little girls.

Seeing Yu Dongqing's surprised face, Li Wan explained: "My son told me this novel after reading it. It is about the story of the sun going out and human beings taking the earth to escape the solar system. The author is signed by Yu Dongqing."

"Your son? Is your son's girlfriend really a roommate in Tongtong dormitory?" Yu Dongqing asked.

"What nonsense? Did you write it or not?" Li Wan was confused by Yu Dongqing's words.

"I wrote it, that's what I said. Yu Dongqing didn't hide anything.

"But I only sent it to my daughter. She said it was my roommate who wanted to see your son, how did she know?"

"He said he read it on a forum called Science Fiction World. You don't know, your novel has become a hot topic in the science fiction world, and it has even spread abroad."

"Really? I really don't know." Yu Dongqing shook his head.

"Hey, Holly, you and I came to see you today. On the one hand, we have tea, and on the other hand, we want to confirm this matter."

Li Wan took out his mobile phone and opened a website to call up articles: "Look, is it this one? It's signed by Yu Dongqing, don't get confused."

Yu Dongqing took the phone and looked at it carefully, then returned the phone to the other party: "If it's fake, the original manuscript is still in my computer's hard drive."

"That's good. Dongqing, let me tell you something. The famous American Hollywood director Christopher has taken a fancy to your novel. He wants to buy the film and television adaptation rights of this novel and make it into a movie."

Li Wan told the whole story the whole story.

It turned out that this Li Li was Li Wan's son who was studying in the United States. He was naturally very happy to hear that Kristoff was going to make this novel into a movie.

But he doesn't know who this Yu Dongqing is, is it his father's friend Yu Dongqing?

It’s okay, just ask.

Li Wan was also surprised when he heard what his son said. Of course, he wanted to ask clearly. We happened to have tea together and asked him by the way.

Unexpectedly, Yu Dongqing really wrote it!
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