Chatty Hollywood

　　 "What did you find us for so late? The crew will officially start filming in five days. Now is the last time for a break!"

　　 was recalled by the twelve series of calls, even Yue Fei would sing full of grief and anger, let alone Charlotte. Was awakened by the phone ringing in the middle of the night, he hurried to the producer Westwood's office, yawning and complaining, while observing the situation in the house—

　　 Except for Westwood and director Alan McElroy, who called him, the heads of all departments of the crew are there. Because Charlotte lives the farthest, he should be the last to arrive. The room was surrounded by smoke and filled with the smell of nicotine and suspicion. Everyone was sitting or standing in twos and threes, whispering and whispering to people they knew.

　　 "What's the matter? Isn't it a seizure of power?"

　　 Charlotte patted the shoulder of the old gun who had arrived earlier than herself, and asked in a very soft voice. The old man with the red beard was sitting in the corner at this time, holding a can of beer in his hand and was pouring heavily. After hearing Charlotte's words, he suddenly stagnated, and then coughed violently.

　　 "Cough cough cough...you, what do you think? If there is any conspiracy, how can such a big battle be possible?"

　　—Charlotte is also aware of this. Such a sudden meeting is more like an unexpected situation that needs to be dealt with than a conspiracy that exists in imagination such as seizing power. He just wanted to make a joke with the old gun, but he almost choked him to death.

　　 "I don't know what happened, Westwood suddenly called me to come over, and didn't say anything about the specifics. I guess you are like this too?"

　　 Recovering from the cough, the old gun shrugged.

　　 "It is estimated that this is almost the case for everyone, knowing what is going on, only the director and producer who have not come!"

　　 "Correct, only Mr. Director knows the specifics. I and you all know the same thing."

　　 Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao was there, and the producer Anthony Westwood opened the door and walked in. His face was sad, his eyebrows almost tucked together:

　　 "The problem now is that the person who knows the problem, our director, is gone!"

　　 "What!?"

　　 "WTF!!"

　　...Following Westwood's words, an exclamation and cursing sounded in the office. After a long time, everyone calmed down under the comfort of the oldest gun.

　　 "What's going on, Tony?"

　　 The old gun called the producer Westwood’s nickname, but his tone was rather bad.

　　 "Don't tell me, Mike Elroy ran away with money!?"

　　 Although Hollywood is the most developed place in North America or the world in the entertainment industry, it is often chaotic. Because the official speech of the entertainment industry is shit, and the gossip is the characteristics of truth, many swindlers are here to get rid of the water—

Like Charlotte’s predecessor, it’s just a small case that the director or producer organizes a small case for a beautiful woman with star dreams to go to bed with all kinds of excuses: Fake crews and then run away with investors’ money is considered a bit of technical content. And some people with realms even cooperated with the CIA to deceive foreigners. Later Hollywood even made a special film to commemorate this great scam, called "Escape from Tehran"-what's more, this weird movie won an Oscar.

　　Actually, because the North American people admire the oil and worship the characteristics of the financial industry for nothing, there are not many clever tricks such as the Mouse Club or the Pompeii scam that have spread widely on this fertile soil. There are also some "Robin Hoods" who specialize in picking those wealthy people who are known for their shrewdness, and they are also very rewarding. It really makes many real masters of fraud sigh.

Of course, although everyone has heard of stories like Pompeii scams, there are not many that have really experienced it personally. So when I heard the old gun, I thought that I might become a marionette in the hands of a liar. Everyone here is nervous.

　　 "Don't worry, it's not worth it yet!"

　　 Westwood waved his hand to calm the nervous crowd.

　　 "After I couldn't contact Allen for two consecutive days, while calling the police, I immediately checked the account-rest assured, everyone, our money is still there!"

　　 "Huh, that's good!"

　　 After hearing this sentence, many people were relieved, but Westwood was not included:

　　 "Although the worst case has been avoided, to a certain extent, compared to the kind of fraud that just needs to call the police, this is the most troublesome now—"

　　Looking at the puzzled expressions of everyone, Westwood couldn't help but scratched the scalp that had already begun to fade.

　　 "According to the latest findings of the Los Angeles Police Department, the place where Mike Elroy disappeared is likely to be the Vianles Valley!"

　　 "Isn't that the last location we chose?"

　　 After hearing this place name, Charlotte, who was dozing a little because of lack of sleep, suddenly woke up—

　　 In director Allen’s script, the location is basically country roads, forests and mountains. Based on the principle of proximity, they plan to shoot directly in the Rocky Mountains where Los Angeles is located. And choose to choose, and finally selected location shooting location is the Vianes Valley. There are dense forests, haze all year round, and there is a country road passing by, which is very suitable for shooting.

　　 When I went there to see the scenery, although Charlotte found that the forest there was a bit ghostly, but when you think about it, how many places of the inaccessible virgin forest will be completely devoid of mystery? Even if it is the sea of ​​trees where countless suicides are buried like RB Fuji, as long as you don't die, you won't die. Besides, the film that the crew wants to shoot is a horror movie, and the ghostly atmosphere there is very suitable.

　　 However, now that I heard that my director had disappeared there, Charlotte stopped thinking about it.

　　 "What's going on? It's impossible to be eaten by a grizzly bear, right?"

　　 "I hope not!"

　　 Westwood didn’t seem to be sure, he silently crossed his chest.

"After the Los Angeles Police Department issued a notification, the local police department contacted and said that Allen's car was found on a country road in the Vianes Valley. At that time, I followed the police officers to check and it was indeed Allen's car. Wrong, but I didn’t find Ellen as a son of a bitch! The police and local rangers are still looking for him, but I don’t think there is much hope."

　　 The producer of Xieding sighed.

"Furthermore, the local forest ranger told me that there have been frequent disappearances in that place in recent years. Many people, like Allen, left their cars on the road and disappeared. Unfortunately, we didn’t think about it when we were looking at the scene. To this question."

　　 "This is the problem? What is the problem!?"

　　 The old gun, who had been calm, suddenly became stern. The red-bearded man stared at Westwood like a real Viking and started yelling.

"Comeon! We are not in the nineteenth century. We are not shooting the cursed "Macbeth" nor the **** "Hell Angels". You are a producer who should care about the devil for money, why are you in this place? Superstitious!?"

—Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies, has a reputation of being "cursed" for a long time after its birth. As long as a theater wants to rehearse this masterpiece, unfortunate accidents will inevitably occur , Let the performance be empty; and in the history of the United States, the famous tycoon and **** Howard Hughes’ air combat epic film "Hell’s Angels", because of Hughes’s prodigal high investment and strict requirements, created the history of film The highest number of miracles and shooting accidents. Both are famous examples of bad luck in art history.

　　In Hollywood circles, although it cannot be said that there is a flood of low-educated people, it is a fact that as an art industry, people with a literary and artistic mind abound. They are more superstitious than the science and technology men with long gears in their minds. In fact, Lao Qiang himself is also a superstitious person. Every time he participates in the filming, he wears his lucky suit—and this suit is even passed to him by his father. You can imagine the extent of it-but even so, the old gun is still the same as me.

However, when the producer Westwood’s words revealed that "the choice of location was not good, which affected luck", the old gun, who had already started to re-iron the lucky suit, immediately became a firm materialist-and Like casting, the selection of location was also done under the auspices of the deputy director, Lao Qiang. As an old fritters on the set, even if it involves illusory luck or curse, he is never willing to carry this scapegoat.

　　 "Easy!"

　　 Westwood is also experienced, he understands that the old gun does not want to take any responsibility, UU reading www.uukanshu.com hurriedly explained,

"I don't want to blame anyone for this. After all, this situation is fundamentally an irresistible factor. It's just that the probability that the **** Alan will come back in a few days is greatly reduced! Now, regardless of the life of the bastard, Gentlemen, the biggest problem we face is that when the film starts, we may not have a director!"

　　 At this point, he gave a wry smile, and finally poured it out in one breath.

"Actually, it’s not just that there is no director—the police found out after investigation that someone saw a young woman with blond hair and blue eyes who was in the car with Allen—that is, our The **** protagonist also disappeared with the **** director!"

　　 "Hollyshit!!"

　　 Photographer Addison Yang jumped up. In the crew, the photographer has always been the director's queen team, and the most iron supporter, and Addison is no exception. When everyone talked about director Allen before, he never said a word. However, now that he heard the news, he couldn't help it anymore—

"This **** must have dragged the heroine to a field battle again! When filming "Moonlight Panic 4", he was still a screenwriter, so he did it! This bastard, he likes the dangerous wild so much, he can't Go open a room!?"

Obviously, because of the death of the director, even his hard-core supporters have turned their backs. If the producer Westwood really wants to seize power, like Charlotte’s previous jokes, it should be a Very favorable situation, however—

　　 "Gentlemen, the biggest question we are facing now is, can this movie be filmed? And, if it is going to be filmed, who will be the heroine—"

　　 "—Who will be the director!?"