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Four days passed in the blink of an eye.

On the morning of the [-]th, Shaoyang packed his luggage and prepared to go abroad. Xue Jiajia pretended to be calm and sent Shaoyang to the car, but after Shaoyang left, she sat alone on the sofa for a long time, in a daze.

Liu Hongyu sat next to her and persuaded her a few words. She has experienced it and knows that women during pregnancy are most likely to be sentimental.

The plane took off and landed, and after leaving the airport, it came to another country.

A Chinese man in a suit and leather shoes saw Shaoyang come out, and quickly greeted him and said, "Brother Yang, I am the driver sent by Mr. Lu to pick you up."

"Ah."

The driver took the initiative to take the luggage and put it in the trunk. Shao Yang also sat in the back of the car. After getting in the car, the driver asked directly: "Brother Yang, should I take you to the hotel first, or to the company first?"

Shao Yang said: "I already slept on the plane, so go directly to the company."

There is a daughter-in-law who is pregnant with twins at home, and Shao Yang is eager to finish filming "Iron Man 1" in one day, and then return to China as soon as possible.

"it is good."

The car stopped under a building in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and the driver led Shao Yang all the way to the office floor of Marvel Studios.

After all, it is in the United States, so after Lu Mei came here, the first thing she did was recruit.

At the beginning, these recruits found that the company was a Huaxia boss, and everyone was slack at work, but Lu Mei didn't get used to them. After only half a month, half of the people were laid off directly. Now, The rest of the people did not dare to fish and paddle anymore.

After half a year of rectification, everything in the company is now normal.

"Ohmygod!" There was a young girl in her twenties at the front desk, from the United States, with blond hair and blue eyes, and a good figure. When she saw Shaoyang walking in, the little girl covered her mouth and screamed.

The employees in the company all looked over when they heard the voice.

Shaoyang has not gone abroad once or twice. After the World Singer Contest, his spoken English has also improved a lot. He smiled and said to the little girl at the front desk: "What's your name?"

"Julie."

"Julie, please show me around here."

"no problem."

Julie was very enthusiastic and led Shaoyang to visit the office. Everyone in the company knew that Shaoyang was the behind-the-scenes boss of this company, so many people took the initiative to say hello to Shaoyang.

Naturally, they don't call Brother Shaoyang as they do in China, but directly use 'mrshao' to address Shaoyang. Like in domestic film and television dramas, it is rare for a foreign company to have a boss. In foreign countries, a boss is just a title. Subordinates will only add a mr (Mr.) or mrs (Ms.) in front of the name when they call their superiors.

Lu Mei also came out of the office when she heard the voice: "Shaoyang, you are finally here."

"Thanks for your hard work."

"Congratulations, I'm going to be a dad again."

"How is the company doing now?"

Lu Mei asked Julie to return to her post, and she led Shao Yang into the office.

"A good news, a bad news, which one do you want to hear first?"

"Good news."

"The good news is that I have recruited good people for the crew according to your requirements. In addition, I have dozens of resumes in my hand. You can choose these actors at will, but they are all young actors. You have to understand this. After all, in Hollywood, we Just a new company."

"What about the bad news?"

"The bad news is that there is serious competition among peers here. In other words, they are very exclusive. By the way, do you know the two companies Star Spiral Films and Wren Brothers?"

Shao Yang nodded and said, "Of course, at first we wanted to acquire these two companies."

"The two companies have merged at the beginning of this year and changed their name to Fast Gunner Films. Their boss thinks that we have played tricks on the last acquisition, and has already let us know that we will move out of the United States within a year. And we don’t allow actors who have worked with them to work with us.”

After Shao Yang heard it, he smiled beyond Lu Mei's expectations: "This is some kind of bad news, I guessed it would be this result."

Lu Mei asked: "Then where do you plan to start?"

"You show me their resumes, and I will choose the actors first."

Lu Mei quickly called an assistant over, and handed all the actor's resumes to Shao Yang. After Shao Yang took it, he didn't read anything, only his appearance.

So he looks very fast.

"Not this one."

"Not this one."

"This...not bad, you can try the role of heroine."

"..."

Lu Mei asked in a daze, "Are you being too casual?"

Shao Yang explained: "In the first film, apart from the protagonist, there were not many other roles. When I wrote the script, I already had the images of those supporting roles in my mind, so I knew who to choose and who not to choose just by looking at the photos." who."

It took a few minutes for Shao Yang to finish reading the resumes. He took out a dozen or so resumes he had selected and handed them to Lu Mei, saying, "Call them and ask them to come to the company for an audition in the afternoon. Call me too."

"Okay, there is something I forgot to tell you. Two days ago, there was a young director named Brighton. He became a loyal fan of yours after watching "The Country Teacher" directed by you. He didn't know where he came from. Heard that you were going to come to the United States to make a movie, he told me that he wanted to come over to be your assistant, and he didn’t need any salary.”

Shao Yang smiled and said, "How young is the director?"

"Just graduated from the directing department, the only work is his graduation work."

"Let him come."

"Ah."

Lu Mei said: "I booked a hotel for you nearby, you can put your luggage in the hotel first, I will pick you up at the entrance of the hotel at noon and have a meal."

"Listen to your arrangement."

……

in the afternoon.

in the conference room.

Except for Shaoyang and a lady who is a translator, everyone else is from the United States, but they all know Shaoyang.

Now in developed countries, it is really not that easy to find a few people who don't know Shaoyang.

"Calling everyone here today is the kick-off meeting for our first cooperation. Although I don't know you all yet, and I can't even pronounce your names, I believe that in the next period of time, we will definitely know each other."

"I expect to shoot our company's first movie on May [-], which is the day after tomorrow, so I need you to get everything ready within three days."

Shaoyang said these two passages directly in English. After the people present listened, they looked at each other, and the last bearded man said, "Three days, isn't this too rushed?"

"I don't know what it was like when you made a movie before, but now that I'm the director, you have to do it our way. If you can't do it, you can get up and leave now. If you stay, I will assume that you can do it."

"Of course, for those of you who stay, I can't guarantee anything else, but what I can guarantee is that your treatment level will definitely not be lower than that of your counterparts, and this movie is just the beginning. Within a year, a movie universe will be built, during which I will keep shooting movies, that is to say, you don’t need to worry about unemployment.”

Shaoyang said this passage directly in Chinese. Fortunately, the translator has been using a pen to memorize key points, and she also translated this passage in English proficiently.

Hearing this, the directors of these crews naturally had no opinion.

They are not stars, for them, treatment is their most concerned issue.

Seeing that no one was leaving, Shaoyang began to assign tasks to each person in charge.

This process went on for a long time.

"Okay, there are so many things you have to prepare these days, you can prepare now."

Watching the crew leave, Shao Yang got up directly and said, "We will start the audition next, please come with me."

……