Producer [American Entertainment]

Since Lake Placid hosted the Winter Olympics in the United States in 1980, "007: Top Secret", which was launched at the end of the same year, decided to start filming in Cortina d'Ampezzo, which also hosted the Winter Olympics. An alternative hitchhiking position.

United Artists in the United States provided the financing, and EON in the United Kingdom was responsible for the principal photography, Richard.Maibaum and Michael.Wilson joined forces as a screenwriter for the first time, and it is the only one in the 007 series adapted from Ian.Screenplays of Fleming's short stories (others are 007 feature-length series), and the director is called John.Glenn, who has served as the director and editor of the second working group of the 007 series of films for many times...

To put it simply, apart from United Artists and EON, the 007 crew this time can be regarded as a "novel" novice crew. The main creators have rich relevant work experience, but they have never really held the position they are currently working on.

Coupled with the fact that the funding of United Artists was delayed from 1980 to 1981, one can imagine what kind of chaos it would be.

007 is a big production, and William's previous Earth crew is completely incomparable.Let's put it this way, the number of staff members of the 007 crew is more than ten times that of the entire crew of Earthlings.

The food and lodging problem for hundreds of people is enough to make another movie, and it is still a movie that is not cheap.

Most of the crew members were recruited locally, residents of Cortina d'Ampezzo, and young people from other nearby Italian cities.Most of them came here for the fame of 007, they are full of enthusiasm and drive, they don't need much salary, but...

As Wheeler once warned William, such young people also mean that they are inexperienced and difficult to manage. When the crew leaves the statistical loss, what they do will make the producer's heart bleed crazily.

The producer of 007 is Albert.Blockley, since 1962's first film "Dr. No" in 007, he has been the producer of this series. He is a well-known action film producer in Hollywood. He is now 72 years old.But judging by his posture on the set, he has no intention of giving up work at all.

"My target is your teacher Wheeler, pay him high respect." Albert said.Everyone basically knows Wheeler, even if they didn't know each other before, they did after some time ago's publicity.

"I'll pass on your words, sir." Whether he was sincere or not, William was delighted that Albert had mentioned Wheeler.Wheeler's condition has improved recently, and it is said that he can go for a short walk every day.

"Kirby, please call me Kirby, everyone on the set calls me that."

"Okay, Kirby."

As a producer, William is doomed to deal with and discuss cooperation with all kinds of people.Before he joined the group, for some reason, he always thought that Albert would be difficult to deal with.Fortunately, the reality is completely different from what he imagined...

Before the word "different" had even crossed William's mind, William changed his attitude.

It originated from another producer of the crew, Michael.Wilson, Albert's stepson, is also very warm to William, but the meaning inside and outside the words is subtle.Note that the following frequent conversations only happen within one day.

"My stepfather used to say that only death could separate him from 007, and I know God will bless them."

"Hey, you know what? My sister Barbara was born in 1960, just a year older than you. When she was two years old, 007's first movie came out. 007 is almost like her twin or Anything else, as long as her life. Can you imagine? That's not something a young girl of 21 would say, huh?"

After speaking, Wilson laughed, as if he had made a very funny joke.

William couldn't laugh at all, because Wilson's words were obvious, he was vigilant about William taking 007 away from his family, and his stepfather Albert didn't stop him.

Even though William never thought of it that way.

"Before I became a producer, I was a lawyer because I didn't think the entertainment industry was a stable job, but James Bond completely changed my mind. You know what I mean? It's a family business for me. .” Wilson said again.

"Oh, you used to be a lawyer?" William finally couldn't bear it anymore, and replied, "I also know a lawyer, a really good guy, the chief of my cousin's legal department. You should know him too? His name is Lowe, in You guys must have dealt with MGM when they were talking about the takeover with United Artists. I'm glad you didn't delay as a lawyer."

In the evening, in the ancestral house of Lesenbra, Sabatino laughed: "Did you really say that to his face?"

"No, I just thought about it, Albert was there, I couldn't screw up my job, although I really wanted to. God only knows what's going on in that Wilson's head? He really is a Adults teens older than me? I mean, why would I take over a franchise that someone else has already developed? To do it, I would only do franchises that are entirely mine, like, like, superheroes What."

When he said this, William was walking back and forth in the room. He needed marshmallows, but the marshmallows were left in Los Angeles because they failed to obtain the relevant certificates and documents required for customs clearance, and could not come to Italy with him.

"He's just too insecure." Sabatino shrugged. "Why bother with him? As long as you want, I can kick him out for you at any time. In fact, that's exactly what I intend to do."

The three producers of "Top Secret", Albert, Wilson, and the representative of United Artists, there must always be someone who makes room for his cousin, doesn't he?Sabatino was still hesitating between Wilson and the representatives of the United Artists. Now, well, no more hesitation, thank Wilson for making a decision for him.

"Why can you do it? I heard that 007's shares are held 50% by EON and United Artists."

EON Company is Albert's personal film company. He is an Italian born in the United States.Albert is almost the king of the 007 series. Even if he wanted to please Sabatino, the new benefactor, he would not be able to kick his stepson out.

"It's a long story, if you want to hear it..."

"I've got one night!" William immediately picked up his pillow.

Sabatino silently praised himself in his heart.

"As you know, the 007 series actually had two producers at the beginning, and they jointly founded the EON company."

"I don't know at all." Before becoming a producer, William, like most people, never paid attention to the name written in the column of the film producer. He only knew Sean.Connery, the actor who played the first generation of 007.

"OK, now you know. 007 originally had two producers, Albert and his partner Harry Salzman, and they jointly won the copyright of Ian Fleming's novel, which is to write 007 The copyright of the writer of the series of novels, at a very low price. Then they established EON and started producing 007 movies together.

"This cooperation lasted until the 70s, and Harry made a very bad, very bad decision-he embezzled the money he was planning to make 007, invested it in other film projects of his own, and lost it. You know Regarding the movie, one thought of heaven and one thought of hell. In order to fill this hole, Harry used EON company as a guarantee without authorization, and borrowed a personal loan of 2000 million US dollars from a Swiss bank, but he was unable to repay it when the time came. Simply put Said it was a pig teammate.

"Because of this matter, Albert completely fell out with Harry, and refused to pay the bank loan on the grounds that Harry took 100% of the company's shares as a mortgage without his partner's consent.

"Swiss banks will definitely not do it. In the end, United Artists made a move and acquired 50% of Harry's shares. Harry returned the money from the Swiss bank and left EON company cleanly.

"This is the external version."

That is to say, there is another inward side to this story.

What is going on between Albert and Harry, aside from talking about it, is their own problem. Sabatino doesn't care who is responsible for whom, or who sets up a trap.He only cared about the Swiss bank part.Bankers who can open banks around the world, their methods are not simple.They couldn't bear being fooled by Albert and Harry together. Although Lianmei paid the money, Lianmei didn't care about the interest.

In order to calm things down, after negotiation, Albert and United Artists each gave 0.5% to the Swiss bank, and slowly repaid the interest in the form of shares, and obtained an easier loan limit from the bank in the future.

In other words, what Albert and United Artists really own is 49.5% of 007 shares.

"Guess who got fed up with this bankrupt Swiss bank during the economic crisis?" Sabatino's understanding of "buy, buy, buy" is always different from that of ordinary people. Others have money in the bank, but he has money... Open your own bank.

With this vital 1% more in hand, the whole situation will be different.

The author has something to say: *The story of Albert and his partners is basically true, except for some shares in the Swiss bank at the end.

*The article said, "Swiss bank", not "Swiss bank", these are two concepts.Please pay special attention.

Chapter 66 No.60 Six Days to Earth: What kind of woman can give birth to Sabatino?

William had only one idea about his cousin's fancy tricks: "...what do you want a Swiss bank for?"

"You really know how to grasp the point of the conversation." Sabatino couldn't laugh or cry. He lowered his head and met William's blue eyes, which were seriously expressing doubts. As if possessed, he naturally leaned forward and rubbed against William. Rubbing the tip of William's nose who was snuggled up to him, just like he had dreamed countless times.

Then, they froze together.

"Did I cross the line? I'm sorry." Sabatino tried to appear as calm as possible.

"No," William's expression is still a bit unrecoverable. He doesn't know whether he is answering Sabatino or muttering to himself, "I'm just wondering why I didn't feel that the action just now was a bit out of bounds."

Logically speaking, it should feel a bit too much, right?No matter how close family members are, they have touched the bottom line.To say something inappropriate, if the bridge of the nose of the two of them is a little bit down, it was not rubbing the tip of the nose just now, but rubbing the lips.William could clearly see Sabatino's deep eyes, with only his reflection in his eyes.

Suddenly a light in Sabatino's heart lit up.He didn't speak in a hurry, but just gave William more time to think about himself.

In the end, William came to the conclusion: "so, why do you want a Swiss bank?"

Really, as always, will focus on the focus.Sabatino sighed helplessly in his heart, but he still opened his mouth to satisfy William's curiosity: "Probably because I know that one day in the future, I will buy MGM, MGM will buy United Artists, United Artists America has the 007 series, so I said to my mother, hey, why don't you buy a bank as a family business, and give me the 007 shares held by the bank as a birthday present?"

"Oh, please, Saba, you know, you are not very suitable for telling jokes." William didn't believe it at all.What he learned before coming to Earth is that people on Earth do not have the ability to predict the future, or other superpowers. They only have imagination that breaks through the average level of ordinary cosmic civilizations.

Sabatino shrugged noncommittally, he knew that William would not believe it.

It was the same in his previous life. I don’t know where William’s self-confidence came from. He never believed in gods, ghosts and ghosts. He firmly believed that everything that happened on the earth could be explained by science.They didn't even have a serious discussion about it.

At that time, the news was reporting a collective supernatural event that happened in 1961, some time before William was born.

Several European countries, different cities, different races, different genders, and people of different ages, within a few days, began to claim that they heard a voice in their minds that only they could hear. Try to establish a communication with them.Most people think it is God, and a few people think that they are hallucinating.

Due to the slow transmission of information at that time, such a large-scale common event did not attract widespread attention from the society. Only local newspapers in different cities carried out reports the size of tofu cubes.

Years later, an American journalist stumbled across this interesting phenomenon while investigating something.

Sabatino, who is no longer young, has only one idea about this: "Either someone made a fake, or there really is a supernatural event."

William's expression was calm and his attitude was determined. He had only one answer: "This is an alien."

"You would rather believe that there are aliens in the universe than supernatural events?"

"It's not that I would rather believe it, but I'm sure."

From then on Sabatino knew that his cousin was a less obvious, science geek.After returning from rebirth, Sabatino also confirmed this from the side. When he communicated with his cousin in the name of S, the alien civilization became a good conversation between them.

"So, that Swiss bank was actually bought by Aunt Elizabeth?" William asked Sabatino.

"Technically, yes. I was a kid after all, and I gave my mother a piece of advice. You know, I was already making a lot of money on Wall Street with her ID, and she valued my opinion. How How about it? The situation at that time was like the golden shopping period before the Christmas season. On Black Friday, many companies were going bankrupt. It was so easy and cheap to buy it. The attitude of human beings has always been in the face of discounts. Do you earn money if you buy it? I am also an ordinary person."

"No, believe me, ordinary people will not buy a company just because it is cheap." Acquisitions and mergers of companies are not done in one sentence, and a lot of manpower, material resources and effort are required behind it.

Without waiting for Sabatino to answer, William said again: "Speaking of which, why didn't aunt come?"

"Uh...I don't want to lie to you, honey, in a way, she thought you were in America."

"You didn't tell her that we came to Italy." William's words were not interrogative sentences, but affirmative sentences.

Sabatino nodded, not apologetic at all.After seeing his mother's overwhelming maternal love for William in his previous life, he would only take the initiative to arrange for his mother to come to see William unless he was stupid in this life.He didn't know whether to be jealous of her mother or William.

"Won't my aunt find out?" This is Cortina d'Ampezzo, his aunt's home court.

"Don't worry, this is a tradition here." Sabatino said, this is also my home court. "The residents of the small town will keep any secrets for the Lesenbra family, including concealing each other among family members. An interesting family history, there was a generation of patriarchs and his wife who were having an affair, and tacitly chose For three years in Cortina d'Ampezzo on vacation with his lover, they failed to discover each other's secrets. Until one time the wife let it slip."

"And they got divorced?"

"Why? Just because it was the wife who leaked the word, not the husband? No, they just had a happy and honest time, and then they played their own way. My dear, not everyone has the same view of marriage as you and me."

The advice left by Patriarch Ren to future generations is that it is best to marry someone who will help your career, so that at least after the love fades, there will be long-term benefits.

Sabatino is an extreme. He didn't believe in love at all until he met William. He quickly moved from one extreme to another. In this life, the next life, and forever, he only wants to be with William. Together.

Unknowingly, the night was getting very deep, and William was getting more and more sleepy, and he could barely hear what Sabatino was saying.

Sabatino's voice is also low and full of magnetism.To tell the truth, he enjoyed the situation of slowly falling asleep with William.Even if he was lying on the bed and doing nothing, he would feel surrounded by happiness.The bed is soft, the quilt is warm, and the person he loves is sleeping peacefully in his arms.

William said the last sentence in a daze: "I always feel that it is impossible for my aunt to be deceived by you so easily."

After all, it is Elizabeth, not Sabatino, who has been entrenched in Italy for a long time.

Sabatino was very confident in himself. He kissed William's forehead and gently patted his hand: "As long as you don't take the initiative to call her to expose it, you will be fine. Go to sleep, honey, I will always be with you."

The next day, Sabatino was severely slapped in the face.

real.Slap in the face.

"Why are you sleeping in the same bed as your cousin?!"

Aunt Elizabeth showed up at the ancestral house in Lesembla early the next morning.Originally, she wanted to give William a big surprise, but in the end she was frightened by her son in his master bedroom.She was still looking as normal at that time, and warmly greeted William to get up for breakfast, tied him a blue tie she had chosen to match the silver-gray shirt best, and then watched William drive to the set.

The moment she turned around, Elizabeth slapped her son with a frosty face, without the slightest sloppiness.

Sabatino remained silent, because he expected it all, including how his mother would react.She never lost her temper in front of William, even if she was really mad.But where William couldn't see, she would fire with all her might.

"Answer me, Sabatino. Lesenbra, it's not what I think it is."

When a mother calls her son by his full name, there is often something called murderous intent.

In that murderous look, Sabatino still stood straight.

Elizabeth, who is wearing a champagne mermaid dress, rarely laughs or gets angry because she thinks excessive expressions are the culprit of wrinkles.From this point, it is enough to see that William is special to her.

Therefore, in the face of Sabatino's silence, Elizabeth tried not to look hideous as much as possible.

She was just calm, took out a gold-plated desert eagle that was only launched this year from her champagne handbag of the same color as the dress, and pointed at the antique vase not far from Sabatino's left, quickly comboing gun.Until it ran out of bullets, the fragments of the vase flew all over the place.Both the mother and the son didn't change their faces, as if they were commonplace.

"OK," Elizabeth said happily, "we can sit down and talk calmly now."

What Elizabeth meant by sitting down was that she alone was allowed to sit down.

"There's nothing to talk about, it's what you see." Sabatino knew his mother well, and he knew when it was more appropriate to speak, such as this moment.

"He's your cousin!"

"We're not related by blood."

"..." Elizabeth, who hadn't had time to sit down, was caught off guard by these words.She stepped back a few times quickly, and threw herself on the sofa like throwing a rag bag.Rubbing her head with the hands that had just had a French manicure, her image was out of shape.This morning, she was really stimulated enough, she managed to calm down and asked her son, "When did you know?"

"Scientists always say that because the human brain is not fully developed at a young age, it is difficult to remember what happened before the age of four. I think I am an exception."

"So, that's why I always tell your father, don't discuss adult matters in front of your children." Elizabeth and her deceased husband were very affectionate, but she still used to push away all the problems of not educating children well. When it comes to her husband, it's like a different kind of coquettish, "You have known it for so many years? Why did you insist on writing to Will when you were young?"

"You don't want to know the answer."

"God! He's still a child!" In fact, what Elizabeth wanted to ask was how Sabatino met William and fell in love with him at such a young age.

"So did I."

"Does Will know? I mean, does he know that he's not actually related to you, me, or my father?"

Sabatino shook his head. "I don't know how to tell him yet."

"It's better to say it directly." William stood in the living room, facing back and forth, a little at a loss in the face of the unknown mess.

The author has something to say: William only heard the non-blood part, and did not hear the confession of the cousin in front><*Black Friday, the unofficial start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States, is after the Thanksgiving holiday and before Christmas.Not that Black Friday in the religious sense.

*The collective supernatural event in the previous life→→William was trying to communicate before he possessed himself, I hope you understand~*geek: Freak, technical geek, good at mathematics, one of those who like to study alien civilizations kind of appellation.