Chapter 266: 266
"Nick, why don't you get off work?" Nicholas McClan looked back and saw that it was her colleague in the office. She was walking towards her direction with a lot of information in her hand.
Nicholas stretched, "There is another news that he sent to the printing factory tonight."
Sophie shouted in surprise, "Are you crazy? There are still... you are about to print in two hours, but you haven't written it yet." Then, Sophie remembered the first draft of the layout sent today, "The top blank space of the entertainment version is left for you!"
Nicholas was not as fussy as Sophie, and he laughed with ease, "Yes, that's that."
Sophie sat down next to Nicholas's desk with the information in his hand, looking at the messy information on his desk and the blank paper industry on the typewriter. "It turns out you are writing Hugo's manuscript! I thought you had written it a long time ago, and this time it was not a big news, why did you procrastinate for so long?" Sophie saw news titles from other competing newspapers on Nicholas' desk, such as the title of "The New York Times" is "The Self-Exiled Hugo Lancaster."
"I should have written it yesterday, but unfortunately I missed today's release." Nicholas pulled the corner of his mouth.
"Is this why you were scolded today?" Sophie suddenly realized that Nicholas was called to the editor-in-chief's office in the morning and scolded him fiercely. The editor-in-chief's roar could be heard on the entire floor.
Nicholas nodded and confirmed that it was really undesirable to fall behind in a direct contest with his competitors. Moreover, Nicholas did not have exclusive information, so it was difficult to win back a game. No wonder the editor-in-chief was angry.
"This is just Hugo took on a new movie, not a big revelation. Why did you have been writing it for so long but haven't written it?" Sophie knew that the news that Nicholas was writing about Hugo becoming the male lead of "Seattle Night Without Sleeping". This news was confirmed yesterday and officially announced today, which caused a big and small sensation.
Nicholas replied, "Because I have been considering my attitude towards this matter, whether to support or oppose it."
"You are really crazy." Sophie took the information and left Nicholas' desk, walked towards the information room. When she reached the door, she turned back to Nicholas and said, "You are crazy. No one is optimistic about Hugo's choice."
"Yes, I'm crazy." Nicholas stretched again, muttered to himself, and then fell on the title chosen by the competitor's newspaper on the table.
The New York Times titled "The Self-Exiled Hugo Lancaster", the San Francisco Chronicle wrote the report "Hugo at the Desperate Way", the "Premiere" titled "From the Powerful to the Idol", not to mention the gloating "National Inquirer" reported with the "Start of Depravity", and the sarcastic title of "Entertainment Weekly" "Hugo finally knows how to use his advantages"...
Even the most authoritative "Variety Show" and "Hollywood Reporter" in the industry are no exception. "Variety Show" writes earnestly, "Another wrong choice, how much talent can Hugo still have to waste"; "Hollywood Reporter" expresses his regret with "stupid choice".
At 5 p.m. yesterday, Samsung Pictures, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, officially announced that the protagonist of the love and romantic film "Seattle Night Without Sleeping", written and directed by Nora Evelon, was confirmed. The hero is Hugo Lancaster and the heroine is Meg Ryan. The film will be officially launched next week.
At the same time, Samsung Pictures also released a summary of the story about "Seattle's sleepless night", with only one sentence, "A widowed father and an engaged female reporter are connected together by radio waves, thus creating a love story."
After the news was announced, the media and professionals were in an uproar.
The reason for the uproar is that no one is optimistic about the theme of "Seattle Night Not Sleeping". During the preparations of Nora, major film companies thought so. Two strangers who had never met before, because the radio station knew each other and became in love. This is simply incredible. This is equivalent to the shock of people when online love emerged in the 21st century. Connecting two strangers through radio waves can actually produce chemical reactions. This is simply unrealistic. What's more, it is even more absurd to shoot such a subject into a movie. No audience wants to see two people shouting at the radio station across the air, for fear that the whole story will be boring and leave.
Obviously, the media and professionals also think so, so when people learned that Hugo actually took on the filming of "Seattle's Not Sleeping Night", representative reactions from the above major media appeared.
At present, Hugo is in a whirlpool of a storm. Although the big brand suspicion has not been exaggerated for the time being, the negative impact still exists, so it can be seen that Hugo is in a slowdown in his career. Under such circumstances, Hugo chose a script like "Seattle Night Not Sleeping", and almost everyone thinks that Hugo is ruining his just-improving actor career.
More importantly, Hugo only regained attention with his acting skills not long ago, and now he has taken on a movie about a girl. What is a movie called a girl? To put it bluntly, it is a movie dedicated to female audiences to satisfy their beautiful fantasies about love. Such movies do not have much acting content. Even classics like "Roman Holiday", Gregory Peck (gregory.peck) has been ignored by people. Hugo is not as good as when Gregory took on "Roman Holiday", and not to mention that "Seattle has not yet had a sleep at night" could not be a "Roman Holiday".
Therefore, both "Variety Show" and "Hollywood Reporter" believe that Hugo is squandering his acting talent, and once again made the mistake of choosing "fatal moments" after the "Death Poetry Club", and this time it was even more stupid. At the time, "The Fatal Moment" was at least optimistic during the preparation period, but this time, "Seattle Night Not Sleeping" has no highlights worth taking on by Hugo from any perspective.
Therefore, almost all media believed that Hugo was desperate and was forced into a dead end by the so-called big-name suspicion. He chose the movie "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle" in a panic. People in the circle even sighed that an excellent agent is too important for the actor's early career planning, and the gap between Joseph and Lang is particularly obvious.
In fact, it is not just the media and professional film critics, but the attitudes of people in the circle are almost the same.
When Brad Pitt learned that Hugo had actually received a new work first, his first reaction was to question his agent Martin Baum, "Why!"
Martin actually felt a headache. He thought the "icing trap" was a sure thing. After finally planning for so long, he failed in the end. But after all, Martin had been through strong winds and waves, so he quickly recovered, "Because I don't want to take on a romantic love movie like this without performance value for you, do you know?"
Brad looked at Martin's serious expression. Although he was still walking around the office irritably, he did not continue to get angry. Instead, he began to listen to Martin's explanation, "Listen to me, this movie will definitely fail, absolutely! Just look at the media's reaction. No one is willing to take such a movie. Hugo was desperate, so he chose a movie casually in panic. Let's wait to see his joke."
Brad scratched his head hard, and he gradually turned around. Thinking about it carefully, a script like "Seattle Night Not Sleeping" does not have the value of taking on the filming, but he was still a little unwilling to accept it. "But at least he received the new script, what about me? I still have no job!"
Martin calmly took out a script from the drawer, "Joseph and I are not the same agents as the same level. What I have prepared for you are the best."
Brad walked over with a questioning attitude and looked at the script on the desktop. He saw that the cover of the script read "Kalifornia".
Compared to the conversation between Brad and Martin, Tracy and Lang seemed much calmer. Lang looked at Tracy with a solemn face and comforted him, "Don't worry, this work is too garbage and not worth mentioning at all. Don't worry, I think Hugo has no choice now and has no choice but to make such a decision."
Tracy shook her head and looked at the darker night outside the window, "You won't want him to seize the opportunity again. The situation of 'smelling fragrance and knowing women' and 'Yihai Xiongfeng' must not happen again." Tracy felt a little panicked inexplicably. She always felt that Hugo had a reason to make such a decision, but she couldn't tell the reason, which made her very uneasy.
But Lang smiled and shook his head, "Tracey, think of those classic chick movies, 'When Harry meets Sally', 'Fengyue Pretty Beauty', 'Roman Holiday'... Which movie did the male lead succeed?" Lang's words made Tracy think, "And most importantly, 'Seattle Night' cannot succeed at all, maybe it is another bad love movie on the assembly line."
Looking at Tracy who was still worried, Lang secretly complained in his heart: Women are troublesome, probably because their menstrual period is coming, and they still want to say something about women's sixth sense. But Lang did not show it on the surface and continued to comfort him, "Tracey, Hugo is only twenty-five years old, and Joseph has only been in the industry for more than a year. They do not have the wisdom to choose such an excellent script, otherwise so many actors would not have rejected the invitation to this script before."
"What about Meg?" Tracy thought Lang was right. There were at least four male actors in the script of "Sleeping in the Night in the Seattle" and there were more actresses, and there should be more than seven. There were so many agents before and after, and the actors had seen them, but they all refused in the end. This was enough to show that the script was "bad".
Long pointed to the "Hollywood Reporter" on the desktop, "Didn't you read the report? Meg hasn't had any masterpieces appear for three years, so she returns to the "When Harry meets Sally" route. What does this mean? You should know better than me."
"There's no way out." Tracy said softly.
"What's more, the Los Angeles Times didn't report this incident at all. Can't you feel the information here?" Long added the last piece of chip. Tracy didn't speak, but his mood obviously calmed down.
"Hugo, this time you have to turn over again, it's not that simple." Tracy said in his heart. She finally dug such a big hole and pushed Hugo down. She had not seen enough of Hugo's miserable situation, so how could she stop? "Ha, just enjoy the taste at the bottom of the valley."
Chapter completed!