Hollywood What If Chapter 256
Manhattan, New York.
The inal setting for Spider-Man was New York. Obviously, the crew flew to New York to shoot the movie.
Particurly was the Times Square.
One of the most popur Spider-Man locations is Times Square. In the first Spider-Man trilogy, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) saves Mary Jane from the Green Goblin at the Unity Festival, in Times Square.
It was an iic se, the se where the Green Goblin glides in the sky and throws special grenades.
This project had a huge budget and Kazir didn't hesitate to hire a e. They use it for Spider-Man's web-slinging and nding. Of course, they use it mostly when Spider-Man and Green Goblin need s time in the sky or nding from the sky.
Although most of the web-slinging and swinging by the buildings would be created by special effects. Sony-bia has already hired Industrial Light & Magic to create the necessary ses. The special effects alone cost them almost half of the budget. This was early 2000 and special effects were very expensive. Even the people who knew about VFX were few and far between.
With the e, Tobey Maguire nded safely on the ground with the wire ected to the e.
"Cut!"
Kazir annouhrough the megaphone and the crew started to fix the set.
"..."
Kazir touched his as he watched the nding from different angles.
He nodded.
"This is over."
The crew knew what they had to do. Sihe director had annouhat this se was over, they began to up the set. The giant e was moved out and the cameras were returo the van for the location.
Tobey took a deep breath. Finally, he had the time to take off his tight e. It was really unfortable to spend most of the day in the e.
Fortunately, they were done for today. Apparently, Directrey wao meet his retives, so he decided to end the shooting early.
Kazir packed his things, even though it was only a cup of coffee. Erica Mendez followed him, keeping her job as his assistant/bodyguard.
The ces of Kazir getting into a gunfight were slim, but this was the nd of the free. People could carry guns for prote. Unfortunately, there were people who used guns for the wrong purposes.
Gun trol was quite plicated...
As Kazir started to leave, he found Kirsten fidgeting and quietly following him. The woman realized that the director sensed her.
"Is something wrong, Kirsten?"
"Um, director, I baked some cookies. I hope you'll try them."
"Thank you." Kazir casually accepted the gift.
"By the way, is Jezebel still..."
"Unfortunately, yes. Although I've gotteo her. What she says always makes sense, but she's very strict with me," Kirsten replied.
"Tell me if something happens."
"Yes, director."
Kazir and Erica got into the car. As the assistant/bodyguard/driver, Erica was responsible for driving the car.
Kazir looked at the box of cookies and decided to take a bite.
"Not bad. Maybe my niece will like it."
Kazir was not stupid. He knew what Kirsten to.
He was responsible for the movie and he didn't want any mishaps, so he decided to let things be. However, Kazir had no iion of flirting with the young woman. He just wao make sure that Kirsten was in her right mind so that the filming would go smoothly.
The actress' mental health has been very delicate tely.
Kazir wao do something about Jezebel, but the woman had no faults other than being strict with women. In fact, she was good at her job.
So to bahings out, Kazir decided to accept gifts from the actress, but made sure to keep the proper distand create a boundary between them.
If Kazir flirted with Kirsten, Angelina would definitely be upset. They had a great retionship and Kazir didn't want it to crumble.
'The watch Kirsten gave me is missing. I 't find it after my night with Angelina. She probably did something with it.'
Well, Angelina made up for it by buying Kazir a Rolex, a much more expebsp;
"I prefer G-Shock, but whatever," he looked at the Rolex he was wearing and firmed that it was 4:45 pm.
The traffi New York was terrible and they were still in Manhattan. Then Erica decided to take a new route and they reached Wall Street...
Not a mier, the two heard a thud and then a loud scream.
People started screaming and some of them had pale faces.
Kazir frowned.
"What happened?"
He decided to lower his window and saw something horrible. A man in a suit, his head literally open, brain matter everywhere.
Fortunately, Kazir worked in horror movies and was used to seeing gruesome corpses (props). In fact, he saw much more disgusting than this.
Still, Kazir was affected by the fact that a person had died close to where he was.
He looked at Erid the woman had a normal expression. The woman had served in the military and had probably seen the same things.
"The man jumped off the building!"
"Ambunce! Call the damn ambunce!"
"Fuck, this is the fifth ohis month. Whehey going to stop?"
"It's all because of the bubble burst!"
"Bubble burst? Dot- bubble burst?"
The man robably someone who worked in the financial seaybe dabbling in stocks. But because the dot- bubble burst, the man lost everything. He decided it was better to kill himself than face the sequences.
"Let's go."
Kazir ordered his assistant.
"Sir, we 't. The traffic here is not so good either."
Kazir sighed and shut the window. The stock market was no paradise. Someone would win, someone would lose.
The two were silent for a while until they reached the pce where Aaron and his family lived.
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