[Shout out to Wilder, Tolbin, Aviral, and Danny Y!]
Hollywood What If Chapter 135
"Yes, I uand. I will try to deliver your message. Directrey is busy right now, no, no, he 't talk to you. Please give me your message. No, he is also busy tomorrow. Me? No, I'm not going to give you my home number."
Erica Mendez ehe call with a depressing sigh. She khat her boss was being famous and that many people wao work with him. Either to buy his script or to hire him as a director.
And holy, their terms were not bad. An assurahat his sary would be over 10 million plus 10% of the box office. They egotiate and make a good trabsp;
But Erica Mendez uands the iion of her boss. Looking at the man massaging his forehead after a sleepless night, she khat Directrey didn't have time for anything else.
Kazir Grey didn't get much sleep st night because he was reviewing all the shots they had taken... So Erica, Hector and Fremont didn't sleep either.
Erica was responsible for serving them a ton of coffee while the three men talked about the best footage they could use.
Kazir inteo let the two of them handle some ses on their own.
Hector knew about cameras and lighting, but he was clueless about the director's position. This project might be his first time direg people while watg the ses unfold.
As for Fremont, the man was young. He was only 23 years old and cked experience. Kazir could sense his siy ahusiasm, so he gave him a ce to blossom.
Kazir uood how terrifying the role of a director was. The pressure was crushing and Kazir suffered from insomnia most of the time. There was a time when he felt that this would be his st movie.
If a movie was a disaster, everyone would bme the director because he was the creative mind of the project.
Kazir hoped that the two of them would have the strength to withstand that kind of pressure.
"Okay, let's rest. You eat lunch."
Kazir announced, and the people were relieved. Kazir was a fast, sistent type of director who didn't like to do pointless shots. As if everything was already in his head and there was no point in doing useless things.
"Fremont, take your crew to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel a some background shots."
"Alright."
Fremont nodded seriously.
Uhe inal version, the Waldorf Astoria tacted Grey Pictures and offered their hotel as the tial Hotel. The aodations were free as long as they advertised their hotel. They also gave Kazir Grey and the crew VIP cards. Kazir's card could use the VIP room at a 50% dist while the crew could get up to 30%.
Kazir was not picky about the hotel, so there was no reason to say no. However, he stated that the hotel might appear in many sequels aed movies, so he signed an agreement with the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
In the movie, if the Waldorf Astoria Hotel wao promote their hotel again, they would have to pay the crew 1 million. Of course, the Waldorf Astoria Hotel had the right to refuse. Although it could be inve for sequels.
The good thing was that the Waldorf Astoria Hotel was in Los Angeles and Grey Pictures could easily tact the ma. Grey Pictures believes that both parties would have a good cooperation.
For the sake of their business, cooperation was not a problem.
"Huh? What is it this time, Erica?"
Kazir saw his assistant ing towards him. He already had an idea, maybe it had to do with his scripts again. People kept pestering him about it.
"It's Warner Brothers"
"Warner Brothers? Are they talking about The Hangover Part 2 again? I thought they had a director already?"
"No sir. It's different this time... It's The Bourne Identity."
"... Tell me more about it."
Hearing something ued, Kazir became serious. Even though his eyelids were quite droopy, he khat the subject was too important to ignore.
"They want to buy the cht of the Bourne Identity movie that's in our film library."
"..."
Kazir khat Warner Bros had a cim on Bourne Identity ba the 80s, but someone had already gotten the movie cht. In the end, they stopped acquisitiohe first Bourne Identity television movie(1988) came out. Bourne Identity(1988) flopped, so Warner Bros lost i.
'So what is the reason they are doing this now? Is it because of the tial ematiiverse?'
Warner Bros and 20th tury Fox had an idea about Kazir's huge project. Maybe Warner Bros felt it would be dangerous if his pn succeeded. So they decided to stop his pn step by step.
Movies based on novels were quite a hype in the 90s. The Shawshank Redemption, Silence of the Lambs, Forrest Gump and many more. They were all based on novels.
Warner Bros cluded that the Bourne Identity cht in Kazir's hands was too dangerous.
'They are ied in buying the cht, I guess they have regaiheir passion. Also, they want to prevent the addition of Jason Bouro the tial ematiiverse. '
Warner Bros realized that Bourne Identity would definitely be part of the tial ematiiverse, sidering Kazir's projects.
"We're not going to sell the cht."
Kazir said firmly. Even if Warner Bros offered a serious amount of money, he wouldn't budge. He already had an idea where to put Jason Bourne in the CCU (tial ematiiverse).
"I uand."
Eriodded. She knew her boss would refuse the offer. It was a good thing she ehe call sooner.
'The Jason Bourne franchise has made billions of dolrs, I'm not crazy enough to sell something that big.'
Even though his retionship with Warner Bros was good, he had to draw the liherwise, it would be problematic ter on.