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Chapter 85 The Woody Cowboy Show

In the colander restaurant on the main road, the decoration is simple. The two of them sat at a table next to a quiet corner. The waiter in white came to hold the fragrant tray several times and presented food to them. Several customers also recognized Hanks and came to say hello one after another. Hanks laughed and talked with them a few words, signed and took photos with them, and they were satisfied, without any superstar airs.

From the beginning to the present, almost Ye Wei said that this scene was definitely more talkative than the beginning of Quentin Tarantino's movie.

He did not hide his emotions. From the perspective of the script of "The Little Sunshine Beauty", he talked about how he embarked on the road of pursuing dreams, how he bought the script for crowdfunding, how he contacted Willis, how he made short films, how he impressed Willis, how he was turned against him by them, and how he sat here.

While he said, he took out the things in the suitcase to make seasonings. There were a little more wrinkles, but they could be seen clearly.

"Tom, I'm going to tell you that these things were almost thrown away by me. I was really disappointed at that time. I didn't want to use the word despair, lost, unbearable loss."

Hanks was so impressed that he looked at the wrinkled documents handed over by Ye Wei, he was a little moved. They were all written by himself!

He likes this. In his heart, handwriting is the best way to show sincerity and seriousness. He wrote a letter to Nia Vadalas, the screenwriter of "My Grand Greek Wedding".

Now this young man has written all the documents himself and has also drawn accurate storyboards, 100% storyboards! Doing this step is enough to prove that he is not an ordinary teenager.

With this seriousness alone, Ye Wei deserves the opportunity.

"I made all these documents one by one by one by one, just to show my ability and sincerity. But even so, someone still wants to slander me. Richard Lowett..." Ye Wei was almost going to be rough, and he had to be polite as himself, and said, "That guy is so despicable."

Hanks nodded, and looked at it with a stern face, "This method is very bad."

In fact, he heard about this when he learned about Ye Wei's situation yesterday. Now after reading the original information and Ye Wei's conversation, he already knows who is true and who is false.

"Those people don't think so. They say it's a 'kind lie'." Ye Wei laughed disdainfully, and his face became even more angry.

I have to say that he is so "abusive" because his mentality has changed, and on the other hand, Hanks is as friendly as Forrest Gump!

He knew that the screen image, public image and real temperament of celebrities are usually very different, and they are often completely different. After the incident of Willis, he understood this better, and the bigger the person, the more he knew how to disguise. Some people smiled, but in fact they were very bad in their hearts, both Lowett and Rivkin.

But Hanks gave him the feeling that he was a kind elder, who did not look down on young people, nor did he put on a superstar air, was willing to listen, understand, and comfort.

The mysterious letter "Don't trust anyone" made Ye Wei not as easy to believe in people than before, and he was much more cautious, but he was willing to believe Hanks.

Speaking of which, they are all Hollywood superstars. Hanks' status in the martial arts world is one level higher than Willis. Hanks can not only make money, but also win awards, and has a very good popularity.

Sometimes a filmmaker’s popularity is reflected directly in the Oscars. You should know that every vote is a peer, especially the actors are the ones who work with him and the peers he knows decide who wins the award every year. When two candidates are hard to tell the difference in the performance of the film, I have a vote but no one has ever been lobbied. Should I vote for Hanks who are good to everyone, or someone who is a big name and loses his temper all day?

If a certain filmmaker is often regretted by the media, "He should win the award, why can't he get it?" and "He should get a nomination", there is a problem with his popularity.

Hanks has a good reputation and good production vision. His production company Playtone is much better than Cheyenne.

Preton was jointly opened by Hanks and producer Gary Gotzman in 1996. The first film involved was "The Unstoppable Miracle" written, directed and acted by Hanks (Playtone is the record company in the film). Yes, Forrest Gump can also write and direct!

And it is a classic, with a top-notch film review reputation, and a good box office result (2.5 million production fee charges 34 million worldwide box office)! His film talent is all-round.

However, after filming this director and screenwriter debut, Hanks has not directed or written anymore, probably because he is more in love with acting.

It was not until 2000 that Preyton had a second work, and participated in the production of "The Rest of the Desert Island" (420 million yuan in global box office, 2 Oscar nominations), followed by the super classic mini TV series "Brothers", followed by "My Grand Greek Wedding", a miracle movie with a production fee of 5 million yuan, and a global box office of 368 million yuan!

It also set off a trend in wedding movies, so with their family's "The Wedding Time is Coming", Ye Wei remembered that he and Hanks had long had a fateful relationship.

Hanks is one of the producers of these three works. In fact, Preton started producing only a year earlier than Cheyenne Company.

But the results of the two companies are just like Yao Ming and Earl Boykins.

This is also because of the different business strategies. Pretong is steady and does not act randomly, and will be sure to succeed as soon as he takes action. What about Cheyenne Company? It is so great that it has won several big production projects at the beginning and bought a lot of novel adaptation rights. Now it is more vigor-oriented with more money, but how many years can Willis last for continued squandering like this?

This is not what Ye Wei cares about. Before, he was thinking about how to save money for them and had the goal of letting the Cheyenne company taste great success. Now? No matter how hard it is.

Willis is so happy that it is not the first time. The "Planet Hollywood" restaurant he and Stallone and others opened was very good at first, and they opened many branches across the United States, expanding wildly, but not well managed, and the company ended in bankruptcy.

People are all multifaceted. As an actor, Willis is very smart, and as a boss, Willis is very stupid.

He only hopes that Hanks can continue to be wise.

"Tom, that's how it is. This is my current situation, but I have to say, I'm not afraid of them! Your appearance has made me more determined."

Ye Wei spooned a key of caviar into his mouth, and while beating, he said seriously: "I have learned a saying, 'In the film industry, works are your greatest power.' I always believe that this is the truth. Isn't it because of "Dance of Angels"?"

"This is the truth." Hanks nodded, and he appreciated this young man more. It is difficult for those who are dedicated to making works harder and harder to succeed.

"I will help you solve this matter, and I can't ignore it if I know."

Hearing this rich sentence, Ye Wei couldn't help but smile and said, "Thank you, Tom! I'm so grateful for your help. That day I told a friend that Willis is a bad policeman, but I believe there will still be good policemen in the world. Now I have found it, 'I have a snake in my boots--', haha!"

Hanks laughed, too, "You're very humorous."

"Yes, this is my advantage."

The two then began to talk about the possibility of cooperation. Hanks is now full of curiosity about the script of "The Little Sunshine Beauty". It is definitely not easy to cause such a big disturbance.

As for the focus has given up on it, it doesn't matter at all. Warner Bros. once gave up on Forrest Gump in 1988, it's hard to believe it? But at that time, they thought Forrest Gump was too similar to "Rain Man" and there was no surprise. It was not until 1993 that Paramount started filming this film classic.

This is the movie. Before it is made, no one knows what it will be. There is no need to deify the script, nor should we underestimate the script.

Ye Wei took out the script and handed it to Hanks, and said solemnly: "I need to make it clear. If we can work together to shoot "The Little Sunshine Beauty", no matter what the method is, I have to be the first producer and director. This is my prerequisite for cooperation. I am crazy, but I have crazy talent."

"The Angel Dance has already explained a lot, I'll read the script first." Hanks did not react too aggressively, and his expression was still generous. He looked through the script.

Ye Wei did not disturb him, quietly savoring the French feast on the dining table, paying attention to the other party's expression: serious and interested, as if he had seen some treasure, some subtle performance expressions appeared on his face, and the actor's reaction when he read the script he liked!

He couldn't help but be happy and proud, focus, focus, you are willing to sell such a good script, if you sell it, it's someone else's, you can't grab it back!

After a while, the phone suddenly vibrated. Ye Wei took it out and looked at Lowett! He frowned and said, "Tom, Lowett call me, I'll hear what he wants to say."

"Okay." Hanks looked up and continued to read the script.

"Bitch, what are you calling?" Ye Weiyi directly started to curse.

"Haha! Boy, should you come to Santa Monica?" Lowett's arrogant words came from his phone, "Kevin Thomas, do you know him? I found him, and he told me something. The private compensation contract is not good, Wei Duo Image has other partners, right? How dare you put the money into your own bank account? What would you say if this matter is exposed?"

Ye Wei was furious and several bitches colluded! Fuck! He was a little confused and tried his best to calmly say: "Save it, that contract was formulated by a professional lawyer. We will sign it before we figure it out. You can't scare anyone!"

"Feable? Kevin Thomas has done so many fake accounts. You know that not only does not expose it, but sue him, but instead collude with him to cause losses to other partners. Is it feasible?"

Lowett smiled happily and comfortably. It was much easier to catch this handle. "Boy, I know more about the law than you. Maybe your father needs to go to jail, maybe not, but the 500,000 you swallowed by your family will definitely take it out and become the company's property. Your family's reputation, your reputation... Haha! Can you do this, will the Dream Chasing Alliance be clean? Do you think those parents will let you go? Boy, I told you, it's not the time, it's not the time when you can make trouble at me!"

"You guys..." Ye Wei trembled with his fists. What benefits should Kevin Thomas get? It was enough to make him stand up and admit that he had made fake accounts and drag their family into the water...

Hanks on the opposite side had already raised his head again, with a puzzled look on his face. What's wrong?

"Now I will give you another chance. Come to Cheyenne Enterprise immediately, sign the transaction contract, and sell the script to us for 600,000 yuan, then there is nothing! If you still don't know who you are, all the investors of Weiduo Image and Dream Chasing Alliance will immediately know your dirty things!

But if you know you are wrong, apologize to us. When the video is promoted in the future, you may still show off a few faces, genius boy, haha."

"FUCK-YOU!" Ye Wei cursed angrily, his face flushed with anger, but his firm attitude did not change: "Go, go, even if you go, I told you too, I'm not afraid of you! I'm not afraid at all! I have the ability to send me to prison! Tell Kevin Thomas, fuck him!"

He hung up the call, looked at Hanks, and covered his forehead: "Sorry, Tom, I'm so angry..."

"What's wrong?" Hanks asked with concern.

Ye Wei sighed and told the whole story of "The Wedding Time is Coming", then Lowett's threat. He said angrily: "Actually, I am already remake "The Wedding Time is Coming", and it is all up to me! I just need time to make it profitable and make investors reward.

What is embezzling property is nonsense! My family invested 1.8 million and occupied 78% of the shares! What do you want to embezzle? Those bitches are raised! But I am really not afraid, I just need to explain more to the investors... They want to steal "The Little Sunshine Beauty" like this, it's a dream!"

Hanks frowned when he heard this, his broad face seemed a little angry, and said, "It's okay, don't worry. I've asked, Willis doesn't mean to bother you. These things should be Lowett's idea. That guy is just like that, I've never seen it."

He said that, taking out his cell phone, and quickly called someone, and said in a deep voice: "Lowett, come here immediately! Ye Wei and I are here, come here, everyone can figure out some things."

Ye Wei put another spoonful of caviar into his mouth in surprise, beep!

...

On the other side, Cheyenne's CEO Office, Lowet was stunned, Hanks, that's Tom Hanks...! Hanks and Ye Wei were having lunch? What's going on!?

He looked at the puzzled Rifkin, and looked at the smiling Kevin Thomas, and his face became very ugly, "That damn boy... damn!!!"

Tom Hanks is too powerful and is the biggest actor client of CAA. Lowett dared not to go, and did not dare to delay. He immediately rushed to the colander on the main road. Along the way, he made various speculations, how could Hanks get in, what does it mean to call him over...

More than ten minutes later, Lowett walked into the colander restaurant. At this time, the two had finished lunch and were enjoying the after-meal dessert.

Seeing Ye Wei chatting and laughing calmly, Hanks was in front of him with the script of "The Little Beauty of Sunshine", "The Storyboard of the Angels" and other documents. The big man admired him, and Lowett's heart kept sinking. What happened? What happened? That boy... What dog has left - shit luck!

His face remained calm, walked up and said hello, "Hey, Tom!" He looked at Ye Wei again, and smiled, "This is a cunning boy, very good at lying..."

"You don't need to say more. I'll ask you a few questions and tell me the truth." Hanks interrupted him, his voice with authority and his eyes were slightly sharp. At this moment, it was not just a friendly Forrest Gump, but also the highest superstar in Hollywood. "You know I can get the truth, so don't lie to me."

"Yes, of course you can..." Lowett's calmness could not be maintained, a little embarrassed, in front of this kid...

Ye Wei ate the pudding leisurely, smiled and said silently: "Someone is in trouble."

Hanks asked, "The first one, is "Dance of Angels" a work by Ye Wei?"

"Well... "Angel Dance"..." Lowett couldn't help but answered truthfully: "It's his work. I don't know if he copied it."

Hanks' eyes became even sharper, "Second, have you ever conspired to cheat the "Sunny Little Beauty" project?"

"Tom, that's a kind lie! The conditions we gave him are not bad at all..." Lowett quickly made a cunning decision.

"Stop talking." Hanks interrupted the other party again, and his eyes were filled with anger. "Third, have you suppressed this young man, spread rumors, threatened, intimidated, and prepared to let him disappear from the film industry?"

Lowett really didn't want to answer, looking around, although no other customers could hear it, admitting to Hanks was like seeking death...

Damn it! He waved his hand anxiously, his face turned red, holding the round-frame glasses that were about to fall, "You don't know how bad this kid is. He scolded Bruce with F word! I just wanted to teach him a lesson so that he could grow up. We value him very much..."

"Enough!" Hanks suddenly couldn't help but slapped the dining table. He didn't use much force, and there was no sound. The anger in his eyes could erupt, staring at Lowett and scolded:

"The reputation of the film industry is ruined by people like you. Talented young people don't protect them, do this! Lowett, no matter what you are going to do, stop and restore your reputation. Don't bother him anymore, otherwise I will make you unable to stay in CAA!"

Ye Wei suddenly spoke out: "I need him to apologize for me. No more, just say sorry."

"This is what it should be." Hanks nodded.

Lowett's face was colorful, and he called helplessly and helplessly: "Tom, Tom..." Don't do this, don't do this, Hanks!

Hanks frowned and didn't say a word. Lowett knew it was useless. This big man was determined to stand on the side of the damn boy. Although he was a big-name agent, he was just a little man and a 10% gentleman in front of the real big man.

"Oh..." Lowett suddenly laughed, laughing uglier than crying, and said, "Boy, I'm sorry. I've been too angry before. Let's just do our business. I didn't count on the phone just now, so let's just... "

"My name is Ye Wei, not a boy." Ye Wei said coldly and took another sip of pudding.

"Yes, I'm sorry!" Lowet almost furious, but glanced at Hanks, and endured it. He couldn't stay anymore. The cheeky Mr. 10% couldn't stay anymore! He smiled at the big man and said, "Tom, then I'll leave, you have the final say."

Hanks nodded slightly before saying, "Remember to stop making small moves, I admire this young man very much."

Looking at Lowett's face like a pig liver, Ye Wei felt so relieved and smiled and said the classic line from "Forrest Gump": "Miracles happen every day, right?"
Chapter completed!
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