This conversation took more than twenty minutes, but it took Xia Yu several years of effort to prepare this conversation. It was not just talk!
Every effort she made, every movie box office, word-of-mouth, and every Best Actress crown made this conversation more valuable. In the end, she finally persuaded Gu Zhao - as for whether she could convince Gu Zhao
Zhao's real alliance depends on the next meeting.
In other words, whether the two scripts "Devil's Letter" and "The Day After Tomorrow" can touch Gu Zhao.
After this conversation, Gu Zhao opened "Devil's Letter" and Xia Yu returned to the sixth floor to prepare dinner.
Zhuang Ling and Ashley, one was holding the manuscript of "Twilight 2", and the other was redrawing the storyboards of "Twilight 1". Xia Yu returned to the sixth floor, and Ashley just glanced at it and continued to work hard.
Yes - they all have the potential to be workaholics.
Seeing Xia Yu's slightly relaxed state, Zhuang Ling pursed her lips and smiled, "It seems like you have convinced Director Gu?"
Xia Yu changed her shoes, put them in the shoe cabinet, disinfected her hands with alcohol, and then said:
"It can only be said that it is stable. It may help, but I want to bring Director Gu over. Does Senior Sister think it is possible?"
Zhuang Ling pouted, which was slightly inconsistent with her cold personality. She was thinking, and then smiled meaningfully:
"If your good friend named Stephanie Xia can continuously write scripts of such quality as "Devil's Letters" and "The Day After Tomorrow", I think he will not refuse. Not to mention Gu Zhao, how many
Can the director refuse?"
"Having said that, if you can't get it out, your friend Stephanie Natsujiro's talents will be exhausted, so that's another story."
Xia Yu rolled his eyes and made a face, "Oh?" Then he didn't care about Zhuang Ling's expression.
Go into the kitchen and say.
"I won't go out for dinner, and I won't order takeout. I'm having Chinese food today. Does anyone have any objections?"
Zhuang Ling raised her hand, although Xia Yu couldn't see it, "May I suggest a bowl of steamed pork ribs?"
"Approved -" Then he took a portion of ribs from the refrigerator and put it in cold water to thaw.
Ashley was busy, but she immediately felt hungry when she heard "dinner". She raised her hand and said, "I have a suggestion. Can I order some Western food?"
Xia Yu turned her head and saw Ashley looking forward to it with watery eyes. She immediately shook her head, "No!"
Ashley covered her mouth with her hands and muttered, "What do you want me to say? Capitalist, dictatorship, monopoly, rule!"
Xia Yu's ears moved, and his hearing was extremely good, "Ashley, is dinner canceled tonight?"
"Huh!?" Ashley's eyes widened and she said something in Chinese, "If you don't have such a wife, you'll be fine!"
"Well, there's a lot of food here. I can't handle it by myself. What should I do?"
"I, I, I, I -" Ashley thought about the possibility of being exploited for dinner tonight, and immediately jumped up and rushed into the kitchen.
Zhuang Ling had an expression on her face that said, "I've been defeated by you two childish devils." She laughed helplessly. She didn't know how good-looking this was.
pm·20:15, Bankrupt Sisters Apartment welcomed its first guest. Gu Zhao was surprised when he learned that Xia Yu did not buy a house in Los Angeles and lived in a company dormitory.
But when he saw the bankrupt sister's apartment, he suddenly smiled. "With the decoration of your apartment, if you didn't know there was a company downstairs, you might have thought it was some high-end apartment in the city center."
Gu Zhao's assistant did not follow him. After going up to the fifth floor, he went downstairs.
Xia Yu had someone help him take him to the second floor, and ordered a takeaway from a high-end restaurant alone - the man was probably used to it.
Xia Yu could only try his best to make arrangements.
Xia Yu smiled, "That's ridiculous. This was not ordered by me, but by my agent."
"Xiao Zhuang, are you still the eldest lady of the Tao family? I forgot to ask - why didn't Xiao Tao come with you?"
Gu Zhao looked at Zhuang Ling, who then interrupted with a smile and said, "I'm not as capable as Tao Tang. I'm a pure layman, lazy and vulgar. I can only help Xia Yu run errands. This kind of thing can't be done."
Can’t do it.”
Xia Yu: "Sister Tang helps me with studio matters in China. Recently, I signed two people and she is responsible for their work."
When he saw the dinner table full of seven or eight dishes, Gu Zhao couldn't help but shout, "Ouch!"
The "amiable man" who was in his fifties and almost sixty looked exaggerated, but his literati flavor was not affected at all. "I can see that you did it yourself when you were filming the show, but I
I don’t even think about what you can make in this hour. With seven dishes and one soup, do you think Uncle Gu is a regular breadwinner? But this is all delicious and delicious, but I don’t know how it tastes?”
When the meal was over, Gu Zhao had finished three large bowls of rice, two large bowls of soup, and most of the vegetables - using serving chopsticks.
Gu Zhao couldn't help but joked, "In the future, our company will have this level and the boss will personally cook the food. I might just do this and join our "Feitu Film and Television Company", right?"
Just listen to Gu Zhao's words. Even if Ashley has been with Zhuang Ling for ten years, she already understands the Chinese etiquette of humility.
Furthermore, Xia Yu's cooking skills are good, but they are not unique in the world and are much inferior to those of Comrade Lao Xia.
As for Gu Zhao's net worth, you can tell by looking at the decoration of Gu Zhao's studio in the imperial capital. Heng Hao. He invited chefs from eight major cuisines, and it was just a drizzle. It's not a big deal. It's really just because of this.
Added in?
After dinner, the guests and the host had a great time. Gu Zhao did not stay at the bankrupt sister's apartment any longer. After eating, he went downstairs. In the tea room on the fifth floor, he continued to read the script of "Devil's Letters". The more he read, the more he could bear it.
Can't live.
The script of "Devil's Letter" is different from that of "Twilight Series". Because it was adapted by Xia Yu, the entire script is much thicker. Xia Yu passed all the control of details and the collision of character relationships.
Written in an alternative way.
It is not so much a script as it is a much shorter original novel that Gu Zhao will read again and again!
He read "The Devil's Letter" from seven o'clock to eleven o'clock, excluding the twenty-minute dinner time, and finally finished it for nearly four hours. When he finished reading it, he really wanted to write
A reflection after watching it, and I want to find Xia Yu’s good friend named Stephanie Xia to study the script carefully, and study it more deeply!
To be honest, after reading "Devil's Letter", he couldn't help but ask Xia Yu, "Will this script be sold?"
Xia Yu shook his head and said with a smile, "I won't sell it, I want to keep what I took."
Gu Zhao asked again, "I want to buy it. We can sign a contract and co-produce? You are still the heroine, how about it?"
Xia Yu still shook his head, then pointed at the time on his watch: pm·23:01, then pointed at the script of "The Day After Tomorrow" and asked:
"Director Gu, it's getting late now. How about we read this script next time?"
It's not that Xia Yuxin is no better than Gu Zhao, not letting him take her away is just a little trick to heighten his expectations for the cooperation in "Bankrupt Sisters".
"What a pity." Gu Zhao finally shook his head with a look of regret on his face. It was obvious that he was very interested in this script.
As for the time now, it is indeed getting late, but he still insisted, "Next time, it will be at least a few days later, or even after the release of "Black Moon Project 1" is over. I will be busy during this period, so I might as well stay up late and do it once
After the sex, forget it.”
Until this time, he finally took out his glasses from his bag and read silently carefully.
Xia Yu didn't make any more tea for Gu Zhao. He drank it all afternoon, half the night, and then went back later. He probably wouldn't be able to sleep, right?
But the guest tea room is fully equipped with warm eye-protecting lighting suitable for reading.
That night, because of Gu Zhao, Zhuang Ling and Ashley also worked overtime together and followed them to the fifth floor.
Everyone entered their respective offices.
Gu Zhao saw that it had been two and a half hours. At 01:31 am, he twisted his neck with his hands.
One day of study and the load of two scripts affected Gu Zhao both physically and mentally.
I took a deep breath and looked at the bright lights in the offices next door. My eyelids were slightly swollen due to staying up late. In addition to the faint bloodshot eyes, my previous persistence had obviously loosened.
He did not call out to Xia Yu immediately, but calmed down for several minutes before he could get away from the shock and excitement of the two scripts.
If "Devil's Letter" is a blockbuster with a realistic plot, there are many things that make people stand out. For example, the "core" of this script, such as the conception of the plot, all make me accustomed to making literary and commercial dramas.
Gu Zhao's eyes lit up.
Then the shock that "The Day After Tomorrow" brought to him really made him unable to hold back and really wanted to take over the script.
He can't say for sure how high "The Devil's Letter" will achieve in the end, but "The Day After Tomorrow" can definitely be called a disaster epic. If it can really produce comparable effects, it will be another masterpiece.
Not inferior to the movie "Black Moon Project 1".
No wonder Xia Yu is so confident, "Twilight Series" will take the lead, "The Day After Tomorrow" will follow, and there will be another "Devil's Letter"!
Even if she can't win an Oscar for Best Actress, these three series, a total of seven movies, can still help Xia Yu gain a foothold in Hollywood——
Gu Zhao really took a breath in his heart, really wavered, and his stance relaxed!
"If Xia Yu really comes across and finds such an excellent screenwriter...should I really join in?"
And when he kept touching these two first drafts, which were obviously printed by the same printer, under the notebook, it was marked [Stephanie Xia].
"The author of the "Twilight Series", if I remember correctly, is also this [Stephanie Xia] - how come I have never heard of it? From a beautiful country? Such an excellent screenwriter and novelist? How come she is unknown?
"
An idea flashed in Gu Zhao's mind, "This Xia in [Stephanie Xia], is there a possibility that her name is Xia Yu!?"
After this idea came up, he could no longer get it out of Gu Zhao's mind. An emotion that even he found incredible lingered in his heart. Until Xia Yu and Zhuang Ling arrived, he didn't hide it and asked directly.