New York 2006

Chapter 304 Unexpected Results

2009 9 Month 9 Day.

Editor in Burbank, Los Angeles.

A party is held here today, one is for the sales of "The Twilight Saga 2", the second is for the end of preparations for "The Twilight Saga 3", the third is for the end of the filming of "World War of the Dead", and the fourth is for "Iron Man 2" The shooting is over.

Of course, there are also some other projects from Luo Ji's two film companies.For example, "Deus Ex Machina", "Westworld", etc.

In short, this party can be regarded as a meeting for the personnel of all Luo Ji's projects.

Waiters were walking around carrying plates, and celebrities in brightly dressed clothes were also socializing. Most of them were Hollywood practitioners, and a few were California politicians and business people.

Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried, led by Logic Pictures CEO Yang Yanzi, walked into the house.

Hugh Jackman said: "Logic's villa is a bit inconsistent with his worth. There were so many people at the party today, and it seemed a bit crowded."

Yang Yanzi said with a smile: "Logic wanted to buy a villa in Bel Air before, but later he didn't buy it because of the acquisition of Marvel. Then he forgot about buying a house. I will remind him later."

Jackman smiled heartily: "Hahaha, it looks like my reminder will cost Logic a fortune."

"That's chump change to him."

Anne Hathaway and Logic are really not familiar with each other. Except for a few words exchanged during the Oscar rehearsal at the beginning of the year, they have almost no interaction.

She asked curiously: "Yang, do you know what Logic wants from us?"

Amanda Seyfried asked: "Are there any movie projects?"

Yang Yanzi smiled mysteriously: "You will know later."

The four of them entered the house and came to the study door on the second floor of the villa.

Blake stood outside the door and saw a few people and then said, "Wait a moment. Logic is still waiting for guests. I'll go in and inform him."

"Ok."

……

Blake knocked on the door and walked into the house. He said to Luo Ji, "Logic, Anne Hathaway and the others are here."

"it is good."

Luo Ji then looked at the people in the room, including Kevin Feige, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, and Constance Wu.

These people are the main actors in the Marvel movie "Thor" directed by Kevin Feige, and filming will begin in a few days.

The actors of Thor and Loki are the same as the actors in Luo Jitianqi's "Avengers".This was certainly not an accident, but something Luo Ji did intentionally.

The two of them were members of the Screen Actors Guild. Luo Ji found out after checking it out, so he specially asked them to come for the audition, and then asked Zhu Haowei to take care of it.

On the surface, Luo Ji still didn't interfere in the creation, letting his subordinates take the blame for everything.

Regarding the role of Apocalypse, Luo Ji still preferred to take care of the original characters.It's not that the movie wouldn't work without them, but that Luo Ji tends to take care of the "Apocalypse people".

He didn't have Apocalypse in "Thor", so the rest of the characters were just random.

The physicist played by Natalie Portman is the future female Thor.It was Perlmutter who recommended him. Both of them are Jewish.

When Luo Ji originally acquired Marvel, he promised Perlmutter that he would accept the people he recommended as long as the conditions were right.

Although Natalie Portman is much older than before, she can still wear makeup. She is suitable for this role.Luo Ji had no objection, and Kevin Feige also took care of the old leader's face, so her role was decided.

As for Constance Wu, she plays the female assistant to the female Thor.

This character was originally a white woman, but because this character was to introduce the superhero Shang-Chi, she now became Chinese.

Of course it was good to think about your own people. The first thing Luo Ji thought of was Constance Wu, an old acquaintance whom he had known for a long time.In recent years, she has played major supporting roles in Luo Ji's movies and TV series, and has done well.

Luo Ji encouraged a few people: "Work hard. Marvel movies are all series. As long as the first one is successful, we will continue to make more."

"Yeah." Several people said quickly.

The two actors, Thor and Loki, behaved with great respect for Luo Ji.They are not well-known now, but they suddenly became the protagonists and supporting actors, and they cherish this opportunity very much.

Luo Ji nodded to the group of people with satisfaction: "Let's break up then. You guys are having fun at the party. I have other things to do here."

"Yeah." Several people walked towards the door.

……

Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfried saw the people coming out of the room and started whispering.

"This seems to be the team from "Thor"."

"I heard that Marvel invested 1.5 million US dollars, which is a first-line large-scale production."

"Can the Marvel Cinematic Universe really succeed? Logic is betting really big!"

Blake walked out of the room and said to Anne Hathaway and others: "You can go in now. Logic is waiting inside."

Now that Logic is a big boss, he is slowly starting to learn the style of other big guys.Like when he met Philip Dauman, President Barack, at a party.

Now he will also stay in the room and let others bring people he is interested in to meet him and talk about some more private topics.

Luo Ji said, "Hathaway, Jackman, Amanda, Yang Yanzi, good afternoon."

Several people took the initiative to step forward, shake hands with Luo Ji and say hello: "Hello, Logic."

"Please take a seat." Luo Ji said to several people, "What would you like to drink?"

"Just red wine."

Luo Ji raised his hand: "Blake, make arrangements."

Blake's face was full of reluctance. This was Fiona's job before, but now he has to do it.

A few people were sitting on the sofa, drinking red wine and chatting.

Luo Ji said, "We said goodbye to Oscar last time. How long has it been since we last met?"

"It's been seven months."

Luo Ji smiled and said, "It's been such a long time, no wonder I miss you all."

Amanda said resentfully: "You missed me and didn't know to come to see me. I invited you to my party before, but you didn't come."

"I'm too busy." Luo Ji said, "Definitely next time!"

Hathaway and Jackman suddenly looked at the two of them with gossipy eyes, feeling that something was wrong with them.

Luo Ji didn't pay attention to this and got down to business: "Last time I attended the Oscars, I watched the musical performance of the three of you. It was very good."

Amanda complained: "You didn't even finish reading, and you were helped out."

Luo Ji smiled awkwardly: "Hahaha."

It seems that Luo Ji refused to attend Amanda's parties several times before, which made the Hollywood beauty angry.She glared at herself as soon as she walked in today.

Anne Hathaway was still more concerned with business. She said, "So, Logic, are you coming to us today for something to do with the musical?"

"so smart."

Luo Ji gave her a thumbs up: "After the Oscar came back, I watched your performance over and over again, and I was wondering if I could get you guys together to make a musical movie."

Hugh Jackman immediately asked: "So, you already have a movie project now, right?"

Luo Ji nodded: "Yes, Les Misérables."

……

Luo Ji and Hugh Jackman had initially reached an agreement on the "Les Misérables" project, and then CEO Yang Yanzi took charge of it.

The musical "Les Misérables" is already very mature in the United States and has been performed on Broadway many times.It is one of the four major musicals in the world along with "Cats", "Miss Saigon" and "Phantom of the Opera". It was not difficult to shoot.

With Apocalypse and the original cast, "Les Miserables" will definitely be a success, it's just a matter of how much.

In addition to last year's musical "Mamma Mia", which had a higher global box office than "The Twilight Saga", Luo Ji has already asked the company to start collecting scripts related to musicals.In the future, it can become a long-term genre film produced by the company.

Anne Hathaway and others walked out of the room, and Amanda was at the end, saying resentfully: "Logic, then I'm leaving?"

"Yeah." Luo Ji didn't hold back.After Amanda left, best friend Blake immediately came up and said with a playful smile: "Is she interested in you?"

Of course Luo Ji could tell: "I know."

"What did you plan to do?"

"What else can I do? Of course I just ignore it."

"It's not like you."

Luo Ji complained, "There are women all over Sunset Boulevard who are interested in me. Is it possible that I have to be with them all?"

Blake said: "Have you ever said that Amanda is beautiful before? You are obviously interested in her."

"Just admiring it."

Luo Ji didn't want to talk any more about this topic, so he waved his hand and said, "You can go out and play now. I'm just going to be an assistant for a while. I saw the impatience written all over your face just now."

Blake was a little embarrassed and explained: "I can't do this kind of business of taking care of people. You really should find a temporary assistant."

"I don't trust people who are brought in on the fly."

"Then quickly call Fiona back from Chicago."

"Come on, I've already called her."

"Okay." Blake said, "You don't have anything private to talk about anymore, let's go out and play together."

"You go first, I will find you later."

……

Luo Ji sat alone on the sofa, frowned, took out his mobile phone and searched for news on the web. He was in a bad mood now.

His bad mood has nothing to do with the lawsuit between the Jackson estate and Logic Investments, which is a minor matter to him.

The reason for his bad mood has nothing to do with emotions. His family has been very stable recently, and nothing has happened to make him sad.

The reason why he was in a bad mood was related to these two pieces of news.

The first one is this.

"Yesterday, Logic personally met with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in Los Angeles, and the two had an in-depth exchange of views."

When Luo Ji took the initiative to find her yesterday, Luo Ji wanted to be very secretive.As a result, Sarah Palin did not follow common sense and took the initiative to pick him up outside the door.

Then, two reporters popped out, I don’t know if they were arranged by her in advance, and took photos of the two of them.

This allowed Luo Ji to expose his relationship with her in broad daylight.New York, Luo Ji's home base, is the territory of the Democratic Party. I wonder what those politicians will think when they see this news.

The second piece of news that annoyed him was this.

"Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown has officially announced that he will run for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate on behalf of the Republican Party."

Scott Brown, his former enemy.When he attacked himself in the media for the second time, the two temporarily reconciled because of Sarah Palin's reconciliation.

But what Luo Ji never expected was that during this period, with the support of the Tea Party, he would quickly kill his rivals in the Republican Party.

He will represent the Republican Party in the special election for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts next January.

That was a federal senator, not an ordinary state-level politician.

If he succeeds in the election and has any bad intentions towards himself, it will be very easy to affect his business at the federal level.Instead of being like before, I can only rage about my incompetence in the media.

Luo Ji definitely didn't want to see such a thing happen, so he let Psaki take charge.

Psaki also interrupted her trip to Los Angeles to see Luo Ji because of this unexpected incident.She's been busy in Washington lately.

After reading these two pieces of news, Luo Ji searched for other news about himself.

The media's discussion about Luo Ji is still mainly focused on helping Jackson, investment geniuses, music geniuses and Hollywood bosses.

His meetings and photos with politicians took up only a small amount of space.Although the impact is not big, it is enough for people to pay attention.

Luo Ji dialed Psaki's number and asked directly about the business without exchanging pleasantries: "How's the inquiry going?"

Psaki spoke up: "This federal Senate seat in Massachusetts determines the absolute majority in the Senate. So the Democratic Party attaches great importance to this."

"Yeah, you go on."

"Now the Democratic Party has nominated three candidates, and the final candidate has not yet been determined."

Luo Ji said anxiously: "The Republican candidates have already come out, why are there still quarrels within the Democratic Party?"

"Don't worry." Psaki said quickly: "Relax, this Senate seat has been dominated by the Democratic Party for decades. It is impossible for the Republican Party to succeed in the election."

"But Scott Brown has Tea Party support."

Luo Ji said worriedly: "See for yourself, the tea party's group of old white men and women have been making trouble from the beginning of the year to now, and they have never stopped. Unlike black people, this group of people can simply protest and it will be over. Their mobility , the execution ability is very strong.”

As a former elite of the Democratic Party, Psaki comforted her from an elite perspective: "In the final analysis, the campaign depends on the publicity funds. What use can they make? If you are worried, you can donate more money to this campaign."

Luo Ji thought about it and it turned out that politicians were actually not that important. The election in the United States over the years was all about who had the most money.

The things that money can solve are small things.This made Luo Ji feel a little better.

"How much do you think is appropriate for me to donate?"

"Then it depends on how much you don't want Scott Brown to succeed in the campaign. The federal senatorial campaign is not as expensive as the presidential campaign."

"Then donate 100 million first, and we'll see how the campaign goes later."

Psaki said: "Okay, but let's not rush to catch up now. Democratic politicians all know that you have a grudge against Scott Brown, and they should take the initiative to ask you for donations."

"Row."

……

As soon as Luo Ji hung up the phone, someone from the Democratic Party called.But what surprised Luo Ji was that it was not a call from the Democratic National Fundraising Committee, but a call from Ms. Clinton.

She is now the Secretary of State, so there is no need for her to come forward when the Democratic Party asks for donations.

Luo Ji answered the phone with some confusion. The two chatted for a while before she got down to business: "Logic, I saw the news that you met Sarah Palin."

Luo Ji's heart skipped a beat, but he pretended to be calm and said calmly, "Yes."

"Can you tell me what you talked about?"

Luo Ji said vaguely, "Just a casual chat about government policies and business operations."

Ms. Clinton immediately said: "Logic, don't be brainwashed by her. The Democratic Party represents the future of the United States, and the Republican Party's policies are outdated, ignorant, and out of step with the times. Think about it, they are against women. Abortion rights, gun bans, embracing religion, opposing immigration..."

As Luo Ji listened, he realized that he had thought too much before.He's afraid of the Democrats knocking him, but the same group of Democrats are also afraid of him switching to the Republicans.

This is a mutual game between funders and politicians. As long as he does not clearly stand on his side, both parties will win over him.

Luo Ji had a deeper understanding of capitalist countries.The financial owner naturally has a transcendent status.

But why does Ms. Clinton want to brainwash him just like Sarah Palin!I feel that there is no difference between the two political parties in the United States and the church. They both want to draw people in and brainwash them.

Luo Ji expressed his flexible political philosophy and said the same thing as Sarah Palin: "Ms. Clinton, I support most of the policies of the Democratic Party, but I have differences on a few. But this does not affect my support for you."

"Hahaha, that's good." Ms. Clinton was very satisfied with this answer. She said gently: "Logic, find a time to get together. We haven't seen each other for a long time."

"of course can."

"That's it, I'll let my assistant communicate with you about the meeting time."

"Ok."

Ms. Clinton hung up the phone without mentioning her donation to the Democratic Party.

It seems that the main purpose of her call was to test whether she would be attracted by the Republican Party.Just steady yourself.

The result of my previous meeting with Sarah Palin was somewhat unexpected.Luo Ji thought about it, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

(End of this chapter)