King of Hollywood

Chapter 495: Chapter 216: Turnabout

Despite the brilliant and eye-catching achievements of “Titanic,” which continues to be a topic of great interest to people, Adrian had turned his attention elsewhere. The post-production of “Mulholland Drive” was being rushed day and night because he used two teams for editing in order to participate in the Cannes Film Festival in May—anyway, there was no expectation that this movie would make money, and the investment was originally not that large.

In addition to this, the post-production of “Shakespeare in Love” and “Elizabeth” was still ongoing; these two movies were not expected to be released until the end of the year, so there was plenty of time for adjustments. Interestingly, although he had produced four movies from last year to now, the first one to be released was actually the last one made, “Mulholland Drive.”

Well, that was neither here nor there, even though the media were filled with confusion and curiosity about his production of movies without releasing them, with endless news like “production hit a bottleneck” or “lack of confidence” coming out. The already marketed “The Matrix” couldn’t stop their discussions. However, if the Miracle Director didn’t do something surprising, how could he be called the Miracle Director?

Of course, he was not only busy with these things. For example, he needed to oversee things at the television station, and soon after he agreed to James, the script for this sci-fi television drama was quickly sent over. It was about what Adrian expected—while there were quite a few areas that needed improvement, the general framework was similar to what he knew, but the situation was much worse than Cameron had described.

It was still in preparation until now. After shooting the pilot and then sending it to ABC for review, and after it was sold and the cast was re-selected for official production, it would take at least half a year. But that was alright, Adrian would be able to allocate his time better. Of course, he hadn’t forgotten to remind the other party through Cameron—it might be more appropriate to set the script in an alternate universe.

“You’re suggesting we don’t mention the United States government and just set it up as a huge disaster found by the entire world, then society regressed?” Cameron asked after listening to his opinions.

“Yes, don’t you think a plot like terrorists attacking the U.S. government is a bit sensitive? If it causes too much controversy and some unexpected situations occur, it might just get axed,” Adrian said.

Of course, Cameron completely disbelieved this and even found it amusing. “It seems you’ve got something wrong, Ed, this is the United States, this is Hollywood!”

Adrian did not continue the conversation. He didn’t have high hopes for the TV show’s ratings. If it could avoid being axed after two seasons—with his support, it would probably happen sooner, so maybe after three seasons—that would be a good thing. Even if it got axed, it wasn’t terrible, as long as it could cultivate his own team for producing sci-fi television dramas.