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Without any surprises, Duke walked out of the Warner Building with a desperate and full of fighting spirit. Although he encountered walls one after another in the day, he could not stop him from seeking that tiny opportunity.

This is a circle that emphasizes connections, qualifications and successful experience. Duke's resume in this area is almost zero. If there is a movie with a box office of one million dollars or even one hundred thousand dollars, the treatment he enjoys at the film company will definitely be very different.

Unfortunately, the most difficult thing to enter this circle is the first step. For Hollywood, opportunities are often more important than talent.

Opportunities are all created and strived for. If you don’t struggle, opportunities will never appear.

In the next ten days, Duke was like a Spartan with an endless fighting spirit, entering and leaving film companies in and out of various film companies in the Greater Los Angeles. Paramount, Disney, MGM, Universal Pictures, Sony and Columbia, etc., all left his footprints; the second-tier new line, Carlock and other companies, as well as the newly emerging Miramax office in Los Angeles, also witnessed his busy figure.

In this short and long time, Duke sent out a copy of the script, which received countless rejections. He was bleeding from the head in Hollywood, but he did not retreat at all!

After traveling to all larger film companies, he temporarily stopped looking for opportunities from film companies. The remaining tiny film studios do not need to go. They do not have the ability to invest in this level of films, nor do they have the channels to raise tens of millions of dollars, and they will not produce such relatively high-investment films at all.

Just when everyone was amazed by James Cameron's Terminator 2 in July, Duke began to find ways to get to the famous producers, including Jerry Brookheimer, Katherine Kennedy, Jon Landau, Anne Spielberg and others, all of whom were harassed by him. After being bothered, the answer he got was still rejection.

Not all companies and producers are optimistic about this script. Paramount and Jerry Brookheimer think this script is interesting and quite interested, but shook his head at Duke's request for director.

Even if Duke offered to sell the script to them for a symbolic price of one dollar in exchange for the opportunity to direct, the answer he got was still no.

They and Duke are neither friends nor relatives. The investment of tens of millions of dollars and their qualifications are unsolvable flaws. Even if Duke makes the most of the money, these people are unwilling to put such huge amounts of money on a director who has no successful director experience.

In addition to producers and production companies, Duke has another way to seek investment from banks or foundations. Although Hollywood's film investment funds were not as many as they did in the future, there were several.

In Malibu, Duke finally met a film fund manager.

"I have produced two experimental films, and I graduated from the California Academy of Arts' Film and Video major with all A grades. I cannot explain any problem..."

This is Duke's few qualifications that can be obtained, and he obviously cannot get to the AUG movie fund.

Although large Hollywood companies often use methods such as making fake accounts and concealing box office reports to cheat these investors' funds because they have this strength, Duke obviously does not have the conditions to extract large amounts of funds from these vampires.

Nearly ten days after July, Duke, who was struggling with a wall, had to prepare to take the path he had reserved at the earliest, and the path with a slightly more likely chance to find his mother's best friends, George Lucas, who is famous in Hollywood and even the whole world.

Duke really wants to win opportunities with his own abilities, but he is not a person who doesn't know how to adapt. It is not embarrassing to use all favorable conditions to create opportunities for success.

Of course, he took this as the final filing.

The previous company or producer would not give him too long. Even if Duke made some preparations, he would not have room for display. It was different to see George Lucas. Duke did not plan to go to Lucas Pictures, but went directly to Lucas' manor near San Francisco.

Before going, in addition to the script, Duke also planned to shoot a video.

This is a film where the main plots appear on cars. Duke's filming is naturally related to cars.

He found his sixteen mm camera from the storage room, and then used his credit card to buy film, allowing workers who came to mow the lawn every week to act as drivers. He drove several times on the open seafront avenue in Santa Monica. He shot several times in the co-pilot and outside the car, and spent half a day to basically finish it.

Just as Duke was silenced the video clip, adding a heavy metal soundtrack to the videotape, a non-formal meeting about his script was quietly unfolding in the CEO's office of Warner Bros.

"Kevin, I think the script "Speed ​​of Life and Death" has some operability."

The speaker was Jeff Robinoff, who Duke had met. He advised Kevin Tessulhara, CEO sitting in a large office chair, "If you can shoot the thrilling thrills reflected in the script and the traits of the speed of life and time racing..."

"Jeff..." Kevin Tesuhara raised his hand to stop Jeff Robinoff's words and looked at his assistant next to him, "Robert, what about your opinion?"

Robert Solomon, who has the right to speak in heavyweight, held his arm on the arm of the chair, held his chin with his palm, thought solemnly for a while, and said slowly, "There is a situation where you can refer to it. Duke Rosenberg was a contracted artist in CAA. He was just abandoned by CAA this year. You know the style of CAA's people. If he has some potential, they will never give up on him."

"And..." He moved his hand away and clicked on the script on his desk. "It is by no means a wise approach to invest tens of millions of dollars in the work of a person without any qualifications!"

Speaking of this, he specifically emphasized, "Don't forget, he also asked for a director position! A person who has not made any official films at the age of 21, haha..."

As executive vice president, Robert Solomon's meaning is very clear, and his words are heavier than Jeff Robinov, and Jeff Robinov does not mean to insist. After all, from the perspective of actual operation, the risks are indeed a bit high.

"That's how it is."

CEO Kevin Teshura thought about it for a few minutes, "This script is temporarily shelved and included in the script library."

Duke, who had just entered Lucas Manor, didn't know that he had passed by him during the discussions between several senior Warner Bros.

After parking the car, Duke greeted the people from Lucas Manor with familiarity. Although the number of times he has been here has decreased in recent years, he was a regular visitor before entering university.

Perhaps it was because of Lucas's children's travel, and the manor seemed extremely quiet. Duke walked around the fountain and walked into the spacious living room. There were no people here, only George Lucas, who was sitting in a low-backed chair, was waiting for him.

"Uncle George..."

He greeted him politely, Duke placed his bag on the small table in front of him, and waited for him to sit in the chair, George Lucas looked at him with interest, "Why don't you call George?"

He smiled slightly, Duke did not respond. He used to be a small seller, but of course he couldn't do this now.

"It's better to call me George like before."

The two families had a friendship for more than 20 years. After the servant gave the black tea, George Lucas was not polite and directly stretched out his hand, "Where is the script you mentioned on the phone?"

"here."

When he opened his bag, Duke handed over the script that was less than 200 pages. When he called yesterday, he mentioned the script, "I have been to many Hollywood companies in the past month."

"I heard from people from CAA,"

Opening the script, George Lucas read and said, "The insane son of Leah Rosenberg of Santa Fia Advertising Company is naive to be a director."

Duke frowned and quickly returned to normal.

After the two said a few words, George Lucas stopped talking and devoted his energy to the script. Duke has met many people this month, and this is the first time that someone has read the script so seriously in front of him, but this person is a person with close ties to his family. This has to be said to be a kind of irony.

At the same time, Duke, who has been wandering around the edge of this circle, has witnessed the extremely realistic side of Hollywood. Without qualifications, connections and achievements, it is a weed that no one pays attention to.

Hollywood would rather invest heavily in bad movies by famous characters than look at newcomers.

After nearly an hour, George Lucas put down the script. He picked up the teacup and took a sip of the black tea that had long since cooled down, and asked Duke, "Is there anything else?"

"have!"

Take out the carefully crafted video tape from the handbag, Duke walked to the TV cabinet, turned on the TV and the video recorder, and stuffed the video tape in. After the short snowflakes, there was no excessive post-processing editing screen, accompanied by the drum-like soundtrack, which was presented on the TV screen.

This image is not complicated, and it always switches between the front wheels and the speedometer of a car, but the flying wheels and the pointer hovering above 50 have been clearly edited. The length of each short shot is definitely no more than one second. Frequent and smooth switching can easily arouse tension in people's hearts.

Although the picture is a bit monotonous, George Lucas watches it very seriously. He naturally thinks of the setting in the film where a bomb will explode below 50 miles, linking these with the image...

"Duke, come and sit."

George Lucas signaled Duke to turn off the TV and pointed to the chair opposite him, "The dazzling sports footage and sharp editing style are done very well."

"Uncle George..."

"George." Lucas corrected.

"Okay, George."

When Duke sat down, George Lucas completely changed to a business attitude. "The script is not very good. At best, it is a medium-sized commercial script. In Hollywood, good ideas can be made into bad movies, and bad ideas can be made into good movies. The role of directors is extremely important. If you hand this script to an experienced director, there is half the chance of making a profit."

Hearing these words, Duke showed a helpless smile, and George Lucas's meaning was very obvious.

"I've seen the production cost you estimated. Even if all the special effects of the video are handed over to Industrial Light and Magic, the cost will not be reduced to less than tens of millions of dollars."

In a blink of an eye, Lucas changed from a businessman to an elder. "When it comes to such a large amount of investment, even Lucasfilm has to be cautious. Duke, you are still young, if you exercise for a few more years, you will definitely have a chance in the future."

Afterwards, George Lucas stopped mentioning the content related to the movie, but turned the topic to Duke's mother, talking about some of the things they started their own business when they were young. They didn't let Duke leave until after dinner.

Not long after the black Chevrolet sedan disappeared at the door of the manor, the phone in the living room suddenly rang.

"George, it's me."

The sound in the earpiece was obviously Leah Rosenberg, "Have you seen Duke?"

"yes."

"I want to talk to you about Duke, are you coming to Los Angeles, or am I going to San Francisco?"
Chapter completed!