"So, aren't you going to talk to me about the funding issue? You know, I won't accept "no" as the answer." Lance's joke made Ian laugh. Ian raised his head, looked at the warm and happy smile on the corner of Lance's mouth, quickly wiped away the wet corners of his eyes, and restored his usual freedom and calmness. "Forty million? You know, even if you sell Gao Wen, it's not necessarily worth that much."

Indeed, Gao Wen is a tight end. In the world of rugby, the highest-value quarterback is always the quarterback. In the long history of NFL, no tight end has exceeded the annual salary of $10 million, but the annual salary of quarterbacks has easily reached 20 million. A year ago, Gao Wen completed a contract renewal with the Green Bay Packers. After serving in his old club for eleven years, he renewed his contract for two years, basically preparing to retire as a packer. At that time, Gao Wen received a two-year contract of 16 million and became one of the highest-paid tight ends in the league.

So, as Ian said, even if Gao Wen is sold, he will not be able to get 40 million reads;.

Lance spread his hands with an innocent and ignorant expression on his face, "I heard that on the Wall Street Stock Exchange, there are tens of millions of transactions every second."

Although Ian knew that Lance was joking again on purpose, he couldn't help but shake his head and said helplessly, "I work for others, not by starting a company by myself." Perhaps Ian has completed many tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of projects, but these are not his money. "I just speculate on the future based on the information at hand and give appropriate opinions, and not truly predict the future."

Ian's joke made Lance stunned, "What if I could really predict the future?"

In fact, in his previous life, Lance once considered to use his understanding of the future to win the first pot of gold and then realize his ideals in life. But later he found that things were not that simple. First, he did not have enough capital, and second, he knew nothing about the economy and stocks. So in the end he did nothing. But now, things are completely different.

Of course Ian didn't take it seriously. He said with a smile, "Then I can create 40 million for you in just a few days. For example, tell me which stocks will have drastic ups and downs in the near future, and which stocks will have a stronger long-term trend..."

Lance waved his hand repeatedly, "I can't understand it anymore." His only understanding of stocks is that Apple's stock will be valuable in ten years... but how valuable it is. He doesn't have a clear concept. But obviously, the "ten years later" thing will not help at all.

Ian didn't continue to say it. He knew Lance knew nothing about these things, "So, why don't you tell me first what the project you are planning to invest in this time, and where are we now?"

After listening carefully to Lance's story about the whole story of "City of Sin", Ian fell into deep thought and slightly restrained his jaw, "So. You mean, this project has not been taken down yet, and we are working hard to get it. Right?"

Lance didn't expect that Ian's first question was this, "Aren't we discussing the funding issue?"

Ian looked at Lance's surprise and chuckled, "I mean, if we can hinder our competitors, this may give me more time to prepare funds." Ian's perspective on the problem is obviously different from Lance.

"Stop the competitor?" Lance certainly wanted to snipe Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, but it was not an easy task, at least not as easy as sniping Roland Emmerich.

Ian's expression became more relaxed, obviously this was the area he was familiar with. "I think your competitors are the same as you. They must have a headache about funding. On the one hand, they need a lot of funds to complete the shooting of this work, and on the other hand, they don't want the production company to make too many mistakes and affect the style of the work. Both of you are standing at the same fork in the road." Ian's commentary was very clear and Lance understood immediately, "You hope that our company can complete the shooting, and then funding issues will become the top priority; but if the company cannot solve the funding problems, we can only choose to cooperate with other companies like "the day after tomorrow" or "the knife is used to kill people."

Lance nodded and expressed his affirmation, and Ian continued, "So does your competitor have their own production company? Or to be more precise, does their production company have the ability to support the shooting of the entire work?"

Robert Rodriguez has his own production company, Aker-studio, and currently launches the "Very Little Spy" series and "Mexico Past". His overall strength is slightly better than Chaos Pictures, but the gap is not big.

Lance clearly remembers that the final investor was Dimen Pictures, a subsidiary of the Weinstein Brothers. Like Chaos Pictures, a pure private company. It has been established for many years, but its development has always been lukewarm. Their fist works are the "Scream" series, which mainly relies on the distribution and production of horror and thriller works.

The Weinstein brothers had a close personal relationship with Quentin and had a good relationship with Robert, so although Dimen Pictures was not very interested in "Sin City", they decided to invest. However, although the Weinstein brothers were filmmakers, their control over the movie was outrageous - especially during the editing stage, Harvey Weinstein was even called "scissors hand", and many directors were unwilling to work with them to shoot reads;

"No." Lance gave his own answer, "Quentin and Weinstein's brothers have a very unusual relationship, so if nothing unexpected happens, they should seek cooperation from Dimen Pictures or Miramax - Dimen Pictures is more likely." Lance gave his reasonable speculation as much as possible.

Ian nodded. After he recently made up for Hollywood knowledge, he also knew that Miramax is a subsidiary of Disney, so naturally it is not dominated by the Weinstein brothers. "So, I think any company has doubts about investing in such projects. If I ask them to have questions, it needs to be discussed and discussed before we can decide whether to invest. This will make competitors run wild. On the one hand, it will convince the cartoonist and on the other hand, it will win us some time."

Lans immediately understood Ian's strategy, simply put it, to surround Wei and save Zhao.

Ian's ultimate goal is not to let the Weinstein brothers give up the injection of capital into "Sin City", but just hope to delay this cooperation and put Robert and Quentin in greater trouble. This is not a difficult task. With the character of the Weinstein brothers, Robert's bold and arrogant shooting plan is indeed easy to cause disputes - Robert is not Quentin after all.

"I have a grudge with Harvey Weinstein." Lance's words made Ian's eyes lit up, and then Lance briefly explained what happened in Sundance, "You said, will he hold a grudge and reject me directly? Or will he be ambitious to suppress my arrogance?"

Ian chuckled, "From your description, he will first catch your appetite, make you think you have hope, and then reject you fiercely, embarrassing you." Ian thought for a while, "However, he is a smart businessman, and interests are the core idea. As long as there is enough interests, he will abandon his past grudges, but he will never let you live a good life."

Lance's lips raised slightly, "But, if Quentin knew that Harvey had been pursuing Uma - she was Quentin's muse, and even two people secretly went to Chen Cang, do you think things would change?" Since Robert and Quentin wanted to rely on Harvey, and Harvey would not give up this cooperative relationship, let's see how they deal with the so-called "woman problem".

Ian's mind was running quickly. He originally wanted to disrupt his competitor's plans, but now, if the plan is done properly, he can even let the other party fight directly, which is naturally better. "So, you concentrate on shooting "Borrowing a knife to kill people". I will go to meet Harvey and leave this matter to me. Let me talk to him." On the one hand, let Lance avoid Harvey, so he can take more initiative; on the other hand, let Lance concentrate on shooting the works.

"Of course this is the best." Lance pursed his lips, nodded in agreement simply and agreed.

"With Quentin's case...how do you deliver the message?" Ian's understanding of Hollywood was limited to the surface and had not yet had time to go further.

Lance immediately thought of several solutions. He could use Javier Ulier's blog to spread rumors; he could use paparazzi like Dylan Wilde to create rumors in the circle; he could also use Cole Greed to let him spread rumors within the agent circle, and he could unknowingly make Quentin notice it, but he didn't know where the source was.

This is Hollywood, and the world of fame and fortune living under the spotlight, and rumors are almost everywhere. As for whether they are true, it doesn't matter. What's important is whether people believe it - this is the weight of rumors. Even if it is a lie, a look, an expression and a word are enough to suppress people to breathe, just like "red letters". What's more, the triangle relationship between Harvey, Uma, and Quentin is not simple.

"Leave this to me, I will let Quentin know." Lance thought of a better way, Dorothy Wright.

Ian nodded and stopped asking, "If everything goes well here, we can at least win a few weeks." However, "Wei" was not the purpose of surrounding Wei to save Zhao, but "Zhao" was the only one, so in the final analysis, convince Frank Miller to take the adaptation rights and invest in filming. This is the most important thing.

ps: Today's sixth update, thank you Chaosk for your 10,000 reward! I'm thanking you very much!
Chapter completed!