In just one night, all the attention in the United States was focused on Lance. Not only the office on Green Ridge Street, but even the special surgical hospital was once again surrounded by the media. Everyone was eager to interview first-hand information. Since the "Fruit Hard Candy" was put into filming, the reporters' excitement reached a climax at this moment!

Any project that involves 200 million yuan in cost is enough to attract everyone's attention, not to mention that the protagonist is Lance. The background is that the top large film companies join forces to blockade, and the opportunity is that "Fruit Hard Candy" will be previewed. In an instant, the news media burst into unprecedented energy, allowing Chaos Pictures and Lance to truly feel what media power is.

More than 600 reporters surrounded Green Ridge Street and even ordinary staff members of the issuance department that had been established recently did not escape the pursuit of journalists; more than 400 reporters kept blocking special surgical hospitals, and even nurses were chased by reporters to ask the question of "Whether Lance has been in contact with others in the hospital recently"... This is just the beginning.

In the next few days, the paparazzi were chasing and fighting for 24 hours. It seemed that they would never give up without asking the truth. Not only the news media, but also the Hollywood industry led by Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures also became curious: Where did Lance's confidence come from?

The overwhelming craze reminds people of the scene after Brad Pitt's "death door" broke out last year. To be more precise, the heat of the discussion this time was enough to completely break up the cheating door. The huge momentum made people feel the illusion that "the whole world has cast its eyes on."

However, in the face of such a strong momentum, Chaos Film and Lance are tight-lipped. They just admit that Lance is indeed preparing a project, but there is no accurate information on the details. Such a mysterious attitude has inspired the enthusiasm of the reporters and is bound to break the casserole and ask the final question.

Afterwards, the paparazzi really caught clues. The frequent contact between Lance and George Miller was seen by people, and "Crazy Max 4" gradually surfaced! For the past two years, George has been running around to restart the project. This is no secret in the Hollywood circle. Now that George and Lance have come together, everything goes without saying.

Boom! Boom boom!

In an instant, the entire North American region seemed to have reached the boiling point, and it was gulp and gulp, and everyone was in a bad mood.

Even the boldest, no one dares to guess that Lance's latest project is actually "Mad Max 4"; even the crazy, no one dares to try, investing 200 million US dollars in a unique cult movie; even the desperate, no one dares to imagine that Lance brought a project that had been silent for twenty years back into sight; even the courageous person dares not gamble, and put all his wealth on a project that is off-sighted and unique.

But, Lance did that.

Almost everyone's heads were in a state of crash, and the first reaction was: Is Lance crazy? If you want to commit suicide, there is no need to choose this method.

Barry Mayer smiled, Michael Leighton was stunned. Choosing "Mad Max 4" to break through the siege can indeed be called a different approach, unique and caught everyone off guard, but this is no different from suicide, especially considering the terrible box office performance of the first three movies in North America, they were originally worried that Lance would make some waves, but now it seems that Lance has lost his mind and will only perish himself.

Not to mention Barry and Michael, even the news media were full of shock. It seemed that everyone could not understand Lance's choice and decision, and it was really hard to understand.

The media led by the Los Angeles Times began to complain.

"Loss of mind, self-destruction!" As the largest news media on the West Coast, Cliff Robinson's remarks with such tendencies were published. It can be seen that the "Los Angeles Times" cannot agree with Lance's decision.

In Cliff's comment, he gave Lance enough affirmation. "In the past few years, Lance has proved his talent with the great success of one work after another, and can even be regarded as an outstanding representative of directors in the X era, but the success of past works seems to have made Lance blurred, and his blind confidence has made him make extraordinary choices every time." Then the tone changed, and the blame fell like a heavy rain.

"Authentic, in the field of art, continuous experiments, continuous attempts, continuous breakthroughs, and continuous innovations can often contribute countless wonderful works, and history has clearly proved this; but in the same way, history has also proved that commercial films must have certain factors to succeed. Even the "Great White Shark" that breaks the commercial narrative model, the "Male and Female Thieves" that change the commercial script model, and the "Star Wars" that change the commercial culture model, they still have distinct market characteristics.

Now, Lance is trying to create a commercial movie using experimental movies, which is even more crazy than the Russian turntable, and is almost doomed to a crushing ending. However, Lance still took a bold bet and offered a cost budget of up to 200 million US dollars for this niche cult work. Madness, madness, madness, and other than that, there is no more suitable words to describe Lance's decision.

The "Mad Max" series once attracted the interest of many niche movie fans in the 1980s. The apocalyptic characteristics, wasteland style, and rock temperament conveyed in the movie are fascinating. It is undeniable that this is a cult work with far-reaching influence. The biggest difference between it and "Star Wars" is that George Lucas creates a mysterious and wonderful unknown world, taking the audience to explore the universe, and transforming the fantasies in his mind into reality. George Miller creates a cruel and violent real world, transforming the fear deep in the audience into reality, and presents it with alternative expression techniques. Therefore, "Mad Max" is not "Star Wars" and cannot become "Star Wars".

Such a movie may resonate among a very small group, such as the group of math enthusiasts in high school science labs who communicate in "alien language"; but all the factors in the movie have the potential to awaken the market boom, let alone develop into a commercial movie.

We should not forget that Lance sold the "City of Sin" for $40 million. He turned this geek and otaku style story into a box office bomb, which amazed everyone. It was this work that gave Lance enough courage and confidence to aim at "Crazy Max". But we should not forget that the cost of "City of Sin" is only 40 million, while the budget of "City of Sin" has reached 200 million.

This is a math problem. Didn’t Lance, as a producer, invite the top students from MIT to do some calculations?"

Cliff's words are not crazy or sharp, but for an authoritative newspaper like the Los Angeles Times, it has crossed that bottom line, making people clearly feel the extreme emotions between the lines.

"After the emergence of 'City of God', Lance is proving his strength with wonderful works and becoming an emerging force that Hollywood cannot ignore. But now, Lance's arrogance is devouring his talent, his increasingly crazy choice, and his increasingly incredible decisions clearly see that he is squandering his talent. He gave up the sequel of 'Pirates of the Caribbean', withdrew from the '007' project, and rejected 'I am a legend', Lance seems to be trying hard to find a path of his own, but 'Mad Max 4' is obviously not the right choice for this path.

At this moment, we should calm down and think: Are we witnessing the fall of a genius?”

At the end of the article, Cliff cleverly changed the concept and created the assumption that Lance took the initiative to be an enemy of large Hollywood film companies. For the first time, it truly presented the internal "blockade" of Hollywood in another aspect, and expressed his heartache for Lance, as if he was just a movie lover who was disappointed.

I have to say that Cliff is indeed a master. After this report was published, it not only sparked heated discussions, but also received recognition from countless suitors.

More than 49 media outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, have made similar remarks, and it is worth noting that seven media outlets on the East Coast, including the Washington Post and the New York Post, are also listed. It can be clearly felt that even those supporters are puzzled by Lance's choice.

As Cliff said, if you don’t choose projects like “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “007”, and “I am a Legend”, you just chose a “Mad Max 4”. This is like giving up a resort with blue sea and blue sky and choosing a desert with poor mountains and water for vacation, which is simply incomprehensible.

What's even more exaggerated is that many loyal movie fans have also started to complain on the Internet, hoping that Lance can turn back as soon as possible and not go back on this wrong path forever. In the Yahoo community, someone actually set up a "opposition to the 'Crazy Max 4'" vote, which is a crazy enthusiast in the name of "City of Sin", and this vote attracted more than 20,000 people in just three days.

It seems that even the audience refuses to stand behind Lance to express their support - just when people think that the situation can't be worse, the bottom line is always broken again. The world is so crazy.
Chapter completed!