"Nick, aren't you off work yet?" Nicholas McLaen glanced back and it was office colleague Sophie Pearce. Pierce), who was walking in her direction with a large pile of materials in her hand.

Nicholas stretched, "There is also a piece of news, which will be sent to the printing house in the evening." ”

Sophie cried out in surprise, "Are you crazy? And also...... It's going to be printed in two hours, and you haven't written it yet. Immediately, Sophie remembered the first draft sent over for typesetting today, "The blank space at the top of the entertainment version is left for you!" ”

Nicholas didn't make as much fuss as Sophie, and laughed with ease, "yes, that's it." ”

Sophie sat down at Nicholas's desk with the materials in her arms, looking at the messy materials on his desk and the blank paper on the typewriter, "So you're writing Hugo's manuscript!" I thought you had written it a long time ago, and this time it wasn't big news, why did you take so long? Sophie saw the headlines of other competing newspapers on Nicholas's desk, such as "Hugo Lancaster in Self-Exile" in the New York Times.

"I should have written it yesterday, but unfortunately I missed today's release." Nicholas tugged at the corners of his mouth.

"That's why you're being scolded today?" Sophie suddenly realized that in the morning Nicholas was called to the editor-in-chief's office and scolded him severely, and the editor-in-chief's roar could be heard on the entire floor.

Nicholas nodded and confirmed, it was really undesirable to be one step behind in the direct competition with competitors, and Nicholas did not have exclusive revelations in his hands, it was difficult to win back a city, no wonder the editor-in-chief was angry.

"It's just that Hugo took on a new movie, and it's not a big revelation, why haven't you written it for so long?" Sophie knows that the news that Nicholas is writing is about Hugo becoming the actor of "Sleepless in Seattle", which was confirmed yesterday and officially announced today, which is not a big sensation.

Nicholas replied, "Because I've been thinking about my attitude towards it, for or against. ”

"You're really crazy." Sophie left Nicholas's desk with the information, walked towards the reference room, and when she reached the 'door', she turned back to Nicholas and said, "You are really crazy, no one is optimistic about Hugo's choice." ”

"yes, I'm crazy." Nicholas stretched again, muttered to himself, and then realized that landed on the table the headline of the contender's newspaper of choice.

The New York Times ran the headline "Self-Exiled Hugo Lancaster," the San Francisco Chronicle ran the headline "Desperate Hugo," the premiere headline "From Powerful to Idol," not to mention the gloating National Inquirer with "The Beginning of the Fall," and the "Entertainment Weekly" mocking headline "Hugo finally knows how to use his advantage......

Even the industry's most authoritative "Variety" and "Hollywood Reporter" are no exception, "Variety" wrote earnestly, "Once again wrong choice, how much talent Hugo still has to 'waste' money"; The "Hollywood Reporter" expressed its hatred for "stupid choices".

At five o'clock yesterday afternoon, Samsung Pictures, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures, officially announced that the love "wave" comic film "Sleepless in Seattle", written and directed by Nora Epron, has determined the leading role, the actor is Hugo Lancaster, and the "female" protagonist is Meg Ryan, and the film will be officially put into production next week.

At the same time, Samsung Pictures also released a synopsis of the story of "Sleepless in Seattle", with only one sentence, "The story of a widowed father and an engaged 'female' journalist who rely on radio 'waves' to connect together, resulting in admiration." ”

After the news was announced, the media and professionals were in an uproar.

The reason for the uproar is that no one is optimistic about the theme of "Sleepless in Seattle", which was previously thought by major film companies during the preparation of Nora, and it is simply unbelievable that two strangers who have never met met will fall in love with each other because of the radio station. This is the same as the consternation of people when online dating was born in the 21st century, and it is simply unrealistic to connect two strangers through guò electric 'waves' to produce a chemical reaction. What's more, such a theme is filmed into a movie, which is even more ridiculous, no audience wants to see two people shouting at the radio in the air, just afraid that the whole story will be boring and boring to make people leave the scene angrily.

Obviously, the media and professionals also think so, so when people learned that Hugo actually took over the filming of "Sleepless in Seattle", there was a reaction from the representatives of the above major media.

At present, Hugo is in the whirlpool of a storm, although the big-name doubts have not been rendered for the time being, but the negative impact still exists, so it can be seen that Hugo is in a period of remission in his career. Under such circumstances, Hugo chose the script "Sleepless in Seattle", and almost everyone thought that Hugo was burying his career as an actor who had just begun to "improve".

What's more, Hugo regained his attention with his acting skills not long ago, and now he actually took over a chick movie. What is a chick movie called? That is the 'wave' romantic comedy, to put it bluntly, it is a movie that is specially "doored" for "female" and "sexual" audiences to watch and satisfy their beautiful fantasies of love. Such a film does not have much acting content, even a classic like "Roman Holiday", Gregory Peck (gregory. PECK) has also been overlooked. Hugo is not as good as when Gregory took over the "Roman holiday", not to mention that "Sleepless in Seattle" cannot be a "Roman holiday".

Therefore, "Variety" and "The Hollywood Reporter" both believe that Hugo is squandering his acting talent, and once again made the mistake of choosing a "fatal moment" after the "Dead Poets Society", and this time it is even more stupid. At the beginning, "Fatal Moment" was at least a promising large-scale production during the preparation period, but this time "Sleepless in Seattle" has no highlights worthy of Hugo's capture from any point of view.

As a result, almost all the media thought that Hugo was cornered, and was 'forced' to a blind corner by the so-called big-name suspicions, and chose the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" in a panic. Insiders even lamented that a 'good' agent is too important for an actor's planning in the early stage of his career, and the gap between Joseph and Lang is particularly obvious.

In fact, not only the media and professional film critics, but also the attitudes of people in the circle are almost the same.

When Brad Pitt learned that Hugo actually received the new work before him, his first reaction was to ask his agent Martin Baum, "Why!" ”

Martin actually felt a headache, originally thought that the "sugar-coated trap" was a certainty, and he had planned it for so long, and it still fell short at the last moment, but after all, Martin had gone through a strong wind and a big 'wave', so he quickly recovered, "Because I don't care about taking on such a 'wave' romance movie that has no performance value for you, do you know?" ”

Brad looked at Martin's expression, although he was still walking around the office irritablely, but he didn't continue to get angry, but began to listen to Martin's explanation, "Listen to me, this movie will definitely fail, absolutely!" You can see the reaction of the media, no one wants to take such a movie, Hugo is desperate, so he panicked and chose a random movie, let's wait to see his jokes. ”

Brad scratched his head vigorously, and he gradually came around the corner, thinking carefully that a script like "Sleepless in Seattle" really has no value for filming, but he is still a little unwilling, "But he at least received a new script, what about me?" I still don't have any work! ”

Martin calmly took out a script from the 'drawer' drawer, "Joseph and I are not the same level of agents, what I have prepared for you is the best." ”

Brad walked over with a skeptical attitude, looked at the script on the table, and saw that the cover of the script read "California Killer (Kalifornia)".

Compared with the conversation between Brad and Martin here, Tracy and Lang are much calmer, Lang looked at Tracy with a solemn face and comforted, "Don't worry, this work is too rubbish, it's not worth mentioning at all, don't worry, I think Hugo has no choice now, and he has to make such a decision." ”

Tracy shook her head and looked at the gradually darkening night outside the window, "You won't want him to hold the opportunity again, the situation of 'smelling the fragrance' female 'person' and 'Yihai Xiongfeng' must not appear again." Tracy was inexplicably flustered, she always felt that Hugo had a reason for making such a decision, but she couldn't say why, which made her very uneasy.

Ron smiled and shook his head, "Tracy, think of those classic chick movies, 'When Harry Met Sally', 'Pretty Woman', 'Roman Holiday'...... Which movie was the success of the male lead? Lang's words sent Tracy deep in thought, "And most importantly, 'Sleepless in Seattle' is simply not going to succeed, maybe it's another bad romance movie on the assembly line." ”

Looking at Tracy, who was still worried, Lang secretly complained in his heart: 'Female' people are trouble, it is estimated that the menstrual period is coming, and what is the sixth sense of 'female' people. But Lang didn't show it on the surface, and continued to comfort him, "Tracy, Hugo is only twenty-five years old, and Joseph has only been in the industry for more than a year, they don't have the wisdom to choose such an excellent script, otherwise there wouldn't be so many actors who would have refused the invitation to this script before." ”

"What about Meg?" Tracy felt that Lang had a point, the script of "Sleepless in Seattle" had at least four male actors, and even more 'female' actors, there should have been more than seven, so many agents and actors had seen it before and after, but in the end they all refused, which is enough to show that this script is "bad".

Lang pointed to the "Hollywood Reporter" on the table, "Didn't you read the report?" Meg hadn't had a good work for three years, so she's back to the 'When Harry Meets Sally' route, and you know better than I know what that means. ”

"Cornered." Tracy whispered.

"What's more, this time the 'Los Angeles Times' simply didn't report on this incident, can't you still feel the information here?" Long added the last chip, and Tracy didn't speak, but the mood was visibly calmed down.

"Hugo, this time you have to turn over again, it's not that simple." Tracy secretly said in her heart that she had finally dug such a big hole and pushed Hugo down, she hadn't seen enough of Hugo's miserable situation, how could she stop, "Oh, you just enjoy the taste of being at the bottom." ”