HWI 501

Hollywood What If Chapter 501

Hollywood had a lot of gays and lesbians, so they were not that much against the idea of same-sex relationships between two men. However, Hollywood also had a lot of straight people.

When Kazir first invited Heath Ledger to become Joker, some people in the management of Warner Brothers were against the idea. They were afraid that the controversies of Brokeback Mountain would affect the performance of The Dark Knight.

Despite being an award-winning film, some were still criticizing the movie as they couldn't let go of their ideologies while watching the movie.

Some LGBTQ+ activists didn't like that the two gay roles were performed by two straight men. They wanted gay actors to take the gay roles... Acting is a profession where a person acts as a different person or portrays a character. For a straight actor to act as a gay man was not wrong because that was his job.

Another criticism that Brokeback Mountain faced was the backlash from conservative and religious organizations.

In a way, Brokeback Mountain was fucked on both sides... Ahem.

Yet despite the criticism, the movie won the Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score at the 78th Academy Awards(Oscars).

The management tried to talk to Kazir, trying to convince him that Heath Ledger's current status was a bit tricky for the role of Joker.

Kazir stood on his opinion. He said that it didn't matter since Heath Ledger would always be a clown makeup all of the time, and no one would recognize him as the cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. The two roles were vastly different anyway.

He also knew that even the audience would be surprised when they realized that Heath Ledger was the Joker. The usual roles that Heath Ledger took were different from the Joker.

Joker was a psychotic and dangerous character.

Just like that, Kazir proved that he was right.

The interrogation room was dimly lit, the crew built an interrogation room in the studio just for this scene... It cost a few dozen thousand dollars.

The camera operators were ready. They already checked every angle.

Kazir was sitting a couple of meters away, he was staring at the monitor that showed every angle of the interrogation room.

Heath Ledger was in full make-up as he sat at the metal table. The crew members felt a dark vibe around the actor as they kept their mouths shut.

The dim room suddenly lit up.

Christian Bale, in his Batman suit, appeared and slammed Heath Ledger's head to the table... His head didn't touch the table, but the camera angle made it look like Joker's face slammed against it.

"Never start with the head, the victim gets fuzzy..."

"You wanted me, here I am."

Batman and Joker started the conversation.

The confrontation between the hero and the villain.

Kazir liked where this was going. He could see that the two were performing well.

"I don't wanna kill you, what would I do without you? Go back to ripping off mob dealers? No, no, no. You complete me."

Joker started giggling.

Batman grabbed Joker's collar and asked.

"Where's Dent?"

"Okay cut--!"

Kazir had to cut the scene even though he wanted to continue it. The next scene was about Batman slamming Joker to the wall and they need a stunt double for that. They couldn't afford to hurt any of their cast so they obviously needed a stunt double for painful stunts.

When the scene was done, some of the crew members were staring at Heath Ledger with amazement. They got goosebumps staring at him. They felt like they were looking at the real Joker.

Kazir looked around and saw the management from Warner Brothers and DC Comics. They were also impressed by Heath Ledger's performance. Some of them were the people who were against casting the actor.

When the management saw Kazir, they avoided his gaze and walked away.

Kazir was smirking. In his mind, he gave them a double invisible "fuck you". These people had been on his nerves for a while. They were trying to disturb his project.

'If I'm right, they didn't want to cast Heath because they have another actor in their minds who they wanted to be Joker... Probably some of their butt lickers or something.'

Kazir thought.

Another reason why the management was disturbing was that they were bitter. They didn't like that Kazir's last two movies were performing amazingly while Batman Begins had an average $500 million box office... By the way, $500 million was not average. Only a few movies achieved that amount of ticket sales in the history of Cinema.

But for Kazir's filmography, Batman was indeed on the average side. Especially when Kazir Shadows Beneath was getting close to $800 million.

So yeah, some people from the management were holding a grudge against him. Nothing new.

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While Kazir was busy with The Dark Knight, Grey Pictures announced their movies for 2007 which were John Wick Chapter 3 and Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End.

After the success of La La Land, Fremont Smith decided to film the third movie of the John Wick franchise. In fact, he had been filming since last year.

Grey Pictures only had two projects this year as the 3rd Season of Game Of Thrones had a buffer of two years because the production cost of this TV Show was almost comparable to a movie. As for how to solve the financial trouble, Grey Pictures either have to use their money or loan from the bank. Well, Stella was a great leader so she probably had an idea what to do.