HWI 183

Hollywood What If Chapter 183

"I have a few scripts that we can negotiate. If they don't have a problem, they can send someone to talk to me."

Kazir had a good experience working with them. He didn't have any cooperation with Universal Pictures and Walt Disney, so he was not sure if they would protect Grey Pictures. Perhaps they would join the fun and tear the company apart. 

'Besides, I don't like Universal Pictures and Walt Disney. They tried to cancel me...'

He was holding a grudge. Well, Kazir Grey was just a human being. 

As for Sony-Columbia, it was on their side for the time being. They won't do something bad. 

"If they are not convinced. Remind them about the danger of DreamWorks. I'm sure they will think about it."

"It's quite possible." Stella agreed to his decision. 

Compared to Grey Pictures, DreamWorks was more dangerous. It had the trio of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen. And yes, these three were all Jewish. And they are good at their jobs. 

Together with the connections they built in their careers, they successfully acquired a distribution channel in North America. Now, they were free to release their movies in North America without contracting the Big Six. 

Unfortunately, their international distribution was still in the initial stage and it might take at least five to ten years to get a complete international distribution that spans all over the world. 

With this information, Stella and Kazir knew that the Big Six would put more focus on DreamWorks. 

Last year, 1998, Saving Private Ryan was a massive success worldwide. Its influence was just getting started. In fact, the Oscar Awards last March was overpowered by Saving Private Ryan. The movie won 11 awards. And even Steven Spielberg got his second Oscar Statues for Best Director. 

'Hm, Matt Damon is part of the cast Saving Private Ryan and he said that working with Steven Spielberg gave him a good experience.'

For a Director like Kazir Grey, someone like Steven Spielberg and James Cameron were the blockbuster directors, someone he would never reach in his entire life with his talent alone. 

'It's one of the reasons why the Big Six has the be aware of DreamWorks. Steven Spielberg can make good movies and he knows how the business goes.'

Not only that, Antz and The Prince Of Egypt DreamWorks animation generated good results. Antz was the first 3D animation of DreamWorks and the company slowly gained a steady foothold in Computer Animation after that. 

'In my opinion, MGM(Metro Goldwyn Mayer) already lost its status and DreamWorks can take over its place as the top 7 of Hollywood.'

MGM was slowly going into a downward spiral these days, with bankruptcy. They were only alive because of James Bond 007. 

After their conversation, Kazir decided to give the woman time to rest. The only purpose of this meeting was to talk to Stella Willow before she started her job. 

She could leave tomorrow if she wanted to. 

When Kazir was left in the tent, rewatching the footage that they filmed today, he could not help but think about Star Wars and Matrix. 

'I know it sounds like I'm being arrogant, but I want to direct Star Wars and The Matrix...',

Unfortunately, all rights to Star Wars were held by George Lucas and Lucasfilm. On top of that, Kazir was not close enough to George Lucas to cooperate. 

Kazir didn't like leaving the office and his connection with people from Hollywood was simple at best. He rarely attended parties and he was usually quiet. 

As for The Matrix, the Wachowski sisters already registered the script before he could make his own version. Furthermore, the Wachowski sisters definitely wanted to direct the movie. 

'Well, I'm busy as well I have to decline even if they try to pitch me the script.'

Perhaps he would have a chance to direct Star Wars in the next decade... 

He knew Star Wars would expand its universe, from movies, and comics, to animations. However, his opinion on the franchise was complicated. 

He felt like Disney was making the heroes of the past super depressed. 

'Luke Skywalker died after fighting Kylo Ren, then became a ghost... I know it sounds stupid.' 

His memories about the movie were quite jumbled since he was a bit old at that time.

'Oh, another thing, Han Solo died as well. He was killed by his son. Seriously, Disney really loves to make the heroes of the first Star Wars trilogy suffer.'

Well, the fans didn't like it. But who cares? As long as Disney wanted it to happen, they would never listen to their audience. 

'Heck, they can turn Snow White into Latina, the seven dwarves would be normal people as well. They can cast a black woman for the role of The Little Mermaid and call it "innovation". Disney was getting too much Woked. Like, bro, I just want to see movies and have some fun. Don't plaster on my face your ideologies.'

There was even a rumor, that the founder of Disney, Walt Disney, was an Anti-Semite guy. People say that he was a racist. 

Shaking his head, Kasi decided to forget about these things. Star Wars was not related to him anyway. He has to put his mind to his own projects. 

The filming restarted and this time, they would film the scene where Jason Bourne slowly climbed down the building. 

The crew hired a professional climber to do the stunt. The climber was protected and safely tied to a rope. 

They would film the scene at an angle where the rope could not be seen. 

While the filming was ongoing, Kazir saw in the corner of his eyes that Cameron Diaz was pouting at him, dissatisfied about something.