"After the performance of "Anne Frank's Diary", a special celebration party was held."

Some words are only suitable for Jewish people, especially after Duke's Mel Gibson incident, and his position is very clear, so Natalie doesn't say much. "Many Jewish celebrities living in New York attended the party. I saw Mrs. Leah at the party. Although she only talked for a few words, her personality charm is very admirable."

"Thank you!" Duke nodded.

During these events, he also heard his mother mention that the end of the performance of "Anne Frank's Diary" was held, and a large number of Jewish celebrities from New York were present to watch. When the performance ended, because the atmosphere in the theater was too warm, the crew had to go on stage and end the curtain call four times in a row, which lasted for more than 40 minutes.

Duke was not surprised at all. Who made this "Diary of Anne Frank", which has a much greater actual influence than "Schindler's List", and Jews sometimes cannot be measured by the thinking of ordinary people, especially those who have experienced the war years. Whether they have paranoia of being victimized or like to join in groups, these people can always burst out with great enthusiasm and support for certain people or things.

Maybe it was Natalie Portman who won the favor of some people by starring in "The Diary of Anne Frank".

After all, there are too few actresses like her, and there are no fewer people or things around her than other Hollywood actresses. However, mainstream media hardly report negative news about her. If you just say that her public relations team is very strong, it would be too strong...

When the topic of Duke and Natalie came to an end for the time being, George Lucas suddenly asked, "I heard you are going to adapt Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy?"

"It's already in preparation."

As time goes by, the news gradually spread among some people with relatively high status in the industry. Duke did not need to deny it, "Many of my team are currently in New Zealand."

Lucas nodded, "No wonder you refused to be the director of Star Wars. It turned out that you chose a more difficult project."

Duke smiled but said nothing, George Lucas himself publicly admitted that the world structure of Star Wars borrowed a lot from the Lord of the Rings.

Natalie, who was at the same table, was a little surprised. She didn't expect that the director sitting next to her had rejected Star Wars. In her perception, how many directors in this world can refuse the position of Star Wars director?

Even she herself pretends to be innocent, cute, and appropriately shows her precociousness. She has worked hard to get Lucas' recognition. When she received the invitation from Amirada, she had frequent insomnia for a whole week. It was not nervous, but excitement, because she knew that Padme Amirala was enough to enable her to realize a large part of her ambition and **, and she would become a female star that is envied by all over Hollywood and even the world!

She looked at Duke, and combined with the reports she had seen in the media in the past, she confirmed that this was a director with a strong goal and a firm mind.

After talking about their respective movies, Duke looked at the time. He took the lead in saying goodbye and left the restaurant. There was other work to do in the afternoon.

"I won't disturb your work anymore." Naomi Watts was also ready to say goodbye. "Goodbye, Duke. If you have time, I'll come to see you."

"I welcome it anytime."

Watching Naomi Watts get on the electric car and go away, Duke turned and walked into the studio. Pany Kellys, who had just flew here from Los Angeles, and Doug Walter, the head of the distribution department of Warner Bros., was already waiting in the office next to him.

Both sides simply greeted him, Pany Kellis pointed out the window. "Is the person just now Naomi Watts?"

"Yes." Duke nodded and sat on the chair opposite her. "She is on vacation, come and have a look."

"She is in the limelight now, and her topic is..."

"etc!"

Hearing this, Duke directly interrupted the PR, "Pani, this is not a niche movie, but a summer science fiction movie."

"Duke, I have no other intentions." Pany Kellis said innocently, "That kind of propaganda method can only be used once a while, and if you use it too much, it will be useless."

"So, that's the first and last time."

Duke knew very well that he and Catherine Zeta Jones in "Chicago" could only be used once. If he did it again, he would be causing trouble by himself, and even idiots could see that there was something wrong with it.

The most important thing is that he is preparing to return to the summer season and is producing science fiction action movies, not niche genres like music and dance movies.

Doug Walter sat next to him and saw that the discussion between Duke and Pany Kellis was temporarily over, then he spoke, "Duke, can you tell me the exact time of completion of the video now?"

Due to the progress of actor training, Duke has not determined the actual completion time of the film, which has also made Warner Bros.'s publicity work slightly behind.

Duke thought about Keanu Reeves' training situation, combined with the plan formulated from the perspective of the greatest difficulty, and after thinking about it, he said, "The latest of the beginning of April next year will not exceed the end of April."

"That's totally up to the summer season." Doug Walter opened his briefcase, looked at his work log for a while, "On the third weekend of May, judging from the current release list released by major companies, there are no heavyweight films this weekend. "The Matrix" was released in North America on May 15. What do you think?"

"You are professionals." Duke had no objection to this, "You will still make the specific release plan."

"Then the early publicity can also begin."

Although Warner Bros. and Duke Studio held a press conference for project establishment and released a lot of news in conjunction with the audition, there was no large-scale systematic publicity. Now the release date of the film is basically determined, and the entire publicity plan can be officially started.

Moreover, Warner was prepared for a long time, and Sarah, a female reporter from the Los Angeles Times, followed Doug Walter and Pany Kellys to Fox Studios.

Facing Sarah's reporter microphone, Duke also cooperated to accept the interview. Since the film is still far away from completion, Duke also talked about some brief introductions about the film.

"About this video, I started with an assumption that every thing today and every part of each person's body is created by the electronic world, what we see, smell, hear..."

He picked up the coffee cup and took a sip in front of the camera, "What he tasted may be fake, but it is just a signal that some forces that manipulate the world forcefully impose on us."

"If I discovered this," Duke asked, looking at the female reporter, "What would you do?"

"Of course, it is to reveal the truth to everyone." The female reporter Sarah said very well.

"What if others don't believe it? They only believe what they see and hear. Even if some people find it, they will choose not to believe it. Change often means pain."

Duke now has become a prophet in The Matrix, saying very charlatan, "From history, since the birth of human civilization, people have been working tirelessly to find the profound connotation of life and have made amazing discoveries. So, in this story, I just want to focus on a small group of people who raised doubts and got shocking answers. I hope that their discovery will be the beginning of the story, not the ending, and what I am interested in is how they deal with it."

While remembering on the notebook, Sarah quietly rolled her eyes. The director opposite was obviously away from the initial stage of attracting audiences with simple explosions and visual stimulation. After playing with humanistic care and black singing and dancing, she was ready to engage in mysticism.

But she understood the purpose of coming here, temporarily suppressed these thoughts, and asked, "It is said that all the actors in the film will undergo arduous training for up to three to four months?"

"All major actors must have a certain foundation of kung fu."

Now is not the future, and the topic of Kung Fu is not very attractive in North America. Duke just mentioned it by the way and then turned to the actors. "This is a difficult problem for the actors. The entire training plan is about 100 days, and these actors may still be shooting other videos at the same time. How should I tell them? But the final result surprised me, because all the actors are willing to make sacrifices and agree to complete all the hard training. I am grateful for their efforts and sacrifices, and I am proud of their efforts."

Several other routine questions were asked, and this part of Duke's interview ended.

It was not the first time the two of them had interviewed and received an interview. When they put away their work attitude, Sarah asked casually, "When did you believe in mysticism?"

"Believe in mysticism?" Duke shook his head at her, "It's just a borrow."

Just like Kung Fu, as long as it is beneficial to the film, he will no matter where it comes from or where it comes from.

After the assistant finished packing up, Sarah left the office and went to the studio to interview the leading actors. When the office turned into four people, Duke suddenly remembered another aspect.

"Doug, do you understand the Internet?" he asked.

"I learned a little." Doug Walter looked at Duke strangely, "Influenced by your video, I went to study computer networks specifically."

"Don't you think our propaganda position can spread to the computer network?" Duke said, "The video is closely related to computers and the Internet, and most of the users of the Internet are teenagers. This person is also the main audience of science fiction films."

"Duke, actually..." Doug Walter laughed, "We have joined forces with Yahoo and are already developing relevant publicity strategies."

Duke nodded. Although he didn't pay much attention, how could media companies not see some of the conveniences of the Internet?
Chapter completed!