Chapter 452： horror master

In this Christmas season, when people's eyes are attracted by the hot movie market, Bertolman is running everywhere, hoping to connect Stephen King and Random House's new book publishing agreement.

As the world's largest English-language business international publishing house, Random House, under the leadership of the Jewish Bennett Cerf, merged with Bantam Group in 1998. After the merger, it gained momentum and nearly controlled 75% of the American market. The above publishing business.

However, even though Bertolman is backed by such a large group, he still has to negotiate and urge drafts with these great writers on a daily basis. Because this is his job.

As for Stephen King, as a "modern horror master" in the literary and art circles, his works have always been highly sought after by book fans, and he is the object of his focus.

Of course, compared to those little writers, these rich literary and artistic people who are not limited by money for a long time, because they have no life pressure, they are also the ones who have the least material needs to write - in other words, they are lazy and have serious lack of motivation.

For example, this new book has been written for almost three years. Compared to when I was younger, I had to write a few articles to Playboy every day to get paid, and it was too far from the state.

Getting out of the car, Bertolman walked for a while with his briefcase, and finally came to a country house that seemed to be inconspicuous.

It was already 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Bertolman very skillfully walked to the door and rang the doorbell. The door was opened by an old woman with a shallow smile and docile eyebrows.

Bertolman greeted with a smile: "You look very good today."

It was Stephen King's second wife, Tabitha Sbrus, who opened the door. When the two fell in love, Mr. Stephen had not yet made his fortune. The first time they met was at the school's literary salon.

Entering the villa, Bertolman chatted with Tabitha, and she enthusiastically went to make coffee.

Although Stephen King is very rich, he doesn't like to hire servants, and only occasionally asks the cleaning company to come over to take care of the hygiene.

And the old gentleman's children don't live with him, so they only come here to visit during the holidays.

"Sit down for a while, he is still in the study, it may take some time before he comes out." Tabitha brought a cup of coffee and explained a little.

"Thank you." Bertolman took the coffee and smiled at Tabitha.

Stephen King often locks himself in the study by himself, reading books, or thinking of writing. Bertolman is used to waiting. The reason why he chose this time is because the old gentleman will come out of the study after waiting until evening. .

The two sat opposite each other, chatting casually.

Most of the time, Bertolman finds some topics to talk about.

Not long after, there was a sound from upstairs, and Stephen King slowly walked down the stairs.

He wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses, his hair was mostly white, and he was dressed casually. When he saw Bertolman coming, he waved and said hello.

Bertolman stood up, got close to the old gentleman, said a little politely, and then started talking about business.

"...Is "Sons of Colorado" finished?"

He was afraid that the old gentleman would drag on, and added: "Our publishing house wants to determine the sample first..."

Stephen King, 57 years old, drank a glass of water and replied, "I still need to tidy up. Come and get it in two days."

"Row."

Bertolman was a little helpless.

But after thinking about it, at least this time I got the exact time, which is much better than running every day without any news.

After coming out of Stephen King's house, he walked outside and was blown by the cold wind. Bertolman was about to leave when he saw another car approaching and parked in the vacant seat in front of the villa.

Then two men got off the car and looked at the direction they were going...

Bertolman thought to himself: Why is there still someone visiting Stephen King at this time?

What will it be?

Although he was curious, he didn't run back after him.

Random House has worked with Stephen King for several years and is not at all worried about his work being poached by other publishers.

After all, Random House is the strongest in the industry...

"Do you want to adapt a novel written by Mr. Stephen?"

"What's wrong?"

"Which one is it?"

"The Mist."

......

Lehman walked in through the big iron gate on the south side with a spinning top, and walked along the lawn paths on both sides to the villa in front.

After he became interested in shooting a new work yesterday, he did a little research and found that the same subject matter had already been published - it was Stephen King's novella "The Mist" in 1984.

As for wearing the top, it's because this guy is a big fan of Stephen King, and he belongs to the kind of man who was surrounded by Stephen King's novels in his childhood. He has seen every work, and some classic works have been appreciated over and over again. Such as "The Shining", "Dark Night Without Stars", "Miracle in the Green Mile"...

It has to be said that Tuo was obsessed with these horror novels that were enough to scare people to death in his childhood, which is also a perverted heart.

The top asked Lehman as he walked: "Are you going to remake "The Mist"? Can I start with the crew? Although I don't think the story of this piece is attractive enough, I still want to know what it will be like if it is brought to the big screen. Effect."

Lehmann said angrily, "Aren't you still filming The Walking Dead? Where did you get the time to work with the team?"

What's more, in front of a director who wants to adapt it into a new work, saying that the work is not attractive enough can only be said by someone with a brain like the top.

Well, it's not a day or two that this guy has no emotional intelligence. He can have conflicts with so many production companies. How can his emotional intelligence be so high?

Top continued: "I only shot the first 5 episodes, and soon, maybe you didn't even decide on the crew at that time How about being an assistant director?"

Lehmann smiled, "Then let's wait until you finish the first five episodes. I can only promise to reserve an assistant director position."

The spinning top happily agreed.

......

This year, Stephen King's novel is not very news worth reporting.

When it comes to influence, the old gentleman has been well-known in the literary and film circles since the 1980s.

No matter what TV series or movies, he was young and old when he was a screenwriter, not to mention remakes and adaptations.

And, most of them are lucrative—well, except for the occasional one, like The Shawshank Redemption.

As for the "Mist" that Lehman decided on, the film copyright has not yet been sold - the copyright of the TV series has been sold, and even several American TV series have appeared in some scenes.

However, the original film in the previous life was not very well done, and the polarization of the audience was serious.

The reason for this is that the investment was a little lower, which resulted in a soft sci-fi thriller movie. The atmosphere was well created, but the setting and special effects highlighted the word "poor".

Looking at it, it feels like a play.

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