Lord Of Dying Smoke - Chapter 212



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The King of Death Smoke Episode 212

The Second Masterpiece and the $400 Million Love Story (22)

It’s been a day since director Hopper Dusk was spotted laughing sinisterly with his junior distributor.

Director Henry Fein also met privately with the head of the distribution company, who was his junior and senior.

But their meeting was a bit wilder.

“What are you talking about, you crazy bastard! Are you crazy?!”

It was so wild that the CEO grabbed Director Henry by the collar and shook him.

The expression on his face was so amazing and his nose was blocked that he looked like he might faint.

“You little punk, there’s only 3 weeks left! 3 weeks! Promotions, events, and previews are all done, and we’re just waiting for the date! But, what? You’re going to touch the content now?!”

“yes.”

“This fucking dog─”

Movies have the inherent characteristics of having a short lifespan and the inability to differentiate prices.

Therefore, 70% of a movie’s box office success is due to its content, but the remaining 30% is promotion, and that’s a short-distance race. It’s a tight schedule, so much so that the deadline is usually considered to be the advance ticket sales period and the three days after the release.

This means that now we are in a crouching start position and just have to wait for the referee’s whistle.

But, an athlete who should be ready to run now wants to get back in shape in a hurry?

Have you gone crazy?

“Well, I know this is a difficult story for me as well.”

“That’s not the level, fuck… I’m thinking about reporting you as a drug dealer right now… .”

“But sometimes, producers have no choice but to say crazy things.”

“Even if you’re whining, you should have done it at the planning stage, you idiot!!”

The representative grabbed Director Henry by the collar again and shook him.

But soon I got tired of it and gave up.

What came to mind in Director Henry’s eyes was not stubbornness or obstinacy, but something closer to conviction. It was a look close to madness that said he would throw everything away if things didn’t go his way.

Considering the way he drove away all the investors with his eyes during the production of , persuasion is unlikely to work.

‘Whew, that son of a bitch.’

But now it’s different from the time of Richard I.

‘But even if you do that, it’s useless.’

Director Henry Feynman is no lone wolf these days, he has a number of conflicting interests at stake.

Wouldn’t the agency CAE and the broadcasting station that invested the most money immediately go crazy if they heard this news?

The representative had no intention of backing down this time.

‘You pathetic bastard. As your former senior, I’ll let you know that not everything goes as you wish!’

The CEO immediately spread this news to investors.

Naturally, everyone was shocked. The fifteen or so people who had been furious immediately rushed over.

The most furious of them all was CAE CEO Peter Jaylen, a former actor.

He came in, half-kicking open the large studio door, and shouted.

“Director Henry, what on earth are you trying to do! Do you think I’m funny because I respect you?!”

As always, he had a tendency to turn a little red whenever his niece Penelope was involved.

But that wasn’t all. Most actors with long careers have experienced their best acting being buried in a flop due to the director’s stubbornness.

Representative Jaylen’s eyes were filled with anger as his rage was provoked.

“I will have to explain this properly.”

Of course, it didn’t stop there.

“I agree.”

“This is absolutely not sane!”

“You can’t help but keep the steel plate in mind!”

Broadcasting station director, investment company representative, current famous director─

Those who were called Naero all spoke up one by one with expressions of disgust.

The distributor representative couldn’t help but smile inwardly.

‘Ugh, Henry. This time, you can’t get away with it. I told you, this guy needs to have his nose broken too.’

Throughout the production process, he suffered from his juniors telling him that they didn’t like the poster or the promotional brochure. He felt relieved when he finally got his act together.

That was when the representative was waiting for Director Henry’s surrender.

“Hmm, you’re here. This conversation will get faster.”

“What?”

But something strange happened.

Director Henry, who should have been struggling with those who were screaming, responded as if he had been waiting for them.

“I’ll hold back on my words for now. Let’s take a look and talk.”

He fiddled with the equipment and then lowered the beam screen that was used for conference purposes.

The representative was momentarily dumbfounded.

‘What, you want to do a show and prove? What on earth does this kid think of these people?’

There is no one in the acting world who has not worked hard in the film industry, including Peter Jaylen, who is a senior actor. Even if you bring up a really great scene, they are the kind of people who just say, “Wow.”

Are you going to convince those people with the scene?

Does the real world seem funny to you?

He inwardly hardened his expression.

‘Henry, you punk. This really can’t be left alone. This is very serious.’

‘Maybe the problem was that was too successful. I need to take this opportunity to really break that habit.’

The representative crossed his arms, intending to react openly by saying, “Hmm…” if there was even the slightest bit of subtlety.

It couldn’t have been any different for other people.

A dozen or so cold-hearted gazes turned toward the screen with a sharpness that seemed to wipe away the dust on the windowsill.

and,

Ten minutes passed like that.

“I fully support you, Coach Henry!”

“Perfect!”

“Time can be made! Let’s fix it right now!!”

A cheer like a roar.

In the meantime, the distributor representative who had to turn everything upside down was the only one who was just blankly blinking.

‘?’

* * *

Three hours later,

“…what?”

“That’s… that’s what happened.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

“……what?”

Naturally, when Director Dusk heard this news, he couldn’t understand what the hell this was.

I even had the crazy thought that Director Henry had realized that there was a sequel and had spread false information.

You’re putting your hands on the work with only 20 days left until its release?

Are you really going crazy?

“What… should we do?”

“Ha, that’s what you call a horse!”

Of course, Director Dusk had no reason to care whether the other side was senile or not.

He immediately gave instructions with a snort.

“We have to spread it.”

“yes?”

“Isn’t it clear that there was internal conflict over this absurd act? Whatever it is, it’s clearly bad news for them. Let’s spread it around and scatter the ashes.”

“Oh, I understand!”

Director Dusk had already staked his life on this matter. As soon as he made up his mind and took action, word of this situation spread like wildfire.

Anonymous witnesses came forward one after another, and sensational stories added to fact-based press releases swept across the country.

Naturally, the waiting public was excited.

If this is true, doesn’t that mean wasn’t even properly completed three weeks before its release date?

At that time, Koreans were posting pictures of Kang Min with titles like, “What we should do now” and “Worship him” and saying, “Damn, here we go again. But I have no choice but to worship him…”

But even that motherland was turned upside down.

-What the f*ck??? Does this make sense???

-No way;;

-I should have expected it… It’s been a year since the announcement, and even if you count from before that, there are still a few more months left, but there’s no way hard SF could come out in that period.

-Actually, if you only look at the teaser, it’s not hard SF, but more of a space opera. It’s because Kangmin’s zero gravity acting is so awesome. But the work they’re currently doing is serious… .

└Who threatened with a knife to hand it over within that period of time???

└If you want to go with something special, you have to do that

└I was like that from the beginning; just do a special or something and it’s not like this is a prequel movie

-what….

-I’m really worried about this;

-I don’t know if it’s okay

-Oh my, the bubble is bursting nowㅋㅋㅋ They say she’s popular in the US, but she’s at the level of the Korean entertainment industry where she’s causing a fuss over a short-lived trash who hasn’t even won an Emmyㅋㅋㅋㅋ

└The Emmys are a category issue, you idiot.

└What does the messed up movie schedule have to do with actor Kang Min?

└Do you believe that? LOL Anyway, you guys have a problem with Nengji. And if Kang Min-ah’s movie is ruined, it’ll be a chain reaction bankruptcy. If you have Nengji, how can you not know? Okay?

└;

└Sigh… .

While actress Choi Na-kyung, who was embarrassed during the audition for , is slowly turning into a professional malicious commenter, confusion has erupted in various places.

In particular, countries that were proud of the third-round entrants to were worried that this movie would not only dampen their momentum but also ruin the entire project, and this anxiety once again led to controversy.

And Director Dusk was not one to miss a moment of confusion.

“Now is the chance. Let’s move up the preview schedule.”

“yes!”

He confidently held a preview screening attended only by renowned critics.

And, it has had some success.

* * *

Naturally, amidst all this chaos, no one seemed particularly interested in the premiere of Streets of Los Angeles.

It was natural that there were doubts about Director Dusk’s sanity from the time of the announcement.

Naturally, critics also went there without much expectation, just to cool their heads.

“Who knew that losing the ‘Battle of New York’ would ruin people so much?”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

“You’re saying you’re going to make a movie out of a soap opera?”

In the United States, making a movie as a soap opera is similar to making a movie as a daily drama in Korea.

Basically, there is no particular story, and the ratings are maintained with provocative elements, and when that wavers, more is thrown in─

It’s great in that it defends its ratings cheaply. But doesn’t that mean critics who give serious ratings to it won’t get criticized?

The critics sat down, clicking their tongues in unison.

But why is that,

What actually came out was something completely different from what they had thought.

[When I was six, my mother left home.]

[When I asked him where he was going, he said, “If you’re a good kid, he’ll be back soon.”]

[It was a bit ambiguous. It meant that I was a bad kid unless my mother came back.]

[Still, I had to try.]

‘?’

[I tried to be good.]

[I memorized the entire Bible that my mother told me to read and memorize. I prayed every day. I went to church every week. I studied hard and only played games for an hour a day. Oh, and even now.]

[Then people started calling me ‘Honest’ Liam.]

‘???’

[Oh, let me be honest.]

[I didn’t really know what she wanted from me, but I wanted to give her what she wanted.]

[It just happened.]

‘?????’

Thirty minutes later, the critics were all standing there with their mouths open in a daze.

It was a human drama.

That too, was a pretty well-made human drama.

Haunted by past trauma, ‘honest’ Liam sees the world through slightly different eyes.

He is peculiar and a bit lacking, but he lives in the world with his own purity.

Childhood, school days, and beyond─

The scene where those who used to make fun of Liam gradually become moved by him and become affectionate towards him naturally drew attention without any artificiality.

It was a trick.

It was clearly a fabrication.

therefore,

If this doesn’t lead to the ‘that’ love story in the main story.

Critics were furious after the film ended and gave it a slew of negative reviews.

(It’s a good movie. People can understand each other, the world isn’t so cruel… why the fuck did they make this a prequel?!)

(Director, what the hell is the problem?)

(It was good. It was really good. If only it hadn’t bothered me that this kind boy would later become the main character of a 20-something relationship.)

And this again created a perfect flow.

The stone-throwing by angry critics only served to pique the public’s curiosity.

Most people, after looking into what was going on, were astonished to find that the prequel to was such a heartwarming human drama.

-No, so… this main character became ‘like that’???

-Oh my god

-The world is cruel ;(

-No, but I’m a little curious about this.

-I know….

Needless to say, all of this was part of Director Dusk’s grand plan.

To that end, director Dusk made the original film into a melodramatic romance that everyone has heard of, and for that contrasting effect, he hid the atmosphere of the original film to the utmost extent.

“The response is amazing, Director! It’s amazing!”

“Well, of course.”

The gambler, who risked everything, was completely satisfied.

As things turned out this way, the PR team also started to stretch.

All of the connections of the man named Hopper Dusk, who had devoted 30 years to Hollywood, were converted into influence and scattered everywhere. It was a huge flow comparable to the third time of .

At this point, people had no choice but to look, if only out of curiosity.

At the same time, a subtle outlook began to spread.

-Hey, guys? Don’t you think the will lose?

-Did you forget that Kang and Pyon beat up $180 million worth of Dusk for $30 million?

-That’s when both sides are properly prepared and face off. You’re still tinkering, but Dusk seems to have honed his skills this time.

-No matter how good the river is, if the movie itself is a mess, there’s no way 🙁

-There is already talk of an award on Dusk’s side… .

-From the beginning, even if they had the same production period, SF and human dramas couldn’t be the same! It was just crazy!

initially raised high expectations, but then showed signs of anxiety right before its release.

On the other hand, director Dusk was pushing evaluation, recognition, and topicality to the limit.

And then something happened that finally brought this anxiety to its peak.

ended up not having even a single proper schedule, even canceling the preview screening scheduled before its release date.

“Oh my god, this is crazy…!”

Everyone was left speechless at this crazy situation.

By this point, it was clear that the situation there was a mess.

A pessimistic outlook began to take hold of the world.

-Ah, this is impossible;

-I thought it was going to be exciting, but it’s really absurd that they even canceled the preview

-Wouldn’t it be better to just postpone the release date rather than get cursed at?

-There’s no way a movie can be like that… .

-This might be Kangmin’s first flop

-What did I say?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Kangmin’s bubble burst right?! It’s just beginning!!!!!

Hopper Dusk, who saw the final reservation rate, was finally convinced of the result.

‘Kang Min. Henry Pyun.’

‘It’s my victory.’

The day when a malicious commenter got excited and left hundreds of comments.

Both films were released on the exact same date in mid-January.