HWI 482

Hollywood What If Chapter 482

Kazir had a trauma that he wanted to overcome. In his past life, he spent his whole career making horror movies. They were all failures at the box office.

There were so many movies released in the year. His horror movies could only secure dozens of theaters to release his movies and none of them brought profit.

Still, making horror movies was profitable. He sold his movies and made a million that way, he also received residual income from his movies.

Studios loved acquiring movies to expand their film libraries. This action heightened when online streaming became mainstream.

Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services loved to buy small-budget movies to expand their film libraries. Sometimes, streaming services even invest to make their own movies.

Netflix created Bird Box, Enola Holmes, and other movies/TV series just to make sure that their customers would have content to watch.

So even though Kazir's movies were not box office hits, he had a constant source of income. In fact, despite his old age, some actresses were interested in him because of his career as a director.

In his past life, after his divorce from Cassandra, Kazir had a few long relationships with women, but nothing went to the next stage, which was marriage. He had girlfriends in his past life, however, he understood that they were only interested in him because of his profession.

It became a bane in him, he had a hard time trusting the opposite sex after that.

Anyway, Kazir had been making horror movies his whole time, and he knew the formula.

Before his death, he had written a script that he wanted to produce. He even convinced Netflix to invest in his project but he died before the project started.

"Shadows Beneath."

Kazir muttered while staring at the script on his table.

Kazir was scared. He was not scared of the script, he was scared that he would fail again now that he was trying to make an original horror movie.

However, he admitted that he had a trauma and he had to face it. He was way past the point where he had to be depressed with his decision.

He had to do it, or else he would stay in his place and truly never move.

He planned to film it in just two months. Editing was also not a problem since the movie didn't have many special effects. This was a small project.

He wanted to hire his friends for this movie but he knew that it would be tough to do so. In the first place, this movie only had a budget of $15 million.

This movie needed two months of production, and those two months were important to everyone. They couldn't waste two months of their time for a small amount of money, their agents wouldn't agree. Even Salvatore wouldn't agree from a business viewpoint.

He had free time this year and that was the only time he could film this movie. Because after this year, Kazir had to work with The Dark Knight.

"I should call my assistant director. We will have an audition. In the meantime, I should focus on editing the footage of Pirates Of The Caribbean."

Kazir had a new assistant director after Palenque Simone left his crew.

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"Yes, yes? Director... I'll do what I can do."

Everest Thorne put his phone as he looked at the ceiling... He just woke up. He partied up all night now that he had more time for himself.

Two years ago, Everest was lucky to be hired by Grey Pictures to be Kazir's assistant director. It was a huge honor; he had so many rivals who were trying to get the position, but Everest got it.

He thought he was the luckiest person.

Director Grey had two assistant directors before Everest, and these two assistants got their own projects after working with Director Grey.

It showed that Director Grey was the person who trained his assistant for a better career. He took care of his people and helped them grow.

Everest was so happy at that time.

But after working with Kazir, Everest realized something important. Director Kazir Grey was a workaholic person!

Every year he had a project to make. It was damn tiring. Especially this time, they traveled to the Caribbean to film Pirates Of The Caribbean. Everest was sleep-deprived for half a year because of Pirates Of The Caribbean.

Being the assistant director, he was Kazir's right-hand man to manage the production crew. It was not easy at all.

Thankfully, now that Pirates Of The Caribbean has ended its screening, Everest has more time for himself. He still had to go to Grey Pictures to help Kazir in editing the movie but at least he didn't have to go around and manage people.

Last night, he went to a party to have some fun.

And today, while in his bed, he was forcefully awakened by a call. He looked at the clock and realized that it was already 1 pm... He was fucking late for his work!

He immediately answered the call when he realized that Kazir was calling him.

Everest was nervous at first when Kazir said that he didn't have to go to the editing room. He thought he was going to be fired.

But before Everest could explain himself, Kazir dropped a bomb.

-- You don't have to go to the building. Instead, form a small production crew. I want to film a horror movie. I also want you to start an audition.

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Everest was speechless.

They just finished a project, yet the director wanted to make another one! Damn, like, damn!

"At least he didn't fire me."

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[I'm not going to lie. The script Shadows Beneath is written by ChatGpt. I can make a horror script but my imagination and knowledge are incomparable against ChatGpt. In the first place, I accepted that I'm an average writer. I feel like if Kazir is going to make a horror movie, I want it to be a real horror. Some of you guys might not like it, so I'm just saying it ahead. In my case as a writer, ChatGpt is useful. But don't worry, 99% of this novel is created, imagined, and written by me, except for movie summaries.]