"yawn!"
Sitting in his seat in the audition room of Washimine Entertainment, Nanaya yawned loudly.
"What? Lack of sleep?"
Ori placed a cup of coffee on the table in front of Nanaya and asked jokingly.
"Um..."
Nanaya rubbed his eyes and nodded.
He hasn't had a good sleep recently - because he has too many social engagements.
It's now a week until Oscar night.
After Nanaya won the Best Director award, Madoka Magica won the Best Picture award.
In the end, this new world box office record-setter swept the 82nd Academy Awards with 10 wins out of 14 nominations.
Although it is not as good as "Titanic" with 11 wins out of 14 nominations and "The Return of the King" with 11 wins out of 11 nominations.
However, as a commercial high-grossing movie, winning 10 Oscars is itself an incredible thing.
What followed was the media's barrage of attacks on Nanaya.
At the end of the award ceremony, Nanaya almost had to spend the night in the Kodak Theater because of the siege by the media and reporters.
It's not surprising that this would happen.
After all, even though it is the most prestigious and influential award in the world, most of the past Oscar winners for Best Director and Best Picture often face an embarrassing problem.
They did win awards, but their works did not have much real impact.
But Nanaya is different, he is not just an ordinary Best Director Award winner, he is also the box office champion in film history.
It can be said that Nanaya created the double miracle of business and art.
How could such a person not be popular with the media?
What made the media even more crazy was that a new Forbes list was released three days after the Oscars.
Thanks to its rapid development last year, Washimine Group's market value increased by 50% in one year to US$155 billion.
This not only makes the wealthy woman Shion rank fourth on the list with assets of 38 billion US dollars, but also allows Nanaya, who has a net worth of more than 14 billion US dollars, to surpass Soros and reach the 35th place.
Compared to this amazing achievement, the news that the two continued to rank first and second in Japan did not attract much attention.
It is because of the release of the rich list that Nanaya's popularity has not subsided until now.
Even though a week had already passed, Nanaya could still often see media reporters hanging around him.
Although Nanaya was indeed very excited when he first received the award.
But after being chased by reporters for so long, Nanaya was somewhat annoyed.
Of course, the journalists are certainly not to blame for seven nights of sleep deprivation.
The real reason for seven nights of lack of sleep was the endless social engagements after winning the Oscar.
A small banquet every day, a big banquet every three days.
This is basically Nanaya's life status for the past week.
In fact, this is already a situation where Bali has helped herself to eliminate those parties and banquets that she can avoid attending.
Otherwise, Nanaya really wouldn't be able to be liberated in just one week.
"Hmm…"
Nanaya took a sip of the coffee that Ori prepared for him.
Stimulated by caffeine, Nanaya became a little more energetic.
Ori sat down next to Nanaya, holding his chin with one hand and asked teasingly: "Is it because you have been to too many carnival parties recently? Or is it that Miss Wettin or Shion are too awesome?"
Nanaya complained directly: "How is that possible? I've been a bachelor for a week."
Although Nanaya and Ryan celebrated well the night they won the Oscar.
He even unlocked many new poses on the slim-waisted aristocratic lady.
But it was only for one night.
He then spent the rest of his time attending banquets and celebrations in various places.
Ryan was sent by Shion to various small crews to show his face and hone his acting skills.
Nanaya hadn't seen her for a week.
"How boring! I thought I could hear your Shura Field story, Senior."
Ori waved his hands, feeling sorry for not hearing Nanaya's gossip.
Nanaya rolled his eyes at Ori and said, "Is it so fun to tease your own senior brother?"
"Of course it's interesting." Ori laughed, "Who told you to spend your time drinking and partying while leaving me alone to do all the boring work?"
"I call it giving more work to those who are capable." Nanaya said shamelessly, "Didn't you hear what Shion said? Letting people with the right abilities do what they should do is the right way to be a manager."
Ori had a dark face: "I feel like you completely misinterpreted the meaning of this sentence! You are just being lazy!!"
Nanaya would never admit that Ori was right. He picked up the information and asked about work matters: "How are the auditions of the servant actors going?"
Although he knew Nanaya was trying to change the subject, Ori still replied, "We have almost finished the characters for the Prologue, except for the last two."
The role of the prologue was almost decided before the audition.
The remaining minor characters appear quite a few times, but they are basically not very important.
Nanaya simply delegated power to the middle-level members of the crew, just as a favor.
Among the characters in the entire prologue, there are only two that need to be carefully screened - Leif and Solomon.
Well, although he is set to play Romani, Nanaya plans to find another actor for the role of Solomon.
Otherwise, if Solomon and Romani are played by the same person, wouldn't that be an official spoiler?
After all, not every movie is like "Doctor Strange", where one person can play both the protagonist and the villain.
The so-called creator is to set traps for the audience.
Didn't I see that in my previous life, the voice actors for Solomon and Romani were also different people?
Think about it, a character who has always been bullied in previous movies suddenly jumps out at the end and declares that he is the final boss.
No one would have thought that, after all, the Israeli boxing champion would actually become a Heisei otaku in Chaldea.
Thinking about the surprised expressions of the audience at that time, Nanaya suddenly became very excited!
After all, you never get tired of playing the "Sorry, I'm a policeman" joke.
Emmmm...wait, a little bottom?
Bah!
Who? It's the little bottom!
"Ahem."
Nanaya coughed twice vigorously to get rid of some strange thoughts in his mind.
Ori found it strange that Nanaya kept coughing.
"Senior, do you have a cold? Do you want some throat lozenges?"
"No."
Nanaya pushed away the lozenge that Ori handed to her and began to look through the candidate actor information of Leif and Solomon.
There is no problem with the role of Leif, just choose a character who can perfectly switch between the good face and the bad face.
On the contrary, Solomon, who had less playing time, made Nanaya a little troubled.
Solomon's appearance time in the prologue will not exceed 10 seconds, which is basically similar to the brief glimpse of Thanos in the final easter egg of "Avengers".
To put it bluntly, the appearance in the prologue is just to pave the way for Solomon, or more precisely, Goetia, the final boss.
MCU's portrayal of Thanos can be said to be very successful. Starting from the first "Avengers", it has used various indirect and indirect methods to build momentum for this super villain.
But this villain never takes action until the final battle.
Even when he appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy, Thanos was just pretending to be awesome while sitting on his space toilet.
The audience can understand the horror of this villain from the perspective of other characters.
But I just can't see his true strength.
It wasn't until the release of "Infinity War" that Thanos made it clear to the audience in the first scene why he was the most powerful villain in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
After this, the audience will gradually get to know this villain and become fascinated by him.
There are countless villains in Marvel's more than 20 movies.
But the only characters that were truly successfully portrayed were Thanos and Loki.
However, Loki was portrayed too white in the later period, and it was hard to tell whether he was a villain or not.
From this perspective, Thanos is undoubtedly the most successful one.
It is natural for Nanaya to use Marvel's successful "precedent".
Not to mention, the original FGO script also used a similar approach in its editing.
However, as mentioned before, the script quality of the fourth chapter where Solomon appears is too low, and Nanaya does not intend to make it into a movie.
Therefore, the scene where Solomon appears in the middle definitely needs to be modified.
But no matter what, the actor for this role is very important, and Nanaya has no intention of fooling around.
Originally, Nanaya was planning to choose a Jewish actor, or an actor who looked like a Jewish, to play Solomon.
But later Nanaya gave up.
Because according to the European and American stereotypes of Jews, they should have big hooked noses, sunken cheeks, and only the nose is particularly prominent.
The Jewish actors currently working in Hollywood all fit this image in appearance, but this actually makes Nanaya feel distressed.
Although it cannot be said that these Jews are ugly, they definitely do not match the image of the big boss that Nanaya requires.
Fortunately, Hollywood has always liked to be self-centered when it comes to historical films.
Historical information and whatnot, basically the little girl was allowed to dress up as the crew pleased.
Otherwise, why was King Xerxes of Persia in "300 Spartans" dressed like a monster in "Journey to the West"?
Of course, this is still polite. Just look at the hardest-hit areas in the British TV series.
Merlin can be black, Guinevere can be black, Adam and Eve can also be black...
Nanaya can only say two words to this group of crazy British people.
"hehe."
"Hey, Ori."
Nanaya flipped through the materials and asked, "Who do you think is more suitable to play Solomon?"
"Senior, are you planning to hype up the character of Solomon?"
In response to Ori's question, Nanaya nodded.
If one wants to portray "Solomon" as the final boss, all kinds of publicity outside of the movie are inevitable.
After the Easter egg in "Avengers 1", how many news and self-media outlets were educating the public about the character of Thanos?
Without these external forces building up momentum, how could Thanos be so anticipated by fans based on just a few sporadic appearances in the movies?
Therefore, Nanaya naturally hopes to choose a very topical actor to play Solomon.
After all, FGO does not have a comic story to pave the way for it, and the image of Solomon as the big boss is definitely not enough relying solely on historical stories, and the actor's topicality is a must.
"Since you want to choose a famous actor, I personally recommend him."
Ori flipped to the last few pages of the roster and clicked on an actor.
"Leonardo Dicaprio?"
Although there was only a one-inch photo on the roster, three words popped up in Nanaya's mind - beach, running, and water gun.