Chapter 29:
After giving directions to Emilia and talking with Jeffrey, Will finally went back ho.
Looking at the small apartnt, for which he had to pay rent every month, he decided he’d buy a house after [The Blair Witch Project] showed up at the box office.
After that night with June, she ca around often to hang out at his place; although they didn’t do anything because of how busy and focused, Will was regarding everything.
He wanted everything to go perfectly and didn’t want to have anything bad happen to the movie because of his lack of attention.
On Friday, the editing was finally finished as Will booked a small theatre to watch the movie with the whole cast and the crew.
As the movie finished, cheers could be heard from the enthusiastic group. Will was very satisfied with the editing.
Emilia had kept the scenes he wanted, and the end result was much better than the actual [The Blair Witch Project].
Instead of showing the Blair witch throughout the movie and making the audience numb to her appearance and fear factor, Will had just made a single glimpse of the Blair witch at the movie’s end.
That one glimpse was enough to implant fear, and many would co back to watch the movie again just to get that one glimpse again.
As Will had called everyone at the theatre, he had told them that it’d be the day everyone would get their paynts.
All in all, he had spent $100k just on shooting, which included the props and every other cost for shooting.
He spent a bit less than $100k on the main and supporting cast of the movie and spent around $50k on the crew and editing.
Everyone involved wasn’t famous or anything, the overall cost can be called way less than an average movie, but that was still enough to give huge quakes to Will’s pocket, which didn’t have much money.
After handing payouts to everyone personally and comnting to them a ‘good job’ or a ‘well done, Will had around $250k left in his card, which he got after selling the [17 Again] script.
After that, everyone went ho apart from June, who had already taken over Will’s house as her personal abode, which Will, of course, accepted very willingly.
It was fun to have her around, and she helped a lot by providing her ideas and feedback about everything.
Two days passed, and Sunday arrived, the day on which Benjamin had set a eting with Will and The Distribution Head of Starfox Studios.
The office of Starfox Studios was very close to MCA since the whole of Hollywood had decided to make ‘Hollywood Areas’ in every city, making studios and such things nearby each other.
Will was wearing a dark grey coat over a black shirt and pants. Although he didn’t care about appearances much, the sa couldn’t be said for everyone else.
Appearance and good personality mattered a lot when doing new things and making new connections, which would give an excellent first impression.
As he entered the office, he approached the help desk and inford the lady gawking at him that he had a eting with Chandler Davies, the head of the distribution departnt at Starfox Studios.
The lady confird and made so calls, after which a person that could be easily misunderstood as a pole ca out.
He had a frown on his face which was covered by oversized spectacles.
“You’re…Will Evans? Right? Mr Davies has inford about your eting before. I’m Jas Dankworth, his personal assistant. He has given the right to proceed with today’s eting since he’s busy.”
Jas had an annoyed expression on his face as he looked at Will. Chandler didn’t want to et with a wannabe director, but since a senior agent from MCA asked him, he couldn’t outright reject the eting.
Hence, he told his assistant to go out and et Will, make so excuses and reject his movie indirectly.
There were many small-ti independent directors with movies ready for distribution; it didn’t an Chandler checked every movie and t with everyone personally when he already had a packed schedule.
Honestly, Jas disliked such young directors who thought that they could make anything worthwhile.
Their movies were poorly directed, lacked real plot, and had low-grade editing, not to ntion that Will was here to show his horror movie.
Starfox Studios rarely created horror movies due to the reputation that they had created throughout the years.
“I thought I was eting with Mr Davies. Where’s he?”
Will said, noticing the scorn that the assistant seed to have for him.
“He is doing sothing urgent. You can show your movie or leave. Your choice, kid. I don’t have too much ti to chat with you.”
Jas’ tone was blatantly rude, and his body language was showing his annoyance. For a mont, Will wanted to hit back at him but decided not to do so.
After all, he was here to sell a movie and needed to be polite.
Even if Jas was a rude asshole, he needed to bear with it for a while. Just for his movie.
“Okay.” Will simply said.
“Follow .”
Will followed Jas to the dia room, and as they entered the room, the annoyed assistant asked.
“What type of movie is it? The sa witch horror stuff.”
At that mont, Will realised that the assistant didn’t even know that [The Blair Witch Project] was shot on a camcorder and wasn’t the typical movie he expected.
Smiling to himself, Will explained.
“It’s about the story of three friends who try to unravel the mystery behind a local legend called the Blair Witch.”
“I have seen a lot of movies like that. Most don’t even give any scares.”
“I’m pretty sure my movie will be different. After all, it’s one of its kind.”
“What do you an?”
Jas asked, confused and Will replied with a smirk.
“It’s a horror movie shot on a camcorder.”
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