Chapter 230: New Type of Movie

"... Our investment in this movie exceeded twelve thousand, and our investment in the male lead also exceeded fifty thousand."

"Don't forget, we just signed a special contract with him!"

The investment they made in the male lead wasn't just time cost, training fees, and all kinds of miscellaneous fees; they also signed a very special contract.

The male lead must be the male lead for no less than fifteen movies for Triumph Film Industry. In other words, the clause originally used to restrict the male lead had turned into a knife that hurt Triumph Film Industry!

In the detailed rules, it was stipulated that the male lead must be the male lead of every movie.

At that time, when they signed this contract, Serike thought that the male lead had a handsome appearance and a body like a classical bodybuilder, so he would definitely be very popular in the market.

Before, they filmed a silent film with a duration of about thirty minutes to make a try, and many viewers thought the male lead's performance was very good, and they were willing to know and pay attention to this male lead.

Based on this point, Triumph Film Industry signed such a contract with him.

They cultivated the male lead, and the male lead also had to repay them as much as possible, bringing benefits to the company.

But now, there was a twisted scar on the male lead's face, which looked like a bug on his face.

Those stitches looked like the legs of a bug. Thinking of this, Serike felt a bit nauseous.

Damn it!

"The company lost at least three hundred thousand in total. If someone gives him an idea and he demands the company to fulfill the contract, we have to film fourteen more movies for him."

"Even if we lower the cost of each movie to the minimum, this might also take one hundred thousand dollars."

"We lost at least four hundred thousand. If he can become a big hit in the future, then the loss we have will be even more."

The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a while. "Then what do you want to do?"

Serike's mouth curled up slightly, but no one could see his expression. "That young man named Jie La Er is the most talented one I've ever seen, and his external conditions are also the best."

"He is worth four hundred thousand, or even one million, two million!"

The voice in the receiver was a bit dull. "Are you sure that young man named Jie La Er is really that outstanding?"

"Or is it that your sexual preference has started to affect your judgment?"

Serike was suddenly a bit ashamed and angry. "Fuck, I won't be affected by such things in my judgment. I can still distinguish between public and private matters."

"If you came over and saw that young man, you would know that I absolutely didn't say it wrong. He will become a flag of the company!"

The director thought for a while. "So?"

"We give them some pressure, let them bow their heads. I know they are gangs, but we are not vegetarians either!"

"And now, there are some other film crews in Xigu City. If we retreat now, we will become the laughing stock of the entire industry."

The gentleman opposite the receiver laughed lightly after listening. "But they are gangs, Serike. Those methods don't have much use for them."

"You can't expect these gang members to take the initiative to pay fines or plead guilty. This is impossible, let alone expecting the police to catch them."

"You have no way to give them pressure."

"But I agree with that sentence you said very much. We cannot become the laughing stock of the industry. We support your counterattack!"

"According to your idea, give them some pressure, and then talk to them."

After Serike finished listening, he revealed a smile. "You made the right decision..."

Jie La Er couldn't leave Xigu City for these few days because he was still under the "ban."

Actually, if he really wanted to leave, no one would care about him. In the Federation, violating the ban was as simple as drinking water for some people.

But for other people, it would seem a bit more difficult.

Especially since Jie La Er would become a big star in the future, now he wouldn't have too many "stains" on him.

Although from a longer-term perspective, having ties with gangs was also his stain, but that was a matter of decades later.

In this era, the federal government, capitalists, and gangs ruled the world together, and people wouldn't feel that being a gang member was a stain, as long as it wasn't that kind of small gang that wasn't in the stream.

But, having gang background and having a criminal record were two things, so Lans and them would stay here temporarily.

Branch Director Wesite had already passed the information of Lans's group to the local police through internal channels. For them, gangs from New Jincheng naturally had some deterrent power.

There was even a book called "New Jincheng Gangs" that recorded many brutal things.

Triumph Film Industry decisively called the police and intended to sue Lans and others, letting them pay a total of one million in compensation.

This debt was directly pressed on Jie La Er. When he knew this news, he was obviously a bit panicked!

Anyone, at his age, suddenly facing such a huge compensation lawsuit, couldn't keep calm!

This was one million years!

In an era where the actual wage was only thirty-odd dollars and forty-odd dollars, one million meant they couldn't pay it back in their lifetime.

Serike's lawyer even put forward the idea of "can talk."

Xigu City was too peaceful. This news soon hit the front page headline of local news, and Serike also talked about it in an interview, saying that he very much appreciated Jie La Er's talent.

He indicated that if Jie La Er and his friends were willing to apologize, and Jie La Er was willing to sign a work contract with the company.

Then he could apply to the company to terminate the lawsuit and compensation requirements against Jie La Er.

Not only that, they were also willing to create a series of movies around Jie La Er.

It seemed they offered very good conditions. Even those who watched the excitement could feel Triumph Film Industry's determination to get Jie La Er.

This also made them all feel that this Triumph Film Industry was not bad. Clearly, they were the victims, but because they loved Jie La Er's talent and gift, they were willing to give up "revenge."

This was very attractive to the federal people who had a free and romantic spirit in their bones!

Many of them didn't know Jie La Er, but because of this, they started to have some interest in this big boy who had only heard the name but hadn't seen the real person.

What happened here didn't just cause influence in Xigu City and New Jincheng, but even in the entire film industry, it caused a certain degree of influence.

Some film production companies started to discuss a problem—how to ensure that the company's filming plan could be executed without being affected?

If there was gang involvement, they might all face the same situation. Although someone shouted the slogan "Please keep gangs away from movies," it didn't seem to have caused any big waves...

Lans looked at "Today's New Jincheng" in his hand, which mentioned this matter.

"I haven't asked them for compensation yet, and they sued us in court first." He said and thought for a while. "For these people, we must let them recognize reality."

Hai Lamu couldn't help but get excited. "Work is coming!"

Lans took out a map and drew three circles casually. "You guys distribute your tasks..."

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the filming crew of "Love Trap" had quite a few security guards maintaining order. Serike felt that Lans might take action against other film crews, so he had already urgently hired quite a few security guards.

Some were hired locally, and some were hired from other places and rushed over. They tried to avoid hiring security guards from New Jincheng to avoid hiring people who had a relationship with Lans.

The protection of so many security guards also made the crew members feel at ease. They completed the filming of a plot with laughter.

The director looked very satisfied. Their progress was fast. If there were no accidents, they would be able to finish all the filming in at most a week or so.

Actually, it wasn't just the first release of the entire industry that had an unshakable advantage. The first release within the company also had an unshakable advantage.

Just when he was considering the plot below, suddenly the sound of car tires rubbing against the ground came to his ears.

He turned his head to look. This section of the road was temporarily blocked. The City Hall gave them three days. There shouldn't be anyone driving in at this time.

Just when the director called the assistant over and let him tell those people not to stay here and leave as soon as possible.

People got off the car. They were all carrying baseball bats of the sailing team. Some locals saw this scene and revealed dissatisfied expressions.

Because it was the sailing team last year that eliminated the Xigu City team!

The assistant bit the bullet and walked over. "You can't park here!" He originally wanted to drive these people away and tell them to leave as soon as possible.

But for some reason, his mouth suddenly didn't listen, and he said a sentence he hadn't even thought of.

Hai Lamu turned his head to look at the three cars parked neatly, cursed and waved the baseball bat. With a muffled sound of "dong," the assistant fell asleep.

After a very short silence, some actresses screamed and fled to the distance, and the security guards who were guarding here also rushed over one after another.

Hai Lamu pulled open his windbreaker, revealing the submachine gun inside. In an instant, the actions of all the security guards stopped.

"Squat down slowly with your hands on your head, let me see your hands, otherwise my bullets will talk to you!"

Facing the security guards who were far more numerous than them, Hai Lamu not only didn't get nervous or timid but became even more arrogant.

He handed the baseball bat to the person beside him and pulled the trigger toward the sky with the submachine gun.

The sound of gunfire made the chaotic scene even more chaotic!

These security guards, after a short weighing of pros and cons, all squatted down.

Actually, some of them had weapons, even pistols, but to risk their lives for that little money, they always felt it wasn't worth it.

The security guards' giving up resistance directly made the crew members fall into despair. However, the vast majority of them actually didn't need to be afraid.

Lans wasn't the kind of person who loved to kill, and these people were essentially innocent. As long as they didn't do stupid things, they wouldn't be injured and wouldn't be in danger.

Lao En kept Lans's words in mind. He walked directly to a person who looked like the director and grabbed his collar. "Where is the film?"

The director hadn't experienced this kind of battle. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva. "It's in the van over there, and there's a part in the hotel..."

Two minutes later, the director watched the film that had been filmed in the past few days and hadn't had time to be sent back being pulled out, splashed with gasoline, and swallowed by the raging fire.

All the achievements during this period were turned into ashes at this moment. He knelt on the ground and let out a shrill scream—

"No!!"

The police came very quickly, perhaps this had a relationship with the fact that there weren't many cars on the roads of Xigu City. It only took seven or eight minutes to hear the wailing police sirens.

Hai Lamu jumped up and stepped on the camera lens until it was deformed, then looked at these people who were controlled with a grin. "Tell your boss, this is just the beginning!"

He shook his hair and spat on the ground. "You've caused trouble!"

He had heard Lans say this. That producer had told them this. Now, he wanted to return this sentence to these people word for word.

After speaking, he carried the submachine gun on his shoulder and swaggered into the car.

At this time, the police car was only twenty meters away from here. They also saw the three cars of the bandits, and also saw the submachine gun carried in Jie La Er's hand.

Even they themselves were still using revolvers, and these bandits were already using submachine guns. How could they catch people?

Hai Lamu seemed to be demonstrating. He extended the submachine gun out of the car window and fired a burst of bullets toward the sky again.

The police car that was still accelerating suddenly stopped in place. Until they couldn't see those three cars, they drove the car over.

Several police officers tidied up their attire, comforted their wildly beating hearts, and one of them asked with a straight face, "Who reported the police?"

Being a policeman is too dangerous!

In one afternoon, all three filming crews of Triumph Film Industry were smashed, the film they filmed was destroyed, and some crew members were beaten—

There were always people who felt they were the protagonists of this world and wanted to do something to change the situation at that time, but they failed.

Fortunately, no one was killed, only people were beaten and injured.

In an instant, the pressure returned to Serike's side. He didn't expect the security guards he hired to be so useless, nor did he expect that Lans's group, even in front of the police, dared to fire warning shots.

This group of people was too arrogant. Were they really... ordinary gangs?

For a time, the directors of the board of directors almost blew up his phone.

This time, the losses added up to at least four or five hundred thousand. The film was only a part of it; the most important thing was that the shooting equipment for these three crews had all been destroyed!

That was a huge sum of money.

The board members, who had originally remained silent on this matter, began to argue. They seemed to have a lot of "hindsight," as if they had known the result would be like this all along.

But between the lines, their target of attack wasn't Lanse's group, but Selik.

They believed Selik's stupidity had affected his brain, that he was no longer fit to continue as a board member, and some even said he should hand over his shares to atone for his sins!

The accusations and insults from these people made him extremely unhappy; he hung up the phone directly and refused to answer any more calls.

After pacing back and forth several times, he asked, "Do you know any local gangs?"

"Ask them how much money it would take to deal with Lanse and his group."

Previously, he hadn't intended to use these tactics because he didn't want any stains on his record, just like Mr. Chobaf.

He was unwilling to contact gangs personally because he didn't want any stains on his record.

But now, Selik couldn't care about that anymore.

His assistant quickly found some numbers through his connections and dialed them.

He kept making calls constantly. Selik stood by the window smoking; he was sick of it!

These damn gangs never played by the rules, and most importantly, the company's influence hadn't reached this area yet.

However, he knew from the assistant's unpleasant expression that the idea of finding a local gang to help him take revenge didn't seem to be working either.

When the last phone call was hung up, the assistant sighed, "No one is willing to take this job, even though we offered a high price."

"The locals are heavily influenced by Jingang Cheng. They say Lanse is a member of the Pasleto family, and they aren't willing to make a move against Lanse and his friends. It would offend big shots."

Selik began to pace back and forth, feeling somewhat irritable. "Call the mayor, call the councilors, protest to them!"

"The investment environment here is too poor. We are actually being threatened by some gang members, and the police can't protect us. This is simply a joke!"

There were several people in the room, all his trusted subordinates. Just as the producer was planning to offer an idea, the door was suddenly opened from the outside.

They were all startled and stood up, watching the door being pushed open, watching Lanse walk in from outside. "What kind of joke were you talking about just now?"

He walked straight to the sofa. Those who were sitting on the sofa and those standing by it were all pushed by others to stand in the corner.

Lanse sat on the sofa, crossing his legs and shaking his ankle. "Mr. Selik, can you tell me what kind of joke it is?"

"I'm a person who also likes to hear jokes!"

Selik pursed his lips and looked at Lanse. After about ten seconds, he said, "You are not welcome here."

Lanse looked at Enio. "Get Mr. Selik a chair. I don't like talking to people while looking up."

Enio dragged a chair from the side, placed it opposite Lanse, and gestured for Selik to sit on it.

But the latter didn't seem to want to cooperate, remaining standing there, looking at Lanse with cold eyes.

Enio walked to his side and delivered a fierce punch to his lower abdomen. In an instant, this Mr. Selik, who had insisted on standing, bent over and was helped by Enio to sit on the chair.

Perhaps realizing that Lanse and his people truly had no fear of social norms, Selik stopped talking.

He also tried his best to straighten his spine again, still maintaining that impolite demeanor as he looked at Lanse.

"Take the other ladies and gentlemen who have nothing to do with this matter to another room. We need to have a good talk with Mr. Selik."

Hearing the news that they were "free" made everyone else in the room breathe a sigh of relief. When Gerald's producer also wanted to leave, he was stopped.

"You can't go."

Selik was a little panicked at this moment, but he didn't show it because Gerald was also there.

Just when he wasn't sure what was going to happen next, the male lead arrived...