American fame and fortune

At Los Angeles International Airport, Martin pulled a suitcase, walked out of the terminal, and stretched.

He slept soundly in the first class cabin all the way. Most of last night's hard work had dissipated, and he gradually recovered, full of energy.

Thomas came over and helped the two of them put their luggage into the trunk of the Escalade.

Bruce took the initiative to get into the driver's seat.

As the Escalade drove out of the airport, Thomas opened his briefcase, handed the materials he had just collected to Martin, and said, "The situation related to Billy Milligan and the two documentary biographies."

Lily and Elizabeth are waiting for him at home. There will be a hard fight next. Martin is closing his eyes and concentrating: "Tell me about it."

Thomas said: "The situation is somewhat different from what was expected. The copyrights of the two books are in the hands of Billy Milligan himself. After Billy Milligan came out of the psychiatric treatment center more than ten years ago, he registered a small production company in Los Angeles. The company once announced that it would adapt its experience into a movie."

Martin was really surprised and asked: "Did you take it?"

"I didn't shoot it." Thomas said in detail: "These two books have brought Billy a lot of income. In addition to maintaining his daily living expenses, he can also save a sum of money. In the past few years, he used this money A screenwriter was hired to adapt the two books into a screenplay called Crowded Room.”

Martin opened his eyes: "I seem to have heard this name somewhere."

Thomas reminded: "It should be from media reports. Billy once gave an interview to the media, claiming that he would make this script with multiple personalities as a selling point into a movie, and also planned to invite Tom Cruise or Leonardo to play the leading role. That's who he is."

After being reminded like this, Martin thought about it: "Yes, Leo mentioned this matter. At that time, the gossip media was hyping it up, and the other party used him and Tom Cruise as a boo to attract people. Leo didn't seem to respond, and it was very late. It will fade away soon.”

Thomas said: "The matter was quickly settled. Billy's script was not sold, and he did not have the funds or ability to make a movie."

Bruce interjected: "Isn't Billy schizophrenic and has twenty-four personalities? Can he still do things like make movies?"

"According to psychiatric and psychological experts, all personalities have reached a compromise." Thomas checked the details: "He can already live a normal life and is not harmful to society."

Martin was not interested in any of this and asked directly: "Does Billy intend to sell the rights?"

"You can try it by contact." Thomas reminded: "We'd better hurry up. According to what I learned, Billy seems to have detected a tumor."

Martin nodded: "Contact Jessica and buy the copyright as soon as possible." He thought about what happened before and emphasized: "Low-key and fast."

Thomas said: "Send you back, I'll go to Burbank."

Bruce reminded: "Be careful when you go there. Although that guy was released, he was once a dangerous person."

Thomas decided to bring a few bodyguards over. He added one more thing: "The series of incidents involving Billy can be regarded as a public event. If the negotiations do not go smoothly, we can also adapt it. There will be no copyright conflict."

Martin thought for a while and said: "To reduce the trouble in the later stage, try to get the copyright first. If you can't get the copyright, we will talk about other things."

The car drove into Beverly Hills, specially passed through Century City, dropped Thomas off, and then rushed to the North District of Sunset Boulevard.

Entering Davis Manor and parking in front of the villa, Martin got out of the car and found that no one came to welcome him, so he had to carry a bag into the hall.

The door of the villa suddenly closed, the curtains closed automatically, and all the lights went out.

Martin heard familiar footsteps, so he didn't move.

Lily quickly came up behind Martin, put a stone knife-like carving on his lower back, and said, "Don't move, raise your hands!"

Martin moved slowly.

Lily grabbed his back collar: "If you don't hurry up, I'll stab you in the kidney!"

Martin felt his clothes being lifted up from his lower back, and a cold, hard long object was pressing against his back.

He put down his duffel bag and raised his hand.

Lily wasn't done yet: "Turn your hands over backwards!"

Martin's hand slowly fell toward his back.

"Hurry up, it's your turn!" Lily said rushing not far away.

From the area covered by the screen, a leg wearing black over-the-knee boots suddenly stretched out, and Elizabeth Olsen, wearing a red leather hunting suit, walked out.

She was holding a red rope in her hand.

Lily asked: "Is he right?"

Elizabeth tried her best to smile fiercely, but in front of Martin, her smile turned sweet unconsciously: "Yes, it's him! We captured the American hero alive!"

Lily said: "Very good, tie him up, we will torture him carefully, and then check carefully to see if he has enough!"

Martin understands the previous ones, but what does the latter sentence mean?

Elizabeth tied a slipknot skillfully and wanted to wrap Martin's hands.

Martin played with them, acting out the whole routine, as if he had been subdued.

After the noose fell, Lily subconsciously moved her hand back, and the thing pressing on Martin's lower back moved back a bit.

Just like it was true, as soon as the knife left, Martin grabbed Lily's wrist with his backhand and snatched the knife from her hand.

He pulled Elizabeth over, put the stone knife across the little witch's neck, turned to look at the other side, and shouted at the same time: "Don't move!"

Opposite her, Lily was wearing a tight-fitting black leather outfit. A carving knife was spinning between her white fingers.

This specially customized clothing highlighted the figure so much that Martin kept looking up and down: "Don't move, I will do it!"

He suddenly laughed, touched Elizabeth's chin with the back of his hand, and said to Lily: "This beauty, you don't want to see her blood flying, do you?"

"Bad guy, let go of my sister!" Lily also had a lot of scenes and looked upright.

Martin seemed like a villain: "You can let her go, you have to do what I say."

Elizabeth also got into the act: "Leave me alone, hurry up and leave!"

"Don't worry, I will definitely save you!" Lily opened her bright eyes: "What do you want to do?"

Martin said: "I want this leather hunting suit of yours!"

"Leave me alone..." Before Elizabeth could finish her words, the stone knife in Martin's hand was placed across her mouth.

Lily said: "Don't do it, I'll give it to you!"

After saying that, she turned the carving knife and swiped it between the chest and abdomen, making the sound of the leather cracking.

Martin was surprised.

Elizabeth was worried and immediately acted out: "Don't hurt yourself!"

How could the famous young artist Lily hurt herself? She used herself as the raw material and used her artistic skills to create a human-shaped sculpture.

The leather fell down one after another, and the exposed parts underneath looked like white jade with pink diamonds inlaid on it.

Martin ordered: "Come here."

The righteousness on Lily's face turned into humiliation. She moved towards Martin step by step, and then followed his orders and did all kinds of incredible things.

The Beauty Dragon Quest begins.

On the other side, Bruce packed his luggage in the annex, sent a message to Martin, took a handbag with a gift box, and left the manor to go to TMZ.

It wasn't get off work yet, so he waited in the car for a while. Jody suddenly appeared on the passenger side and knocked on the window.

Bruce quickly opened the car door, let Jodi get in the car, and threw the handbag to her: "I have no use for the gifts from the sponsors, so I gave them to you."

Jodi glanced at the Hermès logo on it and wondered when had Martin ever cooperated with Hermès?

"Where to go?" Bruce started the car.

Jodi said: "Go to my house." She asked deliberately: "You just came back from Boston and you came to see me? It seems that the relationship between us is different."

Bruce didn't change his expression and opened his mouth to make excuses: "I am Martin's agent and public relations manager. Of course I have to maintain a good relationship with the editor-in-chief of the No. 1 gossip media in the United States."

Jodi cursed, you only have eyes for Martin.

But she would not say these words. Quan Dang didn't hear it, stared at Lao Bu, and said with a sneer: "Very good, you don't want to see Martin's negative news exposed, do you know what to do?"

Bruce nodded, making another sacrifice for Martin.

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When it got dark in Davis Manor, Martin, Elizabeth and Lily sat in the dining room, chatting while eating dinner.

Lily rubbed her knees when she had nothing to do, obviously feeling uncomfortable.

Martin pretended not to notice.

Elizabeth handed over a piece of information and said, "Lily and I chose the business jet."

Martin didn't open it and said, "Have you made your choice? Place the order directly and I'll pay later.

However, Elizabeth opened the cover and placed it in front of Martin: "We chose a Bombardier Global 6000, which can carry up to 15 passengers, has a longest range of more than 10,000 kilometers, and is priced at around US$60 million."

Martin took a rough look at the relevant parameters and interior decoration, and said, "Okay, just choose it. You are responsible for placing the order."

Lily became interested and said, "When the plane is delivered, the three of us will take to the sky together."

Elizabeth said: "Haven't you been tortured enough?"

Lily bared her teeth: "While he was being restrained, he was also being restrained!"

Martin looked up at Lily, as if he had returned to the Atlanta period, and said, "Idiot, don't say bad words!"

Elizabeth didn't want to hear Atlanta slang, but didn't say anything. She took Lily, who was full, to the living room: "Let's contact the people at Bombardier and place an order."

Lily nodded and whispered: "Let this bastard Martin bleed profusely!"

After dinner, Martin went directly to the study. He called Leonardo first and asked about "Crowded Room" that year.

Leonardo said: "I don't know what happened. The gossip media suddenly reported it, and I learned that there is such a project. I am not interested in the 24-fold personality role you mentioned. It is too strenuous to act."

"It's because your acting skills are too poor." Martin hung up the phone after saying this, not giving Leonardo a chance to fight back.

Then, he called David Fincher and wanted to ask David Fincher out to talk about the project.

In Martin's opinion, David Fincher is more suitable to direct this type of movie than Night Shyamalan.