Hollywood What If Chapter 267

Viggo Mortensen received so much applause from the fans who witnessed him walk on the red carpet. He still kept his shoulder-length hair and a short beard. He was John Wick.

He looked around and found that behind the reporters who kept clicking their cameras, a bunch of people had the same appearance as him...

It was basically like he found his twins... So many twins. The fans were wearing black suits. They have shoulder-length hair and beards, just like him. They were a bunch of clones.

Viggo heard that some fans of the Continental Cinematic Universe were invited to the premiere so Viggo was calm about it.

He could see that these people loved John Wick since they were wearing his outfit.

After doing some modeling in front of the reporters and getting interviewed, Viggo entered the theater.

The first person he found was Kazir Grey. Viggo had so much respect for the guy.

Kazir was a respectable and talented person. Viggo admitted that this director was the one who gave him a career. And for that, he was thankful.

So he approached the guy to say his gratitude.

Kazir saw Viggo approaching.

"Viggo, if you're going to say 'thank you for casting me', I'm gonna sucker punch you.'

He heard this sentence so many times from Viggo that he grew tired of it.

Viggo was surprised at first and then shrugged.

"I just want to congratulate you, Spider-Man is a box office hit."

"Glad to hear that."

Kazir nodded.

"I heard that The Lord Of The Rings will be released in December."

"That's right."

New Line Cinema and Warner Bros already announced that they would release the epic fantasy movie on December 19, 2001.

This was to make the other studios back out of that day and find another date to release their movies. So far, none of the Big Six announced that they would release their movies on December 19. Meaning that their plan worked.

Monopolizing a week of screening was good for The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Rings.

Everyone knew about the movie and New Line Cinema invested so much money in this movie. If everything went well, they would rake in profit.

New Line Cinema only invested in the first movie since they were not sure if The Lord Of The Rings would be successful. If the movie was a hit, they would approve the investment for the 2nd and 3rd sequels.

This was the same situation as The Matrix. Warner Bros was not sure if the movie would do well so they only invested in the first movie. But after knowing that The Matrix was successful, Warner Bros didn't hesitate and immediately gave approval for the filming of The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

"I heard that some trouble happened in the set."

"Well, how should I explain it? The fans of the novel protested and infiltrated the set, destroying some of the props. They felt like the movie would tarnish the reputation of the story that J.R.R. Tolkien spent his life for."

"You know, those people grew up reading the series and they are scared that their childhood memories will be replaced with something bad if The Lord Of The Rings is badly adapted. However, it's fucked up for them to cause trouble in the set."

"Some of the crew were injured because of them. Sometimes, you can't be civil with obsessed fans. They will not hesitate to do crime."

Viggo sighed speaking about it.

"Seems like you're speaking based on experience."

"Well..." Viggo weakly smiled. "An obsessed fan stalked me into my hotel room and entered the bathroom while I was showering. She was naked and hugged from behind. I swear, not a good experience at all."

The woman was beautiful but it didn't make things better. Viggo forgot to lock his room because he was too tired. Then a few minutes later, a female stranger hugged him.

Viggo almost had a heart attack when that happened. Thankfully, he calmed down and managed the whole thing peacefully. He called the guards and kicked the woman out.

The woman kept saying that she was John Wick's wife, which was not funny at all.

"I realized that being famous is that simple... At least that shows that I'm already a famous person, haha."

He tried to ease the atmosphere by joking but he found that Kazir looked at him seriously.

"Hire a bodyguard. Or hire an assistant that can be a bodyguard."

"Should I?"

"Things like this should be taken seriously. Lock your door, always."

"Yeah, I started doing that after that incident."

The two were quiet for a few seconds.

"I believe The Lord Of The Rings l: Fellowship Of The Rings will become successful."

Kazir muttered confidently.

"It's reassuring to hear that from you. I'm nervous regarding The Lord Of The Rings. I spent two years in New Zealand just to participate in this project. I was a fan of the novel as well and it's an honor to be part of the cast, no, it's an honor to be Aragorn. But sometimes, I can't help but be nervous. Perhaps if you are the one who directed this movie, maybe I'll be 100% confident. A lot of small and big problems happened while filming this movie. I'm not even sure if there will be a sequel."

"Am I really that great?"

"That's right. Your presence is enough to make things better."

"Damn..."

Kazir was speechless and a bit shy. The flattery was too much.

"How's working with Fremont? This is his second movie."

Fremont Smith was invited by Disney to direct John Carter but Fremont declined the offer.

The last time Kazir heard about John Carter, the filming was ongoing, possibly going to be released next year.

"He is doing fine... He sometimes cusses but overall he is doing fine." Viggo said about Fremont.

"If a director doesn't curse once in a while, then he is not a director."

Cursing was already part of the English language. "Fuck" has so many meanings that people sometimes used it to praise someone like: "Fuck, you're so beautiful."