The My Hollywood System
Chapter 45
It's been almost a year since Will moved to this alternate earth. But there were many unsolved things he did not know.
One of them was how a man like him, with the same face, body, and interests, existed in this alternate world as well, and he had mastered such a man.
And after seeing Michael Elrod, who was exactly like Robert Downey**., Will concluded that this was more of a parallel world than an alternate world.
That means people with the same faces, interests, and habits from Will's previous world could also be here. But as the history of this world is slightly altered, so are the actual roles and situations of the people as well.
Or so it was roughly the conclusion that Will came up with and began to believe in him as well. This easily explains the situation with himself as he is transferred to an exact copy of himself, not someone else, and Tony Stark's 2.0 appearance has reinforced this belief.
“Can I meet this Michael Elrod guy? Obviously, if you don't mind. ”
Will asked Benjamin, who raised his eyebrows at his question as if thinking, 'What is this fellow doing now?'
“Of course it's okay; I can arrange a meeting between the two of you. But like ... What are you doing? ”
*hem*
Will coughed and said.
“Yeah, I've watched one of his movies recently, so I'm interested in him. Not much."
Benjamin, who hears this, is still curious but decides not to continue the matter and only agrees to let Will meet Michael.
Michael doesn't seem particularly talented or charming, and his contract with MCA is coming to an end. There's no harm in him meeting Will.
Benjamin gives Michael's contact information to Will and has Will take his name when Michael asks how he got his contact number.
After that, Will had nothing else to do, so he left the MCA office.
***
[Happy to have reached $200 million in total box office in less than six months.]
[Unlocked Achievement: Intended for success.]
[Gift:
10 Million points of fame
Instrumentalist Intermediate ]
Will receive a notification as soon as he sits in his car. The film finally surpassed the $200 million mark as soon as DVD sales began last week.
The moment he received the achievement notice and reward, he became excited. His system was almost meaningless to give a start to him; unlike the system from his previous life novels, his system did not force him to do anything or give tasks or anything related to keep him running.
Sometimes he would give her a gift if she did something really well. And even when he earned 65 million dollars, he did not get anything in return, coming to the conclusion that he was only rewarded when certain conditions were met or when he beat his own achievements.
She has a convenient selection of stores where she can buy a variety of items that can make her career in Hollywood easier, even though they are expensive.
It's like buying talent with money. If the world's rich had a way to buy talent, they would definitely buy it, but unfortunately for them and luckily for Will, such a convenient system only existed for Will.
[Skills Improvement]
[Intermediate Direction → Advanced Directing]
[Cost - 640,000 points of fame]
[Are you sure you want to improve this skill?]
[Yes No]
Although like spending 6.4 million dollars, Will considers it a good investment, especially considering the next film he must direct. So he immediately agreed to upgrade the skills and knowledge and experience that filled his brain.
It almost felt like new eyes had opened for him to see normal things from a completely different perspective than before.
[Skills Improvement]
[Acting Beginner → Acting Intermediate]
[Cost - 35,000 points of fame]
[Are you sure you want to improve this skill?]
[Yes No]
Acting was something she had never thought of doing in her previous life, but ever since she gained beginner acting skills, she could not help but develop a certain level of fondness and interest in acting; this was also one of the reasons he requested a role in [17 Again], the other reason was approaching June.
Without much thought, he invested his FP and knowledge of various expressions, poses, body language, ways of speaking, and several other things implanted into his brain and body.
The skill not only gave him brain memory, but also gave him muscle memory as if the talent he had just bought was practiced since childhood.
“Hah...”.
Will sigh satisfied. He felt like he had just eaten the best food in the world and was full. That was the kind of satisfaction he felt.
He was still in the car parked on the MCA and did not move in the slightest.
He still had some things to do with the system, so he put it aside for a moment. She was hungry and wanted to eat something good, so she called June.
He didn't pick up the phone. A few seconds later, a text message came from June.
Will just chuckles at hearing it. June and the other two male leads both face some problems from the paparazzi, so Will decides to go and eat alone. It's nice to have a quality and peaceful time to yourself once in a while.
He went to a 3-star hotel near the MCA and, after parking his car, went inside for lunch.
A female waitress came to her desk and asked for her order while continuing to look at her and play the whiteboard in her hands.
Will simply asks to bring whatever is best on the menu and tasty for a light lunch, after which, he starts playing Chocolate Crush on his phone.
After the food came, Will ate as much as he enjoyed every taste.
As she asked for her bill, the waiter gave her the folder where the bills were placed.
"I'll pay with the card."
Will waved the debit card in his hand as if telling the waiter to bring the swipe machine.
Immediately after paying the bill, just as Will was about to leave, the waiter came and stopped him.
“Hey...Err...Well...can I request a signature? I'm a big fan.”
The waiter shows her written book, Will smiles and pulls out a pen tucked in his blazer as he signs on the paper.
"What's your name?"
“That's Roses.”
Will writes 'for Rose' just below his signature and draws a heart.
***
After coming to his house and lying on his comfortable bed, Will called the system status screen.
[Name - Will Evans
Age - 21
Expertise - {Advanced Direction} {Acting Intermediate} {Instrumentalism Intermediate Level}
Fame Points - 9,330,000
Inventory - {Sherlock Holmes}]
A short status screen appeared in front of him.
He still had quite a number of Fame points he could use to purchase some other skills, but he did not want to do so. He discovered that the last level of each skill was the Grandmaster level.
Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced → Master → Grandmaster
This was a rank that every skill followed, and after the advanced level, there were certain conditions that had to be met before he could improve a skill, for example, as he tried to improve his advanced directing skills to the master level, a system prompt appeared.up, the,
[You do not meet the requirements to upgrade and learn about the cost of upgrading these skills.]
[Regulation for improvement -
Has participated in at least one Oscar-nominated film.
Your net worth should be more than $200 million. ]
Achieving net worth was possible after some time, but meeting the first requirement would take time and effort, so he decided to keep the fame points for his next film, [Sherlock Holmes].
After a lucky spin that she got from winning the award at the Annual Film Festival, she got a movie script.
He was quite happy to get the script, but he thought that he would need to hold on to the project for some time to put together all that was necessary for the project, the most important of which was the lead role itself.
Due to a strange fate, he comes to learn about an actor who has played the role of Sherlock Holmes in his previous life, it made him such an outstanding blockbuster that he won the best actor award at the Golden Globes Award while bagging many other awards for the film.
To top it all off, he has played the role of Tony Stark, Iron Man. One of the most famous superheroes in the Marvel Universe, and Will is sure no one can do better than him.
Will has watched all the movies starring Michael Elrod (Robern Downey*. of this world) and concluded that he is the same person with the same acting skills.
The only reason he was not very popular was because of the kind of role he played until now, making him unable to show his true potential to the world.
Will had planned to buy cheap movie scripts from the system and direct [Sherlock Holmes] later for two reasons. The first is a suitable lead role, and the second is funding.
Although he earned around $75 million from the overall revenue of the Blair Witch Project, it was still not enough to make this film.
Even in his previous life, the budget for [Sherlock Holmes] had surpassed $90 million. Many other factors would only increase Will's overall expenditure.
The first is to own your own company. He did not want to look for anyone else every time he made a film, and having his own production company would save him a lot of money later on.
As he had already researched Sherlock Holmes, the legend already existed, and one of the top 6 production houses had made a Sherlock Holmes related film in the 1990s.
He needed to buy the rights from them to make a film with the same concept, and he would need his own crew for everything, which would cost him a lot, and the amount he had was not enough.
But after earning 10 million points of fame from the system, the future did not look as fuzzy as before. He had spent nearly 680 thousand fame points for his skills and was left with 9.3 million fame points.
Which can be converted to $93 million through points exchange in the system. After combining his current bank balance and fame points, he should be able to create his own film company and direct [Sherlock Holmes].
The first step is to get Michael Elrod into his own company as his contract with MCA is coming to an end.