My Hollywood System

Chapter 91:

Chapter 91:

If Jeffrey had asked the same question on the earth of Will’s previous life, he would have been able to gather quite a lot of weird gazes.

‘What do you even see in Marvel Comics?’

It was funny yet ironic to Will. It had broken all records of Hollywood, and Avengers: Endgame was something that had grossed the all-time 2nd ranked most earning movie at the box office. Only behind Avatar.

Just the brand value of MCU was something well above anything in Hollywood.

After spending some time in this world, Will was finally getting caught up in everything in this world. He had found out many of his previous life’s actors working in small movies; some were even famous, like Scarlett Johansson’s counterpart, Scarlett McJohn.

Franchises like Marvel and DC comics also existed in this world. But although Marvel was in existence and had a good fan base since the 1940s, it had been struggling against DC comics of this world after the 2000s. It had been pretty close before that, but in 2000, Marvel Comics decided to take a step forward and get a lead.

Marvel had co-ordinated with a medium-sized studio and made a superhero movie to make some extra profit and gain a lead from DC. They used one of their most famous superhero families and made [Fantastic Four: Marvel’s first family].

But the movie ended up failing, sending Marvel Comics into the very depths of despair.

It was pretty funny to Will that even in this world, a franchise like Fantastic Four was a failure in cinema.

Marvel suffered a lot of loss, causing DC to get ahead of Marvel and become the absolute ruler of Comics in this world. Currently, in 2011, most of Marvel’s market belonged to DC.

Marvel comics was now on the verge of bankruptcy, and only the history attached to it was helping it stay afloat.

On the other hand, DC had sold its movie rights to Allen Studios, one of the Big Six Studios.

Allen studios had created a series based on Superman back in 2003-2004, and it was even a hit amongst the audience, but it barely managed to make a break-even for Allen Studios because of all the money spent on its high-level production budget.

Just the VFX took a lot of money, and Allen felt like it wasn’t worth spending on it.

They still had all the movie-making rights of DC, apart from Batman, but they hadn’t tried to make another DC movie or series yet after its first one. Entirely due to the scope and earnings of the previous series.

Batman’s rights were with a mid-sized studio called Zin Studios. They had bought the rights way before Allen bought the whole DC rights, but they never were able to release the movie in cinemas.

The interviewers were all high ranking agents, and employees of DTA, one of them was Jennifer.

“Why don’t you have any success till now in this industry? What makes you different from the stars around your age that have made a name for themselves by now?”

One of the interviewers asked.

It was one of the most common interview questions in the acting field, and hence, Natalie replied easily.

“Luck. They had sufficient luck to get opportunities, and I didn’t.”

Everyone wrote down something on their notepad, and another interviewer asked a question.

“What would you do if you can’t get a good role even after joining DTA.”

“If I get a role, I won’t see if it’s good or not and will play it to the best of my capabilities. Efforts are recognised sooner or later.”

The others continued with their questions, and Natalie kept replying decisively to each of them.

In the end, Jennifer asked a question, too, as she was the highest-ranking employee amongst the interviewers.

“What’s one thing you won’t do for roles?.”

“Being a slut.”

Natalie answered without a hitch, and Jennifer just smiled. She personally liked her a lot. Her looks were on point and gave a nice feeling.

Moreover, her acting was pretty good, and she was proud. She had come here after lots of struggles, so ambition was obviously there too.

If only she got good roles, she could get a good career in Hollywood.

‘She might be one of those who might pass the third round and directly get a role.’

From what Jennifer knew, Will was currently planning to produce two movies. One would be a war movie with majorly only male characters, something that Natalie was obviously disqualified for.

For [1917], she already had 2-3 good male actors in mind. One of them was even so good that Jennifer had heard of him in the free market.

As for Natalie, Jennifer felt like the second movie would be quite nice. She had no information about it aside from knowing it was a romantic comedy.

‘She might be able to get a supporting role in that...’

She thought in her mind as the interview went on.