My Hollywood System

Chapter 23:

Chapter 23:

“I, I don’t know... hiccup!”

“Calm down. I’m here with you. It’s all over.”

“Sob... sob...”

In the woods, the ending scene for the [The Blair Witch Project] was finally shot, and it has left June crying and too scared that Will has to hold her in his arms.

The ending of the movie was scary, even to Will, and in the end, his improvisations left June so scared that she wasn’t able to stop crying.

Finally, after consoling her for a long time, June stopped sobbing, and in the warmth of his hands, she started feeling better.

“Hey, June. You okay now?”

Will asked, his eyes looking into hers, but she shook her body and snuggled more. still scared. Let me be for a few minutes.”

“Okay.”

He didn’t know if it was just because of her feelings for him or if she was really too scared, but he let her stay in his arms for a while.

Jeffery and the other crew members didn’t say anything seeing that and just chuckled. They left Will and June alone and tended to Marcus and Zach.

Both of them were in much better shape than June, but they were scared nonetheless.

The next morning, all of them have a compulsory meeting with a psychiatrist that Will has called.

After all, actors would often get traumatised after the shooting of a horror movie. And [The Blair Witch Project] was even shot really realistically.

In this world’s Hollywood, there was even a conspiracy theory about a popular actress in the 90s who was found dead in her apartment after shooting a horror movie.

There were reports that she was having mental health issues due to her character in the movie and ended up taking her own life.

Will didn’t want any of his actors to have any problems like this, so he has prepared everything in advance.

The following day after the meeting with the psychiatrist, they shot the final scene and like Will had said at the beginning of the shooting, all three of them were glad to shoot the scene.

* * *

“You seem especially happy for someone who rejected the idea of recording a movie in a camcorder.”

Will teased, making Jeffrey laugh as he patted his shoulder and said.

“Haha, you know it just as well as I do, just how crazy that idea sounded at first.”

Will didn’t refute it, of course, for an alternate universe like this without any success in such a type of movie; the found footage technique would seem like a fool’s errand at first.

As he thought that, he suddenly remembered something and said,

“Ah yes, Jeffrey. Do we have any good editors in our crew? We need to cut out these 20 hours of raw recording into a movie. We need to add many types of sound effects and such; I’d really appreciate a good editor.”

Will was really worried about this. He didn’t know where this world’s technology stood; although he had researched it, he didn’t know how hard it’d be to find a good editor. So he couldn’t help but ask Jeffrey.

Jeffrey, who heard this, smiled as he said,

“About that, actually, my wife is an editor too. She is the best one I know of. Why don’t you give her the work? You can make her edit a short clip and check her capabilities.”

Will was surprised after hearing that. He knew Jeffrey was married as Jeffrey would mention his wife in almost every talk. What surprised him was that she was an editor too, a good one at that.

Will knew Jeffrey wasn’t the type to lie about someone’s capabilities just because they were his family or friend, so Will couldn’t help but sigh in relief that his last concern related to the movie production was taken care of.

“By the way, have you decided which distribution company you’re going for?”

Jeffrey asked. Since the movie was produced, now the main concern would be its distribution. Thousands of movies are produced every year in Hollywood, but not all get the chance to be played on big screens due to their distribution methods.

“Don’t worry about that; I’ve decided to send them to some distribution companies after the final clip is ready.”

Will replied, and Jeffrey didn’t ask more about it.

As they reached the airport and showed their boarding passes to get entry, Jeffrey couldn’t help but comment.

“Don’t forget your promise, okay?”

“Yeah, I won’t.”

Will chuckled in his reply. He had promised Jeffrey that he’d organise a big afterparty if the movie crossed the 100 million mark at the box office.

Although Jeffrey didn’t believe in that promise before since he didn’t think the movie would earn so much after the movie was ready, he somehow just couldn’t stick to his previous opinion.

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