Chapter 632： Rescue hungry children

"Destroy the earth?" Roland Emmerich frowned, seeming to be considering the specific meaning of this sentence.

A secretary knocked on the door and walked in and brought Roland Emmerich freshly brewed black tea. After Ryan made a please gesture to him, he continued, "Roland, you have heard of Maya’s Calendar?"

"Of course." Roland Emmerich nodded, "The last day of their calendar is December 21. They think that from that day on, the world will enter a new era."

"But in various legends of Western religions, 2012 is the year of disaster." Ryan crossed his hands and placed it on his desk. "It is also the rumored end of the world."

"You mean to make a disaster movie related to this?" Roland Emmerich roughly understood what he meant.

"Yes."

Ryan said unhurriedly, "We can borrow the prophecies of the Mayans and religions to destroy the earth on December 21, 2012."

After thinking for a while, he continued, “For example, if there is a problem with the earth’s core, the plate has moved significantly, a new orogenic movement has begun to appear, volcanic eruptions in various places, and the tsunami caused by a global earthquake engulfed all the land, if human beings I want to survive..."

"It can only be like in the legend." Roland Emmerich gradually loosened his brows and directly accepted Ryan's words, "Build Noah's Ark that can rival the flood."

"That's it." Ryan smiled.

"This is a good idea, this is a good idea." Roland Emmerich clenched his right hand and smashed his palm. After thinking about it for a few minutes, he said, "But I think it is better to postpone it a few years later. After all, it is a little bit away from 2012. far."

"I think so too." Ryan tapped on the desk again, "I will let the screenwriter team of Jenkins Pictures complete the script as soon as possible, Roland, I suggest you make some preparations in advance. Familiarize yourself with the technology of 3D production, Think about it, what kind of shock will it bring when the whole world collapses in front of the audience?"

"Ryan, if the script is completed, please mail it to me as soon as possible." This man was completely attracted by the idea of ​​even more crazier destruction, and for the time being did not consider the issue of prehistoric movies. "I think this will be me. The most perfect ending on the subject of a disaster film."

When the matter was discussed, it was basically finalized, and Roland Emmerich left afterwards. He will also return to New York to start a long publicity journey with the "The Day After Day" crew.

After lunch, Ryan sat in an office chair, still thinking about the morning.

In his previous life, as long as Roland Emmerich left the theme of disaster, the bad box office results were a mess. However, the director wanted to switch to other types of movies. He vaguely remembered that the action movie that destroyed the White House had a poor box office. Compared with "Ten Thousand Years Before History".

Although most directors claim to be able to shoot movies of any genre and style, in fact most directors are only good at one or two aspects. Even James Cameron and Steven Spielberg will not touch those subjects that are not good at them.

After a soft knock on the door, Nicole in a tuxedo pushed the door and walked in, and Taylor, who was also dressed up behind him, carried several men's clothing bags.

"It's almost time. We should start changing our dresses." Nicole reminded after sitting opposite.

"Hurry up!" Tyler threw the garment bag on the desk and almost hit the LCD monitor. "It's very rude for the host to be late."

"Give me ten minutes. It will be fine soon."

After taking the garment bag, Ryan walked into the office suite, and Taylor looked at the closed door. He smiled and said to Nicole, "Don't you go in and help him?"

Nicole glared at her, Taylor shrugged playfully, sat in Ryan's position, and after a round, said, "So this is the feeling of the chairman of Disney."

"Waiting for you to be eighteen." Ni can use gestures to remind her to pay attention to the dress, "You can ask Ryan to give you this position."

"What position?"

While finishing the bow tie, Ryan pushed the door and walked out, just to hear Nicole's last words, "What position does Alison want?"

"Chairman of Disney." Tyler winked at him deliberately. "Is it okay, my dear brother Ryan?"

"As long as the other directors have no opinion."

In a joke, the three people left the office and took the elevator down to the ground floor of the Disney building. The convoy was already waiting in front of the building. After they got up, they drove directly to Harvey Weinstein's private club in Malibu.

Today, this private club, which has never been open to the media, opened its doors. The flatst large lawn was set up as a temporary venue. Hundreds of reporters gathered in front of the podium in the venue with long guns and short cannons. On the dozen or so rows of white chairs behind them, all the celebrities from Hollywood sat.

In addition, hundreds of enlarged pictures were placed on the display racks around the venue. All of them were hungry children photographed by photographers from Africa. Although they were of different ages and different genders, they were all skinny and extremely conspicuous. His big head looks extremely miserable.

"So what George said was true."

After the speech of the famous reporter who frequently travels to poor areas of Africa on the stage, Taylor, who was sitting next to him, whispered, "There are such poor children in the world."

"My dear, that's all we can do."

The deep-seated reasons in it can't be explained clearly in a few words. Ryan patted her arm lightly, "So, don't even think about running to Africa with Scarlett."

"She's a traitor again!"

After muttering this sentence, Taylor's head dropped.

"I invite the founder of the foundation, Mr. Ryan Jenkins, below!"

After waiting for the invitation from the host on the stage, Ryan sorted out his dress slightly, and under the shining of countless flashes, he got up and strode over and went to the podium.

Today is the day when one of his charitable foundations was established.

Ryan took out all the remuneration he received in the "Star Wars Series"-about a little more than 100 million US dollars-to set up this charitable foundation to rescue poor children in Africa, and also accept donations from Hollywood celebrities.

Of course, this is not a foundation established for tax avoidance. Ryan will ask people to strictly supervise its operation and disclose all accounts. It is absolutely not allowed to explode all kinds of scandals like the Red Cross Society of North America.

"ladies and gentlemen."

Standing in front of the podium, Ryan lifted his hand slightly, and the reporters in front of him immediately returned to a quiet state. He did not prepare a speech. For him, impromptu speech was not a problem at all.

"My purpose of establishing this foundation is very simple, to eliminate the threat of poverty and to rescue hungry children on the land of Africa."

"Since the beginning of this year, a severe drought that has not been seen in 60 years has spread in the'Horn of Africa.' After more than a decade of war, Somalia has fallen into the'worst food crisis in Africa's history.' According to official statistics from the United Nations..."

Ryan stretched out his hand and introduced the leftmost position in the front row. Three officials from the United Nations rescue organization stood up and waved to the surroundings.

He continued, “At present, 640,000 children in Somalia are severely malnourished and most of them are facing death threats. The United Nations estimates that if immediate action is not taken, such as providing emergency relief food, drinking water and shelter, the number of people affected may increase. An increase of twelve-five percent, or even more than one million."

"It is easy to denounce poverty and hunger, but it is difficult to overcome them. African children suffering from hunger, deprivation and humiliation need more than words of sympathy, they also need concrete support."

"Across the African continent, there are still millions of children living in poverty who are deprived of their rights to food, education and health care. We must help them and extend a helping hand to them."

There was warm applause from the audience. After the applause subsided, Ryan continued the following words.

"Hunger is a common disaster faced by all mankind. We should help each other regardless of national boundaries. While enjoying the peace and prosperity of the United States, we should not forget that there are children on the other side of the earth waiting for our care. I call on More caring people will join in the rescue of hungry children in Africa and provide necessary assistance to African children who are suffering from humanitarian disasters!"

There was warm applause from the audience again, and Ryan also raised his hands and slowly applauded.

"I will devote 110 million US dollars to this charitable foundation in one lump sum, and thank Mr. Bill Gates and Mr. Warren Buffett. Although they did not show up, they donated US$20 million each. Thank you Mr. David Geffen, Mr. Steven Spielberg, Mr. James Cameron, Miss Nicole Kidman, Miss Julia Roberts..."

Ryan thanked everyone who donated to and finally emphasized, "The accounts of the foundation will be made public. I will ask PricewaterhouseCoopers to supervise all the accounts. All expenses will be listed in the official On the website, friends in the media are also welcome to supervise."

After speaking, he stepped off the podium and returned to his seat, followed by a speech from a UN official.

What Ryan has done is just what most of the richest people in the world are doing. On the one hand, they are trying to extract profits from all over the world, and on the other hand, they spend part of the money to earn a good reputation for themselves.

This is also related to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who each donated 20 million US dollars.

Not long ago, these two super-rich people, who were among the top two on the Forbes rich list, sent a charity invitation to Ryan at the same time, with the theme of helping poor people all over the world. Ryan responded publicly at the first time, and then This foundation was established.

After the brief foundation ceremony, all reporters were invited out, followed by a regular cocktail party. (To be continued...) ()