The next day Ash went to the company. Today he wanted to finalize the preparation for his first movie and start the pre-production process. He has convinced Martha and Misty so now he wanted to start the audition for other roles in the movie as well. He wanted most people to be from his company, but if he can't find someone suitable, he was ready for other options.
Then Lilia arrived in his office and she handed him a file. In the file, Serena had allocated the budget for the movie. Ash wanted to get 13 million for this movie, but he still knew that the best he could get for this movie was 8 million. Even though the budget of this movie was 8 million in his previous world it had earned over 100 million that too without any promotion and it was released in around a dozen theaters in the beginning.
Ash thought this movie had even greater potential if it had just a bigger budget and bigger release which Ash decided to give it in this world. He thought if he is to make movies of his previous world he would make them better than his previous world.
Now Ash needed 5 million dollars more so he decided to take a loan with his apartment. It was a slightly bigger apartment so he would at least get 2 million dollars and for the other 3 million, he decided to write a script and sell it.
With those thoughts, Ash went to Serena's office and told her about his plans.
"I'm not doubting you or anything but are you sure you will be able to write the script for a trilogy in a month," Ash told Serena that he is going to write a script for a trilogy movie and he wanted to sell it for 3 million which were very cheap according to Serena but Ash told her to add a condition that he will sell the script for only 5 years and after that movie rights will come back to Starline. Serena was surprised again and she thought that Ash had some plans for this movie in the future.
"Don't worry I will give you the first script before the week is over"
"Then set up a meeting with some other studio on Sunday."
"Yeah do that." Then Ash looked at an invitation letter on Serena's table so took it. Serena was looking at Ash amused.
"Sometimes I just wonder how your brain works. You would be a great businessman if weren't so reckless. But maybe that is your unique point."
Ash didn't respond to that after all he was confused about how his brain actually works and wanted to know that too. Instead, he asked her, "When did we get this invitation?"
"Don't tell me you are interested in it?"
"Well, Sure I am. I am so interested in it that I can do anything to acquire this goldmine."
"Comics were popular in the last century. Its age is gone. These two companies are barely staying afloat by working together and investing in it will be too risky."
"Last century belonged to comics but this century belongs to movies."
"Wait, Wait... Are you thinking what I think you are thinking then I think... No, I am 100% certain that you are crazy in your mind."
"Don't worry about it now first we are going to this Comicon event and then we will talk about it."
"You do realize that you don't have any extra money on you right now."
"Not right now doesn't mean I will never have it."
"Ah! Forget what else I was expecting from you."
Serena decided to drop this as she felt that her opposing it was actually encouraging him.
Ash took the invitation letter of the Comicon with him and kept staring at it.
He did a little research about the comic industry of this world and found out that comics in this world were actually more famous than in his previous world till the 90s. But in the late 80s government formed an agency for comic regulations it was called the 'Regulatory authority for comic publications' and this agency destroyed the comic industry so badly that it never recovered.
Marvel and DC existed in this world too and were very similar to his previous world. They survived the dark ages for the comics but were on the brink of bankruptcy and they only survived because they worked together and gave quantity over quality but in the long term it broke the trust of the customer and they never recovered their former glory.
And another side effect it caused was that they never entered the movie industry so superhero movies were never made in this world. For Ash, it was like an untapped goldmine and he will take its potential to a whole other level.
After his investigation was done he decided to head home and write the new scripts that he promised. In his home, he was sitting in front of his laptop. Today he brought a bottle of wine with him because he wanted to experiment with his ability. So he drank a glass of wine but it wasn't enough to make him drunk. After drinking his wine he went into the calm state and started to focus on the memories of him watching an old Hollywood action movie.
It was a movie set in Australia in the 70s. Ash kept his calm state for about an hour. But when he woke up he felt devastating side effects on his body so he went to sleep right after it.
When the next day he woke up after exercising and freshening up he started writing the script on his laptop. But it took him a while to write this script because he had to make many changes to this script and make it according to this world and era.
The title of the script he wrote was:- MAD MAX.