Esoteric Plan

After the new couple felt that they had their fill with their real talk, light passion, and stomach-filling breakfast... Saturday work had to be done.

Taking Sullivan's car, the trio drove to the Burbank side of the business.

From shy and afraid to collected and accepting, the old Creed noticed the shift in his grandson's girlfriend's demeanor. He didn't worry much though as he listened in to their conversation.

As the film producer that had connections to the recent showing films though and a caring grandfather, he had to chime in from time to time to flex what his grandson's connections are capable of.

Like Jennifer's rental car needing to be returned, her getting separated from the celebration party, calling her agent to talk about those gossip matters, and how to approach their relationship with regard to society's view of it.

By the time they arrived at Creed HQ, Jennifer realized that her worries could already be solved with those clear-cut solutions that the Creed duo had come up with on the car ride.

It was precise and clear-cut that she realized how a new company popped out of nowhere and surprised the Hollywood industry.

She took the 'It Follows' job because it had a relatively low time frame for filming, had decent pay for her, and because her agent says that she could try to branch out to a growing production company other than the majors. Her agent had some rights to some things.

Her young boyfriend was too mature and scheming that it made her realize how she fall into his trap and why he was doing so to her.

She unknowingly smiled when she thought of how she was turned from a liability into his side asset.

Jennifer didn't know if she had some kind of specific kink but she kind of liked being considered his asset.

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Leaving the car, the Creed duo had some snippets of conversations as well.

"Grandpa, did you find some dubbing experts and musical accompaniment engineers for me?"

"Yep, they should arrive right on schedule. The music guy is also ready with all those cat and lizard sounds that you asked for."

"Are there any news on 'It Follows'?" Alexander remembered how he turned an unknown movie ahead of its time and wanted to know its prospects.

"Some preliminary accounting has been done and returning the budget should be okay on the first day. You two kids' saving the distressed fiasco should bump it up for today and tomorrow."

"They are mostly criticism though. Would those embarrassed guys try to get revenge with that angle?"

"Why would they? Like I said in the car, your relationship should be of pure camaraderie for the outside world. Them trying to warp that would mean they are asking condemnation themselves."

By the time they finished talking, the trio already reached the floor for the post-production and special effects planners.

Saturday was the weekend, so the people working are those slotted for it. They are mostly handlers of maintenance and finishing up the loose ends of weekdays. California work rules have their limits and loopholes, so the company tries to manage through all of that.

An employee handed a file holder for old Sullivan which he then gave to Alexander. "That should be the list of applicants that passed your tests and the interview phase. There is also an entire group of people that want to join as a team. They are pretty enthusiastic about having equipment, resources, and jobs for that matter."

"What about the technical stuff such as editing, timings, and all the production quirks that need specialists?" He asked while not being to help himself but smiling as he read the contents of the file. His plans were finally taking shape.

"This post-production floor already has a lot of applicants and we could even shift some of our manpower from time to time." Sullivan hummed at that. "After all, it is only a flight of stairs different from here to your operations."

"Isn't the production team going to be extremely busy for the summer?" Alexander remembered some of the company's timetables and had to voice out his concern. "Would we be understaffed if we did that?"

"The summer is mostly on the production stage, so those guys would at least have something to do before all the filming starts to wrap up." Sullivan waved off his worries.

"Your ideas are all over the place for the next year but fortunately we don't have to rush and push ourselves like this year." The old man remembered how film production is going to skyrocket when summer hits and had to comment on it.

The amount of workload that he is going to go through is going to take all the effort and skills to manage.

Being a solo half-producer for another array of films is no joke. Alexander being on summer vacation would effectively lessen his load, given that the kid is getting more and more skilled with the pre- and post- of production.

The true filming process is what is worrying.

"That's why hiring an adaptable but disposable screenwriting team would help us in the long run. Hiring disposable and orders-to-the-brim producers would also help in us just seating around and nitpicking when we want." Alexander was looking forward to advancing his producer title to executive producer.

From Home Alone 1 to the filming of Tremors, Sullivan had become a superhuman producer from making it happen, along with running the company.

It helped that the directors he is working with are close friends who have no qualms with the Creeds' plans. When operations start extending beyond the five former assistant directors, Creed Films has to extend the disposable but capable hiring module to producers and directors that follow their orders to the brim.

If it all works out, Alexander didn't have to look for all the Michael Bays and Jerry Bruckheimers. He could just direct the hired producers and directors to reach their level.

Hollywood film is a producer-centric system and Alexander and Sullivan's strategy for Creed Films is an executive producer-centric system that controls all the producer-centric films.

"Even I can't wait for that to happen." Sullivan grinned as he looked at the little boy that should be able to pull off their grand plan off.

The Creed duo's esoteric conversation was too far-reaching and elusive that the listening Jennifer and the file hander can't keep up.