One More F*cking Time Part 2

Hollywood’s officially certified love-crazed bastard, Raven Redford. A man who would do anything for his lover is once again causing chaos across Hollywood!

Nicholas also understands his own situation clearly. It’s no exaggeration to say that his future as an actor depends on whether his next project succeeds. In that sense, being locked into a franchise contract right now isn’t a loss; it means securing the lead in at least five future blockbusters. It’s such an overwhelmingly favorable offer for Nicholas that refusing it would actually be foolish.

And yet he keeps hesitating.

Of course—it’s because of Raven.

Even Nicholas, who knows nothing about business, can tell that this bizarre investment structure and the starring offer personally aimed at him smell fishy. He can sense the force of some invisible hand that is intensely personal and biased. This is not a trivial matter. Thinking about how this project ended up in his hands, there is not a single trivial part of it. Nicholas can only stare in shock at what the hell he’s supposed to do with this mess.

According to a special feature in Variety, RBC Network’s new content production division spent years trying to buy the adaptation rights to this work. And then Red Pictures Studio, a sister company, snatched them away in one go. The culprit, naturally, is Raven Redford.

It was a shamelessly unethical move. Raven trampled RBC Network underfoot and took it to the studio to give to his lover. He really was the worst kind of bastard. Since it’s a sister company, it’s not exactly theft. But he definitely didn’t go through any normal procedure, so from the network’s point of view it was as good as being robbed.

Of course, the network struggled in its own way. But Raven was one step ahead. In the end, the furious network canceled its own plan to produce original content. What had looked like an internal political struggle between RBC affiliates quickly rocked Hollywood.

The new-content division head, enraged after having FFT stolen from them, openly targeted Raven in an industry magazine. And LA Times, which had landed an exclusive interview, seized the chance to fiercely condemn his tyranny. At the time, the LA Times described Raven as a ‘despicable cuckoo bastard.’ Nicholas even agreed with about 80% of the reporter’s wording. The remaining 20% was because, while Raven Redford really did suck the nutrients out of other birds’ nests, he was the owner of RBC, so it wasn’t another bird’s nest—rather, he was more like a guy who bled out the nests of his own relatives...