Willow nodded, her gaze drifting back to the foreign man's face. "'Archmage' won't show up until the second half of Sudden Dawn, and he'll be introduced as a highly heroic, positive figure."
"But in my next book, he's going to be revealed as the ultimate villain."
"Of course, no one will see that plot twist coming until the very end."
Waller finally put it all together. "You want to leverage the massive audience of the show to make this face famous worldwide?"
"Exactly," Willow said softly.
"Beasley has already decided to distribute this series globally."
"So, I'm just going to ride his coattails to get this done."
More importantly, she had absolute faith that the show would be a massive international hit.
Waller had heard Willow mention before that Beasley poured a billion dollars into the television adaptation of Sudden Dawn.
For a TV show, that was a staggering budget.
"But how can you guarantee they'll find an actor who looks just like this guy?" Waller pointed out a major flaw.
Finding an exact match was already hard, and the fact that it had to be a specific foreign actor made it doubly difficult.
Willow wasn't worried in the slightest. "Deepfake AI technology is incredibly advanced now. The director just needs to hire an actor with a similar physical build."
Then, they would use AI in post-production to swap the face.
The digital model would be built entirely off the portrait she was painting.
"If the show blows up on a global scale, 'Archmage' will become a household name. When that happens, whoever knows the real guy in person might post about his crazy resemblance online for clout," Willow continued.
And she wasn't exaggerating. It only took her one day to complete the front, side, and back profiles of the man. The details were immaculate, providing everything the tech team would need for highly precise modeling.
However, her phone practically rang off the hook all day.
First it was Juliette Danton, then her father, then Ablitt.
But the one that gave her the biggest headache was Maurice Yale.
Willow had forgotten to restrict her Instagram post last night, so both Maurice and Ablitt had seen it.
Ablitt wasn't too bad. He wasn't a gossip. He noticed she was "dating," but only brought it up in passing while discussing her new book's progress.
He was her editor, after all.
Maurice was a different story. He knew perfectly well that Professor Grant had been trying to set her up on blind dates, and now he had caught her red-handed.

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