Hollywood Hunter

On Thursday, Simon still rushed to the 7-11 convenience store early in the morning.

After yesterday's conference, the packaging project of "Butterfly Effect" has basically no more changes, and related contracts will be signed one after another next week.

According to the Hollywood script transaction process, within a week of signing the contract, Simon will be able to get a $140,000 initial script script remuneration and an option deposit for the next two scripts. Only after making corresponding amendments and embellishments, can we settle accounts one after another.

The first $140,000 in cash was enough for Simon to start the production of "Rola Run".Therefore, Simon has greeted Roger, and after completing his work next week, he will resign from the 7-11 convenience store.

After being busy for more than two hours, around 9:30, Simon standing behind the cash register saw Roger Griffin hurried out of the office with a newspaper in his hand.

Realizing that Roger Griffin was obviously running towards him, when the middle-aged fat man approached, Simon asked: "Roger, what happened?"

Roger Griffin didn't immediately talk, and looked at Simon strangely up and down, before handing over the newspaper in his hand, pointing to one of the articles, and asking, "Simon, what I said above Will it be you?"

Simon took the newspaper and glanced at it. It was a "Los Angeles Times", and then he noticed the title of the article that Roger had just pointed to.

"What does the "butterfly effect" mean?

Simon's first thought, this question is really familiar enough.

Then look at the text.

The content of the article still first mentioned a series of recent events of WMA. Perhaps this matter has been discussed by too many people. So, the reporter of Peter Butler's "Los Angeles Times" chose another way and began to pay attention to " The content of the script for the Butterfly Effect.

What surprised Simon was that Peter Butler actually found the source of the'butterfly effect'.In this era of no Internet search engine, it is not easy to do this.

After spending some time explaining the meaning of the "butterfly effect", Peter Butler began to guess the story content of the "butterfly effect" script.Combined with WMA's selection of Brian de Palma as the director and other information, he finally concluded that "Butterfly Effect" is likely to be a criminal thriller that triggered a series of serious incidents under certain opportunities.

If the content of the article is only this, Simon would not care too much.

Peter Butler's guess has little to do with the real story content of Butterfly Effect.

However, to Simon's surprise, Peter Butler also specifically mentioned his name in the article, and was curious about the surname'Westero', claiming that he searched a lot of information, but did not find the surname. Relevant information, therefore think that'Westero' is probably an original surname, an interesting original surname.

Roger Griffin frowned when he saw Simon looking at the newspaper in front of him. He didn't speak for a while, and couldn't help but snapped his fingers and said, "Simon?"

Simon recovered from his thoughts and smiled at the convenience store owner, saying, "Roger, maybe I have to take a leave tomorrow."

"No problem, it doesn't matter if you don't come to work next week," Roger Griffin shook his head. Although Simon's attitude was obviously the default, he couldn't help but ask: "So, this is really you?"

Simon handed the newspaper back to Roger, nodded, and said, "Yeah."

Upon hearing Simon’s confirmation, Roger Griffin waved the newspaper he had just received and made a loud noise, saying: "Then the middle-aged man the other day is the one mentioned in the newspaper these days. WMA vice president, sigh, um... what's the name? And, you already have $200,000?"

Simon looked at the stuttering Roger,

Speaking of which, Simon suddenly paused and turned to glance at the 7-11 convenience store where he was.

Roger's convenience store should be a franchise type with its own venue. The scale is still relatively large. In addition to being located in the center of Santa Monica, the business is also very good.

only.

I carefully recalled my cash register data on weekdays. Even on days when there is a lot of passenger traffic, this convenience store only has more than 10,000 US dollars a day.

Roger looked at Simon, who suddenly fell into a dull state, and once again reached out and snapped fingers in his ear: "Hey, what's wrong?"

"Roger," Simon shook his head helplessly, "I suddenly found that your store is not suitable for my movie. I need a store with more than $100,000 per day."

Roger heard Simon say that there was nothing to lose, but instead said: "The daily flow of more than 100,000 US dollars, that is probably only Wal-Mart level, they certainly will not agree to let you shoot any robbery."

Simon remembered that he had been lucky to find the shooting site a few days ago, and smiled bitterly, saying: "It is indeed the case, but always try."

As he was saying, several customers came one after another.

Seeing that the cash register opposite Simon had lined up, the two temporarily stopped the conversation. After Simon had dealt with a wave of guests, Roger asked again: "Simon, why must it be a shop with daily turnover of more than $100,000?" "

Simon said: "My protagonist needs to grab $100,000 in one go."

"Steal $100,000 in one go?" Roger asked back, and continued: "The choice to grab a supermarket is too bad. Most supermarkets cannot store so much cash at the cashier. If it is me, I will definitely choose a jewelry store, even if the money is not enough, gold and gems can be matched."

Simon thought about what was happening today. He heard Roger say this and smiled, "You seem to be familiar with this kind of thing?"

"Who hasn't watched a few movies," Roger laughed, and said: "And, coincidentally, my brother just opened a jewelry store. His store is on the 26th street next door. Of course, he is sure It is even less likely to agree to you shooting robbery in his shop."

Simon had already planned a detailed shooting plan around Roger's convenience store, and was worried about how to adjust it. Hearing this, he immediately straightened out many ideas.

Roger’s convenience store is on 25th Street, and his brother’s jewelry store is on 26th Street. It’s very easy to adjust just one block.

However, it is obviously more difficult to get a jewelry store to cooperate with the shooting of the robbery.

With such calculations, Simon did not act too eagerly.Selling the script to Fox, he will have to work for the other party in the script modification for at least one month.He wants to start shooting "Roller Run", and he has to wait until September at the earliest, he has enough preparation time.

Now, we still have to solve the problem at hand.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Simon finished the shift and hurried to the WMA headquarters. He also bought a copy of the "Los Angeles Times" today.

Coming out of Jonathan Friedman's office, Simon still greeted Irving Wright first.

"Simon, how did you come?" Irving Wright saw Simon appear, with a warm smile on his face, and then pointed to the door of Jonathan's office, saying: "Wait a moment, Jonathan is talking about things with Sean Young ."

Simon was unsure: "Shawn Yang, Rachel?"

Owen Wright got up and pulled a chair beside him, motioned Simon to sit down at his desk and confirmed, "Yes, it's Rachel."

Simon nodded at this point, and some surprise Sean Yang would be Jonathan's client.

However, except for the stunning replicator Rachel in "Blade Runner", Sean Yang has no other excellent masterpieces.

Moreover, it is said that this woman really loves big names, and many Hollywood filmmakers do not like to work with her.Eventually, the actress after "Blade Runner" only became popular for a few years and then quickly fell silent.

Simon happened to remember that as his career became more and more unsatisfactory, Sean Young, who missed the role of Catwoman during the shooting of Michael Keaton's "Batman" due to a horse fall injury, also did a sensation throughout Hollywood.

After the great success of "Batman", Warner launched the sequel "Batman Returns".During the film production, Sean Young suddenly wore a home-made inferior catwoman costume and stood outside the Warner Studios, making a big noise, hoping that Warner would hand over the role of Catwoman to himself again, but only ended up with a'Hollywood Madwoman' 'S title completely destroyed the image of the goddess Rachel in many people's hearts.

Recalling these things, Simon told Owen Wright: "Speaking of it, I still don't know which customers are under Jonathan's name. Owen, can you show me the list?"

"Of course," Owen Lai nodded, took a folder from the desk drawer and handed it to Simon. "You can check it out."

Simon took the folder and opened it.

The first page of the information is an old actor named Robert Duval.

Simon has some impressions of this actor, but he still belongs to the kind of barely familiar face.

However, in the introduction, Robert Duval was not only the best actor Oscar in 1984, but also had three other Oscar nominations.In this way, the other party may be regarded as the biggest star in Jonathan's name.

Continue to turn back, still a few veteran actor generally aged 40 or 50 years old.

For this situation, Simon did not feel too surprised.

Affected by the TV industry, the Hollywood film industry has experienced silence for more than two decades.

When the film business is sluggish, opportunities will naturally diminish. Everyone's arguing for senior roles will not only lead to a slow change of Hollywood artists, but the stars at the top of the Hollywood pyramid will generally be too old.

With this in mind, Simon turned the data almost halfway and only then found a actor he was very familiar with, Billy Christo.

Later, his own information was just sandwiched between the actor and actress.

What appeared next was still a series of old actresses. Simon hurried over and found the name of Courteney Cox in a relatively backward position.

So until the last page, Simon originally intended to return the folder to Owen, but he was attracted by the name of the girl on the last page of the material.

According to the ID photo, this is also a short-haired girl.

After glancing at the girl's profile, there is no film and television work in the other party's name, only some stage performances, it seems that it should be the newcomer Jonathan just signed.

After thinking for a while, Simon patiently waited for Owen Wright to finish a call, spread the information in front of him, and asked, "Owen, what is the situation with this girl?"

Irving Wright put down the microphone and glanced at the girl's name in the data.

Sandra Bullock.

"Sandra, Jonathan just signed him last week, recommended by New York dramatist Sanford Messner, a very good newcomer," Owen Wright explained a few words and looked at Simon again. With ridicule: "You like this type of girl, I happen to have a photo album here, do you want to see it?"

Simon shook his head with a smile, and said: "I just think that she is quite suitable for the heroine of my movie."

"That's it." During this time, Owen Wright also knew that Simon wanted to make an experimental movie. He took a more serious tone and found Sandra Bullock's contact information from the address book and handed it to Simon. He also added: "Now the autumn season is too late. Jonathan's arrangement is to hope that she will first pick up some of the next spring season dramas to hone, and then transform to try movies. So, she happened to be idle these months. However, Simon, if If you want a heroine, I can help you pick a few more performing experience, if the communication is good, the asking price will not be too high."

"No," Simon shook his head and said, "I'll try to contact this girl first."

Irving Wright didn't persuade much, nodded and said, "If you need help, you can always call me."

The two were talking, the door of Jonathan's office opened, and a beautiful woman in a black tunic came out of it, it was Sean Yang.

However, Sean Yang was obviously in a very bad mood at this time. With the look of the Queen of Iceberg, she slanted her eyes and shrugged down to stand up. However, she kept walking, walking on high heels and leaving quickly.

Jonathan walked out of the office with Sean Yang, looked at the figure of the girl who had disappeared into the corridor, turned to Simon, and raised his hand to the empty place in front of him, signaling a serious way: "Simon, this is Miss Yang."

Simon walked over, smiled and shook hands with Jonathan, said: "Can't think of you still saying cold jokes?"

"Occasionally entertain yourself," Jonathan grinned wryly, but did not explain what had just happened.

Instructing Owen to prepare coffee for the two, Jonathan took Simon into the office, sat down behind the desk, and said first: "Oh, Simon, about Kurt, I originally planned to let her be the heroine. However, She happened to have passed the audition of the female No. 2 of the live-action version of the cosmic giant Seaman of Canon Film Company. The production cost of this movie is 20 million US dollars. The female No. 2 is also a good opportunity. So I temporarily put the "Butterfly Effect" female The protagonist is replaced by Elizabeth."

Simon doesn’t know much about Cosmopolitan Seaman, vaguely remember that this should be a cartoon in recent years, but he just smiled and nodded, saying: "That’s great, there is no waste of both opportunities ."

Jonathan habitually looked at Simon with his hands crossed and said, "So, did you come suddenly?"

Simon showed the article in the Los Angeles Times to Jonathan and said, "Joe, have you seen this?"

Jonathan took a glance at the newspaper and nodded. "Owen also showed me this morning. I think this should be a good thing for you?"

Simon shook his head, thought for a while, and said, "Joe, there is one thing. I think I need to explain to you about my experience before coming to Los Angeles."