Hollywood Hunter

After attending the production meeting, Simon's ensuing days were immersed in revising the script.

Although staying at home to work, Simon couldn't slack off.The crew of the crew rushed to take Simon’s revised manuscript away every day, and David Giller and Brian de Palma frequently exchanged details with Simon by phone.

The main creation of "Butterfly Effect" has been confirmed, and the funds are all in place, so the production cycle is tight, and it is expected to start shooting in early October.

Simon needs to complete the revision of the second edition of the script within the next three weeks.Then, one week before the film began, according to the specific preparation status of the project, Simon also needed to adjust and revise some details of the script. These are the two script modification tasks involved in the contract between Simon and Fox.

After completing these tasks, Fox will pay the subsequent 60,000 US dollars in balance, and Simon can completely fulfill his contract.In the future film shooting process, if the producer wants to modify the script again, they need to re-sign the contract and pay additional remuneration.

Simultaneously with the revision of the "Butterfly Effect" script, Simon did not give up the preparations for "Rola Run".

Under the introduction of David Gilles, Simon spent $3,000 to hire a production assistant to help him complete the detailed budget table of "Rola Run".

Simon originally wanted to do this job himself, and wanted to accumulate some experience.

The memories in my mind are all from professional technical talents. Although Simon of the previous life also has some production experience, it is not suitable for Hollywood. This can be said to be a shortcoming of Simon.

Because of this, Simon remembered the budget cost of "Rola Run" and, despite being aware of the inadequacy, continued to do it at birth.

Fortunately, the results are pretty good.

It is a bit helpless to give up making the film budget table in person.

Subsequent revisions to "Butterfly Effect" will take another month. If Simon wants to personally complete a very trivial movie budget, it may also take a month.Then, it will be at least another month or two to raise funds, form a crew, choose actors, and so on.

Even if everything goes well and everything is ready, it is likely to be December, Christmas and New Year's Day are coming in one after another. In order to avoid the frequent shutdown of the crew and increase the budget, Simon can only delay until after the year.

Now, $3,000 is all settled.

Simon will work for a month, and can get $60,000.Hiring a production assistant for a month costs only $3,000.

The price/performance ratio is quite high.

Simon also realized that the former workers were indeed king.

Give up the idea that everything must be hands-on, there is no delay in modifying the "Butterfly Effect" script and preparing for "Laura Run", as long as the funds can be obtained, the film can be turned on in October, and the Simon's plan for the next Sundance Film Festival next year Completed before.

Simon worked hard for two weeks, and there was good news from David Giller. Orion Pictures was very interested in "Roller Run". It happened that Brian de Palma's family planned to hold this Saturday At a reception, Orion Pictures President Mike Medova agreed to take the time to chat with Simon at this reception.

Since he was going to attend a formal occasion, on Saturday morning, West Monte made a trip and bought a formal suit and leather shoes.

Near noon, Simon had just returned to his villa in the Montana district and was trying on the clothes he bought in the morning. The doorbell rang.

Today is not a working day. Simon didn’t know many people. He ran to the door with some doubt, and then saw Janet Johnston standing in front of the door carrying a handbag.

The woman looks a little prettier today, wearing a pink knee-length dress and stepping on white leggings sandals, the whole person can not help but a little more girlish playfulness.

However, Simon had already deeply realized the little horror that could collapse at any time under the exquisite appearance. He looked at the woman in front of her door and looked around again, subconsciously asked: "How about Catherine?"

Janet was very dissatisfied with Simon's absent-minded attitude, but he dressed up well. Where do you see it?Hearing Simon’s question, he was so angry that he said, “It’s really interesting, Kate and I are not Siamese.”

Simon nodded helplessly, and had a urge to close the door. Thinking about the consequences, he turned sideways, let Janet in, and asked, "Jenny, what is the matter with me?"

Janet didn't answer immediately. In the empty living room, she made a small circle, blinking her eyes and asked Simon innocently, "What about the furniture?"

The house rented for $2700 a month turned out to be empty.Grandma, you are so kind to ask, does your conscience hurt?

Simon murmured secretly, spreading his hands angrily: "Yeah, what about furniture?"

If it's your own house, it's okay to be empty, so you can slowly decorate it.But this is a rented house, and Simon is a bachelor. He really has no thoughts about it.

After moving in, Simon simply added some necessary furniture such as desks, chairs, and wardrobe mattresses, leaving the rest empty.

During this time, Simon even contacted a real estate agent to try to sublet the house, but a few potential tenants heard that the villa was not only unfurnished and the asking price was so high, immediately dispelled the idea of ​​leasing.

Now, Simon can only wait patiently until the one-year contract expires, and then check out.

Janet didn’t seem to feel Simon’s grievances, but in a blink of an eye, he was happy again: “However, it’s okay, just because we can rearrange this place together.”

Simon suspiciously caught a word: "We?"

Janet excitedly said: "Yes, Simon and Janet. Does it sound like Bonnie and Clyde?"

Simon nodded and stepped forward, reaching for Janet's back: "Come."

Feeling that Simon's wide palm gently pushed himself forward, Janet's pale face suddenly turned red, and he moved with Simon's strength obediently, saying: "Little bastard, it's noon now. But, um, basement, actually Not bad."

Simon felt a black line float across his eyes, came to the door, opened the door and pushed the woman out, said: "Jenny, I'm so glad you can come here, goodbye."

Janet stood blankly at the door, blinked a few times, then turned around, staring fixedly at Simon standing in the door, and I looked at the weird look of how dare you close the door.

Simon didn’t dare to close the door. After a moment of confrontation, he still lost the battle and said, "Restart": "Hi, Jenny, why are you here?"

Janet gave Simon a contemptuous look, re-entered the door, pulled a sixteen-size frame from the handbag, and handed Simon said: "Hey, coward."

Ok.

It seems that I have another title.

Simon thought about this and took the frame, and found that it was a very clumsy pen drawing. Several weird villains with alien temperament were holding hands on the grass, surrounded by flowers and trees, and the sun and the moon were overhead. Up.

At a glance, the whole picture is a child's handwriting.

Later, after noticing the small lines at the bottom right of the frame, Simon realized that this was a special thank-you letter from UNICEF.Thanks to Simon for generously donating $500,000 to the foundation. This painting is also from a Latin American child who will be rescued.

The $500,000 was obviously the compensation Simon received from Matthew Broderick some time ago.

At the time, Simon gave Catherine any chance to let her donate.Although now "Raola Run" happened to be short of funds, Simon did not regret the move at all. He never regarded the money as what he should have.If it wasn’t for Janet who sent the picture today, Simon was about to forget about it.

Janet waited for Simon to look for a moment before speaking again, and his tone was much normal, saying: "There are actually some receipts and the like, but I guess you shouldn't be interested, just throw it away. This picture was framed by myself, how? kind?"

Simon nodded and said, "It's good, wait for it to hang up, there is a little decoration in this room."

"Then, my business is done."

Janet said, took the picture frame from Simon's hand again, looked around, and found that there was an inconspicuous little hook on the wall opposite the entrance of the living room, which should be left by the previous residents of this house.So he walked over and hung up the picture frame in his hand.

After a few steps back, Janet walked towards Simon again, holding his arm and saying, "Okay, let's go to lunch, you treat me."

Simon was forcibly dragged out by Janet and suggested weakly: "Actually, there are pasta in the kitchen that I cooked last night, enough for both of us."

"Don't worry, I'll dump it for you when I get back."

"Uh, can you not come back?"

"Kate went to Arizona. I live in Malibu alone and I'm scared. I have stayed with you for a few days."

"Jenny, you are so bad."

Janet gently patted on Simon: "Okay, kidding you, a brave little boy."

The two walked out of the villa, and the woman's burgundy Ford stopped by the road.Simon rarely went out during these days, so he didn't have time to buy a car. He could only drive Janet's car to eat.

Pulling the door open, Janet took the initiative to give Simon the driver's seat, pointing the boy all the way to a French restaurant near Brentwood Country Club.

After sitting down in the restaurant, Janet suddenly realized that Simon was wearing a very formal shirt, trousers and brand-new leather shoes.Prior to this, Simon had always been casually dressed in T-shirts and jeans.Simon is a typical clothes rack. At present, this form of formal wear does not make people feel strange at all. Janet, who is a little nervous, has not paid much attention to it just now.

Now that such a change has been discovered, Janet naturally goes to the bottom.

Then Simon added a female companion who wanted to rush to the party with him tonight.

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PS: The previous BUG about convenience stores, I originally thought that it would be enough to make up for a little modification, but I did not expect to have a very serious interference with the main line settings and character image.Now all have been modified into "Griffin Supermarket" that meets the shooting conditions of "Roller Run", hereby notified.Code words are not easy, I hope everyone will forgive me.