Hollywood Hunter

"Now everything is over, it must have been taken by the tramp. He will fly to Florida or Hawaii, or Canada, Panama, Bermuda, and be at ease."

"What about Lonnie?"

"He will kill me, Laura."

"You have to tell him."

"Come on, he can't believe a word."

"why?"

"Once I stole a box of cigarettes, he found it immediately. He didn't believe anyone. This transaction was a test to see if I could trust it."

"How much is in the bag?"

"100,000."

"what!"

"$100,000, one test."

"Oh shit."

Audition room.

Simon listened carefully to Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves auditioning this dialogue, and made a stop gesture: "Okay, just here."

Both men stopped.

Simon waited for Keanu Reeves to stand again and said, "So, Keanu, can you tell me, why are you interested in this movie?"

"I think this is a very special movie," Keanu Reeves raised his head slightly and thought for a while, said: "Special mode, special story, if you can participate, I believe it will be very special. Experience."

Simon smiled and said, "Then, you must also understand that this is an absolute heroine movie, and it will not have much effect on your career."

Keanu Reeves also smiled and said, "I want to try something more interesting than my career."

"Okay," Simon nodded and said: "The last question, the actor's hair must not be longer than the heroine, so if you want to participate in this movie, you need to cut your hair, is there a problem? ?"

Keanu Reeves shook his head: "No problem."

Simon is satisfied: "So, thank you for being here today, Keanu, we will inform you of the result as soon as possible."

When Keanu Reeves left, Sandra said: "Simon, you seem to be very interested in this actor."

Simon glanced at Sandra and asked with a smile: "Don't you know Keanu? He is also from WMA."

Sandra rolled her eyes slightly and said, "WMA has more than 3,000 customers. How could I know them all?"

Simon nodded suddenly.

In memory, Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves have been good friends since they collaborated in "Speed ​​of Life and Death", and I didn't expect that they are still in a strange state.However, it is not a coincidence that the two are able to collaborate. They are both under WMA.In the 1990s, the project packaging model should have been the mainstream operation model of several major Hollywood brokerage companies.

Thinking this, Simon glanced at Ron McMillan on the other side: "Ron, how do you like him?"

"This," Ron smiled and said, "Simon, it's up to you to judge this time."

Simon felt Ron's expression a bit strange, and said, "What's wrong?"

Ron shrugged and did not hide, saying: "Me and Keanu's stepfather Paul Allen happened to know each other, and Paul called me only this morning."

Simon is puzzled: "Paul Allen?"

Ron explained: "He is a director, but in most cases, he is making TV movies for several major TV stations. We have worked together a few times and are still familiar."

Ok.

Simon vomited slightly in his heart.

Didn’t Keanu Reeves almost starve to death when he was a child in the hardest time going through Hollywood alone?

In a blink of an eye, it became the second generation of Hollywood.

Shaking his head gently, Simon set aside these messy thoughts,

This year's Keanu Reeves is just 22 years old. Although he is wearing stubble, it is also difficult to hide the greenness. The whole person is far from the gloomy and cold temperament many years later. Although playing a little bastard looks too handsome. Some, but not too bad.

In fact, the first Hollywood movie "The Edge of the River" in which Keanu Reeves played in time and space, played the role of a problem boy.In the following years, Keanu Reeves also tried the comedy route.

It wasn't until the Matrix that the screen image of Keanu Reeves was finalized. It was difficult to get rid of the savior of Neo's windbreaker and black mirror.

Considering this for a moment, Simon quickly made up his mind.

After looking through the remaining information, there were four copies left. Simon did not stop directly, and signaled the staff to call in the next auditioner.

The day after the audition, the crew of "Rola Run" officially confirmed Keanu Reeves as the actor.

As a rookie who first entered Hollywood, although having some experience in participating in TV series, but the film set for Keanu Reeves still not high, only 2,000 US dollars.

In addition to the protagonist, in the following days, other roles of "Rola Run" were quickly finalized.

On the other side, "Butterfly Effect" also completed the supporting role casting and preliminary preparations. During this period, Simon also participated in several auditions for this film to provide some own suggestions for the role selection.

At the end of September, according to the contract signed with Fox, Simon also closed down again and began final revision of the "Butterfly Effect" script.

In comparison, "Rola Run" does not have such a rigorous production process.

However, a low-cost production with an investment of 650,000 US dollars and a large-scale production with an investment of 10 million US dollars are indeed not comparable.

Fox's vice president in charge of "Butterfly Effect" Peter Sanders learned that Simon was the writer of "Butterfly Effect" while still considering "Roller Run", and even expressed a special intention to Simon's "not doing business" dissatisfied.

Both David Giller and Brian de Palma offered Peter Sanders as a Buddha statue, and Simon didn't pay much attention to each other.

September 26.

Friday.

Today is the last day of the script modification. Simon rushed to Fox Studios early in the morning and held a full-day meeting with the creators such as David Giller and Brian de Palma.

It was not until five o'clock in the afternoon that Simon drove home from get off work in a black Chevrolet SUV.

This is a car that Simon just bought recently. Compared with the boxy'Santa' shape of cars in this era, the same angular SUV is barely in line with Simon's aesthetics, and the price is not expensive. The various taxes and fees are only more than 32,000 US dollars.

Simon can't get the money right now, so he applied for a three-year installment and only had to pay a mortgage of less than $1,000 a month.

As soon as I returned to the residence in Montana, Simon received a call from Janet and said that he had dinner directly at night. Simon invited her. She had already booked a restaurant. She also reluctantly said that Catherine would come together. .