"Now everything is over. The homeless man must have taken it. He will take a plane to Florida or Hawaii, or Canada, Panama, and Bermuda to live freely."
"Where's Lonnie?"
"He'll kill me, Lola."
"You have to tell him."
"Come on, he won't believe a word of it."
"Why?"
"Once I secretly left a box of cigarettes, and he found out immediately. He didn't believe anyone. This transaction was a test to see if I could trust me."
"How much money is in the bag?"
"100,000."
"What!"
"$100,000 for one test."
"Oh, hell."
Audition room.
Simon listened carefully as Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves finished auditioning this dialogue, and made a stop gesture: "Okay, that's all."
Both men stopped.
Simon waited for Keanu Reeves to regain his balance and said, "Well, Keanu, can you tell me why you are interested in this movie?"
"I think this is a very special movie," Keanu Reeves raised his head slightly, thought for a moment, and said, "A special model, a special story. If you can participate, I believe this will be a very special movie." experience.”
Simon smiled and said: "Then, you have to understand that this is an absolute female-fronted movie and it will not have much promotion effect on your career."
Keanu Reeves also smiled and said: "I would rather try something interesting than a career."
"Okay," Simon nodded and said, "Last question, the male protagonist's hair must not be longer than the heroine's, so if you want to participate in this movie, you need to cut your hair. Is there any problem? ?”
Keanu Reeves shook his head: "No problem."
Simon said with satisfaction: "Well, thank you for coming here today, Keanu. We will notify you of the results as soon as possible."
After Keanu Reeves left, Sandra said: "Simon, you seem to be very interested in this actor."
Simon looked 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 can I possibly know them all?"
Simon nodded suddenly.
In my memory, Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves have been good friends since they collaborated in "Speed". Unexpectedly, the two are still strangers now. However, now that I think about it, it is no coincidence that the two are able to cooperate. They both belong to the WMA. In the 1990s, the project packaging model should have been the mainstream operating model of several major Hollywood agencies.
Thinking this, Simon looked at Ron MacMillan on the other side: "Ron, what do you think of him?"
"Well," Ron smiled and said, "Simon, it's up to you to make your own judgment this time."
Simon felt that Ron's expression was a little strange and said, "What's wrong?"
Ron shrugged, not hiding anything, and said, "Keanu's stepfather, Paul Aaron, and I happen to know each other, and Paul just called me this morning."
Simon was a little confused: "Paul Aaron?"
Ron explained: "He is a director, but most of the time he is making TV movies for several major TV stations. We have collaborated several times and are fairly familiar with him."
All right.
Simon complained a little in his heart.
Didn’t it mean that Keanu Reeves almost starved to death during the most difficult time when he was alone in Hollywood
Why did he become the second generation of Hollywood in the blink of an eye
Shaking his head slightly, Simon put aside these messy thoughts and simply relied on Keanu Reeves' performance just to evaluate him.
Keanu Reeves is just 22 years old this year. Although he has a stubble, he can't hide his youthfulness. His whole person is far from the gloomy and cold temperament he would have many years later. Although he looks too handsome to play a small gangster A little bit off, but nothing too wrong.
In fact, in the first Hollywood movie "River's Edge" in which Keanu Reeves participated in the original time and space, the character played was a troubled teenager. In subsequent years, Keanu Reeves also tried the comedy route.
It was not until after "The Matrix" that Keanu Reeves' screen image was finalized, and it was difficult to get rid of Neo's trench coat and black mirror savior appearance.
After thinking about it for a moment, Simon quickly made up his mind.
After flipping through the remaining materials, there were four copies left. Simon did not stop directly, but signaled the staff to call the next auditioner in.
The day after the audition, the crew of "Run Lola Run" officially confirmed Keanu Reeves as the leading actor.
As a rookie in Hollywood, although he has some experience in TV series, the salary offered to Keanu Reeves by the crew is still not high, only 2,000 US dollars.
In addition to the male lead, other roles in "Run Lola Run" were quickly finalized in the following days.
On the other hand, "The Butterfly Effect" also completed the supporting cast selection and preliminary preparations. During this period, Simon also attended several auditions for this film and provided some of his own suggestions for the selection of roles.
At the end of September, according to the contract signed with Fox, Simon also retreated again and began to make final revisions to the script of "The Butterfly Effect".
In comparison, "Run Lola Run" does not have such a rigorous production process.
However, there is indeed no comparison between a low-cost production with an investment of US$650,000 and a large-scale production with an investment of US$10 million.
Peter Sanders, Fox's vice president in charge of "The Butterfly Effect", learned that Simon was working on "Run Lola Run" while serving as the screenwriter of "The Butterfly Effect", and even expressed his disapproval of Simon's "not doing his job properly". dissatisfied.
Both David Giller and Brian De Palma just worshiped Peter Sanders like a Buddha statue, and Simon didn't pay much attention to him.
September 26th.
Friday.
Today is the last day of script revision. Simon rushed to Fox Studios early in the morning and held a full day of meetings with creators such as David Giller and Brian De Palma.
It wasn't 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 Santana shape of cars of this era, the SUV with the same sharp edges barely fits Simon's aesthetics, and the price is not expensive either. The various taxes and fees are only over US$32,000.
Simon couldn't afford the money now, so he applied for installment payments over three years, and only needed to pay the mortgage of less than $1,000 per month.
Just after returning to his residence in Montana, Simon received a call from Janet, who very directly said that they would have dinner together in the evening and that Simon would treat her to a treat. She had already booked a restaurant, and she also reluctantly said that Catherine would also come with her. .