The taxi stopped, and Luc Besson and Jean Reno got off in turn to look at the villa, which should be here.
"It's really a crazy thing, isn't it, let me follow a little girl's command and come here from Paris eagerly." Besson said with emotion.
"But, Luc, you are a lunatic from the beginning, aren't all geniuses lunatics? Maybe this little girl is also a lunatic?" Uncle Renault shrugged in a relaxed manner.
"I hope the heroine she mentioned won't disappoint me." Besson laughed and walked in. There was an old housekeeper waiting in front of the house.
"Mr. Luc Besson and M. Jean Reno?" asked the old butler.
"Yes." Besson and Renault nodded politely together.
"Come in, Miss has been waiting for you for a long time." The old housekeeper opened the door for them.
Miss? Besson walked and pretended to be a casual eaves and looked at the surrounding environment, the beautiful garden, the gorgeous villa, and the housekeeper and the young lady. It seems that the rumors are true, I hope it is not difficult to serve.
"Hello, Mr. Luc Besson, and Mr. Jean Reno." An old man was already waiting for them in the living room, and beside him was a gentle middle-aged man.
"Hello, are you old Mr. Mason?" Besson said, and sat down with Renault.
"Yes, but the whole thing has nothing to do with me," the old man smiled and waved his hand, and then pointed to the middle-aged man beside him: "This is Mr. Jack Sparrow, who just came from Los Angeles yesterday. It's my granddaughter's. Agent, he is in charge of negotiating with you, so I won't disturb you."
After the old man went inside, Sparrow stood up and shook hands with Besson. Besson coughed dryly and wanted to speak, but a girl's voice came from above his head: "Is it Besson and Mr. Renault?"
Besson and Renault looked up, and a cute and beautiful girl with a smile came down the stairs. She looked very immature, but it gave a vague sense of maturity, especially those emerald green eyes. As if he could speak, there was a hint of confusion and sadness in his naivety.
She is Matilda, she is Matilda! Besson immediately forgot what the little girl said on the phone yesterday. In his opinion, this girl is definitely the best choice for the heroine.
The girl walked up to Besson and stretched out her hand: "I'm glad you can come, I'm Angela Mason."
"Of course I have to come, otherwise I will be accused of infringement." Besson shrugged.
"I think you should be fully prepared." Angela said with a smile.
Although this was said on the phone yesterday, Besson couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. After all, he started the preparatory work with great fanfare without the authorization of the original author. This is obviously a problem.
"You know, when you sent the script to Jean, the address was not written, and we couldn't contact you." Besson explained with a wry smile, what is this? What do you mean when you sent the script to Reynolds and didn't address it? If it wasn't for Roger to discover you, if Reynolds hadn't just watched "Born to Be", and if Amanda hadn't happened to know that there was a talented girl in Hollywood, would you have to wait for the movie to be released before suing us for infringement? Is this trying to trick us or what
"Well, I'm joking, this script was sent inadvertently, and I haven't been able to finish it yet, and I think you should see that too, the last third is in fiction, so if so I apologize for causing trouble to you." Angela said sincerely, found Natalie, and her heart could be said to be relieved.
Besson wanted to ask why you didn't write a letter to ask for it since you knew Renault's address, but after thinking about it, the extracurricular matters were forgotten, so he returned to the regular topic: "We won't talk about this now, we are negotiating. May I ask you about the original intention of writing this script, Miss Mason?"
Sure enough, age is a big issue. Angela sighed in her stomach, but she had already thought about the words: "I just want to write a fairy tale, a fairy tale about killers, I didn't think so much, but after watching a lot of movies about killers, I was curious about their lives, so I wanted to write a story about a very simple killer. As for the heroine, I didn't have one, because I didn't know what a killer or a simple killer's lover should be. It wasn't until I watched Lolita that there was such a heroine, because I thought it was interesting, that's about it."
"I have to say, Miss Mason, your reading is very broad." Besson was a little surprised.
"It's not surprising. My favorite things to do are painting, music, reading and writing. Everyone says I'm very precocious." The little girl said with a smile.
"Then," Besson glanced at Renault beside him, and added: "We can see from your paintings that the character of Leon is Jean, why do you think he is suitable for this role? By the way , your paintings are beautiful."
"I feel that after watching "Blue Sea and Blue Sky", I felt that Mr. Reynolds was very suitable for such a three-dimensional, rough-looking, but delicate character. By the way, Mr. Reno's nose looks better than the one in the movie. It's more distinctive." Angela smiled and joked, and handed over the prepared pen and notebook while Renault laughed.
"Excuse me, Mr. Renault." The little girl blinked, making Besson laughed lightly next to her.
"You're so lovable, Miss Mason." Reynolds took it with a smile, just like everyone else's signature on the previous pages, writing a paragraph first, and then signing his own name.
"Okay, should we talk to Mr. Sparrow about the relevant terms in detail next?" Besson asked with a smile.
"Of course, but can I see the full script before then?" Angela asked.
"Oh, no problem." Besson took out the bound script from the briefcase and handed it over, "I had a script idea about the killer before, so I added it when I was revising it, I think it should be nothing. Big problem."
Hearing this, Angela was taken aback in her heart. Her accident came at a real time, and then she turned her attention to the script in her hand. It didn't take much time for her to read it all, and the whole script basically didn't change much. After all, the version in her memory was already the best and most popular, but Besson added a lot to the love scene between Lyon and Matilda. Few details, one of which is the famous deleted paragraph.
The deleted paragraph refers to the previous life of "Leon the Killer", Besson had conceived such a scene to express the intimacy of the two: Matilda was taking a shower in the bathroom, and then Leon walked in naturally to give the two of them. She handed over the clothes, and Matilda took it naturally, without any evasion. However, this scene was opposed by the Portmans, so it was not filmed, so it was called a deleted section, and now Angela doesn't plan to let this scene appear, so with a big stroke, this scene was drawn from the script Go and hand it back: "Except for this lens, there is basically no problem."
Besson looked at the section that was crossed out. Just as he was about to speak, Angela had already said, "Mr. Besson, the protagonist is just a little girl over 10 years old."
"Okay, you're the screenwriter." Besson shrugged, but immediately added: "Then can I invite you to play this role, Miss Mason?"
The little girl frowned and put away her smile: "Mr. Besson, I remember that I should have made it clear on the phone yesterday afternoon."
"I don't want to offend you, Miss Mason, but in my opinion, you are the right person for Matilda, maybe you don't, but what I want to say is, please trust my vision as a director." Besson Very sincere.
Angela was silent for a moment before saying, "Did you bring my painting?"
Besson immediately took out a few pages of drawings in the script and put them on the coffee table. Angela took out the one where the girl was sitting by the window, glanced at Luc Besson, and walked over. At the door, Besson got up knowingly and followed her.
"In a certain sense, this script was written for her." Angela opened the sketch, looked at the girl above and said quietly, even after so many years, she can still draw an eight-point portrait from memory.
"Wait, Miss Mason, you remember you said that in the original script there was no..."
"These drawings were drawn after I was completely finalized," Angela did not explain, but held the drawing in front of him and pointed to the lower right corner and said, "This is the date of the drawing."
Besson leaned over and took a closer look. It was very difficult to see clearly in the colored pencil lines. The date was October 1989. He looked at the little girl suspiciously: "Then?"
"I only met her in person yesterday." Angela replied softly, her green eyes flashing with imperceptible confusion.
It took Besson several seconds to understand, and immediately lost his voice: "Impossible!"
This voice made both Sparrow and Reno, who were talking on the sofa, look surprised.
"I'm telling the truth," the little girl said quietly, her eyes full of threatening eyes, "I can do the soundtrack and theme song for the entire movie—don't doubt my ability—and it's free."
Besson naturally understood the meaning behind. If she couldn't do what she said, then nothing would be discussed. To be honest, he could be regarded as a great director, not to mention the screenwriter, even the producer would not dare to ask him so strongly. It was before that he had long since left.
But this time, he was really aroused by curiosity, and he could draw the appearance of each other even though he had never met? This is completely incomprehensible, he can hear it, Angela's translation really comes from the bottom of his heart.
He sighed, and finally said, "Well, let her try the mirror, okay?"
Angela sighed after a moment of silence: "Okay."