Today is February 1990, the day the shooting of the movie "Home Alone" began.
Recalling how he replaced Macaulay Culkin for the role of Kevin, Hayden, who is nine years old, couldn't help but smile.
In fact, his original name was Arthur James, an actor and singer who liked Japanese anime. He died in 2030. He was reborn as Hayden Christensen, the one who played Anakin Skywalker in the second and third parts of Star Wars.
In this world, there are no Japanese Manga.
He activated the System called Virtual Reality Production System when he turned nine. The goal of the system is to help him build a virtual universe. The system has only the system store in which he can buy many things like the acting skill of Denzel Washington, the singing skill of Freddie Mercury, the physics knowledge of Einstein, movie scripts, many songs, and the core of the system, the Virtual Reality product, like a 3D helmet, and the 3D system, etc...
To buy these things, you need popularity points. For every praise received, it is one point. Just for the 3D helmet, you need to spend 1 billion popularity points to redeem it.
Hayden lived in Toronto. He convinced his father to let him come to Los Angeles with his uncle because he wanted to gather as many points as possible. Just the idea of playing a reality virtual game is making him crazy.
When the system was activated on his birthday, he received a coupon in which he can replace an actor in the designated movie and also the inheritance of the king of comedy artist of the screen, Charlie Chaplin. He inherited the acting, producing, directing, writing, and even a passive skill,
"The Comedy King: People have an 80% chance of laughing at the comedy scene if you participated in the scene."
Then he immediately, without even thinking about it, used the coupon to replace Macaulay for the role of Kevin and successfully received the role.
Looking at Hayden who signed the contract, Chris Columbus sighed. Originally, he planned to use Macaulay Culkin, whom he had worked with before, for the role of Kevin. Then he held a routine audition just in case, but god knows how a genius comedian child popped out of nowhere. He was impressed by the kid, and in the end, he finally chose him for the role of Kevin.
Seeing how the film is progressing, how many staff of the crew laughed during the filming, and how polite and gentlemanly Hayden is, Chris is thinking that he has probably made one of the most correct decisions of his life.
The shooting of the movie progressed quickly, and the filming ended in May. Three months after the beginning of the shooting, everyone in the crew is satisfied with Hayden. He is a good boy and didn't cause any trouble.
During this month of shooting, Hayden understands that there are not many movies featuring children as protagonists. So he plans to redeem the Harry Potter series after the movie is released.
As he wants to have the title of genius and not appear suspicious, like how he suddenly became the first of his class or how he suddenly wrote a book but no one noticed him writing it, so he started writing the stories he has in his mind. When the time comes, if he releases it, it'll not be suspicious. The crew saw Hayden always writing something during the pause, so they gave him the name of "Hardworking Kid."
After finishing the movie, Hayden knows it'll not be in cinemas until November. So during this time, he is thinking about what story he will adapt. He doesn't want Harry Potter to be his first adapted book because he knows that if he has a successful adapted book before Harry Potter, then he will have more say when Harry Potter starts shooting.