Chapter 43

"Now it's all over. The tramp must have taken it. He'll fly to Florida or Hawaii, or Canada, Panama or Bermuda and be at ease."

"And Lonnie?"

"He'll kill me, Lola."

"You have to tell him."

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

"Why?"

"Once I left a box of cigarettes, he found out immediately. He doesn't believe anyone. This deal is a test to see if I can trust it. "

"How much money is in the bag?"

"100000 dollars."

"What

"100000 dollars, one test."

"Oh, shit."

Audition room.

Simon listened attentively to Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. After the dialogue, he made a stop sign: "OK, here we are."

Both stopped.

Simon waited for Keanu Reeves to get back on his feet and said, "well, Keanu, why are you interested in this movie?"

"I think it's a very special film," Keanu Reeves said, looking up slightly and thinking, "a special pattern, a special story. If I can participate in it, I believe it will be a very special experience."

Simon laughed and said, "well, you have to understand that this is an absolute female film, which will not promote your career much."

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

"Well," Simon nodded and said, "the last question is, the hair of the hero must not be longer than that of the heroine, so if you want to participate in this film, you need to cut off your hair. Is there a problem?"

Keanu Reeves shook his head. "No problem."

Simon said with satisfaction, "well, thank you for coming here today, Keanu. We'll let you know the result as soon as possible."

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

Simon looked at Sandra and asked with a smile, "don't you know Keanu? He's from wma, too. "

Sandra rolled her eyes and said, "wma has more than 3000 customers. How can I know them all?"

Simon nodded suddenly.

In my memory, Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves have been good friends ever since they worked together in the speed of life and death. Unexpectedly, they are still in a strange state. However, it's no coincidence that the two can cooperate. They belong to wma. In the 1990s, the project packaging mode should have been the mainstream operation mode of several major Hollywood brokerage companies.

With that in mind, Simon looked at Ron Macmillan on the other side: "Ron, what do you think of him?"

"Well," Ron said with a smile, "Simon, you'd better judge for yourself this time."

Simon felt Ron's expression a little strange and said, "what's the matter?"

Ron shrugged and said, "I happen to know Paul Allen, Keanu's stepfather. Paul just called me this morning."

Simon wondered, "Paul Allen?"

"He's a director, but most of the time he's making movies for several major TV stations, and we've worked with each other a few times and we're quite familiar," Ron explained

All right.

Simon make complaints about it.

Isn't it true that Keanu Reeves had a rough childhood in Hollywood and almost starved to death in the most difficult time?

How can it become the second generation of Hollywood in a twinkling of an eye.

With a slight shake of his head, Simon put aside these messy ideas and just relied on the performance of Keanu Reeves to evaluate him.

this year's Keanu Reeves is just 22 years old. Although he has stubble, he can't hide his green. His whole personality is far from the gloomy and cold temperament many years later. He seems too handsome to play a little hunk Some, but not too much.

In fact, in the original time and space, Keanu Reeves's first Hollywood film "the edge of the river" plays a problem teenager. In the years that followed, Keanu Reeves also tried the comedy route.

It was not until after the matrix that Keanu Reeves's screen image was finalized, and it was hard to get rid of Neo's windbreaker and black mirror Savior.

After thinking about it for a moment, Simon soon made up his mind.

Looking through the rest of the information, there are still four copies left. Simon didn't stop directly, indicating the staff to call the next auditor in.

The day after the audition, the cast of "Lola Run" officially confirmed Keanu Reeves as the leading actor.

As a newcomer to Hollywood, although he has some experience in TV dramas, the pay offered by the crew for Keanu Reeves is still not high, only $2000.Apart from the hero, the other roles in "Lola Run" were soon finalized.

On the other hand, "Butterfly Effect" also completed the supporting role selection and preliminary preparation. During this period, Simon also attended several auditions of the film to provide some suggestions for the role selection.

At the end of September, according to the contract signed with Fox, Simon closed down again and began to revise the script of the butterfly effect.

In contrast, "Lola Run" does not have such a rigorous production process.

However, there is no comparison between a low-cost production with an investment of $650000 and a large production with an investment of $10 million.

Peter Sanders, fox's vice president in charge of the butterfly effect, learned that Simon was the screenwriter of the butterfly effect, but he also took care of Lola's run, and even expressed his dissatisfaction with Simon's "not doing his job".

David giller and Brian De Palma both just gave up Peter Sanders as a Buddha, and Simon didn't pay much attention to each other.

September 26.

Friday.

Today is the last day of script revision. Simon went to Fox early in the morning to hold a whole day's meeting with the creators such as David giller and Brian De Palma.

It wasn't until five o'clock in the afternoon that Simon drove home from work in a black Chevrolet SUV.

This is a car that Simon just bought recently. Compared with the "Santana" shape of cars in this era, the same angular SUV is barely in line with Simon's aesthetic standards, and the price is not expensive. Taking into account all kinds of taxes and handling charges, it is only more than $32000.

Simon can't afford the money now, so he has three years of installment payments and only needs to pay a mortgage of less than $1000 a month.

Just after returning to Montana, Simon received a call from Janet, saying that she would have dinner together in the evening. Simon's treat. She had already ordered a restaurant, and she reluctantly said that Catherine would come with her.