Hollywood Hunter

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After attending the production meeting, Simon's subsequent days were devoted to revising the script.

Although working from home, Simon couldn't slack off. The crew would come every day to take Simon's revisions away, and David Giller and Brian de Palma would frequently communicate with Simon on the phone with various details.

The main creators of "Butterfly Effect" have all been determined, and the funds are all in place, so the production cycle is very fast, and it is expected to start shooting in early October.

Simon needs to complete the revision of the second version of the script within the next three weeks. Then, a week before the film started, according to the specific preparatory status of the project, Simon needed to adjust and revise some details of the script again. These are the two script modification tasks involved in the contract between Simon and Fox.

After completing these tasks, Fox will pay the follow-up $60,000 balance one after another, and Simon can be considered to have completely fulfilled his contract. In the future filming process, if the producer wants to revise the script again, it will need to re-sign the contract and pay additional compensation.

While busy with the revision of the "Butterfly Effect" script, Simon did not give up the preparations for "Lola Run".

Introduced by David Giller, Simon spent $3,000 to hire a production assistant to help him complete the detailed budget for "Lola Run."

This job Simon originally wanted to do by himself, intending to gain some experience.

The memories in my mind all come from professional technical talents. Although Simon in his previous life also had some production experience, he was not suitable for Hollywood. This aspect can be said to be a shortcoming of Simon.

It is precisely because of this that after Simon misremembered the budget cost of "Lola Run", although he noticed something was wrong, he continued to do it.

Fortunately, the results are not bad.

Giving up on making film budgets by myself is a little helpless.

The follow-up revision of "The Butterfly Effect" will take a total of one month, and if Simon wants to complete the very trivial movie budget by himself, it may also take a month. Then, raising money, forming a crew, selecting actors, etc., is at least another month or two.

Even if everything goes well and everything is ready, it is likely to be December, and Christmas and New Year's Day will come one after another. In order to avoid frequent shutdowns of the crew and increase the budget, Simon can only delay until the end of the year.

Now, $3,000 is all set.

Simon worked around the next month and could get $60,000. Hire a production assistant a month for only $3,000.

The price/performance ratio is quite high.

Simon also realized that the superior labor is really king.

Abandoning the idea of ​​doing everything by hand, modifying the script of "Butterfly Effect" and preparing for "Lola Run" without delay. As long as the funds can be obtained, the film can be launched in October, and Simon plans to be at the Sundance Film Festival next year. Completed before.

Simon has been working hard for two weeks, and there is good news from David Giller. Orion Pictures is very interested in "Lola Run", which happens to be held at Brian De Palma's house this Saturday. At a reception, Mike Medova, president of Orion Pictures, agreed to take the time to chat with Simon at the reception.

Since he was going to attend a formal occasion, on Saturday morning, Simon went out to buy a formal suit and shoes.

Near noon, Simon had just returned to his villa in the Montana district and was trying on the outfit he bought in the morning when the doorbell rang.

Today is not a working day, and Simon doesn't know many people. He ran to open the door with some doubts, and then saw Janet Johnston standing in front of the door with a handbag.

The woman looked obviously a bit prettier today, wearing a pink knee-length dress and white leggings sandals, she couldn't help but feel a little more playful as a girl.

However, Simon had already deeply realized the little horror that could collapse at any time under this delicate appearance. He glanced at the woman in front of his eyes, looked around, and asked subconsciously, "Where's Catherine?"

Janet was very dissatisfied with Simon's absent-minded attitude, but she dressed up well, where do you look? Hearing Simon's question, he was even more angry: "It's interesting, Kate and I are not conjoined."

Simon nodded helplessly, and had the urge to close the door casually. Thinking about the consequences, he gave up. He turned sideways, let Janet in, and asked, "Jenny, do you have anything to do with me?"

Janet didn't answer immediately, and turned around in the empty living room, blinking her big eyes and asking Simon innocently, "Where's the furniture?"

The house rented for $2,700 a month turned out to be empty. Aunt, you have the nerve to ask that, doesn't your conscience hurt?

Simon grumbled secretly, and spread his hands angrily: "Yeah, where's the furniture?"

If it's your own house, it's nothing to be empty at all, just slowly decorate it and buy it. But this is a rented house, and Simon is a bachelor, so he really has no mind to take care of it carefully.

After moving in, Simon simply added a few necessary furniture such as desk chairs and wardrobe mattresses, leaving other places empty.

During this time, Simon even contacted a real estate agent and tried to sublet the house, but a few potential tenants immediately dismissed the idea of ​​leasing when they heard that the villa was not only unfurnished, but the asking price was so high.

Now, Simon can only wait patiently for a year.

The contract expired, and then I checked out.

Janet didn't seem to feel Simon's resentment, but she was happy again in the blink of an eye: "However, that's fine, it just so happens that we can rearrange this place together."

Simon caught a word suspiciously: "We?"

Janet said enthusiastically, "Yeah, Simon and Janet. Sound like Bonnie and Clyde?"

Simon nodded, took a step forward, and put his hand on Janet's back: "Come."

Feeling that Simon's broad palm gently pushed her forward, Janet's white face suddenly turned red, and she moved with Simon's force obediently, saying: "Little bastard, it's noon now. But, um, the basement, actually Not bad either."

Simon felt a black line float past his eyes, came to the door, opened the door and pushed the woman out, saying, "Jenny, I'm glad you can come over, goodbye."

Janet stood blankly at the door, blinked a few times, then turned around and looked at Simon who was standing inside the door, with a weird look of whether you dare to close the door.

Simon really didn't dare to close the door. After a moment of confrontation, he was defeated and 'started again' and said, "Hi, Jenny, why are you here?"

Janet gave Simon a contemptuous look, then re-entered the door, took out a sixteen-size picture frame from her handbag, and handed it to Simon, "Here, coward."

All right.

It seems that he has another name.

Simon thought so, took the picture frame, and found that it was a very clumsy color pen painting. Several strange little people with very alien temperament were on the grass hand in hand, surrounded by flowers and trees, with the sun and moon hanging high above their heads. rise.

At first glance, you can tell that the whole painting is the handwriting of a child.

Later, after noticing a few lines of small characters at the bottom right of the picture, Simon realized that this was a very special thank you letter from UNICEF. Thanks to Simon for his generous donation of $500,000 to the foundation, this painting is also from a needy Latin American child who will be rescued.

$500,000, apparently the same compensation Simon received from Matthew Broderick some time ago.

At that time, Simon gave it to Catherine and asked her to donate it for himself. Although "Lola Run" happens to be short of funds now, Simon has no regrets for his original move. He has never regarded the money as something he should have. If Janet hadn't sent the painting today, Simon would have almost forgotten about it.

Janet waited for Simon to look at it for a while before speaking again, her tone was much more normal, and said: "Actually, there are some receipts and the like, but I guess you shouldn't be interested, so just throw it away. This painting was framed by me, why? Sample?"

Simon nodded and said, "Very good, hang it up later, there are some decorations in this room."

"That's it, my business is done."

Janet said, took the picture frame from Simon again, looked left and right, and found that there was an inconspicuous little hook on the wall opposite the door of the living room, which should have been left by the previous resident of this house. So I walked over and hung the picture frame in my hand.

After taking a few steps back and looking at it for a moment, then nodding in satisfaction, Janet walked towards Simon again, took his arm and said, "Okay, let's go to lunch, you treat me."

Simon was forcibly dragged out by Janet, and suggested weakly: "Actually, there is still pasta I cooked in the kitchen last night, enough for the two of us."

"Don't worry, I'll help you out when I get back."

"Uh, can you not come back?"

"Kate has gone to Arizona. I'm scared to live alone in Malibu. I'll stay with you these days."

"Jenny, it's not good for you to be like this."

Janet patted Simon gently: "Okay, I'm joking with you, little boy without courage."

The two walked out of the villa, and the woman's burgundy Ford was parked on the side of the road. Simon seldom went out these days, so he didn't find time to buy a car. At this time, he could only go out to eat in Janet's car.

Opening the car door, Janet voluntarily gave up the driver's seat to Simon, pointing the boy all the way to a French restaurant near the Brentwood Country Club.

After sitting down in the restaurant, Janet suddenly realized that Simon was wearing a very formal shirt, trousers and brand new leather shoes. Before that, Simon Ke had always been a casual look in a t-shirt and jeans. Simon is a typical clothes rack, and this formal dress doesn't make people feel strange at all, and Janet, who is a little nervous, hasn't noticed much just now.

Now that this change was discovered, Janet naturally went to the bottom of it.

Then, Simon had an additional female companion who was going to rush to tonight's reception with him.

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ps: The bug about the convenience store in the previous article, I originally thought it could be corrected with a little modification, but I didn’t expect that it would cause serious interference to the mainline setting and character image. Now all of them have been modified into the "Griffin Supermarket" that meets the shooting conditions of "Lola Run", and the subsequent episodes will also use this modification, hereby notified. It's not easy to code words, I hope you can bear with me.

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