Hollywood Hunter

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Simon took the script for The Butterfly Effect from his backpack and handed it to Jonathan Friedman.

Jonathan Friedman didn't open it, just glanced at the cover, pressed the script on the table and continued to look at him with a smile.

In this case, Simon sorted out his thoughts and began to elaborate: "This is a suspense thriller with a soft sci-fi nature. From a very young age, people around Ivan often found that this child would make some extraordinary things for no reason. Strange and even bizarre behavior. However, Ivan always claimed that he had no recollection of the situation at the time. Doctors classified Ivan's illness as intermittent amnesia and recommended him to write a diary for auxiliary treatment. "

When Simon said this, he noticed that Jonathan Friedman's expression had already revealed a bit of curiosity, and he continued.

The general plot idea of ​​"The Butterfly Effect" is a story about a young man who has the ability to go back to the past by reading diaries. In order to make up for his past regrets, he tries to change his life through time and space again and again.

However, every time the male protagonist tries to change the past, when he returns to the time of twenty years old, he finds that everything around him does not develop as he imagined, or even gets worse.

The biggest feature of "Butterfly Effect" is its rigorous plot that is intertwined to the point of admiration.

Therefore, this film is a classic in the hearts of many suspense thriller fans.

In the original time and space, the production company of "Butterfly Effect" was New Line Pictures, and Simon heard that the film had many endings during the editing process. However, what he chose in the end was the darkest and most impactful one. After repeated attempts but unsatisfactory results, the male protagonist returned to his mother's womb in despair and strangled himself with the umbilical cord.

Then the whole story came to an abrupt end.

After Simon finished briefly, Jonathan Friedman, who had no expectations for him, fell silent.

Robert Zemeckis' "Back to the Future," the first of which was released just last year, was the 1985 box-office hit.

Therefore, Simon's script, which has a similar time-travel element to "Back to the Future", is far beyond Jonathan Friedman's expectations. He even feels that this story is even better than "Back to the Future" in terms of pure conception. Even better.

At least for now, just such a very novel script idea is enough to convince him to recommend Simon to the literary agency department of WMA.

You must know that Hollywood is also full of a lot of follow-up phenomenon, but because of the generally long production cycle of Hollywood movies, people do not feel a certain feeling that a movie is hot in the first half of the year and a lot of movies of the same type will be released in the second half of the year.

Therefore, when "Back to the Future" won the box office championship last year, Simon's idea, as long as it is matched with a relatively perfect script, can definitely arouse the strong interest of Hollywood film companies.

Plus, such a strangely conceived thriller happens to be the type of project Jonathan Friedman is looking for lately.

The key now is, what is the quality of the script in hand?

After all, Hollywood has never been short of creativity. What it lacks is a perfect story script that can be transformed into a wonderful film on the basis of relevant creativity.

Many Hollywood movies usually go through lengthy revisions for several years in the script creation stage, the main reason is that there are too many details that need to be adjusted and adjusted between an operable script and the original story idea.

Thinking quickly in his mind, he lowered his head and glanced at the cover of the script in his hand. Jonathan Friedman subconsciously asked a question similar to Katherine yesterday: "Simon, can you explain the meaning of the 'butterfly effect' first?"

Simon nodded and explained the theory of Professor Edward Lorenz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology again.

After listening, Jonathan Friedman asked a question that surprised him: "So, you went to MIT?"

"No," Simon shook his head, but immediately added: "I entered Stanford last year and got a full scholarship, but I just dropped out early due to some changes."

Simon said this, and Jonathan Friedman's expression changed significantly.

Although Stanford University does not belong to the Ivy League, in fact, the overall strength of this top institution on the west coast of the United States has surpassed most of the members of the league, and has its own prominent place in the world university rankings.

Simon was able to enter Stanford University on a full scholarship, even if he had dropped out at this point, but this qualification would definitely make Jonathan Friedman's evaluation of him several notches higher.

Simon also understood in his heart that he was actually conducting an interview now.

Westerners do not pay attention to humility. The better a person performs in the interview process, the more successful they will be.

Therefore, Simon did not hesitate to use the qualifications at this time.

After Simon finished speaking, he saw Jonathan Friedman glanced at his watch with a hesitant expression, and then said at the right time: "Mr. Friedman, the first ten pages of the script are the outline of the story I made, maybe you can take a look first, It's more detailed than what I just described."

Jonathan Freedman nodded when he heard the words, no longer tangled, and opened the script in front of him readily.

However, the content of the first page of the script made him stunned again, but it was an American screenwriter

The union's copyright registration certificate.

Shaking his head slightly and smiling, Jonathan Friedman turned it over, but he completely changed his initial impression of Simon. The young man on the opposite side is obviously not one of those stunned young men who thought they could rise to prominence as soon as they crashed into Hollywood.

Later, Jonathan Friedman didn't feel too surprised when he saw the beautiful and neat English handwriting even though it was a photocopy. Of course, the evaluation of Simon in my heart inevitably improved a lot again.

Hollywood's annual copyright disputes may be more than the movies it produces, and it is Simon's helplessness to directly paste the copyright registration certificate of wga on the title page. He won't be naive enough to think that an industry giant like wma can't make small moves to steal someone else's script.

Now Simon can't stand such twists and turns, so he simply cuts off some possible disputes from the source.

In fact, as Jonathan Friedman thought, although he inherited the memories of twelve other people, Simon is definitely not the kind of stunner who thinks that he will be a blockbuster when he steps into Hollywood.

From the first thought of coming to Los Angeles for a game, Simon has begun to plan very carefully.

Although he has a pretty good skin, Simon has no intention of taking the path of an actor. His first stage goal is to become a director, but without any qualifications and connections, this is obviously unlikely in the short term.

Then, starting from a screenwriter with a lower threshold is a very good choice.

According to some information in Simon's memory, the two major screenwriters' unions on the east and west coasts of Hollywood have more than 60,000 registered scripts each year, which seems to be a very large number. But in Hollywood as a whole, the combined total of all theatrical, televised and direct-to-video low-budget independent films totals more than 600 each year.

A 1% success rate is already very high in Simon's view.

What's more, among the tens of thousands of scripts that appear every year, the mediocre still account for the majority. But as a traveler, the scripts that Simon can come up with are basically fine products after going through the big waves.

Moreover, in the process of initially selecting the script, Simon also carefully weighed various factors.

As a newcomer to Hollywood, if you want to ensure that your script is taken care of by the film company as much as possible, it must first be a low-cost production. If Simon takes out the "Titanic" script now, there is a 99% chance that it will be People throw them straight into the trash. Second, the story has to be fresh enough to catch the eye. In the end, screenplay ideas should ideally cover some of the most popular elements of recent box-office blockbusters.

"Butterfly Effect" is exactly in line with the above three criteria: low cost, new ideas, crossing elements and following last year's box office champion "Back to the Future".

Inside the office, there was silence for a moment as Jonathan Friedman read.

When the knock on the door remembered, Jonathan Friedman found himself reading the text of the script unknowingly. The text of the script in standard Hollywood format is also impeccable, and the beautiful handwritten English not only does not have any sense of inconsistency, but also produces a more comfortable reading experience.

I was immersed in reading and was suddenly interrupted. Jonathan Friedman raised his head a little displeased and found his assistant, Owen Wright, standing by the door, making a gesture towards him, and then he reacted.

Looking at his schedule, Jonathan Friedman said to his assistant, "If Courteney has nothing else to do, let her wait for a while. The same is true for the following appointments. I'll get off work later today."

Hearing this, Owen Wright looked at Simon, who was sitting with his eyes turned away from him, in surprise. He nodded and was about to leave the office when Jonathan Friedman stopped him again and ordered, "Also, come in with two cups of coffee. ."

When the door was closed again, Jonathan Friedman smiled at Simon, didn't explain anything, just turned his attention back to the script in front of him.

Simon didn't mind either, and casually glanced at the electronic watch on his wrist.

The time is now 4:13.

In other words, Jonathan Friedman should have only reserved 10 minutes of meeting time for himself, and if he did not perform well, he may have been dismissed now.

For this, Simon didn't have any grievances in his heart, and it would probably be the same for himself.

Politeness is a person's cultivation, but work still has to follow the rules. He's still an obscure Hollywood rookie, naturally only worth 10 minutes.

Owen Wright quickly brought in two cups of coffee, and Simon took the coffee cup, thanked him, and continued to wait patiently for Jonathan Friedman to read the script.

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