Legendary Hollywood Director

It was another normal day, with people coming and going on the road.

A Volkswagen pulled aside neatly, turned off, and two people got off from above.

One of them carried a briefcase, glanced at the business building in front of him, and found the name and floor of Firefly Pictures from a pile of hanging nameplates. After confirming that he was not wrong, he said to the other: On the third floor, let's go up. .

The front desk had made an appointment, and the staff took them to the reception room again.

The two looked at each other and looked at the empty scene, so they had to find a place to sit down.

These two are naturally sent out invitations to be the actor Christian Bale, who played the leading role in New York Row, and his agent Mike.

Then, an assistant brought two more cups of coffee.

The two took it politely and breathed a sigh of relief.

Upstairs, in Lehman's office, he and Zha Dao were meeting with several other people.

In the original version of Train to Busan, there was a couple characters, and they were looking for two traffic stars to perform the performance, which could not only provide topical interest, but also save money.

Therefore, he also plans to find two singers to play.

One of them is a young girl and a newcomer to Def Jam Records; the other is a member of Coldplay who has collaborated with each other, and their album song yellow was also selected as the background for Micro Love Interlude, the two are fairly familiar.

Miss Rihanna, please take a seat. Lyman said with a smile.

She stood there, always looking reserved.

With a refreshing dress and her baby face, the 17-year-old is even more youthful and beautiful.

Rihanna glanced at her agent, and after sitting down, looked at Lyman and Zach Snyder curiously.

She is just a little girl from an ordinary family who loves to sing.

It was a very accidental encounter for her to make her debut and enter the American pop music industry.

At that time, a well-known music producer in the industry went to a small island in the Caribbean Sea, which is her hometown for vacation.

An elder of Rihanna took her to meet the producer,

The producer thought she had a good voice and talent for singing, so she recommended her to sign with the current music company.

It can be said that she is just a pure newcomer in the music industry. She has never released an album and only recorded two singles.

Although the company has decided to help her invite songs, they don't know when they will be able to release their own album.

It was also yesterday that a film company suddenly invited her to make a movie. She didn't need to think about it, so she agreed excitedly.

Of course, Lehmann didn't know about this, he just made a request for cooperation with several record companies in the industry at the same time, and finally impressed Def Jam.

The reason why Def Jam Records is so active is to take advantage of the popularity. They really intend to give Rihanna a hand. The 70 million big production and Lehman's own reputation are all important considerations. Maybe also It can cooperate with the release of the movie and increase Rihanna's screen exposure.

This is also the hidden value of successful people, and many people will rush to seek win-win cooperation.

Miss Rihanna, this is your script.

When the other party took it over, Lehmann said to her agent: If there is no problem, the filming of New York Tour is expected to start at the end of April and end in mid-July. In the intervening months, what does she have? Problem?

No problem, no problem. The agent nodded heavily.

In terms of salary, given that she has no acting qualifications, Miss Rihanna has not many scenes, we discussed it and gave her 15,000 US dollars. Of course, her filming task is not heavy, just because the scenes are scattered. .

Fifteen thousand dollars? Rihanna pretended to be reading the script, but she didn't pay attention to it at all. Instead, she kept paying attention to the negotiation between her agent and Lehman and the others. When she heard the number, she couldn't help it. Just a little happy.

Alas, is she a pure newcomer? No matter which circle she is in, the salary is always not high. Even if her music company is willing to pay some resources to train her, she has not had a good life before she has not brought any income to the company.

As for the agent, the thinking is simpler. Anyway, they didn't plan to let Rihanna develop together. It doesn't matter if the money is more or less. Simply and neatly let Rihanna sign a performance contract.

The remaining Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin, although the music career is developing well, but acting is also the first time in his life.

In addition to novelty, it is novelty, people are not poor in money, and they are more generous.

The contract was signed for only $20,000.

The two in the original version are not as popular as the two selected now.

The cost of actors can also be further compressed, freeing up shooting space, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

After several people exchanged contracts, Lehmann was in a good mood.

Called the assistant again, and politely sent the person away.

After a while, the assistant came to report again, saying that the actor who had been invited had arrived and was waiting in the reception room, and asked Laiman if he wanted to meet.

Lehman nodded, took Zha Dao, and followed his assistant to the reception room on the third floor.

As soon as he entered his eyes, he saw Christian Bale and his agent sitting on the sofa.

When the two saw someone coming in, they stood up immediately.

Christian Bale looked at a few curiously, while his agent Mike nodded slightly and smiled.

The temperament is really good. Zha Dao leaned over and whispered. It looks very satisfied.

Lehman coughed lightly, and said first: I think you all know about the characters in the new play.

Then he pointed to Zach Snyder and introduced: He is the director of this project.

Hello, Zao, I'm Christian Bale, this is my agent. Christian Bale took the initiative to reach out and greeted politely.

After a few people shook hands, Lyman said: If you want to join the crew, you will need to build muscle for the next period of time. You are too thin.

At this time, Christian Bale had just finished filming The Mechanic, and for that role, the character setting of a severely insomniac patient, the body needed to become scrawny. He quickly lost more than 50 pounds in two weeks, equivalent to one-third of his original body weight (at that time, he was close to 170 pounds).

Even though the film had been filmed for more than a month, he still could not fully recover.

Therefore, people seem to be much thinner than the average middle-aged person of this height.

I will, I have been building muscle recently, and getting back in shape is not a problem. Christian Bale said quickly.

He cherished this hard-won opportunity.

And he had wondered why he was the only one in the reception room. Now it seems that he has no competitors.

Is it lucky? he does not know.