On Thursday, Simon arrived at the 7-Eleven convenience store on time early in the morning.

After yesterday's press conference, the packaging project of "Butterfly Effect" will basically not change again, and the relevant contracts will be signed next week.

According to the Hollywood script transaction process, Simon will be able to get $140,000 in the first version of the script and the option deposit for the next two scripts within a week of signing the contract, and the subsequent $60,000 balance payment will require Simon to revise and polish the script accordingly according to the requirements of the film company before it can be settled one after another.

The first $140,000 in cash was enough for Simon to start the production of "Lola Run". As a result, Simon has already said hello to Roger, and after finishing next week's work, he will be leaving the 7-Eleven convenience store.

After more than two hours of busyness, at about half past nine, Simon, who was standing behind the cash register, saw Roger Griffin hurrying out of the office, still holding a newspaper in his hand.

Noticing that Roger Griffin was obviously coming towards him, and when the middle-aged fat man approached, Simon asked, "Roger, is something going on?"

Roger Griffin didn't speak immediately, but looked Simon up and down with a very strange gaze, before handing over the newspaper in his hand, pointing to one of the articles, and asking, "Simon, it can't be you, is it?"

Simon took the newspaper and glanced at it, it was a copy of the Los Angeles Times, and then he noticed the title of the article that Roger had just pointed to.

What does the 'butterfly effect' mean?

Simon's first thought was a familiar question.

Then he looked at the text.

The article still mentions the recent events of the WMA, perhaps because there has been too much discussion, so the Los Angeles Times reporter named Peter Butler chose to take a different path and began to focus on the content of the script of "The Butterfly Effect".

To Simon's surprise, Peter Butler found the source of the 'butterfly effect'. In this era of no internet search engines, it is not easy to do this.

After spending a lot of time explaining the meaning of the "butterfly effect", Peter Butler began to guess the story content of the "butterfly effect" script. Combined with information such as WMA's selection of Brian de Palma as the director, it was finally concluded that "The Butterfly Effect" is likely to be a crime thriller that triggers a series of serious events under some kind of opportunity.

If that's all there is to it, Simon wouldn't care too much.

Peter Butler's speculation has little to do with the real story of The Butterfly Effect.

However, to Simon's surprise, Peter Butler also specifically mentioned his first name in the article, and became curious about the surname 'Westeros', claiming that he had checked a lot of information, but he had not found any information about this surname, so he thought that 'Westeros' was probably an original surname, a very interesting original surname.

Roger Griffin saw Simon frowning slightly when he looked at the newspaper in front of him, and he didn't speak for a while, so he couldn't help but snap his fingers in his ear and said, "Simon?"

Simon came back to his senses, smiled at the convenience store owner, and said, "Roger, maybe I have to take a leave of absence tomorrow." ”

"No problem, it doesn't matter if you don't come to work next week," Roger Griffin shook his head, although Simon's attitude was obviously tacit, he couldn't help but ask, "So, is it really you on this?"

Simon handed the newspaper back to Roger, nodded, and said, "yes." ”

Roger Griffin heard Simon's confirmation, waved the newspaper he had just received, made a noise, and said, "So, that middle-aged man a few days ago is the WMA vice president mentioned in the newspaper these days, called, hmm...... What's it called? And now, you have $200,000?"

Simon looked at Roger, who was a little stammering, and said with a smile: "$200,000 is not much for you, is it, this store ...... This ......"

Speaking of this, Simon suddenly paused, turned his head and glanced at the 7-Eleven convenience store where he was.

Roger's convenience store should be a franchise store with its own venue, and the scale is still relatively large, plus it is located in downtown Santa Monica, and the business is also very good.

Merely.

Carefully recalling his daily cashier data, even on days when there is a lot of traffic, the daily turnover of this convenience store is only more than 10,000 US dollars.

Roger looked at Simon, who was suddenly in a stupor, and reached out again and snapped his fingers in his ear: "Hey, what's wrong again?"

"Roger," Simon shook his head helplessly, "I suddenly realized that your store was not suitable for my movie, and I needed a store with a daily turnover of more than $100,000." ”

When Roger heard Simon say this, he was not disappointed at all, but said: "If the daily turnover exceeds 100,000 US dollars, then it is probably only at the level of Wal-Mart, and they will definitely not agree to let you shoot any robbery scenes." ”

Simon remembered that he was lucky to find a shooting location immediately a few days ago, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said, "That's true, but you have to give it a try." ”

As he spoke, several customers came over one after another.

The two saw that there was already a queue at the cash register opposite Simon, so they temporarily stopped the conversation, and when Simon finished dealing with a wave of customers, Roger asked again: "Simon, why does it have to be a store with a daily turnover of more than $100,000?"

Simon said: "My protagonist needs to grab $100,000 at once. ”

"Grab $100,000 at once?" Roger asked rhetorically, and continued, "The option of grabbing supermarkets is too bad, most supermarkets can't keep that much cash at the checkout counter." If it were me, I would definitely choose a jewelry store, even if I don't have enough money, gold and gemstones can be used. ”

Simon thought that today's events were really coming, and when he heard Roger say this, he smiled and said, "You seem to be familiar with this kind of thing?"

"Who hasn't seen a few movies," Roger laughed, "and, as it happens, my brother owns a jewelry store, and his shop is next door on 26th Street, and of course, he must be even more unlikely to agree to you filming a robbery scene in his shop." ”

Simon had already planned a detailed shooting plan around Roger's convenience store, and was worried about how to adjust, and hearing him say this, he immediately straightened out a lot of thoughts again.

Roger's convenience store is on 25th Street and his brother's jewelry store is on 26th Street, so it's still very easy to adjust just one block.

However, it was obviously more difficult to get a jewelry store to agree to cooperate with the filming of the robbery scene.

Thinking about it like this, Simon didn't show too eagerness. Sell the script to Fox, and he'll have to work for the other party for at least a month on script revisions. If he wants to start filming "Lola Run", he will have to wait until September at the earliest, and he has enough time to prepare.

Now, it's still a matter of solving the problem at hand.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Simon finished his shift and rode to the WMA headquarters, and on the way he bought a copy of today's Los Angeles Times.

Outside Jonathan Friedman's office, Simon still greeted Owen Wright first.

"Simon, why are you here?" Owen Wright saw Simon appear, with a warm smile on his face, and then pointed to the door of Jonathan's office, and said, "Wait a minute, Jonathan is talking to Sean Young about something." ”

Simon said uncertainly, "Sean Young, Rachel?"

Owen Wright got up and pulled a chair next to him, motioned for Simon to sit down at his desk, and confirmed, "yes, it's Rachel." ”

Simon nodded, somewhat surprised that Sean Young would be Jonathan's client.

However, apart from Rachel, the stunning replicant in "Blade Runner", Sean Young doesn't have any other masterpieces that are too good.

Moreover, it is said that this woman is so fond of playing big names that many Hollywood filmmakers don't like to work with her. In the end, the actress only briefly became popular for a few years after "Blade Runner" and quickly fell silent.

Simon happens to remember that due to the increasingly unsatisfactory career, Sean Young, who missed the role of Catwoman due to a fall injury during the filming of Michael Keaton's version of "Batman", also did something that caused a sensation in Hollywood.

After the success of "Batman", Warner launched a sequel, "Batman Returns". During the production of the film, Sean Young suddenly stood outside the Warner set in a homemade inferior Catwoman costume and roared loudly, hoping that Warner would re-hand over the role of Catwoman to himself, but only to end up with the title of "Hollywood Crazy Woman", completely ruining the image of Rachel Goddess in many people's hearts.

Recalling these things, Simon said to Owen Wright, "Speaking of which, I still don't know who Jonathan's customers are, Owen, can you show me the list?"

"Of course," Owen Witt nodded, took a folder from his desk drawer and handed it to Simon, "you can take a look." ”

Simon took the folder and flipped it open.

The first page of the profile is a veteran actor named Robert Duvall.

Simon has some impressions of the actor, but he still belongs to the type of barely familiar face.

However, in the profile, Robert Duvall is not only the winner of the 1984 Oscar for Best Actor, but also has three other Oscar nominations. In this way, the other party can probably be regarded as the biggest star under Jonathan's name.

continues to turn back, and there are still several veteran male stars who are generally forty or fifty years old.

Simon actually understands this situation very well.

Affected by the impact of the television industry, the Hollywood film industry has experienced more than 20 years of silence. The slump in the film business naturally reduces opportunities, and everyone competes for the already small number of roles in terms of seniority, which inevitably leads to the slow change of Hollywood artists.

Thinking so, Simon flipped through nearly half of the information, only to find a male star he was very familiar with, Billy Christo.

Subsequently, his own information happened to be sandwiched between male and female stars.

What appeared next was still a series of veteran actresses, Simon hurriedly flipped through and found Courteney Cox's name in a relatively low position.

Until the last page, Simon originally planned to return the folder to Owen, but was attracted by the girl's name on the last page.

On the ID photo, this is also a short-haired girl.

glanced at the girl's profile, the other party has no film and television works under his name, only some stage play performance qualifications, it seems that it should be a newcomer just signed by Jonathan.

After thinking about it, Simon patiently waited for Owen Wright to finish a phone call, spread the information in front of him, and asked, "Owen, what's the situation with this girl?"

Owen Wright put down the microphone and glanced at the girl's name on the profile.

Sandra Bullock.

"Sandra, Jonathan just signed him last week, and New York dramatist Sanford Masenner recommended him, a very good newcomer," Owen Wright explained, then looked at Simon, and teased: "You like this type of girl, I happen to have a photo album here, do you want to see it?"

Simon shook his head with a smile and said, "I'm going to try to make an experimental film and want her to be my heroine." ”

"That's it," after getting along during this time, Owen Wright also knew that Simon wanted to shoot an experimental film, so he took his tone more seriously, found Sandra Bullock's contact information from the address book, handed it to Simon, and added: "Now that the autumn file is late, Jonathan's arrangement is to hope that she will first take on some TV series in the spring next year to hone it, and then transform to try movies." So, she happens to be free these months. However, Simon, if you want a heroine, I can help you pick a few with more acting experience, and if the communication is good, the price will not be too high. ”

"No," Simon shook his head, "I'll try contacting this girl first." ”

Owen Wright didn't persuade much, nodded, and said, "If you need help, you can call me at any time." ”

While the two were talking, the door to Jonathan's office opened, and a beautiful woman in a black tunic dress walked out of it, it was Sean Young.

However, Sean Yang was obviously in a very bad mood at this time, looking like an iceberg queen, squinting his eyes and standing up Simon, but his steps did not stop at all, stepping on his high heels and leaving quickly.

Jonathan walked out of the office with Sean Yang, looked at the figure of the girl who had disappeared into the corridor, turned to Simon, raised his hand and gestured to the empty place in front of him, and said seriously: "Simon, this is Miss Yang." ”

Simon walked over, shook Jonathan's hand, and smiled, "I can't imagine that you will tell a bad joke?"

"Entertain yourself once in a while," Jonathan smiled wryly at the corner of his mouth, but he didn't explain what had just happened.

Instructing Owen to prepare coffee for the two, Jonathan led Simon into the office, sat down behind the desk, and took the lead in saying, "By the way, Simon, about Curt, I originally planned to make her the heroine." However, she happened to pass the audition for the second female lead in Canon Pictures' live-action version of "He-Man the Cosmic Giant", which cost $20 million to make, and the second female lead was also a good opportunity. So I temporarily replaced the heroine of "The Butterfly Effect" with Elizabeth. ”

Simon didn't know much about "Seaman the Cosmic Giant", and vaguely remembered that this should be an animated film from the last few years, but he just smiled and nodded, and said, "That's good, two opportunities haven't been wasted." ”

Jonathan habitually crossed his hands and looked at Simon, "So, you came over suddenly?"

Simon showed Jonathan the article in the Los Angeles Times and said, "Joe, have you seen this?"

Jonathan took the newspaper and glanced at it, nodded and said, "Owen also showed me in the morning, I think, this should be a good thing for you, right?"

Simon shook his head, thought for a moment, and said, "Joe, there's one thing, about my experience before I came to Los Angeles, I think I need to explain it to you first. ”