Simon drove to the restaurant near Brentwood Country Club last time.

After waiting for a moment, Catherine and Janet rushed over.

Sitting down in the restaurant, Simon looked at Catherine, who was obviously in a low mood today, and asked tentatively, "Has the filming of "Blood Corpse Night" changed again?"

Before Catherine could speak, Janet said, "I'm afraid it's going to be delayed until the end of the year." ”

Simon has recently seen some news about De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, the production company of "Blood Corpse Night", and he is concerned: "How can this be?"

The waiter of the restaurant walked over at this time, and the three of them stopped talking.

After ordering dinner, Catherine said: "Producer Edward Feldman called me this afternoon, De Laurentiis Entertainment has completely run out of money, and I must wait until the end of the year to recover the share of several films released this year before my film can start shooting." ”

Hearing Catherine say this, Simon was also a little silent.

There are many examples of a film that is delayed for months or even years due to funding, main creators, etc., and finally completely aborted in Hollywood, and Catherine's experience is really not surprising.

After a while, Simon said, "So, Catherine, have you lost your job again during this time?"

Catherine nodded absentmindedly, "yes." ”

Simon said, "In that case, why don't you help me?"

Catherine looked up a little uncertainly, "Huh?"

Simon said: ""Lola Run", this movie will start filming next month. ”

"But, I'm probably going to ......"

Catherine raised her hand and gestured, but for a moment she couldn't find a good excuse, so she turned to Janet beside her.

Janet's eyes began to blink and flicker when she heard Simon's words.

Simon also looked over, Janet's eyelashes are very long, and there is no need to put false eyelashes at all, and they are very beautiful when they flash: "Jenny, do you want to order another foie gras, people who blink often should be deficient in vitamin D, and animal liver happens to be rich in these." ”

Listening to Simon's teasing, Janet suddenly stopped blinking, grabbed the fork and poked Simon with a hateful expression.

Catherine smiled at the interaction between the two and said, "I think, forget it." ”

"Why forget it?" Janet suddenly opened her mouth again, reached out and grabbed Catherine's arm, and said, "Kate, let's go." I'm the majority investor, and if necessary, maybe I can fire the director and let you come. ”

Simon listened to Janet's gritted teeth, folded his hands with a look of 'panic', buried his head and begged for mercy: "Jenny, I was wrong, why don't I order two foie gras for you?"

Janet casually threw a stack of napkins over and smashed it on Simon's head: "Little bastard, hit you." ”

After laughing like this for a while, with Janet's encouragement, Catherine finally agreed and agreed to be Simon's assistant director. In the end, the agreed 'reward' was that Simon would also help the crew of "Blood Corpse Night" for a while.

Janet was originally not interested in the production of "Lola Run", Simon had also proposed that women be the producers together, not the nominal kind, but the lazy Janet only took the job of helping Simon paint a butterfly-themed mural in the casino shot, which is one of the three "butterfly effect" theme hints in the film.

With Catherine on board, Janet also cheered up and got involved.

And then.

Early the next morning, Janet came to 'work' in high spirits.

The time was eight o'clock in the morning.

Although Simon is used to waking up early, he has just eaten breakfast at this time.

Hearing the doorbell, Simon ran to open the door, and saw Janet dressed as OL.

Seeing that Simon's gaze was about to sweep to other places again, a pair of slightly cool little hands reached over directly, holding Simon's face to prevent him from twisting away, and then Janet's menacing voice followed: "If you look like this again, I'm really angry, and the consequences are very serious." ”

Simon nodded stiffly under the woman's 'claws' before Janet let go of his head.

Following Simon into the villa, Janet couldn't wait to ask, "Little boy, what are we going to do today?"

Simon came to the kitchen, picked up the cutlery he had just come to the sink, and said succinctly, "Rest." ”

Janet leaned over and said dissatisfiedly: "How can this be, as an ambitious person, you are really unmotivated." ”

Simon doesn't explain.

Although filming is still more than a week away, Simon will not have any more leisure time from next Monday until the film is completed, and this weekend will be the only time to rest in the next few months.

After washing the dishes, Simon left the kitchen and moved to the bedroom.

Blocking Janet, who was also trying to follow up, Simon changed his clothes and came out again before saying to the woman, "Let's go." ”

"What are you doing?"

"Shopping. ”

Janet was immediately interested, and no longer mentioned the words that made Simon motivated, she reached over and grabbed his arm and said, "Do you want to buy clothes? I can just help you. But, hee-hee, the little boy looks good in whatever he wears. ”

"Jenny, can you change your name?"

"Little bastard?"

"Forget it, when I didn't say it. ”

"Huh. ”

When the two came to the villa, Simon pointed to the Chevrolet SUV parked in the open space, and Janet turned to the co-pilot's side, and touched the hood of the SUV very affectionately: "Hey, big guy." ”

Simon opened the car door, heard Janet's words, and glared helplessly at the woman on the other side.

It's so provocative.

Leaving his accommodation, Simon drove Janet around for the whole morning, but he basically didn't leave Santa Monica, just kept changing bookstores one after another.

After lunch in the city, head back to the Montana district.

At the long table under the trellises in the backyard garden, Janet looked at the dozens of film books such as "Director's Basics", "Film Lens Design", and "Editing Techniques" piled up on the table, and looked between Simon and the books several times with a suspicious expression, before asking: "Little boy, you, you don't mean to tell me that the movie is about to start, and you remember to learn a little about these things, right?"

Simon picked up a book casually, leaned comfortably on a chaise longue next to him, enjoyed the afternoon sun sprinkled between the vines and leaves above his head, and nodded, "yes, otherwise how would I make a movie." ”

This is actually a question that Simon has just recently thought of.

Simon plans to do a lot of the work in "Lola Run" himself, so that he can't tell anyone that his filmmaking skills have fallen from the sky.

Now, with this large pile of books, the time can also give the curious an excuse to barely get their hands on it.

Self-taught.

How inspirational.

Janet belongs to the kind of woman who is very pampered, to put it bluntly, very lazy. On weekdays, the little brain melon can turn half a circle and will never turn a circle, but in fact, it is extremely smart, which can be seen from the few words that Catherine said to Simon at the beginning.

So, continuing to look between Simon and the book, she vaguely realized something.

And then I didn't bother to think about it anymore.

Seeing Simon leaning comfortably on the recliner, he leaned over like a cat, squeezed one after another, and found that Simon did not have the slightest intention of squeezing a recliner with himself, and ran out angrily.

In less than half an hour, another set of chaise longues was delivered by the furniture store.

After a beautiful weekend of luàn with red sleeves, the start date of "Lola Run" is getting closer and closer.

At this time, the crew of the film has also been formed.

Simon Westeros: Director, Producer, Brian De Palma: Executive Producer, Ron MacMillan: Producer, Janet Johnston: Producer, Kathryn Bigelow: Associate Director, Linda Vargas, Casting Director.

Sandra Bullock: Heroine, Keanu Reeves: Actor.

In addition to the main creator, after more than a month of busyness, a series of supporting roles and behind-the-scenes staff of the film have also been basically finalized.

So, September 30th, a new Monday.

Although filming has not officially started, Simon's work schedule has become very tight.

For a week, Simon had so many things to make sure.

The makeup of the main actors.

Communicate with the identified animation studio about the production of the film insertion animation.

Coordinate the actors' script reading sessions.

A series of applications for street filming were officially submitted to the City of Santa Monica.

Rental of shooting props.

Get acquainted with the people behind the scenes.

And so on and so forth.

So busy, Simon's daily rest time was compressed to six hours.

Until the end of the week, when the rest of the crew began to rest, Simon was still setting up the setting for Lola's room.

gradually felt Simon's professionalism and dedication, and several main creators of the crew also became more and more identified with "Lola Run".

So, when Simon was busy on the weekend for the set of Laura's room in an apartment building in the northwest corner of Montana, Catherine, Janet, and Sandra rushed over, and producer Ron Macmillan also rushed over, claiming that he was too idle on the weekend and was just here to help, and did not need to pay him overtime.

To Simon's surprise, the actor Keanu Reeves also rushed over. In these days of getting along, Simon also realized that Keanu Reeves was interested in his movie because of the five leg bones that Simon broke at the beginning.

Although two months have passed, the leg bones of the five young men have not recovered.

Apparently to avoid too much attention, Simon was still hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center, and the five of them rushed through the transfer procedures, reportedly to San Diego in southern California.

However, this deliberate cover-up only made more people interested in the events of that day. At the press conference of Fox's "Project X" starring Matthew Broderick, a reporter also boldly asked Matthew Broderick what he thought about the events of that day, and the scene was very embarrassing for a while.

Simon, however, had completely ignored the matter.

Another weekend later.

On Monday, October 7, "The Butterfly Effect" officially announced the start of filming at Fox Studios.

Simon also specially participated in the opening ceremony of the film that day.

Then, on Tuesday, October 8, "Lola Run" also began filming in obscurity in an apartment on the northwest waterfront in the Montana district of Santa Monica.