After the New Year's holiday, Hollywood's screenwriters' strike did not stop at all, but intensified, and the conflict between labor and management has never been an easy problem to solve.

Countless celebrities have also come forward, such as Matthew, Two Toms, Bigmouth and George Clooney, etc., publicly announcing that they will never go to the Oscars in the event of a strike in support of the writers' union, which is also labor.

But it's one thing to make a public statement, it's another thing entirely to be private.

Projects such as "Angels and Demons", which Tom Hanks produced and starred in, and "Hitler", which was led by Tom Cruise, started work normally as soon as the New Year's holiday passed.

Like his peers, Matthew's two projects "Twilight" and "Fast and Furious 4" have also regrouped and continue to make preliminary preparations.

As for the screenwriters' strike outside, continue to make trouble, there will always be times when labor and management can't hold on.

The strike will definitely bring some losses to the management, but many crews have hired a lot of non-union screenwriters to work like the project "Angels and Devils", and even some crew writers are nominally on strike, but in fact they are secretly working.

Those high-income gold medal screenwriters and big-name screenwriters have not received their accounts for a few months, of course, it is not a problem, but the number of these people is very small, more than 90% of the members of the screenwriters' union are the kind of small screenwriters who are difficult to obtain the right of authorship in the film, with the consumption habits of this society, let alone a few months, it is estimated that if there is no salary for a month, it is estimated that they will go crazy.

These realities are here, and even people like Matthew can see it, and the large and medium-sized film companies that constitute the main body of the producer alliance must be very clear.

The Writers Guild is still insisting on 5 percent of DVD and new media revenues, but if it drags on, it will inevitably compromise.

The strike has already attracted national attention, and according to the latest information obtained by Matthew, the authorities in Washington may intervene in mediation.

There was a lot of uproar outside, and there was a lot of noise inside the Disney studio, with four large and medium-sized crews moving in at the same time to prepare, which can be described as extremely rare for a studio still located in Burbank today.

Since the beginning of the new century, due to the tax incentives and corresponding subsidy policies in Canada, Australia and some other states in the United States, Hollywood crews have been seriously outflowed, and the crews who are willing to stay in Los Angeles and even the entire California region to shoot are either extremely well-funded or so poor that they can't even pay for the travel expenses.

However, the situation has improved in the past two years, in order to avoid the continued exodus of Hollywood crews, Arnold Schwarzenegger has promoted a series of policies, including tax rebates, etc., although there are certain quota restrictions, but the major studios in Los Angeles, which used to be sparsely populated, have gradually become more popular.

Matthew rode a battery car from the factory gate to the stations of "Twilight" and "Fast and Furious 4", passing through the doors of the rented studios of "Cloud Atlas" and "Alien Battlefield".

When passing by, he deliberately took a look at the studio area, which was also crowded and quite lively.

The two projects in which the Plan B studio was involved have already begun to operate.

Matthew first went to the studio where the "Twilight" crew was located, chatted with Sean Daniel and Sofia Coppola, and then went to the studio of "Fast and Furious 4" opposite.

Both crews are holding auditions, and a large number of actors have come to the studio one after another, but the focus is different, the auditions of the "Twilight" crew in the last two days are mainly for those small roles, which are basically made by Sean Daniel and Sofia Coppola.

On the side of "Fast and Furious 4", there are two very important auditions today, the morning is for a Chinese male role, and the afternoon is a Jewish female role.

Both roles have a number one target, the former being Daniel Wu hired by Helen Herman, and the latter being an IDF veteran actress recommended by Aziwa Gossman.

The audition is mainly to see the character modeling, Matthew, Bearded Jack and director Justin Lin are all very satisfied with Daniel Wu's image, and Daniel Wu also performed a piece of kung fu live, and he really played a good job.

Matthew asked Daniel Wu a few questions, and deliberately asked him to give a long speech in English, mainly to see his oral level and understanding of American culture, and it turned out that just like Helen Herman understood, Daniel Wu grew up in the United States and went to college, and English and knowledge of the whole country were not a problem.

The choice of Daniel Wu is to prepare for the future, so before the film market on the other side of the Taiping has not exploded, Daniel Wu must first be able to please North American audiences.

However, in the fourth part that is being prepared, his role is not heavy, and he will appear as a friend of Matthew's character.

At the end of the morning's auditions, Matthew exchanged views with Bearded Jack and Justin Lin, and all three were happy with Daniel Wu, and then informed Helen Herman and asked her to talk to the crew's full-time producer about contract issues such as salary.

Back last year, Daniel Wu chose Helen Herman as his agent in North America.

In the afternoon, Matthew met for the first time a candidate for another role, the actress from Israel.

The Jewish female character in the script is set up as a firearms expert, so the other party's experience in the military is far more advantageous than other candidates.

"I'm Gal Gadot and I'm from Israel. ”

During the audition, a tall and thin woman stood in front of the camera and briefly introduced herself, "I have participated in the Miss Universe pageant, worked as a graphic model in Israel, and participated in several TV series......"

Matthew looked at the Israeli woman with a tough face, and the name she said, and was sure that this was Wonder Woman, the film that "shows the beauty of Gal Gadot in 360 degrees", he has seen it many times since he downloaded the pirated version.

The Israeli actress brings a rare heroism to the female character.

However, the current Gal Gadot should not have a large amount of exercise to increase muscles, and the whole person looks very slender and even a little thin.

Especially wearing a well-fitting costume, this is even more highlighted.

She introduced herself and posed for a series of modeling videos at the request of director Justin Lin,

Matthew looked at the footage transmitted to the monitor in front of him through the camera, and nodded slightly, if measured by the usual standards of Hollywood, Gal Gadot seems a little too tough both in terms of face and temperament.

But the Jewish female character in the script is a shrewd and tough firearms expert, and although she is not out of the realm of a vase, she is not the kind of princess waiting for the prince to come to her rescue.

The results of the makeup audition were very good, and Matthew and Bearded Jack exchanged a look and nodded their heads.

"Next one. Matthew said to director Justin Lin.

Justin Lin shouted to stop filming and asked directly, "Miss Gadot, what do you think of the character of Giselle?"

Gal Gadot smiled and said, "I don't like the female characters in traditional Hollywood movies, and I don't want to play the common women in Hollywood movies, who are always lonely and empty waiting for men to save them." ”

The crew had shown her the character script before, "This character is independent and tenacious, she doesn't have to wait for the prince to save her, she can also be her own hero." ”

Matthew couldn't help but tilt his head to look at her, this was undoubtedly a very smart woman, and she had obviously made sufficient preparations before the audition, and these words were not necessarily true, but they were possessed by the auditioning role.

In this film, there is already a female character like Mia, who is purely attached to men, so as early as when the script was set to set the framework, he told the screenwriting team more than once that another female character must be an independent type.

Why? The reason is simple: the feminist movement is booming.

Movies of the genre such as "Fast and Furious" will not lack male audiences, but if you want to attract the attention of a wider female audience, you must certainly have to do something about female characters.

In terms of adapting to the development of the social situation, he has always done a very good job.

Justin Lin added, "What strengths do you have for this role? Can you tell us about that?"

"I served in the IDF for two years. "Gal Gadot's outward temperament makes people feel independent, strong and confident," I worked as a fitness instructor for women's units in the military, learning combat and the use of a variety of weapons, and I have always received normal training in the army, and I can skillfully use and disassemble a variety of firearms. ”

She suddenly posed for a gun to shoot, "In the character script given to me by the crew, the characters have a lot of scenes of raising guns and shooting, and the highly specialized actions I have mastered are more conducive to the establishment of the character image." ”

"Let's stop here today. Justin Lin called out the audition and said, "Miss Gadot, we'll let you know the results of the audition in three days." ”

Gal Gadot politely said, "Okay, thank you." ”

As she left the audition room, Matthew looked at Justin Lin and Bearded Jack and asked, "What do you think?"

"Very nice. "She has a completely different experience from a Hollywood actress, which is an advantage that no one else can have." ”

The bearded Jack said directly, "That's it." ”

Matthew nodded slightly, "Then choose her." ”

After finalizing the candidates for the two important roles, Matthew finished his work today, left the audition room, got out of the studio, drove a battery car, walked towards the door of the studio, and once again passed by the door of the studio where the "Cloud Atlas" crew was located, and found Brad Pitt walking to the studio door alone.