Chapter 096: Double Soup Meeting
An inconspicuous black business car stopped under the Firefly office building, and a tall man with sunglasses and black curly hair got out of the car and hurried into the office building with his head down. Across the road, Jonny, the owner of a convenience store, glanced idly through the glass window and immediately recognized the other party's identity, Tom Hanks.
Jonny is also a movie fan, almost every week to see one or two popular movies, although he is nearly forty years old, past the age of chasing stars, but he knows Hollywood stars big and small, like Tom Hanks, just wearing sunglasses, without special disguise, Jonny can be recognized at a glance.
In Burbank, which is full of large and small film production companies, it is normal to meet one or two big stars, and Jonny does not feel any fuss, he knows that the owner of the film company opposite is Eric Williams, who has suddenly risen recently, and secretly thinks that maybe Tom Hanks is here for the new film of that miracle director.
After two or three customers, five or six minutes later, Jonny inadvertently saw another van stop across the road.
Curious, Jonny stared intently at the car door, and soon, two more people got out of the car, a man and a woman, the man still covered his face with sunglasses. Although this man is a little lower than Tom Hanks, his fame in Hollywood is higher than that of Hanks, and it is Tom Cruise, a popular Hollywood idol star.
"Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise. Jonny touched his chin and pondered, and suddenly it occurred to him that maybe the paparazzi would be interested in this clue.
It's not news if it's a single person here, and the paparazzi, while following the big Hollywood stars, aren't particularly interested in these normal daily activities.
Only those celebrities who have become the focus of the news because of certain things in the recent period, such as big sales of works, scandals, divorces, drug arrests and other factors, will become the target of paparazzi. When it was first released, Eric was chased by the paparazzi for a while, because that period was the period when the public was most interested in him, a little director who had just become an adult and created a miracle, as long as the newspaper published Eric's news, there would be curious people vying to buy it.
But now, two of Hollywood's hottest male stars appeared at Firefly Films at the same time, and, coincidentally, both of them are named Tom, because of their similar age, Hanks is not disabled yet, and the two are in a competitive position in the circle, so this is definitely a piece of news worthy of being published in the entertainment edition.
Thinking of this, Jonny excitedly found a gossip tabloid and dialed the news hotline above. In order to be able to collect news materials, many newspapers will pay people who provide clues. Of course, Jonny didn't go to these well-known big newspapers, and the other party was not short of news, and the price offered would certainly not be satisfactory to him.
"Hey, huh?...... Yes, yes, I have a big piece of news......"
After a few minutes, Jonny excitedly put down the phone and keenly judged the great value of the news, so he generously offered Jonny $500 for the lead, but on the condition that Jonny was not allowed to sell the lead to other newspapers, and bargained and finally got $700, which was a windfall for Jonny, who opened a small convenience store.
In less than twenty minutes, several paparazzi rushed over, and after learning from Jonny that Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks had not left, they happily paid for the clues. Then patiently squatted outside the Firefly headquarters.
After reaching an agreement with Columbia, Eric began to work on the two male leads. After the success of three consecutive films, no one in Hollywood discriminates against Eric's age, and no big name will directly refuse Eric's invitation to cooperate, even Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, who are popular.
What's more, after reading the outline of the script, the two Hollywood superstars keenly felt the excitement of the story, and in this case, there was no reason to refuse.
Before, neither of them knew that the other had also received an invitation. But after Hanks offered to play the robber, and Cruise made a long list of revisions to the script. So Eric revealed the news to the two of them, hoping to talk to them in person.
The two Toms also feel that with the current fame of the three people, if they can cooperate successfully, the box office appeal will be immeasurable. What's more, with this wonderful story, maybe this film can create a box office miracle again like Eric's first two directorial works.
No one doesn't want to be the protagonist of a miracle, hence this meeting today.
In the conference room of Firefly, only Eric, Hanks and Cruise are left, and Jeffrey and Tom's agents are waiting outside, although Cruise and Hanks are both CAA's artists now, but at their current level, CAA's constraints on the two are almost none. Therefore, the two agents can only obediently do their own work and dare not obstruct it.
Of course, once it is completely determined to cooperate, when the salary is negotiated, these two agents still have to come out, and the other party is also eagerly waiting for this moment to come. Both agents were instructed from the top, and there is only one sentence to sum up: slaughter to death!
In front of Cruise and Hanks, they each put a complete script, and what the two of them saw before was only a brief outline of the script. After spending half an hour reading through the script, Hanks touched his face and said with a smile: "Eric, I now understand that I am not suitable to play Andy." It's really a little more difficult for me to look like a woman. ”
Eric laughed, but Cruise still frowned slightly as if he hadn't heard Hanks' joke: "Eric, I still think it's more appropriate to modify this plot, in the script setting, since Andy is a master of makeup, then, disguised as another man is also a good choice, are you right?"
Hanks, who was sitting opposite Cruise, raised his eyebrows, he felt that Cruise's behavior was too conservative, and it was not a very strict thing to string women, as an actor, even if the director asked him to play a dog, as long as the request was reasonable, he would go back and do it.
And he just did some analysis of this script, this plot is not deliberate, the reason why Andy plays a woman is to let the villain let his guard down. In the script, the villain asked Andy to follow the little brother to get the ransom, which can prove this, if it is another man with five big and three thick, he thinks that the villain is more likely to kill them with a gun, and the two men appear at the transaction scene at the same time, isn't it too weird?