165: Casting

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talked to Kim Tae-hee about a lot of script issues, but Kim Tae-hee did not immediately agree to play the role, but had to think about it. After all, she is not alone, she has her own brokerage team behind her, and she naturally can't be hasty in the face of things at work.

After Li Donglai came, he officially took a vacation under An Shuzhen's blaming gaze. An Shuzhen nagged Li Donglai a lot for this, what was worried that he would be banned if he angered the company, and it was a suicide to take a vacation when he was really famous, he didn't take making money seriously, it was completely nonsense and so on.

If others said so, Li Donglai was afraid that he would have become angry. But An Shuzhen complained in a stern tone, but Li Donglai could only lick his face to comfort her. In the end, An Shuzhen still couldn't resist Li Donglai's stubbornness, and came to the United States with him to visit his company.

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"When everyone dies, they leave some fragments of life around them, like an oil lamp, and when they go out, they will leave black smoke around them. Therefore, a soldier who died unexpectedly on the battlefield was given the task of combining his remnants of the spiritual world with the high-tech outside world, returning to the world of the source code reserved before the explosion of the train to investigate the whole story.

But in the end, he realizes that he has died, and decides to stay in the parallel world of the source code and not return to the dead world. This is the core thread of Source Code. ”

"The background of the male protagonist is the best person in the international peacekeeping force, because in a counter-terrorism operation, he unfortunately died ......"

An Shuzhen patiently read the script...... Or comics, Li Donglai explained the core of the script to her, and finally she came to the conclusion that the creativity is very good.

Now that Li Donglai has invested in his property and the wood has been completed, no matter how much she blames, it will be useless, and she quickly plunged into the new role and decided to seriously help Li Donglai get through this hurdle first. "But after you talked for a long time, I found that there was no content of the actors, are you sure about the heroine?"

Lee Dong Lai said: "I have already contacted Kim Tae-hee privately......"

"What, Kim Tae-hee, will she agree to act?" Ahn Shuzhen was surprised.

Li Donglai shrugged, "I don't know yet, but I'll get back to me in the last two days." I didn't plan to recruit stars, and there are a lot of good acting skills among ordinary actors. However, if you don't happen to recruit a star, it's also pretty good. ”

An Shuzhen nodded, "I know a little bit about recruiting actors." I can't be idle this time, so I should help you manage the recruitment and signing of actors for free. ”

Li Donglai was overjoyed, and directly gave An Shuzhen a bear hug, "Sister An, you are the best!" ”

hugged An Shuzhen in a daze, blushing and hitting him directly: "Ah, you guy, no small or big." Say how many times have you been, pay attention to the impact, what if the reporter gets it. ”

Li Donglai grinned, "Sister An, relax, this is the United States, and I'm still a rookie that no one knows." ”

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The movie "Source Code" is not easy to make, although the cost is not high, it is a small-budget sci-fi film, but it is a small cost in the United States, and it is already bankrupt when it is transferred to Li Donglai. Especially for the current "Phantom Entertainment Company", it is already one of the few big costs.

Li Donglai didn't plan to invite a few stars to participate in this movie, although the poor and white cast is not conducive to the box office, it is still cheap.

Filming a lot of things in "Source Code", they can use shape-shifting means, such as building a model of the inside of a train, actors performing in it, and when the train in the movie is going to move and stop, everyone has to convert it to a real train.

In this way, building that model train, plus still using a real train, is already a lot of money, estimated to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fortunately, all the film needed was an office, a train in a train, and an empty station.

These prospect arrangements have been completed by the collective efforts of Rodro, Sean and Blake, before Li Donglai returns. Blake is the manager of the company. This is undoubtedly an important position, and Li Donglai originally intended to find someone else, but it turns out that Blake can sit in this position because of his personal ability. Faced with the change of the boss, Blake expected that his position might not be guaranteed, but he did not let it go, but frankly and actively helped the company complete the layout of the new film shooting.

His efforts impressed Li Donglai, and Rodro also actively reported the situation to Li Donglai. And when opening a company in the United States, it is inevitable to deal with Americans, and Li Donglai is the boss, so it is inconvenient to show up often. Then, it is naturally better to have a white person as the face of the company. So in the end, Blake proudly stayed in his original position.

The layout of the scene cannot be taken lightly, and when Li Donglai made a movie, he hoped to be able to carefully and meticulously reflect a movie in some details. So after arriving at the destination, after going back and forth to the set several times and making more adjustments, it was finally confirmed.

Although it doesn't cost much, the various scenes can't be petty, and how to spend a small amount of money to decorate the luxurious scenes has to be exquisite. After all, the movie "Source Code" is ready to enter the North American market, and foreigners can't feel that this movie is too petty.

Hey, you have to spend money everywhere, so it's a point to save a penny.

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Hollywood, located in the northwest suburbs of Los Angeles, is the headquarters of major film companies, a popular tourist destination, and a mecca for movies.

As early as when Li Donglai first came to Los Angeles, he went to Hollywood, visited Paramount Cinema, stepped on the Avenue of Fame, and also went to Chinese theaters to see the hands and feet of celebrities. But today in Hollywood, he's become a part of it. The purpose is naturally not to play, but to find actors for "Source Code".

In Hollywood, where the film industry is mature, how to cast a movie has its own system. Li Donglai is going to go to the actors' union today.

Founded in 1933, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is the largest screen actors union in the United States, with more than one million members. With another union with more than 70,000 members, the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors (AFTRA), which includes nearly all actors in the United States. The meaning of the actors' union is to seek benefits and rights for union members, such as introducing job opportunities to actors, defending rights, and being responsible for labor contract negotiations with producers' associations.

Many people think that such a centralized system of power will make it easier to breed dirty "unspoken rules"? In fact, on the contrary, those unorganized entertainment circles are mixed and dirty. Hollywood, while not immune to these things, is much better than other places, and at least one extras has someone who cares about them and defends their rights when they need help.

This is progress, at least not in China and South Korea.

The current casting system is a system of checks and balances. The Screen Actors Guild will notify all eligible members at your request and agree on a time for an interview. The interviews are conducted by a tripartite group of directors, producers, and agents from the Actors' Guild. In the end, only actors who are unanimously agreed by the three parties can get the role, of course, the agent is more of a regulatory role; But as long as one party does not agree, this actor will not get any role.

So here, even if an actor and the director have a deal, don't expect it to succeed, because the director alone has no decision-making power, and the deal can't be successful.

Besides, if some ignorant girl is deceived by an unscrupulous director, she sleeps with someone but can't get a film appointment. She is likely to go to court and get into the newspapers. And this kind of scandal is a big deal in the United States, and the director and actor must have ruined their future and ruined reputation.

Hollywood invests tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in making a movie at every turn, and the investors may involve dozens of companies. The requirement of these companies is simple - profit. The minimum requirement is to recover the cost and not lose money. Let's say who's for sex. Transactions messed up, messed up the movie, caused them to lose money, and the investment company would not let him go. It can bring you to disrepute, or you will be held accountable and taken to court and jailed.

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