Because of Ye Wei's family affairs, the crew of "Lovely Bones" stopped work from the morning of the 8th and resumed work on Saturday afternoon of the 10th. Tomorrow and Sunday will be a day of make-up work, but even if it is full, the already small number of shooting days is still one day less.

The main reason why the crew's filming plan can be adjusted so "flexibly" is that TLB, like "Soul Surfer", is a non-unionized project. Although it has a budget of 25 million and is produced by DreamWorks, it was still warned by the 4A Federation that this is a project with unguaranteed work benefits.

For example, the shooting day on Friday was suddenly moved to Sunday, and overtime work was carried out six days a week.

SAG has given Ye Wei many stern warnings, but to no avail. It is also because even after receiving the warning letter, there are still a large number of union actors participating in auditions and joining the VIY project. SAG shouted, "If something happens, the union won't care!" The actors said, "Okay, if something happens, I think I'm unlucky, join in." ”

The main roles of TLB are very sought-after, and many well-known actors want to play them, and once they play, they are equivalent to stepping on the red carpet of the Oscars and wearing half of the North American weekly box office champions. This non-union project is glittering.

Before Ye Wei took over, TLB was a big hit project.

You must know that in the latest issue of the "Top 10 Super Bestsellers in the United States" list, TLB ranked third, the first two are "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", both of which have made movies, the former is a blockbuster with a budget of over 100 million starring Tom Hanks, which was released on May 19 and had a bad reputation, but the box office performance was very good.

Movies adapted from best-selling books are often like this, not satisfying readers, but guaranteed box office supported by popularity.

Super bestsellers, good stories, talented directors, Spielberg as executive producer, Paramount release, these are all deeply attractive to the actors.

So there was no situation where the crew worked hard to invite their favorite actors, but selected the best candidates from a long list.

But "Mr. Harvey" is not Kevin Spacey, who doesn't want to play another clever pervert and joins Stanley Tucci. Tuqi's appearance and temperament are very suitable, and after makeup, he combed his 70s hairstyle, grew a beard, and put on glasses, like a Sven, but the audience didn't feel like a good person at first glance.

Tuqi is even more worthy of an old drama bone, and his performance in the audition is very amazing, and no one believes that he is not a pervert.

This is the second time he has cooperated with Ye Wei after LMS. However, he is not counted as an online person, and there are only three people in the TLB cast who are counted online, one is "Susie" Elizabeth Olsen, and the other two are Susie's parents "Jack" and "Abigail".

What does "Jack" look like? Alice Siebold says she looks like Ryan Gosling.

If Ye Wei nods, this is not a problem, Gosling has the willingness to star, and the independent film "Half Nielsen" starring him was also bought and funded by Ye Wei at Sundance and has the hope of shining in the awards season.

Ye Wei didn't appreciate him, but Gosling was too young, he was only 26 years old on his birthday this year, and Liz was 17 years old. Even if he looks old, "Jack" is a young and handsome father, and it doesn't look like he wants to play it, but it looks like Susie's brother together.

Of course Gosling can't, the key is his type, his temperament can be very spiritual, or very melancholy and decadent, and he can interpret the stage changes in TLB's story.

The last actor "Jack" talked about was Keanu Reeves.

Speaking of Reeves, those who know him will say "The Matrix". From the 3,000 salary for the supporting role in his screen debut "Blood Boy" in 1986, to the 15 million + 15% adjusted gross income share of the second and third parts of "The Matrix" in 2003, from the age of 22 to the current age of 41, his road to superstardom has taken a smooth and tortuous twenty years.

He joined TLB with a low salary + 5% adjusted gross profit share.

It's not that TLB picked up the cheap. The project is divided into Hollywood and independence, business and art, according to the industry standard, TLB belongs to independent literary films, between Film and Movie, no matter who will act, no agent will ask for the same salary as Hollywood commercial films, that is ignorant of the rules.

Reeves has entered the 10 million salary club since "The Matrix", but 15 million is the peak for the time being, and it is still a little short of the top of 20 million and 25 million.

is like the famous work "Speed of Life and Death" (1.2 million salary, 30 million budget, 3. 500 million global box office) followed by "Extraordinary Agent" (2 million salary, 26 million budget, 19.07 million global box office), and last year's "Hell Detective" after the "Matrix" series, this 100 million budget action thriller blockbuster is only 0. 7.5 billion North American box office / 2. The 3 billion global box office should be classified as on the verge of failure.

This was a heavy blow to Reeves's value, and instead of going further, he fell back.

It's probably not appropriate to say he's unlucky, but he's a bit less lucky than those superstars.

However, Reeves is not a person who gets into the eyes of money, last year he had two movies, the other is the literary independent film "The Thumb Sucker", with a budget of 4 million, everyone knows that it will not have much income, and the share is just a basic treatment, the important thing is to act in a film.

And this year's film is the upcoming "Untouchable Lovers" (40 million budget, adapted from the Korean classic) with Sandra Bullock, and his film is "Blind Spot Walker" (8.5 million budget), which also includes Robert Downey Jr. and Winona Ryder, Richard Linklater's films.

These two films were made last year and the year before last, and now Reeves has no other film contracts except TLB.

For this candidate, Siebold is very satisfied, handsome enough, sunny enough but melancholy enough, the appearance is no problem, the makeup style after Susie's accident, the beard is unshaven and unkempt, and the vicissitudes of life are embarrassing.

She was a little worried about her acting ability, and she had the impression that Reeves was a cool and handsome action star.

Ye Wei is not worried, although Reeves has not been nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe, he has a deep acting foundation, as early as "400 Years of Vampire Zombie Horror" (1992), "Little Living Buddha" (1994) and other movies, but he became famous in action movies, and people often forget this.

And isn't there a director for him? Reeves has enough to do what he wants, so he'll leave the rest to him.

At the beginning, the media was in an uproar about Reeves playing "Jack"!

TLB's story is even more emotionally complicated for him, because in December 1999, his then-girlfriend Jennifer Sam gave birth to a stillborn baby after being 8 months pregnant, and it was his daughter Ava Archer Sam Reeves. Eighteen months later, Sam was killed in a car accident while driving alone.

These are two unsolved cases, both of which are suspected to be related to drugs, and it is said that it was because Sam's drug use caused the death of the fetus, so Reeves subsequently broke up with her. In Sam's car, police found two rolls of U.S. bills containing white powder, two bottles of prescription drugs, and the accident investigation also showed that she was not wearing a seatbelt at the time and was drunk driving. Sam's mother said her daughter had been treated for back pain and depression before the accident.

In any case, Reeves has experienced the pain of losing his daughter, and in less than 6 years, he doesn't know if new bones have grown.

In October 1993, his (then 29) good brother the legendary Raven Phoenix died of a drug overdose at Johnny Depp's (then 30) private club at the age of 23. Rumors of drug abuse also accompanied Reeves's early years, and the jury was inconclusive whether he was a drug or not, but after Phoenix's death, he became "eccentric".

Playing in a band, racing cars, and doing a lot of things that are contrary to the mainstream, "Speed of Life and Death" made him a big success the following year, but the rebellious style of life affected his luck and career, which was one of the reasons for the failure of films such as "Very Spy".

This once problematic character is still full of personality until now, and in an interview with "Variety", he talked about why he joined TLB, he said: "Because of Ye Wei. ”

I don't think Reeves thinks VIY is bad. Compared with these people, Ye Wei really can't go anywhere in the past six months, he hasn't touched marijuana, and he is only 18 years old. But in the eyes of the media and the public, Ye Wei is a genius, and the room for geniuses to make mistakes is very small, compared with Depp, Phoenix, and Reeves.

They are all personalities and bohemian, will Ye Wei and Reeves have something to do?

Media fans are paying close attention to the TLB set, which is full of talent and personality!

TLB also has a different kind of affection for Rachel Weisz, who plays "Abigail", the 36-year-old thorny British Rose who just became a mother last month, and her husband is Darren Aronofsky, a member of the talented line, the director of "Requiem for a Dream".

Although Gu Qiao did not have confinement after giving birth to Ye Wei and Duoduo, he did not toss so quickly, let alone let go of the newborn child to act in a movie.

It's nothing for Vichy, having an expected date doesn't affect her film appointment, and she made a smooth and quick comeback after giving birth, so that the substitute actors didn't have a chance to play, first acting in TLB and then "Blueberry Night", both of which started filming in June.

However, the filming plan took care of her, and TLB filmed for more than a week before she and Reeves were ready to go to Philadelphia. Because the crew first filmed the scenes of Susie, Mr. Harvey and others, and then the Shamon family would arrive one after another, and finally they had to shoot the paradise scenes in front of other filming locations and studios.

Keeping the crew as light as possible is the basis of a good film schedule, and it also allows Vichy to rest for a few more days. The good news for her son is that TLB has a short shooting period, and Wong Kar-wai's films have to be shot for a long time, and "Blueberry Night" is not so much called for Vichy.

She is also a person full of personality, a talented girl who graduated from Cambridge University, and younger actresses such as Keira Knightley have to call her a senior sister.

Her TLB contract only has a salary and no share, which is better than "Blueberry Night" with a budget of only 10 million.

Weizi's career has generally gone strong in recent years, and she also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress this year, but "Hell Detective" also hit her hard last year. TLB will be her third time playing opposite Keanu Reeves, in addition to her first Hollywood film, Chain Reaction (1996).

The screen matching reaction of the two has long been certified by the industry, and this time they will join forces again to act in a feature film, which makes media fans look forward to it.

Many of the Chinese elements in TLB's cast, although they should not be released in Chinese mainland, are still often reported by Chinese media.

One is Ye Wei, who personally plays "Ray"; the second is Kelsey Zhou, who has 1/2 Chinese ancestry; and the third is Reeves, who has 1/8 Chinese ancestry, which comes from his grandmother, who is half Chinese and half Hawaiian. "Growing up, I was surrounded by Chinese art, furniture and food," he once said. ”

The fourth is "Grandma" Susan Sarandon, the 60-year-old Oscar actress (1 award, 4 nominations) is not of Chinese ancestry, but a Chinese expert.

Born in her time, rebellious nature, influenced by the Transgression School and full of spiritual sustenance for Eastern culture, but not many people pursue like her, she majored in Chinese after entering Case Western Reserve University, can speak, read and write, loves Chinese culture and Buddhism, and has a certain understanding.

She also loves table tennis, and she is the co-owner of the New York Table Tennis Club, which is planning to open a branch in Toronto. One of the conditions she said to Ye Wei to join was: "I want to bring a table tennis table to the set, and we can play a few games when we are free." ”

"I don't know how to ping-pong. At that time, Ye Wei was dumbfounded, he has touched the table tennis racket no more than 10 times since he was a child, and he likes to run.

"If you could, I wouldn't call you. Sarandon said.

It was natural for the heroine of "Flowers of the End" and the benchmark of the personality woman to join TLB, she was Sieberd's grandmother. When the crew sent out the invitation, it was basically an instant hit, that is, there were some doubts about Mr. Harvey's death, and she preferred the Buddhist karma in the original book.

"It's not that I don't like karma, it's just that movies don't like it. Ye Wei replied to her.

Of course, Sarandon eventually signed the film contract out of interest in the story and VIY.

TLB's cast is luxurious enough that there is no need to spend more money on it, and other candidates are looking for actors from Philadelphia and New York nearby, such as Buckley's child and big child, Officer Fernemon, Lincy's boyfriend Samuel, Clarissa's boyfriend Brian, etc., most of them are unknown or even acting in movies for the first time.

In addition, there are five draft girls from different backgrounds, Saoirse, Mody, Dakota, Kelsie, and Margotte.

And on Saturday the 10th, in the afternoon, the set of "Lovely Bones" welcomed back director Ye Wei.

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"Good morning, Lily, I'm in Philadelphia. It turns out that that strange person picked up my heart, and I have a heart again, LOL! ”