"The preliminary preparation will take about four months, just in time for our Chinese Spring Festival, so that the preparatory time is 5 months, and the time is very sufficient. The filming cycle is signed for 100 days, from February 08 to May 08, and the more than 8 months between May and the Spring Festival of 09 are used for post-film, and strive for the official release of the Spring Festival in 09. ”

Li Mu was humane to Tom Hanks and Han Sanping in the China Film Conference Room.

Tom Hanks was silent for a moment, then nodded: "From February to May 08, the schedule is one hundred days, no problem." ”

Li Mu and Tom Hanks shook hands, and the two sides have basically reached an agreement.

Tom Hanks arrived in Beijing yesterday, a total of three people came, Tom Hanks brought an agent and an assistant over. Li Mu and Liu Siying went to pick up the plane, and then several people rushed to Zhongying together.

Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei brothers, Yu Dong, Wang Changtian and others immediately rushed to Zhongying when they heard the news, only Yan Yiyun couldn't catch up in Xijing.

At Tom Hanks' insistence, Li Mu tried a few scenes with him, and then the preconceived doubts in Li Mu's heart completely disappeared.

The agreement was initially reached, and everyone happily stepped forward to shake hands with Tom Hanks. Han Sanping shook hands and sighed with a smile: "The day before yesterday, I was still worried about these producers, saying that the actor could never be decided, and I didn't know when the movie would start, but I didn't expect to get the news that you were going to come to audition in person the next day, which can be regarded as a big surprise for us." ”

Tom Hanks smiled: "As far as I know, Director Li Mu has invited me alone, if I don't hurry up, the opportunity may become someone else's,"

"It's a joke, it's a joke." Han Sanping said with a smile.

At the same time, Han Sanping, Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei, Yu Dong, Wang Changtian and others all had some deep doubts in their hearts.

Obviously, Li Mu invited Tom Hanks and others and was rejected by them all, how did it come to Tom Hanks's mouth that he was afraid that if he didn't come over quickly, the opportunity would be gone? ”

Fortunately, Tom Hanks didn't let a few people wonder for a long time, only to see him turn his head to Li Mu and say, "Director Li, can we talk about Manchester by the sea now?" ”

Seeing the puzzled eyes of the surrounding people, Li Mu explained: "Some time ago, after the invitation to the male protagonist was rejected one after another, I wrote a book called "Manchester by the Sea" and sent it to Mr. Tom Hanks. ”

Tom Hanks smiled: "I'm afraid this book is bound to "Inception", right? Among Director Li's favorite actors, who is willing to accept Director Li's "Inception", who can get Director Li's "Manchester by the Sea", I don't know if I'm right? ”

Li Mu smiled awkwardly and said: "All the invitations to the male protagonist sent out at that time were rejected, and I really had no choice but to make this decision." ”

Han Sanping, the Wang brothers, Yu Dong, Wang Changtian and others had already set off huge waves in their hearts when they heard this.

Listening to Tom Hanks, Li Mu simply wrote a better script after all the invitations to the protagonist were rejected, and then only used this one script to let the Oscar winner, who had resolutely refused to appear in "Inception", fly thousands of miles to China for an audition?

even let the actor, who has been nominated for the Oscar five times and won two little golden statues, say that he is afraid that the script will be cut off if he is too late?

It's incredible!

What did Li Mu write about this script called "Manchester by the Sea" later? How can it be so powerful?

At this moment, everyone's eyes looking at Li Mu changed.

Everyone can't see through him, they can't see through him at all.

Han Sanping was really shocked by Li Mu this time, and the script he wrote temporarily after the invitation was rejected could play such a huge role?

"You kid, it's going to make a big news if you haven't noticed it for a while, and now we're all confused, why don't you explain to us what this "Manchester by the Sea" is all about?"

Li Mu explained: "I always feel that the most shocking thing is still the most real thing after all, there are many movies that reflect the pain of the past, and there are some excellent ones, but most of these movies have a not very real place, that is, the protagonist often comes out of the past pain after experiencing a series of events." ”

"But is it really so easy to get out of the past pain in reality?"

"Maybe at some point you did come out of the pain of the past, but at some point you weren't sure when, maybe it was when you couldn't close the refrigerator door, maybe it was when you hit your toe on the table leg, maybe when you couldn't find your phone when you went out, you would suddenly cry, everyone thought you were making a big fuss, only you know what it was."

"'Manchester by the Sea' is such a script, a script that is so real that it is suffocating, a script that tells you that the pain of the past is not so easy to come out."

Han Sanping and the others basically figured out what was going on.

Li Mu wrote a very good but somewhat depressing script, and this script just tickled Tom Hanks's itch, so Tom Hanks, who was very firm in refusing to star in "Inception" some time ago, suddenly changed his attention.

But I understand it, but I still don't understand it.

Can a more realistic and depressing script have so much magic?

They don't understand because they haven't read the script yet, but Tom Hanks did, so he understands.

When he heard Li Mu say, "Maybe you can't close the refrigerator door, maybe your toe hits the table leg, maybe when you can't find your mobile phone when you go out, you will suddenly cry", an inexplicable strong sadness instantly hit Tom Hanks's body, and he thought of the scene in the script where his nephew closed the refrigerator door.

Han Sanping and the others finally discovered the change in Tom Hanks's expression, and faintly felt that it was Li Mu's words just now that touched the actor with two handfuls of little gold, and they couldn't help but be surprised.

Tom Hanks adjusted his mood and smiled reluctantly: "Since I read this script, that inexplicable emotion has been following me, and this has happened before, such as the first time I read Forrest Gump, or the first time I saw "Survival on a Desert Island". ”

Wang Zhonglei said with a smile: "One of these two movies made you win the Oscar, and the other made you nominated for the Oscar." ”

Tom Hanks nodded, then said, "I know." ”

"I know?"

After a moment of confusion in the conference room, suddenly there was a move in the capital:

"Could it be that Tom Hanks means that the script for the film called Manchester by the Sea actually has the potential to be nominated for an Oscar?"

"In other words, in order to let Tom Hanks accept "Inception", Li Mu wrote a script, and this script has the potential to win the Oscar?"

Makes sense, if that's the case then everything makes sense.

So it turned out to be like this!

Han Sanping, Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei, Yu Dong, Wang Changtian and others all thought of it, but after thinking about it, there was only shock left in their hearts.

"How did the other actors react when they saw the script in Manchester?" Tom Hanks suddenly wondered.

He knew that Li Mu had not only invited him alone, but he also knew that Leonardo, Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves and others had all received invitations to "Inception", so it was impossible for Li Mu to send him only one person in the script of Manchester.

This is the reason why he came to Huaxia so quickly.

Li Mu smiled and said, "Mr. Tom Hanks, I'm sure I only sent "Manchester by the Sea" to you alone. ”

"Oh?"

Tom Hanks was surprised.

Li Mu smiled: "What I sent to Leonardo was another script, a script called "The Revenant". ”