Best Movie Star

Chapter 118: 1 Modern Warfare Story

One second ★Small △ said § Net], wonderful novels are free to read without pop-ups!

​​

The sunlight filtered through the curtains, dispelling the darkness in the room. Matthew opened his eyes and only felt a headache. He felt very bad after a hangover. He shook his head forcefully, propped himself up and got out of bed. a bath.

​​

Last night, I had a party with a few leading actors in the crew. Since the theme was to send him, it was inevitable that someone would drink a few more glasses. When I came back, I was basically half-drunk and half-awake. I didn't even take a shower. I lay down and fell asleep. on.

​​

After washing, Matthew was completely sober, and the headache caused by the hangover was much better. After checking the time, he went out to have breakfast first, called a taxi and left the hotel with his luggage, ready to rush to Heathrow Airport. , take the flight back to Los Angeles.

​​

He wanted to go back and have a good rest for a few days.

​​

Strictly speaking, I have been busy since I participated in the auditions for "Almost Famous", "The Mummy Returns" and "The Fast and the Furious", even if there is no real relaxation between auditions.

​​

Now that the filming of "The Mummy Returns" is over, and there are no new characters to fight for, we can forget about work for the time being.

​​

After getting into the taxi, Matthew texted Britney, "Are you busy?"

​​

There was no text message over there. It seemed that Britney should be very busy.

​​

It wasn't until the taxi approached Heathrow Airport that the text message from his Nokia phone rang, and he took out his eyes.

​​

"The choreographer has redesigned the dance part of a song. I want to get familiar with it as soon as possible these days. I came out to drink water, and now I'm going back."

​​

Matthew stopped answering text messages, put away his phone, and waited for the taxi to stop in front of the airport terminal. He got out of the car and pulled his luggage into the airport. Just as he was about to pick up his ticket, the Nokia bell rang.

​​

Matthew took out his phone and just glanced at it, and Matthew frowned. The call was from Helen Herman.

​​

Helen Herman never called him for personal matters. Whenever he called, it was all about work.

​​

He pressed the answer button and put it to his ear, "Hi, Helen."

​​

"You haven't gotten on the plane, have you?" Helen Herman asked over there, and then said, "The crew of "Band of Brothers" informed me that they want you to go to the crew to participate in the post-dubbing."

​​

Matthew thought the crew was still in London and asked, "Am I going to stay in London?"

​​

Helen Herman said, "No! Band of Brothers is currently in post-production at Warner Studios..."

​​

"When will the recording start?" Matthew asked again, "It won't be tomorrow, will it?

​​

"You're going to report to the crew on Wednesday."

​​

"Okay." Matthew had no objection. After all, he signed a contract in this regard with "Band of Brothers", "I guess I won't be able to return to Los Angeles until evening."

​​

Even if the "Mummy Returns" crew ordered a direct flight to Los Angeles for him, it still took more than ten hours to fly.

​​

He was about to hang up the phone, and Helen Herman over there said, "One more thing, Jack broke the news to me, Ridley Scott temporarily took over a war movie project for Sony Columbia Pictures, time The schedule is very tight, the crew is said to only conduct internal auditions, and give priority to actors who have experience in military roles, you can think about it.”

​​

"Don't think about it."

​​

This kind of thing doesn't even have to be considered? Ridley Scott's name is here, and Matthew said directly, "Helen, help me sign up."

​​

As long as it is a legitimate film and role, he is now open to anyone.

​​

He is far from being able to pick out scripts and roles, and it is quite good to be able to find a suitable job opportunity after a job ends.

​​

Helen Herman said, "That's what I mean too. Well, I'll go get in touch with Jack."

​​

Hanging up the phone, Matthew took his boarding pass, entered the departure lounge, and sat on a bench to wait for the plane. His head was full of thoughts, what war movies did Ridley Scott make during this time period?

​​

He remembered that Ridley-Scott seemed to have made a version of "The Prince of Egypt" and a war film about Jerusalem, and the public release version was very different from the version he downloaded on the Internet, and the Internet also said that the box office was big. Shit, it shouldn't be these two, right?

​​

After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't remember it either, guessing that he hadn't seen this movie before.

​​

For Ridley-Scott's works, he is most familiar with "Alien" and the Jerusalem film.

​​

It was late at night when he returned to Los Angeles. Matthew went into the apartment and fell asleep. After sending a text message to Britney and Helen Herman the next day, he continued to rest in the apartment. It was not until Wednesday morning that he felt After recovering my energy, I went out and went directly to the Angel Agency.

​​

Unexpectedly, Helen Herman was away from the company and went out to Malibu temporarily to handle other brokerage business.

​​

She not only represented Matthew's brokerage business, but also many young actors.

​​

These clients can not only bring income to the Angel Agency, but also make Matthew feel the competition and pressure. Even if he can't make it, Helen Herman can still hold another one.

​​

Matthew called Helen Herman, and Helen Herman asked him to hand him a stack of documents and asked him to receive the payment for "The Mummy Returns" from the company.

​​

Although the "Mummy Returns" crew has only paid the first $30,000 payment and has to wait patiently for the last two, Matthew also received a $30,000 termination payment from the "Fast and the Furious" crew before, even if both There is still a huge sum of money to be paid to Helen Herman's 10% brokerage commission.

​​

This amount of money is not a lot, but it is enough to make him no longer have to worry about living expenses.

​​

With no worries about the most basic life issues, Matthew's mind can be fully devoted to his career as an actor. To be precise, it is the great cause of becoming a Hollywood star and enjoying a life of fame and fortune.

​​

He doesn't plan to move the money for the time being. The last time he walked the red carpet of "Gladiator", Matthew has realized that the actor seems to have a good income, but the expenses are not small.

​​

Signed in the finance room, and the paycheck was transferred to his account. Matthew didn't leave the Angel Agency. He took the documents to the conference room on the first floor and looked at it.

​​

At the same time, he also had a long phone call with Helen Herman to better understand the basic situation of the project.

​​

This is the project information that Ridley Scott's bearded assistant Jack specially passed on to Helen Herman. Although there is no script and other content that must be kept secret, there is also a basic introduction to Helen Herman. That said, it's a war movie, and it's a modern war movie.

​​

According to this information provided by Jack, Ridley-Scott's new film is based on a true story that took place in 1993 in the capital of the politically volatile African country Somalia: Mogadishu, by the United States A covert operation by a special operations team of 160 special forces elites from Army Delta Force and Ranger Forces.

​​

The project is tentatively titled Black Hawk Down, and the script is adapted from journalist Mark Bourdain's documentary report Black Hawk Down: A Modern Warfare Story.

​​

This was not originally a film project planned by Ridley-Scott, it was a temporary takeover.

​​

The film was originally proposed by director Simon West, who urged the famous producer Jerry Bruckheimer to buy the filming rights of the original and started pre-planning, but later due to a series of changes within Sony Columbia Pictures, Simon West dropped the project to direct Tomb Raider instead.

​​

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer continued to prepare the film, and then found Ridley Scott, who happened to be very interested in this subject matter, and the two hit it off.

​​

Although he did not take over in the middle of shooting, Ridley-Scott also faced many unfavorable factors such as time constraints, especially Sony Columbia Pictures plans to release the film "Black Hawk Down" before the end of next year, leaving time for the crew Not very abundant.

​​

Therefore, Ridley Scott and Jerry Bruckheimer reached a tacit agreement with Sony Columbia Pictures that the film will not open auditions to select actors, but to resolve the selection of actors for most of the roles through internal auditions, so as to make as much as possible Save valuable time.

​​

Even, the two producers have reduced the military training that Hollywood must undertake to shoot this type of film from one month to ten days, and actors with certain military qualities and who have played military roles in the past two years are given priority. Object.

​​

In addition, this is still a group play, and it will not specifically highlight a certain role.

​​

Sony Columbia Pictures had an upfront budget of $80 million to $100 million for this film, which is definitely an A-level Hollywood production in this era.

​​

After reading the information, Matthew feels that he still has a chance to get a job from the "Black Hawk Down" crew~www.readwn.com~ On the one hand, it hasn't been long since he finished filming "Band of Brothers". In the later filming, there was relevant military training; on the other hand, when he participated in the filming of "Gladiator", he knew that Helen Herman and Ridley Scott had a close relationship.

​​

More than once he heard Helen Herman call Uncle Ridley Scott instead of calling him director or sir.

​​

This is quite telling some questions.

​​

Based on Matthew's understanding of the reality of Hollywood today, there is another advantage to starring in "Black Hawk Down". As long as he can get a good supporting role in this first-line big production, he will have the capital to compete for the first place in some small productions. Supporting actor, and even leading actor.

​​

Actors who don't want to be the male lead are definitely actresses.

​​

He also has a little concern about the filming location.

​​

Although the crew will not go to the extremely chaotic place in Somalia to shoot on the spot, the information shows that the entire film will be shot in Morocco, Africa, and the duration may be four to five months. If you get an important role in the crew, it means For the next six months, he will spend most of his time in Africa.

​​

"Africa is just Africa..." he muttered, "there are planes now anyway."

​​

After simply flipping through the information, Matthew called Helen Herman again, then left the Angel Agency, went to the bookstore to buy "Black Hawk Down: A Modern Warfare Story", and went back to prepare for tomorrow's dubbing work.

) DOWNLOAD FREE READER!!

Loading...

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like