Hollywood Hunter

Without responding to Aaliyah’s compliments, Simon remembered something and asked: "By the way, how tall are you?"

"5 feet 9 inches."

The Indian girl did not understand why Simon asked this suddenly, but answered immediately.

He stood up and showed it to Simon.

Aaliyah wears only a light blue pullover sweater and white jeans in the apartment. The slightly loose sweater is still difficult to conceal the girl’s well-proportioned and graceful figure, even if it is easy to distinguish it by the girl’s black hair and facial features Her ethnicity, if she walks on the street, can definitely attract a high rate of returning heads.

Dispelling the idea of ​​pulling the girl over to play a bit, Simon shook his head and said, "Unfortunately, it's too high."

Seeing Simon retracted her gaze, Aaliyah squatted down next to the man again, keeping her arms on the armrest of the sofa and asked: "Sir, is there any problem with this?"

Simon said: "If you are under 5 feet 6 inches, there is a role that suits you very well."

Aaliyah did not have the slightest disappointed look on her face. She glanced at the sub-shot drawing in Simon's hand, and asked, "Is this the film your husband is preparing?"

"No," Simon shook his head and said, "The other one is called "Scent of a Woman". There is a tango dance in the film that I believe will be very brilliant. The male protagonist needs a partner, but unfortunately you are a little taller. Too suitable."

The tango girl Gabriel Anwar in the original "Scent of a Woman" is actually half of the Indian descent.

If Aaliyah is not too tall, Simon would look forward to this girl who looks better than Gabriel Anwar to give it a try.

It's just that 5 feet 9 inches, which is more than 175CM, which is the height of a model.

Al Pacino was barely one meter tall.

If Aaliyah puts on high heels during the shooting, the picture will be very uncoordinated when I think about it.

Aaliyah did not ask any more about "Scent of a Woman", a pair of amber eyes looked over: "Actually, I dance well. If you have time, Sir, I can show it to you."

Simon did not speak, but slightly raised his head and gestured in one direction.

Aaliyah turned her head.

Janet was standing at the door of the living room looking at her with a smile.

Ordinary Manhattan residents can have a 120-square-meter apartment in each skyscraper. The total area of ​​this three-story duplex apartment exceeds 1,200 square meters. You can imagine how large the internal space is.

The living room where Simon and Aaliyah are located is on the second floor of the duplex apartment, and the kitchen is on the first floor. The Indian girl thought that the hostess would not appear suddenly, so she had the courage to join Simon.

I just didn't expect that I was caught upright.

Qiang Zi stood up calmly, Aaliyah tried her best to look at Janet and said, "Madam, um, I'm going downstairs first."

Even so, under Janet's gaze, the girl did not dare to move for a while.

Simon just wanted to make a little prank and didn't remind the Indian girl Janet that she was at the door. At this moment, feeling Aaliyah's obviously frightened tone, he took the initiative: "Go downstairs and help AB and the others prepare dinner."

The host opened her mouth, and Janet at the door turned sideways again, and Aaliyah finally walked out with her head slightly lowered as she was amnesty.

As soon as the girl left, Janet leaped over with her teeth and claws.

Simon quickly threw away the picture clip in his hand and reached out to catch Janet's waist.

Janet rode on Simon, nibbling for a while, and then they huddled together softly, but continued to say: "I haven't settled with you about taking a few women to Hawaii a few days ago and fooling around, hum , You sleep on the sofa tonight."

Simon gently kissed Janet's lips and smiled: "Okay, let's feel the feeling of sleeping on the sofa tonight."

"You sleep on the sofa by yourself."

"Then I will miss you thinking that you can't sleep."

"Well, little bastard."

After getting tired of it for a while, Janet started talking about the business: "Dad wants us to return to Australia for Easter."

"Okay, take a look at the kid by the way."

"And aunt."

"..."

Janet touched Simon's forehead with her head and joked: "You go back to Los Angeles tomorrow, do you want to take Aaliya away and let her dance to you."

Simon reached out and scratched under Janet's ribs twice, and the woman chuckled and softened again.

After refining the acquisition strategy for LTD, Simon returned to Los Angeles the next day.

Many recent projects of Daenerys Entertainment require Simon's intervention.

After the Oscars ceremony, Al Pacino's "Scent of a Woman" was launched on April 6.

Since Aaliyah is not suitable, in order to restore the classic tango clips in memory as much as possible, Simon personally selected the original Gabriel Anwar.

In addition, Daenerys Entertainment has set up other more important projects.

One of them is "Forrest Gump".

Out of the importance of this project, Simon has recently been using his free time to write the script of "Forrest Gump", and personally drew a lot of film concept drawings and shots.

However, because Tom Hanks has signed a contract with Daenerys Entertainment and Disney's "Sleepless in Seattle", the project schedule is also set for next summer, and "Forrest Gump" can only be set for the end of 1993.

Counting Pixar’s second 3D animation "The Lion King" and "Mission Impossible" in collaboration with Paramount Pictures, at the end of 1993, there will be three "blockbusters" related to Daenerys Entertainment. , The competition will be fierce.

In addition to "Forrest Gump", there are also two other novels by John Grimson, the original novel author of "Killing Hour", which will be released in this summer. One "Sugar Coated Trap", one "Gannet Assassination Order".

Daenerys Entertainment directly signed a priority agreement with John Grimson for the three novels.

Original Time and Space "Moment of Killing", "Sugar Coated Trap" and "Gannet Assassination Order" were all very popular movie projects in the 1990s.

Unlike "Moment of Killing", which was released in the 1980s, the novel "Sugar Coated Trap" was only released last year, and "Gannet Assassination Order" has not yet been officially published.

According to the practice of studios, it usually waits until a film adapted from one author’s work is released before deciding whether to produce some other adaptations of the other’s work.

However, after being published last year, "Sugar Coated Trap" quickly became one of the best-selling novels in 1991. Such popularity is enough to directly initiate the project. The original version of "Gannet Assassination Order" starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington, was set up before publication, mainly in order to occupy the schedule of the two stars.

Moreover, signing a formal adaptation rights agreement with the novel author before the release of "Killing Hour" in advance will also help Daenerys Entertainment to get the project at a lower cost. Otherwise, once "Killing Hour" sells at the box office, Daenerys Entertainment will have to pay a higher price even with a priority agreement.

On the other hand, before Easter, Daenerys Entertainment's upcoming projects such as "Wonder Woman", "Peachy Deal", "Killing Hour", "The Last Mohican" and other projects that will be released this summer have completed the final cuts. , Simon also needs to invest a lot of energy to personally review these films.

Daenerys Studios.

In Simon's office, a meeting has just ended here, and the last of Daenerys Entertainment's ten film plans has been officially finalized.

Up to now, including the films that are also released in this summer, Daenerys Entertainment’s original four film plans have completed nine, namely "Shaking the Cradle Hand" with Disney and "With the Enemy" in cooperation with Fox. Sleep Together and "Terminator 2," "Ten Days of Crisis" and "Alliance of Red Fans" in cooperation with Columbia Pictures, "A Few Good People" and "Moment of Killing" in cooperation with MGM, and "Times of Killing" in cooperation with Warner Bros. "Death of the Dead" and "The Last Mohican".

The last place belongs to Warner.

Terry Semel chose the latter between Daenerys Entertainment’s recently established "Sugar Coated Trap" and "Gannet Assassination Order." Semel believes that Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington are more Some box office security.

As for "Sugar Coated Trap", the original actor of the film is Tom Cruise, and Simon plans to use Keanu Reeves this time.

After starring in Sandra’s boyfriend in "Lola Run", in recent years, Keanu Reeves’s "Abi Adi’s Adventures" and "Storm Point" have achieved good box office results. In addition, this summer Keanu will also release a Francis Ford Coppola's "Frightening Four Hundred Years", which is also a big-selling film with a global box office of over 200 million U.S. dollars in the original time and space.

Therefore, even if the popularity is less than Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves is already a popular Hollywood niche.

In the original time and space, Keanu Reeves gave most people the only impression of Neo in The Matrix, but in fact, the actor has a very wide range of dramas.

For example, now, "The Adventures of Abi Adi" is a comedy film, "Freak Point" is an action film, and "Frightening Four Hundred Years" is a fantasy horror film.

In the original timeline, Keanu Reeves also starred in the same type of film "Devil's Advocate" as "Sugar Coated Trap". Both films are about young lawyers who are new to society wandering between money and justice. The story, the two movies are also very popular.

After the initial turmoil, since he personally told many people that he would never cooperate with the three main creators of "Rain Man" again, unless it was the special case of Meg Ryan, Simon did not intend to do it because of a The movie makes an exception.

Now Daenerys Entertainment also has enough confidence to maintain Simon's persistence. Even if a movie fails, it will not hurt.

What's more, Simon is full of confidence in letting Keanu Reeves appear in "Sugar Coated Trap". If Cruise does not participate, the production cost of the film can also be reduced from more than 40 million US dollars in the original version to 25 million US dollars. This further reduces the risk that Daenerys Entertainment needs to take.

Sending away Terry Semel, Simon rushed to a conference room in the administration building to participate in the production meeting of "Desperate Housewives".

In addition to several main creators, these days, a series of supporting roles in "Desperate Housewives" are basically finalized, and the construction of the Wisteria Street set of Universal Studios has also officially begun.

In the conference room, Simon listened to Robert Iger's introduction of the project's production plan, while looking through some supporting characters.

Then Simon was attracted by a name.

This is the actor of Susan Meyer’s daughter Julie Meyer among the four housewives.

In the original version of "Desperate Housewives", Susan's daughter Julie should be fourteen or five years old, but the actor who seems to be twenty years old and has very mediocre acting skills basically left no impression.

The one Simon saw right now, at least for Simon, was far more famous than the original actor.

Sarah Michelle Gellar.

This 15-year-old actress is the famous heroine of the famous "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in the 90s in the original timeline, and is also the starring actor in some popular youth horror films in the 90s, and is considered a favorite of Simon actress.

Looking at the information, Sarah Michelle Gellar is only 5 feet 2 inches at this time, about 1.5 meters and a small head, compared to the original actress who was almost as tall as Terry Hatcher, Sarah M Cher Gellar is more in line with the image of a daughter.

When the meeting was over, Simon took out Sarah Michelle Gellar's information and handed it to a producer of "Desperate Housewives", asking him to send a video of the girl's audition to his office tomorrow.

Originally just casually ordered, but unexpectedly, when attending a party held by Barbra Streisand in Beverly Hills in the evening, a certain little girl appeared in front of Simon.

The 15-year-old girl wore a little black dress that looked a little mature and put on makeup. Although he was short, he gave Simon a very precocious feeling.

A WMA agent personally brought the girl to Simon, introduced it, and then took the initiative to show her.

"Hello, Mr. Westeros, it's nice to meet you. I've seen all your movies, especially "Batman: Hour of War", which is really cool."

Sarah Michelle Gellar spoke with disapproval, looked at Simon's expression, and stepped forward like a cat, carefully trying to pull it up.

Seeing that Simon hadn't refused, he really pulled up, looking like a little bird.

Simon's current height is about 1.85 meters. He was held by a girl who wore a small high heel and only 1.6 meters. He immediately showed a very special height difference.

There were not a lot of guests at the party, but everyone turned a blind eye, as if they hadn't noticed a small immature vase beside Simon at all, or, they must have noticed, just pretending to be used to it.

Things like Hollywood are indeed considered normal.

Simon exchanged greetings with everyone, and was about to talk to the little girl when Madonna came over.

Queen Mai is also very glaring. She glanced at the small vase next to Simon, and then asked directly about herself: "Simon, have you read that script?"