Chapter 644

Recently, there has been a lot of news about lanli's next work, such as "alien battlefield", "shadow", "speed and passion"; At the same time, the early publicity of "anti-cancer me" and the release publicity of "crazy love" are in full swing. Lanli seems to be the busiest actor in this autumn.

In fact, these news are half true and half false. They are all smoke bombs. As a matter of fact, lanli has been trying hard to audition for "tomorrow's edge", even though the publicity work of "crazy love" is extremely busy.

The second audition was held in Pittsburgh. Langley didn't see Lucinda Sisson. The audition object became producer Tim Lewis. The audition was held in a coffee shop. The two sat down and talked face to face, exchanging their views on the play "tomorrow's edge".

Tim is sixty years old, but he is still hale and hearty.

Generally speaking, Hollywood producers can be divided into three types: one is the hands of numerous projects, busy from beginning to end throughout the year, Steven Spielberg, Neil H. morritz are in this category; One is a clear goal, aiming at the award season, the production of works has always been independent films, Weinstein brothers is a typical representative; The other is to keep improving. It may take two or three years for a project to be busy, but every project will devote all its energy, as James Cameron did.

Tim is the last one. He only has the project "tomorrow's edge" in his hands now. He is wholeheartedly promoting the development of the project, which means that he can concentrate all his energy. This is a good thing. However, judging from the current development situation, the promotion process of the project is not satisfactory. It's not just the will of Warner Bros., but Tim's own execution.

During the audition, the conversation was relaxed and pleasant. But the talk about the play "tomorrow's edge" lasted only a short time, and then Tim began to talk to lenley about Steven Spielberg.

Tim is an assistant director. He has worked in the industry for nearly 20 years and made 19 films. He has worked with Harrison Ford on "patriot game", Meryl Streep on "Golden House", and Pierce Brosnan on "007's golden eye". However, his most memorable work is still his first one, Steven's "Solar Empire.".

Up to now, Tim and Steven still talk on the phone occasionally - after all, there are only a few old guys who have been in the industry for 30 years. Tim and lenley shared a lot of interesting things and had a good conversation.

The whole audition lasted nearly an hour, but the real discussion about "tomorrow's edge" lasted less than 15 minutes, or even less than 10 minutes. It's a piece of cake for Lan Li to deal with such an occasion; But the problem is, he's not sure how much progress has been made in such an audition.

The third audition was in Los Angeles. The audition was very formal. The venue was in Burbank's photography base, with a small, well-organized room, complete cameras, light shields, scripts and so on. It was even more comprehensive than the first audition.

Seven actors participated in the audition, including Lan Li, all of whom were familiar faces. Henry Carville, Jack Gyllenhaal, Charlie Hannam, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Chris Penn and Tom Hardy.

Just from the audition lineup, we can see that the project of "tomorrow's edge" has finally been promoted, the choice of actors has a preliminary direction, and the audition is on the right track. However, things are obviously not as smooth as expected.

After entering the audition room, it was not Lucinda or Tim who sat in front of Langley, but a completely strange face, Gregory Jacobs.

Later, lanli asked Andy to know that Gregory is a very famous producer, and also an assistant director, but his status is far higher than Tim.

He can be seen behind the "eleven Arhats" series, "before sunrise", "Eros", "never compromise", "drug network" and other works. He has close personal relations with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and others, especially Steven Soderbergh, who are close friends.

Gregory is working on magic Mike recently, and he is very busy. So, Andy speculates that coming to help the audition of "tomorrow's edge" is not so much to take over as to try out. He just looks at the alternate actors and then looks at the potential of the script, and has not decided whether to join in for the time being.

The subsequent audition also confirmed Andy's idea. After the audition started, lanli was asked to run back 20 times in the small room, and then kept out of breath. He said two lines, and then ran back 20 times again. He simply asked a few basic questions, and the audition ended.

It ended like this!

There were no lines, no performances, no dialogues, or even too much communication. After running back and forth, lanli went home. This is a completely unreasonable audition!

The fourth audition was on the phone, with Derek Kolstad, the playwright of tomorrow's edge. It's a name I've never heard of, and it didn't appear in the last generation's "tomorrow's edge" screenwriter list. However, it's no surprise that the script on the blacklist is only the first draft. The final direction of the script is not decided by the screenwriter. It's like "the fantasy drifting of the youth school".

You can tell from the phone that Derek has no experience. Blue Li just two words set out, Derek honestly put all his own situation.

He is an amateur screenwriter sponsored by the action film association of America, and "tomorrow's edge" is only his second work. The first work died directly, and no one has been interested in it so far. But unexpectedly, the second work was on the blacklist unexpectedly. Then Warner Brothers bought the shooting copyright and the original adaptation copyright from the association, and they took over the whole work.

In short, Derek is a complete rookie. During the conversation, Derek gave a thorough account of the concept and conception of his first work. How does Langley sound like the concept prototype of the movie "fast pursuit" starred by Keanu Reeves later? Is Derek the screenwriter?

But it doesn't matter. What's important is that for the audition of "tomorrow's edge", Derek didn't know what to ask or what to communicate. He just talked about the suspected "fast pursuit" script, and then talked about the concept of "tomorrow's edge". Derek repeatedly exclaimed on the phone, "it's you, you are the most suitable person. absolutely! Sure

After the fifth audition, finally returned to normal, audition location is a studio in Seattle. He was the only audition target, but there were four audition judges, all of whom were new faces.

After the previous four tests, Lan Li had already known about it and didn't make a fuss. The audition process finally entered a good situation, lenley first performed a "Hamlet"; After that, I simply learned a duel move and performed it on the spot; Then he exchanged his views on the role of William cage; Finally, I had a brief play with one of the female producers.

The whole audition lasted nearly 40 minutes, which was the most formal and comprehensive audition of Langley so far, even more formal than the "Pacific War". Although lanli did not understand the relationship between a commercial film like "tomorrow's edge" and "Hamlet", in the whole audition process, the acting skills, actions, images and manners were tested, and the whole process must be highly concentrated.

Before "tomorrow's edge", Langley was psychologically prepared. The casting process of Hollywood's top commercial films is very complicated, and four or five rounds of auditions are perfectly normal. Even the top stars are no exception, but the real tedious and long is beyond imagination.

For the first time, Langley realized that he was auditioning for the leading actor of a top commercial blockbuster. It's not "speed and passion 5" as the third protagonist of a commercial blockbuster, nor "cancer fighting me" as the hero of a low-cost comedy, but a blockbuster with huge investment and scale. Of course, blockbusters come next, and the leading actor comes first - after all, Warner Bros. still has a budget of $100 million for tomorrow's edge.

For the sixth audition, Langley returned to New York. This audition is not big, but it's not small. In addition to him, there were three other actors in the audition, all of them "new" faces. Not the newness of the newcomers, but the newness corresponding to the third audition: Andrew Garfield, Jeremy Renner and Channing Tatum.

Instead of saying that all the previous audition actors have been eliminated, lanli believes that it is just the result of different audition locations that the "tomorrow's edge" crew should be busy auditioning more actors. This is a positive signal for project preparation.

However, the cast span of the two auditions is not small, such as age, style and appearance. I don't know if it's because the main creators haven't determined the concept, or the lineup of the main creators has not been determined at all.

Interestingly, among the auditioners, we finally saw familiar faces - Lucinda appeared again, and so did writer Derek. Six auditions, and finally no longer a strange face, which makes blue Li can not help joking, "it seems that Hollywood staff did not imagine so much."

The whole audition process also continued this light atmosphere. Lanli just sat on the chair and chatted with the five interviewers in front of him. Real chatting, talking about some interesting things in recent years, talking about the details of "crazy love", talking about the comedy performances in "Tonight Show" and "anti cancer me"

About twenty minutes of conversation ended with a smile.

Originally, lanli thought that six auditions were all, but not all. Today, Langley will audition for the seventh time in just four weeks; And the audition was at a private party in Beverly Hills.

"Langley, here." A black sports car pulled up on the side of the road, and the driver of Langley arrived.