Because of Ye Wei's family affairs, the crew of "Cute Bones" stopped working from the morning of the 8th and resumed work on Saturday afternoon of the 10th. They will make up for work for one day tomorrow, but even if they have a full schedule, the only shooting days are missing one day.

The crew's shooting plan can be adjusted so "flexibly" mainly because TLB, like "Soul Surfer", is a non-union-approved project. Although its budget is as high as 25 million and it is produced by DreamWorks, it is still warned by the 4A Federation that this is a project that cannot be guaranteed for work benefits.

For example, I suddenly moved Friday's shooting day to Sunday, such as the time-out work system where I worked overtime every six days a week. AG has warned Ye Wei many times, but it has no effect. It is also because even if I received a warning letter, there are still a large number of union actors participating in auditions and joining Viy's projects. Sag shouted, "If something happens, the union will not care! I've told you a long time ago." The actors said, "Okay, if something happens, they will be unlucky and join."

The main characters of tlb are very popular, and many well-known actors want to play. Once they perform, they are equivalent to half of their feet on the Oscar red carpet and half of the North American weekly box office champion. This non-union project shines brightly.

Before Ye Wei took over, TLB was a popular project.

You should know that in the latest issue of the "Top Ten Super Bestsellers in the United States", TLB ranked third, and the top two are "The Da Vinci Code" and "The Five People You Meet in Paradise". Both have made movies. The former is a budget blockbuster with over 100 million yuan starring Tom Hanks. After its release on May 19, it has a bad reputation, but its box office performance is very good.

Movies adapting bestsellers often do this, which does not satisfy readers, but are popular to guarantee the box office.

Super bestselling books, good stories, genius directors, Spielberg as producers, and Paramount releases, all of which deeply attract the actors.

Therefore, there was no situation where the crew worked hard to invite the actors they liked, but instead selected the best candidates from a long list.

But "Mr. Harvey" is not Kevin Spacey. He doesn't want to play a smart pervert anymore. He joins Stanley Tuzzi. Tuzzi's appearance and temperament are very suitable. After makeup, he combs him a hairstyle from the 1970s, wears a beard, wears glasses, and looks like a genius. When the audience sees it, they don't feel good.

Tuqi is worthy of being an old actor. His performance in the audition was amazing. No one believed that he was not a pervert.

This is his second time working with Ye Wei after LMS. However, he is not an online person. There are only three people in TLB's cast list that are included in the online list. One is "Suzy" Elizabeth Olsen, and the other two are "Jack" and "Abigail".

What does "Jack" look like? Alice Sibird said he looks like Ryan Gosling.

If Ye Wei nodded, this is not a problem. Gao Slin has the intention to act. The independent film "Half Nelson" starring him was also bought and funded by Ye Wei in Sundance, and has hope for the shining awards season.

Ye Wei didn't appreciate him, but Gao Slin is too young. He celebrated his birthday this year and Liz was 26 years old. Even if he looks old, "Jack" is a young and handsome father, but he still doesn't look like Susie's brother when he lets him play.

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

The actor whom "Jack" finally talked about was Keanu Reeves.

Speaking of Reeves, everyone who knows him will say "The Matrix". From the 3,000-year-old salary for the supporting role of the screen debut "The Bloody Boy" in 1986, to the adjusted gross income sharing of 15 million + 15% in 2003, from the age of 22 to 41 now, his path to superstar has been a smooth and tortuous twenty years.

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

It’s not that TLB has picked up a bargain. Projects are divided into Hollywood and independence, business and art, and are divided into industry standards. TLB is an independent art film, between film and touch Vie. No matter who plays it, no agent will ask for a pay equivalent to a Hollywood commercial film, which is not a rule.

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

Just like the famous work "Speed ​​of Life and Death" (1.2 million yuan in pay, 30 million yuan in budget, 350 million yuan in global box office) that year, followed by "Extraordinary Spy" (2 million yuan in pay, 26 million yuan in budget, 19.07 million yuan in global box office), and "Hell Detective" last year after the "Matrix" series, this action thriller blockbuster with a budget of only 75 million yuan in North America/230 million yuan in global box office, and will be placed on the verge of failure.

This was a heavy blow to Reeves' worth. Instead of going further, he fell back.

It is probably not suitable to say that he is not lucky, but compared to those superstars, he is indeed somewhat less lucky.

However, Reeves is not the one who gets into the eyes of money. Last year he had two movies, the other one was the literary independent film "The Thumb Sucking Man", with a budget of 4 million yuan. Everyone knows that it won't have much income, and the share is just basic treatment. The important thing is to act in a film.

This year, his Touch Vie is partnered with Sandra Brock's upcoming "The Untouchable Lover" (40 million budget, adapted from Korean classic movies); his film is "Blind Spot Walker" (8.5 million budget), and also includes movies by Robert Downey Jr., Winona Reed, and Richard Linklater.

These two movies were filmed last year and the year before. Now Reeves has no other film appointments except TLB.

Sibbard was very satisfied with this candidate. He was handsome enough, sunny enough but melancholy enough. He had no problem with his appearance. After Susie's makeup style was unshaven and her unkempt appearance, she was so vicissitudes that she was so vicissitudes that she was sad.

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

Ye Wei is not worried. Although Reeves has not been nominated for Oscars and Golden Balls, he has a deep acting foundation. He has performed in movies such as "The Bloodsucking Zombies' Four Hundred Years of Love" (1992) and "The Little Living Buddha" (1994). However, he became famous in action movies, and people often forget this.

And isn't this the director of him? Reeves has enough ability to fulfill his requirements, so let him leave the rest.

The media were in an uproar about Reeves' role as "Jack"!

The story of TLB is more emotionally complicated for him, because in December 1999, his then girlfriend Jennifer Sem was pregnant for eight months but gave birth to a stillbirth, his daughter Ava Archer Sem Reeves. 18 months later, Sem died in a car accident while driving alone.

These are two unsolved cases, both of which are suspected to be related to drugs. Some say it was because Sym took drugs and caused the fetus to die, so Reeves broke up with her. In Sym's car, the police found two rolls of US dollars containing white powder and two bottles of prescription drugs. The accident investigation also showed that she was not wearing a seat belt at the time and was driving in drunk driving. Sym's mother said that her daughter had been treating back pain and depression before the accident.

In any case, Reeves experienced the pain of losing his daughter. In less than 6 years, he didn't know whether the new bones had grown.

In October 1993, his (at the age of 29) brother legend Revan Phoenix died of overdose in Johnny Depp's private club at the age of 30. The rumors of drug use were accompanied by Reeves' early years. There was no conclusion on whether he had any smoking, but after Phoenix died, he became "weird".

Playing in bands, racing, and doing a lot of things that are contrary to the mainstream. The following year, "The Speed ​​of Life and Death" made him a great success, but his rebellious lifestyle affected his luck and career, which is one of the reasons why films such as "Extraordinary Spy" failed.

This once-problem figure is still very unique. In an exclusive interview with Variety Show, he said: "Because of Ye Wei."

I think Reeves doesn't think Viy is bad. Compared to these people, Ye Wei really can't do much in the past six months, and he hasn't touched marijuana, and he is only 18 years old. But in the eyes of the media, Ye Wei is a genius, and there is very little room for genius to make mistakes. Compared with Depp, Phoenix, Reeves and others back then, he was lost.

Both have personality and are unruly. Will Ye Wei and Reeves have something to do? What about other personality members?

Media fans are closely watching the TLB set where talent and personality are both overwhelming!

TLB also has a different feeling for Rachel Weisz, who plays "Abigail". The 36-year-old British Rose just became a mother last month. Her husband is Darren Aronovsky, one of the talented members, and the director of "Requiem of Dreams".

Although Gu Qiao did not go through confinement after giving birth to Ye Wei and Duoduo, he did not make trouble so quickly, and he did not give up his newborn child to act in a movie.

It's not a big deal for Wei Zi. The expected delivery date will not affect her film appointment. She will come back smoothly and quickly after giving birth, so that the substitute actors will not have the chance to play. She will first perform TLB and then perform "Blueberry Night", which will be filmed in June.

However, the shooting plan was taken care of her. After more than a week of shooting, 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 go to other filming locations and studios to shoot paradise scenes.

Making the crew as simple as possible is the basis of a good watchmaking process, and it also allows Wei Zi to take a few more days off. For her son, the good news is that the TLB shooting period is very short, and Wong Kar-wai's movies will have to be filmed for a long time. "Blueberry Night" doesn't call Wei Zi that much.

She is also a person with a strong personality. She is a talented woman who graduated from Cambridge University and Keira Knightley and other junior actresses in the British style department want to call her senior sister.

Her TLB film appointment only has a pay and no share, which is better than "Blueberry Night" with a budget of only 10 million yuan.

Weizi's career has generally strengthened in recent years and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress this year, but last year "The Detective of Hell" also hit her. tlb will be her third time acting opposite Keanu Reeves, as well as her first Hollywood movie "Chain Reaction" (1996).

The screen matching reaction between the two has long been certified by the industry. This time, the media fans are looking forward to it.

Many Chinese elements in TLB's cast list, although they should not be released in mainland China, are still frequently reported by Chinese media.

One is Ye Wei, who plays "Thunder", the second is Kelsey Zhou, who has 1/2 Chinese descent; the third is Reeves, who has 1/8 Chinese descent, who comes from his grandmother who is half Chinese and half Hawaiian. He once said: "When I grew up, I revolved around Chinese art, furniture and food."

The fourth is "Grandma" Susan Sarandon, the 60-year-old older generation Oscar winner (1 award and 4 nominations) who is not of Chinese descent, but a Chinese master.

Born in her era, she was rebellious and was influenced by the transcendents and had a spiritual sustenance to Eastern culture, but not many people pursued it like her. After entering Case Western Reserve University, she majored in Chinese, and she could speak, read and write, loved Chinese culture and Buddhism, and had a certain understanding.

She also loves table tennis. She is the co-owner of the New York Table Tennis Club and is preparing to open the branch to Toronto. One of the franchise conditions she told Ye Wei was: "I want to bring a table tennis table to the set, and we will play a few games when we have time."

"I don't know how to ping-pong." Ye Wei was stunned at that time. He has touched the ping-pong racket since he was a child, and he likes running sports.

"If you know, I won't call you." Sarandon said.

The heroine of "The End of the Road" and the benchmark character of a personality woman joins TLB, it is natural. She is the grandmother in Sibbard's mind. When the crew sends an invitation, it basically hits the nail on the head, which means she has some questions about Mr. Harvey's way of death. She prefers the Buddhist karma in the original work.

"It's not that I don't like karma, it's just that I don't like the movie." Ye Wei answered her.

Of course, Sarandon finally signed a film contract out of interest in this story and Viy.

TLB's cast is already luxurious enough to not spend more money on it. Other candidates are looking for actors from Philadelphia and New York, such as Barkley's Kids and Big Children, Officer Fenermon, Linsey's boyfriend Shamill, Clerissa's boyfriend Brian and other supporting roles or supporting roles, most of them are unknown and even have their first time acting in a movie.

In addition, there are five talent show girls of different backgrounds, Saoirsa, Modi, Dakota, Kelsey, and Margot.

On Saturday 10th, the set of director Ye Wei welcomed director Ye Wei back on the set.

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Chapter completed!