Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 542 New Character Recommendation
Helen Slater was soon notified that she had been chosen to play Marty's girlfriend. She joined the crew of "Back to the Future" and began reading and rehearsing the script.

Ronald continued to visit old friends all by himself.

Jim Cameron is busy with the special effects post-compositing of "Terminator", spending more than ten hours a day in the editing room.Fortunately, his girlfriend Gail Hurd understood him very well at this time, and did not clamor for him to go home to accompany her like his ex-wife Sharon.

Cameron and his ex-wife have completed the divorce procedures, and it seems that Cameron will soon be able to marry Gail and go home.

Another old friend, the new film "St. Elmo's Fire" written by Cameron Crowe has finally confirmed the director, Joe Schumacher, who is two meters tall.

He originally started as an artist and has been an art director. "St. Elmo's Fire" is his director's first mid-level production.

"Ronald, you have to help us, help your old friend Cameron."Joe Schumacher is a loud, straightforward big man.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Ronald nodded to Crowe.

"The biggest problem we have now is casting. This is a group portrait, Cameron has already told you. We need to find four handsome men and four beautiful women. They are all college classmates. You are the most familiar youth in Hollywood. Actor's director."

"Hey..." Ronald sighed after reading the script. These eight characters all need acting skills, not for those like Helen Slater and Brooke Shields.Among the actresses around me, it seems that only Diane Lane can do it.

Since Ronald's "Fast-paced Richmond High School" started Hollywood's teen film era, and after Coppola's "Outside the World" and other films have expanded, the seven major studios are now investing in teen films. very high.

The problem is that there are not enough actors and actresses of the right age.Often an actor has to be competed for by several movies.Everyone doesn't like to train newcomers, but stares at those actors who have already proven their strength.

As the director who started this trend, Ronald has made friends with many young actors, and now he is the target of many young film directors.If he said a word, maybe the actor would choose his own movie.

"Four men and four women, don't you all handle any of them?" Eight famous actors, where to find them?
"We have to follow others to pick it up," Cameron Crowe complained to Ronald, and pouted at the opposite office.

"Oh, that's John Hughes' office, he's shooting 'The Breakfast Club'?" Ronald asked.

"Yeah, he's also good at casting roles. I'm going to stare at him now, and when he turns off the phone, I'll grab someone." Joe Schumacher said with a big laugh.

There's no shame in admitting that you can't find the right actors, and if you don't have the right actors, you'd rather not direct the film.

"Who's your eye on?" asked Ronald. "Molly Ringwald?"

The young red-haired actor, John Hughes' muse, could write a script for her when he saw Ringwald's picture.

"She's not yet an adult. I'm shooting college graduates, so I only look for older actors from him, those who pretend to be high school students."

The two actors in "The Breakfast Club" were not considered because they were really about the age of high school students.

Ronald looked back at Cameron Crowe.

"It's Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, and Judd Nelson," Crowe replied.

"The other two are acquaintances?" Ronald remembered Emilio, the eldest son of the star Martin Sheen, and Andrew McCarthy, who once acted in Pepsi and Burger King commercials with Elizabeth Sue.

"The female character also found Ali Siti from the opposite side. We still need a handsome guy who is beautiful. And an actress who is more independent, beautiful, independent, and the kind who will chase boys backwards. .”

Joe Schumacher said that he wanted Ronald to help recommend candidates.Another female character is not good-looking, and there is one who is slightly older than a college graduate, and they can handle it themselves.

"Have you found Tom Cruise?" Ronald was the first to think of this handsome guy.Don't you want to be beautiful.

"We got Paula, but she cast Tom in Ridley Scott's 'Legend.'

"Beautiful" is not often used to describe male actors, and Ronald remembered hearing it mentioned somewhere.

By the way, "Where's Rob Lowe? Have you tried it? It's the one who played the second brother 'Soda Pop' in Coppola's 'Outside the World'. Absolutely beautiful boy, girls don't like it Such beautiful legs." Ronald thought of the actors who played ping-pong with him in the crew.

"Let's get in touch right away." Joe Schumacher had never seen Rob Lowe, an actor prettier than Tom Cruise, but since Ronald recommended it, he immediately arranged for an audition.

"Girls, be independent..." Ronald looked at the remaining actress candidate, and thought he should contact Diane first. The other party has enough acting skills and can play any personality, but she has rejected his recommendation role.

"Ronald, you are here, hahaha. Congratulations." Ned Tanin, the former vice president of Universal, and now the executive producer of the two production crews, heard the tip-off from the secretary, and hurried over to Rhona Greetings from Germany.

"Hello, Mr. Tanin, hahahaha..." Ronald hugged him.Now looking at this conservative and somewhat old-fashioned and funny high-level executive, I can't help but think of Zemeckis giving his surname to the villain Biff in "Back to the Future".

"Call me Ned, Ronald. We're old friends." Tanin pulled Ronald away from Cameron Crowe to his office and poured him a glass of 15-year-old Scotch.

"Why are you free today? When will we collaborate on a movie? I'm very optimistic about you."

"I'm going to see my old friend, Crowe, who was my co-writer on that debut 'Fast Pace'."

"If you want me to say, that exploitation film doesn't matter if you don't watch it. They are all old-fashioned and stable stories, completely copying the structure of 'Big Chill'. But John Hughes' new work seems interesting. I heard that many people in Universal are talking about Hughes. Saying that he is as talented as you.

Anyway, it only cost $100 million, so I let him do it. "Tanin drank the wine in his glass proudly.

Ronald smiled, Crowe's screenwriting works, he is not easy to criticize.

"How about you go and help me watch the production of John Hughes? I am absolutely assured of his screenwriting ability, but the box office of his last film was severely suppressed by your 'break dancing', I I'm still a little worried. As long as you can nod, I can rest assured."

"It's okay to help, but I can't be a producer. I don't want to get involved in other people's director work." Ronald hasn't seen this colleague for a long time, but he still insists on one principle, Just can't be a spare tire to spy on others.

"What's the problem with this? Just go to the set and help me take a look. Why don't you just be a friend?" Seeing Ronald let go, Tanin hurriedly finalized the matter.

"Let's meet him first, he's auditioning for an actor."

Ronald followed Tanin to the office opposite Cameron Crowe's crew.

The door was closed, and inside John Hughes was auditioning for another female role. "Okay, if there is any further news that requires you to come back for an audition, I will notify your agent."

Different from "St. Elmo's Fire", "Breakfast Club" tells the story of high school students. Five students from different backgrounds were punished at the same time because of some things, and they went to school on Saturdays for confinement.

Except for his muse Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall, two actors who participated in "Sixteen Candles", John Hughes couldn't find more young actors for a while, so he could only put Low requirements, find an adult actor to act tenderly.

Actors Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, and actress Ally Sheedy were overaged to play high school students, and Hughes wanted to emulate Ronald and Cameron Crowe, Get them back in high school beforehand to get a feel for it.

Speaking of which, the script of this movie was inspired by Cameron Crowe's "fast pace", and put different labels on the male and female protagonists, representing a typical type of high school students.

He never decided whether "The Breakfast Club" should have five main characters or six.It is really difficult to find another suitable actress. I have tried my best, but I can't find it. It is better to simply delete a female student. Three men and two women can make the story more compact.

"Okay, I see." The actress who auditioned felt Hughes' indifference. She knew that she had no hope. hope.

"They seem to have finished the audition." Ronald and Tanin, who were resting in Joe Schumacher's office, heard the door opening on the opposite side.

"Let's go talk to Hughes." Ronald and Crowe greeted each other, and walked to the door with Ned Tanin, ready to reunite with John Hughes.

"Ka...Ka...Ka..." The actress who failed the audition, wearing leather boots, walked in front of the two of them.She walked out of the aisle, found a scooter made in Japan, then took out a helmet, flicked her long black hair, and was about to put it on.

Ronald was attracted by the sound of footsteps, turned his head to look, and accidentally saw this scene.

He stood still, looking at the attractive posture of this beautiful woman and thought, "So independent and beautiful, isn't it very suitable for the 'St. Elmo's Fire' over there?

"Ronald, what's the matter with you?" Tanin and John Hughes who opened the door looked at Ronald without moving his legs, and then looked at the actress.

"Oh..." John Hughes pushed his big black-rimmed glasses, "Shall I introduce you?"

"Demi, Demi!"

"What? Do you still have roles for me to play? I don't mind a small role." A slightly hoarse sexy voice came, and the motorcycle girl was Ronald's old acquaintance, Demi Moore.

"Oh, Shxt!" Demi just put down her helmet and saw Ronald on the opposite side, "Ronald, is that you?" Demi couldn't help but think of the past. It is a pity that the dream was shattered.

And he is so outstanding now, friends are talking about this genius director, if the "Longwei Kid" he starred in is so good, isn't his charm much better than that young Elizabeth Su?

"It seems that you have a 'history'", Tanin smiled.

"She was an ad model for my early photographer business," Ronald explained. "Demi!"

He stopped Demi Moore and walked up to her with long black hair, "There is another movie here, you can try it."

(End of this chapter)