Lance took out a bag of rainbow candy from his pants pocket, and then opened it to Col. Col politely shook his head. `Having known Lance for more than a year, Col naturally knew his habit, but every time he would be curious why Lance still retained such a childish habit, which was inconsistent with Lance's appearance and personality. Perhaps, behind the gentleman and cunning mask, there is an unknown story.

"So, are you recommending these actors as a friend now?" Lance said with a smile, throwing a few rainbow candies into his mouth.

Cole withdrew his attention and spread his hands with a smile, "You didn't leave me any other choice, didn't you?" This was to joke that Lance had just declined the invitation of his agent. Then he took out a thick stack of documents from the briefcase he carried with him, looked around, but found that he had no place to place it. Finally, he had to put the briefcase on the ground again and put the information on his knees. His strong figure seemed a little embarrassed to do such a move, which made people laugh.

"But, believe me, these actors will never let you down. If you want, I can arrange an audition today." Cole was sorting out the information with both hands, but his eyes were always looking at Lance, maintaining a sincere and focused attitude, and unveiled the introduction, "As a friend, I can give you a little trick. Tom's core requirement for co-stars is that he is the only focus."

This was a joke. Lance laughed in silence and pointed to the thick stack of information on Cole's knees, "Are you kidding me? I thought you would recommend actors based on the role." Lance looked at it roughly. Cole had at least twenty actors in his hand, but in fact, there were less than twenty characters with lines in the whole movie "Borrowing a Knife to Kill".

Cole handed over some of the information to Lance, but Lance waved his hand and signaled to let Cole take it all, "I am an agent, not a federal investigator. At present, the script of 'killing someone with a knife' is still the highest secret. `No one knows the specific content of this movie. I want to recommend actors based on the role, but obviously this is not an easy task."

Hearing this, Lance raised his head and raised his eyebrows and looked at Cole. The questioning look was obviously saying "You are kidding me." Cole shrugged helplessly, "I'm telling the truth. I just know that the movie needs a female character. Then there are four or five male characters that will be slightly heavier. But there is no news about the specific content of the script and the specific information about the characters at present."

Lance still squinted his eyes and looked disbelief, but Cole looked calm and put on a gesture of "This is the fact, do you believe it or not?" Lance finally pursed his lips and did not continue to discuss it.

In fact, this time Cole did not retain it.

The project "Borrowing a Knife to Kill" can be said to be dull in the early stages of preparation. Even Paramount did not pay enough attention to the crime commercial film with a budget of about 60 million? Even if it can be successful, the box office will inevitably be difficult to make a big hit. What's more, in the current market, the difficulty of filming of the movie is beyond imagination, and the possibility of failure is unimaginable. The best result is to refer to the "sniper phone booth" released last year.

After many directors' refutations and the screenwriter changed the script three times, Brad found Lance with the project and injected new vitality into the script. However, at that time, Lance only won praise for "City of God". The three Oscars added glory to him, but they were still far from causing a strong chemical effect in the market. There is still a huge difference between commercial films and art films. "Borrowing a knife to kill" was originally positioned as a commercial film.

However, the development of things gradually deviated from the original track. First, the joining of Tom Cruise attracted Paramount's attention; then the quality and heritage of the script "Borrowing a Knife" were greatly improved, and it evolved into a book with the qualification to be among the classics; then the "the day after tomorrow" achieved a box office victory in the summer, and Lance's value increased sharply. In just two months, the attention of the project "Borrowing a Knife" increased sharply.

Now, "killing with a knife" has become the focus of internal game in Paramount - the reason is very simple. The limited cost ensures that even if the work fails, it will not be a crushing defeat. However, the joining of two important figures, Tom and Lance, ensures infinite possibilities in the future. In short, this is a profitable transaction, and naturally no one will miss it.

The ultimate goal of Brad and Shirley is very clear, ensuring the success of "killing with a knife" and promoting Paramount's exhibition, but within the company, we must strive for their own interests, confirming that their names on the credit book are the most conspicuous, and adding more bargaining chips to themselves.

Now, Paramount has completely blocked the script of "killing with a knife". The reason is very simple. Even if Brad gave the actor's choice to Lance, Shirley did not want to give up easily. She would select a group of actors according to her needs, and then let the agents of these actors come to Lance - and Shirley chose the innovative artist agency behind Tom, and is also the current Hollywood overlord. This has made the news tightly blocked and airtight. The accurate grasp of the script and the correct understanding of the characters are obviously Shirley's advantage.

Because of the signing of a confidentiality agreement and in order to protect the interests of the company, Brad must not disclose the details of the script. But Brad would not sit still and wait for death. He revealed that Lance was about to play "kill with a knife", which was a hype gimmick for many people; then he also leaked the words and phrases about the script being harmless, so that people could have a rough understanding of the script.

Cole is obviously one of the beneficiaries.

Over the past year, Cole has been paying close attention to Lance. Although Lance has not done much, it is just two works: "City of God" and "After Day", this time "Killing with a Knife" did not attract Cole's attention at first. However, when he learned that Lance was about to star in "Killing with a Knife", Cole knew that his opportunity had come. So today's meeting was met.

However, these news did not have much impact on Lance's selection of actors. Even the actors recommended by Shirley, even the actors from innovative artist agencies must be suitable for the role. In the "day acquired" crew, temperament and affinity are the most important than performance; but in "killing with a knife", actors must have a certain level of performance. Every character with lines in the script has their own story and their own role. In this regard, Lance has studied and studied the advantages of "Los Angeles City Secret".

"Los Angeles Secret" was born in 1997. It not only won the Oscar-Adapted Screenplay Little Golden Man, but also allowed Jin Basinger to win the Best Supporting Actress Little Golden Man; it also almost pulled the "Titanic" down. Even though the King of the World won a lot of praise in his victory that year, many years later, people still lamented the Yuliang complex of "Los Angeles Secret" and "Titanic", and this work was able to join the ranks of classic film history.

In the story of "Los Angeles City Secret", every character has a story. The characters are portrayed in just a few strokes. After gathering together, they interpret the love, hate, and love in Los Angeles in the 1950s, which is amazing.

When Lance changed the script of "Borrowing a Knife to Kill People", he tried to do this, giving each character a story - not just Vincent and Max, and then through the performance of the actors, the stories behind them were mixed into the entire big story, and quietly condensed the entire society into a small pattern.

Therefore, this puts high demands on the actors. This is also the reason why Lance took the initiative to take the casting power in the second negotiation.

Lance lowered his head and began to read the information in his hand. He did not read each information in detail, but just looked at the photos and names, and asked casually, "All these are your actors?"

In Hollywood, almost all agents have more than one artist under their command, and those top agents even run dozens of artists at the same time. However, some value quality, some value weight, and some value both. It depends on the agent's own abilities and career planning.

Cole chuckled, "No, no, I don't have that many actors under my command, many of them are newcomers under other agents of the company." Cole knew that his opponent was the innovative artist agency, and the system of the innovative artist agency was a weirdo. They were not responsible for the work of an artist, but the entire company was responsible for all the artists' work.

In short, as long as it is the resource in the company, artists under the innovative artist agency can use it. Wade Russell, a top brand like Tom Cruise, is just his relatively fixed contact person, but there are at least five or six agents behind him who can serve him.

This special method not only gives artists from innovative artist agency companies huge resources, but also gives their artists unique advantage in numerical competition. However, this system is a product of the times and other companies cannot imitate it. Even Michael Orwitz, the founder of this model, tried to set up his own business in 1997 and successfully replicated it, but it still failed.

Other brokerage companies, including William Morris' agency, use traditional one-to-one services. In order to compete with innovative artist brokerage companies, Cole prepared so much information about actors, but most of these materials are new actors. There is no positive interest dispute with the artists in Cole, so he is willing to bring the resources of his colleagues.

"But you didn't ask me to give you special treatment." Lance raised his head, with a teasing smile on his face.

Cole opened his eyes wide, "Can I?" At this moment, he naturally would not be polite.

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