The sun shone through the curtains and dispelled the darkness in the room. Matthew opened his eyes and felt a headache. After the hangover, he felt very bad. He couldn't help but shake his head hard, lifted his body and got out of bed, and went to the bathroom to take a shower first.

Last night, I had a party with several leading actors in the crew. Since the theme was to give him a few more cups, I was inevitably fed by someone. When I came back, I was basically half drunk and half awake. I didn’t even take a shower and fell asleep after lying down.

After washing up, Matthew woke up completely, and the headache caused by the hangover improved a lot. After checking the time, he went out for breakfast first, called a taxi to drag his luggage away from the hotel, preparing to rush to Heathrow Airport and take a flight back to Los Angeles.

He wanted to go back and have a good rest for a few days.

Strictly speaking, since I participated in the auditions for the three crews of "Almost Fame", "The Mummy Returns" and "Fast and Furious", I have been busy even if I didn't really relax and rest in the audition interval.

Now that the filming of "The Return of the Mummy" has been completed, there are no new roles to fight for, so you don't have to consider your work for the time being.

After getting into the taxi, Matthew sent Britney a text message, "Are you busy?"

There was no text message back there, and it seemed that Britney should be very busy.

It was not until the taxi approached Heathrow Airport that the Nokia phone's text message prompt sounded, and he took it out and took a look.

"The choreography redesigned the dance part of a song. I'll get familiar with it as soon as possible these days. I'm out to drink water and now I'm back."

Matthew stopped replying to text messages, put away his cell phone, waited for the taxi to park in front of the airport terminal, got off and pulled his luggage into the airport. Just as he was about to pick up the ticket, the Nokia ringtone rang.

After taking out his cell phone and taking a look, Matthew frowned. The phone was called by Helen Hermann.

Helen Hermann never calls him for private matters. Any call is all about work.

He pressed the answer button and put it in his ear, "Hi, Helen."

"You haven't gotten on the plane yet?" Helen Herman asked over there and said, "The crew of "Brothers" will inform me that you will go to the crew to participate in the post-dubbing."

Matthew thought the crew was still in London and asked, "Do I want to stay in London?"

Helen Herman said, "No! The crew of Brothers is currently conducting post-production at Warner Studios..."

"When will the recording start?" Matthew asked again, "It's not tomorrow?"

"You're going to report on Wednesday."

"Okay." Matthew had no objection. After all, he signed a contract with Brothers. "I guess I won't be able to return to Los Angeles in the evening."

Even though the crew of "The Return of the Mummy" ordered a direct flight ticket to Los Angeles for him, it still took more than ten hours.

He was about to hang up the phone, and Helen Herman said over there, "There is one more thing. Jack revealed to me that Ridley Scott temporarily took over a war film project at Sony Columbia Pictures. The time period was very tight. The crew was said to only conduct internal auditions, and priority was given to actors with military role experience. You can consider it."

“No need to think about it.”

There is no need to consider this kind of thing? Ridley Scott's name is here, and Matthew said directly, "Helen, please sign up for me."

As long as it is a legitimate video and character, he will never refuse everyone.

He is far from being able to choose scripts and roles. It is already quite good to be able to meet the right job opportunities after a job is over.

Helen Herman said, "That's what I mean. OK, I'll contact Jack."

After hanging up the phone, Matthew got his boarding pass, entered the waiting hall, and sat on a bench waiting for the plane, thinking about what war movies Ridley Scott had made during this time?

He remembers that Ridley Scott seemed to have filmed a version of "The Prince of Egypt" and a war film about Jerusalem. The release version is very different from the version he downloaded on the Internet. The online saying that the box office was a big failure. It shouldn't be these two movies?

After thinking for a long time, he didn't remember it, guessing that he must have never watched this movie.

What he is most familiar with about Ridley Scott's works is "Alien" and the film from Jerusalem.

It was late at night when he returned to Los Angeles. Matthew fell asleep when he entered the apartment. The next day, he sent a text message to Britney and Helen Hermann, and continued to stay in the apartment and rested until Wednesday morning when he felt his energy recovered and went out to the Angel Agency.

Unexpectedly, Helen Hermann was not in the company and went out to Malibu to handle other brokerage businesses.

She not only acted as an agent business for Matthew alone, but also had many young actors.

These clients can not only bring income to Angel brokerage, but also make Matthew feel competition and pressure. Even if he can't make a fortune, Helen Herman can still win another one.

Matthew called Helen Herman, who asked him to hand over a stack of documents and asked him to receive a pay for "The Return of the Mummy" from the company.

Although the crew of "The Return of the Mummy" has only paid the first $30,000 in compensation and has to wait patiently for the last two, Matthew has received a $30,000 termination fee from the crew of "Fast and Furious". Even if he has to pay Helen Hermann a 10% commission for the agent, he still has a huge sum of money.

This money is not much, but it is enough to make him no longer have to worry about living expenses.

Without any concerns about the most basic life issues, Matthew can devote all his mind to his acting career. To be precise, it is the great cause of becoming a Hollywood star and enjoying fame and fortune.

He doesn't plan to move the money for the time being. His last experience on the red carpet of "Gladiator" has made Matthew realize that the actor seems to have a good income but his expenses are not small.

I signed in the finance office and transferred the pay to his account. Matthew did not leave the Angel Brokerage Company, took the documents to the conference room on the first floor, and started to look through it.

At the same time, he also had a long phone call with Helen Hermann to better understand the basic situation of the project.

This is the project information specially passed by Ridley Scott's bearded assistant Jack to Helen Herman. Although there is no script or other content that must be kept confidential, there is also a basic situation introduction. As Helen Herman said, this is a war film, and it is a modern war film.

According to the information provided by Jack, Ridley Scott's new film is adapted from a true story, which takes place in 1993 in the capital of Somalia, a politically turbulent African country: Mogadishu, a secret operation conducted by a special operation team composed of 160 special forces from the U.S. Army Delta Force and Ranger Force.

The project is temporarily named "Black Hawk Down", and the script is adapted from the documentary report "Black Hawk Down: A Modern Warfare Story" by news reporter Mark Bourden.

This was not originally a film project planned by Ridley Scott, but was a temporary takeover.

The initial proposal to shoot the film was director Simon West, who urged the famous producer Jerry Brookheimer to buy the filming rights for the original work and began to plan early. However, due to a series of changes within Sony Columbia Pictures, Simon West gave up the project and turned to direct the filming of "Tomb Raider".

Producer Jerry Brookheimer continued to prepare for the film and then found Ridley Scott, which happened to be very interested in this subject and the two sides hit it off.

Although it was not taken over during the filming process, Ridley Scott also faced many unfavorable factors such as tight time, especially Sony Columbia Pictures plans to release the film "Black Hawk Down" before the end of next year, so the time left for the crew is not very sufficient.

Therefore, Ridley Scott and Jerry Brookheimer reached a tacit understanding with Sony Columbia Pictures. The film will not openly audition to select actors, but will instead solve the candidates for most roles in the form of internal auditions to save as precious time as possible.

Even the two producers have compressed the military training that must be carried out for Hollywood filming this type of film from one month to ten days, and actors with certain military qualities and have played military roles in the past two years are the priority.

In addition, this is still a group scene and does not specifically highlight a certain character.

Sony Columbia Pictures has an early budget of $80 million to $100 million, which is definitely a big A-level production in Hollywood in this era.

After reading the information, Matthew felt that he still had the opportunity to get a job from the crew of "Black Hawk Down". On the one hand, he had not been long since he finished filming "Brothers", and there were related military training from the preliminary training to the later filming; on the other hand, when he participated in the filming of "Gladiator", he knew that Helen Hermann had a close relationship with Ridley Scott.

He heard Helen Herman call Uncle Ridley Scott more than once, rather than calling him director or gentleman.

This is a very telling problem.

Based on Matthew's understanding of the current real situation in Hollywood, starring in "Black Hawk Down" has another advantage. As long as you can get a supporting role with good roles in such a first-line production, you will have the capital to compete for the first supporting actors and even the leading actors in some small productions.

The actors who don’t want to be the leading actor must be all actresses.

He also had a little concern, that is, the location of the film.

Although the crew would not go to the extremely chaotic place in Somalia to shoot on the spot, the data shows that the entire film will be filmed in Morocco, Africa, and the duration may be four to five months. If he gets an important role in the crew, it means that he will spend most of his time in Africa in the next six months.

"Africa is Africa..." he muttered, "Anyway, there are planes now."

After briefly reading the information, Matthew called Helen Herman again, then left the Angel Agency, went to the bookstore to buy "Black Hawk Down: A Modern Warfare Story" and went back to prepare for tomorrow's dubbing work.
Chapter completed!