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Chapter 16 - 16. Casting and Pre production

Next day

Waking up, Sam sat up from the bed and called his status;

[Name: Sam Sandles

Health: 100/100(full health)

Skill: Director(low) management(minimal)

FP: 00]

Sam looked at the zero FP and was sad because he has many ideas to implement such as new films, TV series as well as songs and writing novels but the lack of FP makes him discourage.

Sam doesn't want to leave any stones untouched in this world as he wants to become number one in the field of film and television.

Sam looked through the window while driving the car to reach the bank, arriving there he withdrew $500,000 cash with a painful look from the bank for the investment in this movie, as he has also invested 50% in it.

After arriving at the Big E studios,Sam first gave the money to Philips as agreed because he doesn't want to be robbed by anyone, Sam also meets with Andrew and Elijah and all walks toward the audition room.

While they were walking inside, Kevin also showed on time as he was here today to assist Sam and understand better about the work of behind the scenes filming.

The auditions for main cast will be handled by Sam and Philips while Andrew and casting director of the studios will be responsible for some not important actors and extras.

Kevin stood at the door to the auditions room sent the aspirating newcomers as well as many old actors in comedy genre one by one.

Sam sometimes nodded, shook his head while looking at the performances of the actors, Philips also interjected his comments in between about some actors whether he liked or disliked the performances.

Elijah also inserted a few of his artists as peripheral actors in the movie for which Sam shook his head, as he knew this was his reward for helped Sam these days.

After an whole afternoon of watching the auditions, Sam and Philips have decided the main cast for the film.

The four Friends selected are Jerry kim- the tough guy, Tim york- the smooth talker, John Jamieson- the timid guy and Ryan cook as a mute guy who are second and third line actors in the industry.

As a matter of fact, the guy Ryan cook is actually a mute person from birth and he is also a famous actor for his silent comedy in some comedy shows for TV.

And he was recommended by Philips who watched the script and knew that this might be a tailor-made role for Ryan.

The old couple would be played by acquaintances of Andrew who were also real life husband and wife in their sixties, coming from the drama background.

They are also known as Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, who have been the background artists in many films and "they are also very good actors" commented Sam when he saw their audition clip.

As for the hot girl, they selected a new girl named lily Jones, as Sam doesn't want the film to revolve around the heroine in this movie.

If any well known actress takes the role of the heroine, she might attract the limelight for herself in the whole movie.

Many top actresses, when they play role opposite the actors of lower grades, they tend to overwhelm them.

Because these actresses have no to chance to show themselves opposite top actors in those big Productions, so they to assert their dominance here in small Production.

And the core of this film is friendship as well as overcoming the hardships in a funny way, Sam doesn't want to change his near perfect script which is tested by his old world to something new, which even he might not be able to recognise.

After that, Sam and Philips also went to check on the progression of the other actors selected by Andrew and the casting director.

Sam was satisfied watching the clips of these people as was Philips, on the side line Kevin was serving everybody with the tea and coffee, for which Sam gives a thumbs up silently as Kevin has a good assertiveness of the situation.

Because of doing all this, he can quickly integrate into the group smoothly and he can also eliminate the hostility of the crew members at him as everybody knows that he might be related to the director who got him in the crew backhanded.

Philips has also warned casting director not to mix unrelated people into the filming, as he didn't want to mess up a good script because of the selfishness of some people.

After the full day of work at the studio, auditions finished at the night, Sam and his group of people were invited by Philips to eat the dinner at his office as it was getting late.

Andrew and Elijah informed their family about eating the dinner outside tonight, while Sam had nobody to inform while Kevin had told his family that he would be eating with Sam when he left in the morning, so Sam nodded to Philips as it would save him some chores to make dinner after going home.

While eating the dinner, Philips told Sam and Andrew to be ready for the film, as they will start the filming two days later.

They also selected filming location which would be near burback, los Angeles, as their budget is not too big, so they spend it thrifty.

Sam first sent Kevin to his home and after that he drove back to his house.