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“No,” he coaxed. “I’m merely stating facts.”
“Aires…” Thomas warned in that tone that pissed me off.
B. Night nodded to me. “How about I talk to you in terms you understand?”
“By all means”—I gestured to him—“continue.”
“Alright.” He stood, walking around the room as if this was an episode ofThe Sopranos. “My next box office hit will be a dramatic, romantic love story, titled”—he spread his hands out theatrically—“Say You Love Me. I want tears! I want suspense and agony! I want viewers on the edge of their seats just waiting for that first kiss. The angst and turmoil of being apart all those years, but now they’re stuck on an island together?—”
“An island?”
“Yes!” he shouted. “After you run into each other at the airport, it’s been ten years since you’ve seen each other, but fate”—he snapped his fingers—“has brought you together!”
“Alright…”
“But then,” he dramatically exclaimed, clapping hands, “the same flight that you’re on crashes!”
I’d worked with passionate directors before, and in my experience, it made the movie better.
“You’re the only two that survive, and now you have to fight for your lives, but it’s hard to fight the eternal love you will always have for each other.”
“Sounds like quite the plot,” I remarked. “What drove them apart to begin with?”
“They were from different worlds, they wanted different things, and they were young, but now… now they might die, and it brings them closer together because they never fought for one another before.”
“Sounds awfully familiar,” I whispered under my breath.
“That’s what I was hoping you’d say.”
Before I could ask what he meant by that, he vividly added, “The plane crash will be of epic proportions, and no expense will be spared. I want fire! I want catastrophe! I need complete and utter destruction as you’re plummeting to your deaths from thousands of feet in the air, praying you’ll survive, and then once you’ve given up hope, the plane crashes into the water! BOOM!” He slammed his fist down on the table, making me jolt a bit.
“As you're struggling for your next breath, trying to survive, you remember that the love of your life is on the same flight with you, so you begin screaming her name, desperately trying to find her. You’re covered in blood from your wounds, and your chest feels like it’s on fire as you try to swim for your life and hers. Until finally! You find her!”
I listened intently, seeing it all play out in front of me.
“The impact knocked her unconscious, and you have seconds to get her out of that seat belt before the plane explodes. Except you can’t get her seat belt off, and time is against you…” He paused for a moment. “You’re fighting with the belt, screaming profanities for it to unbuckle and trying to keep both your heads above water as the front of the plane catches on fire. You can’t leave her! You won’t! You’d rather die there with her than ever be apart again!”
My eyes widened.
“At the last second, you tear off the seat belt and immediately clutch her to your chest before supporting her limp body on top of yours as you swim backward out of the water and onto the sand. Once you’re able to walk, you carry her out of the water as fast as you can, and the second you’re out enough, the plane explodes behind you. BOOM!”
I jolted again.
“A huge, monumental explosion!”
“Wow.”
“And this is how the movie will start. This will be my greatest accomplishment,” he professed, sitting back down. “We’ll begin production in Australia in about two weeks.”
“You don’t want me to read for the part?”
“No. I have full confidence you were born to play Samuel. We’ll be moving fairly quickly, and filming should wrap in about two months from the start date. The release will be on Christmas Day. I want the holiday crowd not to know what hit them.”
Unable to process what was happening fast enough, I sat there in disbelief.
“Numbers don’t lie,” B. Night boasted. “Before your stint in rehab, you were on your way to becoming the top-paid actor, and I want to be the one who gets you there.”
I arched an eyebrow. “What’s the catch?”
