The main guest of this program is Tom Hanks. His directorial debut "Unstoppable" will be released in early October. This program happens to be broadcast at the end of September and can promote the new film.

This is the new season of 1996, and it is also the first episode of the 22nd season of Saturday Night Live. It is bound to be extremely popular.

As usual, before the new season is broadcast, the program team will record 3 to 4 episodes, so the recording work started at the end of August.

As the first episode of the new season, the selection of guests must be careful, so as not to let the audience who have been waiting for four months return to the TV and say "this is it".

So it’s not surprising that Tom Hanks is chosen as the main guest, but how can Quinn be the musical guest?

The original plan of the program team was to invite the old rock band "Heartbreakers" who had been reorganized many years later as guests, but the new chief writer Tim Herlihy felt that the style of "Heartbreakers" was too old-school and could only consume feelings and was difficult to attract.

Today's young audiences have been hesitant to replace them.

Eddie Murphy probably heard the news from Tim Herlihy's good friend Adam Sandler, an actor who has left Saturday Night Live. If "Heartbreaker" is replaced, it means that the show will have to open the skylight.

Either a guest singer from behind will step in, or we need to find another one.

When Tim Herlihy was hesitating, someone from CAA came to the door and recommended a new rock band "Fire Bomb Band". Although the band was not famous, the lead singer Bai Quinn was very popular and promised to carry the band.

His girlfriend, the popular teen idol Sarah Michelle Gellar, appeared together, which helped Tim Herlihy solve the problem of insufficient attention from teenagers in the first issue that he had been worried about.

This is how Bai Quinn squeezed out the "Heartbreaker" and became a guest performer on Saturday Night Live, while the "Heartbreaker" silently grieved in the corner.

The first thing I did after joining the group was to communicate with the editorial team led by Tim Herlihy to determine what to say when I go on stage.

As usual, the performance of the Fire Bomb Band will be placed at the end of the entire program. Before the performance, the resident host will conduct a simple interview with Bai Quinn and Sarah. The two can show off their love and prepare for the ongoing movie.

Do promotion.

Both of them are starring in "The Bad Guys", which is scheduled to be released in November. September is a bit too early to announce it. Quinn Bai is not participating in "American Psycho" and "Good Will Hunting" has not started shooting yet.

The only topic I can mention at that time is "Batman and Robin" that Sarah is currently filming.

Songs performed live also need to be finalized before recording.

According to the publicity and distribution plan jointly formulated by Universal Music and Big Machine Records, when the program is released at the end of September, it should be the time when Quinn's third MTV is released and her third single is released.

So Saturday Night Live's production team could choose any of the Firebombers' second single "Something Just Like This" and third single "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" as the song.

Performance repertoire.

After arguing with the writers, "Something Just Like This" was finally chosen instead of "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" that Quinn wanted to sing to Sarah.

"Something Just Like This" was used by David Geffen for radio promotion the day after it was successfully recorded. The popularity of the first single will soon pass, and there must be a new single to take over. David Geffen

I think this song has greater market potential.

Facts have proved that David Geffen, who has worked hard in the record industry for thirty years, does have a ruthless vision.

Even though the single album has not yet been released, "Something Just Like This" only released a radio pilot version and became an instant hit.

Universal Records is also very efficient. It started producing singles even before MTV was completed.

Chain brands and commercial background music operating companies that cooperate with Universal Music are also urging Universal Music. They saw this song in the recommended music library and are very optimistic about it.

From Greek mythology to superheroes, Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, the lyrics are full of childishness and close to life.

Propose to protect the ones you love like a superhero and negotiate a consumer environment suitable for commercial venues.

How to protect, the only way is to buy, buy, buy.

Therefore, "Something Just Like This" has been targeted even before it was released.

Once it is launched, many supermarkets, restaurants, cafes and other stores will include it in their background music playlists.

This is what David Geffen said is a way to quickly recover part of the album production costs. The money does not have to wait for Universal Music to be settled according to the record sales nodes, but is settled monthly with the background music operating company.

Although it wasn't much, I finally saw money coming back, and the money was flowing steadily.

As for MTV, Bai Quinn was lazy again!

He took the band to Wedmark Image Rental's studio, posed in front of a green screen, lip-synced, made all kinds of cool moves, and then called it a day.

All post-production will be handed over to "Vita Digital", which has already had good cooperation with them. The team will combine the band's images and materials as quickly as possible to catch up with the time when the single disc is put on the shelves and help the single

Increase sales.

As for the data materials, they come from the superhero movies mentioned in the song.

Christopher Reeve's version of the Superman trilogy in 1978, and Tim Burton's Batman in 1989 and 1991, all of these movies came from Warner.

Since "American Psycho" received investment from Warner and co-produced it with Warner, Widmark Image currently has a very close relationship with Warner and bought the rights to use the material at a relatively cheap price.

After all, Widmark Image is also a new player in the film industry that has joined the Italian gang in Hollywood, and is one of its own.

Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, although these people are on the East Coast far away from Hollywood, their influence still envelopes Beverly Hills.

Both Superman and Batman are now planning to shoot new movies, and MTV is happy to see the use of materials from the previous movies.

Spider-Man?

Sorry for not having any relationship with Sony Pictures, which I control.

The MTV of "Something Just Like This" was completed by mixing movies and cutting out pictures. For "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing", you can't be lazy. Bai Quinn needs to record a real location MTV. This work

It was scheduled, right after the Saturday Night Live taping.

Although it is said that Tom Hanks is the main guest of this show, in fact, the program team devoted a lot of space to gymnast Kerry Struggle.

If Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta, it was Kerry Strug who kept it burning.

Kerry is a member of the U.S. women's gymnastics team known as the Magnificent Seven by the media.

In the recent women's gymnastics team competition, the American team was suppressed by the Russian team until the last vault event.

Due to the continuous mistakes of her teammates, Kerry, who had already injured her ankle, had to stand in front of the track again. She was the last hope of the American team to overtake the Russian team.

The little girl endured the pain and took the risk of aggravating the injury and possibly ending her sports career. She jumped out of the final jump and completed the difficult move perfectly. The painful expression on her face when she landed was broadcast throughout the United States on television.

With her performance, the American team overtook the Russian team and won the women's gymnastics team championship for the first time.

Kerry, on the other hand, gave up subsequent competitions in individual events because of an aggravated foot injury.

The American media vigorously reported on her deeds. On the one hand, it was a patriotic education based on the old routine of media people. On the other hand, it also tried to divert the public from the pursuit of the truth about the bombing near the Olympic venue that caused many casualties.

With the love of the people and the praise of the media, in just one month, Kerry went from an unknown gymnast to one of the most watched sports stars in the United States.

In short, this girl is the real core of this show.

It was Quinn and Sarah's turn to appear. According to the script that had been communicated in advance, the host Will Ferrell conducted an interview. The young couple followed the topic and talked about some interesting things about the two of them getting along. By the way, they promoted Sarah's appearance in "Batman".

Batgirl in Batman and Robin.

The whole process lasted less than five minutes. Afterwards, under the watchful eye of his girlfriend, Bai Quinn went on stage to join the band and play the song.

After the performance, Kerry Strug ran up to hold the record and asked Bai Quinn to sign it. After receiving the signed CD, this little girl, who was only about 1.4 meters tall, jumped up happily and tried to hug Quinn Bai's neck.

But it failed because of a foot injury.

Bai Quinn had to bend down, facing his girlfriend's sharp gaze, and let Kerry Strug kiss her on both cheeks.

These were all unexpected situations, but the directors of Saturday Night Live did not shut down the show. Instead, they recorded everything and prepared to put it into the extras.

"How does it feel?"

"What?" Bai Quinn deliberately avoided Sarah's eyes.

"Being kissed by an Olympic champion."

"Work requires it, work requires it..." Bai Quinn tried to change the subject, and happened to see Tom Hanks standing in the rest area drinking coffee.

"Mr. Hanks!"

Bai Quinn turned to Sarah and said: "Wait a minute, I have something to ask Mr. Hanks..."

After saying that, he walked away quickly.

"Mr. Hanks!"

Tom Hanks was looking for who called him just now, when he saw the tall young man who was performing on stage walking towards him with a bright smile.

"Hello, Mr. Hanks! My name is Bai Quinn, and I am the lead singer of the Firebombs..."

Quinn briefly introduced herself, and Tom Hanks also thought of this young man, the protagonist of the Oscar night brawl that made a lot of noise some time ago, an actor, and a wrestler, and now he is playing rock and roll again.

Tom Hanks also had a rock and roll dream when he was young. Although he later had to focus on his career as an actor, the theme of the first movie he directed was the story of a rock band that became famous in one hit.

Therefore, Tom Hanks was not bored with the young man in front of him who took the initiative to get close to him. On the contrary, he admired his talent for making achievements in both fields.

One thing to say, he also listened to the performance just now, and it was indeed good.

One party took the initiative to cater to it, and the other party did not reject it. The exchange between the two was very pleasant, and Bai Quinn also revealed his true purpose at the appropriate opportunity.

"I heard that you will star in Spielberg's next film, is that right?"

Tom Hanks took a sip of coffee and nodded slightly.

The effect was not as good as expected, so Bai Quinn kept trying again.

"It is said to be a movie about World War II... Mr. Geffen also promised to recommend me a role in it."

"David Geffen?... That's very good. I also hope to cooperate with you..."

"Have you read the script? Can you tell me what the story is?"
To be continued...