BREAKDOWN SERVICES Page | of I This confidential information is the property of Breakdown Services, Ltd., -- DO NOT coPYit Friday, Oct, 8, 2004, 1:56 PM Pacific RENT the movie ~ NY/LA Producers: Feature Film Chris Columbus Mark Radcliffe Produced by Revolution Studios Michael Barnathan Jane Rosenthal Robert DeNiro Director: Chris Columbus Rehearse: Approx Late 2004 Shoot: Approx Mid-March 2005 Location: TBA PLEASE SEND SUBMISSIONS ASAP TO: TELSEY CASTING 145 WEST 28TH 12TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10001 ATTN: RENT THE MOVIE CASTING IMMEDIATELY; PLEASE RUSH LOS ANGELES SUBMISSIONS. PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF WHERE THE ACTORS ARE LOCATED. Seel [ROGER] Caucasian, male, 20's. Rock & roll grunge voice, like Eddie Vedder or Kurt Cobain, Leader of a rock band. He is able to project raw pain with charisma. Playing guitar a plus. [MARK] Caucasian, male, 20's. Baritone/second tenor. Underfunded, underground filmmaker, he hhas turned his back on his affluent upbringing. Likeable, if occasionally high-strung, he Is almost the narrator of the show. [COLLINS] African-American, male, mid 20's to mid 30's. Low baritone, bluesy, gravely voice. Philospher, teacher, anarchist, AIDS activist. [BENNY] African American, male, 20's. Baritone/second tenor, can handle pop ballads. A striver, up from the projects to the Ivy League, wants to be the next Quincy Jones. Soulless Buppy. [MAUREEN] Caucasian, female, 20's. Clean, versatile rock & roll sound. Sexy, comic, and wild; a tacky Jersey girl turned East Village performance artist. [MIMI] Latina, female, 20's, to play younger. Raw rock & roll voice with a high belt, Gloria Estafan with @ touch of Sinead O'Conner. Sexy and of the streets, with some dark secrets. [ANGEL] Latino, Asian or mixed ethnicity, male, early teens to mid 20's. High tenor to falsetto. Actor must be willing to play drag. A fun guy with lots of style. [JOANNE] African-American, mid-20's to late 20's, Joan Armatrading or Tracy Chapman. Wry humour and sardonic wit, politically connected, probably a Harvard Graduate. http://www. breakdownexpress.com/index.cfim/html/28900/bdfile/F29FA72991DAFAOA... 10/18/2004RENT By Stephen Chbosky Based on the stage musical hy Current Revisions by Chris Columbus September 21,20041 8 RENT CLOSE UP: The hands of a young man, keeping a steady drumbeat on 1 the bottom of a plastic pickle barrel. CAMERA PULLS BACK. It’s ANGEL DUMOTT SHUNARD. He's age 21, gay, Latino. Angel is dressed in a wool cap, jacket and jeans. He is slender, short and athletic, with kind eyes, and a sweet smile, The pickle tub is balanced between his knees. Angel sits on the porch of an expensive brownstone, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He is drumming for cash. Angel’s drumbeat leads us into the opening chords of SEASONS OF LOVE. No vocals. Only piano. We begin a MONTAGE. Various shots, The streets of MANHATTAN. 2 Christmas Eve. Mid 1980's. ROCKEFELLER CENTER. People skate on the ice rink, take photos of the Christmas Tree. SAKS FIFTH AVENUE store windows, filled with bright, colorful | decorations. A HOMELESS WOMAN sleeps beneath a window, curled up on a bed of dirty blankets and cardboard. SIXTH AVE. and 28™ ST. A CHRISTMAS TREE LOT. A YUPPIE COUPLE pay 4 one hundred bucks for a six foot tree. : WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK. Drug deals are made, money is exchanged, 5 only yards from a church nativity scene. LITTLE ITALY. Steamy restaurant windows are filled with tourists,’ 6 eating, celebrating. Outside, a HOMELESS MAN picks through trash. The chords of SEASONS OF LOVE fade into the crisp sound of an electric guitar being tuned. EXT, INDUSTRIAL LOFT - 11" STREET and AVENUE B - NIGHT 7 A four story industrial LOFT. A small TENT-CITY has sprung up in the lot next door. The homeless warm their hands over a trash can fire. CAMERA MOVES to the third floor loft windows. The guitar tuning grows LOUDER, as the CAMERA goes inside the loft. INT. LOFT - NIGHT 8