"I wonder why you asked Kapoor to turn down all those film offers, and if it weren't for some people who handed me the scripts, I wouldn't have known I ever received these offers."

Julia became more and more excited, and finally pointed directly at Eric's nose and condemned: "Disney's film offered a salary of $6 million, and you didn't even ask my opinion, so you just pushed it down, $6 million, how can you be so domineering, I'm not your puppet, so please respect me......"

Eric leaned back in the sofa chair and let the girl vent her feelings like a mad little she-cat. At the same time, I thought of Disney's part, and couldn't help but laugh. Because the screenwriter of this script is named J.F. Lawton, who is the original screenwriter in his previous life.

During his time in Richmond, many studios ignored CAA's ban on UTA and issued film offers to several leading actors, including Julia and Al. If UTA had always had only a few low-end actors, Hollywood studios might have been afraid of Michael Owitz's influence and refused to use UTA's actors with the idea that more is better than less.

But now, with the fire, UTA has two pillars, Julia and Al, and other supporting characters such as Jason Alexander are also famous. The drive of interests has directly caused many film companies to ignore their scruples about CAA, especially the six major film companies that both hate and are helpless against CAA. Eric even maliciously speculated that the Big Six simply sent a series of invitations to the UTA actors with the intention of adding to Michael Ovitz's blockage.

Al Pacino patiently waited for Eric's promise, so his film contract was simply turned down, and Al had no opinion.

Julia couldn't be so rash, and among the scripts she received, Capper sifted through them, excluding scripts with very low prices and bad movies at first glance, and communicated the rest of the scripts to Eric by phone.

So Eric naturally knew about the script, and when he heard the name of the screenwriter, Eric was curious and asked Kapoor to fax him a copy of the script.

It's fun to see it, and J.F. Lawton has obviously modified the original one again and turned it into a love story with the male protagonist as the main line. As mentioned before, in the original time and space, the noir drama film that reflected the survival of Los Angeles prostitutes was finally modified into a romantic comedy during the filming process.

And this, the story outline is that the male protagonist went to Los Angeles on a business trip, but not only got lost, but also had all his luggage stolen, and the male protagonist, who is quite successful in his career but is an idiot in life, was temporarily taken in by a kind-hearted prostitute, and after some twists and turns, another pair of princes and Cinderella walked happily together.

Anyway, Eric can see at a glance that this story is in the same vein, but it can't be said that people are plagiarizing, because the story has been modified quite cleverly, and it is impossible for a movie giant like Disney to let Eric catch the handle of plagiarism.

In Eric's opinion, if this very similar story is filmed again with Julia as the heroine, it will definitely not lose money, after all, the budget of the film is not high.

But it's basically impossible to want to be a box office hit again like this, just like a person who has just eaten a bowl of rice and is already full, if you change to an apple or a glass of juice, maybe you can still eat it, if you serve another bowl of rice......

"Hey, have you ever listened to me and you can still laugh?"

The girl's questioning rang in his ears, and Eric pulled his thoughts back from his distraction, and saw that Julia had deceived him, with a faint anger on his face.

"You're done?" Eric asked earnestly as he looked into the girl's eyes.

"Well," Julia nodded, looking at each other, and the girl suddenly realized her gaffe, and quickly sat back obediently.

These days, she is used to hearing words of flattery and flattery, and her whole person is inevitably a little inflated. But seeing Eric's change of serious and strict expression, the girl suddenly remembered that it seemed to be ...... This guy in front of him is not the one who needs to please himself, but he ...... himself

Thinking of this, Julia involuntarily hugged her arm and rubbed it twice unconsciously, bowed her head slightly, and glanced at Eric weakly.

"I've been in Richmond for a while, and I've been talking to Capper on the phone for a while every day, and Al's next film has already been set, so it's all about you. As for that one, I asked Kapoor to fax me a copy of the script and read it carefully. ”

Hearing that Eric was so concerned about herself in private, Julia felt a faint sense of guilt for what she had just done.

"I'm sorry." The girl said sorry in a mosquito voice.

Eric waved his hand: "I'm not asking you for credit, I just want to tell you, I haven't forgotten what I promised that night, I said that I would raise a girl named Julia Roberts to the level of Hollywood legends like Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn." ”

"I'm sorry." The girl's voice rang out again.

"But I'm a little disappointed in you right now, this is just the first success, and it makes you so impatient, what do you want to do?"

Eric's calm tone gradually carried a reprimand, and the girl couldn't help but open her mouth to retort: "I ......"

Eric interrupted the girl's attempt to justify: "Now, you have fame, as you said, Disney has already made you a salary offer of $6 million, and there are few actresses in Hollywood who can reach this height." If you are short of money, go for a loan, and the bank is quite generous to Hollywood stars. And what you have to do is to carefully consolidate your position, if you want to go farther, you can't be too cautious. ”

"I see."

"No, you still don't understand, but I feel that you look wronged. For example, 6 million is indeed a very high price. Tom Hanks only took 2 million in last year's box office of more than 100 million, but if you take this movie, it is equivalent to consuming the box office appeal you have accumulated by virtue of it, which is not a matter of one plus one equals two, but a subtraction. Have you ever seen a star shoot two almost identical movies in a short period of time and both of them were successful? This principle is the same as those blockbuster series of movies in Hollywood, which wait for the audience's expectations to rise to the highest before shooting a sequel after a few years. ”