Eric was really curious, and asked the girl, "How did you coax her over?"

Drew grinned and said: "Rachel is crazy, why use me to coax him, until the beginning of this year, we were still looking for candidates for the role at the beginning, after the box office explosion of "Titanic", I called Rachel, she was very interested, and then it was determined." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Eric also remembered the interesting story of Rachel Weisz that Caroline once said, such a fierce girl who likes to drive a large-displacement Jaguar monarch will never be as ladylike as she looks in her bones.

Suddenly remembering something, Eric said again: "Rachel agreed, her agent must be angry, right?"

Rachel has just been promoted to a first-line actress with "Titanic", and before she has time to go further, she suddenly ran to make a cameo appearance in a horror movie.

"yes, they were so angry that even Kapoor called me and told me not to mess around like this. ”

"It turned out to be filmed?"

Well, Rachel was also angry, she said she didn't want to be a puppet at the mercy of her agent or something, and she filmed it. ”

Eric smiled, not too concerned.

This is just a willful cameo, and the crew of "Scream 2" will certainly not subvert Rachel's image too much, except for a gimmick, the possibility of a substantial negative impact is not too great.

After a brief chat of interesting things, Eric turned to Madonna who was sitting next to him, who was a guest after all, and couldn't be too cold: "Maggie, what about you, what have you been doing lately?"

Madonna leaned lazily on the couch, holding her coffee cup and seemed to listen to the conversation between Eric and Drew with interest, and replied, "I, I'm very idle, so, Eric, do you think Firefly has a movie for me?"

Madonna is definitely one of the people in the singer circle who likes to go to Hollywood, not only repeatedly defeating and fighting in all kinds of bad movies that can't even enter the theater, but also often flirting with Hollywood filmmakers.

Last year's "Madame Peron" was arguably Madonna's most famous film, and the project almost fell into the hands of Fireflies, but considering the quality of Madonna's previous works, the production department vetoed the budget of $55 million for the main creative team, and finally failed to reach a cooperation.

Later, this decision was proved to be correct, although "Madame Peron" won both the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars, its North American box office was only a little more than 50 million, and Warner Bros., which took over the project, still suffered a small loss.

Eric remembered the string of golden plums on Madonna's body, and immediately shook his head a little dazed: "I think it's better for you to focus on singing." ”

"Eric, your words are really hurtful," Madonna glanced at Eric, her tone was not really angry, although she seemed very arrogant and even narcissistic in the eyes of outsiders, she was definitely not the kind of person who really had no self-knowledge.

After chatting for a while, Madonna really mentioned writing songs.

Eric got up and said, "Actually, I wrote it out when I was in New York, come with me." ”

Madonna immediately stood up with some excitement, but the girl didn't follow, waved her hand at Eric, and the whole person lazily lay on the sofa, picked up the remote control and turned on the wall-mounted TV not far away.

Eric led Madonna to the door of the study on the lower level, hesitated, and remembered that there was nothing on the study board that needed to be kept too secret, so he opened the door.

Following Eric down the stairs to the study, Madonna, like many first-time visitors, was amazed by the huge clipboard that took up an entire wall.

At this time, there were many drawings of Iron Man's armor attached to the clipboard with magnets, and there were some handwritten notes by Eric next to them.

Madonna couldn't help but walk over to the clipboard, browse through the Iron Man drawings that had been rendered in color and full of metallic texture, and exclaimed, "Are these all Iron Man, it's so cool." ”

Iron Man's comic image is actually very rough, so even people who often read comics will inevitably feel amazed when they see these realistic drawings at this time.

Eric walked up to Madonna, also looking at the drawings adhered to the clipboard, and nodded, "yes, when the movie is made, the effect will be even cooler." ”

"I'm looking forward to seeing this in the movie, Eric, will you be the director yourself this time?"

"No, but I'll be in charge of the production. ”

Madonna browsed through more than a dozen drawings with great interest, and asked curious questions before she and Eric went to the piano in the corner.

Eric sat down in his chair and handed over the score and lyrics, "Now, take a look. ”

Madonna didn't sit down next to her, took the folder from Eric, leaned against the piano and eagerly opened it.

"'When-We-E-Alive', looking at the name, it has a bit of a rock 'n' roll flavor," Madonna subconsciously commented just by glancing at the name of the song.

This was originally an electronic rock song, and Eric also remembered this song after listening to the title song "Ray-of-Light" sent by Madonna, which also has a strong rock style, so he took it out after a slight modification. In the future, after post-arrangement, the style of the whole song will definitely be more suitable for Madonna's new album, but these are not things that Eric needs to worry about, and the most important thing Madonna needs to do is a professional team.

Nodding, Eric replied, "Yes, it's connected to the song "Radiant" that you are going to use as the main song, and it is ......"

"When we live, we shine. ”

Madonna immediately took it, her expression a little more excited, and said, "It's really ambitious, but I like it." ”

However, after watching the whole song and humming it again, Madonna looked up at Eric very bluntly and said, "Eric, although this song is great, it doesn't seem to be as amazing as your previous ones, right?"

Eric didn't mind Madonna's directness, and explained, "Maggie, that's the limit of your style on this album, I can't make round cookies in a square mold. ”

Madonna's work on this album is completely different from her previous pop music style, full of strong electronic music elements, and a combination of classical, rock, bass and other styles, to put it bluntly, is actually an experimental mash-up album. When Eric listened to the sample music sent by Madonna, he really didn't feel much, and it was even more impossible to collect amazing works of similar style from memory.

Seriously, Eric feels like the whole album is pretty mediocre.

However, he happens to remember that the album "Radiant" was once rated as one of the best albums of Madonna's solo music career in the original time and space, which may be like the fact that a top Cantonese chef suddenly makes a table of Sichuan food that inevitably gives people a sense of freshness.

Whether it is an actor or a singer, if you suddenly change your style after a long period of time, you can often get good reviews.

Due to the sudden change in her previous style, Madonna actually didn't have any expectations for this album in her heart, but her original path had reached a dead end, so she had to change.

Hearing Eric say this, Madonna also thought that he was also not very optimistic about the album.

Still, Madonna asked with a hint of anticipation: "Eric, what do you think of this album?"

Eric laughed, "You want to listen to the truth?"

Madonna gave him a blank look: "Forget it, just make me happy if you say something false." ”

"Well, no kidding," Eric said solemnly, "and while your album is completely out of my personal taste, the chances of success are still very high, and it could even be another pinnacle in your career." ”

Madonna raised her eyebrows excitedly and expectantly, "Are you serious?"

"Of course," Eric nodded, "First of all, the popularity you have accumulated over the years is still very strong, which is the biggest basis for the success of this album." Secondly, people will always be full of freshness about change, and this album just caters to this preference of the public. Finally, with the song I gave you, I don't think you're going to let go of such a publicity stunt, right? So, I bet this album will sell at least 15 million copies worldwide, and whether or not it can hit 20 million is up to your luck. ”

15 million, 20 million, these are very distant things for Madonna.

Her last album sold more than 10 million worldwide was seven years ago, and in recent years it has sold only a few million. Although such sales figures are still unattainable for those second- and third-tier singers, for her, it can only be described as a failure.

If someone else had said that, Madonna might have just taken it as a compliment. But when Eric said it, she believed it almost immediately, so the whole person seemed a little excited, and as an ambitious woman, she was never willing to be silent like this.

In addition to the excitement, Madonna's 'true nature' was revealed, and she leaned over and put her hands on Eric's shoulders and began to forcefully tease: "Then, Eric, since you bet, what do you want to bet?"

Eric shifted back in the swivel chair, dodging Madonna's torso trying to straddle his lap, shaking his head, "Stop, Maggie, I don't want to gamble anything." ”

"Then I'll just throw in the towel," Madonna said, leaning closer, her hands sliding down from Eric's shoulders to his chest, as if trying to unbutton his shirt.

Seeing that the words couldn't suppress the goblin, Eric reached out to hold the other party's two wrists, and his body stepped back a little, Madonna's hands were restrained by Eric, her body lost support, and she immediately fell in front of Eric.

Letting go of Madonna's hands, Eric pressed the woman who was struggling to get up, pinched the well-maintained face, and said coldly in a disgusted tone: "In this case, you can use your mouth, I can barely accept it." ”

Madonna looked up at Eric's condescending gaze, feeling the strength of the big hands on her cheeks, and the humiliation in the other party's words not only did not make her angry, but felt weak all over, almost trembling and muttered, "Oh, Eric Williams, you are such a bastard." ”

……

After more than a month of busyness, the Titanic model originally located in Rosarito, Mexico, has been completely transported back and built in Firefly Studios.

Because Cameron spent a lot of money to almost completely replicate a large number of furniture, carpets, curtains and even tableware and other items inside the Titanic, it was also extremely quick to rearrange them. At this time, the first-class banquet hall in the Titanic model has been renovated. The celebration banquet for "Titanic" to exceed $1.8 billion at the global box office was held in the banquet hall of the big ship.

It was already evening, and the guests who were attending the celebration party were arriving one after another.

Eric, Cameron and Katzenberg stood side by side on the lookout deck outside the wheelhouse of the big ship, which is the position that the captain of the Titanic once occupied in the film.

The big ship happens to be in an east-west direction, facing the Marian del Reys Bay not far away, occupying a large area in the northeast corner of the studio, which is naturally the result of Cameron's insistence, otherwise the hull will definitely need to conform to the rectangular pattern of the overall northeast slope of the studio.

However, it is precisely this insistence that at this time when the sky is full of burning clouds, the view from the railing is unusually magnificent, and the three-metre-high walls of the studio and the low buildings in the exterior area do not obscure the view from the deck, and at a glance you can see the dense yachts of Mariander Del Reys Bay and the sparkling sea level beyond.

"Eric, look, I'll just say it's best to build a view this way," Cameron said, leaning over the railing, looking at the guests on the bow deck below imitating Jack and Rose's classic poses, and continued, "I'm also planning to create a boiler room exhibit inside, and it's better to be able to replicate the huge prop shaft for another $2 million, you know, we're keeping the original props as well." However, Jeffrey hoped that the interior of the cabin could be converted into a warehouse, oh, can you imagine that the Titanic turned into a warehouse. ”

Eric smiled and looked at the helpless Katzenberg, and said, "Jeffrey also hopes that this model can be used as much as possible, Jim, you know, if it is completely unpractical, perhaps, in a few years, we will have to dismantle this model, after all, it takes up a large area." ”

Seeing that Eric wasn't facing him this time, Cameron retorted, "Aren't the restaurants, banquet halls, and souvenir shops enough?"

"That's enough, of course, but the boiler room is okay, Jim, people won't be interested in that. ”

Cameron was still unwilling, saying: "Before the release of this film, many people also felt that people would not be interested in such a movie. ”

“……”

The two sides haggled, and Eric finally agreed that Cameron could build a small exhibition hall, but the bottom part of the area would still be used as a storage warehouse in the studio.

After all, the huge hull of more than 270 meters, covering an area almost the size of four large studios in the studio, if it is not used, it is likely to have to be dismantled in the future, as Eric said. (To be continued.) )