In the kitchen, Eric sent the chef of the manor away, and personally put the last dish of sweet corn soup into a large porcelain bowl and walked to the dining room, Catherine sat at the table with a somewhat restrained expression, Eric put down the sweet soup, and was about to make a joke, only to find that Xiao Nizi was also holding her back, and her thin lips were gently pursed with a look of not squinting, obviously imitating Catherine.

Seeing this scene, Eric couldn't help but smile and reached out to rub the girl's head vigorously, and warned in the immediate cry of Xiao Nizi: "Drew, don't be funny, be careful that I kick you out." ”

"Again...... Ah, let go, it's this one again, can't you change to a fresher threat?" Drew shouted as he opened Eric's hand, but he no longer imitated Catherine's appearance.

Eric sat down on the other side of the table, ignoring the girl, and said to the woman opposite, "I'm sorry, Catherine, Drew likes to mess around, don't mind. ”

"It's okay," Catherine shook her head.

Eric looked at the two women, and slightly regretted leaving Catherine behind, Drew and Catherine's personalities are simply two extremes, one is unscrupulous, the other is restrained and rigorous. Eric could imagine that if other women were sitting here, and Nizi imitated it like she had just done, the result would definitely not be cold.

Because of the special big light bulb of Xiao Nizi, Eric could only talk to Catherine about the movie seriously, and after dinner, he sent the woman to the car very gentlemanly, and the atmosphere did not develop in the direction of ambiguity, but this atmosphere obviously made Catherine feel relaxed, and Eric was pressing. Xiao Nizi didn't do anything out of the ordinary anymore.

"Like a piece of wood," Drew, who had been suppressed all night, finally came out as he watched Catherine's car drive out of the manor.

Eric glanced at Drew's small waist tied up in a light blue slim trench coat. Lowered her voice and said, "Catherine's lifestyle is the healthiest, if you continue according to your current lifestyle, before the age of thirty, you will start to gain weight, gain weight to one hundred and fifty pounds, forehead lines and nasolabial folds will soon climb on your face, and your hair will lose its luster." Bags under my eyes all day......"

"Ah~~~" Before Eric finished speaking, the girl had already screamed and pounced on him, stretching out her little hand to cover Eric's mouth: "Don't let you be so scary." It's not like you said, I've changed a lot. ”

Eric smiled and patted Drew on the back to let the girl let go of herself, and then said, "Okay, it does scare you." I'm just talking about celebrities who are addicted to drugs. That's what hurts your health the most. ”

"I haven't touched those things in years......" the girl pulled Eric's arm as if to invite credit.

Eric remembered some Hollywood stars in the original plane, including the girl next to him, because of the drug addiction, although he finally succeeded in getting rid of those things, but he hurt the root of his body, or he was skinny and couldn't get fat (Julie was definitely not hungry...... ), or the figure is out of shape and you can't get thin (if you can't lose weight, you can only draw abdominal muscles...... ）。

……

Some time before Thanksgiving, Eric had a delusion. It's as if his life is inexplicably involved with vampires.

First Neil Jordan, the director of "Interview with the Vampire", appeared, and a week later. Neil Jordan handed Eric a production plan with a script he had written, and after reading it briefly, Eric made some changes to his memory, and then handed it to Firefly's production department to evaluate the film's budget and contact Geffen Films, which owns "Interview with the Vampire".

Subsequently, Eric was invited by Francis Coppola to attend the premiere of "400 Years of Love".

"400 Years of Shock" was produced by Colombia, because Coppola's previous films were not very successful, and Colombia was not too optimistic about the prospects of the film when it made the release plan, so the release date of "400 Years of Shock" was placed on November 13, a week before the Thanksgiving holiday.

However, to Columbia's surprise, because "400 Years of Shocking" accumulated a very good reputation during the pre-test screening, the movie got a box office of $38 million in the first week, which can be regarded as a good start for the thanksgiving-Christmas stall.

Eric wasn't too interested in this movie, after all, he was an Oriental at heart, and he didn't have the cultural accumulation that he had been exposed to, but because he was preparing for the "Vampire Slayer Buffy" TV series, Drew and Elizabeth unanimously asked Eric to take them to the premiere.

The plot of this movie is not too different from Eric's memory, but Keanu Reeves did not play the role of Jonathan Haacke anymore because of his participation in "Life and Death", and Monica Bellucci's Hollywood debut is gone, replaced by another unknown actress, and Eric does not know where the Italian stunner is now. In the past few years of rebirth, some Hollywood stars who were supposed to debut at this time have not yet been seen.

After participating in "Four Hundred Years of Surprise", followed by "Vampire Slayer Buffy", although Eric was not a fan of American dramas in his previous life, there are still dozens of classic American dramas in his memory, so "Vampire Slayer Buffy" was taken upside down by the three women of TG, and Eric didn't think it was a pity, anyway, the fat water did not flow into the fields of outsiders.

However, during this time, Elizabeth and Drew hired several screenwriters to write the outline of the story, and even Tina Fey, who was Drew's assistant, tried to write a version, but the results were not satisfactory, and after a few circles, he returned to Eric.

"I'm expensive to name me as a producer?" Raising his head from behind the desk covered with papers, Eric said with a smile when he heard Elizabeth's intention.

Elizabeth sorted out a small empty space on Eric's desk, pulled out a stack of scripts from her bag and handed it to Eric: "This is the original script of Joss Whedon, the screenwriter of "Vampire Slayer Buffy", it is very exciting, but it was changed beyond recognition during filming, and I feel that if it is shot according to the script, the results of this movie will definitely not be so bad." Also for this reason. When I asked Joss Whedon to write a script for the TV series, he refused, and some of the other writers didn't write it well, so I contacted him again today. He said if he was to write the script, unless you were the producer of the TV series. ”

Eric also took the time to watch the movie version of "Vampire Slayer Buffy" hastily during this time, but he was quite disappointed, and the movie version is not too naïve to describe it, especially the part where the vampire attacks the school party at the end, like a joke, the vampire attacks humans. As a result, not even a drop of blood was shed. Eric knew of course that this was to adapt to the film classification rules, but the director obviously went too far.

Reading the script in his hand at this time, Eric felt like he was reading a completely different story. Indeed, as Elizabeth said, the original script is much more wonderful than the movie. Joss Whedon is also one of Hollywood's most talented directors and writers, but before being the director of Marvel's "The Avengers" series. Several of Joss Whedon's films ended in failure. Most of the time in the TV drama circle, but because of the wonderful sci-fi and fantasy elements in his stories, Joss Whedon is quite popular among the geek community.

Eric quickly skimmed through the script, looked at the girl sitting across from him, and said, "I'm just a little curious, the TV series you made yourself will definitely not be filmed on Disney Kids Channel, right?" I haven't met Joss Whedon either, at any point. I don't have anything to do with it, so how could he have thought of asking me to be a producer?"

"Of course, I hope that the quality of this TV series can be guaranteed," Elizabeth said quickly.

Eric Mo held the script, and a faint smile hung on the corner of his mouth: "Drew came with you, right, she must be downstairs now, do you know why Xiao Nizi is reluctant to come up with you?"

Elizabeth subconsciously did not admit herself: "Why?"

"Because as soon as the girl lies, I can basically tell it, and she knows this, so she doesn't want to come with you, for fear of revealing the stuff," Eric finished speaking, and pointed to Elizabeth, and the smile on his lips was even stronger: "But in fact, you are the same, Liz, when you lie, you will unconsciously speed up the speed of speech, of course, there are some other small details, which I can't tell you, lest I can't tell the next time you lie after you change it." ”

Elizabeth glared at Eric for a moment, and finally said deflated: "Okay, what a calculating man, Joss Whedon originally offered the condition that he wanted to be the director himself, but this guy didn't have any shooting experience at all, of course I wasn't at ease, so I bargained with him." ”

Eric stared at Elizabeth and followed her tone, "And then you pressed me out, right?"

Hollywood also values seniority, and if Joss Whedon can work with Eric, even if this cooperation is only indirectly, with Eric's current status in Hollywood, it can still add a very beautiful touch to Joss Wheddon's resume.

Elizabeth was always more sensitive to the pressure in Eric's gaze than others, and habitually rebounded, her chin raised slightly, and she said imposingly: "Yes, it's just for you to put up a name, there's no need to chase after you so hard, right?"

Eric felt that Elizabeth had a tendency to fry again, and handed over the coffee cup next to him: "Okay, okay, go make me a cup of coffee first, and call Drew over by the way." ”

Elizabeth reflexively took the delicate bone china cup in her hand, stood up before reacting, glared at Eric slightly, but walked out of the office with the cup in her hand as if she had triumphed.

A few minutes later, Drew pushed open the door to Eric's office, poked through the babyface and grinned, before the whole little body jumped in, Elizabeth followed, and Tina Fey walked in with a cup of coffee.

Since he decided to agree to be the producer of "Vampire Slayer Buffy", of course Eric will not simply put his name on the matter, and obviously the two Nizi in front of him do not intend to let him go so easily.

However, Eric found another thing, once TG got involved in the production of TV series, then the development plan he originally made for TG will definitely not be trial, in fact, this is also an inevitable trend for people to go to higher places, just like the original Miramax, Disney's purpose in acquiring Miramax was to hope that the Weinstein brothers would specialize in literary films and conquer the city for Disney at the Oscars, but Miramax began to covet big-budget movies later, and finally parted ways with Disney because of various differences.

TG's box office results in the past two years are obvious to all in Hollywood, Elizabeth and Drew are not safe people in their bones, and it is understandable to want TG to go further, relying on the two big film companies Firefly and Fox, Eric is not worried about the degree to which the distribution company cannot digest due to the increase in the number of TG productions.

"The heroine chooses a sweet-looking one with the temperament of the girl next door, the movie version of Christina Swanson, forget it, after finding the actor, first do a period of physical training, you can contact John Wu, his martial arts instructor team should not have returned to Hong Kong yet," Eric said, Tina Fey sat opposite and quickly took notes.

However, hearing this, Elizabeth interrupted: "Eric, this is a vampire movie, wouldn't it be strange to add kung fu elements?"

Eric listened to Elizabeth's weird pronunciation of 'kung fu' and smiled: "Adopting Hong Kong's movement direction doesn't necessarily mean adding kung fu elements, the main thing is that they can design some cool moves so that they can attract the audience." There will be a lot of action scenes of Buffy fighting vampires in the TV series version, and if the tragic fight scenes in the movie version are still maintained, I think it would be better if this TV series was not filmed. ”

Elizabeth and Drew nodded their heads halfway through Eric's speech, and told Tina Fey to write it down quickly.

Then we talked about some details, and after an hour of discussing where and where to go, Eric said, "That's all, I'll tell you the rest when I think about it." ”

The three girls leave contentedly, and in the days that followed, TG soon began casting for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

experienced the busiest period before Thanksgiving, although the publicity and distribution department of Firefly Pictures still had to be busy with the two popular schedules at the end of the year, but Eric's one-year work has been basically completed, on November 19, after participating in the premiere of "Life and Death", without having time to wait for the first day box office information of the film, Eric flew to New York to spend Thanksgiving with the two women who raised their babies in East Hampton. (To be continued......)