Chapter 1063: If It's Not Delicious
Because of the temporary change of landline, Eric had lunch with the girl and others in Ventura at noon before officially taking off. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The Boeing 767 smoothly entered the stratosphere, and Mayer unbuckled his seat belt. Caroline was still recuperating from a foot injury, and this time she was the only one who followed Eric to London, except for the usual group of bodyguards.
After carefully checking Eric's schedule for the next few days, and seeing the flight attendant on the plane coming over with coffee, Mayer got up to stop the other party and smiled, "I'll come." ”
Flight attendants are temporary staff members of aircraft leasing companies, with a tall figure and delicate face that is the standard of a girl in this industry.
Because she was to serve Eric Williams, the flight mission assigned by the company in the morning even caused a scramble, and she finally managed to grab a spot. She had just heard that Eric Williams, who was in the study, needed coffee, and she dressed up on purpose. Pretty women are always ambitious, and if they can get close to Eric Williams and win the favor of the other party, she can soar directly.
At this time, she was intercepted by Mayer, and the flight attendant was very unhappy, but the smile on her face did not change, and said, "Miss Mayer, I'll come." ”
"I happen to have work to talk to Eric about," Mayer reached out to take the tray from the flight attendant, and at the same time put away the smile on his face, and said with a bit of command in his tone, "You go back." ”
The flight attendant didn't dare to offend Eric's personal assistant, and scolded in her heart, but she had to turn back.
When the figure of the stewardess disappeared at the entrance of this rest area, Mayer breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he had just made a little fox, and he couldn't help but stick out his tongue a little weakly, and then walked towards the plane study on the other side.
Eric was leaning back in the leather chair behind his desk in his study, reading a script intently, when he heard a knock on the door, he didn't look up, but answered softly.
Mayer walked lightly to the desk, poured a cup of coffee for Eric, put the coffee pot beside him, looked at the man in front of him with a focused expression, and suddenly remembered what happened in the morning.
Those two Gulfstream Vs, it seems that he will definitely not sit in the future.
What a wayward guy, $36 million worth of private jets, and two of them, just throw them aside, and it is estimated that only this guy in front of him has enough confidence to do so.
You know, the price of two Gulfstream Vs, 36 million US dollars is just beginning, and the annual maintenance and flight costs in the future are at least equivalent to 10% of the cost of the aircraft, which is a long-term expense that many people can hardly afford.
Eric flipped the page of the "Fight Club" script in his hand, and felt that the person next to him had not left, so he glanced up and interrupted Mayer's daze with a smile: "Mary, what's wrong with you?"
"Oh, no," Mayer realized that he was distracted, quickly shook his head, and quickly found a topic to escape embarrassment, and said: "I just saw that you were reading this script, in fact, when I was sorting out the information for you, I happened to go through it, but I didn't understand what Director Finch wanted to express this time." ”
"It's very simple," Eric said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Finch wants to tell everyone this time that you can't hide from medical treatment, and if you have mental illness, you should be detected and treated early, otherwise you will harm others and yourself." ”
Mayer was stunned, realizing that Eric was joking, and immediately covered his mouth and laughed.
Eric looked at Mayer's beautiful appearance in a light gray professional suit and smiled, and said, "If you are interested in this story, you can check out the original novel by Chuck Palahniuk, which is the story of a modern man who struggles to resist in confusion until he collapses. As for the script, I don't think Finch himself has thought about what he wants to say, so if it is not done properly, the project will definitely turn into a disaster. ”
Mayer listened carefully and asked, "Are you going to approve the project?"
"Of course," Eric nodded, "This is actually a very interesting script, and if we can put a little more effort into the future distribution and marketing stages, this film will definitely become a masterpiece in the hearts of a group of cult fans." ”
In the past, the experience of "Fight Club" was almost exactly the same as that of "Journey to the West", both of which failed at the box office during the release stage, but with the continuous deconstruction of follow-up fans, it gradually became a classic.
Now, the budget for the new line is $50 million, which Eric thinks is probably not enough, because, as he said, Finch himself may not have a deep grasp of what he wants to shoot, so he is likely to get lost in the filming phase and cause the project to be overrun.
However, Eric doesn't plan to let the new line miss out on the film.
Firefly Group has enough blockbuster commercial films, and it is necessary to produce a batch of films with unique styles to supplement the company's film library, otherwise Firefly Group will gradually turn into a boring commercial machine. In recent years, in addition to mainstream commercial films, Firefly's labels have also been cooperating with David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino.
As far as the current "Fight Club" is concerned, although the risk is a bit big, as long as the new line can formulate a set of special marketing plans at that time, so that the audience can understand the movie in advance, at least let people who can't understand it feel that this is a very awesome movie, then it is still easy for the film to achieve commercial success.
After chatting for a few words and resolving the embarrassment that he had just been in a daze, Mayer turned around and left the study.
Eric continued to focus on the script for Fight Club.
In all fairness, Eric himself doesn't understand the movie too well, but there are still many classic lines in the film that are worth pondering and recalling.
After reading the script carefully, Eric opened his laptop next to him and drafted an e-mail based on his ideas for the film, which he had stored in his sketch box to send to Kenneth Horn of the new line when he arrived in London, before picking up another document on his desk.
After having dinner on the plane, Eric rested for a few hours and woke up again to see that the Boeing 767 had reached the skies over London.
The West Coast of the United States left Ventura Airport at 1 p.m., and after a ten-hour flight, it was already 7 o'clock in the morning on November 11 in London, including the time difference.
As soon as Eric got off the plane at London Heathrow Airport, he was pulled by Emily, Edward Lazek and others who came to pick him up to the venue of tomorrow's Victoria's Secret show, the Earls Palace Convention and Exhibition Center in London's West End.
Compared to the Lessington Avenue Arsenal in Manhattan, the Earls Palace Convention Center, which covers an area of more than 40,000 square meters, is extraordinary.
Eric and his entourage rushed to their destination, and saw that the gate of the Earl's Palace had been covered with huge posters of the Victoria's Secret brand, and there were many media reporters with cameras on the surrounding roads.
After getting out of the car in the internal parking lot, Eric subconsciously put his hands into the pockets of his trench coat that he had just changed, looked at the overcast sky of London, and said to Emily beside him: "I say, shouldn't you at least let me have breakfast or something?"
Emily raised her wrist and tapped her watch, disgruntled: "If I'm not mistaken, you were supposed to arrive in London around five o'clock in the morning, do you know how long everyone waited for you at Heathrow?"
Eric was a little embarrassed and said, "Well, I'm really sorry, I changed planes temporarily, so I delayed for a few hours." ”
"Then why don't you let us know," Emily grumbled again, but she didn't chase Eric, feeling that she had the initiative, and said, "Let's go, help us see how we are prepared this time?"
This Victoria's Secret show has a bit of a farewell concert.
Cindy Crawford, Linda Ivangolinsta and other veteran angels will withdraw from Victoria's Secret's endorsement team after this catwalk, and the original five-person group will only have Diane Kruger and Tyra Banks left, and the new contract signed by these two with Victoria's Secret is only 3 years, Diane Kruger intends to develop more deeply in Hollywood, and Tyra Banks intends to enter the TV industry.
At the same time, the angel legion of about forty people will also continue to change blood in the past two years.
Although Cindy, Linda and others are likely to occasionally return to the Victoria's Secret catwalk once or twice in the future, however, in order to get more attention, LTD did not disclose this in the publicity, but hinted that this may be the last Victoria's Secret show of the original group of popular veteran supermodels, which did play a big role, and it is said that some loyal fans of the Victoria's Secret Legion also flew over from North America to watch the show.
Since the venue of Earls Palace is much larger than the Lessington Avenue Arsenal, LTD released 6,000 tickets this time, which is the largest since the launch of the Victoria's Secret show.
With the strong expansion of the Victoria's Secret brand, LTD has paid more and more attention to the holding of the Victoria's Secret show.
In addition to focusing on the promotion of the Victoria's Secret team, the lineup of performers this time is also unprecedentedly strong.
In addition to the Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and Madonna, LTD also successfully invited Michael Jackson this time, and over the years, Michael Jackson has also stepped out of the haze of the ** case of the year and successfully restored to the style of the former emperor superstar.
However, after mastering the operation mode of the Victoria's Secret show for several consecutive years, LTD did not continue to spend money to invite well-known directors to run the Victoria's Secret show, but Edward Lazek and other senior executives served as producers and personally controlled the operation of the entire show.
Although it was late at night in Los Angeles, he had rested for a few hours on the plane, and he was at a young age of energy, and Eric was pulled by Emily to watch the show arrangement all morning, but he didn't feel tired.
It wasn't until noon that the group left the internal show of Earls Palace and came to the NH Kensington where the Angel Legion was staying nearby.
Speaking of which, the Earls Palace Convention and Exhibition Centre is also located in London's West End, less than two kilometers away from Kensington Garden Street, and Eric can still easily travel between Kensington Garden Street Villa and the Convention and Exhibition Center on these two days.
It happened to be lunch time, and when they came to the NH Hotel, the group went directly into the hotel restaurant.
Tomorrow is the Victoria's Secret show, although some Victoria's Secret angels go out shopping, but most of them stay in the hotel, which also makes the hotel restaurant at lunchtime a gathering place for high-value beauties.
Seeing Eric appear, all the Victoria's Secret angels who were eating in the restaurant got up and enthusiastically gathered around.
After hugging a large group of stunners one by one, the angels also consciously dispersed, only Cindy, Linda and Giselle, who participated in the Victoria's Secret show for the first time this year, remained, and everyone knew that although there was no shortage of girls in the Victoria's Secret Army who had a close relationship with Eric, only the three of them had the closest relationship with Eric. As for Alexander and Miranda, they did not come to London this time, but stayed in New York together.
Mayer rushed to Kensington Garden Street in advance to help Eric prepare his accommodation, and was not around, and some other high-level executives of LTD were also very interested at this time, looking for other places to sit down, only Emily and Eric, with three other girls, sat down at a round table.
After sitting down in the chair, Eric looked at Giselle across from him and asked with a smile, "So, how do you feel now?"
The two positions next to Eric were naturally occupied by Cindy and Linda, and Giselle felt a little snack, but still said, "It's great, everyone takes good care of me." ”
Cindy took the menu from the waiter who walked over and handed it to Eric, saying, "Giselle's tablecloth is amazing, I'm a little inferior." Oh, Eric, you can try the steak here, it's very good. ”
"Then you can order one for me," Eric smiled and simply handed the menu to Cindy again, "If it doesn't taste good, I'll ask you." ”
"Hehe," Cindy laughed and lowered her voice, not minding the many pairs of eyes around her who had been paying attention to this side, and leaned into Eric's ear affectionately, "If it doesn't taste good, you can eat me." ”
There was a fragrant breeze lingering between his noses, and Eric couldn't help but lean over, and deliberately whispered in a strange tone: "Actually, women's meat is not delicious at all, there is too much fat, I prefer men's, little boys are the best, and the taste is very tender." ”
Cindy seemed to be frightened by Eric's words, and subconsciously dodged a little, knowing that Eric was joking with herself, she gave him a blank look, and then casually reported a menu to the waiter next to her.