A faint morning light cast into the master bedroom of Liberty City, Eric woke up first, his palm gently caressing the smooth skin of the girl in his arms, but his mind was "Iron Man". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the script, Tony Stark and Vanity Fair reporter Christine Ons not only actively avoided it the next morning, but also felt awkward when they met again, which is definitely not like a playboy who slept with the cover girls of fashion magazines all year round.

Well, it has to be changed.

Staring at the ceiling for a moment and quietly pondering the details of the script revisions, Eric couldn't help but laugh silently.

Well, then it's better to do it yourself.

The average rhythm of one every two years, the schedule is really well arranged.

No longer dwelling on this problem, Eric felt the girl's originally flat breathing on his chest become rapid, and when he looked down, the girl's eyes were still closed, as if he was not going to wake up.

Eric smiled, his palms sliding.

Jennifer Love-Hewitt, who wanted to continue pretending to be asleep, suddenly shuddered slightly, clamped her legs, and looked up with a blushing face: "Eric, you're so bad. ”

Eric hugged Jennifer to himself, feeling the clinging of a soft and delicate body, and said, "When girls say this, they usually hope that men will be worse. ”

Jennifer Love Hewitt pressed Eric's still mischievous hand and said dissatisfiedly, "Why don't you bully Sarah, she must be pretending to be asleep?" ”

Eric turned his head to look at the girl on the other side who didn't know if she was also pretending to be asleep, smiled and turned over and pressed Jennifer under him, and said, "Don't worry, it's still early, neither of you can escape." ”

After breakfast and seeing off the two girls, Eric called Joss Whedon directly and asked him to cancel the audition for the next actor in "Iron Man".

At ten o'clock in the morning, Eric rushed to Firefly Studios, and Brigitte Fonda, who was identified as the actor of Pepper, was notified and rushed over, and his jaw almost fell in surprise when he heard that Eric was going to play Tony Stark himself.

It must be ugly for a beautiful woman's jaw to fall, so Eric reached out and picked Brigitte Fonda's chin, told her to close her little mouth, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go to the audition first, whether it will work out or not is not certain." ”

Brigitte Fonda was very dissatisfied with Eric's actions just now, but the surprise in his heart could not be calmed down for a while, so he honestly followed everyone into an audition room.

After a busy morning, Eric and Brigitte Fonda performed most of the Tony Stark and Pepper rivalry scenes in "Iron Man".

In the end, including Katzenberg, Frank Wells and other Firefly executives who were notified to come to the scene, all agreed that Tony Stark was simply tailor-made for Eric. During the audition process, Brigitte Fonda, a professional actor, sometimes couldn't even keep up with Eric's performance.

After lunch, everyone gathered in the conference room again, and Eric, who was sitting at the top, looked at everyone and said, "In that case, let's discuss what to do next?" ”

Frank Wells and others have returned to work, but Katzenberg has not left, saying: "Eric, I think that in order to ensure the success of Iron Man, you should reduce your exposure as much as possible, so as to avoid the impact of your inherent identity on the screen as much as possible. ”

"That's no problem," Eric nodded, he didn't like to be in the spotlight in the first place, how good it would be to be the 'black hand' behind the scenes, "So, about my role as Tony Stark, let's wait until next year before filming starts." ”

Everyone nodded unanimously in agreement, it is now August 23rd, and the North American summer file is coming to an end, but at the same time, the live-action blockbuster "Casino Royale", which is the most beautiful in the summer file, has also entered the ninth week.

Although Casino Royale is expected to box office less than $4 million this week, and the film has entered the final stages in North America, the eight-week screening of "Casino Royale" has also reached more than $363 million in North American box office, which is not far from the $370 million total box office figure estimated by most box office agencies.

At the same time, the overseas box office of "Casino Royale" has also exceeded 470 million, and the global box office has reached a total of 830 million US dollars, with the arrival of the second phase of the overseas intensive release of "Casino Royale" in September, it is only a matter of time before the global box office exceeds 1 billion US dollars, it can be said that "Casino Royale" has almost 100% locked the box office champion in 1997.

Influenced by Casino Royale, even though Eric has not always liked to show his head, his presence in the public mind has been unusually strong in recent times. In this case, it is naturally not appropriate to immediately announce that he will play Tony Stark.

It is not for nothing that most Hollywood stars habitually live a low-key life.

If media exposure is too frequent, it may be difficult for the audience to identify with the characters when they see them on the big screen.

discussed the media operation around Eric's participation in "Iron Man", and naturally could not escape the salary problem.

Although Pierce Brosnan made a fuss about the salary of the 007 sequel, in the entire project team of "Casino Royale", it was actually Eric himself who got the most remuneration.

His compensation contract is a base salary of $8 million plus a 10% global box office share, although this time the box office share is not calculated according to the actual global box office figures, but 10% of the studio share that MGM receives from the global box office, but with "Casino Royale" now going straight to 1 billion worldwide, Eric will not be paid less than $50 million in the end.

Of course, in the whole of Hollywood, maybe no one thinks that Eric shouldn't get so much pay, strictly speaking, Eric actually took the initiative to lower his salary standard. After all, if it were other Hollywood directors who made a film with a global box office of $1 billion, they would definitely not stop without taking a $100 million or two from it.

Now, Eric is going to change his identity to play Tony Stark, and if it is more serious, the salary is really difficult to calculate.

Whether it is MGM or Firefly, although the control is firmly in Eric's hands, the equity does not completely belong to Eric alone, so even if it is shooting his own company's movies, his own interests and the company's interests must be clearly distributed, otherwise he will inevitably encounter some unnecessary troubles in the future.

Naturally, Eric didn't waste too much time on this issue, but just signed a rookie contract according to the salary plan drawn up by Marvel Studios in advance, and took a symbolic $500,000. As for the future, Eric will also set the maximum ceiling of his salary at $20 million, which is the highest salary set by the Marvel system for its actors, and Eric will naturally not take the initiative to break this limit.

At the end of the day's meeting, Eric and Katzenberg had dinner and handed him another slip that he had taken the time to write today.

Katzenberg looked at the list in his hand and said, "Garfield, Scooby-Doo, Teddy Bear, well, and Japanese horror, Eric, what do you mean?" ”

"Copyright," Eric took a sip of red wine and said, "I sorted it out in the last few days, you asked the copyright department to buy the rights to Garfield, Scooby-Doo and Teddy Bear as soon as possible, and I plan to make a live-action hybrid movie, just like the original "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", but this time we use the 3D animation situation. As for Japanese-style horror films, this is what I thought of when I watched "The Exorcist" last night, although teen horror films have become popular in recent years, movies that can really bring fear to people are always very marketable, and this, Japanese-style horror films are actually very good. So, you recently sent someone to Japan to collect some scripts for Japanese horror films, and I'll see if there's anything interested. ”

Actually, this slip was something that Eric thought of when he was with Sarah and Jennifer last night.

Speaking of which, these two girls not only have a lot of similarities in height, appearance and temperament, but even the star journeys in the original time and space are very similar.

In addition to a "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" that brought Sarah Michelle Gela greater fame, both girls starred in a series of teen horror films in the late nineties, and similarly, in the new millennium, the two starred in "Scooby-Doo" and the other in "Garfield", and then participated in several Japanese horror films. And these are all very good movies at the box office.

"Scooby-Doo" and "Garfield" are already very classic cartoons, and "Teddy Bear" is completely a makeshift bad taste of Eric, who intends to ruin his childhood in advance.

As for Japanese-style horror films, in my memory, the most classic Japanese-style horror films, such as "Midnight Bell" and "The Grudge", have not yet appeared, and Eric simply asked Katzenberg to cast a wide net and go to Japan to search for scripts for horror films, presumably it is easy to find a few classics.

After listening to Eric's explanation, Katzenberg remembered that Drew was searching for script copyrights everywhere and even caused all Hollywood studios to loot them, and those script copyrights back then have almost become Hollywood box office hits and other films.

Carefully putting away the documents in his hand, Katzenberg asked unsatisfactorily: "Eric, these should not be considered mainstream film genres, you, um, do you have a list similar to the original Drew collection of copyrights?" ”

Eric couldn't help but roll his eyes and smiled, "Jeffrey, my energy is also limited, and I can't focus on these things all day. And, you calculate, the copyright projects we have in our hands now are enough to develop for decades, not to mention the Marvel series, as well as "Transformers", "The Lord of the Rings" and the soon-to-be-published "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", I dare to say, any of these are almost enough for a film company to eat for ten or eight years. ”

Katzenberg grinned and said, "Of course, but the more good projects there are, the better." Well, you just gave it to me, and I'll get people in touch with the copyright owner as soon as possible, which of the three live-action animation combined movies do you plan to make first? "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was personally involved in the year, and this type of movie needs to be prepared a long time in advance. ”

Eric only has some general impressions of "Scooby-Doo" and "Garfield", but he has actually seen "Teddy Bear", however, he has a little experience, that is, this type of film, sequels are usually relatively poor at the box office, because the audience can easily get a sense of novelty after watching the first part.

"Then 'Teddy Bear,'" Eric said to Katzenberg with a smile, "You buy the rights first, and I'll come up with a rough plan then." ”

Leaving Sharp Corner Manor, Sarah Michelle Gela and Jennifer Love Hewitt spent the next few days thinking that perhaps that night with Eric would be a dream.

At least, the thrill was good, and Eric Williams made breakfast for them.

Naturally, they wanted something from Eric, but this kind of thing usually can't be said too directly. They have also heard that many girls in Hollywood have slept with directors or producers and still get nothing, and trying to convince themselves to calm down as much as possible is a dream.

However, on the third day, they still got the good news that they received a notice from their agent that the two heroines of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" had fallen on them.

Remembering that Eric said that the two of them were not suitable to appear in a movie, the two girls naturally felt that this matter must be the result of Eric's interference, but then, the two girls felt an inexplicable loss in their hearts. Perhaps, after getting these two roles, Eric will definitely not have any contact with them in the future.

It's still a deal.

But this time, the two girls guessed wrong.

In the following days, Eric devoted himself to auditions for a supporting role in "Iron Man", but he forgot about it unconsciously. He did think about handing over the two heroine positions of "Garfield" and "Scooby-Doo" to Jennifer and Sarah again in the future, but this was entirely from the perspective that the two of them were really suitable for these films.

Although Hollywood has never lacked the idea that the main creators of the show will make certain deals with the characters in their hands, Eric has never had such a mind. After all, this kind of self-control is necessary for a movie to be successful, and if a movie is not properly cast, it can lose millions of dollars, and people in Hollywood who are a little more sane understand this truth, no woman is worth so much money. (To be continued.) )