Eric briefly told the story outline of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", Nicole listened carefully, and when Eric finished speaking, he said: "It doesn't sound special, it must be another popcorn movie with gimmicks such as killer shootouts as a selling point." ”

"The solidification of human thinking is very strict, the word innovation is easy to say, but it is even more difficult to do, 99% of Hollywood movies can find similar companions, the key is how to shoot. ”

Nicole gave Eric a blank look: "I'm just saying what I think, you don't have to be raised to the level of 'human'." ”

Eric laughed: "Actually, your understanding of this story is only on the most superficial surface, of course, this must also represent more than 90% of the audience's thoughts. But if you deconstruct it on a deeper level, this story is a true portrayal of people's real-life marriages. ”

"Huh?"

"John and Jane's marriage was standard love at first sight, but in reality, many marriages are the product of this impulse. However, they don't really know each other, and although they love each other, they don't open their hearts to each other, but are careful to guard against each other, which dooms them to not be able to maintain their marriage for a long time. When the initial passion wears off, the relationship becomes dull and boring, and eventually has to go to counseling. At the same time, they received orders to kill each other, and because of this turn of events, the invisible barrier between the two collapsed, and while attacking each other, they began to truly understand each other. This is very similar to the real marriage relationship, when the husband and wife are caught in a dispute, the other side of themselves that they have been carefully hiding opens up to each other. Ultimately. This marriage is either reborn. Or shoot it off. ”

After Eric finished speaking, he saw that Nicole had put down the cutlery in her hand, supported her chin with one hand, and looked at herself intently.

"What's the matter, do you suddenly admire my erudition? Relax, little girl, you are not the first, and you will not be the last. ”

"I'm just thinking. When will you, 'John Smith,' confess your true identity to me?"

Eric smiled and didn't answer, he knew that many people around him were very curious about how all the special things he came out of, and some people had asked more than once, but this matter was destined to never be explained, and Eric didn't mean to explain it to others: "In many film and television novels, the protagonist often remains mediocre for a long time, because of the excitement of certain things, he becomes a blockbuster and eventually becomes a superhero who saves the earth." For example, Superman, Spider-Man, or something. ”

Nicole made an unbearable expression: "Don't talk nonsense, I just don't ask." ”

“OK。 Then let's move on to "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", you play the heroine, this script can be the first film between Disney and Columbia, just enough to have Paula Wagner as the producer, killing multiple birds with one stone. ”

Nicole nodded, looked at Eric and said, "Eric, how about you play John Smith, haven't you acted in "Seventeen Again"?"

Eric shook his head, "I don't have time. ”

Nicole also knows that she is a little whimsical, compared to when he starred in "Seventeen Again" a few years ago, Eric now not only has to take care of the huge Firefly film group, but also directs "Jurassic Park" himself, and some other movies from him, Eric can't completely let go, in this case, he can't spare half a year to star in movies.

The main work on "Jurassic Park" will not start until after the Oscars at the end of March, and after the acquisition of Disney, Firefly Pictures is also on the right track, and the cooperation with Columbia is all finalized, and Eric has a month of free time.

Therefore, although I didn't have time to participate in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", I still had plenty of time to write the script of this movie myself, and the minute-by-minute page script was typed out in less than a week according to the memory in my mind and slightly revised according to the current time background.

These days, Nicole has also been living in Sharp Corner Manor, personally watching Eric type out the script of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" on the computer, and occasionally when she went out with Eric, she was also photographed by the paparazzi, which was inevitably some gossip scandals.

After the script for "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" was released, both Disney and Columbia quickly saw the script, and although there was a slight criticism that the film was not a special effects blockbuster, Columbia quickly accepted the project.

After the project was confirmed, while Eric just had time to participate, Disney and Columbia couldn't wait to start the preliminary preparations, and in just one week, the budget of the film was made, because it was the first step of the cooperation between the two parties, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, the film budget was quite relaxed.

In the screening room, Eric, Katzenberg and Peter Cooper watched the gunfight on the screen together, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" involves a lot of gunfight scenes, but none of the director candidates given by Disney and Columbia can satisfy Eric, and for Eric, when it comes to gunfight scenes, the first thing he thinks of is, of course, classic Hong Kong films such as "Heroes Themselves" and "Bloody Heroes".

"The most important thing in Hong Kong action movies is to make the audience pleasing to the eye, you see, this shootout scene, the setting of the plot, the foreshadowing of the atmosphere, and the three-minute fierce gunfight at the end all reflect the director's superb field control skills. For "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," I wanted a kind of elegant violence, a feeling that even if the hero and heroine were holding a large-caliber shotgun and bombarding each other, it would look like they were flirtatious, rather than the cruelty and realism that Hollywood directors are better at," Eric whispered as he watched the movie screen, and on the screen was the famous Maple Grove shootout in "True Colors."

The three-minute shootout scene without any lines is completed in one go, and for ordinary audiences, this scene is just the climax of a movie, but many directors regard this scene as an important imitation object.

"Eric, you don't want to invite Hong Kong directors who can only make B-grade films to direct 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith', right?" Peter Cooper said with some disdain, he didn't appreciate the excitement of "The True Color of Heroes", but instead scoffed at the rough set and picture of Hong Kong films.

"Why not?"

"Nothing, I'm just a little worried that they're going to mess up the film," Peter Cooper replied with a smirk, sensing the toughness in Eric's tone.

Eric didn't want to get into a fight with Peter Cooper either, explaining: "The Hong Kong film market is so small, and the fact that directors there have had to cut their budgets to make sure they can recoup their costs doesn't mean they're only going to make B-grade films. ”

"Eric, do you have a crush on the director of this movie?" asked Katzenberg, gesturing to the movie that was playing.

Eric nodded, although Wu Baige's painting style in the later part of his career suddenly became obsessed with epic films, a "Wind Whisperer" cut off his own Hollywood road, and a "Taiping Wheel" cut off his development in the mainland, but when it comes to shooting gunfight films, the top few in Hong Kong film history are basically Wu Baige's works, calculating the time, Wu Baige is almost time to enter Hollywood, because "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" While still working on a sequel, Firefly has been in contact with the Hong Kong side, and now it's just enough to get the other party in line. (To be continued......)