After Christina left, Eric lay in the bathtub with his eyes closed, thinking about what had just happened, and unconsciously had some thoughts in his heart.

I changed my clothes and went downstairs in good spirits.

In Los Angeles in December, it was short, and after seven o'clock, it was already twilight outside, but the lobby of the villa was brightly lit and crowded.

The party has already begun.

Noticing Eric's presence, many people came up to say hello, and Eric responded with a smile. After a while, Drew walked over with a brown-haired woman in her thirties, and the people who were chatting around Eric recognized Drew and the woman next to her, and they all left with a sense of humor.

The brown-haired woman next to Drew is named Barbara Blockley, the current head of the family behind the 007 series.

Since the first 007 film, Dr. No, began production in 1961, the control of the 007 series has been in the hands of the Brookley family. Most viewers are accustomed to associating the 007 series with MGM, but in fact, before the 80s, 007 did not have much to do with MGM, and the copyright of this series has always belonged to Ion Productions, which is controlled by the Blockley family, and in the 70s, Harry Sazman, a partner of Ion Productions, broke down with the Blockley family and sold half of the company's shares to Luen Mei, and later because of "Heaven's Gate" Bankrupt and acquired by MGM, MGM then owned half of the rights to the 007 series.

However, although neither MGM nor Ion Productions has absolute control over the 007 series, MGM has been struggling with business difficulties over the years, and MGM needs to continuously open the 007 series to maintain the company's operation, so in the 007 series, MGM, as one of the seven major film companies, is in a weak position, and all aspects of the film from script to distribution are firmly controlled by the Brookley family.

The Brockley family can be said to be completely dependent on the 007 series for a living, and the Barbara Brockley in front of him is about 35 years old this year, but since the age of 20, this woman has been working as an assistant director in the production of the 007 series, and then from assistant director, The assistant producer worked her way up to the producer position, and after her father, Kobe Blockley, retired, she worked with her half-michael Wilson to master the production of the 007 series, and for more than a decade, she has only worked on this film series.

Of course, the strong position of the Brockley family in the 007 series has also disappeared with the merger and acquisition of MGM in the past year.

For more than 30 years before this, although the 007 series had many troughs, none of the 17 007 films that have been released so far have lost money, and all of them have made money, which has also caused MGM's strong dependence on the 007 series and has to make various compromises to the Brochley family.

But now that MGM has the rights to a series of blockbuster films, this dependency no longer exists, and MGM doesn't need to make all kinds of compromises to the Brockley family in order to start the project, but when Eric proposes to integrate the series "007", "Mission Impossible" and "Breaking Bad" to create a MGM Agent Cinematic Universe, the Brockley family is very reluctant, but still very sensibly agrees to the plan.

Although they took the initiative back, Eric did not mean to kick out the Brockley family, after all, they can be said to have spent most of their lives on building the 007 series, and the production experience must be much richer than using a completely unknown producer, the two girls walked in front of them, Eric hugged Barbara Brockley very familiarly, and said, "Good evening, Barbara, you are so beautiful tonight." ”

Barbara Brookley gently hugged Eric, let go of him and smiled, "Thank you, Eric, this villa is really like everyone said, and I wish I could have such a house now." ”

"Then you can come over more often in the future, by the way, why didn't you see Michael?"

Eric was referring to Barbara Brookley's half-brother Michael Wilson, who explained: "He's been working on some companies in the UK lately. ”

After a few pleasantries, Drew next to him pointed to the rest area not far away and said, "Eric, let's go talk over there." ”

Eric nodded, grabbed a glass of champagne from the tray of waiters passing by, and sat down with the two girls on the sofa in the corner.

"Eric, I'm so happy to hear that you plan to direct the next 007 yourself, even my father has personally asked about it," After the three of them sat down, Barbara Blockley immediately shifted the topic to the 007 series, saying: "However, I have read the first draft of the script, and I think, compared to the past, even if it is the one that has just been released in the summer, is the style of this 007 a little bigger?"

Eric asked unhurriedly, "Barbara, can you be more specific?"

Barbara Brookley said: "Just like in this script, I always feel that Bond in this sequel is developing in the direction of action tough guys, and Pierce's temperament should be more gentlemanly, and, in recent years, we can all see that Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger are all going downhill, and the 007 series of tough guy routes is not a wise choice." ”

"You mean, we should keep Pierce Brosnan's acting style in GoldenEye, right?"

Barbara Brookley nodded and said, "GoldenEye was a success, so I don't think there's anything wrong with that. ”

Eric looked at Barbara Blockley, who was staring at him without evasion, reflecting on what he had just said, and understood the other party's intentions. At the end of the day, Barbara Brockley just wants to gain more control over the 007 series.

"If I'm not mistaken, the global box office of "GoldenEye" should be about 350 million now, and the major box office countries have probably been released, so the future numbers will not change much. The global box office of $350 million, compared to the production cost of $70 million, is of course very profitable. But, Barbara, don't you want to take 007 a step further?"

Barbara Brockley bit her lip and stubbornly said, "No one knows whether they are moving forward or backward unless they can predict the outcome in advance." ”

Hearing that Barbara Brockley had a tendency to hardtop with Eric, Drew, who was leaning next to Eric, raised his chin and was about to say something, when he felt Eric pat the back of his hand and fell silent again.

"When everyone else is moving forward, if you don't move forward, it's actually a kind of backwards. Eric soothed Nizi and said to Barbara Blockley, "So, let's not discuss these inexplicable philosophies of life. Let's talk about some more practical issues, about the change in the style of the script, on a deeper level, I don't want to make the Bond series a tough guy movie, I just want to make Bond more flesh and blood, he should be hurt, he will fail, and even, he will cry, instead of still looking like a neatly dressed gentleman after a series of fights, explosions, car chases. ”

"But Bond is supposed to be a gentleman, and the audience won't mind the details you say, they just want to see what makes their blood boil. ”

"With the development of special effects technology, there will be more and more movies that can make people's blood boil, and the audience will become more and more demanding, at this time, if you can't make Bond more soulful, the audience will quickly get tired of it and abandon the series. ”

“……”

Barbara Brockley wanted to say something, but Eric stretched out his hand to stop him, saying, "Let's put it this way, Barbara, I can make a clear promise to you that the power enjoyed by the Brockley family in the 007 series will continue forever, and the share of profits you enjoyed in the past will not change." You can always be the producer of the 007 series if you want, but the premise of all this is that the 007 series must be in the overall interest of MGM's development, and if you still want to control all the power of the 007 series as firmly as you did before, I can tell you right now that there is no such possibility. Moreover, MGM is not going to compromise with Ion Productions now, and now that we leave 007, we can still survive well, but Ion Productions will be penniless. ”

Hearing Eric's increasingly serious tone, Barbara Brockley felt a strong anger in her heart, but the anger quickly disappeared.

Eric patiently left Barbara Brockley time to think about it, sipped the champagne in his hand, looked around at the guests, and inadvertently caught a small pink figure swaying around, smiled, and waved at Christina, and the girl immediately floated over.

"Hey, Drew," Christina came to the side of the group, but she greeted Drew first, which made Eric cry and laugh, it seemed that the girl was a few points higher than him in this girl's heart.

Drew just nodded casually, Eric patted him on the other side, and Christina sat down in a restrained form, looking curiously at Barbara Brookley on the couch diagonally opposite.

"Eric," Barbara Brookley spoke again, her tone seemed a little more compromised, "Series 007 is my father's life's work, and I just hope that you can treat it very carefully, no matter what." ”

"Of course, if I didn't like the series so much, I wouldn't have directed a sequel film myself," Eric heard Barbara Brookley say, knowing that the other party was no longer going to seek any more control, and reassured, after saying that, he patted Christina's thin shoulder next to him, and said. By the way, Barbara, I recently had an idea, um, let me introduce you to you, this is Christina Aguilera, Christie, this is Ms. Barbara Blockley, all the 007 movies that you've seen, their family is responsible for making them. ”

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Brookley, I love the 007 series," Christina said, though she didn't understand what Eric meant, but Christina got up very obediently and shook Barbara Blokley's hand, not forgetting to give a small compliment.

"Hello, Christie," Barbara Brockley was also a little confused, even feeling a little bad, and his tone was absent-minded because of the compromise he had just reluctantly made.

"That's the case, the second part of the "Thunderbolt" series is already in the late stage, and there is one left, after the trilogy, although there will be intersperse, but the angels are probably about to enter the renewal period, which is an early established strategy, and at the moment, I think Christina may be one of the next generation of angel heirs. ”

As Eric's voice fell, Christina's eyes lit up, Drew looked at the little girl with a grin, and Barbara Brockley was even more confused.

Eric didn't sell the lawsuit, and said: "Since 007 and "Breaking Bad", "Mission Impossible" will have all kinds of crossovers, so, what do you think, the youngest Bond girl in the history of the 007 series, how about this gimmick?"

"Huh?"

"Wow!"

"Really?"

Seeing the different reactions of the three girls, Eric patted Christina's little head and said to Drew and Barbara Blockley, "Of course it's true, and it's the result of my deliberations. ”

Since there is a gimmick of the oldest Bond girl in the original time and space, then, in this life, why can't there be a gimmick of the youngest Bond girl, Christina is not yet sixteen years old at this time, after the aura of this episode of Bond Girl, and another identity of Charlie's angel in the future, so it can even be used as a kind of link, so that several movie series can be better connected.

Drew maintained absolute trust in Eric, although some small eyes flashed in his eyes, and the expression of looking at Christina also made the little girl feel the urge to shrink her neck, but in the end, Drew still didn't say anything.

Barbara Brookley, however, remained very cautious and said, "Eric, if this is the case, the original script will need to be overturned and rewritten. ”

"No, it won't be that troublesome, haven't we been looking for a more plausible reason for Vesper's final betrayal of Bond?" Eric said, patting Christina's little head again, and said, "Look, isn't there one, in the original script, in order to save her boyfriend, this reason is too far-fetched, and now, she has a sister who was kidnapped, and then betrayed Bond because of it, this reason seems to be more reasonable." (To be continued.) )