Putting away a pile of newspapers, Eric crossed his arms and looked at the girl opposite, in this era, whether in movies and television shows or in reality, it seems that women like to wear shirts.

Of course, Eric also likes this kind of dress of women, which will make a woman have a different kind of smart temperament, at least he thinks this look is much better than the women in later generations who wrap themselves in messy fabrics. Moreover, in fact, in Eric's opinion, the shirt is also a kind of uniform temptation, especially when a woman wears a wide men's shirt, it is best to have two long legs bare......

Elizabeth saw Eric staring at him intently, his original heartless appearance quickly retracted, put her arms on the desk to block her chest, glared at Eric and said dissatisfiedly: "Hey, what are you looking at, squinting?"

"I didn't see anything, I was just thinking, you're going to wear this to work?"

"Of course, I'm going to be your assistant, not an office girl, do you want me to run around the set with you in a suit and skirt and high heels?"

Eric glanced at the girl's gently raised chin, knowing that it was useless for him to say too much, he shook his head slightly, no longer reluctantly, anyway, he didn't expect the girl to help him much, as long as he could hand things down as a microphone during the filming, and the most important thing was not to make trouble.

"Whatever you want," Eric said, looking down and rummaging through the drawer next to him.

Elizabeth snorted softly as if she had won a small victory.

Eric found a copy of the text and pushed it to Elizabeth on the other side along with the pen next to him: "This is the contract. You sign. And then there's the crew of "Sleepless in Seattle." ”

Elizabeth took it and was not in a hurry to sign it. Instead, he read it carefully, and Eric looked at his watch, didn't care, and took the newspaper next to him and continued to read.

After a while, Eric, who was reading the newspaper carefully, heard the girl opposite say, "Eric, I'm done, what should I do next?"

Eric put a copy of Elizabeth into a folder and said to the girl, "You can go back now." You'll be notified when the crew leaves for Seattle in a few days. ”

"Ah......" Elizabeth opened her mouth slightly, and quickly realized that Eric didn't take her seriously at all, and immediately said angrily: "How can you do this, I protest, if you don't assign me a job, I will stay in your office today!"

Eric scolded secretly, he knew that this would happen, and he shouldn't have promised Murdoch in the first place.

As he was struggling to coax the eldest lady away, there was another knock on the office door. Alan probed in and took a look, and said, "Mr. Williams." The writers have all arrived and are waiting in the conference room. ”

"Well, I'll go over it. Eric nodded, and waited for Alan to leave before saying to Elizabeth: "Liz, you really don't need you here, so you better go back obediently, someone will inform you then." ”

"I'm not leaving, and since you've signed a contract, you should assign me work. ”

Eric was a little irritable, and quickly rubbed his right thumb on the side of his index finger a few times, and then pointed to the coffee machine next to him: "Since you want to work, then make me a cup of coffee first." ”

The girl immediately quit: "I'm not your servant!"

"This is a matter within the director's assistant's office, if you don't want to, go home obediently now and wait for the crew to notice. ”

"You ......" Elizabeth glared at Eric unwillingly, and after a moment, she carefully brought a cup of coffee to Eric with an aggrieved face.

Of course, Eric was not in the mood to drink coffee, and looking at Elizabeth's stubborn appearance, he had to pick up the phone and press it a few times, and said into the microphone: "Alan, reprint two copies of the confidentiality agreement you signed at the beginning and send it over." ”

Elizabeth's expression moved, hiding the sly in her eyes, and she lowered her head slightly and stood obediently beside her. After a while, Alan sent in two non-disclosure contracts.

"This is the confidentiality contract signed by Allen at the beginning, you don't need to read it if it's too long, as Mr. Murdoch's daughter, I think you probably know what the content is, once you break it, you will not only have to pay a huge amount of liquidated damages, but you may even go to jail. After signing the filming, he could stay with me during the filming of "Sleepless in Seattle", temporarily acting as a secretary assistant and helping Alan with some work. ”

This time, the girl didn't ink again, and it took less than a minute to flip through more than ten pages of the contract, and she happily signed her name.

"Okay, come with me, and, at least for the next few days in Los Angeles, don't wear this outfit anymore, change to something more formal. ”

"I see. The girl didn't argue this time, and happily followed Eric towards the conference room.

There were eight people sitting in the conference room at this time, six men and two women, all in their twenties and thirties.

This is the screenwriter team that Eric specially found for the next TV series,

Fox TV has already signed a preliminary letter of intent with Firefly these days, and the specific deal will be completed within this month, so Eric has also begun to prepare for the commitment of a Murdoch TV series and a variety show before making Zuò's last two films of the year.

In the plan, the variety show will be broadcast in the spring, but the variety show that Eric plans to come up with is relatively simple to plan, so he is not in a hurry to make Zuò.

Another TV series will be broadcast in the fall of next year, although Eric himself is at the helm, but after hearing that the average production cost of this American drama is as high as 2 million US dollars per episode, Fox still proposed to adopt the mode of changing the shooting and broadcasting for the sake of prudence, but Eric disagreed, not only because he is very confident in this American drama, but also, for subject matter, if the mode of filming and broadcasting is adopted, the quality of the series will definitely be affected because the production is too hasty.

Originally, neither side was willing to give in, Eric even said that if Fox didn't want to take the risk, then Firefly could invest in the system alone, but don't think about sharing the copyright equally, this mention yì even Barry Diller didn't dare to nod in agreement, who can guarantee that this TV series will be as popular as "Friends"?

The two sides stalemate for a few days, and in the end, Murdoch personally made the decision, since Eric is so confident, Fox, who has a big family, doesn't even dare to take this risk, even if the final results are not good, it is only a loss of more than 20 million. Even if this year, Fox TV suddenly got "Friends", but there will definitely be tens of millions of dollars in losses on the financial report at the end of the year.

What Eric wants to produce is the treasure of Fox in the 90s in his previous life, "The X-Files", and in Eric's memory, this is almost the only American drama that Fox TV can handle in the entire 90s.

However, the ratings of the first few seasons of this American drama were not good, if it weren't for the support of a group of die-hard fans, the show was hyped on the Internet, so that its ratings exceeded the premiere when it was rerun, and it is estimated that the first season was cut.

Although the first three seasons of "The X-Files" have the most unique style, in terms of ratings, it is the fourth season and the fifth season after the style change that the ratings peak.

In Eric's view, the reason why the ratings of the first three seasons have not gone up is mainly because the story has no main line, although there will be a novel monster or supernatural event in each episode, but this state of no main line also makes it difficult for the audience to keep their attention on this show, screenwriter Chris Carter did not connect the chaotic clues revealed in the first three seasons until after the fourth season, and began to tell readers a complete science fiction story idea.

The sci-fi drama "The X-Files" was very unfavorable to Fox at first, because although North American television stations have tried to produce science fiction dramas, few have succeeded. So Eric thinks that perhaps Chris Carter, the screenwriter of "The X-Files" and known as the father of the X-Files, did not conceive a complete main line for "The X-Files" himself, and it is estimated that the story became clear after years of compilation.

Before planning to produce this TV series, Eric also asked Chris Carter to let the other party lead the screenwriter of this American drama, after all, many whimsical ideas in his previous life were conceived by Chris Carter. Chris Carter is not unknown, he is now working as a screenwriter under Disney, but when the person sent by Eric contacted the other party, Chris Carter said that he was not interested in science fiction American dramas, so he was unwilling to accept the job.

This made Eric see the power of the butterfly effect again, and it was really ...... that the father of the X-files in his previous life was not interested in science fiction TV series It's amazing.

In the conference room, Eric pointed to the end of the conference table and asked Elizabeth to sit down on her own, before coming to the top, saying hello to each other, and after introducing himself, Eric stood up and walked to the wall where the clipboard was hung.

Grab a black pen and quickly write a word on the wall: the-x-files.

"All of you here are screenwriters who are very good at sci-fi film and television dramas, so you must also realize that what I am going to produce is also a sci-fi American drama. The name of this TV series is "The X-Files". ”

In the curious eyes of everyone, Eric put down the black pen in his hand, patted his palm lightly and said, "So, let me first give a general introduction to the background of this sci-fi drama I envisioned." ”

"The story almost begins with the origin of life, the universe is so big that we dare not imagine it. Then, in this boundless universe, there are infinite possibilities. Among the hundreds of millions of stars, the planet that can produce intelligent life is definitely not only our earth, and the Brett people are the initiators of this whole story. (To be continued......)