Nicole shrugged noncommittally and said, "It doesn't matter, I've got a lot of other film deals in my hand, and I just happened to live here and let Eric help me pick them out, his vision has now spread all over Hollywood, and I heard that you have some credit." ”

Hearing Nicole say this, Drew glared at the girl disgruntled and asked, "What about Eric?"

"In the study, talking to a guest. ”

"Help me put my things in my room," the girl pushed the suitcase in front of Nicole and ran towards the door of the study.

Nicole looked at the small suitcase in front of her, frowned slightly, and soon a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she pulled up and walked towards the stairs.

When he arrived at the door of the study on the basement floor, Drew snapped a few quick clicks on the combination lock, the door opened automatically, and he walked down the spiral staircase, but he didn't see Eric's figure, Drew immediately realized that Eric must be in the study on the second floor, and there are so many scripts and other very ** things in this room, not the closest person, Eric can't bring the other party in.

Clicking on the stairs to the second-floor study, Drew saw at a glance that Eric was sitting across from a brown-haired man, discussing something.

Hearing the movement behind the door, the brown-haired man turned his head, Drew saw the other party's appearance clearly, she had a good memory, and recognized the other party at a glance, the middle-aged man was the owner of Eric's publishing house "Jurassic Park", Michael Krauss: "Hello, Mr. Krauss. ”

Michael Krauss stood up with some surprise when he saw Drew calling his name without hesitation: "Hello, Miss Barrymore. I can't believe you remember me. We've only met once at last year's pie, right?"

Drew shook hands with Michael Krauss. Then he turned the desk and threw himself into Eric's arms like a swallow, rubbing on the man's face: "Eric, I miss you so much." ”

Eric smiled and stroked the girl's hair: "Okay, don't make trouble, the guests are here, go and help us make another pot of coffee, just finished drinking." ”

"Hmph, I'll call someone when I just came back," Xiao Nizi muttered dissatisfiedly. Still briskly jumped up and walked out.

"Drew has always been like that, it makes you laugh," Eric explained helplessly, looking at a stunned Michael Krauss.

Michael Krauss smiled awkwardly and said, "No, nothing, let's move on to The Matrix, Eric, I think this novel is too short, just over 50,000 words." A lot of things are written in a paradoxical way, I think. It would be nice if it could be expanded to 200,000 words. ”

"I'd like to do that too, Michael, but you should understand that I don't have that much time right now, and 50,000 words is not bad, and, you should know, I wrote this novel just for the rights to the film," Eric said, talking about the famous "Matrix."

Because of the release of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", plus some previous things, Eric's vision for movies has spread all over Hollywood. As an extremely high-risk industry, Hollywood filmmakers will inevitably have more superstitions about this kind of thing, so Drew's silent acquisition of the copyright will be sniped.

After the incident, Eric's original plan to acquire the script for The Matrix from the Carpenter brothers in the future could not be carried out.

The "Matrix" in the previous life only appeared in 99, and now this idea is at most just some scattered thoughts in the minds of the two brothers who are still carpenters and painters, and Eric wrote it unceremoniously, and made some specious changes, which made this novel and movie a lot of surprises, but the main line has not changed much, although it is only about 50,000 words, but this is enough to occupy this pit, and there will be no need to worry about copyright in the future.

"Eric, it's actually quite a wonderful story, so I thought maybe I could find someone to expand this story to 200,000 words, you can rest assured, there will be no problems with the copyright at all, and I promise to sign a perfect contract with the gunman I invited. ”

Eric immediately shook his head: "Michael, finding the gunman is a very risky thing, and in the future, the benefits will reach a certain level, and I just promised that the gunman will definitely jump out, so I won't take this risk." ”

While the two were talking, Drew walked in with a pot of coffee, poured coffee for the two of them, curiously picked up the manuscript of the novel between the two, and asked, "What are you talking about, huh...... The Matrix, a very interesting name. ”

Michael Krauss looked at Drew, who was sitting on the sofa next to him with the manuscript of the novel, and looked helplessly at Eric.

"It's okay, let's keep talking," Eric gave Michael Kraus a reassuring look, knowing that Michael Kraus was worried that Nizi would hear something that she shouldn't have heard here.

Michael Krauss said, "So, Eric, since you don't agree, forget it, I want to ask about "Dark War", have you ever thought about novelizing this story?"

"Michael, the copyright of "Dark War" is shared by Firefly and Columbia, the first part of this series got more than $400 million at the global box office, so plus the next sequel, the box office value may exceed one billion dollars, involving such a huge amount of money, Colombia will not agree to novelize this series for a mere hundreds of thousands or at most millions of royalties. ”

"That's a pity," Michael Krauss shook his head and chatted with Eric about the details of The Matrix's publication, and Michael Krauss politely declined Eric's invitation to stay here for dinner and took his leave.

Eric escorted Michael Krause out of the villa and waited for the other party to drive towards the manor gate before returning to the villa.

"Wow, Eric, how did you come up with this? As soon as she walked into the living room, Xiao Nizi shook the manuscript in her hand excitedly and said to Eric.

Eric snatched the manuscript of "The Matrix" back from Xiao Nizi's hand before asking, "When did you come back?"

"I'll be here as soon as I get off the plane," Drew grinned and put his arm around Eric as he walked with Eric into the basement study.

"Then what are you doing on the crew of "The Silence of the Lambs", if you shoot in Los Angeles, you little girl actually ran to Pennsylvania?" (To be continued......)