Chapter 414

Although he didn't see the displeasure in Eric, Kim Carrey eagerly defended, "No, Mr. Williams, that's not what Carl meant, I'd love to work with you." It's just that there doesn't seem to be much about the movie on this contract?"

"Due to the need for confidentiality of the project, we can only discuss the film after the contract is negotiated. ”

Carl Meksen interjected again: "Mr. Williams, I would like to take the liberty of asking, is King's character the male lead?"

Eric nodded, "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered so much." Moreover, I am very optimistic about the film project in my hand, and I am very sure that this movie can bring the actor to the rank of A-list star, so this contract is not harsh, but a very fair exchange of interests. Don't forget, there are 200,000 people in Hollywood's two major performing arts unions waiting for such an opportunity every day, and more than ninety percent of them can't wait for it in their lifetime, my time is very tight, so I apologize for not giving you too much time to think about it, if you don't agree, then I can only say sorry, I will immediately arrange another candidate. ”

Kim Carrey looked nervously at his agent, Carl Meksen had planned to ask Eric to give them a few days to think about it, but when Eric said this, he could only give Jim Carrey a look to let him make up his mind. But from the bottom of his heart, Carl Meksen still hopes that Jim Carrey can agree, as Eric said, many actors who are mixed in Hollywood may not necessarily get such opportunities in their lifetime.

Kim Carrey quickly took his attention and asked, "Mr. Williams." Are we going to sign now?"

Eric showed a faint smile, "Yes." Of course. You can also tell your lawyer to come over and review the contract again, if there is no problem, we will be able to sign the contract in the morning, and you will see the script within a week. ”

Kim Carrey exchanged a few more glances with his agent, then nodded in agreement.

The rest of the matter no longer needs to be done by Eric himself, and when Alan leaves with the two of them, Elizabeth asks, "Eric." You just said he would see the script in a week, what about the script?"

Eric took out an outline from the cabinet and handed it to Elizabeth: "This is the outline of the story I wrote, and the detailed script writers are still revising. ”

Elizabeth picked up a few thin pages and glanced at the title: ""Dumb and Dumb", heh, looking at the name is comedy, and the name is really not level. ”

Eric sat down in the office chair, ignoring the girl's habitual taunts, picked up a pending article next to him, looked at it, and took down Jim Carrey. Firefly's comedy achievements in the next few years are absolutely unparalleled, and Jim Carrey is one of the few comedy kings in Hollywood history. When it comes to Hollywood's 20 million salary club, many people list a list of Hollywood superstars, but the first person in Hollywood history to get a $20 million salary is not Schwarzenegger, not Stallone, not Harrison Ford, but Jim Carrey.

Eric has seen a lot of Jim Carrey movies, and the most memorable one is of course the "Strange Guy in Disguise", which is also one of Jim Carrey's pinnacle works.

The reason why I chose the current "Dumb and Dumb" is mainly because of copyright issues, "Strange Heroes in Disguise" is a comic work of Dark Horse Comics in 1980, although Eric has investigated that the film copyright of this comic is still in Dark Horse Comics, but now it is necessary to pay a lot of price to acquire the copyright of this comic, in addition to the conceivable competitors, Dark Horse Comics will definitely sit on the ground and start the price.

However, Eric has already figured out a time to make a move, it is after the release of Disney and Robert Shea's co-production of Zuò's "Cut Throat Island", Robert Shea snatched the script of "Cut Throat Island" from him, Hollywood knows that once the film is a box office fiasco like the original, then if they want to compete with Eric for the script, those people will have to think carefully about whether it is another trap.

As for the Ferrari brothers, the original authors of "Dumb and Dumb", there is no shadow in Hollywood now, and Eric asked people to register the story and hand it over to the Firefly screenwriting department to improve.

In addition to "Dumb and Dumb", Eric also found Tom Sadiak, the writer and director of Jim Carrey's other work "Detective Plane Head", and the other party also registered a script similar to "Detective Plane Head" in the Screenwriters Guild.

Tom Sadiak and Jim Carrey have collaborated on many movies in the original time and space, but Tom Sadiak is still an inconspicuous screenwriter under Warner Pictures.

After reading the outline of "Dumb and Dumb" in her hand, although she didn't think there was anything special, in her trust in Eric, Elizabeth didn't express too many doubts, but just asked: "Eric, do you have a suitable director for this story?"

"Well, have you seen The Adventures of Abiadi? I'm going to let the director of this film, Stephen Herrick, direct this movie, oh yes, it's all your business, I'll give you the detailed materials, you just have to come up with the finished film before the end of the year. ”

Elizabeth said: "What about "Crazy Flowers of the End", I finally persuaded Ridley Scott to direct this movie, and now you have asked me to prepare "Dumb and Dumb", I must be too busy." ”

"Isn't there Drew to help you, besides, if you are the boss, you don't get tired to death, won't you hire a professional producer?"

"Of course I can imagine it, it's just ...... Forget it, I won't explain it to you. ”

Eric looked at the girl's strong appearance, and he could imagine that Elizabeth wanted to exercise herself more: "If you don't want to explain, don't stay here, I still have a lot of work to do, and I have to go to Oklahoma tomorrow." I won't be back until a week later. There's a lot of stuff to do today. ”

Elizabeth grabbed Eric's words and retorted, "You boss don't still have to do everything yourself. Beware of premature aging. ”

"No matter how premature aging is, it can easily clean you up, if it's okay, go out and close the door, don't send it." ”

Elizabeth snorted twice, stood up and was about to leave, but immediately sat down again, leaned on the other side of the desk, leaned over her head, and asked with some expectation, "Hey, that." At the end of the month, who are you going to take to the Oscars...... Who are you taking on the red carpet?"

Eric looked up and asked directly, "You want to come with me?"

Elizabeth's face flushed, and she didn't dare to meet Eric's gaze, and lowered her head and hummed like a mosquito.

Eric shook his head: "I'm really sorry, I'm going to walk the red carpet alone." ”

"Why?"

"Because there are too many women, it's not good for me to bring anyone, so I simply don't bring them. ”

Elizabeth glared at Eric, "You're really...... It's straightforward. ”

"Okay, good boy, don't be a little tantrum, if you don't feel comfortable walking the red carpet alone. Just bring Julia, and I'll be generous. I won't pursue you for the lily affair. ”

"Ahh ”

Eric narrowed his eyes slightly, "You can try it." ”

Elizabeth snorted a little weakly, ignored Eric, and got up to leave his office.

Jim Carrey signed the deal with Firefly that morning, but Eric didn't have the time to meet again, and the next day, he flew to Oklahoma with the digital special effects team and several of the main crew members of "Tornado."

Oklahoma is located in the south-central part of the United States, at the southern beginning of the tornado corridor at the U.S. headquarters, and has been plagued by frequent tornadoes since April.

For a whole week, the crew traveled to many parts of northern Oklahoma, and this was after a lot of work done by the team in the early stage, otherwise it would have been impossible to complete this work in a week.

In addition to choosing the location, Eric also retrieved a large number of true tornadoes at a weather institute in Oklahoma City.

A week later, Eric returned to Los Angeles with most of the people, but also left a five-person team to communicate with Eric about the filming location chosen by Eric, and at the same time negotiate with the Oklahoma government about the tax rebate during the filming of "Tornado".

Back in Los Angeles, it's March 9th, and as Hollywood's home base, the atmosphere of the upcoming 63rd Oscars is getting stronger and stronger.

In addition to the horror film "The Silence of the Lambs", which was nominated for Best Picture more than a decade later, "The Godfather 3" directed by Francis Coppola, "Goodfellas" by Martin Scorsese and "Silent Ask the Sky" by Penny Marshall are all popular films of this awards season.

In addition, "Ghost Love", which should have been nominated for Best Picture in the original time and space, did not get this nomination this time, there is no doubt that this is not because the quality of the film is not up to par, the main factor is Eric's age. Although the film is good enough, the old-fashioned old men at the film school may subconsciously feel that Eric is so young and the film has been successful enough at the box office that there is no need to rush for such an important Oscar nomination.

Eric doesn't care about this kind of thing, even if he gets the Best Picture nomination, if he can't win the award, it won't help "The Ghost Is Over", this movie has long been out of the file, and it is destined to be written into the history of Hollywood romance movies.

Except for "People and Ghosts", Firefly has no good works at the Oscars, and although Catherine's "Shocking Point" has received good reviews, it is of course doomed to nothing at the Oscars because of its political bias towards anarchism, and it is not even nominated for a single nomination.

The other two firefly-related "Sleeping with the Enemy" and "Instinct", of course, only won the box office and did not do much in terms of awards. Although there was basically nothing to do with fireflies at this year's Oscars, after returning to Los Angeles, Eric had to take the time to participate in several public relations parties and personally lobby for "The Silence of the Lambs".

In the days before the Oscars, while doing public relations for "The Silence of the Lambs", Elizabeth and Drew also began the preparation of "Dumb and Agua", and at the same time completely handed over the movie "Crazy Flowers of the End" to Ridley Scott. Ridley Scott is still famous in Hollywood, not to mention the works in his memory, and now Ridley Scott has already filmed works such as "Alien" and "Blade Runner", and is qualified enough to be the director and producer of the movie "Crazy Flowers of the End".

While preparing for "Tornado", Eric also began to pay attention to other works in the Firefly production department, and in the plan, Firefly intends to release five films this year, but only "Toy Story", "Terminator 2" and "Dumb and Dumb" have been confirmed, in addition to two other films.

The most important thing in Hollywood is to wait for the production of zuò movies, and in the film library accumulated by Firefly and the new line, there are also many works that can make a sequel to Zuò, of course, the "Home Alone" series must not be ignored, Eric's enthusiasm for the production of Zuò series is not very high, the reason is mainly because in memory, the box office of the third "Home Alone" in the previous life is only one-tenth of the second part, but the cost of making Zuò is not much worse than the second part. Although it is not necessary to change to the small protagonist as in the previous life, the unpredictable risks in this cannot be ignored. Eric even has plans to sell the rights to the sequel to the series.

In addition to Home Alone, Colombia has once again put forward the idea of making a sequel to "Dark War", and this time, even Tom Cruise has moved the idea. After all, "Dark War" is a super hit that has won the global box office of 500 million US dollars, and after Cruise set up his own door, although the first big production of Zuò "Thunder Ambition" cannot be said to be a box office failure, but compared to the huge cost of 80 million US dollars, "Thunder Ambition" can still be said to be a failed work. In this case, no film company dares to cooperate with Tom Cruise on a large-scale film. has just set up his own door, and Cruise is unwilling to return to the road of small and medium-cost literary films, so he contacted Columbia and moved such an idea. (To be continued......)