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A studio at Firefly Studios has been converted into Tony Stark's studio. Eric returned to Los Angeles from Boston, where all the main creators of the Iron Man crew had their first meeting before filming began.

Although Eric said that he would be the producer himself, in fact, the preliminary preparation of the film was basically done by Marvel Entertainment CEO Avi Arad and director Joss Whedon, and Eric became an executive producer with a similar nature to Stan Lee.

However, although Eric did not have time to participate too much in the preliminary preparation of the film's scenery and props, several of the main roles of the movie were decided by Eric himself.

Except for Eric himself and Brigitte Fonda, who plays Pepper, several other big supporting roles, Eric basically uses the 'original cast'.

The villain No. 1, Obedia Stan, is played by Jeff Bridges.

Terrence Howard, who had a mediocre performance in the first part of "Iron Man", was not considered by Eric, and the role of Colonel Roddy fell directly to Don Cheadle. Agent Coulson, who has a very important role in the first phase of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe and will also provoke the backbone of the planned "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", Eric still chose Clark Greg.

Don Cheadle and Clark Greg didn't make a name for themselves with the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise until more than a decade later, but they both debuted in the 80s and have a lot of acting experience. Don Cheadle, born in 1964, is 34 years old this year, and Clark Greg is two years older than Don Cheadle.

Speaking of which, when they participated in the original "Iron Man" and "Avengers" series, the two were already older. The reason why they were able to get the role, in Eric's opinion, was because Marvel at that time wanted to save money and use good actors.

The only thing Eric struggles with is the role of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury.

In the setting of the cinematic universe, Nick Fury is still a black man, but the original Samuel L. L. Jackson is now participating in the "Star Wars Prequel" series.

The first part of "Star Wars Prequel" will be released at the end of this year, and Samuel L. L. Jackson's role in "Star Wars Prequel" Mace Windu is very similar to Nick Fury. The release rhythm of the Star Wars prequel trilogy also overlaps greatly with the first phase of the Marvel Universe, and it is impossible to stagger it, and Samuel L. Jackson is no longer suitable to play a similar role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

"Finally, I told him, Denzel, you have made so many movies that no one has seen, don't you want to be a part of a real blockbuster?" In the studio, Avi Arad recounts his attempt to invite Denzel Washington to play Nick Fury, somewhat self-deprecatingly, "and then I was kicked out." ”

All around, Eric, Brigitte Fonda, Joss Weddon and others burst out laughing.

Eric's favorite candidate for Nick Fury was not available, and Avi Arad, who has a superstar complex, was the first to think of Denzel Washington.

Although Nick Fury runs through the entire first phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he is still only a supporting character overall, and even only a cameo in some films. Denzel Washington is the only black superstar in Hollywood who basically only plays the leading role, and his salary is not much different from that of A-list white men, and Eric has no expectations that Denzel Washington can be invited to play Nick Fury, so he let Avi Arad invite.

The ending can be imagined.

"If Morgan Freeman could be twenty years younger, even ten, maybe he could try this role," Erik shook his head, and said to a few people around him, "Do you have any other suggestions?"

"Eric, actually, I think there's another person who is very suitable," Joss Whedon said in a hesitant tone, and finally said: "That is, Captain Morpheus from "The Matrix", Lawrence Fishberg. ”

After Joss Whedon finished speaking, the people around him fell silent and looked at Eric together, not knowing how he would react.

Two years ago, Firefly sold the rights to the two sequels of "The Matrix" to Amberlin Pictures, the ostensible reason is that the Firefly Group is under pressure from fans, and even a few people around him don't know the details, and no one will think that Eric took the initiative to sell the copyright of "The Matrix".

Eric excitedly slapped on the table next to him, Lawrence Fishberg, how could he have forgotten that Avi Arad and the others did not have each other's names in the list they had recommended to him before.

However, noticing the looks of several people around him, Eric understood that the reason why Joss Whedon didn't say it until now was because of Eric's opinion of "The Matrix", and perhaps they felt that they would definitely not use any of the actors in the "Matrix" series.

Since he took the initiative to let go of the copyright of "The Matrix", Eric naturally has no prejudice against the actors of the "Matrix" series.

The schedule of "The Matrix 2" has been confirmed for this summer, and although Amberlin Pictures has not announced the schedule of the third finale filmed back-to-back, it will only be next year at the latest. Inviting Laurence Fishberg to play Nick Fury was just the right thing to do with the popularity he had accumulated in The Matrix.

"That's it," Eric said to Avi Arad with a nodding, "You send someone to contact Lawrence at once, and get the contract as soon as possible." ”

Avi Arad didn't expect Eric to agree so simply, "Eric, are you sure?"

"Of course, if you had brought it up earlier, I wouldn't have struggled for so long," Eric smiled and nodded, "Isn't it disappointing that I didn't get angry with a cold face." ”

Everyone laughed again, and the atmosphere returned to normal.

After a few words of laughter, Avi Arad asked again: "Eric, when are you going to announce that you are going to play the leading role of "Iron Man" in person?"

Eric thought for a while and said, "I must have heard the news outside, so let's just not announce it, just start filming, let the media find out about it slowly, and it can also improve the topicality of the film." ”

After today's gathering, the news will certainly no longer be hidden.

However, as long as the Firefly Group has not been officially announced, there will definitely be no shortage of media in the outside world who question the authenticity of this news. Eric Williams plays Tony Stark himself, which at first glance sounds like fake news.

and other media dig up accurate news, and the topic of "Iron Man" will also be hyped, which can save a lot of marketing expenses.

At the end of the day's work, as soon as the end of the day, Caroline rushed over and handed over the two documents to Eric.

One is Nokia's 1997 annual financial report, and the other is from Forbes magazine.

Drew called in at noon and asked Eric to come to her home at Clausdale Manor tonight to help see a sample of the Beverly Girls reality show, which has been scheduled for the official broadcast on Feb. 17.

After Eric got into the car, he told the driver to go to the Trausdale estate, and then sat in the back seat and flipped through Nokia's financial reports.

Nokia's financial report is quite encouraging, throughout 1997, Nokia sold 31.2 million mobile phones worldwide, accounting for 32% of the global mobile phone market share, officially leaving Ericsson and Motorola to become the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer.

At the same time, Nokia's market capitalization increased to 163.4 billion Finnish marks, which is equivalent to 30.5 billion US dollars. The company reported full-year operating income of $13.8 billion and net profit after tax of $1.135 billion.

As a direct shareholder of Nokia's 51% stake, the Hawaii Fund will also receive about $580 million in profit dividends from Nokia for the first time.

Although Cisco, LTD and several other Firefly Investment companies that have begun to generate profits have not yet counted detailed financial reports, the profit dividends of these companies will be enough to support Firefly Investment's expansion this year.

In addition to the $1 billion investment in Yahoo and the continued support for the development of Firefly Electronics, on the other hand, as Steve Case is increasingly inclined to move away from Eric's original 'Cisco-AOL-Yahoo' information industry alliance plan, a dispute between Firefly Investment and Steve Case-led management over control of the U.S. online is almost inevitable this year.

In order to seize control of AOL, Firefly Investment must increase its holdings in AOL, which has a market value of more than $23 billion, and there are few outstanding shares of AOL on the market that have been absorbed by major investment institutions.

In order to secure control, Firefly Investment needs to get its stake in AOL as close as possible to 40%, which requires a huge amount of capital.

Thinking about AOL pretentiously, he turned over the more than eighty pages of Nokia's financial report, and the car had arrived at Drew's mansion at Strausdale Manor.

Taking the folder from Eric's hand and stuffing it to Natasha behind her, the girl affectionately took Eric's arm and walked into the villa, asking, "Eric, do you want to take a bath first?"

"Let's wash it in the evening," Eric shook his head and asked, "I haven't paid much attention to Fast and Furious lately, and the filming of the film is going well, right?"

The girl sat down on the living room sofa with Eric, nodded and said, "Of course, Amy and I just went to the set this morning. The filming of "Mission Impossible 3" is also going well, and both films can be released in time for the end of this year. "Desperate Housewives" has also started filming, and we have set the broadcast schedule for February 26th, Thursday night. ”

Eric took the coffee from Eve's hand, took a sip of it relaxedly, and nodded, "That's good, it's earlier than most TV series in the spring file, and you can get more attention." You and Amy must have seen the "Beverly Girls" demo, how do you feel?"

"It's interesting, but I'd like you to see if there's anything that needs to be changed. The girl nodded, saw Eric looking at the two documents that Natasha had placed on the coffee table, and took the initiative to reach out and take them: "Eric, what is this?"

"Nokia's financial report, and another one, was sent by Forbes magazine, I haven't read it yet, it should be this year's list. ”

Eric said, secretly Forbes has finally learned a little smarter this year, last year's rich list feature, Forbes magazine did not ventilate with Eric at all, and directly used a sensitive topic of 'oligarchs', for which Firefly Group directly reduced the company's advertising budget for Forbes Group's media by half.

Hearing that it was the information of this year's rich list, the girl immediately became interested, threw Nokia's financial report aside, hurriedly opened the information sent by Forbes, looked at the title, and immediately had some doubts.

"Eric, what do they mean by using 1.5% as the title, that's weird. ”

Eric didn't think of anything for a while, and looked at the content of the document with the girl, and then he was a little helpless, "Forbes" was still unwilling, and always wanted to make some big news to attract the public's attention.

When John Rockefeller, the head of the Rockefeller family, died in 1937, his personal fortune was assessed by the media at $1.4 billion, when the GDP of the United States was $92 billion.

In other words, Rockefeller's wealth alone reached 1.5% of the gross domestic product of the United States.

After reading the introduction earlier in the text, Eric roughly guessed what was going on.

Then, what is very eye-catching under the article is the asset data table of Firefly Investment Company as of December 31 last year.

Cisco: Market capitalization of $635, Firefly Investment holds 26% of the shares.

Sprint: Market capitalization of $302, Firefly Investment holds 10% of the shares.

Nokia: The market capitalization is $305, and Firefly Investment holds 51% of the shares.

AOL: Market capitalization of $233, Firefly Investment holds 30% of the shares.

Ltd: The market capitalization is $117, and Firefly Investment holds 35% of the shares.

Qualcomm: The market capitalization is $57.6, and Firefly Investment holds 41% of the shares.

Amazon: Market capitalization of $56, Firefly Investment holds 27% of the shares.

Apple: Market capitalization $33, Firefly Investment holds 12%.

Yahoo Network: (valuation) $15 billion, 85% owned by Firefly Investments.

Firefly Electronics: (valuation) $3 billion, 100% owned by Firefly Investment.

Taken together, the total assets of all companies under Firefly Investment reached $192 billion.

At the same time, according to the proportion of his shareholding in each company, and Eric's own 97% stake in Firefly, his personal assets reached $63 billion. Chris's 3% stake in Firefly Investment also brought his personal net worth to $2 billion.

Due to the unlisted nature of Firefly Group, another important asset under Eric's name, Forbes did not calculate the value of each branch of Firefly Group in detail, but only made an overall valuation of Firefly Group, like most institutions on Wall Street, at $100 billion.

Eric's stake in the Firefly Group is 73.7 percent, which adds another $73.7 billion to his personal assets.

Based on comprehensive calculations, Eric's current net worth has reached $136.7 billion, while the public GDP figure of the United States in 1997 was $8,608.5 billion, and Eric's net worth accounted for 1.58% of the GDP of the United States, just in time for the peak of the Rockefeller family's wealth. (To be continued.) )