"Stephen! What happened to you! Lucas heard Spielberg's shout, hurriedly dropped the script in his hand and rushed over, seeing Spielberg holding a script and constantly shouting:

"This is my childhood dream, I can't imagine anyone will be with me! George, I decided that I was going to shoot this movie myself! ”

Lucas looked at Spielberg's script and saw the name of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" come into view.

"Stephen! How did you fall for this script! "What's so surprising about this script!

Lucas took the script from Spielberg's hand and read it carefully.

In the middle of the sound, Lucas closed the script and said with some embarrassment: "Stephen, this is a wonderful script, and it will definitely be popular when it is filmed, but there is a problem you may not have seen!" ”

"What a problem, George! I didn't see the problem just now, did I? Hearing Lucas's words, Spielberg hurriedly took the script and flipped it over again.

"No problem!" Spielberg said, flipping through the script.

"Stephen, look at the source and author of the script! This is not a script for Twentieth Century Fox, it is a script registered in Hollywood by an Oriental.

"What's this, George, with our fame. Spend more money, and you can't get this script in your hands! Spielberg said disapprovingly.

"But George, how did you have such a script, and who sent it?" Spielberg raised his own questions.

"It is estimated that Fox took it directly from the Copyright Society, they may be the same as you think, if I take a fancy to it, just spend money to buy it, and there is no trouble!"

Lucas spoke his mind.

Lucas guessed right, and when Lucas agreed to review the script for Fox, Fox's little Alan Ryder ordered to collect as many scripts as possible for science fiction movies.

It can be said that except for those scripts that Twentieth Century Fox can't dig up, such as "Star Trek" in Paramount's hand, other scripts have basically been collected as long as they have appeared in Hollywood.

As Lucas said, in the eyes of Alan Ryder Jr., there is no script in Hollywood that Twentieth Century Fox can't buy.

So the "ET", which was only registered with the copyright society, was also sent.

"Maybe that's it, George, I have a good relationship with Alain Ryder Jr., I'll ask him directly!"

"No, Stephen, I'd better do it!" Lucas said as he picked up the phone and dialed out.

"What, I have to make an appointment for Alain Ryder Jr., I don't have to make an appointment! Who am I! I'm Lucas! That's right, the one that filmed Star Wars! Lucas said into the phone:

"Man, if you don't get to Alain Ryder Jr. to answer the phone soon, I guess you won't have to go to work tomorrow!"

Within half a minute, the voice of Alain Ryder Jr. came from the phone: "George, dear, you are calling me, have you read that script!" ”

Alan Ryder Jr.'s tone was very excited, and he was also very excited about the fact that with Lucas's fame now, no matter which script he liked, the movie would be a box office hit after it was made.

"I don't have the time to be busy with anything else, I'm too busy with the preparation of Star Wars 2 now!" Lucas was the first to dismiss the idea of Alan Ryder Jr.

"But, Mr. Alan Ryder, Stephen has taken a fancy to a script and wants to make it into a movie!" Lucas's conversation shifted to Spielberg.

"Stephen, is it Stephen who was in contact with the filming of "Jaws" and "The Third Kind". Spielberg! Alain Ryder Jr.'s voice came out of the phone, and he could hear some excitement.

"Yes, is there anything wrong with Mr. Alain Ryder?" Lucas asked rhetorically.

"Of course not! George, if Mr. Stephen can see that script, it is an honor for our company, and I will definitely support it, but George, I don't know that Stephen is interested in that script. ”

Although Spielberg is not as famous as he was later, the two blockbuster films "Jaws" and "Contact of the Third Kind" have laid the foundation for Spielberg to become a great director in Hollywood.

The script that Spielberg likes must be a rare good script.

"It's ET, how about it, can Fox invest?" Lucas said the name of the script.

"Of course I did, but George, I need to know the details of the script to give you an exact reply, and I'll get back to you in an hour!" Alain Ryder Jr. said on the phone.

"Yes, I'll wait for your good news!" Lucas recovered.

"Stephen, I guess it's almost done! There will be an exact reply in a moment! Lucas said after putting down the phone.

"Great, George, you know what? This movie is my childhood dream, but I didn't expect someone to write it into a screenplay! Hearing that things were basically done, Spielberg's voice was a little excited.

"Yes, Stephen, it's going to take a while for a reply, you can tell me more about this!"

Lucas showed a keen interest in Spielberg's words, and since it would take a while for the results to come to fruition, it would be better to learn more about Spielberg's dream directly!

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"Yes, George!" Spielberg said of his childhood, "It was when I was six years old...... ”

Spielberg is worthy of being a great director, and the story is so vivid that Lucas was fascinated by it, and it wasn't until the phone rang that the two of them were interrupted.

"Stephen, good news for sure! Now you're in for a treat! Lucas joked as he picked up the microphone.

"I'm Lucas, what! Refuse to invest! What's with? Oh, I see, I'll talk to Stephen! Lucas's tone kept changing during the call.

"Why, George! Something happened! Spielberg, who was originally full of confidence, was immediately deflated when he heard Lucas's conversation just now, and hurriedly asked after Lucas put down the phone.

"Trouble, Stephen!" Lucas sorted out the conversation and explained the reason to Spielberg.

It turned out that after Alan Ryder Jr. finished talking to Lucas on the phone, he immediately asked people to buy the script of "ET" and get it at all costs.

I have to say that the status of Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood only took ten minutes to find the owner of the current script, MSI Movie America, Inc., and also found Li Mingyu, the only employee of MSI Movie America Co., Ltd. now.

But then things didn't go well, and in the conversation with Li Mingyu, Twentieth Century Fox was dumbfounded.

As soon as the idea of buying the script was mentioned, Li Mingyu rejected it, and the reason for the rejection was very simple, that is, the boss of the company wanted to invest by himself, and now he just didn't have time to invest.

The script of "ET" was written only because the boss wanted to record the script in advance to prevent being preempted.

As for the partnership investment, it was also rejected on the very simple grounds that the boss was not short of money and did not need others to invest at all.

As for talking to the boss of the company, you can, but the boss is not in the United States, if you need it in Hong Kong, you can talk to the boss yourself, phone, sorry no, but the company address in Hong Kong is available.

If you want to talk about it, you can go to Hong Kong to talk about it, but it's better if the director can talk about it himself.

Some of the conversations Li Mingyu had on the phone made the contact person in charge of Twentieth Century Fox very depressed.

However, after hearing that MSI Films America Inc. rejected Twentieth Century Fox's investment, Alan Ryder Jr.'s interest also faded.

After all, this is just a new script, not a blockbuster movie sequel, there are too many Hollywood movie scripts like this, even if Spielberg takes a fancy to it, Alan Ryder Jr. will not do useless work, of course, if it is a script like "Star Wars", Alan Ryder Jr. will definitely get it at all costs.

After listening to Lucas's analysis, Spielberg fell silent, and it took a long time for Spielberg to hold back his answer: "George, I'll go to Hong Kong to talk to the other party, and you can help me collect more information about the other party." ”

"Yes, Stephen!" Lucas, who knew Spielberg's temper well, did not persuade him, but tried his best to help Spielberg collect information about Lei Weidong through his connections.

So Spielberg got on a plane to Hong Kong.

Sitting on the plane, because it was a long-distance flight, Spielberg had time to understand Lei Weidong's information, but only a cursory look, Spielberg knew that this trip to Hong Kong was not so easy.