"Of course!"

The first to speak was Sheldon, who said he was a Star Trek diehard and could recite more than 600 episodes of the TV series.

Not to be outdone, Leonard said that he was very fond of Star Wars and also had a Jedi laser sword in his collection.

It was Howard's turn, and he brought out his cooperation with NASA again.

It looks like bragging, but Jamie knows that Howard will really be on the space station for a while in the future.

Of course, this seems to be a little small compared to Sheldon's future Nobel Prize in physics.

In the end, Rajesh was left, and Howard explained for him:

"He suffers from selective mutism and is afraid to speak in the presence of women."

Penny nodded immediately.

"Mr. Dutton, if nothing else, I'll go outside and wait for my friend."

Betty was ready to leave with her.

That's when Jamie stopped her.

Betty looked at her boss suspiciously.

"Don't I have to leave?"

Rajesh was about to speak, but Howard next to him gagged his mouth with his hand.

"Of course you need to, Rajesh won't dare to speak as long as there are women present, so you'd better avoid it."

In fact, Rajesh just didn't dare to speak in front of beautiful women, and it was no problem to speak in front of Betty.

But it would be a shame to say this in front of Jamie.

In particular, Jamie has just invited four people to serve as scientific advisors to the script.

That's when Jamie spoke.

"Betty, don't get me wrong, I mean you can go for a coffee or even a little shopping with Penny first, because I might have a longer conversation with the four scientific advisors."

Betty nodded, turned and left the room with Penny.

As soon as the door closed, Betty spoke first:

"Okay, now you can ask if you want to ask."

Penny covered her mouth in surprise.

"How do you know ......?"

Betty replied with a "sober look":

"Do you think Mr. Dutton is really as simple as asking me to treat you to a cup of coffee? He knows that you have concerns about being his assistant, and deliberately creates an opportunity for the two of us to be alone so that you can ask for clarification. ”

Penny shrugged.

"Okay, then will you tell me the truth?"

Betty replied truthfully:

"It depends on what you want to know."

Betty doesn't have to lie to Penny if she asks about her daily routine, and if she wants to ask about Jamie's private life, Betty refuses to answer.

Because Betty knows very well that Jamie hired her as an assistant, in addition to her ability, the most important thing is because she is reliable.

Penny thought about it for a few seconds and asked a question.

"Does my day-to-day work, including sleeping with my boss?"

Betty's eyes widened as she lifted her glasses.

Is it so straightforward when it comes up?

"If it had been my last boss and you had asked me that, I would have replied of course, and as for Mr. Dutton, all I can tell you is that he has a lot of respect for women."

The subtext is that the boss will definitely not force you!

But if you take the initiative to climb into your boss's bed, that's a different story.

Penny understood in seconds, and at the same time was a little angry.

Could it be that in Betty's eyes, she is the kind of woman who likes to roll sheets with handsome guys?

Betty glanced at Penny's sexy body under the sexy COS costume, and the expression was clearly saying:

Isn't it?

In the room, Jamie briefly told the story of "The Wandering Earth" to the four Sheldons.

Then he introduced the general direction and plot outline of this script adaptation.

After finishing Jamie, he also emphasized that he asked the four Sheldon to be the scientific consultants of the script, not to ask them to explore whether the helium flash of the sun would really happen, whether the Wandering Earth plan was feasible, and whether the planetary engine had a scientific basis.

It's about assuming that these things are true, and providing some scientific advice based on that to make The Wandering Earth look more like that.

Hearing this, Leonard couldn't help but hold his glasses.

"Mr. Dutton, the four of us just look like nerds, but not really nerds."

"Of course, we know the difference between science fiction and science, or Sheldon and I wouldn't be big fans of Star Wars and Star Wars."

Jamie nodded and said:

"That's great, so do you four need to discuss the division of labor?"

The four of Sheldon glanced at each other quickly.

Sheldon was the first to speak:

"I'll take care of the solar helium flash."

Leonard followed:

"Then I'll be in charge of the planetary engine."

Howard followed suit and raised his hand.

"I'm here to design the Navigator space station and the space elevator, which, by the way, are areas of engineering that I'm good at."

Rajesh had no choice left, so he shrugged his shoulders and said:

"I'm in charge of the trajectory of the wandering Earth near Jupiter, and how to use the 'gravitational slingshot' to get the Earth out of the solar system."

The four of them just include all the scientific fields involved in "The Wandering Earth".

Jamie immediately stood up and shook hands with each of them, indicating that they were happy to cooperate.

At this point, Howard raised his hand again.

"Mr. Dutton, I have one more question."

Jamie slapped his head.

"Sorry I forgot to tell you that you'll each receive $100,000 in pre-tax consulting fees after the filming is completed."

Talking about Jamie looking at Howard.

"Mr. Vorowitz, now you can ask your questions."

Howard's Adam's apple rolled with difficulty.

He did want to ask about the remuneration just now, but there was no need for it now.

Jamie smiled and turned to look at the other three.

"Do you have any questions?"

Leonard raised his hand.

"Mr. Dutton, may I take the liberty of asking, who is Weststar Pictures going to be the director of this movie?"

Jamie glanced at Leonard.

"What, you want to recommend George Lucas?"

Leonard asked with surprise and anticipation on his face:

"It can't really be him, right?"

Jamie shrugged noncommittally.

"Congratulations, you're wrong, but you're close."

Howard didn't even have time to raise his hand this time, so he replied directly:

"I see, it's Ridley Scott, right? His "Alien" and "Blade Runner" are both super classics. ”

Jamie was about to deny it, when his phone suddenly rang.

Glancing at the call from Ovitz, Jamie made an apologetic look at the four Sheldon and walked to the next room with his phone.

The Sheldon Four, who remained in the living room, whispered a debate over whether the director was Ridley Scott or not.

Without waiting for the four to argue and come to a conclusion, Jamie came back after answering the phone and told the four of them two bombshell news.

The first news is that the first draft of the script of "The Wandering Earth" has been completed, and the script has been sent to Jamie's mailbox.

The second news is that the great director James Cameron will come to the hotel soon to discuss the script with Jamie.

That's right, James Cameron is the director of "The Wandering Earth".

For the Sheldon Four, the second news is undoubtedly more exciting.

Including Penny outside the door.

After learning that she had the opportunity to contact a great director of James Cameron's level, she immediately offered to agree to be Jamie's assistant.

The only requirement is to be able to start work now.

Betty lifted her glasses and looked at an emotional Penny.

"You're going to wear this to see Director Cameron?"

Penny thought that it would definitely be too late to return to the hotel to change clothes at this time, so she simply crossed her hands on her hips, proudly straightened her chest and said:

"At least this one is impressive, isn't it? I mean, no one dressed up as Wonder Woman has ever appeared in front of Director Cameron before. ”

Betty complained speechlessly:

"But you're Mr. Dutton's assistant, not an auditioning actress."

Penny suddenly looked like a deflated ball, took Betty's hand and pleaded:

"Help me, this is probably the only time in my life that I can get close to a director of this level."

Betty shook her head categorically and said:

"If you've been Mr. Dutton's assistant for a long time, you'll find that there are actually quite a lot of opportunities to get in touch with this kind of Hollywood director."

That being said, Betty relented and agreed to help Betty once.

"I have a spare set of clothes to lend you to wear."

In Penny's thanks, Betty takes her to change her clothes.

At the same time, the four Sheldon in the room were also discussing the issue of clothing.

Leonard felt they should go and change their clothes and see Cameron again, while Sheldon insisted that he was fine now.

In the past, the two had disagreements, and Howard was basically brainless on Leonard's side, but this time Howard chose to support Sheldon.

"This is probably the only time in my life that I can appear in front of a great director of James Cameron's level as Batman, and you must remember to take pictures of me shaking hands with each other when the time comes."

Leonard looked at Howard speechlessly.

"You're all dressed as Batman, even if you take a picture together, who knows that the person standing next to Cameron is you?"

While Howard was stunned, Rajesh added:

"Actually, it can be seen, because Cameron definitely hasn't taken a photo with a Batman who is less than 1.6 meters tall."

In the next room, Jamie logged in to his mailbox and clicked on the first draft of the script of "The Wandering Earth".

After a quick look at it for more than half an hour, Jamie found that the whole story had become "beyond recognition".

The entire script is a classic Hollywood three-act structure.

The first act throws out the story setting, the sun is aging rapidly, and mankind is facing the catastrophe of extinction.

Under the leadership of the United States, the United Nations decided to implement an ambitious 2,500-year plan to build planetary engines to push the Earth away from the solar system.

The male protagonist is an excellent American astronaut, Michael King, who was chosen to be the head of the navigator space station.

And in order to save resources, all astronauts who log on to the Navigator space station will stay in space for the rest of their lives and will not be able to return to Earth.

In exchange for the qualification to enter the dungeon shelter for his wife Kate and son Jack, Michael resolutely agreed to participate in this mission with no return.

After saying goodbye to his wife and children, Michael flew into space in a spacecraft and became the first astronaut on the Navigator space station.

More than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and Michael's son Jack has grown up in the dungeon.

Because his father is far away on the space station and can only meet in videos all year round, Jack has developed a rebellious personality, and after graduating from high school, he has nothing to do and is addicted to all kinds of illegal modified machinery.

Her mother, Kate, became a mining truck driver who fueled the engines of the planetary planets.

Seeing this, Jamie has already determined one thing.

This script is indeed tailor-made for Cameron.

Looking at Cameron's sci-fi films such as "Terminator" and "Alien", one of the biggest commonalities is that they both have a tough guy heroine.

In order to do what he likes, the screenwriter also arranged such a heroine in the play.

The later plot is more old-fashioned.

Jack has a crush on Rose, a school girl in the dungeon, and in order to gain Rose's favor, he steals his mother's mining truck at the suggestion of a friend and returns to the surface with him.

They arrive in the frozen city of New York and see the Statue of Liberty, which has frozen into popsicles, but their whereabouts are discovered by a surface patrol.

A patrol car began to pursue them.

Jack relies on his extraordinary talent for mechanical operation to play the post-apocalyptic version of GTA with a patrol car in the frozen New York City.

At the same time, Kate also discovers that Jack has stolen her mining vehicle, so she knocks her colleague unconscious, snatches another mining vehicle, and rushes out of the surface to start looking for her son.

Jack, on his side, was eventually overtaken by a patrol car because he was unfamiliar with mining trucks.

Just as two mech-clad NYPDs got out of the patrol car, ready to come up and give Jack and Rose a set of American games.

At this moment, there was a sudden violent tremor on the surface.

Soon the officers in the patrol car were informed that a third of the planet's engines in the world had stalled due to a malfunction.

In order to prevent the Earth from deviating from its intended orbit and being captured by Jupiter's gravity, the United Nations decided to temporarily requisition all vehicles on the surface to rush to the nearest planetary engine to carry out saturation rescue.

This concludes the story of Act I.

The second act of the story unfolds a three-line narrative.

One line is that Kate is forced to reroute to join the rescue in the search for her son;

One line is for two police officers to take Jack and Rose to the nearest planetary engine that has been shut down.

One line is Michael showing Kate and Jack the way from the space station after learning that his wife and children were joining the surface rescue.

Eventually, the mother and son converged and worked together to restart the stalled planetary engine.

Just when everyone thought that the Earth had successfully survived this crisis, the intelligent brain on the navigator space station alerted all the astronauts.

The Earth has deviated from its intended orbit and is captured by Jupiter's gravity.

The Navigator space station was designed and built with this situation in mind, and according to the program, the smart brain will automatically gain control of the space station and start the escape mode from the earth.

As a result, the astronauts were divided into two factions, one group decided to follow the arrangement of Zhi Brain to abandon the earth and drive the space station to escape alone, and the other group wanted to take back control of the space station from Zhi Brain and make the last effort to save the earth.

Michael and a handful of astronauts were locked up by the other astronauts for supporting the latter.

(End of chapter)