After Stephen Sommers finished speaking, David Giller nodded first, then shook his head, and said: "Stephen, first of all, this is a great story, but if you plan to start production immediately, I definitely don't have time. I have already I promised Fox to produce "Alien 4" and I just talked with Joe Roth. Speaking of which, don't you need to prepare for "The Mummy 2"?"
Before accepting the "Mummy" series, Stephen Sommers was just a budding new director with no bargaining chips, so he signed a three-part contract at once.
However, upon hearing David Giller's question, Stephen Sommers showed a slightly sly smile: "If Daenerys is optimistic about "Cold", I believe Simon will agree to my filming this first. movie.”
This sentence obviously has some subtext.
Among the men and women around, some understood it immediately, some thought about it for a while, and some were completely confused. Gwyneth Paltrow looked at her boyfriend doubtfully in the knowing eyes of most people. Pitt couldn't explain it at this time, so he could only pretend not to notice.
it's actually really easy.
The "Mummy" series is just a cooperative project with Fox. If Daenerys is optimistic about "Cold" and invests in its production alone, this will be her biological son.
Of course biological ones are given priority.
In fact, the production of "Mission: Impossible 2" is an obvious reference.
The first "Mission: Impossible" was released in 1993. Paramount, its partner, had no other blockbuster to offer, but the sequel was not released until the summer of 1996, with a gap of nearly three years. Among them, if Daenerys hadn't deliberately delayed her intention to make way for her other films, few would have believed it.
After all, movie schedules and film and television resources are limited.
The "Mission: Impossible" series takes three years to develop a film, and two years to develop a film. The schedule and resources occupied are definitely not the same concept.
The situation in "The Deepest Cold" is slightly different, but it is similar. In the final analysis, the interests of Daenerys Entertainment must be the one that needs to be protected with the highest priority.
Of course, the mature David Giller understood immediately, smiled the same, and said: "Well, Stephen, you should actually talk to Amy or Simon directly."
"The main reason is that the script has not been completed yet," Stephen Sommers said: "I plan to go to Hawaii for a vacation and finish the script by the way."
"Then I wish you success first. If you need any help, please feel free to contact me." David Giller stretched out his hand to Sommers, shook his hand, raised his glass to others, turned and walked away.
Brad Pitt followed David Giller's direction and noticed the more lively John Wu not far away. He looked away, smiled and proactively greeted Sommers, Val Kilmer and the two British Roses. , I couldn't help but feel a little moved by the "Extreme Cold" that Sommers had just introduced.
After last year's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," the Superman character played by Brad Pitt won't be resurrected until "Justice League" a few years later, and he certainly can't be idle in the past few years.
The main target now is John Wu’s new film Face/Off.
Although Linda Vargas hinted that he was very hopeful, it was not 100% after all. If this project doesn't get picked up, it seems that Stephen Sommers's Deep Chill might as well be good.
Of course Brad Pitt heard what Sommers just said about wanting Harrison Ford to star. However, in Hollywood, role ownership is such a matter. Even if the movie is completed, there may be reshoots and cancellations, so it will not be released until Nothing is certain.
So there was no rush to greet John Wu on the other side. After everyone introduced each other, they started chatting enthusiastically.
Stephen Sommers and Brad Pitt were having a lively chat. Kate Beckinsale, who originally just came over for a face-to-face meeting, had no patience to continue participating and quietly pulled Rachel Weisz in. Chel wanted to continue, but feeling Kate's little movement, she could only smile at everyone and walk away with the people around her.
In such party situations, it is very common to strike up a conversation.
The two British roses seem to have a certain kind of insulation naturally, and they are the kind that no one comes up to take the initiative to talk to. Fortunately, the two women are not people who cannot communicate. Even if they have no other thoughts, there are so many guests at this party. Several targets of interest can be found.
Rachel Weisz specifically stopped Robert De Niro, who had just arrived, to chat for a few words, and finally asked for an autograph. As a young artistic woman, she had been looking forward to collaborating with De Niro when she was in college, and she was considered a little fan. One sister.
After some tossing and turning, the two of them arrived at the swimming pool.
Kate took off her high heels neatly, sat down by the pool, dipped her feet in the cold water, and swung her slender feet comfortably while looking at the mermaids in the pool curiously.
Rachel was not as carefree as Kate. She leaned sideways and sat down next to her quietly. She also looked at the swimming pool and asked with a smile: "Do you want to swim?"
Kate raised her chin: "Of course not, I'm not a foil."
The girls wearing bikinis in the swimming pool are obviously supermodels, and several of them look very familiar. Under such circumstances, it would be humiliating for other women to go swimming in the water. After all, few people can compare with these goblins who need to rely on their faces and figures to make a living, so they have been carefully trained and maintained for many years.
While the two were talking, one of the mermaids had already swam over, climbed on the edge of the pool and shook her hair generously, and then greeted Rachel with a smile: "Hello, Miss Weisz, I just watched "The Mummy" recently. You're so beautiful in there, oh, of course, you're even more beautiful in person."
"Thank you," Rachel politely agreed, shook hands with the other party, and did not forget to follow the girl's eyes to help introduce: "This is Kate Beckinsale, she is one of the heroines of "Charlie's Angels". The movie will be released by the end of the year.”
"Then I must go and have a look." The girl extended her hand to shake Kate's hand and introduced herself: "My name is Fernanda Lima."
Rachel smiled and said, "I know, Victoria's Secret Angel. Frankly speaking, your figure is really enviable."
"Oh, thank you."
Kate rolled her eyes slightly when she heard the two complimenting each other, and asked a little bit bitterly: "Lima, why have you been staying in the water? Don't you plan to come up and play for a while?"
Fernanda Lima didn't seem to feel Kate's criticism and smiled: "Because we are the mermaids tonight. Of course mermaids have to stay in the water. Kate, do you want to come down and join us?"
"No, I can't be a mermaid."
Probably seeing that Lima and Kate were having a good chat, several other girls in the pool also swam over, but they didn't cling to Kate's side with her feet in the water, but on Fernanda Lima's side. There were six girls lined up on the other side, looking over together.
Kate was a little embarrassed to be stared at by six pairs of eyes at the same time, so she could only retract her feet and sit sideways by the pool like Rachel.
Fernanda went over one by one and introduced: "Eva, Daniela, Tricia, Heidi, Melania, and finally little Angela."
The girl with a prefix on the far right was immediately dissatisfied, but her expression was obviously a little proud: "Fair, you are jealous. Simon clearly said that I am a little fox, not little Angela."
Fernanda smiled and said: "They are all very small anyway, aren't they?"
The girl named Angela Lindworth did not refute, but gestured to a waitress not far away, who quickly brought a stack of bathrobes over.
Immediately, the six girls came out of the bath with the beauty, and left the swimming pool with the sound of rushing water. They took the bathrobes handed over by the maid and put them on their bodies. They walked towards the villa laughing and joking.
Kate and the two girls, who were suddenly left aside, stared at each other with big eyes.
Don't you mean mermaid
Didn’t you say you should stay in the water
You really can't believe what the beautiful woman said.
Um.
Who said this
Then, watching the six girls pass through the crowd and enter the mansion villa unimpeded, Kate realized again that this kind of insulating physique... suddenly turned to Rachel angrily: "How many women does he have?"
Rachel blinked and subconsciously denied, "What does this have to do with me?"
I don’t have any Wei family maids or guards.
Kate forcibly traced Rachel with her eyes, as if describing some label, and then looked around, looking for someone: "Rachel, tell me, why hasn't he come yet?"
How could you not come
Rachel didn't answer, but looked in the direction where the six girls left just now.
Luxury main villa.
Kate was so smart, she looked over together, and then felt that she was really stupid. She put on her shoes and stood up, picked up Rachel and walked towards the villa. They had just arrived, and because they were led directly here by the waiter, Kate thought that someone should be among the crowd if they arrived, but she ignored that the lights on the other side of the villa were also bright.
At the same time, I also realized that the guy who said he didn't want it was actually thinking about it in his heart.
Otherwise, why would he be more sensitive than her
The two women entered the villa lobby, and sure enough, there were many people here.
Without wasting time on the first floor, Kate pulled Rachel, who seemed hesitant, toward the stairs. When she arrived on the second floor, the atmosphere suddenly became much quieter.
Look around.
There are two bodyguards guarding the east side of the corridor on the second floor, and there is nothing on the west side.
She turned decisively to the east and was naturally blocked. Kate did not panic and asked: "Is Simon here? Can you tell him? I am Kate Beckinsale and Rachel Weisz. "
One of them said: "Miss, please wait a moment."
He left alone and walked to a door, knocked on it, said something inside, and quickly signaled that they could go there.
finally found you.
Kate was slightly excited. She pulled Rachel, whose palms were obviously starting to sweat, and walked over quickly. However, when she came to the door of the room, she just took a look inside and immediately regretted it.
Simon is indeed there.
However, there were other people in the room, including Robert De Niro, whom Rachel had just asked for an autograph, as well as Ella Deutschman, president of High Gate Pictures, Jonathan Friedman, head of WMA, Michael Eisner, the former chairman of Disney, etc., in short, they are a group of big men.
The two girls came running over, looking out of place.
Seeing a group of unscrupulous male creatures around someone staring at them with obvious schadenfreude, and unable to turn around and leave at this time, Kate had no choice but to go in. Of course, she didn't forget to pull Rachel, who was also frozen, and smiled as she thought about it. The smiling face that must have been ugly said slowly: "Simon, and everyone, we just came over... to say hello."
One of the middle-aged men with elegant temperament seemed not to want them to be embarrassed, so he took the initiative to help them out, and motioned to the east side: "Go to the next room, the women are all over there."
Kate subconsciously hummed, and instinctively wanted to back away, but soon realized that she still needed to see Simon's reaction.
With a smile on his face but a helpless expression, Simon pointed at Robert Egger who spoke, and then said to Kate and Kate: "Go down, have fun, and don't come back again."
"Well, then...goodbye."
After saying that, he obediently pulled Rachel out of the room again, and even took the initiative to close the door. Then he patted his chest and took a deep breath.
It's so scary.
Just as he was about to walk towards the stairs, he remembered the middle-aged man's words just now. He couldn't help but glance at the door of the room further inside, and took a small step in curiously. However, as soon as she thought about it, a chill rushed directly from the soles of her feet to her brain, and Kate pulled Rachel quickly towards the stairs without thinking.
Those guys are so disgusting.
The women are all over there... what women
What other kind of woman could it be? !
It's just awkward to run into a bunch of grown men.
Running into Janet Westeros, who knows if she will come out alive.
The person just now seemed to be a senior executive of Daenerys Entertainment, I forgot his name, and he seemed to be polite, but I didn't expect him to be so bad.
Alas, it turns out that what kind of person brings out what kind of subordinates.
In the room on the second floor, a group of men couldn't help laughing as they watched the two girls retreat in embarrassment.
After such a lively moment, everyone resumed a topic they had talked about before the two women appeared. The first person to speak was Robert Egger, who had just almost cheated the two women seriously: "Simon, I think even if you solve the problem of controllable nuclear fusion, It will not bring much change to the future of mankind. I know that your goal is to create nearly unlimited productivity, so that you can ensure that all mankind can enjoy complete social welfare even if most people do not have to work at all, but, you know Well... Probably, well, in 1968, the year you were born, an animal behaviorist named John Calhoun conducted an experiment called 'Mouse Paradise', which was probably similar to your theory of infinite productivity, for a space The rats inside were provided with absolutely abundant food and water, allowing them to live freely and reproduce indefinitely without any worries. As a result, the rat paradise collapsed."
"I know about this experiment," Mark Belford, Vice President of Global Operations of Daenerys Entertainment, who was sitting on the sofa on the other side, continued: "I took a sociology course in college, and the teacher happened to talk about it. And , the answer given by the teacher was that if human beings want to survive longer, they need war. Simon, don’t you like Chinese culture very much? My teacher used this very typical ancient country as a case, because of the special geography Situation, China has been under continuous attack and plunder by northern horsemen and archers for more than two thousand years. However, this country not only did not perish, but also survives to this day. On the contrary, many ancient civilizations that were in a superior environment and had no natural enemies remained silent. Disappeared without a trace."
Michael Eisner, who was no longer in the circle but still came to join in the fun, sank comfortably into the single sofa, crossed his legs leisurely, and said: "I think you are too pessimistic. The collapse of the mouse paradise is because they only have instinct, and I can’t think about it. The Chinese case, well, I don’t know much about this. However, I think what Simon did is actually to provide us with a possibility to solve the problem better, right, Simon?”
Simon nodded and said: "That's right."
Egger said: "But I think that as long as there are classes in human beings, the more developed the productive forces are, the wider the gap between different classes will be. When the gap is so big that people despair, the world will become more unstable."
Simon couldn't help but ask: "Bob, have you also watched "Ghost in the Shell"?"
"What?"
"A Japanese comic, some of the concepts in it coincide with what you just said."
Jonathan Friedman said: "I have read this. My son bought it. I flipped through it accidentally and thought it was good. I finished it before I knew it. It is indeed a very shocking comic. Simon, maybe you can buy the copyright. , changed into a movie.”
Simon took a sip of red wine and nodded: "I'll think about it."
There was actually a slightly out-of-place Edgar Bronfman Jr., chairman of Seagram Group, in the room.
The Canadian tycoon who controls Paramount Pictures and Orion Pictures specially flew from Toronto to attend this party. In fact, it was mainly to promote the production of "Mission: Impossible 3" as soon as possible, and not to delay the three-month delay like the second part. Seagram can't afford to spend more years.
I just didn't expect that a group of top Hollywood tycoons would get together and discuss such... nonsense topics as the future of mankind.
All right.
Little Edgar Bronfman was about to interrupt when the door was knocked again. Everyone looked over, but it was Amy Pascal who appeared at the door with another white man on her arm.
Seeing the two people appear, everyone stood up.
But Amy signaled to everyone to be polite, pushed the man next to her over, and said, "This is Bernard, okay, Jenny and the others are next door, right? I'll go over and you guys can chat."
After saying that, Amy irresponsibly left a certain man behind and turned to the next door.
Seems...well, a little shy.
In fact, everyone understands why.
This is Amy's fiancé, Bernard Weinraub. Because Amy is pregnant, the two plan to get married during the Independence Day holiday. However, because it is during the busy summer season, not only will the wedding be simple, but Amy does not plan to get married right away. We are planning to postpone our honeymoon to September.
Bernard Weinraub is a film critic and playwright, and a special correspondent on the film and television industry for The New York Times. The two met because of Weinraub's work, and they quickly became acquainted and developed a relationship. , and unknowingly they were already talking about marriage. In fact, what surprises everyone more is that Bernard Weinraub is a full 21 years older than Amy Pascal.
It's so obvious that the girl is taller than the boy, and with such an age gap, it can only be said to be true love.
The identity of any person at the scene was enough to put Bernard Weinraub a few blocks away, but after all, he was Amy's fiancé, so everyone gave him face. After taking the initiative to say hello, Simon asked the other person to sit down on the sofa next to him before continuing to chat.
As for next door.
When Amy showed up, a group of familiar women led by Janet were not so polite.