Seeing the little girl's surprised and puzzled expression, Nancy was 50% sure that she was the one who wrote the letter to herself, but if it was her, it would be incredible, a little girl who was only 11 years old. How could it be possible to write such an article
"I'm Nancy Meyers, you should be Angela Mason." Although her heart was up and down, Nancy still said with a smile.
"Yes, I'm Angela, but why did you come to my house?" Just after the little guy finished speaking, he suddenly patted his head and exclaimed: "God, you received my letter! Do you think it's okay? This is the first time I've written a script! I... I've read a lot of books, but I always feel that something is missing, can you give me some pointers?"
The little girl's tone was full of excitement and excitement, and she didn't realize how much shock her words brought to Nancy and George. Especially Nancy, although she was mentally prepared, she was still very excited when she heard her admit that this excellent script was actually written by this little girl, but she was puzzled and puzzled in this excitement. At least in her experience, she has never seen or heard of an 11-year-old girl who can write a script. Shouldn't she have picked up a story from somewhere, copied it and sent it to herself
Although George was also excited, he didn't think so much. When he saw Angela for the first time, he found her unique charm, especially her bright green eyes, even compared to Vivien Leigh. She doesn't give in too much, and she always has a faint and subtle temperament that she can't tell. Maybe she will definitely become a popular child star with a little bit of manipulation, and this little girl can write - if the script is really her If it is written, it will be a great help to the film company if such a talented child star can be produced!
At this time, the little girl's mother, Elena, coughed softly, and Angela, who was already speaking incoherently, closed her mouth for the first time, shrank her neck and remembered something, and said to Nancy enthusiastically: " Come and sit down, Mrs. Meyers." He looked at George suspiciously.
Before Nancy could speak, George bowed slightly and said, "Hello, Miss Mason, I'm the head of the script editing team at Disney Pictures, and I'm here to talk to you about the script."
Seeing Angela's confused look, he hurriedly explained with a smile: "That's right, Miss Mason, generally speaking, unless it's a low-budget movie, there's no way for a producer to make a movie alone."
Seeing that the little girl still didn't understand, he was about to explain further, but Angela had already said, "Anyway, please sit down and talk first?" George couldn't help but feel more favorable to her, and sat down with Nancy again. on the sofa.
Then, after getting the permission of Elena, George explained to the little guy: "Generally, if the screenwriter has a good script, he will directly submit it to the film company, and the script editor of the film company will report it to management after confirming that it is worth shooting. The company evaluates and invests funds, then buys scripts from screenwriters, and finally contacts producers to select directors and actors. Each company has full-time screenwriters who have signed long-term contracts, but also accepts contributions from other non-contracted professional screenwriters and non-professional screenwriters. Having said this, he smiled slightly embarrassedly: "Send the script to the producer like you, basically... um, no."
Angela stuck out her tongue: "I'm sorry if this caused you trouble. I just like the movies made by Mrs. Meyers. I think she's very good at such romantic comedy movies."
George laughed: "It's nothing, in fact I agree with you, so let's come and visit together."
"That means you decided to invest in the filming of this script? Mrs. Meyers made it?!" Angela immediately widened her eyes and said excitedly.
"Although I can't decide, but I think it should be fine." George glanced at Nancy and nodded.
After the little girl looked at Nancy, she asked calmly, "Before this, I want to ask two questions? Miss Mason."
"No problem, you can call me Angela." The little girl said with a smile.
"Okay, May... Oh Angela, may I ask how you know my address first?" Nancy asked the first question.
"The 4th issue of this year's "Cinema Manual"." Angela answered very briefly, which made Nancy slightly stunned.
"Is it the episode that introduced "New Father-in-law"?" she asked uncertainly.
"Yes, although it's not very detailed, the postman still got the letter into your hands, didn't he?" The little girl shrugged, "Maybe, Mr. President can give this gentleman a medal for this."
Nancy smiled, looked at Mrs. Mason to one side, and asked a second question: "Can you tell me about your original intention for writing this script?" She tried to keep her tone calm, not wanting to appear rude.
"Original intention? You want to ask me why I wrote this script," Angela peeked at her mother, stuck her tongue out, and said embarrassedly: "Actually, writing this was an accident, mainly because I wanted a sister or sister. , otherwise it’s too boring to be alone at home. I have many friends, but they won’t be at your house all the time, will they? My parents love me very much, but they can’t be with me all the time, they have their own things to do I do, so I sometimes wonder how good I would be if I were twins, and maybe my life would be a little more interesting.”
Then she secretly glanced at her mother again, and after confirming that Elena's face had not changed, she continued talking. It seemed that she was "afraid" of her own mother. Nancy couldn't help but feel in her heart. Also a little more trust.
"Actually, I originally planned to write a story about twins messing around with their parents at home, kind of like "Growing Pains", but obviously I don't know much about it, and after a few revisions Then I suddenly had an idea, if the twins were separated from their parents because of their parents' divorce, what would have happened after they met by chance? From the time they first met, they couldn't see each other until they knew the truth, would they think about it? If they have to re-match their parents, how do they match up? How about switching identities and living with the father or mother? Then how can they not be found out? How can they find the reason for their parents' divorce? It was so much fun to think about it, so I overturned what I had written and completely re-imagined it."
The little guy paused when he said this, took a sip of water and continued: "After overturning the rewrite, it is much faster than before, because a lot of material is in front of me, my father is American, my mother is British, and we will spend every holiday every year. Going to London or Bristol to see grandpa and grandma, so I put the main scene transition on this. Also, some of the supporting characters in the script can be found in our house, and you see Josie in it is Aunt Jennifer , she came to our house when my dad was a kid, and Steward Martin was Mr. Gerrard, my grandfather's, but he was just as funny and stern most of the time."
Looking at Angela talking eloquently, Nancy's little suspicion disappeared. In fact, there is still genius in this world, isn't it? And George is thinking about another headache. Judging from the little girl's story and her family situation, she is not an ordinary rich family. Will her guardian allow her to make movies? Taking a step back, even if she and her parents agreed, most of them would choose the veteran studios of Universal or Paramount, not them, Disney's only advantage is that she has a considerable affection for Nancy, which can be It's not easy to do.
"Sorry, I want to interrupt, okay?" At this moment, Mrs. Mason, who had been listening quietly beside her, suddenly interjected, looking at her daughter with a knowing smile on the corner of her mouth: "Chrissy, I think there must be something you haven't brought out yet?"
What else? Nancy was a little puzzled, but she immediately reacted. It seemed that Mrs. Mason didn't quite believe that it was written by her daughter. She smiled softly in her heart. As a mother of two children, she understood the psychology of worrying about gains and losses. .
And Angela's little face collapsed immediately, scratching her head and hesitated for a while, then sighed: "Okay, I get it, Mom."
Saying that, she jumped off the sofa and ran upstairs quickly, and after a while, she ran down with a large folder. After returning to the sofa, she first took out an envelope and handed it to her mother. Mrs. Mason took the envelope calmly. When she saw the address on the envelope, she raised her eyebrows unconsciously, and then pulled out the letter. After taking a glance, her always calm expression also showed a surprised expression, only to hear her lightly recite:
"Respected Miss Mason, we are honored to inform you that your short story "They Are Made of Meat" published in this magazine last year was nominated for this year's Nebula Award for Best Short Story, please reply to us by the end of April, " Sincerely, Marvel Magazine."
As soon as this letter was read, the three adults present were shocked again, "Surprise" magazine? Nebula Award? Oh my God, is what happened today a fairy tale! George involuntarily touched his forehead and wanted to groan. "Surprise" is the longest-running science fiction magazine in the United States, and the Nebula Award is also the highest award for science fiction along with the Hugo Award. An 11-year-old girl's short story is not only published in " Marvel Magazine, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story! Has something weird happened in this world? !
The other two ladies were not much more surprised than George's, especially Mrs. Mason, who looked at the letter in her hand and then at her daughter with an expression of disbelief on her face for the first time.
Before they could continue to ask questions, the little guy continued to take things out of the folder:
"This is the publication notice, this is the issue of "Surprise" where my novel was published, and this is the receipt for the check for the royalties."
When the last thing was taken out, everyone was in a state of dizziness. It was a thick stack of paper with drawings and manuscripts, and Angela handed it directly to George: "Mr. Wells, this is It's the script of a cartoon I made last year, it's based on "The Prince's Revenge", a story about the African savannah, and there is a concept map I drew in it, I named it-"The Lion King" "!"