After John Aniston learned of Eric's invitation, he agreed quickly without even thinking about it. Between soap opera actors and TV drama producers, few people would be willing to choose the former. Directors at the upper level will develop towards producers when their careers reach a certain level.
To this end, John Aniston also resigned from some positions in NBC, while greatly reducing his role in "Our Days". Although he is in his fifties this year, about the same age as Jeffrey, his ambition is not much weaker than when he was young.
Although "Home Alone" and "Pretty Woman" did not recover their box office share at all, because of Eric's two huge loans, Firefly is not short of money. The budget for each episode of this TV series is within two The cost is around US$100,000. After it is fully produced, the total investment is only US$5 million, which is only equivalent to the investment of the movie "Small Island".
With the addition of John Aniston, the "Friends" project started quickly in early May. The crew rented two giant studios of 20th Century Fox to set up all the scenes in "Friends", "Previous Life" Friends was basically filmed at Warner Studios in Los Angeles.
Although Eric doesn't want Fox to participate in this TV series, it would be too deliberate if you have to go to Warner or Columbia for renting a studio. At a meeting, Eric suggested building a studio exclusively for "Friends", but was jointly opposed by Jeffrey and John. Give it up for now.
As for the actors, Eric also imagined that it would be perfect if he could gather all six people from the previous life. "Friends" appeared five years earlier than the previous life, so, according to the time, even the oldest Lisa Kudrow is only 26 years old, and several other actors are also between 20 and 24 years old. They started acting at this time, so ten years later, these actors will not show obvious age marks in the camera.
The reason why "Friends" in the previous life ended in the tenth season, although the actor's salary is part of the reason, but the most important thing is that the actor's age is no longer suitable for the continuation of this classic. In the tenth season, Li Shah Kudrow is forty-one years old and has already started to play the role of mother on the big screen. It would be against the law to be cute and funny like a young man in this movie.
Of course, the six people who have collected all their previous lives are destined to only think about it. Matthew Perry, who was introduced by Aniston and played the young stupid thief in "Home Alone", is now a first-line movie actor. You make a Hollywood a It would be a dream come true for a superstar to act in a sitcom.
As for the others, Eric does store some of their movies in his memory, but before this year, Eric could only find that Courteney Cox played a small role in "Magic Cocoon". The others don't even have a shadow now, and looking for a needle in a haystack is like looking for a needle in a haystack. In this case, Eric can only patiently start to choose the replacements of the other five friends among the candidates.
On May 10th, Sunday, the filming of "Dark War" has come to an end. During the working days of the next week, as long as there are no major accidents, the filming will be closed smoothly.
That's why Eric was able to spare time today to conduct the final audition for the actors of "Friends". After ten days, the sets in the two rented Fox studios were still in the early stage of construction, and the selection of actors had entered the final round.
Eric's plan is to shoot a few classic shots of "Friends" and insert them into the movie during the post-production process of "Dark War" from mid-May to mid-June, and the official shooting of this TV series will require at least After "Dark War" is released in July, according to the plan given by Fox, the response of the TV series will be in early September, which happens to be the end of the summer movie season and the fall season of American dramas.
Moreover, Eric is expected to spend only two weeks filming the first two episodes of the TV series himself. After completing this, he will need to work non-stop on the preparation of the two films in the second half of the year, and also need to prepare for the other three. Worrying about the release of movies, basically, it is impossible to have free time in the second half of the year.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Eric walked into the company and saw many men and women waiting in the corridor. These people obviously knew Eric. After Eric appeared, they all took the initiative to say hello to Eric. Nodding his head, he walked into the audition room without stopping.
He hadn't seen the final round of cast list before, and because all the actors had no clue, Eric also had to conduct an interview in person, instead of casting roles like "Small Island Cry" and "Scent of a Woman" When you draw a circle like that.
"Jeffrey, John, good morning." Walking into the audition room, I saw Jeffrey and John Aniston waiting here, the two were talking in whispers, and they stood up when Eric appeared. Get up and say hello to Eric.
"Good morning, Eric."
"Morning, Eric."
Eric walked to the back of the long table and sat down. A blond female assistant took the initiative to come up to Eric, put a stack of documents in front of Eric, and bent down to introduce Eric: "William Mr. Si, this is the full list of actors interviewed today, and the order has been marked on it."
When the girl spoke, whether it was intentional or not, her chest was just facing Eric, and the top button of the white shirt was not fastened, so Eric could easily see the beauty of the girl's chest.
d**, that's right, it seems like you can't hold it with one hand. Eric thought so playfully in his heart, and at the same time glanced to the side, how could John Aniston not notice the situation here, of course his face would not be very good.
The crew of "Friends" was formed by him through his contacts in the TV industry, and the blonde girl was also an experienced staff member he hired. Now the girl seduces his daughter's boyfriend in front of him, How happy John Aniston was, Eric thought to himself that the girl would not stay in the crew for long.
It's just that maybe the girl didn't know much about the relationship between John Aniston and Eric, or she knew but didn't take it to heart, so she seduced Eric in front of John. With Eric being worth billions at a young age, any woman with a little ambition in Hollywood would go all out and give it a try. This is not the first time Eric has encountered such a temptation.
"Okay, I understand." After the girl finished introducing, Eric nodded after eating enough of this kind of small tofu delivered to the door.
"Then, my name is Linda Grant, Mr. Williams, you can call me Linda." The girl straightened her waist, intentionally or unintentionally showing her graceful figure wrapped in a business suit.
"Thank you, Miss Linda," Eric thanked the girl with a smile.
John Aniston's voice finally sounded: "Linda, let the young people who are waiting for interviews outside prepare, we will start right away."
"Okay, Mr. Aniston." The girl nodded, and walked out of the audition room coquettishly twisting her beautiful buttocks wrapped in a dark dress.
"Ahem, Eric, Linda... is married, and his husband is the sound engineer of the crew." John Aniston didn't know what to think, and whispered in Eric's ear while the girl was going out Such a sentence.
Eric shrugged innocently: "John, I didn't do anything."
"Eric, although it's inevitable to have some drama in Hollywood, you'd better be careful not to hurt Jenny, she's actually a very innocent little girl."
Eric nodded guiltyly, "Don't worry, John, I will pay attention."
John Aniston shook his head: "Actually, I hope you can take the initiative to break up with Jane."
Eric immediately refused: "Unless Jane leaves me, I will not break up with Jane."
After Eric finished speaking, he secretly added another sentence in his heart, even if she wants to leave me, I will try my best to get the little girl back. Of course, this kind of words must not be said, otherwise John Aniston will definitely not do it something happened.
Of course, John Aniston couldn't have guessed Eric's mental activities. He patted him on the shoulder and started the audition work.
Only then did Eric have the opportunity to look down at the list of audition candidates.
Sure enough, at a glance, there are no well-known movie stars in the future. Eric didn't watch many American dramas in his previous life, so it is reasonable to say that people who don't know these American drama circles. After all, there are young people in their twenties. There are very few who can stand out, and when American dramas become more and more sophisticated and even challenge the status of movies more than ten years later, these people will already be in their 30s and 40s. Even if they appear in American dramas, they will be those inconspicuous supporting roles.
After flipping through the long list of several pages of auditions, I couldn't find a familiar name. Boring to turn to the last page, this page is a list of actresses applying for Phoebe Buffy, Eric finally found a familiar name, and it was a very familiar one: Nicole Kidman, This made Eric a little surprised, how could Nicole Kidman apply for a TV series
Eric checked the spelling carefully and made sure that the name was completely correct, so he waved to Linda Grand who came in again, and the blonde immediately came up to him courteously: "Mr. Williams, what's the matter?" ?”
"Where is the detailed actor information, I want to see the information of the batch of audition actors in the afternoon."
"Please wait."
Linda responded, walked out, and walked in with a few folders after a while: "Mr. Williams, it's all here."
"Thank you, just call me Eric," Eric thanked, ignoring the curious eyes of Geoffrey and John Aniston next to him, he began to search, and soon found Nicole Kidman data file.
With just a glance, Eric recognized the woman in the portrait photo posted on the information, with brown curly hair, a round face, blue glasses, a sexy nose, and thin lips.
After a quick scan, the girl's resume stays on an Australian TV series called "Born Not Guilty", and she has also acted in several TV series and movies before.
In other words, the "Crossing the Horizon" that made Nicole Kidman break into Hollywood is gone. Is this also the butterfly effect brought by myself
Eric rubbed the corner of the paper and thought, and finally had to admit that this must be the case, since he published "Jurassic Park" last year and entered Hollywood through "Return to Seventeen", Everything in this world has changed. This reminded Eric of the dominoes he had seen in his previous life. As long as the first domino is pushed, thousands of dominoes will fall down. This is the most vivid interpretation of the butterfly effect.
Calculated according to the time in memory, Nicole Kidman should have participated in "Crossing the Horizon" before coming to Hollywood, and then quickly hooked up with Tom Cruise through "Thunderbolt", disturbing Cruise's original The family became Mrs. Cruise, and from an unknown vase actor became a top vase in Hollywood. More than ten years later, she also won the Oscar for Best Actress.
Thinking of these trivial information, Eric can only draw one conclusion, this is a very powerful woman.
Among Cruise's several women, she is the only one who has developed the best. Even after divorcing Cruise, her career has not been affected, but has improved to a higher level, and soon entered the 2000s. Ten thousand salary club, and successfully won the Oscar for Best Actress.
Others, such as Cruise's first wife, did not leave any impression on people at all. The last wife, Katie Holmes, did not get any benefits from Cruise. Mrs. Si, no man is even willing or daring to date her.
During the entire morning interview, Eric became more and more interested in this woman. Taking advantage of the lunch break, Eric winked at the female assistant who had been trying to seduce him, and came to the end of the corridor stairwell.
"Eric, what's the matter?" Linda looked at Eric curiously and nervously. She felt that she hadn't made any preparations yet. This little director wouldn't want to do something here.
"It's like this, Linda," Eric took out a page of information: "This Miss Nicole Kidman, after she attends the interview in the afternoon, you take her to my office and let her wait there I, I want to talk to her alone."
Linda took the information, looked at Nicole Kidman's photo, and found that this woman was far more beautiful than herself, she was a little disappointed but nodded: "Okay, Eric, I will tell her, you ... anything else?"
Eric shook his head honestly: "No more."
"Oh," Linda lowered her head, her high-heeled shoes rubbed against the concrete floor a few times, and just when she mustered up the courage to raise her head to say something, she found that there was no one in front of her.
"This incomprehensible little guy is really... so irritating." The girl stomped her feet, turned around and walked back in disappointment.
After an afternoon of auditions, the remaining five roles have been preliminarily determined. Eric also met Nicole Kidman who participated in the audition at around four o'clock in the afternoon. Compared with Sha Kudrow's image, Nicole Kidman is too beautiful.
Monica Geller's role has already been settled on a brunette beauty who bears a resemblance to Courteney Cox, and if Phoebe Buffay chooses another big beauty, the sitcom will definitely have some distortion. So Eric, John and others basically did not consider Nicole Kidman, but chose another girl with a more ordinary appearance.
All auditions ended at five o'clock. Eric, John Aniston and others kept discussing the shooting plan of "Friends" in the conference room until after seven o'clock in the evening, and everyone left.
Messy thoughts swirled in Eric's mind, and he almost forgot what he had told the female assistant before. He walked out of the company's office building before remembering it, and turned back quickly. It's completely dark now, and Eric is not sure whether Nicole Kidman will leave early, but this possibility is unlikely. With the intelligence of this woman, it is impossible to leave early. I guess Eric Even if she doesn't show up tonight, this woman will patiently stay in her office.
Pushing open the door of the office, I saw a figure of a woman sitting on the sofa. In the office, only the lamp on the desk was turned on, and it looked very dark. Eric recognized her at a glance, and saw Eric open the door Come in, the girl also stood up.
Eric closed the door, turned on the lights in the office, and said, "Hello, Miss Kidman."
"Mr. Williams, hello." There was no impatient look on the girl's face, she took two steps forward with a faint smile, and offered to shake hands with Eric. Eric glanced at it inadvertently, It was discovered that the girl was barefoot, with high heels next to her.
What a careful woman, she can even notice details like height. Eric is only over 1.8 meters tall now, and Nicole Kidman is about the same height. The girl may feel that if she wears high heels and is taller than Eric, she may make him unhappy.
Eric sighed in his heart, returned to his seat and sat down: "I'm sorry, Miss Kidman, for keeping you waiting, I have been in a meeting just now."
"It's okay, Mr. Williams, you can call me Nicole."
"Okay, Nicole, the same, just call me Eric." Eric said, leaning his body on the leather seat, stopped talking, and carefully looked at the woman in front of him.
Nicole Kidman didn't rush to ask Eric why she asked herself to wait here, maybe she didn't think it was necessary to ask at all, this kind of thing is obvious, isn't it