Putting away a pile of newspapers, Eric crossed his arms and looked at the girl opposite. In this era, women seem to like to wear shirts, whether in film and television programs or in reality.
Of course, Eric also likes this kind of dress for women very much, which will give a woman a different and capable temperament. At least he thinks this look is much better than those women in later generations who wrap their bodies in messy fabrics. Moreover, in Eric's opinion, shirts are also a kind of uniform temptation, especially when women wear loose men's shirts, it is best to have two long bare legs...
Seeing Eric staring at her intently, Elizabeth quickly restrained her heartless appearance, put her arms on the desk to cover her chest, glared at Eric and said dissatisfiedly: "Hey, what are you looking at, color?" squinting?"
"I didn't see anything, I was just thinking, are you going to wear this to work?" Although the girl looks pretty good, it's obviously not what a woman who is going to work should wear
"Of course, what I want to do is your assistant, not an office girl. Do you want me to run around the set with you in a suit skirt and high heels?"
Eric glanced at the girl's slightly raised chin, knowing that it would be useless to talk too much, he shook his head lightly⊕, no longer forced, anyway, he didn't expect the girl to help him much, as long as When filming, you can pass things as a megaphone, and the most important thing is not to make trouble.
"Whatever you want," Eric said, lowering his head and opening the side drawer to search.
As if she had won a small victory, Elizabeth snorted softly.
Eric found a document and pushed it to Elizabeth on the opposite side with the pen next to it: "This is the contract. You sign it. Then you will be the crew members of "Sleepless in Seattle."
Elizabeth took it and was not in a hurry to sign it. Instead, he read it seriously. Eric looked at his watch, didn't care, and took the newspaper next to him to continue reading.
After a while, Eric, who was reading the newspaper seriously, heard the girl on the opposite side say: "Eric, I'm done signing, what should I do next?"
Eric put a copy that Elizabeth handed over into a folder, and said to the girl: "You can go back now. When the crew leaves for Seattle in a few days, someone will notify you."
"Ah..." Elizabeth opened her mouth slightly, and soon realized that Eric didn't take her seriously at all, and suddenly said angrily: "How can you do this, I protest, if you don't assign me work, I will Just stay in your office and stay!"
Eric cursed secretly, knowing that this would happen, he should not have agreed to Murdoch anyway.
Just wondering how to coax this young lady away, the office door was knocked open again. Allen poked his head in and took a look, and said, "Mr. Williams. The screenwriters are all here and waiting in the conference room."
"Well, I'll go right away." Eric nodded, and waited for Allen to leave before saying to Elizabeth: "Liz, you really don't need you here, so you should go back obediently, and someone will notify you later your."
"I won't leave. Since the contract has been signed, you should assign the work to me."
Eric was a little irritable. He quickly rubbed his right thumb against the side of his index finger a few times, then pointed to the coffee machine next to him: "Since you want to work, make me a cup of coffee first."
The girl quit immediately: "I'm not your servant!"
"This is the job of a director's assistant. If you don't want to, just go home obediently and wait for the crew to notify you."
"You..." Elizabeth glared at Eric unwillingly, and after a while, she carefully brought a cup of coffee to Eric with an aggrieved face.
Of course, Eric was not in the mood to drink coffee. Seeing Elizabeth's stubborn appearance, he had no choice but to pick up the phone and press it a few times, and said into the microphone: "Alan, reprint two copies of the non-disclosure agreement you signed at the beginning."
Elizabeth's expression moved, concealing the sly look in her eyes, she lowered her head slightly and stood obediently by the side. After a while, Allen sent in two non-disclosure contracts.
"This is the non-disclosure contract that Alan signed at the beginning. If it is too long, you don't need to read it. As the daughter of Mr. Murdoch, I think you probably know what the content is. If you violate it, you will not only have to pay a huge liquidated damages, You may even go to jail. After signing, you can stay with me during the filming of "Sleepless in Seattle" and temporarily act as a secretary assistant to help Allen share some work."
This time, the girl didn't scribble any more ink. It took less than a minute to flip through more than ten pages of the contract, and she signed her name readily.
"Okay, come with me, and, at least in Los Angeles these days, you are not allowed to wear this suit anymore, change to something more formal."
"I see." The girl didn't refute this time, and happily followed Eric to the meeting room.
There were eight people sitting in the conference room at this time, six men and two women, all in their twenties and thirties.
This is the screenwriter team that Eric specially recruited for the next TV series.
Fox Television has signed a preliminary letter of intent for equity transfer with Firefly these days, and the specific transaction will be completed within this month. Therefore, before making the last two films of this year, Eric also began to make promises for Murdoch. Prepare for a TV series and a variety show.
According to the plan, the variety show will start broadcasting in the spring, but the variety show that Eric intends to produce is relatively simple to plan, so there is no rush to produce it.
The other TV series will be aired in the fall of next year. Although Eric is at the helm, after hearing that the average production cost of this American TV series is as high as 2 million US dollars per episode, Fox still recommends changing the filming out of caution. However, Eric disagreed, not only because he is very confident in this American TV series, but also because of the subject matter, if the filming and broadcasting mode is adopted, it will definitely affect the drama due to the rush of production. set quality.
Originally, neither of the two parties was willing to make concessions. Eric even let it go. If Fox didn't want to take risks, then Firefly could invest in the production independently, but the copyright should not be divided equally. Even Barry Diller dared not nod to agree to this proposal. Who can guarantee that this TV series will be as popular as "Friends"
The two sides stalemate for a few days, and in the end it was Murdoch who made the decision himself. Since Eric is so confident, Fox, who has a big business, doesn’t even dare to take the risk of not being able to. Even if the final results are not good, he will only lose more than two thousand Only ten thousand. Even this year, Fox TV suddenly got "Friends", but there will definitely be a loss of tens of millions of dollars in the financial report at the end of the year.
What Eric wants to produce is the "X-Files", the treasure of Fox in his previous life in the 1990s. In Eric's memory, this is almost the only American drama that Fox TV can produce in the entire 90s.
However, the ratings of the first few seasons of this American drama were not good. If it weren’t for the support of a group of diehard fans, the drama would become so popular on the Internet that the ratings of the rebroadcast would exceed the premiere. The first season was canceled.
Although the first three seasons of "X-Files" had the most unique style, but in terms of ratings, it was the fourth and fifth seasons after the style change that reached the peak ratings.
In Eric’s opinion, the main reason why the ratings of the first three seasons have been so low is that the story has no main line. Although there will be a novel monster or supernatural event in each episode, this state of no main line also makes the audience very happy. It's hard to keep the focus on this show. Screenwriter Chris Carter didn't connect the chaotic clues revealed in the first three seasons until after the fourth season, and began to tell readers a complete sci-fi story idea.
The sci-fi drama "X-Files" was not very favored by Fox at the beginning, because although North American TV stations have tried to produce sci-fi dramas, few have succeeded. So Eric felt that perhaps the screenwriter of "X-Files", known as the father of "X-Files", Chris Carter himself did not conceive a complete main line for "X-Files", and it is estimated that he edited and edited it for many years. The story becomes clear.
Before planning to make this TV series, Eric also asked Chris Carter to lead the screenwriter of this American TV series. After all, Chris Carter conceived many wonderful ideas in his previous life. Chris Carter is not unknown, the other party is currently working as a screenwriter under Disney, but when the person Eric sent contacted the other party, Chris Carter said that he is not interested in sci-fi American dramas, so he is unwilling to accept this. jobs.
This made Eric once again see the powerful power of the butterfly effect. The father of the X-Files in his previous life was not interested in sci-fi TV dramas. It's really... amazing.
In the conference room, Eric pointed to the position at the end of the conference table, let Elizabeth sit down, and then came to the top, greeted each other, and after introducing himself, Eric stood up and wrote to the hanger Go to the board wall.
Picking up a black pen, he quickly wrote a word on the wall: the-x-files.
"All of you here are screenwriters who are very good at sci-fi-themed film and television dramas, so you must be aware that what I am about to produce is also a sci-fi American drama. The name of this TV drama is "X-Files."
Under the curious eyes of everyone, Eric put down the black pen in his hand, patted his palms lightly and said: "Then, let me briefly introduce the background of this sci-fi drama I envisioned."
"The story almost begins with the origin of life. The universe is so big that we can't even imagine it. Then, in this infinite universe, there are infinite possibilities. Hundreds of millions of Among all the stars, our earth is definitely not the only planet that can produce intelligent life, and the Brett star is the initiator of this whole story." (To be continued...)