"Mr. Jaffe, since "Small Island Cry" with a ghost perspective is successful, I think a romantic movie with a ghost as the main character will definitely have a bright future..."
The middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties and wore a pair of glasses hadn't finished speaking when the man he called Mr. Jaffe interrupted: "Okay, Bruce, I know you've been selling your That script, but I'm really not interested in it, I'm working on another movie recently."
Others standing at the table chimed in: "Bruce, forget it, don't you think a romance movie with a ghost as the main character looks ridiculous, and besides, it's still a tragedy."
"A lot of the memorable stories are tragedies," Bruce retorted.
"What's the use of having a deep memory," a brown curly-haired man followed up, "I've also heard about your script, which requires a lot of special effects, and the investment will not be less than 20 million U.S. dollars. This is considered an upper-middle investment. For It is a big adventure for the producers. Bruce, since you are very interested in ghosts or supernatural phenomena, you should put more effort into writing some horror scripts, like "Small Island Cry", instead of thinking about it in vain What a ghost romance movie."
When Eric approached, he just heard these words of the brown-haired man ≥∮, and his heart suddenly moved.
'Ghost Romance' and 'Bruce', just these two keywords, Eric has already confirmed 70% in his heart, the screenwriter of the tear-jerking "Ghost Love" in his previous life is not named Bruce. Joey Robin? And, count the time. If you don't show up. The film may already be in production.
Although the director of "Small Island Cry" is Jonathan Demme. But at this party, there is no doubt that Eric is the most attention-getting person, so just as he approached the long table with the buffet, a group of people who were chatting immediately surrounded him and started enthusiastically Self introduction.
Eric received the business cards handed over by these people one by one, and politely distributed his business cards, before pretending to ask casually: "I seem to have heard words like ghosts just now, what are you guys talking about?" ?”
Everyone just didn't know what topic to find to have a close relationship with Erica. Hearing his initiative to ask questions, the middle-aged man who was called Mr. Jaffe by Bruce immediately said: "It's a script, about a murdered bank clerk who turned into a ghost to protect his girlfriend from being hurt by villains."
Eric remembered the self-introduction of this middle-aged man named Charles Jaffe just now. He seemed to be a vice president of Paramount, and thought that the other party must have been trained by Barry Diller's high-concept film concept back then. When it came out, one sentence summed up the plot of "The Love Between Humans and Ghosts".
At the same time, Eric became more certain about his guess just now. The middle-aged man wearing glasses who was pushed to the periphery of the crowd must be Bruce Joy Robin, the screenwriter of "Ghost Love".
Although after entering Hollywood, Eric has repeatedly sorted out and recalled the well-known films of the past few years, trying to win the shooting rights of some films as much as possible. But after some investigation, it was found that many film copyrights had been acquired by major film companies. Others were nowhere to be found.
"Ghost Love" is one of the scripts that can't be found. Before this movie, Bruce Joy Robin didn't have any fame in Hollywood. After Eric made some inquiries, he couldn't even find him.
In the end, Eric could only decide to take one step at a time, because "The Love of Ghosts" was released in the summer of 1990. According to the general production process of movies in parallel time and space, preparations for this movie should have started this year, and the script appeared. The time must be earlier, maybe he appeared before time travel, so it is impossible for Eric to copy it and use it directly.
Eric didn't show any interest in the script right away, he glanced at Bruce Joy Robin inadvertently, and focused on chatting with the group of people around him.
Don't look at the enthusiasm of these big company executives or well-known producers now, based on his current experience in making all the movies that sell well, if he dares to show his interest in the script of "The Love of Ghosts" on the spot , then these people will definitely turn their faces and join the ranks of snatching the script immediately.
After chatting for a while, Eric separated from these people. The whole process did not have any communication with Bruce Joy Robin. Since the other party had already appeared, it would be much easier to find this person afterwards.
But many things are always unexpected. As soon as he walked away, Bruce Joy Robin caught up with him: "Mr. Williams..."
Behind Eric, the red-haired middle-aged man who had just beaten Bruce Joy Robin saw his actions, smiled and said to Charles Jaffe: "It seems that Bruce is still not reconciled, let's go again Got to pester Williams."
Charles Jaffe took a deep look at the back of the middle-aged man who was catching up with Eric, and said, "Brian, do you think Williams will read that script?"
"Who knows, but from Eric Williams' point of view, if he falls in love with that script..." the red-haired middle-aged man named Brian stopped immediately and exchanged words with Charles Jaffe. They looked at each other, and then they all separated as if nothing had happened.
The two are just acquaintances, and Charles Jaffe is the vice president of Paramount, and he works at Warner. If Eric determines the potential of this script and competes, the two must be rivals. After hearing the conversation between Charles and Brian, several people around turned their gazes in Eric's direction.
Eric is also having a terrible headache now. Bruce Joy Robin has already started to narrate the plot of "Ghost Love", what can he do now
Pretend to ignore it? After that party, if he was enthusiastically approached by others, Bruce Joy Robin was not a fool, and it would be even more troublesome then.
Severely criticize the script? It is estimated that there may be no chance of cooperation.
Neither of the first two methods worked, and if he expressed interest in the script on the spot...
With this thought, Eric couldn't help but look around, and many people had already turned their attention to them, especially those who had just chatted.
These people are all human beings. As long as he dares to reveal his thoughts, he will fight for it afterwards. Among the wolves, tigers and leopards who are staring at him, Firefly can only be regarded as a thin hyena at best. (To be continued..)