Although he didn't see any displeasure from Eric, Jim Carrey still eagerly argued: "No, Mr. Williams, Karl didn't mean that. I very much hope to cooperate with you. It's just that There doesn't seem to be much about movies in this contract?"
"Because of the need for confidentiality of the project, we can only discuss about the film after the contract is negotiated."
Carl Mexon interrupted again: "Mr. Williams, I would like to take the liberty to ask, is Jin's role the leading actor?"
Eric nodded and said: "Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have spent so much trouble. Moreover, I am very optimistic about the film project in hand, and I am very sure that this film can bring the leading actor to the ranks of first-line stars, so this This contract is not harsh, but a very fair exchange of benefits. Don't forget, two hundred thousand people in Hollywood's two major entertainer unions are waiting for such an opportunity every day, and more than 90% of them will spend their entire lives Impossible to wait, my time is very tight, so I'm sorry that I can't give you too much time to think about it, if you don't agree, I can only say sorry, and I will arrange another candidate immediately."
Jim Kerry glanced nervously at the agent. Carl Mexon originally planned to ask Eric to give them a few days to think about it.∷, Hearing what Eric said, he could only give it to Jin Carrey. Kerry gave him a look that allowed him to make up his mind. But from the bottom of his heart, Carl Mexon still hopes that Jim Carrey will agree. As Eric said, many actors who have been in Hollywood may not necessarily get such an opportunity in their entire lives.
Jim Carrey quickly made up his mind and asked, "Mr. Williams. Are we going to sign now?"
Eric showed a faint smile: "Yes. Of course. You can also notify your lawyer to come over and review the contract again. If there is no problem, we can sign the contract in the morning, and you will see it within a week. to the script."
Jim Carrey exchanged glances with his agent again, then nodded in agreement.
Eric no longer needs to intervene in the next thing. After Allen took the two people away, Elizabeth asked: "Eric. You just said that he will be able to see the script within a week. Where is the script?"
Eric took out an outline from the filing cabinet and handed it to Elizabeth: "This is the outline of the story I wrote, and the script writers are still revising the detailed script."
Elizabeth picked up a few thin pages and glanced at the title on it: ""Dumb and Dumber", heh, the name is a comedy, and the name is really not level."
Eric sat down on the office chair, ignored the little girl's habitual taunts, picked up a file to be processed next to him, looked at it, and took down Jim Carrey. Firefly's achievements in comedy in the next few years are absolutely unparalleled. Jim Carrey is one of the rare comedy kings in Hollywood history. When it comes to Hollywood’s 20 million salary club, many people list a series of names of Hollywood superstars, but the first person in Hollywood history to receive a 20 million dollar salary is not Schwarzenegger, Stallone, or Harrison Ford , and it was Jim Carrey.
Eric has watched a lot of Jim Carrey's movies, and the one he remembers the most is of course "Ghost in Disguise", which is also one of Jim Carrey's pinnacle works.
The reason why I chose "Dumb and Dumber" in front of me is mainly because of copyright issues. "Ghost in Masquerade" is a comic work of Dark Horse Comics in 1980. Although Eric has investigated, the film copyright of this comic is still in Dark Horse Comics There, but now to buy the copyright of this comic, you must pay a high price. In addition to the competitors that can be imagined, Dark Horse Comics will definitely raise the price.
However, Eric has already thought of an opportunity to make a move. It was after the release of "Cut Throat Island" that Disney and Robert Shea were co-produced, and Robert Shea snatched the script of "Cut Throat Island" from him. Well, everyone in Hollywood knows that once this movie fails badly at the box office like the original version, if they want to compete with Eric for the script, those people have to think carefully about whether it is another trap.
As for the Ferrari brothers, the original authors of "Dumb and Dumber", there is no shadow in Hollywood yet. After Eric asked the story to be registered, it was handed over to the Firefly screenwriter department to perfect it.
In addition to "Dumb and Dumber", Eric also found out Tom Shadiak, the screenwriter and director of Jim Carrey's other work "Plane Detective", and the other party also registered with the Screenwriters Guild for a project similar to "Plane Detective". Head" script.
In the original time and space, Tom Sadiak and Jim Carrey have collaborated in many films, but Tom Sadiak is still an unremarkable screenwriter under Warner Pictures, and Eric is already planning to poach him. Come here, experience it on the crew of "Dumb and Dumber", and then you can form a regular partner with Jim Carrey.
I read the outline of "Dumb and Dumber" in my hand, although I didn't think there was anything special, out of trust in Eric, Elizabeth didn't express too many doubts, but asked: "Eric, what do you think about this story?" Is the right director chosen?"
"Well, have you seen "The Adventures of Abby and Brother"? I plan to let the director of this film, Stephen Herrick, direct this film. Oh, by the way, these are all your affairs. I will provide detailed materials as soon as possible. Someone will hand it over to you, and you just need to produce the finished film before the end of the year."
Elizabeth said: "Then what about "Thelma and Louise", I finally persuaded Ridley Scott to direct this movie, and now you ask me to prepare "Dumb and Dumber", I must be too busy. "
"Isn't there Drew to help you? Besides, if a boss has to do everything by himself, he won't be exhausted. Wouldn't you hire a professional producer?"
"Of course I can think of it, but... Forget it, I don't want to explain it to you."
Eric looked at the girl's strong appearance, and he could imagine that Elizabeth wanted to train herself more: "If you don't want to explain, don't stay here, I still have a lot of work to do, and I have to go to Oklahoma tomorrow I can't come back until a week later. There are a lot of things waiting for me to deal with today."
Elizabeth grabbed Eric's words and retorted: "You, the boss, still have to do everything yourself. Be careful of premature aging."
"No matter how premature you are, I can easily clean you up. If you have nothing to do, go out and close the door, and don't send it off."
Elizabeth snorted twice, stood up and was about to leave, but immediately sat down again, leaned on the other side of the desk and poked her head, and asked with some expectation: "Hey, that. Do you plan to bring the Oscars ceremony at the end of the month?" Who... who will you take on the red carpet?"
Eric raised his head and asked directly: "Do you want to come with me?"
Elizabeth's face blushed, she didn't dare to meet Eric's gaze, and hummed like a mosquito with her head down.
Eric shook his head: "I'm so sorry, I'm going to walk the red carpet alone."
"Why?"
"Because there are too many women, it's not good for me to take anyone, so I don't take them at all."
Elizabeth stared at Eric: "You are really... straightforward."
"Okay, darling, don't lose your temper. If you feel uncomfortable walking the red carpet alone, just bring Julia, and I'll be more magnanimous. I won't hold you accountable about Lily."
"Ah bah, don't think I can't find other male companions to walk the red carpet with."
Eric narrowed his eyes slightly: "You can try it."
Elizabeth snorted a little guilty, ignored Eric, got up and left his office.
Jim Carrey signed the contract with Firefly that morning, but Eric didn't take the time to meet with Firefly again. The next day, he brought the special effects team in the digital field and several main crews of "Tornado" Members flew to Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is located in the south-central part of the United States, at the southern beginning of the tornado corridor of the US headquarters. Since April every year, Oklahoma has been subjected to frequent tornadoes.
For a whole week, the crew traveled to many areas in northern Oklahoma. This was because the scouting team had done a lot of work in the early stage. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to complete the work in a week.
In addition to selecting scenes, Eric also obtained a large amount of real data about tornadoes from a meteorological research institute in Oklahoma City.
A week later, Eric returned to Los Angeles with most of the people, but he also left a five-member working group responsible for communicating the filming location Eric selected, and at the same time negotiating with the Oklahoma state government on the issue of "Tornado". "Tax refunds during filming, although the amount of tax refunds in every state in the United States is not as high as it will be more than ten years later, but compared to the production cost of "Tornado", no matter how low the tax refund ratio is, it is a very objective figure.
It was already March 9th when we returned to Los Angeles. As the headquarters of Hollywood, the atmosphere of the upcoming 63rd Oscar was getting stronger and stronger.
The nominations for this year's Oscars have already been announced. In addition to another horror film "The Silence of the Lambs" that was nominated for best picture more than ten years later, "The Godfather 3" directed by Francis Coppola, Martin ... Scorsese's "Goodfellas" and Penny Marshall's "Speechless" are among the big hits this awards season.
In addition, there should have been a Best Picture nomination in the original time and space, but this time it did not get the nomination. There is no doubt that this is not because the quality of the film is not good, but the most important factor is Eric's age problem. Although this movie is good enough, the stuffy old men of the film academy may subconsciously feel that Eric is so young and the movie has achieved enough success at the box office, so there is no such urgent need to fight for such an important one. Oscar nominated.
Eric didn't bother to care about such things. Even if he got the best picture nomination, if he couldn't win the award, it wouldn't help "Ghost Love" too much. Destined to be written into the annals of Hollywood romance movies.
Firefly didn't have any outstanding works at the Oscars except "Ghostly Love", and Catherine's "Scary Point" received good reviews, but because her political views were biased toward anarchism , and of course doomed to nothing at the Oscars, not even a single nomination.
The other two "Sleeping with the Enemy" and "Instinct" related to fireflies, of course, only won the box office, and did not do much in terms of awards. Although there was basically no firefly in this year's Oscars, after returning to Los Angeles, Eric had to find time to attend a few public relations parties and personally lobby for "The Silence of the Lambs".
In the days before the Oscars, while doing public relations for "The Silence of the Lambs", Elizabeth and Drew also started preparations for "Dumb and Dumber", and at the same time completely handed over the film "Thelma & Louise" to Reid Leigh Scott. Ridley Scott is still famous in Hollywood, not to mention those works in memory, now Ridley Scott has filmed works such as "Alien" and "Blade Runner", and has enough qualifications to be the director of "Thelma" The director and producer of the film "Flower".
While preparing for "Tornado", Eric also began to pay attention to other works of Firefly's production department. According to the plan, Firefly plans to release five films this year, but only "Toy Story", "Terminator 2" and " Dumb and Dumber, in addition to this, there are two other films that need to be prepared.
The most indispensable thing in Hollywood is the movies waiting to be produced, and there are many films that can be made into sequels in the film library accumulated by Firefly and New Line. Of course, the "Home Alone" series must not be ignored. Eric is very concerned about the production of this series. The enthusiasm is not very high. The main reason is that in memory, the box office of the third "Home Alone" in the previous life is only one-tenth of the second one, but the production cost is not much worse than the second one. Although it is not necessary to switch to the little protagonist like in the previous life, the unpredictable risks still cannot be ignored. Eric even plans to sell the rights to the sequel of this series.
In addition to "Home Alone", Columbia also once again put forward the idea of producing a sequel to "Dark Wars". This time, even Tom Cruise has moved this idea. After all, "Dark War" is a super-best-selling work that has won a global box office of 500 million US dollars. After Cruise established his own company, the first big production "Thunder Aspirations" produced by Cruise cannot be said to have a poor box office, but compared to 80 million With a huge cost of US dollars, "Thunder Ambition" can be said to be still a failed work. In this case, no film company would dare to cooperate with Tom Cruise in a large-scale production. Having just set up his own business, Cruise was unwilling to return to the path of small and medium-budget literary films, so he contacted Columbia with this idea. (To be continued..)