In the kitchen, Eric sent the chef of the manor to leave, and personally put the last sweet corn soup into a large porcelain bowl and walked towards the dining room. Catherine sat at the dining table with a somewhat cautious expression. Eric put down the sweet soup and was about to start a sentence As a joke, I realized that Xiao Nizi also straightened her back, pursed her thin lips lightly and kept her eyes fixed, obviously imitating Catherine.
Seeing this scene, Eric held back a smile and stretched out his hand to rub the girl's head vigorously, and warned amidst Xiao Nizi's immediate cry: "Drew, don't be funny, be careful that I will drive you out."
"It's... ah, let go, it's this sentence again, can't you use a fresher threat?" Drew yelled and opened Eric's hand, but he no longer imitated Catherine's appearance.
Eric sat down on the other side of the long table, ignored the girl, and said to the woman opposite: "Sorry, Catherine, Drew likes to mess around a little, don't mind."
"It's okay," Catherine shook her head.
Eric looked at the two women, and slightly regretted keeping Catherine. The characters of Drew and Catherine are simply two extremes, one is unscrupulous and the other is restrained. Eric could imagine that if other women were sitting here, and Xiao Nizi imitated like just now, the result would definitely not be a cold silence.
Because of the little girl √, with a big light bulb, Eric can only talk about movies with Catherine in a serious manner, and after dinner, he sends the woman to the car in a gentlemanly manner, and the atmosphere is not ambiguous at all. However, this atmosphere obviously made Catherine feel relaxed, and Eric was holding her back. Xiao Nizi didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
"Like a log," Drew, who had been suppressed all night watching Catherine's car driving out of the manor, finally said.
Eric glanced at Drew's small waist bound by a light blue slim trench coat. He lowered his voice to 'threat' and said: "Catherine's lifestyle is the healthiest. If you continue with the current lifestyle, you will start to gain weight before the age of 30, and your weight will increase to 150 pounds. And nasolabial folds will also quickly creep up on your face, hair loses luster. Eye bags hang around all day long... ”
"Ah~~~" Before Eric finished speaking, the girl screamed and jumped on him, stretched out her little hand to cover Eric's mouth: "You are not allowed to be so scary. It will not be like what you said , I have changed a lot."
Eric smiled and patted Drew on the back to let the girl let go, and then said: "Well, I really scared you. I just said those stars who are addicted to drugs. This is the health destroy the worst."
"I haven't touched those things for several years..." the girl coquettishly pulled Eric's arm to claim credit.
Eric thought of some Hollywood stars in the original time and space, including the girl next to him of course. Because of drug addiction, although he succeeded in getting rid of those things in the end, it hurt the root of his body, or he was skinny and wanted to be fat. Get up (Julie is definitely not hungry...), or get out of shape and want to lose weight (I can only draw abs if I can't lose weight...).
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Some time before Thanksgiving, Eric had an illusion. It seems that my life is inexplicably involved with vampires.
First, Neil Jordan, the director of "Interview with the Vampire," appeared, and a week later. Neil Jordan handed Eric a production plan, which also came with a script he wrote himself. After Eric briefly read it, he made some revisions according to his memory and handed it over to the production department of Firefly. Evaluated the film's budget and approached Geffen Films, which owns Interview with the Vampire, on the rights.
Later, Eric was invited by Francis Coppola to attend the premiere of "Four Hundred Years".
"Four Hundred Years of Surprise" was produced by Columbia, because Coppola's previous films were not very successful, and Columbia was not very optimistic about the prospect of this film when it made the distribution plan, so it released "Four Hundred Years of Surprise" "The release period is on November 13, one week before the Thanksgiving holiday.
But what made Columbia overjoyed was that because "Four Hundred Years of Surprise" had accumulated a very good reputation in the early test screenings, the film won a box office of 38 million US dollars in the first week, which was a good start for the Thanksgiving-Christmas file.
Eric was not very interested in this movie at first. After all, he is an oriental person in his bones, and he does not have the cultural accumulation that he has been influenced by. Rick took them to the premiere.
The plot of this movie is not too different from Eric's memory. However, Keanu Reeves did not play the role of Jonathan Harker because of his participation in "Speed", and Monica. Bellucci's Hollywood debut is also gone, and replaced by another unknown actress. As for where this Italian stunner is now, Eric doesn't know. In the past few years of rebirth, some Hollywood stars who should have debuted at this time have not yet appeared.
After participating in "Amazing 400 Years", followed by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Although Eric was not a fan of American dramas in his previous life, there are still dozens of classic American dramas in his memory, so "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was selected Eric didn't think it was a pity that the three women took it away, since the fat water didn't flow to outsiders anyway.
However, during this period of time, Elizabeth and Drew hired several screenwriters to write the outline of the story. Even Tina Fey, who was Drew's assistant, tried to write a version, but the results were not satisfactory. Here comes Eric.
"Appoint me as a producer, but I'm very expensive?" Eric raised his head from behind the desk covered with documents, and said with a smile when he heard Elizabeth's intention.
Elizabeth sorted out a small space on Eric's desk, took out a stack of scripts from her bag and handed them to Eric: "This is the original script by Joss Whedon, the screenwriter of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", it's wonderful, It's just that it was changed beyond recognition during filming. I feel that if it was shot according to the script, the film's performance would not be so bad. It's also because of this reason. When I asked Joss Whedon to write the script for the TV series, he Rejected, some other screenwriters did not write very well, I contacted him again today. He said that if you want to let him write the script, unless you are the producer of this TV series yourself."
Eric took the time to watch the movie version of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", but he was quite disappointed. The movie version can be described as childish, especially the part where the vampires attack the school party at the end. Like a joke, vampires attack humans. In the end, not even a drop of blood was shed. Of course Eric knew that this was to adapt to the film classification rules, but the director obviously did too much.
Reading the script in his hand at this time, Eric felt like he was reading another completely different story. Indeed, as Elizabeth said, the original script is much more exciting than the movie. Joss Whedon is also a talented director and screenwriter in Hollywood, but before he served as the director of Marvel's "Avengers" series. Several of Joss Whedon's films ended in failure. He spends most of his time in the TV show circle, but because of the wonderful sci-fi and fantasy elements in his stories, Joss Whedon is quite popular among geeks.
Eric quickly glanced at the script, looked at the girl sitting across from him, and said, "I'm just a little curious. It's impossible for the TV series produced by you to be broadcast on the Disney Children's Channel, right? Besides. I haven't met Joss Whedon, either. It has nothing to do with me, so why would he think of me as a producer?"
"Of course I hope the quality of this TV series can be guaranteed," Elizabeth said quickly.
Eric rubbed the script with a faint smile on his lips: "Drew came with you, right? She must be downstairs now. Do you know why Xiao Nizi doesn't want to come up with you?"
Elizabeth subconsciously said: "Why?"
"Because I can basically tell when a girl is lying, and she knows this, so she doesn't want to come with you, for fear of revealing her truth," Eric finished, pointing to Elizabeth, and the smile on his lips grew even stronger. Nong: "But in fact, you are the same, Liz, when you lie, you will unconsciously speed up your speech, of course, there are some other small details, so I can't tell you, in case you change it and then download it. The first time I lied I couldn't tell."
Elizabeth stared at Eric for a moment, and finally said discouragedly: "Well, what a man who cares about every detail, Joss Whedon originally offered to be the director himself, but this guy has no shooting experience at all, of course I I was worried, so I bargained with him."
Eric stared at Elizabeth, and said in her tone: "Then you pushed me out, right?"
Hollywood also values qualifications very much. If Joss Whedon can cooperate with Eric, even if this cooperation is only indirect, with Eric's current status in Hollywood, it can still be a good example for Joss Whedon's resume. A nice touch to add on.
Elizabeth is always more sensitive to the pressure in Eric's eyes than others, and habitually rebounds, her chin slightly raised, and she said imposingly: "Yeah, it's just to let you have a name, there's no need to chase after him so hard. Shall I give up?"
Eric felt that Elizabeth was showing a tendency to blow hair again, so he handed over the coffee cup next to him: "Okay, okay, go make me a cup of coffee first, and call Drew over by the way."
Elizabeth reflexively took the delicate bone china mug in her hand, and she reacted after she stood up, gave Eric a slight look, but walked out of the office holding the mug as if she had won a victory .
A few minutes later, Drew pushed open the door of Eric's office, leaned over the baby's face and smiled grinningly, and then jumped in with his whole body, followed by Elizabeth, and Tina Fey finally left with a cup of coffee Come in.
Now that he decided to agree to be the producer of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", of course Eric would not simply make a name for himself. Obviously, the two ladies in front of him did not intend to let him go so easily.
However, Eric discovered another thing. Once tg gets involved in TV drama production, the development plan he originally made for tg will definitely not be tried again. In fact, this is also an inevitable trend for people to go to high places, just like the original Miramax, the purpose of Disney’s acquisition of Miramax is to hope that the Weinstein Brothers will specialize in literary films and win the Oscars for Disney. Various differences parted ways with Disney.
The box office performance of tg in the past two years is obvious to all Hollywood. Elizabeth and Drew are not safe people in their bones. I am worried that the increase in the number of tg productions will cause the distribution company to be unable to digest it.
"The heroine chooses someone who looks sweeter and has the temperament of the girl next door. The movie version of Christina Swanson is fine. After finding the actor, she must first conduct a period of physical training. You can contact John. Wu, the martial arts coaching team in his hands should not have returned to Hong Kong," Eric said, while Tina Fei sat across from him and took notes quickly.
However, upon hearing this, Elizabeth interrupted: "Eric, this is a vampire movie, wouldn't it be strange to add kung fu elements?"
Eric listened to Elizabeth's weird pronunciation of 'Kung Fu' and said with a smile: "Using action guidance in Hong Kong does not necessarily mean adding Kung Fu elements, the most important thing is that they can design some cool movements, so as to attract Audience. In the TV series, there will be a lot of action scenes where Buffy fights vampires. If the horrible fighting scenes in the movie version are still maintained, I don’t think this TV series will be filmed.”
Elizabeth and Drew nodded after hearing what Eric said, and told Tina Fey to write it down quickly.
Then we talked about some details, and after discussing for an hour, Eric said, "That's all, I'll tell you the rest when I think about it."
The three women left contentedly, and in the following days, tg quickly began casting for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
After experiencing the busiest period before Thanksgiving, although the publicity department of Firefly Pictures is still busy with the two popular schedules at the end of the year, Eric's work for the year has been basically completed. On November 19, After attending the premiere of "Speed", Eric flew to New York to spend Thanksgiving with two women raising babies in East Hampton without waiting for the film's first-day box office information. (To be continued..)