Eric got out of the car outside the Fox headquarters office building in Century City, and came to Elizabeth's office with ease, but was blocked by the little secretary outside who was holding a microphone on the phone, although he recognized Eric at a glance. Ke, the other party still mustered up the courage to say: "Yes, I'm sorry, Mr. Williams, do you have an appointment?"
Eric looked at the fair-faced blonde girl in front of him, and asked with great interest: "Can I make an appointment now, well, looking at his watch, Eric continued: Just make an appointment at 4:05." gone."
It happened to be 4:05 in the afternoon. Of course, the little secretary understood that Eric was teasing herself. She knew better about the relationship between Eric and Elizabeth. It was just that she had just joined the job in the past few days, so she had no idea what to do in this situation. Shouldn't have let Eric in right away.
Seeing the embarrassment on the other side's face, Eric smiled and said, "Okay, just kidding, does Liz have any guests now?"
The little secretary shook his head
Eric said: "Then you call her and say I'm here."
Only then did the little secretary react, put down the microphone that was still connected in her hand, pressed Elizabeth's landline again, said a few words, and then signaled Eric to go in.
Eric opened the door and walked into Elizabeth's office. Elizabeth was burying herself among a pile of papers on the desk. Eric noticed that Elizabeth's shoulders in a white shirt stopped for a moment when he entered, but did not look up to greet him. The meaning, smiled, walked around the desk, leaned on the edge of the table beside Elizabeth, and said, "Why did you change to such a young secretary, who doesn't understand anything."
no respond.
A smirk appeared on the corner of Eric's mouth, and he reached out and flicked Elizabeth's crystal earlobe lightly.
ah!
With a soft cry, Elizabeth's whole body trembled slightly, and she raised her face angrily: "You bastard, I'm at work. What are you doing here at this hour?"
"It's nothing. I just came back from San Francisco and suddenly missed you. I just came over to have a look."
uh-huh
A gleam of joy flashed across Elizabeth's face, and then she sullenly said, "What's interesting about me. I don't have a spy movie universe here."
Oh, so today's little flame is here.
Eric laughed, and wanted to reach out and pinch Elizabeth's earlobe again, and said, "MGM doesn't have an animation studio either."
Elizabeth slapped Eric's hand away, and retorted: "That's obviously different."
"Okay, don't be angry, come, give me a kiss."
Eric comforted softly. She lowered her head again and leaned closer, this time Elizabeth just dodged a little, and let Eric kiss her lips.
After he kissed and left, Elizabeth's tone was still sour, and she said: ""Mission: Impossible", "Night at the Museum", "Charlie's Angels", and now there is 007, so many hot series, you will spoil her to the sky gone."
Eric smiled and explained: "It's not that you don't know the situation of MGM. Without the positive stimulation of these blockbuster series, after so many years of decline, they can't recover at all. And Fox is also very good now. ?Carey's "Liarger" should have a total box office of 180 million in North America, and the cost is only 40 million. The return rate is higher than any blockbuster film in this summer. Moreover, I heard Said that you recently negotiated with Lucas to restart "Star Wars", how did it go?"
Hearing Eric mention "Star Wars", Elizabeth's mood improved a little.
The Star Wars series has been popular for more than ten years. Over the years, things have been brought up again.
Moreover, according to the agreement of the year. Although nearly two decades have passed, Fox still owns the distribution rights of the Star Wars series. Although the bulk of the profits in this series belong to Lucas. But just relying on the distribution rights of various channels in its hands, it can also make Fox a lot of money.
Elizabeth said: "I have already contacted Lucas several times. The preparation of the project will probably start next year, and the specific release will have to wait until at least 1997."
Although Elizabeth's tone was still a little reconciled, Eric knew that this time was two years earlier than the previous life, which was not bad.
"It's useless to be anxious about this kind of thing," Eric said, picking up the document in front of Elizabeth, and casually said, "What are you busy with?"
"The script of this year's "File" is just right, how about you help me see it?"
The sixth season of "Files" is about to be produced. According to the plan, after the seventh season ends next year, neither Brad Pitt nor Famke Janssen will renew their contracts, and this classic science fiction will also come to an end.
Eric had completely let go of this project a long time ago. He didn't even watch the content of the first two seasons. He only knew that the ratings of this series were very stable. At this time, when I opened the script of the new season, I even felt a little strange.
Seeing Eric read the script intently, Elizabeth got up and pushed him on her office chair, and said, "You watch first, I'll make coffee for you."
Eric nodded. Anyway, the matter about the digital field branch is not too urgent. He put the script on the desk and continued to turn another page.
After a while, Elizabeth came over with two cups of coffee, pulled another chair and sat down next to Eric, and was about to ask, but Eric had pulled out a few pages from the script and said, "This I want the episode, let them re-conceive a new episode and make it up."
"Hey, I asked you to read the script for me, and I didn't ask you to steal my things," Elizabeth protested dissatisfiedly, and curiously picked up the few pages of the script that Eric had drawn out.
She had already roughly read the script just now, and she could probably recall the content just by glancing at it.
This episode is about a series of mysterious deaths. When traveling in a middle school in New York, a student had a premonition of a plane crash, so he got off the plane before takeoff and took some other teachers and classmates off the plane. Soon after the plane took off, an explosion occurred, killing all the passengers and crew on board, but some of these people who got off the plane temporarily survived.
However, all this is not over, but just the beginning, the few people who got off the plane by luck, in the following days. One after another died in various accidents, which was classified as a mysterious incident, which attracted Inspector Muller and his partner Scarlett to investigate. But in the end, they still failed to prevent the few remaining survivors from dying one by one, and at the same time, they did not find out any possible reasons.
I flipped through the screenwriter's materials. Elizabeth said: "I remembered, the scriptwriter of this episode is a Chinese, they have many mystical theories, this episode is written by him according to those cultures, it seems that some kind of death is demanding..."
There is no doubt that the story in front of him is "Death Comes" from the previous life. Eric just didn't expect to see this script here, and it was almost used in "File".
Smiling and listening to Elizabeth's vague words. Eric explained with a smile: "There is a kind of fatalism in the East. Their god of death stipulates that everyone has a certain lifespan. When the time comes, you must die, and no one can escape the death of the god of death. The script of this episode is adopted. This theory."
"Well, that's it." Elizabeth nodded, then remembered, and said, "I forgot that you can speak Chinese. Then do they have any strange customs?"
Eric pretended to think about it for a moment, and said, "Yes, their men can marry seven wives."
"Nonsense." Elizabeth curled her lips, raised the script in her hand, and raised her chin: "If you want something, you can exchange it."
Eric showed an expression as if he had made a lot of determination: "Otherwise, I'll give you a bargain tonight."
"Bah," Elizabeth reached out and pinched Eric's waist lightly.
Eric grabbed her little hand and said, "Okay, let's stop making trouble. I just happened to have a script for you. Now I can exchange it with you. This script is very suitable for the new line."
"Ah. What script?" Elizabeth became interested.
Eric briefly talked about the script of "Ace Powers", he originally planned to let New Line develop this series. But as the relationship between Firefly and MGM became closer, Eric finally decided to give up.
Just like Disney will never spoof its own Snow White and Cinderella, MGM will never spoof the 007 series. Although Firefly does not have much connection with MGM on the surface, Eric has been leading the MGM Agents movie universe project recently. Something is wrong.
After listening to Eric's narration, Elizabeth generally understood why Firefly didn't want this script, and said in a sour tone: "You really protect her enough."
"I will protect each of you."
"Um… "
Elizabeth hummed, slightly moved, and then realized that the word "seduce" in Eric's tone was plural, and reached out and slapped Eric lightly: "Greedy guy."
"Okay, don't make trouble," Eric patted Elizabeth on the shoulder, and said, "Let the scriptwriter of this episode contact New Line tomorrow, and I will find time to get someone to give you the script of "Ace Powers" Send it here, by the way, there is one more thing, if possible, try to pick the heroine of "Ace Powers" from among the Victoria's Secret Angels."
"I remember, but if their acting skills are not up to standard, I won't agree."
"The heroine of this episode is just a vase. I don't need any acting skills, as long as she is beautiful." Eric smiled, looked at his watch, and said, "It's almost time, I'll treat you to dinner later, and talk about it by the way." Business."
"I knew you wouldn't come to me for no reason," Elizabeth muttered, and began to pack her things, preparing to leave work early.
The two left the company together. Eric originally wanted to call Julia, but after asking, he found out that Julia had gone to England.
"Shakespeare in Love?" In a restaurant in Beverly Hills, Eric was a little surprised again when he heard Elizabeth's name.
It turns out that the Weinstein Brothers have already started preparations for the film "Shakespeare in Love" and invited Julia to play the leading role.
"Julia felt that Daniel Day-Lewis was the most suitable to play Shakespeare, so she rushed to England to invite him."
After "In the Name of the Father" and "The Age of Innocence" two years ago, Daniel Day-Lewis has been temporarily out of action for the past two years because he just got married, and his output is not high, Eric is not optimistic The purpose of Julia's trip to England this time.
However, Eric quickly remembered another thing. "Shakespeare in Love" in the original time and space was definitely the big winner of the Oscars in 1999, and also won the best water queen.
However, there is "Forrest Gump" this year. Eric absolutely does not believe that the Weinstein Brothers can use "Shakespeare in Love" to publicize "Forrest Gump".
"What is the detailed production plan of Miramax, I mean, it should not be released this year?"
"I had this plan at first," Elizabeth flipped through the menu in her hand, glanced at Eric, and said, "However, Harvey is very optimistic about this project, but he also knows that if it is released this year, this film will be the best choice in the Oscars." He definitely won't be able to win "Forrest Gump", so it's postponed to next year, Julia is rushing to England now, and she also wants to ask Daniel Day Lewis about his schedule next year."
"Oh, that's good." Although the Oscar queen in the previous life was a little bit watered, the overall Oscar strength of "Shakespeare in Love" is undoubted. of a tragedy.
Um, tragedy.
This year there is "Forrest Gump", so next year...
"Titanic" ah.
If "Forrest Gump" is what everyone expects it to be, then "Titanic" will definitely smash the Oscar with the box office abruptly.
Elizabeth noticed the change in Eric's face and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I mean, does Julia intend to win an Oscar or something?" Eric asked after thinking for a moment.
Elizabeth nodded: "She wants to try, that's why she invited Daniel Day Lewis. But this time, as long as she can get a nomination, she's not in a hurry anyway."
Julia is only twenty-eight years old. It is not so easy for an actor, male or female, to win an Oscar statuette before the age of thirty.
Hearing what Elizabeth said, Eric said: "Then why don't you wait for two years? I mean, if you don't invite Daniel Day-Lewis this time, maybe you can wait for another two years."
Elizabeth was stunned for a moment, then she probably understood, and said, "Next year... you, there won't be a film of the level of "Forrest Gump" here, right?"
Eric shrugged: "I'm not too sure about this kind of thing, but the possibility, um, is indeed great."
Elizabeth took a long breath, and then said to Eric: "Are you going to let others live?" (To be continued.)