After talking about "Titanic" with Katzenberg, Eric returned to Angle Manor by car.
As twilight deepened, Eric walked into the villa, walked through the hall to the glass curtain wall, and saw Nicole sitting lazily on the sofa, holding a comic and reading it with gusto.
That's right, it's a comic.
There are thousands of various comics piled up around the sofa where Eric often rests by the curtain wall. Back in the United States, while working on the post-production of "Casino Royale", Eric also began to prepare for the Marvel Cinematic Universe plan in advance , although it is planned to launch the first Marvel superhero movie "Spider-Man" until around 2000, but starting next year, it is necessary to plan the layout of the entire Marvel movie universe, Eric does not want to repeat the original time and space Because Warner hastily launched the DC movie universe, one after another was either a box office failure or word-of-mouth unlucky experience.
The main setting of the Marvel Cinematic Universe project is still in charge of Marvel. However, if Eric wants to participate in the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe project, he must also have a full understanding of the comic characters under Marvel.
The thousands of comics in front of me were all moved out of the New York Marvel Works Archives. When Eric used these comics, Mr. Stan Lee repeated to Eric more than once that he would return them after reading them. , because of decades of accumulation, many of these comics have become very expensive collector's editions. Many Americans have a hobby of collecting comics. As a super comic fan, Nicolas Cage even spent hundreds of dollars on comic collections. Ten thousand U.S. dollars. Therefore, the pile of comics that look even a little old in front of us is enough to make any senior comic fan have the idea of robbing his house.
Noticing Eric's appearance, Nicole raised her head, smiled at him, took off the earphones hidden in her hair, and said, "Eric, you're back."
Eric nodded, took off his coat, and walked over. Nicole put down her cross-legged legs and moved aside, and the two squeezed into a single sofa and sat down.
Putting on a headset that Nicole had just taken off, Eric asked, "Where's Jason?"
Thanksgiving is coming soon, and the girl is busy with the promotion of "Mission: Impossible 2" these days. Eric will spend this Thanksgiving with Nicole and Famke. After Thanksgiving, after the release of "Mission: Impossible 2", Eric will take Xiao Nizi to New York to spend Christmas with women and children.
Nicole recently liked the MP3 player just developed by Firefly Electronics, which can be put in the pocket. She also put on another earphone, enjoying the music from the earphone, and said: "She went to the supermarket , By the way, Eric, before you came back, Ms. Haines sent some documents, saying that they were sent from New York."
Eric put his arms around Nicole's slender waist, leaned back on the chair, and said, "Let's put it away, I don't want to see any company documents today."
After hearing a series of bad news about "Titanic" in the afternoon, Eric is not in the mood to deal with any company affairs at all.
Nicole is also aware of the tremendous pressure that "Titanic" has put on Firefly in recent times. She has noticed the fatigue between Eric's brows just now, so she no longer mentions it. Picking up the thin comic on his lap, he leaned over and leaned against Eric, and said, "Eric, I found something very interesting. It turns out that Peter Parker's parents are both CIA agents. , and saved Wolverine."
Eric knew that Nicole was deliberately provoking a light topic, and said with a smile: "If you read all the thousands of Marvel comics around you, you will find that in the Marvel comic system, almost all characters are It can create a connection. It is a gimmick for many comic companies to increase the sales of their works to have a plot crossover of their popular characters."
"It sounds very similar to MGM's Agent Movie Universe," Nicole tilted her head, and said, "Or, you got the inspiration for Agent Movie Universe from the comic book company?"
Eric nodded and admitted: "Yes."
Nicole didn't expect her random guess to be correct. She was a little excited, raised the comic in her hand, and said, "Then which superhero do you plan to shoot first?"
"Spider-Man has been confirmed, but in addition, I will cooperate with MGM and Fox, and start some other projects at the same time. In the future, I plan to bring all the popular characters in the entire Marvel universe to the big screen. "
As Marvel's most popular superhero, Spider-Man will definitely stay in Firefly. However, Eric has not yet considered which superhero roles MGM and Fox will be responsible for. The distribution of Marvel superheroes in the original time and space is certainly impossible to copy as it is, which requires very detailed planning.
Compared with DC, which has developed many successful live-action super movies, Marvel has almost no popularity base in movies. Superhero characters on the big screen, such as Spider-Man, Iron Man and X-Men, can quickly open up the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After these characters have cultivated enough market and popularity, new superheroes will be introduced. The chances of the film becoming a box office success will also be higher.
Nicole didn't know Eric's detailed plan, but she couldn't help sighing. Although it was just for fun these days, Nicole had already developed some understanding of the comic characters under Marvel. If the plan mentioned can be fully implemented, then this plan can definitely be described as grand.
"Then, if all of them are put on the big screen, there may be dozens of them."
"Of course," Eric looked at Nicole's thin lips that were slightly opened in surprise, reached out and touched them lightly, and said with a smile, "You have also read the comics for several days, and there are characters you are interested in. ?"
Nicole opened her small mouth as if to bite, watched him subconsciously retract her fingers, and smiled: "I haven't been interested yet. Speaking of it, Marvel doesn't seem to have as popular a female superhero as DC's Wonder Woman." oh."
"Popularity is accumulated slowly. If a female superhero under Marvel can have a successful TV series like "Wonder Woman", it must be very popular now."
Eric explained a sentence and stopped mentioning this topic. Even if Nicole is interested in a certain female character, it is not so easy to really want to join. Nicole's current salary has reached more than 15 million US dollars, which is the highest for an actress. This high salary is completely inconsistent with Eric's planned Marvel production plan that focuses on second- and third-tier Hollywood stars.
However, suddenly remembered something, Eric quickly said again: "By the way, speaking of it, I still have a role here and I hope you can join me."
Nicole showed a puzzled expression, keenly grasped a certain key word in Eric's tone, and said with a half-smile: "Welcome?"
"Yeah, this is a trilogy series, and it may be developed into a six-part series in the future. There is a character in it. The role is not too many, but it is very important. Among all the actresses I know, I think you are the most suitable .However, in terms of remuneration, I can only give you 3 million US dollars, because this is a group play, and although your role is important, it is not the protagonist."
Nicole blinked her light blue eyes, raised the corners of her mouth, and said with a smile: "The trilogy pays $3 million, I think Pat might go crazy if I agree. But since you said I Is the only suitable candidate in your mind, then I promise you. Now, what kind of role is it?"
With Nicole's current worth, 3 million US dollars to take over the next trilogy, as her agent, Pai Kingsley is indeed likely to go crazy when she hears the news, it's not because of her agent's commission Therefore, it has been greatly reduced, but this performance contract will pose unpredictable risks to Nicole's status as a super-star actress.
Eric stretched out his hand to hold Nicole's chin, and looked at the flawless face in front of him. Nicole is twenty-nine years old this year, at the time when a woman is at her prime, with slender eyelashes, round face, petite Nose, thin lips, everything is so perfect.
Eric couldn't help but kissed Nicole on the lips before saying, "Your character is an elf, Queen Galadriel, you know?"
"So it's The Lord of the Rings," Nicole suddenly realized.
Eric nodded. In the original "Lord of the Rings" series, Queen Galadriel was played by Cate Blanchett. In terms of acting alone, Cate Blanchett is indeed better than Nicole, but In terms of beauty, Cate Blanchett is far behind Nicole.
In Eric's view, as the embodiment of nobility, elegance and flawlessness, how can elves not be beautiful
"MGM will announce the project plan for the "Lord of the Rings" series in the fall of next year. The trilogy will be produced back-to-back, and it will probably take a little more than a year to shoot in New Zealand. However, your role should only take two or three weeks. Too long a delay."
From this summer to next year, MGM will launch three heavyweight films of the MGM Agents movie universe in several popular schedules. As long as the box office performance of these three films is stable, MGM will have enough confidence to announce " The Lord of the Rings trilogy, a huge project involving 300 million US dollars, is supported by the performance of the Agent movie universe project, and it is impossible for other shareholders of MGM to raise too strong objections.
Nicole has actually heard some news about the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but she didn't care about it. Instead, she stared at Eric and asked curiously: "What if I play Queen Galadriel?" , who will play Princess Arwen?"
Eric didn't hide it, squeezed Nicole's chin, and said, "Diane Kruger, what do you think?"
"You really spoil those beautiful babies," Nicole teased subconsciously.
In the past two years, Victoria's Secret Angels have frequently appeared in Hollywood movies, which has become a topic that many people talk about, and everyone knows who is secretly promoting this matter. Therefore, about Eric and the Victoria's Secret Angel Corps Various scandals and speculations have been spread in countless versions. The more exaggerated rumors even say that Eric has "swept out" the Victoria's Secret Angels.
The women around me have teased me about this more than once, and Eric didn't mind, saying: "I just want to make this film more perfect. Since it is an elf, it should be beautiful first. Moreover, the earliest elf legend It happens to be a creature in Germanic mythology, and Diane is German, which fits the setting 100%.”
"I'm too lazy to listen to your explanation," Nicole gave him a blank look, reached out and took the earphone from Eric's ear and put it on her own ear. Just as she was about to say something, Famke Jansen held two full With a full convenience bag, he walked across the hall on high heels.
Looking at Eric and Nicole snuggled up on a sofa, Famke Jansen said with a bit of a snack: "I ran to buy food, but you two guys are making out here."
"Hehe, come on, let's make out too," Eric watched as Famke Jansen put down the convenience bag, and stretched out his hand to pull her to his side.
Famke Jansen sat down on the armrest of the sofa on the other side of Eric, opened Eric's hand, and said, "Okay, what were you two talking about just now?"
Eric said casually: "What about you, after the New Year, what are your plans?"
The seventh season of "X-Files" is already being broadcast on Fox TV. This will also be the last of this classic sci-fi series. Although Fox has repeatedly offered very generous conditions, Brad Pitt and Famke Janssen Neither protagonist is willing to renew his contract. Brad Pitt wants to take the opportunity to enter the film industry, but Famke is a little tired. In order to save the budget, "The X-Files" has been filmed in Canada in recent seasons, and Famke does not want to continue traveling a few times a year. day of the month.
Sci-fi TV dramas are usually filmed in one go. Although the episodes are still on the air, Famke has finished all the work at this time and is in a state of rest.
"I don't have any plans for now. I plan to take a year off and do some charity work. After the new year, I plan to go to Africa with a charity team to visit refugees."
Eric immediately showed a worried look on his face, and grabbed Famke's little hand: "Baby, please, you must not adopt black children like some Hollywood actresses, if you want, we can have one together, or next year?"
Famke's face was reddish, and he thought that Eric was trying to persuade her not to go to Africa, but she was a little moved. Hearing these words, he knocked off someone's strange hand: "You don't Sympathy bastard, I've decided to leave you alone for the rest of the day, Nicole, can you help me get these into the kitchen?"
"Of course, it's time to prepare dinner," Nicole gave Eric a schadenfreude look, got up and Famke picked up a convenience bag each, and walked towards the kitchen.
Eric looked at the tall backs of the two women walking away whispering, smiled, turned his body sideways and flipped through the pair of comics next to him for a while, found a comic, and read it with relish.
There are several eye-catching words printed on the cover of the comic.
"Phoenix Awakening".
Jean Grey, the most powerful and complex female superhero character in the X-Men, can dig deeper than DC Wonder Woman. (To be continued.)