"I want to know why you asked Kapoor to turn down all those film offers. If some people didn't hand me the script directly, I wouldn't even know that I had received these offers."
Julia became more and more excited as she spoke, and finally pointed at Eric's nose and condemned: "Disney's "Lost in L.A." paid 6 million US dollars for the film, and you didn't even ask me for my opinion. Just turned it down, 6 million dollars, how can you be so overbearing, I am not your puppet, so please respect me... "
Eric leaned back on the sofa chair, allowing the girl to vent her emotions like a mad kitten. At the same time, thinking of Disney's "Lost in Los Angeles", I couldn't help laughing. Because the screenwriter of this script is named J. F. Lawton, who was the original screenwriter of "Pretty Woman" in his previous life.
During the days when he was in Richmond, many film companies directly ignored CAA's ban on uta, and issued film contracts to several leading actors of "Feng Yue" such as Julia and Al. If uta has always only had some low-level young actors, Hollywood film companies may be concerned about Michael Ovitz's influence, and refuse to use uta's actors with the idea that one more thing is worse than one thing less.
But now, with the fire of "Feng Yue", uta has Julia and Al as the two mainstays, and other supporting roles such as Jason Alexander are also well-known. Driven by profit, many film companies have ignored their scruples about CAA, especially the six major film companies that both hate CAA and have nothing to do. Eric even maliciously guessed that the Big Six sent out a series of invitations to uta actors with the intention of embarrassing Michael Ovitz.
Al Pacino waited patiently for Eric's promise of "Scent of a Woman", so his film appointments were rejected directly, and Al had no objections.
And Julia couldn't be so rash. Among the received scripts, Kapoor screened them once, excluding scripts with very low prices and ones that looked bad at first glance, and communicated with Eric over the rest of the scripts.
So Eric knew the script of "Lost in Los Angeles" as a matter of course. When Eric heard the name of the screenwriter, Eric was curious and asked Kapoor to fax him a copy of the script.
It's fun at first glance, J. F. Lawton obviously revised the original "3000" again, and turned it into a love story with the male protagonist as the main line. As mentioned before, in the original time and space, the original script of "Feng Yue" was the black drama called "3000", which reflected the living conditions of prostitutes in Los Angeles, and it was revised into a romantic comedy during the final shooting process.
And this "Lost in Los Angeles", the outline of the story is that the male protagonist went to Los Angeles on a business trip. In the end, he not only lost his way, but also had all his luggage stolen. Temporarily taken in by a kind-hearted prostitute, after experiencing some ups and downs, another pair of princes and Cinderella walked together happily.
Anyway, Eric could tell at a glance that this story is in the same line as "Feng Yue", but it cannot be said that it was plagiarized, because the story was modified very cleverly, and it is impossible for a movie giant like Disney to let Eric catch the plagiarized one. handle.
In Eric's opinion, if this story similar to "Feng Yue" is filmed again with Julia as the heroine, it will definitely not lose money, after all, the film budget is not high.
But it is basically impossible to get another box office hit like "Fengyue", just like a person who just ate a bowl of rice and is already full. If you change to an apple or a glass of juice, you may still be able to eat it. If You serve another bowl of rice...
"Hey, did you listen to me, and you can still laugh?"
The girl's questioning sounded in his ears, and Eric pulled back his thoughts from distraction, and saw that Julia had already leaned towards him, with a hint of anger on his face.
"Are you done?" Eric asked seriously, looking into the girl's eyes.
"Well," Julia nodded, her eyes met, the girl suddenly realized her gaffe, and quickly sat back obediently.
These days, she is used to flattery and praise, so she is inevitably a little swollen. But seeing Eric's serious expression, the girl suddenly remembered, it seems... the guy in front of me is not someone who needs to please her, but herself...
Thinking of this, Julia involuntarily hugged her arms and rubbed them unconsciously twice, lowered her head slightly, and glanced at Eric guiltily.
"I'm in Richmond these days, and I talk to Kapoor on the phone for a period of time every day. Al's next movie has already been set, so the discussions are all about your film contracts. As for the "Lost in Los Angeles", I also asked Kapoor to fax me a script and read it carefully."
Hearing that Eric cared about her in private, Julia felt a little guilty for her behavior just now.
"I'm sorry." The girl apologized in a voice like a mosquito.
Eric waved his hand: "I'm not asking you for credit, I just want to tell you that I have never forgotten what I promised that night. I said that I would bring a girl named Julia Roberts to Vivien Leigh, The height of Audrey Hepburn's legendary Hollywood actresses."
"I'm sorry." The girl's voice sounded again.
"But I'm a little disappointed in you now. This is only the first success, which makes you so impatient. What do you want to do?"
Eric's originally calm tone gradually became reprimanded, and the girl couldn't help but want to refute: "I..."
Eric interrupted what the girl wanted to defend: "Now, you have fame. As you said, Disney has offered you a salary offer of 6 million US dollars. Few actresses in Hollywood can reach this height. If you are short of money, go for a loan. Banks are quite generous to popular Hollywood stars. What you have to do is to carefully consolidate your position. If you want to go far, you can’t be too cautious.”
"I see."
"No, you still don't understand. I feel that you are aggrieved. Take "Lost in Los Angeles" as an example, 6 million is indeed a very high price. Tom Hanks won the box office in "Lost in Los Angeles" last year. You only got 2 million in "Flying to the Future", but if you accept this movie, it is tantamount to consuming the box office appeal you accumulated with "Feng Yue". This is not a question of one plus one equals two, but a subtraction. Have you ever seen a star take on two movies that are almost identical in a short period of time and both have great success? This is the same as those big-selling series in Hollywood, which are waiting for the audience after a few years The expectation value in my heart was raised to the highest level before shooting the sequel."