Eric was really curious, and asked the girl, "How did you coax her here?"
Drew giggled and said: "Rachel is already crazy, so I can't coax her. Until the beginning of this year, we were still looking for candidates for the role at the beginning. After the box office of "Titanic" exploded, I called Rachael and she was interested and it was settled."
Eric also remembered the interesting story about Rachel Weisz that Caroline once said. Such a tough girl who likes to drive a large-displacement Jaguar King will never be as ladylike as she looks.
Suddenly remembered something, Eric said again: "Rachel agreed, her manager must be furious, right?"
Rachel has just been promoted to a first-line actress by virtue of "Titanic", and before she has time to go further, she suddenly went to guest star in a horror movie, not to mention the issue of social status, this kind of image contrast may affect popularity if you don't pay attention .
"Yeah, they're all pissed off, even Kapoor called me and told me not to mess around like this."
"It ended up being shot?"
"Well, Rachael was also very angry. She said she didn't want to be a puppet at the mercy of the agent or something, and then she did it."
Eric smiled, but didn't care too much.
This is just a willful cameo, and the crew of "Scream 2" will definitely not subvert Rachel's image too much. Except for a gimmick, the possibility of any negative impact is not too great.
After chatting a few interesting things, Eric turned to Madonna who was sitting next to her. After all, the other party was a guest, so she couldn't seem too indifferent: "Maggie, what about you, what have you been doing recently?"
Madonna leaned lazily on the single sofa, holding a coffee cup and seemed to be listening to the conversation between Eric and Drew with great interest, and replied: "I, I am very leisurely, so, Eric Ke, do you think Firefly has a movie for me?"
Madonna is definitely one of the most popular people in the singer circle to go to Hollywood. Not only has she repeatedly failed to appear in all kinds of bad movies that can't even get into the theaters, but she also often teases Hollywood filmmakers.
Last year's "Madame Peron" can be said to be Madonna's most famous movie. At the beginning, this project almost fell into the hands of Firefly. However, considering the quality of Madonna's previous works, the production department rejected the main creative team's $55 million budget. , and finally failed to reach a cooperation. Later, it proved the correctness of this decision. Although "Mrs. Peron" won the Golden Globes and Oscars, its North American box office was only a little over 50 million. Warner Bros., who took over the project, still suffered a small loss. .
Eric thought of the string of golden raspberries on Madonna's body, and immediately shook his head timidly: "I think it's better for you to focus on singing."
"Eric, what you said is really hurtful," Madonna gave Eric a sideways look, and her tone didn't mean to be really angry. Although she seemed arrogant or even narcissistic in the eyes of outsiders, she was definitely not true. The kind of person who has no self-knowledge.
After chatting for a while, Madonna really mentioned the matter of writing songs.
Eric got up and said, "Actually, I wrote it when I was in New York, come with me."
Madonna immediately stood up with some excitement on her face, but the girl didn't follow her. She waved her hand at Eric, lying lazily on the sofa, picked up the remote control and turned on the wall-mounted TV not far away.
Eric took Madonna to the door of the study on the lower floor, hesitating for a while, remembering that there was nothing on the writing board in the study that needed to be kept secret, and then opened the door.
Following Eric along the stairs to the study, Madonna, like many first-time visitors, was amazed at the huge writing board that occupied the entire wall.
At this time, many iron man armor drawings were attached to the writing board with a magnet, and there were some notes written by Eric beside it.
Madonna couldn't help walking to the writing board, browsing the drawings of Iron Man that had been rendered in color and full of metal texture, and exclaimed: "Are these all Iron Man? It's so cool."
Iron Man's cartoon images are actually very rough, so even people who often read comics will inevitably feel amazed when they see these realistic drawings at this time.
Eric walked up to Madonna, looked at the drawings attached to the clipboard, nodded and said, "Yeah, the effect will be even cooler when the movie is made."
"I really look forward to seeing this in the movie, Eric, will you be the director yourself this time?"
"No, but I will be in charge of producing."
Madonna browsed through more than a dozen drawings with great interest, and asked questions curiously, before coming to the piano in the corner with Eric.
Eric sat down on the chair and handed over the written music score and lyrics: "Hey, take a look first."
Madonna didn't sit down beside her, took the folder from Eric, leaned against the piano, and couldn't wait to open it.
""When-we-come-alive", the name sounds a bit like rock and roll," Madonna subconsciously commented just after glancing at the title of the song.
This is originally an electronic rock song. Eric only remembered this song after listening to the title song "Ray-of-light" sent by Madonna, which also has a strong rock style, so he took it out after making some modifications. . In the future, after post-arrangement, the style of the whole song will definitely be more suitable for Madonna's new album, but these are not things that Eric needs to worry about. What Madonna needs most is a professional team.
Nodding his head, Eric replied: "Yeah, if you combine it with the song "Brilliant Light" that you are planning to play as the main song, it is..."
"When we are alive, we shine brightly."
Madonna took it immediately, with a little more excitement on her expression, and said, "This is really ambitious, but I like it."
However, after watching the whole song and humming it roughly again, Madonna looked up at Eric very bluntly, and said, "Eric, although this song is great, it doesn't seem as amazing as your previous songs, huh? "
Eric didn't mind Madonna's directness, spread his hands out, and explained: "Maggie, this is the limitation of your album's style. I can't make round biscuits out of a square mold."
The album Madonna is creating is completely different from her previous pop music style. It is full of strong electronic music elements and combines classical, rock, bass and other styles. To put it bluntly, it is actually an experimental mashup album. When Eric listened to the sample song sent by Madonna, he really didn't feel much, and it was even more impossible to search out amazing works of similar style from his memory.
To put it bluntly, Eric felt that the entire album was pretty mediocre.
However, he happened to remember that the album "Ray of Light" was once rated as one of the best albums in Madonna's personal music career in the original time and space. For the sake of freshness.
Whether it is an actor or a singer, a sudden change of style after a long period of invariance can often get good reviews.
Due to the sudden change of her previous style, Madonna actually did not have any expectations for this album in her heart, but her original path had come to a dead end, so she had to change.
Hearing what Eric said, Madonna also thought that he was also not very optimistic about this album.
However, Madonna still asked with a glimmer of expectation: "Eric, what do you think of this album?"
Eric smiled and said, "You want to listen to the truth?"
Madonna gave him a blank look: "Forget it, just tell me some lies to make me happy."
"Well, no kidding," Eric said solemnly: "Although your album is not in line with my personal taste at all, the possibility of success is still very high, and it may even become a milestone in your music career." Another pinnacle."
Madonna raised her eyebrows excitedly and expectantly: "Are you serious?"
"Of course," Eric nodded: "First of all, the popularity you have accumulated over the years is still very strong, which is the biggest basis for the success of this album. Secondly, people are always full of freshness for changes. It caters to this kind of public preference. Finally, with the song I gave you, I think you will definitely not let this publicity stunt go, right? So, I bet that the album sold worldwide At least it can reach 15 million, as for whether it can reach 20 million, it depends on your luck."
15 million, 20 million, to be honest, these are very distant things for Madonna.
It was seven years ago that her last global sales exceeded 10 million albums. In recent years, the sales of albums are only a few million. Although such numbers are still unattainable for those second- and third-tier singers, But for her, it can only be described as failure.
If someone else had said that remark just now, Madonna might just be happy as a compliment. But when Eric said it, she believed it almost immediately, so the whole person seemed a little excited. As an ambitious woman, she was never willing to be so silent.
Excited, Madonna's 'nature' was revealed, she leaned over and put her hands on Eric's shoulders and began to flirt: "Then, Eric, what do you want to bet on?"
Eric kicked the swivel chair and moved back a little, avoiding Madonna's body who wanted to sit on his lap, shook his head and said, "Stop, Maggie, I don't want to bet on anything."
"Then I'll throw in the towel," Madonna said, getting closer, her hands still slipping from Eric's shoulders to his chest, as if trying to unbutton his shirt.
Seeing that words could not restrain the goblin, Eric stretched out his hands to hold the other's wrists, and stepped back a little. Madonna's hands were restrained by Eric, her body lost support, and she fell down in front of Eric.
Letting go of Madonna's hands, Eric held down the woman who was struggling to get up, pinched the well-maintained face, and said coldly with disgust: "In this case, use your mouth, I can barely accept it .”
Madonna looked up and saw Eric's condescending gaze, and felt the strength of the big hands on her cheeks. Not only did the humiliation in the other's words not make her angry, but she felt weak all over, almost trembling and murmured: " Oh, Eric Williams, you're such a jerk."
…
After more than a month of busy work, the model of the Titanic originally located in Rosarito, Mexico has been shipped back in its entirety and completed in Firefly Studios.
Since Cameron spent a huge amount of money to almost completely replicate a large number of furniture, carpets, curtains and even tableware inside the Titanic, it is also extremely fast to rearrange. At this time, the first-class banquet hall in the Titanic model has been redecorated. The celebration banquet for the global box office of "Titanic" breaking through US$1.8 billion was held in the ballroom of the big ship.
It was already evening, and the guests attending the celebration party were arriving one after another.
Eric, Cameron, and Katzenberg stood side by side on the observation deck outside the bridge of the big ship, which is the position once occupied by the captain of the Titanic in the film.
The big ship happened to be oriented east-west, facing the Maria del Rey not far away, occupying a large area in the northeast corner of the studio, which was naturally the result of Cameron's insistence, otherwise the hull would definitely have to follow the overall northeast direction of the studio rectangle pattern.
However, it is precisely this kind of persistence. At this moment, when the sky is full of fire and clouds, the view from the railing is extremely magnificent. With a wide range of vision, you can see the dense yachts in Marina del Rey and the sparkling sea level in the distance.
"Eric, let's see, I just said that the view is the best if you build it this way," Cameron said with a bit of high spirits, leaning on the railing and looking at the guests on the bow deck below who imitated the classic poses of Jack and Rose, and continued Dao: "I also plan to build a boiler room exhibition area inside. It is best to replicate the huge drive shaft. It only needs to invest another 2 million US dollars. You know, we also keep the original props. However, Jeffrey hoped that the interior of the cabin could be converted into a warehouse, oh, can you imagine, the Titanic turned into a warehouse."
Eric smiled and looked at the helpless Katzenberg, and said: "Jeffrey also hopes that this model can be used as much as possible, Jim, you must know that if it is completely useless, maybe, After some years, we will have to dismantle this model, after all, it occupies a large area."
Cameron saw that Eric was not facing himself this time, so he retorted: "Aren't restaurants, banquet halls and souvenir shops enough?"
"That's enough, of course, but the boiler room, Jim, people won't be interested in that."
Cameron was still not reconciled, saying: "Before this film was released, many people also felt that people would not be interested in such a film."
"..."
The two sides bargained for a while, and Eric finally agreed to Cameron to build a small exhibition hall, but most of the bottom area will still be used as a storage warehouse in the studio.
After all, the huge hull of more than 270 meters is almost equivalent to the length of four studios in the film studio. If it is not used, it will probably have to be dismantled in the future, as Eric said. (To be continued.)