Chapter 914: Destroying Childhood in Advance

The faint morning light was projected into the master bedroom of the City of Liberty. Eric woke up first, stroking the smooth skin of the girl in his arms with his palms, but thinking of "Iron Man".

In the script, Tony Stark and "Vanity Fair" reporter Christine ons, not only actively avoided the next morning, but also felt embarrassed when they met again, this reaction is definitely not like a fashion magazine cover for the whole year The dude who slept with the girl.

Well, it has to be changed.

Staring at the ceiling and quietly pondering the details of the script revision for a while, Eric couldn't help laughing silently.

Well, then come by yourself.

The rhythm of one episode every two years on average, and the schedule is really well arranged.

No longer entangled with this issue, Eric felt that the girl who was leaning against his chest was breathing quickly, and when he looked down, the girl's eyes were still tightly closed, and it seemed that she did not intend to wake up.

Eric smiled, and his palm began to slide down.

Jennifer, Love, Hewitt, who wanted to continue pretending to sleep, suddenly trembled slightly, clamped her legs, and looked up with a blushing face: "Eric, you are so bad."

Eric hugged Jennifer to himself, feeling the closeness of a soft and tender body, and said, "Girls say this because they usually hope that men will be worse."

Jennifer; Love; Hewitt pressed Eric's hand that was still making trouble, and said dissatisfiedly: "Why don't you bully Sarah, she must be pretending to be asleep?"

Eric turned his head and glanced at the girl on the other side who didn't know if he was pretending to be asleep. He rolled over with a smile and pressed Jennifer under him, and said, "No hurry, it's still early, neither of you can escape."

After breakfast and sending off the two girls, Eric called Jos directly; Whedon asked him to cancel the next actor audition for the actor of "Iron Man".

At ten o'clock in the morning, Eric rushed to Firefly Studios and identified Brigitte as Little Pepper; Fonda also rushed over after receiving the notice and heard that Eric planned to play Tony himself; Stark was surprised. His jaw nearly fell.

It must be ugly for a beautiful woman to drop her chin, so Eric reached out to Brigitte; Fonda lifted her chin, made her close her mouth, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go to the audition first, can we succeed? Not necessarily."

Brigitte; Fonda was very dissatisfied with Eric's actions just now, but the surprise in his heart could not be calmed down for a while, so he honestly followed everyone into an audition room.

After a busy morning, Eric and Bridget; Fonda performed most of Tony in "Iron Man" together; Stark and Pepper's opposite scenes.

In the end, including Katzenberg, Frank, Wells and other Firefly executives who were notified to come to catch up with the excitement, they all felt that Tony and Stark were tailor-made for Eric. During the audition, Brigitte; Fonda, as a professional actor, sometimes couldn't even keep up with Eric's acting rhythm.

After lunch, everyone gathered in the conference room again. Eric, who was sitting at the top, looked at everyone and said, "In this case, let's discuss what to do next?"

Frank; Wells and others have returned to work, but Katzenberg has not left, saying: "Eric, I think, in order to ensure the success of "Iron Man", next, you should lower your own as much as possible. Exposure, so as to avoid the impact of your inherent identity on the screen image as much as possible.”

"That's fine," Eric nodded, he didn't like being in the spotlight and being a behind-the-scenes 'black hand': "Then, about my role as Tony Stark, I'll announce it before filming starts next year. ."

Everyone nodded unanimously in agreement. It is now August, and the North American summer season is coming to an end, but at the same time, the release of the most popular live-action blockbuster "Casino Royale" in the summer season has also entered its ninth week.

Although this week, the expected box office of "Casino Royale" is less than 4 million US dollars, the film has entered the final stage in North America,

However, after the eight-week screening, the North American box office of "Casino Royale" has also reached more than 363 million US dollars, which is almost the same as the total box office data of 370 million US dollars predicted by most box office agencies.

At the same time, the overseas box office of "Casino Royale" has also exceeded 470 million, and the global box office has reached 830 million US dollars. With the arrival of the second phase of overseas intensive release of "Casino Royale" in September, it is only time for the global box office to exceed 1 billion US dollars. The problem, it can be said, "Casino Royale" has almost 100% locked the box office champion in 1997.

Influenced by "Casino Royale", even though Eric has always been less fond of public appearances, his presence in the public mind has been extremely strong recently. In this case, it is naturally not suitable to announce the news that he will play Tony Stark immediately.

The habitual low-key life of most Hollywood stars is not without reason.

If the media exposure is too frequent, it may be difficult for audiences to identify with the characters when they see them on the big screen.

After discussing the media operations surrounding Eric's participation in "Iron Man", naturally, the issue of remuneration cannot be escaped.

Although Pierce and Brosnan made a fuss about the 007 sequel's remuneration, but in the entire project team of "Casino Royale", it was actually Eric himself who got the most remuneration.

His salary contract is a base salary of $8 million plus 10% of the global box office share, although this time the box office share is not calculated according to the actual global box office figure, but MGM takes the studio share from the global box office. 10% of the total, but based on the situation that "Casino Royale" is now going straight to 1 billion worldwide, Eric's final remuneration will not be less than 50 million US dollars.

Of course, in the whole of Hollywood, there may be no one who thinks that Eric should not be paid so much. Strictly speaking, Eric actually took the initiative to lower his salary standard. After all, if it is another Hollywood director, making a movie with a global box office of 1 billion US dollars, it will definitely not stop without taking 100 million or 200 million US dollars from it.

Now, Eric is going to change his identity to play Tony; Stark, if it is serious, the salary is really difficult to calculate.

Whether it is MGM or Firefly, although the control is firmly in the hands of Eric, the equity is not entirely owned by Eric alone. Therefore, even if it is shooting a movie of his own company, his own interests and the interests of the company still have to be The allocation is clear, otherwise you will inevitably encounter some unnecessary troubles in the future.

Naturally, Eric would not waste too much time on this issue. He just signed a newcomer contract according to the remuneration plan formulated in advance by Marvel Pictures, and took a symbolic $500,000. As for the future, Eric has also set his maximum salary cap at $20 million, which is the highest salary set by the Marvel system for its actors, and Eric will naturally not take the initiative to break this limit.

At the end of the day's meeting, when Eric and Katzenberg had dinner, he handed him another document that he took the time to write today.

Katzenberg looked at the list in his hand and said, "Garfield, Scooby-Doo, Teddy Bear, um, and Japanese horror movies, Eric, what do these mean?"

"Copyright," Eric took a sip of red wine and said, "I sorted it out in the last few days. You asked the copyright department to buy the copyrights of the three animated toy images of Garfield, Scooby-Doo and Teddy Bear as soon as possible. I'm going to make a live-action hybrid movie, just like the original "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", but this time we're going with 3D animation. As for the Japanese horror movie, this is the one I watched last night in "The Exorcism" When I thought of "The Devil", although teen horror movies have become popular in recent years, movies that can really bring fear to people will always be very marketable. In this regard, Japanese horror movies are actually very good. So, you I recently sent someone to Japan to collect some Japanese horror movie scripts, and I'll see if I'm interested."

In fact, this document was one after another that Eric thought of when he was with Sarah and Jennifer last night.

Speaking of which, these two girls not only have many similarities in height, appearance and temperament, but even the star journeys in the original time and space are very similar.

In addition to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer that brought Sarah; Michelle; Gellar greater fame, both girls starred in a string of teen horror films in the late nineties, too, entering the new millennium, The two starred in "Scooby-Doo" and the other in "Garfield", and then participated in several Japanese horror films. And none of these are very good movies at the box office.

"Scooby-Doo" and "Garfield" are already very classic cartoons, and "Teddy Bear" is completely Eric's temporary evil interest, intending to destroy his childhood in advance.

As for Japanese horror films, in my memory, the most classic Japanese horror films, such as "Midnight Bell" and "The Grudge", have not appeared yet, so Eric simply asked Katzenberg to take The way of casting a wide net, just go to Japan to collect the scripts of horror movies, and it is easy to find a few classics.

After listening to Eric's explanation, Katzenberg remembered that Drew had searched for script rights everywhere and even caused all Hollywood film companies to scramble for them. The script rights of those years have now almost become Hollywood box office hits and other films.

He carefully collected the documents in his hand, and Katzenberg asked, "Eric, these should not be considered mainstream movie genres. Do you, um, have a list similar to Drew's collection of copyrights? ?"

Eric couldn't help rolling his eyes and said with a smile: "Jeffrey, my energy is also limited, and it is impossible to focus on these things all day long. And, you do the math, what we have stored in our hands now. Copyright projects, not to mention the Marvel series that have been developed for decades, as well as "Transformers", "The Lord of the Rings" and the soon to be published "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", I dare say, among them Any one of them is almost enough for a film company to eat for ten or eight years."

Katzenberg grinned and said, "Of course, but the more good projects, the better. Well, you just gave it to me, and I'll get in touch with the copyright owner as soon as possible. Those three It is a live-action animation combined with a movie, which one do you plan to make first? I personally participated in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", and this type of movie requires preparations for a long time in advance."

Eric only has some general impressions of "Scooby-Doo" and "Garfield", but he has actually seen "Teddy Bear". However, he has a little experience, it is this type of film, the sequel usually box office Both are relatively poor, because after watching the first part, it is easy for the audience to get a sense of novelty.

"Then "Teddy Bear"," Eric said to Katzenberg with a smile: "You buy the copyright first, and I will come up with a rough plan."

Leaving Pointe Manor, Sarah; Michelle; Gellar and Jennifer; Love;

At least the excitement was good, Eric; Williams made them breakfast himself.

They naturally want to get something from Eric, but this kind of thing is usually impossible to say too straightforwardly. They have also heard of many girls in Hollywood who still get nothing after sleeping with a director or producer. If they want to convince themselves to calm down as much as possible, it is a dream.

However, on the third day, they still got some good news. They were informed by their agent that the two heroines of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" fell on them.

Thinking of what Eric said that the two of them were not suitable for appearing in a movie, the two girls naturally felt that this matter must be the result of Eric's intervention, but then, the two girls had an inexplicable feeling in their hearts. of loss. Perhaps, after getting these two roles, Eric will definitely not have any contact with them in the future.

It's still a deal.

But this time, the two girls guessed wrong.

In the following days, Eric devoted himself to the audition for a supporting role in "Iron Man", but he forgot about it unknowingly. He had thought about handing over the two heroine positions of "Garfield" and "Scooby-Doo" to Jennifer and Sarah again in the future, but this was only from the perspective of the two of them really suitable for these films.

While Hollywood has never lacked the idea of ​​a cast and crew making certain deals with their characters, Eric never had that in mind. After all, if you want a movie to be successful, this kind of self-control is necessary. If a movie is cast improperly, it will lose millions of dollars. People who are a little more rational in Hollywood understand this truth. No woman is worth so much money. (To be continued.)