Chapter 911 Air Corridor

After the weekend, returning to Los Angeles from Ventura, Eric instructed Kelly to pick out a team from the assistant's office to follow up on the construction of private airports on the east and west coasts, as well as two Boeing 747-400s and two Gulfstream V airliners purchase transaction. Eric himself focused on casting several films and expanding Firefly Studios.

Due to the intensive casting of the "Iron Man", "Spider-Man", "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and the "Fast and Furious" series at one time, the demand for actors in these heavyweight films covers almost all ages in Hollywood. Duan, coupled with the firefly system in recent years, has made many unknown actors become Hollywood superstars.

Therefore, although the Pierce Brosnan incident just happened, which made many Hollywood big names criticize the 'stingy' of the Firefly system, Hollywood has been very lively recently, and those who want to get roles in these series The actors almost did their best.

"So, The X-Files is over, and you're still in touch with Brad Pitt?"

Pointy Point Manor, Eric is cooking breakfast with Famke Janssen in the dining room, half-jokingly laughing as she tells herself about Brad Pitt's desire to play Tony Stark asked. After the end of "X-Files", Famke did not take any more film appointments for more than half a year, but ran around to travel and started charity by the way. These days, he has just returned to Los Angeles and has been living in the Jiaojiao Manor recently.

"Shelisa called me," Famke Jansen explained, seeing Eric's puzzled face, he smiled: "Shelisa Cody, is Pete's agent, you should have met her. After working together for so many years, everyone gets along pretty well, so I'll help her send you a message by the way."

Eric vaguely remembered Sherissa Cody, a woman who seemed to have good abilities and joined icm, but he hadn't seen it for many years.

After so many years, the status of the two in Hollywood is now very different, and Eric has no prejudice against Brad Pitt, or has no feelings at all.

Bringing a few pieces of breakfast into the dining room and sitting down at the table together, Eric analyzed in a flat tone: "Brad Pitt's acting skills are still good, but his image is not suitable for Tony Stark." After thinking about it, Eric had an inexplicable smile on his mouth and said, "However, I can let him try another role, Thor. But if he wants this role, he needs to be patient. , the Thor movie won't start until Spider-Man and Iron Man are released."

In the past, Marvel once hoped that Brad Pitt could play Thor, but at that time Brad Pitt had already begun to transform into a director and producer, and this kind of comic role did not attract him much. force, the two sides could not reach a cooperation.

But it's different now, because of Eric's meddling, although Brad Pitt gained a lot of popularity for his role as the male lead in "The X-Files", after the series ended, he became another one in the film circle. newcomer.

Moreover, affected by the role stereotype of "X-Files", his development in the film industry will never be as smooth as before. However, Brad Pitt is indeed a good candidate to play Thor, and the "Thor" movie will not start in about two years.

At that point, the influence of The X-Files will also begin to dissipate.

Famke Jansen nodded and said, "Then I'll reply to Sherissa like this."

"By the way, and you, how about the "X-Men" comics I gave you?"

"It's very interesting. I like the character of Jean Grey very much," Famke Jansen said. "When are you going to shoot "X-Men", but I haven't heard any news?"

"This will take another two or three years," Eric explained: "My plan is to first open up the Marvel Cinematic Universe through the two movies "Spider-Man" and "Iron Man", so that the next project's It’s much simpler to advance, you can make a few movies in the past two years to get a feel for it, TV series and movies are always different.”

"In this case, I recently returned to the Netherlands, and my sister is working on a movie and said she wanted me to play a role."

Speaking of which, there are three sisters in Famke Jansen's family. The other two are directors and actors, but both of them are developing in Europe. Eric persuaded Famke reluctantly when he heard this. : "I just came back and I want to leave. I want you, let your sister come to Hollywood to develop."

Famke Jansen said: "My sister's temperament is much stronger than mine, and she also knows my relationship with you, so she won't come here."

Eric smiled and said: "It seems that I am lucky to catch the least powerful one of your sisters."

Famke Jansen gave Eric a white look and said angrily, "It's not your bastard."

Eric smiled smugly, finished breakfast in three or two times, and reached out to hug Famke to show his bastard side, feeling that she had bent a long leg to block her attack, and took that one. The long legs sticking out of the sports shorts hugged him and said with a smile, "Okay, I'm going to work, come and give me a kiss."

Famke reluctantly turned his face to the side and let Eric kiss him. With a smile on his lips, he muttered dissatisfiedly, "I'll buy a plane ticket back to the Netherlands today."

Eric kissed Famke's lips, and lowered his head to kiss on that seductive long leg. Hearing the girl's tickle laughter, he said, "No, I recently rented a Boeing 767. , when are you going to leave, I will send someone to see you."

After being busy for more than half a month, the selection of the actor of "Iron Man" has entered the second round, and the audition list has also been reduced from the initial screening of hundreds to fifty. Eric also intends to personally participate in the recent rounds of audition. .

However, Eric rushed to Firefly Studios, and Katzenberg also rushed over with several theme park designers.

It turned out that the team of designers responsible for the development of the Firefly Studios theme park project has come up with a plan to develop a theme park on the western block of Lincoln Avenue. Since the residents in the eastern part of the park are up for sale, the studio cannot expand to the east on a large scale in the short term, and the company can only focus on the development of the western block of Lincoln Avenue.

"Mr. Williams, you see, we can build a sky bridge on Lincoln Avenue to connect the east and west movie theater parks. Also, in order to connect the "Titanic" theme exhibition area and the west park, without affecting the For the daily operation of the studio and other areas, we can open an exclusive channel on the edge of the eastern campus, and set up some movie themes in this channel to increase interest and prevent tourists from getting bored on the road.”

Eric looked at the slideshow of the design drawings that the designer had typed out, and after listening to the other party's general explanation, he shook his head and said, "No, no one likes to walk one kilometer in a corridor, not to mention, the park on the east side was originally Should be part of a theme park tour."

"Then we can open a few gates in the area that is open to tours."

"I'm not talking about the door, but, I feel that the idea of ​​the exclusive channel you mentioned will not work. It will make people feel claustrophobic. If you have experienced it, you must know how bad this feels." Eric said, got up and walked to the slide projector, asked the secretary who was operating the slideshow to switch the pictures a few times, and then stopped on a design drawing of the overpass across Lincoln Avenue, staring at the drawing for a while, Eric lifted the His hand drew a long line in the air, and said, "How do you think about raising and extending this overpass and building an air corridor connecting the "Titanic" exhibition hall and the western park?"

Katzenberg's eyes lit up when he heard Eric's words, he also stood up and walked over, nodding: "I think this is a good idea, most of the eastern campus is not suitable for tourists, but if there is such an air corridor , they can visit the entire campus from a commanding height, which is much better than the idea of ​​ground access.”

Several designers also came over, and one of them said: "However, such an air corridor will definitely be expensive, right?"

Eric shook his head and said to the designer: "Gary, regardless of the cost, think about it, not far to the south of us is the Los Angeles International Airport, which has an annual passenger throughput of 60 million. Although the airport has a large number of passengers Part of it goes west on the 405 highway, but as long as one-fifth passes through Lincoln Avenue, that's 12 million people. If this air corridor is built and becomes a landmark building on Lincoln Avenue, it will be equivalent to free annual traffic Firefly Studios was advertised in front of 12 million tourists from all over the world. This effect must be compared to a flyover just for the safety of tourists.”

The designer named Gary nodded, raised his hand and drew a line across the entire east and west parks, and said, "Mr. Williams, if we don't consider the construction cost, then we can make this corridor span the whole thing. The park will not only form symmetry and be more beautiful, but also the four-kilometer-long air corridor will be more visually stunning.”

After Gary finished speaking, others also put forward their own ideas.

Eric has a lot of spectacular air corridors in his memory. He has also walked some high-altitude plank roads in his previous life. The design of these hanging corridors has left a deep impression on Eric. Now, since he has this opportunity and has enough economic strength, Eric naturally wants to create his own air corridor like the Liberty City villa in Malibu.

Everyone talked about it for more than half an hour, and the idea was basically finalized.

However, the idea can be endless, but in order to get a feasible plan, theme park designers need to make detailed planning, such as what form the sky corridor will take, what materials will be used, how high it will be built, and so on.

After sending a few designers away, Eric and Katzenberg came to another office building in the studio, where the audition for the actor of "Iron Man" was held.

Because they said hello in advance and didn't have to wait for themselves, the main creative team members of "Iron Man" have already started auditions.

Eric and Katzenberg nodded and greeted a group of actors waiting in the corridor, pushed the door and entered the audition room. A white male in his thirties was performing a plot with the cooperation of the staff. Katzenberg walked in and couldn't help but pause, wondering if he should continue.

"This, um, Mr. Rockwell, go ahead," Eric nodded with a smile.

Sam Rockwell didn't expect Eric to know him, so he quickly responded with a smile, found his feelings again, and then gestured to the female assistant who was reading the lines.

Eric nodded to director Joss Whedon and did not sit behind the audition table, but pulled a chair with Katzenberg and sat next to him, taking a stack of actors from an assistant. Information, looked up to watch Sam Rockwell's performance.

Sam Rockwell was selected by Eric himself among the final 50 candidates.

Historically, Sam Rockwell participated in the audition for the actor of "Iron Man", but he did not get the role, and finally played the villain Justin Hammer in "Iron Man 2", the main character of "Iron Man 2". The villain is whiplash, and Sam Rockwell's performance is not too bright, but his role as Justin Hammer is indeed very similar to Robert Downey Jr. in some details. Eric just remembered this, so he arranged the other party in this round of auditions.

It's just that during the audition, although he made a few words, it was difficult for Eric to be satisfied with Sam Rockwell's audition, and he always felt that something was missing.

At the end, Eric had a flash of inspiration and instructed the staff to find a pair of black-rimmed glasses for Sam Rockwell to wear. His temperament suddenly reached the effect of Eric, and he looked like a street no matter how he looked at it. The image of the little ruffian turned into a cynical overbearing president with a smirk on the corner of his mouth.

Unfortunately, Tony Stark certainly can't wear glasses.

When Sam Rockwell left and realized Eric's special attitude towards him just now, everyone looked over, obviously asking Eric's opinion.

Eric shook his head regretfully: "His acting skills are good, but if he doesn't wear glasses, he can't support the temperament Tony Stark needs at all. Wearing glasses will definitely not work, let's call the next one."

Joss Whedon and several others were relieved. They felt similar to Eric, but everyone knew that Eric often made some unexpected decisions, so they were a little worried. If Eric leans towards Sam Rockwell, that's not a good thing.