Chapter Eight Hundred and Fifty Seventh Can You Imagine

? Eric was really curious, and asked the girl, "How did you coax her over?"

Drew smiled and said: "Rachel is already crazy, so why not use me to coax him. Until the beginning of this year, we were still looking for candidates for the opening role. After the "Titanic" box office broke out, I called Rachael and she was interested and it was settled."

Eric also remembered the interesting thing Caroline once said about Rachel Weisz, such a sturdy girl who likes to drive a large-displacement Jaguar King, will never be as ladylike in her bones.

Suddenly remembering something, Eric said again: "Rachel agreed, her agent must be angry, right?"

Rachel has just been promoted to a first-line actress with "Titanic", and she has not had time to go further, but suddenly ran to make a cameo in a horror film, not to mention the issue of worth, this kind of image contrast may affect popularity if you are not careful .

"Yeah, they were so angry that even Kapoor called me to tell me not to be so messy."

"The result was still shot?"

"Well, Rachel was also very angry. She said she didn't want to be a puppet at the mercy of her manager or something, and she filmed it."

Eric smiled, but he didn't care too much.

This is just a willful cameo, and the crew of "Scream 2" will certainly not subvert Rachel's image too much. Except for a gimmick, the possibility of any negative impact is not too great.

After a few simple chats, Eric turned to Madonna, who was sitting next to him. The other party was a guest after all, so he couldn't seem too cold: "Maggie, what about you, what are you doing recently?"

Madonna leaned lazily on the single sofa, holding a coffee cup and seemed to listen to the conversation between Eric and Drew with great interest, she heard the words and replied: "I, I am very leisurely, so, Eric K, 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 theater, but she also frequently provokes Hollywood filmmakers.

Last year's "Mrs. Veron" can be said to be Madonna's best-known film. At the beginning, this project almost fell into the hands of Firefly, but 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. It was later proved that this decision was correct. Although "Mrs. Veron" won the Golden Globes and Oscars, its North American box office was only in the early 50s. Warner Bros., who took over the project, still suffered a small loss. .

Eric remembered the string of golden plums on Madonna, and immediately shook his head a little timidly: "I think it's better for you to focus on singing."

"Eric, what you said is really hurtful enough," Madonna gave Eric a sideways glance, and there was no real anger in her tone. Although she seemed arrogant or even narcissistic in the eyes of outsiders, it was definitely not true The kind of person who has no self-awareness.

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 excitedly, but the girl didn't follow. She waved to Eric, laying 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 in his footsteps, remembering that there was nothing too confidential on the writing board in the study at this time, so he opened the door.

Just like walking down the stairs to the study behind Eric, Madonna, like many first-time visitors, was surprised by the huge writing board that took up the entire wall.

At this time, many drawings of Iron Man's armor were attached to the writing board with magnets, and there were some notes written by Eric beside them.

Madonna couldn't help walking to the writing board,

Browsing through the Iron Man drawings that have been colored and rendered with full metallic texture, he exclaimed, "Are these all Iron Man? It's really cool."

The cartoon images of Iron Man are actually very rough, so even people who often read cartoons will inevitably feel amazing when they see these realistic drawings at this time.

Eric walked to Madonna, also looked at the drawings attached to the tablet, nodded and said, "Yeah, when the movie is made, the effect will be even cooler."

"I really look forward to seeing this in the movie, Eric, will you be the director yourself this time?"

"No, but I'll be in charge of the production."

Madonna browsed 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 score and lyrics: "Hey, take a look first."

Madonna didn't sit beside her, took the folder that Eric handed over, leaned against the piano and couldn't wait to open it.

"'hen-e-e-alive' looks a bit like rock and roll when you look at the name," Madonna commented subconsciously just by looking at the name of the song.

This was originally an electronic rock, and Eric also remembered this song after listening to Madonna's song "ray-o-light", which also had a strong rock style, so he took it out after a little modification. . In the future, after the 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. The most important thing in Madonna's hands is a professional team.

Nodding his head, Eric replied, "Yeah, it's connected with the song "Bright Light" that you are going to use as the main hit, that is..."

"When we're alive, it shines brightly."

Madonna immediately took it over, with a little more excitement in her expression, and said, "This is really ambitious, but I like it."

However, after reading the whole song and humming it again, Madonna looked up at Eric very bluntly and said, "Eric, although this song is great, it doesn't seem to be as amazing as you used to be? "

Eric didn't mind Madonna's directness, spread his hands, and explained, "Maggie, this is the limit of your album's style. I can't make round cookies with 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 collect amazing works of similar style from his memory.

To put it bluntly, Eric felt that the whole album was pretty mediocre.

However, he just remembers that the album "Bright Light" was once rated as one of the best albums in Madonna's personal music career in the original time and space. This may be like a top Cantonese cook suddenly making a table of Sichuan dishes. For the sake of freshness.

Whether it is an actor or a singer, a sudden change of style after a long period of immutability can often get good reviews.

Due to the sudden change of her previous style, Madonna actually didn't expect much from this album in her heart, but her original path had reached a dead end, so she had to change.

Listening to Eric say this, Madonna also thought that he was also not very optimistic about this album.

However, Madonna still asked with anticipation: "Eric, what do you think of this album?"

Eric smiled and said, "Do you want to hear the truth?"

Madonna rolled his eyes at him: "Forget it, just tell me some lies to make me happy."

"Okay, no kidding," Eric said seriously: "Although your album doesn't meet my personal taste at all, there is still a high possibility of success, and it may even become the highlight of 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 foundation for the success of this album. Second, people are always full of freshness for change, and this album just happens to be It caters to this public preference. And finally, with this song I gave you, I think you wouldn't pass up a publicity stunt like this, would you? So, I bet the album sold worldwide At least it can reach 15 million, and whether it can hit 20 million depends on your luck."

15 million, 20 million, really, that's a long way off for Madonna.

Her last album with global sales exceeding 10 million was seven years ago. In recent years, the sales of albums have only been a few million, although such a number is still out of reach for those second- and third-tier singers. But for her, it can only be described as failure.

If the words just now were said by someone else, Madonna might just be happy as a compliment. But when Eric said it, she believed a little bit almost immediately, so the whole person seemed a little excited. As an ambitious woman, she was never reconciled to being so quiet.

In addition to being excited, Madonna's "nature" was revealed, and she came over and put her hands on Eric's shoulders and started to tease: "Then, Eric, what do you want to bet on?"

Eric moved back on the swivel chair, avoiding Madonna's body that wanted to sit on his lap, shaking his head and said, "Stop, Maggie, I don't want to bet on anything."

"Then I'll just admit defeat," Madonna said, leaning closer, her hands slipping from Eric's shoulders to his chest, as if trying to unbutton his shirt.

Seeing that the words could not hold the goblin, Eric reached out to hold the other's two wrists, and stepped back a little bit. Madonna's hands were restrained by Eric, her body lost support, and she immediately fell in front of Eric.

Release 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 to see Eric's condescending gaze, and felt the strength of the big hands on her cheeks. Not only did the humiliation in the other party's words not make her angry, but she felt her whole body soften, and she almost trembled as she murmured: " Oh, Eric Williams, you're such a jerk."

...

After more than a month of busy work, the Titanic model originally located in Rosarito, Mexico has been completely shipped back and built in Firefly Studios.

Because Cameron spent a lot of money to almost completely copy a large number of furniture, carpets, curtains and even tableware inside the Titanic, it was also very fast to rearrange. At this time, the first class banquet hall in the Titanic model has been redecorated. "Titanic" global box office exceeded $ 1.8 billion celebration banquet was selected to be held in the ballroom of the big ship.

It was already evening, and the guests who participated in the celebration party were coming one after another.

Eric stands side by side with Cameron and Katzenberg on the lookout deck outside the wheelhouse of the big ship, which is the position once occupied by the captain of the Titanic in the film.

The big boat is just in the east-west direction, facing the Marian Del Bay not far away, occupying a large area in the northeast corner of the studio, which is naturally the result of Cameron's insistence, otherwise the hull must be inclined to the northeast in line with the overall studio. rectangular pattern.

However, it is precisely this kind of persistence. At this moment, when the sky is full of fire and clouds, the view from leaning on the railing is extremely magnificent. The three-meter-high wall of the cinema and the low buildings in the outer area cannot block the deck at all. The view, you can see at a glance the dense yachts of the Marina del Rey and the sparkling sea level beyond.

"Eric, look, I said this is the best way to build a view," Cameron was a little high-spirited, leaning on the railing and looking at the guests on the bow deck below who were taking pictures in the classic pose of Jack and Rose, and continued. Dao: "I also plan to build a boiler room exhibition area inside. It's better to copy the huge drive shaft. It only needs to invest another 2 million US dollars. You know, we also keep the original props. However, Jeffrey wants the interior of the cabin to be converted into a warehouse, oh, can you imagine, the Titanic turned into a warehouse."

Eric smiled and glanced 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 unpractical, perhaps, After a few years, we had to dismantle the model because it took up a lot of space."

Cameron saw that Eric was not facing him this time, so he retorted: "Aren't restaurants, banquet halls and souvenir shops enough?"

"That's enough of course, but forget the boiler room, Jim, people aren't going to be interested in that."

Cameron was still unwilling, saying: "Before this film was released, many people also felt that people would not be interested in such a film."

"..."

The two sides negotiated for a while, and Eric finally agreed that Cameron could build a small exhibition hall, but most of the bottom area would 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 the four studios in the studio. If it is not used, it is as Eric said, and it may have to be dismantled in the future. (To be continued.)