Chapter 914: Destroying Childhood in Advance

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

In the script, after Tony Stark and "Vanity Fair" reporter Christine ons, not only did they take the initiative to open the next morning, but they also felt embarrassed when they met again. This kind of reaction is definitely not like a man who has been on the cover of a fashion magazine all year round. Sleeping son.

Well, it has to be changed.

Staring at the top plate 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 child who was leaning in front of him was breathing rapidly, and when he looked down, the child's eyes were still tightly closed, as if he was not awake.

Eric smiled, and his palm began to slide down.

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

Eric hugged Jennifer to himself, feeling the closeness of a soft body, and said, "Children usually want men to be worse when they say this."

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

Eric turned his head and glanced at the child on the other side who didn't know if he was pretending to be asleep. He smiled and pressed Jennifer down, and said, "No hurry, it's still early, neither of you can escape."

After breakfast and sending off the two children, Eric called Joss Whedon directly and 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. Bridget Fonda, who was determined to be the actor of Little Pepper, was notified and rushed over. He was surprised to hear that Eric was playing Tony Stark himself. His jaw nearly fell.

It must be ugly to have a beautiful chin falling, so Eric put his hand up and down on Bridget Fonda's chin, told her to close her mouth, and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go to the audition first, can we pay it back? Not necessarily."

Brigitte Fonda was very different from 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 Stark and Pepper's opposite scenes in "Iron Man".

In the end, including Katzenberg, Frank Wells and other Firefly executives who were notified to come to catch the excitement, they all felt that Tony Stark was just 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 rate, so as to avoid the influence of your inherent share on the screen image as much as possible.”

"That's okay," Eric nodded, he didn't like being in the spotlight, and it would be better to be a behind-the-scenes 'black hand': "Then, about my role as Tony Stark, let's wait until the 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 ticket for "Casino Royale" is less than $4 million,

The film has entered the final stage in North America, but the eight-week screening, the North American ticket of "Casino Royale" has reached more than 363 million US dollars, and the total ticket data of 100 million US dollars is almost the same.

At the same time, "Casino Royale" is 100 million, 100 million US dollars. With the arrival of the second phase of overseas intensive release of "Casino Royale" in September, it is only a matter of time before the global ticket exceeds 1 billion US dollars. It can be said that "Casino Royale" is almost 100%. Locked the 1997 ticket champion throne.

Affected by "Casino Royale", even though Eric has been reluctant to make public appearances, his presence in the hearts of the public has been extremely strong recently. In this case, it is naturally not suitable to immediately announce that he will play Tony Stark.

The low life that most Hollywood stars are accustomed to is not without reason.

If the media exposure is too frequent, when the audience sees them on the big screen, it may be difficult to develop a sense of diagonal identification.

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

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

His salary contract is a base salary of $8 million plus 10% of the global ticket share, although this time the ticket share is not calculated according to the actual global ticket number, but MGM gets the studio share from the global ticket. 10% of the total, but based on the fact 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 ticket 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 transfer to play Tony Stark. If it is serious, the remuneration 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 its own company, self-interest and the company's interests still have to be The allocation is clear, otherwise there will inevitably be 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 Studios, 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 making a live-action hybrid model movie, just like the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", but this time we use 3D animation. As for the Japanese horror movie, this is the one I watched last night. ”, I thought that although there are teen horror movies in recent years, the movies that can really bring fear to people will always be very marketable. In this regard, Japanese horror movies are actually doing very well. So, you recently sent someone Go to Japan, collect some Japanese horror movie scripts and come back, I'll see if I'm interested."

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

Speaking of which, these two children not only have many similarities in height, appearance and temperament, but even the star LU Cheng in the original time and space is very similar.

With the exception of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer that brought Sarah Michelle Gellar greater fame, both children starred in a string of teen horror films in the late '90s and, too, into the new millennium, The two starred in "Scooby-Doo" and the other in "Garfield", and then participated in several Japanese horror films. And all of these are very good movies.

"Scooby-Doo" and "Garfield" are already very classic cartoons, "Teddy Bear" is completely Eric's temporary evil interest, which is considered an early ruin of childhood.

As for Japanese horror films, in my memory, the most classic Japanese horror films, such as "Morning Bell" and "The Grudge", have not appeared yet, so Eric simply asked Katzenberg to spread the On the Internet, if you go to Japan to search for the script of horror movies, it is easy to find a few classics.

After listening to Eric's explanation, Katzenberg remembered that when Drew went to collect script rights and even snatch it up from all Hollywood film divisions, the script rights of those years have almost become Hollywood's most popular movies now.

He carefully collected the documents in his hand, and Katzenberg asked, "Eric, these should not be considered the main type of film, do you, um, have a list similar to Dang Drew's collection of copyrights? ?"

Eric couldn't help rolling his eyes and said with a smile: "Jeffrey, my strength is also limited, it is impossible to put my heart on these things all day long. Besides, you do the math, we are storing it in our hands now. The copyright project of the company, not to mention the Marvel series that have been developed for decades, as well as "Shape Gang", "Ring" and the soon-to-be-published "Harriet and the Philosopher's Stone", I dare say, any of these One, almost enough for a film studio to last 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's a live-action animation combined with a movie, which one do you want 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", but he has a little experience, it is this type of film, the sequel ticket is usually Both are relatively poor, because after watching the first part, the audience is very easy to get new things.

"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 Cape Point, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jennifer Love Hewitt spent the next few days thinking, perhaps, that night with Eric was a dream.

At least, that kind of excitement is still very good, and Eric Williams even made breakfast for them 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 Hollywood children and directors or producers who still get nothing after they get married. 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 good news. They received a notice from their agent that the two protagonists of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" were on them.

Thinking of Eric's words that the two of them are not suitable to appear in a movie, the two children naturally feel that this incident must be the result of Eric's hand, but then, the two children have an inexplicable feeling in their hearts. loss. Perhaps, after getting these two horns, Eric will definitely not have any contact with them in the future.

It's still a deal.

But this time, the two children 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 giving the two leading roles 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 ability for a cast to make some kind of deal in the middle of the pack, Eric has never had that kind of heart. 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 one is worth so much money.

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