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Chapter 414

Although he didn't see a displeased look from Eric, Jim Carrey eagerly defended: No, Mr. Williams, that's not what Karl meant, I really hope to be able to cooperate with you. It's just that There doesn't seem to be much about the movie on the contract?

Because of the confidentiality of the project, we can only discuss things about the film after the contract is negotiated.

Carl Mexon interrupted again: Mr. Williams, I would like to take the liberty to ask, is Kim's role a male lead?

Eric nodded and said, Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have to spend so much trouble. Moreover, I'm very optimistic about the movie project in hand, and I'm very sure that this movie can bring the male lead to the ranks of first-line stars, so this A contract is not harsh, but a very fair exchange of interests. Don’t forget, there are 200,000 people in Hollywood’s two major entertainers who are waiting for such an opportunity every day, and more than 90% of them have a lifetime of It's impossible to wait, I'm very short on time, so I'm sorry I can't give you too much time to think about it, if you don't agree, you can only say sorry, and I will arrange another candidate immediately.

Jim Carrey glanced nervously at his agent. Carl Meckson had originally planned to ask Eric to give them a few days to think about it. When he heard Eric say that, he could only give it to Jin Carrey. Rui gave him a look that let him make up his mind. But from the bottom of his heart, Carl Makerson still hopes that Jim Carrey can agree. As Eric said, many actors who have been in Hollywood may not necessarily get such an opportunity in their lifetime.

Jim Carrey quickly made up his mind and asked, Mr. Williams. Are we going to sign now?

Eric showed a faint smile: Yes. Of course. You can also notify your lawyer to come over and review the contract again. If there is no problem, we can sign the contract in the morning, and you will see it within a week. to the script.

Jim Carrey exchanged glances with the agent again, then nodded in agreement.

Eric no longer needs to intervene in the next thing. When Allen took the two people away, Elizabeth asked: Eric. You just said that he can see the script within a week. What about the script?

Eric took out an outline from the filing cabinet and handed it to Elizabeth: This is the outline of the story I wrote, and the detailed script writers are still revising.

Elizabeth picked up a few thin pages and glanced at the title on it: 'Dumb and Dumber', ah, the name is a comedy, and the name is really poor.

Eric sat down on the office chair, ignoring Xiaoyi Niu's habitual little mockery, picked up a document to be processed next to him, and took down Jim Carrey. Firefly's success in comedy over the next few years was absolutely unparalleled, and Jim Carrey was one of the rare comedy kings in Hollywood history. When it comes to Hollywood's $20 million salary club, many people list the names of a series of Hollywood superstars, but the first person in Hollywood history to get a $20 million salary was not Schwarzenegger, not Stallone, or Harrison Ford. , and it was Jim Carrey.

Eric has seen a lot of Jim Carrey's movies, and the one that he remembers most is of course The Geek in Disguise, which is also one of Jim Carrey's peak works.

The reason why I chose the Dumb and Dumber in front of me is mainly because of copyright issues. Greeks in Disguise is a comic work by Dark Horse Comics in 1980, although Eric investigated that the film copyright of this comic is still at Dark Horse Comics. There, but now to acquire the copyright of this comic, it must pay a very high price. In addition to the conceivable competitors, the dark horse comics will definitely raise the price.

However, Eric has already thought of a time to shoot. It was after the release of Cut Throat Island that Disney and Robert Shea were co-producing, and Robert Shea took the script of Cut Throat Island from him. , Everyone in Hollywood knows that once the film fails like the original at the box office, if they want to compete with Eric for the script, those people must consider whether it is another trap.

As for the Ferrari brothers, the original authors of Dumb and Dumber, there is still no shadow in Hollywood. After Eric asked the story to be registered, he handed it over to the Firefly screenwriting department to perfect it.

In addition to Dumb and Dumber, Eric also found Tom Shadiak, the screenwriter and director of Jim Carrey's other work Detective Plane, and the other party also registered a similar Detective Plane with the Writers Guild. Head script.

The original time and space Tom Shadiak and Jim Carrey have collaborated on many films, but Tom Shadiak is still an obscure screenwriter under Warner Pictures, and Eric has already started planning to dig each other out. Come here, put it on the Dumb and Dumber crew to experience, and then you can form a regular partner with Jim Carrey.

After reading the outline of Dumb and Dumber in her hand, although she didn't think there was anything special about her trust in Eric, Elizabeth did not express too much doubt, but just asked: Eric, do you have this story? Is it the right director?

Well, have you seen The Adventures of Abbie? I plan to let Stephen Herrick, the director of this film, direct this film, oh, by the way, these are your business, and I will provide detailed materials as soon as possible Let someone hand it over to you, and you just need to come up with a finished film before the end of the year.

Elizabeth said: Then what about The Endless Flower, I finally persuaded Ridley Scott to direct this movie, and now you have me preparing for Dumb and Dumber, I must be too busy.

Isn't there Drew to help you? Besides, if you are a boss, if you have to do everything by yourself, then you won't be exhausted. Wouldn't you hire a professional producer?

Of course I can think of it, but... Forget it, I won't explain it to you.

Looking at the girl's strong appearance, Eric can imagine that Elizabeth wants to train herself more: If you don't want to explain, don't stay here, I still have a lot of work to do, and I have to go to Oklahoma tomorrow. State View. Can't be back in a week. I've got a ton of stuff to deal with today.

Elizabeth grabbed Eric's words and retorted: You, the boss, still have to be hands-on. Be careful of premature aging.

No matter how premature you are, you can easily take care of you. If you have nothing to do, go out and close the door. You won't be sent.

Elizabeth snorted twice, stood up and was about to leave, she immediately sat down again, leaned on the other side of the desk and poked her head, and asked with some little anticipation: Hey, that. At the Oscars at the end of the month, you plan to bring Who... take who to the red carpet?

Eric looked up and asked directly, Do you want to be with me?

Elizabeth blushed a little, didn't dare to face Eric's eyes, lowered her head and hummed like a mosquito.

Eric shook his head: I'm so sorry, I plan to walk the red carpet alone.

why?

Because there are too many women, it's not good for me to bring anyone, so I just don't bring them.

Elizabeth glared at Eric: You are really... straightforward.

Okay, darling, don't be petty, if you don't feel comfortable walking the red carpet alone. Just bring Julia, and I'll be more generous. I won't hold you accountable for lily.

Ah, don't think I can't find another male partner to walk the red carpet with.

Eric narrowed his eyes slightly: You can try it.

Elizabeth snorted with some guilty conscience, ignored Eric, got up and left his office.

Jim Carrey signed the contract with Firefly that morning, but Eric didn't take the time to meet him again. The next day, he brought the special effects team in the digital field and several major crews of Tornado Members flew to Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is located in the south-central part of the United States, at the southern beginning of the tornado corridor of the U.S. headquarters. Since April every year, Oklahoma has experienced frequent tornado looting.

For a whole week, the crew traveled to many areas in northern Oklahoma, and this was under the circumstance that the previous Kanjing team had done a lot of work, otherwise, it would not have been possible to complete the work in a week.

In addition to choosing the location, Eric also pulled up a lot of real data about tornadoes at a meteorological institute in Oklahoma City.

A week later, Eric returned to Los Angeles with most of the people, but also left a five-person working group responsible for communicating Eric's chosen shooting location and negotiating with the Oklahoma state government about tornado. The issue of tax rebates at the time of filming, although the tax rebates in US states are not as high as they were after more than a decade, but compared to the production cost of Tornado, no matter how low the tax rebate ratio is, it is still a very objective figure.

Back in Los Angeles is already March 9. As the base of Hollywood, the atmosphere of the upcoming 63rd Oscar is getting stronger and stronger.

This year's Oscar nominations have long been announced. In addition to another horror film Silence of the Lambs nominated for best picture more than a decade later, Francis Coppola's The Godfather 3, Martin. Scorsese's Goodfellas and Penny Marshall's Silent Asking the Sky are the top movies of this awards season.

In addition, the original time and space should have a best picture nomination for Ghost Love, but this time it did not get this nomination. There is no doubt that this is not the quality of the movie. The main factor is that Eric's age. Although the film is good enough, the old-fashioned old men at the Film Academy may subconsciously feel that Eric is so young and the film has achieved enough success at the box office, so there is no such urgent need to fight for such an important Oscar nominated.

Eric has no intention of caring about this kind of thing. Even if he is nominated for the best picture, if he can't win the award, it will not be of much help to Ghost Love. Destined to be written into the history of Hollywood love movies.

In addition to The Ghost Story, Firefly has nothing to do at the Oscars. Although Catherine's The Frightening Point has received a good review, it is because of the political point of view that is biased towards anarchism. , of course, is doomed to get nothing at the Oscars, not even a single nomination.

The other two Fireflies-related Sleeping with the Enemy and Instinct, of course, only won the box office and did not do much in terms of awards. Although this year's Oscars basically had nothing to do with fireflies, but after returning to Los Angeles, Eric had to take time to attend several PR parties and personally lobby for Silence of the Lambs.

In the days before the Oscars, while doing public relations for The Silence of the Lambs, Elizabeth and Drew also started the preparations for Dumb and Dumber, and at the same time handed over the movie The End of the Dead to Reid. Leigh Scott. Ridley Scott is still famous in Hollywood, not to mention those works in memory. Now Ridley Scott has filmed works such as Alien and Blade Runner. Director and producer of the film Flowers.

While preparing for Tornado, Eric also began to pay attention to other works of Firefly's production department. In the plan, Firefly plans to release five films this year, but only Toy Story, Terminator 2 and Toy Story have been confirmed. Dumb and Dumber, in addition to this, two other films need to be prepared.

The most important thing in Hollywood is the movies waiting to be produced, and in the film library accumulated by Firefly and New Line, there are also many works that can be made into sequels. Of course, the Home Alone series must not be ignored. The enthusiasm is not very high. The reason is mainly because in my memory, the box office of the third Home Alone in the previous life is only one tenth of the second, but the production cost is not much worse than the second. Although there is no need to switch to a small protagonist as in the previous life, the unpredictable risks still cannot be ignored. Eric even plans to sell the rights to the sequel to the series.

In addition to Home Alone, Columbia has once again put forward the idea of ​​making a sequel to Dark War. This time, even Tom Cruise has moved the idea. After all, Dark War is a super-smashing work that has won a global box office of 500 million US dollars, and after Cruise established his own business, the first big production Thunderbolt can not be said to be a bleak box office, but compared with 80 million At the huge cost of dollars, Thunderbolt can still be said to be a failed work. Under such circumstances, no film company would dare to rashly cooperate with Tom Cruise to make a big movie. Just after starting his own business, Cruise was unwilling to return to the road of small and medium-cost literary films, so he contacted Columbia and had this idea. (To be continued..)

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