I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 770

[Chapter 762 The Youngest Bond Girl]

After Christina left, Eric lay in the bathtub and closed his eyes, thinking about what had just happened, and unconsciously had some thoughts in his heart.

I changed my clothes and went downstairs feeling comfortable.

The weather in Los Angeles in December is short. After seven o’clock, it is already dusk outside, but the villa hall is brightly lit and crowded with people.

The party has already started.

Noticing Eric’s appearance, many people came up to say hello, and Eric smiled.

After a while, Drew walked over with a brown-haired woman in her thirties, and the people chatting beside Eric recognized Drew and the woman beside her, and knew that some of them might have business affairs. Talk and leave wisely.

The brown-haired woman next to Drew is named Barbara Bullocky, the current head of the family behind the 007 series.

Control of the James Bond franchise has been in the hands of the Bullockley family since production began on the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1961.

Most audiences are accustomed to associating the 007 series with MGM, but in fact, before the 1980s, 007 had little to do with MGM, and the copyright of this series has always belonged to Ion, who is controlled by the Brockley family. Production company, in the 1970s, Ion production company partner Harry Salzman broke up with the Brockley family and sold half of the company’s shares to United United Company. Bankrupt and acquired by MGM, and then MGM owned half of the copyright of the 007 series.

However, although neither MGM and Ion Productions have absolute control over the 007 series, because they have been struggling in business difficulties these years, MGM needs to continuously open the 007 series to maintain the company’s operations. In the 007 series, MGM, one of the seven major film companies, was in a weak position, and all aspects of the film from script to distribution were firmly controlled by the Bullockley family.

The Bullockley family can be said to be completely dependent on the 007 series for a living. Barbara Bullockley is about 35 years old this year, but since the age of 20, this woman has been working as an assistant director in the production process of the 007 series. Then she went from assistant director, assistant producer all the way to the position of producer, and after her father Kobe Brockley retired, she mastered the production of the 007 series with her half-brother Michael Wilson, and these ten Over the years, she also only did this one movie series.

Of course, the Bullockley family’s strong position in the 007 series has also disappeared with the merger and integration of MGM in the past year.

For more than 30 years before this, although the 007 series had experienced many troughs, none of the 17 007 films that have been released so far have lost money, and all of them have made money. Strong reliance, and had to make various compromises to the Brockley family.

But with MGM now owning a series of blockbuster copyrights,

this dependence no longer exists. MGM does not need to make all kinds of compromises with the Bullockley family in order to start this project, but in Eric When it was proposed to integrate 007, Mission: Impossible, Charlie’s Angels and other series to create the MGM Agents movie universe, the Bullockley family, despite their reluctance, agreed to the plan very wisely.

Although he took the initiative, Eric didn’t mean to kick the Brockley family away. After all, they can say that they spent most of their life on building the 007 series, and the production experience must be completely unfamiliar than enabling them. The producer is too rich. The two women came to the front, and Eric hugged Barbara Brockley very familiarly and said, “Good evening, Barbara, you are so beautiful tonight.”

Barbara Brockley gently hugged Eric, let go of him and smiled, saying: “Thank you, Eric, this villa is exactly what everyone said, and I now hope I can have it too. Such a house.”

“Then you can visit often in the future, by the way, why haven’t you seen Michael?”

Eric was referring to Barbara Bullockley’s half-brother Michael Wilson. Barbara Bullockley explained: “He’s been dealing with some company matters in the UK recently.

” Lu pointed to the rest area not far away, and said, “Eric, let’s go there and talk.”

Eric nodded, took a glass of champagne from the tray of the passing waiter, and followed the two women together. Sit on the sofa in the corner.

“Eric, I’m so happy to hear that you’re planning to direct the next 007 film. Even Dad asked about it himself.” After the three sat down, Barbara Bullocki immediately changed the topic. Transferred to the 007 series, said: “However, I have read the first draft of the script, I think, compared to the past, even if it is the one just released in the summer, is the style of this 007 changed a bit?”

Ai Rui Ke asked casually: “Barbara, can you be more specific?”

Barbara Bullocki said: “Like in this script, I always feel that Bond in this sequel There is a development in the direction of action tough guys, Pierce’s temperament should be more gentleman, and, in recent years, we can all see tough guy movies like Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger Representatives are going downhill, and the 007 series tough guy route is not a wise choice.”

“You mean, we should continue to maintain Pierce Brosnan’s acting style in Golden Eyes, right?”

Barbara Bullocky nodded .

, said: “Golden Eye is very successful, so I don’t think there is anything wrong with this.”

Eric looked at Barbara Bullock, who was staring at him without dodging, and understood what the other party said just now. intention.

At the end of the day, Barbara Bullocky is still just trying to gain more control over the 007 series.

“If I remember correctly, the global box office of GoldenEye should be around 350 million now, and the major box office countries have probably already released, so the future figures will not change too much. The global box office of 350 million US dollars, relatively The production cost of 70 million US dollars is of course very profitable. If we continue to produce according to this line of thinking, the next few movies will still bring us a good profit. But, Barbara, don’t you want 007 to go further Is it?”

Barbara Brockley bit her lower lip and said stubbornly: “Unless you can predict the result in advance, no one will know whether you are moving forward or backward.

” Drew, leaning on Eric’s side, raised his chin and was about to say something when he felt Eric patted on the back of his hand and became quiet again.

“When everyone else is moving forward, if you don’t move forward, it’s actually a kind of retreat.” Eric comforted the little girl and spread his hands and said to Barbara Bullocky: “So, let’s not discuss it. These inexplicable philosophies of life. Let’s talk about some more practical issues, about the change of script style, on a deeper level, I don’t want to make the Bond series into a tough guy movie, I just want to shape Bond. Even more flesh and blood, he should be injured, fail, and even cry, instead of looking like a neat and spotless gentleman after a series of fights, explosions and car chases.”

“But Bond should have been a man .

Gentleman, the audience won’t mind the details you said, they just want to see what makes their blood boil.”

“With the development of special effects technology, there will be more and more movies that can make people excited, and the audience’s request It will also be more and more harsh, and at this time, if you can’t make Bond more soulful, the audience will quickly tire of it and abandon the series.”

“”

Barbara Brockley wanted to say something, but was stopped by Eric, saying: “Let’s put it this way, Barbara, I can promise you that the power that the Brockley family enjoys in the 007 series will always be there. If you want to continue, the share of benefits you have enjoyed in the past will not change. If you want, you can always serve as the producer of the 007 series, but the premise of all this is that the 007 series must be in the overall interests of MGM’s development, if you Still want to firmly control all the power of the 007 series as before, I can tell you now, there is no such possibility. Moreover, now MGM will not make compromises with Ion Productions , now that we leave 007, we can still survive well, but Ion Productions will be penniless.”

Hearing Eric’s increasingly serious tone, Barbara Bullocky felt a strong anger in her heart, but The air quickly disappeared.

Eric patiently gave Barbara Bullock time to think about it, sipped the champagne in his hand, and looked around at the guests around him. He caught a small pink figure wandering around, smiled, and turned towards Christie. Na waved her hand, and the girl immediately floated over.

“Hey, Drew,” Christina came to a few people, but she greeted Drew obediently first, making Eric dumbfounded. It seems that the girl’s weight in this girl’s heart is a bit higher than his. .

Drew just nodded casually, Eric patted the other side of himself, Christina sat down in a restrained manner, and looked curiously at Barbara Bullocky on the sofa diagonally opposite.

“Eric,” Barbara Brockley spoke again after a while, with a hint of compromise in her tone, and said, “The 007 series is my father’s lifelong effort, I just hope that, no matter what, you, you, Can take it very seriously.”

“Of course, if I hadn’t really liked the series, I wouldn’t have directed a sequel myself,” Eric assured Barbara Bullocky, knowing that the other party was no longer planning to seek any more control. , After speaking, he patted Christina’s thin shoulder beside him and said, “By the way, Barbara, I have an idea recently, um, let me introduce to you first, this is Christina Aguilera, Christie, this is Ms. Barbara Brockley, and all the 007 movies you’ve seen are made by their family.”

“Nice to meet you, Ms. Brockley, I really like the 007 series. “Although Eric didn’t understand what Eric meant, Christina obediently got up and shook hands with Barbara Bullocky, while not forgetting a small compliment.

“Hello, Christy,” Barbara Bullocky also had a little doubt, and even felt a little bad, coupled with the reluctant compromise she just made, her tone was also absent-minded.

“That’s it, the second part of the Charlie’s Angels series is already in the late stage, and there is still one left. After the trilogy, although there will be interspersed, the angels will probably enter the renewal period, which is already in the early stage. The established strategy, and in front of me, I think Christina may be one of the next generation’s angel heirs.”

Eric’s voice fell, Christina’s eyes suddenly lit up, and Drew looked at the little girl with a smile. Barbara Bullocky was even more confused.

Eric did not sell the lawsuit and said: “Since 007 and Charlie’s Angels, Mission Impossible will have various crossovers, so what do you think, the youngest Bond girl in the history of the 007 series, what about this gimmick?”

“Ah? ”

Wow!”

“Really?”

Seeing the different reactions of the three women, Eric patted Christina’s head and said to Drew and Barbara Bullock, “Of course it is true.” Yes, and it was the result of my careful consideration.”

Since the original time and space has the gimmick of the oldest Bond girl, UU reading www.

sonicmtl.com Then, in this life, why can’t there be a gimmick of the youngest Bond girl, Christina is not yet sixteen years old at this time, after this episode of Bond girl’s halo, another Charlie’s Angel will be added in the future identities, so it can even serve as a kind of bond, which can also better connect several film series.

Drew maintains absolute trust in Eric. Although there are some small eyes of unknown meaning in his eyes, the expression of looking at Christina also makes the little girl have the urge to shrink her neck, but what is Drew in the end? Neither said.

On the contrary, Barbara Brockley maintained a very cautious attitude and said: “Eric, if this is the case, the original script completely needs to be overturned and rewritten.”

“No, it will not be so troublesome, we are not Have you been looking for a more reasonable reason for Vesper’s final betrayal of Bond?” Eric said, patted Christina’s little head again, and said, “Look, isn’t it there, in the original script , In order to save her kidnapped boyfriend, this reason is too far-fetched, and now, she has a sister who was kidnapped, and then betrayed Bond because of this, this reason seems more reasonable.” (To be continued.)

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