I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 85

[Chapter 84 Lost in Los Angeles]

“I want to know why you asked Kapoor to turn down all those film contracts. If some people hadn’t handed the script directly to me, I wouldn’t even know I had received these invitations.”

Julia said the more excited she became.

, and finally pointed directly at Eric’s nose and condemned: “Disney’s “Lost in Los Angeles” offered a salary of 6 million US dollars, and you turned it down without asking my opinion, 6 million Dollar, how can you be so domineering, I’m not your puppet, so please treat me with some respect…”

Eric leaned back on the sofa chair, letting the girl act like a mad little she-cat to vent their emotions.

At the same time, I remembered Disney’s “Lost in Los Angeles” and couldn’t help but smile.

Because the screenwriter of this script is named J.F. Lawton, who is the original screenwriter of “Pretty Woman” in the previous life.

During his days in Richmond, many film companies directly ignored CAA’s ban on UTA, and issued film contracts to Julia and Al and several other “Fengyue” starring actors.

If UTA has always only had some low-level actors, Hollywood studios may be concerned about Michael Ovitz’s influence, and refuse to use UTA actors with the idea that more is worse than less.

But now, with the fire of “Fengyue”, UTA has the two pillars of Julia and Al, and other supporting roles such as Jason Alexander are also well-known.

Driven by interests, many film companies have ignored CAA’s scruples, especially the six major film companies that both hate and do nothing to CAA.

Eric even maliciously guessed that the Big Six just sent out a series of invitations to UTA actors with the intention of blocking Michael Ovitz.

Al Pacino patiently waited for Eric’s promised “Scent and Knowing a Woman”, so his film contract was rejected directly, and Al had no problem.

And Julia can’t be so frivolous. Kapoor screened the scripts she received, excluding scripts with low asking prices and ones that looked like bad movies at first glance. The rest of the scripts were communicated with Eric by phone.

So Eric naturally knew the script of “Lost in Los Angeles”. When he heard the screenwriter’s name, Eric was curious and asked Kapoor to fax the script to him.

It’s fun to look at it at a glance. J.F. Lawton obviously revised the original “3000” again and turned it into a love story with a male protagonist as the main line.

As mentioned before, in the original time and space, the original script of “Fengyue” was the black drama called “3000”, which reflected the living conditions of prostitutes in Los Angeles. In the final shooting process, it was modified into a romantic comedy.

In this “Lost in Los Angeles”, the outline of the story is that the hero goes on a business trip to Los Angeles. As a result, he not only gets lost, but also has all his luggage stolen. The hero is quite successful in his career but an idiot in life. She was temporarily taken in by a kind-hearted prostitute. After going through some twists and turns, another pair of princes and Cinderella walked happily together.

Anyway, Eric can see at a glance that this story is in the same line as “Fengyue”, but it can’t be said that others plagiarize, because the story has been modified quite cleverly, and it is impossible for a movie giant like Disney to let Eric catch the plagiarism. handle.

In Eric’s view, if this story is very similar to “Fengyue”, if Julia is used as the heroine again, it will definitely not lose money, after all, the movie budget is not high.

But it’s basically impossible to make another big box office hit like “Fengyue”. It’s like a person who has just eaten a bowl of rice and is full. If you change an apple or have a glass of juice, you may still be able to eat it. You bring another bowl of rice…

“Hey,

did you listen to me, you can still laugh?” The

girl’s questioning voice sounded in his ear, Eric pulled his thoughts back from his distraction, and saw Julie Ya has deceived himself to his side, with a touch of anger on his face.

“Are you finished?” Eric asked seriously, looking at the girl’s eyes.

“Well,” Julia nodded, looking at each other, the girl suddenly realized her gaffe, and quickly sat back obediently.

These days, she is used to listening to flattery and compliments, and her whole person is inevitably a little swollen.

But seeing Eric changed to a serious and serious expression, the girl suddenly remembered, it seems… this guy in front of him is not someone who needs to please him, but himself…

Thinking of this, Julia involuntarily hugged her arm and rubbed it unconsciously twice, lowered her head slightly, and glanced at Eric with a guilty conscience.

“I’ve been talking to Kapoor on the phone every day these days in Richmond for a while, Al’s next movie has been set, so it’s all about your deals. As for the Lost in L.A., I also asked Kapoor to fax me a script and read it carefully.”

Hearing that Eric was so concerned about himself in private, Julia felt a touch of guilt for what she had just done.

“I’m sorry.” The girl said apologetically like a mosquito.

Eric waved his hand: “I’m not asking you for credit, I just want to tell you that I have never forgotten what I promised that night, I said that I would give a man named Julia The girls of Roberts held the heights of the legendary Hollywood actresses like Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn.”

“I’m sorry.” The girl’s voice sounded again.

“But I’m a little disappointed with you now. This is only the first time you have succeeded. It makes you so impatient. What do you want to do?”

Eric’s calm tone gradually contained a reprimand, and the girl couldn’t help but speak. Want to refute: “I…”

Eric interrupted the girl’s words of defense: “Now, you have a reputation, as you said, Disney has offered you a salary offer of 6 million US dollars, and Hollywood has not A few actresses can reach this height. If you are short of money, you can take a loan. Banks are quite generous to Hollywood stars. What you have to do is to carefully consolidate your position. If you want to go further, You can’t be too cautious.”

“I see.”

“No, you don’t understand yet, but I feel like you’re aggrieved. Take “L.A. Lost” as an example, 6 million is indeed a high price. “Flying Over the Future” only got 2 million, but if you accept this movie, it is equivalent to consuming the box office appeal you accumulated with “Fengyue”. This is not a problem of one plus one equals two, but a subtraction. Have you ever seen a star who made two almost identical films in a short period of time and both were successful? This is the same as those big Hollywood movies, which are waiting for the audience after a few years. The expectations in my heart rose to the highest level before shooting the sequel.”

[End of this Chapter]