Chapter 224: The Treasure of Zhentai
Putting away a pile of newspapers, Eric crossed his arms and looked at the girl opposite. In this era, whether in movies or in reality, it seems that women like to wear shirts.
Of course, Eric also likes this kind of dress of a woman very much, which will give a woman a few more capable temperaments. At least he thinks this look is much better than those of the women who will wrap the messy fabrics around their bodies in later generations. Moreover, in fact, in Eric's view, shirts are also a kind of temptation for uniforms, especially when women are wearing large men's shirts, it is best to have two long legs naked...
Seeing Eric staring intently at her, Elizabeth quickly retreated from her heartless appearance. She put her arms on the desk to cover her chest, and stared at Eric with dissatisfaction: "Hey, what are you looking at? Squint?"
"I didn't see anything, I was just thinking, are you going to wear this outfit to work?" Although the girl looks pretty good, this is obviously not what a woman who is going to work should wear.
"Of course, what I want to do is your assistant, not an office girl. Do you want me to run around with you on set in a suit skirt and high heels?"
Eric glanced at the girl's slightly raised chin, knowing that it was useless to say too much, he shook his head gently, no longer reluctant, anyway, he didn't expect the girl to help him much, as long as the movie was shot When the time comes, you can hand over something to be a microphone, and the most important thing is not to make trouble.
"Whatever you want," Eric said, looking down at the drawer next to him.
Elizabeth, as if she had won a small victory, snorted softly.
Eric found a document and pushed it to Elizabeth on the opposite side with the pen next to it: "This is the contract, you sign it, and then there are the crew members of "Sleepless in Seattle"."
Elizabeth brought it over and did not rush to sign it, but read it carefully. Eric looked at his watch and didn't care, he took the newspaper next to him and continued to read it.
after awhile. Eric, who was reading the newspaper seriously, heard the girl on the opposite side say, "Eric, I'm done signing. What should I do next?"
Eric put a copy of the copy Elizabeth handed over into a folder, and said to the girl, "You can go back now. When the crew leaves for Seattle in a few days, someone will notify you."
"Ah..." Elizabeth opened her mouth slightly, and quickly realized that Eric didn't take her seriously at all, and suddenly said angrily: "How can you do this, I protest, if you don't assign me work. I I'll be staying in your office today!"
Eric scolded secretly, knowing that this would be the case, he should not have promised Murdoch anyway.
Just as he was in pain how to coax this eldest away, the office door was knocked open again. Allen came in and took a look, saying, "Mr. Williams, the screenwriters have all arrived and are waiting in the conference room. "
"Well, I'll go right now." Eric nodded and waited for Alan to leave. Then he said to Elizabeth: "Liz, you really don't need you here, so you should go back obediently. Someone will inform you when the time comes."
"I'm not leaving. Since the contract has been signed, you should assign work to me."
Eric was a little irritable. He quickly rubbed his right thumb on the side of his index finger a few times, and then pointed to the coffee machine next to him: "Since you want to work, make me a cup of coffee first."
The girl immediately quit: "I'm not your servant!"
"This is a matter of the director's assistant. If you don't want to, go home now and wait for the crew to inform you."
"You..." Elizabeth glared at Eric unwillingly. After a while, he carefully brought a cup of coffee to Eric with a sullen face.
Of course Eric was not in the mood for coffee. Seeing Elizabeth's stubborn appearance, she had to pick up the phone and press it a few times. He said into the microphone, "Alan, reprint two copies of the confidentiality agreement you signed."
Elizabeth's expression changed, concealing the slyness in her eyes, and she lowered her head slightly and stood beside her obediently. After a while, Allen sent in two nondisclosure contracts.
"This is the confidentiality agreement that Allen signed at the beginning. You don't have to read it if it is too long. As Mr. Murdoch's daughter, I think you probably know what the content is. If you violate it, not only will you have to pay a huge amount of liquidated damages, It may even go to jail. After signing, I can follow me during the filming of "Sleepless in Seattle", temporarily act as a secretary assistant, and help Allen share some work."
This time, the girl didn't ink any more. It took less than a minute to turn over the more than ten pages of the contract, and she happily signed her name.
"Okay, come with me, and, at least in Los Angeles these few days, you are not allowed to wear this suit any more, and change to something more formal."
"I see." The girl didn't refute this time, and happily followed Eric to the conference room.
There were eight people sitting in the conference room at this time, six men and two women, all in their twenties and thirties.
This is the screenwriter team that Eric specially recruited for the next TV series.
Fox TV has signed a preliminary letter of intent for equity transfer with Firefly these days, and the specific transaction will be completed within this month. Therefore, Eric has also begun to promise Murdoch's before making the last two films of the year. Prepare for a TV show and a variety show.
In the plan, the variety show will be broadcast in the spring, but the variety show that Eric intends to come up with is relatively simple to plan, so he is not in a hurry to produce it.
Another TV series will be broadcast in the fall of next year. Although Eric is at the helm, after hearing that the production cost of this American TV series is as high as 2 million US dollars per episode, Fox, out of prudence, still recommends changing the shot. The mode of simultaneous broadcasting, but Eric disagrees, not only because he is very confident in this American drama, but also because of the subject matter, if the mode of filming and broadcasting is adopted, it will definitely affect the drama because the production is too rushed quality of the set.
Originally, neither of the two sides was willing to make concessions. Eric even said that if Fox did not want to take risks, then Firefly could invest in production alone, but the copyright should not be divided equally. Even Barry Diller dared not nod to agree to this proposal. Who can guarantee that this TV series will be as popular as "Friends"?
The two sides were deadlocked for a few days, and finally Murdoch made the decision himself. Since Eric is so confident, Fox, who has a big family and a big business, dare not take such a risk. Even if the final result is not good, he will only lose more than 2,000. That's all. Even this year, Fox TV suddenly got "Friends", but there will definitely be a loss of tens of millions of dollars in the financial report at the end of the year.
What Eric wants to produce is the "X-Files" that was the most popular TV show on Fox in the 1990s. In Eric's memory, this is almost the only American drama that Fox TV can produce in the 1990s.
However, the ratings of the first few seasons of this American drama were not good. If it weren't for the support of a group of die-hard fans, the drama became popular on the Internet, so that its ratings exceeded the first broadcast when it was replayed. It is estimated that The first season was cut.
Although the first three seasons of "X-Files" have the most unique style, in terms of ratings, it was the fourth and fifth seasons after the style change that reached the peak of ratings.
In Eric's view, the reason why the ratings of the first three seasons have been not rising is mainly because the story has no main line. Although there will be a novel monster or supernatural event in each episode, this lack of main line also causes the audience to be very uncomfortable. It's hard to stay focused on this show. It wasn't until after the fourth season that screenwriter Chris Carter connected the chaotic clues revealed in the first three seasons and began to tell readers a complete science fiction story idea.
The sci-fi drama "The X-Files" was very disliked by Fox at the beginning, because although North American TV stations have tried to produce sci-fi dramas, few have been successful. So Eric thinks that maybe the screenwriter of "The X-Files", Chris Carter, known as the father of the "X-Files", didn't conceive a complete mainline for "The X-Files". The story becomes clear.
Before planning to make this TV series, Eric also asked people to find Chris Carter, intending to let the other party lead the screenwriter of this American TV series. After all, many fantastic ideas in the previous life were conceived by Chris Carter. Chris Carter is also not unknown. The other party is now working as a screenwriter under Disney. However, when the person sent by Eric contacted the other party, Chris Carter said that he was not interested in science fiction and American dramas, so he was unwilling to accept this. jobs.
This made Eric see the powerful power of the butterfly effect again. The father of the X-Files in the previous life was not interested in science fiction TV series. It's really...it's amazing.
In the conference room, Eric pointed to the end of the conference table, and asked Elizabeth to sit down before coming to the top. After greeting each other, Eric stood up and wrote to the hanging table. Walk to the wall of the board.
Picking up a black pen, he quickly wrote a word on the wall: the-x-.
"All of you here are screenwriters who are very good at sci-fi film and television dramas, so you must also realize that what I am about to produce is also a sci-fi American drama. The name of this drama is "X-Files"."
In the eyes of everyone's curiosity, Eric put down the black pen in his hand, clapped his hand lightly and said, "Then, let me briefly introduce the background of this sci-fi drama that I envision."
"The story almost starts with the origin of life. The universe is so big that we can't imagine it. Then, in this infinite universe, there are also infinite possibilities. There are billions of millions of them. Among the stars in the world, the planet that can produce intelligent life is definitely not the only one on Earth, and the Brett star is the initiator of this whole story." (To be continued)