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 rights,

This kind of dependence no longer exists. MGM does not need to make all kinds of compromises with the Brockley family in order to start this project. Instead, Eric proposed to integrate 007, Mission Impossible, Charlie's Angels and other series to create MGM During the Agent May movie universe, the Brockley family, despite their reluctance in their hearts, 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 come and visit often in the future. By the way, why haven't you seen Michael?"

Eric was referring to Barbara Blockley's half-brother Michael Wilson, who explained: "He's been in the UK recently on some corporate stuff."

After a few chats, Drew next to him pointed to the rest area not far away, and said, "Eric, let's talk there."

Eric nodded, took a glass of champagne from the tray of the passing waiter, and sat down on the sofa in the corner with the two women.

"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 the one just released in the summer, is the style of this 007 changed a bit?"

Eric asked casually, "Barbara, can you be more specific?"

Barbara Brockley said: "Like in this script, I always feel that Bond in this sequel is developing in the direction of a tough guy, Pierce's temperament should be more gentleman, and, in recent years, We can all see that Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the representatives of tough guy movies, are all going downhill, and the 007 series tough guy route is not a wise choice.”

"You mean we should keep Pierce Brosnan's golden-eyed acting style, right?"

Barbara Brockley nodded and said, "Golden Eye is very successful, so I don't think there is anything wrong with this."

Eric looked at Barbara Bullocky, who was staring at him without evading his eyes. He understood the intention of the other party just by what he just said. 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 ?"

Barbara Brockley bit her lower lip and said stubbornly: "Unless the outcome can be predicted in advance, no one knows whether they are moving forward or backward."

Hearing that Barbara Bullock had a tendency to have a hard top with Eric, Drew, who was leaning on Eric's side, raised his chin and was about to say something when Eric patted the back of his hand again. calm down.

"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 is supposed to be a gentleman, and the audience won't mind the details you say. 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's blood boil, and the audience's requirements will become more and more demanding. At this time, if you can't make Bond more soulful, the audience will be very Get tired of it and ditch the series."

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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 Bullock had a strong anger in her heart, but this anger 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 Bullocky, 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 she didn't understand what Eric meant, Christina obediently got up and shook hands with Barbara Brockley, 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 now, I think Christina may be one of the next generation of angel heirs."

Eric's voice fell, Christina's eyes suddenly lit up, Drew grinned and looked at the little girl, but Barbara Bullock 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?"

"what?"

"Wow!"

"Really?"

Looking at the different reactions of the three women, Eric patted Christina's little head and said to Drew and Barbara Bullock: "Of course it is true, and this is the result of my careful consideration."

Since there is a gimmick of the oldest Bond girl in the original time and space, then, why can't there be a gimmick of the youngest Bond girl in this life, Christina at this time is not yet sixteen years old, after this episode of Bond girl's halo, With the addition of another Charlie's Angel identity in the future, 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 won't be that troublesome, haven't we been looking for a more reasonable reason for Vesper to finally betray Bond?" Eric said, patted Christina's little head again, and said, "You Look, isn't it there? In the original script, in order to save her kidnapped boyfriend, this reason is too far-fetched. Now, she has a sister who was kidnapped and then betrayed Bond. This reason seems more reasonable. ." (To be continued.)

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