After talking to Katsenberg about the Titanic, Eric took a car back to the sharp corner manor.

As the dusk became darker, Eric walked into the villa, walked through the hall and came to the glass curtain wall. He saw Nicole sitting lazily on the sofa, holding a comic book and reading with relish.

That's right, it's a comic.

There are thousands of comics piled up around the sofa where Eric often rests by the curtain wall. When he returned to the United States and produced the later stages of Casino Royale, Eric also began to prepare for the Marvel Cinema Universe plan in advance. Although it was planned to launch the first Marvel superhero movie "Spider-Man", it will take around 2000, but starting next year, the entire Marvel Cinema Universe plan must be planned. Eric does not want to repeat the original time and space Warner was rushed to launch the Cinema Universe, and the result was one after another, one bad experience of either a box office defeat or a bad reputation.

The main setting of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Project is still the responsibility of Marvel. However, if Eric wants to participate in the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Project, he must also have a full understanding of Marvel's comic characters.

The thousands of comics in front of me were moved out of the Marvel Archives in New York. When Eric called these comics, Mr. Stan Lee repeatedly said to Eric more than once that he would return them after reading them. Because decades have accumulated, many of these comics have become very expensive collector's editions. Many Americans have a hobby of comic collection. As a super comic fan, Nicholas Cage even spent millions of dollars on comic collection. Therefore, the pile of comics that look even old is enough to make any senior comic fan have the idea of ​​robbing the family.

Noting Eric appears, Nicole raised her head, smiled at him, took off the headphones hidden between her hair, and said, "Eric, you are back."

Eric nodded, took off his coat, walked over, Nicole put down her cross-legged legs and gave in to the side, and the two of them sat down on a single sofa.

Put on one of the headphones that Nicole had just removed, Eric asked, "Where is Jensen?"

Thanksgiving is coming soon. The girl is busy with the promotion of "Mission Impossible 2" these days. This Thanksgiving Eric will spend it with Nicole and Famick. After Thanksgiving, after "Mission Impossible 2" is released, Eric will take the little girl to New York to spend Christmas with the women and the children.

Nicole recently liked the mp3 player that Firefly Electronics had just developed, which could be kept in her pocket. She also put on another headphone, enjoying the music from the headphones, and said, "She went to the supermarket. By the way, Eric, before you came back, Ms. Haines sent me a few documents, saying that it was from New York."

Eric reached out to wrap his arms around Nicole's slender waist, leaned on the back of the chair, and said, "Let's leave it for now. I don't want to see any company documents again."

In the afternoon, I heard a series of bad news about "Titanic", and Eric is not in any mood to deal with any company affairs.

Nicole also knew the huge pressure that "Titanic" had put on fireflies in recent times. She had just noticed the fatigue between Eric's eyebrows, so she stopped mentioning this. She picked up the thin comic on her knees, leaned over and leaned against Eric, and said, "Eric, I found something very interesting. It turns out that Peter Parker's parents were both agents of IA, and they also saved Wolverine."

Eric knew that Ni was deliberately provoking a relaxed topic and said with a smile: "If you read all the thousands of Marvel comics around you, you will find that almost all characters in the Marvel comics system can be connected. Letting the plot crossover of its popular characters is a gimmick for many comic companies to increase their work sales."

"It sounds like MGM's Agent Cinema Universe," Nicole tilted her head and said, "Or, the inspiration for the Agent Cinema Universe was what you got from the comics company?"

Eric nodded and admitted, "Yes."

Nicole didn't expect that she was right in the random guess. She was a little excited and raised the comic in her hand and said, "Then which superhero are you going to shoot first?"

"Spider-Man has been confirmed, but in addition, I will cooperate with MGM and Fox and launch some other projects at the same time. In the future, I plan to bring all the popular characters in the entire Marvel Universe to the big screen."

As Marvel's most popular superhero, Spider-Man will definitely stay with Fireflies. However, Eric has not yet considered which superhero characters MGM and Fox will be responsible for. The distribution of Marvel superheroes in the original time and space will definitely not be copied as it is, so it requires very detailed planning.

Compared with the D, which has developed many successful live-action super movies, Marvel's popularity base in movies is almost gone. Therefore, one thing Eric has confirmed is that it will first bring successful superhero characters in the original time and space to the big screen, such as Spider-Man, Iron Man and Men, so that it can quickly open up the situation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After these characters cultivate enough market and popularity, and then introduce a brand new superhero, the possibility of the film achieving box office success will be higher.

Nicole didn't know Eric's detailed plan, but she couldn't help but sigh. Although she was just used as a pastime these days, Nicole had already developed some understanding of Marvel's comic characters. If the plan Eric just mentioned could be fully implemented, then this plan could definitely be described as grand.

"Then, if all of them were moved to the big screen, there might be dozens of them."

"Of course," Eric looked at Nicole's thin and moist lips slightly opened because of surprise, reached out and touched it gently, and smiled, "You have read comics for several days, are there any interested characters?"

Nicole opened her mouth and tried to bite her. She watched him subconsciously retract his fingers and smiled, "I'm not interested yet. Speaking of which, Marvel does not seem to have a popular female superhero as D's Wonder Woman."

"Popularity has been accumulated slowly. If a female superhero under Marvel can have a successful TV series like "Wonder Woman", it will definitely be very popular now."

Eric explained that he would not mention this topic anymore. Even if Nicole is interested in a female character, it is not so easy to really join. Nicole's current pay has reached the highest $15 million for actresses, and this high pay is completely inconsistent with the production plan of Marvel, which mainly focuses on second- and third-tier Hollywood stars in Eric's plan.

However, suddenly remembering something, Eric quickly said, "By the way, I have another character here, I hope you can support me."

Nicole showed a puzzled expression, keenly grasped a keyword in Eric's tone, and said with a smile: "Support?"

"Yes, this is a trilogy series, and it may develop into a six-part series in the future. There is a character in it. It doesn't have many roles, but it's very important. Among all the actresses I know, I think you are the most suitable. However, in terms of pay, you can only be awarded $3 million, because this is a group drama. Although your role is important, it is not the protagonist."

Nicole blinked her light blue eyes, raised the corner of her mouth, and smiled, "The trilogy pays $3 million. I think Pat might go crazy if I agree. But, since you say I am the only suitable person in your mind, I will promise you. Now, what kind of character is it?"

With Nicole’s current value, $3 million will take on the next trilogy. As her agent, Pie Kinsley is indeed likely to go crazy when she hears this news. This is not because her agent’s commission has been greatly reduced, but because this performance contract will pose an unpredictable risk to Nicole’s status as a top-tier actress.

Eric reached out and picked up Nicole's chin and looked at the flawless face in front of him. Nicole is twenty-nine years old this year, and it is the most beautiful moment for a woman. Her slender eyelashes, round face, petite nose, and thin lips are all so perfect.

Eric couldn't help but kiss Nicole's lips before saying, "Your character is an elf, Queen Kellandriel, do you know?"

"It turned out to be "The Lord of the Rings"," Nicole immediately realized.

Eric nodded. In the original "The Lord of the Rings" series, Queen Galandrier was played by Cate Blanchett. In terms of acting skills, Cate Blanchett is indeed stronger than Nicole, but in terms of beauty, Cate Blanchett is far inferior to Nicole.

In Eric's view, as the incarnation of noble, elegant and flawlessness, how can an elf not be beautiful?

"MGM will announce the project plan for the Lord of the Rings series next fall, and the trilogy will be back-to-back production, which will probably take more than a year to shoot in New Zealand. However, your scenes should only take two or three weeks and will not take too long."

From this summer to next summer, MGM has launched three heavyweight films of MGM Agent Cinema Universe in several popular schedules. As long as these three movies perform stably at the box office, MGM will have enough confidence to announce a super project involving $300 million in funds like the Lord of the Rings trilogy. With the performance support of the Agent Cinema Universe project, other MGM shareholders cannot raise too strong opposition.

Nicole actually heard some news about the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but she didn't care about it, but stared at Eric and asked curiously: "If I play Queen Kellandriel, who will play Princess Arwen?"

Eric didn't hide it, and pinched Nicole's chin and said, "Diane Kruger, what do you think?"

"You really spoil those beautiful babies," Nicole teased subconsciously.

In the past two years, Victoria's Secret Angels have frequently appeared in Hollywood films, which has become a topic of talk about by many people. Everyone knows who is secretly promoting this matter. Therefore, various scandal speculations about Eric and the Victoria's Secret Angels have spread countless versions. The more exaggerated rumors are even that Eric has "catched all the Victoria's Secret Angels".

The woman around him has teased herself about this more than once, and Eric didn't mind, saying, "I just want to make this video more perfect. Since it is an elves, it should be beautiful first. Moreover, the earliest elves legend happened to be a creature in Germanic mythology. Diane is a German, which is 100% in line with this setting."

"I'm too lazy to listen to your explanation," Nicole gave him a blank look, reached out to retrieve the earphone from Eric's ear, and put it on his ear. Just as he was about to say something, Famick Jansen walked across the hall with two full convenience bags, stomped in high heels.

Looking at Eric and Nicole snuggling on a sofa, Famick Jansen said with some snack flavor: "I went to buy food, but you two are intimate here."

"Haha, come on, let's make out, too," Eric looked at Famick Jansen and put down the convenience bag and reached out to pull her to him.

Famick Jansen sat down on the armrest of the sofa on the other side of Eric, opened Eric's hand and said, "Okay, what are you two talking about just now?"

Eric said casually: "What about you? What are you planning after the New Year?"

The seventh season of "Archives" is already on Fox TV, which will be the last of this classic science fiction series. Although Fox has repeatedly offered very generous conditions, the two protagonists, Brad Pitt and Famick Jansen, are unwilling to renew them. Brad Pitt wanted to take the opportunity to enter the film industry, but Famick was a little tired of it. In order to save budget, "Archives" has been filmed in Canada in recent years, and Famick doesn't want to continue to travel outside for a few months every year.

Science fiction TV series are usually filmed at one time. Although the series is still on the air, Famick has completed all his work and is in a state of rest.

"I don't have any plans yet. I plan to take a year off and do some charity and so on. After the New Year, I plan to go to Africa with a charity team to visit refugees."

Eric immediately showed a worried look and grabbed Famick's little hand: "Baby, please, don't adopt black children like some Hollywood actresses. If you want, we can have one together, or next year?"

Famick's face turned slightly red. He thought Eric was trying to persuade her not to travel around Africa, and was a little moved. Hearing this, he knocked off someone's strange hand: "You sympathetic bastard, I decided to ignore you for the rest of the day. Nicole, can you help me take these things into the kitchen?"

"Of course, it's time to prepare dinner," Nicole gave Eric a gloating look, got up and picked up a convenience bag with Famick and walked towards the kitchen.

Eric looked at the tall backs of the two women whispering and walking away, smiled, turned his body and flipped through the pair of comics next to him for a while, found a comic, and started reading with relish.

There are several eye-catching words printed on the cover of the comic.

"Phoenix Awakening".
Chapter completed!