Chapter 202

Chapter 202: The widowed sister appears

300 million dollars.

For current Rockets owner Leslie Alexander.

Almost on par with this guy, he currently accounts for over 70% of the total net worth.

for Abel.

This is simply the total number of aircraft orders the airline has placed from Boeing and Gulfstream. At the same time, for him, it is almost equivalent to a person with a monthly salary of 10,000 who will deposit 588 by playing games.

I can't say it's not worth mentioning, but that's it.

Abe didn't even come to Houston in person.

I just sent York West to sign a contract with a man and a check.

At the same time, Abel asked York West to receive it. And his boss's demands on the Houston Rockets next over the next six months.

Two words: poor performance.

Too bad we can't add it.

His boss wants the Rockets and is working to get the type of player bad enough to get the No. 1 pick before June of this year.

In addition, he asked David Jones to make an international cruise stop. To the two managers of Smith Capital's Shanghai branch.

Abel asked two officials to find a young basketball player named Dayao in Modu.

The two people responsible must use every means to lure Dayao to the US to participate in this year's service.

Because Dayao was supposed to come next year.

Abel felt it was better for him to come here sooner. has its own investment in the Houston Rockets.

Absolutely let Dayao play for a few more years, he will not be eliminated and retire so quickly.

Wait until this year's NBA season ends.

Next year, Abel will show the owners of all NBA basketball teams what a Western dynasty is.

But it's the lifelong career of most NBA owners, meaning sports entrepreneurs like Leslie Alexander. For Abel, it's just one of his games.

And he added some thick ink to his own character design.

At noon during the day.

Alan Baker also returned smoothly.

People have simple work meals at the MGM employee restaurant. "Sony Columbia ultimately chose the third option."

Alan Baker reported to the boss while slicing a medium-flavored steak:

"That means selling the Spider-Man copyright to us for 20 million USD."

"But they have another condition."

"That means, when Spider-Man makes a comic book movie, Sony Columbia has to have a certain investment."

Sitting opposite Alan Baker, Abel, who was eating at the same time, nodded and shook his head:

"Go answer them. This request can be accepted."

"But they can only invest in the first part and will not benefit from future priority investments."

Abel vaguely remembered that.

The trio of old spiders parallel time and space, and the box office is better than the first part.

The first is considered the worst.

He also didn't want to corner Sony Columbia. The wreck also contained 3-pound nails, which crowded the neon and Columbia film cabinets.

If you let them jump the wall in a hurry, things can easily get out of their control.

Spending $20 million to buy back the little spider is still a good deal.

In addition, Abel also wanted to change the main female character of the first part of the old Spider-Man trilogy and let Annie play her.

Some batches will also be added or removed. I don't know if this can be changed. If the changes are not good, the box office revenue will not be very good.

Letting Sony invest can also share some of the pressure on MGM.

If the revision is good, MGM will shoot itself.

Alan Baker replied to his boss while chewing on a moderately flavored steak:

"This should be good. I think those neon people would say yes. »

"This is."

Abel praises Alan Baker.

He turned to MGM CEO Robert Iger, who was sitting next to him.

"Robert. You heard what we just said."

Abel smiled and said:

"The little spider is starting to prepare for MGM now. I hope you little spider can please the Americans."

"Of course." Robert Iger smiled and he was also eating a normal cheap steak. There were about ten people sitting around their long table.

All were senior executives at MGM and senior executives at Abel.

In the more than 200 square meter staff restaurant, there were still many people eating and drinking.

But anyone wanting to eat here today must go through a physical security check.

"We are already prepared. Marvel has been preparing the script for more than two months. »

Hosted by MGM and contributed by Marvel.

Abel's version of the Spider-Man script that Abel requested quite a bit.

Abel saw it for himself. Personally, he thinks it will be better than the old Spider Trilogy.

At this time, if special effects are improved, it is unlikely that they will surpass the box office revenue of the first Old Spider movie. Additionally, filming had to begin immediately.

The old spider paralleling time and space is the reason why box office revenue can be so high.

One of the main reasons is the incident that happened in September this year.

After that, many Americans panicked.

Spider-Man, the comic book superhero they've been watching since they were kids, may be next in the movie. This will allow Americans who dream about superheroes to protect themselves at this time to gain some psychological comfort.

At the same time, this is also the reason why other superhero movies in future generations can be successful.

Because then, to a certain extent, Americans really lost their sense of security.

They began to crave superheroes.

How ironic. Hearing Robert Iger's answer, Abel smiled and nodded.

The MGM president put down his knife and fork after eating. He can't eat this cheap steak.

"That's right, after Spider-Man. Marvel has a lot of superheroes, who are you going to create?"

Abel's previous request to MGM and Marvel was simply for them to shoot Spider-Man first.

He doesn't care about other comic book heroes.

Give MGM freedom.

Just talking about this issue today, he asked.

Robert Iger quickly responded:

"After Parker, our idea was to bring Thor to the screen."

Hearing this answer, Abel frowned slightly, then quickly opened it. Because Abel knows that Thor's popularity is among the top three Marvel superheroes, excluding Parker.

Previously, the copyright of Thor was also sold to Marvel.

When Abel bought Marvel last year, he asked Marvel to contact him.

The price doubled and the buyer quickly resold Thor.

After Spider-Man, if there is no way to regain IP like Fantastic Four and X-Men. Depending on the popularity of the Marvel IP in the United States, it would also be a natural decision to leave Thor in Spider-Man.

Don't mention Iron Man.

As Iron Man of later generations, the character can be said to have almost all perfect attribute labels.

Tall, rich and handsome are not enough to describe his personality.

But in the original Iron Man. It can be said that many of Iron Man's storylines are actually set up to a limited extent.

is everyone's favorite GHS deck and it was Tony Stark's original mission in Marvel.

In this parallel time and space, in the year 2008.

Marvel is preparing to rely on "Iron Man" to fight to the death, but this is essentially a complete transformation in Iron Man's character design.

Eliminate the bad elements and keep the good elements to strengthen you. This is how Iron Man will have the perfect personality.

How strong humans can be, comparable to gods, this is the concept of super transformation of humans.

Before that, Iron Man was just a mid-range famous character at Marvel.

In the entire world of American comics, he belongs to the last.

Thinking about it, honestly, Abel doesn't know what Thor would be like without Iron Man in front of him. This caused Abel to suggest:

"Maybe you could shoot Tony Stark first. I prefer bullshit."

Tony Stark now, his trademark is cheap, flirty, GHS

After Robert Iger heard this request from his boss.

MGM executives were a bit taken aback.

Robert Iger then reacted and immediately declared:

"Okay, we will start market research immediately. As long as it's appropriate, I think it's better to shoot Iron Man first.

Abel shrugged and smiled and said:

"It's up to you. Things like filming should be done by you, the professionals."

It would have been better if Abel hadn't said that. His boss said so.

Robert Iger can't help but think about that.

The result of thinking too much is Next up is MGM and Marvel after Spider-Man.

It's possible that Iron Man will be the next big thing.

Abel and Robert Iger talk about Cameron again.

"Sometimes we have to send someone to force him." Regarding Cameron, Abel emphasized:

"James, if we don't push him, he might delay what he's done for a year, two, or three. And he doesn't think it's perfect!"

"But you have to know that he is one of the best directors in the world. There are very few works that can make him feel perfect. »

"In the marketplace, I think very often, the public doesn't need perfection. What they want is beautiful and interesting.

"And we, as owners and managers of film companies."

"What we want is a balance between costs and benefits, while maximizing profits."

"Robert, do you understand me?"

Robert Iger will explain it to you if he doesn't understand.

Furthermore, he felt that what the boss said was completely reasonable.

The main goal of all commercial videographers is to make money.

If you really want to make movies, go to Europe. Robert Iger nodded and said:

"I think so too. Don't worry boss. I'll watch over James myself."

With certainty about Robert Iger's words, Abel nodded.

Robert Iger is very capable. Looking at Cameron, Abel felt like he could relax a little in this regard. Abel, who was fed up with the cheap steak in front of him, looked up at the MGM staff restaurant.

It was a restaurant about 200 square meters, maybe a little larger, with dozens of long tables, like a school cafeteria.

MGM staff, when you don't want to go out to eat.

You can spend relatively less money here and have a work meal here.

It doesn't cost much so don't think about how it tastes. Abel also found the company's restaurant to have some history.

The decor and floors are a bit dated and look like the style of the 1960s and 1970s.

The MGM headquarters building itself has a bit of history.

It has been almost 30 years since it was built and there have been many buildings around that have surpassed it.

The only thing it's better than the surrounding buildings is its location and land value. Thinking of this, Abel calmly said:

"Wait until next year, if 007 and Spider-Man qualify at the box office, I will directly finance and build a new headquarters for MGM near Beverly Hills."

Hearing what the boss said, Robert Iger was very happy.

The company is building a new headquarters so it doesn't need to pay for that.

Either way, that's a good thing.

There are new, nicer, better buildings to work in. It is also a symbol of the company's strength and will make company employees feel happier at work.

Robert Iger was about to congratulate his boss a few words when he heard his boss repeat:

"The food at the employee restaurant is really average. But with such average food, with so many people coming in to eat, MGM did a great job."

The boss's last words startled Robert Iger.

Sir, the CEO consciously turned his head and looked back.

The CEO saw the restaurant for MGM employees, which usually only seats 20 or 30 people at most. Nowadays everything is crowded, many of them are actors who come to work at the company.

There were actually a lot of people coming to eat.

Robert Eger suddenly understood something: this group of Hollywood prostitutes, hey!!!

"Open?"

Robert Iger suddenly heard it, the boss shouted in surprise.

"BOSS? What's going on?" » Robert Iger quickly asked. "Over there." Abel pointed at Robert Iger and pointed behind the CEO.

Robert Iger looked and saw the boss pointing at a young actress.

The actress saw Robert and Abel looking at her.

She quickly smiled back at him, then lowered her head to avoid being seen.

This only made Robert see that the actress was beautiful and looked youthful. "Is this actress filming a company movie?" Robert Iger heard his boss ask.

Robert Iger didn't even realize who the actress was, he just thought it looked beautiful from afar.

MGM's CEO immediately waved his hand and called his secretary over.

Robert Iger said a few words to the secretary.

Abel waited quietly. Two minutes later, Robert Iger told Abe who the actress was.

"Scarlett Johansson." » Robert Iger said gently.

"That's her name. She plays the female lead role of Suzanne in the feature film "American Paradise" that our company is filming."

Abel thought it was Scarlett Johansson.

Abel just casually glanced, his eyes falling on Scarlett Johansson. Scarlett Johansson was looking at him at that moment and their eyes met.

Abel thought she looked familiar, young and beautiful.

Scarlett Johansson herself quickly lowered her eyes, not daring to look at the super boss.

Out of curiosity, Abel asked Robert Iger about his identity.

I didn't expect it was actually Scarlett. At that time, Scarlett Johansson had just turned 16 years old.

But she was born a child star and made her first movie in 1994.

He is only sixteen years old but is already acting and has even starred in many movies.

At this time, the widowed sister is no longer as beautiful and sexy as before.

Abel saw her and thought she was beautiful and familiar, so he didn't recognize her right away. "Oh I see." After hearing Robert Iger's introduction, Abel nodded without saying anything.

It's just that his boss didn't say anything, but Robert Iger silently took it to heart.

After all, today it is rare for any actor to "eat" at the staff restaurant so much.

There are many handsome men and beautiful women, even first-class actresses in Hollywood.

Abel didn't pay attention to anyone and followed a child star actress from an unknown background, even asking after her. Robert Iger, the CEO, if he doesn't care.

So maybe he's not a dedicated Hollywood manager.

So wait until Abel leaves MGM in the afternoon.

Before Abel got in the car, he saw Robert Iger and rushed over.

"Hello! BOSS, sorry." Robert Iger said:

"I forgot to give you a document. I'm afraid he's gone so I'll bring him here myself.

"Oh, what file?" Abel responded, but his eyes fell on Robert Iger.

Look at Scarlett Johansson with her big, beautiful eyes.

Does this send files?

This is Scarlett Johansson's send-off ceremony.

"Introduction to Spider-Man Parker Comic Adaptation, Budget Approval Documents."

Robert Iger business says:

"At that time, Miss Scarlett Johansson was passing by my office. I asked him to bring me the documents. Boss, this needs your signature.

"Oh I see." Abel smiled and seemed to be doing business.

"Give it to me, Miss Johnson." Abel smiled and reached out to Scarlett Johansson.

Scarlett decisively handed out the documents, at the same time smiling brightly at Abel.

She also said: "Here, Mr. Smith!"

She seemed calm and well behaved. His chest, which was already quite large, rose and fell rapidly, clearly revealing his tension at this moment.

After taking the document, Abel reviewed it and discovered that, according to procedures and regulations, this document actually needed to be signed by himself.

Abel smiled and shook his head, quickly signing his name on it.

He say:

"In the future, I will authorize similar documents to you, Robert, and you can be responsible for them yourself. You do not need to ask me to sign anymore. I trust you, you are a qualified subordinate.

"Thank you for your trust." Robert Iger smiled:

"Satisfying you is the happiest thing for me today."

"Okay. So goodbye Robert. I'll go to Marbury later. The weather is nice this afternoon. I want to go swimming there. I hope you have a good afternoon today.

Abel smiled and said goodbye, and at the same time said goodbye to young girl Scarlett Johansson:

"Miss Johnson, I hope you have a pleasant afternoon too. Goodbye."

(end of this chapter)