The Goddess Shines on America

American Western Time, February 25, 1986, Monday, the sixteenth of the lunar month. Pen·Fun·Ge www..

Location, the headquarters of DreamWorks Corporation, at the southern end of Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, Los Angeles.

The weather turns to cloudy and the temperature is low, so it is suitable to wear autumn jackets.

So Cameron was indeed wearing a brown leather jacket when he walked to the front desk of the company.

"Hello, Mr. Cameron."

When Ai Meili at the front desk saw the people coming, she smiled and said: "Ms. Wang had ordered you to take the elevator directly to the chairman's office on the top floor."

Cameron didn't even have time to say a word: "How do you know who I am?"

Ai Meili chuckled and smiled: "Ms. Wang had already explained that as long as she saw a white-haired man in his early thirties, he would look rebellious and handsome, and would neither arrive at the company too early nor be too late. It must be you, Mr. Cameron."

"Cut, that girl's film is quite accurate."

Cameron smirked, then Yiyan took the elevator to the top floor.

To say that the company's interior decoration is still very good, and the potted plants that can be seen everywhere are obviously girls' masterpieces. Cameron strode all the way and couldn't help but feel a little amused for Lawrence. The boss of a big company is dignified, but he has to listen to the ideas of his daughter and girlfriends in the interior layout, which is really enough to spoil them.

Then, he directly pushed open the door of the chairman's office.

"Oh, Mr. Cameron!"

The first thing I saw in the house was naturally the well-dressed Lawrence: "Look at Alice, Mr. Cameron is here!"

"Well, come on James, let's just start a chat."

It was Alice in front of the guest sofa, but she knew that she would never have to be polite with this set tyrant.

Cameron really laughed, "Okay! Then just start talking, Mr. Lawrence, do you have coffee here?"

Of course, Lawrence could not do the coffee pouring himself. After Cameron poured the coffee on his own, he sat in the reception area with the other two.

Alice simply said: "My uncle Roger will talk to Fox about the copyright of the alien, so we can just start to talk about the sequel."

That's right, the collaboration that allows Cameron to go to DreamWorks the next morning after only one side, of course, is to buy the copyrighted alien for Alice and shoot the second sequel!

"I thought about it all night last night."

Then, after holding back all night, Cameron couldn’t wait to talk to someone, “The sequel must not be in the same style as the first one. “Alien” is about what happened in a limited space like a spaceship. A traditional thriller that monsters kill humans. If the sequel is just like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre II", just find any reason, and then cram a group of people and aliens together, it will be rubbish!"

"Indeed, although that kind of filming can guarantee a certain box office, it is definitely not a film and television classic."

Alice realized with great satisfaction that Cameron had taken the right idea at the beginning: "The alien subject matter has great potential. If it becomes a normal monster movie, it would be too wasteful."

After that, she took a sip of milk tea, and then said: "I thought about it all night, shouldn't I have more than that? Do you have any ideas about the script?"

"First of all, we have to change place, and definitely can't be another spaceship."

Cameron obviously really had an idea: "In fact, the movie directly gave us a good place, that is, the star ball that landed on the merchant ship. At the time, Ridley had arranged thousands of alien eggs there. Wouldn't it be a shame not to have a thrilling battle!?"

Good guy, looking at Cameron's excitement, Alice really doubted, is this guy really a traverser?

Cameron's production must be a boutique product, which has been verified by the market. Back then, he wrote and directed "Alien II". As a sequel to the prequel, the second biggest difference is that it completely abandoned the essence of the predecessor as a horror film, that is, the monster sneak attack in a small space, and turned it into a complete action film.

Didn’t the former director Ridley arrange an alien?

Well, I came to Cameron for thousands of them!

Didn’t you Ridley lock the shooting location in the spacecraft?

Okay, I will let the space version of the American soldier, on the small planet your kid prepared for me, and the alien army face to face!

To be reasonable, Cameron is Cameron, not convinced, this idea is really very subversive.

What do you mean?

Think about it, the "Screaming" series, "The Grim Reaper" series, the "Saw Fright" series, the "Fatal Bend" series, and the "Devil Street" series are not all directed by countless directors. Is it a series of horror films filmed step by step with the rhythm of one movie?

The so-called "Smelly and Long" series is also~

But when Cameron made such a move, it was tantamount to abruptly removing "Alien" from the "Smelly and Long" series, and then shaping it into a classic. Because it was in this movie that Cameron brought out the concept of "Alien Queen"!

Isn't it great?

But the problem is that it's normal to think so. After all, Alice is now asking Cameron to shoot, which was originally a film he wrote and directed.

However, this seems to be a day and night effort, right?

I figured out the most critical place so quickly! ?

"good idea!"

Alice’s joy is really not a pretense: "Then, since the location is selected on that asteroid, what about the plot? The protagonist will definitely be Ripley. Why should she go back?"

The day and night are still short, Cameron said calmly: "I'm still editing, do you have any good ideas?"

Alice said without hesitation: "The asteroid has become a colony. There are dozens of families living there. What's the reason for Ripley to go back and save them?"

As soon as Cameron said this, Mr. Lawrence, who had been watching, couldn't help it: "Isn't that planet uninhabited? How can it become a colony in the blink of an eye?"

Cameron was just waiting for Alice to give an answer.

"Well... At the end of "Alien", Ripley had a fight with the Alien who had sneaked into the escape capsule, and this eliminated it. Then set it up that she accidentally deviated from the course in a hibernation state. As a result, it took more than fifty years of drifting in the universe to be discovered?"

With a lighthearted expression on his face, Lawrence opened his mouth silently and was severely choked: "Fifty...years!?"

Cameron said calmly: "You set it like this, surely you have any purpose, right?"

"More than fifty years, just enough for her child to die, we can set that her child has never been married or married because of the missing mother. Then think about it, when the heroine wakes up, things are people. No, my beloved son and daughter have just passed away, and they are alone in a strange world. Then at this moment, I learned that the original planet had become a colony, with dozens of families... and then?"

Alice put emphasis on the word "family".

This time, for a long time, the two adults in the room were silent.

"Ugh……"

Finally, Lawrence sighed slowly: "Lonely hero, Cameron, if you describe the plot well in the early stages of the movie, and then echo it back and forth. Then by this alone, the box office of this movie is guaranteed. Up."

In this way, the details of the shooting of "Alien II" were quickly discussed, and Alice even stated the settings of the Alien Queen, not to mention a large number of quite critical plots. When it was approaching lunch, Cameron cried out angrily.

"Is it you or me!? With so many wonderful settings, even the concept of the'virtual environment system' has been said, you can just shoot it yourself! Bastard! You bastard! What are you making me? Idea!?"

Alice said quite innocently: "I never told you to write the script, I only told you to shoot it."

As a result, Cameron suddenly lost his temper.

Yes, Alice always said that he would let him do the filming. When she asked, she only asked him what he thought, but she never said let him write the script by himself...

"Ok……"

He looked discouraged: "I have to admit that your creativity is really great. The Alien Queen... Honestly, if someone else gave me a script, I would have to sneer at it, but now you tell me so. many……"

Alice: "How's it~?"

"It's so enjoyable!"

Cameron said quite readily: "I want to ask, Alice, are you sure you are not coming back from the future!?"

"Hmm... Actually I'm pretty sure I am, what do you think?"

"I believe!"

"Oh yeah, the Microsoft stock is going to be listed, do you buy some? Buy some, believe me, you will definitely make a lot of money."

"Oh? Really? I know Microsoft. Are you sure that its stock will make a lot of money?"

"I am from the future = well... ahem, I have inside information, look at James..."

Uh……

Lawrence from the sidelines said ~www.readwn.com~ looks like the topic is crooked...

But this topic won't last long. The office phone that had been quiet for a long time suddenly rang, and Lawrence had to get up to answer it.

"Hello, this is Roger Lawrence."

"Oh, Frey? Are you looking for Alice?"

Lawrence smiled and looked at the girl who looked up: "It seems that you have made new friends. Alice and Frey are complaining to me, saying that they forgot to ask your home phone number yesterday."

"What is she looking for me for?"

Alice was a little strange, and answered the phone and said, "Hey Frey, what's wrong with me?"

On the other side of the phone, Frey's voice was obviously a little nervous: "Um...Alice, are you free this afternoon?"

The girl's gentle voice was like a lark. (To be continued.)