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Chapter 139 - The Matter is Obvious

Chapter 139 - The Matter is Obvious

After receiving an invitation from Eric, John Aniston quickly agreed with almost no consideration. Between being a soap opera actor or a TV producer, few people would be willing to choose the former, as whether it was a screenwriter or an actor from Hollywood, they were nothing compared to the top-level directors. As one's career progressed, to a certain extent, it will always develop in the direction of a producer.

To this end, John Aniston resigned some of his positions at NBC, while at the same time greatly reducing his role in《Days of Our Lives》. Although he is already in his fifties this year, and his age is equal to Jeffrey's, but his career is not much weaker than when he was young.

Whilst the box office dividends of «Home Alone»  and 《Pretty Woman》 are not recovered at all, fireflies are not short of money, because of Eric's two huge loans. The budget for the production of each episode of this TV series is about 200,000 USD. The total investment is only 5 million US dollars, equivalent to the investment of «The Others».

The Friends project quickly started in early May with the addition of John Aniston. The crew rented two giant studios from the 20th Century Fox to shoot all the scenes in Friends. In his past life "Friends" was basically all shot in Warner Studios in Los Angeles.

Although Eric didn't want Fox to participate in the TV series, it would be too deliberate to go to Warner or Columbia if renting a studio. At a meeting, Eric suggested that they build a studio dedicated to Friends, but he was opposed by both Jeffrey and John. The two agreed that it was too costly and not worth the losses. Eric therefore had to give up temporarily.

As for the actors, Eric fantasised that if he could gather the six people from his past life, then that would be perfect. "Friends" was appearing five years earlier than in his previous life, so according to the current date, several of the starring actors were only 20 to 24 years old, and even the oldest Lisa Kudrow was only 26 years old. If they started to act now, then after ten years, the actors will not have obvious age marks in the camera.

The main reason why the past "Friends" ended in the tenth season, although the actor salary is part of the reason, but the most important thing was that the age of the actors was no longer suitable for this classic to continue; As in the tenth season, playing Phoebe is a forty-one year old Lisa Kudrow,  who had already played the role of a mother on the big screen. It would have been very out of sorts for her to continue to appear as a young woman.

Naturally, gathering the same set of six from the past was doomed from the start if one thought about it. Matthew Perry, who played one of the young thieves in «Home Alone», is now a premier movie actor, and anyone who tries to make a Hollywood star work on a sitcom is simply an idiot.

As for the others, Eric did have some of their movies in his memory. But before this year, Eric only had an impression of Courtney Cox playing a small role in 《Cocoon: The Return》. The others didn't even have a shadow now. It would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack, so Eric could only patiently start picking replacements for the other five friends from among the applicants.

On May 10th, Sunday, the filming of 《Running Out of Time》 has reached the last act. In next week of working days, so long there is not too big of an accident, the filming will have finished smoothly.

Therefore today, as Eric could find the time, he carried out the final 《Friends》 audition, this was the last audition, as because of the Eric's request beforehand, the crew carried out the first auditions, therefore they have only used ten days of time. The sets that were being built in the two Fox studios were in the initial building period, as auditions of actors entered the last round.