rising director

Wan Xiaohu smiled slightly: "I currently have no plan to direct these films myself, but I will be the producer of the films together with Kay. I will personally act as the screenwriter for "The Incredible Hulk" and "Iron Man" to complete these two films. work."

"Chairman, can such a huge plan be realized? I think it's better to do it one by one."

"Of course we do it one by one, but the whole story structure must be huge. What I have to do is to create a single movie one by one to perfect the background of the story. If you are worried, it's very simple. I This person has always been full of confidence, and everyone is welcome to sell their shares to me at any time.”

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The change of ownership of Marvel Comics was done in private, and no one paid attention to this comic company, which has quietly changed its leadership.Maybe even if they know, no one cares. After all, with the decline of the comics industry, Marvel Comics is only a company with a market value of 10 billion US dollars. This market value is still due to the valuation of superhero copyrights accumulated over the years.

Marvel comics itself doesn't have much money, and they were so poor a few years ago that they almost couldn't get rid of it.

After Wan Xiaohu came to power, in addition to supporting the Marvel Cinematic Universe project, the second thing he did was to find Tom Rodman, the co-chairman of the [-]th Century Fox Film Company, and discuss the repurchase of the superhero copyrights of the Men of War series.

Men of War is a very popular superhero team under Marvel Comics. The movie mainly tells the story of mutants with genetic mutations in human society. Mutants have powerful superpowers. At first, mutants were ruled by the government, but later because of race Discrimination, mutants split into two factions.

One faction headed by the "Professor" believes that humans and mutants can coexist peacefully, while the other faction headed by "Magneto" believes that sooner or later there will be war between humans and mutants, and they tend to declare war on humans.

After Twentieth Century Fox obtained the copyright of the War Police, the first film "Men Cop" was produced in 2000, and the sequel "Men Cop 2003" was made in 2. Both of these films were directed by Bryan Singer, because Brian is gay, so he is obsessed with racist themes.

Perhaps because of their own experience, the first two films tended to be dark and realistic, and they were unanimously praised by film critics. In addition, the box office was also not bad. Start filming a sequel.

It's just a pity that two sequels were originally planned to be filmed, but Bryan Singer suddenly declined the sequel director and went to Warner Bros. to direct "Superman Returns".So [-]th Century Fox made a temporary replacement and replaced Brett Reiner as the director, and the plan to shoot two episodes became one episode.

"Men 3" was released in 2006 and earned $4.59 million.

So far, the team story of the Men of War has come to an end, and if the sequel is started, it will only be a personal story, which is the most popular character of the Men of War, "Wolverine".

Speaking of which, the box office and word-of-mouth of these three films are good, but compared with the cost of production and publicity, they don't make much money.Especially the third "Men 3", the production cost alone reached 2.2 million U.S. dollars, plus publicity costs, the total investment reached 3 million U.S. dollars.

Originally, it was in line with "Spider-Man" and prepared for a global outbreak, but it turned out that team heroes are still not as good as individual heroes. Police" a few streets.Depressed 8.2th Century Fox.

I can't see the prospect clearly, so I made a solo movie of Wolverine, and there has been no movement for a long time.

Men of War series, temporarily stranded.

After knowing the reason for Wan Xiaohu's visit, Tom Rodman warmly entertained Wan Xiaohu and Kai Fitch.

"Unexpectedly, I just found out now that Marvel Comics has been acquired by the most anticipated director in Hollywood, Wan Xiaohu Wan Dao. Congratulations, you have won countless superheroes." Rodman is a witty and funny young man. people.

"Thank you, I'm also very happy, because I'm a die-hard superhero fan, but it's a pity that Warner Bros. is not short of money, otherwise, I really want to buy DC Comics and Marvel Comics together." Wan Xiaohu half-truth and half-false To put it bluntly, in fact he is not a die-hard superhero fan, but just envious of superhero movies at the box office.

"Wan Dao is optimistic about the future of superhero movies?"

"It depends on how it works. With a good script and a good director, any movie is very promising. With a bad script and a bad director, even if he is asked to make "Titanic", he will make it." Boring soap opera. There have been more superhero movies in recent years, but not much money is actually made, especially Warner Bros., I think they should hate Spider-Man."

"Spider-Man" has already released two films, each with a box office of seven to eight billion US dollars, and is currently the best superhero movie at the box office.Just seeing "Spider-Man" became popular, Warner Bros. couldn't hold back the eagerness to move, and filmed "Catwoman", "Superman Returns", "V for Vendetta" and other movies, and the result was that the heart of the street was so cool cold.

People are more mad than people!

"Wan Dao is confident in making superhero movies well? That's why he wants to buy back the Cop?" Tom Rodman narrowed his eyes slightly.

"I don't have much confidence, but it's worth trying. It would be the best if I can take back "Spider-Man". I personally appreciate the style of Spider-Man. However, it is difficult for Sony Columbia Pictures to return the copyright before making enough money. I think Men of War is easier to repurchase."

"Why does Director Wan think so?"

Wan Xiaohu chuckled: "I don't think [-]th Century Fox can make much money with Cops. Every movie of Cops costs a lot, but the box office is far behind Spiderman. To be honest, I thought There are so many people in the Men and Police, so they should be more profitable than Spiderman. Now I feel that maybe the more people there are, the less distinctive they are, so I want to buy it back and build it according to my way. How about it, Chairman Rodman, start A price?"

"I'm sorry, we also feel that Men of War has great potential to be tapped, and we don't plan to sell the copyright."

"I came with a check." Wan Xiaohu smiled unmoved, like a fox.

ps: There is another update later!

0304【Who is taking advantage of whom】

"terribly sorry……"

"Don't rush to refuse. I want to ask Chairman Rodman first, how high do you think the subsequent box office of the X-Men will be? The trilogy is over, how can we make up a new story later?"

"That's our business at [-]th Century Fox."

"Okay, let me ask again, do you think it's better to make money by investing heavily in a project like X-Men with insufficient potential and uncertain prospects, and then take risks vigorously, or make money first , would it be better to work on other projects?"

"Isn't it necessary to take risks in any project? The greater the risk, the more you can earn."

"But the chances of capsized are high, especially when [-]th Century Fox is short of money. How much budget can you give to the X-Men? Without a budget, what will you use for special effects and make big money?" Wan Xiaohu laughed.

Tom Rodman didn't have a smile on his face: "What does Dao Wan mean?"

"What I mean is very clear. Now [-]th Century Fox is short of money, and I have more spare money. You know, Golden Harvest Entertainment and Sasha Entertainment are very profitable companies. We are not short of money and projects. Twentieth Century Fox is not short of money. The project was short of money. What a perfect collaboration."

"Why does Director Wan think we are short of money?" Tom Rodman asked depressedly.

"Because of "Avatar"..." Wan Xiaohu said casually, but Tom Rodman's face suddenly changed, cloudy or sunny.

"Avatar", the name of a great movie that is destined to remain in history, in the last track, "Avatar" directed by James Cameron broke the world box office record held by "Titanic" directed by himself. 27.5 billion US dollars once again won the world championship.

In film history, the first film with a box office of more than 20 billion US dollars also allowed James Cameron to win the Oscar for Best Director twice for a commercial film.

Such a movie, behind such a brilliant score.But don't have a flavor.

When "Titanic" was filmed, it was also invested by 8000th Century Fox. At the beginning, the budget was less than [-] million US dollars, about [-] to [-] million. It was already a very expensive investment in the [-]s.As a result, within a few days of filming, Cameron found Fox executives.Say no money.

What to do if you have no money, add more.So an additional 2000 million US dollars was added, and within a few days, Cameron found it again, and he ran out of money!In this way, it was added to 1.35 million US dollars back and forth.It was already expensive at the time.As a result, the $1.35 million was spent, and only about three-fifths of the movie was shot.

As a result, the entire Fox company was ruined. Your mother doesn't know how much money you want. I spent so much money, and I have already invested it at a sky-high price, and it hasn't been auctioned yet.Can you make it out!

At that time, the media was also fanning the flames, saying that you just wait and see, the Cameron team will be finished sooner or later!

Cameron was also on fire at the time. He took a fruit knife blade and hung it on the computer. He said that I would use this knife to commit suicide if I didn’t make money from the film, vowing to live and die with "Titanic"!

Fox was dumbfounded, what should you do if you die. What to do with $1.35 million, who is willing to take over this mess.Therefore, we could only continue to invest more, but Fox was unwilling to pay for it. The money at that time was valuable, and Fox really couldn't get it out, so it took out the North American distribution rights.Sold to Paramount Pictures for $6500 million.

In this way, at that time, the most expensive movie in the world, the first movie with an investment of more than 2 million U.S. dollars came out.In the end, it became a global sensation.Back 100 years ago, when the Titanic was actually produced in history, $2 million was enough to build 22 Titanic.

Fortunately, the king paid off. "Titanic" crazily won a box office of 19 billion US dollars. James Cameron, a self-taught train driver, swept away the haze. At the Oscars, he held the best director statuette, Said loudly: "I am the king of the world."

Became the most beautiful director in 1998.

He was happy and elated, but Twentieth Century Fox sighed while counting the money until his hands cramped. If it wasn't for their narrow-mindedness and reluctance to spend more money, all the money they earned would be theirs.The result was good, Paramount didn't worry about it, and just counted the money with ease until the hand cramp.

This has also become a knot in the heart of [-]th Century Fox that can't be erased. It is obvious that it can eat alone, but it gives half of it to others, which caused endless jokes at the time.

Tom Rodman naturally knew about the past, even though he was not an executive at the time, he still felt ashamed.Therefore, when Wan Xiaohu mentioned "Avatar", he suddenly lost his composure.

James Cameron is definitely a talented director, but the most unsatisfactory thing about this guy is that he is a perfectionist and spends money making movies.He also likes to play with technology, and is a full-fledged technology madman, even holding the title of consultant of NASA.

After playing with technology for several years, Cameron came back in 2005, preparing to shoot "Avatar". This is a script he wrote in 1994. At that time, the conditions were limited and it could not be filmed.This time he found the culprit [-]th Century Fox again. With the success of "Titanic", [-]th Century Fox's head became hot and the filming started.