The Best Entertainment Era

If you have time, play this game. Uwe Ball strongly recommends the love in his heart: The playability and the story behind it are both epic.

Ronan nodded: I will take a look at it some time.

Uwe Ball suddenly became worried: The Blizzard group are all brains.

No progress? Ronan asked.

Uwe Ball smiled helplessly: Stubborn is like a stone, but I will not give up.

Ronan encouraged: Take your time, don't worry.

For some reason, Ronan suddenly felt that Uwe Ball was like a spare tire. He desperately knelt and licked the goddess Blizzard and Warcraft in his heart. The other party rejected him every time, but he would continue to receive him next time, as if secretly Spread hope.

Green tea people in the real world, don’t they treat spare tires like this?

Probably Blizzard also knows that Relativity Entertainment stands behind Uwe Ball. What if there is a movie adaptation in the future? No matter what the situation is, there is always a bottom line.

But Ronan did not remind Uwe Ball of what he meant. The psychology of spare tires is very strange, and those who wake them up will often become objects of disgust and hatred.

Uwe Ball is very positive, not only for Blizzard, but also for game adaptation movies: After Vampire Lane is over, I plan to start a new project.

Ronan understood what he meant, and asked directly, Do you have a goal?

Uwe Ball said with a smile: It's still a game-adapted movie. I have taken a fancy to two games, but they are both works of islanders.

Ronan said: It doesn't matter, The Theory of Relativity has business dealings with the islanders, so it's not difficult to get the copyright.

After Uwe Ball's suggestion last time, Robert Lee's copyright and legal department obtained the copyrights of many island games and comics. The islanders have Ghost in the Shell and Gunmen.

The latter was originally prepared to impress James Cameron, but it didn't come in handy.

Movie copyrights for island games or comics are really too cheap compared to North America.

In the short term, there will be no investment in adapting it into a movie, which is mainly to hoard copyrights.

These two games, one is called Life and Death Combat, which is a combat fighting game. Uwe Ball said simply: The other is called Silent Hill, which is a psychological horror survival game.

Although he has never played before, Ronan is not unfamiliar with these two names.

Ronan quickly made a decision: You can finish the post-production of Vampire Ryan with peace of mind first, and I will let people get the copyrights of Life and Death and Silent Hill.

Uwe Ball quickly said: I have inquired that the copyright of Life and Death is still in the hands of the game manufacturer, but Silent Hill has been bought.

Ronan nodded: I'll let you know if there is any specific news.

Uwe Ball didn't stay any longer: I'm going to go to Blizzard.

Ronan waved his hand: Go.

After Uwe Ball left, Ronan first checked the company's copyright database. In the past two years,

In addition to the works he specified, Robert Lee also bought the copyrights of many inexpensive and valuable novels, memoirs, comics and games.

It doesn't cost much, and it enriches the company's copyright library, which may be available at any time.

Ronan opened the copyright database search software, selected the game category, and clicked on Xiadaoguo, and many game names appeared.

Somewhat surprisingly, Silent Hill is on the list.

The label shows that at the beginning of this year, the copyright and legal department bought the film and television copyright from Konami in the island country.

The copyright library has a detailed introduction. Silent Hill is a psychological horror survival game. Konami began to release it at the end of the last century. The plot unfolds in a similar way to a movie. Different choices during the game process will affect the ending, and the dominance is completely in the hands of the player. hands.

This game was once adapted into a movie, and Ronan remembered watching it, as if the leading actor was Sean Bean who died in a variety of ways in the movie.

This horror film is still very good-looking, and the group of faceless nurses are impressive.

Whether the film adaptation is a commercial success or failure, Ronan is not sure, but personally, Silent Hill is much better than the later Resident Evil.

This game can be adapted, but if the game is adapted into a movie, the scale of investment must be limited.

Ronan extracted Silent Hill separately and included it in the project schedule.

The copyright and legal department not only obtained the adaptation rights of Silent Hill from Konami, but also the copyrights of Contra and Metal Gear in the film library list.

Contra is famous, and it is a childhood memory of many people, and its popularity in the East even far exceeds that of Transformers.

For those born in the 1980s, many of them must have played this game in a game room or on a card game console such as Xiaobawang. Those who are familiar with Hollywood can also find that the two protagonists look like Stallone and Shi Wassinger.

When Ronan saw this name, he could still remember when he was in middle school in a small town, he went to the game room to play Contra, and was caught by the director of the political and educational department in disguise.

The director of the political and educational department at that time was as impressive as Contra, and was the shadow of many people growing up.

No middle school career would be complete without a battle of wits and courage with the director of the Political and Educational Office.

Contra and Metal Gear Solid, Ronan doesn't remember that there have been related adaptations of the film, so let's put it in the copyright library for the time being.

Ronan did not find the copyright of Life and Death Fight in the copyright library of Relativity Entertainment. After checking it online, he found that several protagonists of the game were women.

Fighting games for women seem promising?

It seems that there are female ufo or wwe contestants in the United States? Some of them should be decent in stature and appearance.

Also, there must be actresses with good looks, sexy and hot beauties wearing cool uniforms, fighting on the screen, if you don't agree, just don't be cowardly, just do it!

There may be a market.

Perhaps this game adaptation is more suitable for Uwe Ball than Silent Hill.

Ronan closed the webpage, sent relevant emails to Robert Lee through the company's office system, and asked the copyright and legal department to find the islanders to buy the copyright.

Of course, for Relativity Entertainment's overall strategy, games are just the smallest category of projects.

Because when a game meets a movie, what comes out of the collision may not be sparks, but more vomit.

This kind of movie seems to be accompanied by the dilemma that game fans don’t recognize it and ordinary audiences don’t buy it from the very beginning of its birth. This kind of situation where parents don’t love each other can be said to be the norm in game-adapted movies.

Nowadays, commercial movies are increasingly dependent on adaptations, and game copyrights will inevitably become a major category that cannot be ignored in the future. After all, game adaptation movies have their own fans and influence.

The main force in the commercial film market is teenagers, and these teenagers tend to pour money into what they love.

In some respects, it's a pity that the former Warcraft is a movie adaptation of this game. On the surface, it has all the elements of a blockbuster movie.

The result is still very unsatisfactory. In order to recoup the huge investment, Blizzard finally even auctioned off the shooting props...

As for the sequel, it will naturally become a series in my lifetime.

Of course, factors such as the difficulty of making fantasy epic films and the downturn in the market cannot be ignored.

After careful calculation, except for the six films in the Lord of the Rings series filmed by Peter Jackson, the results of other fantasy epic films with large investment and production are not ideal.

Even the adaptation of Pharaoh and King from the familiar Exodus in the Bible, even if Ridley Scott is in charge of the guide, it is still rushed.

When it comes to audience and dissemination, World of Warcraft is much worse than Exodus.

The level of the director is even worse by more than one grade.

From these aspects, it seems that the pounce is not too wronged.

Ronan has not summed up any good experience so far. The most effective way to avoid losses is to control the investment scale of game adaptation film projects.

At present, we should not be too optimistic about the market of game-adapted movies. Large investments and large productions cannot attract enough audiences.

Many small production adaptations can be surprisingly successful.

In the afternoon, Ronan went to the Hughes Aircraft Factory, where the crew of Fast and Furious 3 had begun to assemble. The currently confirmed main actors also entered the crew to start the preliminary preparations.

There are also some roles that need to be solved through auditions.

Since Jessica Felton went to Europe to discuss advertising sponsorship, the crew was temporarily in charge of Justin Lin.

Walking in the studio where the set was built, Justin Lin introduced the latest developments of the crew to Ronan: According to the plan, the racing family will be a multi-racial fusion. There is Dwayne Johnson who is mixed, and the traditional white character is Paul- Walker, Latinos have Jordana Brewster, blacks have Tyrese Gibson...

He glanced at the actors who were auditioning not far away, all of them were Asian actresses: The newly added female roles in this film will be Asian. The candidates have not yet been determined, and the first audition has just begun.

Many Asian actresses sat in the waiting area temporarily set up by the crew. Since it was the first audition, they did not need to wear makeup. The audition was very fast, and actresses frequently came in and out of the audition room.

Seeing that many of them have flat noses, small eyes, and freckles, Ronan shook his head secretly, and said to Justin Lin: This Asian character must fight for the Asian market for us, and choose an actress who fits Asian aesthetics.

Justin Lin understood Ronan's meaning and said, Yes.

Ronan asked: Where are the Chinese characters? Has anyone chosen?

I haven't looked for it yet. Justin Lin said: Chinese characters will not be added until the next part, and it won't be too late to look for them when the fourth part is being prepared.

Ronan nodded slightly: Yes.

Many actresses noticed them, and they were a little ready to move. Ronan and Justin Lin didn't stay here any longer. They left the studio and walked towards the open-air studio not far away.

Before going far, a huge engine roar was heard, which was obviously the sound of a high-power engine.

More often than not, it's the sound of a sports car.