"Director Wu, you also know that Marvel has been acquired by Ronald Perelman before, and now even if we Marvel want to cooperate with you, there is no way!" Stan Lee's expression was a little regretful.

He really regretted it, he originally wanted to use Ronald Perelman's financial resources to develop Marvel, Ronald Perelman is a well-known investor and financier in the United States, but who knows that Ronald Perelman didn't think about it at all, just thinking about how to squeeze Marvel's current resources, in the past six months, Stan Lee has quarreled with Ronald Perelman several times.

Stan Lee can't help it, although he has a strong influence in Marvel, but Marvel is indeed in the hands of Ronald Perelman now.

Now Marvel is not a listed company, which means that Ronald Perelman can toss Marvel as much as he wants, and he does not have to be responsible to most of the other shareholders at all.

After half a year of getting along, Stan Lee has discovered that Ronald Perelman is a layman at all, and the sales of Marvel Comics have dropped by 40% in just half a year!

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "This question can be talked about later, what I need to know now is Li, your attitude, if Phantom Entertainment buys Marvel, Phantom hopes that Li You can play a positive role in it." ”

Hearing Wu Jianye say this, Stan Lee showed a smile of surprise, looking at Wu Jianye's attitude, Phantom Entertainment did have the intention to acquire Marvel.

"Then I need to know the Phantom's plan for Marvel's future, you know, Marvel is my life's work, and I also want to know what the Phantom's plan for Marvel's future is?"

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "If Phantom Entertainment can acquire Marvel, then Marvel will become an important part of the future Phantom Entertainment development plan, but this time will be relatively long, to be honest, the current film technology is not enough to develop superhero movies, and superhero movies actually lack a suitable opportunity to appear in front of the public." ”

Wu Jianye, who has a long-term plan for the development of Marvel, how Superhero became famous in another time and space is actually related to the development history of the United States, first with the success of "X-Men", and then with the occurrence of American 911**, at this time, the birth of the first generation of spiders allowed American citizens to find a kind of spiritual sustenance.

This can be regarded as officially opening the road of Hollywood's superhero comic movie.

The first two versions of Tobey Maguire's version of "Spider-Man" produced by Sony brought in $62 million for Marvel under the previous account-sharing agreement, a figure that is enough to make all studios envious.

But Sony, as a company that owns the copyright of Little Spider, relies on these two movies to bring benefits to itself, but companies around the world are crazy!

Tobey Maguire's first two "Spider-Man" brought a total of $1.6 billion to Sony, and then combined with the revenue from disc sales, rentals, and even derivatives such as figure toys around the movie, all the proceeds added up to $3 billion!

This is why, in 2008, Marvel smashed the pot and sold iron to make its own movie.

As Marvel's most well-known IP series, the character of Little Spider has been Marvel's indispensable brother since it was founded in 1962!

In various "most popular American comic characters" lists, Spider-Man will always share the top three with Superman and Batman next door.

In the global IP value ranking in later generations, the IP of Spider-Man ranked 12th, and the IP of "Marvel Cinematic Universe" was only 10th. See, a little spider is valuable, and it is almost worth all Marvel members.

This is also an important decision why Wu Jianye will do everything possible to include Marvel in his plans in North America, and it can be said that he did not deceive Stan Lee in this regard.

However, after Stan Lee heard Wu Jianye's answer, his previous happiness dropped a lot, because the development time given by Phantom Entertainment was too long, and he hoped to see the movie adapted from Marvel Superhero come out immediately.

"Wu, in fact, the current technology is enough to deal with some movie special effects, why can't we advance this plan?" Stan Lee tried to get Wu to advance his plan.

Wu Jianye sighed and said: "Of course you can shoot, but that's not what Phantom is pursuing, the movies that Phantom pursues have always been high-quality, and we hope that superhero movies are movies that can change the pattern of Hollywood and even world cinema, not those ordinary movies." ”

"Excellent!" Stan Lee muttered to himself, then asked, "If the Phantom really plans to make a superhero movie, then will he start with that hero?"

"X-Men series!" Wu Miya replied.

As an important part of Marvel, the X-Men are also a popular group in Marvel Comics, and Wu Jianye is not ready to copy the filming plan of the Marvel Universe.

The success of Iron Man is due to the fact that audiences in North America or all over the world are tired of those righteous superheroes, and then Iron Man, who has shortcomings, quickly captured the hearts of audiences around the world as soon as he appeared.

Sometimes, not all movies will be successful at any time, and it also depends on whether the movie is given room to survive in the context of the big era.

The 82 version of "Shaolin Temple" in the early eighties could become the highest-grossing film in China, but if he was brought to the nineties or after 2000, the domestic box office of this film can only be described as hitting the street.

After the fall of Hong Kong films in later generations, he relied on a Du cannon to support the scene, and his movies have become classics in Hong Kong films, but if Du Cannon's movies are put in the golden age of Hong Kong films, then they can't escape the fate of hitting the streets.

Fans need to be cultivated, if it weren't for Du Dacang's early movies as a foreshadowing, Du Dacang's movies in the later period would not be accepted by the audience.

The same is true for movies in the Marvel Universe, the reason why "Iron Man" can succeed is that with the previous movies like "X-Men" and "Spider-Man" as a foreshadowing, "Iron Man" was born.

The Marvel Universe, as the most important part of Phantom Entertainment in the future, naturally has to be foreshadowed, and "X-Men" and "Spider-Man" are the foreshadowing of the Marvel Universe.

In these plans, there is naturally the influence of Wu Jianye's cautious personality in the business field.

Stan Lee was slightly stunned, although he was asking Wu Jianye just now, but in his heart, the little spider is the first brother of Marvel Comics, and if Phantom Entertainment wants to become a hit, it is safer to use "Spider-Man" as his opening film.

It's just that I didn't expect Phantom Entertainment to set its sights on the X-Men.

"The X-Men are a group drama, it's not easy to film!" Stan Lee said.

Wu Jianye smiled confidently: "I believe that Phantom Entertainment will succeed!"

Stan Lee nodded and said, "Director Wu, this matter is too big, I need to think about it carefully before I can give you an answer!"

Wu Jianye nodded, "Of course!"

"By the way, Director Wu, Phantom Entertainment handed over the acquisition of Marvel to you, does it mean that you will also complete the adaptation of Marvel's superhero movies in the future?" Stan Lee asked suddenly, but his expression was a little complicated.

Wu Jianye glanced at Stan Li and said with a smile: "No, when the film is ready, there will be an open recruitment of directors for the director, and I will not hold any positions in it!"

Wu Jianye naturally understood what Stan Lee meant, even at the press conference, Linda and Jiang Zhiqiang both said that Wu Jianye was the filmmaker they admired the most, but Wu Jianye's ability in North America is still up for debate, and Stan Lee does not believe in Wu Jianye's directing ability.

Wu Jianye didn't explain anything about this, as long as he can't do anything in North America for a day, such doubts will always exist, even if his "Ghost Love" is really successful, he will still be doubted, unless he can become an existence like Spielberg and succeed all the time, it is possible to change some people's opinions.

In fact, even after Spielberg became famous, not everyone maintained 100% trust in him, otherwise when he was preparing the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, he would not have found investors at the beginning stage, even Universal, which has always had a close cooperative relationship with him, did not invest.

In Hollywood's large production companies, they have their own complete and scientific evaluation mechanism, after receiving this project, they will immediately judge whether the film will be popular with the audience based on the film's director, actors, and story content.

It can only be said that the more well-known producers and directors have more say when negotiating with the production company.

Of course, this does not include sequel movies, although the cost of all sequel movies will increase exponentially, but this type of movie is also more likely to be successful.

Phantom Entertainment's "Home Alone" series and "Terminator" series were once not favored by major production companies, but when their first film was successful, all the production companies would let go of all their previous arrogance and find Phantom Entertainment to seek cooperation, and even sign a contract without seeing the script.

Stan Li smiled and said, "I didn't mean that, I just knew that Director Wu's work was very busy, and I was worried that Director Wu wouldn't be able to concentrate on production!"

Wu Jianye smiled, and did not reveal Stan Lee's true thoughts, and said with a smile: "I believe that none of the Hollywood production companies can attach more importance to Marvel than the Phantom, this cooperation will definitely be a win-win situation, you should think about it!"

Stan Li nodded, and he naturally understood what Wu Jianye said.

After some exchanges, the two sides said goodbye to each other.

.......

After Wu Jianye returned to the hotel, he told Linda about the process of talking to Stan Lee, and after Linda heard it, she also sighed: "Actually, if Stan Lee knew that you were the boss of the Phantom, it is estimated that he would have agreed at this time!"

There is nothing wrong with Linda saying this, if Stan Lee knew that the boss behind Phantom Entertainment values Marvel so much, he would probably have agreed a long time ago.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "If I am the behind-the-scenes boss of the Phantom and is known to everyone, it is estimated that the entire Hollywood is already boycotting Phantom Entertainment now!"

The Jews in Hollywood can't find a way to deal with Phantom Entertainment and Wu Jianye, if they knew the true background of Phantom Entertainment, it is estimated that according to Hollywood's xenophobia, they would have joined forces to boycott it a long time ago.

RB's Sony and Panasonic won Columbia and Universal respectively, the beginning was hell of difficulty, and the final result was that Sony survived RB's economic bubble with its strong money ability, and after several years of reform, it was considered to digest Columbia Pictures, and then Columbia Pictures disappeared and was replaced by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Panasonic could only sell Universal in the end.

Wu Jianye has no interest in challenging the difficulty of hell.

Linda also knew what Wu Jianye meant, and the joint statement between Phantom Entertainment and Fengge Media this time helped Phantom Entertainment suppress this potential threat.

But this does not mean that no one doubts it, but now everyone sees the benefits of facing them here, because if there is a line between Phantom Entertainment and Fengge Media, other production companies can distribute their films to the whole of Southeast Asia at a more reasonable price.

But when this honeymoon period passes, or when other production companies begin to deploy in the Southeast Asian market, the problem of Phantom Entertainment will still be used as a loophole to attack Phantom Entertainment!

It will take time for both parties to see if Phantom Entertainment can develop into a company that is sufficient to deal with these problems in this time period.

"But it doesn't matter, I think even if you don't disclose your identity, Stan Lee will be more inclined to cooperate with us, after all, Phantom Entertainment has more advantages than Ronald Perelman!" Linda thought for a moment and continued: "Now it's time to see what kind of conditions Ronald Perelman will propose!"

If there are two problems with the acquisition of Marvel, and to deal with Stan Lee, you have to negotiate with him mainly about the future development of Marvel, then it is useless to talk to Ronald Perelman about this.

Ronald Perelman is rich, powerful, and a well-known investor on Wall Street, and negotiating with him that the development of Marvel is useless, and even to belittle the development of Marvel, only in this way can it be possible to sell Marvel back in his hands.

In the final analysis, the negotiation with Ronald Perelman is the funding, Ronald Perelman's side will definitely open his mouth, for him Marvel is his investment, and Phantom Entertainment, as a production company, has just reached a cooperation with Fengge Media.

If you find him at this time, you will definitely open your mouth.

Wu Jianye asked, "Have you contacted him?"

Linda replied: "I have been contacted, he is in New York now, and the company will set a specific appointment time with him!"

Wu Jianye said: "Well, this matter as soon as possible!"

"Understood!"

.......

Following!

When Wu Jianye walked out of the hotel, he saw a familiar woman in the hall!