On the first weekend of April, Embassy Pictures held the North American premiere of "Resident Evil 2: Revelations" in Los Angeles, and the film was noticeably more important than "Tales of the Night 2," which premiered last month.

Because Kate Beckinsale took over the relationship with the heroine of "Van Helsing", Ronan plans to "Tales of the Night" to the second part for the time being.

This series has the heroine Selena as the absolute core, and once there is a problem with the actors, it will inevitably affect the whole movie.

In contrast, the "Resident Evil" series, which can continue to be filmed, is much more valuable both for the film itself and for Milla Jovovich.

Ronan also appeared at the premiere.

However, he did not walk the red carpet and went directly to the theater.

Ronan saw Robert Lee and walked over and asked, "How's it going over there?"

Robert Lee whispered: "Marvel is having a hard time, there is a serious lack of funds, no one is willing to lend if it wants to take out a loan, there is no way to make a mortgage, the remaining comic book characters are basically not famous, and banks and financial institutions are definitely not willing to take risks." Now they are trying to make money, and it didn't take much effort for me to convince Avi-Arad. ”

He scratched his head: "If it weren't for the fact that the heroes in our hands are very famous, there is no movie adaptation, and the value is not great, it is estimated that Marvel will also find us." ”

Ronan nodded slowly and said, "You pay more attention to Marvel's situation, and when their bad situation reaches a near point, report to me and Bob in time." ”

Robert Lee knew exactly what Ronan was going to do, nodded his head, and said, "I'll let someone keep an eye on it." ”

In fact, he has doubts, now Marvel Comics is like a bottomless pit, no matter how much money is thrown in, it will not die or live, if Relativity Entertainment really wants to buy it, can it save Marvel?

If it was someone else, he would have suggested it a long time ago, but Ronan ......

Robert Lee believes that if there is anyone in this world who can save the mess of Marvel Comics that has been bad for the last decade, there is only Ronan.

A few Asian faces walked into the VIP room at this point, and Ronan and Robert Lee exchanged a few words of greeting, and Capcom is now a partner of Relativity Entertainment, and it belongs to the kind that makes relatively few requests.

Capcom doesn't have much ambition for the movie for the time being, and it seems that his energy is completely focused on the game.

If you look at it by the standards of the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the games and comics of the island countries are definitely the production machines of IP, and they continue to produce works with a wide range of audiences, and the copyright is not expensive.

However, in terms of movie adaptations, with very few exceptions, 99% of Hollywood's adaptations of island games or comic book movies have all hit the streets.

Even, even Scarlett Johansson and James Cameron, who have considerable box office appeal, are planted on it.

That "Alita: Battle Angel", James Cameron was the producer.

Thinking of this, Ronan suddenly remembered one thing, it seems that James Cameron likes the island comic book adapted from this film very much.

What's that island comic called?

Ronan is quite unfamiliar with island country comics, and is not even as familiar as the former domestic dramas, except for the Ichihu brother I watched when I was a child, Saint Seiya, Slam Dunk and the Grim Reaper elementary school student who remembered the dead man because of where he went, the other island country comics don't know anything, and there are very few that can be remembered.

After thinking about it carefully, a name popped out of my head.

It seems that the heroine is Scarlett Johansson, and it is said that some of the concepts of "The Matrix" came from this anime.

"Red Hot Chili Peppers" is also not right, can remember the name, because many people say that Christopher Nolan's "Inception" is a plagiarism of this island comic.

Ronan pondered for a long time, and finally remembered a name - "Gun Dream"!

Ronan called Robert Lee to the corner and whispered: "I just saw those island people in Capcom, and I remembered an island country comic I read some time ago, it should be called "Gun Dream", you ask people to check it, if the copyright is still there, let people go to the island country and buy it." ”

Robert Lee repeated: "Guns?"

Ronan nodded: "That's right, it's called this name, go buy it and enrich it into the copyright library." ”

Compared with North American works, the biggest advantage of the copyright of comics in island countries is that they are cheap, and it doesn't cost much to buy them, and they may be able to use them when they talk about cooperation with James Cameron in the future.

Robert Lee didn't say much, went straight out of the VIP room, took out his mobile phone and started calling.

In such a matter as copyright grabbing, the faster you act, the better.

Last year, because of a step slow, the copyright of "The Da Vinci Code" fell into the hands of Tom Hanks.

The crew came in at this time, and Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich found Ronan on their own.

The two are also familiar with Ronan, and Paul Anderson said directly: "Ronan, is the third part waiting for a while to prepare?" He did not hide it: "Mira took on a film called "Fatal Violet" and wanted to play the heroine. ”

Ronan nodded and said, "Yes, it's not too late to prepare for the third part next year, I plan to release it in 2006." ”

"No problem. Paul Anderson vowed that "I will finish on time." ”

The rate of release every other year was originally within the scope of the plan, and this type of film was launched too quickly, and the last two sequels of "The Matrix" are a lesson from the past.

When Ronan sat in the theater, he thought of the huge island comic industry, and what copyrights could he get? Perhaps when Netflix's streaming business became really strong, it would also need to diversify its operations and increase the number of works in various languages.

The online rights and remake rights of those cartoons should also be valuable.

Ronan thought about it for a while, and finally shook his head, instead of making this, it would be better to adapt it to the superstars of the NBA, and there are many more audiences around the world.

The film began to be screened, and the premiere theater was packed.

The box office results of the first film are not bad, and the audience attracted through the offline market in the past two years is naturally very concerned about the release of the sequel movie.

There is also a part of the game fans.

A month earlier, Capcom had released a statistic that all the Resident Evil games that have been released combined, have sold 24 million units worldwide.

This is only genuine and does not include the pirated audience.

The game's hot sales also brought more audience base to the film.

The movie adaptation did not follow the idea of the game.

Although Jill Valentine finally appeared in the film, the absolute protagonist of the film is still Alice.

Compared with the complete self-indulgence of the later films, in "Apocalypse", Paul Anderson, the director and screenwriter, still somewhat connects the plot of the film with the characters, plots and events in the game.

Of course, more is change.

For example, three game characters from Nemesis have been added as side characters to drive the plot progress, and more fights and stunt scenes have been added to attract non-game fan audiences.

For Paul Anderson, Ronan at least has enough trust in the "Resident Evil" series.

Once at the end of the filming of the "Resident Evil" series, Paul Anderson said in an interview: In this world, no one has made a game adaptation movie more successfully than me.

From a business perspective, this makes a lot of sense.

On the whole, no one has been more successful than Paul Anderson's Resident Evil series.

In terms of the number of film adaptations directed by Paul Anderson, it is Uwe Ball who can really compete with Paul Anderson, but the former Uwe Ball is not promoted by a high-speed company and a huge platform.

Perhaps, Uwe Ball can now compete with Paul Anderson for that spot.

Of course, from a purely cinematic point of view, whether it is Uwe Ball or Paul Anderson, who became the world's most successful director of game-based films, it can be called the sadness of game-based films.

This type of movie, Hollywood kept trying, until Ronan left the other side of the Pacific, and no one found a suitable answer and path.

In the second part, Alice still can't escape this zombie nightmare, and after the transformation of the underground biochemical laboratory of the umbrella company, she was endowed with superhuman strength, speed and perception, and continued to start the battle against zombies.

In addition to facing an army of zombies and mutant monsters, Alice encounters more powerful enemies......

Compared to the first one, the zombies rushed out of the laboratory and attacked the human world, and the Umbrella Company destroyed the entire city in order to protect its achievements.

The second part also completely defines the style of the series, not a horror thriller, but an action movie.

Regardless of the quality of the film, "Apocalypse" does at least a little bit, and the fast pace allows the audience to sit back and spend at least an hour enjoying the visual and sound thrills, and leave nothing for the rest.

This is also the entertainment of commercial films.

Ronan feels that as long as it's entertaining enough, the adaptation doesn't have to follow the game's plot.

Compared with those game movies with larger plot adaptations, movies that follow the game plot will have a higher chance of hitting the streets.

Watching "Resident Evil 2: Revelations", Ronan couldn't help but think of Uwe Ball, Brother Bao is adapting "Vampire Lane", maybe Brother Bao can bring a masterpiece of game adaptation of the movie, right?

The last time he received a call from Uwe Ball, Brother Bao had already convinced Christana Lorken that the actress who starred in "Terminator 3" had promised to be the heroine.

Extrapolating from Milla Jovovich and Angelina Jolie, the beautiful heroine seems to be an indispensable key factor in the success of the game-based film adaptation.

The second part of the screening ended, and like the first, it once again left the suspense so that the sequel could be filmed later.