Chapter 877: Letter of Intent to Acquire!
Li Jun used absolute strength and absolutely emotional words to put Marvel Stan Lee on his side.
Looking at the silver-haired old man's expression.
Li Jun knew that Stan Lee was impressed.
Li Jun knew the character of this old man.
He could not tolerate the ongoing sale of the rights to the comics he created by the current manager, president, CEO Logan and the largest shareholder.
Li Jun should be regarded as the person who understands Stan Lee the most in the world now, and the later generations of the Avengers continue to fight with the original Marvel's superhero movies, they are born from the same root, but they are always too anxious to fry each other.
Those were originally Marvel character comics, but the movies belonged to different companies, and they were constantly arguing over copyright issues!
In the previous life, many Marvel superheroes were very popular, and superheroes also continued to fall into copyright battles, which is because of the legacy of Marvel's history in the 90s, in which Marvel could only make a living by selling copyrights, resulting in many characters who were born from the same root in their previous lives.
For example, Marvel Studios has regained the filming rights of the Hulk, but Universal is still holding on to its distribution rights. In other words, as long as Hulk releases a solo movie, then Universal will have the right to distribute physical films, negotiate with theaters, determine the release date, and even the film format.
Marvel naturally doesn't want to make wedding clothes for others, which is the main reason why the Hulk has appeared countless times in the MCU series of movies, but has never had a single movie.
For example, Spider-Man, which fell into Sony Pictures, is a super-popular hero of Marvel, but it does not belong to Marvel, and there are also comic book character copyrights related to Spider-Man, such as Venom, Doctor Octopus, Vulture, Mysterio, etc., which can be adapted at will, and Marvel just provides some creative control on this basis to avoid conflicts with the MCU's storyline.
Marvel and Sony reached some sort of cooperation agreement that allowed Spider-Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Spider-Man appeared in Marvel movies.
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Logan is constantly selling.
Stan Lee was constantly in a heartache.
Every time Logan sold a son, Stan Lee told him in his heart that he would sell his sons once, and he would buy them back one by one.
But!
Today's Stan Lee is powerless, although he knows that selling the copyright can't save Marvel, and Marvel will finish playing sooner or later!
And the facts of the previous life are the same, although Marvel sold his son frantically in the next two years, Marvel still did not escape the fate of bankruptcy, and Marvel filed for bankruptcy in 1996.
In 1997, Avi Arad took over Marvel and began to recover some of the rights that had been sold before, and after a series of financial operations, rebuilt Marvel Entertainment and started Marvel Studios.
Then he took back the rights of Blade from other film and television companies, and the newly formed Marvel Studios was an instant hit.
Now that he knows that Marvel is facing bankruptcy and bankruptcy, there is now a person who is willing to buy it at a large price and help Marvel buy back his son, so Stan Lee is naturally very supportive.
After gaining the support of Stan Leed, the soul of Marvel.
Li Jun's next step is to officially issue an acquisition application to Marvel.
Regan Perelman, the majority shareholder, is now Marvel's largest shareholder and manager.
It has made Marvel now fall to the point of selling Marvel copyrights, and the animation market has begun to be eliminated by the times, and those former comics have lost the market for Marvel.
At this time, even in the late 90s and 2000s, people didn't know so much about IP.
Therefore, Marvel feels like some outdated scum in his hands, and the comic book market is also sluggish, and he has long wanted to get rid of it, but those capitalists on Wall Street are vampires, and they simply value Marvel as garbage, because there is no suitable purchase price, so he has not sold it, but there are some that meet the price in his heart.
But Starley is the one who stops!
Steinreid's idea is to let Logan sell part of the copyright of the 5,000 comics than choose to sell the company to Wall Street capitalists.
Knowing the fate of Marvel characters falling apart, tolerate the loss of some Marvel copyrights now.
Stop it, stop it, Logan has not given up and continues to find the right buyer, but every time he meets the right seller, the old immortal Stan Li is always a troublemaker.
Before the negotiations began, he was yellow, although he was the largest shareholder, but the old immortal was very popular in Marvel, and many small and medium-sized shareholders listened to him.
This makes his good heart tired.
He has controlled Marvel for all these years, which is basically equivalent to doing it for nothing, the times are changing, and comics don't feel like anything to do anymore.
After Stan Lee and Li Jun privately reached an agreement on the acquisition of Marvel, he also revealed to Li Jun the thoughts of Logan, the current majority shareholder of Marvel and CEO.
Therefore, a letter of intent regarding the acquisition was directly sent to the senior management of Marvel.
The letter of intent was already on Logan's desk.
The other party's bid, Logan is very satisfied.
Instead of holding a board meeting, Rogan began discussions with his cronies.
"Mr. Luo, this price can be sold, but it is estimated that without Stan Lee's support, without his support, it is estimated that those small and medium-sized shareholders will not agree to the acquisition plan. ”
"Hmph, they don't agree, do they just wait for the equity in their hands to become worthless, comics are dead, comic companies have no future at all, times are changing, the way people entertain has fundamentally changed, this is the general trend, those computers, those games, do you see, those are the future trends, and they are still wasting time and money here in comics, I don't want to die with them, I'd rather sell Marvel to invest in games, that's to keep up with this era. ”
"I'm going to talk to the old immortal!"
Stan Lee is not only immortal in the eyes of Wall Street capitalists, but also in the eyes of President Logan.
"Mr. Luo, but Stan Li is not easy to talk about. ”
"Then we have to talk about it, he's going to die, he can't drag a boatload of us to die, what's the use of Marvel's five thousand comics, it's all outdated things, he doesn't allow me to sell copyrights, don't I also sell some of them, don't sell some of them, I can't even pay salaries, the comic market is dead, the comic industry will shrink further in the future, computer technology is a tool for people to entertain and learn, look at Microsoft, look at that young Bill Gates, so young, how much is he worth, why is everyone so optimistic about Microsoft, and the stock price is so high, because the next is the era of Internet technology, obviously not the era of our broken comic company!”
Logan found Stan Lee, and if the acquisition of him is not achieved, it must be achieved, otherwise he will sell all the Marvel copyrights, and see what is the point of Stan Lee's Marvel company.
It's just that this time the negotiations are completely different from the previous outbursts.
The old immortal actually relented.
What do you mean, the old immortal finally stopped pulling them a boatload of people to death.
This made Logan feel like he was still in a dream after talking to Stan Lee.