"Stan Lee, I'm sure you know the purpose of our trip, I don't like to waste time, if you don't have anything else to do, can we get started?"

The young man sitting opposite was handsome and tall, and his eyebrows showed an extraordinary atmosphere of indomitable and free and proud to look at the world.

Seeing one of the youngest presidents in the world, Stan Lee couldn't help but sigh that he was old, and he glanced at the other person, and the man was sitting there, high, supreme authority, and he looked down at himself. Stan Lee couldn't see the slightest emotion in his eyes, his eyes seemed to be very different from the others, clear, bright, but also colder, like a cold machine......

"Brother Ouyang, you want to buy our Marvel Comics company, do you have that kind of strength?"

"Naturally, the strength is there, and it is very extraordinary. ”

Shao Gong waved his hand lightly, as if he was a little impatient, he glanced at Stan Lee and said, "Last year, the box office revenue of the Dream Airlines branch was 2.1 billion US dollars, ranking first among many film and television companies. In second place is Disney with $1.2 billion, in third place is Warner, with $1 billion, followed by Fox with $800 million, Universal $600 million, Paramount $500 million, Colombia with $300 million, Sony with $100 million, in fact, Columbia is a subsidiary of Sony, and they add up to $400 million. MGM's $80 million, box office less than 100 million is not included in the data I collected, but MGM is also a subsidiary of Sony, and the three of them together are also at the bottom of all the powerful companies. With such data, do you think we will have no strength in Dream Voyage?"

Shaogong's voice was not loud, but it reached the ears of everyone present.

Stan Lee waved for the hostess to lead Kevin out first. As the two went out and closed the office door, Stan Lee nodded: "Yes, last year's box office of Menghang was indeed the first among many companies, I don't deny this, but the strength I am talking about is not the box office of your company's movies, but the strength that drove our Marvel Comics company out of the trough, do you have it?"

"Yes. ”

Shao Gong nodded again: "I admit that in the amusement park, we are indeed not as good as Disney, they want to buy Marvel Comics, they want to open a Marvel Heroes section in their own amusement park, in order to attract more visitors." After all, this is a time of economic crisis, and major companies must not only be careful in film investment, but also find ways to develop other industries. Disney, on the other hand, has a main business of amusement parks, a side business of film companies, and makes movies and animations just to promote their amusement parks. So every time Disney anime is successful, a new movie section will pop up in their playground, and I think that's one of the reasons why you love Disney, because Disney Playground has built a Marvel Comics Heroes Exhibit, and it's definitely going to bring another revival of Marvel Comics again, I'm right, Mr. Stan Lee. ”

"That's right, that's what I thought at the beginning, that's why I approached Disney and suggested it to them. ”

Stan Lee nodded undeniably: "Although Disney President Jones Mitchell liked my proposal, I heard that there were different voices within them, and more than one executive opposed Jones Mitchell's acquisition of Marvel Comics. ”

"That's for sure. ”

Shao Gong leaned back on the sofa and tilted his head to look at Stan Lee: "I guess Disney's opposition to the acquisition of Marvel Comics is mainly based on two considerations. The first Marvel Comics price is too high, the price is 4.5 billion US dollars, which really scares Disney executives. You must know that this is a time of economic crisis, all industries are declining, and the wallets of businessmen have shrunk greatly. Disney has $4.5 billion, and it's completely out of it. But that's their pure profit. The acquisition alone would require such a huge expense, not to mention the construction of the exhibition area after the acquisition. You must know that building is the most waste of money, there are many heroes in Marvel Comics, and when will it take to build so many character exhibition areas at once, and just build some particularly well-known hero exhibition areas, so why waste so much money to acquire heroes who are useless to Disney, so the shareholders are not against it, and their brains are really asleep by Marvel Comics.

The second point is that if you want to build a hero exhibition area, you must first shoot a Marvel hero movie, and if you succeed, you will naturally launch the exhibition area. But what if it fails? Didn't those characters smash their own hands and starve? This is bought at a great price, and in recent years it is no less powerful than in previous years, and it is better to carefully develop amusement parks than to spend a lot of money to buy a company that is not sure of it. Therefore, in the face of pros and cons, Disney's shareholders chose the latter with more trouble and profit, which is also human nature, and in an environment like an economic crisis, no matter who will be extra careful. ”

Listening to Shaogong's words, the office fell silent, and none of them spoke, thinking about it with their own thoughts.

Finally, Stan Lee nodded and said: "Yes, Ouyang Xiaodi's analysis is indeed reasonable, I believe that Disney shareholders oppose the president's acquisition of Marvel Comics, and it is indeed out of such considerations." What's more, now that Disney President Jones Mitchell is still hospitalized, of course they won't mention the project again. Speaking of this, Stan Lee suddenly looked at Shao Gong and smiled: "Since Marvel Comics has so much trouble, why does Junior Brother Ouyang want to buy us!"

"Of course I have my own considerations, and my property is different from Disney's. ”

Shao Gong's face showed joy, full of confidence and said: "At present, the world comics have magnesium countries in the west and Japan in the east, although the Chinese comics industry is weak, but Huaxia is determined to develop its own comic industry a few years ago, so it has made great efforts to support the comic industry, and Dream Voyage Station has a Dream Voyage comic section, the current Dream Voyage comic is ranked first is "One Piece", it is from my hand, it can be said to be the undisputed first comic in China, in Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as the magnesium country, it is also not a small reputation, and "One Piece" Animation is also in production, and the current results are very popular both in the magnesium country and on both sides of the domestic strait, and its edge is similar to Japan's most popular "Naruto" in Asia. A few years ago, Dream Voyage Comics invited Hong Kong's Jade Dynasty to join, and if you add Marvel Comics from Magnesium Country to join, I believe that Dream Voyage Comics will be able to compete with Japanese comics. ”

Speaking of this, Shao Gong suddenly laughed and said: "Marvel Comics is a household name in the magnesium country, but it is not as well-known in Asia as Star Wars and Transformers The popularity is high, so my confidence in bringing the recovery of the animation and comics industry is that I don't need to build a hero exhibition area, because we don't need to spend that unjust money at all, we only need to use a much smaller price to let the Chinese editorial team translate all the Marvel comics into Chinese, and then launch the Dream Voyage comics, and then publicize it, I believe that it will not be difficult to bring Marvel Comics back to life in China, and this will undoubtedly shorten the time compared to Disney's plan to build a hero exhibition area, because the Chinese translator can be served as long as the Chinese are in English and Chinese in the magnesium country, plus your assistance, I believe that in less than a month, Marvel Comics will be launched on Dream Air Comics. ”

"Well, that's the least expensive way to go. ”

Stan Lee glanced at Shao Gong with joy: "But if it's just a comic, it's still a little worse in terms of momentum." ”

"Of course I know that, otherwise why do you think I'd come here myself!"

Shao Gong chuckled: "In the case of the economic crisis, the box office of the Dream Airlines branch can surpass the six old Hollywood companies at the box office and rank first. ”

"But at present, it is an economic crisis, and hero movies are becoming weaker and weaker, and if Ouyang Xiaodi wants to make a Marvel hero movie, he will capsize if he is not careful! You must know that even the six old Hollywood companies dare not try the theme, how dare Ouyang Xiaodi pack a ticket and say that he will definitely do it!"

Stan Lee is polite, and it is not nonsense, although this young man's confidence and proposal did make his eyes light up and his heart was happy, but he would never sign a contract with the other party with confusion, especially at this critical time of recognizing the boss, it is no different from choosing a father.

"I believe that people are different, and the box office of the movie speaks for itself. ”

Shaogong's eyes were full of confidence, neither humble nor arrogant, and he was full of manhood: "A classic movie must have a good script, a good idea, a good character, a good technology, a good production team, a good actor foil, a good era, a good time, a good place, and a good business vision. Hearing this, Stan Lee took out a cigar and handed it over, and took the opportunity to light it for Shaogong.

Taking a sip, Shao Gong exhaled a breath and said: "It is precisely because it is a period of economic crisis that the people of the magnesium country are panicking, and many people are worried that they will lose their jobs and will not be able to afford car loans and other problems, which requires heroes to stand up and give them a little courage in their hearts, so that they can regain their self-confidence and be full of expectations for the future."

DC's hero movie reputation is "polarized", which is not only a poor story, a villain, a dark style, etc. is mainly because they have not formed an industrial chain, and they only want to rely on fans in the early years to provide box office. In my eyes, hero movies must be expanded from fan mode to mass culture in order to form an industrial chain, and at that time, not only comics, games, toys, and character models can become a source of wealth. And to develop comics into an industrial chain, it will take at least five or six or even ten years. Therefore, in the period of economic crisis and the era of panic and uneasiness, hero movies, which carry the entertainment and even spiritual food of the people for a period of time, will have the need to stand up as superheroes again, because they are superheroes, and the audience will get comfort when they watch it.

Although superheroes can give the audience comfort, we must not only rely on a superhero or sequel as the starting point and end, we must take advantage of the popularity of a movie to further promote the rest of the characters, so as to form a group of heroes and form a superhero industry chain. Therefore, if a superhero movie wants to succeed, it must not rely on only one or two heroes to play a single role, and it must attack in groups, but this is only the first stage of the hero industry chain, and my ultimate goal is to bring the heroes to the big screen and start a team battle. A single hero can have a lot of fans, and teaming up these big names to fight will naturally attract more attention. In this way, we can make the transition from fans to the masses, and then it will be our second stage, the formation of the hero industry chain. The third stage is to promote more heroes, form more groups, and comprehensively promote the Marvel Universe, which is what we Menghang wants to work the movie. Only with the formation and launch of the Marvel Universe can Marvel be a real industrial chain, forming a commercially self-sufficient cosmic industry model. ”

Shao Gong said so much at once, and the manhood on his body was simply infuriating, even more inspiring than a presidential campaign speech. After listening to him, Stan Lee actually stood up and said with a smile: "What an Ouyang Shaogong, what a president of Menghang, you are really more suitable than Disney to be the boss of Marvel Comics." I decided that from now on, Marvel Comics is back to Dreamsail. ”

Although he was indeed excited, Stan Lee suddenly calmed down after saying this: " At present, Marvel characters are not completely in the hands of the company, the copyright of Blade Warrior was sold to New Line Pictures in the early years, and later New Line Pictures was acquired by the TV giant Warner in 1993, and Turner controlled Time Warner, so New Line was immediately merged into Time Warner Group, but Shay, the former president of New Line, still held a major stake in New Line when he was acquired by Turner, and enjoyed the company's independent management rights, so although New Line also belongs to Time Warner Group, its film business is not related to other film companies within the group.

On April 4, 2007, Friedrich filed a written complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Marvel Enterprises, Sony Studios, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Relativity Media, Crystal Sky Pictures, Michael Drucka Industries, Hasbro, and Take-To Interactive (for the Ghost Rider comics, movies, and toys and games, etc.), and claimed that the copyright of his character Ghost Rider was exploited by "joint speculation and conspiracy". The lawsuit states that the rights to the film and its by-products were returned to him from Marvel in 2001. The case was transferred to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on 14 February 2008 and is still pending.

The X-Men and Fantastic Four movie rights are currently in the hands of Fox, the game and movie rights of Spider-Man are in the hands of Sony, and the Hulk has also been bought by Universal. Therefore, Ouyang Xiaodi's plan to fully promote the Marvel Comics Universe cannot be fully promoted, because we must first take back those heroes before we can fully promote the Marvel Comics Universe, and ......"

Speaking of this, Stan Lee looked at Shaogong and asked tentatively, "Even if we don't have all the heroes, our bid is $4.5 billion." I know that this price will indeed scare a lot of people, I don't know how much Junior Brother Ouyang can offer!"

"Menghang has not been in the magnesium country for a long time, and its financial resources cannot be compared with the six old Hollywood companies, if Marvel Comics can guarantee to recover all the copyrights sold alone, I am willing to bid four billion dollars, which is the highest price we can offer. ”

"Four billion?"

Stan Lee's eyes flashed and he touched his chin: "I have also checked the Menghang branch, and the box office of your movies over the years has indeed not exceeded five billion US dollars, and it is indeed all my strength to be able to bid four billion US dollars with the previous investment." Hearing this, Shao Gong nodded: "If you can't recover the copyright you sold, Menghang can also take over the responsibility of recycling, but this will inevitably cost Menghang a lot of money, so the price we can offer is only 3.5 billion US dollars." ”

"Three, thirty and five billion!"

Stan Lee was taken aback, and the kid dropped $500 million with a single mouth. However, the current situation of Marvel Comics has reached the point where they have run out of ammunition, and they will never have the financial resources to recover the copyright. And the copyrights that were sold were not just taken back if you wanted to, and it was impossible to recover all of them for $500 million.

But Menghang can contract the responsibility of recycling, so it seems that Menghang will definitely spend more than $500 million if he wants to recover those copyright figures. But those characters are almost the same as their own children, who wouldn't want them to go home! If Menghang can take back those copyrights, he will really take advantage of it!

Stan Lee thought for a moment, and finally gave a high-five: "Okay, 3.5 billion is 3.5 billion dollars, I decided to sell." Once the decision was made, Stan Lee's immediacy was taken to the extreme, and he promised to send someone out to write the deal and send a reporter from the moment he agreed.

It turned out to be a reception for Dream Voyage's acquisition of Marvel Comics on the same day.