Justin Lin and Kevin Feige laughed and walked to the conference room of Fire Lion Pictures, where several assistants were already arranging the venue and placing materials.

"Then you'll have to tell me about your situation. After the two sat down, Justin Lin couldn't wait to ask Kevin Feige about it.

Since joining the filming crew of "X-Men" as a Marvel producer the year before last, Kevin Feige has been involved in the production and distribution of the film. He and Marvel's team of comic book artists and producers have been of great help to Fox, who has never made a superhero movie.

And Kevin Feige also successfully integrated Marvel's team of comic artists and producers during the filming process, just like Sid's plan, using Fox's resources to shoot "X-Men" to run in Marvel's own production team.

Although there are some people within Marvel who are skeptical of having a college graduate as young as Kevin Feige take on such an important job.

But under Stan Lee's persuasion and Sid's full suppression, Kevin Feige didn't have much trouble. Of course, although there is no big trouble, but all kinds of strange little troubles, they have no less to find him. This also happens to be a process of exercising Kevin Feige.

And more importantly, after "X-Men" was released last summer, it returned to the global box office at a cost of $75 million, and after deducting production investment and publicity costs, the film also made a small profit of $3 or 40 million.

And this is already the best box office result of comic movies in recent years.

For example, a few years ago, New Line Pictures' "Blade" has just exceeded $100 million at the global box office, and the profit is actually only more than 10 million, because no one knows New Line's promotional investment in this movie.

So in the end, only they know whether the new line is making money or losing money.

But what people know is that "Blade" has not moved since the first generation, and it was not until last year's "X-Men 1" was seen that the new line relaunched the series.

"Yo, Kevin, I'm back. Just as Kevin Feige and Justin Lin were chatting, a sunny voice interrupted the two of them, and as soon as the two looked up, it turned out to be Sid walking in with a group of Fire Lion Pictures executives.

"Oh, Boss, good morning. Kevin Feige and Justin Lin quickly stood up.

"Kevin, I've watched X-Men, and you're doing a good job. Sid nodded briefly.

"Ah, thanks, Boss. Kevin Feige didn't expect Sid to praise himself in front of everyone as soon as he came up, and he smiled and nodded his head again and again.

With the arrival of Sid and others, the main personnel of today's meeting have arrived.

"Everyone's here, let's get started. Sid sat down at the top of the long conference table, looked at the crowd seated, and patted the table.

Hearing Sid's words, everyone couldn't help but straighten up and cheer up.

"As you know, our Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone has been completed, and the previous internal preview was OK. So now I have nothing to do except for the publicity before the summer file. Sid's words caused everyone to burst into laughter.

"Boss, in fact, if you want, "Youth Musical" is very willing to ask you to direct. Henry, the manager of the production department, also quipped.

""Youth Musicale 3" is in the late stage, what else do you want me to do. Sid smiled and rolled his eyes, then clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's get down to business." ”

"Although Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is finished, our A-list blockbuster plans are not going to stop. Sid's concise words made everyone look excited.

"So—" Sid paused deliberately, brewing the atmosphere for a moment before pressing the projector remote control in his hand.

On a red-and-silver web-like basemap, the silhouette of a hand-drawn black spider is in the center.

Most people were stunned for a moment, Justin Lin reacted the fastest, his eyes flashed, and he immediately exclaimed: "OMG! Could it be ......?"

Then Sid smiled and revealed the answer: "Spider-Man!"

Everyone immediately exclaimed, "Spider-Man", as Marvel's most well-known superhero, is a super IP on the same level as Superman and Batman in the European and American world.

Seeing Sid's decision to use Spider-Man as an important next step in the "A-grade plan", Justin Lin was very excited, and then he suddenly felt a strangeness, although he is a comic book fan, but Kevin Feige next to him is a real die-hard Marvel fan, okay?

In the past, when the two of them were Sid's assistants, they often competed in comics, but in Marvel-related things, he never won Kevin Feige.

Justin Lin turned his head, but found Kevin Feige with a confident look, he couldn't help but lean over, and asked in a low voice, "Kevin, do you know anything?"

"Me?" Kevin Feige laughed, "how do I know? ”

"But will the comic book be the successor to Harry Potter?" asked Sean, the marketing manager, with a worried look.

His question also received the nod of many people in the conference room.

In fact, the history of comic book adaptations can be traced back to 1948, when the black-and-white version of "Superman" was created by Columbia Pictures. This is not only the earliest Superman movie in history, but also the earliest superhero movie.

Under the technical conditions of the time, all the flight footage in the film was replaced by hand-drawn animation. Then, in 1978, Warner filmed a color version of Superman, which is also more widely known.

Although the latter did well at the box office, at the end of the 70s, it earned more than $300 million at the global box office. But comic book adaptations are still a niche market that is not taken seriously.

And the first large-scale success of the comic book movie was not until 1989, when Warner brought Batman to the big screen for the first time.

Although there have been two versions of "Superman" in the movie, Batman is still on the big screen for the first time, so the popularity and energy accumulated over decades exploded in one go.

made "Batman" win an astonishing box office of 250 million in North America and $410 million worldwide.

And this "Batman" has also become the pinnacle of director Tim Burton's entry into a first-class director, and at the same time, the extraordinary success of "Batman" has also aroused the eyes of many Hollywood studios.

This led to a trend of manga reform in modern times.