The new film plan was immediately established, and since Alice's proposal had been made long before she left for Hong Kong, she had already brought the ready-made script with her before arriving at the office in Lawrence's car. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And I also brought with me a whole list of actors to be recruited, director selection, main filming locations, budgets for various projects, and countless other things that need post-production work to gradually take shape.

"Tim Burton, this is a really good director. Lawrence sighed: "I know him, he is a native of Burbank, he is just 30 years old this year, and he can be said to have been brought up by Hollywood." But although he has already directed three or two movies, can he handle such an important subject as Batman?"

It was actually "Batman" that was going to be filmed, which really surprised Lawrence. Everyone knows how wonderful DC Comics is, and the image of Batman has definitely penetrated into the hearts of the entire contemporary American people in the 50 years since its birth. There is no doubt that just by virtue of this theme, the movie will definitely not lose money, and a little better will make a lot of money.

But because of this, shouldn't we hire a better director?

Alice immediately gave the answer: "The theme is from DC Comics, and the script is written by me myself, and the fictional Gotham City can also be directly moved to the UK to film, and by the way, let me make a cameo appearance as the special effects team leader or something." He's the director...... Hey, Uncle Roger, do you think it's necessary to worry too much?"

It makes sense, Lawrence really knows Tim Burton, and he has been a venture capitalist in the literary and art circles for more than ten years, and he can even be said to be deeply impressed by this kid who was emerging "back then".

Tim Burton grew up without friends and did not do well in school, he did not work properly, but liked to draw and watch movies. After receiving a scholarship from the Disney Company for young animators at the California Institute of the Arts, he began his formal studies and career in animation.

Back in 1981, he directed his first cartoon short film, Vincent, and later worked as a second director on the feature short Frankenstein, a 29-minute live-action short film based on the legend of Frankenstein. Three years later, in 1985, he finally had the opportunity to direct his first feature-length feature film, The Adventures of the Absurd Bastards, produced by Warners and Lawrence even opened his mouth.

Thinking about it like this, Lawrence immediately realized that it was really a proper choice for Alice to let this young man shoot "Batman". Cartoons, Frankenstein films, and then the drama films that are also moving towards are exaggerated movies like "The Adventures of the Absurd Little Bastards", so it is so straightened out, and then continued with "Batman", wouldn't it be logical?

"He's got a movie coming out right now," Lawrence said, thinking about the industry for a moment, "Beatles Juice, released by AVH on March 29, tells the story of a young couple who have just died in an accident and become ghosts, and hire an exorcist from the underworld to try to scare the new occupants of the house away......"

"That doesn't matter," Alice said, waving her hand, "Ever since The Adventures of the Absurd Bastards, Bolton has been a director with a guaranteed box office." And I assure you, Uncle Roger, I've done some research, and no one is writing a script for Batman at the moment, and Burton is racking his brains for his next movie. It's definitely the right time for us to invite him. ”

The director confirmed, and half of the matter could be settled, because more matters would obviously have to wait for the director to arrive before they could be discussed. And the most critical part of this is the selection of actors.

"Since it's "Batman", the villain is ......" Looking at the script that Alice took out of her bag, Lawrence laughed knowingly: "It's really fitting to have Jack Nicholson play the role of the Joker." Not to mention "One Flew Over the Asylum" in the early years, the mentally disturbed father he played in "The Shining" is already equivalent to playing the same role. Clowns ...... this kind of guy."

Of course, Lawrence has read DC Comics, and there are even fewer famous themes like Batman, so there is no reason not to know the Joker. A typical psychopath, a madman, an "acquired" albinist and an undoubted supergenius, it is a pity that all his talents are used in the field of crime.

But on the contrary, he is a charismatic villain. In Wizard magazine, the Joker is recognized as one of the most representative and popular media outlets, ranking first out of the 100, and he is also ranked second among IGN's 100 comic book villains. In Imperial Magazine's ranking of "the greatest comic book characters in history", the Joker is ranked eighth, and he is the highest-ranked minor/antagonist, which can really be said to be a fierce promotion of "anti-hero" culture.

"Since you want Jack Nicholson to star in ......" Lawrence stared at the script, pondering Alice's thoughts, "You want to shoot the whole of 'Batman' as a series?"

"If the box office is guaranteed, why not?" said Alice with a smile as she said what would inevitably come true, "We should also have a series of famous works in DreamWorks." Since it's called DreamWorks, isn't it just right for a theme like Batman?"

"But the royalties are going to be expensive," Lawrence reminded, "DC Comics is a Warner-owned property, and it was fine before it was acquired in '69, and after that, its comics were all adapted by Time Warner." If we want that company to let go of this top-of-the-line subject, we must spend a lot of money. ”

This is indeed a troublesome problem, but since Alice was able to buy the entire film rights from Fox for the filming of "Alien II", naturally she will not be stopped by the copyright of "Batman". She didn't even have to think about it, she waved her hand extremely calmly and easily: "Then buy it!"

"It's not about buying the rights to Batman, it's about buying the entire DC Comics!"

Just kidding, is she a bad money person now!?

Just kidding, is the total value of DC Comics scaryly high!?

But this arrogant statement suddenly made Lawrence almost choke on his own saliva: "Acquire DC Comics?

"Don't worry, Uncle Roger, I'll pay for this money," of course, knowing what the most important problem was, Alice said quite calmly: "Even if the entire comic book industry in the United States is monopolized by DC and Marvel, it is just a comic book company after all, and the price of 500 million is great, can't I afford it!?"

Just kidding, Alice is the one who "came over", and I don't know how much influence these comic companies have on the film and television industry?

Because with the advent of the 21st century, relying on the rapid development of computer technology, it is finally possible to realistically represent superheroes in movies, and the time is finally ripe for comic book adaptation. Marvel Comics can be said to be the pioneers in this field, and those superheroes who have been released for decades are like prostate patients who have been holding their urine for decades!

But for a long time, Marvel Comics has only been selling copyrights, and the series of movies with a total global box office of one billion billions can only bring more than 100 million revenue to the company.

Therefore, long before the start of this project, that is, before it was acquired by Disney, a large number of superhero movies have been filmed on the Marvel theme. Not to mention the old versions of "Captain America" and "Hulk", "Blade" in 98 alone is a typical masterpiece, and the subsequent X-Men and Batman trilogies, and even the Fantastic Four and Ghost Rider are even more remarkable. Hollywood's cultural invasion of the world after the 21st century, Marvel's superheroes can be said to have contributed greatly.

But it's these great movies that keep Marvel's value so much that when Disney wants to buy it, it has to pay up to four billion......

Of course, this is also related to the composite price in 2008. But anyway, it's only 1988, and if Alice wants to buy an entire Marvel Comics company, it won't cost much at all.

To be reasonable, the entire "Spider-Man" trilogy plus the "X-Men" trilogy only brought 100 million copyright fees to the company, which is still the result of the comprehensive accumulation to 2007. In terms of the annual profit of the current comic company, Alice's purchase price of 500 million is even a bit too much!

Oh, sure, it's Marvel, but obviously, that's the price of DC Comics.

And of course, of course, there is a difference between a complete acquisition and a holding, and this can be done slowly~

"Oh my God, my God, it's really my God......" Lawrence thought that he just wanted to talk to Alice about the new movie, how could he be involved in such a super big deal as acquiring DC Comics?

The purchase price of 500 million yuan......

Lawrence asked himself, in the past three or two years since DreamWorks was founded, has the total global box office of its films been this number?

Oh, if you count the big heads of "Ghost Shadow" and "Alien II", it seems to be barely enough?

Lawrence, of course, remembers how popular this sci-fi movie with Alice was a hit, so since she was going to turn her attention to Batman and even an entire DC comic book with great fanfare......

"I'll contact them right away," he said decisively, "I haven't been back to New York in a few days, Alice, come with me?"

Alice snorted and smiled, noncommittal, just reading the script of "Brother Dragon and Mouse", but Lawrence already knew what she was thinking. (To be continued.) )